Re: [DOCS] found a very confusing and maybe outdated sentence
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Susanne Ebrecht wrote: >>> Is "man" really working on Windows? >>> >>> Also the sentence says that the whole product isn't correct >>> installed just because docs aren't installed. Which also isn't >>> really true. >>> >>> Honesty, I just would like to drop the whole sentences. >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> +1 for deleting the entire sentence. >> > > Here is the patch for removing the whole sentence. Hmm... this actually removes two sentences. I've committed the removal of the one we talked about; I don't particularly see any reason to remove the following one also. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
Re: [DOCS] psql's \h MOVE
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera writes:
>> I just noticed that \h MOVE is particularly unhelpful:
>> alvherre=# \h move
>> Command: MOVE
>> Description: position a cursor
>> Syntax:
>> MOVE [ direction { FROM | IN } ] cursorname
>
>> The problem is that it doesn't specify what "direction" is. The doc
>> text tells you to look into FETCH for details, but in \h you have to
>> guess.
>
>> We could fix this by including a note about fetch in the ,
>> so that it'd look like this:
>
>> alvherre=# \h move
>> Command: MOVE
>> Description: position a cursor
>> Syntax:
>> MOVE [ direction [ FROM | IN ] ] cursor_name
>
>> See FETCH for details on direction
>
> -1 ... if this annoys you, just duplicate the definition of direction
> from FETCH.
+1 for duplicating the definition.
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Re: [DOCS] Migration page is out of date
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/migration.html > > This page: > > a) has insufficient coverage of pg_upgrade > b) ignores parallel pg_restore > c) piping pg_dump is by no means always the fastest method > > I'll write up a new version later, just wanted to put this note on the > ML so that somebody would bug me before the end of 9.1 beta. Hey, you! -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
