Re: [DOCS] documentation build log is busted, and has been for awhile

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-05-26 at 19:55 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Is anybody maintaining
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/buildlog.html
> ?
> 
> For some time now, that page has failed to update if the underlying
> build fails, which makes it approximately completely useless.  A more
> cosmetic but still annoying problem is that the build completion time
> isn't shown correctly.  For example, the current contents of the page
> are
> 
>   PostgreSQL Documentation Build Log
>   
>   Build started: 2010-05-26 22:39 UTC
>   Build finished: + echo -n '' + date -u '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z'

I think both of these issues (certainly the latter) are fixed now.

Btw., the code and working space for this job are at ~petere/PGDOC/ on
developer.postgresql.org.  Anyone with a shell account can peek around
there.


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Re: [DOCS] Views and Privileges

2010-06-28 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Matthew Woodcraft
 wrote:
> The fact that views run with the privileges of the view owner is a bit
> hidden in the documentation.
>
> It isn't mentioned in /3.2 Views/, which makes sense as privileges
> haven't been introduced yet.
>
> It is explained in /37.4 Rules and Privileges/, but I think most people
> using views won't have reason to read the docs on rules.
>
> I can't find any other reference to it.
>
> How about having a section under /20. Database Roles and Privileges/ on
> views and privileges?

I don't see an obvious way to fit it in there, although it doesn't
seem like a bad idea.  I also wonder if we should mention something in
the reference pages for GRANT and REVOKE - at least a cross-reference
to the correct section of the documentation.

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