On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 8:29 AM Andreas Karlsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/18/26 8:27 AM, Peter Smith wrote: > > In most places, each of the Server Application documentation pages [1] > > refers to the directory where the database cluster lives as 'datadir'. > > However, a few places called it 'directory' instead. > > > > This patch changes the outliers also to 'datadir', making everything > > more consistent. > > The change looks good!
Thanks. > > But I wonder if there isn't an issue with our XML. If you look at > initdb.sgml you will se that there is a space before datadir, but if you > look at e.g. pg_checksums you will then notice a lack of space, both in > the source and the generated HTML, so the space in initdb.sgml was > clearly added for a reason. Do you understand our documentation pipeline > good enough to know why that space seems to be necessary? > Yeah, I've also noticed this before. I have always assumed whoever authored those pages did not like the rendering of the <replaceable> jammed against the previous synopsis group. FYI - I have posted a separate thread to get to the bottom of the mystery, and to ask what, if anything, to do about it. ====== Kind Regards, Peter Smith. Fujitsu Australia
