Editing pass over entire chapter
  Rewrote section dealing with Large Objects to also talk about bytea support
  Removed secion on Serialize functionality a we intend to remove it in the
   next release

pgsql-patches.

Purge "Postgres" in favor of "PostgreSQL" in docs. ref/ not yet done.

Fix up references to "PostgreSQL" rather than "Postgres". Was roughly
 evenly split between the two before. ref/ files not yet done.

 for the upcoming 7.2 release.

> So I would base this discussion on the premise "bytea stores binary data"
> (insert examples).
>
> Some stylistic issues:
>
> bytea => <type>bytea</type>
>
> NULLs => zero bytes/bytes of value zero ("NULL" is too overloaded)
>
> 'non-printable' => <quote>nonprintable</quote>
>
> MUST => <emphasis>must</emphasis>
>

Here's a patch against *CVS tip* to address Peter's comments. Please let
me know what you think!

Joe Conway

and error handling behavior.

Bradley McLean

libpq.sgml

I was trying (but gave up) to cross-reference back to the input escape
table in the User's Guide, but could not get the documentation to
compile with a cross-book xref (missing IDREF error). Can a cross-book
xref be done?

 Joe Conway

Operators", plagiarized shamelessly from the "String Functions and
Operators" section. There were enough differences that it made sense (at
least to me) to give this its own section instead of cramming it in with
normal string functions. This way I could also make the examples
relevant, which is particularly important for bytea.

One thing I think worth mentioning: while documenting the trim()
function I realized that I never implemented the bytea equivalent of
rtrim and ltrim. Therefore, the 'leading' and 'trailing' forms of trim,
available with text, are not available with bytea (I'd be happy to
correct this, but since it would require an initdb, I guess not until
7.3) -- the submitted doc accurately reflects this.

I will look for other areas of the docs that need mention of bytea, but
any guidance would be much appreciated.

--

Here's a second bytea documentation patch. This one significantly
expands the "Binary Data" section added by Bruce recently.


Joe Conway