3236250238
Add port mention:
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< * Add the client IP address to pg_stat_activity
> * Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity
2005-02-21 18:51:07 +00:00
daab1a7dc0
Update Russian FAQ.
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Viktor Vislobokov
2005-02-21 17:33:54 +00:00
ac1cbc8079
Clarify item:
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< * Allow server configuration parameters to be remotely modified
> * Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
>
> This would require a new global table that is dumped to flat file for
> use by the postmaster. We do a similar thing for pg_shadow currently.
>
2005-02-21 17:30:33 +00:00
ccf5db73eb
Fix two typos, per report from Hashem Masoud.
2005-02-21 06:12:14 +00:00
d5b98e4ce0
Clarify item:
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< * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
> * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,
> especially for WAL writes
2005-02-21 04:58:52 +00:00
99bf6a1634
Updates to the bibliography. Patch from Michael Fuhr.
2005-02-21 02:21:03 +00:00
f18752dab5
Document the "register" and "unregister" pg_ctl subcommands, for use on
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Windows. Patch from Magnus Hagander.
2005-02-21 02:13:26 +00:00
60b2444cc3
Add code to prevent transaction ID wraparound by enforcing a safe limit
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in GetNewTransactionId(). Since the limit value has to be computed
before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database
startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid.
This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on
the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are
not properly updated during WAL recovery. The code I've added to
startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and
it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing
the XID wraparound limit value. This will eventually allow us to get
rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add
a trigger to pg_database.
2005-02-20 02:22:07 +00:00
2abe40aac7
Fix typo in SGML.
2005-02-19 04:39:52 +00:00
eea1ef2c85
Add reference to the NewbieDoc Docbook Guide.
2005-02-19 04:34:17 +00:00
477a64d9c8
Update question text:
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<H4><A name="4.20">4.20</A>) Why do I get "missing oid" errors when
accessing temporary tables in PL/PgSQL functions?</H4>
Merlin Moncure
2005-02-15 04:35:37 +00:00
a284e174a3
Update Momjain book URL.
2005-02-15 04:03:46 +00:00
f58918ecd0
Update URL for Momjian book.
2005-02-15 04:02:25 +00:00
bb8fcd6713
Change wording:
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< The agreed syntax is:
> The proposed syntax is:
2005-02-15 03:54:19 +00:00
50263789d6
Add mention of syntax for GRANT ALL:
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> The agreed syntax is:
> GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN public TO phpuser;
> GRANT SELECT ON NEW TABLES IN public TO phpuser;
>
2005-02-15 03:53:00 +00:00
b39ce1ccec
Fix typo:
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< o Allow COPY FROM ... CVS to interpret newlines and carriage
> o Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage
2005-02-15 03:17:41 +00:00
43410176a8
Add:
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> * Add xpath_array() to /contrib/xml2 to return results as an array
2005-02-15 02:27:36 +00:00
b25bb4fd44
Add:
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> * Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending specifiers
2005-02-14 19:51:17 +00:00
73f5c9d90e
Minor consistency improvement.
2005-02-14 00:54:26 +00:00
f25df821a9
Add:
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> * Make src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe
2005-02-14 00:03:57 +00:00
c6521b1b93
Write some real documentation about the index access method API.
2005-02-13 03:04:15 +00:00
5e73d4361c
Clarify:
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< * Add IP address to pg_stat_activity
> * Add the client IP address to pg_stat_activity
2005-02-13 00:10:41 +00:00
6370007ce8
Add:
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> * Add IP address to pg_stat_activity
2005-02-13 00:09:34 +00:00
49c320b19d
Update to Russian FAQ, HEAD and 8.0.X.
2005-02-11 04:53:51 +00:00
341251f202
Make clearer warning about using 'now' with DEFAULT:
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SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
SELECT now();
SELECT TIMESTAMP 'now'; -- incorrect for use with DEFAULT
2005-02-11 04:31:54 +00:00
056a664fa1
Mention that some psql environment variables come from libpq and note
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more variables can be found in the libpq manual section.
Mention .pgpass in the psql manual page section dealing with connection
parameters and point to the libpq section for more details.
Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-02-11 04:19:05 +00:00
35878b9bc6
Add some index entries for RAISE and exception handling in PL/PgSQL. Per
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suggestion from Rainer Brandt.
2005-02-10 06:08:22 +00:00
cf1f6f98f2
Improvements to documentation of shared memory configuration under
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FreeBSD. From Mark Kirkwood, editorializing by Neil Conway.
2005-02-10 05:14:58 +00:00
280cae35aa
Use now() rather than 'now' in an example in the PL/PgSQL docs. From David
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Fetter and Ben Calvert.
2005-02-10 05:01:07 +00:00
8f5b4c8c8c
Update pginstaller URL to http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/ .
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Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-02-10 04:52:31 +00:00
38efdc8bc1
Spacing:
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< * Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
> * Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2005-02-08 03:23:51 +00:00
dc95779679
It seems like most people don't want automatic failover so I am removing
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the item:
< o Automatic failover
<
< The proper solution to this will probably the use of a master/slave
< replication solution like Sloney and a connection pooling tool like
< pgpool.
<
2005-02-08 03:21:02 +00:00
c76ff4bc4e
Better late than never: document that the GiST API changed in 8.0 in the
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"incompatibilities" section of the release notes.
2005-02-06 22:31:50 +00:00
e507399790
Document array behavior for out-of-range subscripts.
2005-02-06 20:59:30 +00:00
ad893a361d
Minor SGML improvements.
2005-02-03 07:12:37 +00:00
b3a7e987a1
Improve wording of to_char() change in 8.1:
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The 8.1 release will remove the <function>to_char()</> function
for intervals.
2005-02-02 18:16:13 +00:00
f69513df17
Update FAQ numbering.
2005-02-02 17:44:22 +00:00
947ae56d80
Update RESET ALL items:
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< all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, etc. This could be used
< for connection pooling. We could also change RESET ALL to have this
< functionality.
> all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, cursors, prepared
> queries(?), currval()s, etc. This could be used for connection pooling.
> We could also change RESET ALL to have this functionality.
2005-02-02 17:26:49 +00:00
cde6056e34
Remove pgsql_tmp directory FAQ item.
2005-02-02 13:41:18 +00:00
73f630500b
Add support for temporary views, including documentation and regression
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tests. Contributed by Koju Iijima, review from Neil Conway, Gavin Sherry
and Tom Lane.
Also, fix error in description of WITH CHECK OPTION clause in the CREATE
VIEW reference page: it should be "CASCADED", not "CASCADE".
2005-02-02 06:36:02 +00:00
48522fd30d
Add Josh's performance page.
2005-02-01 21:11:06 +00:00
68b0e29800
Add FETCH/MOVE:
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< * Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8
> * Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2005-02-01 04:56:53 +00:00
bb14d8becf
Add:
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> * Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be inherited by objects based on
> schema permissions
2005-02-01 04:54:43 +00:00
4f63cc6a30
Final FAQ cleanups to remove information about very old releases.
2005-02-01 02:40:50 +00:00
3c16965995
Remove outer join simulation using UNION now that we have had outer
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joins for quite a long time.
2005-02-01 02:35:48 +00:00
2de7ebe910
Remove FAQ about database terms.
2005-02-01 02:31:59 +00:00
2ccf79a6a1
Remove FAQ mention of DROP column.
2005-02-01 01:41:37 +00:00
25deba3141
Update LIMIT/FETCH FAQ item.
2005-02-01 01:36:13 +00:00
14f5c84589
Update connections FAQ item.
2005-02-01 00:19:15 +00:00
0c86f0e174
Fix markup typo.
2005-01-31 22:59:06 +00:00
1b2ebc591c
Update debeug FAQ.
2005-01-31 22:58:00 +00:00
d96398d1eb
Restructure debug FAQ entry.
2005-01-31 22:57:17 +00:00
1f7aa643b6
Reorganize FAQ entry on performance.
2005-01-31 20:40:46 +00:00
7069a885af
Update admin tools FAQ.
2005-01-31 02:45:32 +00:00
2149b54f1c
Update PHP mention.
2005-01-31 02:43:11 +00:00
cd63e08f86
Remove "Support" FAQ item. We now have a tab on our web site.
