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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane 7ca3a0f3e2 Whack some sense into the configuration-file-location patch.
Refactor code into something reasonably understandable, cause
use of the feature to not fail in standalone backends or in
EXEC_BACKEND case, fix sloppy guc.c table entries, make the
documentation minimally usable.
2004-10-08 01:36:36 +00:00
Tom Lane e7cb681618 Adjust obsolete comment about memory needs for lock table. 2004-09-28 21:19:30 +00:00
Neil Conway a3c53c834f This patch from Alvaro Herrera adds transaction ID to the list of
log_line_prefix escapes. The escape sequence used for this is %x.
%x previously meant "postmaster et al. stop here" -- this has been
renamed to %q.
2004-09-22 03:55:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 9332d0baba Documentation improvements, per Josh Berkus. 2004-09-20 17:53:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 8c603f2c95 Replace log_filename_prefix with more general log_filename parameter,
to allow DBA to choose the form in which log filenames reflect the
current time.  Also allow for truncating instead of appending to
pre-existing files --- this is convenient when the log filename pattern
rewrites the same names cyclically.  Per Ed L.
2004-08-31 04:53:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 10249abfa1 Cleanup Win32 COPY handling, and move archive examples to SGML. 2004-08-12 19:03:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6525b42b10 Add make_native_path() because Win32 COPY is an internal CMD.EXE command
and doesn't process forward slashes in the same way as external
commands.  Quoting the first argument to COPY does not convert forward
to backward slashes, but COPY does properly process quoted forward
slashes in the second argument.

Win32 COPY works with quoted forward slashes in the first argument only if the
current directory is the same as the directory of the first argument.
2004-08-12 18:32:52 +00:00
Tom Lane dc199eafa7 Document background writer control parameters, do some editorial work
on other recent changes in runtime parameter list.
2004-08-08 19:42:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d5fc378f32 Disable vacuum delay, as discussed on hackers. 2004-08-08 15:37:06 +00:00
Jan Wieck ddb25082f3 Vacuum delay activated by default.
Jan
2004-08-07 03:08:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian deb15b55b1 Document delay as 0, per Matthew T. O'Connor 2004-08-07 01:04:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0307c09cf5 Rename vacuum_cost_naptime to vacuum_cost_delay, with agreement from Jan. 2004-08-06 04:15:09 +00:00
Tom Lane bdf8ef6925 Create a built-in log rotation program, so that we no longer have to
recommend that people go get Apache's rotatelogs program.  Additional
benefits are that configuration is done through GUC, rather than
externally, and that the postmaster can monitor the log rotator and
restart it after failure (though we certainly hope that won't happen
often).
Andreas Pflug, some rework by Tom Lane.
2004-08-05 23:32:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7a55ba7615 Back out pg_autovacuum commit after cvs clean failure causes commit. 2004-07-21 20:34:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8dec0c1bf2 lease find enclosed a patch that matches the PL/Perl documentation
(fairly closely, I hope) to the current PL/Perl implementation.

David Fetter
2004-07-21 20:23:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 66ec2db728 XLOG file archiving and point-in-time recovery. There are still some
loose ends and a glaring lack of documentation, but it basically works.

Simon Riggs with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2004-07-19 02:47:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5ff9566686 Remove postgresql.conf of 'info' as a valid client_min_messages level. 2004-07-11 21:48:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 130f89e93f Allow configuration files to be placed outside the data directory.
Add new postgresql.conf variables to point to data, pg_hba.conf, and
pg_ident.conf files.

Needs more documentation.
2004-07-11 00:18:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6a25c6e1d1 > >>1. change the type of "log_statement" option from boolean to string,
> >>with allowed values of "all, mod, ddl, none" with default "none".

OK, here is a patch that implements #1.  Here is sample output:

        test=> set client_min_messages = 'log';
        SET
        test=> set log_statement = 'mod';
        SET
        test=> select 1;
         ?column?
        ----------
                1
        (1 row)

        test=> update test set x=1;
        LOG:  statement: update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> update test set x=1;
        LOG:  statement: update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> copy test from '/tmp/x';
        LOG:  statement: copy test from '/tmp/x';
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> copy test to  '/tmp/x';
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> prepare xx as select 1;
        PREPARE
        test=> prepare xx as update x set y=1;
        LOG:  statement: prepare xx as update x set y=1;
        ERROR:  relation "x" does not exist
        test=> explain analyze select 1;;
                                             QUERY PLAN
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Result  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.006..0.007 rows=1 loops=1)
         Total runtime: 0.046 ms
        (2 rows)

        test=> explain analyze update test set x=1;
        LOG:  statement: explain analyze update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> explain update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist

