+ url="http://www.oasis-open.org">. The official DocBook
+ has good introductory and reference documentation and
a complete O'Reilly book for your online reading pleasure. The
+ NewbieDoc Docbook Guide,
- NewbieDoc Docbook Guide is very helpful for beginners.
- Documentation Project also uses DocBook and has some good
+ , is very helpful for beginners.
+ The FreeBSD Documentation Project,
+ also uses DocBook and has some good
information, including a number of style guidelines that might be
worth considering.
This is the definition of DocBook itself. We currently use
-
ISO 8879 character entities
+
ISO 8879 character entities,
These are required by DocBook but are distributed separately
This is the base package of
SGML processing.
-
DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets
+
DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets,
These contain the processing instructions for converting the
This optional package is used to create man pages. It has a
If you want to, you can also install
More information about the FreeBSD documentation tools can be
- found in the
- url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools.html">FreeBSD
- Documentation Project's instructions.
+ found in the FreeBSD Documentation Project's instructions,
- Obtain the
- url="http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.2/docbook-4.2.zip">DocBook
- V4.2 distribution.
+ Obtain the DocBook V4.2 distribution,
+ url="http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.2/docbook-4.2.zip">.
- url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip">ISO 8879
- character entities archive, unpack it, and put the
+ Download the ISO 8879
+ character entities archive,
+ url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip">, unpack it, and put the
files in the same directory you put the DocBook files in.
$ cd /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook-4.2
ot2enc. All of these can be found on
- your friendly neighborhood
- url="http://www.ctan.org"><acronym>CTAN site.
+ your friendly neighborhood <acronym>CTAN site, <ulink
+ url="http://www.ctan.org"></ulink>.
The installation of the
TeX base
system is far beyond the scope of this introduction. Binary
packages should be available for any system that can run
When properly configured, it will allow you to use
Emacs to insert tags and check markup
consistency. You could use it for
HTML as
- well. Check the
- url="http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html">PSGML
- web site for downloads, installation instructions, and
+ well. Check the
PSGML web site,
+ url="http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html">,
+ for downloads, installation instructions, and
detailed documentation.
- Norm Walsh offers a major
- url="http://nwalsh.com/emacs/docbookide/index.html">mode
- specifically for DocBook which also has font-lock and a
- number of features to reduce typing.
+ Norm Walsh offers a major mode specifically for DocBook,
+ which also has font-lock and a number of features to reduce typing.
Many
PostgreSQL-related projects are
- hosted at either
-
GBorg> at
- url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org
+ hosted at either
GBorg> at
+ url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">
or
pgFoundry> at
- url="http://pgfoundry.org">http://pgfoundry.org.
+ url="http://pgfoundry.org">.
There are other
PostgreSQL-related projects that are hosted
elsewhere, but you will have to do an Internet search to find them.
All of these can be found at
GBorg> (
- url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org)
+ url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">)
or
pgFoundry> (
- url="http://pgfoundry.org">http://pgfoundry.org).
+ url="http://pgfoundry.org">).
-
Guide to Evolutionary Computation (FAQ for
- url="news://comp.ai.genetic">comp.ai.genetic)
+ The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation,
+
, (FAQ for
+ url="news://comp.ai.genetic">)
- Computation and its application to art and design by
+ Evolutionary Computation and its application to art and design,
Craig Reynolds
- Some of the information here is derived from
- url="http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/">the University of California at
- Berkeley's GiST Indexing Project web site and Marcel Kornacker's
- thesis,
- Next-Generation Database Systems. The
GiST
+ Some of the information here is derived from the University of California at
+ Berkeley's GiST Indexing Project web site,
+ url="http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/">, and Marcel Kornacker's
+ thesis, Access Methods for Next-Generation Database Systems,
implementation in
PostgreSQL is primarily
maintained by Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, and there is more
information on their website:
database, and several geographic information systems.
