Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:11 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> What I now propose is to add two output columns: >> >> barelabel bool (t or f, obviously) >> baredesc text ("can be bare label" or "requires AS", possibly localized)
> That might be over-engineered in a vacuum, but it seems like it may be > cleaner to stick with the existing precedent than to diverge from it. Yeah, my recollection of the pg_get_keywords design is that we couldn't agree on whether to emit a machine-friendly description or a human-friendly one, so we compromised by doing both :-(. But the same factors exist with this addition --- you can make an argument for preferring either boolean or text output. regards, tom lane