From: Bruce Momjian
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 04:44:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: FAQ markup fixes.
X-Git-Tag: REL8_1_0BETA1~1452
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60d6f49a47dbb7770509034d012db00fbb7e7823;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git
FAQ markup fixes.
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diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
index 2b885074753..da6e3d9afc8 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
Last updated: Sat Jan 29 23:25:05 EST 2005
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
+ "mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at If postmaster is running, start psql in one
window, then find the PID of the postgres
- process used by psql using SELECT pg_backend_pid()
.
+ process used by psql using SELECT pg_backend_pid()
.
Use a debugger to attach to the postgres PID.
You can set breakpoints in the debugger and issue queries from
+
psql. If you are debugging postgres startup, you can
set PGOPTIONS="-W n", then start psql. This will cause startup
to delay for n seconds so you can attach to the process with
the debugger, set any breakpoints, and continue through the startup
sequence.
- There are several
log_*
server configuration variables
+ There are several log_*
server configuration variables
that enable printing of process statistics which can be very useful
for debugging and performance measurements.
@@ -897,8 +898,8 @@
The default C locale must be used during
initdb because it is not possible to know the next-greater
character in a non-C locale. You can create a special
- text_pattern_ops
index for such cases that work only
- for LIKE
indexing.
+ text_pattern_ops
index for such cases that work only
+ for LIKE indexing.
@@ -1064,8 +1065,8 @@ BYTEA bytea variable-length byte array (null-byte safe)
internal system tables together.
To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use
- SERIAL> rather than OIDs because
- SERIAL sequences are unique only within a single
+ SERIAL rather than OIDs because
+ SERIAL sequences are unique only within a single
table. and are therefore less likely to overflow.
SERIAL8 is available for storing eight-byte sequence
values.
@@ -1149,8 +1150,7 @@ BYTEA bytea variable-length byte array (null-byte safe)
Use CURRENT_TIMESTAMP:
-CREATE TABLE test (x int, modtime timestamp DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP );
-
+ CREATE TABLE test (x int, modtime timestamp DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP );
4.18) How do I perform an outer join?