52200befd0
Implement types regprocedure, regoper, regoperator, regclass, regtype
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per pghackers discussion. Add some more typsanity tests, and clean
up some problems exposed thereby (broken or missing array types for
some built-in types). Also, clean up loose ends from unknownin/out
patch.
2002-04-25 02:56:56 +00:00
b76b6f61b0
Minor wording change for readability.
2002-04-21 18:58:00 +00:00
e916ad28c7
Mention precision of NUMERIC in docs.
2002-04-13 01:35:09 +00:00
867901db9e
Locale support is on by default. The choice of locale is done in initdb
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and/or with GUC variables.
2002-04-03 05:39:33 +00:00
b6ea172ace
Spell checking and markup additions
2002-03-22 19:20:45 +00:00
7bf7b0bd75
This trivial patch fixes a typo and improves the phrasing of a sentence
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in the docs.
Neil Conway
2002-03-05 06:14:45 +00:00
bf43bed848
Spell-check and markup police
2002-01-20 22:19:57 +00:00
731204e090
Editorial review
2002-01-07 02:29:15 +00:00
c5c28ed06a
Add more complete details on date/time keywords and parsing rules.
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Move some tabular information on these from the chapter on data types to
the appendix on dates and times.
2002-01-04 17:02:25 +00:00
dd0279b1ba
Document the precision arguments for date/time types per SQL9x.
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Update the list of recognized time zones.
Document the range of arguments allowed for SET TIME ZONE.
Still need to add info on other date/time symbols (e.g. "AM", "T")
and to freshen the docs on the date/time parsing rules.
2001-12-29 18:35:54 +00:00
78ec1cb027
Type interval takes a precision, too.
2001-12-23 20:21:37 +00:00
9640666c6f
Spiff up discussion of precision on date/time data types.
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Add a NetBSD/alpha and update info on a few other platforms.
2001-12-21 03:54:02 +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
651a639b8b
proof-reading
2001-11-28 20:49:10 +00:00
2ec958721d
Tweak int8in to accept -9223372036854775808, per recent discussion in
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pgsql-patches.
2001-11-24 19:57:06 +00:00
22e22a5208
Spelling and grammatical corrections.
2001-11-21 21:12:34 +00:00
2475e87481
Deprecate 'current' for date/time input.
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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
8e6467fff3
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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> So I would base this discussion on the premise "bytea stores binary data"
> (insert examples).
>
> Some stylistic issues:
>
> bytea => <type>bytea</type>
>
> NULLs => zero bytes/bytes of value zero ("NULL" is too overloaded)
>
> 'non-printable' => <quote>nonprintable</quote>
>
> MUST => <emphasis>must</emphasis>
>
Here's a patch against *CVS tip* to address Peter's comments. Please let
me know what you think!
Joe Conway
2001-11-21 03:17:22 +00:00
01e0dae689
I've created a new section to func.sgml, "Binary String Functions and
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Operators", plagiarized shamelessly from the "String Functions and
Operators" section. There were enough differences that it made sense (at
least to me) to give this its own section instead of cramming it in with
normal string functions. This way I could also make the examples
relevant, which is particularly important for bytea.
One thing I think worth mentioning: while documenting the trim()
function I realized that I never implemented the bytea equivalent of
rtrim and ltrim. Therefore, the 'leading' and 'trailing' forms of trim,
available with text, are not available with bytea (I'd be happy to
correct this, but since it would require an initdb, I guess not until
7.3) -- the submitted doc accurately reflects this.
I will look for other areas of the docs that need mention of bytea, but
any guidance would be much appreciated.
--
Here's a second bytea documentation patch. This one significantly
expands the "Binary Data" section added by Bruce recently.
Joe Conway
2001-11-20 15:42:44 +00:00
5e86d226e4
Grammatical and spelling fixes.
2001-11-19 09:05:02 +00:00
9b03776ff2
A bunch of small doco updates motivated by scanning the comments on
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the interactive docs.
2001-11-19 03:58:25 +00:00
a585c20d12
Tweak parser so that there is a defined representation for datatypes
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bpchar, bit, numeric with typmod -1. Alter format_type so that this
representation is printed when the typmod is -1. This ensures that
tables having such columns can be pg_dump'd and reloaded correctly.
Also, remove the rather useless and non-SQL-compliant default
precision and scale for type NUMERIC. A numeric column declared as
such (with no precision/scale) will now have typmod -1 which means
that numeric values of any precision/scale can be stored in it,
without conversion to a uniform scale. This seems significantly
more useful than the former behavior. Part of response to bug #513 .
2001-11-12 21:04:46 +00:00
06f008e154
Spacing improvements
2001-11-08 23:36:55 +00:00
b9cd4c8331
Grammatical corrections.
2001-10-30 20:13:44 +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
a51de40fb6
Minor fixup in spacing for tabular information.
2001-10-03 05:24:22 +00:00
f9681968e0
Add information on new timestamp and timestamptz data types.
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Start chapter on recovery techniques. Still needs work for release.
