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6439 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
eae75beb71 Update:
< * Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change
> * Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change or
>   when the cardinality of parameters changes dramatically
2005-12-17 04:10:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91e9e74f90 Update FAQ, second version.
J.Kuwamura
2005-12-17 03:21:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2475a5d8c1 Update Japanese FAQ.
J.Kuwamura
2005-12-17 03:20:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
56ea9ad11f Add:
> * Allow the count returned by SELECT, etc to be to represent as an int64
>   to allow a higher range of values
2005-12-17 01:48:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb77a9ea53 Force update. 2005-12-16 18:56:55 +00:00
Neil Conway
1c7347f897 Fix some typos in the TODO list. 2005-12-16 18:44:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
baf4e187ef Update wording, query -> statement:
< * %Allow pooled connections to list all prepared queries
> * %Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements
28c28
<   the queries prepared in the current session.
>   the statements prepared in the current session.
143c143
< 	  o Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
> 	  o Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only statements
404c404
< * Add GUC to issue notice about queries that use unjoined tables
> * Add GUC to issue notice about statements that use unjoined tables
490c490
< 	  Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT queries in a COPY.
> 	  Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT statements in a COPY.
554c554
< 	o Allow function argument names to be queries from PL/PgSQL
> 	o Allow function argument names to be statements from PL/PgSQL
591c591
< 	o Improve psql's handling of multi-line queries
> 	o Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements
< 	  Currently, while \e saves a single query as one entry, interactive
< 	  queries are saved one line at a time.  Ideally all queries
> 	  Currently, while \e saves a single statement as one entry, interactive
> 	  statements are saved one line at a time.  Ideally all statements
665c665
< 	o Allow query results to be automatically batched to the client
> 	o Allow statement results to be automatically batched to the client
667c667
< 	  Currently, all query results are transfered to the libpq
> 	  Currently, all statement results are transfered to the libpq
672c672
< 	  One complexity is that a query like SELECT 1/col could error
> 	  One complexity is that a statement like SELECT 1/col could error
739c739
< * Allow queries across databases or servers with transaction
> * Allow statements across databases or servers with transaction
<   inheritance, allow it to work for UPDATE and DELETE queries, and allow
<   it to be used for all queries with little performance impact
>   inheritance, allow it to work for UPDATE and DELETE statements, and allow
>   it to be used for all statements with little performance impact
876c876
< * Consider automatic caching of queries at various levels:
> * Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels:
947c947
<   a single session using multiple threads to execute a query faster.
>   a single session using multiple threads to execute a statement faster.
1025c1025
< * Log queries where the optimizer row estimates were dramatically
> * Log statements where the optimizer row estimates were dramatically
1146c1146
< 	  of result sets using new query protocol
> 	  of result sets using new statement protocol
2005-12-12 13:36:36 +00:00
Neil Conway
be8100d64e Implement IS NOT DISTINCT FROM, update the regression tests and docs.
Patch from Pavel Stehule, minor fixups by myself.
2005-12-11 10:54:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c10593149a Remove item:
< * Add GUC variable to run a command on database panic or
<   smart/fast/immediate shutdown
2005-12-11 02:16:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ecf4df6116 Done:
< * Allow installing to directories containing spaces
> * -Allow installing to directories containing spaces
2005-12-09 21:46:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a29c04a541 Allow installation into directories containing spaces in the name. 2005-12-09 21:19:36 +00:00
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
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
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
af6ef3028d Remove empty heading row in error table. 2005-12-08 21:23:09 +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
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
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
Bruce Momjian
823702be9d Improve lazy vacuum wording. 2005-12-07 14:35:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
95aca45010 Clarify vacuum lazy can shrink a file under certain circumstances. 2005-12-07 05:35:53 +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
99552287e1 Update:
< 	  Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.
> 	  Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.  Another
> 	  option is to wait for the MinGW project to fix it, or use the
> 	  code from the LibGW32C project as a guide.
2005-12-04 21:16:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8752479dfc Add:
> 	o Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
>
> 	  While Win32 supports 64-bit files, the MinGW API does not,
> 	  meaning we have to build an fseeko replacement on top of the
> 	  Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.
2005-12-04 04:33:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bedb5fc309 Add:
> * Add SPI_gettypmod() to return the typemod for a TupleDesc
2005-12-04 04:14:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
49bbff0f8d Add for autovacuum:
> 	o Consider logging activity either to the logs or a system view
2005-12-04 04:02:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10e3d224e0 Add configure flag to allow libedit to be preferred over GNU readline:
--with-libedit-preferred  prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline
2005-12-04 03:52:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d20901a39b Allow to_char(interval) and to_char(time) to use AM/PM specifications.
Map them to a single day, so '30 hours' is 'AM'.

