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Tom Lane
aba691b728 Close all cursors created during a failed subtransaction. This is needed
to avoid problems when a cursor depends on objects created or changed in
the same subtransaction.  We'd like to do better someday, but this seems
the only workable answer for 8.0.1.
2005-01-26 23:20:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
4de12d4470 Add docs for a couple of formerly-undocumented geometric conversion functions. 2005-01-26 20:42:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d08889aa8b Add tools/find_gt_lt to find < and > in SGML source.
Lowercase some uppercase tags so tools is more reliable at finding
problems.
2005-01-23 00:30:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
754b5e1c42 More < and > changes to ampersands.
8.0.X and HEAD.
2005-01-22 23:22:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ced129aa3 More < and > cleanups converted to ampersands. 2005-01-22 22:56:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e292e3e48 More fixes for => and ->, use proper ampersand markups. 2005-01-22 22:31:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1e5eb160d1 Change -> and <- to use proper ampersand markups.
HEAD and 8.0.X.
2005-01-22 22:06:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b60a8512a0 Update count(*) discussion ideas:
<   BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves making this
>   BY col {DESC} LIMIT 1. Completing this item involves doing this
<   invalidated if anyone modifies the table.
<
>   invalidated if anyone modifies the table.  Another idea is to
>   get a count directly from a unique index, but for this to be
>   faster than a sequential scan it must avoid access to the heap
>   to obtain tuple visibility information.
>
> * Allow data to be pulled directly from indexes
>
>   Currently indexes do not have enough tuple tuple visibility
>   information to allow data to be pulled from the index without
>   also accessing the heap.  One way to allow this is to set a bit
>   to index tuples to indicate if a tuple is currently visible to
>   all transactions when the first valid heap lookup happens.  This
>   bit would have to be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
2005-01-22 20:05:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a73198ac17 Document that Rekall is GPL now. 2005-01-19 19:45:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d19d8b846 Add:
> * Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
2005-01-19 14:17:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3fc86c0f47 Fix typo. 2005-01-19 03:13:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
31197bbdf5 Update version stamps for 8.1 as listed in RELEASE_CHANGES. 2005-01-18 05:00:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
0f6be37fcb Clarify that the --enable-integer-datetimes switch affects the time and
interval datatypes as well as timestamp.
2005-01-17 18:47:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be105bd789 Please find enclosed another patch that now (I hope) really is
correct.  It's in addition to the previous patch.

David Fetter
2005-01-17 17:29:49 +00:00
Neil Conway
8a9cc26ee1 Fix minor thinko in pg_dump documentation of "-n" option. 2005-01-17 04:30:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
691bb1d247 Spelling fix. 2005-01-17 04:27:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6ea9da1ee0 Please find enclosed a patch to the pl/perl documents that correctly
tells what arguments go to pl/perl triggers.

