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authorBruce Momjian2006-10-14 23:08:48 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2006-10-14 23:08:48 +0000
commitfdbe9facdcbaa4ae0507aa177702bf5c4e28e5ad (patch)
treeb8aa26c072d254af117fa736af697f72ecba8644
parent1314983fd302bf53dbf5284145205dea44cb832c (diff)
FAQ updates --- This is a small cosmetic patch that adds pt_BR IRC
channel to the lists of IRC channels, fixes a typo in the OID's question, and corrects the PGCluster's project name. Euler Taveira de Oliveira
-rw-r--r--doc/FAQ11
-rw-r--r--doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/FAQ b/doc/FAQ
index ce3ddad918a..50f22034526 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ
+++ b/doc/FAQ
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Mon Oct 9 20:28:14 EDT 2006
+ Last updated: Sat Oct 14 19:08:19 EDT 2006
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
@@ -184,8 +184,9 @@
The major IRC channel is #postgresql on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).
To connect you can use the Unix program irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER"
irc.freenode.net or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also
- exists on the same network, (#postgresql-es), and a French one,
- (#postgresqlfr). There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.
+ exists on the same network, (#postgresql-es), a French one,
+ (#postgresqlfr), and a Brazilian one, (#postgresql-br). There is also
+ a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.
A list of commercial support companies is available at
http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support.
@@ -732,7 +733,7 @@
overflow at 4 billion, and then the OIDs start being duplicated.
PostgreSQL uses OIDs to link its internal system tables together.
- To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL
+ To uniquely number rows in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL
rather than OIDs because SERIAL sequences are unique only within a
single table. and are therefore less likely to overflow. SERIAL8 is
available for storing eight-byte sequence values.
@@ -823,7 +824,7 @@
Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be sent to
multiple replicated computers. This capability also has a severe
impact on performance due to the need to synchronize changes between
- servers. Pgcluster is the most popular such solution freely available
+ servers. PGCluster is the most popular such solution freely available
for PostgreSQL.
There are also commercial and hardware-based replication solutions
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
index c22dc7ef668..8da16e9ee9a 100644
--- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
alink="#0000ff">
<H1>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1>
- <P>Last updated: Mon Oct 9 20:28:14 EDT 2006</P>
+ <P>Last updated: Sat Oct 14 19:08:19 EDT 2006</P>
<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
"mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</A>)
@@ -236,8 +236,9 @@
(<I>irc.freenode.net</I>). To connect you can use the Unix
program <CODE>irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER" irc.freenode.net</CODE>
or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also exists
- on the same network, (<I>#postgresql-es</I>), and a French one,
- (<I>#postgresqlfr</I>). There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.</P>
+ on the same network, (<I>#postgresql-es</I>), a French one,
+ (<I>#postgresqlfr</I>), and a Brazilian one, (<I>#postgresql-br</I>).
+ There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.</P>
<P>A list of commercial support companies is available at <A href=
"http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support">
@@ -963,7 +964,7 @@ length</TD></TR>
being duplicated. PostgreSQL uses <SMALL>OID</SMALL>s to link its
internal system tables together.</P>
- <P>To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use
+ <P>To uniquely number rows in user tables, it is best to use
<SMALL>SERIAL</SMALL> rather than O<SMALL>ID</SMALL>s because
<SMALL>SERIAL</SMALL> sequences are unique only within a single
table. and are therefore less likely to overflow.
@@ -1077,7 +1078,7 @@ length</TD></TR>
<P>Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be sent to
multiple replicated computers. This capability also has a severe impact
on performance due to the need to synchronize changes between servers.
- <A href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgcluster/">Pgcluster</a> is the
+ <A href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgcluster/">PGCluster</a> is the
most popular such solution freely available for PostgreSQL.</P>
<P>There are also commercial and hardware-based replication solutions