<para>
If you feel you need more introductory material, please visit the
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL web
- site</ulink> for links to more resources.
+ PostgreSQL web site,
+ <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org"></ulink>, for links to more resources.
</para>
</sect1>
</chapter>
<para>
Some white papers and technical reports from the original
<productname>POSTGRES</productname> development team
- are available at
+ are available at the University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science
+ Department web site,
<ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/">
- the University of California, Berkeley, Computer Science
- Department web site</ulink>
+ </ulink>
</para>
<bibliodiv>
</biblioentry>
<biblioentry id="FONG">
- <title><ulink
- url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/UCB-MS-zfong.pdf">The
- design and implementation of the
- <productname>POSTGRES</productname> query optimizer</ulink></title>
+ <title>The design and implementation of the
+ <productname>POSTGRES</productname> query optimizer,
+ <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/UCB-MS-zfong.pdf"></ulink></title>
<author>
<firstname>Zelaine</firstname>
<surname>Fong</surname>
<biblioentry id="ROWE87">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M87-13.pdf">The <productname>POSTGRES</productname> data model</ulink></title>
+ <title>The <productname>POSTGRES</productname> data model, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M87-13.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Rowe and Stonebraker, 1987</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<biblioentry id="SESHADRI95">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://simon.cs.cornell.edu/home/praveen/papers/partindex.de95.ps.Z">Generalized Partial Indexes</ulink>
+ <title>Generalized Partial Indexes, <ulink url="http://simon.cs.cornell.edu/home/praveen/papers/partindex.de95.ps.Z"></ulink>
</title>
<titleabbrev>Seshardri, 1995</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<biblioentry id="STON86">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M85-95.pdf">The design of <productname>POSTGRES</productname></ulink></title>
+ <title>The design of <productname>POSTGRES</productname>, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M85-95.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Stonebraker and Rowe, 1986</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<biblioentry id="STON87b">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M87-06.pdf">The design of the <productname>POSTGRES</productname> storage system</ulink></title>
+ <title>The design of the <productname>POSTGRES</productname> storage system, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M87-06.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Stonebraker, 1987</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<biblioentry id="STON89">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M89-82.pdf">A commentary on the <productname>POSTGRES</productname> rules system</ulink></title>
+ <title>A commentary on the <productname>POSTGRES</productname> rules system, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M89-82.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Stonebraker et al, 1989</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<biblioentry id="STON89b">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M89-17.pdf">The case for partial indexes</ulink></title>
+ <title>The case for partial indexes, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M89-17.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Stonebraker, M, 1989b</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<biblioentry id="STON90a">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M90-34.pdf">The implementation of <productname>POSTGRES</productname></ulink></title>
+ <title>The implementation of <productname>POSTGRES</productname>, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M90-34.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Stonebraker, Rowe, Hirohama, 1990</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<biblioentry id="STON90b">
<biblioset relation="article">
- <title><ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M90-36.pdf">On Rules, Procedures, Caching and Views in Database Systems</ulink></title>
+ <title>On Rules, Procedures, Caching and Views in Database Systems, <ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/papers/ERL-M90-36.pdf"></ulink></title>
<titleabbrev>Stonebraker et al, ACM, 1990</titleabbrev>
<authorgroup>
<author>
authentication system suitable for distributed computing over a public
network. A description of the <productname>Kerberos</productname> system
is far beyond the scope of this document; in full generality it can be
- quite complex (yet powerful). The <ulink
- url="http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html">Kerberos
- <acronym>FAQ</></ulink> or <ulink url="ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu">MIT
- Project Athena</ulink> can be a good starting point for exploration.
+ quite complex (yet powerful). The Kerberos <acronym>FAQ</>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html"></ulink>, or
+ MIT Project Athena, <ulink url="ftp://athena-dist.mit.edu"></ulink>,
+ can be a good starting point for exploration.
Several sources for <productname>Kerberos</> distributions exist.
</para>
<para>
If you use <application>mod_auth_kerb</application> from
- <ulink url="http://modauthkerb.sf.net">http://modauthkerb.sf.net</ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://modauthkerb.sf.net"></ulink>
and <application>mod_perl</application> on your
<productname>Apache</productname> web server, you can use
<literal>AuthType KerberosV5SaveCredentials</literal> with a
default PAM service name is <literal>postgresql</literal>. You can
optionally supply your own service name after the <literal>pam</>
key word in the file <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename>.
