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927 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
4a1c29f87e Improve \? wording, remove 'internal'. 2004-02-12 19:58:16 +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
Neil Conway
f30d39e706 Add usage examples for PREPARE and EXECUTE. Original patch from Gavin
Sherry, editorializing by Neil Conway.
2004-01-26 17:26:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
04cc4e18dd Implement '\copy from -' to support reading copy data from the same
source the \copy came from.  Also, fix prompting logic so that initial
and per-line prompts appear for all cases of reading from an interactive
terminal.  Patch by Mark Feit, with some kibitzing by Tom Lane.
2004-01-20 23:48:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
18f7a8e262 This is a patch to support readline prompts which contain non-printing
characters, as for fancy colorized prompts.  This was nearly a direct
lift from bash-2.05b's lib/readline/display.c, per guidance from Chet Ramey.

Reece Hart
2004-01-20 19:49:34 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1fee65f479 Put See Also links back in alphabetical order. 2004-01-11 09:24:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
024f3fa52f Minor documentation improvements. 2004-01-11 05:46:58 +00:00
Neil Conway
e97b8f2da9 Add CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE INDEX, and CREATE SEQUENCE to the list of
expressions supported by CREATE SCHEMA.

Also added the beginning of some regression tests for CREATE SCHEMA;
plenty more work is needed here.
2004-01-11 04:58:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
98dcf085e3 Implement "WITH / WITHOID OIDS" clause for CREATE TABLE AS. This is
intended to allow application authors to insulate themselves from
changes to the default value of 'default_with_oids' in future releases
of PostgreSQL.

This patch also fixes a bug in the earlier implementation of the
'default_with_oids' GUC variable: code in gram.y should not examine
the value of GUC variables directly due to synchronization issues.
2004-01-10 23:28:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a620a760ed Allow BEGIN WORK to specify transaction isolation level, like START
TRANSACTION.
2004-01-10 02:21:08 +00:00
Neil Conway
bc028beb16 Make the 'wal_debug' GUC variable a boolean (rather than an integer), and
hide it behind #ifdef WAL_DEBUG blocks.
2004-01-06 17:26:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a922472a2a Supress non-temp schemas from psql \dn display. 2003-12-23 23:13:14 +00:00
Neil Conway
6efdd4186c Fix two typos in the documentation for PREPARE. 2003-12-14 00:55:46 +00:00
Neil Conway
81e9455150 This patch fixes a few more uppercase GUC vars. I also removed an
example from the RESET reference page because it seemed completely
redundant.
2003-12-14 00:15:03 +00:00
Neil Conway
e24018728c This patch makes some SGML markup more consistent and makes a small
improvement to the SSL auth docs.
2003-12-14 00:05:29 +00:00
Neil Conway
7fb5a9992c This patch makes some SGML markup more consistent and makes a small
improvement to the SSL auth docs.
2003-12-13 23:59:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d87e109b88 Make some wording consistent with DROP OPERATOR description. 2003-12-11 20:13:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
005a1217fb Massive overhaul of pg_dump: make use of dependency information from
pg_depend to determine a safe dump order.  Defaults and check constraints
can be emitted either as part of a table or domain definition, or
separately if that's needed to break a dependency loop.  Lots of old
half-baked code for controlling dump order removed.
2003-12-06 03:00:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
145d9fa46c Code and docs review for numeric-factorial patch. 2003-12-02 00:26:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8bb60b6423 attached is a patch that adds display of the groups a user belongs to to
\du and a \dg command to psql. It's against 7.4beta5.

Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
2003-12-01 22:21:54 +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
Tom Lane
3e5da0a8da Fix typos noted by Halley Pacheco de Oliveira. 2003-12-01 17:58:27 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
38ba28e5c1 Fix language. 2003-11-25 19:27:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
42ce74bf17 COMMENT ON casts, conversions, languages, operator classes, and
large objects.  Dump all these in pg_dump; also add code to pg_dump
user-defined conversions.  Make psql's large object code rely on
the backend for inserting/deleting LOB comments, instead of trying to
hack pg_description directly.  Documentation and regression tests added.

Christopher Kings-Lynne, code reviewed by Tom
2003-11-21 22:32:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
db15b9b6cf Repair error in syntax documentation for CREATE TABLE: one does not put
a comma between multiple column_constraint's for a single column.
Per report from Tomislaw Kitynski.
2003-11-14 22:56:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
934c21344c Documentation cleanup 2003-11-12 22:47:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4bcd3b42b9 Here's a patch that adds some text mentioning that
RESTRICT is not deferrable to the create table reference
page.

