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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian b508136d81 Update HISTORY file for 7.0. 2000-03-23 06:30:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1d5df1547a This patch corrects spelling, grammar and euphony for the psql reference
page for 7.0:

Oliver Elphick
2000-03-21 01:52:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 8fc97e8276 Sorry, I have read the misspelling 'coersion' one time too many. 2000-03-20 04:22:11 +00:00
Tom Lane b9a990d8a8 Add exp(), ln(), and some other functions to numeric-functions table. 2000-03-20 04:20:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 339fe3c4cb Add note that ':' and ';' operators are deprecated. 2000-03-20 04:19:47 +00:00
Tom Lane f945f46193 Modify lexing of multi-char operators per pghackers discussion around
16-Mar-00: trailing + or - is not part of the operator unless the operator
also contains characters not present in SQL92-defined operators.  This
solves the 'X=-Y' problem without unduly constraining users' choice of
operator names --- in particular, no existing Postgres operator names
become invalid.

Also, remove processing of // comments, as agreed in the same thread.
2000-03-18 18:03:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 0e314d747e Add safety check on expression nesting depth. Default value is set by
a config.h #define, and the runtime value can be controlled via SET.
2000-03-17 05:29:07 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 1f3122e26d Fix typo (introduced by xemacs markup normalization) in the syntax summary. 2000-03-16 14:39:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 1763a7c1ea Tweak GROUP BY so that it will still accept result-column names, but only
after trying to resolve the item as an input-column name.  This allows us
to be compliant with the SQL92 spec for queries that fall within the spec,
while still accepting the same out-of-spec queries as 6.5 did.  You'll only
lose if there is an output column name that is the same as an input
column name, but doesn't refer to the same value.  7.0 will interpret
such a GROUP BY spec differently than 6.5 did.  No way around that, because
6.5 was clearly not spec compliant.
2000-03-15 23:31:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 795878d2dd Fix " to ' on lobj docs. 2000-03-15 17:07:41 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ce543b2121 Write up new TIME WITH TIME ZONE type. 2000-03-14 22:52:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1d75298176 Karel Zakr's revised patch to fix psql prompt for local host connections. 2000-03-11 13:56:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 370186e807 Update libpq documentation for PQconndefaults() change. Add section
about thread-safeness of the library.
2000-03-11 03:09:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0f17e3faab Okay, this time I *really* added the bug reporting guidelines. 2000-03-10 22:32:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 16ace63c6b Added bug reporting guidelines
Some corrections in installation procedure
2000-03-09 12:00:08 +00:00
Michael Meskes 3a81a1a462 *** empty log message *** 2000-03-03 09:56:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c75adac757 More fixes for psql ^C handling, especially during copy. Still doesn't
cope so well with copy to but that will have to wait for the next release.

Also added -X option to prevent reading .psqlrc startup file.
2000-03-01 21:10:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 80b7955d60 Correct bogus syntax in SET example. 2000-02-27 21:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 020be62dea Well, here's the first pass on regression
tests for the Foreign Key support in 7.0 which
was made against a CVS copy from this
afternoon.

This modifies
 src/test/regress/sql/run_check.tests
 src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
 src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
 src/test/regress/sql/foreign_key.sql
 src/test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out

