On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 17:13, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:29:12PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> > How do people feel about pulling text out of the SGML docs and loading
>> > it into the database as table and column comments?
>>
>> I'm not thrilled by that proposal. The length limits on comments are
>> very much shorter than what is sensible to use in catalogs.sgml (at
>> least if you want the comments to look passable in \d displays). And
>> I don't want people trying to serve two different use-cases when they
>> write those.
>
> I was thinking of just grabbing the first X characters from the SGML
> comments.
So that it wouldn't necessarily even make for a complete sentence?
That seems like a really bad idea...
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