Stephan Szabo
2003-11-12 04:08:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b657ded2c5 Adjust file so psql help picks it up properly.
patch by Kris Jurka
2003-11-08 11:06:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
96889392e9 Implement isolation levels read uncommitted and repeatable read as acting
like the next higher one.
2003-11-06 22:08:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1d27de4cf4 Random copy-editing. 2003-11-04 09:55:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
bb06cbdb2c Copy-editing. 2003-11-04 00:34:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4593531205 Fix language. 2003-11-02 12:59:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0f095fa4d2 pg_dumpall doesn't use psql anymore. 2003-11-02 12:58:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
59550df34d Put --describe-config in the right place. 2003-11-02 12:58:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1af403e42d Complete options help and put it in less random order. 2003-11-02 12:55:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8442a92e5a Spell checking, consistent terminology. 2003-11-01 01:56:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
8545482947 When a superuser does GRANT or REVOKE on an object he doesn't own,
process the command as though it were issued by the object owner.
This prevents creating weird scenarios in which the same privileges
may appear to flow from different sources, and ensures that a superuser
can in fact revoke all privileges if he wants to.  In particular this
means that the regression tests work when run by a superuser other than
the original bootstrap userid.  Per report from Larry Rosenman.
2003-10-31 20:00:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
53b714d2a7 Add --describe-config to top of postgres manual page. 2003-10-28 19:39:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6228228009 Document --describe-config. 2003-10-28 15:01:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb1c22c39d Add mention of quotes on function body to NOTES section.
Oliver Elphick
2003-10-26 04:34:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
fe1b5034dd Adjust display of actual runtimes in EXPLAIN output to use three fractional
digits, and label it 'ms' not 'msec', for consistency with psql's \timing
display.  Per recent discussions.
2003-10-17 01:14:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ad637f749 Add mention of SIGHUP on the postmaster manual page. 2003-10-16 17:38:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
0eceaaf9b7 Modify COPY FROM to match the null-value string against the column value
before it is de-backslashed, not after.  This allows the null string \N
to be reliably distinguished from the data value \N (which must be
represented as \\N).  Per bug report from Manfred Koizar ... but it's
amazing this hasn't been reported before ...
Also, be consistent about encoding conversion for null string: the form
specified in the command is in the server encoding, but what is sent
to/from client must be in client encoding.  This never worked quite
right before either.
2003-10-06 02:38:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9951474c71 Change transaction status indicator in prompt from %T to %x. 2003-10-04 01:04:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
444af9e0e8 Minor copy-editing. 2003-09-30 01:56:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
e33f205a94 Adjust btree index build procedure so that the btree metapage looks
invalid (has the wrong magic number) until the build is entirely
complete.  This turns out to cost no additional writes in the normal
case, since we were rewriting the metapage at the end of the process
anyway.  In normal scenarios there's no real gain in security, because
a failed index build would roll back the transaction leaving an unused
index file, but for rebuilding shared system indexes this seems to add
some useful protection.
2003-09-29 23:40:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3900f8368d Update docs on function call permissions in view, from Tom. 2003-09-28 01:19:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87cbcff9e6 Document that functions are checked independently of the view
permissions.
2003-09-27 00:10:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
a56a016ceb Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache is
now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache
indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method.  This
leaves only shared system indexes as special cases.  Remove the 'index
deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared-
index case.  Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone
mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX.  -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes)
now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates.
It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS.  Upshot: reindexing system catalogs
can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except
shared catalogs.
2003-09-24 18:54:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
6767cebc6f pg_dump/pg_restore now always use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, not \connect,
to control object ownership.  The use-set-session-authorization and
no-reconnect switches are obsolete (still accepted on the command line,
but they don't do anything).  This is a precursor to fixing handling
of CREATE SCHEMA, which will be a separate commit.
2003-09-23 22:48:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5d00f984d8 Make the SQL command synopses appear less random. 2003-09-22 00:16:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
f3ad615ce8 Fix a batch of speling misteaks identified by Peter's spell-checker tool. 2003-09-20 20:12:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
8421253e54 Document that TRUNCATE ignores user-defined ON DELETE triggers. 2003-09-19 21:06:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
a13b018530 Disallow foreign-key references from temp tables to permanent tables.
Per recent discussion, this does not work because other backends can't
reliably see tuples in a temp table and so cannot run the RI checks
correctly.  Seems better to disallow this case than go back to accessing
temp tables through shared buffers.  Also, disallow FK references to
ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS tables.  We already caught this problem for normal
TRUNCATE, but the path used by ON COMMIT didn't check.
2003-09-19 21:04:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
689015748f Put a tad more detail in the discussion of postmaster and postgres
signal handling.
2003-09-18 20:30:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
4d016a957d Okay, who left off the id= here? 2003-09-15 03:32:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
5f78d6cb77 LISTEN doesn't issue a warning for redundant listens anymore. Also,
add some 'See Also' links.
2003-09-15 03:21:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
a75ee43ce9 Mop-up for error-message updates in documentation. 2003-09-12 23:04:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9182481bea Remove WIN32_CONSOLE support, at the request of the author. 2003-09-12 02:40:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
e90b841915 More cleanup of Diagnostics sections. 2003-09-12 00:12:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a5b6a7c9b This patch fixes a few missed GUC variables that were still upper case,
makes a few more small improvements to runtime.sgml, and makes some SGML
conventions more consistent.

