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Author SHA1 Message Date
Heikki Linnakangas 4b43b48c9f Fix reference to "verify-ca" and "verify-full" in a note in the docs. 2011-12-16 15:07:46 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 6d09b2105f include_if_exists facility for config file.
This works the same as include, except that an error is not thrown
if the file is missing. Instead the fact that it's missing is
logged.

Greg Smith, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2011-12-15 19:40:58 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan fb0eca0695 Fix docs build I inadvertantly broke. 2011-12-14 16:49:20 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 7b070e896c Add --exclude-table-data option to pg_dump.
Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Josh Berkus, Robert Haas and Peter Geoghegan.

This allows dumping of a table definition but not its data, on a per table basis.
Table name patterns are supported just as for --exclude-table.
2011-12-14 09:23:17 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4adead1d22 Add support for passing cursor parameters in named notation in PL/pgSQL.
Yeb Havinga, reviewed by Kevin Grittner, with small changes by me.
2011-12-14 15:55:37 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 5bcf8ede45 Add ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER / RENAME and ALTER SERVER / RENAME 2011-12-09 20:42:30 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 16d8e594ac Remove spclocation field from pg_tablespace
Instead, add a function pg_tablespace_location(oid) used to return
the same information, and do this by reading the symbolic link.

Doing it this way makes it possible to relocate a tablespace when the
database is down by simply changing the symbolic link.
2011-12-07 10:37:33 +01:00
Tom Lane c6e3ac11b6 Create a "sort support" interface API for faster sorting.
This patch creates an API whereby a btree index opclass can optionally
provide non-SQL-callable support functions for sorting.  In the initial
patch, we only use this to provide a directly-callable comparator function,
which can be invoked with a bit less overhead than the traditional
SQL-callable comparator.  While that should be of value in itself, the real
reason for doing this is to provide a datatype-extensible framework for
more aggressive optimizations, as in Peter Geoghegan's recent work.

Robert Haas and Tom Lane
2011-12-07 00:19:39 -05:00
Robert Haas 68281e0054 Make command-line tools smarter about finding a DB to connect to.
If unable to connect to "postgres", try "template1".  This allows things to
work more smoothly in the case where the postgres database has been
dropped.  And just in case that's not good enough, also allow the user to
specify a maintenance database to be used for the initial connection, to
cover the case where neither postgres nor template1 is suitable.
2011-12-06 08:48:15 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 6ef4ae1d4e Add missing documentation for function pg_stat_get_wal_senders()
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2011-12-06 11:02:02 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 0e8f6bf0e7 In pg_upgrade, allow tables using regclass to be upgraded because we
preserve pg_class oids since PG 9.0.
2011-12-05 16:45:19 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 89e850e6fd plpython: Add SPI cursor support
Add a function plpy.cursor that is similar to plpy.execute but uses an
SPI cursor to avoid fetching the entire result set into memory.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer
2011-12-05 19:52:15 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan e6d9e2106f Add a \setenv command to psql.
This can be used to set (or unset) environment variables that will
affect programs called by psql (such as the PAGER), probably most
usefully in a .psqlrc file.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Josh Kupershmidt.
2011-12-04 11:43:38 -05:00
Magnus Hagander eb06416ba4 Remove incorrect instructions to run CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
The CREATE EXTENSION step does this automatically. Doing it again will
cause an error.
2011-12-04 16:59:24 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 155e56bd97 Update documentation suggestions for debugging the backend.
Tom Lane, with minor adjustments by me.
2011-12-02 17:09:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 0de93a9c69 Add some weasel wording about threaded usage of PGresults.
PGresults used to be read-only from the application's viewpoint, but now
that we've exposed various functions that allow modification of a PGresult,
that sweeping statement is no longer accurate.  Noted by Dmitriy Igrishin.
2011-12-02 11:33:53 -05:00
Tom Lane 15a5006aac Clarify documentation about SQL:2008 variant of LIMIT/OFFSET syntax.
The point that you need parentheses for non-constant expressions apparently
needs to be brought out a bit more clearly, per bug #6315.
2011-12-01 16:38:59 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 1be6f93792 Add file-fdw documentation example.
Josh Berkus
2011-12-01 09:33:59 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ebbcba75b4 Add documentation mention that 7 != NULL also returns NULL. 2011-12-01 09:17:51 -05:00
Tom Lane bc9306f4c5 Update information about configuring SysV IPC parameters on NetBSD.
Per Emmanuel Kasper, sysctl works fine as of NetBSD 5.0.
2011-11-30 20:55:00 -05:00
Tom Lane 56d609c3b1 Draft release notes for 9.1.2, 9.0.6, 8.4.10, 8.3.17, 8.2.23. 2011-11-30 19:34:47 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 99f5e47df5 Change installation docs to mention general debugging options. 2011-11-29 22:35:48 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 2ff36abeec In docs, suggest "-O0 -g" only if using a debugger. 2011-11-29 19:12:38 -05:00
Bruce Momjian b60f37bf44 Suggest configure options for server developers.
Greg Smith
2011-11-29 16:32:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 5943d40168 Remove erroneous claim about use of pg_locks.objid for advisory locks.
The correct information appears in the text, so just remove the statement
in the table, where it did not fit nicely anyway.  (Curiously, the correct
info has been there much longer than the erroneous table entry.)
Resolves problem noted by Daniele Varrazzo.

