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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian b8369db5fc Mostly done:
< * Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
2004-02-12 18:05:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f66f437fac File not needed:
< * Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
> * Add replication of distributed databases
2004-02-12 18:01:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b23d694544 Remove:
< 	o http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
2004-02-12 17:59:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian db55d7a212 Merge files:
< * Allow persistent backends [persistent]
> * Allow persistent backends [pool]
397c397
<   connection pooling
>   connection pooling [pool]
2004-02-12 17:51:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b4c0b196fb Not needed:
<   float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer]
>   float4, numeric/decimal too
422c422
< * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
> * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc
2004-02-12 17:38:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b3fbb4b801 Not needed:
< * Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too [fsync]
> * Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too
2004-02-12 17:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ebf4bb7f2e Not needed:
< * Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity [foreign]
> * Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
2004-02-12 17:31:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian de4b486eed Remove crossdb content. 2004-02-12 17:23:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fbfc9dc20b Add, dblink doesn't do this:
> * Allow cross-db queries with transaction sematics
2004-02-12 17:22:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 329207e817 Done, mostly by dblink, I think:
< * Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
2004-02-12 17:21:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 209e866a5a Fix typo:
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:28, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
> > At the bottom of this doc file :
> > file:///usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/tutorial-createdb.html
> > "and it also happens that that user always has permission"
> >                       ---- x2
> The first "that" serves as a conjuction, the second one serves as an
> article.  Looks correct to me.

A better workaround for the sentence would be something like:

        "and it also happens that the user always has permission"

Looks easier to read, I think.

