On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 2:11 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> After re-reading the description of pg_get_keywords, I was reminded that
> what it outputs now is intended to provide both a machine-friendly
> description of the keyword category ("catcode") and a human-friendly
> description ("catdesc"). So we really should do likewise for the
> label property. What I now propose is to add two output columns:
>
> barelabel bool (t or f, obviously)
> baredesc text ("can be bare label" or "requires AS", possibly localized)
That might be over-engineered in a vacuum, but it seems like it may be
cleaner to stick with the existing precedent than to diverge from it.
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