Dane, In response to your comments
> Well, maybe this is the best place to start.... > And another benefit is that auxiliary meta could be added at the same time in a separate table (see below). I think its more maintainable as a separate file as the way you suggested and a separate more informative table would be helpful. If we can agree on specific tags to use, I think it would make the parsing easier and less up to the whims of the postgis doc book. The additional tables can be used for a building a help system ala the R-help as it looks like you have already started. I think large comments with examples may be more desirable in a separate table. > I had not given thought to the issue of how long the comments might be. I've only viewed comments in a psql terminal, > > so long comment strings simply wrap. But I can see that PgAdmin must enforce some max length (looks like around > > 140 char) to maintain the readability within the 'properties view'. Do you know if PostgreSQL enforces a max length on the > comments field? Technically PgAdmin doesn't place constraints per say. It just will only show the first 140 char in the comment pane and if you double click on the function, you will see a scrollable field where you can see all the comments. I just think it would be a bit distracting to have a huge definition in there. If I needed to read that much, I would go to the docs. That's more a personal preference though. My guess is that Postgres does not place constraints on length of comments. I pasted a fairly huge paragraph in it and it took it. Strangely Postgres is I think the only database I have run into where from an efficiency standpoint it may actually be better to not put constraints on your field lengths and there is no real penalty of not doing so as with other databases (aside from users going crazy stuffing the kitchen sink in there). Thanks, Regina _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
