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6268 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Neil Conway
fc8f4bac0e Fix assorted typos in the documentation, and use American spelling
rather than British. Patch from Michael Fuhr.
2005-10-15 20:12:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
6faa334bef Update 'supported platforms' list with current buildfarm results. 2005-10-15 17:59:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d62616e6ca Fix kerberos description: localhost -> server hostname. 2005-10-15 15:29:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
1d2e0e6d3e Merge some user-submitted suggestions for improvement into the
documentation. Mostly add some <xref>s, fix a few typos, and
document that zlib is required in the installation docs.
2005-10-15 01:47:12 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
1b5cd6dcdc Fix typo. 2005-10-15 01:15:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
abd3f43b4c Fix syslog bug: if any messages are emitted to write_syslog before
the facility has been set, the facility gets set to LOCAL0 and cannot
be changed later.  This seems reasonably plausible to happen, particularly
at higher debug log levels, though I am not certain it explains Han Holl's
recent report.  Easiest fix is to teach the code how to change the value
on-the-fly, which is nicer anyway.  I made the settings PGC_SIGHUP to
conform with log_destination.
2005-10-14 20:53:56 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
f620098dc8 fix nonsensical summary row on example 2005-10-14 20:48:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a93bf4503f Allow times of 24:00:00 to match rounding behavior:
regression=# select '23:59:59.9'::time(0);
	   time
	----------
	 24:00:00
	(1 row)

	This is bad because:

	regression=# select '24:00:00'::time(0);
	ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "24:00:00"

The last example now works.
2005-10-14 11:47:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
dbc214f7e6 Add documentation mentioning that there are separate regression tests
for the PL languages and for contrib.
2005-10-13 23:41:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
412734767a Improve documentation about CREATEROLE privilege. 2005-10-13 23:26:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5aae047e23 Update krb_server_name to document that a missing entry defaults to
'localhost'.

Improve kerberos error message.
2005-10-13 22:55:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
f91370cd2f Update documentation to reflect the new ALTER OWNER rules for all
affected types of objects.
2005-10-13 22:44:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
a9980ec37b Describe the behavior of the SQL_ASCII encoding more accurately. 2005-10-13 21:43:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
6f9cb4eb43 Adjust the discussion of triggers to more clearly guide people in the
direction of writing triggers in a procedural language, rather than C.
Per discussion.
2005-10-13 21:09:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ac386226d The patch updates the documentation to reflect the fact that higher values
of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.

We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR.  When running a file like

SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';

DROP TABLE doesntexist;

with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.

Kris Jurka
2005-10-13 20:58:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
12ee2b98ce Turn off list of tables, figures, and examples. 2005-10-13 20:10:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d62338d5e Rewording, use the more common multi-threaded/single-threaded. 2005-10-13 17:55:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fc0aa4cca Clarify causes of possible mismatch between Win32 libraries and
applications that use FILE pointers.
2005-10-13 17:46:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
165565cd94 Some additional doc changes based around compression of page images in
WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.

The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.

Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.

Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml

Simon Riggs
2005-10-13 17:32:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d43349ab5 Fix capitalization of example. 2005-10-13 14:44:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a6dcf0322 Update trigger demo to reflect new trigger ordering. 2005-10-13 02:23:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3d50e107ad Remove extra <para> 2005-10-13 02:00:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
249f07b8c6 Update:
> * 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
>
2005-10-13 01:23:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
23e2f9ebf7 Fix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-10-12 23:19:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adc58f145c Remove item:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
<   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
<   surrounded by quotes.
<
2005-10-12 22:39:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b97e437ca Add warning about plperl nested named subroutines
Andrew Dunstan
2005-10-12 14:28:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0a28eb4622 No longer needed:
<
< * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
<   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
<   in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
<
<   On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly,
<   while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
<   holding the lock can complete and release it.
2005-10-12 14:06:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4aebb5ad55 Rearrange:
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
< 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
604a603
> 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
2005-10-12 13:41:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d5310ca920 Done:
< 	o %Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
<           cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
608a607
>
2005-10-12 13:39:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87a67d186b Add:
<
> 	o Allow pg_dump --clean to drop roles that own objects or have
> 	  privileges
2005-10-12 13:39:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4102640683 Update keywords table for 8.1. 2005-10-12 09:45:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
752290207d Add description:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name?
> * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
>
>   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
>   surrounded by quotes.
>
2005-10-12 03:26:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
368f0b28f3 Add:
> 	o Add options like pg_restore -l and -L to pg_dump
2005-10-12 02:57:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e4aa5be90c Add:
> 	o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
> 	  tables
> 	o In a selective dump, allow dumping of an object and all its
> 	  dependencies
2005-10-11 23:55:10 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
5f470ad491 update to beta3 before tagging ... 2005-10-11 23:26:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
96a83d8807 Release notes up to date as of today. 2005-10-11 21:17:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
c6b9924bec Remove the DELETEs from pg_shadow and pg_group that pg_dumpall used to
emit when given the --clean option, in favor of individual DROP ROLE
commands.  The old technique could not possibly work in 8.1, and was
never a very good idea anyway IMHO.  The DROP ROLE approach has the
defect that the DROPs will fail for roles that own objects or have
privileges, but perhaps we can improve that later.
2005-10-10 22:29:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
7754f7634c Fix a thinko in description of krb_server_hostname. 2005-10-08 20:27:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab13353d31 Update:
< * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
735a736,737
>
>   This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
2005-10-07 14:04:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
02eb6ea9b7 Add:
<
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
>   several rows as a single index entry
2005-10-07 02:43:59 +00:00
Neil Conway
663476919c Minor tweaks for PL/PgSQL documentation. 2005-10-06 20:51:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
cb8b6618ce Revise pgstats stuff to fix the problems with not counting accesses
generated by bitmap index scans.  Along the way, simplify and speed up
the code for counting sequential and index scans; it was both confusing
and inefficient to be taking care of that in the per-tuple loops, IMHO.
initdb forced because of internal changes in pg_stat view definitions.
2005-10-06 02:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c6f345005 Improve wording of entry. 2005-10-05 19:52:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0f397b9edb Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2005-10-05 11:50:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ad308fc4e9 Update FAQ for version number. 2005-10-05 11:24:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a8da71e0c4 Clean up some messages and fix missing translation support. Option --log
renamed to --log-file for clarity.
2005-10-04 19:01:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
060d13f7c7 COPY's test for read-only transaction was backward; it prohibited COPY TO
where it should prohibit COPY FROM.  Found by Alon Goldshuv.
2005-10-03 23:43:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
53e47cdd79 Add a trace_sort option to help with measuring resource usage of external
sort operations.  Per recent discussion.  Simon Riggs and Tom Lane.
2005-10-03 22:55:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
9c873828bd Fix procedure for updating nextval() defaults so that it actually works.
Update release dates for pending back-branch releases.
2005-10-03 16:04:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a87174dca1 Fix font of sequence header. 2005-10-03 13:52:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1624d6d4d2 Fix null bytes at end of file (weird). 2005-10-03 02:49:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f890004cc1 Update sequence docs. 2005-10-03 02:46:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4361e0d295 Merge Tom and my descriptions of new sequence behavior into one entry. 2005-10-03 02:21:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07e74305fe Update release notes to show how to upgrade a database to use the new
early binding for nextval() calls in default clauses.
2005-10-03 01:57:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6a17577933 Remove, 8.1 completed items already removed:
< * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
2005-10-03 00:42:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2aa39a4cb1 Done:
< * Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences,
<   seqname.nextval?
> * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
2005-10-03 00:42:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
aa731ed843 Change nextval and other sequence functions to specify their sequence
argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string.  The frontend
conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an
implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass.  This provides
backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument
is explicitly typed as 'text'.  When the argument is just an unadorned
literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the
stored representation will be an OID.  This solves longstanding problems
with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as
well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or
moving them to another schema.  All per recent discussion.
Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support
for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).
2005-10-02 23:50:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca8cfc9846 Adjust wording. 2005-10-01 01:42:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7df9f55f4b Change the option spelling to --connection-limit to be consistent with the
SQL option spelling.
2005-09-30 07:13:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f66816b5d Remove acronym in one title. 2005-09-29 02:29:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
7b7d1ba0b6 Mention fix for bug #1916 in release notes for affected versions. 2005-09-28 21:22:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4ff203262b Fix typo. 2005-09-28 18:40:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e05a8c553c Add section on reliable operation, talking about caching and storage
subsystem reliability.
2005-09-28 18:18:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2f7536543 Update SQL conformance mention to 2003. 2005-09-28 11:45:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3f540711ef Update Russian FAQ.
Victor Vislobokov
2005-09-28 11:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bc4e3617d Add attribution. 2005-09-27 23:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
455f48ddc5 Done:
< * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
<   pkgincludedir, and localedir
2005-09-27 18:04:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
4fc935a5d4 Fix problems with PGXS builds against an installation tree that was
relocated after installation.  We can't trust the installation paths
inserted into Makefile.global by configure, so instead we must get the
paths from pg_config.  This requires extending pg_config to support all
the separately-configurable path names, but that was on TODO anyway.
2005-09-27 17:39:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d8225eecc Release notes up to date as of today. 2005-09-27 17:28:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
451cd7d426 Add:
> 	o Improve signal handling,
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php
2005-09-27 15:18:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
240c8e7e43 Novice:
< * Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
> * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
2005-09-27 13:39:32 +00:00