- For more information about PAM, please read the <ulink
- url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/"><productname>Linux-PAM</>
- Page</ulink> and the <ulink
- url="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/"><systemitem
- class="osname">Solaris</> PAM Page</ulink>.
+ For more information about PAM, please read the <productname>Linux-PAM</>
+ Page, <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/"></ulink>,
+ and the <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</> PAM Page, <ulink
+ url="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pam/"></ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<para>
Refer to the introduction in this manual or to the
-<ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org"><productname>PostgreSQL</productname> web page</ulink>
- for subscription information to the no-cost mailing lists.
+<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> web page,
+<ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org"></ulink>,
+for subscription information to the no-cost mailing lists.
</para>
<sect1 id="people">
<title>People</title>
-->
-
-<para>
-<itemizedlist mark="bullet" spacing="compact">
-<listitem>
-<para>
- works on SQL standards compliance and documentation.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</para>
-
</appendix>
<para>
You will need a local copy of <productname>CVS</productname>
(Concurrent Version Control System), which you can get from
- <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</ulink>
+ <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org/"></ulink>
(the official site with the latest version) or any GNU software
archive site (often somewhat outdated). We recommend version 1.10
or newer. Many systems have a recent version of
For more info consult the manual that comes with
<productname>CVS</productname>, or see the online
documentation at
- <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org/"></ulink>.
</para>
</sect1>
<productname>CVSup</productname> was developed by
distribute CVS repositories and other file trees for
- <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org">the FreeBSD project</ulink>.
+ the FreeBSD project, <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org"></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<para>
The following is a suggested <productname>CVSup</productname> config file from
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/CVSup/README.cvsup">the <productname>PostgreSQL</> ftp site</ulink>
+ the <productname>PostgreSQL</> ftp site,
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/CVSup/README.cvsup"></ulink>,
which will fetch the current snapshot only:
<programlisting>
You can use pre-built binaries
if you have a platform for which binaries
are posted on
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub">the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> ftp site</ulink>,
+ the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> ftp site,
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub"></ulink>,
or if you are running FreeBSD, for which
<productname>CVSup</productname> is available as a port.
<step performance="optional">
<para>
If you have another platform, check for and download the appropriate binary from
- <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub">the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> ftp site</ulink>.
+ the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> ftp site,
+ <ulink url="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub"></ulink>.
</para>
</step>
</substeps>
<step>
<para>
Pick up the <productname>Modula-3</productname>
- distribution from
- <ulink url="http://m3.polymtl.ca/m3">Polytechnique Montréal</ulink>,
+ distribution from Polytechnique Montréal,
+ <ulink url="http://m3.polymtl.ca/m3"></ulink>,
who are actively maintaining the code base originally developed by
- <ulink
- url="http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html">the DEC Systems Research Center</ulink>.
- The <productname>PM3</productname> <productname>RPM</productname> distribution is roughly
+
the DEC Systems Research Center, <ulink
+ url="http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html"></ulink>.
+
The <productname>PM3</productname> <productname>RPM</productname> distribution is roughly
30MB compressed. At the time of writing, the 1.1.10-1 release
installed cleanly on RH-5.2, whereas the 1.1.11-1 release is
apparently built for another release (RH-6.0?) and does not run on RH-5.2.
As shown, it will get the repository (RCS) files. If you uncomment
the line containing "tag=." then it will instead check out the
latest version of each file. There's a bunch more information about
-what you can do in
-<ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html">the CVSup Handbook</ulink>.
+what you can do in the CVSup Handbook,
+<ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html"></ulink>.
There is one other thing I want to send you, but not tonight. I
discovered the hard way that you need a malloc package that is
<tip>
<para>
If this is too complicated for you, you should consider using
- <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/"><productname>GNU
- Libtool</productname></ulink>, which hides the platform differences
+ <productname>GNU Libtool</productname>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/"></ulink>,
+ which hides the platform differences
behind a uniform interface.
