"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 9:06 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Why not do away with two separate functions and define a composite type >>> (boolean, text) for is_valid to return?
>> I don't see any advantage to that. It would be harder to use in both >> use-cases. > I don't really see a use case for either of them individually. Uh, several people opined that pg_input_is_valid would be of field interest. If I thought these were only for testing purposes I wouldn't be especially concerned about documenting them at all. > Are you suggesting we should not go down the path that v8-0003 does in the > monitoring section cleanup thread? I find the usability of Chapter 54 > System Views to be superior to these two run-on chapters and would rather > we emulate it in both these places - for what is in the end very little > additional effort, all mechanical in nature. I have not been following that thread, and am not really excited about putting in a huge amount of documentation work here. I'd just like 9.26 to have a mini-TOC at the page head, which <sect2>'s would be enough for. regards, tom lane