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6577 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
66fc528d99 Remove somebody's flight of fancy about an UPDATE with ORDER BY and LIMIT. 2006-03-08 22:59:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ce1106d2fa Properly set "escape_string_warning" to default to true. 2006-03-07 02:54:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
135fe1899d SGML typo fix. 2006-03-06 22:54:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c02144731 Done though the second is default so off in 8.2:
> * -Eventually enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings
2006-03-06 22:51:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d69b163247 Attached is the new patch. To summarize:
- new function justify_interval(interval)
   - modified function justify_hours(interval)
   - modified function justify_days(interval)

These functions are defined to meet the requirements as discussed in
this thread.  Specifically:

   - justify_hours makes certain the sign bit on the hours
     matches the sign bit on the days.  It only checks the
     sign bit on the days, and not the months, when
     determining if the hours should be positive or negative.
     After the call, -24 < hours < 24.

   - justify_days makes certain the sign bit on the days
     matches the sign bit on the months.  It's behavior does
     not depend on the hours, nor does it modify the hours.
     After the call, -30 < days < 30.

   - justify_interval makes sure the sign bits on all three
     fields months, days, and hours are all the same.  After
     the call, -24 < hours < 24 AND -30 < days < 30.

Mark Dilger
2006-03-06 22:49:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19c21d115d Enable standard_conforming_strings to be turned on.
Kevin Grittner
2006-03-06 19:49:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebdc35822d Add:
> 	o Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> 	  like CHECK that are inherited by child tables
>
> 	  Dropping constraints should only be possible with CASCADE.
>
2006-03-06 17:10:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2abf8c7719 Update item. 2006-03-06 15:21:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d2eb1d12a0 Add for Win32:
> 	o Check WSACancelBlockingCall() for interrupts (win32intr)
>
2006-03-06 15:19:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07408e841d Add WSACancelBlockingCall TODO.detail item. 2006-03-06 15:19:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e166574a1d Add for ecpg:
> 	o Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling
2006-03-06 15:13:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f01703f90 Update:
< * %Disallow changing sequence characteristics like INCREMENT for SERIAL columns
> * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for SERIAL sequences because pg_dump
>   does not dump the changes
2006-03-06 05:22:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ad126314f Add:
> * %Disallow changing sequence characteristics like INCREMENT for SERIAL columns
2006-03-06 05:16:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d40942a27 in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"

(see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
Table  9-6. "Other String Functions").

Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the
argument",
which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
(although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an
ASCII
code).

Ian Barwick
2006-03-06 04:53:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f9520ac110 Add:
> 	o Port contrib/xml2
2006-03-05 18:28:46 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
5d723d05c0 Prepared queries for PLPerl, plus fixing a small plperl memory leak. Patch
and docs from Dmitry Karasik, slightly editorialised.
2006-03-05 16:40:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2f5b05655 Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts. 2006-03-05 15:59:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5173b1a40f Done:
> 	o -Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
2006-03-05 15:16:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
c1bb2877b2 Improve OS X shared-memory documentation: fix typos and provide a usable
example of /etc/sysctl.conf contents.
2006-03-05 03:50:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
5b8ac71042 Support include directives in postgresql.conf.
Patch by Joachim Wieland, somewhat reworked for clarity and portability.
2006-03-04 22:19:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18bc9ea561 Add:
> * Allow FSM page return free space based on table clustering, to assist
>   in maintaining clustering?
2006-03-04 05:02:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f1d7f80c1a > It doesn't say that only the listed commands acquire ACCESS EXCLUSIVE,
> just that certain commands do.  TRUNCATE isn't shown.

Patch against HEAD to add TRUNCATE to the list of commands that aquire
ACCESS EXCLUSIVE.

Jim C. Nasby, Sr.
2006-03-04 04:41:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
26d6054128 That was a typo in my comment before the code (the nutshell
descriptions after the code are correct). Only shmmax needs to be
multiples of the page size (at least, that's how I interpret the
Darwin code).

