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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alvaro Herrera 6462e7b81c Add a --locale switch to createdb, to ease the creation of databases with
different locales.  This is just syntactical sweetener over --lc-collate and
--lc-ctype.  Per discussion.

While at it, properly document --lc-ctype and --lc-collate in SGML docs,
which apparently were forgotten (or purposefully ommited?) when they were
created.
2008-11-10 16:25:41 +00:00
Tom Lane c5451c22e3 Make relhasrules and relhastriggers work like relhasindex, namely we let
VACUUM reset them to false rather than trying to clean 'em up during DROP.
2008-11-10 00:49:37 +00:00
Tom Lane e4718f2c9e Replace pg_class.reltriggers with relhastriggers, which is just a boolean hint
("there might be triggers") rather than an exact count.  This is necessary
catalog infrastructure for the upcoming patch to reduce the strength of
locking needed for trigger addition/removal.  Split out and committed
separately for ease of reviewing/testing.

In passing, also get rid of the unused pg_class columns relukeys, relfkeys,
and relrefs, which haven't been maintained in many years and now have no
chance of ever being maintained (because of wishing to avoid locking).

Simon Riggs
2008-11-09 21:24:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 1d577f5e49 Add a startup check that pg_xlog and pg_xlog/archive_status exist.
If the latter doesn't exist, automatically recreate it.  (We don't do
this for pg_xlog, though, per discussion.)

Jonah Harris
2008-11-09 17:51:15 +00:00
Tom Lane dbf57d31f8 Add some documentation about handling of fractions in interval input.
(It's always worked like this, but we never documented it before.)
2008-11-09 17:09:48 +00:00
Tom Lane df7641e25a Add a new GUC variable called "IntervalStyle" that decouples interval output
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching
the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's
restrictions).  IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the
standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval
input.

Ron Mayer
2008-11-09 00:28:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 399ad77c66 Improve documentation of pg_typeof, per gripe from David Wheeler. 2008-11-07 22:54:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 6517f377d6 Implement ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE to move a whole database (or at least
as much of it as lives in its default tablespace) to a new tablespace.

Guillaume Lelarge, with some help from Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane
2008-11-07 18:25:07 +00:00
Tom Lane cdc197cf31 Improve psql's \dC command to take a pattern parameter. Casts are shown
if their source or target types match the pattern (using the same definition
of "match" as \dT does).  Per recent discussion.
2008-11-06 15:18:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e33e0c43fe Document that SSL is only possible on tcp/ip connections in the
postgresql.conf 'ssl' section.
2008-11-04 22:40:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c227ccc2f7 Document that 'sslmode' is ignored for Unix domain socket communication;
backpatch to 8.3.X.
2008-11-04 22:36:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 725ba51f2c Experimental new support for building man pages via docbook2x, an XSL-based
tool chain.  With some polishing, this might help us get rid of our ancient
and crufty man page build mechanism.
2008-11-04 14:58:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 254aecb704 ADD array_ndims function
Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
2008-11-04 14:49:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4253f016c9 Add missing colon to docs. 2008-11-04 04:18:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ac3797a913 Remove tabs from SGML file. 2008-11-04 00:59:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 31b15fe8dc Disallow LOCK TABLE outside a transaction block (or function), since this case
almost certainly represents user error.  Per a gripe from Sebastian Böhm
and subsequent discussion.
2008-11-04 00:57:19 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 84aa797292 Allow uuid_in() to parse a wider variety of variant input formats for the UUID
data type.  This patch takes the approach of allowing an optional hyphen after
each group of four hex digits.

Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
2008-11-03 22:14:40 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan f0dae70431 suppress_redundant_updates_trigger function. 2008-11-03 20:17:21 +00:00
Tom Lane b8fab2411d Add pg_typeof() function.
Brendan Jurd
2008-11-03 17:51:13 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera aa3288146a Update URL to Docbook DSSSL stylesheets, per Gabriele Bartolini. 2008-11-03 15:39:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 3c2313f481 Change the pgstat logic so that the stats collector writes the stats file only
upon requests from backends, rather than on a fixed 500msec cycle.  (There's
still throttling logic to ensure it writes no more often than once per
500msec, though.)  This should result in a significant reduction in stats file
write traffic in typical scenarios where the stats are demanded only
infrequently.

