Bruce Momjian
f15c08f055
Document that /contrib/tsearch2 now contains a compatibility interface.
2007-11-15 17:09:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
a1715ac8f7
Adjust example to reduce confusion between a tsvector column and
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an index, per Simon.
2007-11-14 23:48:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
866bad9543
Add a rank/(rank+1) normalization option to ts_rank(). While the usefulness
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of this seems a bit marginal, if it's useful enough to be shown in the manual
then we probably ought to support doing it without double evaluation of the
ts_rank function. Per my proposal earlier today.
2007-11-14 23:43:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
ca450a07ee
Add an Accept parameter to "simple" dictionaries. The default of true
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gives the old behavior; selecting false allows the dictionary to be used
as a filter ahead of other dictionaries, because it will pass on rather
than accept words that aren't in its stopword list.
Jan Urbanski
2007-11-14 18:36:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a44c81d1b7
Mention that GSSAPI is preferred over Kerberos authentication because
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GSSAPI is industry-standard.
2007-11-14 14:38:30 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
9394059261
Add note about deprecating krb5 authentication in favour of GSSAPI,
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per discussions (a long time ago). Documentation only, we keep full
support in the code.
2007-11-14 14:25:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
144c519842
Capitalize "Migration to Version".
2007-11-14 14:06:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a339a3939
Properly capitalize "Migrate To Version"; seems we always had that
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wrong.
2007-11-14 12:36:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec67a91106
Markup cleanup.
2007-11-14 03:39:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4ba85c1e24
Reference pgfoundry instead of gborg.
2007-11-14 03:39:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d7090bc56
Remove reference to gborg, instead reference pgfoundry.
2007-11-14 03:37:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
de085820bf
Update discussion of tsearch2 migration. I'm not entirely sure about
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the division of material between here and the tsearch2 contrib page,
but at least it's not obviously unfinished any more.
2007-11-14 03:26:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
42e3ab3f11
Move contrib docs to an appendix (next door to External Projects).
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Change title to Additional Supplied Modules. Improve discussion of
how to build and install 'em.
2007-11-14 02:36:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
21fec14941
Clean up some now-obsolete references to GBorg.
2007-11-14 01:58:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
4c2d0cd5e4
Add some quick documentation for tsearch2 compatibility module.
2007-11-14 01:09:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c027fa5757
Update release notes to current CVS.
2007-11-14 00:16:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
b40c0a4bb0
Clean up some stray references to tsearch2.
2007-11-13 23:36:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6832927ce3
Add link to Postgres-R glossary from our documentation (has helpful
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terms defined).
2007-11-13 18:44:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2ce1a60bfa
No master server overhead for middleware replication.
2007-11-12 18:01:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f4294090ae
Change replication chart title to "No waiting for multiple servers".
2007-11-12 17:02:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e1829591cb
Trim trailing whitespace --- needed commit to update anoncvs.
2007-11-12 01:37:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b8cc88268
Remove tabs from SGML files.
2007-11-11 14:23:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
926bbab448
Make /contrib install/uninstall script consistent:
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remove transactions
use create or replace function
make formatting consistent
set search patch on first line
Add documentation on modifying *.sql to set the search patch, and
mention that major upgrades should still run the installation scripts.
Some of these issues were spotted by Tom today.
2007-11-11 03:25:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c3c69ab4fd
Move most /contrib README files into SGML. Some still need conversion
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or will never be converted.
2007-11-10 23:30:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6e414a171e
Add pg_ctl -t/timeout parameter to control amount of time to wait for
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start/shutdown.
2007-11-10 21:48:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
c6722d7211
Add an example of a SQL function with output parameters returning
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multiple rows. I had thought this case was covered, but there was
no example in the obvious section to look in.
2007-11-10 20:14:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
20a8825778
High availability wording fix.
2007-11-10 19:19:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
455fa463ad
Update high availability documentation with comments from Markus Schiltknecht.
