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Author SHA1 Message Date
Heikki Linnakangas
8b64a2642a Add optional on/off argument to \timing.
David Fetter.
2008-06-11 10:48:17 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
96063da99d Make XML building work silently on VPATH builds (untested on regular builds). 2008-06-10 00:19:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
242d70d5ef Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2008-06-09 19:37:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
2071865caa Update release notes for ALTER AGGREGATE fix. 2008-06-08 21:46:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d61b404d4 Update release notes for 8.3.3 et al. 2008-06-07 22:10:38 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
700af334cc Fix missing "not", per Frank Millman (bug #4212). 2008-06-05 19:56:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
393ad11c7e Draft release notes for upcoming back-branch updates. 2008-06-04 03:16:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d19e9ffad Marginal improvements to the documentation for PGOPTIONS. 2008-06-01 16:23:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
66e4da4c86 Done: -Remove psql newline patch when we find out why mingw outputs an extra newline 2008-05-31 15:05:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
bf4bd50ff7 Copy refint.so and autoinc.so into the src/test/regress directory during
"make all", and then reference them there during the actual tests.  This
makes the handling of these files more parallel to that of regress.so,
and in particular simplifies use of the regression tests outside the
original build tree.  The PGDG and Red Hat RPMs have been doing this via
patches for a very long time.  Inclusion of the change in core was requested
by Jørgen Austvik of Sun, and I can't see any reason not to.

I attempted to fix the MSVC scripts for this too, but they may need
further tweaking ...
2008-05-30 00:04:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e19d10b595 Add description to:
* Add deferred trigger queue file

<   This item involves dumping large queues into files.
>   This item involves dumping large queues into files, or doing some
>   kind of join to process all the triggers, or some bulk operation.
2008-05-29 02:04:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
882576aa89 Add URL for:
* Add deferred trigger queue file

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00876.php
2008-05-29 01:58:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
a8f98c068e Improve GRANT documentation to point out that UPDATE and DELETE typically
require SELECT privilege as well, since you normally need to read existing
column values within such commands.  This behavior is according to spec,
but we'd never documented it before.  Per gripe from Volkan Yazici.
2008-05-28 00:45:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
e35ee671a8 Clarify description of typmod input function, per Jeff Davis. 2008-05-27 18:05:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
7b8a63c3e9 Alter the xxx_pattern_ops opclasses to use the regular equality operator of
the associated datatype as their equality member.  This means that these
opclasses can now support plain equality comparisons along with LIKE tests,
thus avoiding the need for an extra index in some applications.  This
optimization was not possible when the pattern opclasses were first introduced,
because we didn't insist that text equality meant bitwise equality; but we
do now, so there is no semantic difference between regular and pattern
equality operators.

I removed the name_pattern_ops opclass altogether, since it's really useless:
name's regular comparisons are just strcmp() and are unlikely to become
something different.  Instead teach indxpath.c that btree name_ops can be
used for LIKE whether or not the locale is C.  This might lead to a useful
speedup in LIKE queries on the system catalogs in non-C locales.

The ~=~ and ~<>~ operators are gone altogether.  (It would have been nice to
keep them for backward compatibility's sake, but since the pg_amop structure
doesn't allow multiple equality operators per opclass, there's no way.)

A not-immediately-obvious incompatibility is that the sort order within
bpchar_pattern_ops indexes changes --- it had been identical to plain
strcmp, but is now trailing-blank-insensitive.  This will impact
in-place upgrades, if those ever happen.

Per discussions a couple months ago.
2008-05-27 00:13:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
abb5fd8604 Done:
< 	o Use LC_TIME for localized weekday/month names, rather than
> 	o -Use LC_TIME for localized weekday/month names, rather than
2008-05-20 00:35:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
07a5606735 Make to_char()'s localized month/day names depend on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2008-05-19 18:08:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
1bfe97e5a8 Rewrite the warning about non-transaction-safety of TRUNCATE ... RESTART
IDENTITY to be more explicit about the possible hazards.  Per gripe from Neil
and subsequent discussion.  Eventually we may be able to get rid of this
warning, but for now it had better be there.
2008-05-17 23:36:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
caede71b44 Allow ALTER SEQUENCE START WITH to change the recorded start_value of a
sequence.  This seems an obvious extension to the recent patch, and it
makes the code noticeably cleaner and more orthogonal.
2008-05-17 01:20:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
10a3471bed Add a RESTART (without parameter) option to ALTER SEQUENCE, allowing a
sequence to be reset to its original starting value.  This requires adding the
original start value to the set of parameters (columns) of a sequence object,
which is a user-visible change with potential compatibility implications;
it also forces initdb.

