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About SET SEARCH_PATH

From
Christoph Haller
Date:
I'm thinking of introducing schemas within my databases.
Reading the doc I've found some stuff which does not
seem right. I'm referring to 7.3.4.

(1)
$PGSQLD/doc/html/functions-misc.html

The search path may be altered by a run-time setting.
The command to use is SET SEARCH_PATH 'schema'[,'schema']...

It should be
SET SEARCH_PATH TO schema[,schema]...

May be a link to
$PGSQLD/doc/html/ddl-schemas.html
should be used instead, it has it all right.

(2)
$PGSQLD/doc/html/sql-set.html

This page does not mention the SEARCH_PATH variable at all.
Is this intended?


Regards, Christoph

Re: About SET SEARCH_PATH

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:
>> The search path may be altered by a run-time setting.
>> The command to use is SET SEARCH_PATH 'schema'[,'schema']...

> It should be
> SET SEARCH_PATH TO schema[,schema]...

Actually, you can do it either way:

regression=# set search_path TO a,b,c;
regression=# set search_path TO 'a','b','c';

although not

regression=# set search_path TO 'a,b,c';
ERROR:  schema "a,b,c" does not exist

This is mainly for legacy reasons (the grammar involved was originally
used for DateStyle...).  I don't object to documenting primarily the
first form, though.

> (2)
> $PGSQLD/doc/html/sql-set.html

> This page does not mention the SEARCH_PATH variable at all.
> Is this intended?

Yeah; that page only documents SET items that are not in the main list
of run-time-configurable parameters.

            regards, tom lane

Re: About SET SEARCH_PATH

From
Harry Broomhall
Date:
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:40:32 -0400, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
wrote:

>Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:
>>> The search path may be altered by a run-time setting.
>>> The command to use is SET SEARCH_PATH 'schema'[,'schema']...
>
>> It should be
>> SET SEARCH_PATH TO schema[,schema]...
>
>Actually, you can do it either way:
>
>regression=# set search_path TO a,b,c;
>regression=# set search_path TO 'a','b','c';
>
>although not
>
>regression=# set search_path TO 'a,b,c';
>ERROR:  schema "a,b,c" does not exist
>

   But surely not without the 'TO' word, which is how it appears in
6.13 of the User's Guide?

   Regards,
          Harry.

Re: About SET SEARCH_PATH

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Harry Broomhall <harry.broomhall@uk.easynet.net> writes:
>    But surely not without the 'TO' word, which is how it appears in
> 6.13 of the User's Guide?

Right.  I see this is already fixed in the 7.4 docs.

            regards, tom lane