Re: Adding a Column documentation is misleading

On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, PG Doc comments form <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/ddl-alter.html
> Description:
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> In 5.6.1. Adding a Column, there is a kind of example 'ALTER TABLE products
> ADD COLUMN description text;'
>
> The words 'description' and 'text' are misleading -- as according to the
> formal documentation of the SQL command
> (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-altertable.html), they should be
> 'column_name' and 'data_type'.
>
> A similar problem exists for removing a column, and other actions.
>

Chapter 5 is tutorial-like and uses actual meaningful names instead of
syntax placeholders. I don’t really see a problem aside from maybe a
different example name could be chosen. Making it column_name isn’t an
improvement.

David J.