Improve the locale and character set docs, add some s pointing

to the character set docs where appropriate, and improve the postmaster
reference page. Character set cross-refs suggested by Gavin Kistner.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
index 869c4fafd99255c60be967217a018c5c32ca17c2..ce4a1f81e1aca0b32405e683f6e5d4edae1f0c59 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  Localization</></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">     Locale support is automatically initialized when a database</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     cluster is created using <command>initdb</command>.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <command>initdb</command> will initialize the database cluster</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    with the locale setting of its execution environment<span class="marked">; so if your</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    s<span class="marked">ystem is already set to use the locale that you want in your</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    database cluster then there is nothing else you need to do.  If</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    you want to use a different locale (or you are not sure which</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    locale your system is set to), you can tell</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    <command>initdb</command> exactly which locale <span class="marked">you want with the</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    <span class="marked">option <option>--locale</option>. </span> For example:</div>
<div class="diff add">+    with the locale setting of its execution environment<span class="marked"> by default,</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+    s<span class="marked">o if your system is already set to use the locale that you want</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+    in your database cluster then there is nothing else you need to</div>
<div class="diff add">+    do.  If you want to use a different locale (or you are not sure</div>
<div class="diff add">+    which locale your system is set to), you can instruct</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <command>initdb</command> exactly which locale <span class="marked">to use by</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+    <span class="marked">specifying the <option>--locale</option> option.</span> For example:</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <screen></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> initdb --locale=sv_SE</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </screen></div>
<div class="diff ctx">    </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">    <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    This example sets the locale to Swedish (<literal>sv</>) as spoken<span class="marked"> in</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    Sweden (<literal>SE</>).  Other possibilities might be</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    <literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (<span class="marked">Canada,</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    French).  If more than one character set can be useful for a locale</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    then the specifications look like this:</div>
<div class="diff add">+    This example sets the locale to Swedish (<literal>sv</>) as spoken</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <span class="marked">in </span>Sweden (<literal>SE</>).  Other possibilities might be</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <literal>en_US</> (U.S. English) and <literal>fr_CA</> (<span class="marked">French</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+    Canadian).  If more than one character set can be useful for a</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <span class="marked">locale </span>then the specifications look like this:</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <literal>cs_CZ.ISO8859-2</>. What locales are available under what</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     names on your system depends on what was provided by the operating</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     system vendor and what was installed.</div>
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<div class="diff ctx">     The other locale categories can be changed as desired whenever the</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     server is running by setting the run-time configuration variables</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     that have the same name as the locale categories (see <xref</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    linkend="runtime-config"> for details).  The defaults that are</div>
<div class="diff add">+    linkend="runtime-config<span class="marked">-client-format</span>"> for details).  The defaults that are</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     chosen by <command>initdb</command> are actually only written into</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     the configuration file <filename>postgresql.conf</filename> to</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     serve as defaults when the server is started.  If you delete the</div>
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<div class="diff ctx">     <itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       Sort order in queries using <<span class="marked">command</span>>ORDER BY</></div>
<div class="diff add">+       Sort order in queries using <<span class="marked">literal</span>>ORDER BY</></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <indexterm><primary>ORDER BY</><secondary>and locales</></indexterm></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      </listitem></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">    databases each with a different character set.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">   </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-   <sect2></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <sect2<span class="marked"> id="multibyte-charset-supported"</span>></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <title>Supported Character Sets
 
     

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index f0cda231962cc1e941e620e838614b750b1fcc8d..769357ae5db6f0826a829deb156ac7c1c608c61c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  
@@ -945,7 +945,10 @@ CREATE TABLE tablename (
    
     Refer to  for information about
     the syntax of string literals, and to 
-    for information about available operators and functions.
+    for information about available operators and functions. The
+    database character set determines the character set used to store
+    textual values; for more information on character set support,
+    refer to .
    
 
    

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
index 35ae8a75adeaebc10f581001b41f56c89a8b435d..065ee479366af5d1606b8eae8ff4af1f900fbe19 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -139,10 +139,12 @@ CREATE DATABASE name
       encoding
       
        
-        Character set encoding to use in the new database.  Specify
+    Character set encoding to use in the new database.  Specify
    a string constant (e.g., 'SQL_ASCII'),
    or an integer encoding number, or DEFAULT
-   to use the default encoding.
+   to use the default encoding. The character sets supported by the
+   PostgreSQL server are described in
+   .
        
       
      

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/createdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/createdb.sgml
index 6a5581bcab731236971fd8702681cd50a74b26bf..a6b2c8d383cfde4d0d0d1defa6e7d58ab067665e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/createdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/createdb.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -112,7 +112,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       --encoding encoding
       
        
-        Specifies the character encoding scheme to be used in this database.
+        Specifies the character encoding scheme to be used in this
+        database. The character sets supported by the
+        PostgreSQL server are described in
+        .
        
