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authorThomas G. Lockhart1999-06-09 13:44:59 +0000
committerThomas G. Lockhart1999-06-09 13:44:59 +0000
commit878d9520843e5eb622f115e612a6e0504aa8deaa (patch)
treedd1f0c9f76d3e19790b66b31feaf76a883c44fad
parent3f86238f1341f416329b33dee42ddaf37b2572eb (diff)
Add mention of hot backups to the release notes.
Add id tags to chapter and section headings to ensure good labels on output html files.
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/install.sgml10
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml2
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml4
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release.sgml20
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml2
5 files changed, 24 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/install.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/install.sgml
index c1023a5bec..33ae9547c4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/install.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/install.sgml
@@ -719,14 +719,16 @@ pg_id: can't load library 'libpq.so'
<Step Performance="required">
<para>
Several regression tests could fail if the user's locale collation
- scheme is different from that of standard C locale.
+ scheme is different from that of the standard <literal>C</literal> locale.
</para>
<para>
If you configure and compile <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName>
- with the <option>--enable-locale</option> option then
- set locale environment to C (or unset all LC_* variables)
+ with <option>--enable-locale</option> then you should
+ set the locale environment to <quote><literal>C</literal></quote>
+ (or unset all <quote>LC_*</quote> variables)
by putting these additional lines to your login environment
- before starting postmaster:
+ before starting <application>postmaster</application>:
+
<ProgramListing>
LC_COLLATE=C
LC_CTYPE=C
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml
index 8078fa3433..cc6e7807c5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<sect1>
+<sect1 id="copyright">
<title>Copyrights and Trademarks</title>
<para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml
index 712ebd1832..b33034a1fc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<sect1>
+<sect1 id="terminology">
<title>Terminology</title>
<para>
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
</para>
</sect1>
-<sect1>
+<sect1 id="notation">
<title>Notation</title>
<para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 2e7732a089..1d3f2c661e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- <chapter>
+ <chapter id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
<sect1>
@@ -44,10 +44,18 @@
longer are restricted by simple table-level locking;
we have something better than row-level locking.
</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ Hot backups from <application>pg_dump</application>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
- Another big benefit of MVCC is that <application>pg_dump</application>
- can now generate consistent backups of live, active databases, without
- blocking active transactions.
+ <application>pg_dump</application> takes advantage of the new
+ MVCC features to give a consistant database dump/backup while
+ the database stays online and available for queries.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -84,7 +92,7 @@
<para>
We now have CASE, INTERSECT, and EXCEPT statement
support. We have new LIMIT/OFFSET, SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL,
- SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK command.
+ SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, and an improved LOCK TABLE command.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -184,7 +192,7 @@
<command>SELECT</command> it doesn't mean that this row really exists
at the time it is returned (i.e. sometime after the statement or
transaction began) nor that the row is protected from deletion or
- updation by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
+ update by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
a commit or rollback.
</para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index 72043575f3..e9c3467638 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
- <chapter>
+ <chapter id="syntax">
<title>SQL Syntax</title>
<abstract>