[DOCS] Prepare transaction doesn't mention NOTIFY

2017-10-27 Thread mark
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/sql-prepare-transaction.html Description: Hi, in prepare transaction documentation in PG10 and earlier, it says that you can't prepare a transaction with LISTEN or UNLISTEN but it d

[DOCS] Search for "with" returns no results.

2017-10-10 Thread mark
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/queries-with.html Description: Searching for the word "with" in the documentation, returns no results. This is strange when there are pages titled "WITH queries". I presume the w

[DOCS] FW: [webmaster] Possible error in documentation for EXTRACT

2016-04-06 Thread Mark Clark
XTRACT(CENTURY FROM TIMESTAMP '2100-02-16 20:38:40'); Result: 21 If I have missed some point about how this should work, then please ignore this e-mail. Thanks, Mark Clark mark.cl...@enlightedinc.com

[DOCS] [PATCH] libpq: Return of NULL from PQexec

2011-10-31 Thread Mark Hills
I'm sending the patch below for inclusion. Originally I ran this by pgsql-hackers, just to confirm the docs (and not the code) were in need of the fix, which seems to be the case: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-09/msg00614.php Thanks -- Mark -- Forwarded me

[DOCS] 9.0 release doc

2010-07-27 Thread mark
Hi am I looking at the 9.0/9.1 release docs. (http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html) E.1.3.2. Queries the 4th bullet point says "Have SELECT and CREATE TABLE AS return row counts to the client (Boszormenyi Zoltan) For drivers that support this feature, this saves

[DOCS] 8.4: suppress_redundant_updates trigger vs. "Upsert" logic

2009-09-06 Thread Mark Reid
The above is not as robust as the original, since it doesn't retry, and it's a bit of a foot-gun if you don't actually have a unique constraint... Maybe someone else can come up with a version that's strictly better than the old one, and still plays nice with suppress_redundant_updates. Thanks! Mark

Re: [DOCS] pg_standby supported versions

2008-11-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 22:14 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: Exactly, after posting this I discovered the relevant CVS logs for changes to support restartable recovery. It seems to me that perhaps a little more detail in the docs would be good here. I would hope that

Re: [DOCS] pg_standby supported versions

2008-11-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Simon Riggs wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 00:50 -0500, Decibel! wrote: On Aug 13, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I noticed in the docs for pg_standby (docs/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml) that we have supported version >= 8.2. However it does seem to work ok with earlier versi

[DOCS] pg_standby supported versions

2008-08-13 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I noticed in the docs for pg_standby (docs/src/sgml/pgstandby.sgml) that we have supported version >= 8.2. However it does seem to work ok with earlier versions (e.g 8.1) - or am I missing something? cheers Mark -- Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-docs@postgresql.org) To make chan

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be huge. To work around that you need to create a list of files to exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to get unmanageable

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Alvaro Herrera wrote: David Fetter wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: David Fetter wrote: cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've checked out as anonymous. I us

Re: [PATCHES] [DOCS] OS/X startup scripts

2007-05-13 Thread Mark Kirkwood
-Nacr pgsql.orig pgsql gives a complete patch including added/deleted files. It is a bit primitive, but is pretty easy to do! Cheers Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-n

Re: [DOCS] suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump

2007-03-19 Thread Mark Stosberg
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Mark Stosberg wrote: >> It woud also be nice to document that the full names "custom" and "tar" are >> supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity. >> >> ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work inst

Re: [DOCS] suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump

2007-03-09 Thread Mark Stosberg
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Freitag, 9. März 2007 03:30 schrieb Mark Stosberg: >> The tar format needs some space to create temporary files. By default >> "/tmp" is used. On systems with small "/tmp" partitions, set the >> "TMPDIR" environm

[DOCS] suggestion for improving TMPDIR and "--format" docs for pg_dump

2007-03-08 Thread Mark Stosberg
"custom" and "tar" are supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity. ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing an error. ) Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [DOCS] Switching to XML

2006-12-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
ult - even as a complete SGML newbie - to get up and running, make my changes and build the (HTML) docs. Cheers Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [DOCS] Documentation update for PQexecParams

2006-11-10 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Theo Kramer wrote: On the ODBC types - I found these useful as my interface is based on that. I imagine that others who have used ODBC and who would like to use the libpq functions may also find it useful, but also agree that it may be misleading. Perhaps, with a couple of iterations, we can g

Re: [DOCS] Build man pages: unkown SDATA

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Mark Kirkwood wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: $ make man ... onsgmls postgres.sgml | sgmlspl /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl --lowercase --section l --date "`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`" Unknown SDATA: [mdash ] at /usr/share/sgml/

Re: [DOCS] Build man pages: unkown SDATA

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: $ make man ... onsgmls postgres.sgml | sgmlspl /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14/helpers/docbook2man-spec.pl --lowercase --section l --date "`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`" Unknown SDATA: [mdash ] at /usr/share/sgml/docbook/utils-0.6.14

[DOCS] Build man pages: unkown SDATA

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Kirkwood
2man-spec.pl at a certain stylesheet? Any ideas appreciated. Cheers Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [DOCS] pg_dump docs should mention TMPDIR

