Re: typo: overlay

2018-01-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 1/18/18 13:35, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-string.html > Description: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/functions-string.html > > in the overlay ex

Re: What does "Table rewrite" mean?

2018-01-19 Thread Tom Lane
=?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= writes: > What does a table rewrite do? Does it drop and recreate the table? > Everywhere I look people describe it with fear and trepedation as if it was > some catastrophically dangerous operation to perform. What is it? It means reading the whole table and w

What does "Table rewrite" mean?

2018-01-19 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/sql-altertable.html Description: I see references to a "table rewrite" all over the place, but I cannot find one single definition on what that actually means. What does a table r