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
"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
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
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
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
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
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