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Bruce Momjian
3eedb9a17f More release note adjustments, reordering. 2009-03-30 20:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e604c8b51e More release note wording improvements; section order adjustments. 2009-03-30 19:59:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa0a885e59 Reorder release note sections. 2009-03-30 18:34:56 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
3fe3b81183 Update URL to Python bug tracker. Backpatch to 8.3; doesn't seem worthy of
further backpatch.
2009-03-30 16:15:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a576994e72 More release note markup. 2009-03-29 19:13:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2193b21a0f More release note markup. 2009-03-29 03:58:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
087fa888a6 Add SGML markup for commands/literal/application/etc in release notes;
still more work to do.
2009-03-29 03:01:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07c3563fe6 Consistent 8.4 release note naming for Itagaki Takahiro 2009-03-28 22:05:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
038777081a Update release notes to say citext is multi-byte aware, per suggestion
from patch author:

       Add /contrib/citext as a case-insensitive, multibyte-capable
	text data type (David Wheeler)
2009-03-28 14:15:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fbef1090b Better document that SET ROLE does not uset ALTER ROLE SET settings;
suggested wording from Josh Berkus.
2009-03-28 03:26:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ab95c2ab0 Better document PQinitSSL(0) behavior in regards to libcrypto. 2009-03-28 01:36:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
2938f8c4ea Add documentation of the fact that dtrace probes evaluate their parameters
even when not active.  Explain how to prevent that with an ENABLED() check.
2009-03-28 00:10:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3c2ce020b7 Document in release notes that NOT IN is only for NOT EXIST clauses.
Andrew Gierth
2009-03-27 22:39:42 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
665aa5e540 Fix markup, per Devrim 2009-03-27 19:17:11 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
2e427ec05a Clearify new SSL certificate verification in libpq 2009-03-27 12:01:57 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
cc42c14e36 Fix release notes about pg_hba changes 2009-03-27 11:58:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be99a030a4 Updated release wording, per Greg Stark:
Previously EXPLAIN VERBOSE had output an internal
	representation of the
2009-03-27 02:25:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
990fe113bd Second batch of release note fixes by Guillaume Smet 2009-03-27 01:44:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
03f625d4d5 Mark Greg as the instigator of the statistics target increase:
Increase the default value of default_statistics_target from 10 to 100
       (Greg Sabino Mullane, Tom)
2009-03-27 01:26:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
250bc515e4 First round of release note changes from Guillaume Smet. 2009-03-27 00:45:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
936815e9ab Fix release note attribution:
Support the IS0 8601 time interval syntax (Tom, Kevin
	Grittner)

per Ron Mayer
2009-03-27 00:11:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e106b0a70e Improved release notes interval wording:
Made interval seconds rounding more consistent across output
       formats (Ron Mayer)

Ron Mayer
2009-03-27 00:08:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4c8f90f6b9 Remove duplicate interval (fractional seconds) items; Ron Mayer 2009-03-27 00:06:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0f84033a68 Document that Datestyle no longer controls interval output, per
suggestion from Ron Mayer
2009-03-27 00:01:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
845693f70f Fix a couple of places that still claimed LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE can't
be changed after initdb.
2009-03-26 20:55:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee4c187f64 Correction: ansi-join ->anti-join. 2009-03-26 12:38:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
04c779d3f4 Fix markup so that 'make HISTORY' works. A couple very minor
editorial improvements.
2009-03-26 03:46:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0f1ac2d04c Reorder 8.4 release note sections. 2009-03-26 02:48:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb25bf7047 Re-add release notes for release 8.3.7. 2009-03-26 02:40:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32e7174dbb Adjust AS OF release notes markup. 2009-03-26 01:48:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54a7363af4 Mention release note items current as of 2009-03-16. 2009-03-26 01:31:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4b4a831f18 First version of 8.4 release notes; markup/cleanup/reorganization still
required.
2009-03-26 01:19:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
9151e1bb06 Add btree_gin contrib module.
Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
2009-03-25 23:20:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
87b8db3774 Adjust the APIs for GIN opclass support functions to allow the extractQuery()
method to pass extra data to the consistent() and comparePartial() methods.
This is the core infrastructure needed to support the soon-to-appear
contrib/btree_gin module.  The APIs are still upward compatible with the
definitions used in 8.3 and before, although *not* with the previous 8.4devel
function definitions.

catversion bump for changes in pg_proc entries (although these are just
cosmetic, since GIN doesn't actually look at the function signature before
calling it...)

