From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Most-common value docs in PG 12
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:17:55 -0300
Message-ID: <20190926201755.GA18930@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190926200522.GB16366@momjian.us>
On 2019-Sep-26, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:15:22PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2019-Aug-30, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > > OK, how is this patch? I didn't mention psql since I think everyone
> > > expects psql to show all information about tables and indexes.
> >
> > Why would you change perform.sgml? It seems unnecessary; the commands
> > shown work fine.
>
> I realize they work fine, but the ordering in the examples not matching
> the defined order suggests that ordering matters, but it does not.
Well, I mean exactly the other way around: the fact that the orders
don't match illustrates that the order is not important. And that is
reinforced by the explanation indicating explicitly that it does not
matter:
> > > <para>
> > > The name of a table column to be covered by the computed statistics.
> > > - At least two column names must be given.
> > > + At least two column names must be given; the order of the column names
> > > + is insignificant.
> > > </para>
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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