Re: small patch

2021-10-12 Thread rir
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 08:43:34AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 23:14 -0400, rir wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 04:15:01PM -0400, rir wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 02:47:43PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2021-1

Re: small patch

2021-10-11 Thread rir
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 04:15:01PM -0400, rir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 02:47:43PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Thu, 2021-10-07 at 16:06 -0400, rir wrote: > > FETCH [ direction ] [ FROM | IN ] cursor_name Should the pgplsql docs be similiarly changed per the above in

Re: small patch

2021-10-10 Thread rir
On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 02:47:43PM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Thu, 2021-10-07 at 16:06 -0400, rir wrote: > So I suggest that you change the syntax diagram to > > FETCH [ direction ] [ FROM | IN ] cursor_name > Then I agree that the "empty or" can be removed. >

Re: small patch

2021-10-09 Thread rir
On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 04:24:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > rir writes: > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 07:58:47AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > >> Can you think of a way to modify the syntax diagram so that it > >> expresses that and still remains comprehensible? >

Re: small patch

2021-10-07 Thread rir
On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 07:58:47AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 23:39 -0400, rir wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 08:18:22AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > > On Fri, 2021-10-01 at 21:06 -0400, rir wrote: > > > > Minor changes to move.sgml and

Re: small patch

2021-10-06 Thread rir
On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 08:18:22AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Fri, 2021-10-01 at 21:06 -0400, rir wrote: > > Minor changes to move.sgml and fetch.sgml. > > > > The text 'or empty' is inconsistent by restating what the > > synopsis notation has expresse

small patch

2021-10-01 Thread rir
anks again, Rob :From a297377ad3b760f10e951cf67ad0cea704214f34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rir Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 19:06:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] "empty or" is unusual and redundant --- doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml | 4 ++-- doc/src/sgml/ref/move.sgml | 4 ++-- 2 files changed

create event trigger docs

2021-09-24 Thread rir
The CREATE EVENT TRIGGER synopsis uses the bare word 'filter_value' when it seems filter_variable was intended. Thanks again.

Pg notation

2021-09-18 Thread rir
Hello all, If there is no interest in a more formalized Postgres notation then reading this is a waste of your time. But accept the compliment that all the doc/src/sgml/ref/.sgml synopses are well and nicely done. I turned to your documentation pages' synopses to create a _very_ partial grammar

conventions

2021-07-07 Thread rir
The conventions page is weak. Here is a proposed start for change. Seeing SQL as an early language, I have tried to use something like plain English. Here "early" could describe a mail merge user wandering into programming SQL after seeing some simple examples. I like the idea of accessibilit

Synopsis notation

2021-07-06 Thread rir
Is the notation used in the sql command pages covered in the Pg docs or elsewhere? With my limited experience, I don't recognize the notation. rir