2007-11-10 19:14:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d009992ba3
Have text search thesaurus files use "?" for stop words.
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Throw an error for actual stop words, rather than a warning. This fixes
problems with cache reloading causing warning messages.
Re-enable stop words in regression tests; was disabled by Tom.
Document "?" as API change.
2007-11-10 15:39:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a341b876d8
Fix markup problem with recent pg_ctl change.
2007-11-10 14:07:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f19c8577eb
Properly order pg_ctl -c option alphabetically in docs.
2007-11-10 04:52:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4521207390
Remove tabs from SGML files.
2007-11-09 23:52:08 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
83290b678d
Point to our own UUID page instead of to Wikipedia.
2007-11-09 22:22:46 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
4b606ee444
Add parameter krb_realm used by GSSAPI, SSPI and Kerberos
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to validate the realm of the connecting user. By default
it's empty meaning no verification, which is the way
Kerberos authentication has traditionally worked in
PostgreSQL.
2007-11-09 17:31:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7cd5a4aa0
Move pl/proxy into Multi-server parallel query execution documentation
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section.
2007-11-09 16:36:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f55e6c07c3
Wording improvement for pl/proxy mention.
2007-11-08 22:14:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a2077efe4
Add mention of pl/proxy toolset to docs.
2007-11-08 22:08:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f1528b5154
Properly indent SGML file.
2007-11-08 19:18:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
621e14dcb2
Add "High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication Feature Matrix"
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table to docs.
2007-11-08 19:16:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5db1c58a1a
Move NFS section into "Creating Cluster" documentation section because
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it seems more logical there.
2007-11-08 15:21:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b7210a07a9
Mention text search instead of tsearch2
2007-11-08 13:13:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d624f94a88
Small fixes
2007-11-08 13:13:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
371d7bc7c0
<optional> cannot be used here, because psql doesn't handle it.
2007-11-07 14:07:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0e3c27538a
Specify putting two spaces after sentence-ending period, which is current
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practice also.
2007-11-07 13:12:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5f9869d0ee
Use "alternative" instead of "alternate" where it is clearer.
2007-11-07 12:24:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c1a03bee08
Document that configure option only affects contrib:
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--with-ossp-uuid use OSSP UUID library when building /contrib/uuid-ossp
2007-11-05 17:43:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
faac769a6b
Minor editorial improvements to txid functions' documentation: put back
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some text that got dropped, improve markup, improve descriptions of
snapshot components.
2007-11-05 17:40:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c00055ea80
Document that syncronhous commit can be turned off in a single
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multi-statement transaction.
2007-11-05 17:35:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
11d740ed9e
Remove <sect1> of txid functions.
2007-11-05 16:57:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bd2ef63aa8
Move txid snapshot field description table from datatype to functions section.
2007-11-05 16:45:52 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
f5f375330e
Fix typos.
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Guillaume Lelarge
2007-11-05 15:55:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec1aafca7d
Document txid functions.
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Marko Kreen
2007-11-05 14:51:08 +00:00
D'Arcy J.M. Cain
f00e542746
Remove deprecation notice and add comment about safely restoring backups.
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As per discussion on hackers.
2007-11-05 12:02:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1e941153a2
Working improvement.
2007-11-04 21:50:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c066d27f36
Add link to NFS section from "creating a database cluster.
2007-11-04 21:48:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3372380cc4
Document possible problems with NFS tablespaces.
2007-11-04 21:40:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
729d2b08c0
Properly indent tablespace SGML section.
2007-11-04 19:43:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
38fe3a9646
Mention "replication" in the title of the high availability and load
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balancing chapter because some people were looking for 'replication' and
didn't realize that chapter addressed it.
2007-11-04 19:23:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f96e1e0faa
Update wording for xsl configure option.
2007-11-04 18:53:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ede83e04aa
Document that configure --with-libxslt controls just /contrib/xml2.
