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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane 3a20db975e Add release notes for back branches (7.3 and up).
Also minor improvements to 8.1.1 release notes.
2005-12-09 20:40:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ede54f3cd7 Add documentation about the behavior of BEFORE triggers and referential
integrity actions.

Stephan Szabo
2005-12-09 19:39:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9c9b9446da Remove mention that history is _now_ automatically saved on exit. It
has been that way for a long time.
2005-12-09 19:19:17 +00:00
Tom Lane a8c53d6207 Fix broken markup. 2005-12-09 18:07:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 2e468aa5d7 Fix core dump in error path of plpgsql_parse_tripwordtype. Somebody
introduced a copy-and-pasteo while trying to simplify the code.
2005-12-09 17:08:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 07044f5d6f Completed:
* -Have initdb set the input DateStyle (MDY or DMY) based on locale
2005-12-09 16:35:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 625d4b38e0 Let initdb detect the date order of the lc_time locale and initialize the
datestyle parameter of the new cluster accordingly.
2005-12-09 15:51:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd8f3ec599 I reconfirmed MS-VC6. Thank you for wonderful correspondence.
However, Another problem newly occurred.
This solves the problem of snprintf and vsnprintf.

Patch to HEAD and 8.1.X.

Hiroshi Saito
2005-12-09 04:50:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7b1a7e786e Stamp libraries for 8.2 by updating minor library version numbers and
Win32 library files.
2005-12-09 02:49:09 +00:00
Tom Lane c599a247bb Simplify lock manager data structures by making a clear separation between
the data defining the semantics of a lock method (ie, conflict resolution
table and ancillary data, which is all constant) and the hash tables
storing the current state.  The only thing we give up by this is the
ability to use separate hashtables for different lock methods, but there
is no need for that anyway.  Put some extra fields into the LockMethod
definition structs to clean up some other uglinesses, like hard-wired
tests for DEFAULT_LOCKMETHOD and USER_LOCKMETHOD.  This commit doesn't
do anything about the performance issues we were discussing, but it clears
away some of the underbrush that's in the way of fixing that.
2005-12-09 01:22:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 34848052d0 Release note wording improvements. 2005-12-08 23:22:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8c09ba866c Wrap UTF-8 paragraph. 2005-12-08 22:44:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f2946c717d Update wording of translation bug item. 2005-12-08 22:35:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fb52a5475f Update for 8.1.1. 2005-12-08 22:26:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4b0951133d Update release notes for 8.1.1. 2005-12-08 22:21:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d22ec67605 Add Teodor:
> * Teodor is Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
2005-12-08 22:10:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0fba659ef8 Remove a few people:
< * Claudio is Claudio Natoli <claudio.natoli@memetrics.com>
1166d1164
< * Hiroshi is Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
2005-12-08 22:08:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd5fa5a5a1 FAQ_AIX in 8.1.0 contains outdated information about how to deal with
postgres problems due to readline.  The attached patch replaces that
section of it with better ways of handling the problem.

Seneca Cunningham
2005-12-08 21:36:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04db9d25d1 there's a paragraph in the ALTER TABLE reference page that reads:
DROP CONSTRAINT

    This form drops constraints on a table. Currently, constraints on tables
    are not required to have unique names, so there may be more than one
    constraint matching the specified name. All matching constraints will be
    dropped.

To my knowledge, it is no longer possible to create constraints with the
same name for the same relation. When you create a constraint and specify
the same name explictly, an error is raised. Implicit constraint creation
won't choose an existing name either and up to now you could not rename a
constraint. Renaming works with the patch I sent in a few hours ago but this
patch as well won't allow constraints with identical names on the same
relation.

The attached patch thus removes the note in the docs.

Joachim Wieland
2005-12-08 21:35:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c03aa1f9c9 > 1) I'm proposing a patch to do the DROP FUNCTION argument tab completion.
> Now, the arguments of the drop function can be tab completed. for example
>
> drop function strpos (
> <press tab>
> drop FUNCTION strpos (text, text)
>
> or:
>
> wsdb=# drop FUNCTION length (
> bit)        bytea)      character)  lseg)       path)       text)
> <press c>
> wsdb# DROP FUNCTION length ( character)
>
> I think that this patch should be rather useful. At it least I hate
> always to type all the arguments of the dropped functions.
>
> 2) Also some fixes applied for the
> CREATE INDEX syntax
>
> now the parenthesises are inserted by tab pressing.
> suppose I have the table q3c:

Sergey E. Koposov
2005-12-08 21:33:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2986f42984 Put [] around default value for port number. 2005-12-08 21:29:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian af6ef3028d Remove empty heading row in error table. 2005-12-08 21:23:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a80c9ad00d Add missing translation marker 2005-12-08 21:18:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ac5618fa4e Add "Constant" column to error code table.
Also, better mark section headings.

kdio@uenf.br
2005-12-08 21:01:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut dbd1c1abd6 Documentation fix: s/event_object_name/event_object_table/g 2005-12-08 20:48:10 +00:00
Tom Lane aaa3dfd26c Fix bgwriter's failure to release buffer pins and open files after an
error.  This probably explains bug #2099 and could also account for
mysterious VACUUM hangups.
2005-12-08 19:19:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 96e1fbe396 I recently received the Debian bug report below about missing iconv
support for the dbf2pg contrib module.

