Re: Open documentation items for 7.0

Bruce Momjian writes:

> > Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean (Peter E)
>
> initlocation and pg_dump man pages still need to be updated; not sure
> about ipcclean.

initlocation is up to date, I don't see what could be missing. The only
change to ipcclean was that it now works on Linux, which it never did
before.

> > New C-routines to implement a BIT and BIT VARYING type in /contrib
> > (Adriaan Joubert)
>
> Not documented. New for 7.0.

I don't think there's a lot to document as it doesn't work at all. See
also separate rant.

> > Make ISO date style (2000-02-16 09:33) the default (Thomas)
>
> Updated set man page. Not sure where else this goes.

datatype.sgml, but that's already up to speed.

> > Add NATIONAL CHAR [ VARYING ]

Not here:

peter=# create table t2 (x national character(10));
CREATE
peter=# \d t2
Table "t2"
Attribute | Type | Modifier
-----------+----------+----------
x | char(10) |

peter=# insert into t2 values (n'fooz');
ERROR: Unable to locate type name 'n' in catalog

Hmm, I can add parsing support for non-existing datatypes by the dozen!
:-/ Openly admitting "I can't do this" is always better than silently
doing something else.

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