sszabo@bigpanda.co
2000-02-22 20:58:31 +00:00
Tom Lane f72aad5678 Update discussion of aggregate syntax to mention ALL. 2000-02-21 01:20:41 +00:00
Tom Lane a7f85783fb Update SELECT documentation to have a more thorough discussion
of LIMIT, and fix a few other glitches too.
2000-02-21 01:13:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bd8e071482 Forgot to include the documentation for \encoding ... 2000-02-20 14:29:21 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 58a9ea9d80 Clean up markup so docs will compile. 2000-02-19 08:14:54 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ac324075de Update for new Irix info. 2000-02-19 08:14:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 598ea2c359 Finish repairing 6.5's problems with r-tree indexes: create appropriate
selectivity functions and make the r-tree operators use them.  The
estimation functions themselves are just stubs, unfortunately, but
perhaps someday someone will make them compute realistic estimates.
Change pg_am so that the optimizer can reliably tell the difference
between ordered and unordered indexes --- before it would think that
an r-tree index can be scanned in '<<' order, which is not right AFAIK.
Repair broken negator links for network_sup and related ops.
Initdb forced.  This might be my last initdb force for 7.0 ... hope so
anyway ...
2000-02-17 03:40:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c80cceb02 Update EXPLAIN documentation to reflect the fact that the
planner now produces two cost numbers instead of one.
2000-02-15 23:37:49 +00:00
Tom Lane b1577a7c78 New cost model for planning, incorporating a penalty for random page
accesses versus sequential accesses, a (very crude) estimate of the
effects of caching on random page accesses, and cost to evaluate WHERE-
clause expressions.  Export critical parameters for this model as SET
variables.  Also, create SET variables for the planner's enable flags
(enable_seqscan, enable_indexscan, etc) so that these can be controlled
more conveniently than via PGOPTIONS.

Planner now estimates both startup cost (cost before retrieving
first tuple) and total cost of each path, so it can optimize queries
with LIMIT on a reasonable basis by interpolating between these costs.
Same facility is a win for EXISTS(...) subqueries and some other cases.

Redesign pathkey representation to achieve a major speedup in planning
(I saw as much as 5X on a 10-way join); also minor changes in planner
to reduce memory consumption by recycling discarded Path nodes and
not constructing unnecessary lists.

Minor cleanups to display more-plausible costs in some cases in
EXPLAIN output.

Initdb forced by change in interface to index cost estimation
functions.
2000-02-15 20:49:31 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f0c66e539b Fix extraneous ending tag on libpq.sgml.
Renormalize query.sgml and fix indenting.
2000-02-15 03:57:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 9672d38f91 Adjusted psql echoing options (-a and -e) 2000-02-13 21:45:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2fb0ff0c5b Default argument for createdb
Changed EXIT_ON_ERROR to ON_ERROR_STOP in psql
2000-02-10 20:08:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5d93742b8d You will need to copy "config.h.win32" to "config.h" in the include
directory.

I think this patch to the docs should be what is needed.

 Magnus Hagander
2000-02-10 15:47:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b1b8fc813f Update length to 31. 2000-02-10 04:08:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 394af52795 I'm sending patch with new version of to_char numbers formatting.
The PostgreSQL's to_char() is very compatible with Oracle's to_char
 now. I hope that to_char's 3000 rows of source is without bugs, but
 will good if anyone test it, for me it works very well :-)


                                                        Karel

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Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>              http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/
2000-02-08 15:57:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 9ceb5d8a7b Fixed psql double quoting of SQL ids
Fixed libpq printing functions
2000-02-07 23:10:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a64d3bc433 Solaris has always had problems with 1947 in the
regression tests so I prepared a set of expected
files to make things look OK.

There's also a file to account for minor variations
in the geopmetry output and a resultmap patch to
pull them all together.

With these changes PostgreSQL, from CVS, builds and
regression tests (runcheck) cleanly.