The submitter created a patch which replaces the silent ignoring of -F
(when iconv support is disabled) with a meaningful warning.

Martin Pitt
2005-12-08 18:04:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc1cb4ceb9 Add documentation about the inability of plpsql to use parameter names
that are the same as column names used in the function.
2005-12-08 18:02:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ebd4224a5 Disble some Win32-specific code in win32-client-only builds:
I have the problem, when building by MS-VC6.
An error occurs in the 8.1.0 present source codes.

nmake -f win32.mak
..\..\port\getaddrinfo.c(244) : error C2065: 'WSA_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY'
..\..\port\getaddrinfo.c(342) : error C2065: 'WSATYPE_NOT_FOUND'

This is used by winsock2.h. However, Construction of a windows base is
winsock.h.
Then, Since MinGW has special environment, this is right. but, it is not
found in VC6.
Furthermore, in getaddrinfo.c, IPV6-API is used by
LoadLibraryA("ws2_32");
Referring to of dll the external memory generates this violation by VC6
specification.

I considered whether the whole should have been converted into winsock2.
However, Now, DLL of MinGW creation operates wonderfully as it is.
That's right, it has pliability by replacement of simple DLL.
Then, I propose the system using winsock(non IPV6) in construction of
VC6.

Hiroshi Saito
2005-12-08 17:52:11 +00:00
Tom Lane f38c3e778a Fix thinko in comment. 2005-12-08 15:38:29 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev faacdab101 Improve tag recognizing 2005-12-08 09:11:19 +00:00
Tom Lane cefcbbf1fd Push the responsibility for handling ignore_killed_tuples down into
_bt_checkkeys(), instead of checking it in the top-level nbtree.c routines
as formerly.  This saves a little bit of loop overhead, but more importantly
it lets us skip performing the index key comparisons for dead tuples.
2005-12-07 19:37:53 +00:00
Tom Lane f1b059af12 A couple of tiny performance hacks in _bt_step(). Remove PageIsEmpty
checks, which were once needed because PageGetMaxOffsetNumber would
fail on empty pages, but are now just redundant.  Also, don't set up
local variables that aren't needed in the fast path --- most of the
time, we only need to advance offnum and not step across a page boundary.
Motivated by noticing _bt_step at the top of OProfile profile for a
pgbench run.
2005-12-07 18:03:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 10a2df28c0 Update:
<   at initdb time or optionally later.
>   at initdb time or optionally later.  Consider O_SYNC when
>   O_DIRECT exists.
2005-12-07 17:29:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 6de1fef52c Fix incorrect SPI example, per Yoshihisa Nakano. 2005-12-07 15:39:25 +00:00
Tom Lane a9b1ff4c1d Fix a couple of lingering references to POSTQUEL query syntax, per Simon. 2005-12-07 15:27:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 13ea825b6d Spell "explicitly" correctly, per Simon. 2005-12-07 15:20:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 823702be9d Improve lazy vacuum wording. 2005-12-07 14:35:45 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 9551ab2fe9 Fix small memory leak 2005-12-07 13:30:15 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 4f94b49a31 Improve word parser.
- allow ~ in filenames
 - -8.2.1 now is '-' and '8.2.1' instead of '-8.2' '.' '3'
 - '.text' now is not a file
2005-12-07 13:12:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 95aca45010 Clarify vacuum lazy can shrink a file under certain circumstances. 2005-12-07 05:35:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 887a7c61f6 Get rid of slru.c's hardwired insistence on a fixed number of slots per
SLRU area.  The number of slots is still a compile-time constant (someday
we might want to change that), but at least it's a different constant for
each SLRU area.  Increase number of subtrans buffers to 32 based on
experimentation with a heavily subtrans-bashing test case, and increase
number of multixact member buffers to 16, since it's obviously silly for
it not to be at least twice the number of multixact offset buffers.
2005-12-06 23:08:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3001b4697d Update iconv wording, per Peter. 2005-12-06 21:00:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 371879ca8e Add:
> * Add GUC variable to run a command on database panic or
>   smart/fast/immediate shutdown
2005-12-06 20:47:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 40c729ae6c Highlight diff idea for iconv. 2005-12-06 20:25:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 363fcbafa1 iconv uses UTF-8, not UTF8. 2005-12-06 20:19:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 394fedfd72 Document method of removing invalid UTF8 escape sequences from dump
file.  Backpatch to 8.1.X.

Paul Lindner
2005-12-06 19:26:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian af2e8a872d Documentation cleanup mention:
non-ascii                       convert to & escapes
2005-12-06 18:45:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dae896b67d Since my name has a non-ascii-letter in it, it's often spelled wrong. In
the latest release notes there is a latin1 character that shouldn't be
there so I made a patch to fix that. This patch also fixes some old
entries that uses o instead of &ouml; (which is also wrong but not as
bad as including a latin1 character in the sgml file).

Dennis Bj?rklund
2005-12-06 18:43:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca430500ce Add documentation on the use of *printf() macros and libintl.
Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-12-06 18:35:10 +00:00