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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
5bf049b56c Remove OID/foreign key mention in psql variable interpolation docs. 2008-05-08 00:27:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
09005f2fec Add Simon Riggs' email address. 2008-05-07 18:48:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
00756a5691 Move Client Authentication right after Server Configuration in docs.
Scott Marlowe
2008-05-07 16:36:43 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
0423de4d30 Make the pg_stat_activity view call a SRF (pg_stat_get_activity())
instead of calling a bunch of individual functions.

This function can also be called directly, taking a PID as an argument, to
return only the data for a single PID.
2008-05-07 14:41:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8008988be3 Fix TODO typo. 2008-05-07 04:46:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
44ba6f3476 Add URL for
< * Consider increasing the number of default statistics target, and
<   reduce statistics target overhead
2008-05-07 04:45:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bd8131ee8f Update TODO wording:
< 	o Allow dictionary to filter out only stop words
> 	o Allow dictionaries to change the token that is passed on to
> 	  later dictionaries
2008-05-07 04:34:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40941c5129 Add item, make text search section:
o Consider changing error to warning for strings larger than one
          megabyte

          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-02/msg00190.php
          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00062.php
2008-05-07 04:12:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d592d2e86 Done:
> * -Add function to report the time of the most recent server reload
2008-05-06 16:14:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
93afd6f619 Done:
> 	o -Improve display of enums to show valid enum values
2008-05-06 00:47:53 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
27a52fa2d9 Document extra information provided by psql's \dT+ (not \dt+ as per recent commit). 2008-05-05 01:38:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
a87f15d506 Display ACLS using multiple lines for psql's \z. Brendan Jurd. 2008-05-05 01:21:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
b6d15590f7 Add timestamp and timestamptz versions of generate_series().
Hitoshi Harada
2008-05-04 23:19:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
600da67fbe Add pg_conf_load_time() function to report when the Postgres configuration
files were last loaded.

George Gensure
2008-05-04 21:13:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
47391591ba Support RETURN QUERY EXECUTE in plpgsql.
Pavel Stehule
2008-05-03 00:11:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
511b798c46 Update documentation for psql relation-size-in-\dt+ patch. 2008-05-02 22:50:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
db147b3483 Allow the planner's estimate of the fraction of a cursor's rows that will be
retrieved to be controlled through a GUC variable.

Robert Hell
2008-05-02 21:26:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf9f6c8d8e Extend yesterday's patch making BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE configurable to also
let XLOG_BLCKSZ and XLOG_SEG_SIZE be set via configure.  Per a proposal by
Mark Wong, though I thought it better to call the switches after "wal" rather
than "xlog".
2008-05-02 19:52:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
3c6248a828 Remove the recently added USE_SEGMENTED_FILES option, and indeed remove all
support for a nonsegmented mode from md.c.  Per recent discussions, there
doesn't seem to be much value in a "never segment" option as opposed to
segmenting with a suitably large segment size.  So instead provide a
configure-time switch to set the desired segment size in units of gigabytes.
While at it, expose a configure switch for BLCKSZ as well.

Zdenek Kotala
2008-05-02 01:08:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
1b1e335b15 Make the minimum allowed value of work_mem be 64KB always, rather than having
it vary with BLCKSZ as before.  This agrees with what the documentation says,
and avoids a regression test problem when BLCKSZ is larger than default.
Per recent discussion.
2008-05-01 19:55:40 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
ca0aecfdef Add example showing how to remove a password from a role.
Andreas Scherbaum
2008-04-30 12:38:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d7379b7624 Update comment for 8.4:
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.4 release.#
2008-04-28 23:08:33 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
1fcb977a13 Add generate_subscripts, a series-generation function which generates an
array's subscripts.

