Bruce Momjian
2ccf79a6a1
Remove FAQ mention of DROP column.
2005-02-01 01:41:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
25deba3141
Update LIMIT/FETCH FAQ item.
2005-02-01 01:36:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
14f5c84589
Update connections FAQ item.
2005-02-01 00:19:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c86f0e174
Fix markup typo.
2005-01-31 22:59:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1b2ebc591c
Update debeug FAQ.
2005-01-31 22:58:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d96398d1eb
Restructure debug FAQ entry.
2005-01-31 22:57:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1f7aa643b6
Reorganize FAQ entry on performance.
2005-01-31 20:40:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7069a885af
Update admin tools FAQ.
2005-01-31 02:45:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2149b54f1c
Update PHP mention.
2005-01-31 02:43:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cd63e08f86
Remove "Support" FAQ item. We now have a tab on our web site.
2005-01-31 02:40:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18013e25c6
Wording improvement.
2005-01-31 02:19:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
131ff4e5cd
Reorder support FAQ items.
2005-01-31 02:17:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
14f3fb610d
Update section to mention developer's FAQ.
2005-01-31 02:09:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
83d8591081
Mention releases are every 10-12 months now.
2005-01-31 01:59:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e688443cbf
Simplify FAQ item about obtaining support.
2005-01-31 01:53:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0a12c53385
Clarify license FAQ item.
2005-01-31 01:38:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
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
Tom Lane
0c109c7187
Recommend security@postgresql.org as the contact point for security-related bugs.
2005-01-30 21:31:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
790c666931
Update FAQ text file.
2005-01-30 04:45:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
60d6f49a47
FAQ markup fixes.
2005-01-30 04:44:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
576853a79a
Fix ampersand in URL.
2005-01-30 04:25:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d79f2d4036
Remove IN/slow FAQ item because it only applies to <=7.3.X.
2005-01-30 04:20:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bfc536217d
Remove GEQO and Rtree FAQ items.
2005-01-30 04:16:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4c8a690d54
More index item rewording.kUpdate FAQ.
2005-01-30 04:06:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bbefccec09
Reword index/slow query item.
2005-01-30 04:05:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97052bc9c9
Remove FAQ item about binary cursors.
2005-01-30 04:03:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
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
Bruce Momjian
93e1795404
Merge two Interfaces FAQ items into one.
2005-01-30 03:52:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a3b7d45807
Merge unix and non-unix platform faq items, and remove Y2K item.
2005-01-30 02:22:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
811df91340
Update OID item description.
2005-01-30 02:06:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
750d9171f6
Add documentation for format_type(), which somehow escaped it before.
2005-01-28 23:12:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
4de12d4470
Add docs for a couple of formerly-undocumented geometric conversion functions.
2005-01-26 20:42:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
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
Bruce Momjian
754b5e1c42
More < and > changes to ampersands.
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8.0.X and HEAD.
2005-01-22 23:22:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ced129aa3
More < and > cleanups converted to ampersands.
2005-01-22 22:56:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e292e3e48
More fixes for => and ->, use proper ampersand markups.
2005-01-22 22:31:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
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
Bruce Momjian
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
Bruce Momjian
a73198ac17
Document that Rekall is GPL now.
2005-01-19 19:45:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d19d8b846
Add:
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> * Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
2005-01-19 14:17:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3fc86c0f47
Fix typo.
2005-01-19 03:13:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
31197bbdf5
Update version stamps for 8.1 as listed in RELEASE_CHANGES.
2005-01-18 05:00:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Bruce Momjian
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
Neil Conway
8a9cc26ee1
Fix minor thinko in pg_dump documentation of "-n" option.
2005-01-17 04:30:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
691bb1d247
Spelling fix.
2005-01-17 04:27:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
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
Bruce Momjian
56d982b7d4
Mention ALTER COLUMN TYPE in FAQ.
2005-01-17 03:02:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5be1e13dd1
Update German FAQ.
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Ian Barwick
2005-01-17 02:42:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d2136690a6
Update to 8.0.0 for packaging.
2005-01-17 02:40:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
637cf69b9d
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-17 02:29:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
9175d7df66
Some more copy-editing.
2005-01-17 01:29:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da10a47b39
Remove </a>
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Alvaro
2005-01-15 22:51:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d3746759d
Update TORA item.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:44:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6987ca78db
Update Brazilian FAQ.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:14:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
a5645972af
Some minor editing work on the release notes.
2005-01-15 21:11:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
0e3afb3277
Minor improvements in descriptions of recent changes.
2005-01-15 07:53:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
67c1fd1efd
Update release notes for 8.0.0 final. Release date set as 2005-01-19!
2005-01-15 05:59:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b72ebdc0c
Merge query of system objects FAQ items.
2005-01-15 05:19:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
893c66de69
Simplify trigger example, per Mark Kirkwood.
2005-01-15 03:38:44 +00:00
Kris Jurka
2c1abfd979
Add index entries for function volatilities.
2005-01-14 21:46:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
a294726bc1
Incorporate examples and doc patches from Mark Kirkwood and David Fetter.
2005-01-14 01:16:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
29e58330a6
Change Win32 client configuration files from *.txt to *.conf.
2005-01-14 00:25:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
145cc515f0
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-13 21:13:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2eef62c66
Update of Japanese FAQ.
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Jun Kuwamura
2005-01-13 03:08:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
89b5cbe928
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-10 09:01:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
35fde297c0
Small polishing of bug reporting template
2005-01-10 08:21:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
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
Bruce Momjian
a9566cccca
Update OS/2 URL.
2005-01-09 19:44:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
7da8623a56
Last batch of updates in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.
2005-01-09 18:58:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
7bbdb078bd
Update discussion of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, per Michael Fuhr.
2005-01-09 17:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
b548cde1f5
Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.
2005-01-09 05:57:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5adf46cbd
Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments.
2005-01-08 22:13:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b19011e10c
Update supported platforms list.
2005-01-08 09:54:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Bruce Momjian
cb6eab78b7
Remove mp3 that is now missing.
2005-01-08 03:59:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
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
Tom Lane
4e64e7f563
Improve discussion of SQL functions taking/returning row types.
2005-01-07 22:40:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7a986fb4a4
Update supported platforms list
2005-01-07 10:21:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
826f732562
Fix ECPGstatus() documentation of parameters.
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Edmund Bacon
2005-01-07 05:43:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
41ca756386
Spell APPDATA as %APPDATA%, per recommendation from Magnus.
2005-01-06 21:20:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
7507d594d2
Adjust examples to avoid using keywords as identifiers, per Honda Shigehiro.
2005-01-06 20:53:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
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
Peter Eisentraut
f4833cf30c
Update to supported platforms list
2005-01-06 10:12:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
d6294efbec
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2005-01-06 01:49:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
e0b9085074
Re-readjust synopses for CREATE/ALTER USER.
2005-01-06 00:11:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
81c41e3d0e
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2005-01-05 23:42:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b4b984bccf
Update URL's to point to new site main location.
2005-01-05 22:37:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a87f494d9c
Fix example, change table name from 'array' to 'array_int'.
2005-01-05 18:03:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a8d97fcded
Update date stamp.
2005-01-05 17:52:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7ef12f56a
Update URLs.
2005-01-05 17:42:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8c6147b911
Revert cosmetic synopsis changes that break psql translations.
2005-01-05 14:22:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
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