UPdate developers faq

diff --git a/doc/FAQ_DEV b/doc/FAQ_DEV
index e55d2c5ea6becc3e056691174f3193755e02cfcf..aa543d2224d707b793932f4eb7600a05292a8da9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/FAQ_DEV
+++ b/doc/FAQ_DEV
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
           Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
                                        
-   Last updated: Fri Dec 24 11:43:42 EST 1999
+   Last updated: Fri Jun 9 21:54:54 EDT 2000
    
    Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
    
@@ -91,11 +91,11 @@ s
             or
                 ; Cmd to set tab stops &etc for working with PostgreSQL code
              (c-add-style "pgsql"
-                                 '("bsd"
+                                  '("bsd"
                                  (indent-tabs-mode . t)
                                  (c-basic-offset   . 4)
                                  (tab-width . 4)
-                                            (c-offsets-alist .
+                                             (c-offsets-alist .
                                             ((case-label . +))))
                        t) ; t = set this mode on
 
@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ c-mode)
    you to query the system catalogs. This is the preferred way to access
    system tables, because the first call to the cache loads the needed
    rows, and future requests can return the results without accessing the
-   base table. Some of the caches use system table indexes to look up
-   tuples. A list of available caches is located in
+   base table. The caches use system table indexes to look up tuples. A
+   list of available caches is located in
    src/backend/utils/cache/syscache.c.
    src/backend/utils/cache/lsyscache.c contains many column-specific
    cache lookup functions.
@@ -353,11 +353,12 @@ c-mode)
    is to use heap_tuplemodify() and pass it your palloc'ed tuple, and the
    values you want changed. It returns another palloc'ed tuple, which you
    pass to heap_replace(). You can delete tuples by passing the tuple's
-   t_self to heap_destroy(). Remember, tuples can be either system cache
-   versions, which may go away soon after you get them, buffer cache
-   version, which will go away when you heap_getnext(), heap_endscan, or
-   ReleaseBuffer(), in the heap_fetch() case. Or it may be a palloc'ed
-   tuple, that you must pfree() when finished.
+   t_self to heap_destroy(). You can use it for heap_update() too.
+   Remember, tuples can be either system cache versions, which may go
+   away soon after you get them, buffer cache versions, which go away
+   when you heap_getnext(), heap_endscan, or ReleaseBuffer(), in the
+   heap_fetch() case. Or it may be a palloc'ed tuple, that you must
+   pfree() when finished.
    
   10) What is elog()?
   

diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ_DEV.html b/doc/src/FAQ_DEV.html
index 99c2d6c067364795a9cab54b34867872b5725b04..440c3f8c4354d83abc3b9bdc4ed526d6238f1d17 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/FAQ_DEV.html
+++ b/doc/src/FAQ_DEV.html
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
 </H1>
 <P>
-Last updated:          Fri Dec 24 11:43:42 EST 1999
+Last updated:          Fri Jun  9 21:54:54 EDT 2000
 <P>
 Current maintainer:    Bruce Momjian (<a
 href="mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</a>)<BR>
@@ -113,15 +113,14 @@ tabs as four spaces:
                M-x set-variable tab-width
            or
                ; Cmd to set tab stops &etc for working with PostgreSQL code
-               (defun pgsql-mode ()
-                 "Set PostgreSQL C indenting conventions in current buffer."
-                 (interactive)
-                 (c-mode)                            ; necessary to make c-set-offset local!
-                 (setq tab-width 4)                  ; already buffer-local
-                 ; (setq comment-column 48)          ; already buffer-local
-                 (c-set-style "bsd")
-                 (c-set-offset 'case-label '+)
-               )
+             (c-add-style "pgsql"
+                                 '("bsd"
+                                 (indent-tabs-mode . t)
+                                 (c-basic-offset   . 4)
+                                 (tab-width . 4)
+                                            (c-offsets-alist .
+                                            ((case-label . +))))
+                       t) ; t = set this mode on
 
            and add this to your autoload list (modify file path in macro):