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Tom Lane e9c9a92068 Update 9.1 release notes to reflect commits through today.
Also do some desultory copy-editing on the notes.
2011-06-09 18:44:46 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 7e6ec04d96 Support silent mode for service registrations on win32
Using -s when registering a service will now suppress
the application eventlog entries stating that the service
is starting and started.

MauMau
2011-06-09 18:24:59 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 7d43ae6713 Fix documentation of information_schema.element_types
The documentation of the columns collection_type_identifier and
dtd_identifier was wrong.  This effectively reverts commits
8e1ccad519 and
57352df66d and updates the name
array_type_identifier (the name in SQL:1999) to
collection_type_identifier.

closes bug #5926
2011-06-09 07:24:14 +03:00
Tom Lane 3ebc061c18 Make citext's equality and hashing functions collation-insensitive.
This is an ugly hack to get around the fact that significant parts of the
core backend assume they don't need to worry about passing collation to
equality and hashing functions.  That's true for the core string datatypes,
but citext should ideally have equality behavior that depends on the
specified collation's LC_CTYPE.  However, there's no chance of fixing the
core before 9.2, so we'll have to live with this compromise arrangement for
now.  Per bug #6053 from Regina Obe.

The code changes in this commit should be reverted in full once the core
code is up to speed, but be careful about reverting the docs changes:
I fixed a number of obsolete statements while at it.
2011-06-08 15:25:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 1bcdd66315 Reorder pg_ctl promote after pg_ctl status
Since start/stop/restart/reload/status is a kind of standard command
set, it seems odd to insert the special-purpose "promote" in between
the closely related "restart" and "reload".  So put it after "status"
in code and documentation.

Put the documentation of the -U option in some sensible place.

Rewrite the synopsis sentence in help and documentation to make it
less of a growing mouthful.
2011-06-08 20:51:25 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 36a1ba9d5e Fix documentation reference to "above" example
found by Thom Brown
2011-06-04 23:12:27 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 4dd4bd4d8e More ECPG documentation fixes
Marc Cousin
2011-06-04 22:52:01 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut b51d05b511 ECPG documentation fix
Marc Cousin, Satoshi Nagayasu
2011-06-04 22:52:01 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 3ece3913d0 Truncate id to <=44 characters
This is the original DocBook SGML limit, but apparently most
installations have changed it or ignore it, which is why few people
have run into this problem.

pointed out by Brendan Jurd
2011-06-03 22:25:26 +03:00
Bruce Momjian a20bc9c866 Use proper SGML doc entities rather than angle-brackets.
Marco Nenciarini
2011-06-02 19:33:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c82d415acc Sort COMMENT synopsis and add more examples
Josh Kupershmidt
2011-06-03 00:17:45 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 596b0c213f Some copy editing of the release notes 2011-06-01 22:22:18 +03:00
Tom Lane 6923d699bc Protect GIST logic that assumes penalty values can't be negative.
Apparently sane-looking penalty code might return small negative values,
for example because of roundoff error.  This will confuse places like
gistchoose().  Prevent problems by clamping negative penalty values to
zero.  (Just to be really sure, I also made it force NaNs to zero.)
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Alexander Korotkov
2011-05-31 17:53:45 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 85ffed431a Use entities to encode non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation
This has already been the case for the most part; just some cases had
slipped through.
2011-05-31 23:11:46 +03:00
Tom Lane be4585b1c2 Replace use of credential control messages with getsockopt(LOCAL_PEERCRED).
It turns out the reason we hadn't found out about the portability issues
with our credential-control-message code is that almost no modern platforms
use that code at all; the ones that used to need it now offer getpeereid(),
which we choose first.  The last holdout was NetBSD, and they added
getpeereid() as of 5.0.  So far as I can tell, the only live platform on
which that code was being exercised was Debian/kFreeBSD, ie, FreeBSD kernel
with Linux userland --- since glibc doesn't provide getpeereid(), we fell
back to the control message code.  However, the FreeBSD kernel provides a
LOCAL_PEERCRED socket parameter that's functionally equivalent to Linux's
SO_PEERCRED.  That is both much simpler to use than control messages, and
superior because it doesn't require receiving a message from the other end
at just the right time.

