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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Eisentraut d129255077 Set SQL man pages to be section 7 by default, and only transform them to
another section if required by the platform (instead of the old way of
building them in section "l" and always transforming them to the
platform-specific section).

This speeds up the installation on common platforms, and it avoids some
funny business with the man page tools and build process.
2008-11-14 10:22:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e81c138e18 Update reference documentation on may/can/might:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-01-31 23:26:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 32cebaecff Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
Tom Lane abc3120e9b Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasks
such as debugging and performance measurement.  This consists of two features:
a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared
libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries"
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit
cooperation from the client application.  To make local_preload_libraries
as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead,
it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/.  The
existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to
LOAD libraries stored in this directory.

This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to
shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some
code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity.

Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2006-08-15 18:26:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 4e94ea9fc9 More minor updates and copy-editing. 2005-01-04 00:39:53 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon 969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2a5b6a7c9b This patch fixes a few missed GUC variables that were still upper case,
makes a few more small improvements to runtime.sgml, and makes some SGML
conventions more consistent.

Neil Conway
2003-09-11 21:42:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c326d8f4f2 Add/edit index entries. 2003-08-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 20aae3047f Editing of more reference pages. 2003-04-26 23:56:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5e5c5cd31a Merge documentation into one book. (Build with "make html".) Replace
vague cross-references with real links.
2003-03-25 16:15:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian be2b660ecd 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
2003-01-19 00:13:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ed24f28538 Fixups for man pages 2002-11-21 23:34:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da8149032a SGML improvements.
Neil Conway
2002-11-15 03:11:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bf43bed848 Spell-check and markup police 2002-01-20 22:19:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 17f0b55d15 Initial round of tweakage for man pages 2001-11-18 20:35:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 62651c0176 Editorial work on xfunc chapter --- better explanations about SQL
functions handling composite types and sets, various minor cleanups.
2001-10-26 19:58:12 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 89a1ea4207 Put some kind of grammatical uniformity in the <refpurpose> lines. 2001-09-03 12:57:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cb8b40e6d5 Allow special '$libdir' macro to show up in object file path in CREATE
FUNCTION command.  Guard against trying to load a directory.  Update
documentation some.
2001-05-19 09:01:10 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart a27512e634 Complete merge of all old man page information.
ecpg reference page still needs formatting.
1999-07-22 15:09:15 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart a4ac2f458e Fix markup for docbook2man man page generation.
No big deal; fixed lots of other markup at the same time.
Bigest change: make sure there is no whitespace
 in front of <term> contents.
This will probably help the other output types too.
1999-07-06 17:16:42 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart a75f2d21a8 Clean up to ensure tag completion as required by the newest versions
of Norm's Modular Style Sheets and jade/docbook.
From Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>.
1998-12-29 02:24:47 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 3d83e28b2b Minor cleanup in markup, especially in the Output section. 1998-10-30 19:34:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3c4e2bc9be SGML updates from post 6.3.2 manual changes. Added pg_upgrade man page. 1998-10-15 05:47:04 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f8b6b5f14f Cleanup markup and minor editing to prepare for first release. 1998-09-25 13:42:46 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart e6c1fbab5c Add more new pages. 1998-09-02 03:01:02 +00:00