consultation with word definitions.
Backpatch to 9.2.
pg_collation are ignored. Thus, a stripped collation
name such as de_DE can be considered unique
within a given database even though it would not be unique globally.
- Use of the stripped collation names is recommendable, since it will
+ Use of the stripped collation names is recommended, since it will
make one less thing you need to change if you decide to change to
another database encoding. Note however that the default>,
C>, and POSIX> collations can be used
You need an
ISO>/ANSI> C compiler (at least
C89-compliant). Recent
- versions of
GCC> are recommendable, but
+ versions of
GCC> are recommended, but
PostgreSQL> is known to build using a wide variety
of compilers from different vendors.
connection level. If one
PostgreSQL> server
instance is to house projects or users that should be separate and
for the most part unaware of each other, it is therefore
- recommendable to put them into separate databases. If the projects
+ recommended to put them into separate databases. If the projects
or users are interrelated and should be able to use each other's
resources, they should be put in the same database but possibly
into separate schemas. Schemas are a purely logical structure and who can
This limits the usefulness of the passwordcheck
module, because in that case it can only try to guess the password.
For this reason, passwordcheck is not
- recommendable if your security requirements are high.
+ recommended if your security requirements are high.
It is more secure to use an external authentication method such as Kerberos
(see ) than to rely on
passwords within the database.
Currently, window functions always require presorted data, and so the
query output will be ordered according to one or another of the window
functions' PARTITION BY>/ORDER BY> clauses.
- It is not recommendable to rely on this, however. Use an explicit
+ It is not recommended to rely on this, however. Use an explicit
top-level ORDER BY> clause if you want to be sure the
results are sorted in a particular way.