From 90dbfa5ea62066042c7ed24943c52280587c6ad1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 20:46:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a few typos. Try <Note><Title>Author</Title>... for
author credit.
---
doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml | 1 +
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml | 10 +++++++---
doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml | 11 +++++------
3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml
index ccbb054483d..9d8b2082b80 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 37da846b7bd..b194ec2df7b 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 c522d2fa936..84310a85f35 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.
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