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8677 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Magnus Hagander 6fe8796341 Cleanup reference to config.pl so it makes sense not only in
SGML source but in the actual web/pdf viewer...
2008-07-29 15:23:44 +00:00
Magnus Hagander f7cd591698 Document which versions of ActivePerl and ActiveTcl are required
for building on MSVC, and that the free distribution is enough
(no need for the enterprise version).

Per gripe from Martin Zaun.
2008-07-29 15:17:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 509303a597 Abort if Tcl support was configured and no tcl shell was found.
This is required because the value is substituted into the pltcl_*mod
scripts.
2008-07-23 17:07:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 64d84adf03 Update link to Oleg and Teodor's GIN page.
(Extracted from fast-insert patch, since it ought to be back-patched)
2008-07-22 22:05:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 5618ece82b Code review for array_fill patch: fix inadequate check for array size overflow
and bogus documentation (dimension arrays are int[] not anyarray).  Also the
errhint() messages seem to be really errdetail(), since there is nothing
heuristic about them.  Some other trivial cosmetic improvements.
2008-07-21 04:47:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 673a30fbb2 Add a pg_dump option --lock-wait-timeout to allow failing the dump if unable
to acquire shared table locks within a specified amount of time.

David Gould
2008-07-20 18:43:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8d7af89016 Properly document archive/restore command examples on Windows.
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2008-07-18 17:33:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 69a785b8bf Implement SQL-spec RETURNS TABLE syntax for functions.
(Unlike the original submission, this patch treats TABLE output parameters
as being entirely equivalent to OUT parameters -- tgl)

Pavel Stehule
2008-07-18 03:32:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a8fb90cf2d Add URL for:
* Implement SQL:2003 window functions

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00232.php
2008-07-18 02:03:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ba38e363ac Add to TODO:
>
> * Reduce locking requirements for creating a trigger
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00635.php
>
2008-07-17 01:34:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9a3118d454 Add URL for:
* Implement SQL:2003 window functions
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00380.php
>
2008-07-16 21:03:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 6563e9e2e8 Add a "provariadic" column to pg_proc to eliminate the remarkably expensive
need to deconstruct proargmodes for each pg_proc entry inspected by
FuncnameGetCandidates().  Fixes function lookup performance regression
caused by yesterday's variadic-functions patch.

In passing, make pg_proc.probin be NULL, rather than a dummy value '-',
in cases where it is not actually used for the particular type of function.
This should buy back some of the space cost of the extra column.
2008-07-16 16:55:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9c8f74917d Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Add external tool to auto-tune some postgresql.conf parameters
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00000.php
>
2008-07-16 15:30:19 +00:00
Tom Lane d89737d31c Support "variadic" functions, which can accept a variable number of arguments
so long as all the trailing arguments are of the same (non-array) type.
The function receives them as a single array argument (which is why they
have to all be the same type).

It might be useful to extend this facility to aggregates, but this patch
doesn't do that.

This patch imposes a noticeable slowdown on function lookup --- a follow-on
patch will fix that by adding a redundant column to pg_proc.

Pavel Stehule
2008-07-16 01:30:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2c773296f8 Add array_fill() to create arrays initialized with a value.
Pavel Stehule
2008-07-16 00:48:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2fa42cc9ee Fix alignment of SGML array docs. 2008-07-15 18:24:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bd53eb4b05 Add Swedish_Sweden.1252 Windows locale example to docs. 2008-07-15 17:45:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d3c94b2d84 Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Reduce PITR WAL file size by removing full page writes and
> 	  by removing trailing bytes to improve compression
2008-07-15 15:03:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 13e835932b Add TODO:
>
> * Consider decreasing the I/O caused by updating tuple hint bits
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00847.php
>
2008-07-15 13:55:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian db13b7d61f Done:
> 	o -Have psql show current values for a sequence
2008-07-15 03:17:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da0a9f1d5a Clarify that locale names on Windows are more verbose.
Report from Martin Saschek
2008-07-15 01:35:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e39a3dfa86 Add to TODO:
> * Improve ability to modify views via ALTER TABLE
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00691.php
2008-07-14 22:57:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b1845753d2 Done:
< * Add temporal versions of generate_series()
> * -Add temporal versions of generate_series()
2008-07-14 20:54:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 85df9057e1 Add URL for:
* Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted
  identifiers

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00415.php
2008-07-14 17:54:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aab30f3abc Done, per Simon:
< 	o Fix server restart problem when the server was shutdown during
> 	o -Fix server restart problem when the server was shutdown during
2008-07-14 17:16:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f6d863258 Create a type-specific typanalyze routine for tsvector, which collects stats
on the most common individual lexemes in place of the mostly-useless default
behavior of counting duplicate tsvectors.  Future work: create selectivity
estimation functions that actually do something with these stats.

