Re: Poll: are people okay with function/operator table redesign?

In any case, I reject the idea that we should just drop the table
markup altogether and use inline variablelists.  In most of these
sections there is a very clear separation between the table contents
(with per-function or per-operator details) and the surrounding
commentary, which deals with more general concerns.  That's a useful
separation for both readers and authors, so we need to preserve it
in some form, but the standard rendering of variablelists won't.
(Our existing major use of variablelists, in the GUC chapter, works
around this basically by not having any "surrounding commentary"
... but that solution doesn't work here.)

There is also value in being able to say things like "see Table m.n
for the available operators for type foo".