Re: Make default values bold in Synopsis / bnf diagram

2019-12-20 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:56 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 09:19:32PM +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > > > In this example the words to words "READ COMMITTED", "READ WRITE" should > be > > bold since they are default values if I execute the statement "BEGIN;" > see > >

Re: Make default values bold in Synopsis / bnf diagram

2019-12-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 09:19:32PM +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/sql-set-transaction.html > Description: > > As an example let's take take "BEGIN" > in the Synopsis : >

Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list

2019-12-20 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 9:21 AM Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > OK, this wording is obviously harder than I thought. Updated patch > > attached. > > That one works for me. > Me too. David J.

Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list

2019-12-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > OK, this wording is obviously harder than I thought. Updated patch > attached. That one works for me. regards, tom lane

Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list

2019-12-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 07:29:33AM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > This has the same "match by name" possibility when I read it... > > I don't see the benefit of repeating "If a column list is specified" a second > time in the three sentence paragraph.  To a lesser extent the same goes for >

Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list

2019-12-20 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 7:13 AM Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > OK, how is this? > > I do not like the phrasing of > > If a column list is > specified in COPY FROM, the number and position of > the columns must match those fields in the file. > > I'm not quite sure why,

Re: COPY manual is ambiguous about column list

2019-12-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:33:48PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Thursday, December 19, 2019, Tom Lane wrote: > > "David G. Johnston" writes: > > Seems better to simply talk about each form independently: > > > If a list of columns is specified, COPY TO will only > >