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Bruce Momjian
cc9698254c Data Partitioning documentation section reduced and moved to the end. 2006-11-17 13:29:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
42cfdfb453 Fix a typo. 2006-11-17 09:00:03 +00:00
Michael Meskes
4b8049b815 Fixed small typo, missing 'l' in 'Cluserting' 2006-11-17 08:46:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
be4dbd9b26 Remove a bunch of antique information from the appendix in the docs
that discusses CVS. Remove the recommendation to use cvs 1.10. Remove
discussion of alleged CVSup binaries on postgresql.org, because they
have not existed for several years. Remove discussion of how to
build cvsup from source because the existing text is outdated, and
more accurate information is available from the CVSup homepage.
2006-11-17 05:29:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
58a7efa03b Use more standard terms for replication, ideas from Markus Schiltknecht. 2006-11-17 04:52:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8a6193333c Mention two-phase commit for having all transactions commit on all servers. 2006-11-16 21:45:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a1e5b5c832 Reconfigure failover/replication doc items to be varlist entries, rather
than new sections, so they appear all on the same web page.
2006-11-16 21:43:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c7a6046a59 Clarify replication items, and define some terms. 2006-11-16 18:25:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b7cef5fb3 Improve broadcast wording for failover/clustering documentation. 2006-11-15 01:09:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9497454ca6 Add URL for case identifiers.
<
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php
2006-11-14 22:26:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0fc2947729 Fix xrefs for failover changes. 2006-11-14 22:25:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca21417a34 Update failover docs, per suggestions from Chris Browne. 2006-11-14 21:43:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
77f24a46b7 Fix URL for patch hold queue. 2006-11-14 04:18:55 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
751e3e6bd8 Force plperl and plperlu to run in separate interpreters. Create an error
on an attempt to create the second interpreter if this is not supported by
the perl installation. Per recent -hackers discussion.
2006-11-13 17:13:57 +00:00
Neil Conway
f49baa73ef Do a round of copy-editing for the system catalog chapter. In particular,
consistently capitalize the content of the "Description" column but do
not include a terminating period, as is the convention elsewhere in the
docs. Also, remove the "References" column from catalog that do not
have any referencing columns, for the sake of brevity. Make various
other SGML and grammar fixes.
2006-11-12 06:25:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
2b5fedc0d7 Minor improvements to the description of archive_timeout. 2006-11-12 05:12:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
792d6edd5b Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon. 2006-11-10 22:32:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
1456c5b507 Improve formatting of PQexecParams argument descriptions, per
Theo Kramer.
2006-11-10 22:15:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
2c2faa17f2 Emphasize that immutable and stable functions are not allowed to modify
the database.  xfunc.sgml was already pretty definite on the point, but
it doesn't hurt to make it clear here too.
2006-11-10 20:52:18 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
9b3aee524f Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ... 2006-11-07 17:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
9c3f24bb46 Update release notes in preparation for RC1. 2006-11-06 17:00:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
48188e1621 Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularly
in PITR scenarios.  We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with
FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to
PITR slave databases.  Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be
preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to
have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId.  Add new GUC variables and
pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that
users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work
done.  Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables
approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the
autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather
than per-database.  initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database,
and pg_autovacuum catalogs.  Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-11-05 22:42:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
10c70b8602 Add note about space usage of 'manual' approach to clustering, per
suggestion from Sergey Koposov.  Also some other minor editing.
2006-11-04 19:03:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
6fada49805 Correct documentation error: in 8.1 and 8.2, %p in archive and restore
command strings inserts relative not absolute path of file to process.
This is a side-effect of 2005-07-04 change that makes the server use
relative paths in general.  Noted by Bernd Helmle.
2006-11-04 18:20:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
17a814ca02 Mention 'void' as the proper return type when there's nothing to
return, per suggestion from Joachim Wieland.
2006-11-03 07:17:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e63445d59 Fix misstatement about the results of using -1 with BEGIN. 2006-10-31 02:29:15 +00:00
Neil Conway
bc4b856e7b Add text to the VACUUM, REINDEX, DROP TABLESPACE and CREATE TABLESPACE
reference pages documenting that these commands cannot be used within
a transaction block. Also make some minor improvements to the psql
reference page. Patch from Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by
myself.
