From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: create_help.pl treats <literal> as replaceable
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 13:11:47 +0200
Message-ID: <87acb592-4111-fe5a-6be9-37cf84902489@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
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On 18.05.22 18:29, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think you should have upper-cased MATCH while at it, to make it clear
> that it acts like a keyword in this context. The current situation is
> quite unreadable in plain-ASCII output:
>
> regression=# \help copy
> Command: COPY
> ...
> HEADER [ boolean | match ]
> ...
>
> Since "boolean" is a metasyntactic variable here, it's absolutely
> not obvious that "match" isn't.
done
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