9bedfbd02b
Fix checkpoint_timeout documentation to reflect current behavior.
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Jeff Janes
2012-08-30 15:08:36 -04:00
83fbfec383
Document that log_autovacuum_min_duration can be used to monitor
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autovacuum activity.
Per report from Marc Mamin
2012-08-30 14:44:46 -04:00
35738b5906
Document how to prevent PostgreSQL itself from exhausting memory.
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The existing documentation in Linux Memory Overcommit seemed to
assume that PostgreSQL itself could never be the problem, or at
least it didn't tell you what to do about it.
Per discussion with Craig Ringer and Kevin Grittner.
2012-08-30 14:24:07 -04:00
b9ea8d20fd
Document that COPY OUT requires an absolute pathname.
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As suggested by Etsuro Fujita, but with somewhat different wording.
2012-08-30 13:18:23 -04:00
48a9c7823e
Remove old documentation warnings about the use of bigint.
2012-08-30 13:13:46 -04:00
152525b5f3
Document that xslt-related RPMs may be needed to build docs.
2012-08-30 10:39:03 -04:00
9fe6da5c0d
Document that NOTIFY events are visible to all users.
2012-08-29 21:45:31 -04:00
0f3351aacf
Adjust pg_test_timing to show shortest test durations first, place
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percentage column before count column. Docs updated.
2012-08-28 12:57:13 -04:00
5ea6c9d798
Update doc mention of how to compute bigint advisory lock value, per Tom
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Lane's correction.
2012-08-28 12:17:22 -04:00
bf849af7f3
Document how to create advisory lock "bigint" values in SQL.
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David E. Wheeler
2012-08-27 22:36:48 -04:00
7417a8e3dd
Improve a couple of 9.2 release note entries.
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Clarify the compatibility notes about EXTRACT() and about statistics
timing columns.
2012-08-27 20:53:57 -04:00
8770328784
Add section IDs to subsections of syntax.sgml that lacked them.
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This is so that these sections will have stable HTML tags that one can
link to, rather than things like "AEN1902". Perhaps we should mount a
campaign to do this everywhere, but I've found myself pointing at
syntax.sgml subsections often enough to be sure it's useful here.
2012-08-27 20:17:12 -04:00
483c2c1071
Document the lack of reading the PGDATABASE environment variable in
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pg_restore.
2012-08-27 15:27:09 -04:00
7a42dff47e
Update FreeBSD kernel configuration documentation.
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Brad Davis
2012-08-26 23:21:57 -04:00
de87d47044
Clarify documentation that primary key and unique constraints are copied
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for CREATE TABLE LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES.
Per report from david.sahagian@emc.com
2012-08-26 16:33:11 -04:00
f6752ee59a
Document clearly that psql \! parameter interpretation limitations are
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the same as \copy.
2012-08-25 19:11:21 -04:00
7514208fbb
Some spelling adjustments in release notes
2012-08-24 22:50:43 -04:00
8606e47e11
Normalize some British spellings
2012-08-24 22:50:43 -04:00
406473b152
Put options on man page and in help output in slightly better order
2012-08-24 00:06:59 -04:00
8b6b50a34d
Fix typo in example.
2012-08-23 11:58:11 +03:00
26a6267226
Add instructions for setting up documentation tool chain on Mac OS X
2012-08-23 02:29:21 -04:00
6e2e12c947
Remove overly-pessimistic statement about constraint exclusion.
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As of 9.2, constraint exclusion should work okay with prepared statements:
the planner will try custom plans with actual values of the parameters,
and observe that they are a lot cheaper than the generic plan, and thus
never fall back to using the generic plan. Noted by Tatsuhito Kasahara.
2012-08-22 23:55:34 -04:00
b33f611682
Make a cut at a major-features list for 9.2.
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This is open to debate of course, but it's past time we had *something*
here.
2012-08-22 17:58:06 -04:00
979f8f0431
Make an editorial pass over the 9.2 release notes.
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A very large number of small improvements ...
2012-08-22 17:37:02 -04:00
932a271956
Fix erroneous documentation of synchronous_commit = remote_write.
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The docs claimed that this mode only waits for the standby to receive WAL
data, but actually it waits for the data to be written out to the standby's
OS; which is a pretty significant difference because it removes the risk of
crash of the walreceiver process.
2012-08-22 14:04:36 -04:00
03af60c010
Fix typo.
2012-08-22 12:05:25 -04:00
7dff5b8edd
Document that pg_reload_conf() is also an easy way to reload the
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configuration file.
