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4087 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
944ad408c5 sync 2003-06-25 21:07:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a26839ab9a sync 2003-06-25 21:06:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
60050936ff sync. 2003-06-25 15:01:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
faa8c75799 Done:
> * -Allow CIDR format to be used in pg_hba.conf
2003-06-25 04:23:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7827bdcf1 Done:
> * -Allow UPDATE to use SET col = DEFAULT
2003-06-25 04:19:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
53c4f1233f UPDATE ... SET <col> = DEFAULT
Rod Taylor
2003-06-25 04:19:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be94f198c3 Add missing </row>'s. 2003-06-25 03:50:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a804f9c795 Add:
> * Allow creation of a libpq-only tarball
>
2003-06-25 02:43:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebbd2edf82 Seems the runtime.sgml and perform.sgml patches combined are
incompatible.

I believe the attached xref meets the intent of the perform.sgml change.

--
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
2003-06-25 02:07:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eaef65f68e Documentation about using CIDR addresses in pg_hba.conf.
Andrew Dunstan
2003-06-25 01:20:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
861ea4ba53 Create <link> entries for the foreign keys in the system catalog
chapter.

I got tired of hitting the 'up' link, then finding the table in the
table of contents, and following it back down.

Rod Taylor
2003-06-25 01:14:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
503a88a632 client-auth.sgml references a renamed ID in runtime.sgml
Josh Berkus
2003-06-25 01:14:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a5e0bb612 Attached is the fully corrected version of the re-ording patch for
Runtime.sgml and dependant files.

Josh Berkus
2003-06-25 01:13:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fce529e102 Most of the synopsis areas for DROP commands use "name" as the
identifier, while some areas do not.

The attached converts be below to "name":
conversion_name
index_name


The below have an existing, initdb supplied, entity named "name".  As
such, it could be confusing for the reader to see that identifier used
in the example.

domainname
typename

Rod Taylor
2003-06-24 23:29:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7eac8e3809 Revert ORDBMS change, per Peter. 2003-06-24 23:27:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
db57396c1f Alter query.sgml to mention PostgreSQL as an ORDBMS. This falls in line
with advocacy and 'portal' websites.

Link to createdb / dropdb from the tutorial page about create / dropdb.
A pair of notes were asking about more info...

Rod Taylor
2003-06-24 23:26:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7cb4278e82 Small patch to link to the proper place in the "runtime" file,
and to add the "schemaname" column to the description of the
pg_stats view.

Greg Sabino Mullane
2003-06-24 23:19:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
46bf651480 Array mega-patch.
Joe Conway
2003-06-24 23:14:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50e53236af Done:
> * -Add IPv6 capability to INET/CIDR types
2003-06-24 23:05:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
945543d919 Add ipv6 address parsing support to 'inet' and 'cidr' data types.
Regression tests for IPv6 operations added.

        Documentation updated to document IPv6 bits.

        Stop treating IPv4 as an "unsigned int" and IPv6 as an array of
        characters.  Instead, always use the array of characters so we
        can have one function fits all.  This makes bitncmp(), addressOK(),
        and several other functions "just work" on both address families.

        add family() function which returns integer 4 or 6 for IPv4 or
        IPv6.  (See examples below)  Note that to add this new function
        you will need to dump/initdb/reload or find the correct magic
        to add the function to the postgresql function catalogs.

        IPv4 addresses always sort before IPv6.

        On disk we use AF_INET for IPv4, and AF_INET+1 for IPv6 addresses.
        This prevents the need for a dump and reload, but lets IPv6 parsing
        work on machines without AF_INET6.

        To select all IPv4 addresses from a table:

                select * from foo where family(addr) = 4 ...

        Order by and other bits should all work.

