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8111 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
3b3251cb95 Ensure that all <sect1> and <refentry> tags have IDs. This is needed
to ensure that the resulting webpages have predictable URLs, instead of
ever-changing numeric IDs.  The new contrib docs were the biggest
offender, but some old stuff had the problem too.  Also, rename a couple
of new contrib sgml files for consistency's sake.
2007-12-02 22:33:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
ec2ff52045 Add SGML docs for contrib/dict_int and contrib/dict_xsyn.
Albert Cervera i Areny
2007-12-02 21:13:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
43da837eda Improve the manual's discussion of partitioning. Recommend using a
trigger instead of a rule to redirect insertions, use NEW.* notation
where appropriate, some other updates and adjustments.  David Fetter
and Tom Lane
2007-12-02 19:20:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
8ee076325f Mention hash opclasses in 'System Dependencies on Operator Classes',
which previously only talked about btree opclasses.
2007-12-02 04:36:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
7cac32534f Sync release notes with CVS HEAD; various editorial improvements. 2007-12-02 03:47:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2d30556a1 Update release notes to current CVS. 2007-11-30 03:27:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c3facf0041 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-11-29 17:09:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6559c4a202 Add additional PITR documentation.
Simon Riggs
2007-11-28 22:35:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
664782ee74 RETURN NEXT doc improvement, per Alvaro. 2007-11-28 21:47:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5cbf206c79 Update RETURN NEXT documentation for plpgsql. 2007-11-28 20:56:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62312ce36d Plpgsql doc cleanup.
Guillaume Lelarge
2007-11-28 20:13:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9293425819 spell checker run 2007-11-28 15:42:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c1c772225d Add credit to Pavel Stehule for XML functionality 2007-11-28 11:03:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
87ce0fa369 Fix column number 2007-11-28 10:10:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
492ae18f0d Add a few current_* variable index entries to the docs.
Guillaume Lelarge
2007-11-28 05:13:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
497365f48a Add comments about VACUUM to free space map docs.
Joshua D. Drake
2007-11-28 05:01:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
3f89964234 Add quote_literal(anyelement) to preserve (and, in fact, extend) a
useful consequence of the former liberal implicit casting to text;
namely that you can feed non-string values to quote_literal() and get
unsurprising results.  Per discussion.
2007-11-27 18:29:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a0a9c5bcb9 Add example of MONEY casting to numeric if locale is known. 2007-11-27 16:46:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fb93b757d Wording improvement for MONEY casting. 2007-11-27 06:05:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee13b734fa Add documentation about the issues of casting MONEY to/from numeric
types.
2007-11-27 05:49:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91e95588af Add:
< * -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type
< * Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg01432.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01181.php
<
< * MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
<   restore to a system with a different locale
>
> * MONEY data type
>
> 	o -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type
> 	* Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg01432.php
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01181.php
>
> 	* MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
> 	  restore to a system with a different locale
> 	* Allow MONEY to be cast to/from other numeric data types
2007-11-26 23:31:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c534ba182c Change index_name to name for consistency. 2007-11-26 21:36:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
07daff63c5 Fix select_common_type() so that it can select a domain type, if all inputs
to a UNION, CASE, or related construct are of the same domain type.  The
main part of this routine smashes domains to their base types, which seems
necessary because the logic involves TypeCategory() and IsPreferredType(),
neither of which work usefully on domains.  However, we can add a first
pass that just detects whether all the inputs are exactly the same type,
and if so accept that without question (so long as it's not UNKNOWN).
Per recent gripe from Dean Rasheed.

In passing, remove some tests for InvalidOid, which have clearly been dead
code for quite some time now, because getBaseType() would fail on that input.

Also, clarify the manual's not-very-precise description of the existing
algorithm's behavior.
2007-11-26 16:46:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ba2b2a2c4e Update text:
< * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement
> * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid advancement
>
>    The problem is that autovacuum cannot vacuum them to set frozen xids;
>    only the session that created them can do that.
>
>
>
2007-11-23 16:37:55 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
d8e8a495da Fix "Overall Page Layout" table. The second row should be ItemIdData, not
ItemPointerData.
2007-11-23 00:24:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
73f9089045 Document that doc builds now build indexes by default, unless "draft" is
used.
2007-11-22 15:04:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
fec1d72dd1 Clarify the syntax rules for raw tsvector input. 2007-11-21 04:01:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9eced0031c Split release notes up into smaller sections; easier to read. 2007-11-20 17:10:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
e66d0c6299 Fix some missed usages of 'HTML tag' and 'HTML entity'. 2007-11-20 15:58:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aff5c589fa Make "contrib/" tag consistent. 2007-11-20 05:23:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
56696745a8 Split out data types and function entries into separate sections in the
release notes.
2007-11-20 05:16:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
726226b128 Release note adjustments suggested by IRC users. 2007-11-20 05:00:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee891817fb Reorder a few release notes items for consistency. 2007-11-20 04:00:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0af4bb87d3 Trim down release section headings (no need for Changes).
Re-order some items as migration changes.
2007-11-20 03:34:14 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
1157f3cc81 Change descriptions of entity and tag objects to "XML entity" and "XML tag".
Allow tag and entity names that follow XML rules. Provide for hexadecimal
as well as decimal numeric entities. Adjust code names to coincide with
new descriptions.
2007-11-20 02:25:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a262394c8c Split "server changes" up into smaller sections in release notes. 2007-11-20 01:42:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c37e357978 Markup fix. 2007-11-20 01:19:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1037ab75b2 More release notes wording cleanups. 2007-11-20 01:13:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5276950874 Update COMMENT item:
< 	o Prevent COMMENT ON dbname from issuing a warning when loading
< 	  into a database with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON
< 	  CURRENT DATABASE
> 	o Change pg_dump so that a comment on the dumped database is
> 	  applied to the loaded database, even if the database has a
> 	  different name.  This will require new backend syntax, perhaps
> 	  COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE.
2007-11-20 00:18:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d29e9725a7 Update wording:
< 	o Allow COMMENT ON dbname to work when loading into a database
< 	  with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON CURRENT
<           DATABASE
> 	o Prevent COMMENT ON dbname from issuing a warning when loading
> 	  into a database with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON
> 	  CURRENT DATABASE
2007-11-19 23:48:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f59f8aedd8 Add suggested syntax for COMMENT ON DATABASE:
< 	  with a different name
> 	  with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON CURRENT
>           DATABASE
>
2007-11-19 19:27:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5e996e4a76 Add:
> 	o Allow COMMENT ON dbname to work when loading into a database
> 	  with a different name
2007-11-19 18:42:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
d4205295aa Improve description of implicit-text-casting compatibility issue.
A bunch of other desultory copy-editing, too.
2007-11-19 03:47:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
3ebb8867aa Minor improvement in documentation of temp_tablespaces: avoid grammatical
ambiguity and say what the default value is.
2007-11-19 02:26:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
7129f26be0 Remove no-longer-accurate claim that REINDEX won't invalidate cached
plans.
2007-11-18 18:42:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b13602c6d0 Wordsmith improvements to first half of release notes, move TEXT cast
item to #1 imcompatibility slot.
2007-11-17 21:13:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fbab505216 Simplify TEXT cast working; spelling fixes to release notes. 2007-11-17 15:17:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bb4a78c070 Fix a few mentions of "Postgres" that slipped into the release notes. 2007-11-16 17:22:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2230944e30 Add release note that "Postgres" is now documented as an acceptable
alias.
2007-11-16 16:12:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6fcfd14697 Simplify wording. 2007-11-16 15:53:57 +00:00