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Author SHA1 Message Date
Magnus Hagander
3a7211aaf7 Typo pointed out by Erwin Brandstetter. Remove the whole makes it even
better, per JD.
2007-12-11 18:30:20 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
3bf66d6f1c Extend the format of CSV logs to include the additional information supplied
with the logged event.  CSV logs are now a first-class citizen along plain
text logs in that they carry much of the same information.

Per complaint from depesz on bug #3799.
2007-12-11 15:19:05 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
22867ab986 Use _USE_32BIT_TIME_T when building with MSVC. Also, enforce that it's
used when building addons.

Dave Page
2007-12-11 14:34:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
4192f2d85a Remove the -P options of oid2name and pgbench, as they are security
hazards.  Instead teach these programs to prompt for a password when
necessary, just like all our other programs.
I did not bother to invent -W switches for them, since the return on
investment seems so low.
2007-12-11 02:31:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
5eb56611e3 Make vacuumlo prompt for password when needed, thus making its -W
switch optional, as is the case for every other one of our programs.
I had already documented its -W as being optional, so this is bringing
the code into line with the docs ...
2007-12-11 02:08:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
075e410205 Remove Stefan Kaltenbrunner mention from full text release note item. 2007-12-10 23:38:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
260419fada Add release note introduction. 2007-12-10 23:37:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4188e1832d Mention Stefan Kaltenbrunner as contributor for text search because of
psql work.
2007-12-10 22:14:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9377e6a7ba Wording improvement for write-cache disabling instructions. 2007-12-10 22:08:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3e113efdf0 Write cache doc cleanups
Greg Smith
2007-12-10 14:51:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
51a33519b0 Document how to turn off disk write cache on popular operating systems. 2007-12-10 14:05:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
8828689ae9 Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation.
Fix lots of bad markup, bad English, bad explanations.

Second round of commits.  pgcrypto and pgstandby still to go...
2007-12-10 05:32:51 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
a3102ce1ef Change the "distributed checkpoint" release note item to Greg Smith's proposed
wording.
2007-12-10 01:48:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c5156c646b Update Brazilian FAQ.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-12-10 00:34:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a3f208539c FAQ wording and markup fix.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-12-10 00:32:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
82ca4d0210 Fix attribution for Rime of the Ancient Mariner (obviously it's been
too long since freshman English :-()
2007-12-10 00:12:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
71e90b0df2 The E. J. Pratt verse used as a tsearch test case is unfortunately still
under copyright in the US and many other places.  Substitute a little
something from a poet who's more safely dead.  Per gripe from Bjorn Munch.
2007-12-09 21:01:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
e8191d9f23 Fix bogus prompt for password in -u case. Per gripe from Robert Treat. 2007-12-09 19:04:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
4f9bf7fc5a Fix up the PQconnectionUsedPassword mess: create a separate
PQconnectionNeedsPassword function that tells the right thing for whether to
prompt for a password, and improve PQconnectionUsedPassword so that it checks
whether the password used by the connection was actually supplied as a
connection argument, instead of coming from environment or a password file.
Per bug report from Mark Cave-Ayland and subsequent discussion.
2007-12-09 19:01:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
cb1ab30fdc Fix completely-bogus volatility markings on pg_trgm functions. 2007-12-09 02:22:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
9fd8843647 Fix mergejoin cost estimation so that we consider the statistical ranges of
the two join variables at both ends: not only trailing rows that need not be
scanned because there cannot be a match on the other side, but initial rows
that will be scanned without possibly having a match.  This allows a more
realistic estimate of startup cost to be made, per recent pgsql-performance
discussion.  In passing, fix a couple of bugs that had crept into
mergejoinscansel: it was not quite up to speed for the task of estimating
descending-order scans, which is a new requirement in 8.3.
2007-12-08 21:05:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8821612854 In the release notes, mention that the "Overview" items are listed in
the sections below in more detail.
2007-12-08 17:24:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb010629ba In release notes, mention "most" updates are improved with HOT. 2007-12-07 21:22:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d32f24776f Remove completed 8.3 TODO items:
< 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
< 	  to defaults
< 	o -Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects
< 	  and sort files
< Monitoring
< ==========
<
< * -Allow server log information to be output as CSV format
< * -Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
< * -Allow user-defined types to accept 'typmod' parameters
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-08/msg01142.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00012.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00149.php
<
< * -Add Globally/Universally Unique Identifier (GUID/UUID)
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00209.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-01/msg00853.php
<
< * -Support a data type with specific enumerated values (ENUM)
< 	o -Add support for arrays of complex types
< 	o -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type
< * -Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1
< * -Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week
< * -Add RESET SESSION command to reset all session state
< 	o -Make CLUSTER preserve recently-dead tuples per MVCC requirements
< 	o -Add more logical syntax CLUSTER table USING index;
< 	  support current syntax for backward compatibility
< 	o -Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor
< 		o -Add support for MOVE cursors
< 		o -Allow PL/PythonU to return boolean rather than 1/0
< 	o -Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather
< 	  than toggle
< 	o -Add -f to pg_dumpall
< Dependency Checking
< ===================
<
< * -Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change or
<   when new ANALYZE statistics are available
< * -Track dependencies in function bodies and recompile/invalidate
< * -Invalidate prepared queries, like INSERT, when the table definition
<   is altered
<
< * -Allow use of indexes to search for NULLs
< * -Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending
<   specifiers
< * -Reduce checkpoint performance degredation by forcing data to disk
<   more evenly
< * -Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent
<   sequential scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning"
< * -Consider shrinking expired tuples to just their headers
< * -Allow heap reuse of UPDATEd rows if no indexed columns are changed,
<   and old and new versions are on the same heap page
< * -Reduce XID consumption of read-only queries
< 	o -Turn on by default
< 	o -Allow multiple vacuums so large tables do not starve small
< 	  tables
< * -Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb
<   with a symlink back to the /data location
< * -Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync
< * -Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT # to select high/low value without sort or
<   index using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values
< * -Merge xmin/xmax/cmin/cmax back into three header fields
< 	o -Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields
< * -Move NAMEDATALEN from postgres_ext.h to pg_config_manual.h
< * -Fix problem with excessive logging during SSL disconnection
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-12/msg00122.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-05/msg00065.php
<
< 	o -Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
2007-12-07 17:52:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b8d26bb07 Update HOT description to make index column changes clearer. 2007-12-07 17:42:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52767ea76f Change documentation, change "distributed" checkpoints to "smoothed"
checkpoints.
2007-12-07 16:53:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
aaff0a559f Clean up a couple of problems in crosstab_hash's use of a hash table.
The original coding leaked memory (at least 8K per crosstab_hash call)
because it allowed the hash table to be allocated as a child of
TopMemoryContext and then never freed it.  Fix that by putting the
hash table under per_query_ctx, instead.  Also get rid of use
of a static variable to point to the hash table.  Aside from being
ugly, that would actively do the wrong thing in the case of re-entrant
calls to crosstab_hash, which are at least theoretically possible
since it was expecting the static variable to stay valid across
a SPI_execute call.
2007-12-07 16:44:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
cac82bb20c Realign the running text in this file to 79 characters wide. Some other
copy-editing.
2007-12-07 16:44:56 +00:00
Neil Conway
bbff4fd307 Fix typo in pg_standby docs. Arul Shaji. 2007-12-07 08:25:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
f039a8cf8e Add missing table entry for lastval(), per Jeff Davis. 2007-12-06 17:47:25 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
a0c4ac77ad Disable asserts by default on msvc build (to make it the same
as in unix)
2007-12-06 17:07:37 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
59c841506c Change wording of logged message when cancelling an autovacuum task, using
american speling (unlike this commit message).  Per complaint from Mike C. on
bug #3790 and subsequent discussion.
2007-12-06 14:32:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
53e99f57fc Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation.
Fix lots of bad markup, bad English, bad explanations.

