From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 22:08:34 +0200
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> On 10 May 2023, at 17:35, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>> I took a look at this using macOS as the initial testbed; the TLDR is that
>> mandoc doesn't support macros in tables, and our single-column function
>> signature tables rely on that. macOS switched to mandoc in v11 I think, but I
>> don't have an older box handy to doublecheck.
>
> Hmm, any chance of addressing this by expanding out the relevant macros?
Maybe, but I'm not too optimistic about that since I was unable to coerce
mandoc into accepting any form of explicit linebreaks in T{T} text blocks.
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Daniel Gustafsson
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