Re: [DOCS] Date/Time Types : internals

2012-04-26 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > So which calendar are we using, Julian or Gregorian? Gregorian. I fail to see anyplace that suggests we use the Julian calendar. We do understand the Julian date system, which is something entirely different with a confusingly similar name. (Julian dates are just a count

[DOCS] Behaviour of sql language function

2012-04-26 Thread Marcelo Sena
Hi all I noticed the following beaviour, if a command in a sql function fails the other statements fail like if the entire function where surrounded by a begin-commit block. While I find this behaviour nice, as far as I could find, this behaviour is not documented[1]. I wished to create a function

Re: [DOCS] Behaviour of sql language function

2012-04-26 Thread Kevin Grittner
Marcelo Sena wrote: > So, is it documented somewhere? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/tutorial-transactions.html | PostgreSQL actually treats every SQL statement as being executed | within a transaction. If you do not issue a BEGIN command, then | each individual statement has

Re: [DOCS] Date/Time Types : internals

2012-04-26 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > Robert Haas writes: >> So which calendar are we using, Julian or Gregorian? > Gregorian. I fail to see anyplace that suggests we use the Julian > calendar. We do understand the Julian date system, which is something > entirely different with a confusingly similar name. (Julian dates

Re: [DOCS] "TL;DR:"

2012-04-26 Thread Selena Deckelmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Grittner < kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: > > "Kevin Grittner" writes: > >> How do people feel about "TL;DR:" being used at the start of a > >> Wiki page to which we want to direct users? > > Tom Lane wrote: > > I think it's a pretty lousy way to star

Re: [DOCS] "TL;DR:"

2012-04-26 Thread Selena Deckelmann
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Selena Deckelmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Kevin Grittner < > kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov> wrote: > >> > "Kevin Grittner" writes: >> >> How do people feel about "TL;DR:" being used at the start of a >> >> Wiki page to which we want to direct