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6211 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew Dunstan
24fa8746ae Fix incorrect wording about function failure time on unsafe ops - these
are now caught by the validator. And a small visit from the perl style police:
check the return value from open().
2005-10-24 15:39:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
819159709f I have applied the following patch to document PQinitSSL() and
PQregisterThreadLock().

I also remove the crypt() mention in the libpq threading section and
added a single sentence in the client-auth manual page under crypt().
Crypt authentication is so old now that a separate paragraph about it
seemed unwise.

I also added a comment about our use of locking around pqGetpwuid().
2005-10-24 15:38:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
7d3ab8ac55 A bit of minor copy-editing. 2005-10-23 19:29:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
55337e40b3 I've confirmed 8.1beta4 passes regression tests on all hardware platforms
of RHEL 4.  Update supported-platforms list accordingly.
2005-10-23 18:30:49 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
106388fbe8 update configure and bugtemplate for beta 4 ... 2005-10-22 22:46:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
c3a7b0577b Add a note about GNU tar's propensity to complain if a file changes
while tar is copying it.  This behavior is unhelpful when taking a base
backup.  Per gripe from Pallav Kalva back in April.
2005-10-22 22:09:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
f72a342fb7 Copy-editing for recent documentation changes relevant to WAL,
full_page_writes, etc.
2005-10-22 21:56:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
96b85f1ccb Fix documentation to specify the correct range of timezone offsets for
type time with time zone, ie, +/- 13:59 not +/- 12:00.  Also some minor
wording improvements.
2005-10-22 19:33:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
63aa492466 Fix typo. 2005-10-22 14:44:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
fdff883aca Clean up autovacuum documentation, which was a bit out of sync with what
the code actually does, and needed copy-editing anyway.  Also take the
opportunity to expand the section on routine reindexing.
2005-10-21 19:39:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8529779ee Update obsolete URL, per Chris. 2005-10-21 13:59:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
d6707cb66e Minor PL/PgSQL doc tweak: use current_timestamp rather than now() in
an example function.
2005-10-21 05:11:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
9bd7ed828e Clean up some obsolete statements about GiST indexes, and add a section
documenting GiST crash recovery procedures, as requested some time ago
by Teodor.  (The GiST chapter doesn't seem quite the right place for
the latter, but I'm not sure what else to do with it.)
2005-10-21 01:41:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
d1959f9ff6 Improve testlibpq3.c's example of PQexecParams() usage to include sending
a parameter in binary format.  Also, add a TIP explaining how to use casts
in the query text to avoid needing to specify parameter types by OID.
Also fix bogus spacing --- apparently somebody expanded the tabs in the
example programs to 8 spaces instead of 4 when transposing them into SGML.
2005-10-20 23:57:52 +00:00
Neil Conway
61abd9a3fb Minor tweak to libpq documentation: make "PREPARE" and "DEALLOCATE" xrefs. 2005-10-20 21:04:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
c9de6b922e Document the behavior of GRANT/REVOKE in cases where the privilege is
held by means of role membership, rather than directly.  Per discussion
and bug fix of a couple weeks ago.
2005-10-20 19:18:01 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
48f3d77858 replace use of predefined perl vars $a and $b with $x and $y - per Greg Sabino Mullane 2005-10-18 22:53:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
a33fadfd6d Add an entry to the discussion of regression test failures about the
possibility of a failure due to stack overflow when max_stack_depth is
not set properly for the platform.
2005-10-18 21:43:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
220f2a7d15 Code review for regexp_replace patch. Improve documentation and comments,
fix problems with replacement-string backslashes that aren't followed by
one of the expected characters, avoid giving the impression that
replace_text_regexp() is meant to be called directly as a SQL function,
etc.
2005-10-18 20:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
d330f1554d Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'.
Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines
altogether.
2005-10-17 16:24:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
8ffdcbf23b Add note that some versions of OS X require SHMMAX to be an exact multiple
of 4096.  Also add comment explaining why we don't suggest using
/etc/sysctl.conf to avoid needing to edit /etc/rc.
2005-10-16 21:22:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
2c19629f93 Remove a long comment from cvs.sgml -- AFAICS this is no longer useful,
or at any rate doesn't belong as a comment in a random SGML file.
2005-10-15 20:15:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
fc8f4bac0e Fix assorted typos in the documentation, and use American spelling
rather than British. Patch from Michael Fuhr.
2005-10-15 20:12:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
6faa334bef Update 'supported platforms' list with current buildfarm results. 2005-10-15 17:59:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d62616e6ca Fix kerberos description: localhost -> server hostname. 2005-10-15 15:29:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
1d2e0e6d3e Merge some user-submitted suggestions for improvement into the
documentation. Mostly add some <xref>s, fix a few typos, and
document that zlib is required in the installation docs.
2005-10-15 01:47:12 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
1b5cd6dcdc Fix typo. 2005-10-15 01:15:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
abd3f43b4c Fix syslog bug: if any messages are emitted to write_syslog before
the facility has been set, the facility gets set to LOCAL0 and cannot
be changed later.  This seems reasonably plausible to happen, particularly
at higher debug log levels, though I am not certain it explains Han Holl's
recent report.  Easiest fix is to teach the code how to change the value
on-the-fly, which is nicer anyway.  I made the settings PGC_SIGHUP to
conform with log_destination.
2005-10-14 20:53:56 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
f620098dc8 fix nonsensical summary row on example 2005-10-14 20:48:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a93bf4503f Allow times of 24:00:00 to match rounding behavior:
regression=# select '23:59:59.9'::time(0);
	   time
	----------
	 24:00:00
	(1 row)