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Nikolay Samokhvalov
2007-11-04 18:10:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65bd783614
Mention that internal hash functions changed in 8.3 release notes.
2007-11-01 22:38:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
9423be4449
Some corrections/improvements to new acronym list.
2007-11-01 20:27:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
388c7e28c5
Update discussion of shared memory sizing for 8.3: adjust multipliers,
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mention autovacuum_max_workers. Minor copy-editing too.
2007-11-01 19:06:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5c996884a0
Update Czech FAQ.
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Pavel Stehule
2007-11-01 17:28:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6287c31b5a
Acronym spelling fix.
2007-11-01 17:16:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
53e3f9dcfd
Add documentation mention that FSM == Free Space Map, so the config
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parameter name makes more sense.
2007-11-01 17:06:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
61c8163957
Add acronym section to our documentation.
2007-11-01 17:00:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f0cd76fcc4
Add:
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> * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement
> starvation
2007-10-31 20:12:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e07904b0a4
Add note on PostgreSQL vs. Postgres.
2007-10-30 23:06:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
406ee67c9a
Update some obsolete stuff in the GRANT and REVOKE reference pages:
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simplify the syntax examples by unifying user and group cases, and fix
no-longer-correct example of psql \z output. Per Erwin Brandstetter.
2007-10-30 19:43:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
897313e824
Add a note pointing out that some other databases make GREATEST and
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LEAST handle NULL arguments differently than we do. Per a discussion
on 30-Jun that somehow didn't get done.
2007-10-30 19:06:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7967d4c69
Documentation wording fixes.
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Guillaume Lelarge
2007-10-29 17:29:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e1f55afe7d
Update Russian FAQ.
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corochoone@gmail.com
2007-10-29 17:27:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
96805a18c6
Clarify restart is of the "database" server, in FAQ.
2007-10-29 17:22:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
f9e83a5588
Remove claim that ts_headline knows how to generate multiple ellipsis-separated
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excerpts of a document. That's clearly desirable, but the functionality
is not there yet.
2007-10-29 01:55:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
3fe266207b
Ooops, fat-fingered last commit message. Should have
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mentioned updating FAQ_IRIX for information about buggy MIPSPro
compiler version, now confirmed by Herve Boulouis.
2007-10-28 22:33:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
d034a268a2
FAQ_IRIX
2007-10-28 22:30:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
d015d08b43
Rename default text search parser's "uri" token type to "url_path",
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per recommendation from Alvaro. This doesn't force initdb since the
numeric token type in the catalogs doesn't change; but note that
the expected regression test output changed.
2007-10-27 16:01:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
5b5a70aedf
Stamp 8.3beta2.
2007-10-27 00:22:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
2aac6f10f6
Minor wording improvements per suggestion from Jeff Davis. Also tweak
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hyphenated-word parser examples per earlier discussion with Alvaro.
2007-10-27 00:19:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ffda32e9fd
Remove second-in-paragraph usage of "Postgres" in FAQ_DEV.
2007-10-26 19:08:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f201257991
Remove use of "Postgres" aliases in the FAQ in second-in-paragraph
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cases.
2007-10-26 19:04:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
350196df4a
Set Japanese FAQ character code to UTF-8.
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Jun Kuwamura
2007-10-26 03:59:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa9eb3152e
Add plpgsql doc example of RETURN NEXT.
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Ulrich Kroener
2007-10-26 01:11:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
9ddfe034c7
Fix ALTER SEQUENCE so that it does not affect the value of currval() for
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the sequence. Also, make setval() with is_called = false not affect the
currval state, either. Per report from Kris Jurka that an implicit
ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY unexpectedly caused currval() to become valid.
Since this isn't 100% backwards compatible, it will go into HEAD only;
I'll put a more limited patch into 8.2.
2007-10-25 18:54:03 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
0e3ddc8dd5
Use more real-world examples in the text search parser documentation.
