The endterm attribute is mainly useful when the toolchain does not support
automatic link target text generation for a particular situation.  In  the
past, this was required by the man page tools for all reference page links,
but that is no longer the case, and it now actually gets in the way of
proper automatic link text generation.  The only remaining use cases are
currently xrefs to refsects.

all support it).

Per report from Josh Kupershmidt

gabrielle

programs that have a -W/--password option.

In passing, remove the ancient PSQL_ALWAYS_GET_PASSWORDS compile option.

Jim Cox and Peter Eisentraut

(Possibly release notes material, lest users be confused.)

The --quiet option is now obsolete and without effect in createdb,
createuser, dropdb, dropuser; kept for compatibility but marked for
removal in 8.4.

Progress messages when acting on all databases now go to stdout instead
of stderr, since they are not in fact errors.

Ordered options in reindexdb reference page alphabetically, like in
other programs' pages.

in the future.

environment variables.  Backpatch to 8.2.X.

$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...

discussion.  (Still have some work to do editing the remainder.)

spelling mistake in the PREPARE ref page (2) Makes some
English more consistent, in the ref pages for some of the
client apps (3) Adds a link to the libpq docs in the
vacuumdb ref page.

Neil Conway

be simplified (I'd thought that it can even be removed).  This patch
does that.

Alvaro Herrera

- more work from the SGML police

- some grammar improvements: rewriting a paragraph or two, replacing
contractions where (IMHO) appropriate

- fix missing utility commands in lock mode docs

- improve CLUSTER, REINDEX, SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION ref pages

Neil Conway

makes a few editorial changes to the documentation.


Neil Conway

Cleanup up memory allocation for $HOME in related psql places.

Update mention of $HOME/.pgpass in the docs;  add mention in pg_dumpall.

bit on the indexes.

I also attach clusterdb and clusterdb.sgml; both of them are blatant
rips of vacuumdb and vacuumdb.sgml, but get the job done.  Please review
them, as I'm probably making a lot of mistakes with SGML and I can't
compile it here.

vacuumdb itself is not very comfortable to use when the databases have
passwords, because it has to connect once for each table (I can probably
make it connect only once for each database; should I?).  Because of
this I added a mention of PGPASSWORDFILE in the documentation, but I
don't know if that is the correct place for that.

Alvaro Herrera

and database.  In particular, make script wrappers understand the
PGDATABASE environment variable.

Add information about environment variables.

Properly handles default values.

 between Postgres and PostgreSQL.

USER and ALTER USER to appear in any order, not only the fixed order
they used to be required to appear in.
Also, some changes from Tom Lane to create a FULL option for VACUUM;
it doesn't do anything yet, but I needed to change many of the same
files to make that happen, so now seemed like a good time.