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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Example not producing shown output
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 22:27:33 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 11:22:20AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Nov-27, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> 
> > > On 26 Nov 2019, at 19:28, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > Or perhaps we can add a second line in the example cell for the
> > > @@ operator, to make it clear that both forms can be used.  Users can be
> > > expected to apply some intuition from that point onwards.
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be more intuitive to add such a second line under to_tsvector, or
> > expand the Description field to cover a brief discussion covering this? 
> 
> I don't know.  The problem is that the line for to_tsvector is a lot
> further down the page in table 9.42, and it contains a lot of other
> stuff, so people trying their first examples based on table 9.41 would
> not see it and will be as surprised as the OP was when it doesn't work
> under their locale.
> 
> I think enlarging the description for the @@ entry is not out of the
> question, but trying to explain too much about the locale there seems a
> bit out of place.  This is why I suggested to add another Note box below
> the table.
> 
> If I misunderstood what you meant, please be more specific.

Would adding more doc places where we set the session language to
English help here, rather than doing it in the function calls?

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