706a32cdf6
Big editing for consistent content and presentation.
2003-03-13 01:30:29 +00:00
4996eea81c
This patch includes more SGML markup fixes as well as a few minor
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additions to the docs.
Neil Conway
2003-02-19 03:13:25 +00:00
da8149032a
SGML improvements.
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Neil Conway
2002-11-15 03:11:18 +00:00
1b342df00a
Merge documentation updates from 7.3 branch.
2002-11-11 20:14:04 +00:00
266a280584
Add introductory sections explaining what each book is about. Remove Y2K
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statement.
2002-10-24 17:48:54 +00:00
c918be6a17
Update description of numeric constants to match 7.3 reality.
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Miscellaneous other copy-editing.
2002-10-20 05:05:46 +00:00
bc49968764
Add more appropriate markup.
2002-09-21 18:32:54 +00:00
6d77f6e5fb
Add more information about schemas. Combines some previously existing
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material into the new location.
2002-09-12 22:05:36 +00:00
6415ffe7af
Not sure how I fixed it the first time, but here's a fix for another
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instance in which the docs mention that 'NAMEDATALEN == 32".
Neil Conway
2002-08-23 04:27:19 +00:00
c76f5aa530
> > I had great difficulty in finding how to change the search path, so here
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> > is a patch to add some cross-referencing.
Oliver Elphick
2002-08-22 04:52:17 +00:00
46bb23ac01
Change NAMEDATALEN to 64, INDEX_MAX_KEYS/MAX_FUNC_ARGS to 32, per discussion on hackers.
2002-08-13 20:40:44 +00:00
a5e6e99357
Allow schema-qualified operator names to be used in the optional
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arguments of CREATE OPERATOR.
2002-08-10 19:01:53 +00:00
6f4a9fb119
Add User's Guide chapters on Data Definition and Data Manipulation.
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Still needs to be filled with more information, but it gives us a
framework to have a User's Guide with complete coverage of the basic
SQL operations. Move arrays into data type chapter, inheritance into
DDL chapter (for now).
Make <comment>s show up in the output while the version number ends in
"devel".
Allow cross-book references with entities &cite-user; etc.
2002-08-05 19:43:31 +00:00
62d4526114
Ooops, fix busted markup.
2002-06-15 22:15:03 +00:00
2da3742cf5
Add a little more material to the new section about evaluation order.
2002-06-15 21:28:55 +00:00
bf886d5baf
Add section explaining unspecified expression evaluation order.
2002-06-01 20:56:55 +00:00
e358a61d76
Updates for schema features.
2002-04-25 20:14:43 +00:00
b6ea172ace
Spell checking and markup additions
2002-03-22 19:20:45 +00:00
bf43bed848
Spell-check and markup police
2002-01-20 22:19:57 +00:00
4d72af6cb3
Describe type casts under the heading of Value Expressions, and explain
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the difference between a run-time type cast and casting a literal string
to a specific type. Minor editorial work in same area.
2002-01-09 23:38:06 +00:00
731204e090
Editorial review
2002-01-07 02:29:15 +00:00
68cb184b56
Update list of currently supported platforms.
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Mention SQL9x precision syntax for date/time types.
Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:23 +00:00
53f1173388
Provide some documentation for EXISTS, IN, NOT IN, ANY/SOME/ALL,
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and row comparisons. How'd this manage to slip through the cracks?
2001-12-01 04:19:20 +00:00
651a639b8b
proof-reading
2001-11-28 20:49:10 +00:00
6c402eafc8
Deprecate 'current' date/time constant.
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Purge "Postgres" in favor of "PostgreSQL" in docs. ref/ not yet done.
2001-11-21 06:09:45 +00:00
5e86d226e4
Grammatical and spelling fixes.
2001-11-19 09:05:02 +00:00
a715c0e4c5
Cleanup of bibliography
2001-11-08 23:34:33 +00:00
705869dd17
Uppercase keywords where appropriate.