2006-05-09 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2006-05-03, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A suggested addition to the pg_dump docs: >> This would be an extension to the documentation for the "tar" format: > >> The tar format needs some space

[DOCS] pg_dump docs should mention TMPDIR

2006-05-02 Thread Mark Stosberg
"custom" and "tar" are supported. Longer names can be nice for clarity. ( Unfortunately, wrong formats like "txx" also work instead of throwing an error. ) Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Robert Treat wrote: I thought it was more correct to use < rather than < inside of tags? I am unsure about this myself (I copied the usage from perform.sgml). Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once wi

Re: [DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

2005-02-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Bruce Momjian wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: At Tom's suggestion, I am going to amend the page to fit into the 'internals' chapter as opposed to 'performance tips' one. I might do this first, and send you the resulting page. That sounds good, that this become part of the

Re: [DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

2005-02-13 Thread Mark Kirkwood
will do the edit). How does that sound? At Tom's suggestion, I am going to amend the page to fit into the 'internals' chapter as opposed to 'performance tips' one. I might do this first, and send you the resulting page. regards Mark ---

Re: [DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

2005-02-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Josh Berkus wrote: Mark, Terrific. I'd be happy to post this at www.powerpostgresql.org, if you want; I think a lot of people would be interested. Absolutely, that is an excellent spot for it, do you need it reformatted in html first? BTW - in fact a community site may well be

Re: [DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

2005-02-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Post feedback changes - thanks to all who commented! Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wanted to understand how the planner 'knows' how many rows are likely to be emitted in a given stage of a query, and wrote down some examples for my own benefit - I then wondered if this would be a good addit

[DOCS] How the planner uses statistics

2005-02-07 Thread Mark Kirkwood
mments welcome. best wishes Mark --- perform.sgml.orig Sat Feb 5 12:45:36 2005 +++ perform.sgmlTue Feb 8 15:08:02 2005 @@ -470,6 +470,288 @@ + + + How the Planner Uses Statistics + + + statistics + of the planner + + + + This section builds on the material covered in

Re: [DOCS] Instructions for Linux ipc config

2005-02-04 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Attached are my first thoughts for the amended instructions. Mark Kirkwood wrote: But to be on the safe side, it would make sense to do something similar to the BSD section, and comment about older distributions maybe needing to manipulate /proc/kernel/* directly. --- runtime.sgml.orig Fri Feb

Re: [DOCS] Instructions for Linux ipc config

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Tom Lane wrote: Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Glancing over these as I was doing the FreeBSD patch, I noticed some scope for modernization there plus a possible error to correct: i) we could standardize the change method to use sysctl instead of echo'ing things into /

[DOCS] Instructions for Linux ipc config

2005-02-03 Thread Mark Kirkwood
option is to follow what we have said for the BSD's i.e: kernel.shmall = 32768 or leave shmall at its default (commonly 2097152). What do people think? regards Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DOCS] Instructions for FreeBSD ipc config showing age

2005-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
, not after, so maybe that should be "see below". Thanks - had not considered that! Amended patch attached. regards Mark --- runtime.sgml.orig Sat Jan 29 18:30:50 2005 +++ runtime.sgmlTue Feb 1 14:25:53 2005 @@ -4351,9 +4351,51 @@ FreeBSD + FreeBSDIPC

[DOCS] Instructions for FreeBSD ipc config showing age

2005-01-31 Thread Mark Kirkwood
NetBSD are in need of an update too, however I don't have any installations of such to experiment on. regards Mark --- runtime.sgml.orig Sat Jan 29 18:30:50 2005 +++ runtime.sgmlMon Jan 31 22:30:35 2005 @@ -4350,10 +4350,8 @@ - FreeBSD NetBSD Op

Re: [DOCS] Docs build failure on plpgsql.sgml

2004-12-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Hmmm ... good point - configure thinks I am running 4.2, but the stylesheets etc might be more recent than postgresql.org's: $ rpm -qa|grep docbook docbook-dtds-1.0-25 docbook-style-dsssl-1.78-4 Tom Lane wrote: Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am seeing a docs bu

[DOCS] Docs build failure on plpgsql.sgml

2004-12-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
f that was the intent of the previous change tho) regards Mark ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [DOCS] disabling OIDs?

2004-12-17 Thread Mark Dexter
I believe the ODBC driver works this way by design. So it's just something you need to know if you plan to use it with updateable cursors. It is my impression that the Postgres ODBC driver is somewhat of a "poor stepchild" within the Postgres community. However, it appears

Re: [DOCS] disabling OIDs?

2004-12-14 Thread Mark Dexter
Title: Re: disabling OIDs? For what it's worth, OIDs are required if you ever want to use updateable cursors with the ODBC driver.  We discovered this the hard way.  Mark Dexter

[DOCS] UPDATE Query Example

2004-10-20 Thread Mark Dexter
ON e.bonus_plan = bp.planid WHERE employees.employeeid = e.employeeid Thanks.  Mark Dexter

[DOCS] Application Note: Integrating Posgresql queries into an event loop.

2004-06-07 Thread Mark Harrison
Here's a note on using the async API. It's not runnable code (due to the variances in event loop packages), but I'm happy to add this to whatever documentation package is appropriate... Advice and feedback welcomed... Mark Application Note: Integrating Posgresql queries into an e