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Tom Lane dbc214f7e6 Add documentation mentioning that there are separate regression tests
for the PL languages and for contrib.
2005-10-13 23:41:07 +00:00
Tom Lane 412734767a Improve documentation about CREATEROLE privilege. 2005-10-13 23:26:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5aae047e23 Update krb_server_name to document that a missing entry defaults to
'localhost'.

Improve kerberos error message.
2005-10-13 22:55:19 +00:00
Tom Lane f91370cd2f Update documentation to reflect the new ALTER OWNER rules for all
affected types of objects.
2005-10-13 22:44:51 +00:00
Tom Lane a9980ec37b Describe the behavior of the SQL_ASCII encoding more accurately. 2005-10-13 21:43:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f9cb4eb43 Adjust the discussion of triggers to more clearly guide people in the
direction of writing triggers in a procedural language, rather than C.
Per discussion.
2005-10-13 21:09:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8ac386226d The patch updates the documentation to reflect the fact that higher values
of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.

We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR.  When running a file like

SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';

DROP TABLE doesntexist;

with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.

Kris Jurka
2005-10-13 20:58:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 12ee2b98ce Turn off list of tables, figures, and examples. 2005-10-13 20:10:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6d62338d5e Rewording, use the more common multi-threaded/single-threaded. 2005-10-13 17:55:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8fc0aa4cca Clarify causes of possible mismatch between Win32 libraries and
applications that use FILE pointers.
2005-10-13 17:46:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 165565cd94 Some additional doc changes based around compression of page images in
WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.

The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.

Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.

Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml

Simon Riggs
2005-10-13 17:32:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7d43349ab5 Fix capitalization of example. 2005-10-13 14:44:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4a6dcf0322 Update trigger demo to reflect new trigger ordering. 2005-10-13 02:23:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3d50e107ad Remove extra <para> 2005-10-13 02:00:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 249f07b8c6 Update:
> * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
>   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
>   it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
2005-10-13 01:23:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 23e2f9ebf7 Fix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-10-12 23:19:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian adc58f145c Remove item:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
<   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
<   surrounded by quotes.
<
2005-10-12 22:39:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6b97e437ca Add warning about plperl nested named subroutines
Andrew Dunstan
2005-10-12 14:28:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0a28eb4622 No longer needed:
<
< * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
<   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
<   in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
<
<   On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly,
<   while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
<   holding the lock can complete and release it.
2005-10-12 14:06:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4aebb5ad55 Rearrange:
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
< 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
604a603
> 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
2005-10-12 13:41:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d5310ca920 Done:
< 	o %Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
<           cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
608a607
>
2005-10-12 13:39:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 87a67d186b Add:
<
> 	o Allow pg_dump --clean to drop roles that own objects or have
> 	  privileges
2005-10-12 13:39:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4102640683 Update keywords table for 8.1. 2005-10-12 09:45:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 752290207d Add description:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name?
> * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
>
>   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
>   surrounded by quotes.
>
2005-10-12 03:26:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 368f0b28f3 Add:
> 	o Add options like pg_restore -l and -L to pg_dump
2005-10-12 02:57:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e4aa5be90c Add:
> 	o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
> 	  tables
> 	o In a selective dump, allow dumping of an object and all its
> 	  dependencies
2005-10-11 23:55:10 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon 5f470ad491 update to beta3 before tagging ... 2005-10-11 23:26:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 96a83d8807 Release notes up to date as of today. 2005-10-11 21:17:11 +00:00
Tom Lane c6b9924bec Remove the DELETEs from pg_shadow and pg_group that pg_dumpall used to
emit when given the --clean option, in favor of individual DROP ROLE
commands.  The old technique could not possibly work in 8.1, and was
never a very good idea anyway IMHO.  The DROP ROLE approach has the
defect that the DROPs will fail for roles that own objects or have
privileges, but perhaps we can improve that later.
2005-10-10 22:29:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 7754f7634c Fix a thinko in description of krb_server_hostname. 2005-10-08 20:27:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ab13353d31 Update:
< * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
735a736,737
>
>   This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
2005-10-07 14:04:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 02eb6ea9b7 Add:
<
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
>   several rows as a single index entry
2005-10-07 02:43:59 +00:00
Neil Conway 663476919c Minor tweaks for PL/PgSQL documentation. 2005-10-06 20:51:20 +00:00
Tom Lane cb8b6618ce Revise pgstats stuff to fix the problems with not counting accesses
generated by bitmap index scans.  Along the way, simplify and speed up
the code for counting sequential and index scans; it was both confusing
and inefficient to be taking care of that in the per-tuple loops, IMHO.
initdb forced because of internal changes in pg_stat view definitions.
2005-10-06 02:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8c6f345005 Improve wording of entry. 2005-10-05 19:52:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0f397b9edb Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2005-10-05 11:50:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ad308fc4e9 Update FAQ for version number. 2005-10-05 11:24:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a8da71e0c4 Clean up some messages and fix missing translation support. Option --log
renamed to --log-file for clarity.
2005-10-04 19:01:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 060d13f7c7 COPY's test for read-only transaction was backward; it prohibited COPY TO
where it should prohibit COPY FROM.  Found by Alon Goldshuv.
2005-10-03 23:43:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 53e47cdd79 Add a trace_sort option to help with measuring resource usage of external
sort operations.  Per recent discussion.  Simon Riggs and Tom Lane.
2005-10-03 22:55:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c873828bd Fix procedure for updating nextval() defaults so that it actually works.
Update release dates for pending back-branch releases.
2005-10-03 16:04:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a87174dca1 Fix font of sequence header. 2005-10-03 13:52:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1624d6d4d2 Fix null bytes at end of file (weird). 2005-10-03 02:49:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f890004cc1 Update sequence docs. 2005-10-03 02:46:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4361e0d295 Merge Tom and my descriptions of new sequence behavior into one entry. 2005-10-03 02:21:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 07e74305fe Update release notes to show how to upgrade a database to use the new
early binding for nextval() calls in default clauses.
2005-10-03 01:57:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6a17577933 Remove, 8.1 completed items already removed:
< * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
2005-10-03 00:42:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2aa39a4cb1 Done:
< * Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences,
<   seqname.nextval?
> * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
2005-10-03 00:42:28 +00:00
Tom Lane aa731ed843 Change nextval and other sequence functions to specify their sequence
argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string.  The frontend
conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an
implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass.  This provides
backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument
is explicitly typed as 'text'.  When the argument is just an unadorned
literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the
stored representation will be an OID.  This solves longstanding problems
with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as
well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or
moving them to another schema.  All per recent discussion.
Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support
for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).
2005-10-02 23:50:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca8cfc9846 Adjust wording. 2005-10-01 01:42:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7df9f55f4b Change the option spelling to --connection-limit to be consistent with the
SQL option spelling.
2005-09-30 07:13:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7f66816b5d Remove acronym in one title. 2005-09-29 02:29:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 7b7d1ba0b6 Mention fix for bug #1916 in release notes for affected versions. 2005-09-28 21:22:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ff203262b Fix typo. 2005-09-28 18:40:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e05a8c553c Add section on reliable operation, talking about caching and storage
subsystem reliability.
2005-09-28 18:18:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c2f7536543 Update SQL conformance mention to 2003. 2005-09-28 11:45:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3f540711ef Update Russian FAQ.
Victor Vislobokov
2005-09-28 11:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6bc4e3617d Add attribution. 2005-09-27 23:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 455f48ddc5 Done:
< * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
<   pkgincludedir, and localedir
2005-09-27 18:04:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 4fc935a5d4 Fix problems with PGXS builds against an installation tree that was
relocated after installation.  We can't trust the installation paths
inserted into Makefile.global by configure, so instead we must get the
paths from pg_config.  This requires extending pg_config to support all
the separately-configurable path names, but that was on TODO anyway.
2005-09-27 17:39:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2d8225eecc Release notes up to date as of today. 2005-09-27 17:28:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 451cd7d426 Add:
> 	o Improve signal handling,
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php
2005-09-27 15:18:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 240c8e7e43 Novice:
< * Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
> * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
2005-09-27 13:39:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 4056efcfc1 Create preliminary release notes for upcoming back-branch releases. 2005-09-26 21:44:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3ff1dc501e Done:
< * Allow protocol-level EXECUTE that is actually a fetch to appear
<   in the logs as a fetch rather than another execute
2005-09-26 15:52:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 88922598da Add:
> * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
> * Allow protocol-level EXECUTE that is actually a fetch to appear
>   in the logs as a fetch rather than another execute
2005-09-26 02:44:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dd102d3683 Wording cleanup. 2005-09-25 03:12:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ccc0a1326e Document why PQtrace and ecpg debug() can crash the application if the
DLL compiles to not match the application.
2005-09-25 03:06:41 +00:00
Neil Conway d3419467bb Cleanups for recent addition to log_connections documentation. 2005-09-24 23:25:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5d82f9a898 Improve wording. 2005-09-24 23:08:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 030d5bd942 Add mention of duplicate connection messages from psql, per Andrew. 2005-09-24 23:06:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1a9d96a5fa Update release notes for 4-byte UTF mappings. 2005-09-24 22:57:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 5d9c6b18d3 Document change in large object snapshotting behavior as a version
compatibility issue.
2005-09-24 20:35:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 86044a9d71 Add:
> * Simplify dropping roles that have objects in several databases
2005-09-23 21:55:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6db56cdf80 Add:
> 	o Allow PL/PgSQL to support WITH HOLD cursors
2005-09-23 20:41:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bf8e536215 Add:
>
> 	o Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df+
>
> 	  It probably requires psql to output newlines in the proper
> 	  column, which is already on the TODO list.
2005-09-23 20:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb36c18c51 Remove xid wraparound mention, because it was already done in 8.0, per Neil. 2005-09-23 16:36:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e6bae1c3d3 Add:
> * Add function to report the time of the most recent server reload
2005-09-23 03:06:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6e85717a77 Add:
> * Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
>   pkgincludedir, and localedir
>
2005-09-23 03:04:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e885554c8d Clarify autovacuum wording. 2005-09-23 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 01ead29b0c Please find attached a patch which tells about what the spiffy,
integrated autovacuum now does :)