In HEAD and 9.1, also do a bit of wordsmithing on other text on the page.
2011-11-28 13:51:58 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 64aea1ebc7 Add libpq connection option to disable SSL compression
This can be used to remove the overhead of SSL compression on
fast networks.

Laurenz Albe
2011-11-28 13:13:42 +01:00
Tom Lane 9ed439a9c0 Fix unsupported options in CREATE TABLE ... AS EXECUTE.
The WITH [NO] DATA option was not supported, nor the ability to specify
replacement column names; the former limitation wasn't even documented, as
per recent complaint from Naoya Anzai.  Fix by moving the responsibility
for supporting these options into the executor.  It actually takes less
code this way ...

catversion bump due to change in representation of IntoClause, which might
affect stored rules.
2011-11-24 23:21:45 -05:00
Tom Lane 604d4c4c95 Some more editing of the range-types documentation.
Be more thorough about specifying the expectations for canonical and
subtype_diff functions, and move that info to the same place.
2011-11-23 19:13:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 74c1723fc8 Remove user-selectable ANALYZE option for range types.
It's not clear that a per-datatype typanalyze function would be any more
useful than a generic typanalyze for ranges.  What *is* clear is that
letting unprivileged users select typanalyze functions is a crash risk or
worse.  So remove the option from CREATE TYPE AS RANGE, and instead put in
a generic typanalyze function for ranges.  The generic function does
nothing as yet, but hopefully we'll improve that before 9.2 release.
2011-11-23 00:03:22 -05:00
Tom Lane df73584431 Remove zero- and one-argument range constructor functions.
Per discussion, the zero-argument forms aren't really worth the catalog
space (just write 'empty' instead).  The one-argument forms have some use,
but they also have a serious problem with looking too much like functional
cast notation; to the point where in many real use-cases, the parser would
misinterpret what was wanted.

Committing this as a separate patch, with the thought that we might want
to revert part or all of it if we can think of some way around the cast
ambiguity.
2011-11-22 20:45:05 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 024ea25ccd Small markup and wording improvement 2011-11-22 21:14:53 +02:00
Tom Lane b985d48779 Further code review for range types patch.
Fix some bugs in coercion logic and pg_dump; more comment cleanup;
minor cosmetic improvements.
2011-11-20 23:50:27 -05:00
Tom Lane a1a233af66 Further review of range-types patch.
Lots of documentation cleanup today, and still more type_sanity tests.
2011-11-18 18:24:32 -05:00
Tom Lane 1a8b9fb549 Extend the unknowns-are-same-as-known-inputs type resolution heuristic.
For a very long time, one of the parser's heuristics for resolving
ambiguous operator calls has been to assume that unknown-type literals are
of the same type as the other input (if it's known).  However, this was
only used in the first step of quickly checking for an exact-types match,
and thus did not help in resolving matches that require coercion, such as
matches to polymorphic operators.  As we add more polymorphic operators,
this becomes more of a problem.  This patch adds another use of the same
heuristic as a last-ditch check before failing to resolve an ambiguous
operator or function call.  In particular this will let us define the range
inclusion operator in a less limited way (to come in a follow-on patch).
2011-11-17 18:28:41 -05:00
Robert Haas 67dc4eed42 Remove ancient downcasing code from procedural language operations.
A very long time ago, language names were specified as literals rather
than identifiers, so this code was added to do case-folding.  But that
style has ben deprecated for many years so this isn't needed any more.
Language names will still be downcased when specified as unquoted
identifiers, but quoted identifiers or the old style using string
literals will be left as-is.
2011-11-17 14:25:18 -05:00
Tom Lane 4f9e33063c Return NULL instead of throwing error when desired bound is not available.
Change range_lower and range_upper to return NULL rather than throwing an
error when the input range is empty or the relevant bound is infinite.  Per
discussion, throwing an error seems likely to be unduly hard to work with.
Also, this is more consistent with the behavior of the constructors, which
treat NULL as meaning an infinite bound.
2011-11-14 15:34:39 -05:00
Tom Lane 851c83fc81 Return FALSE instead of throwing error for comparisons with empty ranges.
Change range_before, range_after, range_adjacent to return false rather
than throwing an error when one or both input ranges are empty.

