b010afe0dd
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:35:19 +00:00
d356ec9a01
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:34:14 +00:00
775a61009e
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:33:35 +00:00
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Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:32:11 +00:00
e19d7b7b95
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:07:07 +00:00
0385ba1121
Temporary workaround for links within bibliography references fouling up
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footnote count.
2002-01-10 18:22:44 +00:00
7a0672b7b1
More pg_upgrade improvements. Almost done, except for max transaction
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setting.
2002-01-10 04:58:19 +00:00
4d72af6cb3
Describe type casts under the heading of Value Expressions, and explain
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the difference between a run-time type cast and casting a literal string
to a specific type. Minor editorial work in same area.
2002-01-09 23:38:06 +00:00
5461983d08
Update with new features. Still disabled.
2002-01-09 21:50:52 +00:00
da1c1144e7
Make spelling of operating system names match official version closely.
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And listing QNX 6 as both supported and unsupported is probably not helpful.
2002-01-09 00:52:38 +00:00
c58d5d5fcb
Adjust spelling of article titles to match the originals, add some links.
2002-01-08 23:50:37 +00:00
aecd85d3a1
Update Lockhart's email address.
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< * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
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> * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
2002-01-08 20:04:31 +00:00
89e6ce1245
Update Thomas Lockhart's email address to lockhart@fourpalms.org.
2002-01-08 20:03:58 +00:00
9c9a72b807
Repair the GEQO bibliography. It was marked up all wrong. Move some of
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the info to the main bibliography.
2002-01-08 18:03:26 +00:00
f8728467ff
Point to main CPAN site, and reword a little.
2002-01-08 16:13:41 +00:00
d09f6f7741
Minor wordsmithing.
2002-01-08 15:38:42 +00:00
a6e704ce95
Make FreeBSD URL point to the right chapter again.
2002-01-08 15:16:16 +00:00
055d4f9208
Email address no longer valid.
2002-01-08 05:45:19 +00:00
cc9ae0b63c
Update bad URL's with good ones.
2002-01-08 05:39:26 +00:00
731204e090
Editorial review
2002-01-07 02:29:15 +00:00
96ad60e919
Fix ecpg wording to be consistent.
2002-01-06 18:12:00 +00:00
88ebc0f2f7
Remove ecpg TODO section:
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> Looking at this I also found an ecpg TODO list in the docs:
>
>
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/ecpg-develop.html
>
> Seems that TODO section should be removed. Some items are done,
others
> are on the main TODO list.
That's correct. I did not fix the docs for quite some time.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
2002-01-06 17:54:14 +00:00
e59c15e4bb
Fix copy-and-paste brain damage. (These commands do not create a
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database.)
2002-01-06 03:33:26 +00:00
f3efaf892e
Spelling fix:
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< * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
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> * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
2002-01-05 04:03:47 +00:00
3ef4925fdc
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> * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
> * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
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< * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
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< * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
2002-01-04 21:32:28 +00:00
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> * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
2002-01-04 21:08:42 +00:00
99a3396822
ecpg.sgml manual page updated to ON.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
When you run 'ecpg --help' you get the following:
-t turn on autocommit of transactions
amongst the other options... Shouldn't this be OFF as per the
documentation?
Best regards, Lee.
--
Lee Kindness, Senior Software Engineer, lkindness@csl.co.uk
2002-01-04 18:58:46 +00:00
35fcb84946
Change:
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< perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user" (Gavin)
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> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH OWNER = "user" (Gavin)
2002-01-04 18:42:40 +00:00
11d4c2c590
Add from Vadim:
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> * Allow command blocks that can ignore certain types of errors
2002-01-04 18:23:56 +00:00
c5c28ed06a
Add more complete details on date/time keywords and parsing rules.
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Move some tabular information on these from the chapter on data types to
the appendix on dates and times.
2002-01-04 17:02:25 +00:00
0b79ed2745
Update FAQ.