This approach also means that the former difficulty with changing
stats_temp_directory on-the-fly has gone away, so remove the caution about
that as well as the thrashing we did to minimize the trouble window.

In passing, also fix pgstat_report_stat() so that we will send a stats
message if we have function call stats but not table stats to report;
this fixes a bug in the recent patch to support function-call stats.

Martin Pihlak
2008-11-03 01:17:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 9b46abb7c4 Allow SQL-language functions to return the output of an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
RETURNING clause, not just a SELECT as formerly.

A side effect of this patch is that when a set-returning SQL function is used
in a FROM clause, performance is improved because the output is collected into
a tuplestore within the function, rather than using the less efficient
value-per-call mechanism.
2008-10-31 19:37:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 29077051de The conversion rule from postgres.sgml to postgres.xml didn't work with
BSD sed.  So write it in Perl, which is more portable and a bit faster, too.
We already use Perl for standard documentation builds, so this imposes no
additional requirement.
2008-10-31 14:35:30 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 092bc49653 Add support for user-defined I/O conversion casts. 2008-10-31 08:39:22 +00:00
Tom Lane d1e384884c Update back-branch release notes. 2008-10-30 22:22:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3276599804 Remove tab from sgml file. 2008-10-29 14:35:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f7ad874ca8 Since SQL:2003, the array size specification in the SQL ARRAY syntax has
been optional.
2008-10-29 11:24:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 06735e3256 Unicode escapes in strings and identifiers 2008-10-29 08:04:54 +00:00
Tom Lane e3e3d2a789 Extend ExecMakeFunctionResult() to support set-returning functions that return
via a tuplestore instead of value-per-call.  Refactor a few things to reduce
ensuing code duplication with nodeFunctionscan.c.  This represents the
reasonably noncontroversial part of my proposed patch to switch SQL functions
over to returning tuplestores.  For the moment, SQL functions still do things
the old way.  However, this change enables PL SRFs to be called in targetlists
(observe changes in plperl regression results).
2008-10-28 22:02:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8ecd535169 Add WITH [NO] DATA clause to CREATE TABLE AS, per SQL.
Also, since WITH is now a reserved word, simplify the token merging code to
only deal with WITH_TIME.

by Tom Lane and myself
2008-10-28 14:09:45 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 53a5026b5c Remove support for (insecure) crypt authentication.
This breaks compatibility with pre-7.2 versions.
2008-10-28 12:10:44 +00:00
Tom Lane b0169bb124 Install a more robust solution for the problem of infinite error-processing
recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the
client's encoding.  We've been over this ground before, but as reported by
Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for
the conversion-failure message itself :-(.  Fix by installing a "circuit
breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into
recursion trouble.

Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them;
though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in
order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.
2008-10-27 19:37:22 +00:00
Magnus Hagander f3a0688ace Add support for multiple error messages from libpq, by simply appending them
after each other (since we already add a newline on each, this makes them
multiline).

Previously a new error would just overwrite the old one, so for example any
error caused when trying to connect with SSL enabled would be overwritten
by the error message form the non-SSL connection when using sslmode=prefer.
2008-10-27 09:42:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0fec77ae88 SQL:2008 syntax CURRENT_CATALOG, CURRENT_SCHEMA, SET CATALOG, SET SCHEMA. 2008-10-27 09:37:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5163b94e6f Allow EXPLAIN on CREATE TABLE AS. 2008-10-27 08:47:14 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 7356381ef5 * make pg_hba authoption be a set of 0 or more name=value pairs
* make LDAP use this instead of the hacky previous method to specify
  the DN to bind as
* make all auth options behave the same when they are not compiled
  into the server
* rename "ident maps" to "user name maps", and support them for all
  auth methods that provide an external username

