There are a lot of Perl scripts in the tree, mostly code generation
and TAP tests. Occasionally, these scripts produce warnings. These
are probably always mistakes on the developer side (true positives).
Typical examples are warnings from genbki.pl or related when you make
a mess in the catalog files during development, or warnings from tests
when they massage a config file that looks different on different
hosts, or mistakes during merges (e.g., duplicate subroutine
definitions), or just mistakes that weren't noticed because there is a
lot of output in a verbose build.
This changes all warnings into fatal errors, by replacing
use warnings;
by
use warnings FATAL => 'all';
in all Perl files.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/06f899fd-1826-05ab-42d6-adeb1fd5e200%40eisentraut.org
Up to now, if you tried to omit "AS" before a column label in a SELECT
list, it would only work if the column label was an IDENT, that is not
any known keyword. This is rather unfriendly considering that we have
so many keywords and are constantly growing more. In the wake of commit
1ed6b8956 it's possible to improve matters quite a bit.
We'd originally tried to make this work by having some of the existing
keyword categories be allowed without AS, but that didn't work too well,
because each category contains a few special cases that don't work
without AS. Instead, invent an entirely orthogonal keyword property
"can be bare column label", and mark all keywords that way for which
we don't get shift/reduce errors by doing so.
It turns out that of our 450 current keywords, all but 39 can be made
bare column labels, improving the situation by over 90%. This number
might move around a little depending on future grammar work, but it's
a pretty nice improvement.
Mark Dilger, based on work by myself and Robert Haas;
review by John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38ca86db-42ab-9b48-2902-337a0d6b8311@2ndquadrant.com
Even after the tweaking I did in commit 5545b69ae, some of the
longer keywords mentioned in the SQL standard don't fit the
available space in PDF output.
I experimented with various solutions like putting such keywords
on their own table lines, but everything looked ugly or confusing
or both; worse, the weirdness also appeared in the HTML version,
which (normally) doesn't need it.
The best answer seems to be to insert &zwsp; into long keywords
so that they can be broken into two lines when, and only when,
needed. It doesn't look too awful if the break happens after
an underscore --- and fortunately, all the problematic keywords
have underscores.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6916.1589146280@sss.pgh.pa.us
In the wake of commit f21599311, we don't need to set table columns'
align specs retail. Undo a few such settings I'd added in commit
5545b69ae. (The column width adjustments stay, though.)
The PDF toolchain defaults to laying out all columns of a table with
equal widths, in contrast to the HTML rendering which automatically
varies the column widths to fit the data. In many places, this
results in very badly laid-out tables, with lots of useless whitespace
in some places and text that overruns its cell in other places.
For tables that have reasonably static content, we can improve
matters by adding <colspec> entries to hand-assign the column widths.
This commit does that for a few of the tables that were worst off;
it eliminates close to 200 "contents ... exceed the available area"
warnings in an A4 PDF build.
I also forced align="left" in these tables, overriding the PDF
toolchain's default which is evidently "justify". (The HTML toolchain
seems to default to that already.) Anyplace where things are tight
enough that we need to worry about this, forced justification tends to
look truly awful.
Per previous convention (see
ace397e9d2), drop SQL:2008 and only keep
the latest two standards and SQL-92.
Note: SQL:2016-2 lists a large number of non-reserved keywords that
are really just information_schema column names related to new
features. Those kinds of thing have not previously been listed as
keywords, and this was apparently done here by mistake, since these
keywords have been removed again in post-2016 working drafts. So in
order to avoid bloating the keywords table unnecessarily, I have
omitted these erroneous keywords here.
The SQL keywords table in the documentation had until now been
generated by some ad hoc scripting outside the source tree once for
each major release. This changes it to an automated process.
We have the PostgreSQL keywords available in a parseable format in
parser/kwlist.h. For the relevant SQL standard versions, keep the
keyword lists in new text files. A new script
generate-keywords-table.pl pulls it all together and produces a
DocBook table.
The final output in the documentation should be identical after this
change.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/07daeadd-8c82-0d95-5e19-e350502cb749%402ndquadrant.com
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane