Re: Documentation Issue?

2020-07-15 Thread Thomas Munro
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 5:25 AM PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html > Description: > > The documentation at https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/tutorial-join.html > shows

Re: List of pages from versions 9, 10, and 11 that don't exist in "current"

2020-07-15 Thread Michael Christofides
Sorry I forgot to say that I updated my docs redirect extension to handle a few more of these cases. If anyone else wants to use it, it’s here: https://github.com/mchristofides/pg_docs_bot Cheers, Michael On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 13:03, Michael Christofides wrote: > Thank you Jonathan. > > Yes

Re: docs: psql and variable interpolation

2020-07-15 Thread Tom Lane
Philippe Beaudoin writes: > Le 13/07/2020 à 17:45, David G. Johnston a écrit : >> If it is only \copy that is an exception I’d rather just say (except >> \copy} and not have the user meticulously read each item for the >> single exception. This extends to if there are a few. > As far as I

Re: docs: psql and variable interpolation

2020-07-15 Thread Philippe Beaudoin
Le 13/07/2020 à 17:45, David G. Johnston a écrit : On Monday, July 13, 2020, Philippe Beaudoin mailto:philippe.beaud...@dalibo.com>> wrote: The first sentence of this SQL interpolation chapter says "A key feature of psql variables is that you can substitute (“interpolate”) them

Installation instructions vs binaries

2020-07-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
It's kind of strange that if you start your PostgreSQL journey by reading our instructions, you get nothing useful about installing PostgreSQL from binary packages other than "go ask somebody else about it". Yet we have pretty good step by step instructions on our *website* for it. Attached patch

Re: Transaction Management

2020-07-15 Thread James King
Hi Bruce, Thanks for taking a look at this. This is really about making a limitation obvious. In other parts of the documentation, like table partitioning, limitations are really spelled out, good solid health warnings for those uninitiated. For transactions we have found that procedures

strange syntax

2020-07-15 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/manage-ag-overview.html Description: this sentence looks strange: "Schemas are a purely logical structure and who can access what is managed by the privilege system"