2006-10-31 01:52:31 +00:00
Neil Conway
e45edb35e1 Fix typo in backup docs. Patch from Euler Taveira de Oliveira. 2006-10-30 00:08:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27163e3872 Fix typo in docs. 2006-10-27 12:40:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50f479a112 Fix spelling mistake in docs. 2006-10-26 17:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75f0655345 Add missing file for documentation section on failover, replication,
load balancing, and clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2cbdb5522b Add documentation section on failover, replication, load balancing, and
clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:26:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9601745d35 Correctino, add URL on :
* Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*)
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b1ccefe72 Add URL for:
* Speed up COUNT(*)
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:41:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
cfb3a42831 Rewrite discussion of ORDER BY to emphasize the SQL99 expression case
instead of the SQL92 output-column-ID case.
2006-10-24 02:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
66f5264a2e Stamp 8.2beta2. 2006-10-23 22:50:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0ff4352d7a Add some real descriptions to the multiargument aggregate functions rather
than just showing the incomprehensible formulas.
2006-10-23 19:57:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
28b14b034a Fix broken markup. 2006-10-23 19:29:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0f763503ff Spellchecking and such 2006-10-23 18:10:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
033cb9d30b Fix list of environment variables for configure. Remove some variables
that are almost never used.  Put documentation-related variables into the
documentation chapter.
2006-10-23 14:13:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa5d08fbf8 Some desultory copy-editing. 2006-10-22 03:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
ed19393326 Some marginal editorial improvements and updates in the tutorial. 2006-10-21 23:12:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
890ce3975e Further release-note editorialization. 2006-10-21 18:41:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
425417d498 Editorial improvements for recent plpython doc updates. 2006-10-21 18:33:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
90f53d8487 Update PQserverVersion() to use 8.1.X as an example, rather than 7.4
because the function didn't exist in 7.4.X.
2006-10-21 18:25:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7701718b2 Update release notes for new pgcrypto additions.
Marko Kreen
2006-10-21 18:15:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
944c4e3feb Add URL for async I/O:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00820.php
2006-10-21 17:31:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
a003bd07f3 Rewrite discussion of string constant syntax to bring it into line with
the politically correct view that backslash escapes are deprecated.
2006-10-21 17:12:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
c9c1c4edf2 Make index entry more specific. 2006-10-21 17:10:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
554032b3e4 Update release notes to current, and do a pass of editorial corrections. 2006-10-20 23:02:20 +00:00
Neil Conway
8b175c75a8 Minor doc tweak: make a reference to pg_locks into a link. 2006-10-20 20:35:13 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
b0b9bedf8d Fix typo. 2006-10-20 16:34:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
0549ba82e3 Clarify note about interaction of log_statement logging with errors.
Remove obsolete note about logging of statements generated by plpgsql
function execution ... that doesn't happen anymore.
2006-10-19 22:55:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bc1f9b334 Remove qsort TODO.detail. All items completed. 2006-10-19 19:59:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a60af96a00 Done:
< * Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
<   value [qsort]
<
<   This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
<
2006-10-19 19:58:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
877f08da14 Fix up timetz input so that a date is required only when the specified
timezone actually has a daylight-savings rule.  This avoids breaking
cases that used to work because they went through the DecodePosixTimezone
code path.  Per contrib regression failures (mea culpa for not running
those yesterday...).  Also document the already-applied change to allow
GMT offsets up to 14 hours.
2006-10-18 16:43:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
723f716be0 Fix array operator refererence in release notes, per David Wheeler. 2006-10-18 03:53:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
022fd99668 Fix up some problems in handling of zic-style time zone names in datetime
input routines.  Remove the former "DecodePosixTimezone" function in favor of
letting the zic code handle POSIX-style zone specs (see tzparse()).  In
particular this means that "PST+3" now means the same as "-03", whereas it
used to mean "-11" --- the zone abbreviation is effectively just a noise word
in this syntax.  Make sure that all named and POSIX-style zone names will be
parsed as a single token.  Fix long-standing bogosities in printing and input
of fractional-hour timezone offsets (since the tzparse() code will accept
these, we'd better make 'em work).  Also correct an error in the original
coding of the zic-zone-name patch: in "timestamp without time zone" input,
zone names are supposed to be allowed but ignored, but the coding was such
that the zone changed the interpretation anyway.