2007-10-25 13:06:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
41f207620a
Update release notes to current CVS.
2007-10-25 02:50:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
048efc25e4
Disallow scrolling of FOR UPDATE/FOR SHARE cursors, so as to avoid problems
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in corner cases such as re-fetching a just-deleted row. We may be able to
relax this someday, but let's find out how many people really care before
we invest a lot of work in it. Per report from Heikki and subsequent
discussion.
While in the neighborhood, make the combination of INSENSITIVE and FOR UPDATE
throw an error, since they are semantically incompatible. (Up to now we've
accepted but just ignored the INSENSITIVE option of DECLARE CURSOR.)
2007-10-24 23:27:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
8a35b07e18
Remove obsolete statement that you can't update through a cursor.
2007-10-24 22:55:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
592c88a0d2
Remove the aggregate form of ts_rewrite(), since it doesn't work as desired
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if there are zero rows to aggregate over, and the API seems both conceptually
and notationally ugly anyway. We should look for something that improves
on the tsquery-and-text-SELECT version (which is also pretty ugly but at
least it works...), but it seems that will take query infrastructure that
doesn't exist today. (Hm, I wonder if there's anything in or near SQL2003
window functions that would help?) Per discussion.
2007-10-24 02:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
dbaec70c15
Rename and slightly redefine the default text search parser's "word"
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categories, as per discussion. asciiword (formerly lword) is still
ASCII-letters-only, and numword (formerly word) is still the most general
mixed-alpha-and-digits case. But word (formerly nlword) is now
any-group-of-letters-with-at-least-one-non-ASCII, rather than all-non-ASCII as
before. This is no worse than before for parsing mixed Russian/English text,
which seems to have been the design center for the original coding; and it
should simplify matters for parsing most European languages. In particular
it will not be necessary for any language to accept strings containing digits
as being regular "words". The hyphenated-word categories are adjusted
similarly.
2007-10-23 20:46:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
f551348417
Clarify example of planner cost computation, per a suggestion from
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James Shaw. Also update a couple of examples to reflect 8.3's improved
plan-printing code.
2007-10-22 21:34:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
3e17ef1cfa
Adjust ts_debug's output as per my proposal of yesterday: show the
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active dictionary and its output lexemes as separate columns, instead
of smashing them into one text column, and lowercase the column names.
Also, define the output rowtype using OUT parameters instead of a
composite type, to be consistent with the other built-in functions.
2007-10-22 20:13:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
6088bfb8b6
Create a quick-and-dirty list of known migration issues for pre-8.3
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users of tsearch. This isn't meant to be permanent documentation,
but to call out the areas that need either fixing or real documentation.
2007-10-22 03:37:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
dfc6f130b4
Editorial overhaul for text search documentation. Organize the info
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more clearly, improve a lot of unclear descriptions, add some missing
material. We still need a migration guide though.
2007-10-21 20:04:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6cb00e67ef
Update Japanese FAQ.
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Jun Kuwamura
2007-10-20 23:59:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b002af5698
More release note word-smithing.
2007-10-20 23:41:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
24f3a77112
Fix release tag spelling typo.
2007-10-20 20:19:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ba96ef04f
More release note wording improvements.
2007-10-20 16:41:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7b98f6be6e
Update German FAQ.
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Ian Barwick
2007-10-20 15:49:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
41a312a1f6
Add a note pointing out that you can't log to syslog without tweaking
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the syslog configuration file (at least not on most known Unixen).
I dunno why we hadn't had that info in the docs all along ...
2007-10-20 04:00:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6fe5885cdf
More indenting cleanup for release notes.
2007-10-19 01:56:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
35dab98e1b
Consistently indent release notes for prior releases.
2007-10-18 23:34:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
decff24fe2
More release wording adjustments.
2007-10-18 23:05:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52c51a45e6
More indenting cleanup, tag additions.
