[PATCHES] improve routine vacuuming docs

2003-12-10 Thread Neil Conway
This patch makes some improvements and adds some details to the documentation on routine database maintenance activities. Any comments on the new text would be appreciated. I decided not to mention the FSM -- I haven't seen any reports that users have had to tweak FSM settings in 7.4, and it is pro

[PATCHES] bufmgr code cleanup (revised)

2003-12-10 Thread Neil Conway
I posted some bufmgr cleanup a few weeks ago, but it conflicted with some concurrent changes Jan was making to the bufmgr. Here's an updated version of the patch -- it should apply cleanly to CVS HEAD and passes the regression tests. This patch makes the following changes: - remove the Unloc

[PATCHES] improvements to SGML

2003-12-10 Thread Neil Conway
This patch makes some editorial improvements to the bug reporting guidelines and the LOCK reference page. -Neil Index: doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml === RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/problems.sgml,v retrieving revision

[PATCHES] fix vpath doc builds

2003-12-10 Thread Neil Conway
At present, trying to build the documentation from outside the source tree (i.e. a "vpath build") fails. This patch fixes that. Two changes were required: - in a vpath build, make sure that we look in the appropriate directory in the build tree, not just the source tree (some SG