It checks PREPARE and EXECUTE ANALYZE too.  The log_statement values are
'none', 'mod', 'ddl', and 'all'.  For 'all', it prints before the query
is parsed, and for ddl/mod, it does it right after parsing using the
node tag (or command tag for CREATE/ALTER/DROP), so any non-parse errors
will print after the log line.
2004-04-07 05:05:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6165bbab8c Remove 'syslog' GUC variable, and add more logical 'log_destination'
variable to control logoutput location on Unix and Win32.

Magnus Hagander
2004-04-05 03:02:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 8899a2aba9 Replace max_expr_depth parameter with a max_stack_depth parameter that
is measured in kilobytes and checked against actual physical execution
stack depth, as per my proposal of 30-Dec.  This gives us a fairly
bulletproof defense against crashing due to runaway recursive functions.
2004-03-24 22:40:29 +00:00
Neil Conway 017e3e244a Fix some whitespace formatting, and remove an overly-verbose
parameter description: postgresql.conf is not the place for
documentating the functionality of a GUC var.
2004-03-24 03:22:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 2e45c143ef Replace the virtual_host and tcpip_socket parameters with a unified
listen_addresses parameter, as per recent discussion.  The default behavior
is now to listen on localhost, which eliminates the need for the -i
postmaster switch in many scenarios.

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-23 01:23:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d6b57925ca Remove GUC log_statement, log_pid, log_timestamp, log_source_port.
Functionality superceeded by log_line_prefix.

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-15 15:56:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2d3fe86bc4 Add:
#log_line_prefix = ''         # e.g. '<%u%%%d> '
                              # %u=user name %d=database name
                              # %r=remote host and port
                              # %p=PID %t=timestamp %i=command tag
                              # %c=session id %l=session line number
                              # %s=session start timestamp
                              # %x=stop here in non-session processes
                              # %%='%'

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-09 04:43:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c53611e3e7 This patch brings up to date what I did last year (now unfortunately
bitrotted) to allow the logging of the end of a session, enabled by
the config setting "log_disconnections".

Andrew Dunstan
2004-02-17 03:54:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d372bba02d Change may -> might, and remove an extra tab. 2004-02-16 23:07:57 +00:00
Jan Wieck f425b605f4 Cost based vacuum delay feature.
Jan
2004-02-06 19:36:18 +00:00
Jan Wieck 8d09e25693 Backing out the background writer sync() option.
Jan
2004-02-04 01:24:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 391c3811a2 Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.
Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints
use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit.
Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their
old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
2004-02-03 17:34:04 +00:00
Jan Wieck d77b63b17c Added GUC variable bgwriter_flush_method controlling the action
done by the background writer between writing dirty blocks and
napping.

    none (default)   no action
	sync             bgwriter calls smgrsync() causing a sync(2)

A global sync() is only good on dedicated database servers, so
more flush methods should be added in the future.

Jan
2004-01-24 20:00:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 3969f2924b Revise GEQO planner to make use of some heuristic knowledge about SQL, namely
that it's good to join where there are join clauses rather than where there
are not.  Also enable it to generate bushy plans at need, so that it doesn't
fail in the presence of multiple IN clauses containing sub-joins.  These
changes appear to improve the behavior enough that we can substantially reduce
the default pool size and generations count, thereby decreasing the runtime,
and yet get as good or better plans as we were getting in 7.4.  Consequently,
adjust the default GEQO parameters.  I also modified the way geqo_effort is
used so that it affects both population size and number of generations;
it's now useful as a single control to adjust the GEQO runtime-vs-plan-quality
tradeoff.  Bump geqo_threshold to 12, since even with these changes GEQO
seems to be slower than the regular planner at 11 relations.
2004-01-23 23:54:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 672a807028 Repair error apparently introduced in the initial coding of GUC: the
default value for geqo_effort is supposed to be 40, not 1.  The actual
'genetic' component of the GEQO algorithm has been practically disabled
since 7.1 because of this mistake.  Improve documentation while at it.
2004-01-21 23:33:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7ce9b7c0d8 This patch adds a new GUC var, "default_with_oids", which follows the
proposal for eventually deprecating OIDs on user tables that I posted
earlier to pgsql-hackers. pg_dump now always specifies WITH OIDS or
WITHOUT OIDS when dumping a table. The documentation has been updated.

