diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml index ccbb054483d850931b452a5be8ecaa26b3081c26..9d8b2082b808f92abd7010c051fa54fe2b4a8df1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml @@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ On UNIX systems, this is always midnight, January 1, 1970 GMT. </Note> </Para> +<Para> If you have executed all of the examples so far, then the above query returns: diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 37da846b7bd469bd7af0477eab415eaded88a6ee..b194ec2df7bc514621462563ff18c8f8fbad7e5a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -275,6 +275,8 @@ have fully implemented syntax but currently (<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> <Para> The <Type>money</Type> type supports US-style currency with fixed decimal point representation. +If <ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> is compiled with USE_LOCALE then the money type +should use the monetary conventions defined for locale(7). <Para> <TABLE TOCENTRY="1"> @@ -302,9 +304,11 @@ The <Type>money</Type> type supports US-style currency with fixed decimal point </Para> <Para> -The <FirstTerm>exact numerics</FirstTerm> <Type>decimal</Type> and <Type>numeric</Type> -have fully implemented syntax but currently (<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> v6.3) - support only a small range of precision and/or range values. +The <FirstTerm>numeric</FirstTerm> +should eventually replace the money type. It has a +fully implemented syntax but currently (<ProductName>Postgres</ProductName> v6.3) + support only a small range of precision and/or range values and cannot substitute for +the money type. </Para> </Sect1> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml index c522d2fa936c24749c5047f3c24b0cb3207a2c8b..84310a85f351bd1c93914056af60f3b652426b1e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ <Para> <Note> -<Title>Caveat</Title> +<Title>Author</Title> <Para> This extraction from an e-mail sent by <ULink url="mailto:selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov">Eugene Selkov Jr.</ULink> contains good information on GiST. Hopefully we will learn more in the future and update this information. -- thomas +- thomas 1998-03-01 </Para> </Note> @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ to check that. Other examples also worked, except polygons: I got an error doing <ProgramListing> -test=> create index pix on polytmp using gist (p:box gist_poly_ops) with -(islossy); +test=> create index pix on polytmp +test-> using gist (p:box gist_poly_ops) with (islossy); ERROR: cannot open pix (PostgreSQL 6.3 Sun Feb 1 14:57:30 EST 1998) @@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ A few notes on the sources: <Para> 1. I failed to make use of the original (HPUX) Makefile and rearranged - the Makefile from the ancient postgres95 tutorial to do the job. I -tried + the Makefile from the ancient postgres95 tutorial to do the job. I tried to keep it generic, but I am a very poor makefile writer -- just did some monkey work. Sorry about that, but I guess it is now a little more portable that the original makefile.