</para>
</tip>
structure and content of a technical document without worrying
about presentation details. A document style defines how that
content is rendered into one of several final forms. DocBook is
- maintained by the <ulink
- url="http://www.oasis-open.org">OASIS</ulink> group. The <ulink
- url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook">official DocBook
- site</ulink> has good introductory and reference documentation and
+ maintained by the
OASIS group, <ulink
+ url="http://www.oasis-open.org"></ulink>. The official DocBook
+ site, <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook"></ulink>,
+ has good introductory and reference documentation and
a complete O'Reilly book for your online reading pleasure. The
+ NewbieDoc Docbook Guide,
<ulink url="http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/metadoc/docbook-guide.html">
- NewbieDoc Docbook Guide</ulink> is very helpful for beginners.
- The <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/docproj.html">FreeBSD
- Documentation Project</ulink> also uses DocBook and has some good
+ </ulink>, is very helpful for beginners.
+ The FreeBSD Documentation Project,
+ <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/docproj.html"></ulink>,
+ also uses DocBook and has some good
information, including a number of style guidelines that might be
worth considering.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/">DocBook DTD</ulink></term>
+ <term>DocBook DTD, <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/sgml/"></ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This is the definition of DocBook itself. We currently use
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip">ISO 8879 character entities</ulink></term>
+ <term>ISO 8879 character entities, <ulink url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip"></ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
These are required by DocBook but are distributed separately
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://openjade.sourceforge.net">OpenJade</ulink></term>
+ <term>OpenJade, <ulink url="http://openjade.sourceforge.net"></ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This is the base package of <acronym>SGML</acronym> processing.
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/dsssl/index.html">DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets</ulink></term>
+ <term>DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets, <ulink url="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/projects/dsssl/index.html"></ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
These contain the processing instructions for converting the
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net">DocBook2X tools</ulink></term>
+ <term>DocBook2X tools, <ulink url="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net"></ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This optional package is used to create man pages. It has a
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term><ulink url="http://jadetex.sourceforge.net">JadeTeX</ulink></term>
+ <term>JadeTeX, <ulink url="http://jadetex.sourceforge.net"></ulink></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If you want to, you can also install
<para>
More information about the FreeBSD documentation tools can be
- found in the <ulink
- url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools.html">FreeBSD
- Documentation Project's instructions</ulink>.
+ found in the FreeBSD Documentation Project's instructions,
+ <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/tools.html"></ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>
- Obtain the <ulink
- url="http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.2/docbook-4.2.zip">DocBook
- V4.2</ulink> distribution.
+ Obtain the DocBook V4.2 distribution,<ulink
+ url="http://www.docbook.org/sgml/4.2/docbook-4.2.zip"></ulink>.
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>
- Download the <ulink
- url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip">ISO 8879
- character entities</ulink> archive, unpack it, and put the
+ Download the ISO 8879
+ character entities archive, <ulink
+ url="http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip"></ulink>, unpack it, and put the
files in the same directory you put the DocBook files in.
<screen>
<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>cd /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook-4.2</userinput>
<productname>minitoc</productname>,
<productname>url</productname> and
<productname>ot2enc</productname>. All of these can be found on
- your friendly neighborhood <ulink
- url="http://www.ctan.org"><acronym>CTAN</acronym></ulink> site.
+ your friendly neighborhood <acronym>CTAN site</acronym>, <ulink
+ url="http://www.ctan.org"></ulink>.
The installation of the <application>TeX</application> 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
<application>Emacs</application> to insert tags and check markup
consistency. You could use it for <acronym>HTML</acronym> as
- well. Check the <ulink
- url="http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html">PSGML
- web site</ulink> for downloads, installation instructions, and
+ well. Check the
PSGML web site, <ulink
+ url="http://www.lysator.liu.se/projects/about_psgml.html"></ulink>,
+ for downloads, installation instructions, and
detailed documentation.
</para>
</para>
<para>
- Norm Walsh offers a major <ulink
- url="http://nwalsh.com/emacs/docbookide/index.html">mode
- specifically for DocBook</ulink> which also has font-lock and a
- number of features to reduce typing.
+ Norm Walsh offers a major mode specifically for DocBook,
+ <ulink url="http://nwalsh.com/emacs/docbookide/index.html"></ulink>,
+ which also has font-lock and a number of features to reduce typing.
