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Tom Lane 1b4f7f93b4 Allow empty target list in SELECT.
This fixes a problem noted as a followup to bug #8648: if a query has a
semantically-empty target list, e.g. SELECT * FROM zero_column_table,
ruleutils.c will dump it as a syntactically-empty target list, which was
not allowed.  There doesn't seem to be any reliable way to fix this by
hacking ruleutils (note in particular that the originally zero-column table
might since have had columns added to it); and even if we had such a fix,
it would do nothing for existing dump files that might contain bad syntax.
The best bet seems to be to relax the syntactic restriction.

Also, add parse-analysis errors for SELECT DISTINCT with no columns (after
*-expansion) and RETURNING with no columns.  These cases previously
produced unexpected behavior because the parsed Query looked like it had
no DISTINCT or RETURNING clause, respectively.  If anyone ever offers
a plausible use-case for this, we could work a bit harder on making the
situation distinguishable.

Arguably this is a bug fix that should be back-patched, but I'm worried
that there may be client apps or PLs that expect "SELECT ;" to throw a
syntax error.  The issue doesn't seem important enough to risk changing
behavior in minor releases.
2013-12-14 20:23:26 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas dde6282500 Fix more instances of "the the" in comments.
Plus one instance of "to to" in the docs.
2013-12-13 20:02:01 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 50e547096c Add GUC to enable WAL-logging of hint bits, even with checksums disabled.
WAL records of hint bit updates is useful to tools that want to examine
which pages have been modified. In particular, this is required to make
the pg_rewind tool safe (without checksums).

This can also be used to test how much extra WAL-logging would occur if
you enabled checksums, without actually enabling them (which you can't
currently do without re-initdb'ing).

Sawada Masahiko, docs by Samrat Revagade. Reviewed by Dilip Kumar, with
further changes by me.
2013-12-13 16:26:14 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 56afe8509e Fix double "the" in the documentation
Erik Rijkers
2013-12-13 15:01:56 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 46328916ee configure: Allow adding a custom string to PG_VERSION
This can be used to mark custom built binaries with an extra version
string such as a git describe identifier or distribution package release
version.

From: Oskari Saarenmaa <os@ohmu.fi>
2013-12-12 22:01:27 -05:00
Tom Lane ccca6f56f5 Fix ancient docs/comments thinko: XID comparison is mod 2^32, not 2^31.
Pointed out by Gianni Ciolli.
2013-12-12 12:39:48 -05:00
Tom Lane f26099057a Improve EXPLAIN to print the grouping columns in Agg and Group nodes.
Per request from Kevin Grittner.
2013-12-12 11:24:38 -05:00
Simon Riggs 8693559cac New autovacuum_work_mem parameter
If autovacuum_work_mem is set, autovacuum workers now use
this parameter in preference to maintenance_work_mem.

Peter Geoghegan
2013-12-12 11:42:39 +00:00
Simon Riggs 36da3cfb45 Allow time delayed standbys and recovery
Set min_recovery_apply_delay to force a delay in recovery apply for commit and
restore point WAL records. Other records are replayed immediately. Delay is
measured between WAL record time and local standby time.

Robert Haas, Fabrízio de Royes Mello and Simon Riggs
Detailed review by Mitsumasa Kondo
2013-12-12 10:53:20 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 108e3992cd Display old and new values in pg_resetxlog -n output.
For extra clarity.

Rajeev Rastogi, reviewed by Amit Kapila
2013-12-12 11:57:18 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut e5dc4cc24d PL/Perl: Add event trigger support
From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
2013-12-11 08:11:59 -05:00
Robert Haas 6bea96dd49 Add a new option, -g, to createuser, to add membership in a role.
Chistopher Browne, reviewed by Sameer Thakur, Amit Kapila, and
Peter Eisentraut.
2013-12-11 07:50:36 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a06af43695 doc: Fix DocBook table column count declaration
This was broken in d6464fdc0a.
2013-12-10 21:47:45 -05:00
Robert Haas e55704d8b2 Add new wal_level, logical, sufficient for logical decoding.
When wal_level=logical, we'll log columns from the old tuple as
configured by the REPLICA IDENTITY facility added in commit
07cacba983.  This makes it possible
a properly-configured logical replication solution to correctly
follow table updates even if they change the chosen key columns,
or, with REPLICA IDENTITY FULL, even if the table has no key at
all.  Note that updates which do not modify the replica identity
column won't log anything extra, making the choice of a good key
(i.e. one that will rarely be changed) important to performance
when wal_level=logical is configured.

