[DOCS] about value storage

2011-09-05 Thread lsliang
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/typeconv-query.html example shows: CREATE TABLE vv (v character(20)); INSERT INTO vv SELECT 'abc' || 'def'; SELECT v, length(v) FROM vv; v | length --+ abcdef | 20 (1 row) but m

Re: [DOCS] Add strftime escapes to Log config

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On s?n, 2011-03-20 at 13:32 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > > This page: > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHERE > > > > has the following text: > > > > The value is treated as a strftime pattern, so %-escap

Re: [DOCS] documenting contrib modules (was Re: Building PDFs error)

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Peter Eisentraut writes: > >> On l?r, 2011-03-12 at 09:13 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >>> OK, it is not something worthwhile, or just something you don't have > >>> time for. ?If the later, can you give us a hint on how t

Re: [DOCS] Building PDFs error: \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pd

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On fre, 2011-01-28 at 12:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > In my build, the entire contrib manual is potentially interdependent, > > because the sub-sections of Appendix F don't start new pages. This > > seems bad. What is even more curious is that it looks like the function

Re: [DOCS] 'literal' for numbers

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > So I guess I'm back agreeing with you. Basically, it seems like we > > ought to use if it's being used as a value that the user > > might want to supply (e.g. "if you set this parameter to 0, then no > > statements will be logged). It shouldn't use if it's just > > bein

[DOCS] Use of literal in SGML docs

2011-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Did we want to do any more on the issue of using for numbers in our docs? The February thread is here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-docs/2011-02/msg00028.php While the applied patch removed the 'literal' tag from some numbers, we were not consistenly using 'literal' for constan