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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
a2c3931a24 Fix pg_hba.conf matching so that replication connections only match records
with database = replication.  The previous coding would allow them to match
ordinary records too, but that seems like a recipe for security breaches.
Improve the messages associated with no-such-pg_hba.conf entry to report
replication connections as such, since that's now a critical aspect of
whether the connection matches.  Make some cursory improvements in the related
documentation, too.
2010-04-21 03:32:53 +00:00
Robert Haas
481cb5d9b5 Rename standby_keep_segments to wal_keep_segments.
Also, make the name of the GUC and the name of the backing variable match.
Alnong the way, clean up a couple of slight typographical errors in the
related docs.
2010-04-20 11:15:06 +00:00
Robert Haas
ee7769bb76 Update docs as to when WAL logging can be skipped.
In 8.4 and prior, WAL-logging could potentially be skipped whenever
archive_mode=off.  With streaming replication, this is now true only
if max_wal_senders=0.

Fujii Masao, with light copyediting by me
2010-04-20 00:26:06 +00:00
Robert Haas
5b89ef384c Add an 'enable_material' GUC.
The logic for determining whether to materialize has been significantly
overhauled for 9.0.  In case there should be any doubt about whether
materialization is a win in any particular case, this should provide a
convenient way of seeing what happens without it; but even with enable_material
turned off, we still materialize in cases where it is required for
correctness.

Thanks to Tom Lane for the review.
2010-04-19 00:55:26 +00:00
Robert Haas
7b130fbc50 Provide better guidance for adjusting shared_buffers. 2010-04-16 21:46:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b4fd1e246e Document that autovacuum cannot vacuum or analyze temporary tables. 2010-04-16 02:22:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b6c586a36c Improve punctuation 2010-04-15 20:56:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
edde4169b5 IP port -> TCP port
backpatched to 8.1, where this first appeared
2010-04-15 20:48:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
95eaea4c27 Fix typo, spotted by Erik Rijkers. 2010-04-15 16:25:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0993d2943e Doc change: anyways -> anyway; Erik Rijkers 2010-04-14 02:36:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea9c103237 Add "SSD" acronym mention for solid state drive mention. 2010-04-13 14:15:25 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
4f57c28da0 Fix typo.
Fujii Masao
2010-04-13 08:19:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
325e9cb3a0 Remove example of archive_command from configure section; instead have
users look at the referenced section for examples, per idea from Greg
Smith.
2010-04-12 22:09:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
202c655810 Spell out full archive directory specification in 'test -f' continuous
archiving example, per suggestion from Greg Smith.
2010-04-12 19:08:28 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
e76b4e0ddb Adjust paragraph about monitoring streaming replication, now that we have
standby_keep_segments.
2010-04-12 10:01:04 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
e57cd7f0a1 Change the logic to decide when to delete old WAL segments, so that it
doesn't take into account how far the WAL senders are. This way a hung
WAL sender doesn't prevent old WAL segments from being recycled/removed
in the primary, ultimately causing the disk to fill up. Instead add
standby_keep_segments setting to control how many old WAL segments are
kept in the primary. This also makes it more reliable to use streaming
replication without WAL archiving, assuming that you set
standby_keep_segments high enough.
2010-04-12 09:52:29 +00:00
Robert Haas
1c850fa807 Make smart shutdown work in combination with Hot Standby/Streaming Replication.
At present, killing the startup process does not release any locks it holds,
so we must wait to stop the startup and walreceiver processes until all
read-only backends have exited.  Without this patch, the startup and
walreceiver processes never exit, so the server gets permanently stuck in
a half-shutdown state.

