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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
Tom Lane 23e2f9ebf7 Fix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-10-12 23:19:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6b97e437ca Add warning about plperl nested named subroutines
Andrew Dunstan
2005-10-12 14:28:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4102640683 Update keywords table for 8.1. 2005-10-12 09:45:29 +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
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
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
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 6bc4e3617d Add attribution. 2005-09-27 23:32:38 +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
Tom Lane 4056efcfc1 Create preliminary release notes for upcoming back-branch releases. 2005-09-26 21:44:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dd102d3683 Wording cleanup. 2005-09-25 03:12:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ccc0a1326e Document why PQtrace and ecpg debug() can crash the application if the
DLL compiles to not match the application.
2005-09-25 03:06:41 +00:00
Neil Conway d3419467bb Cleanups for recent addition to log_connections documentation. 2005-09-24 23:25:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5d82f9a898 Improve wording. 2005-09-24 23:08:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 030d5bd942 Add mention of duplicate connection messages from psql, per Andrew. 2005-09-24 23:06:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1a9d96a5fa Update release notes for 4-byte UTF mappings. 2005-09-24 22:57:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 5d9c6b18d3 Document change in large object snapshotting behavior as a version
compatibility issue.
2005-09-24 20:35:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb36c18c51 Remove xid wraparound mention, because it was already done in 8.0, per Neil. 2005-09-23 16:36:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e885554c8d Clarify autovacuum wording. 2005-09-23 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 01ead29b0c Please find attached a patch which tells about what the spiffy,
integrated autovacuum now does :)

David Fetter
2005-09-23 02:25:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9822c73a9d Mention that autovacuum also needs stats. 2005-09-23 02:06:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18ea8ae531 Attached patch takes a swing at improving the autovacuum wording in
maintenance.sgml.

Robert Treat

[ Also fix create domain markup.]
2005-09-23 02:01:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0135cd88bd Add warning about DOMAINs.
David Fetter
2005-09-22 23:56:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ec294fc6cb Move table constraint patch up into the main new features section of the
release notes.
2005-09-22 23:47:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8a64ec6285 Add "basic" for table partitioning. 2005-09-22 23:24:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 1128f55659 Fix postgresql.conf lexer to accept doubled single quotes in literal
strings.  This is consistent with SQL conventions, and since Bruce
already changed initdb in a way that assumed it worked like this, seems
we'd better make it work like this.
2005-09-21 20:33:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 658657177e Print proper cause of statement cancel, user interaction or timeout. 2005-09-19 17:21:49 +00:00
Tom Lane b98f9898d1 Fix typo in link label, per Evgeny Gridasov. 2005-09-18 04:02:05 +00:00
Neil Conway e4d9b69779 Rename pg_complete_relation_size() to pg_total_relation_size(), for the
sake of brevity and clarity.

Make pg_reload_conf(), pg_rotate_logfile(), and pg_cancel_backend()
return a boolean rather than an integer to indicate success or failure.

Along the way, make some minor cleanups to dbsize.c -- in particular,
use elog() rather than ereport() for "shouldn't happen" error
conditions, and remove some of the more flagrant violations of the
Postgres indentation conventions.