Neil Conway
2003-12-01 22:08:02 +00:00
Jan Wieck cfeca62148 Background writer process
This first part of the background writer does no syncing at all.
It's only purpose is to keep the LRU heads clean so that regular
backends seldom to never have to call write().

Jan
2003-11-19 15:55:08 +00:00
Jan Wieck 1f45555892 Changed parameter name for shared cache status report interval to
debug_shared_buffers = <seconds>

as per previous discussion.


Jan
2003-11-16 16:41:01 +00:00
Jan Wieck 6b86d62b00 2nd try for the ARC strategy.
I added a couple more Assertions while tracking down the exact
cause of the former bug.

All 93 regression tests pass now.

Jan
2003-11-13 14:57:15 +00:00
Jan Wieck 923e994d79 ARC strategy backed out ... sorry
Jan
2003-11-13 05:34:58 +00:00
Jan Wieck 48adc0b34b Replacement of the buffer replacement strategy with an ARC
algorithm adopted for PostgreSQL.

Jan
2003-11-13 00:40:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b8382c2688 Have log_min_duration_statement = 0 always print duration/statement.
Change log line to be "duration:  ms  query:"

Indent multi-line queries with a tab in the server logs.
2003-10-08 03:49:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 15c194c1d5 Add GUC parameter check_function_bodies to control whether validation
of function bodies is done at CREATE FUNCTION time.  This is normally
true but can be set false to avoid problems with forward references,
wrong schema search path, etc.  This is just the backend patch, still
need to adjust pg_dump to make use of it.
2003-10-03 19:26:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 48beecda7c Remove geqo_random_seed parameter. Having geqo reset the global random()
sequence every time it's called is bogus --- it interferes with user
control over the seed, and actually decreases randomness overall
(because a seed based on time(NULL) is pretty predictable).  If you really
want a reproducible result from geqo, do 'set seed = 0' before planning
a query.
2003-09-07 15:26:54 +00:00
Tom Lane f63cbccac7 Mop-up for previous change to determine default shared_buffers and
max_connections at initdb time.  Get rid of DEF_NBUFFERS and DEF_MAXBACKENDS
macros, which aren't doing anything useful anymore, and put more likely
defaults into postgresql.conf.sample.
2003-08-26 15:38:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d4be99f63d (I always forget what the magic numbers 0 through 2 means for the
"syslog" option.)

By the way: The "virtual_host" parameter is a bad name for that
particular option, I think. "Virtual host" signals that PostgreSQL will
behave differently according to which IP address it's contacted (like
Apache's virtual host support which makes the web-server serve different
sites according to different criteria). A better word for the options
would be "tcpip_listen_addr" or something like that.

Troels Arvin
2003-08-17 03:17:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c2a7c2269 Apply (a somewhat revised version of) Greg Mullane's patch to eliminate
heuristic determination of day vs month in date/time input.  Add the
ability to specify that input is interpreted as yy-mm-dd order (which
formerly worked, but only for yy greater than 31).  DateStyle's input
component now has the preferred spellings DMY, MDY, or YMD; the older
keywords European and US are now aliases for the first two of these.
Per recent discussions on pgsql-general.
2003-07-29 00:03:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a0cc9f3cb9 Add GUC parameter to control rendezvous name. 2003-07-22 20:29:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 44f665bf40 Add cleaner formatting to config file. 2003-07-18 19:16:03 +00:00
Tom Lane de98a7e23a The default values for shared_buffers and max_connections are now 1000
and 100 respectively, if the platform will allow it.  initdb selects
values that are not too large to allow the postmaster to start, and
places these values in the installed postgresql.conf file.  This allows
us to continue to start up out-of-the-box on platforms with small SHMMAX,
while having somewhat-realistic default settings on platforms with
reasonable SHMMAX.  Per recent pghackers discussion.
2003-07-14 20:00:23 +00:00
Tom Lane b700a672fe Add --help-config facility to dump information about GUC parameters
without needing a running backend.  Reorder postgresql.conf.sample
to match new layout of runtime.sgml.  This commit re-adds work lost
in Wednesday's crash.
2003-07-04 16:41:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 219e29784d Add GUC option log_error_verbosity to control which fields of error
reports get put into the postmaster log.  Options are TERSE, DEFAULT,
VERBOSE, with the same behavior as implemented on the client side in
libpq.
2003-06-30 16:47:02 +00:00