2005-01-31 02:40:00 +00:00
18013e25c6
Wording improvement.
2005-01-31 02:19:23 +00:00
131ff4e5cd
Reorder support FAQ items.
2005-01-31 02:17:11 +00:00
14f3fb610d
Update section to mention developer's FAQ.
2005-01-31 02:09:34 +00:00
83d8591081
Mention releases are every 10-12 months now.
2005-01-31 01:59:54 +00:00
e688443cbf
Simplify FAQ item about obtaining support.
2005-01-31 01:53:49 +00:00
0a12c53385
Clarify license FAQ item.
2005-01-31 01:38:10 +00:00
810b5072dd
Modernize the FAQ item "What is PostgreSQL" to skip most historical
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information.
2005-01-31 01:26:31 +00:00
0c109c7187
Recommend security@postgresql.org as the contact point for security-related bugs.
2005-01-30 21:31:48 +00:00
790c666931
Update FAQ text file.
2005-01-30 04:45:01 +00:00
60d6f49a47
FAQ markup fixes.
2005-01-30 04:44:11 +00:00
576853a79a
Fix ampersand in URL.
2005-01-30 04:25:26 +00:00
d79f2d4036
Remove IN/slow FAQ item because it only applies to <=7.3.X.
2005-01-30 04:20:52 +00:00
bfc536217d
Remove GEQO and Rtree FAQ items.
2005-01-30 04:16:11 +00:00
4c8a690d54
More index item rewording.kUpdate FAQ.
2005-01-30 04:06:26 +00:00
bbefccec09
Reword index/slow query item.
2005-01-30 04:05:15 +00:00
97052bc9c9
Remove FAQ item about binary cursors.
2005-01-30 04:03:02 +00:00
e136a49c5d
Remove FAQ items about IPC errors. We now report the help description
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right in the failure. We can always re-add it if required.
2005-01-30 04:00:19 +00:00
93e1795404
Merge two Interfaces FAQ items into one.
2005-01-30 03:52:46 +00:00
a3b7d45807
Merge unix and non-unix platform faq items, and remove Y2K item.
2005-01-30 02:22:08 +00:00
811df91340
Update OID item description.
2005-01-30 02:06:33 +00:00
64428b8daf
Preliminary release notes for 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9, 7.2.7.
2005-01-30 01:26:41 +00:00
5703a69003
We haven't had a fixed limit on rule recursion depth since 7.3 ...
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but the documentation still said so.
2005-01-29 23:45:36 +00:00
750d9171f6
Add documentation for format_type(), which somehow escaped it before.
2005-01-28 23:12:59 +00:00
a9fec25df8
Add note cautioning that you can't use an encrypting IDENT server
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with Postgres.
2005-01-28 22:38:37 +00:00
f07b9689c9
Generalize TRUNCATE to support truncating multiple tables in one
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command. This is useful because we can allow truncation of tables
referenced by foreign keys, so long as the referencing table is
truncated in the same command.
Alvaro Herrera
2005-01-27 03:19:37 +00:00
aba691b728
Close all cursors created during a failed subtransaction. This is needed
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to avoid problems when a cursor depends on objects created or changed in
the same subtransaction. We'd like to do better someday, but this seems
the only workable answer for 8.0.1.
2005-01-26 23:20:21 +00:00
4de12d4470
Add docs for a couple of formerly-undocumented geometric conversion functions.
2005-01-26 20:42:19 +00:00
d08889aa8b
Add tools/find_gt_lt to find < and > in SGML source.
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Lowercase some uppercase tags so tools is more reliable at finding
problems.
2005-01-23 00:30:59 +00:00
754b5e1c42
More < and > changes to ampersands.
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8.0.X and HEAD.
2005-01-22 23:22:19 +00:00
1ced129aa3
More < and > cleanups converted to ampersands.
2005-01-22 22:56:36 +00:00
9e292e3e48
More fixes for => and ->, use proper ampersand markups.
2005-01-22 22:31:52 +00:00
1e5eb160d1
Change -> and <- to use proper ampersand markups.
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HEAD and 8.0.X.
