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authorBruce Momjian2005-03-11 21:47:44 +0000
committerBruce Momjian2005-03-11 21:47:44 +0000
commit2e964aee757c1000590fc38c411ebdfbd66d37fe (patch)
treeec9c3beae2746463cc0c6a2de885113ad157299a /doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_DEV.html
parent30854a53fefef7ac04e2fb4f047e33baaaa025b4 (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
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@@ -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=
@@ -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>