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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane 58c41712d5 Add functions pg_start_backup, pg_stop_backup to create backup label
and history files as per recent discussion.  While at it, remove
pg_terminate_backend, since we have decided we do not have time during
this release cycle to address the reliability concerns it creates.
Split the 'Miscellaneous Functions' documentation section into
'System Information Functions' and 'System Administration Functions',
which hopefully will draw the eyes of those looking for such things.
2004-08-03 20:32:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 635018b77e Move dbsize/oid2name to open items list. 2004-08-03 01:14:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e3b8530cc3 Readd pg_config --pgxs code. 2004-08-02 12:34:14 +00:00
Tom Lane f0efe26402 Support USING INDEX TABLESPACE clause for PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE
constraints.  Christopher Kings-Lynne.
2004-08-02 04:28:29 +00:00
Tom Lane efcaf1e868 Some mop-up work for savepoints (nested transactions). Store a small
number of active subtransaction XIDs in each backend's PGPROC entry,
and use this to avoid expensive probes into pg_subtrans during
TransactionIdIsInProgress.  Extend EOXactCallback API to allow add-on
modules to get control at subxact start/end.  (This is deliberately
not compatible with the former API, since any uses of that API probably
need manual review anyway.)  Add basic reference documentation for
SAVEPOINT and related commands.  Minor other cleanups to check off some
of the open issues for subtransactions.
Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
2004-08-01 17:32:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9d9cdf82a4 Some name cleanup. 2004-08-01 14:08:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 48187a1dea Fix :
< * Magnus is Magnus Haglander (?)
> * Magnus is Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net>
2004-08-01 13:55:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca9540d34f Add docs for initdb --auth. 2004-08-01 06:19:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9d623ed252 Minor release wording improvments. 2004-08-01 05:22:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5b0d5ea92d Add descriptions to TODO items and make adjustments based on 7.5. 2004-08-01 05:15:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6e5e78241b Remove pool discussion. All old stuff. 2004-08-01 04:53:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c8d0850c3 Support "OR condition ..." in plpgsql EXCEPTION clauses to make the syntax
more nearly Oracle-equivalent.  Allow matching by category as well as
specific error code.  Document the set of available condition names
(or more accurately, synchronize it with the existing documentation).  In
passing, update errcodes.sgml to include codes added during 7.5 development.
2004-07-31 23:04:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ea7a8b9ed7 Remove obsolete files 2004-07-31 16:35:17 +00:00
Tom Lane beda4814c1 plpgsql does exceptions.
There are still some things that need refinement; in particular I fear
that the recognized set of error condition names probably has little in
common with what Oracle recognizes.  But it's a start.
2004-07-31 07:39:21 +00:00
Tom Lane b5d2821929 Fix broken markup, release date. 2004-07-31 07:11:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f951a46771 Add:
> * Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled logs
2004-07-31 06:13:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6b771dfa38 Remove mention that we can't trap function errors. 2004-07-31 04:22:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d01af7730e Fix number for FAQ item. 2004-07-30 16:51:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut adf57cd7e2 PostgreSQL extension makefile framework ("pgxs"), by Fabien Coelho, with
some massaging by Peter Eisentraut.  This is basically a simple
generalization of the existing contrib makefiles.
2004-07-30 12:26:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 66917fcff5 Add:
> * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
2004-07-29 16:47:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a3b9a02716 Update Turkish FAQ.
Devrim GUNDUZ
2004-07-29 16:30:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e57243ea7e Add:
> * Allow server logs to be read using SQL commands
> * Allow server configuration parameters to be modified remotetly
2004-07-29 16:24:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d79dc61df9 Update release notes with better wording.
Brian B.
2004-07-28 14:28:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b1ee93884d Update tuple header size. 2004-07-27 03:27:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5b2f4afffe Here is a patch that fixes the pipes used in find_other_exec() when
running as a service on windows <= 2000. Required to make the pg_ctl
service wrapper to work at all.

