Re: [DOCS] to_date 'J' format misunderstanding

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 03/09/2016 06:42 AM, Alex Ignatov wrote:
> In Table 9-22. Template Patterns for Date/Time Formatting we have
> 
> 'JJulian Day (days since November 24, 4714 BC at midnight)'
> 
> But there is no any information about what calender use for date of
> November 24, 4714 BC. From wikipedia we know that it is
> November 24, 4714 BC, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

I don't think we need to overdocument this.  The Julian Day is defined
outside of PostgreSQL, and those who are considering using it will know
about these kinds of details.



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Re: [DOCS] s/user/role/ in section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel of docs.

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 01/22/2016 09:23 AM, Johannes Choo wrote:
> I think section 5.6 of v9.5.0 and 9.6devel can benefit from changing
> some occurrences of the word 'user' to 'role. Specifically, in
> 
> "For example, if joe is an existing user"
> 
> and
> 
> "The special "user" name PUBLIC can be used to grant a privilege to
> every user on the system.",

Done.  These were the only two cases that were inconsistent, I think.



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