Pavel Stehule, some editorialization by me.
2008-04-28 14:48:58 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
a1d479f518 Add SGML ID attributes to the arrays subsections, and a few index entries for
them.
2008-04-27 04:33:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea0382e370 Code review for recent patch to terminate online backup during shutdown:
do CancelBackup at a sane place, fix some oversights in the state transitions,
allow only superusers to connect while we are waiting for backup mode to end.
2008-04-26 22:47:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b6e2fab978 Add URL for:
* Allow adding/renaming/removing enumerated values to an existing
  enumerated data type
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01718.php
>
2008-04-25 21:38:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5463d399e3 Update wording from David Fetter. 2008-04-25 14:34:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43a43ad21d Update to remove passive wording from FAQ, David Fetter 2008-04-25 14:28:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91674bce68 Update TODO item:
> * Allow adding/renaming/removing enumerated values to an existing
>   enumerated data type
2008-04-24 20:57:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bb908d9879 Update:
< * Allow adding enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
> * Allow adding/removing enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
2008-04-24 20:29:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
830f276b2a Add embedded usage mention to FAQ, per Greg Smith. 2008-04-24 19:58:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc3c9e1b29 Add to TODO:
> * Allow prepared transactions with temporary tables created and dropped
>   in the same transaction, and when an ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS temporary
>   table is accessed
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00047.php
2008-04-24 18:23:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a61fbe4582 Add TODO item:
>
> 	o Impove COPY performance
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00954.php
2008-04-24 17:32:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
82403f0350 Add URL for:
* Allow index scans to return matching index keys, not just the matching
  heap locations
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01657.php
>
2008-04-24 17:06:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a88b8943db Add to TODO:
> * Allow index scans to return matching index keys, not just the matching
>   heap locations
2008-04-24 16:42:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e242fec5f Add to TODO:
<
> * Allow adding enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
>   type
2008-04-24 16:14:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a3552f050f Remove, item done, description unclear:
< * Allow index scans to return matching index keys
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01079.php
2008-04-24 16:11:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9dd10490ed Update TODO description for GIT:
* Consider smaller indexes that record a range of values per heap page,
  rather than having one index entry for every heap row
2008-04-24 15:54:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19750904c8 Add GIT URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01589.php
2008-04-24 02:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b6b8cdc81 Add to TODO:
<
> 	o Add prompt escape to display the client and server versions
2008-04-24 00:39:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fef58c6943 Add URL for MERGE:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01475.php
2008-04-23 22:38:47 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
c979a1fefa Prevent shutdown in normal mode if online backup is running, and
have pg_ctl warn about this.

Cancel running online backups (by renaming the backup_label file,
thus rendering the backup useless) when shutting down in fast mode.

Laurenz Albe
2008-04-23 13:44:59 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
fc2117a4b5 Replace developer FAQ with a reference to the wiki, which is where
it now lives (per discussion). Leave the other FAQs alone for now.
2008-04-22 09:26:32 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
be9ab11366 Fix typo, noted by Stefan Kaltenbrunner. 2008-04-21 11:06:13 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
3bb6d101c4 Add link to major version release notes at the top of the minor
version ones, to make it clear to users just browsing the notes
that there are a lot more changes available from whatever version
they are at than what's in the minor version release notes.
2008-04-21 09:44:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
8472bf7a73 Allow float8, int8, and related datatypes to be passed by value on machines
where Datum is 8 bytes wide.  Since this will break old-style C functions
(those still using version 0 calling convention) that have arguments or
results of these types, provide a configure option to disable it and retain
the old pass-by-reference behavior.  Likewise, provide a configure option
to disable the recently-committed float4 pass-by-value change.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, plus configurability stuff by me.
2008-04-21 00:26:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ca214ed1a Update TODO using new script. 2008-04-19 12:33:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa4f87769f Remove TODO.detail directory. All URLs now in TODO file as references. 2008-04-19 12:19:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
883b6a8a51 Remove TODO.detail references; instead add TODO URLs pointing to the
archives.  We have been using URLs for a while for new items.
2008-04-19 12:16:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
87a2f050a9 Cause EXPLAIN's VERBOSE option to print the target list (output column list)
of each plan node, instead of its former behavior of dumping the internal
representation of the plan tree.  The latter display is still available for
those who really want it (see debug_print_plan), but uses for it are certainly
few and and far between.  Per discussion.

This patch also removes the explain_pretty_print GUC, which is obsoleted
by the change.
2008-04-18 01:42:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c5c7ba1b10 TODO Done:
> * -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
2008-04-17 20:57:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c4fd93b3f3 Re-enable pg_terminate_backend() using SIGTERM. SIGTERM testing still
needed.
2008-04-17 20:56:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
35390aab16 Update most recent release to 8.3.1. 2008-04-16 20:57:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0f839fc60 Update TODO wording. 2008-04-16 17:50:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54495e387f Add to TODO:
> * Implement the non-threaded Avahi service discovery protocol
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00939.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00097.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01211.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00001.php
2008-04-16 17:25:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
17cdf848b8 Re-add terminate TODO item. 2008-04-15 21:39:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76365960d2 Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions. 2008-04-15 20:28:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1e40da49ae Add TODO item:
< * Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
>
> 	o Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
> 	o Improve LISTEN concurrency
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg01106.php
2008-04-15 15:08:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d2b258ad0 Move LISTEN/NOTIFY items to separate TODO section. 2008-04-15 15:07:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c28c9d69ef Add to TODO:
> * Allow XML to accept more liberal DOCTYPE specifications
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-02/msg00347.php
2008-04-15 14:24:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
56913735d0 Done:
> * -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
2008-04-15 13:55:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18b286f3e3 Add pg_terminate_backend() to allow terminating only a single session. 2008-04-15 13:55:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
9b5c8d45f6 Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion.  The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes.  In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.

Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9afab58eed Add URL for:
* Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels:

> 	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php
2008-04-14 13:33:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
24558da14a Phase 2 of project to make index operator lossiness be determined at runtime
instead of plan time.  Extend the amgettuple API so that the index AM returns
a boolean indicating whether the indexquals need to be rechecked, and make
that rechecking happen in nodeIndexscan.c (currently the only place where
it's expected to be needed; other callers of index_getnext are just erroring
out for now).  For the moment, GIN and GIST have stub logic that just always
sets the recheck flag to TRUE --- I'm hoping to get Teodor to handle pushing
that control down to the opclass consistent() functions.  The planner no
longer pays any attention to amopreqcheck, and that catalog column will go
away in due course.
2008-04-13 19:18:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
c22ed3d523 Turn the -i/--ignore-version options of pg_dump and pg_dumpall into no-ops:
the server version check is now always enforced.  Relax the version check to
allow a server that is of pg_dump's own major version but a later minor
version; this is the only case that -i was at all safe to use in.

pg_restore already enforced only a very weak version check, so this is
really just a documentation change for it.

Per discussion.
2008-04-13 03:49:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
00b1827ae1 Update wording:
< * Allow functions to control the transaction state
> * Allow calling of a procedure outside a SELECT that can control the
>   transaction state
2008-04-11 19:50:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
accbddc9bd Changed TODO wording:
< * Support procedures, which return no value
> * Allow functions to control the transaction state
2008-04-11 19:36:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
942550575f Add TODO:
> * Support procedures, which return no value
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01375.php
2008-04-11 19:16:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a464dc07fe Update URLs for dead space map. 2008-04-11 19:14:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
4e82a95476 Replace "amgetmulti" AM functions with "amgetbitmap", in which the whole
indexscan always occurs in one call, and the results are returned in a
TIDBitmap instead of a limited-size array of TIDs.  This should improve
speed a little by reducing AM entry/exit overhead, and it is necessary
infrastructure if we are ever to support bitmap indexes.

In an only slightly related change, add support for TIDBitmaps to preserve
(somewhat lossily) the knowledge that particular TIDs reported by an index
need to have their quals rechecked when the heap is visited.  This facility
is not really used yet; we'll need to extend the forced-recheck feature to
plain indexscans before it's useful, and that hasn't been coded yet.
The intent is to use it to clean up 8.3's horrid @@@ kluge for text search
with weighted queries.  There might be other uses in future, but that one
alone is sufficient reason.

Heikki Linnakangas, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-10 22:25:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f260edb144 Add TODO URLs moved from open items queue:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00265.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01214.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-05/msg00013.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00741.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00014.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00487.php
> * Allow index scans to return matching index keys
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01079.php
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00166.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php
2008-04-10 18:58:15 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
e863951a59 Remove mention of DBD::PgSPI, which is unmaintained and generally unnecessary. 2008-04-10 15:16:46 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
66782364a1 Mention pg_backend_pid() in the system information section in addition
to the monitoring section.

Jim Nasby
2008-04-10 13:34:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d44523638a Document that continuous archiving backup can be used for cases where
you can't get a simultaneous snapshot.
2008-04-09 02:52:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2662e03b64 Update text FAQ. 2008-04-09 01:04:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8cb3ad9f52 Revert sentence removal from nickname in FAQ. 2008-04-09 00:55:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
20c5542c8b Remove mention of the Berkeley origins of the alias "Postgres" ---
seems unnecessary to mention in the FAQ, per discussion on IRC.
2008-04-09 00:44:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8deafd6fdf Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Add ability to obfuscate function bodies
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00125.php
2008-04-07 02:14:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a84171b078 Add documentation clarification for IS [NOT] NULL and row-valued
expressions.
2008-04-07 00:51:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
347dd6a1cf Make plpgsql support FOR over a query specified by a cursor declaration,
for improved compatibility with Oracle.

Pavel Stehule, with some fixes by me.
2008-04-06 23:43:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a1cf97c22 Have pg_stop_backup() wait for all archive files to be sent, rather than
returing right away.  This guarantees that when pg_stop_backup()
returns, you have a valid backup.

