Re: Suggestion for deprecated spellings

On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 08:17:54PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 04:17:14PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 04:07:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:19:29PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > > >> From time to time some spelling for given command gets obsolete, yet it is
> > > >> shown in the syntax on "equal rights" as other valid clauses.
> > > 
> > > > We don't need to show all _supported_ syntaxes in the "Synopsis"
> > > > section, so we could just remove them.
> > > 
> > > IIRC, there is precedent in COPY for moving obsolete alternatives
> > > to a separate part of the man page.  I'd prefer that to just
> > > removing them, because then there is no documentation to help
> > > someone understand what an old SQL script is doing.
> > 
> > Yeah, I remember that with COPY.  t.kitynski@gmail.com, please us that
> > as a guide.  Thanks.
> 
> I developed the attached patch to move the deprecated clauses to the
> bottom.

Applied to master.  I didn't want to backpatch a command syntax
adjustment like this.

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