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Tom Lane
fa3d622cb0 Clarify description of CIDR-address column of pg_hba.conf, to discourage
people from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does
not mean what you probably think.  Per example from Paul Forgey.
2006-11-17 23:25:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e1693e514c Rename replication section "High Availability and Load Balancing". 2006-11-17 16:38:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc9698254c Data Partitioning documentation section reduced and moved to the end. 2006-11-17 13:29:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
42cfdfb453 Fix a typo. 2006-11-17 09:00:03 +00:00
Michael Meskes
4b8049b815 Fixed small typo, missing 'l' in 'Cluserting' 2006-11-17 08:46:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
be4dbd9b26 Remove a bunch of antique information from the appendix in the docs
that discusses CVS. Remove the recommendation to use cvs 1.10. Remove
discussion of alleged CVSup binaries on postgresql.org, because they
have not existed for several years. Remove discussion of how to
build cvsup from source because the existing text is outdated, and
more accurate information is available from the CVSup homepage.
2006-11-17 05:29:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
58a7efa03b Use more standard terms for replication, ideas from Markus Schiltknecht. 2006-11-17 04:52:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8a6193333c Mention two-phase commit for having all transactions commit on all servers. 2006-11-16 21:45:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a1e5b5c832 Reconfigure failover/replication doc items to be varlist entries, rather
than new sections, so they appear all on the same web page.
2006-11-16 21:43:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c7a6046a59 Clarify replication items, and define some terms. 2006-11-16 18:25:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b7cef5fb3 Improve broadcast wording for failover/clustering documentation. 2006-11-15 01:09:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9497454ca6 Add URL for case identifiers.
<
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php
2006-11-14 22:26:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0fc2947729 Fix xrefs for failover changes. 2006-11-14 22:25:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca21417a34 Update failover docs, per suggestions from Chris Browne. 2006-11-14 21:43:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
77f24a46b7 Fix URL for patch hold queue. 2006-11-14 04:18:55 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
751e3e6bd8 Force plperl and plperlu to run in separate interpreters. Create an error
on an attempt to create the second interpreter if this is not supported by
the perl installation. Per recent -hackers discussion.
2006-11-13 17:13:57 +00:00
Neil Conway
f49baa73ef Do a round of copy-editing for the system catalog chapter. In particular,
consistently capitalize the content of the "Description" column but do
not include a terminating period, as is the convention elsewhere in the
docs. Also, remove the "References" column from catalog that do not
have any referencing columns, for the sake of brevity. Make various
other SGML and grammar fixes.
2006-11-12 06:25:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
2b5fedc0d7 Minor improvements to the description of archive_timeout. 2006-11-12 05:12:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
792d6edd5b Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon. 2006-11-10 22:32:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
1456c5b507 Improve formatting of PQexecParams argument descriptions, per
Theo Kramer.
2006-11-10 22:15:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
2c2faa17f2 Emphasize that immutable and stable functions are not allowed to modify
the database.  xfunc.sgml was already pretty definite on the point, but
it doesn't hurt to make it clear here too.
2006-11-10 20:52:18 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
9b3aee524f Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ... 2006-11-07 17:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
9c3f24bb46 Update release notes in preparation for RC1. 2006-11-06 17:00:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
48188e1621 Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularly
in PITR scenarios.  We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with
FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to
PITR slave databases.  Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be
preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to
have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId.  Add new GUC variables and
pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that
users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work
done.  Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables
approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the
autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather
than per-database.  initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database,
and pg_autovacuum catalogs.  Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-11-05 22:42:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
10c70b8602 Add note about space usage of 'manual' approach to clustering, per
suggestion from Sergey Koposov.  Also some other minor editing.
2006-11-04 19:03:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
6fada49805 Correct documentation error: in 8.1 and 8.2, %p in archive and restore
command strings inserts relative not absolute path of file to process.
This is a side-effect of 2005-07-04 change that makes the server use
relative paths in general.  Noted by Bernd Helmle.
2006-11-04 18:20:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
17a814ca02 Mention 'void' as the proper return type when there's nothing to
return, per suggestion from Joachim Wieland.
2006-11-03 07:17:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e63445d59 Fix misstatement about the results of using -1 with BEGIN. 2006-10-31 02:29:15 +00:00
Neil Conway
bc4b856e7b Add text to the VACUUM, REINDEX, DROP TABLESPACE and CREATE TABLESPACE
reference pages documenting that these commands cannot be used within
a transaction block. Also make some minor improvements to the psql
reference page. Patch from Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by
myself.
