On 05/02/21 19:25, Tom Lane wrote: > Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> writes: >> I've appended the comments we use for them at $work, anyway. > > IMO these would have to be shortened quite a bit to be friendly for > "\du+" displays. I'm not against the concept though.
I'm certainly not wedded to the exact wording we used here. That said, our particular reason for having them (the bgworker-produced roles/memberships/permissions graphviz thing) is not meant just for the eyes of technical staff, but also to be presentable to, say, compliance folks coming around asking about security provisions. So making the comments so terse they'd require expansion for such an audience might kind of defeat that purpose. In pg_proc there seem to be a handful of things with 80 to 90 character comments and one (a statistics function) at 111. Could that be taken for precedent as to reasonable length? Regards, -Chap
