required if a datatype is to be accepted by GROUP BY, DISTINCT, or
ORDER BY. This is documentation for code changes made pursuant to
pgsql-hackers discussion around 29-Nov-02.
match parent table. This used to work, but was broken in 7.3 by
rearrangement of code that handles targetlist sorting. Add a regression
test to catch future breakage.
patches of 9-Dec (permissions fix) and 13-Dec (performance) as well as
a partial fix for locking issues: concurrent DROP COLUMN should not
create trouble anymore. But concurrent DROP TABLE is still a risk, and
there is no protection at all against creating a column of a domain while
we are altering the domain.
columns in DefineIndex. So, ALTER TABLE ... PRIMARY KEY will now
automatically add the NOT NULL constraint. It appeared the alter_table
regression test wanted this to occur, as after the change the regression
test better matched in inline 'fails'/'succeeds' comments.
Rod Taylor
beginning/end of cursor.
Have MOVE return 0/1 depending on cursor position.
Matches SQL spec.
Pass cursor counter from parser as a long rather than int.
Doc updates.
computation: reduce the bucket number mod nbatch. This changes the
association between original bucket numbers and batches, but that
doesn't matter. Minor other cleanups in hashjoin code to help
centralize decisions.
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< * Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
< * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
> * Bruce is Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> of Software Research Assoc.
> * Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> of
> Family Health Network
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< * Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
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> * Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> of Alcove Systems Engineering
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> * Vadim is Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o@email.com> of Sector Data
Also, tweak -C option (emit CREATE DATABASE command) to emit encoding
name rather than encoding number, for consistency with pg_dumpall
and better cross-version portability.
> I'm not objecting to improving the text. I am objecting to deleting it
> outright...
Ok, fair enough. I've attached a revised version of the patch -- let me
know you think it needs further improvements.
Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Hiroshi Inoue
Dave Cramer