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Author SHA1 Message Date
Magnus Hagander 0182d6f646 Allow LDAP authentication to operate in search+bind mode, meaning it
does a search for the user in the directory first, and then binds with
the DN found for this user.

This allows for LDAP logins in scenarios where the DN of the user cannot
be determined simply by prefix and suffix, such as the case where different
users are located in different containers.

The old way of authentication can be significantly faster, so it's kept
as an option.

Robert Fleming and Magnus Hagander
2009-12-12 21:35:21 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro f1325ce213 Add large object access control.
A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages
ownership and access privileges of large objects.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.
2009-12-11 03:34:57 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 324385d67f Add YAML to list of EXPLAIN formats. Greg Sabino Mullane, reviewed by Takahiro Itagaki. 2009-12-11 01:33:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut db7386187f PL/Python array support
Support arrays as parameters and return values of PL/Python functions.
2009-12-10 20:43:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a37b001b80 Add init[db] option to pg_ctl
pg_ctl gets a new mode that runs initdb.  Adjust the documentation a bit to
not assume that initdb is the only way to run database cluster initialization.
But don't replace initdb as the canonical way.

Author: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
2009-12-10 06:32:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 03d7b0647f Update release notes for releases 8.4.2, 8.3.9, 8.2.15, 8.1.19, 8.0.23,
7.4.27.
2009-12-10 00:31:14 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 2367d6893f Update size references in installation instructions to be a bit
more up-to-date with current versions.
2009-12-09 16:16:34 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 28519de02d Fix a couple of broken links to third-party sites. 2009-12-08 20:08:30 +00:00
Magnus Hagander ac1b614cc0 Replace broken link to custom local gettext package with one to the main
GNU site for gettext.
2009-12-08 19:22:43 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 8df283d25a Update CVS documentation to be more current and add documentation about
git mirror.

Remove information about cvsup and documentation that's more about cvs
than our use of cvs.

Backpatch to 8.4 so we get the git information up on the website as
soon as possible.
2009-12-07 19:19:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 0cb65564e5 Add exclusion constraints, which generalize the concept of uniqueness to
support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality.  Two rows
violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for
each of the columns in the constraint.

Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas
2009-12-07 05:22:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 636bac6e46 Information schema documentation
Add a sentence of documentation about the differences between the
*_privileges and the role_*_grants views.
2009-12-05 21:31:05 +00:00
Tom Lane dc588058a0 Clarify what's supposed to happen when a cursor FETCH is rolled back
by aborting a subtransaction.  Per discussion with Heikki.
2009-12-02 21:11:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8c1c2e38f6 thread-safety
Apply full patch to enable thread-safety by default, e.g. doc changes.
2009-12-02 14:07:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 59ed94ad0c Mark application_name as GUC_REPORT so that the value will be reported back
to the client by the server.  This might seem pretty pointless but apparently
it will help pgbouncer, and perhaps other connection poolers.  Anyway it's
practically free to do so for the normal use-case where appname is only set
in the startup packet --- we're just adding a few more bytes to the initial
ParameterStatus response packet.  Per comments from Marko Kreen.
2009-12-02 04:54:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ef51395e24 Revert due to Tom's concerns:
Add ProcessUtility_hook() to handle all DDL to
contrib/pg_stat_statements.
2009-12-01 02:31:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d85cb27293 ProcessUtility_hook:
Add ProcessUtility_hook() to handle all DDL to contrib/pg_stat_statements.

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-12-01 01:08:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 29fd97d982 hstore docs
Update hstore docs, mostly word-smithing.

David E. Wheeler
2009-11-30 17:56:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bb1e8bea02 In SRF example, move oldcontext variable definition into the FIRSTCALL
branch, which is how most actual code is actually structured.  Also fix
slight whitespace misalignment.
2009-11-30 15:49:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian be64b3edd1 Properly indent SGML. 2009-11-30 14:47:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 0c61cff57a Make pg_stat_activity.application_name visible to all users, rather than
being hidden when current_query is.  Relocate it to a column position
more consistent with that behavior.  Per discussion.
2009-11-29 18:14:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 42b2907d12 Add support for anonymous code blocks (DO blocks) to PL/Perl.
Joshua Tolley, reviewed by Brendan Jurd and Tim Bunce
2009-11-29 03:02:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 8217cfbd99 Add support for an application_name parameter, which is displayed in
pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries.

Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund
2009-11-28 23:38:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cb98f61538 fsync test tools
Add link to exteran fsync testing script and our fsync test tool.
2009-11-28 16:21:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fe83b975b2 Document ath vacuumdb --analyze does analyze _also_, not in place of
vacuum.
2009-11-27 17:41:26 +00:00
Tom Lane f0edaecd48 Fix missing end tag, per Jeff Davis. 2009-11-26 21:20:12 +00:00
Tom Lane da29cc8022 Simplify psql's new linestyle behavior to default to linestyle=ascii all
the time, rather than hoping we can tell whether the terminal supports
UTF8 characters.  Per discussion.
2009-11-25 20:26:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f6a79c5901 Fix syntax in extract() examples
Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2009-11-24 19:21:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6e3117c3c9 Add PG_MODULE_MAGIC and some missing include files to examples
Author: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>
2009-11-23 21:41:20 +00:00
Tom Lane c194ff20d2 Assorted wordsmithing on the documentation of \pset --- try to make it
a bit more consistent and less obviously written by different people at
different times.
2009-11-22 22:06:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 1753337cf5 Improve psql's tabular display of wrapped-around data by inserting markers
in the formerly-always-blank columns just to left and right of the data.
Different marking is used for a line break caused by a newline in the data
than for a straight wraparound.  A newline break is signaled by a "+" in the
right margin column in ASCII mode, or a carriage return arrow in UNICODE mode.
Wraparound is signaled by a dot in the right margin as well as the following
left margin in ASCII mode, or an ellipsis symbol in the same places in UNICODE
mode.  "\pset linestyle old-ascii" is added to make the previous behavior
available if anyone really wants it.

In passing, this commit also cleans up a few regression test files that
had unintended spacing differences from the current actual output.

Roger Leigh, reviewed by Gabrielle Roth and other members of PDXPUG.
2009-11-22 05:20:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 7fc0f06221 Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to be
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.

For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER
triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of
a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can
be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired.

Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2009-11-20 20:38:12 +00:00
Tom Lane c742b795dd Add a hook to CREATE/ALTER ROLE to allow an external module to check the
strength of database passwords, and create a sample implementation of
such a hook as a new contrib module "passwordcheck".

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Takahiro Itagaki
2009-11-18 21:57:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e66a51c2e Provide a parenthesized-options syntax for VACUUM, analogous to that recently
adopted for EXPLAIN.  This will allow additional options to be implemented
in future without having to make them fully-reserved keywords.  The old syntax
remains available for existing options, however.

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-11-16 21:32:07 +00:00
Tom Lane 6317609986 Add control knobs for plpgsql's variable resolution behavior, and make the
default be "throw error on conflict", as per discussions.  The GUC variable
is plpgsql.variable_conflict, with values "error", "use_variable",
"use_column".  The behavior can also be specified per-function by inserting
one of
	#variable_conflict error
	#variable_conflict use_variable
	#variable_conflict use_column
at the start of the function body.

The 8.5 release notes will need to mention using "use_variable" to retain
backward-compatible behavior, although we should encourage people to migrate
to the much less mistake-prone "error" setting.

Update the plpgsql documentation to match this and other recent changes.
2009-11-13 22:43:42 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera af054db6ef Document the previous FETCH and MOVE changes. 2009-11-11 20:07:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b538b72eeb DIAGNOSTICS/FOUND wording
Update wording of GET DIAGNOSTICS/FOUND, per David Fetter.
2009-11-10 14:22:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6ac697f180 PL/pgSQL FOUND
Document that GET DIAGNOSTICS is affected by EXECUTE, while FOUND is
not.
2009-11-10 02:09:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 593f4b854a Don't treat NEW and OLD as reserved words anymore. For the purposes of rules
it works just as well to have them be ordinary identifiers, and this gets rid
of a number of ugly special cases.  Plus we aren't interfering with non-rule
usage of these names.

catversion bump because the names change internally in stored rules.
2009-11-05 23:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane c29ae527e9 Remove plpgsql's RENAME declaration, which has bizarre and mostly nonfunctional
behavior, and is so little used that no one has been interested in fixing it.
To ensure that possible uses are covered, remove the ALIAS declaration's
arbitrary restriction that only $n identifiers can be aliased.

