Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh, where did you see that? I found the original thread and I don't see > any mention of a warning, or not wanting a warning: I meant about all the other stuff (order by and limit etc). At one point the patch had more duplication across update and delete.
> I feel we need a warning specifically because people will find this > query, particularly in the very visible UPDATE/DELETE man pages, and not > realize ctid only has a few save use-cases. Yes. I only queried adding it to both because I remembered the original thread. I agree the visibility of the duplicate warning is better. [From the thread] > > It is similar, but the idea here is to aid in discovery. A user might miss > > the > > technique for update if it's only documented in delete, and even if they > > did see > > it there, they might not realize that it works for both UPDATE and DELETE. > > We could make reference links from one to the other, but that seems like > > extra > > work for the reader. > I don't agree with bloating the documentation with redundant examples just > to save a user a click. I like the idea of a link