2001-10-12 23:32:34 +00:00
ffb8f73890
Bunch of copy fitting and style sheet tweakage to get decent looking print
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output (from pdfjadetex). Also updated instructions to install documentation
processing toolchain.
2001-10-09 18:46:00 +00:00
351a0c1736
Replace ASCII-quotes with proper markup.
2001-09-13 15:55:24 +00:00
84956e71a3
Markup additions and spell check. (covers User's Guide)
2001-09-09 17:21:59 +00:00
8e0d642c9b
Documentation for transaction-ID-wraparound changes. Add a chapter to
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the Admin Guide about routine maintenance tasks. Currently this only
discusses the various reasons for doing VACUUM, but perhaps it could be
fleshed out with topics like log rotation.
2001-08-26 21:17:12 +00:00
bf56f0759b
Make OIDs optional, per discussions in pghackers. WITH OIDS is still the
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default, but OIDS are removed from many system catalogs that don't need them.
Some interesting side effects: TOAST pointers are 20 bytes not 32 now;
pg_description has a three-column key instead of one.
Bugs fixed in passing: BINARY cursors work again; pg_class.relhaspkey
has some usefulness; pg_dump dumps comments on indexes, rules, and
triggers in a valid order.
initdb forced.
2001-08-10 18:57:42 +00:00
116d2bba7e
Add IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN boolean tests, fix the existing boolean
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tests to return the correct results per SQL9x when given NULL inputs.
Reimplement these tests as well as IS [NOT] NULL to have their own
expression node types, instead of depending on special functions.
From Joe Conway, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2001-06-19 22:39:12 +00:00
01839df6dd
Add index. Only some parts of the manual set have index entries so far...
2001-05-12 22:51:36 +00:00
60774e8210
Even better example for operator precedence mis-parsing.
2001-02-25 16:05:21 +00:00
3460181c3c
Choose a more suitable example for the operator precedence mis-parsing
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example.
2001-02-24 18:09:51 +00:00
08265ef9c2
Fix example of syntactic ambiguity between prefix/infix/postfix operators
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--- Postgres now accepts the example we claimed it wouldn't. Miscellaneous
copy-editing as well.
2001-02-10 07:08:44 +00:00
61737a7b47
Add some links from data type chapter to section on literal constants.
2001-01-26 22:04:22 +00:00
21a3857f1f
Rip out table expression section from SQL syntax chapter and develop it
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into new chapter on query (SELECT) syntax. In the end this should become
a narrative and example-filled counterpart to the SELECT reference page.
2001-01-22 23:34:33 +00:00
4f34f55d3d
Description of table expressions, including join syntax, from Robert B.
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Easter <reaster@comptechnews.com>, heavily massaged by me. Also cleaned up
value expressions a bit.
2001-01-21 22:02:01 +00:00
027f144e39
Terminology cleanup: class -> table, instance -> row, attribute -> column,
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etc.
2001-01-13 23:58:55 +00:00
526427f6d3
Add information about bit types. Adjust some other things to promote
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SQL type names over internal type names.
2001-01-13 18:34:51 +00:00
10fb290aca
Document the system attributes ctid and tableoid, which for some reason
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were never yet mentioned anywhere in our documentation. Improve
explanations of the other system attributes, too.
2001-01-08 22:07:47 +00:00
3942ee389c
Update section on SQL syntax. (Still a lot to be done though.) Add
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appendix with comprehensive list of key words.
2001-01-06 11:58:56 +00:00
1b555ce791
Replace incorrect uses of 'which' with 'that'. (so-called "wicked which")
2000-12-22 18:57:50 +00:00
b2145e9365
Get rid of the little "v"s in front of version numbers, substituting the
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full word "version" where appropriate.
2000-12-21 22:55:27 +00:00
e4eb91048c
Document the array_dims() function, and make some other small improvements
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in the docs for arrays.
2000-12-18 23:39:37 +00:00
96ff0cb0c4
Outer join updates, miscellaneous polishing.
2000-12-17 05:47:57 +00:00
cf00d59335
Clean up some bogosities in description of target lists.
2000-12-16 18:22:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Thomas G. Lockhart