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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
Bruce Momjian ab13353d31 Update:
< * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
735a736,737
>
>   This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
2005-10-07 14:04:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 02eb6ea9b7 Add:
<
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
>   several rows as a single index entry
2005-10-07 02:43:59 +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
Bruce Momjian 0f397b9edb Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2005-10-05 11:50:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ad308fc4e9 Update FAQ for version number. 2005-10-05 11:24:54 +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
Bruce Momjian 6a17577933 Remove, 8.1 completed items already removed:
< * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
2005-10-03 00:42:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2aa39a4cb1 Done:
< * Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences,
<   seqname.nextval?
> * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
2005-10-03 00:42:28 +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 c2f7536543 Update SQL conformance mention to 2003. 2005-09-28 11:45:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3f540711ef Update Russian FAQ.
Victor Vislobokov
2005-09-28 11:32:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6bc4e3617d Add attribution. 2005-09-27 23:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 455f48ddc5 Done:
< * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
<   pkgincludedir, and localedir
2005-09-27 18:04:34 +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
Bruce Momjian 451cd7d426 Add:
> 	o Improve signal handling,
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php
2005-09-27 15:18:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 240c8e7e43 Novice:
< * Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
> * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
2005-09-27 13:39:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 4056efcfc1 Create preliminary release notes for upcoming back-branch releases. 2005-09-26 21:44:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3ff1dc501e Done:
< * Allow protocol-level EXECUTE that is actually a fetch to appear
<   in the logs as a fetch rather than another execute
2005-09-26 15:52:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 88922598da Add:
> * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
> * Allow protocol-level EXECUTE that is actually a fetch to appear
>   in the logs as a fetch rather than another execute
2005-09-26 02:44:28 +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 86044a9d71 Add:
> * Simplify dropping roles that have objects in several databases
2005-09-23 21:55:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6db56cdf80 Add:
> 	o Allow PL/PgSQL to support WITH HOLD cursors
2005-09-23 20:41:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bf8e536215 Add:
>
> 	o Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df+
>
> 	  It probably requires psql to output newlines in the proper
> 	  column, which is already on the TODO list.
2005-09-23 20:32:49 +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 e6bae1c3d3 Add:
> * Add function to report the time of the most recent server reload
2005-09-23 03:06:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6e85717a77 Add:
> * Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir,
>   pkgincludedir, and localedir
>
2005-09-23 03:04:24 +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 c79671bdbb Add:
> * Allow CREATE INDEX to take an additional parameter for use with
>   special index types
>
2005-09-22 23:54:09 +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
Bruce Momjian c37ddf371d Add:
>
> 	  Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT queries in a COPY.
2005-09-22 21:50:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 62da04f8e3 Add:
>
> 	o Allow COPY to output from views
>
2005-09-22 16:01:59 +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 8d86982a11 Merge items:
<   This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.
>   This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.  This is
>   already used by GROUP BY.
946d946
< * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20 20:51:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a34ec0ab4a Fix typo:
< * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by
> * Allow WAL traffic to be streamed to another server for stand-by
2005-09-20 02:21:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7caaf8a022 Add:
> * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20 02:16:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 519d848eb5 Update profile file location. 2005-09-20 01:28:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 32f2cd3f35 Add:
> * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by
>   replication
2005-09-20 00:11:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 78b06948d0 Remove:
< * Research use of sched_yield() for spinlock acquisition failure
2005-09-19 22:32:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 658657177e Print proper cause of statement cancel, user interaction or timeout. 2005-09-19 17:21:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 591a29b398 update timestamp on file. 2005-09-19 15:01:28 +00:00
Tom Lane b98f9898d1 Fix typo in link label, per Evgeny Gridasov. 2005-09-18 04:02:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3743f07a53 Add:
>
1032a1034
> * Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
2005-09-17 12:12:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e8960fc34f Add:
> 	o Fix SELECT INTERVAL '1' MONTH
2005-09-16 19:39:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 892e525e24 Update numbering.
Michael Fuhr
2005-09-16 18:07:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d64084daa5 Add:
<
> * Update Bonjour to work with newer cross-platform SDK
2005-09-16 17:37:10 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon cd85918090 tag it all beta2 ... 2005-09-16 17:15:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0296606f78 Update wording:
<
390d388
<
453c451
< 	  removed or have its heap and index files truncated.  One
> 	  be removed or have its heap and index files truncated.  One
< * Use a phantom command counter for nested subtransactions to reduce
<   per-tuple overhead
2005-09-16 16:46:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3f558e3dae Add:
> 	o Add single-step debugging of PL/PgSQL functions
2005-09-16 11:24:02 +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
Bruce Momjian d1348895a7 Update URL for FAQ_MINGW. 2005-09-10 05:21:52 +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
Bruce Momjian b72fe49b9c Add idea:
<   cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory.
>   cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory.  Another idea is to
>   store both cmin and cmax only in local memory.
2005-09-03 00:41:30 +00:00