Simon Riggs
2008-04-05 01:34:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
a0fad9762a Re-implement division for numeric values using the traditional "schoolbook"
algorithm.  This is a good deal slower than our old roundoff-error-prone
code for long inputs, so we keep the old code for use in the transcendental
functions, where everything is approximate anyway.  Also create a
user-accessible function div(numeric, numeric) to provide access to the
exact result of trunc(x/y) --- since the regular numeric / operator will
round off its result, simply computing that expression in SQL doesn't
reliably give the desired answer.  This fixes bug #3387 and various related
corner cases, and improves the usefulness of PG for high-precision integer
arithmetic.
2008-04-04 18:45:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f96928fde9 Implement current_query(), that shows the currently executing query.
At the same time remove dblink/dblink_current_query() as it is no longer
necessary
*BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUE* for dblink

Tomas Doran
2008-04-04 16:57:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
55f6e5f689 Add a variant of the Levenshtein string-distance function that lets the user
specify the cost values to use, instead of always using 1's.
Volkan Yazici

In passing, remove fuzzystrmatch.h, which contained a bunch of stuff that had
no business being in a .h file; fold it into its only user, fuzzystrmatch.c.
2008-04-03 21:13:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bbe48195ab Add Wiki URLs for:
< * Allow encoding on a per-column basis optionally using the ICU library

>   http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo:Collate
>   http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo:ICU
2008-04-03 18:14:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d3bf8c7097 Add to TODO:
> * Improve how ANALYZE computes in-doubt tuples
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00771.php
>
2008-04-03 16:37:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
ec0be6073a Remove -C from rsync call, because it omits directories named "core". 2008-04-03 09:52:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b011c5ff6a Add URLs for:
* Add SQL:2003 WITH RECURSIVE (hierarchical) queries to SELECT

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00105.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00327.php
2008-04-03 01:56:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
afa2a9ec9c Remove due to survey/discussion:
<
< * Prefix command-line utilities like createuser with 'pg_'
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-06/msg00025.php
<
2008-04-02 02:11:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
e2a8804330 Support EXECUTE USING in plpgsql.
Pavel Stehule, with some improvements by myself.
2008-04-01 03:51:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
d5466e38f0 Add SPI-level support for executing SQL commands with one-time-use plans,
that is commands that have out-of-line parameters but the plan is prepared
assuming that the parameter values are constants.  This is needed for the
plpgsql EXECUTE USING patch, but will probably have use elsewhere.

This commit includes the SPI functions and documentation, but no callers
nor regression tests.  The upcoming EXECUTE USING patch will provide
regression-test coverage.  I thought committing this separately made
sense since it's logically a distinct feature.
2008-04-01 03:09:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
3405f2b925 Use error message wordings for permissions checks on .pgpass and SSL private
key files that are similar to the one for the postmaster's data directory
permissions check.  (I chose to standardize on that one since it's the most
heavily used and presumably best-wordsmithed by now.)  Also eliminate explicit
tests on file ownership in these places, since the ensuing read attempt must
fail anyway if it's wrong, and there seems no value in issuing the same error
message for distinct problems.  (But I left in the explicit ownership test in
postmaster.c, since it had its own error message anyway.)  Also be more
specific in the documentation's descriptions of these checks.  Per a gripe
from Kevin Hunter.
2008-03-31 02:43:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
b65a509746 Show database access privileges in psql's \l command. For \l+, also show
database size, when available to the current user.

Andrew Gilligan
2008-03-30 18:10:20 +00:00
Neil Conway
2169e42bef Enable 64-bit integer datetimes by default, per previous discussion.
This requires a working 64-bit integer type. If such a type cannot
be found, "--disable-integer-datetimes" can be used to switch
back to the previous floating point-based datetime implementation.
2008-03-30 04:08:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b350bc585 Done:
> * -Add ability to trigger on TRUNCATE
2008-03-28 15:18:42 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
958db06181 Clarify documentation on PITR and warm standby on the fact that the standby
restore_command should report failure on non-existent .backup and .history
files. Tidy up some related text along the way.

Patch by Markus Bertheau, with some editing by Simon Riggs and myself.
2008-03-28 15:00:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da215f05ec Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Add CASE capability to language (already in SQL)
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00696.php
>
>
2008-03-28 03:29:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
79262016a3 Add:
> * Allow one transaction to see tuples using the snapshot of another
>   transaction
>
>   This would assist multiple backends in working together.
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00400.php
2008-03-28 02:36:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
7692d8d5b7 Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon Riggs 2008-03-28 00:21:56 +00:00