Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFkOv-0004np-Ev for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:44:41 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFkOu-0006SL-RU for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:44:40 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFkOu-0006S6-Ax for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:44:40 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFkOq-0000Xa-P4 for pgsql-docs@postgresql.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:44:38 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t6GEiXpr003678; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:44:33 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Alvaro Herrera cc: Pg Docs Subject: Re: ALTER INDEX .. SET STATISTICS not documented In-reply-to: <20150716143149.GO2301@postgresql.org> References: <20150716143149.GO2301@postgresql.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:31:49 +0300" Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:44:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3677.1437057873@sss.pgh.pa.us> X-Pg-Spam-Score: -3.2 (---) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-docs Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-docs-owner@postgresql.org Alvaro Herrera writes: > I'm sitting in Alexey Ermakov's talk and he just said that the command > in $SUBJECT is not documented ... do we need a separate blurb about it > somewhere? Hm ... at one time there was not any real expectation that the ALTER INDEX reference page would tell you exactly which subforms of ALTER TABLE would work on an index; it was mostly "try it and see". But now we probably should try to cover all the cases there, including this one. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs