Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k9YjP-0002Gk-OZ for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:59:11 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k9YjO-0000Ut-NB for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:59:10 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k9YjO-0000Um-Bx for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:59:10 +0000 Received: from mail-qt1-x841.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::841]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k9YjL-0005rg-LH for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 18:59:10 +0000 Received: by mail-qt1-x841.google.com with SMTP id k20so37404qtq.11 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:59:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=2ndquadrant-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=+8pMbzM5JE+fnZkSdCgBZ+IZ5K6EGp9gmZKsUsCVMRk=; b=g1UOkW8XDOKXm76FYnHc29dvrBBGBuTGcFmyOdUitcs29OI+v56KVR040x9fEUxNMx a+MAFut04LDrLZL5T6JfzV8ExSF4E5nONRJhramm4L1kgDZfoYODDL4l6ljVfSTyPXLh UOmZX7J69w8lC8e1BumWYZxlb6cLQ6d5Mj2BU5VYc+zujpx/HZmEGgHJ5gS3LslDZ+ty XxCnz4fgy+qKbV++X7XfyQNPZn2FCudn1htESfbtvU4DvTVNPOjYKSVDwqxQaA411lwV kqmGl66KZDrVIbikzr8Px0slUPFtncTn1U8fTfMaLbrBtqkO3SiwaEumtXfnFFmeJbkB 38sA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mime-version :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=+8pMbzM5JE+fnZkSdCgBZ+IZ5K6EGp9gmZKsUsCVMRk=; b=JI60MfHX1wl/+hosSnxG42UlKnvXkq+8tnKTTLkw3TPjhCvZrU+xYA5+/FYAlUzyse SIRNjAuF7sjkCvMg0B7d6nT5BUNPIEjj9AiXEH3Byf8GknuLH6wh1CTyFYT0UVSI0t0b w7QAUFzho0+R1nB770QsD9ydaICjPYgUjNVgMA3DsDBF/4ofsd1BU3U9m2K3+Wj5bd4w /f9XoX5sWiBAaTQi1XIF9uHdKwBbNIbQuVpUc3GeVWKD3U7lMLG1s6w6DCrCKoqcB2Wk dY4bcBP/SnVUb45T8gnfpGURMjvgeS3rmjUtMlDsl6rNgGFM7cm1smb/eIighU17b5N3 H+EA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5328Iqsg8ZcB37rzXcixGYgloIM3AkIZZWnj39DIhUoAsvJMKtIf 6MFYKTheH8gQxHeuYz4su2wiaQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJzAl7xIXss6MwECC50IeUaE+wYqMkfuE5EW8Gco9kOlmTP/6oWZF21lflrZb8vKl7xP5KDyFQ== X-Received: by 2002:aed:21da:: with SMTP id m26mr7935874qtc.197.1598122745208; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perhan.alvh.no-ip.org ([190.95.19.47]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a15sm3770254qkc.29.2020.08.22.11.59.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by perhan.alvh.no-ip.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8416D2A197D; Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:59:02 -0400 (-04) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:59:02 -0400 From: Alvaro Herrera To: Tom Lane Cc: Bruce Momjian , Michael Paquier , osdba , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Document "59.2. Built-in Operator Classes" have a clerical error? Message-ID: <20200822185902.GA11024@alvherre.pgsql> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2208818.1598117220@sss.pgh.pa.us> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk On 2020-Aug-22, Tom Lane wrote: > If you don't want to go all the way and list the operators with their > input types, maybe we should just do what the OP thought was correct > and delete the duplicate operator names. It's already the case that > the table isn't telling you exactly which input types the operators > accept, so why not be a little bit fuzzier? Well, if we're going to have a table, let's have a useful table. What's wrong with using the same contents \dAo shows? It seemed reasonable enough to me. Now of course I would suggest that other client programs such as pgAdmin ought to display what \dAo shows too ;-) -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services