Re: [DOCS] Confusing section of 'Setting Parameters'

2012-05-10 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > I think this is a good idea, but I didn't like your section division > at all.  I broke it up like this instead: > >        Parameter Names and Values >        Setting Parameters via the Configuration File >        Other Ways to Set Parameters >  

Re: [DOCS] Confusing section of 'Setting Parameters'

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Kupershmidt writes: > This bit of "Section 18.1. Setting Parameters"[1] is highly confusing: Yeah, that's badly in need of editing. > Second, I think Section 18.1 as a whole could be much improved by > breaking it up into sub-sections; it seems too long and disjointed > as-is. I gave this r

Re: [DOCS] NAME maximum length in _bytes_

2012-05-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:13:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > psql \dTS+ shows for data type 'name': > >pg_catalog | name| name| 64 | | > | 63-character type for storing system identifiers > > I believe this is really 63 bytes, not charac

Re: [DOCS] Capitalization of 'TimeZone' GUC

2012-05-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2012-05-04 at 17:37 -0700, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > Hi all, > > I noticed that the 'TimeZone' GUC is displayed in all-lowercase at: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-client.html > > when it should be camel-cased like 'DateStyle' and 'IntervalStyle' > above it,