From 9692324734fbd1004a1f59de82e962ecd647639b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian Last updated: Fri Sep 14 14:39:54 EDT 2007 Last updated: Wed Sep 26 16:36:22 EDT 2007 Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
the community of developers and users, which anyone can join. All
you need to do is subscribe to the mailing lists and participate in the
discussions. (See the
- Developer's FAQ for information on how to get involved in PostgreSQL
+ Developer's FAQ for information on how to get involved in Postgres
development.)Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- 1.3) What is the copyright of
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@
systems like Win2000 SP4, WinXP, and Win2003. A prepackaged installer is
available at
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller. MSDOS-based versions
- of Windows (Win95, Win98, WinMe) can run PostgreSQL using Cygwin.
There is also a Novell Netware 6 port at
http://forge.novell.com,
@@ -240,8 +240,8 @@
program irc -c '#postgresql' "$USER" irc.freenode.net
or use any other IRC clients. A Spanish one also exists
on the same network, (#postgresql-es), a French one,
- (#postgresqlfr), and a Brazilian one, (#postgresql-br).
- There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.
A list of commercial support companies is available at @@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug. Also check out our ftp site ftp://ftp.PostgreSQL.org/pub/ to - see if there is a more recent PostgreSQL version.
+ see if there is a more recent Postgres version.Bugs submitted using the bug form or posted to any PostgreSQL mailing list typically generates one of the following replies:
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ list up-to-date. In practice, bugs don't last very long in the software, and bugs that affect a large number of users are fixed rapidly. The only place to find all changes, improvements, and - fixes in a PostgreSQL release is to read the + fixes in a Postgres release is to read the CVS log messages. Even the release notes do not list every change made to the software. @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ table?As an example, consider a file of 100,000 lines with an integer and text description on each line. Suppose the text string avergages twenty bytes in length. The flat file would be 2.8 MB. - The size of the PostgreSQL database file containing this data can + The size of the Postgres database file containing this data can be estimated as 5.2 MB:
24 bytes: each row header (approximate) @@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ table?unlimited ---------------------------------------- 52 bytes per row - The data page size in PostgreSQL is 8192 bytes (8 KB), so: + The data page size in Postgres is 8192 bytes (8 KB), so: 8192 bytes per page ------------------- = 158 rows per database page (rounded down) -- cgit v1.2.3