Re: mention unused_oids script in pg_proc.dat - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject Re: mention unused_oids script in pg_proc.dat
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Msg-id 202505240924.i7oah25jtb5x@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2025-May-24, Florents Tselai wrote:

> I aggree with having more READMEs around the src tree.
> It’s true that a lot of doc content found in VII. Internals is dev-oriented,
> but imho it should be closer to the src (and more succinct/less verbose too).

Maybe these READMEs can simply contain little more than links to the
built HTML docs, to avoid having multiple sources of info.

> Looking at some of the text in 67.2.2. OID Assignment for example,
> a few things look outdated wrt choosing OIDs.
> 
> One can look through the history of similar commits to see what
> needs to be changed; So it’s not THAT bad.

Sure, outdated docs is something that happens.  Patches welcome.

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