Therefore, add code to use LOCAL_PEERCRED when necessary, and rip out all
the credential-control-message code in the backend.  (libpq still has such
code so that it can still talk to pre-9.1 servers ... but eventually we can
get rid of it there too.)  Clean up related autoconf probes, too.

This means that libpq's requirepeer parameter now works on exactly the same
platforms where the backend supports peer authentication, so adjust the
documentation accordingly.
2011-05-31 16:10:46 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 2367da886d Don't recommend upgrading to latest available Windows SDK
We only support up to version 7.0, so don't recommend
upgrading past it. The rest of the documentation around this
was already updated, but one spot was missed.
2011-05-30 20:46:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6fa79755bd Add pg_basebackup -z option for compression with default level 2011-05-30 01:02:02 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut cb0defe523 Correct description of log_connections and log_disconnections
The previous claim when these parameters could be changed was
incorrect.

Fujii Masao
2011-05-29 21:59:10 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut d68714b29c Allow pg_basebackup compressed tar output to stdout 2011-05-29 01:18:17 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 420dcaaeb1 Drop "meaning" column from error code table
This is currently the same as the condition name, so it doesn't add
any value, only clutter.
2011-05-28 00:25:33 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 3439e40f9a Put options in some sensible order
For the --help output and reference pages of pg_dump, pg_dumpall,
pg_restore, put the options in some consistent, mostly alphabetical,
and consistent order, rather than newest option last or something like
that.
2011-05-25 21:53:26 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 60497722ac Put lists in sensible order 2011-05-22 22:38:53 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 7920d033d8 Put documentation of backslash commands back in alphabetical order 2011-05-22 15:13:17 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 51ad1784cc Clarify the documentation of the --with-ossp-uuid option 2011-05-22 14:29:36 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut c8e0c32119 Rename pg_dump --no-security-label to --no-security-labels
Other similar options also use the plural form.
2011-05-19 23:20:11 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 4a6a5c86db Remove obsolete comment 2011-05-19 01:19:57 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut c13dc6402b Spell checking and markup refinement 2011-05-19 01:14:45 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 0ee391b77a /contrib/foo -> contrib/foo
Since contrib is a relative directory specification, a leading slash
is inappropriate.
2011-05-19 00:30:31 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 8a849cdee4 Remove redundant privilege doc sentences. 2011-05-16 11:22:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6c19bd96bc Allow pg_upgrade to honor libpq environment variables. Add 'local'
checks for PGHOST and PGHOSTADDR.
2011-05-16 10:48:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 9bb6d97952 More cleanup of FOREIGN TABLE permissions handling.
This commit fixes psql, pg_dump, and the information schema to be
consistent with the backend changes which I made as part of commit
be90032e0d, and also includes a
related documentation tweak.

Shigeru Hanada, with slight adjustment.
2011-05-13 15:51:03 -04:00
Tom Lane ea964a451e Be more explicit about the meaning of the change in standard_conforming_strings. 2011-05-10 23:44:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 64cc297dc9 Mention "backslash" escape processing change in 9.1 release notes. 2011-05-10 20:57:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 87631ac98d Add some punctuation 2011-05-10 22:37:50 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut df6d033197 Put options in more alphabetical order 2011-05-10 22:37:22 +03:00
Tom Lane 1453cd8f82 Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.
The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using
"unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone.  But I forgot
to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
2011-05-10 13:48:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a9cc9df021 Documentation cleanup for the possible values of the datatype 'boolean'. 2011-05-09 23:25:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 832c095d68 Update documentation to state there is three-value logic, not
three-value boolean logic.

Backpatch to 9.0.X since we just got another bug report about this
today.
2011-05-09 21:04:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e567c9ff34 Add xreflabels to /contrib manuals so links appear correct. Also update
README.links to explain xref properly.
2011-05-07 22:29:20 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5293de5807 Add missing documention connecting word. 2011-05-07 14:31:00 -04:00
Robert Haas 3ef5b2df97 Fix typos in SECURITY LABEL documentation.
KaiGai Kohei
2011-05-06 21:19:15 -04:00
Bruce Momjian fb3ad7895e Improve style of generate_history.pl Perl script. 2011-05-05 12:49:23 -04:00
Tom Lane 671322751a Include unary plus in the Operator Precedence table.
Per gripe from Grzegorz Szpetkowski.