Have to_char(interval) and to_char(time) use "HH", "HH12" as 12-hour
intervals, rather than bypass and print the full interval hours.  This
is neeeded because to_char(time) is mapped to interval in this function.
Intervals should use "HH24", and document suggestion.

Allow "D" format specifiers for interval/time.
2005-12-03 16:45:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb339c7840 Item removed:
< * Add function to return the thread safety status of libpq and ecpg
2005-12-03 13:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
1cf65140d0 Fix obsolete description of -h option, per Andreas Schmidt. 2005-12-02 23:13:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ab2598875 Remove idea of increasing NUMERIC length:
< * Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
> * Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision
2005-12-02 17:39:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9322a04759 Add calcluation of bitmap storage capacity.
<   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.  Another idea is to maintain
<   a bitmap of heap pages where all rows are visible to all backends,
<   and allow index lookups to reference that bitmap to avoid heap
<   lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might add someday to determine
<   which heap pages need vacuuming.
>   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
>   Another idea is to maintain a bitmap of heap pages where all rows
>   are visible to all backends, and allow index lookups to reference
>   that bitmap to avoid heap lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might
>   add someday to determine which heap pages need vacuuming.  Frequently
>   accessed bitmaps would have to be stored in shared memory.  One 8k
>   page of bitmaps could track 512MB of heap pages.
2005-12-02 04:28:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
113ece8f3d Add all heap page rows visible bitmap idea:
<   the heap.  One way to allow this is to set a bit to index tuples
>   the heap.  One way to allow this is to set a bit on index tuples
<   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
<
>   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.  Another idea is to maintain
>   a bitmap of heap pages where all rows are visible to all backends,
>   and allow index lookups to reference that bitmap to avoid heap
>   lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might add someday to determine
>   which heap pages need vacuuming.
2005-12-01 22:30:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
915fb7f687 Add MERGE TODO.detail:
>   [merge]
378a380
>   [merge]
2005-12-01 22:12:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f28bdd95c1 Add merge TODO.detail item. 2005-12-01 22:12:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
24e1a04591 Split out MERGE and REPLACE/UPSERT items.
< * Add MERGE command that does UPDATE/DELETE, or on failure, INSERT (rules,
<   triggers?)
> * Add SQL-standard MERGE command, typically used to merge two tables
>
>   This is similar to UPDATE, then for unmatched rows, INSERT.
>   Whether concurrent access allows modifications which could cause
>   row loss is implementation independent.
>
> * Add REPLACE or UPSERT command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT
2005-12-01 22:07:59 +00:00
Neil Conway
cab40818ea Fix typo in PL/PgSQL documentation, per Chris KL. 2005-12-01 10:36:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
339fbbb9a0 Update for 8.2:
< #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.1 release.#
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.2 release.#
2005-11-29 02:02:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ed7065c7b Item removed, looping always required:
< * Remove Win32 rename/unlink looping if unnecessary
2005-11-29 02:01:52 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
19fecee06e Document PGXS' REGRESS feature. 2005-11-29 01:46:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee4aa3021e Improve documentation for COALESCE and NULLIF. Add references for NVL
and IFNULL.

Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-28 23:18:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a4371a6813 Add:
> * Allow COMMENT ON to accept an expression rather than just a string
2005-11-28 22:21:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0a2f8cc4d Add space. 2005-11-24 04:40:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3f69c4193f Add item:
<
> 	o Add -f to pg_dumpall
2005-11-24 04:28:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ce1d8293f0 Done:
> 	o -Allow NULLs in arrays
2005-11-22 23:22:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c28c00ecc8 Add:
>
> * Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*)
>
>   This would use the planner ANALYZE statistatics to return an estimated
>   count.
2005-11-22 23:06:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e196eedd8a Update most recent version number. 2005-11-22 16:27:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b621efbbb8 Update wording and cleanup for new items. 2005-11-22 15:31:23 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
5b352d8e12 DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS variant 2005-11-22 15:24:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
179211a683 Markup TODO as a URL. 2005-11-22 15:21:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d2f568dc6c Fix markup italics problem. 2005-11-22 15:17:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a69a0e147 Update item tags. 2005-11-22 15:17:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
508f96f529 Change to using "id=" HTML tags instead of "name=" tags. 2005-11-22 15:13:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ab96739be Update FAQ to explain process of submitting bug and feature requests. 2005-11-22 15:04:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
725ace44f9 Reorder "who controls PostgreSQL" to near the top. 2005-11-21 21:01:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
afae55720c Reorder version FAQ item to be right after "how do I get the software". 2005-11-21 20:54:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ba14edbd5c Clarify copyright wording. 2005-11-21 20:51:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d253c79a52 Reorder bug items. 2005-11-21 20:44:11 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
cec3b0a9e6 Implement DROP OWNED and REASSIGN OWNED. These new commands facilitate the
process of dropping roles by dropping objects owned by them and privileges
granted to them, or giving the owned objects to someone else, through the
use of the data stored in the new pg_shdepend catalog.