2006-10-31 01:52:31 +00:00
Neil Conway
e45edb35e1 Fix typo in backup docs. Patch from Euler Taveira de Oliveira. 2006-10-30 00:08:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27163e3872 Fix typo in docs. 2006-10-27 12:40:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50f479a112 Fix spelling mistake in docs. 2006-10-26 17:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75f0655345 Add missing file for documentation section on failover, replication,
load balancing, and clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2cbdb5522b Add documentation section on failover, replication, load balancing, and
clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:26:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9601745d35 Correctino, add URL on :
* Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*)
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b1ccefe72 Add URL for:
* Speed up COUNT(*)
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:41:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
cfb3a42831 Rewrite discussion of ORDER BY to emphasize the SQL99 expression case
instead of the SQL92 output-column-ID case.
2006-10-24 02:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
66f5264a2e Stamp 8.2beta2. 2006-10-23 22:50:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0ff4352d7a Add some real descriptions to the multiargument aggregate functions rather
than just showing the incomprehensible formulas.
2006-10-23 19:57:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
28b14b034a Fix broken markup. 2006-10-23 19:29:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0f763503ff Spellchecking and such 2006-10-23 18:10:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
033cb9d30b Fix list of environment variables for configure. Remove some variables
that are almost never used.  Put documentation-related variables into the
documentation chapter.
2006-10-23 14:13:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa5d08fbf8 Some desultory copy-editing. 2006-10-22 03:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
ed19393326 Some marginal editorial improvements and updates in the tutorial. 2006-10-21 23:12:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
890ce3975e Further release-note editorialization. 2006-10-21 18:41:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
425417d498 Editorial improvements for recent plpython doc updates. 2006-10-21 18:33:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
90f53d8487 Update PQserverVersion() to use 8.1.X as an example, rather than 7.4
because the function didn't exist in 7.4.X.
2006-10-21 18:25:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7701718b2 Update release notes for new pgcrypto additions.
Marko Kreen
2006-10-21 18:15:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
944c4e3feb Add URL for async I/O:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00820.php
2006-10-21 17:31:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
a003bd07f3 Rewrite discussion of string constant syntax to bring it into line with
the politically correct view that backslash escapes are deprecated.
2006-10-21 17:12:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
c9c1c4edf2 Make index entry more specific. 2006-10-21 17:10:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
554032b3e4 Update release notes to current, and do a pass of editorial corrections. 2006-10-20 23:02:20 +00:00
Neil Conway
8b175c75a8 Minor doc tweak: make a reference to pg_locks into a link. 2006-10-20 20:35:13 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
b0b9bedf8d Fix typo. 2006-10-20 16:34:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
0549ba82e3 Clarify note about interaction of log_statement logging with errors.
Remove obsolete note about logging of statements generated by plpgsql
function execution ... that doesn't happen anymore.
2006-10-19 22:55:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bc1f9b334 Remove qsort TODO.detail. All items completed. 2006-10-19 19:59:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a60af96a00 Done:
< * Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
<   value [qsort]
<
<   This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
<
2006-10-19 19:58:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
877f08da14 Fix up timetz input so that a date is required only when the specified
timezone actually has a daylight-savings rule.  This avoids breaking
cases that used to work because they went through the DecodePosixTimezone
code path.  Per contrib regression failures (mea culpa for not running
those yesterday...).  Also document the already-applied change to allow
GMT offsets up to 14 hours.
2006-10-18 16:43:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
723f716be0 Fix array operator refererence in release notes, per David Wheeler. 2006-10-18 03:53:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
022fd99668 Fix up some problems in handling of zic-style time zone names in datetime
input routines.  Remove the former "DecodePosixTimezone" function in favor of
letting the zic code handle POSIX-style zone specs (see tzparse()).  In
particular this means that "PST+3" now means the same as "-03", whereas it
used to mean "-11" --- the zone abbreviation is effectively just a noise word
in this syntax.  Make sure that all named and POSIX-style zone names will be
parsed as a single token.  Fix long-standing bogosities in printing and input
of fractional-hour timezone offsets (since the tzparse() code will accept
these, we'd better make 'em work).  Also correct an error in the original
coding of the zic-zone-name patch: in "timestamp without time zone" input,
zone names are supposed to be allowed but ignored, but the coding was such
that the zone changed the interpretation anyway.
2006-10-17 21:03:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d58f09e6b3 Mark 8.2 release as 2006-??, not 2005-??, per observation by David
Wheeler.
2006-10-17 20:17:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
47fecaf504 Attached files fix the link problem in FAQ_DEV.html, remove some parts
related to website development and change the link to the FAQ_DEV.html.

Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-17 12:54:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10d9bbaf01 Fixes for CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page.
Michael Paesold
2006-10-17 12:53:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
0b35b01e7a Arrange for timezone names to be recognized case-insensitively; for
example SET TIME ZONE 'america/new_york' works now.  This seems a good
idea on general user-friendliness grounds, and is part of the solution
to the timestamp-input parsing problems I noted recently.
2006-10-16 19:58:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a2ebf81913 CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page wording improvements.