(Some other things we ought to look at doing: using the Lossy Counting
algorithm in compute_minimal_stats, and using the element-counting idea for
stats on regular arrays.)

Jan Urbanski
2008-07-14 00:51:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 45efb09a01 Fix a couple of stray misuses of "binary compatible". 2008-07-12 16:20:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 27cb66fdfe Multi-column GIN indexes. Teodor Sigaev 2008-07-11 21:06:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e3afbb3504 Allow binary-coercible types for cast function arguments and return types.
Document return type of cast functions.

Also change documentation to prefer the term "binary coercible" in its
present sense instead of the previous term "binary compatible".
2008-07-11 07:02:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 7a97abe818 Add unchangeable GUC "variables" segment_size, wal_block_size, and
wal_segment_size to make those configuration parameters available to clients,
in the same way that block_size was previously exposed.  Bernd Helmle, with
comments from Abhijit Menon-Sen and some further tweaking by me.
2008-07-10 22:08:17 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 76c3c59bd1 Added documentation for function xmlagg. 2008-07-07 16:11:35 +00:00
Tom Lane c63147d6f0 Add a function pg_get_keywords() to let clients find out the set of keywords
known to the SQL parser.  Dave Page
2008-07-03 20:58:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b11c1876ed Don't print the name of the database in psql \z. 2008-07-03 15:59:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 0a8f6b797a Fix psql's \d and allied commands to work with all server versions back to 7.4.
Guillaume Lelarge, with some additional fixes by me.
2008-07-03 03:37:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1e797d29c3 Documentation patch by Kevin L. McBride explaining GUC lock variables,
which are available if LOCK_DEBUG is defined.
2008-07-01 21:49:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 03c4e793e8 Add URL for:
* Add database and transaction-level triggers
2008-07-01 18:26:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 16812e339c Add to TODO:
> * Fix TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY so its affect on sequences is rolled
>   back on transaction abort
2008-07-01 18:09:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5ce521f648 Add psql TODO:
> 	o Add "auto" expanded mode that outputs in expanded format if
> 	  "wrapped" mode can't wrap the output to the screen width
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00417.php
>
2008-06-30 19:45:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c96d5df53e Add psql TODO item:
> 	o Add option to wrap column values at whitespace boundaries,
>           rather than chopping them at a fixed width.
> 	  Currently, "wrapped" format chops values into fixed
> 	  widths.  Perhaps the word wrapping could use the same
> 	  algorithm documented in the W3C specification.
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00404.php
> 	  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#auto-table-layout
2008-06-30 19:41:37 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 995fb74202 Turn PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE into a GUC variable, track_activity_query_size.
As the buffer could now be a lot larger than before, and copying it could
thus be a lot more expensive than before, use strcpy instead of memcpy to
copy the query string, as was already suggested in comments. Also, only copy
the PgBackendStatus struct and string if the slot is in use.

Patch by Thomas Lee, with some changes by me.
2008-06-30 10:58:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f95b5334a7 Mention actual function names in documentation of how to pass binary
values to libpq.
2008-06-27 02:44:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5d747ddd75 Add to TODO:
>
> * Fix system views like pg_stat_all_tables to use set-returning
>   functions, rather than views of per-column functions
2008-06-27 02:38:29 +00:00
Tom Lane 8530c82fc4 Clarify plpgsql documentation by not treating IF THEN ELSE IF ... as a
truly distinct version of IF.  Per suggestion from Marko Kreen.
2008-06-27 01:52:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 68057055f6 Use SGML table to show backslash string escapes, rather than have them
appear in a paragraph.

Andy Anderson
2008-06-26 22:24:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 476fad2d91 Add MERGE TODO URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01890.php
2008-06-26 19:18:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 46dd4db31e Add TODO about security:
* Improve server security options

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01875.php
  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00000.php
2008-06-26 03:58:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9c1d897b94 More FAQ URL updates from Curtis Gallant. 2008-06-26 03:54:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 54b9a968ed Update FAQ URLs as suggested by Curtis Gallant. 2008-06-26 03:02:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1fc2fbe51f Add to TODO:
>
> * Improve LDAP authentication configuration options
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01745.php
2008-06-26 02:53:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 124c22d5fd Remove use of postmaster.opts.default by pg_ctl. 2008-06-26 01:12:20 +00:00