POSTGRES has also been used as an
educational tool at several universities. Finally, Illustra
- Information Technologies (later merged into
- url="http://www.informix.com/">
Informix,
- which is now owned by
- url="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM.) picked up the code and
+ Information Technologies (later merged into
+
Informix,
+ url="http://www.informix.com/">,
+ which is now owned by IBM,
+ url="http://www.ibm.com/">.) picked up the code and
commercialized it. In late 1992,
POSTGRES became the primary data manager
- for the
- url="http://meteora.ucsd.edu/s2k/s2k_home.html">Sequoia
- 2000 scientific computing project.
+ for the Sequoia 2000 scientific computing project,
Web Site
- The <ulink
- url="http://www.postgresql.org">
PostgreSQL
- web site carries details on the latest release and other
+ The <productname>PostgreSQL web site,
+ carries details on the latest release and other
information to make your work or play with
PostgreSQL more productive.
-
+
PostgreSQL>]]>
systems have this built-in (e.g.,
class="osname">Linux>, NetBSD>,
Solaris>), for other systems you
- can download an add-on package from
here:
+ can download an add-on package from
url="http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/bsd-gettext/">.
If you are using the
Gettext> implementation in
the
GNU C library then you will additionally
platform generally means that
PostgreSQL> builds and
installs according to these instructions and that the regression
tests pass. Build farm
entries refer to builds
- reported by the
PostgreSQL
- Build Farm. Platform entries that show an older version of
+ reported by the PostgreSQL Build Farm,
+ Platform entries that show an older version of
PostgreSQL are those that did not receive explicit testing at the
time of release of version &majorversion; but that we still
expect to work.
PostgreSQL is an object-relational
database management system (
ORDBMS) based on
-
POSTGRES, Version 4.2, developed
- at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science
+ , developed at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science
Department. POSTGRES pioneered many concepts that only became
available in some commercial database systems much later.
If there are already some .po files, then
someone has already done some translation work. The files are
named language.po,
- url="http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html">ISO
- 639-1 two-letter language code (in lower case), e.g.,
+ where language is the ISO 639-1 two-letter language code,
+ e.g.,
fr.po for French. If there is really a need
for more than one translation effort per language then the files
may also be named
language_region.po
- url="http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html">ISO
- 3166-1 two-letter country code (in upper case), e.g.,
+ where region is the ISO 3166-1 two-letter country code (in upper case),
+ e.g.,
pt_BR.po for Portuguese in Brazil. If you
find the language you wanted you can just start working on that
file.
PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write
-
PostgreSQL functions in the
- url="http://www.perl.com">Perl programming language.
+
PostgreSQL functions in the
Perl programming language,
Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done
via the function spi_exec_query described
- below, or via an experimental module
- url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/">DBD::PgSPI
- (also available at
- url="http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html">
CPAN> mirror
- sites). This module makes available a
+ below, or via an experimental module DBD::PgSPI,
+ (also available at
CPAN mirror sites>,
+ url="http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html">). This module makes available a
DBI>-compliant database-handle named
$pg_dbh that can be used to perform queries with
-
+
PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
The
PL/Python procedural language allows
PostgreSQL functions to be written in the
PL/Tcl is a loadable procedural language for the
PostgreSQL database system
- language to be used to write functions and
+ that enables the
Tcl language, ,
+ to be used to write functions and
trigger procedures.
It is better to report everything the first time than us having to squeeze the
facts out of you. On the other hand, if your input files are huge, it is
fair to ask first whether somebody is interested in looking into it. Here is
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html, that outlines
- some more tips on reporting bugs.
+ that outlines some more tips on reporting bugs.
Another method is to fill in the bug report web-form available
- at the project's web site
-
http://www.postgresql.org/.
+ at the project's web site,
Entering a bug report this way causes it to be mailed to the
PostgreSQL. A separate installer
project has been created to ease installation on
Windows> — see
- url="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/">
- http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/.
+ url="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/">.
The JDBC client interface has been removed from the core
distribution, and is now hosted at
- "http://jdbc.postgresql.org">http://jdbc.postgresql.org.
+ "http://jdbc.postgresql.org">.
The Tcl client interface has also been removed. There are several
Tcl interfaces now hosted at
- "http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org.
+ "http://gborg.postgresql.org">.
application examines the system catalogs, additional changes will
be required due to the introduction of schemas in 7.3; for more
information, see:
- url="http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3">
- http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3>.
+ url="http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3">>.