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Peter Eisentraut 1c53f612bc Escape < and & in SGML
This is not required in SGML, but will be in XML, so this is a step to
prepare for the conversion to XML.  (It is still not required to escape
>, but we did it here in some cases for symmetry.)

Add a command-line option to osx/onsgmls calls to warn about unescaped
occurrences in the future.

Author: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-09-06 11:22:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0b554e4e63 doc: Clarify pg_inherits description
Reported-by: mjustin.lists@gmail.com
2017-09-05 21:47:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 49ca462eb1 Add \gdesc psql command.
This command acts somewhat like \g, but instead of executing the query
buffer, it merely prints a description of the columns that the query
result would have.  (Of course, this still requires parsing the query;
if parse analysis fails, you get an error anyway.)  We accomplish this
using an unnamed prepared statement, which should be invisible to psql
users.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBhYVvO34FU=EKb=nAF5t3b++krKt1FneCmR0kuF5m-QA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-05 18:17:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 17273d059c Remove unnecessary parentheses in return statements
The parenthesized style has only been used in a few modules.  Change
that to use the style that is predominant across the whole tree.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Murphy <ryanfmurphy@gmail.com>
2017-09-05 14:52:55 -04:00
Tom Lane 5e8304fdce In psql, use PSQL_PAGER in preference to PAGER, if it's set.
This allows the user's environment to set up a psql-specific choice
of pager, in much the same way that we provide PSQL_EDITOR to allow
a psql-specific override of the more widely known EDITOR variable.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRD3RRk9S1eRbnGm_T6brc3Ss5mohraNzTSJquzx+pmtKA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-05 12:02:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 9ae9d8c154 Add psql variables showing server version and psql version.
We already had a psql variable VERSION that shows the verbose form of
psql's own version.  Add VERSION_NAME to show the short form (e.g.,
"11devel") and VERSION_NUM to show the numeric form (e.g., 110000).
Also add SERVER_VERSION_NAME and SERVER_VERSION_NUM to show the short and
numeric forms of the server's version.  (We'd probably add SERVER_VERSION
with the verbose string if it were readily available; but adding another
network round trip to get it seems too expensive.)

The numeric forms, in particular, are expected to be useful for scripting
purposes, now that psql can do conditional tests.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1704020917220.4632@lancre
2017-09-05 10:51:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 9d36a38660 Adjust pgbench to allow non-ASCII characters in variable names.
This puts it in sync with psql's notion of what is a valid variable name.
Like psql, we document that "non-Latin letters" are allowed, but actually
any non-ASCII character is accepted.

Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170405.094548.1184280384967203518.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp
2017-09-04 13:45:20 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut afc58affb6 doc: Fix typos and other minor issues
Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
2017-09-01 23:34:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a057220353 doc: Remove mentions of server-side CRL and CA file names
Commit a445cb92ef removed the default file
names for server-side CRL and CA files, but left them in the docs with a
small note.  This removes the note and the previous default names to
clarify, as well as changes mentions of the file names to make it
clearer that they are configurable.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-09-01 14:18:45 -04:00
Robert Haas 84be67181a pg_dumpall: Add a -E flag to set the encoding, like pg_dump has.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqQcYWmrm2n-dVaMUhYPKFU_DxQwPuUGuC4ZF+8B=dS5xQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 12:24:20 -04:00
Simon Riggs 2f5ada2710 Provisional list of Major Features 2017-09-01 17:20:18 +01:00
Robert Haas baaf272ac9 Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.
Commit 0e141c0fbb introduced a mechanism
to reduce contention on ProcArrayLock by having a single process clear
XIDs in the procArray on behalf of multiple processes, reducing the
need to hand the lock around.  A previous attempt to introduce a similar
mechanism for CLogControlLock in ccce90b398
crashed and burned, but the design problem which resulted in those
failures is believed to have been corrected in this version.

Amit Kapila, with some cosmetic changes by me.  See the previous commit
message for additional credits.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KudxzgWhuywY_X=yeSAhJMT4DwCjroV5Ay60xaeB2Eew@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 11:45:40 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera be7161566d Add a WAIT option to DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT
Commit 9915de6c1c changed the default behavior of
DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT so that it would wait until any session holding
the slot active would release it, instead of raising an error.  But
users are already depending on the original behavior, so revert to it by
default and add a WAIT option to invoke the new behavior.

Per complaint from Simone Gotti, in
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEvsy6Wgdf90O6pUvg2wSVXL2omH5OPC-38OD4Zzgk-FXavj3Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 13:44:14 +02:00
Simon Riggs abe85ef1d0 Add note about diskspace usage of pg_commit_ts
Author: Thomas Munro
2017-09-01 07:57:05 +01:00
Robert Haas 81c5e46c49 Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed.
This will be useful for hash partitioning, which needs a way to seed
the hash functions to avoid problems such as a hash index on a hash
partitioned table clumping all values into a small portion of the
bucket space; it's also useful for anything that wants a 64-bit hash
value rather than a 32-bit hash value.