Neil Conway
2003-09-11 21:42:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8e27be4310 This patch makes a few minor improvements to the docs: make the
<varname> conventions more consistent, and improve the ANALYZE ref page.

Neil Conway
2003-09-11 17:31:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
73cfa77edd This patch fixes a trivial typo in the CREATE FUNCTION ref page.
Neil Conway
2003-09-10 20:13:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
d4019b7cd3 Remove a bunch of content-free Diagnostics sections, as per previous
discussion.  (Still have some work to do editing the remainder.)
2003-09-09 18:28:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
4427969315 "statenebt" ? 2003-09-08 22:33:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
29a20145fd Pass session_authorization to the client and make psql update its prompt
accordingly.
2003-09-03 22:05:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c326d8f4f2 Add/edit index entries. 2003-08-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e2a4cfe63 Make documentation of pg_restore's -N, -o, -r switches bear some
slight resemblance to their actual behavior.
2003-08-28 20:44:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
693aad413b Change warnings for non-existing or pre-existing cursors to errors. 2003-08-24 21:02:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
4215947986 Update documentation to reflect the fact that ORDER BY, GROUP BY, etc
are now driven by the default btree opclass, rather than assuming that
particular operator names have the needed semantics.
2003-08-17 22:09:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
41477b9a83 This patch makes two minor fixes to the docs: (1) fixes a
spelling mistake in the PREPARE ref page (2) Makes some
English more consistent, in the ref pages for some of the
client apps (3) Adds a link to the libpq docs in the
vacuumdb ref page.

Neil Conway
2003-08-17 04:46:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e7f266e5fe There is a misstatement in the CLOSE reference page, now that we
have cursors that might outlive their creating transactions. A
patch is attached that fixes this (suggestions on better wording
are welcome).

Neil Conway
2003-08-17 04:46:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7d9aa8fbf The attached patch adds some clarification to the documentation of the
binary format read/created by COPY BINARY. It also mentions the
contrib/binarycopy module.

Lee Kindness.
2003-08-17 04:33:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d6d96532a8 Remove docs that say psql \encoding doesn't track SET client_encoding. 2003-08-02 02:44:38 +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
Tom Lane
02d79e765b Rename psql's VERBOSE variable to VERBOSITY, per suggestion from Bruce. 2003-07-28 00:14:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9df48371c2 here are the patches for psql on Win32:
psql4win32.patch  - changes in the psql source code
  psql-ref.patch    - changes in the documentation psql-ref.sgml
                      (for new builtin variable WIN32_CONSOLE)

To apply them use "patch -p 1" in the root directory of the
postgres source directory.

These patches fix the following problems of psql on Win32
(all changes only have effect #ifdef WIN32):

  a) Problem:  Static library libpq.a did not work
     Solution: Added WSAStartup() in fe-connect.c

  b) Problem:  Secret Password was echoed by psql
     Solution: Password echoing disabled in sprompt.c

  c) Problem:  8bit characters were displayed/interpreted wrong in psql
               This is due to the fact that the Win32 "console" uses a
               different encoding than the rest of the Windows system
     Solution: Introduced a new psql variable WIN32_CONSOLE
               When set with "\set WIN32_console", the function OemToChar()
               is applied after reading input and CharToOem() before
               displaying Output