Also, change the subsection heading from "Lexical Precedence" (which is
a contradiction in terms) to "Operator Precedence".
2011-05-04 15:02:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a3b681f0bc Link some tables into the surrounding text by their id 2011-05-04 20:24:07 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 04be7ac271 Update obsolete mention of Sequoia, now known as Tungsten
Per http://joomla.aws.continuent.com/community/lab-projects/sequoia

Greg Smith
2011-05-03 11:35:17 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 5614857096 Improve description of read/write traffic scalability
Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
2011-05-03 11:34:27 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 155743ad31 Add ID attribute to some sect2's missing it
David Fetter
2011-05-02 19:13:49 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 52897e54db Update some ALTER USER cross-references to ALTER ROLE
Greg Smith
2011-05-02 13:40:24 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 4b08bf8ce7 Small cleanup of spacing in verbatim DocBook elements 2011-05-02 19:19:48 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 39850c7fdb The arguments to pg_ctl kill are not optional - remove brackets in the docs.
Fujii Masao
2011-04-28 12:54:17 +03:00
Tom Lane 993c5e5904 Tag 9.1beta1. 2011-04-27 17:17:22 -04:00
Tom Lane bb1051eb2d Make a quick copy-editing pass over the 9.1 release notes.
Also remove the material about this being an alpha release.

The notes still need a lot of work, but they're more or less presentable
as a beta version now.
2011-04-27 16:52:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 4f6c75b541 Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datatype values.
There was already one recommendation in the documentation about writing
C functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes, but make it stronger.

Also fix an example that was still using direct assignment to a varlena
length word, which no longer works since the varvarlena changes.
2011-04-27 14:06:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian dedcc48c56 Doc wording improvement for NUMERIC limit paragraph. 2011-04-27 00:06:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 8ce83b5bdc Reword documentation for NUMERIC with no specified precision. 2011-04-26 23:43:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0cdbef6cec Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range. 2011-04-26 11:54:57 -04:00
Robert Haas be90032e0d Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.
Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can
be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role,
and revoked similarly.  GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer
supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW.  The set of
accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for
regular tables, and views.

Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
2011-04-25 16:39:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9412606265 Normalize whitespace in the arguments of <indexterm>
Strip leading and trailing whitespace and replace interior whitespace
by a single space.  This avoids problems with the index generator
producing duplicate index entries for terms that differ only in
whitespace.

Commit dca30da343 actually fixed all the
indexterm elements that would cause this problem at the moment, but in
case it sneaks in again, we're set.
2011-04-25 01:25:43 +03:00
Tom Lane 1abd146ddd Adjust comments about collate.linux.utf8 regression test.
This test should now work in any database with UTF8 encoding, regardless
of the database's default locale.  The former restriction was really
"doesn't work if default locale is C", and that was because of not handling
mbstowcs/wcstombs correctly.
2011-04-23 12:51:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 9e9b9ac7d1 Make a code-cleanup pass over the collations patch.
This patch is almost entirely cosmetic --- mostly cleaning up a lot of
neglected comments, and fixing code layout problems in places where the
patch made lines too long and then pgindent did weird things with that.
I did find a bug-of-omission in equalTupleDescs().
2011-04-22 17:43:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0cfdc1c657 Improve doc wording for SQL syntax of LIMIT/OFFSET. 2011-04-21 22:26:04 -04:00
Robert Haas a0e8df527e Allow ALTER TYPE .. ADD ATTRIBUTE .. CASCADE to recurse to descendants.
Without this, adding an attribute to a typed table with an inheritance
child fails, which is surprising.

Noah Misch, with minor changes by me.
2011-04-20 22:49:37 -04:00
Robert Haas 68739ba856 Allow ALTER TABLE name {OF type | NOT OF}.
This syntax allows a standalone table to be made into a typed table,
or a typed table to be made standalone.  This is possibly a mildly
useful feature in its own right, but the real motivation for this
change is that we need it to make pg_upgrade work with typed tables.
This doesn't actually fix that problem, but it's necessary
infrastructure.

