ASCII-art style of table output to be upgraded to use Unicode box drawing
characters if desired. By default, psql will use the Unicode characters
whenever client_encoding is UTF8.
The patch forces linestyle=ascii in pg_regress usage, ensuring we don't
break the regression tests in Unicode locales.
Roger Leigh
wrappers (similar to procedural languages). This way we don't need to retain
the nearly empty libraries, and we are more free in how to implement the
wrapper API in the future.
This doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules
like plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for
managing their connection information.
Martin Pihlak and Peter Eisentraut
specifically, we can input either the "format with designators" or the
"alternative format", and we can output the former when IntervalStyle is set
to iso_8601.
Ron Mayer
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching
the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's
restrictions). IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the
standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval
input.
Ron Mayer
There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL
(should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses.
These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a
pretty useful feature.
There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles,
which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly. But let's land
the patch now so we can get on with other development.
Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
where the relation name was schema-qualified, for example
UPDATE foo.bar SET <tab>
Also support cases where the relation name was quoted unnecessarily,
for example
UPDATE "foo" SET <tab>
Greg Sabino Mullane, slightly simplified by myself.
* adds a few missing words to some commands (like adding GIN as a valid
index type or OWNED BY for ALTER SEQUENCE,...)
* support for ALTER TABLE foo ENABLE/DISABLE REPLICA TRIGGER/RULE
* autocomplete CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE (mostly done to prevent
conflicts with the TEMPLATE keyword for text search)
* support for ALTER/CREATE/DROP TEXT SEARCH as well as COMMENT ON TEXT
SEARCH and the corresponding psql backslash commands.
This proved a little more difficult than expected due to the fact that
words_after_create[] is used for two purposes - one is to provide a list
of words that follow immediatly after CREATE (or DROP) and the other
purpose is to use it for autocompleting anywhere in the statement if the
word in that struct is found with a query.
Since TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION|DICTIONARY|TEMPLATE|PARSER results in 3
words instead of one (as all the other words in that list are) I added a
flag to the struct to tell create_command_generator() to skip that entry
for autocompleting immediatly after CREATE which feels like a dirty
hack (but that holds true for a lot of code in tab-complete.c).
Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Sequences and views could previously be renamed using ALTER TABLE, but
this was a repeated source of confusion for users. Update the docs,
and psql tab completion. Patch from David Fetter; various minor fixes
by myself.
we can complete "TABLE". The previous coding only looked for "CREATE TEMP".
Note that I didn't add TEMPORARY to the list of suggested completions
after we've seen "CREATE", since TEMP is equivalent and more concise. But
if the user has already manually typed TEMPORARY, we may as well
complete TABLE for them.
RESET SESSION, RESET PLANS, and RESET TEMP are now DISCARD ALL,
DISCARD PLANS, and DISCARD TEMP, respectively. This is to avoid
confusion with the pre-existing RESET variants: the DISCARD
commands are not actually similar to RESET. Patch from Marko
Kreen, with some minor editorialization.
A DBA is allowed to create a language in his database if it's marked
"tmpldbacreate" in pg_pltemplate. The factory default is that this is set
for all standard trusted languages, but of course a superuser may adjust
the settings. In service of this, add the long-foreseen owner column to
pg_language; renaming, dropping, and altering owner of a PL now follow
normal ownership rules instead of being superuser-only.
Jeremy Drake, with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
return true for exactly the characters treated as whitespace by their flex
scanners. Per report from Victor Snezhko and subsequent investigation.
Also fix a passel of unsafe usages of <ctype.h> functions, that is, ye olde
char-vs-unsigned-char issue. I won't miss <ctype.h> when we are finally
able to stop using it.
whitespace issues nearby.
DROP OWNED BY is actually a bit kludgy, but it seems better to do it this way
rather than duplicating the words_after_create list just to add a single
element.
comments on cluster global objects like databases, tablespaces, and
roles.
It touches a lot of places, but not much in the way of big changes. The
only design decision I made was to duplicate the query and manipulation
functions rather than to try and have them handle both shared and local
comments. I believe this is simpler for the code and not an issue for
callers because they know what type of object they are dealing with.
This has resulted in a shobj_description function analagous to
obj_description and backend functions [Create/Delete]SharedComments
mirroring the existing [Create/Delete]Comments functions.
pg_shdescription.h goes into src/include/catalog/
Kris Jurka
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.
Sergey E. Koposov
rather than "return expr;" -- the latter style is used in most of the
tree. I kept the parentheses when they were necessary or useful because
the return expression was complex.
> Now, the arguments of the drop function can be tab completed. for example
>
> drop function strpos (
> <press tab>
> drop FUNCTION strpos (text, text)
>
> or:
>
> wsdb=# drop FUNCTION length (
> bit) bytea) character) lseg) path) text)
> <press c>
> wsdb# DROP FUNCTION length ( character)
>
> I think that this patch should be rather useful. At it least I hate
> always to type all the arguments of the dropped functions.
>
> 2) Also some fixes applied for the
> CREATE INDEX syntax
>
> now the parenthesises are inserted by tab pressing.
> suppose I have the table q3c:
Sergey E. Koposov
Itagaki Takahiro
Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas
Peter Eisentraut
Neil Conway