David Fetter
2005-01-17 03:04:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
56d982b7d4 Mention ALTER COLUMN TYPE in FAQ. 2005-01-17 03:02:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5be1e13dd1 Update German FAQ.
Ian Barwick
2005-01-17 02:42:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d2136690a6 Update to 8.0.0 for packaging. 2005-01-17 02:40:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
637cf69b9d Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-17 02:29:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
9175d7df66 Some more copy-editing. 2005-01-17 01:29:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da10a47b39 Remove </a>
Alvaro
2005-01-15 22:51:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d3746759d Update TORA item.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:44:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6987ca78db Update Brazilian FAQ.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2005-01-15 22:14:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
a5645972af Some minor editing work on the release notes. 2005-01-15 21:11:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
0e3afb3277 Minor improvements in descriptions of recent changes. 2005-01-15 07:53:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
67c1fd1efd Update release notes for 8.0.0 final. Release date set as 2005-01-19! 2005-01-15 05:59:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b72ebdc0c Merge query of system objects FAQ items. 2005-01-15 05:19:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
893c66de69 Simplify trigger example, per Mark Kirkwood. 2005-01-15 03:38:44 +00:00
Kris Jurka
2c1abfd979 Add index entries for function volatilities. 2005-01-14 21:46:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
a294726bc1 Incorporate examples and doc patches from Mark Kirkwood and David Fetter. 2005-01-14 01:16:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
29e58330a6 Change Win32 client configuration files from *.txt to *.conf. 2005-01-14 00:25:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
145cc515f0 Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-13 21:13:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2eef62c66 Update of Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2005-01-13 03:08:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
89b5cbe928 Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-10 09:01:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
35fde297c0 Small polishing of bug reporting template 2005-01-10 08:21:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
ab3bb9cf78 Add some real documentation about TOAST (finally). Combine this with
the old 'page' chapter and the recently added 'filelayout' chapter to
make a coherent chapter about PostgreSQL's physical storage layout.
2005-01-10 00:04:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
0471cd5f62 Clarify description of greedy and non-greedy POSIX regular expressions,
per discussion in Nov 2004 with Ken Tanzer.
2005-01-09 20:08:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a9566cccca Update OS/2 URL. 2005-01-09 19:44:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
7da8623a56 Last batch of updates in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments. 2005-01-09 18:58:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
7bbdb078bd Update discussion of ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-01-09 17:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
b548cde1f5 Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments. 2005-01-09 05:57:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5adf46cbd Some more small improvements in response to 7.4 interactive docs comments. 2005-01-08 22:13:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b19011e10c Update supported platforms list. 2005-01-08 09:54:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
6889537c48 Some small docs improvements motivated by reading the comments for the 7.4
7.4 interactive docs.
2005-01-08 05:19:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb6eab78b7 Remove mp3 that is now missing. 2005-01-08 03:59:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
cef2cc50b5 Some small docs improvements motivated by reading the comments for the
7.4 interactive docs.
2005-01-08 01:44:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
ffce35fe6f Add a tip showing how functions on composite types can be used to
emulate computed fields.  I suppose this is why the Berkeley boys made
it work that way in the first place, but the docs never said so anyplace.
2005-01-07 23:08:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
4e64e7f563 Improve discussion of SQL functions taking/returning row types. 2005-01-07 22:40:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7a986fb4a4 Update supported platforms list 2005-01-07 10:21:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
826f732562 Fix ECPGstatus() documentation of parameters.
Edmund Bacon
2005-01-07 05:43:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
41ca756386 Spell APPDATA as %APPDATA%, per recommendation from Magnus. 2005-01-06 21:20:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
7507d594d2 Adjust examples to avoid using keywords as identifiers, per Honda Shigehiro. 2005-01-06 20:53:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
a3f98d5795 Adjust lookup of client-side profile files (.pgpass and so on) as per
discussion on pgsql-hackers-win32 list.  Documentation still needs to
be tweaked --- I'm not sure how to refer to the APPDATA folder in
user documentation.
2005-01-06 18:29:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f4833cf30c Update to supported platforms list 2005-01-06 10:12:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
d6294efbec More minor updates and copy-editing. 2005-01-06 01:49:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
e0b9085074 Re-readjust synopses for CREATE/ALTER USER. 2005-01-06 00:11:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
81c41e3d0e More minor updates and copy-editing. 2005-01-05 23:42:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b4b984bccf Update URL's to point to new site main location. 2005-01-05 22:37:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a87f494d9c Fix example, change table name from 'array' to 'array_int'. 2005-01-05 18:03:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a8d97fcded Update date stamp. 2005-01-05 17:52:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7ef12f56a Update URLs. 2005-01-05 17:42:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8c6147b911 Revert cosmetic synopsis changes that break psql translations. 2005-01-05 14:22:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
10e5a759aa Add some post-processing to the man page generation to fix up external/
dangling cross-references.
2005-01-04 21:03:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6ca9f46e22 Remove duplicate novell mention. 2005-01-04 14:25:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
a7abae4954 Fix subsection ordering (DISTINCT should be described before LIMIT). 2005-01-04 08:59:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
33a6dcfcce Update wording:
< * Allow building with directories containing spaces
> * Allow building in directories containing spaces
<   There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
<   source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
