Re: [DOCS] Cannot build docs on Ubuntu 10.04?

2012-03-21 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Maybe the Makefile should just error out if COLLATEINDEX isn't set, > rather than trying a "fallback" value that configure has already > determined isn't going to work. I looked at this a bit closer, and figured out why the Makefile is trying an apparently pointless case: the test imple

[DOCS] NUMERIC size

2012-03-21 Thread Fujii Masao
Hi, > Numeric values are physically stored without any extra leading or > trailing zeroes. Thus, the declared precision and scale of a column > are maximums, not fixed allocations. (In this sense the numeric type > is more akin to varchar(n) than to char(n).) The actual storage > requirement is tw

Re: [DOCS] Update documentation wrt visibility map/index-only scans

2012-03-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > The documentation needs some updates now that we have index-only > scans. Patch attached. Perhaps the wording can be improved by someone > whose native language is English. But something like this should be > added. > > (Not tested, as I coul

Re: [DOCS] Replication docs update

2012-03-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 05:06:27PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 16:44, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:01:34PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 22:26, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> > Our chapter, "Comparison of Different Solutio

Re: [DOCS] Replication docs update

2012-03-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 16:44, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:01:34PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 22:26, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> > Our chapter, "Comparison of Different Solutions", needs an update to use >> > our new streaming replication terminolog

Re: [DOCS] Replication docs update

2012-03-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:01:34PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 22:26, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Our chapter, "Comparison of Different Solutions", needs an update to use > > our new streaming replication terminology, and an update to mention the > > synchronous option. >

Re: [DOCS] Replication docs update

2012-03-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 22:26, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Our chapter, "Comparison of Different Solutions", needs an update to use > our new streaming replication terminology, and an update to mention the > synchronous option. > > Patch attached.  I would like to apply it to head and 9.1. Is it reall