2007-10-18 16:47:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f031610297
Move a few items into migration from the main changes section. Indent
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8.3 consistently.
2007-10-18 16:45:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
35342395c0
Minor fixes for the release notes.
2007-10-18 06:07:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
403b6fd9a9
Small changes to release note descriptions.
2007-10-18 05:39:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62c99fc289
First pass over release documentation. I trimmed down some of the
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entries and removed a few.
2007-10-18 05:15:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bec963aa5
Re-add FAQ item:
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<H3 id="item4.19">4.19) Why do I get "relation with OID #####
does not exist" errors when accessing temporary tables in PL/PgSQL
functions?</H3>
2007-10-17 17:34:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
6efae5bf2a
Another round of editorialization on the text search documentation.
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Notably, standardize on using "token" for the strings output by a parser,
while "lexeme" is reserved for the normalized strings produced by a
dictionary.
2007-10-17 01:01:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb0d539d05
Mention Slony as just an example.
2007-10-16 19:44:18 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
d8c5edae3b
Fix the URL properly per Robert Treat.
2007-10-16 19:04:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4fef90dfed
Add doc clarifications for warm standby.
2007-10-16 14:56:51 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
aad991b41b
Update URLs to a couple of external projects
2007-10-16 12:14:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
59dc5d0e11
Slony switch is only seconds of downtime.
2007-10-16 05:37:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e61d252152
Add mention of Slony for in-place upgrades.
2007-10-16 02:48:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
4b21d1f09b
Remove obsolete examples of add-on parsers and dictionary templates;
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these are more easily and usefully maintained as contrib modules.
Various other wordsmithing, markup improvement, etc.
2007-10-15 21:39:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
18e3fcc31e
Migrate the former contrib/txid module into core. This will make it easier
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for Slony and Skytools to depend on it. Per discussion.
2007-10-13 23:06:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf673f2525
Attached some minor corrections, mainly completion of removal of
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the "relation with OID ##### does not exist" item, and some URL
corrections.
Ian Barwick
2007-10-13 03:37:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
05c609b3d4
Add missing word.
2007-10-11 20:35:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
70680211de
Add missing word.
2007-10-11 20:04:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1246fcd02a
Update release notes in "major" and "migration" sections. Still have
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remainder of release notes to review.
2007-10-11 19:46:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
68b08b2512
Whitespace cleanup.
2007-10-11 02:43:55 +00:00
Neil Conway
f83a9303a6
Minor correction for full-text search limitations docs.
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Heikki Linnakangas.
2007-10-10 21:48:22 +00:00
Neil Conway
8230895313
Fix typo in REVOKE reference page. Guillaume Lelarge.
2007-10-10 21:38:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
29eece51a8
Back out release changes that weren't ready for commit.
2007-10-10 14:09:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
688b3aac49
Update Japanese FAQ.
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Jun Kuwamura
2007-10-10 13:43:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e1caa90406
Add mention of full text indexing for word searches.
2007-10-09 20:13:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
db962bb14d
Remove FAQ item about temp tables in plpsql having invalid oid problems,
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per suggestions from Pavel Stehule.
2007-10-09 20:08:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cd2cf74584
Update sequence FAQ items, per suggestion from Pavel Stehule.
2007-10-09 19:55:36 +00:00
Neil Conway
81f285da7c
Replace a reference to "start_log_collector" with "logging_collector",
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per Guillaume Lelarge.
2007-10-09 18:14:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
535b07873d
Update Brazilian FAQ.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-10-09 03:21:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
30b6622ecc
Typo fix.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-10-09 03:20:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7c6cb0be8
Add:
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> * MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
> restore to a system with a different locale
2007-10-09 02:31:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d63790d726
Clarify user of "postmaster" vs. "server" in FAQs.
