Commit Graph

111 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Eisentraut 314c7b642b Make separate targets for building printable documentation in A4 and
US letter paper formats.
2006-12-10 20:46:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0a265e487b Add some information about increasing JadeTeX parameters. 2006-12-10 02:37:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0f763503ff Spellchecking and such 2006-10-23 18:10:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 033cb9d30b Fix list of environment variables for configure. Remove some variables
that are almost never used.  Put documentation-related variables into the
documentation chapter.
2006-10-23 14:13:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 32cebaecff Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e6bbc21f4 Add missing quote, per Dave Page. 2005-05-13 16:48:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0e2f88a6d5 We don't put URL's in ulink's because the URL is always generated, but
we can put words in ulink and the URL will still be printed.

per Peter
2005-04-09 03:52:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fd977434b3 Adjust SGML ulink tags to the URL is always displayed in our printed docs. 2005-03-31 03:54:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2abe40aac7 Fix typo in SGML. 2005-02-19 04:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eea1ef2c85 Add reference to the NewbieDoc Docbook Guide. 2005-02-19 04:34:17 +00:00
Neil Conway ec7a6bd9a2 Replace "--" and "---" with "—" as appropriate, for better-looking
output.
2004-11-15 06:32:15 +00:00
Neil Conway 6dfb2b2517 Minor SGML markup improvements. 2004-02-17 02:53:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 62f92ff32d SGML doc build instructions --- no more DTDDECL, fix double dash in path name. 2003-12-13 20:09:15 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon 969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cf87eb4726 Upgrade to DocBook V4.2 SGML. 2003-11-24 19:08:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e59122490 Update obsolete examples of error messages; various other minor editing. 2003-09-12 22:17:24 +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 2c93861f7c Update documentation build instructions. 2003-06-06 14:17:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cde8bbc413 This patch makes the following changes to the documentation:
- more work from the SGML police

- some grammar improvements: rewriting a paragraph or two, replacing
contractions where (IMHO) appropriate

- fix missing utility commands in lock mode docs

- improve CLUSTER, REINDEX, SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION ref pages

Neil Conway
2003-02-19 04:06:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 06ad580f75 Structure reference pages consistently. Document that structure.
Add information about environment variables.
2002-07-28 15:22:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b6ea172ace Spell checking and markup additions 2002-03-22 19:20:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bf43bed848 Spell-check and markup police 2002-01-20 22:19:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a6e704ce95 Make FreeBSD URL point to the right chapter again. 2002-01-08 15:16:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cc9ae0b63c Update bad URL's with good ones. 2002-01-08 05:39:26 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 68cb184b56 Update list of currently supported platforms.
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
Thomas G. Lockhart 2475e87481 Deprecate 'current' for date/time input.
Fix up references to "PostgreSQL" rather than "Postgres". Was roughly
 evenly split between the two before. ref/ files not yet done.
2001-11-21 05:53:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ffb8f73890 Bunch of copy fitting and style sheet tweakage to get decent looking print
output (from pdfjadetex).  Also updated instructions to install documentation
processing toolchain.
2001-10-09 18:46:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4e77b4a548 Readd test/regress/README file, this time with a well-defined and simple
rule to remake it when necessary.
2001-09-21 18:37:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 351a0c1736 Replace ASCII-quotes with proper markup. 2001-09-13 15:55:24 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart e6767a3205 Final markup for 7.1 hardcopy release. Mostly typo and table-fitting
adjustments. Note that many tables are being abused with *really* long
 description columns. Should probably shrink those columns to be more
 concise, and move some of the info to follow-on reference notes.
2001-04-20 15:52:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 81ff09eeb5 Catch some stray references to .htm files. 2001-02-17 16:52:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1b555ce791 Replace incorrect uses of 'which' with 'that'. (so-called "wicked which") 2000-12-22 18:57:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a8555ad4f9 Eliminate word rot 2000-11-11 13:53:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0db3cb253d * doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml: Update for new driver script.
* doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml: ditto.

* src/test/regress/README: Regenerate.

* doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml: Explain how it was done.  Explain how
INSTALL and HISTORY are (now) generated.

* doc/src/sgml/Makefile: Implement HISTORY generation to be analoguous
to INSTALL.
2000-10-17 15:26:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 72ad5fe15c Add `id' attributes to all `chapter' and `sect1' tags, to generate useful
names for the HTML files (e.g., not x4856.htm).
2000-09-29 20:21:34 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 45f79cae14 Fixups in content and markup for 7.0 release. 2000-05-02 20:02:03 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart acaa064fa8 Add info on debian package installation of sgml toolkits. 2000-02-02 16:22:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 41d4548b0f Freebsd update for sgml, from Alfred Perlstein 2000-01-18 06:10:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 240e4c98f5 New scripts for create/drop user/db from Peter Eisentraut 1999-12-04 04:53:22 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 70320b5bf7 Repair markup for sgmltools writeup.
Fix indenting and make other minor markup improvements.
1999-10-09 02:29:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 86210e9d39 Update sgmltools install instructions. 1999-10-05 18:55:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dab3775329 Update sgmltools for docs. 1999-10-04 17:05:51 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ab35b0822b Expunge "UNIX" in favor of "Unix".
A few other changes, but I forget what :(
1999-10-04 15:18:54 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 07c0de7d9d Update makefile to generate man pages.
Include first cut at instructions for man pages in docguide.sgml.
Fix markup.
1999-07-06 17:19:42 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 3143220b15 Add information on generating INSTALL and HISTORY from sgml sources. 1999-06-23 06:19:36 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 5e84d58e70 Minor updates for release. 1999-06-14 07:36:12 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart b805230906 Markup fixes.
Update for v6.5 release.
1999-05-27 15:49:08 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 15fadc06ac Fix column formatting for a table. No content changes. 1999-01-07 03:01:27 +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 dee302e611 Include more details on editing with Emacs.
Remove mention of the old "migration" flat files.
Change URLs for resources to point to areas, not particular files.
 That way things stay correct even when version of tools change.
 Suggested by Vince Vielhaber.
1998-12-18 16:17:29 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f1f9ec3344 Minor editing and markup changes as a result of preparing the Postscript
documentation for v6.4.
Bigger updates to the installation instructions (install and config).
1998-10-30 19:37:19 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 56cdabc62b Update info on source files for v6.4.
Should add/change ToDo list some more before release...
1998-10-25 00:25:30 +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 4e76753091 Bring document list closer to up to day.
Add a note on sgml-tools that they are now working with jade and so
 may become the toolset of choice in the future.
1998-08-17 16:17:07 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ccc6851d0a Include working list of all documentation sources, with current status
and plans for some of them.
1998-08-15 06:53:52 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 3221c0de52 Include information on documentation products and sources.
Include tables of possible source files throughout tree.
1998-07-29 06:33:37 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ba3a99f193 Split function and operator User Guide info
from datatype.sgml into separate files.
Add type conversion information.
Format historical release notes.
1998-07-08 13:53:15 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 2608ec8169 First changes for reference pages. Fix markup in the docguide. 1998-05-13 05:33:32 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 25745b6d52 Minor markup change. 1998-05-09 22:23:38 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 446a9936ab Include full tools installation instructions from Tom Helbekkmo.
Include small section on authoring and Makefile configuration.
Rearrange section order.
1998-04-28 14:57:48 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart c8cfb0cea8 SGML source for new documentation. 1998-03-01 08:16:16 +00:00