<   into a directory that contains spaces.  The first is probably not
<   possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
<   spaces in path names.  The second is possible with proper quoting in
<   the makefiles.  Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
<   is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
<   then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
>   This is probably not possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools
>   do not fully support quoting of paths with spaces.
>
> * 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.
2005-01-04 05:35:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
24cab1e8d1 Update item for install with spaces:
>   There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a
>   source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install
>   into a directory that contains spaces.  The first is probably not
>   possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support
>   spaces in path names.  The second is possible with proper quoting in
>   the makefiles.  Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
>   is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and
>   then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
2005-01-04 05:13:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
cc093bc3ad More minor updates and copy-editing. 2005-01-04 03:58:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
248d92ddf4 Update of Russian FAQ.
Viktor Vislobokov
2005-01-04 03:47:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b2ccdf2a44 HTML cleanup. 2005-01-04 03:44:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43eb2830eb Add OS/2 port mention. 2005-01-04 03:43:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
4e94ea9fc9 More minor updates and copy-editing. 2005-01-04 00:39:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
246be304a5 Add mention of performance impact on LIKE of non-C locales. 2005-01-04 00:05:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
11373311d0 Add:
> * Allow building with directories containing spaces
2005-01-02 21:08:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
a17e589046 Adjust a few more copyright notices to match the format expected by
the src/tools/copyright script.
2005-01-01 22:14:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ca924a9dd Update:
< 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used.
> 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions
> 	  like towupper().
2005-01-01 17:29:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bfeaefd245 Update:
< 	  the Win32 strcoll() can be used.
> 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used.
2005-01-01 17:25:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f882247664 Update:
<         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which which PostgreSQL supports
>         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
914a915,917
>
> 	  To fix UTF8, the data needs to be converted to UTF16 and then
> 	  the Win32 strcoll() can be used.
2005-01-01 16:36:57 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
2ff501590b Tag appropriate files for rc3
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
883ac5ca7a More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-30 21:45:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
c3d583ddce More updates and copy-editing. Rearrange order of sections a little bit
to put more widely useful info before less widely useful info.
2004-12-30 03:13:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
ec0e307596 Convert external-projects to an appendix. 2004-12-29 23:36:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
d9236a69fc Make libpq default to localhost connections on machines without Unix-domain
sockets, rather than failing as it formerly did.  Revert the
thereby-obsoleted patch to make psql supply the localhost default.
2004-12-28 23:17:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
797c2b2501 More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-28 22:47:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
7737d01ece More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-28 19:08:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
31cc047d94 BDST should be "British double SUMMER time", not Standard time.
Per John Smith.
2004-12-28 15:25:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
af71fbafd0 Add:
> * Improve the background writer
>
>   Allow the background writer to more efficiently write dirty buffers
>   from the end of the LRU cache and use a clock sweep algorithm to
>   write other dirty buffers to reduced checkpoint I/O
2004-12-27 22:44:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
008e9e452f More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-27 22:30:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
39475990e0 Move info about psql console code page issues out of install-win32.sgml,
where it doesn't belong, and put it in the psql reference page.
2004-12-27 20:13:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
370f90970d Cause pg_hba.conf file inclusion (@file stuff) to behave as documented,
that is, files are sought in the same directory as the referencing file.
Also allow absolute paths in @file constructs.  Improve documentation
to actually say what is allowed in an included file.
2004-12-27 19:19:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
cdd402f8b3 More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-26 23:06:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e40ae565c2 Improve Win32 install instructions. 2004-12-24 19:20:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
7cc37511a2 Minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-24 19:12:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c62465cba3 Back out Win32 changes until Tom is done. 2004-12-24 18:37:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91e081d515 Adjust documention for Win32 installation options. 2004-12-24 18:32:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e4ff7c5e94 Update docs for Win32 installation, per Tom. 2004-12-24 18:11:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
860d507b89 Updates from Ian Barwick.
Update FAQ with new URL's for site.
2004-12-24 17:19:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8a10119bf3 Update FAQ. 2004-12-24 17:13:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bad4897d9f Update FAQ with new URL's for site. 2004-12-24 16:02:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
0add759825 More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-23 23:07:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8ffb60492 A small pass of docs review and copy-editing. 2004-12-23 05:37:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
766b0bbb4d Add mention that pg_ctl will return an accurate exit code when waiting
for startup or shutdown.  We have always done this but it wasn't documented.
2004-12-22 02:17:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c20d6062a3 Add:
> *  Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2004-12-21 01:23:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f938227c5 Add:
> * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
2004-12-21 01:21:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bbb2e21e14 I was recently surprised to find that EXTRACT's day of the week
numbering is different than TO_CHAR's ditto. EXTRACT starts at 0==Sunday
while TO_CHAR starts at 1==Sunday.

