On 2019-Sep-26, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:15:22PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > On 2019-Aug-30, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > OK, how is this patch? I didn't mention psql since I think everyone > > > expects psql to show all information about tables and indexes. > > > > Why would you change perform.sgml? It seems unnecessary; the commands > > shown work fine. > > I realize they work fine, but the ordering in the examples not matching > the defined order suggests that ordering matters, but it does not.
Well, I mean exactly the other way around: the fact that the orders don't match illustrates that the order is not important. And that is reinforced by the explanation indicating explicitly that it does not matter: > > > <para> > > > The name of a table column to be covered by the computed > > > statistics. > > > - At least two column names must be given. > > > + At least two column names must be given; the order of the column > > > names > > > + is insignificant. > > > </para> -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
