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1046 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
56f5f2bf82 Update FAQ. 2001-01-22 17:20:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0fada37f5d Update FAQ. 2001-01-22 16:35:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e0919136a Minor fixes. 2001-01-22 16:11:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
505cdd5873 Update FAQ. 2001-01-22 06:27:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f93794f1e Update FAQ. 2001-01-22 05:56:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
64b3af90f1 Add. 2001-01-22 03:47:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf01c7983b Make Kevin Lo's MS FAQ the default. 2001-01-22 03:33:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d90eb434e4 Update FAQ. 2001-01-21 22:16:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4f34f55d3d Description of table expressions, including join syntax, from Robert B.
Easter <reaster@comptechnews.com>, heavily massaged by me.  Also cleaned up
value expressions a bit.
2001-01-21 22:02:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
11d9d2cfaa Update FAQ. 2001-01-21 05:01:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
a2405d5554 Get rid of initdb -t bugs by the simple expedient of getting rid of
initdb -t.  This option is obsoleted by 7.1's ability to drop and
recreate template1 during normal operation.
2001-01-20 22:09:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
74bbe8097d Replace some oldish, non-SQL'ish elements with more standard forms. (cast
syntax, type names, function names, etc.)
2001-01-20 20:59:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
923513b52f Move anoncvs to top of docs, then put cvs tree. Hope that is OK. Seems
more logical.
2001-01-20 04:16:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d128852358 In the Programmer's Guide, the sample code for accessing large objects
from libpq has two functions with memory leaks.

The functions pickout() and overwrite() malloc space for buf which is
never freed.

See
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/programmer/largeobjects3207.htm

This problem is also in the 6.5 docs at
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/6.5/programmer/x3184.htm

Nishad Prakash
2001-01-20 00:05:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
1073123baa Update docs to explain that 7.1 locks down LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE at
initdb time.  A few copy-editing cleanups, too.
2001-01-19 04:47:50 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
6439de1752 Fix incorrect placeholder name in example. 2001-01-18 07:18:39 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
7705581e49 Replace contraction with long form. Cosmetic only. 2001-01-18 07:11:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
392793b1ac Functions -> Function's 2001-01-17 22:13:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9a342d2035 There are misprints in postgres doc., in :
Chapter 10. PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language (c40914117.htm)

Statements
...
(resulting in a PL/pgSQL internal SELECT).
But there are cases where someone isn't interested int
-----------------------------------------(have to be)-->
But there are cases where someone isn't interested in
     the functions result.

 RAISE level format''
--(have to be)-->
 RAISE level 'format'
2001-01-17 16:34:34 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1ced7f3b30 Adjust file names. 2001-01-15 21:17:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
027f144e39 Terminology cleanup: class -> table, instance -> row, attribute -> column,
etc.
2001-01-13 23:58:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
526427f6d3 Add information about bit types. Adjust some other things to promote
SQL type names over internal type names.
2001-01-13 18:34:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2a6c08228f New shell for the to be written CHECKPOINT documentation, so the summary
shows up in psql now.
2001-01-13 03:11:12 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a32542a1c0 Update information about compiling extension modules. 2001-01-12 22:15:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
359459a44d Bring CREATE TABLE syntax synopsis into line with reality; update a
bunch of old or poorly-worded documentation.
2001-01-12 05:06:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f906597e50 Apply proper sql.sgml change. 2001-01-09 16:05:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
777137b7a9 Attached is a doc patch for doc/src/sgml/sql.sgml.
It adds information about SQL JOIN that is implemented in 7.1.

--
-------- Robert B. Easter
2001-01-09 15:48:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5d42c0f3ac A patch for doc/src/sgml/plsql.sgml to add a little more info about PL/pgSQL
EXECUTE.

--
-------- Robert B. Easter
2001-01-09 15:26:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
df389d161d Approaching the current documentation from a position of ignorance, I
find it ambiguous.  I propose something along the lines of the
following patch to clarify it.  Thanks.

(Alternatively, perhaps the code could maintain a count of nested
calls to SPI_connect/SPI_finish.  But I didn't try to write that
patch.)