Fujii Masao, with review, docs, and comment adjustments by me.
2010-04-08 01:39:37 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
0f11ed5886 Allow quotes to be escaped in recovery.conf, by doubling them. This patch
also makes the parsing a little bit stricter, rejecting garbage after the
parameter value and values with missing ending quotes, for example.
2010-04-07 10:58:49 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
370f770c15 Forbid using pg_xlogfile_name() and pg_xlogfile_name_offset() during
recovery. We might want to relax this in the future, but ThisTimeLineID
isn't currently correct in backends during recovery, so the filename
returned was wrong.
2010-04-07 06:12:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
08c1d4e560 Reword exclusion constriants to mention that the operator can return
false or null, per Tom.
2010-04-06 02:18:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
87d5c22925 Clean up description of 9.0's incompatible changes in SIMILAR TO and
SQL-style substring().
2010-04-05 02:46:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
60bd2b1941 Arrange to remove pg_default_acl entries completely if their ACL setting
is changed to match the hard-wired default.  This avoids accumulating useless
catalog entries, and also provides a path for dropping the owning role without
using DROP OWNED BY.  Per yesterday's complaint from Jaime Casanova, the
need to use DROP OWNED BY for that is less than obvious, so providing this
alternative method might save some user frustration.
2010-04-05 01:58:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
87ecae72ba Minor wording improvement. 2010-04-03 21:46:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a8af3d1a57 Clarify documentation of to_char EEEE pattern 2010-04-03 07:53:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6dcce3985b Remove unnecessary xref endterm attributes and title ids
The endterm attribute is mainly useful when the toolchain does not support
automatic link target text generation for a particular situation.  In  the
past, this was required by the man page tools for all reference page links,
but that is no longer the case, and it now actually gets in the way of
proper automatic link text generation.  The only remaining use cases are
currently xrefs to refsects.
2010-04-03 07:23:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7969145483 Allow for more room in the man page title, so that
"CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION" is not truncated.
2010-04-03 07:16:05 +00:00
Simon Riggs
3e754a89ea Clarify some behaviours of REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED BY. 2010-04-02 17:29:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a5c317cf78 Fix the build and install rules for man pages with SQL section != 7
The previous coding failed in various scenarios possibly including vpath
builds and doing make install without preceding make all.
2010-04-02 14:02:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
399ea9e7a5 Change test -e to test -f in docs, for portability. 2010-04-01 13:52:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0189c42f31 Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.
Takahiro Itagaki
2010-04-01 01:18:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
38672aaaa1 Add full names for release note item authors. 2010-04-01 00:32:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
570e01becc Use test -e rather than test -f. 2010-04-01 00:31:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ae5160bf3 Improve 9.0 release notes by removing extra parentheses and linking to a
more appropriate place for exclusion constraints.
2010-04-01 00:18:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d93e4d819c Revert change that prevented ellipses from looking like ../. 2010-03-31 23:51:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2af244021 Clarify ellipses use in archive_command example, per Josh Kupershmidt. 2010-03-31 23:39:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cba3498596 Document why 'cp -i </dev/null' is suggested for archive command. 2010-03-31 23:35:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
f185fc3c5e Fix typos, spotted by Thom Brown. 2010-03-31 20:41:50 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
ec9ee9381f Enhance standby documentation.
Original patch by Fujii Masao, with heavy editing and bitrot-fixing
after my other commit.
2010-03-31 20:35:09 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
259f60e9b6 Mention in the docs that if special keywords like "sameuser" and
"replication" are quoted in pg_hba.conf, they lose their special meaning.
2010-03-31 20:18:10 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
991bfe11d2 Enhance documentation of the build-in standby mode, explaining the retry
loop in standby mode, trying to restore from archive, pg_xlog and
streaming.

Move sections around to make the high availability chapter more
coherent: the most prominent part is now a "Log-Shipping Standby Servers"
section that describes what a standby server is (like the old
"Warm Standby Servers for High Availability" section), and how to
set up a warm standby server, including streaming replication, using the
built-in standby mode. The pg_standby method is desribed in another
section called "Alternative method for log shipping", with the added
caveat that it doesn't work with streaming replication.
2010-03-31 19:13:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
29ccc32c30 Separate targets "make docs" and "make install-docs" for the documentation
It is no longer installed by default, but included in "make world"/"make
install-world".  Documentation updated accordingly.