2002-01-04 05:44:45 +00:00
b5213b5c37
Give attribution:
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< perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user"
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> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user" (Gavin)
2002-01-04 05:03:15 +00:00
f27b0eeea7
Remove:
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< * Allow only owner to create indexes
2002-01-04 04:53:26 +00:00
0e3793e621
Prefer savepoints term:
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< allow error codes to be specified; requires nested transactions
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> allow error codes to be specified; requires savepoints
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< * Allow nested transactions / savepoints [transactions]
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> * Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions]
2002-01-03 21:15:04 +00:00
a2dc469ac7
Update:
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< allow error codes to be specified
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> allow error codes to be specified; requires nested transactions
2002-01-03 20:42:23 +00:00
6d78fdae7f
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> o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue; optionally
> allow error codes to be specified
2002-01-03 18:25:43 +00:00
258af1d57a
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> * Make equals sign optional in CREATE DATABASE WITH param = 'val'
2002-01-03 18:22:43 +00:00
8dcc4c058d
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> * Prevent create/drop scripts from allowing extra args (Bruce)
2002-01-03 18:13:14 +00:00
b8ef396d6b
Added:
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> * Allow only owner to create indexes
2002-01-03 17:31:52 +00:00
13acb5b37d
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< * Add config file check for $ODBCINI, $HOME/.odbc.ini, and /etc/odbc.ini
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> * Add config file check for $ODBCINI, $HOME/.odbc.ini, installpath/etc/odbc.ini
2002-01-03 17:29:31 +00:00
85974a75fc
Add to java mention of pl/j.
2002-01-03 17:18:19 +00:00
8be67450aa
Update FAQ_DEV.
2002-01-03 08:20:54 +00:00
5b24a98f2a
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2002-01-03 08:13:51 +00:00
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2002-01-03 08:04:16 +00:00
b96b0415fa
Added suggested syntax:
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> * Make it easier to create a database owned by someone who can't createdb,
> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user"
2002-01-03 08:01:17 +00:00
bc29b06b0a
Add mention of index on foreign key for frequently updated primary key
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tables.
2002-01-03 06:26:22 +00:00
a4ee277e17
droplang had same problem as createlang; default are backwards and did
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not work. Fixed to match createlang.
2002-01-03 06:09:02 +00:00
f9b792c5c3
Add to pool discussion.
2002-01-03 05:52:48 +00:00
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> o Support both 'make' and 'ant'
2002-01-03 05:48:48 +00:00
9d77dcc366
Add mention of PRIMARY in ALTER TABLE ... [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ]
2002-01-03 05:37:43 +00:00
04f3342e03
In createlang, make dbname optional, not langname, or rather, make
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existing code of dbname optional actually work.
2002-01-03 05:30:04 +00:00
b3d9768f3b
Remove:
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< * Change 'createlang [langname] dbname' to 'createlang langname [dbname]'
2002-01-03 05:20:34 +00:00
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> * Change 'createlang [langname] dbname' to 'createlang langname [dbname]'
2002-01-03 05:06:50 +00:00
e274325e02
Fix incorrect description of rowtype variable declarations. Eventually
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(IMHO) the code should be fixed to do what the documentation formerly
claimed, and then revert this change.
2002-01-02 00:41:26 +00:00
e7d9a6bf63
Repair example, per note in interactive docs.
2001-12-30 04:36:52 +00:00
23ef0926e1
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-30 04:31:29 +00:00
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> * Make locking of shared data structures more fine-grained
2001-12-30 01:48:23 +00:00
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> * Change factorial to return a numeric
2001-12-29 20:40:42 +00:00
642f2fe7cf
Add missing <varlistentry>; shown in build logs.
2001-12-29 20:29:49 +00:00
dd0279b1ba
Document the precision arguments for date/time types per SQL9x.
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Update the list of recognized time zones.
Document the range of arguments allowed for SET TIME ZONE.
Still need to add info on other date/time symbols (e.g. "AM", "T")
and to freshen the docs on the date/time parsing rules.
2001-12-29 18:35:54 +00:00
3e87bfc1f1
Add crossdb TODO.detail item.
2001-12-29 17:58:15 +00:00
51517f514d
Add crossdb TODO.detail item:
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> * Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
2001-12-29 17:56:46 +00:00
c80a067cae
Update server DEBUG startup tag fixes:
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> * Change DEBUG startup tag to NOTICE; change NOTICE to output to client
> only if client exists (Bruce)
This item is not done:
< * -Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG (Peter E)
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> * Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG
2001-12-29 17:19:03 +00:00
a78337908f
Add to java.