The original definition is unnecessarily difficult to use, and also can
result in undesirable planner failures since the planner could try to
compare an empty range to something else while deriving statistical
estimates.  (This was, in fact, the cause of repeatable regression test
failures on buildfarm member jaguar, as well as intermittent failures
elsewhere.)

Also tweak rangetypes regression test to not drop all the objects it
creates, so that the final state of the regression database contains
some rangetype objects for pg_dump testing.
2011-11-14 15:15:53 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 95d2af1646 Add psql expanded auto mode
This adds the "auto" option to the \x command, which switches to the
expanded mode when the normal output would be wider than the screen.

reviewed by Noah Misch
2011-11-12 17:03:10 +02:00
Robert Haas 788cb1c2e8 Correct documentation for trace_userlocks. 2011-11-10 18:00:34 -05:00
Robert Haas 71b2b657c0 Revert removal of trace_userlocks, because userlocks aren't gone.
This reverts commit 0180bd6180.
contrib/userlock is gone, but user-level locking still exists,
and is exposed via the pg_advisory* family of functions.
2011-11-10 17:54:27 -05:00
Bruce Momjian d5873b6359 Document that PQexec() can handle a NULL res pointer just fine.
Backpatch to 9.1.

Mark Hills
2011-11-10 13:00:44 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas fbf99d2f16 Adjust range type docs for some last-minute changes I made to the patch.
non_empty(anyrange) function was removed, empty(anyrange) was renamed to
isempty(anyrange), and !? operators were removed.
2011-11-08 09:42:32 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6477d66780 -DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0 should be in CPPFLAGS, not CFLAGS 2011-11-08 06:49:50 +02:00
Robert Haas b60653bc0b Remove hstore's text => text operator.
Since PostgreSQL 9.0, we've emitted a warning message when an operator
named => is created, because the SQL standard now reserves that token
for another use.  But we've also shipped such an operator with hstore.
Use of the function hstore(text, text) has been recommended in
preference to =>(text, text).  Per discussion, it's now time to take
the next step and stop shipping the operator.  This will allow us to
prohibit the use of => as an operator name in a future release if and
when we wish to support the SQL standard use of this token.

The release notes should mention this incompatibility.

Patch by me, reviewed by David Wheeler, Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane.
2011-11-07 21:47:45 -05:00
Robert Haas bd2396988a Minor grammar improvements. 2011-11-07 12:27:26 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 27ef415a71 Fix archive_command example
The given archive_command example didn't use %p or %f, which wouldn't
really work in practice.
2011-11-04 22:01:35 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 39b2d9ffb0 Add note about using GNU tar warning options for base backups 2011-11-04 21:52:37 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan f66c8252ab Role membership of superusers is only by explicit membership for HBA.
Document that this rule applies to 'samerole' as well as to named roles.

Per gripe from Tom Lane.
2011-11-03 16:29:41 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 94cd0f1ad8 Do not treat a superuser as a member of every role for HBA purposes.
This makes it possible to use reject lines with group roles.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewd by Robert Haas.
2011-11-03 12:45:02 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4429f6a9e3 Support range data types.
Selectivity estimation functions are missing for some range type operators,
which is a TODO.

Jeff Davis
2011-11-03 13:42:15 +02:00