	This is bad because:

	regression=# select '24:00:00'::time(0);
	ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "24:00:00"

The last example now works.
2005-10-14 11:47:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
dbc214f7e6 Add documentation mentioning that there are separate regression tests
for the PL languages and for contrib.
2005-10-13 23:41:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
412734767a Improve documentation about CREATEROLE privilege. 2005-10-13 23:26:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5aae047e23 Update krb_server_name to document that a missing entry defaults to
'localhost'.

Improve kerberos error message.
2005-10-13 22:55:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
f91370cd2f Update documentation to reflect the new ALTER OWNER rules for all
affected types of objects.
2005-10-13 22:44:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
a9980ec37b Describe the behavior of the SQL_ASCII encoding more accurately. 2005-10-13 21:43:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
6f9cb4eb43 Adjust the discussion of triggers to more clearly guide people in the
direction of writing triggers in a procedural language, rather than C.
Per discussion.
2005-10-13 21:09:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ac386226d The patch updates the documentation to reflect the fact that higher values
of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.

We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR.  When running a file like

SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';

DROP TABLE doesntexist;

with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.

Kris Jurka
2005-10-13 20:58:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
12ee2b98ce Turn off list of tables, figures, and examples. 2005-10-13 20:10:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d62338d5e Rewording, use the more common multi-threaded/single-threaded. 2005-10-13 17:55:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fc0aa4cca Clarify causes of possible mismatch between Win32 libraries and
applications that use FILE pointers.
2005-10-13 17:46:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
165565cd94 Some additional doc changes based around compression of page images in
WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.

The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.

Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.

Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml

Simon Riggs
2005-10-13 17:32:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d43349ab5 Fix capitalization of example. 2005-10-13 14:44:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a6dcf0322 Update trigger demo to reflect new trigger ordering. 2005-10-13 02:23:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3d50e107ad Remove extra <para> 2005-10-13 02:00:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
249f07b8c6 Update:
> * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
>   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
>   it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
2005-10-13 01:23:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
23e2f9ebf7 Fix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-10-12 23:19:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adc58f145c Remove item:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
<   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
<   surrounded by quotes.
<
2005-10-12 22:39:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b97e437ca Add warning about plperl nested named subroutines
Andrew Dunstan
2005-10-12 14:28:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0a28eb4622 No longer needed:
<
< * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
<   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
<   in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
<
<   On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly,
<   while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
<   holding the lock can complete and release it.
2005-10-12 14:06:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4aebb5ad55 Rearrange:
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
< 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
604a603
> 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
2005-10-12 13:41:08 +00:00