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Subject: Re: Documentation of pg_badkend_pid and stats functions
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On May 7, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
> On May 6, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Jim Nasby wrote:
>>> On Apr 12, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Jim Nasby wrote:
>>>> Two questions: Why is pg_backend_pid documented with the stats
>>>> functions (9.19 System Information Functions) seems more logical.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I can see mentioning the stats functions in the monitoring
>>>> section, but shouldn't they actually be documented in with the rest
>>>> of the functions?
>>>
>>> No comments? Does that mean if I write up a patch it'll be accepted?
>>
>> Yea, I was wondering about that.  I think the best idea would be to
>> reference the backend functions from the main functions page, rather
>> than move them.
>
> Well, pg_backend_pid makes no sense being in with the stats  
> functions, so I'll move it. I'll just include references to the  
> other stuff.

Turns out it didn't really make much more sense to move  
pg_backend_pid either, so I went with Bruce's original idea.
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Index: doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v
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*** 10196,10201 ****
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    <title>System Information Functions</title>
  
    <para>
+    In addition to the functions listed in this section, there are a number of
+    functions related to the statistics system that also provide system
+    information. See <xref linkend="monitoring-stats-views"> for more
+    information.
+   </para>
+ 
+   <para>
     <xref linkend="functions-info-session-table"> shows several
     functions that extract session and system information.
    </para>

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