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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Documentation on information_ schema columns that does not exist
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Msg-id e78e3c50-8a0f-56ae-a4ba-c670dc02481b@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Documentation on information_ schema columns that does not exist  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 8/3/16 3:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

Fixed by changing the column name.

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