Magnus Hagander
2004-07-26 01:48:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 25a1324703 Adjust release notes based on community feedback. 2004-07-26 00:26:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a2abe9fe58 Update 7.5 release notes. 2004-07-25 04:18:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 0655b26282 log_destination should only be PGC_SIGHUP, not PGC_POSTMASTER, as per
discussion yesterday.  Also a few improvements in the associated
documentation.
2004-07-24 19:51:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cbcd8b5bec First draft of 7.5 release notes. Still needs markup, additional major
items, and detailed text descriptions.
2004-07-24 09:36:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 406e8aa294 Updated wording:
> * Have psql show current values for a sequence
2004-07-22 12:24:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e15c432302 Done:
> * -Have psql show more information about sequences
2004-07-22 11:49:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 2042b3428d Invent WAL timelines, as per recent discussion, to make point-in-time
recovery more manageable.  Also, undo recent change to add FILE_HEADER
and WASTED_SPACE records to XLOG; instead make the XLOG page header
variable-size with extra fields in the first page of an XLOG file.
This should fix the boundary-case bugs observed by Mark Kirkwood.
initdb forced due to change of XLOG representation.
2004-07-21 22:31:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8eeae3e11c Please find enclosed a patch that matches the PL/Perl documentation
(fairly closely, I hope) to the current PL/Perl implementation.

David Fetter
2004-07-21 20:44:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7a55ba7615 Back out pg_autovacuum commit after cvs clean failure causes commit. 2004-07-21 20:34:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8dec0c1bf2 lease find enclosed a patch that matches the PL/Perl documentation
(fairly closely, I hope) to the current PL/Perl implementation.

David Fetter
2004-07-21 20:23:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 83997560b7 Mention plpgsql:
< 	o -Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
> 	o -Allow PL/pgSQL parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
2004-07-21 13:46:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 53cee20f67 As per the following:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2004-07/msg00090.php

Jason Tishler
2004-07-20 22:56:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 851bcee425 Update:
< * Allow psql to display permission information using \df+ and \l+
> * Consistenly display privilege information for all objects in psql
2004-07-20 22:28:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd66b86be2 Add:
> * Allow psql to display permission information using \df+ and \l+
2004-07-20 21:01:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5406955541 Add:
> * Fix data types where equality comparison isn't intuitive, e.g. box
2004-07-20 19:52:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3df8b47a5e Done:
> 	o -Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
2004-07-20 19:37:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 45995219a0 Here is another patch that fixes a stack of pg_dump bugs:
* Fix help text ordering

* Add back --set-session-authorization to pg_dumpall.  Updated the docs
for that.  Updated help for that.

* Dump ALTER USER commands for the cluster owner ("pgsql").  These are
dumped AFTER the create user and create database commands in case the
permissions to do these have been revoked.

* Dump ALTER OWNER for public schema (because it's possible to change
it).  This was done by adding TOC entries for the public schema, and
filtering them out at archiver time.  I also save the owner in the TOC
entry just for the public schema.

* Suppress dumping single quotes around schema_path and DateStyle
options when they are set using ALTER USER or ALTER DATABASE.  Added a
comment to the steps in guc.c to remind people to update that list.

* Fix dumping in --clean mode against a pre-7.3 server.  It just sets
all drop statements to assume the public schema, allowing it to restore
without error.

* Cleaned up text output.  eg. Don't output -- Tablespaces comment if
there are none.  Same for groups and users.

* Make the commands to DELETE FROM pg_shadow and DELETE FROM pg_group
only be output when -c mode is enabled.  I'm not sure why that hasn't
been done before?!?!

This should be good for application asap, after which I will start on
regression dumping 7.0-7.4 databases.

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-07-19 21:39:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8459b2d472 Done:
> * -Allow configuration files to be specified in a different directory
2004-07-19 20:57:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6ce4738eca No CVS FAQ, just CVS docs. 2004-07-19 20:30:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 050976321b *** empty log message *** 2004-07-19 20:28:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 694b9ef783 Fix broken markup, per Jonathan Gardner. 2004-07-17 16:33:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6275419446 Add:
> 	o Enforce rules for setting combinations
2004-07-17 10:50:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1e0415d96d Add French FAQ.
LELARGE Guillaume
2004-07-15 15:25:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 93a1fce5cc Add permission display to \db+. 2004-07-15 03:56:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a837ed88b1 Detect locale/encoding mismatch in initdb, or pick a suitable encoding
automatically if none was specified.
2004-07-14 17:55:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bbcee544aa Have \dn+ show permissions and description for schemas.
Dennis Bjorklund
2004-07-13 16:48:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc0e76ca36 Change pg_dump to use ALTER OWNER commands instead of SET SESSION
AUTHORIZATION commands by default.  Move all GRANT and REVOKE commands
to the end of the dump to avoid restore failures in several situations.
Bring back --use-set-session-authorization option to get previous SET
behaviour

