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This patch includes a lot of minor cleanups to the SGML documentation,
including: - replacing all the appropriate usages of <citetitle>PostgreSQL ...</citetitle> with &cite-user;, &cite-admin;, and so on - fix an omission in the EXECUTE documentation - add some more text to the EXPLAIN documentation - improve the PL/PgSQL RETURN NEXT documentation (more work to do here) - minor markup fixes Neil Conway
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‎doc/src/sgml/arch-dev.sgml

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<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> system refer to the
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&cite-admin; for details about the meaning of some of the
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&cite-programmer; contain more information about the meaning of
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