Ian Lance Taylor
2001-01-09 14:23:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
10fb290aca Document the system attributes ctid and tableoid, which for some reason
were never yet mentioned anywhere in our documentation.  Improve
explanations of the other system attributes, too.
2001-01-08 22:07:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
6334ef86a7 Document that we don't support ORDER BY with general expressions on
the output of UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
2001-01-08 21:30:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
005ad6cdd6 Add rudimentary section about controlling kernel's file and process limits. 2001-01-08 21:01:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8c3d7715bc Simplify rules to build man pages so they run a lot faster and create less
noise.
2001-01-06 16:54:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bc0afb715d EXECUTE documentation, from "Robert B. Easter" <reaster@comptechnews.com>.
I threw in spell check run over the whole file.
2001-01-06 12:26:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3942ee389c Update section on SQL syntax. (Still a lot to be done though.) Add
appendix with comprehensive list of key words.
2001-01-06 11:58:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
96bd67f61d Bring CREATE RULE reference page into some semblance of agreement with
what's actually implemented.
2001-01-06 04:14:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
2fb6cc9045 Remove not-really-standard implementation of CREATE TABLE's UNDER clause,
and revert documentation to describe the existing INHERITS clause
instead, per recent discussion in pghackers.  Also fix implementation
of SQL_inheritance SET variable: it is not cool to look at this var
during the initial parsing phase, only during parse_analyze().  See
recent bug report concerning misinterpretation of date constants just
after a SET TIMEZONE command.  gram.y really has to be an invariant
transformation of the query string to a raw parsetree; anything that
can vary with time must be done during parse analysis.
2001-01-05 06:34:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
676cf18c5b New file format for COPY BINARY, in accordance with pghackers discussions
of early December 2000.  COPY BINARY is now TOAST-safe.
2001-01-03 20:04:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
3bdadd0426 Document tuple ordering differences as a possible cause of
regression test 'failures'.
2001-01-02 05:56:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
eedfac64dd Correct UNDER syntax. 2000-12-30 19:11:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
59e2bf3c69 Correct UNDER syntax. 2000-12-30 19:00:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8188a9bebf Refinements 2000-12-30 17:11:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2783bd50da Add mention of sysctl(8) for IPC tuning on Linux. 2000-12-30 15:03:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
0a8da82576 Correct erroneous documentation of PQsetnonblocking(). 2000-12-28 00:16:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f4e995e17f Add id attribute to sect1 tag. 2000-12-26 20:12:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
fa1640aea0 Fix some cross reference links. 2000-12-26 00:10:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
dccfd74935 Refine some things to create better looking man pages. 2000-12-25 23:15:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
37c55f9849 Some of the stuff documented here hasn't existed since Postgres95. 2000-12-23 16:24:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
de3379503a Remove unused file (the information is already contained elsewhere). 2000-12-23 11:10:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7558da669f Make use of <email> tag for marking up email addresses. 2000-12-22 21:51:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
387d43113c Avoid using the terms 'installation', 'site', or 'instance' when referring
to the thing you get from running initdb.  That's called a database cluster
(per SQL).
2000-12-22 19:31:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1b555ce791 Replace incorrect uses of 'which' with 'that'. (so-called "wicked which") 2000-12-22 18:57:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
f4eef66741 Fix broken markup. 2000-12-22 18:06:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
61784c54b5 Change default output formatting for CIDR to be unabbreviated, per
recommendation from Paul Vixie.  Add a new abbrev() function to produce
abbreviated format as text.  No forced initdb, but new function is not
available unless you do an initdb or add the pg_proc row manually.
2000-12-22 18:00:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b2145e9365 Get rid of the little "v"s in front of version numbers, substituting the
full word "version" where appropriate.
2000-12-21 22:55:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8f89113d4b Updates 2000-12-21 22:30:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2905a2c54b >openssl req -new -text -out cert.req (you will have to enter a password)
>mv privkey.pem cert.pem.pw
  >openssl rsa -in cert.pem.pw -out cert.pem  (this removes the password)
  >openssl req -x509 -in cert.req -text -key cert.pem -out cert.cert

then

  cp cert.pem $PGDATA/server.key
  cp cert.cert $PGDATA/server.crt

Thank you; this works.