Keith Parks.
2000-02-06 05:09:42 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 83fd594a3d Add short chapter in developer's guide on formatting source code. 2000-02-02 16:25:04 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 6454ae37a5 Add information on QNX port from Andreas Kardos. 2000-02-02 16:24:19 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 215935daa3 Remove extraneous end tag. Code now compiles cleanly. 2000-02-02 16:23:37 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart acaa064fa8 Add info on debian package installation of sgml toolkits. 2000-02-02 16:22:45 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart fd54baa945 Add detailed information on Australian time zones. 2000-02-02 16:21:06 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 911fc20c41 Update with current summary information on pgadmin.
From pgadmin author on 99-12-24.
2000-02-02 16:19:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2b84cbb60f A few minor psql enhancements
Initdb help correction
Changed end/abort to commit/rollback and changed related notices
Commented out way old printing functions in libpq
Fixed a typo in alter table / alter column
2000-01-29 16:58:54 +00:00
Tom Lane dd979f66be Redesign DISTINCT ON as discussed in pgsql-sql 1/25/00: syntax is now
SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ...
and there is a check to make sure that the user didn't specify an ORDER BY
that's incompatible with the DISTINCT operation.
Reimplement nodeUnique and nodeGroup to use the proper datatype-specific
equality function for each column being compared --- they used to do
bitwise comparisons or convert the data to text strings and strcmp().
(To add insult to injury, they'd look up the conversion functions once
for each tuple...)  Parse/plan representation of DISTINCT is now a list
of SortClause nodes.
initdb forced by querytree change...
2000-01-27 18:11:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b866d2e2d7 as attache of this mail is patch (to the main tree) with to_char's
family functions. Contain:

  conversion from a datetype to formatted text:

	to_char( datetime, 	text)
	to_char( timestamp,	text)
	to_char( int4,		text)
	to_char( int8,		text)
	to_char( float4,	text)
	to_char( float8,	text)
	to_char( numeric,	text)

  vice versa:

	to_date		( text, text)
	to_datetime	( text, text)
	to_timestamp	( text, text)
	to_number	( text, text)	   (convert to numeric)


  PostgreSQL to_char is very compatible with Oracle's to_char(), but not
total exactly (now). Small differentions are in number formating. It will
fix in next to_char() version.


! If will this patch aplly to the main tree, must be delete the current
  to_char version in contrib (directory "dateformat" and note in contrib's
  README), this patch not erase it (sorry Bruce).



The patch patching files:

	doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
                     ^^^^^^^^
   Hmm, I'm not sure if my English... :( Check it anyone (volunteer)?

   Thomas, it is right? SGML is not my primary lang  and compile
   the current PG docs tree is very happy job (hard variables setting in
   docs/sgml/Makefile --> HSTYLE= /home/users/t/thomas/....  :-)

   What add any definition to global configure.in and set Makefiles in docs
   tree via ./configure?

	src/backend/utils/adt/Makefile
	src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c
	src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
	src/include/utils/formatting.h
Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>              http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/
2000-01-25 23:53:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 90aaad06cf Remove obsolete references to 8K query limit. 2000-01-25 07:04:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bdb41ad0e7 Made abstime/reltime use int4 instead of time_t (TODO item)
Made type equivalency apply to aggregates (TODO item)
Fixed parsing bug in psql
Reverted some stupid options changes I made to pg_dump
2000-01-24 19:34:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 0dbffa704a First cut at making useful selectivity estimates for range queries
(ie, WHERE x > lowbound AND x < highbound).  It's not very bright yet
but it does something useful.  Also, rename intltsel/intgtsel to
scalarltsel/scalargtsel to reflect usage better.  Extend convert_to_scalar
to do something a little bit useful with string data types.  Still need
to make it do something with date/time datatypes, but I'll wait for
Thomas's datetime unification dust to settle first.  Eventually the
routine ought not have any type-specific knowledge at all; it ought to
be calling a type-dependent routine found via a pg_type column; but
that's a task for another day.
2000-01-24 07:16:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da5aba105f Remove Ops parameter from STATRELID cache lookup, for Tom Lane and
optimizer.
2000-01-24 02:12:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 49581f9848 updated install file
updated date/time types doc
fixed small psql bug
removed libpq code that lower-cased db names
make notice when long identifier is truncated
2000-01-23 01:27:39 +00:00
Tom Lane 71ed7eb494 Revise handling of index-type-specific indexscan cost estimation, per
pghackers discussion of 5-Jan-2000.  The amopselect and amopnpages
estimators are gone, and in their place is a per-AM amcostestimate
procedure (linked to from pg_am, not pg_amop).
2000-01-22 23:50:30 +00:00