> >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. >
I know I can't do all of the work, any submission requires review etc, but it is worth it to me provided it does no harm to the codebase. So the only outstanding question is the impact of increased size. In my experience size increases related to documentation are almost always worth it. So I'm prejudiced right out of the gate. I was wondering if every pg_ table gets copied out to every database .. if there is already a mechanism for not replicating all of them we could utilize views or re-writes rules to merge a single copy of catalog comments in a separate table with each deployed database's pg_descriptions. If all catalog descriptions were handled this way it would actually decrease the size of a deployed database ( by 210K? ) by absorbing the pg_descriptions that are currently being duplicated. Since users shouldn't be messing with them anyway and they are purely for humans to refer to - not computers to calculate explain plans with - there shouldn't be anything inherently wrong with moving static descriptions out of user space. In theory at least. -Simone Aiken -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
