Re: [DOCS] Documentation of server configuration

2004-11-14 Thread Neil Conway
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 16:25 +, Simon Riggs wrote: > For me, this section is the No.1 most hit section of the manual. I agree that this section is frequently accessed. Given that, I think it is somewhat difficult to find -- we've all memorized that it is in the "Server Run-time Environment" cha

Re: [DOCS] ANSI SQL-2003 conformance

2004-11-14 Thread elein
Troels and I are working on this. We have a bit started. I have been a bit to swamped to add anything for the last two or three weeks. I suspect Troels is in the same position. We have the documents and a sketchy work plan. There is a lot of stuff here, obviously. Wanna help? --elein [EMAIL

[DOCS] ANSI SQL-2003 conformance

2004-11-14 Thread Simon Riggs
IIRC there was some discussion earlier about including a (possibly detailed) assessment of ANSI SQL-2003 conformance in the docs for 8.0. My understanding was that there were people actually working on that. Where are we with that? Anybody got news? -- Best Regards, Simon Riggs

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of server configuration

2004-11-14 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 01:54, Josh Berkus wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote... > > I have made an attempt and reformatted the whole section into one big > > alphabetical list, and while that has obvious drawbacks, I feel that > > it's already much more usable than what we have now. > > I disagree, ab

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of server configuration

2004-11-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josh Berkus wrote: > I disagree, absolutely and completely. "one big alphabetical list" > doesn't help at all in figuring out what you need to work with if > you're running out of memory of if your queries have bad plans. > "effective_cache_size", for example, is nowhere near > "random_page_cos