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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
2f603a8b0c Add release info about dollar signs to migration section:
<listitem><para> Dollar sign (<literal>$</>) is no longer allowed
	in operator names</para></listitem>
     <listitem><para> Dollar sign (<literal>$</>) can be a non-first
	character in identifiers</para></listitem>
2003-10-21 01:25:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
0a4048646b Document all the system views created by initdb (several of these were
never documented anywhere, sigh).  Centralize the detailed documentation
of system views into catalogs.sgml, and provide cross-references.
2003-10-17 22:38:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
e5c2c97892 Add a listing of our SQLSTATE error codes to the documentation.
Link to it from some appropriate places.
2003-10-17 18:57:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
34ed505966 Fix busted markup. 2003-10-17 18:29:55 +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
Tom Lane
dec4ed311a Add note deprecating use of consrc. 2003-10-17 00:55:17 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
44430dbc15 Fix bugs in referential_constraints view. 2003-10-16 23:46:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ad637f749 Add mention of SIGHUP on the postmaster manual page. 2003-10-16 17:38:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
839cea8814 Minor copy-editing. 2003-10-16 04:52:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
60feaa261f Fix SGML markup.
Update HISTORY file.
2003-10-16 04:11:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
352f29b17b This patch adds another item to the "migration to 7.4" list in the
HISTORY file, and attributes the shared-buffer-alignment change to
Manfred Spraul.

Neil Conway
2003-10-16 03:55:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62fdc3dd60 I have run pg_autovacuum on AIX, so that can, at least loosely, be
considered "tested."

And I have turned all of the 7.4 HISTORY material into DocBook for
release.sgml

Christopher Browne
2003-10-16 03:47:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8087446b14 > That's a fairly useless place to put it, though, since someone would
> only think to look at sort_mem if they already had a clue.  It should
> be mentioned under bulk data load (in performance tips chapter)

Attached is a doc patch that does this. The way I've worded it may not
be the best, though.

Neil Conway
2003-10-10 02:08:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3fce18084b About section 8.5.1.5. ("Special Values"):
I suggest adding LOCALTIMESTAMP and LOCALTIME to the first paragraph.
Maybe it should be phrased as:

  The following SQL-compatible functions can be used to obtain
  current datetime-related values: CURRENT_DATE, CURRENT_TIME,
  CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP.
  (See Section 9.8.4.)

Troels Arvin
2003-10-09 19:13:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c7c7861d5e Add mention of logrotate for syslog, from Robert Treat 2003-10-09 19:05:09 +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
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
Tom Lane
fa09ee6026 Document the always-true-but-previously-undocumented fact that PQfnumber()
will downcase the supplied field name unless it is double-quoted.  Also,
upgrade the routine's handling of double quotes to match the backend,
in particular support doubled double quotes within quoted identifiers.
Per pgsql-interfaces discussion a couple weeks ago.
2003-10-04 21:05:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ba1fab5fa Update INSTALL file for 7.4. 2003-10-04 03:14:13 +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
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
251033186f Cause PQescapeString to stop processing at a null character, rather
than generating an invalid output string.  Per observation and patch
from Igor Shevchenko.  Further code cleanup and documentation by
Tom Lane.
2003-10-03 18:26:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
6099bc03f3 Adjust documentation examples to match recent error message rewordings.
A couple other minor fixes.
2003-09-30 03:22:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
444af9e0e8 Minor copy-editing. 2003-09-30 01:56:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
f038e08929 Use slightly less broken markup. 2003-09-30 01:26:29 +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
f3db606592 > >
> >  a) Write documentation how the win32 console needs to be set up so that
> >     psql can handle 8-bit characters.
> >     Where should it be added? The Section "Installation on Windows" in the
> >     Administrator's Guide seems natural to me.
> >
> >  b) Add code to psql that prints a warning on startup of psql when the
> >     console codepage differs from the windows codepage, something like
> >
> >     Warning: Console codepage (850) differs from windows codepage (1252)
> >              8-bit characters will not work correctly. See PostgreSQL
> >              documentation "Installation on Windows" for details.
>
Attached are two patches:

 - installdoc.patch contains an additional paragraph on the win32 console
   codepage for the chapter "Installation on Windows"
   Due to a lack of SGML-tools, I have only edited the text and not tested
   the SGML code - please check it before merging into the CVS branch.

 - psqlcodepage.patch adds the warning about a problematic codepage to psql.


Christoph Dalitz
2003-09-29 18:21:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a17b53753e This patch makes a few incremental improvements to geqo.sgml and
arch-dev.sgml

Neil Conway
2003-09-29 18:18:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8d7e1e798 Change 7.3.4 release note format to match the rest of the 7.3.x
releases.

Rod Taylor
2003-09-29 18:15:12 +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
fae2adecf5 Small SGML cleanup from Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai 2003-09-27 14:06:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87cbcff9e6 Document that functions are checked independently of the view
permissions.
2003-09-27 00:10:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
90322456fe Add "tuning" section to install instructions. 2003-09-26 17:47:44 +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
Tom Lane
aefc08e4eb Minor copy-editing for plpgsql chapter. 2003-09-23 19:58:50 +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
Bruce Momjian
bcd8986e7d Rename --without-spinlocks to --disable-spinlocks, per Peter. 2003-09-13 17:01:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c346ca8648 When I sent in the sslmode patch I forgot to update the
comments/examples in pg_hba.conf. This patch remedies that, adds a brief
explanation of the connection types, and adds a missing period in the
docs.

Jon Jensen
2003-09-13 16:43:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8c365c8db Marginal hacks to make tables format more nicely. 2003-09-13 00:19:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
a75ee43ce9 Mop-up for error-message updates in documentation. 2003-09-12 23:04:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
6e59122490 Update obsolete examples of error messages; various other minor editing. 2003-09-12 22:17:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
06e3ec7a54 Implement compiler #error if spinlock code not found, add configure flag
to bypass the error, --without-spinlocks.
2003-09-12 16:10:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9182481bea Remove WIN32_CONSOLE support, at the request of the author. 2003-09-12 02:40:10 +00:00