2012-08-22 12:01:27 -04:00
0830cc9fe0
Update 9.2 release notes to reflect commits to date.
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I was unable to entirely resist the temptation to copy-edit related
entries, but will save most of that for a separate pass.
2012-08-21 22:56:45 -04:00
82ef3d3008
Add a note to the MVCC chapter that some things aren't transactional.
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Craig Ringer, slightly edited by me.
2012-08-21 11:10:17 -04:00
18226849ea
Copy-editing for recent window-functions documentation rewrite.
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Fix grammar, put back some removed information, rearrange for clarity.
2012-08-17 15:40:35 -04:00
305557984d
Update 'int' protocol documentation mention to be "signed", per request
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from Dmitriy Igrishin
2012-08-16 22:07:14 -04:00
1037f2f646
Document that tab completation can interfere with some SQL commands.
2012-08-16 18:41:38 -04:00
c99016f1d0
Add warning about pg_ctl restart and the use of relative paths on the command-line.
2012-08-16 18:15:58 -04:00
c6ce4c1322
In docs, clarify that, without ORDER BY, the window frame is all rows in
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the partition.
2012-08-16 11:32:22 -04:00
5c1b2f5daa
Revert: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to
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"unimportant".
Per request from Heikki
2012-08-16 11:26:40 -04:00
d5816d11af
Rewrite window function reference section to more clearly explain
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keywords and concepts, based on suggestions by Florian Pflug.
2012-08-16 10:42:42 -04:00
7c97f6a0cb
In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant".
2012-08-16 10:36:43 -04:00
de3773d951
Fix SGML markup; missing tag.
2012-08-15 23:57:19 -04:00
077908aed7
Document that PGDATA has to point to the configuration files, rather
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than the actual data storage directory.
Per suggestion from Thom Brown
2012-08-15 22:59:37 -04:00
6ff55ebe3d
Document that pg_ctl -w allows for the entry of an SSL passphase on
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startup.
Per report from Thom Brown
2012-08-15 20:52:12 -04:00
16d508ccbc
Add CREATE FOREIGN TABLE doc reference to CREATE SERVER.
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Per suggestion from Ray Stell
2012-08-15 20:38:01 -04:00
0729271adf
Properly document that NEW is unassigned in plpgsql for DELETE (not
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NULL), and OLD is unassigned for INSERT, and NEW/OLD are unassigned (not
NULL) for statement-level triggers.
Per report from Pavel Stehule
2012-08-15 20:29:58 -04:00
083b9133aa
On second thought, explain why date_trunc("week") on interval values is
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not supported in the error message, rather than the docs.
2012-08-15 16:48:05 -04:00
74f4881d7c
Document why you can't use date_trunc("week") on intervals.
2012-08-15 16:03:58 -04:00
fc5f20057f
Document that foreign "version" and "type" values are only useful to
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certain foreign data wrappers.
2012-08-15 11:47:02 -04:00
a973296598
Properly escape usernames in initdb, so names with single-quotes are
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supported. Also add assert to catch future breakage.
Also, improve documentation that "double"-quotes must be used in
pg_hba.conf (not single quotes).
2012-08-15 11:23:15 -04:00
864de654c8
Add more limited large object trigger example.
2012-08-14 23:25:20 -04:00
9e84cccff2
Add doc example of restricting large object trigger firing to only
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updates of the column of interest.
2012-08-14 23:21:28 -04:00
e45ae40181
Update release notes for 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13, 8.3.20.
2012-08-14 18:33:51 -04:00
adc97d03b9
Prevent access to external files/URLs via contrib/xml2's xslt_process().
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libxslt offers the ability to read and write both files and URLs through
stylesheet commands, thus allowing unprivileged database users to both read
and write data with the privileges of the database server. Disable that
through proper use of libxslt's security options.
Also, remove xslt_process()'s ability to fetch documents and stylesheets
from external files/URLs. While this was a documented "feature", it was
long regarded as a terrible idea. The fix for CVE-2012-3489 broke that
capability, and rather than expend effort on trying to fix it, we're just
going to summarily remove it.
While the ability to write as well as read makes this security hole
considerably worse than CVE-2012-3489, the problem is mitigated by the fact
that xslt_process() is not available unless contrib/xml2 is installed,
and the longstanding warnings about security risks from that should have
discouraged prudent DBAs from installing it in security-exposed databases.
Reported and fixed by Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2012-3488
2012-08-14 18:31:18 -04:00
Robert Haas
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Heikki Linnakangas