Just in case somebody wants a 64-bit hash value that is compatible
with the existing 32-bit hash values, make the low 32-bits of the
64-bit hash value match the 32-bit hash value when the seed is 0.

Robert Haas and Amul Sul

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoafx2yoJuhCQQOL5CocEi-w_uG4S2xT0EtgiJnPGcHW3g@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-31 22:21:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b5c75feca7 Remove to pre-8.2 coding convention for PG_MODULE_MAGIC
PG_MODULE_MAGIC has been around since 8.2, with 8.1 long since in EOL,
so remove the mention of #ifdef guards for compiling against pre-8.2
sources from the documentation.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-08-30 22:40:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 41b0dd987d Separate reinitialization of shared parallel-scan state from ExecReScan.
Previously, the parallel executor logic did reinitialization of shared
state within the ExecReScan code for parallel-aware scan nodes.  This is
problematic, because it means that the ExecReScan call has to occur
synchronously (ie, during the parent Gather node's ReScan call).  That is
swimming very much against the tide so far as the ExecReScan machinery is
concerned; the fact that it works at all today depends on a lot of fragile
assumptions, such as that no plan node between Gather and a parallel-aware
scan node is parameterized.  Another objection is that because ExecReScan
might be called in workers as well as the leader, hacky extra tests are
needed in some places to prevent unwanted shared-state resets.

Hence, let's separate this code into two functions, a ReInitializeDSM
call and the ReScan call proper.  ReInitializeDSM is called only in
the leader and is guaranteed to run before we start new workers.
ReScan is returned to its traditional function of resetting only local
state, which means that ExecReScan's usual habits of delaying or
eliminating child rescan calls are safe again.

As with the preceding commit 7df2c1f8d, it doesn't seem to be necessary
to make these changes in 9.6, which is a good thing because the FDW and
CustomScan APIs are impacted.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JkByysFJNh9M349u_nNjqETuEnY_y1VUc_kJiU0bxtaQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-30 13:18:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 00f6d5c2c3 doc: Avoid sidebar element
The formatting of the sidebar element didn't carry over to the new tool
chain.  Instead of inventing a whole new way of dealing with it, just
convert the one use to a "note".
2017-08-29 19:33:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 6cbee65eee Doc: document libpq's restriction to INT_MAX rows in a PGresult.
As long as PQntuples, PQgetvalue, etc, use "int" for row numbers, we're
pretty much stuck with this limitation.  The documentation formerly stated
that the result of PQntuples "might overflow on 32-bit operating systems",
which is just nonsense: that's not where the overflow would happen, and
if you did reach an overflow it would not be on a 32-bit machine, because
you'd have OOM'd long since.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+FnnTxyLWyjY1goewmJNxC==HQCCF4fKkoCTa9qR36oRAHDPw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-29 15:38:05 -04:00
Tom Lane ce5dcf54b9 Improve docs about numeric formatting patterns (to_char/to_number).
The explanation about "0" versus "9" format characters was confusing
and arguably wrong; the discussion of sign handling wasn't very good
either.  Notably, while it's accurate to say that "FM" strips leading
zeroes in date/time values, what it really does with numeric values
is to strip *trailing* zeroes, and then only if you wrote "9" rather
than "0".  Per gripes from Erwin Brandstetter.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ7jgRbTn6nf48xNZ=FHgL2WQ4X8mYsUAU57f-vq8PubEw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ45ymd=GOCu1vwV9u7GmCR80_5tW0fP9C_gJKbruGMHvQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-29 09:34:21 -04:00
Tom Lane dc4f356b44 Doc: adjust release-note credit for parallel pg_restore fix.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+pJ6_Ud-zg3vY_Y0mzfESdM34Humt8avKrAKq_H+v18Cg@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-28 11:40:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 46596f8d6b Clarify documentation
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20170618071607.GA16418%40nol.local
2017-08-27 21:29:54 -04:00
Tom Lane f97c55c708 Release notes for 9.6.5, 9.5.9, 9.4.14, 9.3.19, 9.2.23. 2017-08-27 17:35:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 6a5366e69a Doc: update v10 release notes through today. 2017-08-26 16:50:19 -04:00
Tom Lane f1b10496a5 First-draft release notes for 9.6.5.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.  Note the first
entry is only for 9.4.
2017-08-26 15:19:32 -04:00
Robert Haas 449338cc64 Improve low-level backup documentation.
Our documentation hasn't really caught up with the fact that
non-exclusive backups can now be taken using pg_start_backup and
pg_stop_backup even on standbys.  Update, also correcting some
errors introduced by 52f8a59dd9.
Updates to the 9.6 documentation are needed as well, but that
will need a separate patch as some things are different on that
version.