Each insert, update, or delete to a catalog table will also log
the CMIN and/or CMAX values of stamped by the current transaction.
This is necessary because logical decoding will require access to
historical snapshots of the catalog in order to decode some data
types, and the CMIN/CMAX values that we may need in order to judge
row visibility may have been overwritten by the time we need them.

Andres Freund, reviewed in various versions by myself, Heikki
Linnakangas, KONDO Mitsumasa, and many others.
2013-12-10 19:01:40 -05:00
Noah Misch 53685d7981 Rename TABLE() to ROWS FROM().
SQL-standard TABLE() is a subset of UNNEST(); they deal with arrays and
other collection types.  This feature, however, deals with set-returning
functions.  Use a different syntax for this feature to keep open the
possibility of implementing the standard TABLE().
2013-12-10 09:34:37 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 01cc1fecfd pgcrypto docs: update cpu type used in duration testing 2013-12-09 16:12:24 -05:00
Bruce Momjian d6464fdc0a pgcrypto docs: update encryption timings and add relative times
Miles Elam
2013-12-09 16:10:47 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 54aa5ef7f2 Fix a couple of typos
Noted by Peter Geoghegan
2013-12-07 23:08:17 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 3164721462 SSL: Support ECDH key exchange
This sets up ECDH key exchange, when compiling against OpenSSL that
supports EC.  Then the ECDHE-RSA and ECDHE-ECDSA cipher suites can be
used for SSL connections.  The latter one means that EC keys are now
usable.

The reason for EC key exchange is that it's faster than DHE and it
allows to go to higher security levels where RSA will be horribly slow.

There is also new GUC option ssl_ecdh_curve that specifies the curve
name used for ECDH.  It defaults to "prime256v1", which is the most
common curve in use in HTTPS.

From: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
2013-12-07 15:11:44 -05:00
Fujii Masao 91484409bd Expose qurey ID in pg_stat_statements view.
The query ID is the internal hash identifier of the statement,
and was not available in pg_stat_statements view so far.

Daniel Farina, Sameer Thakur and Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by me.
2013-12-08 02:06:02 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut ef3267523d SSL: Add configuration option to prefer server cipher order
By default, OpenSSL (and SSL/TLS in general) lets the client cipher
order take priority.  This is OK for browsers where the ciphers were
tuned, but few PostgreSQL client libraries make the cipher order
configurable.  So it makes sense to have the cipher order in
postgresql.conf take priority over client defaults.

This patch adds the setting "ssl_prefer_server_ciphers" that can be
turned on so that server cipher order is preferred.  Per discussion,
this now defaults to on.

From: Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
2013-12-07 08:13:50 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 8fe3d90d34 docs: update partition encryption options
Text from Adam Vande More
2013-12-06 09:47:39 -05:00
Bruce Momjian fa4add50c4 docs: clarify SSL certificate authority chain docs
Previously, the requirements of how intermediate certificates were
handled and their chain to root certificates was unclear.
2013-12-06 09:42:08 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 5043fc8251 doc: split long query into multiple lines
Report from Erik Rijkers
2013-12-04 10:03:13 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 9e0a97f1c8 libpq: change PQconndefaults() to ignore invalid service files
Previously missing or invalid service files returned NULL.  Also fix
pg_upgrade to report "out of memory" for a null return from
PQconndefaults().

Patch by Steve Singer, rewritten by me
2013-12-03 11:12:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 95e3d50539 doc: Refine documentation about recovery command exist status
Add more documentation about how different exit codes and signals are
handled in each case.

Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>
2013-12-02 22:31:41 -05:00
Tom Lane 02bb4bbc66 Update release notes for 9.3.2, 9.2.6, 9.1.11, 9.0.15, 8.4.19. 2013-12-02 15:53:55 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 54916b99f7 doc: update wording of ineffective SET and ABORT commands
Wording by Alvaro Herrera
2013-12-02 12:51:58 -05:00
Tom Lane b8b7b723f2 Improve draft release notes.
Per suggestions from Andres Freund.  Also fix spelling of
Sergey Burladyan's name.
2013-12-02 12:17:46 -05:00
Tom Lane 23e796de15 Draft release notes for 9.3.2.
I'm putting these up for review before I start to extract the relevant
subsets for the older branches.  It'll be easier to make any suggested
wording improvements at this stage.
2013-12-01 18:46:16 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 3c81b5c1d2 doc: Disable preface.autolabel in XSLT
The makes the output more consistent with the existing DSSSL setup.
2013-12-01 17:13:23 -05:00
Tom Lane 4796035402 Editorial corrections to the October 2013 minor-release notes.
This is mostly to fix incorrect migration instructions: since the preceding
minor releases advised reindexing some GIST indexes, it's important that
we back-link to that advice rather than earlier instances.

