From cb9221a8209b7dbb9a1b67013076d1612722a3d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:05:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update developers faq --- doc/FAQ_DEV | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/FAQ_DEV b/doc/FAQ_DEV index 22ba1db46ea..31b27ee73ec 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ_DEV +++ b/doc/FAQ_DEV @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL - Last updated: Fri Dec 24 11:43:42 EST 1999 + Last updated: Fri Jun 9 21:54:54 EDT 2000 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) @@ -69,9 +69,14 @@ s back out twice to return to the original function. Most editors support this via tags or etags files. - Third, you need to get mkid from ftp.postgresql.org. By running - tools/make_mkid, an archive of source symbols can be created that can - be rapidly queried like grep or edited. Others prefer glimpse. + Third, you need to get id-utils from: + ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/id-utils-3.2d.tar.gz + ftp://tug.org/gnu/id-utils-3.2d.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.enst.fr/pub/gnu/gnits/id-utils-3.2d.tar.gz + + By running tools/make_mkid, an archive of source symbols can be + created that can be rapidly queried like grep or edited. Others prefer + glimpse. make_diff has tools to create patch diff files that can be applied to the distribution. @@ -90,16 +95,14 @@ s M-x set-variable tab-width or ; Cmd to set tab stops &etc for working with PostgreSQL code - (defun pgsql-mode () - "Set PostgreSQL C indenting conventions in current buffer." - (interactive) - (c-mode) ; necessary to make c-set --offset local! - (setq tab-width 4) ; already buffer-local - ; (setq comment-column 48) ; already buffer-local - (c-set-style "bsd") - (c-set-offset 'case-label '+) - ) + (c-add-style "pgsql" + '("bsd" + (indent-tabs-mode . t) + (c-basic-offset . 4) + (tab-width . 4) + (c-offsets-alist . + ((case-label . +)))) + t) ; t = set this mode on and add this to your autoload list (modify file path in macro): @@ -311,8 +314,8 @@ c-mode) you to query the system catalogs. This is the preferred way to access system tables, because the first call to the cache loads the needed rows, and future requests can return the results without accessing the - base table. Some of the caches use system table indexes to look up - tuples. A list of available caches is located in + base table. The caches use system table indexes to look up tuples. A + list of available caches is located in src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c. src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c contains many column-specific cache lookup functions. @@ -355,11 +358,12 @@ c-mode) is to use heap_tuplemodify() and pass it your palloc'ed tuple, and the values you want changed. It returns another palloc'ed tuple, which you pass to heap_replace(). You can delete tuples by passing the tuple's - t_self to heap_destroy(). Remember, tuples can be either system cache - versions, which may go away soon after you get them, buffer cache - version, which will go away when you heap_getnext(), heap_endscan, or - ReleaseBuffer(), in the heap_fetch() case. Or it may be a palloc'ed - tuple, that you must pfree() when finished. + t_self to heap_destroy(). You can use it for heap_update() too. + Remember, tuples can be either system cache versions, which may go + away soon after you get them, buffer cache versions, which go away + when you heap_getnext(), heap_endscan, or ReleaseBuffer(), in the + heap_fetch() case. Or it may be a palloc'ed tuple, that you must + pfree() when finished. 10) What is elog()? -- 2.39.5