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
2009-03-25 22:19:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
ff301d6e69 Implement "fastupdate" support for GIN indexes, in which we try to accumulate
multiple index entries in a holding area before adding them to the main index
structure.  This helps because bulk insert is (usually) significantly faster
than retail insert for GIN.

This patch also removes GIN support for amgettuple-style index scans.  The
API defined for amgettuple is difficult to support with fastupdate, and
the previously committed partial-match feature didn't really work with
it either.  We might eventually figure a way to put back amgettuple
support, but it won't happen for 8.4.

catversion bumped because of change in GIN's pg_am entry, and because
the format of GIN indexes changed on-disk (there's a metapage now,
and possibly a pending list).

Teodor Sigaev
2009-03-24 20:17:18 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
c9cab106f6 Remove munging of xml and xpath params to xpath(). The XML must now be a well formed XML document. 2009-03-23 21:00:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5c617f4e56 Update constraint_exclusion docs because parameter is now 3-valued, not
just enable/disable.
2009-03-23 15:14:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
471913a6a5 More fixes for 8.4 DTrace probes. Remove useless BUFFER_HIT/BUFFER_MISS
probes --- the BUFFER_READ_DONE probe provides the same information and more
besides.  Expand the LOCK_WAIT_START/DONE probe arguments so that there's
actually some chance of telling what is being waited for.  Update and
clean up the documentation.
2009-03-23 01:52:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c242e6b6d4 Clarify libpq 'sslverify' documentation wording. 2009-03-23 01:45:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f04ee7043b Clarify 'cert' authentication documention. 2009-03-22 21:55:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
5698f6b925 Remove the -d and -D options of pg_dump and pg_dumpall. The functionality
is still available, but you must now write the long equivalent --inserts
or --column-inserts.  This change is made to eliminate confusion with the
use of -d to specify a database name in most other Postgres client programs.
Original patch by Greg Mullane, modified per subsequent discussion.
2009-03-22 16:44:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
0fd85d7879 Remove the datetime keywords ABSTIME and RELTIME, which we'd been treating as
noise words for the last twelve years, for compatibility with Berkeley-era
output formatting of the special INVALID values for those datatypes.
Considering that the datatypes themselves have been deprecated for awhile,
this is taking backwards compatibility a little far.  Per gripe from Josh
Berkus.
2009-03-22 01:12:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
249d936bed Rename pg_restore -m to -j, and add documentation about what good numbers
are.  per discussion on hackers
2009-03-20 09:21:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
52e6371e7d Be more clear about when to use gist__int_ops vs. gist__intbig_ops.
Per suggestion from Ron Mayer.
2009-03-18 20:18:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
029348cff9 Add just-assigned CVE number to release notes for recent security issue. 2009-03-17 21:36:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
f3a72bd40b Fix contrib/hstore to throw an error for keys or values that don't fit in its
data structure, rather than silently truncating them.  Andrew Gierth
2009-03-15 22:05:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
2dd9af8c0c Update back-branch release notes. 2009-03-12 22:35:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b0c68c242c Doc patch for the recently added probes.
Robert Lor
2009-03-10 00:08:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
05a7db0582 Accept 'on' and 'off' as input for boolean data type, unifying the syntax
that the data type and GUC accepts.

ITAGAKI Takahiro
2009-03-09 14:34:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
00ce73778b Teach the planner to support index access methods that only implement
amgettuple or only implement amgetbitmap, instead of the former assumption
that every AM supports both APIs.  Extracted with minor editorialization
from Teodor's fast-GIN-insert patch; whatever becomes of that, this seems
like a simple and reasonable generalization of the index AM interface spec.
2009-03-05 23:06:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
df8684c56f Remove documentation of log_restartpoints setting, which is obsoleted
in favor of log_checkpoints.  Fujii Masao
2009-03-05 19:50:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b966b519f5 Provide some proper minimal documentation for the pg_dump(all) --binary-upgrade
option.  We don't want to commit to what it does, but hiding it will only
cause confusion.
2009-03-04 11:57:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
12f87b2c82 Add new SQL:2008 error codes for invalid LIMIT and OFFSET values. Remove
unused nonstandard error code that was perhaps intended for this but never
used.
2009-03-04 10:55:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
640796ff41 Reduce the maximum value of vacuum_cost_delay and autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay
to 100ms (from 1000).  This still seems to be comfortably larger than the
useful range of the parameter, and it should help discourage people from
picking uselessly large values.  Tweak the documentation to recommend small
values, too.  Per discussion of a couple weeks ago.
2009-02-28 00:10:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b6e4c8f255 Equip the programs installed by contrib with proper --help and --version
options and normally formatted help output.
2009-02-27 09:30:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
867a2a6d81 Fix the inconsistent and wrong claims that the option value in CREATE
FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER/SERVER/USER MAPPING is optional.
2009-02-27 07:20:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9de59fd191 Add a -w/--no-password option that prevents all password prompts to all
programs that have a -W/--password option.

In passing, remove the ancient PSQL_ALWAYS_GET_PASSWORDS compile option.
2009-02-26 16:02:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7380b6384b Don't append epoch to log_filename if no format specifier is given.
Robert Haas
2009-02-24 12:09:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7babccb915 Add the possibility to specify an explicit validator function for foreign-data
wrappers (similar to procedural languages).  This way we don't need to retain
the nearly empty libraries, and we are more free in how to implement the
wrapper API in the future.
2009-02-24 10:06:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
451a15f95c Add note that inlined SQL functions aren't tracked by track_functions. 2009-02-22 23:50:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
36a9cf38c5 Add --freeze option to vacuumdb. 2009-02-18 12:11:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6883c54a62 Add pg_dump --binary-upgrade flag to be used by binary upgrade
utilities.

The new code allows transfer of dropped column information to the
upgraded server.
2009-02-17 15:41:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
57b5984d24 Minor wordsmithing. 2009-02-15 18:28:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c1c1886d82 Unset language-related locale settings in any case, otherwise psql will
speak in tongues and mess up the regression test diffs.
2009-02-12 13:26:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eee82d44bd Remove tabs from SGML. 2009-02-12 13:25:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d1e361852 Change ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS to rewrite the whole table to physically
get rid of the OID column.  This eliminates the problem discovered by Heikki
back in November that 8.4's suppression of "unnecessary" junk filtering in
INSERT/SELECT could lead to an Assert failure, or storing of oids into a table
that shouldn't have them if Asserts are off.  While that particular problem
could have been solved in other ways, it seems likely to be just a forerunner
of things to come if we continue to allow tables to contain rows that disagree
with the pg_class.relhasoids setting.  It's better to make this operation slow
than to sacrifice performance or risk bugs in more common code paths.

Also, add ALTER TABLE SET WITH OIDS to rewrite the table to add oids.
This was a bit more controversial, but in view of the very small amount of
extra code needed given the current ALTER TABLE infrastructure, it seems best
to eliminate the asymmetry in features.
2009-02-11 21:11:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
20a43b16b4 Only unset the locale environment when --no-locale is used (the way it was
presumably designed, but didn't act).  This allows running the temp install
tests in a non-C locale, thus exercising users' real environments better.
Document how to change locales for test runs.
2009-02-11 14:03:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
715ea2bf18 Clarify PQinitSSL() documentation to mention what the argument controls. 2009-02-11 04:08:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8b9dd6b5fd Support for KOI8U encoding 2009-02-10 19:29:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b79e374519 Update wording of how to prevent pg_dump from affecting statistics
collection.
2009-02-10 00:55:21 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
834a6da4f7 Update autovacuum to use reloptions instead of a system catalog, for
per-table overrides of parameters.

This removes a whole class of problems related to misusing the catalog,
and perhaps more importantly, gives us pg_dump support for the parameters.

Based on a patch by Euler Taveira de Oliveira, heavily reworked by me.
2009-02-09 20:57:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
57b10ebcd4 Fix spelling error in docs.
Erik Rijkers
2009-02-09 14:09:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
053835d334 Document that LIMIT NULL is the same as no LIMIT clause. 2009-02-07 20:11:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97072ad80c Remove documentation mention that hash indexes perform no better than
btree;  keep mention about missing WAL logging.

Kenneth Marshall
2009-02-07 20:05:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c0d652031 Uppercase CHECK mention in relchecks documentation mention. 2009-02-07 19:27:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
952fe78a05 Properly wrap new pg_dump doc text. 2009-02-07 15:25:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec48770e0c Update pg_constraint.conkey documentation description. 2009-02-07 15:00:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d54ae17b63 Document disabling the statistics collector pg_dump activity, and give a
bit more visibility to the PGOPTIONS environment variable supported by
libpq.

Bryce Nesbitt
2009-02-07 14:31:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65b731bd9d Fix to_timestamp() to not require upper/lower case matching for meridian
designations (AM/PM).  Also separate out matching of a meridian with
periods (e.g. A.M.) and with those without.

Do the same for AD/BC.

Brendan Jurd
2009-02-07 14:16:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
c87c31f10b Ooops, forgot to update COPY reference page to mention column privileges. 2009-02-06 21:22:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
7449427a1e Clean up some loose ends from the column privileges patch: add
has_column_privilege and has_any_column_privilege SQL functions; fix the
information_schema views that are supposed to pay attention to column
privileges; adjust pg_stats to show stats for any column you have select
privilege on; and fix COPY to allow copying a subset of columns if the user
has suitable per-column privileges for all the columns.

