Re: TABLE command

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:01:58PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Hmm.  Given the current infrastructure for \h, the only way to do
>> that would be to make a separate ref page for WITH, which feels
>> like the wrong thing.  And the objection I have to TABLE is not the
>> code but the apparent need to give it its own ref page (as we
>> already did for VALUES, and I found that pretty ugly too).
>>
>> Is there a way to make all of these point at the SELECT ref page?
>
> I was looking into that and I figured using the \G expression in
> Perl  REs would be useful for this (to find multiple <refname>s).
> But this  was introduced in Perl 5.000, and we claim to support Perl
> 4 in  create_help.pl.  I recall that you Tom once arranged this to
> support  building on some old machines.  Is this still relevant?

No.  The last release of Perl 4 was in 1993.  People born since then
are probably hacking PostgreSQL right now.

> Or can someone advise on an alternative way to code this?

Leave Perl 4 support out. :)

Cheers,
David.
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