Also improve some bug descriptions and fix a few typos.

No back-patch yet; these files will get copied into the back branches
later in the release process.
2013-11-30 16:57:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 1eafea5d1b doc: Simplify handling of variablelists in XSLT build
The previously used custom template is no longer necessary because
parameters provided by the standard style sheet can achieve the same
outcome.
2013-11-29 22:42:47 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 50107ee7a5 doc: Enhance documentation of ssl_ciphers setting a bit 2013-11-29 09:06:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 384eb1d40d doc: Allow selecting web site CSS style sheet in XSLT HTML build 2013-11-28 22:45:08 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut b6ecde8ed4 doc: Set chunk.first.sections in XSLT, for consistency with DSSSL output 2013-11-27 22:42:04 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 9ef780d4d7 pg_buffercache docs: adjust order of fields
Adjust order of fields to match view order.

Jaime Casanova
2013-11-27 22:33:59 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a607b6903e doc: Put data types in alphabetical order
From: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2013-11-27 21:50:27 -05:00
Kevin Grittner 89ba815092 Minor correction of READ COMMITTED isolation level docs.
Per report from AK
2013-11-27 14:34:12 -06:00
Michael Meskes 2390f2b2d3 Documentation fix for ecpg.
The latest fixes removed a limitation that was still in the docs, so Zoltan updated the docs, too.
2013-11-27 11:03:59 +01:00
Fujii Masao d1b88f6b36 Add --xlogdir option to pg_basebackup, for specifying the pg_xlog directory.
Haribabu kommi, slightly modified by me.
2013-11-27 14:00:16 +09:00
Fujii Masao 551c78281b Fix typo in release note.
Backpatch to 9.1.

Josh Kupershmidt
2013-11-27 13:48:01 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 85ed91ee7d Implement information_schema.parameters.parameter_default column
Reviewed-by: Ali Dar <ali.munir.dar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Rodolfo Campero <rodolfo.campero@anachronics.com>
2013-11-26 23:21:35 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 3803ff985c doc: Add id to index in XSLT build
That way, the HTML file name of the index will be the same as currently
for the DSSSL build.
2013-11-26 23:02:40 -05:00
Bruce Momjian a6542a4b68 Change SET LOCAL/CONSTRAINTS/TRANSACTION and ABORT behavior
Change SET LOCAL/CONSTRAINTS/TRANSACTION behavior outside of a
transaction block from error (post-9.3) to warning.  (Was nothing in <=
9.3.)  Also change ABORT outside of a transaction block from notice to
warning.
2013-11-25 19:19:40 -05:00
Michael Meskes 05b476c298 More improvement to comment parsing in ecpg.
ECPG is not supposed to allow and output nested comments in C. These comments
are only allowed in the SQL parts and must not be written into the C file.
Also the different handling of different comments is documented.
2013-11-25 15:38:09 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut a5036ca998 PL/Tcl: Add event trigger support
From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
2013-11-23 21:32:00 -05:00
Tom Lane 784e762e88 Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)
as a single FROM-clause entry.  The result is the concatenation of the
first row from each function, followed by the second row from each
function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than
others.  This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what
Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list.

This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column
definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list
inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality
column as well.

Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning
UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)).

The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not
multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is
not what this patch does.  There may be something wrong with that reading
of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just
a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST().  After further review of
that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does,
but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile.

Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and
significantly revised by me
2013-11-21 19:37:20 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 22967d8003 docs: update page format to specify page checksum field
Backpatch to 9.3

Per report from Steffen Hildebrandt
2013-11-19 16:54:42 -05:00
Tom Lane f901bb50e3 Add make_date() and make_time() functions.
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke and Atri Sharma
2013-11-17 15:06:50 -05:00