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author | Bruce Momjian | 2005-03-11 21:47:44 +0000 |
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committer | Bruce Momjian | 2005-03-11 21:47:44 +0000 |
commit | 2e964aee757c1000590fc38c411ebdfbd66d37fe (patch) | |
tree | ec9c3beae2746463cc0c6a2de885113ad157299a /doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html | |
parent | 30854a53fefef7ac04e2fb4f047e33baaaa025b4 (diff) |
Here's the patch to fix a lot of markup errors in the HTML FAQs. Doesn't
change content (at least not supposed to).
Magnus Hagander
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html | 31 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html index c43dc78af49..76872983670 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ <H1>Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL</H1> - <P>Last updated: Wed Jan 5 17:36:58 EST 2005</P> + <P>Last updated: Fri Mar 11 16:43:05 EST 2005</P> <P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href= "mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</A>)<BR> @@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ <BR> - <CENTER> <H2>General Questions</H2> - </CENTER> <A href="#1.1">1.1</A>) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL development?<BR> <A href="#1.2">1.2</A>) What development environment is required @@ -59,9 +57,7 @@ site development?<BR> - <CENTER> <H2>Technical Questions</H2> - </CENTER> <A href="#2.1">2.1</A>) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?<BR> <A href="#2.2">2.2</A>) Why are table, column, type, function, @@ -83,7 +79,7 @@ <H2>General Questions</H2> </CENTER> - <H3><A name="1.1">1.1</A>) How go I get involved in PostgreSQL + <H3><A name="1.1">1.1</A>) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL development?</H3> <P>Download the code and have a look around. See <A href= @@ -147,6 +143,13 @@ item; you may have misunderstood the TODO item; your approach may benefit from the review of others.</P> + <P>A web site is maintained for patches that are ready to be applied, + <a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches"> + http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches</a>, and + those that are being kept for the next release, + <a href="http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches2"> + http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches2</a>.</P> + <H3><A name="1.5">1.5</A>) Where can I learn more about the code?</H3> @@ -192,7 +195,7 @@ <P><B>Basic system testing</B></P> <P>The easiest way to test your code is to ensure that it builds - against the latest verion of the code and that it does not generate + against the latest version of the code and that it does not generate compiler warnings.</P> <P>It is worth advised that you pass --enable-cassert to @@ -210,7 +213,7 @@ directory of the source tree. If any tests failure, investigate.</P> - <P>If you've deliberately changed existing behaviour, this change + <P>If you've deliberately changed existing behavior, this change may cause a regression test failure but not any actual regression. If so, you should also patch the regression test suite.</P> @@ -472,7 +475,7 @@ <LI>The initscript;</LI> - <LI>Any other ancilliary scripts and files;</LI> + <LI>Any other ancillary scripts and files;</LI> <LI>A README.rpm-dist document that tries to adequately document both the differences between the RPM build and the WHY of the @@ -601,7 +604,7 @@ cvs ... checkout pgsql </PRE> - <P>To get a past branch, you cd to whereever you want it and + <P>To get a past branch, you cd to wherever you want it and say</P> <PRE> cvs ... checkout -r BRANCHNAME pgsql @@ -682,7 +685,7 @@ questions about development of new features, on IRC at irc.freenode.net in the #postgresql channel.</P> - <H3><A name="1.18">1.18</A>) How go I get involved in PostgreSQL + <H3><A name="1.18">1.18</A>) How do I get involved in PostgreSQL web site development?</H3> <P>PostgreSQL website development is discussed on the @@ -690,15 +693,13 @@ the source code is available at <A href= "http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgweb/projdisplay.php">http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgweb/projdisplay.php</A> , the code for the next version of the website is under the - "portal" module. You will al so find code for the "techdocs" + "portal" module. You will also find code for the "techdocs" website if you would like to contribute to that. A temporary todo list for current website development issues is available at <A href= "http://xzilla.postgresql.org/todo">http://xzilla.postgresql.org/todo</A></P> - <CENTER> <H2>Technical Questions</H2> - </CENTER> <H3><A name="2.1">2.1</A>) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?</H3> @@ -810,7 +811,7 @@ <DL> <DT>lfirst(i), lfirst_int(i), lfirst_oid(i)</DT> - <DD>return the data (a point, inteter and OID respectively) at + <DD>return the data (a point, integer and OID respectively) at list element <I>i.</I></DD> <DT>lnext(i)</DT> |