2006-10-17 21:03:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d58f09e6b3 Mark 8.2 release as 2006-??, not 2005-??, per observation by David
Wheeler.
2006-10-17 20:17:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
47fecaf504 Attached files fix the link problem in FAQ_DEV.html, remove some parts
related to website development and change the link to the FAQ_DEV.html.

Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-17 12:54:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10d9bbaf01 Fixes for CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page.
Michael Paesold
2006-10-17 12:53:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
0b35b01e7a Arrange for timezone names to be recognized case-insensitively; for
example SET TIME ZONE 'america/new_york' works now.  This seems a good
idea on general user-friendliness grounds, and is part of the solution
to the timestamp-input parsing problems I noted recently.
2006-10-16 19:58:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a2ebf81913 CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page wording improvements.
Michael Paesold
2006-10-16 19:33:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52831f7911 Update to CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page.
Michael Glaesemann
2006-10-16 19:30:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2e7da1f62 I updated RPM related parts in FAQ_DEV against HEAD to be more current.
Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-16 19:03:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
389fad1e6b Remove use of '<' and '>' in SGML, use '&' escapes.
Update find_gt_lt to allow grep parameters to be passed into it.
2006-10-16 17:28:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87eed2e3e1 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-10-15 03:10:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fdbe9facdc FAQ updates --- This is a small cosmetic patch that adds pt_BR IRC
channel to the lists of IRC channels, fixes a typo in the OID's
question, and corrects the PGCluster's project name.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-10-14 23:08:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
1314983fd3 Code review for --no-data-for-failed-tables patch. Instead of trashing
one of the program's core data structures, make use of the existing
ability to selectively exclude TOC items by ID.  Slightly more code but
much less likely to create future maintenance problems.
2006-10-14 23:07:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
f58eac82ee Code and docs review for ALTER TABLE INHERIT/NO INHERIT patch. 2006-10-13 21:43:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d63ddfb872 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-10-13 17:29:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
7de6cf2743 Fix typo in version number. 2006-10-13 15:24:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
efa0e8639f Remove:
< 	o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
< 	  DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
2006-10-12 22:33:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab1cec93c5 Add url's for hints:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00517.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00663.php
2006-10-12 21:40:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ee7c794c7 Add:
> 	o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
> 	  DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
2006-10-12 21:29:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
bfc6e9c970 Make some incremental improvements and fixes to the documentation on
Continuous Archiving. Plenty of editorial work remains...
2006-10-12 19:38:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c9983889a Update release notes for SQL functions vs triggers fix. 2006-10-12 19:25:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
7055867a01 In the installation docs, add some links to the documentation on LDAP
to the discussion of the "--with-ldap" configure option. Patch from
Albe Laurenz.
2006-10-12 18:49:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
953c85646e A bit of copy-editing on back-branch release notes. 2006-10-11 20:55:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4e46f4799e Cleanup pass 2006-10-10 22:19:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
16795b9899 Update FAQ for latest release 8.1.5. 2006-10-10 00:28:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
24e9752863 Revise psql pattern-matching switches as per discussion. The rule is now
to process all inclusion switches then all exclusion switches, so that the
behavior is independent of switch ordering.
Use of -T does not cause non-table objects to be suppressed.  And
the patterns are now interpreted the same way psql's \d commands do it,
rather than as pure regex commands; this allows for example -t schema.tab
to do what it should have been doing all along.  Re-enable the --blobs
switch to do something useful, ie, add back blobs into a dump they were
otherwise suppressed from.
2006-10-09 23:36:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
77d2b1b625 Improve description of the pattern matching rules used by psql's \d
commands (and soon by pg_dump).
2006-10-09 23:31:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d9dddd1100 Update release notes for releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5. 2006-10-09 23:23:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
842c00776b Updated keyword table for 8.2 2006-10-08 20:51:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
92fb5edbc1 Update multi-line editing wording in release notes. 2006-10-08 19:18:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
978ddf65ed In release notes, mention that multi-line history saving does not work
on Win32.
