Commit Graph

8926 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Heikki Linnakangas
6587818542 Add vacuum_freeze_table_age GUC option, to control when VACUUM should
ignore the visibility map and scan the whole table, to advance
relfrozenxid.
2009-01-16 13:27:24 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
14bfea3b75 Change explanation of pg_switch_xlog()'s return value to match code. 2009-01-15 18:19:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
520c41b526 Add documentation mention that full page writes have to be enabled for
full pages to be restored during recovery.

Per private report from Michael Renner
2009-01-15 00:34:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
afe8ac2078 Document how pglesslog can be used to reduce the storage requirements of PITR. 2009-01-13 00:54:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
405728f669 Add some minimal documentation that the SQL standard requires parentheses
after ONLY.
2009-01-12 14:06:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
ca8100f9eb Add ONLY support to LOCK and TRUNCATE. By default, these commands are now
recursive.

=> Note this incompatibility in the release notes.
2009-01-12 08:54:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
b7b8f0b609 Implement prefetching via posix_fadvise() for bitmap index scans. A new
GUC variable effective_io_concurrency controls how many concurrent block
prefetch requests will be issued.

(The best way to handle this for plain index scans is still under debate,
so that part is not applied yet --- tgl)

Greg Stark
2009-01-12 05:10:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b34e98242 Modify libpq environment variable documentation to point to the relevant
connection options documentation section, per idea from Magnus.
2009-01-10 20:14:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f90d9ff04 Update link guidelines. 2009-01-10 16:58:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
feba07f838 Add guidelines section. 2009-01-10 16:03:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
908e2c7fd1 Add file to explain SGML linking options, for use by SGML document
writers.
2009-01-10 04:40:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
ccb51c0842 A further attempt at clarifying the \distv business. 2009-01-09 19:27:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d3706cb6d2 Remove tabs from SGML docs. 2009-01-09 15:02:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f8e5b79368 Change chapter titles thus:
III. Server Administration
15. Installation from Source Code
16. Installation from Source Code on Windows
17. Server Setup and Operation

to give users of binary installations a better idea where to start reading.

suggested by Nikolay Samokhvalov
2009-01-09 13:37:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
26dc14b6b2 Rewrite update-po target, so that it works less like a shell script and more
like a makefile with real dependencies.

Instead of overwriting the old po file, write the new one to .po.new.  This is
less annoying and integrates better with the NLS web site.

Also, we can now merge languages that don't have a po file yet, by merging
against all other po files of that language, to pick up recurring translations
automatically.  This previously only worked when a po file already existed.
2009-01-09 10:54:08 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
1b4e729eaa Make krb_realm and krb_server_hostname be pg_hba options only, and remove
their GUCs.

In passing, noted that the pg_hba options for krb5 authentication weren't
listed at all - so add this.
2009-01-09 10:13:19 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
32e1265dd9 Document values for pg_constraint confupdtype, confdeltype and confmatchtype columns. 2009-01-09 01:53:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32c34aab1d Update release notes for 8.3.5, 8.2.11, and 8.1.15 to mention the need
to reindex GiST indexes:

	If you were running a previous 8.X.X release, REINDEX all GiST
	indexes after the upgrade.
2009-01-09 01:47:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb0d7e243a Document that txid_visible_in_snapshot() cannot be used with
subtransaction ids.
2009-01-08 14:46:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3467f02957 Add note that not all SQL commands support ONLY in the same way. 2009-01-08 12:47:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
af96c82019 Document current_query() as being the _client_ query. 2009-01-08 00:44:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c175cd76a Revert current_query() change to use debug_query_string again; add comment. 2009-01-08 00:13:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
445ce15702 Create a third option named "partition" for constraint_exclusion, and make it
the default.  This setting enables constraint exclusion checks only for
appendrel members (ie, inheritance children and UNION ALL arms), which are
the cases in which constraint exclusion is most likely to be useful.  Avoiding
the overhead for simple queries that are unlikely to benefit should bring
the cost down to the point where this is a reasonable default setting.
Per today's discussion.
2009-01-07 22:40:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
12dcf7bb75 Have current_query() use ActivePortal->sourceText rather than
debug_query_string;  this allows current_query() to be more accurate;
docs updated;  per idea from Tom
2009-01-07 21:48:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
1cfd9e8834 Fix executor/spi.h to follow our usual conventions for include files, ie,
not include postgres.h nor anything else it doesn't directly need.  Add
#includes to calling files as needed to compensate.  Per my proposal of
yesterday.