2005-01-22 22:06:27 +00:00
b60a8512a0
Update count(*) discussion ideas:
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< BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves making this
> BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves doing this
< invalidated if anyone modifies the table.
<
> invalidated if anyone modifies the table. Another idea is to
> get a count directly from a unique index, but for this to be
> faster than a sequential scan it must avoid access to the heap
> to obtain tuple visibility information.
>
> * Allow data to be pulled directly from indexes
>
> Currently indexes do not have enough tuple tuple visibility
> information to allow data to be pulled from the index without
> also accessing the heap. One way to allow this is to set a bit
> to index tuples to indicate if a tuple is currently visible to
> all transactions when the first valid heap lookup happens. This
> bit would have to be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
2005-01-22 20:05:23 +00:00
a73198ac17
Document that Rekall is GPL now.
2005-01-19 19:45:52 +00:00
0d19d8b846
Add:
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> * Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
2005-01-19 14:17:48 +00:00
3fc86c0f47
Fix typo.
2005-01-19 03:13:07 +00:00
31197bbdf5
Update version stamps for 8.1 as listed in RELEASE_CHANGES.
2005-01-18 05:00:35 +00:00
0f6be37fcb
Clarify that the --enable-integer-datetimes switch affects the time and
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interval datatypes as well as timestamp.
2005-01-17 18:47:15 +00:00
be105bd789
Please find enclosed another patch that now (I hope) really is
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correct. It's in addition to the previous patch.
David Fetter
2005-01-17 17:29:49 +00:00
8a9cc26ee1
Fix minor thinko in pg_dump documentation of "-n" option.
2005-01-17 04:30:37 +00:00
691bb1d247
Spelling fix.
2005-01-17 04:27:23 +00:00
6ea9da1ee0
Please find enclosed a patch to the pl/perl documents that correctly
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tells what arguments go to pl/perl triggers.
David Fetter
2005-01-17 03:04:17 +00:00
56d982b7d4
Mention ALTER COLUMN TYPE in FAQ.
2005-01-17 03:02:56 +00:00
5be1e13dd1
Update German FAQ.
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Ian Barwick
2005-01-17 02:42:31 +00:00
d2136690a6
Update to 8.0.0 for packaging.
2005-01-17 02:40:56 +00:00
637cf69b9d
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-17 02:29:23 +00:00
9175d7df66
Some more copy-editing.
2005-01-17 01:29:02 +00:00
da10a47b39
Remove </a>
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Alvaro
2005-01-15 22:51:10 +00:00
2d3746759d
Update TORA item.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:44:18 +00:00
6987ca78db
Update Brazilian FAQ.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:14:08 +00:00
a5645972af
Some minor editing work on the release notes.
2005-01-15 21:11:46 +00:00
0e3afb3277
Minor improvements in descriptions of recent changes.
2005-01-15 07:53:04 +00:00
67c1fd1efd
Update release notes for 8.0.0 final. Release date set as 2005-01-19!
2005-01-15 05:59:44 +00:00
0b72ebdc0c
Merge query of system objects FAQ items.
2005-01-15 05:19:01 +00:00
893c66de69
Simplify trigger example, per Mark Kirkwood.
2005-01-15 03:38:44 +00:00
2c1abfd979
Add index entries for function volatilities.
2005-01-14 21:46:09 +00:00
a294726bc1
Incorporate examples and doc patches from Mark Kirkwood and David Fetter.
2005-01-14 01:16:52 +00:00
29e58330a6
Change Win32 client configuration files from *.txt to *.conf.
2005-01-14 00:25:56 +00:00
145cc515f0
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-13 21:13:33 +00:00
c2eef62c66
Update of Japanese FAQ.
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Jun Kuwamura
2005-01-13 03:08:14 +00:00
89b5cbe928
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-10 09:01:04 +00:00
35fde297c0
Small polishing of bug reporting template
2005-01-10 08:21:43 +00:00
ab3bb9cf78
Add some real documentation about TOAST (finally). Combine this with
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the old 'page' chapter and the recently added 'filelayout' chapter to
make a coherent chapter about PostgreSQL's physical storage layout.