This commit covers only about half the contrib modules, but I grow weary...
2007-12-06 04:12:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a37a0a4180 Remove unused, occasionally confusing graphics building support. 2007-12-05 10:06:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
9dd4d271df Correct misattribution of earthdistance module --- according to its
old README file, Bruno Wolff did the bulk of the work, but for some
reason only Hal Snyder was credited here.
2007-12-04 23:45:01 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
024014a448 Don't send an empty SSPI negotiation packet at the end of the negotiation.
Fixes bug #3750
2007-12-04 13:02:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
4c128303e0 Entity-ify a passel of & < > characters. Per gripe from Devrim. 2007-12-03 23:49:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
f538329f9d Fix build_minmax_path() to cope if an IS NULL clause turns up in the
indexable-clauses list for a btree index.  Formerly it just Asserted that
all such clauses were opclauses, but that's no longer true in 8.3.
Per bug #3796 from Matthias Schoeneich.
2007-12-03 22:37:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
50eed107ae Remove contrib/spi/preprocessor, which has been uninteresting ever
since we supported standard FOREIGN KEY constraint syntax.  It was
harmless enough just sitting there, but the prospect of having to
document it is surely more work than it's worth.
2007-12-03 19:20:40 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
739338e88a Default to integer timestamps being off until 8.4, to correspond
to the settings used for other platforms.
2007-12-03 17:17:05 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
8aa318c631 Don't try to install README.spi
Hannes Eder
2007-12-03 15:42:58 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
6ca2f8483f Add missing documentation for SSPI packets. 2007-12-03 13:40:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
57da4cca27 Improve partitioning example, per Itagaki Takahiro. 2007-12-03 04:59:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
531f58688a Remove obsoleted README files. 2007-12-03 04:22:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
53ae7acbba Add SGML documentation for contrib/spi and contrib/test_parser.
The spi documentation is pretty rudimentary, but it's a start.
2007-12-03 04:18:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
0d4c3855f1 Update SGML contrib documentation to catch up with recent changes to
the former README files.  Albert Cervera i Areny
2007-12-03 03:05:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
01434d41d4 Stamp 8.3beta4. 2007-12-03 00:11:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
a63b63ff96 Revert COPY OUT to follow the pre-8.3 handling of ASCII control characters,
namely that \r, \n, \t, \b, \f, \v are dumped as those two-character
representations rather than a backslash and the literal control character.
I had made it do the other to save some code, but this was ill-advised,
because dump files in which these characters appear literally are prone to
newline mangling.  Fortunately, doing it the old way should only cost a few
more lines of code, and not slow down the copy loop materially.
Per bug #3795 from Lou Duchez.
2007-12-03 00:03:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
3b3251cb95 Ensure that all <sect1> and <refentry> tags have IDs. This is needed
to ensure that the resulting webpages have predictable URLs, instead of
ever-changing numeric IDs.  The new contrib docs were the biggest
offender, but some old stuff had the problem too.  Also, rename a couple
of new contrib sgml files for consistency's sake.
2007-12-02 22:33:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
1308d6dd80 Remove README files now migrated to SGML docs. 2007-12-02 21:15:38 +00:00