Re: Most-common value docs in PG 12

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 06:15:22PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Aug-30, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > OK, how is this patch?  I didn't mention psql since I think everyone
> > expects psql to show all information about tables and indexes.
> 
> Why would you change perform.sgml?  It seems unnecessary; the commands
> shown work fine.

I realize they work fine, but the ordering in the examples not matching
the defined order suggests that ordering matters, but it does not.

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> 
> This part seems okay:
> 
> > diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
> > index ec23a154d6..5b583aacb4 100644
> > --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
> > +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_statistics.sgml
> > @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ CREATE STATISTICS [ IF NOT EXISTS ] <replaceable class="parameter">statistics_na
> >      <listitem>
> >       <para>
> >        The name of a table column to be covered by the computed statistics.
> > -      At least two column names must be given.
> > +      At least two column names must be given;  the order of the column names
> > +      is insignificant.
> >       </para>
> >      </listitem>
> >     </varlistentry>
> 
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