Re: Why should my rule be conditional?

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Am Samstag, 27. Dezember 2003 00.09 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Thiemo Kellner <thiemo@thiam.ch> writes:
> > However, the doument of your link below quite clearly
> > states the differences, quite what I needed and was not able to find in
> > the documentation (of 7.3 but it is there too). Looking at the chapter it
> > is supposed to be in some chapter 13.7. However, looking in the index
> > (7.3 interactive) there is only one chapter 13 and that's regression test
> > without a subchapter 7.
>
> I think you're assuming that 7.3 section numbers would apply to 7.4,
> which they don't (the html page names are somewhat more likely to carry
> across, though).

I am afraid, that I am not:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/rules-triggers.html

> In 7.3 and before the situation is even more confusing because the docs
> are made up of several separate "books" each with its own chapter
> numbering.  "Rules vs. Triggers" is section 13.7 of the Programmer's
> Guide book (in 7.3 anyway), whereas you seem to have been seeking it in
> the Administrator's Guide.

Ok, true. I rather ignored the Programmer's Guide as it's index shows only
three super chapters. :-(

> 7.4 has just one chapter numbering sequence for the entire SGML document
> set, which I think is a considerable improvement.  We're not going to be
> revisiting the 7.3 documentation though.  My advice: update to 7.4 ;-)

Not now, at least not with my productive server. I will waint until Gentoo
releases 7.4 in it's "stable" branch.

Thanks

Thiemo

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