Re: Documentation on information_ schema columns that does not exist - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Documentation on information_ schema columns that does not exist
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Msg-id 15356.1470252447@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Documentation on information_ schema columns that does not exist  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Documentation on information_ schema columns that does not exist  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 5/31/15 8:27 PM, Clément Prévost wrote:
>> Here is another patch to fix the name of the column
>> information_schema.routines.result_cast_char_set_name that was
>> mistakenly named result_cast_character_set_name.

> This one is actually named result_cast_character_set_name in the
> standard, although that might be a mistake.  Anyway, our documentation
> doesn't match our implementation, so one of them has to change.

Hm, yeah, I think I vote with the "it's a mistake" camp.  The adjacent
columns are named "result_cast_char_set_whatever", and there are
occurrences of result_cast_char_set_name elsewhere, for example
in the method_specifications view.

            regards, tom lane


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