Also add hopefully-SQL-compatible RESTART/CONTINUE IDENTITY options to
TRUNCATE TABLE.  RESTART IDENTITY executes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART for all
sequences "owned by" any of the truncated relations.  CONTINUE IDENTITY is
a no-op option.

Zoltan Boszormenyi
2008-05-16 23:36:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9263d86f59 Update psql startup banner to be shorter, suggest "help" for help.
Add a few "help" entries.

Move \g help entry into "General".

Update psql version mismatch warning text.

Joshua D. Drake
2008-05-16 17:17:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7adddb4002 Done in TODO:
> 	o -Have \l+ show database size, if permissions allow
2008-05-16 17:03:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43ee22826b Add detection of psql pager to trigger on wide output. Also add pager
detection for wrapped lines or lines with newlines that need pager to
display.
2008-05-16 16:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
e6dbcb72fa Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support
prefix matching using this facility.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4eb0900768 Done:
PL/pgSQL

> 	o -Add CASE capability to language (already in SQL)
2008-05-16 02:23:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
b62f246fb0 Support SQL/PSM-compatible CASE statement in plpgsql.
Pavel Stehule
2008-05-15 22:39:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
93c701edc6 Add support for tracking call counts and elapsed runtime for user-defined
functions.

Note that because this patch changes FmgrInfo, any external C functions
you might be testing with 8.4 will need to be recompiled.

Patch by Martin Pihlak, some editorialization by me (principally, removing
tracking of getrusage() numbers)
2008-05-15 00:17:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
36f0b1cab7 Remove odd duplicate wording in psql pager section. 2008-05-14 04:07:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
4107478d37 Improve plpgsql's RAISE command. It is now possible to attach DETAIL and
HINT fields to a user-thrown error message, and to specify the SQLSTATE
error code to use.  The syntax has also been tweaked so that the
Oracle-compatible case "RAISE exception_name" works (though you won't get a
very nice error message if you just write that much).  Lastly, support
the Oracle-compatible syntax "RAISE" with no parameters to re-throw
the current error from within an EXCEPTION block.

In passing, allow the syntax SQLSTATE 'nnnnn' within EXCEPTION lists,
so that there is a way to trap errors with custom SQLSTATE codes.

Pavel Stehule and Tom Lane
2008-05-13 22:10:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9340c6372f Todo done:
> * -Improve dead row detection during multi-statement transactions usage
2008-05-12 20:50:52 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
000086b49c Document that "ROLLBACK TO savepoint" does not un-close cursors. 2008-05-12 16:23:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2cabe2db79 Add URL for:
o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00500.php
2008-05-10 01:50:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d603b3e48a Add to TODO:
> 	o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
2008-05-10 01:50:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f586e70665 Add URL for:
* Add column to pg_stat_activity that shows the progress of long-running
  commands like CREATE INDEX and VACUUM
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00203.php
>
2008-05-10 01:40:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1526a701c4 Add TODO item:
> 	o Clear table counters on TRUNCATE
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00169.php
2008-05-10 00:33:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1d18d1dd7b TODOs done:
> 	o -Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> 	o -Prevent child tables from altering or dropping constraints
2008-05-10 00:25:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
cd902b331d Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same
as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child
table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent.
This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent
will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some
longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether
check constraints were really inherited or not.

The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to
pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute)
and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for
columns.

Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom Lane
2008-05-09 23:32:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c56b444496 Add to TODO:
>
> * Improve the /contrib installation experience
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00132.php
2008-05-09 03:58:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5adf98ae24 Add psql '\pset format wrapped' mode to wrap output to screen width, or
file/pipe output too if \pset columns' is set.

Bryce Nesbitt
2008-05-08 17:04:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
eb915caf92 Fix contrib/xml2 makefile to not override CFLAGS, and in passing make it
auto-configure properly for libxslt present or not.
2008-05-08 16:49:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9c9732e3c7 Update TODO wording:
< * Improve detection of shared memory segments being used by other
<   FreeBSD jails

> * Improve detection of shared memory segments being used by others
>   by checking the SysV shared memory field 'nattch'
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00673.php
2008-05-08 02:24:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b4362eeaa7 Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Add CREATE SCHEMA ... LIKE that copies a schema
>
2008-05-08 01:49:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b9c14cdf9 Add to TODO:
> * Add database and transaction-level triggers
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00451.php
2008-05-08 01:45:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5bf049b56c Remove OID/foreign key mention in psql variable interpolation docs. 2008-05-08 00:27:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
09005f2fec Add Simon Riggs' email address. 2008-05-07 18:48:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
00756a5691 Move Client Authentication right after Server Configuration in docs.
Scott Marlowe
2008-05-07 16:36:43 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
0423de4d30 Make the pg_stat_activity view call a SRF (pg_stat_get_activity())
instead of calling a bunch of individual functions.