Also, fix vpathsearch function to work when calling make install-docs
without previous make docs.
2010-03-30 00:10:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3f76f9613d Add note that XML Schema validation is not supported
requested by Andrew Lardinois
2010-03-29 22:01:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1e24678349 Add some information about what it means for PL/Python to be untrusted.
Similar information already appears in the PL/Perl and PL/Tcl chapters.
2010-03-29 21:35:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
51d2c9b0bb Add some documentation about PL/Python limitations
suggested by Steve White (bug #5272)
2010-03-29 21:20:58 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
be8cebc717 Prevent ALTER USER f RESET ALL from removing the settings that were put there
by a superuser -- "ALTER USER f RESET setting" already disallows removing such a
setting.

Apply the same treatment to ALTER DATABASE d RESET ALL when run by a database
owner that's not superuser.
2010-03-25 14:44:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f9d2316d5 Typo fix from IRC breinbaas 2010-03-23 22:37:14 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
7e2411429c Remove CRs for each line in pgbench.sgml. 2010-03-23 04:09:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a9ae3c0a56 Add back other xlog() function author names. 2010-03-23 02:28:48 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
a887c486d5 Each worker thread will have its own log file in pgbench to avoid interleaved
writes. The first worker still uses "pgbench_log.<pid>" for the name, but
additional workers use "pgbench_log.<pid>.<serial-number>" instead.

Reported by Greg Smith.
2010-03-23 01:29:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1d34814ac2 Properly credit Simon for functions pg_last_xlog_replay_location, etc. 2010-03-22 22:56:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
260d843d70 Re-order createuser and vacuumedb documentation options, for
consistency.

Gabrielle (Roth)
2010-03-22 14:56:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0885dd1517 Remove 9.0 release notes xref's to HISTORY.html can be built.
Document this restriction.
2010-03-21 22:12:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6ad4249b5c Add more 9.0 release note documentation links. 2010-03-21 02:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4748faa50a Add links to documentation sections in 9.0 release notes.
Also update tagging instructions, and add id tags to a few documentation
sections.
2010-03-21 00:43:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a12e98c46 In 9.0 release notes, move libpq/ecpg up into their own sections, like I
did with server-side languages.
2010-03-20 16:31:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e6c5f1e74 Move server-side languages up one section in the 9.0 release notes. 2010-03-20 14:03:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
128b1c5022 Create 9.0 release notes; keep 9.0-alpha release notes in place. 2010-03-20 03:30:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4430907d95 Update sgml release note markup suggestions. 2010-03-20 03:12:52 +00:00
Simon Riggs
f42ddc4772 Clarify docs about database parameter in streaming replication primary_conninfo.
Docs were unclear on whether or not database=replication was required,
nor did they mention the FATAL error this causes if database parameter is
mentioned explicitly, whatever its value.
2010-03-19 19:31:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a401226bd8 Prevent the injection of invalidly encoded strings by PL/Python into PostgreSQL
with a few strategically placed pg_verifymbstr calls.
2010-03-18 19:43:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
5f6285616d Fix missing parentheses for current_query(), per bug #5378.
Also make a couple other minor editorial improvements.
2010-03-18 15:29:44 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
c21ac0b58e Add restartpoint_command option to recovery.conf. Fix bug in %r handling
in recovery_end_command, it always came out as 0 because InRedo was
cleared before recovery_end_command was executed. Also, always take
ControlFileLock when reading checkpoint location for %r.