Enver ALTIN (a.k.a. skyblue)
2004-02-12 16:38:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 43d37a81dd Add:
<
> * Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
2004-02-12 16:05:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 76f02b51b6 Remove URL for specific pljava implementation:
< 	o Allow Java server-side programming, http://pljava.sourceforge.net
< 	  [java]
> 	o Allow Java server-side programming [java]
2004-02-12 14:41:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3b6bf0c07d Add:
> 	o Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
2004-02-11 22:04:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ac4ad7bf2c Does not apply anymore:
< * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
2004-02-11 17:04:04 +00:00
Neil Conway e29d8f3c34 SGML markup improvements. 2004-02-10 20:51:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fd44e2fb14 Add URL for most current version. 2004-02-10 15:16:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04e82e5008 Add mention of the developer's FAQ. 2004-02-08 03:16:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9534fd73d8 Add mention of PostgreSQL as a community project. 2004-02-08 03:09:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9f361350d7 Add PITR web page:
< * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
< * Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
> * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log,
>   http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/pitr.html
> * Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html
2004-02-08 01:17:09 +00:00
Joe Conway 687d7cf355 Documentation for generate_series() functions committed a few days ago. 2004-02-05 22:54:36 +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
Bruce Momjian 39d715bee6 Add:
> * Make pg_restore continue after errors, so it acts more like pg_dump scripts
2004-02-03 16:53:56 +00:00
Tom Lane e1826d037a Update char_length() example for new semantics. 2004-02-01 06:55:07 +00:00
Tom Lane f27976c85b Make length() disregard trailing spaces in char(n) values, per discussion
some time ago and recent patch from Gavin Sherry.  Update documentation
to point out that trailing spaces are insignificant in char(n).
2004-02-01 06:27:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 777babeced Add:
<
> * Allow libpq to return information about prepared queries
2004-01-30 11:11:07 +00:00
Neil Conway 45842e6c52 Improve the documentation of the 'join_collapse_limit' GUC var. Thanks to
Tom Lane for some editorial suggestions.
2004-01-27 16:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian af29187f2e Add Name:
> * -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)
2004-01-26 22:38:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee96c82cc2 Done:
> * -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)
2004-01-26 22:38:10 +00:00
Neil Conway e0707cbae9 The attached patch clarifies (or, rather, makes explicit) to readers how
to handle memory management for char pointers returned by libpq functions.
Original patch by Gavin Sherry, some tweaking and consistency improvements
by Neil Conway.
2004-01-26 22:13:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7a14a72e08 Added:
> * Dump large object comments in custom dump format
2004-01-26 18:32:08 +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
Bruce Momjian ee2f149d30 Clarify that the 'user' column still applies for 'trust'. 2004-01-26 05:35:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3761f968c8 Update datestamp. 2004-01-26 05:33:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 34f0a8e72d *** empty log message *** 2004-01-25 04:56:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ccf3a0440a Add Joe to TODO:
> * Joe is Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
2004-01-25 04:50:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian acfa013e81 Fix typo I mistakenly added. 2004-01-25 03:30:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian afe7b7b60e Update null storage description. 2004-01-25 02:28:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8303a3d1ea Mention that log_statement only prints query on PREPARE, not EXECUTE,
and PL/pgSQL only prints queries on first function call.
2004-01-25 00:36:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 9d8888079d Support named parameters in information_schema.parameters,
per Dennis Bjorklund.  I did not force initdb for this, but
you'd need to do one to get the improved view.
2004-01-24 23:45:13 +00:00
Tom Lane c8bcd5ca92 Fix problems with dropped columns in pltcl triggers, per report from Patrick Samson. 2004-01-24 23:06:29 +00:00
Tom Lane 0152f14812 Example of a function taking a composite type should show how to call it. 2004-01-24 22:05:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 3969f2924b Revise GEQO planner to make use of some heuristic knowledge about SQL, namely
that it's good to join where there are join clauses rather than where there
are not.  Also enable it to generate bushy plans at need, so that it doesn't
fail in the presence of multiple IN clauses containing sub-joins.  These
changes appear to improve the behavior enough that we can substantially reduce
the default pool size and generations count, thereby decreasing the runtime,
and yet get as good or better plans as we were getting in 7.4.  Consequently,
adjust the default GEQO parameters.  I also modified the way geqo_effort is
used so that it affects both population size and number of generations;
it's now useful as a single control to adjust the GEQO runtime-vs-plan-quality
tradeoff.  Bump geqo_threshold to 12, since even with these changes GEQO
seems to be slower than the regular planner at 11 relations.
2004-01-23 23:54:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 81c554bbe8 Add:
> * Improve CREATE SCHEMA regression test
2004-01-23 15:13:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8e32f78b1d Add MySQL mention of licensing difference. 2004-01-23 14:41:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d84db7d56d Add:
> * Allow column-level privileges
2004-01-23 05:05:34 +00:00
Neil Conway 58ae3cf12c Minor improvements to the trigger documentation, and a few SGML fixes. 2004-01-22 19:50:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 672a807028 Repair error apparently introduced in the initial coding of GUC: the
default value for geqo_effort is supposed to be 40, not 1.  The actual
'genetic' component of the GEQO algorithm has been practically disabled
since 7.1 because of this mistake.  Improve documentation while at it.
2004-01-21 23:33:34 +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 0f8a313508 Remove no-longer-relevant note about forcing the type of an integer
constant.  Per Kris Jurka.
2004-01-20 22:46:06 +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
Tom Lane bd046b99f0 Remove JDBC from the build system and documentation, too. 2004-01-19 21:20:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 163edee632 Improve discussion of consistent-snapshot backup technique. Haphazard
editing of this text had left nearly contradictory statements in
adjacent paragraphs ...
2004-01-19 20:12:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b89744198e Some refinement of XSLT processing: The result now looks just about as good
as the result of the SGML-based tool chain.
2004-01-15 23:51:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e27d500235 Make rule and stylesheet to try out XSLT for DocBook processing 2004-01-13 18:45:19 +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
Bruce Momjian cff58dd54e Done:
> * -Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
2004-01-09 21:12:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0150dbdce5 Allow libpq to do thread-safe SIGPIPE handling. This allows it to
ignore SIGPIPE from send() in libpq, but terminate on any other SIGPIPE,
unless the user installs their own signal handler.

This is a minor fix because the only time you get SIGPIPE from libpq's
send() is when the backend dies.
2004-01-09 02:02:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian acc57543de German FAQ update.
Ian Barwick
2004-01-09 01:51:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8c3f859ecf Update Russian FAQ.
Viktor Vislobokov
2004-01-08 16:01:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7f5e12a84c Not done, per Tom:
> 	o Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
2004-01-07 17:54:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a95df8f2bf Completed, I am pretty sure:
> 	o -Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
2004-01-07 04:32:56 +00:00
Tom Lane a77e32d7c5 Apply the core parts of Dennis Bjorklund's patch to allow function
parameters to be declared with names.  pg_proc has a column to store
names, and CREATE FUNCTION can insert data into it, but that's all as
yet.  I need to do more work on the pg_dump and plpgsql portions of the
patch before committing those, but I thought I'd get the bulky changes
in before the tree drifts under me.
initdb forced due to pg_proc change.
2004-01-06 23:55:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 89aafae009 Favor Freenode rather than EFnet in IRC listing. Freenode is more popular. 2004-01-06 21:44:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bf2a591ffc Done:
> * -Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
2004-01-06 20:01:13 +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
Neil Conway 71998c1e51 Remove an old and out-of-date SGML comment from this file: we already
have WAL, outer joins, and TOAST.
2004-01-05 20:39:23 +00:00
Neil Conway af7a21cb99 Fix (yet another) instance of incorrect markup for a GUC variable. 2004-01-05 20:37:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bf488a6842 Update for 7.4.1 as newest version. 2004-01-05 00:54:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a7b30b9c48 Correct gettext URL. 2004-01-04 16:43:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e54515167 Recommend SHOW, instead of pg_controldata, for checking LC_COLLATE and
LC_CTYPE settings of a database.
2003-12-30 23:36:19 +00:00
Tom Lane debeb47c92 Be a little more consistent about which terms are uppercased in
index entries.
2003-12-26 21:30:48 +00:00
Michael Meskes 99827af7e0 Fixed docs to clearly note that ecpg is originally a C precompiler and C++ stuff is not 100%. 2003-12-26 20:00:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1c757c49fa > > I have no idea if this in Oracle or not. But it's something I
> > needed, and other people in the past asked about it too.
>
> It is in Oracle, but you aren't exactly on the spot.  It should be
>
> IYYY - 4 digits  ('2003')
> IYY  - 3 digits  ('003')
> IY   - 2 digits  ('03')
> I    - 1 digit   ('3')

