Re: [DOCS] Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite

2010-07-16 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 17/07/10 07:33, Steve Atkins wrote: Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html , as one example. Would it be nice to have the same sort of format in the postgresql docs? (Yeah, I'm volunteering, if people think they're a u

[DOCS] Railroad diagrams, a-la sqlite

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Atkins
Has everyone seen the "railroad diagrams" sqlite use in their docs? http://www.sqlite.org/lang_createindex.html , as one example. Would it be nice to have the same sort of format in the postgresql docs? (Yeah, I'm volunteering, if people think they're a useful thing, 'cos I think they'd add a l

Re: [DOCS] Documentation and explanatory diagrams

2010-07-16 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jul 16, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: >> I have no dog in this fight, and I'd be overjoyed to see diagrams of >> any sort. I do think that requiring use of a single, fairly clunky, graphics >> package rather than allowing people w

Re: [DOCS] Documentation and explanatory diagrams

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Steve Atkins wrote: > I have no dog in this fight, and I'd be overjoyed to see diagrams of > any sort. I do think that requiring use of a single, fairly clunky, graphics > package rather than allowing people who get the urge to create a > diagram to use whichever

Re: [DOCS] Management of External Data (SQL/MED) in core?

2010-07-16 Thread Thom Brown
On 16 July 2010 13:39, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > Le 16/07/2010 14:25, Thom Brown a écrit : >> [...] >> It's probably me not understanding what is being claimed, but on >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/features.html it says >> PostgreSQL core covers ISO/IEC 9075-9 Management of Externa

Re: [DOCS] Management of External Data (SQL/MED) in core?

2010-07-16 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 16/07/2010 14:25, Thom Brown a écrit : > [...] > It's probably me not understanding what is being claimed, but on > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/features.html it says > PostgreSQL core covers ISO/IEC 9075-9 Management of External Data > (SQL/MED). I'm aware the actual SQL/MED funct

[DOCS] Management of External Data (SQL/MED) in core?

2010-07-16 Thread Thom Brown
Hi all, It's probably me not understanding what is being claimed, but on http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/features.html it says PostgreSQL core covers ISO/IEC 9075-9 Management of External Data (SQL/MED). I'm aware the actual SQL/MED functionality isn't implemented yet. Is this purely t

Re: [DOCS] Problem building 9.0 Beta 3 US PDF file

2010-07-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Tom Lane wrote: > I find that removing the AIX-fixlevels table (and the two references to > it) from installation.sgml makes the postgres-US.pdf build go through on > my F-13 box. This is pretty weird, since there's nothing obviously > wrong with that table; and if there were something wrong with