Michael Paesold
2006-10-16 19:33:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52831f7911 Update to CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page.
Michael Glaesemann
2006-10-16 19:30:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2e7da1f62 I updated RPM related parts in FAQ_DEV against HEAD to be more current.
Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-16 19:03:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
389fad1e6b Remove use of '<' and '>' in SGML, use '&' escapes.
Update find_gt_lt to allow grep parameters to be passed into it.
2006-10-16 17:28:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87eed2e3e1 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-10-15 03:10:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fdbe9facdc FAQ updates --- This is a small cosmetic patch that adds pt_BR IRC
channel to the lists of IRC channels, fixes a typo in the OID's
question, and corrects the PGCluster's project name.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-10-14 23:08:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
1314983fd3 Code review for --no-data-for-failed-tables patch. Instead of trashing
one of the program's core data structures, make use of the existing
ability to selectively exclude TOC items by ID.  Slightly more code but
much less likely to create future maintenance problems.
2006-10-14 23:07:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
f58eac82ee Code and docs review for ALTER TABLE INHERIT/NO INHERIT patch. 2006-10-13 21:43:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d63ddfb872 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-10-13 17:29:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
7de6cf2743 Fix typo in version number. 2006-10-13 15:24:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
efa0e8639f Remove:
< 	o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
< 	  DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
2006-10-12 22:33:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab1cec93c5 Add url's for hints:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00517.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00663.php
2006-10-12 21:40:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ee7c794c7 Add:
> 	o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
> 	  DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
2006-10-12 21:29:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
bfc6e9c970 Make some incremental improvements and fixes to the documentation on
Continuous Archiving. Plenty of editorial work remains...
2006-10-12 19:38:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c9983889a Update release notes for SQL functions vs triggers fix. 2006-10-12 19:25:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
7055867a01 In the installation docs, add some links to the documentation on LDAP
to the discussion of the "--with-ldap" configure option. Patch from
Albe Laurenz.
2006-10-12 18:49:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
953c85646e A bit of copy-editing on back-branch release notes. 2006-10-11 20:55:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4e46f4799e Cleanup pass 2006-10-10 22:19:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
16795b9899 Update FAQ for latest release 8.1.5. 2006-10-10 00:28:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
24e9752863 Revise psql pattern-matching switches as per discussion. The rule is now
to process all inclusion switches then all exclusion switches, so that the
behavior is independent of switch ordering.
Use of -T does not cause non-table objects to be suppressed.  And
the patterns are now interpreted the same way psql's \d commands do it,
rather than as pure regex commands; this allows for example -t schema.tab
to do what it should have been doing all along.  Re-enable the --blobs
switch to do something useful, ie, add back blobs into a dump they were
otherwise suppressed from.
2006-10-09 23:36:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
77d2b1b625 Improve description of the pattern matching rules used by psql's \d
commands (and soon by pg_dump).
2006-10-09 23:31:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d9dddd1100 Update release notes for releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5. 2006-10-09 23:23:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
842c00776b Updated keyword table for 8.2 2006-10-08 20:51:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
92fb5edbc1 Update multi-line editing wording in release notes. 2006-10-08 19:18:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
978ddf65ed In release notes, mention that multi-line history saving does not work
on Win32.
2006-10-08 18:15:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa198e5f14 Simplify <link> regex cleanup code. 2006-10-07 23:48:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dc1e047baf Allow HISTORY/history.html to be generated by removing <link> elements,
per suggestion from Peter.  Without this, the main doc links prevent
those files from being built.
2006-10-07 23:28:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ddbbe95fe In release notes, always use </link> rather than </>. 2006-10-07 22:06:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2b25e1169f The -X option in pg_dump was supposed to be a workaround for the lack of
portable long options.  But we have had portable long options for a long
time now, so this is obsolete.  Now people have added options which *only*
work with -X but not as regular long option, so I'm putting a stop to this:
-X is deprecated; it still works, but it has been removed from the
documentation, and please don't add more of them.
2006-10-07 20:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
71a6f8b85b On platforms that have getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK), use it to ensure that
max_stack_depth is not set to an unsafe value.

This commit also provides configure-time checking for <sys/resource.h>,
and cleans up some perhaps-unportable code associated with use of that
include file and getrlimit().
2006-10-07 19:25:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc1d55b74b Remove tabs added accidentally. 2006-10-07 03:32:28 +00:00
Neil Conway
9c53544950 Fix a typo. 2006-10-07 03:17:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
611b4c59c7 Add main documentation link tags to the release notes. 2006-10-07 02:18:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2332ea1e9 Add indenting to Solaris FAQ, for clarity. 2006-10-05 03:13:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b680a1d9ad Update DB2X texinfo example code.
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-05 02:04:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6fa875d7ce Update Solaris FAQ.
Zdenek Kotala
2006-10-04 22:03:22 +00:00