On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Simone Aiken >> <sai...@quietlycompetent.com> wrote: >>> Pages like this one have column comments for the system tables: >>> >>> http://www.psql.it/manuale/8.3/catalog-pg-attribute.html > >> Oh, I see. I don't think we want to go there. We'd need some kind of >> system for keeping the two places in sync. > > I seem to recall some muttering about teaching genbki to extract such > comments from the SGML sources or perhaps the C header files. I tend to > agree though that it would be a lot more work than it's worth. And as > you say, pg_description entries aren't free. > > Which brings up another point though. I have a personal TODO item to > make the comments for operator support functions more consistent: > http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/21407.1287157...@sss.pgh.pa.us > Should we consider removing those comments altogether, instead?
I could go either way on that. Most of those comments are pretty short, aren't they? How much storage are they really costing us? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
