Re: Proposal to improve the content in subsection 8.16.6. "Composite Type Input and Output Syntax"

2020-04-06 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:46 AM Bryn Llewellyn wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > ... > > > It's already an example, so I don't see this as an improvement. > > ... > > > The proposed additional text is flat-out wrong. > > What actually happens here is that text between quotes is considered > quoted

Re: Proposal to improve the content in subsection 8.16.6. "Composite Type Input and Output Syntax"

2020-04-06 Thread Bryn Llewellyn
Tom Lane wrote:...It's already an example, so I don't see this as an improvementThe proposed additional text is flat-out wrong.What actually happens here is that text between quotes is consideredquoted (so that, for example, commas within it are not field separators),but

Re: Proposal to improve the content in subsection 8.16.6. "Composite Type Input and Output Syntax"

2020-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
PG Doc comments form writes: > 1. Replace this: > "...the whitespace will be ignored if the field type is integer, but not if > it is text." > with this: > "...the whitespace will be ignored if the field type is integer, but not if > it is a character data type like text." It's already an

Proposal to improve the content in subsection 8.16.6. "Composite Type Input and Output Syntax"

2020-04-03 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/rowtypes.html Description: 1. Replace this: "...the whitespace will be ignored if the field type is integer, but not if it is text." with this: "...the whitespace will be ignored if