[DOCS] Foreign server version and type
Hi, I'm looking at the CREATE SERVER page on the documentation ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createserver.html) and noticed that there's a server_version parameter which can be provided with the keyword VERSION and server_type specified after TYPE. However, there's zero information about what these are used for, whether they have any bearing on anything or why you'd want to use them. Are these parameters used for anything, or are they purely for future functionality? Whatever the case, could some kind of elaboration be added to justify the existence of these options? They have been in the docs since the CREATE SERVER syntax was introduced in 8.4. Thanks -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935 EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
Re: [DOCS] Foreign server version and type
On 15.08.2011 19:58, Thom Brown wrote: I'm looking at the CREATE SERVER page on the documentation ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createserver.html) and noticed that there's a server_version parameter which can be provided with the keyword VERSION and server_type specified after TYPE. However, there's zero information about what these are used for, whether they have any bearing on anything or why you'd want to use them. Are these parameters used for anything, or are they purely for future functionality? Whatever the case, could some kind of elaboration be added to justify the existence of these options? They have been in the docs since the CREATE SERVER syntax was introduced in 8.4. It's in the SQL spec. It isn't used anything by PostgreSQL itself, but a wrapper could look at it. It would probably be good to say that explicitly in the docs. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs
Re: [DOCS] postgres-9.1beta3 typo: recommendable --> recommended
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Gavin Flower > wrote: >> /postgres-9.1/share/doc/html/manage-ag-overview.html >> In the folowing partagrasoh 'recommendable' should be 'recommended'. >> >> [...] >> Databases are physically separated and access >> control is managed at the connection level. If one PostgreSQL server >> instance is to house projects or users that should be separate and for the >> most part unaware of each other, it is therefore recommendable to put them >> into separate databases. If the projects or users are interrelated and >> should be able to use each other's resources, they should be put in the same >> database but possibly into separate schemas. >> [...] >> > > maybe it's because i'm not a natural english speaker but this sounds > like we are recommended to put the users in another database. probably > it is refering to the user's resources... maybe we can make it more > explicit? The only thing that seems weird about it to me is that recommendable is a word that is almost never used by native English speakers. Or at least not the native English speakers I know. -- 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
