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Tom Lane 25d9bf2e3e Support deferrable uniqueness constraints.
The current implementation fires an AFTER ROW trigger for each tuple that
looks like it might be non-unique according to the index contents at the
time of insertion.  This works well as long as there aren't many conflicts,
but won't scale to massive unique-key reassignments.  Improving that case
is a TODO item.

Dean Rasheed
2009-07-29 20:56:21 +00:00
Tom Lane c1b9ec24ef Add system catalog columns pg_constraint.conindid and pg_trigger.tgconstrindid.
conindid is the index supporting a constraint.  We can use this not only for
unique/primary-key constraints, but also foreign-key constraints, which
depend on the unique index that constrains the referenced columns.
tgconstrindid is just copied from the constraint's conindid field, or is
zero for triggers not associated with constraints.

This is mainly intended as infrastructure for upcoming patches, but it has
some virtue in itself, since it exposes a relationship that you formerly
had to grovel in pg_depend to determine.  I simplified one information_schema
view accordingly.  (There is a pg_dump query that could also use conindid,
but I left it alone because it wasn't clear it'd get any faster.)
2009-07-28 02:56:31 +00:00
Tom Lane d4382c4ae7 Extend EXPLAIN to allow generic options to be specified.
The original syntax made it difficult to add options without making them
into reserved words.  This change parenthesizes the options to avoid that
problem, and makes provision for an explicit (and perhaps non-Boolean)
value for each option.  The original syntax is still supported, but only
for the two original options ANALYZE and VERBOSE.

As a test case, add a COSTS option that can suppress the planner cost
estimates.  This may be useful for including EXPLAIN output in the regression
tests, which are otherwise unable to cope with cross-platform variations in
cost estimates.

Robert Haas
2009-07-26 23:34:18 +00:00
Tom Lane a07e5acebb Code review for FORCE QUOTE * patch: fix error checking to consider FORCE
QUOTE * as a variety of FORCE QUOTE, and update psql documentation to include
the option.  (The actual psql code doesn't seem to need any changes.)
2009-07-25 17:04:19 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan de7531a971 Allow * as parameter for FORCE QUOTE for COPY CSV. Itagaki Takahiro. 2009-07-25 00:07:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5e22994127 Document \dg+ and \du+
The fact that \dg and \du take the + option was missing in the documentation.

backpatched to 8.4

Author: Andreas Wenk <a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de>
2009-07-24 19:35:44 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 00f0b47539 Update location to download flex for building on Windows. 2009-07-23 17:06:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2afa73a9e8 Clarify NULLIF example
found by "Vesa-Matti J Kari" <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-22 18:07:26 +00:00
Tom Lane ca7c8168de Tweak TOAST code so that columns marked with MAIN storage strategy are
not forced out-of-line unless that is necessary to make the row fit on a
page.  Previously, they were forced out-of-line if needed to get the row
down to the default target size (1/4th page).

Kevin Grittner
2009-07-22 01:21:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f3f45c87d2 Remove translated FAQs
The English FAQ has been moved to the wiki, so the translated versions should
have been removed at that point as well.

The FAQ_MINGW.html should have been removed when the platform FAQs were
integrated into the documentation (or earlier).

applied to both 8.4 and 8.5
2009-07-21 19:20:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7405f2cc85 Small additional clean from the rearrangement of the HTML index build rules 2009-07-20 18:34:58 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan e73131a16a DROP IF EXISTS for columns and constraints. Andres Freund. 2009-07-20 02:42:28 +00:00
Tom Lane f5bc74192d Make GEQO's planning deterministic by having it start from a predictable
random number seed each time.  This is how it used to work years ago, but
we got rid of the seed reset because it was resetting the main random()
sequence and thus having undesirable effects on the rest of the system.
To fix, establish a private random number state for each execution of
geqo(), and initialize the state using the new GUC variable geqo_seed.
People who want to experiment with different random searches can do so
by changing geqo_seed, but you'll always get the same plan for the same
value of geqo_seed (if holding all other planner inputs constant, of course).