2006-10-08 18:15:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa198e5f14 Simplify <link> regex cleanup code. 2006-10-07 23:48:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dc1e047baf Allow HISTORY/history.html to be generated by removing <link> elements,
per suggestion from Peter.  Without this, the main doc links prevent
those files from being built.
2006-10-07 23:28:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ddbbe95fe In release notes, always use </link> rather than </>. 2006-10-07 22:06:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2b25e1169f The -X option in pg_dump was supposed to be a workaround for the lack of
portable long options.  But we have had portable long options for a long
time now, so this is obsolete.  Now people have added options which *only*
work with -X but not as regular long option, so I'm putting a stop to this:
-X is deprecated; it still works, but it has been removed from the
documentation, and please don't add more of them.
2006-10-07 20:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
71a6f8b85b On platforms that have getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK), use it to ensure that
max_stack_depth is not set to an unsafe value.

This commit also provides configure-time checking for <sys/resource.h>,
and cleans up some perhaps-unportable code associated with use of that
include file and getrlimit().
2006-10-07 19:25:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc1d55b74b Remove tabs added accidentally. 2006-10-07 03:32:28 +00:00
Neil Conway
9c53544950 Fix a typo. 2006-10-07 03:17:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
611b4c59c7 Add main documentation link tags to the release notes. 2006-10-07 02:18:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2332ea1e9 Add indenting to Solaris FAQ, for clarity. 2006-10-05 03:13:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b680a1d9ad Update DB2X texinfo example code.
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-05 02:04:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6fa875d7ce Update Solaris FAQ.
Zdenek Kotala
2006-10-04 22:03:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e23cd612e Improve readline psql prompt suggestion.
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-03 21:14:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
756d450313 Add experimental support for db2x texinfo
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-03 21:13:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6e6125dc69 This patch fixes a small typo in information_schema.sgml.
Guillaume Lelarge
2006-10-03 01:03:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e020a5a6a9 Add URL for strlcpy():
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg02108.php
2006-10-03 00:03:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
725ab82975 Add:
> 	* Fix SSL retry to avoid useless repeated connection attempts and
> 	  ensuing misleading error messages
2006-10-03 00:00:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ef72878b5 Update wording:
< * Use strlcpy() rather than StrNCpy() macro
> * Use strlcpy() rather than our StrNCpy() macro
2006-10-02 23:26:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9b9e0e61a5 Add:
>
> * Use strlcpy() rather than StrNCpy() macro
2006-10-02 23:23:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae9b60322e Remove mention of the -fast option from the Solaris FAQ.
Kenneth Marshall
2006-10-02 23:01:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5d52ad9dc8 Update recovery documentation.
Simon Riggs
2006-10-02 22:33:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ec71d5d1b Add URL for cached copy of paper as SGML comment. 2006-10-02 22:28:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5257c7f829 Add release note item:
Drop privileges on startup so servers can be started from
        an administrative account (Magnus)
2006-10-02 15:32:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7de0a919a2 Move "Exotic Features" to the bottom of TODO. 2006-10-02 14:00:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
7ceec34a73 Improve documentation of configure's readline/libedit switches. 2006-10-01 23:47:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
e69c09c1e9 date_trunc also accepts 'quarter'. Noted by Yoshihisa Nakano. 2006-10-01 18:54:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bb9fc9fee Add:
> * Allow more complex user/database default GUC settings
>   Currently, ALTER USER and ALTER DATABASE support per-user and
>   per-database defaults.  Consider adding per-user-and-database
>   defaults so things like search_path can be defaulted for a
>   specific user connecting to a specific database.
>
>
2006-09-30 03:55:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7229b8cb8a Add MONEY URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01107.php
2006-09-30 02:59:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
352a56ba68 Allow assignment to array elements not contiguous with those already
present; intervening positions are filled with nulls.  This behavior
is required by SQL99 but was not implementable before 8.2 due to lack
of support for nulls in arrays.  I have only made it work for the
one-dimensional case, which is all that SQL99 requires.  It seems quite
complex to get it right in higher dimensions, and since we never allowed
extension at all in higher dimensions, I think that must count as a
future feature addition not a bug fix.
