Re: Missing Docs for MOVE direction?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Missing Docs for MOVE direction?
Date: 2009-06-22 07:13:00
Message-ID: 200906221013.00253.peter_e@gmx.net
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On Monday 22 June 2009 03:15:57 David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jun 21, 2009, at 5:07 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> > I was just looking at the documentation for cursors command, and
> > noticed that the MOVE command's "direction" argument doesn't seem to
> > have documentation for its possible values.
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-move.html
> >
> > I assume that they should be FORWARD and BACKWARD, as the former is
> > used in the example, but in truth I have no idea.
> >
> > Also, what's the difference between the FROM and IN clauses? Or are
> > they they same thing?
>
> Bah! I now see that these expressions are the same as for FETCH.
> Something like this would help, I think:
>
> *** move.sgml.~1.31.~ Thu Nov 20 20:39:34 2008
> --- move.sgml Sun Jun 21 17:15:44 2009
> ***************
> *** 40,46 ****
> </para>
>
> <para>
> ! Refer to
> <xref linkend="sql-fetch" endterm="sql-fetch-title">
> for details on syntax and usage.
> </para>
> --- 40,47 ----
> </para>
>
> <para>
> ! The parameters for <command>MOVE</command> are identical to those
> for
> ! <command>FETCH</command>; refer to
> <xref linkend="sql-fetch" endterm="sql-fetch-title">
> for details on syntax and usage.
> </para>
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

done

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