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Peter Eisentraut c326d8f4f2 Add/edit index entries. 2003-08-31 17:32:24 +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
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
Peter Eisentraut 5e5c5cd31a Merge documentation into one book. (Build with "make html".) Replace
vague cross-references with real links.
2003-03-25 16:15:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 706a32cdf6 Big editing for consistent content and presentation. 2003-03-13 01:30:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1b342df00a Merge documentation updates from 7.3 branch. 2002-11-11 20:14:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bc49968764 Add more appropriate markup. 2002-09-21 18:32:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 46bb23ac01 Change NAMEDATALEN to 64, INDEX_MAX_KEYS/MAX_FUNC_ARGS to 32, per discussion on hackers. 2002-08-13 20:40:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 65b6868b13 Replace ad-hoc insertions into pg_opclass and friends with CREATE
OPERATOR CLASS commands.  Further tweaking of documentation for same.
2002-07-30 17:34:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dad0e20f29 Mention "PostgreSQL"'s hashes as slower/similar to btree. 2002-06-21 19:06:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1415a8388f Update hash warning in manual. 2002-06-21 16:52:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ebe4375fa1 Document problems with hash indexes compared to btree. 2002-06-21 03:25:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 731204e090 Editorial review 2002-01-07 02:29:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 05dada0833 Add some more material to the section about partial indexes. 2001-12-04 01:22:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 651a639b8b proof-reading 2001-11-28 20:49:10 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 2475e87481 Deprecate 'current' for date/time input.
Fix up references to "PostgreSQL" rather than "Postgres". Was roughly
 evenly split between the two before. ref/ files not yet done.
2001-11-21 05:53:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e86d226e4 Grammatical and spelling fixes. 2001-11-19 09:05:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 5906d7e096 Fix obsolete claim that only btree indexes support multiple columns;
GiST does now, too.  (Someone needs to write a description of GiST
to add to this chapter.  I don't know enough about it ...)
2001-11-18 00:59:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a715c0e4c5 Cleanup of bibliography 2001-11-08 23:34:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8e144b09ae More information about partial indexes, and some tips about examining
index usage.
2001-10-31 20:38:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 84956e71a3 Markup additions and spell check. (covers User's Guide) 2001-09-09 17:21:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 968d7733a1 Rename config.h to pg_config.h and os.h to pg_config_os.h, fix a number of
places that were including the wrong files.
2001-08-24 14:07:50 +00:00
Tom Lane f933766ba7 Restructure pg_opclass, pg_amop, and pg_amproc per previous discussions in
pgsql-hackers.  pg_opclass now has a row for each opclass supported by each
index AM, not a row for each opclass name.  This allows pg_opclass to show
directly whether an AM supports an opclass, and furthermore makes it possible
to store additional information about an opclass that might be AM-dependent.
pg_opclass and pg_amop now store "lossy" and "haskeytype" information that we
previously expected the user to remember to provide in CREATE INDEX commands.
Lossiness is no longer an index-level property, but is associated with the
use of a particular operator in a particular index opclass.

Along the way, IndexSupportInitialize now uses the syscaches to retrieve
pg_amop and pg_amproc entries.  I find this reduces backend launch time by
about ten percent, at the cost of a couple more special cases in catcache.c's
IndexScanOK.

Initial work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, further hacking by Tom Lane.

initdb forced.
2001-08-21 16:36:06 +00:00
Tom Lane f31dc0ada7 Partial indexes work again, courtesy of Martijn van Oosterhout.
Note: I didn't force an initdb, figuring that one today was enough.
However, there is a new function in pg_proc.h, and pg_dump won't be
able to dump partial indexes until you add that function.
2001-07-16 05:07:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aa665d901f In chapter:
7.7. Keys

you have

    However, my application requires that each collection will also have a
    unique name. Why? So that a human being who wants to modify a collection
    will be able to identify it. It's much harder to know, if you have two
    collections named "Life Science", the the one tagged 24433 is the one
you
    need, and the one tagged 29882 is not

    I think 'the the' shouldn't be repeated twice. Although taken from an
email it would be cool to fix.

