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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2005-06-12 15:51:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2005-06-12 15:51:50 +0000 |
| commit | f52a34229b868249409e73365d42cab097a923e9 (patch) | |
| tree | c104a4ba655bda15149c57ddc1e18223d89ce29d | |
| parent | 294505e2b12a5c9f2ea58ec9a4bfbb3fe7d133f1 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-f52a34229b868249409e73365d42cab097a923e9.tar.gz postgresql-f52a34229b868249409e73365d42cab097a923e9.zip | |
Document the --enable-integer-datetimes configure option where the other
configure options are documented. Per Michael Glaesemann.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml index b772a23e583..85ae00e8de6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.234 2005/06/04 20:42:41 momjian Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml,v 1.235 2005/06/12 15:51:50 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="installation"> <title><![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]> @@ -874,6 +874,21 @@ su - postgres </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term><option>--enable-integer-datetimes</option></term> + <listitem> + <para> + Use 64-bit integer storage for datetimes and intervals, rather + than the default floating-point storage. This reduces the range + of representable values but guarantees microsecond precision across + the full range (see <xref linkend="datatype-datetime"> for more + information). Note also that the integer datetimes code is newer + than the floating-point code, and we still find bugs in it from time + to time. + </para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> <term><option>--disable-spinlocks</option></term> <listitem> <para> |