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4263 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
88605109db Update MySQL mention. 2003-10-05 03:52:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa09ee6026 Document the always-true-but-previously-undocumented fact that PQfnumber()
will downcase the supplied field name unless it is double-quoted.  Also,
upgrade the routine's handling of double quotes to match the backend,
in particular support doubled double quotes within quoted identifiers.
Per pgsql-interfaces discussion a couple weeks ago.
2003-10-04 21:05:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec1fbbb546 Modify:
< * Consider using MVCC to cache count(*) queries with no WHERE clause
> * Use a fixed row count and a +/- count with MVCC visibility rules
>   to allow fast COUNT(*) queries with no WHERE clause(?)
2003-10-04 18:19:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ba1fab5fa Update INSTALL file for 7.4. 2003-10-04 03:14:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7ca44855fc Update MySQL mention. 2003-10-04 02:37:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f0eb3fd83 Update MySQL mention. 2003-10-04 01:39:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9951474c71 Change transaction status indicator in prompt from %T to %x. 2003-10-04 01:04:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
15c194c1d5 Add GUC parameter check_function_bodies to control whether validation
of function bodies is done at CREATE FUNCTION time.  This is normally
true but can be set false to avoid problems with forward references,
wrong schema search path, etc.  This is just the backend patch, still
need to adjust pg_dump to make use of it.
2003-10-03 19:26:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
251033186f Cause PQescapeString to stop processing at a null character, rather
than generating an invalid output string.  Per observation and patch
from Igor Shevchenko.  Further code cleanup and documentation by
Tom Lane.
2003-10-03 18:26:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
6099bc03f3 Adjust documentation examples to match recent error message rewordings.
A couple other minor fixes.
2003-09-30 03:22:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
444af9e0e8 Minor copy-editing. 2003-09-30 01:56:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
f038e08929 Use slightly less broken markup. 2003-09-30 01:26:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
e33f205a94 Adjust btree index build procedure so that the btree metapage looks
invalid (has the wrong magic number) until the build is entirely
complete.  This turns out to cost no additional writes in the normal
case, since we were rewriting the metapage at the end of the process
anyway.  In normal scenarios there's no real gain in security, because
a failed index build would roll back the transaction leaving an unused
index file, but for rebuilding shared system indexes this seems to add
some useful protection.
2003-09-29 23:40:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7bc0678e0b Remove, already done:
< 	o Fixed PL/Tcl's spi_prepare to accept full qualified type names in
< 	  the parameter type list
2003-09-29 21:41:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fb72fc8b80 Add:
> 	o Fixed PL/Tcl's spi_prepare to accept full qualified type names in
> 	  the parameter type list
2003-09-29 21:15:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f3db606592 > >
> >  a) Write documentation how the win32 console needs to be set up so that
> >     psql can handle 8-bit characters.
> >     Where should it be added? The Section "Installation on Windows" in the
> >     Administrator's Guide seems natural to me.
> >
> >  b) Add code to psql that prints a warning on startup of psql when the
> >     console codepage differs from the windows codepage, something like
> >
> >     Warning: Console codepage (850) differs from windows codepage (1252)
> >              8-bit characters will not work correctly. See PostgreSQL
> >              documentation "Installation on Windows" for details.
>
Attached are two patches:

 - installdoc.patch contains an additional paragraph on the win32 console
   codepage for the chapter "Installation on Windows"
   Due to a lack of SGML-tools, I have only edited the text and not tested
   the SGML code - please check it before merging into the CVS branch.

 - psqlcodepage.patch adds the warning about a problematic codepage to psql.


Christoph Dalitz
2003-09-29 18:21:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a17b53753e This patch makes a few incremental improvements to geqo.sgml and
arch-dev.sgml

Neil Conway
2003-09-29 18:18:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8d7e1e798 Change 7.3.4 release note format to match the rest of the 7.3.x
releases.