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Brendan Jurd
2007-10-09 01:28:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7121cc9021
Add:
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> o Have ALTER SEQUENCE RENAME rename the sequence name stored
> in the sequence table
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-09/msg00092.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-10/msg00007.php
>
2007-10-08 18:01:17 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
2a997a7065
A few improvements to analyze and vacuum sections in documentation: add "see
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also" entries for autovacuum in analyze and vacuum reference pages, and
enhance usage of cross-references in the maintenance page.
2007-10-07 01:16:42 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
a3ff937359
Change π to plain "pi" in index entry, to avoid double escaping issues.
2007-10-07 01:13:30 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
2816b2cdd2
Clean up the doc makefile for draft HTML generation. It no longer works
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to do "make DRAFT=Y html"; you need to use "make draft" (which was also
supported previously).
2007-10-07 00:32:11 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
4718358fe7
Remove stylesheet.css file on "make clean", created only on VPATH builds.
2007-10-07 00:23:21 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
f5e2911144
Fix missing parenthesis, per Guillaume Lelarge.
2007-10-06 17:45:49 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
c880ed0afb
Fix SGML markup, from Guillaume Lelarge.
2007-10-06 15:50:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
3a38ea2616
Remove some cross-references that don't seem to work in HISTORY
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generation ... we should figure this out later ...
2007-10-05 04:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
3c2d497f8d
Some desultory markup improvements in the new release notes.
2007-10-04 22:55:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
87dfa0d9ae
Stamp 8.3beta1, except in configure.in/configure.
2007-10-04 19:12:04 +00:00
Neil Conway
0b3f5ac43d
Two fixes for the release notes from Guillaume Smet. In passing, make
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a minor markup improvement.
2007-10-04 07:53:07 +00:00
Neil Conway
77b0f459c8
First pass at SGML-ifying the 8.3 release notes. Plenty of improvements
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left to made, but this is a start.
2007-10-04 03:53:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
0a04109d60
Second pass at 8.3 release notes: put items in a bit more logical order
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where possible, add overview and incompatibilities lists, minor cleanups.
The SGML-ification still leaves much to be desired.
2007-10-03 23:02:16 +00:00
Neil Conway
a522db7d62
Various minor improvements to the 8.3 release notes.
2007-10-03 22:06:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
bda5750a33
Some editorial improvements for recently-added ALTER SEQUENCE/VIEW
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documentation. Heikki and Tom
2007-10-03 16:48:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d673a63ed
First cut at 8.3 release notes. SGML markup is nonexistent, and
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the 'overview' and 'incompatibilities' summary lists remain to be
written. But I think all the raw info is there (indeed maybe too
verbose).
2007-10-03 03:32:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
eb9f280ca7
Add catalogs.sgml documentation for text search catalogs.
2007-10-01 21:10:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
5a95c560f0
Add note warning against use of pre-8.4 multithreaded Tcl.
2007-10-01 16:43:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
27b8922221
Add an extra header byte to TOAST-pointer datums to represent their size
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explicitly. This means a TOAST pointer takes 18 bytes instead of 17 --- still
smaller than in 8.2 --- which seems a good tradeoff to ensure we won't have
painted ourselves into a corner if we want to support multiple types of TOAST
pointer later on. Per discussion with Greg Stark.
2007-09-30 19:54:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
b46bd55a6c
Make archive recovery always start a new timeline, rather than only when a
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recovery stop time was used. This avoids a corner-case risk of trying to
overwrite an existing archived copy of the last WAL segment, and seems
simpler and cleaner all around than the original definition. Per example
from Jon Colverson and subsequent analysis by Simon.
2007-09-29 01:36:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
70b9b9b788
Change initdb and CREATE DATABASE to actively reject attempts to create
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databases with encodings that are incompatible with the server's LC_CTYPE
locale, when we can determine that (which we can on most modern platforms,
I believe). C/POSIX locale is compatible with all encodings, of course,
so there is still some usefulness to CREATE DATABASE's ENCODING option,
but this will insulate us against all sorts of recurring complaints
caused by mismatched settings.