2005-01-10 00:04:43 +00:00
0471cd5f62
Clarify description of greedy and non-greedy POSIX regular expressions,
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per discussion in Nov 2004 with Ken Tanzer.
2005-01-09 20:08:50 +00:00
a9566cccca
Update OS/2 URL.
2005-01-09 19:44:25 +00:00
7da8623a56
Last batch of updates in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.
2005-01-09 18:58:10 +00:00
7bbdb078bd
Update discussion of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, per Michael Fuhr.
2005-01-09 17:47:30 +00:00
b548cde1f5
Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.
2005-01-09 05:57:45 +00:00
b5adf46cbd
Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.
2005-01-08 22:13:38 +00:00
b19011e10c
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-08 09:54:47 +00:00
6889537c48
Some small docs improvements motivated by reading the comments for the 7.4
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7.4 interactive docs.
2005-01-08 05:19:18 +00:00
cb6eab78b7
Remove mp3 that is now missing.
2005-01-08 03:59:04 +00:00
cef2cc50b5
Some small docs improvements motivated by reading the comments for the
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7.4 interactive docs.
2005-01-08 01:44:08 +00:00
ffce35fe6f
Add a tip showing how functions on composite types can be used to
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emulate computed fields. I suppose this is why the Berkeley boys made
it work that way in the first place, but the docs never said so anyplace.
2005-01-07 23:08:44 +00:00
4e64e7f563
Improve discussion of SQL functions taking/returning row types.
2005-01-07 22:40:46 +00:00
7a986fb4a4
Update supported platforms list
2005-01-07 10:21:02 +00:00
826f732562
Fix ECPGstatus() documentation of parameters.
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Edmund Bacon
2005-01-07 05:43:28 +00:00
41ca756386
Spell APPDATA as %APPDATA%, per recommendation from Magnus.
2005-01-06 21:20:44 +00:00
7507d594d2
Adjust examples to avoid using keywords as identifiers, per Honda Shigehiro.
2005-01-06 20:53:34 +00:00
a3f98d5795
Adjust lookup of client-side profile files (.pgpass and so on) as per
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discussion on pgsql-hackers-win32 list. Documentation still needs to
be tweaked --- I'm not sure how to refer to the APPDATA folder in
user documentation.
2005-01-06 18:29:11 +00:00
f4833cf30c
Update to supported platforms list
2005-01-06 10:12:22 +00:00
d6294efbec
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2005-01-06 01:49:24 +00:00
e0b9085074
Re-readjust synopses for CREATE/ALTER USER.
2005-01-06 00:11:14 +00:00
81c41e3d0e
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2005-01-05 23:42:03 +00:00
b4b984bccf
Update URL's to point to new site main location.
2005-01-05 22:37:28 +00:00
a87f494d9c
Fix example, change table name from 'array' to 'array_int'.
2005-01-05 18:03:19 +00:00
a8d97fcded
Update date stamp.
2005-01-05 17:52:28 +00:00
a7ef12f56a
Update URLs.
2005-01-05 17:42:09 +00:00
8c6147b911
Revert cosmetic synopsis changes that break psql translations.
2005-01-05 14:22:39 +00:00
10e5a759aa
Add some post-processing to the man page generation to fix up external/
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dangling cross-references.
2005-01-04 21:03:30 +00:00
6ca9f46e22
Remove duplicate novell mention.
2005-01-04 14:25:16 +00:00
a7abae4954
Fix subsection ordering (DISTINCT should be described before LIMIT).
2005-01-04 08:59:45 +00:00
33a6dcfcce
Update wording:
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< * Allow building with directories containing spaces
> * Allow building in directories containing spaces
< There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
< source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
< into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not
< possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
< spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in
< the makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
< is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
< then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
> This is probably not possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools
> do not fully support quoting of paths with spaces.
>
> * Allow installing to directories containing spaces
>
> This is possible if proper quoting is added to the makefiles for the
> install targets. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
> is already possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain
> spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
2005-01-04 05:35:45 +00:00
24cab1e8d1
Update item for install with spaces:
...
> There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
> source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
> into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not
> possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
> spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in
> the makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
> is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
> then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
2005-01-04 05:13:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Kris Jurka