From: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Another modest proposal for docs formatting: catalog descriptions
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:03:32 -0400
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On 5/10/20 12:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Just FTR, here's a complete patch for this.
Cool. I'll play around with it tonight once I clear out release work.
Per upthread reference, I believe you've become a CSS maven yourself.
> I successfully regenerated
> the column names, types, and ordering from the system catalogs, and
> plugged the descriptions back into that by dint of parsing them out of
> the XML. The "references" data was based on findoidjoins' results plus
> hand additions to cover all the cases we are calling out now (there are
> a lot of "references" links for attnums and a few other non-OID columns,
> plus references links for views which findoidjoins doesn't consider).
> So I have pretty high confidence that this info is OK. I'd be too
> embarrassed to show anybody the code though ;-) ... it was just a brute
> force hack.
If it works it works ;)
Jonathan
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