Cheers,
Maxim Maletsky
2001-05-30 04:01:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c84c3d8fea more indices -> indexes 2001-05-22 16:00:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a6677f0f9e Change "indices" to "indexes", per OED. 2001-05-17 21:50:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 01839df6dd Add index. Only some parts of the manual set have index entries so far... 2001-05-12 22:51:36 +00:00
Tom Lane f905d65ee3 Rewrite of planner statistics-gathering code. ANALYZE is now available as
a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too).
pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are
stored.  ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values,
not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values).  Random
sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large
tables.  The number of values and histogram bins collected is now
user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command.

There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere
they could be in the planner.  But the remaining changes for this project
should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before.

A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison
routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.
2001-05-07 00:43:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3a65e4fca6 Add more details. 2001-02-20 22:27:56 +00:00
Tom Lane df8186b282 Add note that partial indices are not currently supported. 2001-02-18 06:07:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 027f144e39 Terminology cleanup: class -> table, instance -> row, attribute -> column,
etc.
2001-01-13 23:58:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7558da669f Make use of <email> tag for marking up email addresses. 2000-12-22 21:51:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1b555ce791 Replace incorrect uses of 'which' with 'that'. (so-called "wicked which") 2000-12-22 18:57:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b2e76d570b Revive Reference Manual, remove reference pages from User's Guide.
Make version.sgml the central place for updating version numbers in the
documentation.  Document titles now contain the version number of the
release they belong to.

filelist.sgml is the central (and only) place to declare system entities
(i.e., sgml files).  No longer a need to declare them in each document
header.

There is no longer any need to maintain duplicate chapter lists in
postgres.sgml and user/admin/etc.sgml, everything is build from the same
sources.  Some parameter entities allow for different text to be included
when the integrated or a single doc set is generated, which eliminates the
problems that had caused this to fail in the past.
2000-11-24 17:44:22 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 2b6a35f7cd Fix several <ulink> tags which refer to e-mail addresses
but were missing the "mailto:" prefix.
Fix typo.
Thanks to Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> for the heads-up.
2000-08-23 05:59:11 +00:00
Tom Lane c590273fef Clean up bogosities in pg_opclass, pg_amop, pg_amproc. There are amproc
entries now for int8 and network hash indexes.  int24_ops and int42_ops
are gone.  pg_opclass no longer contains multiple entries claiming to be
the default opclass for the same datatype.  opr_sanity regress test
extended to catch errors like these in the future.
2000-06-19 03:55:01 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 45f79cae14 Fixups in content and markup for 7.0 release. 2000-05-02 20:02:03 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f75bf1877a Accumulated fixups.
Add some chapters on new topics.
Change to referencing OASIS/Docbook v3.1 rather than Davenport/Docbook v3.0
Grepped for and fixed apparent tag mangling from emacs
 "Normalize" operation. Should be the last of those.
2000-03-30 22:22:41 +00:00
Tom Lane f71fb9e0b8 Add a little to index operator class discussion. 2000-03-28 02:51:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 2ce4b4cda1 Update obsolete statement that indexes can have only 7 columns.
Reorganize description of index features for more clarity.
2000-03-26 19:47:17 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f2f43efbe1 Complete merge of all old man page information.
lisp.sgml is a placeholder for Eric Marsden's upcoming contribution.
catalogs.sgml is not yet marked up or integrated.
 It should perhaps become an appendix.
1999-07-22 15:11:05 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart edadec91f7 Chapter on indices intended for the User's Guide.
Currently not included in the UG, and this now only has a discussion of
 partial indices by Paul Aoki culled from the mailing lists.
But, didn't want to loose it...
1998-10-14 16:20:16 +00:00