Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > > Which way did we more commonly do it before you applied this patch? > > We don't have a standard for this, and an undocumented patch applied > without any discussion doesn't create one. It's hopeless to imagine > that you'll ever achieve any uniformity that way. It won't last long > if you do, since you're outnumbered by committers who won't be following > whatever you think the convention is.
Well, the problem is that we then have paragraphs where a number is fixed width, and in the next paragraph it isn't; this is particuarly true in the config.sgml file where we show defaults. Seems worth trying to make that consistent. I am happy to do whatever we agree on --- I don't have an opinion. > I'm not even sure why you're trying --- I don't think it even makes > sense to try to have a standard about this. I can easily imagine that > integer constants might read better with <literal> in some contexts > and better without in others. Yes, I reviewed all the places and left <literal> where it made sense. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