The new state is kept in PlannerInfo by adding a "void *" field reserved
for use by join_search hooks.  Most of the rather bulky code changes in
this commit are just arranging to pass PlannerInfo around to all the GEQO
functions (many of which formerly didn't receive it).

Andres Freund, with some editorialization by Tom
2009-07-16 20:55:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4ef8dc7a75 Rearrangement of the HTML docs build rules
Set up proper makefile dependencies in the documentation build rules,
especially around the HTML/index build.  The problem we've had with all
previous solutions is that we have used the same file name, such as HTML.index
or bookindex.sgml, to mean different things at different stages of the build,
and make can't distinguish that.  The solution here is that the first jade run
produces HTML.index, but does not require bookindex.sgml at all, and produces
no other html output (the latter an idea from Alvaro).  The second jade run
includes bookindex.sgml, but does not recreate HTML.index.  That way, when you
change an sgml file, jade is run twice and at the end all dependencies are
satisfied.  Omitting the html output in the first stage also makes the full
build a lot faster.

When you run one of the print format targets, only the first jade run is run,
then the print target-specific commands.  If an HTML build has completed
previously, the first jade run is skipped because the dependencies have
already been satisfied.

The draft and check targets for quick builds and syntax verification are still
there.
2009-07-14 22:16:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d1ba29420b Update information schema to SQL:2008
- yes_or_no domain for "boolean" data
 - new columns for VIEWS view
 - slight section renumbering
2009-07-13 20:25:57 +00:00
Tom Lane da4b900176 Advance the minimum required version of "flex" from 2.5.4 to 2.5.31, and
update documentation accordingly.  This is required in order to have support
for a reentrant scanner.  I'm committing this bit separately in order to have
an easy reference if we later decide to make the minimum something different
(like 2.5.33).
2009-07-13 01:51:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 23d830bd9a Alter some gratuitous uses of "ANSI" when "SQL standard" might have been
meant or the reference to a standard was unnecessary.
2009-07-11 21:15:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c95db342e7 Correct what ISO stands for 2009-07-11 21:13:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 53e7229258 Add missing HOUR TO SECOND option to list of possible INTERVAL field sets,
as noted by Sebastien Flaesch.  Also update the claim that we simply throw
away fields outside this set --- that got changed later to only discard
less-significant fields.
2009-07-08 17:21:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e292dbcf54 More sensible character_octet_length
For character types with typmod, character_octet_length columns in the
information schema now show the maximum character length times the
maximum length of a character in the server encoding, instead of some
huge value as before.
2009-07-07 18:23:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f39df967e9 Add log_line_prefix placeholder %e to contain the current SQL state
Author: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
2009-07-03 19:14:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 47f6699d00 Remove useless References column for pg_listener catalog description. Per Shigehiro Honda. 2009-07-01 23:57:33 +00:00
Tom Lane f4ab0b032b Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel. 2009-07-01 23:15:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 4d53a2f969 Revert addition of "o" to tar options. This was intended to fix bug #4883,
but the cure appears to be worse than the disease.  It turns out that GNU
tar versions 1.14.x misinterpret -o as --same-owner, not --no-same-owner,
leading to exactly the wrong behavior for both root and nonroot users.
While that bug has been fixed for nearly five years, these tar versions
are still found in the wild, notably in OS X 10.4.  Given that #4883 was
the first complaint we'd heard, it's definitely not worth fixing at the
risk of breaking things for other users.  Perhaps revisit at a later date
when we're not up against a release deadline.
2009-06-27 21:06:46 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier 41f467f343 Bundle v8.4.0 2009-06-27 00:14:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 730e1a9c95 Update release notes in final preparation for 8.4.0. 2009-06-26 22:23:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 9d6469c9b2 Add a note about SystemTap vs DTrace spelling of probe names. 2009-06-26 22:08:17 +00:00
Tom Lane df858fe58a Marginal improvement of description of recovery_end_command. 2009-06-26 22:06:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a87a1e5428 Extract tarballs with "o" option (tar xof), to behave reasonably when run
as root, as would usually be the case during make install.

