[DOCS] Adding headers to the bottom of a table

a way to accomplish this? Would people be against the idea? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DOCS] Adding headers to the bottom of a table

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:40, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > > I'd like to add column "headers" to the *bottom* of the sql keywords > > table, but I can't simply add a duplicate at the bottom. Is > > there a way to accomplish thi

Re: [DOCS] Preemptive FAQ patches for 7.3.4

We plan to have major releases every four months. > should this last part be changed? we don't plan to have major releases every four months... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [DOCS] pdf/ps docs for 7.4?

t the door. Robert Treat On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 17:17, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Oliver Elphick wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 02:54, Christopher Browne wrote: > > ... > > > > cd doc/src/sgml > > > > make postgres.pdf > > > > > > > > but ope

Re: [DOCS] 7.4 official docs : Fonts?

n the eyes? What I find particularly difficult are the > function parameter columns; the mix of "normal" italics with "bold" italics. > > Comments? Responses? > Whatever we had in 7.3 we should switch back to: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/fu

Re: [DOCS] ODBC encoding

uch of that section was rewritten into this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [DOCS] ODBC encoding

On Monday 12 January 2004 01:34, Karel Zak wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 11:43:07PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Thursday 08 January 2004 07:36, Karel Zak wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > docs for 7.3 contains information how se

Re: [DOCS] Request temporary freeze of libpgtcl chapter in manual

ly better than someone personal home page. Chris, is there some way to accomplish this with gborg? Josh, is this something that Gforge would give us? Anyone know what the guys working on the perl interface have done? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreS

Re: [DOCS] Does this deserve a place in tech docs

I'd rather point to a pdf or html doc. If you don't mind us hosting ourselves, I'll put it up as the unzipped pdf. LMK Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [DOCS] [HACKERS] Tutorial

) IMHO we ought to try to keep the _tutorial_ free of things that are generally considered against relational design. If we must keep them, move them into thier own section and lable them accordingly. Robert Treat --- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -

Re: [DOCS] Getting Started Example for FC2

install there at one time. I resolved to > take notes this time. I'm offering you the results so you can put it in > the FAQ under the heading: "I just installed my RPMs on FC2. Now what?" > ISTM this should go up onto techdocs rather than in the regular documentation? If

Re: [DOCS] Minor Typo in SELECT docs

ly been getting drilled to regenerate the idocs on the website with each new release in the 7.4.x series. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] windows docs?

d then create a new faq faq_win32_native based the pginstaller one. Does anyone feel they ought to be combined? I guess another alternative is jut remove faq_mswin from the main sources and then leave it up to cygwin/native projects to maintain thier own faqs, with perhaps a single questi

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] windows docs?

with specific links to both a cygwin and native specific faqs, but barring that, we could combine both documents together and make a 3 sectioned windows specific faq, with a section on general stuff, cygwiun stuff, and native stuff. Both projects could then just link to t

Re: [DOCS] Documentation of server configuration

ed the whole section into one big > alphabetical list, and while that has obvious drawbacks, I feel that > it's already much more usable than what we have now. > > Other ideas? I thought runtime-config was supposed to be ordered in the same order as the default postgresql.conf ? --

Re: [DOCS] Doc patch needed: encodings?

the faq -> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html#4.8 -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [DOCS] XML2 contrib does not refer to 8.0

subdir value in the Makefile > you can place it in a different directory in a PostgreSQL tree)." > > Surely this should refer to 8.0 also? Depends on if it actually works in 8.0 I'd imagine. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -

Re: [DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

nothing > special about that location... feel free to move it around :-) > > Mark I thought it was more correct to use < rather than < inside of tags? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(e

[DOCS] question about markup

someone suggested that the insert command at the end of http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/dml.html would be better if it were a link like the copy command is. Is there some reason not to make it a link? I notice most commands are not done this way. -- Robert Treat Build

Re: [DOCS] create rule syntax

nce obviously rules can be on more than just tables. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [DOCS] Search bug

to * and ? in search boxes, even if they are DBAs), but the problem is > it doesn't seem to allow escaping them. For example, search on > 'pg_stat_activity current_query'. Try searching "pg_stat_activity" "current_query" instead. -- Robert Treat

Re: [DOCS] broken link on techdocs

osted somewhere more reliably. > Well, I'm happy to host it on techdocs if he wants to move it there. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the pl

Re: [DOCS] PostgreSQL 8.0.3 Documentation - Chapter 30. The Information Schema

uot; > good catch. I looked around for any other instances of this and didnt find any... attached is a patch to correct this one. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL Index: information_schema.sgml ===

Re: [DOCS] Online comments system

f the web stuff is actually worked on, so the folks who know the system all hang out there. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [DOCS] List of tables, figures and examples

On Thursday 13 October 2005 16:10, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > At the bottom of the TOC we have very long lists of tables, figures > > and examples. I recall somebody said we could get rid of them? > > They're gone now. Doh. -- Robert T

[DOCS] docbook xml primer

Nice little article on docbook xml http://www.redhat.com/magazine/016feb06/features/docbook_xml/ -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will

