Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled
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Msg-id f574fa79-d56c-2c99-f623-8d965833eb5d@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
Responses Re: tables on pgbench man page look garbled
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On 09.05.23 15:58, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 9 May 2023, at 15:40, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>>
>> The tables "pgbench Operators" and "pgbench Functions" on the pgbench man page (the actual man page, not the HTML
referencepage) look pretty garbled.  Also, on macOS, man prints a warning that the page is invalidly formatted.  But
thegarbledness happens on Linux as well, for example.  Apparently, our custom table layout doesn't map properly to the
manformat.  But for example, the earlier table "pgbench Automatic Variables", which doesn't use the custom table
layout,looks fine. Anyone feel like looking into this further?
 
> 
> Can you post a screenshot of what it looks like?  I just built the manpages
> from HEAD on macOS and while they report the UNSUPP error the table itself
> looks like I would expect it to.

Here.

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