This makes a backwards incompatible change in the format of pg_hba.conf
for the ident, PAM and LDAP authentication methods.
2008-10-23 13:31:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 361bfc3572 SQL:2008 alternative syntax for LIMIT/OFFSET:
OFFSET num {ROW|ROWS} FETCH {FIRST|NEXT} [num] {ROW|ROWS} ONLY
2008-10-22 11:00:34 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1471e3843d Allow SQL:2008 syntax ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DATA TYPE
alongside our traditional syntax.
2008-10-21 08:38:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 00cbf22e8b Update compatibility section of TRUNCATE for SQL:2008 final. 2008-10-18 07:49:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 123c8efd89 Update feature list for SQL:2008. 2008-10-18 00:35:32 +00:00
Tom Lane e4fb8ff06a Add a new column to pg_am to specify whether an index AM supports backward
scanning; GiST and GIN do not, and it seems like too much trouble to make
them do so.  By teaching ExecSupportsBackwardScan() about this restriction,
we ensure that the planner will protect a scroll cursor from the problem
by adding a Materialize node.

In passing, fix another longstanding bug in the same area: backwards scan of
a plan with set-returning functions in the targetlist did not work either,
since the TupFromTlist expansion code pays no attention to direction (and
has no way to run a SRF backwards anyway).  Again the fix is to make
ExecSupportsBackwardScan check this restriction.

Also adjust the index AM API specification to note that mark/restore support
is unnecessary if the AM can't produce ordered output.
2008-10-17 22:10:30 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 2a0083ede8 Improve headeline generation. Now headline can contain
several fragments a-la Google.

Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 18:05:19 +00:00
Tom Lane a303e4dc43 Extend the date type to support infinity and -infinity, analogously to
the timestamp types.  Turns out this doesn't even reduce the available
range of dates, since the restriction to dates that work for Julian-date
arithmetic is much tighter than the int32 range anyway.  Per a longstanding
TODO item.
2008-10-14 17:12:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 06224652f2 Add docs and regression test about sorting the output of a recursive query in
depth-first search order.  Upon close reading of SQL:2008, it seems that the
spec's SEARCH DEPTH FIRST and SEARCH BREADTH FIRST options do not actually
guarantee any particular result order: what they do is provide a constructed
column that the user can then sort on in the outer query.  So this is actually
just as much functionality ...
2008-10-14 00:41:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 1f238e569a Eliminate unnecessary array[] decoration in examples of recursive cycle
detection.
2008-10-14 00:12:44 +00:00
Tom Lane e3b0117459 Implement comparison of generic records (composite types), and invent a
pseudo-type record[] to represent arrays of possibly-anonymous composite
types.  Since composite datums carry their own type identification, no
extra knowledge is needed at the array level.

The main reason for doing this right now is that it is necessary to support
the general case of detection of cycles in recursive queries: if you need to
compare more than one column to detect a cycle, you need to compare a ROW()
to an array built from ROW()s, at least if you want to do it as the spec
suggests.  Add some documentation and regression tests concerning the cycle
detection issue.
2008-10-13 16:25:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 74fd3d1b23 Fix COPY documentation to not imply that HEADER can be used outside CSV mode.
Per gripe from Bill Thoen.
2008-10-10 21:46:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e229998138 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2008-10-07 21:26:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 0d115dde82 Extend CTE patch to support recursive UNION (ie, without ALL). The
implementation uses an in-memory hash table, so it will poop out for very
large recursive results ... but the performance characteristics of a
sort-based implementation would be pretty unpleasant too.
2008-10-07 19:27:04 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5f853c6556 Use fork names instead of numbers in the file names for additional
relation forks. While the file names are not visible to users, for those
that do peek into the data directory, it's nice to have more descriptive
names. Per Greg Stark's suggestion.
2008-10-06 14:13:17 +00:00