On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:35, Greg Smith <g...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On 01/15/2012 03:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> >> I'd like to turn that into one table for each view, with two columns, >> one being the name the other one being the description. That'll also >> make it possible to expand on the descriptions without making it >> completley unreadable, should we want to. > > > Scott Mead's pg_stat_activity refactoring patch already was forced toward > doing something similar for its documentation to be readable (maybe exactly > the same as you were thinking, can't tell because my SGML-fu is weak) . I > feel doing this for every view in there is inevitable, just a matter of when > to bite on the problem. This whole section is barely usable in its current > form. I strongly hope the pg_stat_activity patch goes in, which will be > close to a compelling event to motivate fixing the rest of them in a similar > way. I would advocate leading with that one until it seems right, then > adopting the same style of reorg to the rest until they're all converted.
Yes, the pg_stat_activity patch will make it more important - but I want to do it for *all* of them... I'll be happy to do the mechanical work on turning them into table, but yes, I was planning to look at the pg_stat_activity patch first all along :) -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers