On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
> Basically, I think the page should be structured to emphasize
> 1.) what is a "checkpoint" to a user who is not familiar with the term, and
> 2.) why would a user want to use the CHECKPOINT command?
>
> To tackle 1.), I think a little b
Robert Haas writes:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think removing them from the docs but continuing to accept them makes
>> sense. We do still hear from people migrating from 7.4 or older, and
>> it's not always going to be practical for them to make a dump with a
>> ne
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Robert Haas wrote:
> I wonder if we ought to consider removing CREATEUSER and NOCREATEUSER
> as synonyms for SUPERUSER and NOSUP
Hi all,
I think that the page about the CHECKPOINT command:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-checkpoint.html
could really use some work.
The page is quite obtuse if you don't already understand what a checkpoint is.
The first sentence goes:
| Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) puts a
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>> I think the doc section about using lo_manage() as a trigger:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/lo.html
>>
>> could have its example tweaked to use a column-level BE
Bruce Momjian writes:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Robert Haas wrote:
I wonder if we ought to consider removing CREATEUSER and NOCREATEUSER
as synonyms for SUPERUSER and NOSUPERUSER. ?It looks like that change
was made in 8.1, w
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Robert Haas wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Ron Adams
> >> wrote:
> >> > The help for LOGIN/NOLOGIN at
> >> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createrole.html:
> >> > "...NOLOGIN
> >> > is
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Ron Adams
>> wrote:
>> > The help for LOGIN/NOLOGIN at
>> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createrole.html: "...NOLOGIN
>> > is the default, except when CREATE ROLE is i
Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Ron Adams
> wrote:
> > The help for LOGIN/NOLOGIN at
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/sql-createrole.html: "...NOLOGIN
> > is the default, except when CREATE ROLE is invoked through its alternative
> > spelling CREATE USER." The h
