Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D244A1337B58 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:24:57 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53642-02 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 21:24:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2EE1133798E for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 17:24:49 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p27LOmtq014103; Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:24:48 -0500 (EST) To: Thom Brown cc: pgsql-docs Subject: Re: Remove name as valid parameter for catalog functions In-reply-to: References: <23947.1299511140@sss.pgh.pa.us> <8687.1299520853@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Thom Brown message dated "Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:37:12 +0530" Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: <14102.1299533088@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/32 X-Sequence-Number: 6465 Thom Brown writes: > On 7 March 2011 23:30, Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe we could say "the name or OID of a table", or some such phrase, >> so as to subtly avoid the expectation that what is being referred to >> is the datatype named "name"? > Yes, that would remove the ambiguity. :) That wording turned out not to work well in context, at least not without major surgery on the containing sentences. I decided that the best way was to just say "specified table" in the function tables, and then borrow the paragraph that explains about regclass arguments from the sequence-functions page. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=cfcdc99db67172d46a5e226375fa97e5c5a62267 regards, tom lane