Oliver Elphick
2000-12-21 19:08:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1db9cce39f responce->response
Alfred Perlstein
2000-12-21 18:47:05 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
e4d97cb70e Update info for BeOS and MacOS-X-darwin as supported platforms. 2000-12-20 17:23:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1d46fb8035 Fix typo. 2000-12-20 15:44:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c6fc6cfa08 On Sunday 17 December 2000 15:07, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We need additions to alter_table.sgml for the new OWNER option mention
> in the features list.

Here it is.

--
Mark Hollomon
2000-12-20 03:19:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
827414276c Add mention of Alpha 2000-12-20 03:02:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e19f386116 Holloman -> Hollomon. Sorry. 2000-12-20 02:15:20 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
89996974a7 Add description about automatic encoding conversion
between Unicode and other encodings.
2000-12-20 00:44:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
28e9e9a24e Rename --accounts-only to --globals-only, polish documentation. 2000-12-19 22:12:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f824d4a363 Polish PL/Perl documentation. The README file got shrunk to being a
pointer into the real documentation.
2000-12-19 18:16:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f9698a938f Correct results of usage examples. 2000-12-19 17:35:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
e34d442dbb Mention fallback case for type coercion in description
of function resolution procedure.
2000-12-19 00:54:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
e4eb91048c Document the array_dims() function, and make some other small improvements
in the docs for arrays.
2000-12-18 23:39:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cf35a70495 Large objects in single "table". 2000-12-18 04:32:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
708c1114ea Updates from Tom Lane. 2000-12-18 04:20:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8c8ed4f456 Add missing tags. 2000-12-17 17:50:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
ec6a367e90 Bump version to 7.1. (No "beta1", since we're just going to forget to
change it again anyway.)
2000-12-17 11:25:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a4e29286b3 Update SysV IPC information. 2000-12-17 11:22:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
7b9fe96812 Update type-coercion discussions to reflect current reality. 2000-12-17 05:55:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
c501e9aabe Misc. cleanups. 2000-12-17 05:50:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
96ff0cb0c4 Outer join updates, miscellaneous polishing. 2000-12-17 05:47:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c2629efaa Update some obsolete info about GEQO. 2000-12-16 22:44:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a238cb5a8a Add 7.1 features list 2000-12-16 20:12:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
6a0f486a25 A little wordsmithing in the pattern-matching section. 2000-12-16 19:33:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
d316f22267 Add note that COALESCE and NULLIF are shorthand forms of CASE. 2000-12-16 18:33:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf00d59335 Clean up some bogosities in description of target lists. 2000-12-16 18:22:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
ad4fd77a5f Restructure performance tips into a single chapter ('populating a
database' was way too small to make a chapter).  Add a section about
using JOIN syntax to direct the planner.
2000-12-16 02:29:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23bd779176 Change ET_WARN to ET_NOTICE to match internal codes, leave message as
WARNING.  Fix German FAQ mention about warning.
2000-12-15 20:01:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c3641483c3 Merge functions and operators chapters. Lots of updates. 2000-12-14 22:30:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
36da236eb3 In 'Joins between classes' in Section 5 of the tutorial we have, in
the first paragraph:

    As an example, say we wish to find all the records that
    are in the  temperature  range  of  other records. In
    effect, we need to compare the temp_lo and temp_hi
    attributes of each EMP instance to the temp_lo and
    temp_hi  attributes of all other EMP instances.

I believe that EMP should read WEATHER, as the example query that
follows joins WEATHER to itself.

EMP is often used in Oracle examples.

Regards,
Graham

Other RULE cleanups
2000-12-12 16:47:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
1045304a3b Revise SELECT reference page for outer joins, subselect in FROM,
ISO-compliant UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.  Revise discussion of rule
rewriter to reflect new subselect-in-FROM implementation of views.
Miscellaneous other cleanups.
2000-12-12 05:07:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0cbfde72fe Change to Negator. 2000-12-11 18:26:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e19c8acce1 Backout right-hand/left-hand. 2000-12-10 22:37:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d5470aba5c in catalog.sgml
line 1324:
"left-hand" should be "right-hand"

BTW: new document looks very good!
And the new configure/build process seems much better then before!

