From: Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 05:26:35 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: sysdbql(7): Documented conditional attribute matchers.
X-Git-Tag: sysdb-0.2.0~1
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=16ac77248a64a2fc6a0ebfd79d2c4357e95247d8;p=sysdb.git

sysdbql(7): Documented conditional attribute matchers.
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diff --git a/doc/sysdbql.7.txt b/doc/sysdbql.7.txt
index 5f967c6..011da14 100644
--- a/doc/sysdbql.7.txt
+++ b/doc/sysdbql.7.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ The following fields may be queried:
 	The value of the named host attribute. If an attribute of the specified
 	does not exist, each comparison is treated as if the value does not match.
 
+'<value>' may either be a string (when matching by object names) or match the
+type of the attribute's value (when matching attribute values). Attribute
+values may either be a string, integer, or decimal number (booleans and binary
+data are not supported by the frontend yet).
+
+When comparing an attribute's value using a regular expression matcher, the
+value will be cast to a string before doing so. No other casts are supported
+at this time.
+
 The following operators may be used to match field values:
 
 *=*::
@@ -97,6 +106,12 @@ The following operators may be used to match field values:
 	Evalues to true if the field value does not match the specified regular
 	expression.
 
+The following operators may be used, in addition, to match attribute values:
+
+*<*, *\<=*, *>=*, *>*::
+	Evaluates to true if the attribute value is less than, less than or equal
+	to, greater than or equal to or greater than the specified value.
+
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