Noah Misch
2011-04-20 21:38:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d4617126f Document COLLATE option in CREATE TYPE reference page.
Curiously, it was already documented in ALTER TYPE ADD ATTRIBUTE, but
not here.
2011-04-17 17:05:51 -04:00
Tom Lane c947325856 Support a COLLATE clause in plpgsql variable declarations.
This allows the usual rules for assigning a collation to a local variable
to be overridden.  Per discussion, it seems appropriate to support this
rather than forcing all local variables to have the argument-derived
collation.
2011-04-17 14:54:19 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 3affae58b7 Note that Bison on GnuWin32 has trouble with paths with spaces
Peter Eisentraut
2011-04-15 15:30:21 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 9e1526eddd Specify which versions of the Platform SDK are supported
Anything including Visual Studio 2010 compilers is not yet
supported for building on Windows.
2011-04-15 15:30:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut f536d41942 Rename pg_regress option --multibyte to --encoding
Also refactor things a little bit so that the same methods for setting
test locale and encoding can be used everywhere.
2011-04-15 08:42:05 +03:00
Tom Lane 98eded936c Update release notes for releases 9.0.4, 8.4.8, 8.3.15, and 8.2.21. 2011-04-14 15:52:18 -04:00
Robert Haas 07e58cbe19 Advise Debian/Ubuntu users to use openjade1.3.
The latest openjade packages for Ubuntu 10.10 seg fault when building
our documentation.

Josh Berkus
2011-04-14 11:35:41 -07:00
Tom Lane dd95a1d3dd Add some useful cross-references to the CREATE EXTENSION reference page.
Per a suggestion from Josh Kupershmidt, though I modified his patch
quite a lot.
2011-04-13 02:56:33 -04:00
Tom Lane 1e16a8107d Teach regular expression operators to honor collations.
This involves getting the character classification and case-folding
functions in the regex library to use the collations infrastructure.
Most of this work had been done already in connection with the upper/lower
and LIKE logic, so it was a simple matter of transposition.

While at it, split out these functions into a separate source file
regc_pg_locale.c, so that they can be correctly labeled with the Postgres
project's license rather than the Scriptics license.  These functions are
100% Postgres-written code whereas what remains in regc_locale.c is still
mostly not ours, so lumping them both under the same copyright notice was
getting more and more misleading.
2011-04-10 18:03:09 -04:00
Tom Lane 7c76906b7e Don't show unusable collations in psql's \dO command.
"Unusable" collations are those not matching the current database's
encoding.  The former behavior inconsistently showed such collations
some of the time, depending on the details of the pattern argument.
2011-04-09 14:08:41 -04:00
Tom Lane dca30da343 Avoid extra whitespace in the arguments of <indexterm>.
As noted by Thom Brown, this confuses the DocBook index processor; it
fails to merge entries that differ only in whitespace, and sorts them
unexpectedly as well.  Seems like a toolchain bug, but I'm not going to
hold my breath waiting for a fix.

Note: easiest way to find these is to look for double spaces in HTML.index.
2011-04-08 11:36:05 -04:00
Tom Lane 8ad58279fa Add an example of WITH (UPDATE RETURNING) INSERT to the INSERT ref page.
Per a discussion with Gavin Flower.  This barely scratches the surface
of potential WITH (something RETURNING) use cases, of course, but it's
one of the simplest compelling examples I can think of.
2011-04-08 10:54:03 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bf6848bc8c Update key words table for 9.1 2011-04-06 00:16:13 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 38d15f1651 Change "Id" to "id" in some SGML tags
Gabriele Bartolini
2011-04-05 15:06:06 -03:00
Robert Haas ad275473a5 Typo fixes.
Erik Rijkers
2011-04-05 12:40:17 -04:00
Robert Haas f5e524d92b Add casts from int4 and int8 to numeric.
Joey Adams, per gripe from Ramanujam.  Review by myself and Tom Lane.
2011-04-05 09:35:43 -04:00
Simon Riggs 479ee1b962 Centralise release note items related to recovery and replication 2011-04-04 22:38:43 +01:00
Simon Riggs 35d2a660fe Update comments and credit doc proofreaders 2011-04-04 22:36:09 +01:00
Robert Haas 240067b3b0 Merge synchronous_replication setting into synchronous_commit.
This means one less thing to configure when setting up synchronous
replication, and also avoids some ambiguity around what the behavior
should be when the settings of these variables conflict.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me.
2011-04-04 16:25:52 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera fc3459d70c Uppercase <!ENTITY> and <!DOCTYPE> tags in SGML source
This improves compatibility with external toolchains, such as those used
by some documentation translation tools.