To improve efficiency of some of the information_schema views, extend the
has_xxx_privilege functions to allow inquiring about the OR of a set of
privileges in just one call.  This is just exposing capability that already
existed in the underlying aclcheck routines.

In passing, make the information_schema views report the owner's own
privileges as being grantable, since Postgres assumes this even when the grant
option bit is not set in the ACL.  This is a longstanding oversight.

Also, make the new has_xxx_privilege functions for foreign data objects follow
the same coding conventions used by the older ones.

Stephen Frost and Tom Lane
2009-02-06 21:15:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0274e1b949 Fix typo in docs. 2009-02-06 19:24:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3d1a1eeddb Document ways to avoid libpq WSACleanup() overhead on Windows.
Andrew Chernow
2009-02-06 18:18:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c78f8e65c Add PL/PgSQL FOUND and GET DIAGNOSTICS support for RETURN QUERY
statement

Pavel Stehule
2009-02-05 15:25:49 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
d1cf27a8ee Fix some SGML-compiler warnings on -wxml mode. 2009-02-04 21:30:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d8a30eca2e Update read committed documentation to better explain undesirable
behavior of concurrent commands in cases where rows are being added and
removed from matching query criteria.

Minor word-smithing.
2009-02-04 16:05:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
c242502005 Document the longstanding behavior of LIMIT NULL and OFFSET NULL,
per gripe from David Wheeler that this was mentioned nowhere.
In passing, editorialize a bit on the description of the SQL:2008
equivalent syntax.
2009-02-02 20:42:57 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
775f1b379e Provide for parallel restoration from a custom format archive. Each data and
post-data step is run in a separate worker child (a thread on Windows, a child
process elsewhere) up to the concurrent number specified by the new pg_restore
command-line --multi-thread | -m switch.

Andrew Dunstan, with some editing by Tom Lane.
2009-02-02 20:07:37 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
3a5b773715 Allow reloption names to have qualifiers, initially supporting a TOAST
qualifier, and add support for this in pg_dump.

This allows TOAST tables to have user-defined fillfactor, and will also
enable us to move the autovacuum parameters to reloptions without taking
away the possibility of setting values for TOAST tables.
2009-02-02 19:31:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5e21197c7b Put pg_user_mapping section into the right (alphabetical) order. 2009-02-02 09:49:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
2044434996 Update back-branch release notes. 2009-01-30 00:37:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5fe3da927b Revert updatable views 2009-01-27 12:40:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4d65d2872b Document that SELECT ... ORDER BY .. FOR UPDATE/SHARE might return
results out of order because of locking, per bug report 4593
2009-01-23 14:05:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
3cb5d6580a Support column-level privileges, as required by SQL standard.
Stephen Frost, with help from KaiGai Kohei and others
2009-01-22 20:16:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
dd7e54a17f Automatic view update rules
Bernd Helmle
2009-01-22 17:27:55 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
94136d5a18 Add new SPI_OK_REWRITTEN return code to SPI_execute and friends, for the
case that the command is rewritten into another type of command. The old
behavior to return the command tag of the last executed command was
pretty surprising. In PL/pgSQL, for example, it meant that if a command
was rewritten to a utility statement, FOUND wasn't set at all.
2009-01-21 11:02:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
93a6be63a5 Revise the permission checking on user mapping DDL commands.
CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER MAPPING are now allowed either by the server owner or
by a user with USAGE privileges for his own user name.  This is more or less
what the SQL standard wants anyway (plus "implementation-defined")

Hide information_schema.user_mapping_options.option_value, unless the current
user is the one associated with the user mapping, or is the server owner and
the mapping is for PUBLIC, or is a superuser.  This is to protect passwords.

Also, fix a bug in information_schema._pg_foreign_servers, which hid servers
using wrappers where the current user did not have privileges on the wrapper.
The correct behavior is to hide servers where the current user has no
privileges on the server.
2009-01-20 09:10:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fe62698218 Update \d*S documentation to be more accurate; system objects are added
to the display, not restricted in the display; new text:

        The letter <literal>S</literal> adds the listing of system
        objects; without <literal>S</literal>, only non-system
        objects are shown.
2009-01-20 02:38:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
fd1d4b3acd Fix an ungrammatical statement. 2009-01-17 04:29:00 +00:00
Neil Conway
ea4b54e5f9 Fix typo. 2009-01-17 04:24:41 +00:00