Re: Add cross-references re schema search path - Mailing list pgsql-docs

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Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I had great difficulty in finding how to change the search path, so here
> is a patch to add some cross-referencing.
>
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> Index: doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.112
> diff -u -r1.112 func.sgml
> --- doc/src/sgml/func.sgml    2002/08/16 23:01:18    1.112
> +++ doc/src/sgml/func.sgml    2002/08/19 04:15:18
> @@ -5139,6 +5139,11 @@
>      path returned.
>     </para>
>
> +   <para>
> +    The search path may be altered by a runtime-alterable GUC setting:
> +    <xref linkend="set-search-path">.
> +   </para>
> +
>     <table>
>      <title>System Information Functions</title>
>      <tgroup cols="3">
> Index: doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.126
> diff -u -r1.126 runtime.sgml
> --- doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml    2002/08/18 03:03:25    1.126
> +++ doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml    2002/08/19 04:15:23
> @@ -1548,7 +1548,7 @@
>        </listitem>
>       </varlistentry>
>
> -     <varlistentry>
> +     <varlistentry id="set-search-path" xreflabel="SET SEARCH_PATH">
>        <term><varname>SEARCH_PATH</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term>
>        <indexterm><primary>search_path</></>
>        <indexterm><primary>namespaces</></>
> @@ -1608,6 +1608,10 @@
>         </para>
>
>         <para>
> +     <indexterm>
> +      <primary>schemas</primary>
> +      <secondary>current schema</secondary>
> +     </indexterm>
>          The current effective value of the search path can be examined
>      via the SQL function <function>current_schemas()</>.  This is not
>      quite the same as examining the value of
> Index: doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.66
> diff -u -r1.66 syntax.sgml
> --- doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml    2002/08/13 20:40:43    1.66
> +++ doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml    2002/08/19 04:15:36
> @@ -965,6 +965,11 @@
>      place <literal>pg_catalog</> at the end of your search path if you
>      prefer to have user-defined names override built-in names.
>     </para>
> +
> +    <para>
> +     The search path is determined by the GUC variable SEARCH_PATH and
> +     may be changed at any time.  See <xref linkend="set-search-path">.
> +    </para>
>    </sect2>
>
>    <sect2 id="sql-reserved-names">
>

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