Re: Another modest proposal for docs formatting: catalog descriptions

2020-05-08 Thread Fabien COELHO
Hello Tom, Here's a more fully fleshed out draft for this, with stylesheet markup to get extra space around the column type names. I find this added spacing awkward, espacially as attribute names are always one word anyway. I prefer the non spaced approach. If spacing is discussed, should

Re: This is not true or at the very least confusing

2020-05-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 7:50 PM Dave Cramer wrote: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup-file.html says > "The database server *must* be shut down in order to get a usable backup." > > Note: must is in italics. > > Then we have section 25.3.3.1. Making A Non-Exclusive Low-Level Backup >

This is not true or at the very least confusing

2020-05-08 Thread Dave Cramer
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/backup-file.html says "The database server *must* be shut down in order to get a usable backup." Note: must is in italics. Then we have section 25.3.3.1. Making A Non-Exclusive Low-Level Backup which contradicts this statement with "Perform the backup, usin