On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 12:07 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 11:51 PM Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> > wrote: >> Also I think this note should be in the different paragraph from the >> paragraph >> of "The pg_settings view cannot be inserted into or deleted from...." >> because >> they are different topics. Thought?
> Agreed on both points. In a separate paragraph, I think it's awkward to > start two consecutive sentences with "The pg_settings view". If we put it > in the previous paragraph we could phrase it like this:
> "See Section 20.1 for more information about the various ways to change > these parameters. Customized options are not displayed until the > extension module that defines them has been loaded.
That just moves the subject-inconsistency to a different para :-( I think this item should be its own new para.
As for the repetitiveness, we could just say "This view ...", in one or even both paras.
Okay, along those lines here's a patch using "this view" in a new paragraph for simplicity.