Thanks!

Laser
2000-12-10 22:35:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8651dc10a5 Add mention of \d+ to comment. 2000-12-10 21:56:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7c1959cbd9 Fix typo 2000-12-10 20:47:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10f400ccee Fixes for examples from Thomas Diffenbach 2000-12-09 22:59:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ed7237110 Update FAQ_DEV. 2000-12-09 04:57:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5dd9fc724e Update FAQ_DEV. 2000-12-09 04:29:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5eced96f2c Update FAQ. 2000-12-09 04:29:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
57c499a463 Fix Westwood/Westward, from Wessel van Norel. 2000-12-08 20:11:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
b44e46cfce Remove error check that disallowed setval() on a sequence with cache
value greater than one.  The behavior this sought to disallow doesn't
seem any less confusing than the other behaviors of cached sequences.
Improve wording of some error messages, too.
Update documentation accordingly.  Also add an explanation that
aborted transactions do not roll back their nextval() calls; this
seems to be a FAQ, so it ought to be mentioned here...
2000-12-08 20:06:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
288afd95a3 typo correction 2000-12-07 22:37:08 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
1131261270 Clarify the allowed length of the text data type. 2000-12-03 14:47:18 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
48781d44e4 Support IBM S/390. Patches from Neale Ferguson@softwareAG-usa.com. 2000-12-03 14:41:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
13dbd0276a Final(?) GUC clean-up. Update psql tab completion. 2000-12-03 14:36:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
b7c3784417 Repair residual sillinesses from UUNET virtual host/socket path patch.
I hope all the dust has settled out now ...
2000-11-30 23:20:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
796754778d Correct obsolete entry for strpos(). 2000-11-30 23:02:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6f09df7f40 Minor tweaks in installation instructions, regenerate INSTALL file. 2000-11-30 21:44:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
b73ecebf05 Remove obsolete claim that char(n) is more efficient than other text types. 2000-11-30 18:46:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
59a9735fc8 Sort out things after fe-connect.c cleanup after unix socket patch. 2000-11-30 18:34:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1efd7330cb Rewrite system catalog documentation man page in DocBook with more recent
information.
2000-11-29 20:15:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
c715fdea26 Significant cleanups in SysV IPC handling (shared mem and semaphores).
IPC key assignment will now work correctly even when multiple postmasters
are using same logical port number (which is possible given -k switch).
There is only one shared-mem segment per postmaster now, not 3.
Rip out broken code for non-TAS case in bufmgr and xlog, substitute a
complete S_LOCK emulation using semaphores in spin.c.  TAS and non-TAS
logic is now exactly the same.
When deadlock is detected, "Deadlock detected" is now the elog(ERROR)
message, rather than a NOTICE that comes out before an unhelpful ERROR.
2000-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5173fc411f Remove PQunixsocket, per Peter's recommendation. PQhost shows the socket directory. 2000-11-28 06:53:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
bbea3643a3 Store current LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE settings in pg_control during initdb;
re-adopt these settings at every postmaster or standalone-backend startup.
This should fix problems with indexes becoming corrupt due to failure to
provide consistent locale environment for postmaster at all times.  Also,
refuse to start up a non-locale-enabled compilation in a database originally
initdb'd with a non-C locale.  Suppress LIKE index optimization if locale
is not "C" or "POSIX" (are there any other locales where it's safe?).
Issue NOTICE during initdb if selected locale disables LIKE optimization.
2000-11-25 20:33:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c25b4dbf03 Update pg_ctl ref page, help output, messages. Some repair to work better
with current postmaster.
2000-11-25 17:17:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f4710020d6 Repair markup 2000-11-25 13:20:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3f1998727d here is a patch for formatting.c (to_char/timestampt()), for 7.1
it fixing Y,YY,YYY,YYYY conversion, the docs and regress tests update
 are included too.