</para>
</sect2>
<para>
Many <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>-related projects are
- hosted at either
- <productname>GBorg</> at <ulink
- url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org</ulink>
+ hosted at either <productname>GBorg</> at <ulink
+ url="http://gborg.postgresql.org"></ulink>
or <productname>pgFoundry</> at <ulink
- url="http://pgfoundry.org">http://pgfoundry.org</ulink>.
+ url="http://pgfoundry.org"></ulink>.
There are other
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>-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
<productname>GBorg</> (<ulink
- url="http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org</ulink>)
+ url="http://gborg.postgresql.org"></ulink>)
or <productname>pgFoundry</> (<ulink
- url="http://pgfoundry.org">http://pgfoundry.org</ulink>).
+ url="http://pgfoundry.org"></ulink>).
</para>
</sect1>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- <ulink url="http://surf.de.uu.net/encore/www/">The Hitch-Hiker's
-
Guide to Evolutionary Computation</ulink> (FAQ for <ulink
- url="news://comp.ai.genetic">comp.ai.genetic</ulink>)
+ The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation,
+
<ulink url="http://surf.de.uu.net/encore/www/"></ulink>, (FAQ for <ulink
+ url="news://comp.ai.genetic"></ulink>)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <ulink url="http://www.red3d.com/cwr/evolve.html">Evolutionary
- Computation and its application to art and design</ulink> by
+ Evolutionary Computation and its application to art and design,
+ <ulink url="http://www.red3d.com/cwr/evolve.html"></ulink>, by
Craig Reynolds
</para>
</listitem>
</para>
<para>
- Some of the information here is derived from <ulink
- url="http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/">the University of California at
- Berkeley's GiST Indexing Project web site</ulink> and Marcel Kornacker's
- thesis,
- <ulink url="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/448594.html">Access Methods for
- Next-Generation Database Systems</ulink>. The <acronym>GiST</acronym>
+ Some of the information here is derived from the University of California at
+ Berkeley's GiST Indexing Project web site, <ulink
+ url="http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/"></ulink>, and Marcel Kornacker's
+ thesis, Access Methods for Next-Generation Database Systems,
+ <ulink url="http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/448594.html"></ulink>. The <acronym>GiST</acronym>
implementation in <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is primarily
maintained by Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, and there is more
information on their website: <ulink
database, and several geographic information systems.
<productname>POSTGRES</productname> has also been used as an
educational tool at several universities. Finally, Illustra
- Information Technologies (later merged into <ulink
- url="http://www.informix.com/"><productname>Informix</productname></ulink>,
- which is now owned by <ulink
- url="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</ulink>.) picked up the code and
+ Information Technologies (later merged into
+ <productname>Informix</productname>, <ulink
+ url="http://www.informix.com/"></ulink>,
+ which is now owned by IBM, <ulink
+ url="http://www.ibm.com/"></ulink>.) picked up the code and
commercialized it. In late 1992,
<productname>POSTGRES</productname> became the primary data manager
- for the <ulink
- url="http://meteora.ucsd.edu/s2k/s2k_home.html">Sequoia
- 2000</ulink> scientific computing project.
+ for the Sequoia 2000 scientific computing project,
+ <ulink url="http://meteora.ucsd.edu/s2k/s2k_home.html"></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<term>Web Site</term>
<listitem>
<para>
- The <ulink
- url="http://www.postgresql.org"><productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
- web site</ulink> carries details on the latest release and other
+ The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> web site,
+ <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org"></ulink>,
+ carries details on the latest release and other
information to make your work or play with
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> more productive.
</para>
systems have this built-in (e.g., <systemitem
class="osname">Linux</>, <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</>,
<systemitem class="osname">Solaris</>), for other systems you
- can download an add-on package from
here: <ulink
+ can download an add-on package from <ulink
url="http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/bsd-gettext/"></ulink>.
If you are using the <application>Gettext</> implementation in
the <acronym>GNU</acronym> C library then you will additionally
platform generally means that <productname>PostgreSQL</> builds and
installs according to these instructions and that the regression
tests pass. <quote>Build farm</quote> entries refer to builds
- reported by the <ulink url="http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/">PostgreSQL
- Build Farm</ulink>. Platform entries that show an older version of
+ reported by the PostgreSQL Build Farm,
+ <ulink url="http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/"></ulink>.
