On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:01:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > 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?
No. The last release of Perl 4 was in 1993. People born since then are probably hacking PostgreSQL right now. > Or can someone advise on an alternative way to code this? Leave Perl 4 support out. :) Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