(We could alternatively make RENAME act just like ALIAS, but per discussion
having two different ways to do the same thing is probably more confusing than
helpful.)
2009-11-05 16:58:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 9bedd128d6 Add support for invoking parser callback hooks via SPI and in cached plans.
As proof of concept, modify plpgsql to use the hooks.  plpgsql is still
inserting $n symbols textually, but the "back end" of the parsing process now
goes through the ParamRef hook instead of using a fixed parameter-type array,
and then execution only fetches actually-referenced parameters, using a hook
added to ParamListInfo.

Although there's a lot left to be done in plpgsql, this already cures the
"if (TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.foo ...)"  problem, as illustrated by the
changed regression test.
2009-11-04 22:26:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 46e3a16b05 When FOR UPDATE/SHARE is used with LIMIT, put the LockRows plan node
underneath the Limit node, not atop it.  This fixes the old problem that such
a query might unexpectedly return fewer rows than the LIMIT says, due to
LockRows discarding updated rows.

There is a related problem that LockRows might destroy the sort ordering
produced by earlier steps; but fixing that by pushing LockRows below Sort
would create serious performance problems that are unjustified in many
real-world applications, as well as potential deadlock problems from locking
many more rows than expected.  Instead, keep the present semantics of applying
FOR UPDATE after ORDER BY within a single query level; but allow the user to
specify the other way by writing FOR UPDATE in a sub-select.  To make that
work, track whether FOR UPDATE appeared explicitly in sub-selects or got
pushed down from the parent, and don't flatten a sub-select that contained an
explicit FOR UPDATE.
2009-10-28 14:55:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 61e5328208 Make FOR UPDATE/SHARE in the primary query not propagate into WITH queries;
for example in
  WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE
the FOR UPDATE will now affect bar but not foo.  This is more useful and
consistent than the original 8.4 behavior, which tried to propagate FOR UPDATE
into the WITH query but always failed due to assorted implementation
restrictions.  Even though we are in process of removing those restrictions,
it seems correct on philosophical grounds to not let the outer query's
FOR UPDATE affect the WITH query.

In passing, fix isLockedRel which frequently got things wrong in
nested-subquery cases: "FOR UPDATE OF foo" applies to an alias foo in the
current query level, not subqueries.  This has been broken for a long time,
but it doesn't seem worth back-patching further than 8.4 because the actual
consequences are minimal.  At worst the parser would sometimes get
RowShareLock on a relation when it should be AccessShareLock or vice versa.
That would only make a difference if someone were using ExclusiveLock
concurrently, which no standard operation does, and anyway FOR UPDATE
doesn't result in visible changes so it's not clear that the someone would
notice any problem.  Between that and the fact that FOR UPDATE barely works
with subqueries at all in existing releases, I'm not excited about worrying
about it.
2009-10-27 17:11:18 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera b091b9769a Fix documentation on the toast.fillfactor reloption: it doesn't exist.
Per note from Zoltan Boszormenyi.
2009-10-27 13:58:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 76d8883c8e When querying a table with child tables, do not check permissions on the
child tables.  This was found to be useless and confusing in virtually all
cases, and also contrary to the SQL standard.
2009-10-23 05:24:52 +00:00
Tom Lane ab61df9e52 Remove regex_flavor GUC, so that regular expressions are always "advanced"
style by default.  Per discussion, there seems to be hardly anything that
really relies on being able to change the regex flavor, so the ability to
select it via embedded options ought to be enough for any stragglers.
Also, if we didn't remove the GUC, we'd really be morally obligated to
mark the regex functions non-immutable, which'd possibly create performance
issues.
2009-10-21 20:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 289e2905c8 Remove add_missing_from GUC and associated parser support for "implicit RTEs".
Per recent discussion, add_missing_from has been deprecated for long enough to
consider removing, and it's getting in the way of planned parser refactoring.
The system now always behaves as though add_missing_from were OFF.
2009-10-21 20:22:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e1c96527c7 Finalize 8.5alpha2 release notes, with updates from Josh Berkus 2009-10-21 19:43:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7bd93589c8 Preliminary release notes for 8.5alpha2 2009-10-20 19:52:58 +00:00
Tom Lane b2734a0d79 Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columns
are named in the UPDATE's SET list.

Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started
to use a column that was there all along.  catversion bumped anyway so that
this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes
to system catalog contents.

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-10-14 22:14:25 +00:00