+ 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.
<para>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is an object-relational
database management system (<acronym>ORDBMS</acronym>) based on
+ <productname>POSTGRES, Version 4.2</productname>,
<ulink url="http://s2k-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU:8000/postgres/postgres.html">
- <productname>POSTGRES, Version 4.2</productname></ulink>, developed
- at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science
+ </ulink>, 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.
</para>
If there are already some <filename>.po</filename> files, then
someone has already done some translation work. The files are
named <filename><replaceable>language</replaceable>.po</filename>,
- where <replaceable>language</replaceable> is the <ulink
- url="http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html">ISO
- 639-1</ulink> two-letter language code (in lower case), e.g.,
+ where <replaceable>language</replaceable> is the ISO 639-1 two-letter language code,
+ (in lower case), <ulink url="http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html"></ulink>,
+ e.g.,
<filename>fr.po</filename> for French. If there is really a need
for more than one translation effort per language then the files
may also be named
<filename><replaceable>language</replaceable>_<replaceable>region</replaceable>.po</filename>
- where <replaceable>region</replaceable> is the <ulink
- url="http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html">ISO
- 3166-1</ulink> two-letter country code (in upper case), e.g.,
+ where <replaceable>region</replaceable> is the ISO 3166-1 two-letter country code (in upper case),
+ <ulink url="http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/en_listp1.html"></ulink>,
+ e.g.,
<filename>pt_BR.po</filename> for Portuguese in Brazil. If you
find the language you wanted you can just start working on that
file.
<para>
PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write
- <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> functions in the <ulink
- url="http://www.perl.com">Perl</ulink> programming language.
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> functions in the Perl programming language,
+ <ulink url="http://www.perl.com"></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<para>
Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done
via the function <function>spi_exec_query</function> described
- below, or via an experimental module <ulink
- url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/"><literal>DBD::PgSPI</literal></ulink>
- (also available at <ulink
- url="http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html"><acronym>CPAN</> mirror
- sites</ulink>). This module makes available a
+ below, or via an experimental module <literal>DBD::PgSPI</literal>,
+ <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/"></ulink>,
+ (also available at <acronym>CPAN mirror sites</>, <ulink
+ url="http://www.cpan.org/SITES.html"></ulink>). This module makes available a
<acronym>DBI</>-compliant database-handle named
<varname>$pg_dbh</varname> that can be used to perform queries with
normal <acronym>DBI</>
<para>
The <application>PL/Python</application> procedural language allows
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> functions to be written in the
- <ulink url="http://www.python.org">Python</ulink> language.
+ Python language,<ulink url="http://www.python.org"></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<para>
PL/Tcl is a loadable procedural language for the
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> database system
- that enables the <ulink url="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl</ulink>
- language to be used to write functions and
+ that enables the Tcl language, <ulink url="http://www.tcl.tk/"></ulink>,
+ to be used to write functions and
trigger procedures.
</para>
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
- an article, <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html">
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html</ulink>, that outlines
- some more tips on reporting bugs.
+ an article, <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html"></ulink>,
+ that outlines some more tips on reporting bugs.
</para>
<para>
<para>
Another method is to fill in the bug report web-form available
- at the project's web site
- <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/">http://www.postgresql.org/</ulink>.
+ at the project's web site,
+ <ulink url="http://www.postgresql.org/"></ulink>.
Entering a bug report this way causes it to be mailed to the
</para>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. A separate installer
project has been created to ease installation on
<productname>Windows</> — see <ulink
- url="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/">
- http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/</ulink>.
+ url="http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/"></ulink>.
</para>
<para>
<para>
The JDBC client interface has been removed from the core
distribution, and is now hosted at <ulink url=
- "http://jdbc.postgresql.org">http://jdbc.postgresql.org</ulink>.
+ "http://jdbc.postgresql.org"></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
The Tcl client interface has also been removed. There are several
Tcl interfaces now hosted at <ulink url=
- "http://gborg.postgresql.org">http://gborg.postgresql.org</ulink>.
+ "http://gborg.postgresql.org"></ulink>.
</para>
</listitem>
application examines the system catalogs, additional changes will
be required due to the introduction of schemas in 7.3; for more
information, see: <ulink
- 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"></>.
</para>
<para>
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