Re: [DOCS] Get docs for contrib on the web somewhere

uld happen on Windows. Um, help? > Could we require contrib authors to provide their documentation as sgml, and then have the doc build process loop in each contrib module as an appendix inside the official docs? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [DOCS] Get docs for contrib on the web somewhere

On Saturday 18 March 2006 02:00, Tom Lane wrote: > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:19:58PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > >> Could we require contrib authors to provide their documentation as sgml, > >> and t

Re: [DOCS] ALTER TABLE x ALTER COLUMN y TYPE z

similarly here. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-03/msg00891.php Feel free to submit an additional doc comment. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [DOCS] ALTER TABLE x ALTER COLUMN y TYPE z

ly that you could do that without needing to also update > your client software. Altering between char and text or some such? Or something like INET to TEXT. (Not that it matters for the things being discussed here, but I think there are cases) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linu

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] COPY command documentation

icable. That really is a factor, most of the comments would need to be reworded to be added into the docs proper. In the past these ideas were rejected as either off-topic or that it would turn this list into a high traffic list... if peoples opinions have changed, it could be arranged. --

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] COPY command documentation

On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:46, David Fetter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:46:02PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > > ...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without > > > somebody whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make > > > pat

Re: [DOCS] FAQ DEV 1.16, Link to SQL:2003 Draft is Broken

). In the mean time, the attached patch updates the link. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL Index: FAQ_DEV.html === RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html,v retr

Re: [DOCS] maintenance diff

itself. There were a couple of other minor things I noticed too... Joshua, do you mind if I make some changes and resubmit this patch? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6:

Re: [DOCS] Maintenance and External Projects (try 2)

seems indicated, at least. > > Oh, no doubt. I tried to fix as much as I find, including a bunch of > stuff already there. However, I do not claim, in any way to be an editor. > The following patches provide some editorializing for Joshua's patches. -- Robert Treat Build A B

Re: [DOCS] Replication Documentation

ocs/techdocs.54 -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [DOCS] PostgreSQL Documentation of High Availability and Load Balancing

that allows any community member to put online guides and documentation into place, made specifically for the purpose of things like what your looking for. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [DOCS] DTrace docs, Open Items and Performance

certain how best the postgresql specific probes will be used, but I might disagree with the above take as we're already using some kernel level dtrace probes to make DBA oriented tools... see http://www.lethargy.org/~jesus/archives/74-PostgreSQL-performance-through-the-eyes-of-D

Re: [pgsql-www] Re: [DOCS] should we have a separate page that clearly defines what a minor release is and why it's a good idea to keep up with them?

the front page. The text is more or less copied > directly from the FAQ. Updates to the text are always welcome ;-) > > I suggest that we remove it from the FAQ, or replace it with a reference > to the website, once the site has updated. > I'd suggest we add this into the

[DOCS] documention wrong or just not clear?

es=# select min (age(relfrozenxid)) from pg_class where relkind = 'r'; min ---- 253045 (1 row) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our exten

Re: [DOCS] row-level stats and last analyze time

ow_level to effect whether the last ANALYZE / VACUUM is recorded. > (Plus, the optimization is not even enabled with the default > postgresql.conf settings.) > +1 -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [DOCS] Version differences

or something. > > Any ideas how we can best fix this? > Honestly found the response that actually brings glee to peoples face is pointing them toward Andrea's feature matrix. Perhaps we ought to think about making that more official ? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :

Re: [DOCS] correct reference external-projects.sgml

link for libpqxx should either be reverted or changed to libpqxx.org, of the three, .tk is the least desired. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you search

Re: [DOCS] FAQ corrections

question a bit on irc and there aren't any more appropriate answers for any released version than what the FAQ contained... -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [DOCS] Slony for upgrades

changed to seconds. I thought someone told me <5 minutes a > while ago but I might have been mistaken. I might question the strict reference to Slony here. AIUI you could do the same thing with Bucardo and a couple of other replication solutions as well. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LA

Re: [DOCS] FAQ corrections

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 15:46, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Friday 12 October 2007 14:04, Ian Barwick wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > attached some minor corrections, mainly completion of removal of > > > the "relation

Re: [DOCS] [pgsql-advocacy] The definition of PGDG

ou have and that you cannot give away. In the U.S., you can give copy rights away, however you can only do so to a defined legal entity, of which the PGDG is not one. This can change somewhat depending on country and depending upon employer agreements, but since no one is employed by the PGDG, it

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

the person to contact if you had questions/comments/patches/etc... about a specific contrib module. I wonder if people would still get the same level of help if those names are removed and they have to go to the regular mailing lists for help (which contrib authors may not follow). -- Robe

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] pgcrypto and dblink

sing configure. > A post installation step is fine but I think it needs to be documented > as such. > There are instructions on how to install them at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/contrib.html, but your right they don't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the install s

Re: [DOCS] "Release date" for aborted releases?

he release process, but it was pretty much DOA as well. Probably too late to do anything about this now, though I wonder, do we plan to put 8.3.2 tarballs into the ftp-archives? We have 8.2.2 tarballs available, though I can't imagine why anyone would need them. -- Robert Treat Build A

[DOCS] triggers on views?

ke it could use some rewording... thoughts? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs