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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian 43e33c51d4 Clarify:
< * Add TRUNCATE permission
> * Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
2005-07-30 03:16:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3fae29ef13 Add:
> * Add TRUNCATE permission
>
>   Currently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are not
>   called, and the table is locked in exclusive mode.
>
2005-07-30 03:15:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9ebe05c5bc Add:
> * Add PQescapeIdentifier() to libpq
2005-07-30 02:52:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f387e0615c Add detail:
>
> 	   If CRC check fails during recovery, remember the page in case
> 	   a later CRC for that page properly matches.
>
2005-07-29 16:05:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 85e9a5a014 Move reindexdb from /contrib to /bin.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-07-29 15:13:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 358a897fa1 Move dbsize functions into the backend. New functions:
pg_tablespace_size
	pg_database_size
	pg_relation_size
	pg_complete_relation_size
	pg_size_pretty

Remove /contrib/dbsize.

Dave Page
2005-07-29 14:47:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b05801c828 Add mp3 entry to FAQ. 2005-07-29 14:05:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 16a23597e3 I've had this small patch in my local tree for a while. It documents
new commands which may make an SPI call fail.

Alvaro Herrera
2005-07-29 13:00:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5b63e7b467 Done:
< * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,
<   especially for WAL writes
> * -Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,
>   for WAL writes
2005-07-29 03:23:00 +00:00
Neil Conway f124e820a1 Add some missing SGML markup. 2005-07-27 13:42:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 58d214e51f Basic documentation for ROLEs. The user-manag chapter still needs to
be rewritten, but at least the reference pages are reasonably sane.
2005-07-26 23:24:02 +00:00
Tom Lane af019fb9ae Add a role property 'rolinherit' which, when false, denotes that the role
doesn't automatically inherit the privileges of roles it is a member of;
for such a role, membership in another role can be exploited only by doing
explicit SET ROLE.  The default inherit setting is TRUE, so by default
the behavior doesn't change, but creating a user with NOINHERIT gives closer
adherence to our current reading of SQL99.  Documentation still lacking,
and I think the information schema needs another look.
2005-07-26 16:38:29 +00:00
Tom Lane f9fd176461 Add pg_has_role() family of privilege inquiry functions modeled after the
existing ones for object privileges.  Update the information_schema for
roles --- pg_has_role() makes this a whole lot easier, removing the need
for most of the explicit joins with pg_user.  The views should be a tad
faster now, too.  Stephen Frost and Tom Lane.
2005-07-26 00:04:19 +00:00
Tom Lane e5d6b91220 Add SET ROLE. This is a partial commit of Stephen Frost's recent patch;
I'm still working on the has_role function and information_schema changes.
2005-07-25 22:12:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9ad9e694ac Add:
> 	o Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL API
> 	o Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API
2005-07-25 15:27:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 4c80071b81 With the interval/day patch, the horology regression test no longer
fails near DST transition days, so remove the advice about that testing
problem.  Also improve the description of variant-comparison-file
selection.
2005-07-24 17:07:18 +00:00
Tom Lane d007a95055 Simple constraint exclusion. For now, only child tables of inheritance
scans are candidates for exclusion; this should be fixed eventually.
Simon Riggs, with some help from Tom Lane.
2005-07-23 21:05:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 261026575d Fix AT TIME ZONE for timestamps without time zones:
test=> select ('2005-07-20 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) at
	time zone 'Europe/Paris';
	        timezone
	------------------------
	 2005-07-19 22:00:00-04

Udpate documentation.
2005-07-22 21:16:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0e5c62d065 Add:
<
> * Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
2005-07-21 13:43:16 +00:00
Tom Lane dc73819f2e Fix breakage of INSTALL document build. 2005-07-20 23:57:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian db05f4a7eb Add 'day' field to INTERVAL so 1 day interval can be distinguished from
24 hours. This is very helpful for daylight savings time:

	select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '24 hours';
	      ?column?
	----------------------
	2005-05-04 01:00:00-04

	select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '1 day';
	      ?column?
	----------------------
	2005-05-04 01:00:00-04