Christoph Dalitz
2003-07-27 03:32:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
18db343773 Just a spot of copy-editing. 2003-07-23 15:05:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
764f72dc82 Make EXTRACT(TIMEZONE) and SET/SHOW TIMEZONE follow the SQL convention
for the sign of timezone offsets, ie, positive is east from UTC.  These
were previously out of step with other operations that accept or show
timezones, such as I/O of timestamptz values.
2003-07-17 00:55:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
cfa6999d3b Cause SHOW DATESTYLE to produce a string that will be accepted by SET
DATESTYLE, for instance 'SQL, European' instead of
'SQL with European conventions'.  Per gripe a month or two back from
Barry Lind.
2003-07-15 19:19:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
455891bf96 Code review for UPDATE tab SET col = DEFAULT patch ... whack it around
so it has some chance of working in rules ...
2003-07-03 16:34:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
71e9f3b07f Change EXECUTE INTO to CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE. 2003-07-01 00:04:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
f9ebf36970 Update psql for some features of new FE/BE protocol. There is a
client-side AUTOCOMMIT mode now: '\set AUTOCOMMIT off' supports
SQL-spec commit behavior.  Get rid of LO_TRANSACTION hack --- the
LO operations just work now, using libpq's ability to track the
transaction status.  Add a VERBOSE variable to control verboseness
of error message display, and add a %T prompt-string code to show
current transaction-block status.  Superuser state display in the
prompt string correctly follows SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION commands.
Control-C works to get out of COPY IN state.
2003-06-28 00:12:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea886339b8 Add is_superuser parameter reporting, soon to be used by psql. 2003-06-27 19:08:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b256f24264 First batch of object rename commands. 2003-06-27 14:45:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
53c4f1233f UPDATE ... SET <col> = DEFAULT
Rod Taylor
2003-06-25 04:19:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fce529e102 Most of the synopsis areas for DROP commands use "name" as the
identifier, while some areas do not.

The attached converts be below to "name":
conversion_name
index_name


The below have an existing, initdb supplied, entity named "name".  As
such, it could be confusing for the reader to see that identifier used
in the example.

domainname
typename

Rod Taylor
2003-06-24 23:29:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
b8d601e735 Fix some markup problems. 2003-06-21 19:33:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f374a9dae9 Change clusterdb and vacuumdb into C programs. 2003-06-18 12:19:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
716200179f Fix broken markup. 2003-06-12 18:34:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e9cda08b2b Brief note about sequence cache not being cleared in other backends.
Actually clear the cache in the backend making the alteration.  This
follows in the footsteps of setval().

Rod Taylor
2003-06-12 07:49:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
8bfe93c5c8 pg_dump and pg_restore were stripping quotes and downcasing some but
not all SQL identifiers taken from command line arguments.  We decided
years ago that that was a bad idea: identifiers taken from the command
line should be treated as literally correct.  Remove the inconsistent
code that has crept in recently.  Also fix pg_dump so that the combination
of --schema and --table does what you'd expect, namely dump exactly one
table from exactly one schema.  Per gripe from Deepak Bhole of Red Hat.
2003-06-11 16:29:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2e4f7adb34 Remove mention of ALTER USER able to remove passwords. 2003-06-06 15:31:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
9e1e72b698 Cause pg_dumpall to support the -a, -s, -x options of pg_dump. 2003-05-30 23:55:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
fc8d970cbc Replace functional-index facility with expressional indexes. Any column
of an index can now be a computed expression instead of a simple variable.
Restrictions on expressions are the same as for predicates (only immutable
functions, no sub-selects).  This fixes problems recently introduced with
inlining SQL functions, because the inlining transformation is applied to
both expression trees so the planner can still match them up.  Along the
way, improve efficiency of handling index predicates (both predicates and
index expressions are now cached by the relcache) and fix 7.3 oversight
that didn't record dependencies of predicate expressions.
2003-05-28 16:04:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b71a48990a Add documentation to 'createuser' that ALTER USER must be used to add or
modify passwords, per user confusion report.

Also clean up wording that command line utils need database access.
2003-05-26 17:50:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
f85f43dfb5 Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The
only remnant of this failed experiment is that the server will take
SET AUTOCOMMIT TO ON.  Still TODO: provide some client-side autocommit
logic in libpq.
2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
ba1e066e46 Implement array_send/array_recv (binary I/O for arrays). This exposed
the folly of not passing element type to typsend/typreceive, so fix that.
2003-05-09 23:01:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
b1ee615a7f COPY BINARY uses the new binary I/O routines. Update a few more datatypes
so that COPY BINARY regression test passes.
2003-05-09 21:19:50 +00:00