Chris Campbell
2006-03-04 03:47:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43e9bab94a Rename Online Backup to Continuous Archiving. 2006-03-03 22:02:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
523adeb111 Teach PQcmdTuples() that a COPY command tag might contain a row count,
and tighten up its sanity checking of the tag as a safety measure.
Volkan Yazici.
2006-03-03 20:57:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f4a4755734 Done:
> * -Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
2006-03-03 20:43:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c776fba1e1 Done:
< 	o %Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
> 	o -Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
2006-03-03 20:37:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
023570f5e3 Make the COPY command return a command tag that includes the number of
rows copied.  Backend side of Volkan Yazici's recent patch, with
corrections and documentation.
2006-03-03 19:54:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
984a6ced3e Add CASCADE option to TRUNCATE. Joachim Wieland 2006-03-03 03:30:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a0ba3f8dd Add:
> * Allow FSM to return free space toward the beginning of the heap file,
>   in hopes that empty pages at the end can be truncated by VACUUM
2006-03-03 03:13:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b35440eae8 Appended is a small documentation patch that adds a note to the CREATE
ROLE page, based on what Tom Lane told me here:

	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00998.php


Joachim Wieland
2006-03-03 03:06:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
66eccb466e Add:
> * Add missing parameter handling in to_char()
>
> 	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-12/msg00948.php
>
2006-03-03 02:38:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d65b4e30f0 Add:
> * Allow to_date() and to_timestamp() accept localized month names
2006-03-03 02:18:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
56aa84a69c Fix ancient error in large objects usage example: overwrite() subroutine
was opening with INV_READ flag and then writing.  Prior to 8.1 the backend
did not reject this, but now it does.
2006-03-02 21:49:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
487b7f5de3 Update OS X shared memory documentation for 10.3.9 and later to use
/etc/sysctl.conf.

Chris Campbell
2006-03-02 20:30:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
33a84bb306 Mark tsearch2 item as Tom's, not Teodor's. 2006-03-02 19:34:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
989d94a171 Update TODO.detail/qsort. 2006-03-02 19:21:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8da308036d Update TODO.detail/qsort. 2006-03-02 19:20:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
85fa9f516c Update TODO.detail/qsort. 2006-03-02 18:20:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1fa33539ab Add to TODO.detail for qsort. 2006-03-02 18:18:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f79df7fcc9 Add:
> * Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
>   value [qsort]
>
>   This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
2006-03-02 18:18:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fe61f0d86 Update text file. 2006-03-01 22:24:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
711c38398e Update patch generation instructions.
Robert Treat
2006-03-01 22:23:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0cb0ec9ed9 Update Japanese FAQ, backpatched to 8.1.X. 2006-03-01 20:31:29 +00:00
Neil Conway
8e5a10d46c This patch makes the error message strings throughout the backend
more compliant with the error message style guide. In particular,
errdetail should begin with a capital letter and end with a period,
whereas errmsg should not. I also fixed a few related issues in
passing, such as fixing the repeated misspelling of "lexeme" in
contrib/tsearch2 (per Tom's suggestion).
2006-03-01 06:30:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87fa10a426 Add pg_service.conf documentation for libpq. 2006-03-01 00:23:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
8e68d78390 Allow the syntax CREATE TYPE foo, with no parameters, to permit explicit
creation of a shell type.  This allows a less hacky way of dealing with
the mutual dependency between a datatype and its I/O functions: make a
shell type, then make the functions, then define the datatype fully.
We should fix pg_dump to handle things this way, but this commit just deals
with the backend.

Martijn van Oosterhout, with some corrections by Tom Lane.
2006-02-28 22:37:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f19339cca Back out libpq changes for service --- not ready yet. 2006-02-28 22:35:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b04d19f230 Fix PG_VERSION_NUM for different awk -F handling. 2006-02-28 22:34:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c6b6f7ad64 Add:
* Split out libpq pgpass and environment documentation sections to make
  it easier for non-developers to find
2006-02-28 19:48:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52d010d857 Done:
> * -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
2006-02-26 21:22:47 +00:00
Neil Conway
c5e0415a28 Minor SGML work: add some more hyperlinks, where appropriate. 2006-02-26 03:20:46 +00:00
Neil Conway
f33d3bc0bf TODO updates:
- "Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" is done

- "Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types" is done

- "Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)" is done:
  AFAIK there are no remaining gcc4 compiler warnings to be fixed.

- Creating rules to do view updates is *not* an easy TODO item
2006-02-26 01:21:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
305c82e6bb Add intervals:
> 	o Allow infinite dates and intervals just like infinite timestamps
2006-02-25 16:34:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c71af130c Fix computation of sample table size. 2006-02-25 04:28:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8e8972832a Remove duplicate:
< 	o %Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
2006-02-25 03:40:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0915d370f5 Remove mention of MIN/MAX() not using indexes. 2006-02-24 14:59:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb8f9cc066 Mention that the archive history file has the wal start/stop file names. 2006-02-24 14:03:01 +00:00
Neil Conway
85c0eac1af Add TABLESPACE and ON COMMIT clauses to CREATE TABLE AS. ON COMMIT is
required by the SQL standard, and TABLESPACE is useful functionality.
Patch from Kris Jurka, minor editorialization by Neil Conway.
2006-02-19 00:04:28 +00:00
Neil Conway
8c5dfbabff Minor SGML style police work. 2006-02-18 23:14:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1b658473ea Add support for Windows codepages 1253, 1254, 1255, and 1257 and clean
up a bunch of the support utilities.