Michael Graff
2003-06-24 22:21:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4dab978c52 Update:
< * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
> * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds in ISO datestyle
2003-06-24 18:45:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b235fe3c25 Add:
> * Have SELECT '13 minutes'::interval display zero seconds
2003-06-24 03:42:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2e9632297b Add:
> * Allow the regression tests to start postmaster with -i so the tests
>   can be run on systems that don't support unix-domain sockets
2003-06-24 03:40:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c4ac870544 Add:
> * Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
2003-06-24 02:54:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b2e94de84 Add:
<
> 	o Allow ALTER TABLE to modify column lengths and change to binary
> 	  compatible types
2003-06-24 02:53:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9b2cee0b54 Add:
> * Modify pg_get_triggerdef() to take a boolean to pretty-print,
>  and use that as part of pg_dump along with psql
>
2003-06-24 02:39:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f703dee32e Update:
* Allow UPDATE, DELETE to handle table aliases for self-joins [delete]
2003-06-24 01:54:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
94468c6f04 Add:
> 	o Allow columns to be reordered using ALTER ... POSITION i col1 [,col2];
> 	  have SELECT * and INSERT honor such ordering
2003-06-24 01:08:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6403a6729c Add with '?':
> * Have initdb set DateStyle based on locale?
2003-06-23 19:33:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5c65c94e4f Remove '?':
<   from making invalid dates valid?
>   from making invalid dates valid
2003-06-23 19:22:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9542debae3 Update Russian version of FAQ. 2003-06-23 16:58:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b106845f9 Add:
> * Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
2003-06-23 04:31:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52001f615e Add:
* Allow SSL-enabled clients to turn off SSL transfers
2003-06-23 04:00:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec5020f0a7 Add:
> * Change CVS $Id$ to $PostgreSQL$
2003-06-23 03:52:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
bff0422b6c Revise hash join and hash aggregation code to use the same datatype-
specific hash functions used by hash indexes, rather than the old
not-datatype-aware ComputeHashFunc routine.  This makes it safe to do
hash joining on several datatypes that previously couldn't use hashing.
The sets of datatypes that are hash indexable and hash joinable are now
exactly the same, whereas before each had some that weren't in the other.
2003-06-22 22:04:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
0dda75f6eb Fix some index entries. 2003-06-22 16:17:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
a171edf8fc Adjust chapter ordering in Internals part to something that seems more
reasonable.
2003-06-22 16:16:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
14847af48d Remove a lot of desperately obsolete material (which was all out of sight,
out of mind, because it'd been commented out years ago).  Try to bring the
remains up to a reasonable level of currency, and give it all approximately
the same high level of abstraction.
2003-06-22 05:48:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
82de7b0a44 Add question mark to item:
<   from making invalid dates valid
>   from making invalid dates valid?
2003-06-22 05:04:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a49d69c90 Add:
> * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates;  prevent month/day swapping
>   from making invalid dates valid
> * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
2003-06-22 05:01:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
e92dc1e199 Bring the libpq example programs into the 21st century. 2003-06-22 00:29:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
efc3a25bb0 Update libpq to make new features of FE/BE protocol available to
client applications.  Some editorial work on libpq.sgml, too.
2003-06-21 21:51:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
b8d601e735 Fix some markup problems. 2003-06-21 19:33:36 +00:00
Michael Meskes
d9b2401d90 Just another ecpg todo done. 2003-06-20 13:20:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
1bd22f55cf Disallow dollar sign in operator names, instead allow it as a non-first
character in identifiers.  The first change eliminates the current need
to put spaces around parameter references, as in "x<=$2".  The second
change improves compatibility with Oracle and some other RDBMSes.  This
was discussed and agreed to back in January, but did not get done.
2003-06-19 23:22:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f374a9dae9 Change clusterdb and vacuumdb into C programs. 2003-06-18 12:19:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
eab5d643b2 Make FLOAT(p) measure the precision p in bits, not decimal digits, to
match the SQL standard.  Document FLOAT and FLOAT(p) notations in
datatype.sgml.  Per recent pghackers discussion.
2003-06-17 23:12:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
596652d6eb More information schema views. 2003-06-17 18:00:48 +00:00
Michael Meskes
7ea9c94814 Updating ECPG todo items. 2003-06-15 10:34:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4f70680177 Make ecpg thread safe.
Lee Kindness
2003-06-15 04:07:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
02d847fe9f Add --with-threads configure option to control threaded libpq. 2003-06-13 23:10:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
716200179f Fix broken markup. 2003-06-12 18:34:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
889dd3c00d Mention need for swap on Linux, and kill -9. 2003-06-12 15:58:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8d2d92c5f0 Document default Linux autocommit behavior, and show workaround. 2003-06-12 15:31:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e9cda08b2b Brief note about sequence cache not being cleared in other backends.
Actually clear the cache in the backend making the alteration.  This
follows in the footsteps of setval().

