<para>
Time zones, and time-zone conventions, are influenced by
political decisions, not just earth geometry. Time zones around the
- world became somewhat standardized during the 1900's,
+ world became somewhat standardized during the 1900s,
but continue to be prone to arbitrary changes, particularly with
respect to daylight-savings rules.
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> uses the widely-used
<parameter>schema</> is the schema name that the object belongs in, or
<literal>NULL</> for object types that do not belong to schemas;
<parameter>name</> is the name of the object, quoted if necessary, only
- present if it can be used (alongside schema name, if pertinent) as an unique
+ present if it can be used (alongside schema name, if pertinent) as a unique
identifier of the object, otherwise <literal>NULL</>;
<parameter>identity</> is the complete object identity, with the precise format
depending on object type, and each part within the format being
<entry><type>text</type></entry>
<entry>
Name of the object, if the combination of schema and name can be
- used as an unique identifier for the object; otherwise <literal>NULL</>.
+ used as a unique identifier for the object; otherwise <literal>NULL</>.
No quoting is applied, and name is never schema-qualified.
</entry>
</row>
correctly. Advisory locks can be useful for locking strategies
that are an awkward fit for the MVCC model.
For example, a common use of advisory locks is to emulate pessimistic
- locking strategies typical of so called <quote>flat file</> data
+ locking strategies typical of so-called <quote>flat file</> data
management systems.
While a flag stored in a table could be used for the same purpose,
advisory locks are faster, avoid table bloat, and are automatically
(useful when multiple scripts were specified with <option>-f</>),
and <replaceable>time_epoch</>/<replaceable>time_us</> are a
UNIX epoch format timestamp and an offset
- in microseconds (suitable for creating a ISO 8601
+ in microseconds (suitable for creating an ISO 8601
timestamp with fractional seconds) showing when
the transaction completed.
</para>
</synopsis>
<para>
Encrypt <parameter>data</> with a public PGP key <parameter>key</>.
- Giving this function a secret key will produce a error.
+ Giving this function a secret key will produce an error.
</para>
<para>
The <parameter>options</> parameter can contain option settings,
Sometimes it is desirable to write Tcl functions that are not restricted
to safe Tcl. For example, one might want a Tcl function that sends
email. To handle these cases, there is a variant of <application>PL/Tcl</> called <literal>PL/TclU</>
- (for untrusted Tcl). This is the exact same language except that a full
+ (for untrusted Tcl). This is exactly the same language except that a full
Tcl interpreter is used. <emphasis>If <application>PL/TclU</> is used, it must be
installed as an untrusted procedural language</emphasis> so that only
database superusers can create functions in it. The writer of a <application>PL/TclU</>
statements in <literal>WITH</>, the order in which the specified updates
actually happen is unpredictable. All the statements are executed with
the same <firstterm>snapshot</> (see <xref linkend="mvcc">), so they
- cannot <quote>see</> each others' effects on the target tables. This
+ cannot <quote>see</> one another's effects on the target tables. This
alleviates the effects of the unpredictability of the actual order of row
updates, and means that <literal>RETURNING</> data is the only way to
communicate changes between different <literal>WITH</> sub-statements and
</programlisting>
<para>
- The following example command changes the language option to dutch,
+ The following example command changes the language option to <literal>dutch</>,
and removes the stopword option entirely.
</para>
COMMENT ON TABLE my_schema.my_table IS 'Employee Information';
COMMENT ON TABLESPACE my_tablespace IS 'Tablespace for indexes';
COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION my_config IS 'Special word filtering';
-COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish IS 'Snowball stemmer for swedish language';
+COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish IS 'Snowball stemmer for Swedish language';
COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH PARSER my_parser IS 'Splits text into words';
COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE snowball IS 'Snowball stemmer';
COMMENT ON TRIGGER my_trigger ON my_table IS 'Used for RI';
is also acquired by any <command>DELETE</> on a row, and also by an
<command>UPDATE</> that modifies the values on certain columns. Currently,
the set of columns considered for the <command>UPDATE</> case are those that
- have an unique index on them that can be used in a foreign key (so partial
+ have a unique index on them that can be used in a foreign key (so partial
indexes and expressional indexes are not considered), but this may change
in the future.
Also, if an <command>UPDATE</command>, <command>DELETE</command>,
</para>
<para>
This enabled <command>GRANT</command> to give other users the
- ability to grant privileges on a object.
+ ability to grant privileges on an object.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>
The new syntax is <link linkend="SQL-CREATEINDEX"><command>CREATE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY</></link>. The default behavior is
- still to block table modification while a index is being
+ still to block table modification while an index is being
created.
</para>
</listitem>
libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
Remove ARCHIVE key word, that is no longer used(Thomas)
-pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around indentifiers
+pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around identifiers
disable system columns for views(Jan)
new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
no more double quotes in psql output
(e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas)
Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim)
-Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after
+Free memory allocated for a user query inside transaction block after
this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim)
New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan)
New <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan)
New tools:
* pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95
* pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a
- script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
+ script file containing query commands. The script files are in an ASCII
format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
;; By default, the part and reference title pages get wrong page
;; numbers: The first title page gets roman numerals carried over from
-;; preface/toc -- we want arabic numerals. We also need to make sure
+;; preface/toc -- we want Arabic numerals. We also need to make sure
;; that page-number-restart is set of #f explicitly, because otherwise
;; it will carry over from the previous component, which is not good.
;;
</programlisting>
where the colon (<symbol>:</symbol>) symbol acts as a delimiter between a
- a phrase and its replacement.
+ phrase and its replacement.
</para>
<para>
<para>
The calling <command>SELECT</> statement doesn't necessarily have be
- be just <literal>SELECT *</> — it can reference the output
+ just <literal>SELECT *</> — it can reference the output
columns by name or join them to other tables. The function produces a
virtual table with which you can perform any operation you wish (e.g.
aggregation, joining, sorting etc). So we could also have:
<para>
Unlike commutators, a pair of unary operators could validly be marked
- as each others' negators; that would mean (A x) equals NOT (B x)
+ as each other's negators; that would mean (A x) equals NOT (B x)
for all x, or the equivalent for right unary operators.
</para>
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