2001-09-28 08:15:35 +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
9b77572662
Add mention of bytea data type and escaping rules.
2001-09-04 03:17:54 +00:00
94427b1914
Since 7.1 the data type size of TIME has been increased.
2001-08-31 01:55:25 +00:00
9cf701f324
Start adding some more documentation about the number types. Make
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bigserial and alias for serial8 for consistency with bigint/int8.
2001-08-24 20:03:45 +00:00
d4f4b971a4
Sequences are now based on int8, not int4, arithmetic. SERIAL pseudo-type
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has an alias SERIAL4 and a sister SERIAL8. SERIAL8 is just the same
except the created column is type int8 not int4.
initdb forced. Note this also breaks any chance of pg_upgrade from 7.1,
unless we hack up pg_upgrade to drop and recreate sequences. (Which is
not out of the question, but I don't wanna do it.)
2001-08-16 20:38:56 +00:00
e29c16dc50
some clarifications inspired by the DocNotes
2001-08-07 22:41:49 +00:00
ec96f1dacd
Fix some references to USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES that Bruce missed;
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plus a few trivial improvements in wording.
2001-06-18 19:05:11 +00:00
efcecd9eca
Make bit and bit varying types reject too long input. (They already tried
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to do that, but inconsistently.) Make bit type reject too short input,
too, per SQL. Since it no longer zero pads, 'zpbit*' has been renamed to
'bit*' in the source, hence initdb.
2001-05-22 16:37:17 +00:00
5546ec289b
Make char(n) and varchar(n) types raise an error if the inserted string is
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too long. While I was adjusting the regression tests I moved the array
things all into array.sql, to make things more manageable.
2001-05-21 16:54:46 +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
0967057b5d
minor copy editing
2001-03-24 23:03:26 +00:00
af129857c4
BOX documentation disagreed with code about corner order.
2001-03-10 21:16:32 +00:00
d42d31e78e
Alter documentation of boolean type, add example. Someone figured that it
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wasn't clear that the "boolean type" was actually called "boolean". Add
tip about "casting" booleans using CASE.
Spell check whole file.
2001-02-14 19:37:26 +00:00
88517a2d9e
Add note about the availability of contrib/mac for the macaddr data type.
2001-02-10 18:02:35 +00:00
61737a7b47
Add some links from data type chapter to section on literal constants.
2001-01-26 22:04:22 +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
1b555ce791
Replace incorrect uses of 'which' with 'that'. (so-called "wicked which")
2000-12-22 18:57:50 +00:00
61784c54b5
Change default output formatting for CIDR to be unabbreviated, per
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recommendation from Paul Vixie. Add a new abbrev() function to produce
abbreviated format as text. No forced initdb, but new function is not
available unless you do an initdb or add the pg_proc row manually.
2000-12-22 18:00:24 +00:00
c3641483c3
Merge functions and operators chapters. Lots of updates.
2000-12-14 22:30:56 +00:00
1131261270
Clarify the allowed length of the text data type.
2000-12-03 14:47:18 +00:00
5a0152b3fd
I think in datatype.sgml line 506 or so:
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<entry>varchar(n)</entry>
<entry>(4+x) bytes</entry>
should be
<entry>varchar(n)</entry>
<entry>(4+n) bytes</entry>
or
<entry>varchar(x)</entry>
<entry>(4+x) bytes</entry>
Regards
Laser Henry
2000-11-16 06:03:40 +00:00
609f9199af
Repair markup
2000-11-11 23:27:48 +00:00
ecc367b764
Mention new AT TIME ZONE feature.
2000-11-11 19:50:31 +00:00
a210023008
Adjust INET/CIDR display conventions and reimplement some INET/CIDR
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functions, per recent discussions on pghackers. For now, I have called
the verbose-display formatting function text(), but will reconsider if
enough people object.
initdb forced.
2000-11-10 20:13:27 +00:00
baa3a09b5f
Convert macaddr documentation to DocBook, update outdated information.
2000-10-04 15:47:45 +00:00
72ad5fe15c
Add `id' attributes to all `chapter' and `sect1' tags, to generate useful
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names for the HTML files (e.g., not x4856.htm).
2000-09-29 20:21:34 +00:00
457ac0331c
Implement differentiation between CURRENT_USER and SESSION_USER as per SQL.
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There is still no effective difference but it will kick in once setuid
functions exist (not included here). Make old getpgusername() alias for
current_user.
2000-09-19 18:18:04 +00:00
67cd018e77
Startup is actually start-up.
2000-08-29 20:02:09 +00:00
0813fcbc08
Documentation updates to reflect TOAST and new-style fmgr.
2000-08-24 23:36:29 +00:00
2b6a35f7cd
Fix several <ulink> tags which refer to e-mail addresses
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but were missing the "mailto:" prefix.
Fix typo.
Thanks to Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> for the heads-up.
