Re: [HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-12-06 Thread Jim Nasby
On 9/15/15 12:35 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote: COMMENT ON FUNCTION function_name ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) PARAMETER param_position IS 'text'; COMMENT ON FUNCTION function_name ( [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [, ...] ] ) RETURN VALUE IS 'text'; An alternative to "RE

Re: [HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-09-15 Thread Charles Clavadetscher
Attach comments to functions' parameters and return > value > > Hello Jim > > On 14/09/2015 19:23, Jim Nasby wrote: > > On 9/14/15 8:59 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> In PostgreSQL it is possible to attach comments to alm

Re: [HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-09-14 Thread Charles Clavadetscher
Hello Àlvaro On 14/09/2015 20:02, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: On 9/14/15 8:59 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote: To long time PostgreSQL developers this may look straightforward. For the moment I am not even sure if that is correct and if there are other places that would need addit

Re: [HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-09-14 Thread Charles Clavadetscher
Hello Jim On 14/09/2015 19:23, Jim Nasby wrote: On 9/14/15 8:59 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote: Hello In PostgreSQL it is possible to attach comments to almost everything. This made it possible for us to integrate the wiki that we use for our technical documentation directly with the database

Re: [HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-09-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim Nasby wrote: > On 9/14/15 8:59 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote: > >To long time PostgreSQL developers this may look straightforward. For the > >moment I am not even sure if that is correct and if there are other places > >that would need additions, apart from the obvious display in psql. > >

Re: [HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-09-14 Thread Jim Nasby
On 9/14/15 8:59 AM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote: Hello In PostgreSQL it is possible to attach comments to almost everything. This made it possible for us to integrate the wiki that we use for our technical documentation directly with the database using the MediaWiki [1] extensions ExternalData [

[HACKERS] Attach comments to functions' parameters and return value

2015-09-14 Thread Charles Clavadetscher
Hello In PostgreSQL it is possible to attach comments to almost everything. This made it possible for us to integrate the wiki that we use for our technical documentation directly with the database using the MediaWiki [1] extensions ExternalData [2] and MagicNoCache [3]. The result is a documentat