Re: TABLE command - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: TABLE command
Date
Msg-id 4922CAD6.4000805@gmx.net
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In response to Re: TABLE command  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: TABLE command  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Hmm.  Given the current infrastructure for \h, the only way to do that
> would be to make a separate ref page for WITH, which feels like the
> wrong thing.  And the objection I have to TABLE is not the code but the
> apparent need to give it its own ref page (as we already did for VALUES,
> and I found that pretty ugly too).
> 
> Is there a way to make all of these point at the SELECT ref page?

I was looking into that and I figured using the \G expression in Perl 
REs would be useful for this (to find multiple <refname>s).  But this 
was introduced in Perl 5.000, and we claim to support Perl 4 in 
create_help.pl.  I recall that you Tom once arranged this to support 
building on some old machines.  Is this still relevant?

Or can someone advise on an alternative way to code this?


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