Re: Unnecessary use of .* in examples

2021-02-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 10:08 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 05:46 +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > > > In the table for the ~ (and friends) operator, every example has a > > > pointless > > > set of '.*' surrounding the text to be matched. These unnecessary > > > operators >

Re: Unnecessary use of .* in examples

2021-02-01 Thread Tom Lane
Laurenz Albe writes: > On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 05:46 +, PG Doc comments form wrote: >> In the table for the ~ (and friends) operator, every example has a pointless >> set of '.*' surrounding the text to be matched. These unnecessary operators >> add visual clutter making the examples both harder

Re: Unnecessary use of .* in examples

2021-02-01 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 05:46 +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-matching.html > Description: > > In the table for the ~ (and friends) operator, every example has a pointless > set of '.*' surrounding the text to be matched. These unnecessary oper

Unnecessary use of .* in examples

2021-02-01 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-matching.html Description: In the table for the ~ (and friends) operator, every example has a pointless set of '.*' surrounding the text to be matched. These unnecessary operator