2006-09-29 21:22:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
673a573dcc Remove duplicate (and now incorrect) documentation for row-wise IS [NOT]
NULL.  Noted by Teodor.
2006-09-29 18:36:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
f213131f20 Fix IS NULL and IS NOT NULL tests on row-valued expressions to conform to
the SQL spec, viz IS NULL is true if all the row's fields are null, IS NOT
NULL is true if all the row's fields are not null.  The former coding got
this right for a limited number of cases with IS NULL (ie, those where it
could disassemble a ROW constructor at parse time), but was entirely wrong
for IS NOT NULL.  Per report from Teodor.

I desisted from changing the behavior for arrays, since on closer inspection
it's not clear that there's any support for that in the SQL spec.  This
probably needs more consideration.
2006-09-28 20:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d3aa4a8e33 Add URL for client_encoding being set by client:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01696.php
2006-09-28 17:43:36 +00:00
Neil Conway
de6ca63d7f GiST stands for "Generalized Search Tree", and therefore should not be
spelled with a capital "I".
2006-09-27 06:37:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1d5a13b154 Update wording of inheritance major release item. 2006-09-26 12:31:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8580985c2b Split out inheritance major feature item in release notes. 2006-09-26 11:45:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
03a68a7cae Done:
< 	  o Add command to archive partially filled write-ahead logs? [pitr]
<
< 	    Currently only full WAL files are archived. This means that the
< 	    most recent transactions aren't available for recovery in case
< 	    of a disk failure.
<

Reorder:

< 	  o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
< 	    transaction id for point-in-time recovery
> 	  o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
> 	    transaction id for point-in-time recovery
2006-09-26 11:18:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
0f8fc35a5a Increase default value of effective_cache_size to 128MB, per discussion. 2006-09-25 22:12:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
6575920fa5 More incremental improvements for the release notes. 2006-09-25 15:35:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
1f4841a953 no-data-for-failed-tables is a pg_restore option, not a pg_dump option. 2006-09-25 15:31:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c858bd69e Fix name, "Laurenz Albe" at request of author. 2006-09-25 15:04:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
2804442da6 Minor incremental improvements to the release notes. 2006-09-24 18:47:56 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
bbed6678f3 Tag us Beta1 2006-09-23 01:33:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
d40d34863e Fix pg_locks view to call advisory locks advisory locks, while preserving
backward compatibility for anyone using the old userlock code that's now
on pgfoundry --- locks from that code still show as 'userlock'.
2006-09-22 23:20:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae3f415f1d Add to major release notes items, per Simon. 2006-09-22 18:09:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
ceefbbf718 Move incorrectly-located indexterm entry. 2006-09-22 16:35:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
e893e87530 Update timezone documentation to reflect current reality: instead of
giving tables of known timezone names, refer the user to the system views.
Joachim Wieland
2006-09-22 16:20:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9adb2c49dd Update release notes to only use HTML4 entities.
Add URL's to mention proper entity lists.
2006-09-22 15:41:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
29e53ca389 We're going to have to spell dotless i as plain i, because dotless i is
not in the character set supported by DocBook nor standard HTML.  (Sorry
Volkan.)  Also replace random character-set references by a pointer to
the actual standard.
2006-09-22 15:29:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
507447b585 Fix a lot of broken markup. 2006-09-22 15:22:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
285b5bdd6f Update release notes to be current as of CVS today. 2006-09-22 03:04:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7fa844b6c Update major release note items. 2006-09-22 01:52:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf31a62a6b First try at a major features list for 8.2. 2006-09-22 01:39:33 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
b0d64a090b Add comments about STORAGE option for GIN 2006-09-21 15:09:38 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
823ffd88e3 Fix table's caption 2006-09-21 15:03:53 +00:00
Michael Meskes
8ad3afee1a Updated several parts in particular variable handling. This is work that was part of SoC. 2006-09-21 09:10:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
323ff93afb Wording changes for continuous archving, per Simon. 2006-09-21 03:12:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
0efa510bf7 Add documentation for new in-core advisory lock functions. Merlin Moncure 2006-09-20 23:43:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e56ccad7b0 Add URL for domain casting:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01681.php
2006-09-20 23:01:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e54962890 Update release notes to use scaron, rather than numeric code for entity. 2006-09-20 22:48:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
c59487cfb3 Fix bogus markup. 2006-09-20 21:30:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2aad31424 Add AIX shared library support item to release notes. 2006-09-20 19:55:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
06b33f0ee8 Release note wording improvement.
