Re: [DOCS] Supplemental contrib docs

2006-01-03 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I assumed Tom was referring to placement in the source tree, i.e. > {prefix} is contrib/dblink, etc. I'm concerned about both location in the source tree (dblink and tsearch2 are inconsistent) and location in the installation tree. The former seems e

Re: [DOCS] CONSTRAINT syntax in ALTER TABLE

2006-01-03 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:04:50PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > > Maybe it's just me, but I find it annoying that the ALTER TABLE docs > > > say to look at the CREATE TABLE docs for info on CONSTRAINT syntax. ISTM > > > it would be much better to: >

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 is {prefix}/sh

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

2006-01-03 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:20:38PM -0800, Joe Conway wrote: > 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

Re: [DOCS] CONSTRAINT syntax in ALTER TABLE

2006-01-03 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:04:50PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > Maybe it's just me, but I find it annoying that the ALTER TABLE docs > > say to look at the CREATE TABLE docs for info on CONSTRAINT syntax. ISTM > > it would be much better to: > > > > Include the docs in bot

[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 create subdirectories