In src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode remove nearly duplicate copies of the
UCS_to_XXX perl script and replace with one version to handle all generic
files.  Update the Makefile so that it knows about all the map files.
This produces a slight difference in some of the map files, using a
uniform naming convention and not mapping the null character.

In src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs create a master utf8<->win
codepage function like the ISO 8859 versions instead of having a separate
handler for each conversion.

There is an externally visible change in the name of the win1258 to utf8
conversion.  According to the documentation notes, it was named
incorrectly and this changes it to a standard name.

Running the Unicode mapping perl scripts has shown some additional mapping
changes in koi8r and iso8859-7.
2006-02-18 16:15:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
422998d275 Put the first section of a chapter in its own chunk. 2006-02-16 01:03:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
99b384b8b6 Document that GRANT on a table does not affect sequence permissions,
inclusing SERIAL column sequences.
2006-02-14 03:32:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e93b33754c Document that xact commit/abort stats are collected if any stat variable
is set.
2006-02-14 02:03:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
d537e0b41b Improve documentation of --single-transaction option: fix markup, and
don't promise more than the code actually delivers.
2006-02-13 21:29:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
589b67d34b Add:
>
> 	o Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses
>
> 	  Host name lookup could occur when the postmaster reads the
> 	  pg_hba.conf file, or when the backend starts.  Another
> 	  solution would be to reverse lookup the connection IP and
> 	  check that hostname against the host names in pg_hba.conf.
> 	  We could also then check that the host name maps to the IP
> 	  address.
2006-02-13 03:55:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
47a048f3f3 Update release notes. 2006-02-12 22:35:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
1ac1526ea0 Fix broken markup. 2006-02-12 20:31:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3694e70682 Not done:
> 	o %Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
2006-02-12 19:13:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04a2b54c09 Revert patch becaues of locking concerns:
Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME

Joachim Wieland
2006-02-12 19:11:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
92a26489ac > Actually, if you submit a patch that says either "SCROLL is the
default"
> or "NO SCROLL is the default", it will be rejected as incorrect.  The
> reason is that the default behavior is different from either of these,
> as is explained in the NOTES section.

Ok, so *that's* where the bit about the query plan being simple enough.
Based on that, ISTM that it should be premissable for us to decide that
a cursor requiring a sort isn't "simple enough" to support SCROLL.

In any case, here's a patch that makes the non-standard behavior easier
for people to find.

Jim C. Nasby
2006-02-12 19:02:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0bbd470443 Fix release item ordering. 2006-02-12 18:13:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6df2da06bd Update back branch release notes. 2006-02-12 17:57:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a321d6755f Fix release markup. 2006-02-12 17:27:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cffed790ec Update for 8.1.3. 2006-02-12 17:15:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
720bad3b32 Update release notes for 8.1.3. 2006-02-12 17:10:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
20b508308a Done:
> * -Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
2006-02-12 06:51:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
15c72174f3 Apply code-reviewed version of for-scalar-list patch: mostly, fixing
it to report reasonable errors in error cases.
2006-02-12 06:37:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
58634caa0f Add MSVC support for utility commands and pg_dump.
Hiroshi Saito
2006-02-12 06:11:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
025ffe586f Allow PL/pgSQL FOR statement to return values to scalars as well as
records and row types.

Pavel Stehule
2006-02-12 06:03:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
136c3b87ac Done:
> * -Allow to_char() to print localized month names
2006-02-12 04:44:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f695750c43 Allow to_char() to print localized month and day names.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-02-12 04:44:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0f57851e31 Add psql option:
-1 or --single-transaction

Simon Riggs
2006-02-12 04:04:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3884ede663 Done:
> * -Add system view to show free space map contents
2006-02-12 03:56:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f9a726aa88 I've created a new shared catalog table pg_shdescription to store
comments on cluster global objects like databases, tablespaces, and
roles.

