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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml index f71c3bc74b2..5921f476b73 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <!-- Documentation of the system catalogs, directed toward PostgreSQL developers - $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml,v 2.62 2002/09/24 21:26:44 tgl Exp $ + $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml,v 2.63 2002/10/14 04:29:23 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="catalogs"> @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ creates the database on disk.) There are some exceptions for especially esoteric operations, such as adding index access methods. </para> + <para> + Most system catalogs are copied from the template database during + database creation, and are thereafter database-specific. A few + catalogs are physically shared across all databases in an installation; + these are marked in the descriptions of the individual catalogs. + </para> <table> <title>System Catalogs</title> @@ -37,7 +43,8 @@ <tbody> <row> - <entry>pg_aggregate</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-aggregate"> + <database class="table">pg_aggregate</database></link></entry> <entry>aggregate functions</entry> </row> @@ -57,122 +64,146 @@ </row> <row> - <entry>pg_attrdef</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-attrdef"> + <database class="table">pg_attrdef</database></link></entry> <entry>column default values</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_attribute</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-attribute"> + <database class="table">pg_attribute</database></link></entry> <entry>table columns (<quote>attributes</quote>, <quote>fields</quote>)</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_cast</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-cast"> + <database class="table">pg_cast</database></link></entry> <entry>casts (data type conversions)</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_class</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-class"> + <database class="table">pg_class</database></link></entry> <entry>tables, indexes, sequences (<quote>relations</quote>)</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_constraint</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-constraint"> + <database class="table">pg_constraint</database></link></entry> <entry>check constraints, unique / primary key constraints, foreign key constraints</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_conversion</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-conversion"> + <database class="table">pg_conversion</database></link></entry> <entry>encoding conversion information</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_database</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-database"> + <database class="table">pg_database</database></link></entry> <entry>databases within this database cluster</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_depend</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-depend"> + <database class="table">pg_depend</database></link></entry> <entry>dependencies between database objects</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_description</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-description"> + <database class="table">pg_description</database></link></entry> <entry>descriptions or comments on database objects</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_group</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-group"> + <database class="table">pg_group</database></link></entry> <entry>groups of database users</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_index</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-index"> + <database class="table">pg_index</database></link></entry> <entry>additional index information</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_inherits</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-inherits"> + <database class="table">pg_inherits</database></link></entry> <entry>table inheritance hierarchy</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_language</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-language"> + <database class="table">pg_language</database></link></entry> <entry>languages for writing functions</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_largeobject</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-largeobject"> + <database class="table">pg_largeobject</database></link></entry> <entry>large objects</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_listener</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-listener"> + <database class="table">pg_listener</database></link></entry> <entry>asynchronous notification</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_namespace</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-namespace"> + <database class="table">pg_namespace</database></link></entry> <entry>namespaces (schemas)</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_opclass</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-opclass"> + <database class="table">pg_opclass</database></link></entry> <entry>index access method operator classes</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_operator</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-operator"> + <database class="table">pg_operator</database></link></entry> <entry>operators</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_proc</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-proc"> + <database class="table">pg_proc</database></link></entry> <entry>functions and procedures</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_rewrite</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-rewrite"> + <database class="table">pg_rewrite</database></link></entry> <entry>query rewriter rules</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_shadow</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-shadow"> + <database class="table">pg_shadow</database></link></entry> <entry>database users</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_statistic</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-statistic"> + <database class="table">pg_statistic</database></link></entry> <entry>optimizer statistics</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_trigger</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-trigger"> + <database class="table">pg_trigger</database></link></entry> <entry>triggers</entry> </row> <row> - <entry>pg_type</entry> + <entry><link linkend="catalog-pg-type"> + <database class="table">pg_type</database></link></entry> <entry>data types</entry> </row> </tbody> |