Re: Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views
Date
Msg-id 4627.1129155240@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: Comments on columns in the pg_catalog tables/views
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David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> Before I dive into this, is there some reason why the pg_catalog.*
> tables/views should not have comments that match the descriptions in
> the docs?  I can see where this could cause some maintenance issues,

Yeah.  If you can figure a way to auto-generate the comments from the
sgml files, it'd be nice, but I definitely don't want to manually
maintain Yet Another set of per-column information.
        regards, tom lane


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