Some refactoring of the GRANT/REVOKE code was needed, as well as ALTER OWNER
code.  Further cleanup of code duplication in the GRANT code seems necessary.

Implemented by me after an idea from Tom Lane, who also provided various kind
of implementation advice.

Regression tests pass.  Some tests for the new functionality are also added,
as well as rudimentary documentation.
2005-11-21 12:49:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
659f681638 Change array comparison rules to consider dimensionality information,
not only the array contents, before claiming two arrays are equal.
Per recent discussion.
2005-11-19 19:44:55 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
daea4d8eae DROP objecttype IF EXISTS for the following objects:
table view index sequence schema type domain conversion
2005-11-19 17:39:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
1e9a1a70ad Change array_push and array_cat so that they retain the lower bound of
the array (for array_push) or higher-dimensional array (for array_cat)
rather than decrementing it as before.  This avoids generating lower
bounds other than one for any array operation within the SQL spec.  Per
recent discussion.
Interestingly, this seems to have been the original behavior, because
while updating the docs I noticed that a large fraction of relevant
examples were *wrong* for the old behavior and are now right.  Is it
worth correcting this in the back-branch docs?
2005-11-19 01:50:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3201b7f3d0 Update Japanese FAQ.
J.Kuwamura
2005-11-18 00:40:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
cecb607559 Make SQL arrays support null elements. This commit fixes the core array
functionality, but I still need to make another pass looking at places
that incidentally use arrays (such as ACL manipulation) to make sure they
are null-safe.  Contrib needs work too.
I have not changed the behaviors that are still under discussion about
array comparison and what to do with lower bounds.
2005-11-17 22:14:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
84bb3876bc Update, add mention of user locking table before MERGE:
<   so duplicate checking can be easily performed.
>   so duplicate checking can be easily performed.  It is possible to
>   do it without a unique index if we require the user to LOCK the table
>   before the MERGE.
2005-11-16 18:45:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
01798a06b9 Add batch mode, make new libpq section:
< * Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
< * Add PQescapeIdentifier() to libpq
< * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
<
<   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
<   it has so we need a way to prevent it
<
648a642,661
>
>
> libpq
>
> 	o Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
> 	o Add PQescapeIdentifier()
> 	o Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
> 	  PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but
> 	  historically it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
> 	o Allow query results to be automatically batched to the client
>
> 	  Currently, all query results are transfered to the libpq
> 	  client before libpq makes the results available to the
> 	  application.  This feature would allow the application to make
> 	  use of the first result rows while the rest are transfered, or
> 	  held on the server waiting for them to be requested by libpq.
> 	  One complexity is that a query like SELECT 1/col could error
> 	  out mid-way through the result set.
2005-11-16 16:33:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04ce3cb02d Properly document return value of strpos(). 2005-11-16 03:56:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
698ee9c3e7 Update MERGE:
>
>   To implement this cleanly requires that the table have a unique index
>   so duplicate checking can be easily performed.
>
2005-11-15 23:08:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
788f7c63a1 Add reminder that we should link to the documentation section for new
features.
2005-11-15 22:16:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
2a8d3d83ef R-tree is dead ... long live GiST. 2005-11-07 17:36:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
667ba8ccb1 Brand HEAD branch as 8.2devel. 2005-11-05 16:42:02 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
2a80c3c4dc Tag everything for 8.1.0 ... Finally, a relesae on scheduale!! 2005-11-05 04:01:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75a429463a Update FAQ for most recent release as 8.1. 2005-11-05 01:35:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
9ba4c42401 Yet another supported-platforms update. 2005-11-05 00:04:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
fd68553860 Editorial review for partitioning/constraint exclusion documentation. 2005-11-04 23:53:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
39dfbe5791 Spellchecking run, final cleanups 2005-11-04 23:14:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1630571a04 Update release notes for 8.1. 2005-11-04 22:21:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
081ed99b1e We haven't seen any agreement emerge as to what is causing AIX 5.3 ML3
to fail to successfully build the release candidates.

