Re: [DOCS] nothing ever works

2017-06-22 Thread Joe Conway
On 06/22/2017 04:29 AM, Gerard Matthews wrote: > It's under this page on the > docs https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ecpg-dynamic.html. Perhaps a bit confusing but notice the title in the top middle of the page: "Chapter 33. ECPG - Embedded SQL in C" That is definitely not what you are

Re: [DOCS] Docs claim that "select myTable.*" wildcard won't let you assign column names

2015-09-21 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/21/2015 06:04 PM, Amir Rohan wrote: > This belongs in the page describing SELECT, and though I've looked I haven't > found it. If I'm wrong ( > I did look again just now), please correct me. Feel free to submit a doc patch if you feel it needs to be improved, but it is mentioned here: htt

Re: [DOCS] 9.3 release notes and maintenance_work_mem

2014-04-24 Thread Joe Conway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/2014 08:25 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > Shouldn't the reference to work_mem here: > > "Allow in-memory sorts to use their full memory allocation (Jeff > Janes)" > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interact

[DOCS] 9.3 release notes and maintenance_work_mem

2014-04-24 Thread Joe Conway
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Re: [pgsql-www] [DOCS] Example indenting

2010-08-29 Thread Joe Conway
mind the rubbish screenshot app > I'm using heavily compresses the image, so elements aren't appearing > as clear as they should do. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_ixion/4937010683/sizes/o/ +1 I really like this version. Joe -- Joe Conway credativ LLC: http://ww

Re: [DOCS] Uniform policy for author credits in contrib module documentation?

2007-12-05 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: As of CVS HEAD, some of the contrib module documentation pages have extensive credit screeds, eg http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/cube.html and some just have the author's name, with or without an link, and some don't have anything at all. This bothers me; it seem

Re: [DOCS] Values list-of-targetlists patch for comments (was Re:

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Conway
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Should we give VALUES its own reference page? That doesn't quite seem helpful either. cc'ing to pgsql-docs for ideas. This is probably the sort of thing that should be explained part II "The SQL Language". In particular, section 7.2 is about table e

Re: [DOCS] Supplemental contrib docs

2006-01-03 Thread Joe Conway
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote: Well I like {prefix}/doc given that's how dblink is already set up ;-) By {prefix} do you mean where PostgreSQL is being installed? If so, that would be highly non-standard. I think what you'd want

[DOCS] Supplemental contrib docs (was: [GENERAL] DBlink documentation)

2006-01-03 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: It's not only the downstream packagers that have missed these: the Makefiles don't install them either. It'd be a good idea to settle on what we want the installed file layout to be --- do we need to

Re: [DOCS] DocBook V4.2, on the way to XML

2003-11-28 Thread Joe Conway
Peter Eisentraut wrote: I've upgraded our documentation to DocBook V4.2 SGML. I was able to install 4.2 by going to http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.2/, unzipping the file in a suitable place and adding the docbook.cat file to the environment variable SGML_CATALOG_FILES. Packages are also available

Re: [DOCS] Annotated release notes

2003-10-31 Thread Joe Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: What had me really confused was the first release item: Allow polymorphic SQL functions (Joe) How does an SQL function query the data types passed to it? Once I saw that I thought I didn't underestand what polymorphic functions were. It doesn't need to. For example: CREATE

Re: [DOCS] Annotated release notes

2003-10-30 Thread Joe Conway
Bruce Momjian wrote: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/release.html#RELEASE-7-4 I need people to check this and help me with the items marked 'bjm'. I am confused about the proper text for those sections. > Allow polymorphic SQL functions (Joe) > bjm ?? What isn't clear about this