Rod Taylor
2003-06-12 07:49:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
240dc5cddc Add add_missing_from GUC variable.
Nigel J. Andrews
2003-06-11 22:13:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ffdd91bba Done:
* -Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause tables
2003-06-11 21:39:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b952d61c54 Add log_min_duration_statement.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2003-06-11 18:01:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
8bfe93c5c8 pg_dump and pg_restore were stripping quotes and downcasing some but
not all SQL identifiers taken from command line arguments.  We decided
years ago that that was a bad idea: identifiers taken from the command
line should be treated as literally correct.  Remove the inconsistent
code that has crept in recently.  Also fix pg_dump so that the combination
of --schema and --table does what you'd expect, namely dump exactly one
table from exactly one schema.  Per gripe from Deepak Bhole of Red Hat.
2003-06-11 16:29:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
7481b7d1e4 Update anonymous-CVS instructions. 2003-06-11 15:28:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
15e2cf7d81 Now that I look, that link doesn't belong there at all, does it? 2003-06-11 14:14:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
67e307b851 Fix busted markup. 2003-06-11 14:07:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65fb311a97 Add Rendezvous support to postmaster, from Chris Campbell 2003-06-11 06:56:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9a86a1e535 Remove kerberos mention that doesn't support our software, from Peter. 2003-06-07 16:27:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
157887c1d5 Update German FAQ, from Ian Barwick. 2003-06-06 22:21:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e5f2155a78 Update FAQ from Ian Barwick. 2003-06-06 22:20:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a2c090d67a Add:
> 	o Have COPY return number of rows loaded/unloaded
2003-06-06 19:46:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
df1f5d6d7d Add mention of two auth_mod kerberos projects, from Daniel Kouril 2003-06-06 18:09:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dd484de0b0 Add:
> * Add checks for fclose() failure
2003-06-06 15:56:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2e4f7adb34 Remove mention of ALTER USER able to remove passwords. 2003-06-06 15:31:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
e649796f12 Implement outer-level aggregates to conform to the SQL spec, with
extensions to support our historical behavior.  An aggregate belongs
to the closest query level of any of the variables in its argument,
or the current query level if there are no variables (e.g., COUNT(*)).
The implementation involves adding an agglevelsup field to Aggref,
and treating outer aggregates like outer variables at planning time.
2003-06-06 15:04:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2c93861f7c Update documentation build instructions. 2003-06-06 14:17:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7ea8e491c8 Information schema views about functions 2003-06-05 16:08:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c5e716882 Add:
> * Allow logging of only data definition(DDL), or DDL and modification statements
2003-06-02 18:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2eca3ea2ce Add:
> * Allow a single index to index multiple tables (for inheritance and subtables)
408a410
> * Improve the planner to use CHECK constraints to prune the plan (for subtables)
418a421
> * Allow partitioning of table into multiple subtables
419a423
> T
2003-06-02 18:42:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0fdd2b49c Add data partitioning idea to tablespaces discussion. 2003-06-02 18:36:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7facd5d10c Add Turkish FAQ, from Devrim GUNDUZ. 2003-06-02 18:16:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
202f77fe6d Add:
> * Allow SET CONSTRAINTS to be qualified by schema/table
2003-06-02 17:26:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
063e6b9488 Update Russian FAQ, from Viktor Vislobokov 2003-06-02 16:39:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b67f0ae36e Update Emacs settings, from Andrew Dunstan 2003-06-02 04:35:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d9ee7e7ca Add:
> * Add config variable to prevent auto-adding missing FROM-clause tables
2003-06-01 04:31:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e70a8ee97d Add:
> * Prevent whole-row references from leaking memory, e.g. SELECT COUNT(tab.*)
2003-05-31 02:54:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
944b162305 Add:
> * Consider using MVCC to cache count(*) queries with no WHERE clause
2003-05-31 02:31:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f1d96c3e0 Add item about sending success stories to http://advocacy.postgresql.org. 2003-05-31 02:25:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
9e1e72b698 Cause pg_dumpall to support the -a, -s, -x options of pg_dump. 2003-05-30 23:55:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
9fbd52808e Adopt latest bison's spelling of 'syntax error' rather than 'parse error'
for grammar-detected problems.  Revert Makefile hack that kept it looking
like the pre-bison-1.875 output.
2003-05-29 20:40:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
fc8d970cbc Replace functional-index facility with expressional indexes. Any column
of an index can now be a computed expression instead of a simple variable.
Restrictions on expressions are the same as for predicates (only immutable
functions, no sub-selects).  This fixes problems recently introduced with
inlining SQL functions, because the inlining transformation is applied to
both expression trees so the planner can still match them up.  Along the
way, improve efficiency of handling index predicates (both predicates and
index expressions are now cached by the relcache) and fix 7.3 oversight
that didn't record dependencies of predicate expressions.
2003-05-28 16:04:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e5f19598e0 Add to thread discussion. 2003-05-28 05:02:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a2b498c291 Add info about selecting a random row. 2003-05-28 04:35:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
98b6f37e47 Make debug_ GUC varables output DEBUG1 rather than LOG, and mention in
docs that CLIENT/LOG_MIN_MESSAGES now controls debug_* output location.
Doc changes included.
2003-05-27 17:49:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
90903069e9 Add item for changing a column's data type. 2003-05-26 19:25:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
6923ea2b86 Fix misstatement in release-notes item. 2003-05-26 18:58:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4b864e7cb0 Update:
< * Add now("transaction|statement|clock") functionality
> * Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp() functionality
2003-05-26 18:36:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b71a48990a Add documentation to 'createuser' that ALTER USER must be used to add or
modify passwords, per user confusion report.

