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2612 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Conway
afcc6fbb60 Remove a caveat from the "backup" documentation: pg_dump now does a
better job of handling dependencies between database objects.
2004-02-17 23:56:07 +00:00
Neil Conway
9c8d5f0be1 Add a few more <xref> tags to the SGML docs, where appropriate. Original
patch from Michael Glaesemann, additional changes by Neil Conway.
2004-02-17 09:07:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
d46b1f904e Minor editorializing on cost-based vacuum description. 2004-02-17 07:36:47 +00:00
Neil Conway
ee33fe889e Significant improvements to the documentation for the new cost-based
vacuum delay feature, including updating the docs for Tom's recent
improvements. There is still more work to be done here: for example,
adding some more information on the practical use of cost-based
vacuum delay to the "maintenance" section would probably be a good
idea.
2004-02-17 06:28:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
11acc1ffd6 Fix a minor SGML markup infelicity in recently-applied log_disconnections
patch.
2004-02-17 05:45:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c53611e3e7 This patch brings up to date what I did last year (now unfortunately
bitrotted) to allow the logging of the end of a session, enabled by
the config setting "log_disconnections".

Andrew Dunstan
2004-02-17 03:54:57 +00:00
Neil Conway
6dfb2b2517 Minor SGML markup improvements. 2004-02-17 02:53:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
f0c9397f80 First steps towards statistics on expressional (nee functional) indexes.
This commit teaches ANALYZE to store such stats in pg_statistic, but
nothing is done yet about teaching the planner to use 'em.
Also, repair longstanding oversight in separate ANALYZE command: it
updated the pg_class.relpages and reltuples counts for the table proper,
but not for indexes.
2004-02-15 21:01:39 +00:00
Neil Conway
effd0dea7e Minor documentation tweak. 2004-02-15 06:27:37 +00:00
Jan Wieck
f884090371 Documentation for vacuum_cost config options.
Jan
2004-02-13 12:25:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a4652333b Mention psql variable names are case-sensitive. 2004-02-13 05:10:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1decc208ac Tom Lane wrote:
> momjian@svr1.postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
>>      someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
>>      release notes as 3rd change:
>>      http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html
>>      Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
>>      retroactively change the release-notes though.
>
> This is completely erroneous, please undo it.
>
> 2003-05-21 14:14  tgl
>
>       * src/: backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c,
>       test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out (REL7_3_STABLE): Back-patch
>       Jan's fix to avoid primary key lookup (and lock) if foreign key
>       does not change on UPDATE.

Oh ... didn't know that you did a backpatch. Sorry


Jan
2004-02-13 04:40:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
69946411d3 Add hooks for type-specific calculation of ANALYZE statistics. Idea and
coding by Mark Cave-Ayland, some kibitzing by Tom Lane.  initdb forced
due to new column in pg_type.
2004-02-12 23:41:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e850e30fc8 Jan:
someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
release notes as 3rd change:

     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html

Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
retroactively change the release-notes though.
2004-02-12 20:17:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a1c29f87e Improve \? wording, remove 'internal'. 2004-02-12 19:58:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
209e866a5a Fix typo:
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:28, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
> > At the bottom of this doc file :
> > file:///usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/tutorial-createdb.html
> > "and it also happens that that user always has permission"
> >                       ---- x2
> The first "that" serves as a conjuction, the second one serves as an
> article.  Looks correct to me.

A better workaround for the sentence would be something like:

        "and it also happens that the user always has permission"

Looks easier to read, I think.