Here is an updated patch that does that.

Kurt Roeckx
2003-12-25 03:36:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a922472a2a Supress non-temp schemas from psql \dn display. 2003-12-23 23:13:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 9adaf64da3 Mop-up for HAS_TEST_AND_SET refactoring. Un-break two or three platforms
that were broken, try to make layout of s_lock.h entries consistent,
use HAVE_SPINLOCKS in preference to HAS_TEST_AND_SET everywhere outside
s_lock.h itself.
2003-12-23 18:13:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 86d34e4123 Clarification:
< * Have psql \dn show only visible schemas using current_schemas()
> * Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
2003-12-22 16:30:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 5015cf01eb Fix broken markup, adjust 7.4.1 release date, re-sync HEAD with branch. 2003-12-21 18:06:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 550d347811 Update 7.4.1 release notes in preparation for release. 2003-12-21 05:23:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0ea4f9c859 Back out:
>  Attached is a patch that addressed all the discussed issues
>  that did not break backward compatability, including the
>  ability to output ISO-8601 compliant intervals by setting
>  datestyle to iso8601basic.
2003-12-21 04:34:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ee0ddf91d Another markup fix for recent patch. 2003-12-20 16:06:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4e005c9095 Fix broken markup. 2003-12-20 15:59:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 54c8e821b8 In my mind there were two categories of open issues
a) ones that are 100% backward (such as the comment about
     outputting this format)
and
  b) ones that aren't (such as deprecating the current
     postgresql shorthand of
         '1Y1M'::interval = 1 year 1 minute
     in favor of the ISO-8601
         'P1Y1M'::interval = 1 year 1 month.

Attached is a patch that addressed all the discussed issues that
did not break backward compatability, including the ability to
output ISO-8601 compliant intervals by setting datestyle to
iso8601basic.

Interval values can now be written as  ISO 8601 time intervals, using
the "Format with time-unit designators". This format always starts with
the character 'P', followed  by a string of values followed
by single character time-unit designators. A 'T' separates the date and
time parts of the interval.

Ron Mayer
2003-12-20 15:32:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cb95ec2f7a 7.4.1 release note improvements 2003-12-19 20:06:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e9aec81792 Please find enclosed a patch exemplifying typical use of the ARE
Class-Shorthand Escapes<C2><AE>.  I believe it will help intrepid regex
users. :)

David Fetter
2003-12-18 03:59:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0d5fce355b Restore information schema upgrade instructions of Peter. 2003-12-17 07:07:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4b1a35b3c2 Add example for converting epoch back to timestamp. 2003-12-16 15:27:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f57832f646 Repair name. 2003-12-16 09:47:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3bc199cd6c Add mention of non-standard extension:
< 	o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware
> 	o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware, non-standard?
2003-12-16 01:35:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 028c41e29b Add for ecpg:
> 	o Make SET CONNECTION thread-aware
2003-12-16 01:08:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 39d66b5494 Mention ecpg SET CONNECTION is not thread-aware. 2003-12-16 01:06:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a6dbd64947 Override some of the changes in DocBook DSSSL stylesheets 1.78 to restore
previous behavior of <literal>, <envar>, <acronym>, and others.
2003-12-15 23:58:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 34cb0f7b46 Update HISTORY and release notes for 7.4.1. 2003-12-15 22:24:59 +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 0b52062265 This patch makes some improvements and adds some additional detail
to the documentation on routine database maintainence activities.
I also corrected a bunch of SGML markup.
2003-12-14 00:10:32 +00:00