Michael Glaesemann
2005-07-20 16:42:32 +00:00
Neil Conway ca76df425b Documentation tweak: make <command>CREATE OPERATOR CLASS</command> into
an <xref/>.
2005-07-19 01:27:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 37464a0326 Fix some bogosities in geometric-function documentation: add an entry
for circle(polygon), which was missing; remove bogus entry for
point(lseg, lseg), which does not exist, and the documentation seemed to
describe lseg_interpt, which we already document as an operator not a
function.  Also remove entry for box_intersect, which likewise is
preferentially used via the operator #.
2005-07-18 22:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 507465525e \pset numericsep -> numericlocale. 2005-07-18 20:57:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5e544e4eb7 Fix SGML spacing. 2005-07-15 19:02:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 45a19efa9e Change numericsep to a boolean, and make it locale-aware. 2005-07-14 08:42:37 +00:00
Neil Conway c3f1b0f4dd This doc patch replaces all inappropriate references to SQL:1999 when it
is used as if it were the latest (and/or still valid) SQL standard.
SQL:2003 is used in its place. Patch from Simon Riggs.
2005-07-14 06:17:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 29094193f5 Integrate autovacuum functionality into the backend. There's still a
few loose ends to be dealt with, but it seems to work.  Alvaro Herrera,
based on the contrib code by Matthew O'Connor.
2005-07-14 05:13:45 +00:00
Neil Conway d6375d6109 Documentation for some new PL/Perl features. Patch from David Fetter,
various editorialization from Neil Conway.
2005-07-13 02:10:42 +00:00
Tom Lane d78397d301 Change typreceive function API so that receive functions get the same
optional arguments as text input functions, ie, typioparam OID and
atttypmod.  Make all the datatypes that use typmod enforce it the same
way in typreceive as they do in typinput.  This fixes a problem with
failure to enforce length restrictions during COPY FROM BINARY.
2005-07-10 21:14:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d1cffe2f77 Add --encoding to pg_dump.
The Problem:  Occassionally a DBA needs to dump a database to a new
encoding.   In instances where the current encoding, (or lack of an
encoding, like SQL_ASCII) is poorly supported on the target  database
server, it can be useful to dump into a particular  encoding.  But,
currently the only way to set the encoding of  a pg_dump file is to
change  client_encoding in postgresql.conf and restart postmaster.
This is more  than a little awkward for production systems.

Magnus Hagander
2005-07-10 15:08:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 42e7b0f02f Update.
< 	  computations should adjust based on the time zone rules, e.g.
< 	  adding 24 hours to a timestamp would yield a different result from
< 	  adding one day.
<
> 	  computations should adjust based on the time zone rules.
2005-07-10 05:06:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 75a64eeb4b I made the patch that implements regexp_replace again.
The specification of this function is as follows.

regexp_replace(source text, pattern text, replacement text, [flags
text])
returns text

Replace string that matches to regular expression in source text to
replacement text.

 - pattern is regular expression pattern.
 - replacement is replace string that can use '\1'-'\9', and '\&'.
    '\1'-'\9': back reference to the n'th subexpression.
    '\&'     : entire matched string.
 - flags can use the following values:
    g: global (replace all)
    i: ignore case
    When the flags is not specified, case sensitive, replace the first
    instance only.

Atsushi Ogawa
2005-07-10 04:54:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 73a7c322c3 Add psql \pset numericsep to allow output numbers like 100,000.0 or
100.000,0.

Eugen Nedelcu
2005-07-10 03:46:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a4ffa38234 Done:
> * -Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects
2005-07-08 02:44:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 59d1b3d99e Track dependencies on shared objects (which is to say, roles; we already
have adequate mechanisms for tracking the contents of databases and
tablespaces).  This solves the longstanding problem that you can drop a
user who still owns objects and/or has access permissions.
Alvaro Herrera, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2005-07-07 20:40:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 442b59dd8b Update:
< 	   writer.
> 	   writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
> 	   into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
> 	   replaced from WAL.
2005-07-07 16:02:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f0a2a91918 Update:
>
> 	o  -Add ability to turn off full page writes
> 	o  When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
> 	   on recovery
> 	o  Write full pages during file system write and not when
> 	   the page is modified in the buffer cache
>
> 	   This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
> 	   writer.
2005-07-07 15:18:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 261ffd03f7 Reverse out because the lack of using pgport in timezone/ is causing
problems:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler.
This relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.
2005-07-06 21:04:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a923602855 Add pg_column_size() to return storage size of a column, including
possible compression.

Mark Kirkwood
2005-07-06 19:02:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0bf8b27348 Update description of GUC full_page_writes.
Michael Paesold
2005-07-06 14:45:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7d2e1cb730 Done:
> * -Add function to return compressed length of TOAST data values
2005-07-06 03:40:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 326a7a0788 Add GUC full_page_writes to control writing full pages to WAL. 2005-07-05 23:18:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d22a3727a5 Remove, now have GUC:
< * Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled
<
<   If fsync is off, there is no purpose in writing full pages to WAL
<
2005-07-05 22:59:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3bf4e4120d Add:
<
881a881,882
> 	o Improve xid wraparound detection by recording per-table rather
> 	  than per-database
2005-07-05 19:37:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian de5d30069b More TODO list section restructuring. 2005-07-04 17:43:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8ea398513e Restructure TODO sections. 2005-07-04 17:00:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e652d2c476 Update
> * Allow GIST indexes to create certain complex index types, like digital
>   trees (see Aoki)
>
783a787
>
2005-07-04 12:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3848532c79 Update wording:
<   Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the
>   Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write
877c877
< * Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled
> * Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled
2005-07-04 04:06:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 85884cb1de Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler. This
relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.
2005-07-03 18:54:28 +00:00