Rod Taylor
2003-09-29 18:15:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e7a9ba4872 Add:
> * Have SHOW ALL and pg_settings show descriptions for server-side variables(Joe)
2003-09-29 16:52:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3900f8368d Update docs on function call permissions in view, from Tom. 2003-09-28 01:19:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fae2adecf5 Small SGML cleanup from Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai 2003-09-27 14:06:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87cbcff9e6 Document that functions are checked independently of the view
permissions.
2003-09-27 00:10:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
90322456fe Add "tuning" section to install instructions. 2003-09-26 17:47:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
42013caf64 Update Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura 2003-09-25 02:27:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
a56a016ceb Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache is
now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache
indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method.  This
leaves only shared system indexes as special cases.  Remove the 'index
deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared-
index case.  Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone
mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX.  -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes)
now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates.
It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS.  Upshot: reindexing system catalogs
can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except
shared catalogs.
2003-09-24 18:54:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
6767cebc6f pg_dump/pg_restore now always use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, not \connect,
to control object ownership.  The use-set-session-authorization and
no-reconnect switches are obsolete (still accepted on the command line,
but they don't do anything).  This is a precursor to fixing handling
of CREATE SCHEMA, which will be a separate commit.
2003-09-23 22:48:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
45de72b683 Add:
> * Allow LISTEN/NOTIFY to store info in memory rather than tables
2003-09-23 21:00:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eed6ff45d4 Add:
* Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade
2003-09-23 20:45:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
aefc08e4eb Minor copy-editing for plpgsql chapter. 2003-09-23 19:58:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5d00f984d8 Make the SQL command synopses appear less random. 2003-09-22 00:16:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
f3ad615ce8 Fix a batch of speling misteaks identified by Peter's spell-checker tool. 2003-09-20 20:12:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
8421253e54 Document that TRUNCATE ignores user-defined ON DELETE triggers. 2003-09-19 21:06:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
a13b018530 Disallow foreign-key references from temp tables to permanent tables.
Per recent discussion, this does not work because other backends can't
reliably see tuples in a temp table and so cannot run the RI checks
correctly.  Seems better to disallow this case than go back to accessing
temp tables through shared buffers.  Also, disallow FK references to
ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS tables.  We already caught this problem for normal
TRUNCATE, but the path used by ON COMMIT didn't check.
2003-09-19 21:04:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
689015748f Put a tad more detail in the discussion of postmaster and postgres
signal handling.
2003-09-18 20:30:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
4d016a957d Okay, who left off the id= here? 2003-09-15 03:32:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
5f78d6cb77 LISTEN doesn't issue a warning for redundant listens anymore. Also,
add some 'See Also' links.
2003-09-15 03:21:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bcd8986e7d Rename --without-spinlocks to --disable-spinlocks, per Peter. 2003-09-13 17:01:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c346ca8648 When I sent in the sslmode patch I forgot to update the
comments/examples in pg_hba.conf. This patch remedies that, adds a brief
explanation of the connection types, and adds a missing period in the
docs.

Jon Jensen
2003-09-13 16:43:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8c365c8db Marginal hacks to make tables format more nicely. 2003-09-13 00:19:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
a75ee43ce9 Mop-up for error-message updates in documentation. 2003-09-12 23:04:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
6e59122490 Update obsolete examples of error messages; various other minor editing. 2003-09-12 22:17:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
06e3ec7a54 Implement compiler #error if spinlock code not found, add configure flag
to bypass the error, --without-spinlocks.
2003-09-12 16:10:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9182481bea Remove WIN32_CONSOLE support, at the request of the author. 2003-09-12 02:40:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
e90b841915 More cleanup of Diagnostics sections. 2003-09-12 00:12:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
fbb39c059e Small typo. 2003-09-11 23:15:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a5b6a7c9b This patch fixes a few missed GUC variables that were still upper case,
makes a few more small improvements to runtime.sgml, and makes some SGML
conventions more consistent.

Neil Conway
2003-09-11 21:42:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
188eda0df2 Consistenly lowercase GUC variable names, in docs and error messages. 2003-09-11 18:30:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8e27be4310 This patch makes a few minor improvements to the docs: make the
<varname> conventions more consistent, and improve the ANALYZE ref page.

Neil Conway
2003-09-11 17:31:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
64a7b58aa0 This patch makes a number of improvements to the runtime config
documentation.

Neil Conway
2003-09-11 17:27:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab19254618 Mention that pg_type_is_visible is used for domains as well.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2003-09-11 17:26:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d768cb267b seemed like a typo in one of the appendix tables
Robert Treat
2003-09-11 16:22:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b56a9646a Add:
> * Issue NOTICE if foreign key data type doesn't match primary key
2003-09-10 20:17:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e303be78e8 Add:
> * Have EXPLAIN ANALYZE highlight poor optimizer estimates
2003-09-10 20:14:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
73cfa77edd This patch fixes a trivial typo in the CREATE FUNCTION ref page.
Neil Conway
2003-09-10 20:13:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
22b305ad4a Add:
> * Have pg_dump -c clear the database using dependency information
2003-09-10 00:03:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3610f083c1 Improve wording of increasing page size. 2003-09-09 22:43:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
d4019b7cd3 Remove a bunch of content-free Diagnostics sections, as per previous
discussion.  (Still have some work to do editing the remainder.)
2003-09-09 18:28:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1815f6179d Update max tasble size to 32TB. 2003-09-09 18:25:44 +00:00
Michael Meskes
2fab616866 Fixed a few bugs that came up on pgsql-interfaces. 2003-09-09 10:54:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
fd65be4a78 Fix a couple minor typos. 2003-09-08 23:17:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6de93c0529 Update preface.
Use question marks rather than brackets to delimit optional elements in
Tcl synopses.

Fix stylesheet misfeature leading to excessively long cross-reference text
when linking to a different "part".

Remove <body> attributes -- CSS stylesheets should handle that.

Improve bibliography formatting.