  During the patch testing I found small bug in miscadmin.h in
convertstr() declaration. Here it's fixed too.

 Thanks

        Karel
2000-11-25 05:00:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5b00ea9e50 Make SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS compliant with SQL 99. Remove redundant,
non-standard clauses.  Allow CHARACTERISTICS as unquoted identifier.
Merge related reference pages.
2000-11-24 20:16:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b2e76d570b Revive Reference Manual, remove reference pages from User's Guide.
Make version.sgml the central place for updating version numbers in the
documentation.  Document titles now contain the version number of the
release they belong to.

filelist.sgml is the central (and only) place to declare system entities
(i.e., sgml files).  No longer a need to declare them in each document
header.

There is no longer any need to maintain duplicate chapter lists in
postgres.sgml and user/admin/etc.sgml, everything is build from the same
sources.  Some parameter entities allow for different text to be included
when the integrated or a single doc set is generated, which eliminates the
problems that had caused this to fail in the past.
2000-11-24 17:44:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
98e195d23b Make socket option specify just the directory, not the full path. 2000-11-22 01:41:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
11391685d1 Tweak resultmap documentation, add to README too. 2000-11-22 00:58:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
90cfa9ac19 Allow for different result files when using GCC versus native compiler. 2000-11-21 23:40:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
c1257d4c5c Improve comments in pg_hba.conf.sample and the associated SGML
documentation.
2000-11-21 20:44:32 +00:00
Philip Warner
aec962d864 Update for new pg_dump with blobs etc 2000-11-21 15:39:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5350ff2523 Correct directory names.
Thanks to Martin A. Marques <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> for the tip.
2000-11-20 22:01:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
5bb2300b59 Revise handling of oldstyle/newstyle functions per recent discussions
in pghackers list.  Support for oldstyle internal functions is gone
(no longer needed, since conversion is complete) and pg_language entry
'internal' now implies newstyle call convention.  pg_language entry
'newC' is gone; both old and newstyle dynamically loaded C functions
are now called language 'C'.  A newstyle function must be identified
by an associated info routine.  See src/backend/utils/fmgr/README.
2000-11-20 20:36:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f6bc98679a Refinements 2000-11-18 19:05:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
a933ee38bb Change SearchSysCache coding conventions so that a reference count is
maintained for each cache entry.  A cache entry will not be freed until
the matching ReleaseSysCache call has been executed.  This eliminates
worries about cache entries getting dropped while still in use.  See
my posting to pg-hackers of even date for more info.
2000-11-16 22:30:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5a0152b3fd I think in datatype.sgml line 506 or so:
<entry>varchar(n)</entry>
        <entry>(4+x) bytes</entry>

should be
   <entry>varchar(n)</entry>
        <entry>(4+n) bytes</entry>

or
   <entry>varchar(x)</entry>
        <entry>(4+x) bytes</entry>

Regards

Laser Henry
2000-11-16 06:03:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d807129503 Repair markup 2000-11-15 19:43:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
76920de895 Rename parameter "hostname" to "virtual_host". Seemed very ambiguous... 2000-11-15 18:36:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0937bf9544 Small polishing of syslog facility and ident settings. Only allow setting
at postmaster start, rename syslog_progid to syslog_ident, since syslog
itself uses that term, fix doc markup.
2000-11-14 19:13:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
2cf48ca04b Extend CREATE DATABASE to allow selection of a template database to be
cloned, rather than always cloning template1.  Modify initdb to generate
two identical databases rather than one, template0 and template1.
Connections to template0 are disallowed, so that it will always remain
in its virgin as-initdb'd state.  pg_dumpall now dumps databases with
restore commands that say CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE = template0.
This allows proper behavior when there is user-added data in template1.
initdb forced!
2000-11-14 18:37:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8a9315ca92 Update and polish postmaster and postgres help output and man pages. 2000-11-14 18:11:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8f3b2b3a5c Add mention of new leading-slash handling of hostname to libpq docs. 2000-11-14 01:53:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab47254757 Add mention of hostname leading slash handling to all manual pages that use -h. 2000-11-13 23:57:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebd61ac03f Remove -k unix socketpath option from client side, allow hostname with
leading slash to behave as a unix socket path.
2000-11-13 23:37:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d63a762f79 Ok, You guys are probably tired of me, BUT, here is another one, that
adds the facility to set the program name used in syslog.
(this includes the other ones).