Christopher Kings-Lyne
2004-07-13 03:00:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b6335b4fb4 Add tablespace location display for psql \d.
Gavin Sherry
2004-07-12 20:41:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e47cbb3bad Add has_tablespace_privilege().
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-07-12 20:23:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a0db74a35c This patch adds the following options to pg_dumpall, to be passed to
pg_dump:

-S, --superuser=NAME

-O, --no-owner

-X disable-dollar-quoting, --disable-dollar-quoting

-X disable-triggers, --disable-triggers

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-07-12 14:35:45 +00:00
Tom Lane c14a43f657 Remove TABLESPACE option of CREATE SEQUENCE; sequences will now always
live in database or schema's default tablespace, as per today's discussion.
Also, remove some unused keywords from the grammar (PATH, PENDANT,
VERSION), and fix ALSO, which was added as a keyword but not added
to the keyword classification lists, thus making it worse-than-reserved.
2004-07-12 05:38:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c5ff895c48 New text. 2004-07-12 03:58:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a919fdfd3d Wording improvement. 2004-07-12 01:37:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7bcdf2ebee Tablespace examples for CREATE TABLE/INDEX/SCHEMA/DATABASE as well as
some other examples for CREATE DATABASE.

Gavin Sherry
2004-07-12 01:22:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3095c104f0 Move comma. 2004-07-12 01:10:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 098d0304d7 Add:
> * Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity
2004-07-12 00:39:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ec448cda3 Added Matthew:
<   rather than in /contrib
>   rather than in /contrib (Matthew)
515a516
> * Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>
2004-07-12 00:23:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 233afe6a90 New Czech FAQ.
Pavel Stehule
2004-07-12 00:22:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2bd17a5f52 Add FAQ entry on hardware selection. 2004-07-12 00:18:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0589ab68c5 Remove:
< * Allow moving sequences and toast tables to other tablespaces
2004-07-11 23:52:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a1f3209c07 Add:
> * Allow moving sequences and toast tables to other tablespaces
2004-07-11 23:31:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8dbd10d96d This patch fixes a small error in the Porting PL/SQL to PL/pgSQL
section where a instr function parameter is mistyped as varchar. It
works properly when changed to integer.

Michael Glaesemann
2004-07-11 23:26:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cf9fd800ec Example for create function using argument names
Gavin Sherry
2004-07-11 23:23:43 +00:00
Tom Lane af4de81469 ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE. Gavin Sherry, some rework by Tom Lane. 2004-07-11 23:13:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 08d89db34d Update German FAQ> 2004-07-11 23:07:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5c9d069daf Add:
> * Add NOVICE output level for helpful messages like automatic sequence/index creation
2004-07-11 21:57:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5ff9566686 Remove postgresql.conf of 'info' as a valid client_min_messages level. 2004-07-11 21:48:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 59429adea9 Add:
> * Allow moving system tables to other tablespaces, where possible
2004-07-11 03:10:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eee93173d4 Add:
> * Allow changing of already-created database and schema tablespaces
2004-07-11 02:03:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e5ca4bde79 Add:
> *  Add an option to sync() before fsync()'ing checkpoint files
2004-07-11 00:28:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6063d11464 Add:
<
> * Use a phantom command counter for nested subtransactions to reduce
>   tuple overhead
2004-07-11 00:26:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 130f89e93f Allow configuration files to be placed outside the data directory.
Add new postgresql.conf variables to point to data, pg_hba.conf, and
pg_ident.conf files.

