Re: Link t the souce code

2021-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > This text seems to work fine for released versions, but not very well > for development, because it says this: True. > 3. add a separate paragraph that says to obtain the source from the > other dir if it's the development one. > I kinda prefer the last one, because then

Re: Link t the souce code

2021-05-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2021-May-06, Jonathan S. Katz wrote: > On 5/6/21 6:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera writes: > >> I agree -- if the user wanted packages, they would not be reading that > >> page of the docs. I'd just have it point to the same page that the > >> download page points to for source down

Re: Link t the souce code

2021-05-06 Thread Jonathan S. Katz
On 5/6/21 6:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: >> I agree -- if the user wanted packages, they would not be reading that >> page of the docs. I'd just have it point to the same page that the >> download page points to for source downloads, not a version-specific >> one, as in the att

Re: Link t the souce code

2021-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > I agree -- if the user wanted packages, they would not be reading that > page of the docs. I'd just have it point to the same page that the > download page points to for source downloads, not a version-specific > one, as in the attached patch. +1. I think people reading

Re: Link t the souce code

2021-05-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hello On 2021-May-04, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote: > reading this: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/install-getsource.html > ... > I wonder if the link should not directly point to the relevant release, e.g.: > https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v13.2/ > > To me that seems to be more conv

Re: Foreign Keys being able to reference same table not spelled out in documentation

2021-05-06 Thread Tom Lane
"David G. Johnston" writes: > I did a read through of the patch and I like it; though I suggest changing > "but non-NULL" to "while non-NULL". Done that way, thanks. regards, tom lane

Re: Foreign Keys being able to reference same table not spelled out in documentation

2021-05-06 Thread maweki
Note that it is in general not necessary for the referencing column to be NULLABLE. If you defer the constraint checking, you can insert a cyclic structure. Of course, it's no longer a tree then. The tutorial-ness of the documentation was already pointed out and I don't think it needs to be said t