I moved initdb's existing LC_CTYPE-to-encoding mapping knowledge into
a new src/port/ file so it could be shared by CREATE DATABASE.
2007-09-28 22:25:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae0b90f223
Remove:
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< * SQL*Net listener that makes PostgreSQL appear as an Oracle database
< to clients
2007-09-28 21:32:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
77c166ba6c
Add virtual transaction IDs to CSVLOG output, so that messages coming from
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the same transaction can be identified even when no regular XID was assigned.
This seems essential after addition of the lazy-XID patch. Also some
minor code cleanup in write_csvlog().
2007-09-27 18:15:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
03a91e0d10
Lowercase all mentions of "PostgreSQL" in URLs, per Magnus.
2007-09-27 06:14:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
f18dfc4835
Minor improvements in backup and recovery:
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- create a separate archive_mode GUC, on which archive_command is dependent
- %r option in recovery.conf sends last restartpoint to recovery command
- %r used in pg_standby, updated README
- minor other code cleanup in pg_standby
- doc on Warm Standby now mentions pg_standby and %r
- log_restartpoints recovery option emits LOG message at each restartpoint
- end of recovery now displays last transaction end time, as requested
by Warren Little; also shown at each restartpoint
- restart archiver if needed to carry away WAL files at shutdown
Simon Riggs
2007-09-26 22:36:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
80963144ad
Rename "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in 3 places.
2007-09-26 20:38:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9692324734
Rename "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in 7 places in the FAQ.
2007-09-26 20:36:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10e1b9df5c
Add:
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> * Implement Boyer-Moore searching in strpos()
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> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-08/msg00012.php
2007-09-26 08:47:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1b57b8bfdc
Document that libpq's PQntuples() might overflow.
2007-09-26 08:45:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
6f5c38dcd0
Just-in-time background writing strategy. This code avoids re-scanning
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buffers that cannot possibly need to be cleaned, and estimates how many
buffers it should try to clean based on moving averages of recent allocation
requests and density of reusable buffers. The patch also adds a couple
more columns to pg_stat_bgwriter to help measure the effectiveness of the
bgwriter.
Greg Smith, building on his own work and ideas from several other people,
in particular a much older patch from Itagaki Takahiro.
2007-09-25 20:03:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
48f7e64395
Simplify and rename some GUC variables, per various recent discussions:
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* stats_start_collector goes away; we always start the collector process,
unless prevented by a problem with setting up the stats UDP socket.
* stats_reset_on_server_start goes away; it seems useless in view of the
availability of pg_stat_reset().
* stats_block_level and stats_row_level are merged into a single variable
"track_counts", which controls all reports sent to the collector process.
* stats_command_string is renamed to track_activities.
* log_autovacuum is renamed to log_autovacuum_min_duration to better reflect
its meaning.
The log_autovacuum change is not a compatibility issue since it didn't exist
before 8.3 anyway. The other changes need to be release-noted.
2007-09-24 03:12:23 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
02138357ff
Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because if it
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produces text it is an encoding hole and if not it's incompatible
with the spec, whatever the spec means (which we're not sure about anyway).
2007-09-24 01:29:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d16f270e59
Typo fix from Brendan Jurd.
2007-09-23 18:06:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
90c156f0d1
Document the translations from Postgres message severity levels to
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syslog and eventlog severity levels, per suggestion from Josh Drake.
Also, some wordsmithing for the csvlog documentation.
2007-09-22 19:10:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
cc59049daf
Improve handling of prune/no-prune decisions by storing a page's oldest
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unpruned XMAX in its header. At the cost of 4 bytes per page, this keeps us
from performing heap_page_prune when there's no chance of pruning anything.
Seems to be necessary per Heikki's preliminary performance testing.
2007-09-21 21:25:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
754838caa3
Done:
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> * -Consider shrinking expired tuples to just their headers
> * -Allow heap reuse of UPDATEd rows if no indexed columns are changed,
> and old and new versions are on the same heap page
Not needed anymore:
< * Reuse index tuples that point to heap tuples that are not visible to
< anyone?
