Use constants for sqgetGlobalVar() typecasting

[squirrelmail.git] / doc / db-backend.txt

diff --git a/doc/db-backend.txt b/doc/db-backend.txt
index 3942b40c7452dddb5d1ef1a72897b5f25df7395f..19488b1836070cbb94f4cc8308ca0dd20ebb7be7 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/db-backend.txt
+++ b/doc/db-backend.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ containg them is a part of your PHP include path. See the PHP
 documentation for information on how to do that.
 Under Mandrake Linux the PEAR classes are installed as part of the
 php-devel package and under FreeBSD they are installed as part of
-the mod_php4 or php4 port/package. I'm afraid I have no information on
+the mod_php4 or php4 port/package. In Debian, you can install the
+php4-pear package. I'm afraid I have no information on
 other systems at the present time.
 
 
@@ -113,6 +114,10 @@ administration plugin. The DSN should look something like:
  mysql://squirreluser:sqpassword@localhost/squirrelmail or
  pgsql://squirreluser:sqpassword@localhost/squirrelmail
 
+Note that when using the above PostgreSQL schema, you also need to change
+the prefs_user_field variable in config.php from the default 'user' to
+'username'.
+
 From now on all users' personal preferences will be stored in a
 database.
 
@@ -129,12 +134,12 @@ field and 64KB (database BLOB field size) limit to value field.
 
 If interface tries to insert data without checking field limits, it
 can cause data loss or database errors. Table information functions
-provided by Pear DB libraries are not accurate and some database 
+provided by Pear DB libraries are not accurate and some database
 backends don't support them. Since 1.5.1 SquirrelMail provides
 configuration options that set allowed field sizes.
 
-If you see oversized field errors in your error logs - check your 
-database structure. Issue can be solved by increasing database field 
+If you see oversized field errors in your error logs - check your
+database structure. Issue can be solved by increasing database field
 sizes.
 
 If you want to get more debugging information - check setKey() function