Add fast-forward links for more convenient navigation.
2003-09-08 23:02:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e54965c0f8 Add:
o Allow ALTER TABLE to change constraint deferrability and actions
2003-09-08 22:48:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
4427969315 "statenebt" ? 2003-09-08 22:33:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
f176e37975 Document a bunch of formerly-undocumented date/time operators,
including the SQL-spec OVERLAPS construct.
2003-09-08 19:38:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a9a346793 Update URL. 2003-09-07 22:02:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b58bd87f55 Update URL to be momjian.postgresql.org. 2003-09-07 22:01:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
48beecda7c Remove geqo_random_seed parameter. Having geqo reset the global random()
sequence every time it's called is bogus --- it interferes with user
control over the seed, and actually decreases randomness overall
(because a seed based on time(NULL) is pretty predictable).  If you really
want a reproducible result from geqo, do 'set seed = 0' before planning
a query.
2003-09-07 15:26:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
3c9bb8886d Allow IPv4-format entries in pg_hba.conf to match IPv6 connections
that have IPv4-embedded-in-IPv6 addresses.  Per idea of Andreas Pflug.
2003-09-05 20:31:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23d07fa357 Done:
< * Allow psql to do table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_part and
> * -Allow psql to do table completion for SELECT * FROM schema_part and
2003-09-05 19:52:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cec1333bba Add WIN32 URL. 2003-09-05 16:43:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
ba7ee1db3b Add missing space. 2003-09-05 16:13:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b0ba70df83 Update information about Linux's overcommit memory behavior.
Andrew Dunstan
2003-09-05 02:54:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b49f9025a Add:
> * Maintain a map of recently-expired of pages so vacuum can reclaim
>   free space without a sequential scan
2003-09-05 02:51:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
248af40d6d Update as done:
> * -Improve concurrency of hash indexes (Tom)
2003-09-05 02:20:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ac3510a4c Add:
> 	o Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME
2003-09-05 01:10:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8af31863e9 Add:
<
> * Print table names with constraint names in error messages, or make constraint
>   names unique within a schema
2003-09-05 00:50:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adb13f231b Add:
> * Allow to_char to print localized month names (Karel)
2003-09-03 23:01:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
ee4ae6ceb2 Add note that a for loop where the lower bound is greater than the upper
bound is valid but does nothing.

suggested by Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
2003-09-03 22:17:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
29a20145fd Pass session_authorization to the client and make psql update its prompt
accordingly.
2003-09-03 22:05:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4e85f760e6 Done:
* -Have standalone backend read postgresql.conf (Tom)
2003-09-03 21:27:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1129eab9c7 Update German FAQ.
Ian Barwick
2003-09-03 20:28:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5f65345a57 Do not pass server_encoding to the client.
libpq, talking to an old server, should assume SQL_ASCII as the default
client encoding, because that is what the server will actually use (not
the server encoding).
2003-09-01 23:04:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f10a9033bf Clean up after pygresql removal: adjust/remove documentation and remove
unneeded configure work.
2003-09-01 23:01:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2fb6e84bae Add mention of OID wraparound. 2003-09-01 16:47:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c326d8f4f2 Add/edit index entries. 2003-08-31 17:32:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
cf8e916968 Set LC_ALL=C when running collateindex.pl to get predictable sort order. 2003-08-31 17:28:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ceacae7734 Fix unixware template --- had spaces around equals. 2003-08-30 03:19:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e2a4cfe63 Make documentation of pg_restore's -N, -o, -r switches bear some
slight resemblance to their actual behavior.
2003-08-28 20:44:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3722226070 Add "override" for make variable JADEFLAGS, since upper directory passes
this variable on the command line.
2003-08-27 22:58:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
535980aa40 Major cleanup of SPI chapter 2003-08-27 22:13:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
743f667f00 Update URL for 7.3 changes:
http://developer.postgresql.org/~momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3
2003-08-27 03:35:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
3e51c1553c Add the Brazilian time zone abbreviations BRT, BRST, FNT, FNST.
ACT and ACST were already present.  AMT and AMST conflict with the
existing entries for Armenia; no change there for the moment.
2003-08-25 23:30:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
048cb1ce6b Add:
> * Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
2003-08-25 04:10:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
55b5fc9a9a Add:
* Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
2003-08-24 22:57:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
693aad413b Change warnings for non-existing or pre-existing cursors to errors. 2003-08-24 21:02:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c3664c0c00 Add macros for error result fields to libpq. 2003-08-24 18:36:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
432fb5b886 Updates for array documentation, from Joe Conway. 2003-08-19 06:06:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
141490354e Done:
> * -Add btree index support for reltime, tinterval, regproc (Tom)
2003-08-18 02:52:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
c771838106 Somebody forgot to include any actual documentation for ADD_MISSING_FROM. 2003-08-17 22:19:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
4215947986 Update documentation to reflect the fact that ORDER BY, GROUP BY, etc
are now driven by the default btree opclass, rather than assuming that
particular operator names have the needed semantics.
2003-08-17 22:09:00 +00:00