Enver ALTIN (a.k.a. skyblue)
2004-02-12 16:38:04 +00:00
Neil Conway
e29d8f3c34 SGML markup improvements. 2004-02-10 20:51:39 +00:00
Joe Conway
687d7cf355 Documentation for generate_series() functions committed a few days ago. 2004-02-05 22:54:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
391c3811a2 Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.
Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints
use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit.
Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their
old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
2004-02-03 17:34:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
e1826d037a Update char_length() example for new semantics. 2004-02-01 06:55:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
f27976c85b Make length() disregard trailing spaces in char(n) values, per discussion
some time ago and recent patch from Gavin Sherry.  Update documentation
to point out that trailing spaces are insignificant in char(n).
2004-02-01 06:27:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
45842e6c52 Improve the documentation of the 'join_collapse_limit' GUC var. Thanks to
Tom Lane for some editorial suggestions.
2004-01-27 16:51:43 +00:00
Neil Conway
e0707cbae9 The attached patch clarifies (or, rather, makes explicit) to readers how
to handle memory management for char pointers returned by libpq functions.
Original patch by Gavin Sherry, some tweaking and consistency improvements
by Neil Conway.
2004-01-26 22:13:21 +00:00
Neil Conway
f30d39e706 Add usage examples for PREPARE and EXECUTE. Original patch from Gavin
Sherry, editorializing by Neil Conway.
2004-01-26 17:26:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee2f149d30 Clarify that the 'user' column still applies for 'trust'. 2004-01-26 05:35:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
acfa013e81 Fix typo I mistakenly added. 2004-01-25 03:30:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8303a3d1ea Mention that log_statement only prints query on PREPARE, not EXECUTE,
and PL/pgSQL only prints queries on first function call.
2004-01-25 00:36:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
9d8888079d Support named parameters in information_schema.parameters,
per Dennis Bjorklund.  I did not force initdb for this, but
you'd need to do one to get the improved view.
2004-01-24 23:45:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
c8bcd5ca92 Fix problems with dropped columns in pltcl triggers, per report from Patrick Samson. 2004-01-24 23:06:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
0152f14812 Example of a function taking a composite type should show how to call it. 2004-01-24 22:05:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
3969f2924b Revise GEQO planner to make use of some heuristic knowledge about SQL, namely
that it's good to join where there are join clauses rather than where there
are not.  Also enable it to generate bushy plans at need, so that it doesn't
fail in the presence of multiple IN clauses containing sub-joins.  These
changes appear to improve the behavior enough that we can substantially reduce
the default pool size and generations count, thereby decreasing the runtime,
and yet get as good or better plans as we were getting in 7.4.  Consequently,
adjust the default GEQO parameters.  I also modified the way geqo_effort is
used so that it affects both population size and number of generations;
it's now useful as a single control to adjust the GEQO runtime-vs-plan-quality
tradeoff.  Bump geqo_threshold to 12, since even with these changes GEQO
seems to be slower than the regular planner at 11 relations.
2004-01-23 23:54:21 +00:00
Neil Conway
58ae3cf12c Minor improvements to the trigger documentation, and a few SGML fixes. 2004-01-22 19:50:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
672a807028 Repair error apparently introduced in the initial coding of GUC: the
default value for geqo_effort is supposed to be 40, not 1.  The actual
'genetic' component of the GEQO algorithm has been practically disabled
since 7.1 because of this mistake.  Improve documentation while at it.
2004-01-21 23:33:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
04cc4e18dd Implement '\copy from -' to support reading copy data from the same
source the \copy came from.  Also, fix prompting logic so that initial
and per-line prompts appear for all cases of reading from an interactive
terminal.  Patch by Mark Feit, with some kibitzing by Tom Lane.
2004-01-20 23:48:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
0f8a313508 Remove no-longer-relevant note about forcing the type of an integer
constant.  Per Kris Jurka.
2004-01-20 22:46:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
18f7a8e262 This is a patch to support readline prompts which contain non-printing
characters, as for fancy colorized prompts.  This was nearly a direct
lift from bash-2.05b's lib/readline/display.c, per guidance from Chet Ramey.

Reece Hart
2004-01-20 19:49:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
bd046b99f0 Remove JDBC from the build system and documentation, too. 2004-01-19 21:20:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
163edee632 Improve discussion of consistent-snapshot backup technique. Haphazard
editing of this text had left nearly contradictory statements in
adjacent paragraphs ...
2004-01-19 20:12:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b89744198e Some refinement of XSLT processing: The result now looks just about as good
as the result of the SGML-based tool chain.
2004-01-15 23:51:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e27d500235 Make rule and stylesheet to try out XSLT for DocBook processing 2004-01-13 18:45:19 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1fee65f479 Put See Also links back in alphabetical order. 2004-01-11 09:24:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
024f3fa52f Minor documentation improvements. 2004-01-11 05:46:58 +00:00
Neil Conway
e97b8f2da9 Add CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE INDEX, and CREATE SEQUENCE to the list of
expressions supported by CREATE SCHEMA.