This function can also be called directly, taking a PID as an argument, to
return only the data for a single PID.
2008-05-07 14:41:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8008988be3 Fix TODO typo. 2008-05-07 04:46:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
44ba6f3476 Add URL for
< * Consider increasing the number of default statistics target, and
<   reduce statistics target overhead
2008-05-07 04:45:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bd8131ee8f Update TODO wording:
< 	o Allow dictionary to filter out only stop words
> 	o Allow dictionaries to change the token that is passed on to
> 	  later dictionaries
2008-05-07 04:34:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40941c5129 Add item, make text search section:
o Consider changing error to warning for strings larger than one
          megabyte

          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-02/msg00190.php
          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00062.php
2008-05-07 04:12:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d592d2e86 Done:
> * -Add function to report the time of the most recent server reload
2008-05-06 16:14:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
93afd6f619 Done:
> 	o -Improve display of enums to show valid enum values
2008-05-06 00:47:53 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
27a52fa2d9 Document extra information provided by psql's \dT+ (not \dt+ as per recent commit). 2008-05-05 01:38:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
a87f15d506 Display ACLS using multiple lines for psql's \z. Brendan Jurd. 2008-05-05 01:21:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
b6d15590f7 Add timestamp and timestamptz versions of generate_series().
Hitoshi Harada
2008-05-04 23:19:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
600da67fbe Add pg_conf_load_time() function to report when the Postgres configuration
files were last loaded.

George Gensure
2008-05-04 21:13:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
47391591ba Support RETURN QUERY EXECUTE in plpgsql.
Pavel Stehule
2008-05-03 00:11:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
511b798c46 Update documentation for psql relation-size-in-\dt+ patch. 2008-05-02 22:50:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
db147b3483 Allow the planner's estimate of the fraction of a cursor's rows that will be
retrieved to be controlled through a GUC variable.

Robert Hell
2008-05-02 21:26:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf9f6c8d8e Extend yesterday's patch making BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE configurable to also
let XLOG_BLCKSZ and XLOG_SEG_SIZE be set via configure.  Per a proposal by
Mark Wong, though I thought it better to call the switches after "wal" rather
than "xlog".
2008-05-02 19:52:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
3c6248a828 Remove the recently added USE_SEGMENTED_FILES option, and indeed remove all
support for a nonsegmented mode from md.c.  Per recent discussions, there
doesn't seem to be much value in a "never segment" option as opposed to
segmenting with a suitably large segment size.  So instead provide a
configure-time switch to set the desired segment size in units of gigabytes.
While at it, expose a configure switch for BLCKSZ as well.

Zdenek Kotala
2008-05-02 01:08:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
1b1e335b15 Make the minimum allowed value of work_mem be 64KB always, rather than having
it vary with BLCKSZ as before.  This agrees with what the documentation says,
and avoids a regression test problem when BLCKSZ is larger than default.
Per recent discussion.
2008-05-01 19:55:40 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
ca0aecfdef Add example showing how to remove a password from a role.
Andreas Scherbaum
2008-04-30 12:38:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d7379b7624 Update comment for 8.4:
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.4 release.#
2008-04-28 23:08:33 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
1fcb977a13 Add generate_subscripts, a series-generation function which generates an
array's subscripts.