Gabriele Bartolini
2011-04-04 16:09:10 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 8c250f3741 Duplicate expansion of "direction" from FETCH's synopsis into MOVE 2011-04-04 12:04:43 -04:00
Robert Haas cabf5d84b6 Improve documentation on the range of the numeric data type.
Gianni Ciolli, reviewed by Noah Misch
2011-04-03 19:56:22 -04:00
Robert Haas 1981fb7313 Remove mention of using "man" from the tutorial.
This isn't applicable on Windows, and the internal link to the
psql documentation should be more than sufficient.

Susanne Ebrecht
2011-04-03 19:49:05 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas d420ba2a2d Escape greater than and less than characters in docs.
Susanne Ebrecht and me
2011-04-02 17:08:06 +03:00
Robert Haas 50533a6dc5 Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.
This mostly involves making it work with the objectaddress.c framework,
which does most of the heavy lifting.  In that vein, change
GetForeignDataWrapperOidByName to get_foreign_data_wrapper_oid and
GetForeignServerOidByName to get_foreign_server_oid, to match the
pattern we use for other object types.

Robert Haas and Shigeru Hanada
2011-04-01 11:28:28 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 647f8b3dba Reword the phrase on zero replication_timeout in the docs. 2011-03-31 10:19:29 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 754baa21f7 Automatically terminate replication connections that are idle for more
than replication_timeout (a new GUC) milliseconds. The TCP timeout is often
too long, you want the master to notice a dead connection much sooner.
People complained about that in 9.0 too, but with synchronous replication
it's even more important to notice dead connections promptly.

Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-30 10:20:37 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6c0dfc0356 Add maintainer-check target
This can do various source code checks that are not appropriate for
either the build or the regression tests.  Currently: duplicate_oids,
SGML syntax and tabs check, NLS syntax check.
2011-03-28 22:56:52 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 5c22c0eda1 Add 9.1 release note link for synchronous replication.
We already had links to the GUC variables that control it.
2011-03-28 14:50:08 -04:00
Robert Haas 7c7fd882a5 Mark up release notes using <link>.
Unlike <xref>, this actually works.
2011-03-28 09:42:09 -04:00
Tom Lane a720c28f0a Get rid of links that don't work when building HISTORY. 2011-03-28 09:34:56 -04:00
Robert Haas 20a1159fcc Typo fix in SSI docs.
Kevin Grittner
2011-03-27 21:35:15 -04:00
Robert Haas de32982242 Correct "characters" to "bytes" in createdb docs.
Susanne Ebrecht
2011-03-27 21:28:15 -04:00
Robert Haas de592e2669 Remove disclaimer stating that fsync=off slows down sync rep.
The underlying problem that caused this phenomenon was fixed by commit
92f4786fa9.
2011-03-26 21:19:06 -04:00
Robert Haas ab1ef8e444 Update release notes for latest commits.
In addition, correct the entry for pg_object_description, and some other
minor cleanup.
2011-03-26 21:13:55 -04:00
Tom Lane 9b19c12e1d Document collation handling in SQL and plpgsql functions.
This is pretty minimal but covers the bare facts.
2011-03-25 18:21:25 -04:00
Robert Haas f6f0916dbd Remove alpha release notes.
Temporarily move some of the alpha release note disclaimers into the regular
release notes, for the sake of alpha5.
2011-03-25 11:52:11 -04:00