One gotcha, the parser doesn't like special characters in strings.
For example, i tried to use pg-test, and if failed the parse coming
from the postgresql.conf file.

I don't think it's a showstopper..

Larry Rosenman
2000-11-13 21:35:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2150c2edf1 UUNET is looking into offering PostgreSQL as a part of a managed web
hosting product, on both shared and dedicated machines.  We currently
offer Oracle and MySQL, and it would be a nice middle-ground.
However, as shipped, PostgreSQL lacks the following features we need
that MySQL has:

1. The ability to listen only on a particular IP address.  Each
   hosting customer has their own IP address, on which all of their
   servers (http, ftp, real media, etc.) run.
2. The ability to place the Unix-domain socket in a mode 700 directory.
   This allows us to automatically create an empty database, with an
   empty DBA password, for new or upgrading customers without having
   to interactively set a DBA password and communicate it to (or from)
   the customer.  This in turn cuts down our install and upgrade times.
3. The ability to connect to the Unix-domain socket from within a
   change-rooted environment.  We run CGI programs chrooted to the
   user's home directory, which is another reason why we need to be
   able to specify where the Unix-domain socket is, instead of /tmp.
4. The ability to, if run as root, open a pid file in /var/run as
   root, and then setuid to the desired user.  (mysqld -u can almost
   do this; I had to patch it, too).

The patch below fixes problem 1-3.  I plan to address #4, also, but
haven't done so yet.  These diffs are big enough that they should give
the PG development team something to think about in the meantime :-)
Also, I'm about to leave for 2 weeks' vacation, so I thought I'd get
out what I have, which works (for the problems it tackles), now.

With these changes, we can set up and run PostgreSQL with scripts the
same way we can with apache or proftpd or mysql.

In summary, this patch makes the following enhancements:

1. Adds an environment variable PGUNIXSOCKET, analogous to MYSQL_UNIX_PORT,
   and command line options -k --unix-socket to the relevant programs.
2. Adds a -h option to postmaster to set the hostname or IP address to
   listen on instead of the default INADDR_ANY.
3. Extends some library interfaces to support the above.
4. Fixes a few memory leaks in PQconnectdb().

The default behavior is unchanged from stock 7.0.2; if you don't use
any of these new features, they don't change the operation.

David J. MacKenzie
2000-11-13 15:18:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c48025e799 Add new 7.0.3 item to all places. 2000-11-12 14:26:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
609f9199af Repair markup 2000-11-11 23:27:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d55f878193 Markup enhancements, some factual corrections. 2000-11-11 23:01:45 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
ecc367b764 Mention new AT TIME ZONE feature. 2000-11-11 19:50:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a8555ad4f9 Eliminate word rot 2000-11-11 13:53:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
a210023008 Adjust INET/CIDR display conventions and reimplement some INET/CIDR
functions, per recent discussions on pghackers.  For now, I have called
the verbose-display formatting function text(), but will reconsider if
enough people object.
initdb forced.
2000-11-10 20:13:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e0e694640c Add update of HISTORY file for 7.0.3. 2000-11-10 19:41:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
83993240ac Fix typos. 2000-11-10 16:32:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
929a599369 Add '-c name=val' flag for setting run-time parameters. 2000-11-08 17:57:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7267fdd7a3 Add some configure checks for DocBook and related tools. With a somewhat
standard installation layout it should be possible to build the HTML
and print documentation without additional manual setup.
2000-11-05 21:04:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bee6cc6f9c Update for recent developments (C++, shlib), minor fixes 2000-11-05 20:52:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
66436e66e1 Update for createlang options in docs. 2000-11-04 21:09:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae2cf18f55 more procedural doc cleanup 2000-11-04 21:06:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4b71943bb2 Make PROCEDURAL optional in CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE. 2000-11-04 21:04:56 +00:00