per bug #4883
2009-06-26 06:40:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6bcdb8aa85 Use $(TAR) instead of tar in makefiles. 2009-06-26 06:37:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e6b8f47047 Man pages back to lowercase names, with additional fixup to make the .so
links work.
2009-06-25 21:15:38 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8fd733bd19 Disable pg_standby -l option because the backend doesn't expect the recovered
file to be a symlink. We tried to fix this issue with an earlier server-side
patch, but it didn't fix the whole issue.

The same bug is present in older releases as well, but the 8.4 train is
about to leave the station, and I'm not sure if have consensus on whether
we can remove the -l option in back-branches or do we need to attempt a
server-side fix to make symlinking safe.

Patch by Simon Riggs, per discussion on bug identified by Fujii Masao.
2009-06-25 12:03:11 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 286518e6f4 Fix incorrect LDAP example, noted by Tom. 2009-06-24 13:46:32 +00:00
Tom Lane d82e9f72b9 Provide a link to the UPDATE reference page in the 'Updating Data'
section of the docs.  Per suggestion from Brad Bowman.
2009-06-23 20:33:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 8d355d7bbf Fix the makefiles to fail cleanly if Perl is needed but not present. This
used to work as intended, but got broken some time ago (a quoted empty string
is not an empty string), and got broken some more by the changes to generate
ecpg's preproc.y automatically.  Given all the unprotected uses of $(PERL)
elsewhere, it seems best to make use of the $(missing) script rather than
trying to ensure each such use is protected individually.  Also fix various
bits of documentation that omitted to mention Perl as a requirement for
building from a CVS pull.  Per a complaint from Robert Haas.
2009-06-23 03:46:00 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier bc00ceb159 bundle RC2 2009-06-22 23:15:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 18df0ffbd2 Add more explicit note that the parameters of MOVE are identical to FETCH.
per David Wheeler
2009-06-22 07:12:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 82480e28f5 Fix things so that array_agg_finalfn does not modify or free its input
ArrayBuildState, per trouble report from Merlin Moncure.  By adopting
this fix, we are essentially deciding that aggregate final-functions
should not modify their inputs ever.  Adjust documentation and comments
to match that conclusion.
2009-06-20 18:45:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 87698ffa8e Extend man page installation hackery so that the man page section is also
fixed up in the .so links.
2009-06-19 19:15:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c79b4505c1 Don't convert the man page names to lower case, so that the .so links work.
This is pretty much a workaround for incomplete tools, but having the man
page names in upper case looks more natural anyway.
2009-06-19 19:14:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f1286c12d Add manvolnum, so that man pages are generated. 2009-06-19 15:28:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a091ac46ca Don't attempt to "rm" directories on uninstall. 2009-06-18 15:10:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 95289ea90b Recursive Joins -> Recursive Queries
per Erik Rijkers
2009-06-18 14:42:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 9405b16f3a Add some more documentation and cross-links on using dblink with SQL/MED. 2009-06-18 14:34:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 12bc87e09b Refine the use of terminology around bound and unbound cursors and cursor
variables. Remove the confusing term "reference cursor".
2009-06-18 10:22:09 +00:00
Tom Lane c30446b9c9 Proofreading for Bruce's recent round of documentation proofreading.
Most of those changes were good, but some not so good ...
2009-06-17 21:58:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5126826c52 Add another link of a GUC variable to where it is explained. 2009-06-17 13:59:28 +00:00
Tom Lane a0a3883dd9 Improve documentation about GiST opclass support functions.
Dimitri Fontaine
2009-06-12 19:48:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 63e183ca46 Add info about minimum recommended AIX fix levels, per Laurenz Albe. 2009-06-12 15:53:32 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier 35daaa91d3 time to tag rc1 ... 2009-06-12 05:19:22 +00:00