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Author SHA1 Message Date
PostgreSQL Daemon 969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Tom Lane e1b47c2dbd Minor copy-editing. 2003-11-06 22:21:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 64caee7548 Give the full syntax rules for subscripting and field selection in the
proper place, namely the syntax discussion of value expressions.
2003-11-04 19:18:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1d27de4cf4 Random copy-editing. 2003-11-04 09:55:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8442a92e5a Spell checking, consistent terminology. 2003-11-01 01:56:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c326d8f4f2 Add/edit index entries. 2003-08-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 432fb5b886 Updates for array documentation, from Joe Conway. 2003-08-19 06:06:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 0684043e39 Minor copy-editing. 2003-08-14 23:13:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 5bfb0540b0 Update docs for 7.4 array features and polymorphic functions.
This is Joe Conway's patch of 7-Aug plus further editorializing
of my own.
2003-08-09 22:50:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3766e99c41 Add a note that AND and OR are commutative. Apparently, they are not in
certain other products.
2003-08-04 14:00:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 1bd22f55cf Disallow dollar sign in operator names, instead allow it as a non-first
character in identifiers.  The first change eliminates the current need
to put spaces around parameter references, as in "x<=$2".  The second
change improves compatibility with Oracle and some other RDBMSes.  This
was discussed and agreed to back in January, but did not get done.
2003-06-19 23:22:40 +00:00
Tom Lane e649796f12 Implement outer-level aggregates to conform to the SQL spec, with
extensions to support our historical behavior.  An aggregate belongs
to the closest query level of any of the variables in its argument,
or the current query level if there are no variables (e.g., COUNT(*)).
The implementation involves adding an agglevelsup field to Aggref,
and treating outer aggregates like outer variables at planning time.
2003-06-06 15:04:03 +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
Peter Eisentraut 706a32cdf6 Big editing for consistent content and presentation. 2003-03-13 01:30:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4996eea81c This patch includes more SGML markup fixes as well as a few minor
additions to the docs.

Neil Conway
2003-02-19 03:13:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da8149032a SGML improvements.
Neil Conway
2002-11-15 03:11:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1b342df00a Merge documentation updates from 7.3 branch. 2002-11-11 20:14:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 266a280584 Add introductory sections explaining what each book is about. Remove Y2K
statement.
2002-10-24 17:48:54 +00:00
Tom Lane c918be6a17 Update description of numeric constants to match 7.3 reality.
Miscellaneous other copy-editing.
2002-10-20 05:05:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bc49968764 Add more appropriate markup. 2002-09-21 18:32:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6d77f6e5fb Add more information about schemas. Combines some previously existing
material into the new location.
2002-09-12 22:05:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6415ffe7af Not sure how I fixed it the first time, but here's a fix for another
instance in which the docs mention that 'NAMEDATALEN == 32".

Neil Conway
2002-08-23 04:27:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c76f5aa530 > > I had great difficulty in finding how to change the search path, so here
> > is a patch to add some cross-referencing.

Oliver Elphick
2002-08-22 04:52:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 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
Tom Lane a5e6e99357 Allow schema-qualified operator names to be used in the optional
arguments of CREATE OPERATOR.
2002-08-10 19:01:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f4a9fb119 Add User's Guide chapters on Data Definition and Data Manipulation.
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
Tom Lane 62d4526114 Ooops, fix busted markup. 2002-06-15 22:15:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 2da3742cf5 Add a little more material to the new section about evaluation order. 2002-06-15 21:28:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bf886d5baf Add section explaining unspecified expression evaluation order. 2002-06-01 20:56:55 +00:00
Tom Lane e358a61d76 Updates for schema features. 2002-04-25 20:14:43 +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
Tom Lane 4d72af6cb3 Describe type casts under the heading of Value Expressions, and explain
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
Peter Eisentraut 731204e090 Editorial review 2002-01-07 02:29:15 +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
Tom Lane 53f1173388 Provide some documentation for EXISTS, IN, NOT IN, ANY/SOME/ALL,
and row comparisons.  How'd this manage to slip through the cracks?
2001-12-01 04:19:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 651a639b8b proof-reading 2001-11-28 20:49:10 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 6c402eafc8 Deprecate 'current' date/time constant.
Purge "Postgres" in favor of "PostgreSQL" in docs. ref/ not yet done.
2001-11-21 06:09:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e86d226e4 Grammatical and spelling fixes. 2001-11-19 09:05:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a715c0e4c5 Cleanup of bibliography 2001-11-08 23:34:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 705869dd17 Uppercase keywords where appropriate. 2001-10-12 23:32:34 +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 351a0c1736 Replace ASCII-quotes with proper markup. 2001-09-13 15:55:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 84956e71a3 Markup additions and spell check. (covers User's Guide) 2001-09-09 17:21:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 8e0d642c9b Documentation for transaction-ID-wraparound changes. Add a chapter to
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
Tom Lane bf56f0759b Make OIDs optional, per discussions in pghackers. WITH OIDS is still the
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
Tom Lane 116d2bba7e Add IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN boolean tests, fix the existing boolean
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
Peter Eisentraut 01839df6dd Add index. Only some parts of the manual set have index entries so far... 2001-05-12 22:51:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 60774e8210 Even better example for operator precedence mis-parsing. 2001-02-25 16:05:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3460181c3c Choose a more suitable example for the operator precedence mis-parsing
example.
2001-02-24 18:09:51 +00:00