Alvaro.
2006-09-20 11:54:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c840db7f0d Add shared linking information to AIX FAQ.
Laurenz Albe
2006-09-20 02:10:11 +00:00
Neil Conway
c62172100b Improvements to the partitioning documentation. Original patch from Greg
Stark, additional fixes and editorialization by Neil Conway. Greg's patch
description:

    Some more doc patches for partitioned tables. In particular replace
    the caveat that INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS doesn't exist and replace it
    with documentation of, well, INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS.

    Also, there was an instance of "LIKE WITH DEFAULTS" which is
    actually spelled "LIKE INCLUDING DEFAULTS".
2006-09-20 01:20:38 +00:00
Neil Conway
45e11d098f Do a round of copy-editing for the release notes: fix some typos and
grammatical errors, improve the description of some new features.
2006-09-19 19:54:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b27170b936 Dashed items are now for 8.3:
< #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.2 release.#
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.3 release.#
2006-09-19 19:20:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa3f396aca Remove completed TODO items:
< * -Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o
<   option is no longer needed
< * -Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements
<
<   This would allow an application inheriting a pooled connection to know
<   the statements prepared in the current session.
<
< * -Re-enable the GUC full_page_writes in 8.2 when reliability issues have
<   been addressed
< 	o -Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
< 	o -Allow per-database permissions to be set via GRANT
<
< 	  Allow database connection checks based on GRANT rules in
< 	  addition to the existing access checks in pg_hba.conf.
<
< 	o -Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
> 	o Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
< 	  o -Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
< 	    pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped
< 	  o -Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
< 	    part of partial log file archiving
< * -Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands
< * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
< * -Zero umasked bits in conversion from INET cast to CIDR
< * -Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
< * -Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or
<   throw an error on overflow
< * -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
< 	o -Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the
< 	  present australian_timezones hack)
< 	o -Allow timezone names in SQL strings, '2006-05-24 21:11
< 	   Americas/New_York'::timestamptz
< 		o -Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO
< 		  SECOND
< 	o -Allow NULLs in arrays
< * -Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp()
<   functionality
<
<   Current CURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns the start time of the current
<   transaction, and gettimeofday() returns the wallclock time. This will
<   make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of
<   the statement start time.
<
< * -Allow to_char() to print localized month names
< * -Add sleep() function, remove from regress.c
< * -Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain
<   constraints
< * -Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
<
<   This is like DELETE CASCADE, but truncates.
<
< * -Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
<   and tablespaces)
< * -Make row-wise comparisons work per SQL spec
<
<   Right now, '(a, b) < (1, 2)' is processed as 'a < 1 and b < 2', but
<   the SQL standard requires it to be processed as a column-by-column
<   comparison, so the proper comparison is '(a < 1) OR (a = 1 AND b < 2)'.
<
< * -Enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings
> * Enable standard_conforming_strings
< 	o -Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT
< 	o -Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in
< 	  UPDATE/DELETE (Neil)
< 	o -Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updating
< 	  multiple columns
< 	o -Add ALTER TABLE tab INHERIT / NO INHERIT  parent
< 	o -Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
< 	o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
<
< 	o -Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
<
< 	  Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows
< 	  them to be listed so they can be closed.
<
< 	o -Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
< 	o -Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col
< 		o -Allow PL/python to return composite types and result sets
<
< * -Have initdb set the input DateStyle (MDY or DMY) based on locale
< 	o -Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements
<
< 	  Currently, while \e saves a single statement as one entry, interactive
< 	  statements are saved one line at a time.  Ideally all statements
< 	  would be saved like \e does.
<
< 	o -Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns
<
< 	  If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear
< 	  in the second display column, rather than the first column as it
< 	  does now.