It touches a lot of places, but not much in the way of big changes.  The
only design decision I made was to duplicate the query and manipulation
functions rather than to try and have them handle both shared and local
comments.  I believe this is simpler for the code and not an issue for
callers because they know what type of object they are dealing with.
This has resulted in a shobj_description function analagous to
obj_description and backend functions [Create/Delete]SharedComments
mirroring the existing [Create/Delete]Comments functions.

pg_shdescription.h goes into src/include/catalog/

Kris Jurka
2006-02-12 03:22:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07bae9c099 Please find enclosed a patch that lets you use \c to connect
(optionally) to a new host and port without exiting psql.  This
eliminates, IMHO, a surprise in that you can now connect to PostgreSQL
on a differnt machine from the one where you started your session. This
should help people who use psql as an administrative tool.

David Fetter
2006-02-12 02:54:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
fd267c1ebc Skip ambulkdelete scan if there's nothing to delete and the index is not
partial.  None of the existing AMs do anything useful except counting
tuples when there's nothing to delete, and we can get a tuple count
from the heap as long as it's not a partial index.  (hash actually can
skip anyway because it maintains a tuple count in the index metapage.)
GIST is not currently able to exploit this optimization because, due to
failure to index NULLs, GIST is always effectively partial.  Possibly
we should fix that sometime.
Simon Riggs w/ some review by Tom Lane.
2006-02-11 23:31:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a02f6ce33b Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
Joachim Wieland
2006-02-11 22:17:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3fcb38f031 Done:
> 	o -Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
2006-02-11 22:17:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97d37b7a22 Done:
< 	o Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements
> 	o -Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements
2006-02-11 21:55:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
642c8cc470 Done:
> * -Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or
2006-02-11 03:33:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1372515271 Add INET/CIDR operators: and, or, not, plus int8, minus int8, and inet
minus inet.

Stephen R. van den Berg
2006-02-11 03:32:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
af03b689dd Done:
< 	o Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns
> 	o -Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns
2006-02-10 04:14:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
7ae2ccbc85 Reject out-of-range dates in date_in().
Kris Jurka
2006-02-09 03:39:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
15be0b8cd1 Remove question mark:
< * %Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column?
> * %Disallow changing default expression of a SERIAL column
2006-02-07 14:49:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04a942e31e Split up wal-logging items:
< * Allow control over which tables are WAL-logged [walcontrol]
> * Allow WAL logging to be turned off for a table, but the table
>   might be dropped or truncated during crash recovery [walcontrol]
<   commit.  To do this, only a single writer can modify the table, and
<   writes must happen only on new pages.  Readers can continue accessing
<   the table.  This would affect COPY, and perhaps INSERT/UPDATE too.
<   Another option is to avoid transaction logging entirely and truncate
<   or drop the table on crash recovery.  These should be implemented
<   using ALTER TABLE, e.g. ALTER TABLE PERSISTENCE [ DROP | TRUNCATE |
<   STABLE | DEFAULT ].  Tables using non-default logging should not use
<   referential integrity with default-logging tables, and tables using
<   stable logging probably can not have indexes.  One complexity is
<   the handling of indexes on TOAST tables.
>   commit.  This should be implemented using ALTER TABLE, e.g. ALTER
>   TABLE PERSISTENCE [ DROP | TRUNCATE | DEFAULT ].  Tables using
>   non-default logging should not use referential integrity with
>   default-logging tables.  A table without dirty buffers during a
>   crash could perhaps avoid the drop/truncate.
>
> * Allow WAL logging to be turned off for a table, but the table would
>   avoid being truncated/dropped [walcontrol]
>
>   To do this, only a single writer can modify the table, and writes
>   must happen only on new pages so the new pages can be removed during
>   crash recovery.  Readers can continue accessing the table.  Such
>   tables probably cannot have indexes.  One complexity is the handling
>   of indexes on TOAST tables.
2006-02-07 02:08:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
db5e39b2f0 Fix typo in configuration docs.
Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-02-05 18:19:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
354213c7f4 Update PL/pgSQL trigger example to be clearer about how to "merge" data
into a table.

Jim C. Nasby
2006-02-05 02:47:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
3893127431 Fix constraint exclusion to work in inherited UPDATE/DELETE queries
... in fact, it will be applied now in any query whatsoever.  I'm still
a bit concerned about the cycles that might be expended in failed proof
attempts, but given that CE is turned off by default, it's the user's
choice whether to expend those cycles or not.  (Possibly we should
change the simple bool constraint_exclusion parameter to something
more fine-grained?)
2006-02-04 23:03:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
48d9ad3722 Fix broken markup. 2006-02-04 22:38:39 +00:00