David Steele, reviewed by Robert Haas and Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/d4d951b9-89c0-6bc1-b6ff-d0b2dd5a8966@pgmasters.net
2017-08-25 15:20:27 -04:00
Michael Meskes d22e9d5305 Implement DO CONTINUE action for ECPG WHENEVER statement.
Author: Vinayak Pokale
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada
2017-08-25 15:17:29 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 85f4d6393d Tweak some SCRAM error messages and code comments
Clarify/correct some error messages, fix up some code comments that
confused SASL and SCRAM, and other minor fixes.  No changes in
functionality.
2017-08-23 12:29:38 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b5664cfd4c doc: Mention identity column feature in section on serial
Reported-by: Basil Bourque <basil.bourque@pobox.com>
2017-08-22 19:55:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2bfd1b1ee5 Don't install ICU collation keyword variants
Users can still create them themselves.  Instead, document Unicode TR 35
collation options for ICU, so users can create all this themselves.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
2017-08-21 19:21:07 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 51e225da30 Expand set of predefined ICU locales
Install language+region combinations even if they are not distinct from
the language's base locale.  This gives better long-term stability of
the set of predefined locales and makes the predefined locales less
implementation-dependent and more practical for users.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
2017-08-21 19:21:07 -04:00
Robert Haas 79ccd7cbd5 pg_prewarm: Add automatic prewarm feature.
Periodically while the server is running, and at shutdown, write out a
list of blocks in shared buffers.  When the server reaches consistency
-- unfortunatey, we can't do it before that point without breaking
things -- reload those blocks into any still-unused shared buffers.

Mithun Cy and Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by Beena Emerson,
Amit Kapila, Jim Nasby, and Rafia Sabih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD__OugubOs1Vy7kgF6xTjmEqTR4CrGAv8w+ZbaY_+MZeitukw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-21 14:17:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut d542859350 doc: Update RFC URLs
Consistently use the IETF HTML links instead of a random mix of
different sites and formats.  Correct one RFC number and fix one broken
link.
2017-08-17 11:47:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bfe089e372 doc: Fix table column count
Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-08-17 10:37:12 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut cf851519d4 pg_dump: Support using synchronized snapshots on standbys
This became possible by commit
6c2003f8a1.  This just makes pg_dump aware
of it and updates the documentation.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-08-16 19:46:50 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4395f7daf3 doc: Update URL of DocBook XSL stylesheets
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-08-16 14:44:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 346d5bf1ca doc: Add logical replication to comparison matrix
Author: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>
2017-08-16 13:59:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9b5140fb50 Correct representation of foreign tables in information schema
tables.table_type is supposed to be 'FOREIGN' rather than 'FOREIGN
TABLE' according to the SQL standard.
2017-08-16 11:03:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0a2d43d988 doc: Document pg_receivewal exit behavior and status 2017-08-15 20:26:58 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 34a23a3426 doc: Add missing logical replication protocol message
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-08-15 15:36:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 270fec9f0b doc: Improve PDF bookmarks
Also create PDF bookmarks/ToC entries for subsections of reference
pages.  This was a regression from the previous jadetex-based build.

Reported-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-08-15 14:37:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 23d7680d04 pg_dump: Add a --load-via-partition-root option.
Rushabh Lathia, reviewed and somewhat revised by me.  Testing by
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf0C1he087bz9xRBOGZBuESYz9X=Fp8Ca_g+TfHgAff75g@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-14 22:54:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 9f14dc393b Stamp HEAD as 11devel.
Note that we no longer require any manual adjustments to shared-library
minor version numbers, cf commit a3bce17ef.  So this should be everything.
2017-08-14 18:08:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 79e5de690e doc: Fix logical replication protocol doc detail
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Kyle Conroy <kyle@kyleconroy.com>
Bug: #14775
2017-08-14 13:42:03 -04:00
Noah Misch e88928c50d Fix vertical spanning in table "wait_event Description".
Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqQr3KEQvXeuUNYcm7tDK2Fb9oLUQ8DU0+y0RZEoN_1_gg@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-12 18:19:49 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut ee844bb426 doc: Add example for inet vs cidr difference
Reported-by: kes-kes@yandex.ru
2017-08-11 16:40:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fa65c8c73c doc: Update description of rolreplication column
Since PostgreSQL 9.6, rolreplication no longer determines whether a role
can run pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup(), so remove that.

Add that this attribute determines whether a role can create and drop
replication slots.

Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
2017-08-11 16:14:55 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 22701a7ec6 doc: Small wording improvement
Author: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-08-11 15:52:39 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a1ef920e27 Remove uses of "slave" in replication contexts
This affects mostly code comments, some documentation, and tests.
Official APIs already used "standby".
2017-08-10 22:55:41 -04:00
Robert Haas c1ef4e5cdb Make some more improvements to parallel query documentation.
Many places that mentioned only Gather should also mention Gather
Merge, or should be phrased in a more neutral way.  Be more clear
about the fact that max_parallel_workers_per_gather affects the number
of workers the planner may want to use.  Fix a typo.  Explain how
Gather Merge works.  Adjust wording around parallel scans to be a bit
more clear.  Adjust wording around parallel-restricted operations for
the fact that uncorrelated subplans are no longer restricted.

Patch by me, reviewed by Erik Rijkers

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZsTjgVGn=ei5ht-1qGFKy_m1VgB3d8+Rg304hz91N5ww@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-10 13:22:31 -04:00