pá 20. 12. 2019 v 18:43 odesílatel Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com>
napsal:

> I took the liberty of rebasing this series on top of recent branch
> master.  The first four are mostly Paul's originals, except for conflict
> fixes; the rest are changes I'm proposing as I go along figuring out the
> whole thing.  (I would post just my proposed changes, if it weren't for
> the rebasing; apologies for the messiness.)
>
> I am not convinced that adding TYPTYPE_MULTIRANGE is really necessary.
> Why can't we just treat those types as TYPTYPE_RANGE and distinguish
> them using TYPCATEGORY_MULTIRANGE?  That's what we do for arrays.  I'll
> try to do that next.
>
> I think the algorithm for coming up with the multirange name is
> suboptimal.  It works fine with the name is short enough that we can add
> a few extra letters, but otherwise the result look pretty silly.  I
> think we can still improve on that.  I propose to make
> makeUniqueTypeName accept a suffix, and truncate the letters that appear
> *before* the suffix rather than truncating after it's been appended.
>
> There's a number of ereport() calls that should become elog(); and a
> bunch of others that should probably acquire errcode() and be
> reformatted per our style.
>
>
> Regarding Pavel's documentation markup issue,
>
> > I am not sure how much is correct to use <literallayout
> class="monospaced">
> > in doc. It is used for ranges, and multiranges, but no in other places
>
> I looked at the generated PDF and the table looks pretty bad; the words
> in those entries overlap the words in the cell to their right.  But that
> also happens with entries that do not use <literallayout class="x">!
> See [1] for an example of the existing docs being badly formatted.  The
> docbook documentation [2] seems to suggest that what Paul used is the
> appropriate way to do this.
>
> Maybe a way is to make each entry have more than one row -- so the
> example would appear below the other three fields in its own row, and
> would be able to use the whole width of the table.
>

I had a talk with Paul about possible simplification of designed operators.
Last message from Paul was - he is working on new version.

Regards

Pavel



> [1] https://twitter.com/alvherre/status/1205563468595781633
> [2] https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/literallayout.html
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