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+++ b/contrib/cube/README.cube
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ For this to work, make sure that:
postgres binaries in the PATH.
This only installs the type implementation and documentation. To make the
-type available in any particular database, do
+type available in any particular database, as a postgres superuser do:
psql -d databasename < cube.sql
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ If it fails, examine the file regression.diffs to find out the reason (the
test code is a direct adaptation of the regression tests from the main
source tree).
+By default the external functions are made executable by anyone.
SYNTAX
======
@@ -289,7 +290,9 @@ cube_enlarge(cube, double, int) returns cube
LL coordinates are decreased by r and UR coordinates are increased by r. If
a LL coordinate is increased to larger than the corresponding UR coordinate
(this can only happen when r < 0) than both coordinates are set to their
- average.
+ average. To make it harder for people to break things there is an effective
+ maximum on the dimension of cubes of 100. This is set in cubedata.h if
+ you need something bigger.
There are a few other potentially useful functions defined in cube.c
that vanished from the schema because I stopped using them. Some of
@@ -329,7 +332,7 @@ selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Minor updates to this package were made by Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
-in August of 2002.
+in August/September of 2002.
These include changing the precision from single precision to double
precision and adding some new functions.