Needs more documentation.
2004-07-11 00:18:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b4a98c5fcc Add:
> * Add include functionality to postgresql.conf
>
2004-07-11 00:18:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian afa035c204 Clarify schema meanings in pg_dump manual page by referring to object
definitions more frequently.
2004-07-10 15:51:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4525418451 Add OSX thread support for next 7.4.X 2004-07-07 13:04:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f8d390402b Formatting improvements:
< The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
< the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
> The most recent version of this document can be viewed at the PostgreSQL web site, http://www.PostgreSQL.org.
2004-07-07 12:48:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b4e660e352 Regenerate:
> #A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.#
2004-07-07 12:45:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8f599aa6ea regenerate. 2004-07-07 12:45:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aec271475a Bold dash line.
> \#A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.#
2004-07-07 12:44:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a08baad671 Update highlighting of dash. 2004-07-07 12:25:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ea0078da2d Move section:
< * Add replication of distributed databases
< 	o Automatic failover
< 	o Load balancing
< 	o Master/slave replication
< 	o Multi-master replication
< 	o Partition data across servers
< 	o Queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
< 	o Allow replication over unreliable or non-persistent links
55a48,55
> * Improve replication solutions
> 	o Automatic failover
> 	o Load balancing
> 	o Master/slave replication
> 	o Multi-master replication
> 	o Partition data across servers
> 	o Queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
> 	o Allow replication over unreliable or non-persistent links
2004-07-06 20:29:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 33fe94b286 Reorder dash mention to be more prominient.
> A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.
>
> Bracketed items "[]" have more detail.
9,12d12
<
< A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.5 release.
<
< Bracketed items "[]" have more detail.
2004-07-06 16:18:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a21bb2722a Done:
> * -Fix upper()/lower() to work for multibyte encodings
2004-07-06 03:23:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da09dea3e3 Fix paragraph mention in ALTER DATABASE manual page.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-07-05 02:34:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 959b353db2 Fix misspellings: langauge -> language. 2004-07-04 23:34:24 +00:00
Tom Lane a72dd7a9e4 Okay, I've had it with answering newbie questions about why plpgsql
FOR loops are giving weird syntax errors.  Restructure parsing of FOR
loops so that the integer-loop-vs-query-loop decision is driven off
the presence of '..' between IN and LOOP, rather than the presence
of a matching record/row variable name.  Hopefully this will make the
behavior a bit more transparent.
2004-07-04 02:49:04 +00:00
Tom Lane e34082ee3b Add missing operators of the form interval-plus-datetime, as required for
better SQL compliance in this area, per recent discussion.  Mark related
operators as commutators where possible.  (The system doesn't actually care
about commutator marking for operators not returning boolean, at the moment,
but this seems forward-thinking and besides it made it easier to verify
that we hadn't missed any.)
Also, remove interval-minus-time and interval-minus-timetz operators.
I'm not sure how these got in, but they are nonstandard and had very
obviously broken behavior.  (minus is not commutative in anyone's book.)
I doubt anyone had ever used 'em, because we'd surely have gotten a bug
report about it if so.
2004-07-02 22:50:23 +00:00
Joe Conway 0b89d261c7 Andreas Pflug wrote:
From an idea of Bruce, the attached patch implements the function
 pg_tablespace_databases(oid) RETURNS SETOF oid
 which delivers as set of database oids having objects in the selected
 tablespace, enabling an admin to examine only the databases affecting
 the tablespace for objects instead of scanning all of them.

initdb forced
2004-07-02 18:59:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c7beffcc1d Override upstream DSSSL style sheet formatting changes 2004-06-29 20:44:34 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bc7589a292 Comma splice police 2004-06-29 19:57:40 +00:00
Tom Lane b3d36a2467 Fix bogus line break within a file name, as noted by Alvaro. 2004-06-27 22:58:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 0adfa2c39d Support renaming of tablespaces, and changing the owners of
aggregates, conversions, functions, operators, operator classes,
schemas, types, and tablespaces.  Fold the existing implementations
of alter domain owner and alter database owner in with these.

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-06-25 21:55:59 +00:00
Tom Lane a0e842d81b Add pg_get_serial_sequence() function, and cause pg_dump to use it.
This eliminates the assumption that a serial column's sequence will
have the same name on reload that it was given in the original database.

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-06-25 17:20:29 +00:00
Dennis Bjorklund d0f1b4c4fb Add argument name to syntax. 2004-06-25 07:05:34 +00:00
Tom Lane b5b9e33564 Add documentation for pg_cancel_backend and pg_terminate_backend.
Magnus Hagander
2004-06-24 19:57:14 +00:00