A suggestion for two documentation notes is attached as a patch to
current CVS HEAD.

Troels Arvin
2004-12-21 01:02:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5ae0d69da Mark the TimeZone parameter as GUC_REPORT, so that JDBC can find out
when it changes.  Per request from Kris Jurka.
2004-12-20 18:15:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
59bffa3707 Adjust pg_resetxlog to handle 8.0 WAL file names properly. 2004-12-20 01:42:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
8562b032d8 Fix broken markup. 2004-12-19 22:10:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cd5c7e7cbd Add:
> * Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather than toggle
2004-12-19 04:36:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
afc4ffe3c8 Add note warning that OS X updates usually overwrite /etc/rc. 2004-12-18 18:36:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5dac7c73c7 Changes the doc's to reflect what the user will find as default.
Robert Treat
2004-12-18 04:21:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50b1651df7 Many thanks to Joachim Wieland for a big list of corrections / updates.
Ian Barwick
2004-12-18 04:18:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f7faa5473 Update from Ian Barwick 2004-12-18 04:13:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
92c001bbaf Minor copy-editing in tutorial. 2004-12-17 04:50:32 +00:00
Neil Conway
480777e56c Allow 'ELSEIF' as an alternative to 'ELSIF' in PL/PgSQL. There have been
several reports of users being confused when they attempt to use ELSEIF
and run into trouble due to PL/PgSQL's lax parser. The parser will be
improved for 8.1, but we can fix most of the problem by allowing ELSEIF
for now.
2004-12-17 03:51:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
dfdae5d63c Hook up the plpython result-object nrows and status methods correctly.
Adjust documentation to match current reality.
2004-12-17 02:14:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
24658a2d53 Add Win32:
>         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which which PostgreSQL supports
>           but the operating system does not (already disallowed by
> 	  pginstaller)
2004-12-17 00:04:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8e0598f7b1 Add port report 2004-12-16 11:23:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50f1daeaaa Add French IRC channel. 2004-12-16 01:08:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d78fc95bda Add Spanish IRC channel to FAQ. 2004-12-16 00:01:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e61648d835 Update IRC mention. 2004-12-15 03:11:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
70dc2f6abb Add port reports 2004-12-14 10:24:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
374abf9178 Add more port reports. 2004-12-14 00:36:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ff0418293 Remove:
< 	o Allow the shared memory address to be configured via GUC
2004-12-13 18:40:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5ec30faee6 Spell checker run 2004-12-13 18:05:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc4f22c167 Done:
< 	o Remove per-backend parameter file and move into shared memory

Add for Win32:
> 	o Allow the shared memory address to be configured via GUC
2004-12-13 18:00:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e13c5cd33b Add:
>
> * Allow the size of the buffer cache used by temporary objects to be
>   specified as a GUC variable
>
>   Larger local buffer cache sizes requires more efficient handling of
>   local cache lookups.
2004-12-13 14:21:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cbc1886b30 Update FAQ.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2004-12-13 03:37:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
fd536dd257 Added port reports 2004-12-11 20:54:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d89042b443 Patch to the pl/perl documents that clarifies the scope of global data and
gives an example of storing a code reference

by David Fetter
2004-12-11 20:03:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
607154df90 Added port reports 2004-12-11 19:31:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f4451a9e59 Added port report 2004-12-11 19:13:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
ed244968c0 Added port report 2004-12-11 19:01:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4abfc20f09 Reorder IRC examples. 2004-12-10 18:01:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e514da649e Start filling in the supported platforms list with build farm information. 2004-12-06 23:47:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
29a26b25ba Fix several mistaken xreflabel entries, including those spotted by
Michael Fuhr.
2004-12-05 20:05:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
510a47a91e Properl format HTML in developer's FAQ. 2004-12-04 04:12:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2254d4ef1b Back out ARRAY() patch. 2004-12-03 18:34:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
59ce952a89 Improve description of --disable-rpath workaround for regression test
problems.
2004-12-03 17:46:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c1233c849b >>This patch adds another plpgsql trigger example to the chapter. It uses
>>the emp table again, but shows how to audit changes into another table
>>(emp_audit).

Mark Kirkwood
2004-12-03 17:12:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cf52f83aa6 Add:
> * ANALYZE should record a pg_statistic entry for an all-NULL column
2004-12-03 17:07:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4aa09c5762 Typo fixes. 2004-12-03 06:30:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e5615c42a7 Fix typo. 2004-12-03 06:18:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b5a6e26f3a Merge pgadmin paragraph. 2004-12-03 06:04:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b16aaa065 First version of external projects manual section. 2004-12-03 05:50:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
28c8c99ac6 Add:
> * Fix priority ordering of read and write light-weight locks (Neil)
2004-12-03 02:24:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e5fddaa819 Remove doc changes that were in process during previous commit. 2004-12-03 01:23:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
08e0b34bad Back out fix for Unicode characters above 0x10000 2004-12-03 01:20:33 +00:00