Re: [DOCS] 4.2.9. Type Casts - documentation improvement

2017-09-12 Thread Steve Atkins
> On Sep 12, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 02:17:12AM +, artej...@gmail.com wrote: >> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: >> >> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/sql-syntax.html >> Description: >> >> Hi, >>

Re: [DOCS] The IYYY mess again

2014-12-29 Thread Steve Atkins
On Dec 29, 2014, at 7:06 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > In bug #12367 > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20141229031218.8013.51...@wrigleys.postgresql.org > we see yet another iteration of somebody trying to combine to_char's > IYYY specifier with regular Gregorian MM/DD fields. > > It occurs to me

Re: [DOCS] Google Doc Camp

2013-08-05 Thread Steve Atkins
On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 09:41 -0700, Steve Atkins wrote: >> For real newbies a major hurdle is getting the server up and >> a user / database created, so a platform-specific "actually getting >> up and running" p

Re: [DOCS] Google Doc Camp

2013-08-05 Thread Steve Atkins
On Aug 5, 2013, at 9:20 AM, David Fetter wrote: > +1 for PostgreSQL tutorials that actually tutor. Is it worth trying > to do a baseline general one first, or going directly to separate ones > for DBAs, app & DB developers, etc.? For real newbies a major hurdle is getting the server up and a u

Re: [DOCS] Adding links to alternate versions of doc pages

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 30, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:58, Steve Atkins wrote: > >> Having all the specific-version pages use that to point to the >> non-version URL might help. > > Ah, you mean basically a link on every page going back to /

Re: [DOCS] Adding links to alternate versions of doc pages

2012-03-29 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 29, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2012-03-28 at 21:14 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: >> You can add the dropdown fairly easily in the website code. However, >> that assumes that no pages have *changed filenames* between versions. >> Which is not true. That would eithe

[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 r

Re: [DOCS] Documentation and explanatory diagrams

2010-07-11 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jul 11, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Steve Atkins writes: >> On Jul 11, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Rafael Martinez wrote: >> [ assorted arguments for and against DIA ] > >>> 2) dia-format is too verbose and it uses too much space when it is not >>> com

Re: [DOCS] Documentation and explanatory diagrams

2010-07-11 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jul 11, 2010, at 12:33 AM, Rafael Martinez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> >> Where are we on this? Application? dia? xfig? Number of colors? Once >> we decide these items, we can start adding diagrams. >> > > This is an attempt t

Re: [DOCS] Documentation and explanatory diagrams

2010-07-09 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jul 9, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> PNG image attached. > > Is it just me, or does that look pretty pixellated and awful? As a comparison I did an SVG version using OmniGraffle and a conversion to PNG. I suspect Inkscape (w

Re: [DOCS] Documentation and explanatory diagrams

2010-07-03 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jul 3, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Robert Haas writes: >>> Seems like a good one. But I'd still like to know the answer to the >>> question I asked upthread - how is anyone supposed to generate images >>> this way? >> >> Hmm, ju

[DOCS] Missing docs for "FM" in to_char(numeric) ?

2008-02-11 Thread Steve Atkins
Someone on irc was trying to format 1234 as "01234" and couldn't work out how to get rid of the leading space - looking at the 8.3 docs it looks as though the "FM" modifier isn't documented for numeric to_char. So... should use of "FM" in numeric to_char() be documented in table 9-23, "Temp