2001-12-29 17:06:22 +00:00
0d3aebbc86
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> * Add --port flag to regression tests
2001-12-29 05:22:37 +00:00
fcac3b09ca
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2001-12-29 05:15:42 +00:00
54481d10f3
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2001-12-29 05:12:45 +00:00
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> * Change FIXED_CHAR_SEL to 0.20 from 0.04 to give better selectivity (Bruce)
2001-12-29 04:55:45 +00:00
e0de8d9821
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2001-12-29 03:42:59 +00:00
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2001-12-28 19:47:50 +00:00
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> o Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
2001-12-28 19:44:20 +00:00
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Add
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> * Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes
2001-12-28 19:35:52 +00:00
f7dfb1c606
Add pljava messages.
2001-12-28 18:33:44 +00:00
e32ee1fabe
Typo.
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> * Improve access-permissions check on data directory in Cygwin (Tom)
2001-12-28 18:31:14 +00:00
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> * Improve access-permissions check on data directory in CYGWIN (Tom)
2001-12-28 18:30:50 +00:00
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> * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
2001-12-28 05:26:25 +00:00
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> o Have ALTER TABLE OWNER change all dependant objects like indexes
2001-12-28 05:09:13 +00:00
c23f380ff4
Add thread item.
2001-12-28 05:04:59 +00:00
593377f70c
Add more Christof Petig ecpg items.
2001-12-28 05:03:10 +00:00
36e42823fb
Christof Petig changes where for HISTORY, not TODO.
2001-12-28 05:02:50 +00:00
deab927470
Add mention of Christof Petig for ecpg items.
2001-12-28 05:00:32 +00:00
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< o Allow SELECT of array of strings into a auto-sized variable
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> o -Allow SELECT of array of strings into a auto-sized variable
> o auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)
> o auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)
> o ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed
> o all function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG
2001-12-28 04:57:55 +00:00
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> * Add OpenBSD's getpeereid() call for local socket authentication (Bruce)
2001-12-28 04:32:44 +00:00
a6e59234f7
Update to show current capability and future direction, from Peter:
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> * -Allow secure single-user access without passwords using Unix socket permissions
> * Make single-user local socket access permissions the default (Peter E)
2001-12-28 04:30:18 +00:00
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! * Add PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable or ~/.pgpass to store
! user/host/password combinations
2001-12-28 03:30:30 +00:00
21e7e7e724
I know we talked about this in the past but I never got it on the TODO
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list:
* Add optional CRC checksum to heap and index pages
2001-12-28 02:30:37 +00:00
6f0f5bf2fb
Expand on description of when to use or not use TRUST auth method.
2001-12-27 21:37:34 +00:00
9935a85fa4
Document obj_description and col_description functions; expand
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description of COMMENT command.
2001-12-27 21:36:57 +00:00
44d1e9d552
Small fixes
2001-12-27 21:10:15 +00:00
adb1d4acfa
Mention datatype() casting change.
2001-12-27 04:46:08 +00:00
dbc3c859ab
Update TODO list.
2001-12-27 04:28:37 +00:00
498d0087eb
Update for new timestamp behavior.
2001-12-27 00:04:44 +00:00
0181d9ffaa
Add cachable item.
2001-12-26 23:47:32 +00:00
6896693d64
Fix directions for a client-only install, per comments from Alexey Borzov
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and Vivek Khera.
2001-12-23 20:45:11 +00:00
ce4d01d96b
Update description of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and friends.
2001-12-23 20:22:49 +00:00
78ec1cb027
Type interval takes a precision, too.
2001-12-23 20:21:37 +00:00
d1396696e0
Lots of content and formatting improvements in release notes. HISTORY
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now generated from DocBook sources.
2001-12-23 18:20:05 +00:00
3f3b7a9783
Add missing id attribute.
2001-12-23 18:18:09 +00:00
b2a7e1403e
Updated ECPG items
2001-12-23 12:21:05 +00:00
95800e5530
Updates for next release from Bernd Tegge.
2001-12-21 06:00:15 +00:00
5446b1ba72
Remove:
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* Fix contrib/dbase to not require libiconv
2001-12-21 05:27:19 +00:00
a7aeb7db18
* Fix contrib/dbase to not require libiconv.
2001-12-21 04:31:58 +00:00
c3c36bf32f
pre-page -> after-change, per Vadim.
2001-12-21 03:55:45 +00:00
9640666c6f
Spiff up discussion of precision on date/time data types.
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Add a NetBSD/alpha and update info on a few other platforms.
2001-12-21 03:54:02 +00:00
2d004d7f95
Allow location of index creation perl script be be specified in
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Makefile.custom, to allow finding it on Mandrake systems (at least).