David Fetter
2005-09-23 02:25:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9822c73a9d Mention that autovacuum also needs stats. 2005-09-23 02:06:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18ea8ae531 Attached patch takes a swing at improving the autovacuum wording in
maintenance.sgml.

Robert Treat

[ Also fix create domain markup.]
2005-09-23 02:01:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0135cd88bd Add warning about DOMAINs.
David Fetter
2005-09-22 23:56:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c79671bdbb Add:
> * Allow CREATE INDEX to take an additional parameter for use with
>   special index types
>
2005-09-22 23:54:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ec294fc6cb Move table constraint patch up into the main new features section of the
release notes.
2005-09-22 23:47:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8a64ec6285 Add "basic" for table partitioning. 2005-09-22 23:24:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c37ddf371d Add:
>
> 	  Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT queries in a COPY.
2005-09-22 21:50:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 62da04f8e3 Add:
>
> 	o Allow COPY to output from views
>
2005-09-22 16:01:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 1128f55659 Fix postgresql.conf lexer to accept doubled single quotes in literal
strings.  This is consistent with SQL conventions, and since Bruce
already changed initdb in a way that assumed it worked like this, seems
we'd better make it work like this.
2005-09-21 20:33:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8d86982a11 Merge items:
<   This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.
>   This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.  This is
>   already used by GROUP BY.
946d946
< * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20 20:51:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a34ec0ab4a Fix typo:
< * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by
> * Allow WAL traffic to be streamed to another server for stand-by
2005-09-20 02:21:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7caaf8a022 Add:
> * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20 02:16:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 519d848eb5 Update profile file location. 2005-09-20 01:28:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 32f2cd3f35 Add:
> * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by
>   replication
2005-09-20 00:11:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 78b06948d0 Remove:
< * Research use of sched_yield() for spinlock acquisition failure
2005-09-19 22:32:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 658657177e Print proper cause of statement cancel, user interaction or timeout. 2005-09-19 17:21:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 591a29b398 update timestamp on file. 2005-09-19 15:01:28 +00:00
Tom Lane b98f9898d1 Fix typo in link label, per Evgeny Gridasov. 2005-09-18 04:02:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3743f07a53 Add:
>
1032a1034
> * Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
2005-09-17 12:12:58 +00:00