Also clean up wording that command line utils need database access.
2003-05-26 17:50:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab64881f97 Add:
> * Allow UPDATE to use SET col = DEFAULT
2003-05-26 02:56:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
f45df8c014 Cause CHAR(n) to TEXT or VARCHAR conversion to automatically strip trailing
blanks, in hopes of reducing the surprise factor for newbies.  Remove
redundant operators for VARCHAR (it depends wholly on TEXT operations now).
Clean up resolution of ambiguous operators/functions to avoid surprising
choices for domains: domains are treated as equivalent to their base types
and binary-coercibility is no longer considered a preference item when
choosing among multiple operators/functions.  IsBinaryCoercible now correctly
reflects the notion that you need *only* relabel the type to get from type
A to type B: that is, a domain is binary-coercible to its base type, but
not vice versa.  Various marginal cleanup, including merging the essentially
duplicate resolution code in parse_func.c and parse_oper.c.  Improve opr_sanity
regression test to understand about binary compatibility (using pg_cast),
and fix a couple of small errors in the catalogs revealed thereby.
Restructure "special operator" handling to fetch operators via index opclasses
rather than hardwiring assumptions about names (cleans up the pattern_ops
stuff a little).
2003-05-26 00:11:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
297c1658ed Information schema improvements 2003-05-25 09:36:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8facf2df0b Move item:
< * Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
<   result sets using new query protocol
453a452,453
> 	o Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
> 	  result sets using new query protocol
2003-05-25 04:44:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
66f6bbb4eb Update:
< * Allow clients to get data types, typmod, schema.table.column names from
<   result sets, either via the backend protocol or a new QUERYINFO command

to:

> * Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
>   result sets using new query protocol
2003-05-25 03:20:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca98317f4b Add:
> * Allow clients to get data types, typmod, schema.table.column names from
>   result sets, either via the backend protocol or a new QUERYINFO command
2003-05-24 19:03:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
12094d0946 Update XML items:
> * Allow backend to output result sets in XML
> * Add XML capability to pg_dump and COPY, when backend XML capability
2003-05-24 18:25:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27f729c8fa Added:
> * Find a way to reduce rotational delay when repeatedly writing
>   last WAL page
2003-05-24 15:33:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76e386d5e4 Add cost estimate discussion to TODO.detail. 2003-05-24 03:59:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07d89f6f81 Add to TODO:
* With disabled triggers, allow pg_dump to use ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY

Add to trigger TODO.detail.
2003-05-24 01:28:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c49b6f4510 With disabled triggers, allow pg_dump to use ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY 2003-05-24 01:27:41 +00:00
Michael Meskes
78d2156066 One more ecpg todo fixed and removed. 2003-05-23 17:20:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27330595d3 Place statement_timeout in proper order in docs, from Bruno Wolff III. 2003-05-23 16:34:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
d23f6f8bb7 Update release history for impending 7.3.3 release. 2003-05-22 18:31:45 +00:00
Michael Meskes
baba07173c Removed one TODO item for ecpg as this is done. 2003-05-22 08:15:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
edcf9c237c Add error message style guidelines to the SGML documentation. 2003-05-19 21:38:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f89c972ac8 Add documentation for information schema, and some corrections on some
views.
2003-05-18 20:55:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
12c9423832 Allow Win32 to compile under MinGW. Major changes are:
Win32 port is now called 'win32' rather than 'win'
        add -lwsock32 on Win32
        make gethostname() be only used when kerberos4 is enabled
        use /port/getopt.c
        new /port/opendir.c routines
        disable GUC unix_socket_group on Win32
        convert some keywords.c symbols to KEYWORD_P to prevent conflict
        create new FCNTL_NONBLOCK macro to turn off socket blocking
        create new /include/port.h file that has /port prototypes, move
          out of c.h
        new /include/port/win32_include dir to hold missing include files
        work around ERROR being defined in Win32 includes
2003-05-15 16:35:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2c0556068f Indexing support for pattern matching operations via separate operator
class when lc_collate is not C.
2003-05-15 15:50:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
f85f43dfb5 Backend support for autocommit removed, per recent discussions. The
only remnant of this failed experiment is that the server will take
SET AUTOCOMMIT TO ON.  Still TODO: provide some client-side autocommit
logic in libpq.
2003-05-14 03:26:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
ba1e066e46 Implement array_send/array_recv (binary I/O for arrays). This exposed
the folly of not passing element type to typsend/typreceive, so fix that.
2003-05-09 23:01:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
b1ee615a7f COPY BINARY uses the new binary I/O routines. Update a few more datatypes
so that COPY BINARY regression test passes.
2003-05-09 21:19:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
45d04099df Reinstate pg_type's typsend and typreceive columns. They don't do much
yet, but they're there.  Also some editorial work on CREATE TYPE reference
page.
2003-05-08 22:19:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
4e08d35e7d Fix documentation problem pointed out by Barry Lind: code expected a
terminating zero byte in StartupMessage, docs didn't mention it.
2003-05-08 14:35:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
1718f4c66c Update COPY BINARY file format spec to reflect recent decisions about
external representation of binary data.
2003-05-07 22:23:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
2de6da832f Revise protocol doc for recently-agreed modifications. This is the
first version of the 3.0 protocol that can be considered non-draft.
2003-05-07 21:46:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
6165a278e5 Fix erroneous example, per Tim Knowles. 2003-05-07 03:41:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
efa58e105d Minor editorializing. 2003-05-06 23:10:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
755d191700 Add display of eventual result RowDescription (if any) to the output
of Describe on a prepared statement.  This was in the original 3.0
protocol proposal, but I took it out for reasons that seemed good at
the time.  Put it back per yesterday's pghackers discussion.
2003-05-06 21:51:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea7896bf58 Provide a real link to CREATE SEQUENCE's reference page in nextval/setval
discussion.
2003-05-05 15:08:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
16503e6fa4 Extended query protocol: parse, bind, execute, describe FE/BE messages.
Only lightly tested as yet, since libpq doesn't know anything about 'em.
2003-05-05 00:44:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d1b4327d02 Last round of reference page editing. 2003-05-04 02:23:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
ac5fdea687 When a TIMESTAMP, TIME, or INTERVAL precision is specified larger than our
implementation limits, do not issue an ERROR; instead issue a NOTICE and use
the max supported value.  Per pgsql-general discussion of 28-Apr, this is
needed to allow easy porting from pre-7.3 releases where the limits were
higher.

