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diff --git a/doc/man/create_version.l b/doc/man/create_version.l deleted file mode 100644 index ca8bd4fac25..00000000000 --- a/doc/man/create_version.l +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ -.\" This is -*-nroff-*- -.\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/create_version.l,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:22 scrappy Exp $ -.TH "CREATE VERSION" SQL 01/23/93 Postgres95 Postgres95 -.SH NAME -create version \(em construct a version class -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -\fBcreate version\fP classname1 \fBfrom\fP classname2 [\fB[\fPabstime\fB]\fP] -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.IR "Currently, the versioning facility is not working." -.PP -This command creates a version class -.IR classname1 -which is related -to its parent class, -.IR classname2 . -Initially, -.IR classname1 -has the same contents as -.IR classname2. -As updates to -.IR classname1 -occur, however, -the content of -.IR classname1 -diverges from -.IR classname2. -On the other hand, any updates to -.IR classname2 -show transparently through to -.IR classname1 , -unless the instance in question has already been updated in -.IR classname1 . -.PP -If the optional -.IR abstime -clause is specified, then the version is constructed relative to a -.BR snapshot -of -.IR classname2 -as of the time specified. -.PP -Postgres uses the query rewrite rule system to ensure that -.IR classname1 -is differentially encoded relative to -.IR classname2. -Moreover, -.IR classname1 -is automatically constructed to have the same indexes as -.IR classname2 . -It is legal to cascade versions arbitrarily, so a tree of versions can -ultimately result. The algorithms that control versions are explained -in [ONG90]. -.SH EXAMPLE -.nf --- ---create a version foobar from a snapshot of ---barfoo as of January 17, 1990 --- -create version foobar from barfoo [ "Jan 17 1990" ] -.fi -.SH "SEE ALSO" -create view(l), merge(l). -.SH "BUGS" -Snapshots (i.e., the optional -.IR abstime -clause) are not implemented in Postgres. |