From c76f5aa53032790f5f464ad658c8f65595c12eca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 04:52:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] > > I had great difficulty in finding how to change the
search path, so here > > is a patch to add some cross-referencing.
Oliver Elphick
---
doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 13 ++++++++++++-
doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml | 6 +++++-
doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 7 ++++++-
3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
index 51745a681da..fb387584ed5 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.115 2002/08/21 16:08:19 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.116 2002/08/22 04:52:16 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -5144,6 +5144,17 @@ SELECT NULLIF(value, '(none)') ...
path returned.
</para>
+ <para id=set-search-path xreflabel="SET SEARCH_PATH">
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>search path</primary>
+ <secondary>changing at runtime</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
+ The search path may be altered by a runtime-alterable GUC setting. The
+ command to use is <command>
+ SET SEARCH_PATH '<varname>schema</varname>'[,'<varname>schema</varname>']...
+ </command>
+ </para>
+
<table>
<title>System Information Functions</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index 05efc505661..b2d7e4d84f0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.126 2002/08/18 03:03:25 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v 1.127 2002/08/22 04:52:17 momjian Exp $
-->
<Chapter Id="runtime">
@@ -1608,6 +1608,10 @@ dynamic_library_path = '/usr/local/lib/postgresql:/home/my_project/lib:$libdir'
</para>
<para>
+ <indexterm>
+ <primary>schemas</primary>
+ <secondary>current schema</secondary>
+ </indexterm>
The current effective value of the search path can be examined
via the SQL function <function>current_schemas()</>. This is not
quite the same as examining the value of
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
index a99a526db18..67d57883c3a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.66 2002/08/13 20:40:43 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v 1.67 2002/08/22 04:52:17 momjian Exp $
-->
<chapter id="sql-syntax">
@@ -965,6 +965,11 @@ SELECT 3 OPERATOR(pg_catalog.+) 4;
place <literal>pg_catalog</> at the end of your search path if you
prefer to have user-defined names override built-in names.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ The search path is determined by the GUC variable SEARCH_PATH and
+ may be changed at any time. See <xref linkend="set-search-path">.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="sql-reserved-names">
--
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