       
      

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
index 92a1301cee1fe0c78527842f488536fdcdf5a083..189a42797787e3068a3027d54249ef97429fbc7f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -120,8 +120,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       
        
         Selects the encoding of the template database. This will also
-        be the default encoding of any database you create later, unless you
-        override it there.  The default is SQL_ASCII.
+        be the default encoding of any database you create later,
+        unless you override it there.  The default is
+        SQL_ASCII. The character sets supported by
+        the PostgreSQL server are described
+        in .
        
       
      
@@ -132,7 +135,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
        
         Sets the default locale for the database cluster.  If this
         option is not specified, the locale is inherited from the
-        environment that initdb runs in.
+        environment that initdb runs in. Locale
+        support is described in .
        
       
      

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml
index cf74272b9bc6f1407e8e9f50df9d0ef12c1db31e..0d6b6dba08ff637c8d7f5fe58d7cab0c1c787897 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postmaster.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -93,8 +93,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       
        
         Enables run-time assertion checks, which is a debugging aid to
-        detect programming mistakes.  This is only available if it was
-        enabled during compilation.  If so, the default is on.
+        detect programming mistakes.  This option is only available if
+        assertions were enabled when PostgreSQL was
+        compiled. If so, the default is on.
        
       
      
@@ -104,8 +105,9 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       
        
    Sets the number of shared buffers for use by the server
-   processes.  This value defaults to 64 buffers, where each
-   buffer is 8 kB.
+   processes.  The default value of this parameter is chosen
+   automatically by initdb; refer to 
+   linkend="runtime-config-resource-memory"> for more information.
        
       
      
@@ -114,11 +116,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       -c name=value
       
        
-        Sets a named run-time parameter. Consult  for
-        a list and descriptions.  Most of the other command line
-        options are in fact short forms of such a parameter
-        assignment.  -c can appear multiple times to set
-        multiple parameters.
+        Sets a named run-time parameter. The configuration parameters
+        supported by PostgreSQL are
+        described in . Most of the
+        other command line options are in fact short forms of such a
+        parameter assignment.  -c can appear multiple times
+        to set multiple parameters.
        
       
      
@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
        
         Sets the debug level.  The higher this value is set, the more
         debugging output is written to the server log.  Values are from
-   1 to 5.
+        1 to 5.
        
       
      
@@ -150,10 +153,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
        
         Disables fsync calls for performance
         improvement, at the risk of data corruption in event of a
-        system crash.  This option corresponds to setting
-        fsync=false in postgresql.conf. Read the detailed
-        documentation before using this!
+        system crash.  Specifying this option is equivalent to
+        disabling the  configuration
+        parameter. Read the detailed documentation before using this!
        
+
        
         --fsync=true has the opposite effect
         of this option.
@@ -167,15 +171,15 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
        
         Specifies the IP host name or address on which the
         postmaster is to listen for TCP/IP
-        connections from client applications.  The value can also be
-        a space-separated list of addresses, or * to specify
-        listening on all available interfaces.  An empty value specifies
-        not listening on any IP addresses, in which case only Unix-domain
-        sockets can be used to connect to the postmaster.
-        Defaults to listening only
-        on localhost.
-        This option is equivalent to setting listen_addresses in
-        postgresql.conf>.
+        connections from client applications.  The value can also be a
+        space-separated list of addresses, or * to specify
+        listening on all available interfaces.  An empty value
+        specifies not listening on any IP addresses, in which case
+        only Unix-domain sockets can be used to connect to the
+        postmaster.  Defaults to listening only on
+        localhost.
+        Specifying this option is equivalent to setting the 
+        linkend="guc-listen-addresses">.
        
       
      
@@ -187,13 +191,13 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
         Allows remote clients to connect via TCP/IP (Internet domain)
         connections.  Without this option, only local connections are
         accepted.  This option is equivalent to setting
-        <literal>listen_addresses to * in
+        <varname>listen_addresses to * in
         postgresql.conf or via -h.
        
        
         This option is deprecated since it does not allow access to the
-        full functionality of <literal>listen_addresses.  It's usually
-        better to set >listen_addresses directly.
+        full functionality of <xref linkend="guc-listen-addresses">.
+        It's usually better to set >listen_addresses directly.
        
       
      
@@ -214,8 +218,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       -l
       
        
-   Enables secure connections using SSL.  You must have compiled with SSL
-   enabled to use this option.
+   Enables secure connections using SSL.
+   PostgreSQL must have been compiled with
+   support for SSL for this option to be
+   available. For more information on using SSL,
+   refer to .
        
       
      
@@ -231,7 +238,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
    -B is required to be at least twice
    -N.  See  for a discussion of
    system resource requirements for large numbers of client
-   connections.)
+   connections.) Specifying this option is equivalent to setting the
+    configuration parameter.