Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092191337B3E for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:07:26 -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 98113-06 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:07:18 +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 8D456133616B for ; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:07:18 -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 oBN37IsQ014387; Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:07:18 -0500 (EST) To: Leslie S Satenstein cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: OID In-reply-to: <751283.83762.qm@web110710.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <751283.83762.qm@web110710.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Comments: In-reply-to Leslie S Satenstein message dated "Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:30:16 -0800" Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:07:17 -0500 Message-ID: <14386.1293073637@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: 201012/38 X-Sequence-Number: 6274 Leslie S Satenstein writes: > Is this unreferenced term that appears earlier than the definition considered a document bug?. No. It would be completely impractical, or at least unintelligible, to write the manual with no forward references whatsoever. regards, tom lane