<
< 	o -Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df
< 	o -Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches, exclusion
< 	   ability, and regular expression object matching
< 	o -Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
< 	o -Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
< * -Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation
< * -Add system view to show free space map contents
< * -Allow installing to directories containing spaces
<
<   This is possible if proper quoting is added to the makefiles for the
<   install targets.  Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
<   is already possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain
<   spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
<
< * -%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)
< * -Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
< 	o -Port contrib/xml2
2006-09-19 19:20:00 +00:00
Neil Conway
f7ea4eeed6 Document how to use psql's --single-transaction option to rollback restoring
an SQL dump if an error occurs. Along the way, make some improvements and
copy-edits to the surrounding text. Patch from Simon Riggs, additional
fixes by Neil Conway.
2006-09-19 19:04:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
85fca79a02 Fix broken markup. 2006-09-19 17:22:42 +00:00
Neil Conway
48fe137425 Minor additions and typo fixes for the backup documentation. Patch from
Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by Neil Conway.
2006-09-19 15:18:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a676d7f6d9 More 8.2 release item reordering. 2006-09-19 02:25:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cf90c54bb3 Reorder 8.2 release note items more logically. 2006-09-19 02:08:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
88057d0cf2 Update migration changes, more cleanups. 2006-09-19 00:57:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dd18c57979 Properly mention in the release notes that fillfactor controls both heap
and indexes.  Other cleanups.
2006-09-18 23:19:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e328f8b0ba Wrap long lines in 8.2 release notes. 2006-09-18 23:01:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1fc333f041 Updates from Jim Nasby. 2006-09-18 22:43:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
9b4cda0df6 Add built-in userlock manipulation functions to replace the former
contrib functionality.  Along the way, remove the USER_LOCKS configuration
symbol, since it no longer makes any sense to try to compile that out.
No user documentation yet ... mmoncure has promised to write some.
Thanks to Abhijit Menon-Sen for creating a first draft to work from.
2006-09-18 22:40:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7f308d6a6 Move 8.2 release documentation into SGML. 2006-09-18 21:45:10 +00:00
Neil Conway
ecf5009099 Make the order of the CASCADE and RESTRICT keywords in the DROP OWNED
syntax summary consistent with the other SQL reference pages. Patch
from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2006-09-18 21:19:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5b1eb80b7 Documentation for VALUES lists. Joe Conway and Tom Lane 2006-09-18 19:54:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f04ce3126 Add URL for commenting postgresql.conf:
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01481.php
2006-09-18 16:24:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c74c313519 Add URL for UUID:
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00209.php
>
2006-09-18 16:22:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e8efd98312 Add item:
>
> * Set client encoding based on the client operating system encoding
>
>   Currently client_encoding is set in postgresql.conf, which
>   defaults to the server encoding.
2006-09-18 15:52:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
329cec451e Add URL to UPDATE unique index case x=x+1:
<
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01458.php
2006-09-18 14:56:19 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
bcbb402e31 Improve wordings by David Fuhry <dfuhry@cs.kent.edu> 2006-09-18 12:11:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
da7540b9d1 Change ANALYZE to take ShareUpdateExclusiveLock not AccessShareLock on
the table being analyzed.  This prevents two ANALYZEs from running
concurrently on the same table and possibly suffering concurrent-update
failures while trying to store their results into pg_statistic.  The
downside is that a database-wide ANALYZE executed within a transaction
block will hold ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on many tables simultaneously,
which could lead to concurrency issues or even deadlock against another
such ANALYZE.  However, this seems a corner case of less importance
than getting unexpected errors from a foreground ANALYZE when autovacuum
elects to analyze the same table concurrently.  Per discussion.
2006-09-17 22:50:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f204274191 Update TODO for short header versions:
< 	o Reorder physical storage order to reduce padding?
<
< 	  This involves having the user-specified order of columns
< 	  be different from the physical order.  SELECT * would
< 	  need to reorder the physical values to match the
< 	  user-specified ordering.
<
< 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
<
< 	  This necessitates adding CPU-required padding when moving
< 	  rows from disk to memory.
<
< 	  One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits
< 	  first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php
> 	  One idea is to create zero-or-one-byte-header versions
> 	  of varlena data types.  In involves setting the high-bit and
> 	  0-127 length in the single-byte header, or clear the high bit
> 	  and store the 7-bit ASCII value in the rest of the byte.
> 	  The small-header versions have no alignment requirements.