2000-08-23 05:59:11 +00:00
d70d46fd60
PATH and POLYGON datatypes are now TOASTable. Associated functions
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updated to new fmgr style. Deleted hoary old functions for compatibility
with pre-6.1 representations of these datatypes.
2000-07-29 18:46:12 +00:00
4835f6a8bc
Update docs for TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE.
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Add information on SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS.
Fix references to pg_hba.conf(5) since that is no longer a man page.
2000-07-14 15:26:21 +00:00
45f79cae14
Fixups in content and markup for 7.0 release.
2000-05-02 20:02:03 +00:00
b27cef2932
Mention support for date_part('week',timestamp).
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Fix spelling of "millennium".
Thanks to Mika Nystrom <mika@camembert.cs.caltech.edu>.
2000-04-14 15:08:56 +00:00
2e67ecaf6f
Change DEFINE TYPE to CREATE TYPE.
2000-04-13 21:44:25 +00:00
d57046097a
Update for default ISO date style
2000-04-11 03:56:19 +00:00
73d8bbc2ac
Minor markup changes. Refer to (".../catalog") in the emacs hints.
2000-03-31 03:27:42 +00:00
4579e68db2
Updated user's guide to match new psql's output format
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Fixed bug in createdb/alternative location
2000-03-26 18:32:30 +00:00
ce543b2121
Write up new TIME WITH TIME ZONE type.
2000-03-14 22:52:53 +00:00
49581f9848
updated install file
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updated date/time types doc
fixed small psql bug
removed libpq code that lower-cased db names
make notice when long identifier is truncated
2000-01-23 01:27:39 +00:00
e3dd4942c7
Update for NUMERIC/DECIMAL data type.
1999-10-13 02:44:23 +00:00
4f1766f1ea
Try to clarify characteristics of the SERIAL type.
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Fix source indenting, which does not affect output.
Note: still need docs on NUMERIC and DECIMAL
(and let's not talk about regression tests :()
1999-08-06 13:43:42 +00:00
5e84d58e70
Minor updates for release.
1999-06-14 07:36:12 +00:00
b04b01638b
Remove disclaimer about exact numeric types. They work now!
1999-05-27 15:47:28 +00:00
9474dd7ed6
Add chapters on CVS access, MVCC, SQL theory to the docs.
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Add an appendix with more details on date/time attributes and handling.
Update most references to Postgres version numbers to 6.5,
*except* for the porting list which will require a report
from a successful installation to be updated.
1999-05-26 17:30:30 +00:00
95e3cec621
Include mention of CASE, COALESCE, and IFNULL.
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Add date/time parsing procedure (perhaps should be in appendix).
Add time zone information (ditto).
Update keyword list.
1999-05-12 07:32:47 +00:00
1def28ff20
Include specific info on available timezones.
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Document date/time input parsing procedure.
1999-05-04 02:22:13 +00:00
7fcbc5ddf0
Fix markup to include all closing tags.
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Required by newest versions of DocBook and style sheets.
1999-04-06 15:41:20 +00:00
cd72d24e02
bool uses one byte
1999-03-15 15:00:08 +00:00
af2a0dfd65
Describe the date/time parsing rules.
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Include specific information on the supported time zones.
It's a really big table, so maybe it should go into an appendix instead.
1999-02-13 03:42:10 +00:00
c00d800e2d
Add tables of allowed values and formats for date/time input types.
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Include info for time zones, days of week, months.
Procedural description of date input parsing is not yet complete.
1999-01-19 16:08:26 +00:00
4bbcad1ee0
Update some info, especially the CIDR/INET data types.
1998-12-18 16:11:12 +00:00
f1f9ec3344
Minor editing and markup changes as a result of preparing the Postscript
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documentation for v6.4.
Bigger updates to the installation instructions (install and config).
1998-10-30 19:37:19 +00:00
e9f10b22f4
Include new cidr and inet data types.
1998-10-27 06:14:41 +00:00
3103a05c64
Add mention of the SERIAL data type.
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Change claim of "no limit" on maximum date for datetime type to
more realistic 1465001 AD. Thanks Tatsuo for pointing this out :)
Clean up markup.
1998-10-14 16:26:31 +00:00
0463ee00ae
Fix small typo.
1998-08-17 16:12:35 +00:00
5f372f9e59
Add id field to chapter and book tags to allow output file names
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to be meaningful.
1998-07-29 06:50:04 +00:00
ba3a99f193
Split function and operator User Guide info
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from datatype.sgml into separate files.
Add type conversion information.
Format historical release notes.
1998-07-08 13:53:15 +00:00
d31736e92b
Doc updates from Darren on char2-16 removal
1998-04-26 04:18:06 +00:00
a0ca95fa0d
Fix typos in a couple of examples.
1998-04-17 03:55:01 +00:00
90dbfa5ea6
Fix a few typos. Try <Note><Title>Author</Title>... for author credit.
1998-03-01 20:46:10 +00:00
c8cfb0cea8
SGML source for new documentation.
1998-03-01 08:16:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
Thomas G. Lockhart
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Tatsuo Ishii