<p><br /> On Feb 8, 2012 5:32 AM, "Tom Lane" <<a href="mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us">tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</a>> wrote:<br
/>><br /> > Bruce Momjian <<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>> writes:<br /> > >
Howdo people feel about pulling text out of the SGML docs and loading<br /> > > it into the database as table and
columncomments?<br /> ><br /> > I'm not thrilled by that proposal. The length limits on comments are<br /> >
verymuch shorter than what is sensible to use in catalogs.sgml (at<br /> > least if you want the comments to look
passablein \d displays). And<br /> > I don't want people trying to serve two different use-cases when they<br />
>write those.<p>Yes, I'd rather see longer than shorter descriptions in the docs, and this would turn that
backwards...<p>><br /> > Perhaps it'd work to pull column comments from the C header files<br /> > --- any
same-linecomment in catalog/pg_*.h is probably short enough to<br /> > serve this purpose usefully.<p>That could
worka lot better.. <p>/Magnus