Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
- Last updated: Mon Oct 4 11:29:26 EDT 2004
+ Last updated: Thu Oct 14 15:00:26 EDT 2004
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
There are two pertinent standards, SQL92 and SQL99. These standards
are endorsed by ANSI and ISO. A draft of the SQL92 standard is
- available at http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/. The SQL99
- standard must be purchased from ANSI at
- http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp. The main standards
- documents are ANSI X3.135-1992 for SQL92 and ANSI/ISO/IEC 9075-2-1999
- for SQL99. The SQL 2003 standards are at
+ available at
+ http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql.html#syntax. A draft of
+ the SQL99 standard is at
+ http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/dbms/Data/Papers-Other/SQL1999/ansi-iso-9075
+ -2-1999.pdf. The SQL 2003 standard is at
http://www.wiscorp.com/sql/sql_2003_standard.zip
- A summary of these standards is at
- http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf.
-
+ Some SQL standards web pages are:
+ * http://www.wiscorp.com/SQLStandards.html
+ * http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/links/#standards
+ * http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf (paper)
+
Technical Questions
2.1) How do I efficiently access information in tables from the backend code?
<H1>Developer's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for
PostgreSQL</H1>
- <P>Last updated: Mon Oct 4 11:29:26 EDT 2004</P>
+ <P>Last updated: Thu Oct 14 15:00:26 EDT 2004</P>
<P>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<A href=
"mailto:pgman@candle.pha.pa.us">pgman@candle.pha.pa.us</A>)<BR>
<P>There are two pertinent standards, SQL92 and SQL99. These
standards are endorsed by ANSI and ISO. A draft of the SQL92
standard is available at <a
- href="http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/">
- http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/</a>. The SQL99 standard
- must be purchased from ANSI at <a
- href="http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp">
- http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp</a>. The main
- standards documents are ANSI X3.135-1992 for SQL92 and ANSI/ISO/IEC
- 9075-2-1999 for SQL99. The SQL 2003 standards are at <a href=
+ http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql.html#syntax">
+ http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql.html#syntax</a>. A
+ draft of the SQL99 standard is at <a
+ href="http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/dbms/Data/Papers-Other/SQL1999/ansi-iso-9075-2-1999.pdf">
+ http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/dbms/Data/Papers-Other/SQL1999/ansi-iso-9075-2-1999.pdf</a>.
+ The SQL 2003 standard is at <a href=
"http://www.wiscorp.com/sql/sql_2003_standard.zip">
http://www.wiscorp.com/sql/sql_2003_standard.zip</A></P>
- <P>A summary of these standards is at <a
+ <P>Some SQL standards web pages are:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a
+ href="http://www.wiscorp.com/SQLStandards.html">
+ http://www.wiscorp.com/SQLStandards.html</a></li>
+ <li><a
+ href="http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/links/#standards">
+ http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/links/#standards</a></li>
+ <li><a
href="http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf">
- http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf</a>.</P>
-
+ http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/en/lokal/standards.pdf</a> (paper)</li>
+ </ul>
+
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<H2>Technical Questions</H2>
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