However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to
work, and which I'd expect to be portable (better still!).

We are still actively pursuing why it breaks, but supposing that still
remains outstanding, at least the following would allow AIX users to
better survive a build...

Chris Browne
2005-11-04 18:16:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
e47ea0566c Update supported-platforms list. 2005-11-04 16:15:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
03381695c6 Avoid referring to a specific version of the SQL standard except where
necessary, and be careful to refer to the right version where it is
useful to do so.  This partially reverts an ill-considered search and
replace from a few months ago.
2005-11-04 02:56:31 +00:00
Neil Conway
8bd1cbb86d Some minor improvements to the CE docs. Also fix a bit of SGML markup
elsewhere.
2005-11-03 00:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ced9dd3699 Add Tomoaki Sato to pgbench changes in release notes. 2005-11-02 14:08:43 +00:00
Neil Conway
eddcd492fe Add some documentation for constraint exclusion and basic partitioning.
From Simon Riggs; cleanup and editorialization by Neil Conway.
2005-11-01 23:19:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
b524cb36ac Make an editorial pass over the reference pages. 2005-11-01 21:09:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
37a4232a0c Update supported-platforms entry for Tru64. 2005-10-31 21:12:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee72793a91 Mention in the docs that temporary/non-temp tables can not share
referential integrity relationships.
2005-10-31 18:13:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
90456d1303 Update supported-platforms list. 2005-10-30 19:21:42 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
d8247b0f50 tag it for rc1 2005-10-30 05:06:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9c67981683 Fix psql ref typo.
Andreas Seltenreich
2005-10-30 03:01:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
a7335a3401 Update supported-platforms list. 2005-10-28 20:01:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
65a99590ab Fix broken markup. 2005-10-28 20:00:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fbff2e9607 Remove mention that \x doesn't affect backslash commands. 2005-10-28 02:39:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bc93b3741d Update:
< 	o Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT
> 	o Add ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT, update index name also
2005-10-27 14:16:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
befc607dee Add:
> 	o Have ALTER INDEX update the name of a constraint using that index
> 	o Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT
2005-10-27 14:07:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6859d8c141 Add mention that .pgpass localhost matches tcp and unix domain sockets. 2005-10-27 13:53:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0849955f3a Add mention of errfinish. 2005-10-27 13:48:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3332e38189 Disable expanded mode only for \d tablename, not for all backslash
commands.  Per complaint that \df+ is clearer in expanded mode.
2005-10-27 13:34:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
807da29cf3 Add items from Tom:
< 	o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601
< 	  format
212a211,223
> 	o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601
> 	  format
> 	o Improve timestamptz subtraction to be DST-aware
>
> 	  Currently, subtracting one date from another that crosses a
> 	  daylight savings time adjustment can return '1 day 1 hour', but
> 	  adding that back to the first date returns a time one hour in
> 	  the future.  This is caused by the adjustment of '25 hours' to
> 	  '1 day 1 hour', and '1 day' is the same time the next day, even
> 	  if daylight savings adjustments are involved.
>
> 	o Fix interval display to support values exceeding 2^31 hours
> 	o Add overflow checking to timestamp and interval arithmetic
2005-10-27 02:33:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
4a309defb4 Add info about using rsync to make base backups. Per report from
Jeff Frost, it may be necessary to ignore specific exit codes.
2005-10-26 20:42:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
fc5894bf77 Adjust parser so that POSTQUEL-style implicit RTEs are stored with
inFromCl true, meaning that they will list out as explicit RTEs if they
are in a view or rule.  Update comments about inFromCl to reflect the way
it's now actually used.  Per recent discussion.
2005-10-26 19:21:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d9ff58b22 Rename config section headings.
Simon Riggs
2005-10-26 12:55:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62cfa0f75c Add:
>
> 	o Add auto-expanded mode so expanded output is used if the row
> 	  length is wider than the screen width.
>
> 	  Consider using auto-expanded mode for backslash commands like \df+.
2005-10-25 18:50:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
602007842c Convert explanation of interval change into something resembling grammatical
English, and fix the incorrect example.
2005-10-25 17:54:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
c78f3039f2 Small grammar correction. 2005-10-25 15:47:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b83547201f Update 24 hours/1 day distinction in release notes. 2005-10-25 15:12:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
352a7841bf Update the URL for "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation".
Sergey E. Koposov
2005-10-25 13:38:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
404bc385d1 IBM has addressed the socket address storage issue as of AIX 5.3
maintenance level 5300-03; the following patch adds documentation to
FAQ_AIX.

