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| author | Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> | 1998-10-27 06:15:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas G. Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> | 1998-10-27 06:15:21 +0000 |
| commit | 724df98740203d056971654ce3c176090097e042 (patch) | |
| tree | e1e6d1165133b42406d55b0c4ba4f920e50a7f9c | |
| parent | e9f10b22f4b660ce481fbdf09aa362f5969eddff (diff) | |
Try to get a straight story on which prompts mean what.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml index 5bde9559451..fe96c386328 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ site. <title>Notation</title> <para> -<quote>...</quote> or <filename>/usr/local/pgsql/<filename> +<quote>...</quote> or <filename>/usr/local/pgsql/</filename> at the front of a file name is used to represent the path to the <Productname>Postgres</Productname> superuser's home directory. @@ -81,9 +81,12 @@ expressions. <quote>|</quote> is the boolean operator OR. <para> Examples will show commands executed from various accounts and programs. Commands executed from the root account will be preceeded with <quote>></quote>. -Commands executed from the superuser account will be preceeded with <quote>$</quote>. +Commands executed from the <Productname>Postgres</Productname> +superuser account will be preceeded with <quote>%</quote>, while commands +executed from an unprivileged user's account will be preceeded with +<quote>$</quote>. <acronym>SQL</acronym> commands will be preceeded with <quote>=></quote> -or will have no leading prompt. +or will have no leading prompt, depending on the context. <note> <para> |