[DOCS] Novice Guide to PostgreSQL compilation on Windows

2004-05-12 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Hi,

I was successfully today with installation of MinGW MinSys and then 
compilation of  PostgreSQL on an
WindowsXP SP1.

I have documented all my  steps for my convenience and would like to 
know if someone else needs it or more appropriately
would the document be accepted as PostgreSQL Windows How to ?

Kindly tell me know
1. How can I contribute this document to the comunity
2. Who is responsible for keeping the Windows Docs.
Some Spec about the document :
1. It is written in OpenOffice
2. With help of versioning system of Openoffice we can handle the 
changes in future

If this has been already done then sorry I waisted your and  mine time.

Suggestions / Comments / Ideas Most welcome.

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Re: [DOCS] Novice Guide to PostgreSQL compilation on Windows

2004-05-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems] wrote:

Hi,

I was successfully today with installation of MinGW MinSys and then 
compilation of  PostgreSQL on an
WindowsXP SP1.

I have documented all my  steps for my convenience and would like to 
know if someone else needs it or more appropriately
would the document be accepted as PostgreSQL Windows How to ?

Kindly tell me know
1. How can I contribute this document to the comunity
2. Who is responsible for keeping the Windows Docs.
Some Spec about the document :
1. It is written in OpenOffice
2. With help of versioning system of Openoffice we can handle the 
changes in future
Could you please post it on a webpage? When everybody gets to look at it and 
refine it, possibly it can be included in postgresql documentation.

Personally I am eagerly waiting to try postgresql on windows sicne I don't get 
to use linux much these days..:-(

 Shridhar

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Re: [DOCS] Novice Guide to PostgreSQL compilation on Windows

2004-05-12 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Hi ,

Could you please post it on a webpage? When everybody gets to look at 
it and refine it, possibly it can be included in postgresql 
documentation.

I could have done it with web page but OpenOffice gives an ugly face to 
the export thus I am uploading a PDF format file
at
http://vishalkashyap.speedpost.net/1_beta.zip

Kindly go through the same and let me know short comings at [email protected]

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Vishal Kashyap
Director / Lead Developer,
Sai Hertz And Control Systems Pvt Ltd,
http://saihertz.rediffblogs.com
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ICQ :  264360076
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pgsql=# select marital_status from vishals_life;
marital_status
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Single not looking
1 Row(s) affected



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[DOCS] IS DISTINCT FROM not documented

2004-05-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On one of the other lists a suggestion was made to use the IS DISTINCT FROM
operator. I didn't remember seeing anything about this before so I tried
to look it up in the 7.4.2 documentation. After not finding anything, I tried
grepping the documentation source and was only able to find a reference
to it in the release notes for 7.3. It may be that because of line breaks
or mark up that I missed it. But even if it is there, it doesn't seem to
be in an obvious place.

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Re: [DOCS] IS DISTINCT FROM not documented

2004-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... But even if it is there, it doesn't seem to
> be in an obvious place.

Actually, I just added docs for the row-wise version a day or two ago:
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/functions-comparisons.html#AEN12851

But it should probably be mentioned somewhere in section 9.2 (comparison
operators) as well.  Anyone want to craft some text?

regards, tom lane

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Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Linking the previously separated documentation

2004-05-12 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Feb 9, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I've been eyeing providing links between the previously separated
documentation books, ...
Is anyone else working on something like this? Is it worthwhile?
There's been talk of this earlier, but I don't recall anyone 
specifically
saying they'd tackle it.  It's definitely worth doing.
Okay. I'll keep working.
If so, I've got a question as to style. My first idea was not to 
change
the text at all, and just replace (in the above example) "pg_dump" 
with
. Should I be rewriting these sections or 
is
what I'm doing agreeable?
There are (or at one time were) references along the line of "see the
pg_dump page in the reference manual".  These obviously could
do with rephrasing now, if you find any left.  As far as style goes,
try to keep in mind that the link only helps for HTML-formatted output,
and we do still try to support printing the documentation on dead 
trees.
The reference should read well when the link infrastructure isn't 
there.
I think this means you want to have
	... see the pg_dump reference page ...
and not just
	... see pg_dump ...
except where the context is pretty obvious, such as a SEE ALSO section
of another reference page.
If I'm understanding you correctly, that's what I'm doing. Here's an 
example of the change:

Original:
Please familiarize yourself with the
pg_dump reference page.
Revised:
Please familiarize yourself with the
 
reference page.

Doing it this way makes for quicker changes and few disruptions of any 
output flow, I believe. And it gets things linked. Rewriting could be 
worried about later.

Michael Glaesemann
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