Chris Browne
2005-10-24 22:30:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9507b56031 Add:
> * Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain
>   constraints
2005-10-24 18:08:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
42b689aed4 More forcefully recommend MD5 over crypt authentication. 2005-10-24 15:49:54 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
24fa8746ae Fix incorrect wording about function failure time on unsafe ops - these
are now caught by the validator. And a small visit from the perl style police:
check the return value from open().
2005-10-24 15:39:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
819159709f I have applied the following patch to document PQinitSSL() and
PQregisterThreadLock().

I also remove the crypt() mention in the libpq threading section and
added a single sentence in the client-auth manual page under crypt().
Crypt authentication is so old now that a separate paragraph about it
seemed unwise.

I also added a comment about our use of locking around pqGetpwuid().
2005-10-24 15:38:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
7d3ab8ac55 A bit of minor copy-editing. 2005-10-23 19:29:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
55337e40b3 I've confirmed 8.1beta4 passes regression tests on all hardware platforms
of RHEL 4.  Update supported-platforms list accordingly.
2005-10-23 18:30:49 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
106388fbe8 update configure and bugtemplate for beta 4 ... 2005-10-22 22:46:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
c3a7b0577b Add a note about GNU tar's propensity to complain if a file changes
while tar is copying it.  This behavior is unhelpful when taking a base
backup.  Per gripe from Pallav Kalva back in April.
2005-10-22 22:09:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
f72a342fb7 Copy-editing for recent documentation changes relevant to WAL,
full_page_writes, etc.
2005-10-22 21:56:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
96b85f1ccb Fix documentation to specify the correct range of timezone offsets for
type time with time zone, ie, +/- 13:59 not +/- 12:00.  Also some minor
wording improvements.
2005-10-22 19:33:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
63aa492466 Fix typo. 2005-10-22 14:44:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
fdff883aca Clean up autovacuum documentation, which was a bit out of sync with what
the code actually does, and needed copy-editing anyway.  Also take the
opportunity to expand the section on routine reindexing.
2005-10-21 19:39:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8529779ee Update obsolete URL, per Chris. 2005-10-21 13:59:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
d6707cb66e Minor PL/PgSQL doc tweak: use current_timestamp rather than now() in
an example function.
2005-10-21 05:11:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
9bd7ed828e Clean up some obsolete statements about GiST indexes, and add a section
documenting GiST crash recovery procedures, as requested some time ago
by Teodor.  (The GiST chapter doesn't seem quite the right place for
the latter, but I'm not sure what else to do with it.)
2005-10-21 01:41:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
d1959f9ff6 Improve testlibpq3.c's example of PQexecParams() usage to include sending
a parameter in binary format.  Also, add a TIP explaining how to use casts
in the query text to avoid needing to specify parameter types by OID.
Also fix bogus spacing --- apparently somebody expanded the tabs in the
example programs to 8 spaces instead of 4 when transposing them into SGML.
2005-10-20 23:57:52 +00:00
Neil Conway
61abd9a3fb Minor tweak to libpq documentation: make "PREPARE" and "DEALLOCATE" xrefs. 2005-10-20 21:04:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
c9de6b922e Document the behavior of GRANT/REVOKE in cases where the privilege is
held by means of role membership, rather than directly.  Per discussion
and bug fix of a couple weeks ago.
2005-10-20 19:18:01 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
48f3d77858 replace use of predefined perl vars $a and $b with $x and $y - per Greg Sabino Mullane 2005-10-18 22:53:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
a33fadfd6d Add an entry to the discussion of regression test failures about the
possibility of a failure due to stack overflow when max_stack_depth is
not set properly for the platform.
2005-10-18 21:43:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
220f2a7d15 Code review for regexp_replace patch. Improve documentation and comments,
fix problems with replacement-string backslashes that aren't followed by
one of the expected characters, avoid giving the impression that
replace_text_regexp() is meant to be called directly as a SQL function,
etc.
2005-10-18 20:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
d330f1554d Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'.
Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines
altogether.
2005-10-17 16:24:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
8ffdcbf23b Add note that some versions of OS X require SHMMAX to be an exact multiple
of 4096.  Also add comment explaining why we don't suggest using
/etc/sysctl.conf to avoid needing to edit /etc/rc.
2005-10-16 21:22:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
2c19629f93 Remove a long comment from cvs.sgml -- AFAICS this is no longer useful,
or at any rate doesn't belong as a comment in a random SGML file.
2005-10-15 20:15:48 +00:00