From fdbe9facdcbaa4ae0507aa177702bf5c4e28e5ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:08:48 +0000 Subject: FAQ updates --- This is a small cosmetic patch that adds pt_BR IRC channel to the lists of IRC channels, fixes a typo in the OID's question, and corrects the PGCluster's project name. Euler Taveira de Oliveira --- doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/src') diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html index c22dc7ef668..8da16e9ee9a 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ alink="#0000ff">

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL

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Last updated: Mon Oct 9 20:28:14 EDT 2006

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Last updated: Sat Oct 14 19:08:19 EDT 2006

Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) @@ -236,8 +236,9 @@ (irc.freenode.net). To connect you can use the Unix 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), and a French one, - (#postgresqlfr). There is also a PostgreSQL channel on EFNet.

+ 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 @@ -963,7 +964,7 @@ length being duplicated. PostgreSQL uses OIDs to link its internal system tables together.

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To uniquely number columns in user tables, it is best to use +

To uniquely number rows in user tables, it is best to use SERIAL rather than OIDs because SERIAL sequences are unique only within a single table. and are therefore less likely to overflow. @@ -1077,7 +1078,7 @@ length

Multi-master replication allows read/write queries to be sent to multiple replicated computers. This capability also has a severe impact on performance due to the need to synchronize changes between servers. - Pgcluster is the + PGCluster is the most popular such solution freely available for PostgreSQL.

There are also commercial and hardware-based replication solutions -- cgit v1.2.3