Catalog version bumped.
2005-09-16 05:35:41 +00:00
Tom Lane b09bfc654d Update release notes for changes between beta1 and beta2. 2005-09-16 03:37:35 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 3e579cf3c0 Add note about pg_autovacuum settings not being saved on a dump, per
Robert Treat.
2005-09-16 03:12:32 +00:00
Neil Conway 3b0453b24f Various documentation improvements. Add a lot of index entries for
the builtin functions (although some more entries are still needed),
and remove the duplicate index entries that have been causing
collateindex.pl warnings. Consistently use "int" and "bigint", rather
than a mix of "int", "integer", "int4", "bigint", and "int8". Make
parenthesis style in syntax examples more consistent. Various
copy-editing for newly-added documentation and SGML markup fixes.
2005-09-14 21:14:26 +00:00
Neil Conway d6bc885bb9 Minor SGML markup fixes. 2005-09-13 15:24:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera c93912b711 Document the new autovacuum daemon. 2005-09-13 01:51:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 2a11a4937e Fix cut-and-paste-o in TCP keepalives documentation. 2005-09-12 23:09:05 +00:00
Neil Conway fe9f96b14c Minor documentation tweak: make the capitalization of a section title
consistent with the other sections in this chapter.
2005-09-12 22:39:30 +00:00
Neil Conway 9813fc1bae Make the documentation of GUC variables a separate chapter, rather than
a section of the "Server Run-time Environment" chapter. Also, move the
SGML for the new chapter to a separate file and fix the resulting
fallout.
2005-09-12 22:11:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 37a3ed6e40 Update manual's introduction to indexes to reflect 8.1 changes; in
particular the addition of bitmap scans and the relaxation of rules
about when multicolumn indexes can be used.  Also some minor editorial
work in other parts of the chapter.
2005-09-12 19:17:45 +00:00
Neil Conway f7259f5ba6 Fix a mistake in the documentation for SPI_getbinval(), per Michael Fuhr. 2005-09-12 18:40:19 +00:00
Tom Lane b93a72afbf Forgot to add pg_pltemplate to the list of shared system catalogs that
appears in the REINDEX ref page.
2005-09-12 16:43:29 +00:00
Neil Conway 4fe4563550 Add a few items to the release notes, and make a few more minor cleanups. 2005-09-12 05:10:12 +00:00
Neil Conway f7a5f90c46 Many small improvements and copy edits to the release notes. Use "&mdash;"
rather than "-" for the "dash" character. Correct SGML markup. Make
references to the names of contributors more consistent. Rewrite a bit
of prose, and make some other similar cleanups.
2005-09-11 23:40:33 +00:00
Tom Lane a239af02c3 Fix the various forms of AT TIME ZONE to accept either timezones found
in the zic database or zone names found in the date token table.  This
preserves the old ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST' along with the new
ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST8PDT'.  Per gripe from Bricklen Anderson.
Also, fix some inconsistencies in usage of TZ_STRLEN_MAX --- the old
code had the potential for one-byte buffer overruns, though given
alignment considerations it's unlikely there was any real risk.
2005-09-09 02:31:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 48123de717 Create the pg_pltemplate system catalog to hold template information
for procedural languages.  This replaces the hard-wired table I had
originally proposed as a stopgap solution.  For the moment, the initial
contents only include languages shipped with the core distribution.
2005-09-08 20:07:42 +00:00
Tom Lane e0dedd0559 Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural languages,
as per my recent proposal.  For now the template data is hard-wired in
proclang.c --- this should be replaced later by a new shared system
catalog, but we don't want to force initdb during 8.1 beta.  This change
lets us cleanly load existing dump files even if they contain outright
wrong information about a PL's support functions, such as a wrong path
to the shared library or a missing validator function.  Also, we can
revert the recent kluges to make pg_dump dump PL support functions that
are stored in pg_catalog.
While at it, I removed the code in pg_regress that replaced $libdir
with a hardcoded path for temporary installations.  This is no longer
needed given our support for relocatable installations.
2005-09-05 23:50:49 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 2739e1d1c2 Add a note about CSV lines with trailing spaces.
Suggestion by Darcy Buskermolen, reworded by me.
2005-09-05 14:44:05 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera e8f35414ef Fix typo in Richard's last name. 2005-09-04 13:40:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 6c0398a73f Add some notes about how pg_dump relates to the practices recommended
under 'Populating a Database'.
2005-09-02 03:19:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 9a412be5eb Update performance discussion for 8.1. Add a little more explanatory
material in the EXPLAIN section, update examples to match current reality,
show examples of bitmap indexscans as well as plain ones.
2005-09-02 00:57:57 +00:00
Tom Lane e32a2ec68e Update storage.sgml to reflect current reality. 2005-09-01 20:01:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 571be6f381 Remove a couple of obsolete statements about how many buffers you can
fit into a 512K shared memory segment.
2005-08-30 15:48:28 +00:00
Tom Lane e038e89466 Improve table describing shared memory parameters. 2005-08-30 02:09:29 +00:00
Tom Lane cc367951a9 Mention max_prepared_transactions in PREPARE TRANSACTION reference page,
per Bruce's suggestion.
2005-08-30 01:37:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 78ef2d3feb Update documentation about shared memory sizing to reflect current
reality.
2005-08-30 00:58:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 037709e0b3 Reduce default value of max_prepared_transactions from 50 to 5. This
saves nearly 700kB in the default shared memory segment size, which seems
worthwhile, and it is a feature that many users won't use anyway.  Per
Heikki's argument, there is no point in a compromise value --- those who
are using 2PC at all will probably want it at least equal to max_connections.
But we can't set it to zero by default without breaking the prepared_xacts
regression test.
2005-08-29 21:38:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 338e28e234 Fix typo:
sql_information_info -> sql_implementation_info

Robert Treat
2005-08-27 14:13:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c94bbf2027 Add mention of Win32 IPv6 connections. 2005-08-25 01:32:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ea18a11fa Fix memory leak when using justify_hours. 2005-08-25 01:30:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9e3624d5b1 Small cleanup. 2005-08-25 00:38:37 +00:00
Tom Lane bd19ee3457 Preliminary pass at release note editing. 2005-08-24 22:03:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 009e8d44f8 Remove statement that to_char(interval) is deprecated; seems we are
going to keep it after all.
2005-08-24 20:49:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 03417ac182 Run spellchecker over release notes. 2005-08-24 19:41:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 63a67221a1 More beta1 cleanup. 2005-08-24 19:34:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5d14b0d08c Suggest markup items for the future. 2005-08-24 19:31:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9a4fd8f481 Update release notes for beta1. 2005-08-24 19:24:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 9005b757f5 Mention BEGIN { strict->import(); } as a substitute for 'use strict'
in plperl functions.
2005-08-24 19:16:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 95f202c021 Adjust description of use_strict parameter. Some other minor editorial
cleanup.
2005-08-24 18:56:07 +00:00