On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:38:15AM +0300, Alexander Law wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While translating docs I encountered an inconsistency with the
> literal/replaceable Docbook tags.
>
> I believe that the 'replaceable' tag should be used for keywords that
> intended to be replaced with some values, but 'literal' is for literal
> usage. But there are some places in the docs where 'literal' is used for
> replaceable values. Patch attached.
Patch applied and backpatched to 9.6.
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>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
>
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml
> index fb3f32e..80c6f60 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml
> @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ recovery_end_command = 'del C:\pgsql.trigger.5442'
> The <literal>copy</> command on Windows sets the final file size
> before the file is completely copied, which would ordinarily confuse
> <application>pg_standby</application>. Therefore
> - <application>pg_standby</application> waits <literal>sleeptime</>
> + <application>pg_standby</application> waits <replaceable>sleeptime</>
> seconds once it sees the proper file size. GNUWin32's <literal>cp</>
> sets the file size only after the file copy is complete.
> </para>
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml
> index 296f1ac..177caab 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_xlogdump.sgml
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
> <listitem>
> <para>
> Timeline from which to read log records. The default is to use the
> - value in <literal>startseg</>, if that is specified; otherwise, the
> + value in <replaceable>startseg</>, if that is specified; otherwise, the
> default is 1.
> </para>
> </listitem>
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgbench.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgbench.sgml
> index f58da35..285608d 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgbench.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pgbench.sgml
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ pgbench <optional> <replaceable>options</> </optional> <replaceable>dbname</>
> <term><option>--progress=</option><replaceable>sec</></term>
> <listitem>
> <para>
> - Show progress report every <literal>sec</> seconds. The report
> + Show progress report every <replaceable>sec</> seconds. The report
> includes the time since the beginning of the run, the tps since the
> last report, and the transaction latency average and standard
> deviation since the last report. Under throttling (<option>-R</>),
> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
> index d9bce25..8a66ce7 100644
> --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
> +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
> @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ testdb=>
> <para>
> Establishes a new connection to a <productname>PostgreSQL</>
> server. The connection parameters to use can be specified either
> - using a positional syntax, or using <literal>conninfo</> connection
> + using a positional syntax, or using <replaceable>conninfo</> connection
> strings as detailed in <xref linkend="libpq-connstring">.
> </para>
>
> @@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ testdb=>
> Where the command omits database name, user, host, or port, the new
> connection can reuse values from the previous connection. By default,
> values from the previous connection are reused except when processing
> - a <literal>conninfo</> string. Passing a first argument
> + a <replaceable>conninfo</> string. Passing a first argument
> of <literal>-reuse-previous=on</>
> or <literal>-reuse-previous=off</literal> overrides that default.
> When the command neither specifies nor reuses a particular parameter,
>
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