2001-12-21 03:53:04 +00:00
20f94e16a9
Pre-page write additions.
2001-12-20 22:01:29 +00:00
95668f0deb
Minor improvements
2001-12-19 18:50:48 +00:00
41acf3d820
Some tuning
2001-12-19 18:49:56 +00:00
cafee83784
Update TODO list.
2001-12-15 17:28:51 +00:00
79b89b4658
Update TODO list.
2001-12-15 16:11:57 +00:00
cebfe90f0b
Revert breakage
2001-12-10 13:07:16 +00:00
e2024ec6f0
update
2001-12-10 13:03:12 +00:00
63b312d2da
Add new Japanese FAQ versions.
2001-12-10 11:17:51 +00:00
03a321d214
Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
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between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:40 +00:00
68cb184b56
Update list of currently supported platforms.
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Mention SQL9x precision syntax for date/time types.
Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:23 +00:00
fe933d6a04
Update TODO list.
2001-12-06 10:19:24 +00:00
140856ea16
Add to java.
2001-12-05 23:12:16 +00:00
d661a9f639
Update TODO list.
2001-12-05 23:11:30 +00:00
b68174e5ed
Update TODO list.
2001-12-05 21:25:28 +00:00
33cc40e8ba
Update TODO list.
2001-12-05 21:23:45 +00:00
7048c8c6d5
Add mention of CREATE TABLE and atttypmod problems.
2001-12-05 21:07:23 +00:00
23ea2b12d9
Update TODO list.
2001-12-05 21:06:40 +00:00
13d128c616
Add mention of aggregates and updates causing problems.
2001-12-05 21:02:43 +00:00
6bcd9f4021
Attached is the FAQ_MSWIN patch as promised. Hopefully, it is not too
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little, too late...
Jason Tishler
2001-12-05 18:23:40 +00:00
d9e71837d8
Update TODO list.
2001-12-05 18:20:42 +00:00
15790465c2
Update FAQ.
2001-12-05 05:41:13 +00:00
e383e411b7
Update FAQ.
2001-12-05 05:38:51 +00:00
d1e77ecf95
Update FAQ.
2001-12-05 05:33:48 +00:00
969cc16c69
Enforce restriction that COPY DELIMITERS string must be exactly one
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character; replace strchr() search with simple comparison to speed up
COPY IN. Per discussion in pghackers.
2001-12-04 21:19:57 +00:00
fb170041c6
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 17:12:25 +00:00
b7579d62ce
Update FAQ.
2001-12-04 07:12:08 +00:00
2314bcfb95
Another test of double-commit. It used only commit one file.
2001-12-04 07:10:45 +00:00
08475b75c3
Test of double-commit.
2001-12-04 07:09:53 +00:00
7a0f2a648d
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 06:44:45 +00:00
50cf849e28
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 06:40:09 +00:00
caf4da8a20
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 06:37:26 +00:00
79d5f6f6ec
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2001-12-04 06:35:51 +00:00
c90bcb98bd
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 06:26:59 +00:00
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2001-12-04 06:20:53 +00:00
00836012c6
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2001-12-04 06:20:09 +00:00
970dcf2776
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 06:14:44 +00:00
c36e598ecb
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-04 06:14:04 +00:00
e469fac240
Recommend --enable-debug with somewhat more enthusiasm.
2001-12-04 02:21:35 +00:00
0532175496
Fix trigger example for PG 7.2 change: count(*) now returns int8.
2001-12-04 02:07:11 +00:00
7321eed9e8
Document max-processes-per-user limit as a possible cause of failures
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in the parallel regression tests. Suggest editing parallel_schedule
as a workaround if one cannot fix the system limits.
2001-12-04 01:49:17 +00:00
05dada0833
Add some more material to the section about partial indexes.
2001-12-04 01:22:13 +00:00
2de42e195a
A quickie FAQ_IRIX covering some known issues, from Luis Amigo.
2001-12-03 19:33:35 +00:00
53f1173388
Provide some documentation for EXISTS, IN, NOT IN, ANY/SOME/ALL,
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and row comparisons. How'd this manage to slip through the cracks?
2001-12-01 04:19:20 +00:00
97ce818897
Mention rules and views instead of SELECT triggers.
2001-11-30 01:22:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane
Thomas G. Lockhart
Michael Meskes