This should be noted as a source code change in the 8.4 release notes,
since it's likely to require changes in add-on modules.
2009-01-07 13:44:37 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
b09f930d2e Add hba parameter include_realm to krb5, gss and sspi authentication, used
to pass the full username@realm string to the authentication instead of
just the username. This makes it possible to use pg_ident.conf to authenticate
users from multiple realms as different database users.
2009-01-07 13:09:21 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
32c469d7b1 Allow krb_realm (krb5, gssapi and sspi) and krb_server_hostname (krb5 only)
authentication options to be set in pg_hba.conf on a per-line basis, to
override the defaults set in postgresql.conf.
2009-01-07 12:38:11 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
af26089841 Add appropriate text for SIGHUP parameters instead of just removing it
like previous patch did.

Per note from Tom Lane
2009-01-07 12:21:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d319a65358 Break out \distv into four separate lines in the psql documentation, for
clarity.
2009-01-07 04:51:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f5ed2ee533 Add documentation for new \d*S* patch, and clean up some of the docs.
Fix \do and trigger display for the patch too.
2009-01-06 23:01:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e825fac2a3 Document that Cygwin does not support OpenSSL. 2009-01-06 19:42:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
e228624011 Remove references to pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists from
various documentation, since those lists are now dead/deprecated.
Point to pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate.
2009-01-06 17:27:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
7c63d0c72e Change a couple of ill-advised uses of INFO elog level to WARNINGs; in
particular this allows EmitWarningsOnPlaceholders messages to show up in the
postmaster log by default.  Update elog.h comment to make it clearer what INFO
is for, and fix one example in the SGML docs that was misusing it.  Per my
gripe of yesterday.
2009-01-06 16:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b32a290bdf Update SELECT version() to show whether it is a 32 or 64-bit backend binary. 2009-01-06 03:05:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
b0a6ad70a1 Add a --role option to pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore. This allows
performing dumps and restores in accordance with a security policy that
forbids logging in directly as superuser, but instead specifies that you
should log into an admin account and then SET ROLE to the superuser.

In passing, clean up some ugly and mostly-broken code for quoting shell
arguments in pg_dumpall.

Benedek László, with some help from Tom Lane
2009-01-05 16:54:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f42a7f1e62 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2009-01-05 15:04:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
7466eeac61 Add contrib/pg_stat_statements for server-wide tracking of statement execution
statistics.

Takahiro Itagaki
2009-01-04 22:19:59 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
184341309e Today is find-typo-in-old-patches day. Fix wrong cut/paste in ident
documentation.
2009-01-02 11:51:53 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
a27addbc87 Make it possible to change Kerberos/GSSAPI parameters without restarting
the postmaster. They are only used in backend processes, so it's just
a matter of re-labeling the GUCs.
2009-01-02 10:33:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
ccdb6627ee Tweak guc.c to allow underscores in the names of custom variable classes,
and change auto_explain's custom GUC variables to be named auto_explain.xxx
not just explain.xxx.  Per discussion in connection with the
pg_stat_statements patch, it seems like a good idea to have the convention
that custom variable classes are named the same as their defining module.
Committing separately since this should happen regardless of what happens
with pg_stat_statements itself.
2009-01-02 01:16:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
511db38ace Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
df0ea5a1cd Throw error if a <window definition> references a window that already has a
frame clause, as appears to be required by the fine print in the SQL spec.
Per discussion with Pavel, not doing so risks user confusion.
2008-12-31 23:42:56 +00:00