diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_group.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_group.sgml
index debbe979e1..6fb399c153 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_group.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_group.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ ALTER GROUP name DROP USER
- Remove a user from a group
+ Remove a user from a group:
ALTER GROUP workers DROP USER beth
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
index 91f08a7885..aa133b493b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ CREATE TABLE temp AS SELECT did, city FROM distributors;
DROP TABLE distributors;
CREATE TABLE distributors (
did DECIMAL(3) DEFAULT 1,
- name VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
+ name VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO distributors SELECT * FROM temp;
DROP TABLE temp;
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_user.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_user.sgml
index d97648e052..922633a74a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_user.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_user.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ ERROR: ALTER USER: user "username" does not exist
ALTER USER davide WITH PASSWORD 'hu8jmn3';
- Change a user's valid until date
+ Change a user's valid until date:
ALTER USER manuel VALID UNTIL 'Jan 31 2030';
@@ -168,12 +168,12 @@ ALTER USER manuel VALID UNTIL 'Jan 31 2030';
Change a user's valid until date, specifying that his
authorisation should expire at midday on 4th May 1998 using
- the time zone which is one hour ahead of UTC
+ the time zone which is one hour ahead of UTC:
ALTER USER chris VALID UNTIL 'May 4 12:00:00 1998 +1';
- Give a user the ability to create other users and new databases.
+ Give a user the ability to create other users and new databases:
ALTER USER miriam CREATEUSER CREATEDB;
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml
index 2b66cf8690..3d7145c2db 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/cluster.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ SELECT columnlist INTO TABLE
- Cluster the employees relation on the basis of its salary attribute
+ Cluster the employees relation on the basis of its salary attribute:
CLUSTER emp_ind ON emp;
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
index bdebff077b..4772ad0530 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/copy.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ ERROR: reason
The following example copies a table to standard output,
- using a vertical bar ("|") as the field
+ using a pipe (|) as the field
delimiter:
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_function.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_function.sgml
index 708d0745ee..e75d86cd2e 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_function.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_function.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ CREATE TABLE product (
find a type conversion function automatically, the sql function has
to have the same name as the return type, and overloading is
unavoidable. The function name is overloaded by using the second
- form of the AS clause in the SQL definition
+ form of the AS clause in the SQL definition:
CREATE FUNCTION point(complex) RETURNS point
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml
index e8be382304..12be4c87e4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ ON UPDATE TO emp-1.salary WHERE emp-2.name = "Joe"
report an error because the query cycled too many times:
- Example of a circular rewrite rule combination.
+ Example of a circular rewrite rule combination:
CREATE RULE bad_rule_combination_1 AS
ON SELECT TO emp
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ CREATE RULE bad_rule_combination_2 AS
This attempt to select from EMP will cause
Postgres to issue an error
- because the queries cycled too many times.
+ because the queries cycled too many times:
SELECT * FROM emp;
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
index dd23c1f40e..7dc04b0aaf 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ ERROR: DEFAULT: type mismatched
- As of Postgres version 6.0, consistent array dimensions within an
+ Consistent array dimensions within an
attribute are not enforced. This will likely change in a future
release.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml
index 89b3831b59..6c0edfd074 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/fetch.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ COMMIT WORK;
SQL92 allows absolute positioning of the cursor for
- FETCH, and allows placing the results into explicit variables.
+ FETCH, and allows placing the results into explicit variables:
FETCH ABSOLUTE #
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_upgrade.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_upgrade.sgml
index 879f53d540..64a2e91b75 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_upgrade.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_upgrade.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ $ pg_dumpall -s >db.out
- Do
+ Do:
$ make install
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/update.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/update.sgml
index 85da5c1f2d..035e3adb22 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/update.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/update.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
@@ -157,8 +157,12 @@ UPDATE #
Change word "Drama" with "Dramatic" on column kind:
-UPDATE films SET kind = 'Dramatic' WHERE kind = 'Drama';
-SELECT * FROM films WHERE kind = 'Dramatic' OR kind = 'Drama';
+UPDATE films
+SET kind = 'Dramatic'
+WHERE kind = 'Drama';
+SELECT *
+FROM films
+WHERE kind = 'Dramatic' OR kind = 'Drama';
code | title | did | date_prod | kind | len
-------+---------------+-----+------------+----------+-------