Unrelated change in same area: accept GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY as a synonym
for TEMPORARY, as per pgsql-hackers discussion of 15-Apr.  We previously
rejected it, but that was based on a misreading of the spec --- SQL92's
GLOBAL temp tables are really closer to what we have than their LOCAL ones.
2003-05-04 00:03:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
de28dc9a04 Portal and memory management infrastructure for extended query protocol.
Both plannable queries and utility commands are now always executed
within Portals, which have been revamped so that they can handle the
load (they used to be good only for single SELECT queries).  Restructure
code to push command-completion-tag selection logic out of postgres.c,
so that it won't have to be duplicated between simple and extended queries.
initdb forced due to addition of a field to Query nodes.
2003-05-02 20:54:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
cffded96ea Documentation refers to box() function where it should say box_intersect().
Thanks to Wes Sheldah for finding this one.
2003-05-01 00:57:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
4a5f38c4e6 Code review for holdable-cursors patch. Fix error recovery, memory
context sloppiness, some other things.  Includes Neil's mopup patch
of 22-Apr.
2003-04-29 03:21:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6a17d226b5 Update German FAQ, from Ian Barwick 2003-04-28 22:40:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
eea36f661c Minor wordsmithing on .pgpass description. 2003-04-28 19:30:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
05e7dd3156 Minor improvement in wording. 2003-04-28 05:17:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
092133beb3 Okay, I've had it with PQsetdbLogin having slightly different defaults
than PQconnectdb.  Reimplement the former to use the same code as the
latter.  Fix documentation omissions while at it.
2003-04-28 04:29:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
4089d25175 Fix plpgsql so that variables of composite types (rowtypes) can be
declared without having to write %ROWTYPE.  If the declared type of
a variable is a composite type, it'll be taken to be a row variable
automatically.
2003-04-27 22:21:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
20aae3047f Editing of more reference pages. 2003-04-26 23:56:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
4db9689d1a Add transaction status field to ReadyForQuery messages, and make room
for tableID/columnID in RowDescription.  (The latter isn't really
implemented yet though --- the backend always sends zeroes, and libpq
just throws away the data.)
2003-04-26 20:23:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
9cbaf72177 In the continuing saga of FE/BE protocol revisions, add reporting of
initial values and runtime changes in selected parameters.  This gets
rid of the need for an initial 'select pg_client_encoding()' query in
libpq, bringing us back to one message transmitted in each direction
for a standard connection startup.  To allow server version to be sent
using the same GUC mechanism that handles other parameters, invent the
concept of a never-settable GUC parameter: you can 'show server_version'
but it's not settable by any GUC input source.  Create 'lc_collate' and
'lc_ctype' never-settable parameters so that people can find out these
settings without need for pg_controldata.  (These side ideas were all
discussed some time ago in pgsql-hackers, but not yet implemented.)
2003-04-25 19:45:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
f690920a75 Infrastructure for upgraded error reporting mechanism. elog.c is
rewritten and the protocol is changed, but most elog calls are still
elog calls.  Also, we need to contemplate mechanisms for controlling
all this functionality --- eg, how much stuff should appear in the
postmaster log?  And what API should libpq expose for it?
2003-04-24 21:16:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b6660fddb5 Update CVS with new FAQ. 2003-04-22 18:03:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3450fd08a9 More editing of reference pages. 2003-04-22 10:08:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
5ed27e35f3 Another round of protocol changes. Backend-to-frontend messages now all
have length words.  COPY OUT reimplemented per new protocol: it doesn't
need \. anymore, thank goodness.  COPY BINARY to/from frontend works,
at least as far as the backend is concerned --- libpq's PQgetline API
is not up to snuff, and will have to be replaced with something that is
null-safe.  libpq uses message length words for performance improvement
(no cycles wasted rescanning long messages), but not yet for error
recovery.
2003-04-22 00:08:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
185ad7a839 Add mention of Novell Netware 6 port. 2003-04-21 14:54:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7773434999 Make it clear it is the server version that determines if crlf is used. Idea from Joe Conway. 2003-04-20 01:52:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9c48cae3e4 Add pipe parameter to COPY function to allow proper line termination. 2003-04-19 19:55:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
bd8d441775 Second round of FE/BE protocol changes. Frontend->backend messages now
have length counts, and COPY IN data is packetized into messages.
2003-04-19 00:02:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
cb7fb3ca95 First phase of FE/BE protocol modifications: new StartupPacket layout
with variable-width fields.  No more truncation of long user names.
Also, libpq can now send its environment-variable-driven SET commands
as part of the startup packet, saving round trips to server.
2003-04-17 22:26:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76fd678c06 Make pg_dump's concurency capability more prominent. 2003-04-17 15:34:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
26b237ffad Various clarifications; add a clear DRAFT marker; minor adjustments in
some message types.  In particular add text/binary flag to StartCopyIn
and StartCopyOut, so that client library can know what is expected or
forthcoming.
2003-04-16 20:53:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e8ee547829 Add mention of OpenProjects IRC channel. It is as large as EFNet now. 2003-04-16 18:56:24 +00:00