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01372.php
2006-09-16 22:06:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
5ff4f39c0e Rename the recently-added pg_timezonenames view to pg_timezone_abbrevs,
and create a new view pg_timezone_names that provides information about
the zones known in the 'zic' database.  Magnus Hagander, with some
additional work by Tom Lane.
2006-09-16 20:14:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
1246d797e4 Rename xml_valid() to xml_is_well_formed(), but provide a temporary
alias with the old name for backwards compatibility.  Per discussion,
the old name is actively wrong because validity and well-formedness
have different meanings in XML.
2006-09-16 16:18:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32cebaecff Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5e550acbc4 Document Warm Standby for High Availability
Includes sample standby script.

Simon Riggs
2006-09-15 22:02:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
075c0caa90 Document WAL recovery now uses checkpoints.
Simon Riggs
2006-09-15 21:55:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
65ab9f4f24 Add a couple of information functions to support direct checks on whether
a schema is our own temp schema or another backend's temp schema, and use
these in place of some former kluges in information_schema.  Per my
proposal of yesterday.
2006-09-14 22:05:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a20412c45 Seems no one wants this:
< * -Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types based on the SQL
<   statement (Neil)
2006-09-14 21:44:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c1d1c50424 Done:
< * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged, if text mode
> * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
2006-09-14 21:41:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e467e5c8ad Not done yet:
< 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
> 	o Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
2006-09-14 21:37:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
c2314b9ece Fix missing markup. 2006-09-14 21:15:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e101e6bb8f Remove:
< * Research storing only active XIDs in subtransaction cache
2006-09-14 20:46:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3e6d1efa4a Add:
> * Research storing only active XIDs in subtransaction cache
2006-09-14 20:30:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a6e240a30f Add XML item.
>
> * Improve XML support
>
>   http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/XML_Support
2006-09-14 18:10:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa2801e361 Add description for variable-length header:
> 	  One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits
> 	  first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
2006-09-14 17:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
536316aa42 Add recent ICU URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00662.php
2006-09-14 17:14:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f75537cd7 Update TODO items:
< 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
>
> 	  This involves having the user-specified order of columns
> 	  be different from the physical order.  SELECT * would
> 	  need to reorder the physical values to match the
> 	  user-specified ordering.
>
> 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
>
> 	  This necessitates adding CPU-required padding when moving
> 	  rows from disk to memory.
>
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php
>
2006-09-14 17:11:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9256b84e61 For release notes checklist, add UTF8 URL. 2006-09-14 16:55:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4f7b0fb103 In release notes checklist, add URL for HTML non-ASCII escapes, mention
UTF8 escapes.
2006-09-14 16:51:39 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
e25c3e84b6 Fix SGML markup 2006-09-14 13:40:28 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
0ca9907ce4 GIN documentation and slightly improving GiST docs.
Thanks to  Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris.kingslynne@gmail.com> for
initial version and Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> for inspection
2006-09-14 11:16:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8fe328c24 Some small editorialization on the description of CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY.  Greg Stark, some further tweaks by me.
2006-09-13 23:42:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
500da222f1 Add David Fetter:
> * David is David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
2006-09-12 21:02:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a80b1b4bfc Add items:
< * Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
> * Consider ways of storing rows more compactly on disk
>
> 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
> 	o Reorder physical storage order to reduce padding?
> 	o Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields?
> 	o Reduce the row header size?
2006-09-10 22:20:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
17c371fe82 Remove unhelpful/misleading advice about how to use SPI_saveplan().
Per gripe from Jack Orenstein.
2006-09-10 20:56:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
69b7c99265 Add missing documentation for new anyarray-overlap operator. 2006-09-10 19:03:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
684ad6a92f Rename contrib contains/contained-by operators to @> and <@, per discussion. 2006-09-10 17:36:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
ba920e1c91 Rename contains/contained-by operators to @> and <@, per discussion that
agreed these symbols are less easily confused.  I made new pg_operator
entries (with new OIDs) for the old names, so as to provide backward
compatibility while making it pretty easy to remove the old names in
some future release cycle.  This commit only touches the core datatypes,
contrib will be fixed separately.
2006-09-10 00:29:35 +00:00