2007-09-20 18:54:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
282d2a03dd
HOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexed
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columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer
generate extra index entries for the new version. Instead, index searches
follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version.
In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a
per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space.
VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however.
Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.
2007-09-20 17:56:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4893eadc3c
Remove tabs from SGML file.
2007-09-19 03:13:57 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
55613bf9cd
Close previously open holes for invalidly encoded data to enter the
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database via builtin functions, as recently discussed on -hackers.
chr() now returns a character in the database encoding. For UTF8 encoded databases
the argument is treated as a Unicode code point. For other multi-byte encodings
the argument must designate a strict ascii character, or an error is raised,
as is also the case if the argument is 0.
ascii() is adjusted so that it remains the inverse of chr().
The two argument form of convert() is gone, and the three argument form now
takes a bytea first argument and returns a bytea. To cover this loss three new
functions are introduced:
. convert_from(bytea, name) returns text - converts the first argument from the
named encoding to the database encoding
. convert_to(text, name) returns bytea - converts the first argument from the
database encoding to the named encoding
. length(bytea, name) returns int - gives the length of the first argument in
characters in the named encoding
2007-09-18 17:41:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
e92da1a9d1
Update release notes for last-minute fix.
2007-09-16 03:03:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9a36a09f2e
Update Japanese FAQ.
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Jun Kuwamura
2007-09-15 00:58:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c16ffbc677
Add:
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>
> o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
> advancement starvation
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> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-06/msg01645.php
2007-09-14 19:02:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dc8a8a0463
Add:
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> * Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD
> rules, such as for partitioning setups
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> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00577.php
2007-09-14 18:50:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18cad61e67
Fix markup.
2007-09-14 18:39:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
637878cd85
Update pronunciation FAQ item.
2007-09-14 18:38:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23221f4eea
Update to mention alternate project name is "Postgres".
2007-09-14 18:29:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
b2acd633e4
Fix markup that doesn't work in back branches.
2007-09-14 16:15:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
12afe7bc76
Document atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.
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Andrew Maclean
2007-09-14 15:53:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
9b2afa90bf
Minor editorialization on release notes.
2007-09-14 15:50:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4b836d8312
Add some links for escape strings.
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Brendan Jurd
Fix markup in previous commit.
2007-09-14 14:54:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f6a168e2c3
Add LDAP URL documentation.
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Albe Laurenz
2007-09-14 14:31:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
13e26073bd
Update documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we
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don't need to recommend nightly analyzes anymore unless autovacuum is off.
2007-09-14 13:43:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fc79628641
Clarify tar documentation about return error codes.
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Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-09-14 13:26:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae36e0d589
Update tsearch include location in example.
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Oleg.
2007-09-14 13:21:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0f2b109bc
This is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required as
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of PostgreSQL 8.2) and provides a link to compiling and linking section.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-09-14 04:18:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
edc18429bd
Update GNU tar error code documentation.
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Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-09-14 04:15:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6c9e4d7e08
Mentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of
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the problems non-root reading /etc/shadow.
2007-09-14 03:53:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa33bdd783
Update documented error text.
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Fujii Masao
2007-09-14 02:43:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dfe2e3f7a5
Clarify age() 'months' calculation documentation.
2007-09-14 00:52:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f307fe4c9b
Update documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather than
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administrator-scheduled vacuums.
2007-09-13 23:43:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e8e2bd799f
Update Japanese FAQ, backpatch.
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Jun Kuwamura
2007-09-13 03:34:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8049626ee2
Update Japanese FAQ to current release number.
2007-09-12 03:11:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0735264aab
Upcoming most recent release will be 8.2.5.
2007-09-11 17:34:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da7192d1d4
Stamp
2007-09-11 17:19:49 +00:00