Re: pgstat documentation tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: pgstat documentation tables
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Msg-id 1326739269.29466.0.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: pgstat documentation tables  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgstat documentation tables  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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On sön, 2012-01-15 at 12:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > Right now we have a single table on
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS
> > that lists all our statistics views ...
> > I'd like to turn that into one table for each view,
> 
> Please follow the style already used for system catalogs; ie I think
> there should be a summary table with one entry per view, and then a
> separate description and table-of-columns for each view.

If the tables had proper table and column comments, you might even be
able to generate the SGML documentation automatically.




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