The recovery_end_command bug and the missing locking was present in 8.4
as well, that part of this patch will be backported separately.
2010-03-18 09:17:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b2640888d9 Make typography consistent 2010-03-17 20:53:19 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
ad8f6fec3b Typo fixes.
Fujii Masao
2010-03-17 18:03:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a95e51962d Update broken and permanently moved links 2010-03-17 17:12:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
f248e11f70 Fix incorrect example in CREATE INDEX reference page, per Josh Kupershmidt.
Also fix and uncomment an old example of creating a GIST index, and make
a couple of other minor editorial adjustments.
2010-03-17 15:55:50 +00:00
Simon Riggs
0131088f18 Fix typo in streaming replication protocol docs. 2010-03-17 00:28:15 +00:00
Simon Riggs
ce701c1e73 Fix typo in math function docs, spotted by Heikki. 2010-03-16 16:03:24 +00:00
Simon Riggs
bd11a0f67f Document that trig functions accept/return values in radians. 2010-03-15 19:03:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
66cac8feab Add some more structure and bits of information to PL/Python documentation 2010-03-13 20:55:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a6c1cea2b7 Add libpq warning message if the .pgpass-retrieved password fails.
Add ERRCODE_INVALID_PASSWORD sqlstate error code.
2010-03-13 14:55:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8b2ae44dc8 Update shared memory configuration information for Linux
In particular, the assertion that shmall is sufficiently sized by default
is slowly becoming untrue.
2010-03-13 11:00:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5473df9eb7 Document what user name email symbols are supported by tsearch. 2010-03-13 03:09:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c24b2ef217 Re-add comma, oops. 2010-03-12 23:21:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb08f6b688 Remove unnecessary comma in documentation. 2010-03-12 17:46:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
8c9a120f6b Preliminary release notes for releases 8.4.3, 8.3.10, 8.2.16, 8.1.20, 8.0.24,
7.4.28.
2010-03-10 01:58:11 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
aa8eed3172 Add missing space in example.
Tim Landscheidt
2010-03-08 12:38:37 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
43d07d63b1 Revert patch for --psqlrc=FILENAME in psql. 2010-03-07 17:02:34 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
66c2cc2ba9 Add --psqlrc=FILENAME parameter to psql, to process an explicitly named
file instead of ~/.psqlrc on startup.
2010-03-06 15:28:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea066f87c3 Document that "Q" is ignored by to_date and to_timestamp. Add C comment
about the behavior.

Document that quotes in to_date, to_timestamp, to_number skip input
characters.
2010-03-03 22:28:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8b420770b3 Fix SGML markup. 2010-03-03 03:23:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d859b17f0f Restructure CREATE FUNCTION "NOTES" section to be shorter; move items
into proper sections, per suggestion from Tom.
2010-03-03 03:14:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7c55be792b Adjust max_standby_delay documentation to be clearer, and mention that
two adjacent long-running queries have much less than max_standby_delay
before query cancel is possible.
2010-03-02 23:38:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b098dbec0d Document the effect of max_standby_delay on increasing the delay of data
from master to slave, and discourage its use during slave/master
keep-xid-alive connections.
2010-03-02 21:18:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9393bc62c5 Update keywords list for 9.0 2010-03-02 20:40:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bd7246f65e Update complex locale example in the documentation. 2010-02-28 02:20:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0ff1c3e547 *** empty log message *** 2010-02-28 02:19:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9295eea839 Document ATAPI FLUSH CACHE EXT. 2010-02-27 20:16:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c685b942e5 Document trace_recovery_messages() parameter as an enum, not string.
Fujii Masao
2010-02-27 14:46:05 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
7ab9305cc9 Document max_standby_delay=-1 option, now that it's allowed again. 2010-02-27 09:29:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
4ec700a8ec Entity-ify a few new uses of literal <, >, and &. 2010-02-27 04:29:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7c93458a9 Use <> for libpq #include in example programs, per suggestion from Josh Berkus. 2010-02-27 03:41:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adfb444581 Document ATAPI drive flush command, and mention SSD drives. 2010-02-27 01:39:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca8e3a51a0 Document pg_restore --jobs as a performance enhancement. 2010-02-26 02:31:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87f609c4fe Remove 'emphasis' markup inside literal; not allowed. 2010-02-26 01:11:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d98039d896 Document that after triggers that need to see changed rows should not be
marked stable.
2010-02-25 22:24:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1951c97805 Document clearly the meaning of none/all for log_statements. 2010-02-25 19:20:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bfd0cd5568 Clearly document that timestamp alone means timestamp without timezone,
per SQL standard, and mention 7.3 behavior at the end.
2010-02-25 18:16:53 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
413d34be4e Add configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to control
how often we do SSL session key renegotiation. Can be set to
0 to disable renegotiation completely, which is required if
a broken SSL library is used (broken patches to CVE-2009-3555
a known cause) or when using a client library that can't do
renegotiation.
2010-02-25 13:26:16 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
0ccc5153f8 Fix typos, per Richard Huxton 2010-02-25 10:02:30 +00:00