Postgres upgrade trouble

2018-05-11 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/pgupgrade.html Description: This is a non IT specialist question / comments. I like postgres, except the current automatic upgrade mechanism working on my server... On my Ubuntu 16.

documentation synopsis grammar

2018-05-11 Thread Peter Korim
Hallo I search for it and did notsucceeded. Where is exact definition of the grammar used here? I thing the text "[,...]" is unclear concerning what is to be repeted. here: *https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/notation.html * y

Re: documentation synopsis grammar

2018-05-11 Thread David G. Johnston
On Friday, May 11, 2018, Peter Korim wrote: > Hallo > > I search for it and did notsucceeded. > Where is exact definition of the grammar used here? > > I thing the text "[,...]" is unclear concerning what is to be repeted. > Not that I've found, do you have an example? > > here: >*https:

Re: documentation synopsis grammar

2018-05-11 Thread David G. Johnston
On Friday, May 11, 2018, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Friday, May 11, 2018, Peter Korim wrote: > >> Hallo >> >> I search for it and did notsucceeded. >> Where is exact definition of the grammar used here? >> >> I thing the text "[,...]" is unclear concerning what is to be repeted. >> > > Not t

Re: documentation synopsis grammar

2018-05-11 Thread David G. Johnston
Please keep communications on-list. On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Peter Korim wrote: > Ok David > > by your definition and following synopsis: > CREATE [ OR REPLACE ] FUNCTION > name ( > ​​ > [ [ argmode ] [ argname ] argtype [ { DEFAULT | = } default_expr ] [, ...] > ] ) > (seen here: ht

Re: documentation synopsis grammar

2018-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"David G. Johnston" writes: > I'm suspecting that our best bet is leave the notation page a bit vague and > just clear up confusion when it arises. The example above, while probably > technically incorrect, is, I'm reasonably certain, common and saying its > wrong and fixing it is unlikely to hap