Pavel Stehule, some editorialization by me.
2008-04-28 14:48:58 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
a1d479f518 Add SGML ID attributes to the arrays subsections, and a few index entries for
them.
2008-04-27 04:33:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea0382e370 Code review for recent patch to terminate online backup during shutdown:
do CancelBackup at a sane place, fix some oversights in the state transitions,
allow only superusers to connect while we are waiting for backup mode to end.
2008-04-26 22:47:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b6e2fab978 Add URL for:
* Allow adding/renaming/removing enumerated values to an existing
  enumerated data type
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01718.php
>
2008-04-25 21:38:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5463d399e3 Update wording from David Fetter. 2008-04-25 14:34:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43a43ad21d Update to remove passive wording from FAQ, David Fetter 2008-04-25 14:28:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91674bce68 Update TODO item:
> * Allow adding/renaming/removing enumerated values to an existing
>   enumerated data type
2008-04-24 20:57:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bb908d9879 Update:
< * Allow adding enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
> * Allow adding/removing enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
2008-04-24 20:29:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
830f276b2a Add embedded usage mention to FAQ, per Greg Smith. 2008-04-24 19:58:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc3c9e1b29 Add to TODO:
> * Allow prepared transactions with temporary tables created and dropped
>   in the same transaction, and when an ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS temporary
>   table is accessed
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00047.php
2008-04-24 18:23:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a61fbe4582 Add TODO item:
>
> 	o Impove COPY performance
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00954.php
2008-04-24 17:32:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
82403f0350 Add URL for:
* Allow index scans to return matching index keys, not just the matching
  heap locations
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01657.php
>
2008-04-24 17:06:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a88b8943db Add to TODO:
> * Allow index scans to return matching index keys, not just the matching
>   heap locations
2008-04-24 16:42:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e242fec5f Add to TODO:
<
> * Allow adding enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
>   type
2008-04-24 16:14:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a3552f050f Remove, item done, description unclear:
< * Allow index scans to return matching index keys
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01079.php
2008-04-24 16:11:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9dd10490ed Update TODO description for GIT:
* Consider smaller indexes that record a range of values per heap page,
  rather than having one index entry for every heap row
2008-04-24 15:54:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19750904c8 Add GIT URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01589.php
2008-04-24 02:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b6b8cdc81 Add to TODO:
<
> 	o Add prompt escape to display the client and server versions
2008-04-24 00:39:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fef58c6943 Add URL for MERGE:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01475.php
2008-04-23 22:38:47 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
c979a1fefa Prevent shutdown in normal mode if online backup is running, and
have pg_ctl warn about this.

Cancel running online backups (by renaming the backup_label file,
thus rendering the backup useless) when shutting down in fast mode.

Laurenz Albe
2008-04-23 13:44:59 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
fc2117a4b5 Replace developer FAQ with a reference to the wiki, which is where
it now lives (per discussion). Leave the other FAQs alone for now.
2008-04-22 09:26:32 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
be9ab11366 Fix typo, noted by Stefan Kaltenbrunner. 2008-04-21 11:06:13 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
3bb6d101c4 Add link to major version release notes at the top of the minor
version ones, to make it clear to users just browsing the notes
that there are a lot more changes available from whatever version
they are at than what's in the minor version release notes.
2008-04-21 09:44:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
8472bf7a73 Allow float8, int8, and related datatypes to be passed by value on machines
where Datum is 8 bytes wide.  Since this will break old-style C functions
(those still using version 0 calling convention) that have arguments or
results of these types, provide a configure option to disable it and retain
the old pass-by-reference behavior.  Likewise, provide a configure option
to disable the recently-committed float4 pass-by-value change.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, plus configurability stuff by me.
2008-04-21 00:26:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ca214ed1a Update TODO using new script. 2008-04-19 12:33:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa4f87769f Remove TODO.detail directory. All URLs now in TODO file as references. 2008-04-19 12:19:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
883b6a8a51 Remove TODO.detail references; instead add TODO URLs pointing to the
archives.  We have been using URLs for a while for new items.
2008-04-19 12:16:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
87a2f050a9 Cause EXPLAIN's VERBOSE option to print the target list (output column list)
of each plan node, instead of its former behavior of dumping the internal
representation of the plan tree.  The latter display is still available for
those who really want it (see debug_print_plan), but uses for it are certainly
few and and far between.  Per discussion.

This patch also removes the explain_pretty_print GUC, which is obsoleted
by the change.
2008-04-18 01:42:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c5c7ba1b10 TODO Done:
> * -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
2008-04-17 20:57:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c4fd93b3f3 Re-enable pg_terminate_backend() using SIGTERM. SIGTERM testing still
needed.
2008-04-17 20:56:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
35390aab16 Update most recent release to 8.3.1. 2008-04-16 20:57:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0f839fc60 Update TODO wording. 2008-04-16 17:50:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54495e387f Add to TODO:
> * Implement the non-threaded Avahi service discovery protocol
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00939.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00097.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01211.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00001.php
2008-04-16 17:25:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
17cdf848b8 Re-add terminate TODO item. 2008-04-15 21:39:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76365960d2 Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions. 2008-04-15 20:28:47 +00:00