Also added the beginning of some regression tests for CREATE SCHEMA;
plenty more work is needed here.
2004-01-11 04:58:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
98dcf085e3 Implement "WITH / WITHOID OIDS" clause for CREATE TABLE AS. This is
intended to allow application authors to insulate themselves from
changes to the default value of 'default_with_oids' in future releases
of PostgreSQL.

This patch also fixes a bug in the earlier implementation of the
'default_with_oids' GUC variable: code in gram.y should not examine
the value of GUC variables directly due to synchronization issues.
2004-01-10 23:28:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a620a760ed Allow BEGIN WORK to specify transaction isolation level, like START
TRANSACTION.
2004-01-10 02:21:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0150dbdce5 Allow libpq to do thread-safe SIGPIPE handling. This allows it to
ignore SIGPIPE from send() in libpq, but terminate on any other SIGPIPE,
unless the user installs their own signal handler.

This is a minor fix because the only time you get SIGPIPE from libpq's
send() is when the backend dies.
2004-01-09 02:02:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
a77e32d7c5 Apply the core parts of Dennis Bjorklund's patch to allow function
parameters to be declared with names.  pg_proc has a column to store
names, and CREATE FUNCTION can insert data into it, but that's all as
yet.  I need to do more work on the pg_dump and plpgsql portions of the
patch before committing those, but I thought I'd get the bulky changes
in before the tree drifts under me.
initdb forced due to pg_proc change.
2004-01-06 23:55:19 +00:00
Neil Conway
bc028beb16 Make the 'wal_debug' GUC variable a boolean (rather than an integer), and
hide it behind #ifdef WAL_DEBUG blocks.
2004-01-06 17:26:23 +00:00
Neil Conway
71998c1e51 Remove an old and out-of-date SGML comment from this file: we already
have WAL, outer joins, and TOAST.
2004-01-05 20:39:23 +00:00
Neil Conway
af7a21cb99 Fix (yet another) instance of incorrect markup for a GUC variable. 2004-01-05 20:37:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a7b30b9c48 Correct gettext URL. 2004-01-04 16:43:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
5e54515167 Recommend SHOW, instead of pg_controldata, for checking LC_COLLATE and
LC_CTYPE settings of a database.
2003-12-30 23:36:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
debeb47c92 Be a little more consistent about which terms are uppercased in
index entries.
2003-12-26 21:30:48 +00:00
Michael Meskes
99827af7e0 Fixed docs to clearly note that ecpg is originally a C precompiler and C++ stuff is not 100%. 2003-12-26 20:00:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c757c49fa > > I have no idea if this in Oracle or not. But it's something I
> > needed, and other people in the past asked about it too.
>
> It is in Oracle, but you aren't exactly on the spot.  It should be
>
> IYYY - 4 digits  ('2003')
> IYY  - 3 digits  ('003')
> IY   - 2 digits  ('03')
> I    - 1 digit   ('3')

Here is an updated patch that does that.

Kurt Roeckx
2003-12-25 03:36:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a922472a2a Supress non-temp schemas from psql \dn display. 2003-12-23 23:13:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
9adaf64da3 Mop-up for HAS_TEST_AND_SET refactoring. Un-break two or three platforms
that were broken, try to make layout of s_lock.h entries consistent,
use HAVE_SPINLOCKS in preference to HAS_TEST_AND_SET everywhere outside
s_lock.h itself.
2003-12-23 18:13:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
5015cf01eb Fix broken markup, adjust 7.4.1 release date, re-sync HEAD with branch. 2003-12-21 18:06:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
550d347811 Update 7.4.1 release notes in preparation for release. 2003-12-21 05:23:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0ea4f9c859 Back out:
>  Attached is a patch that addressed all the discussed issues
>  that did not break backward compatability, including the
>  ability to output ISO-8601 compliant intervals by setting
>  datestyle to iso8601basic.
2003-12-21 04:34:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ee0ddf91d Another markup fix for recent patch. 2003-12-20 16:06:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4e005c9095 Fix broken markup. 2003-12-20 15:59:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54c8e821b8 In my mind there were two categories of open issues
a) ones that are 100% backward (such as the comment about
     outputting this format)
and
  b) ones that aren't (such as deprecating the current
     postgresql shorthand of
         '1Y1M'::interval = 1 year 1 minute
     in favor of the ISO-8601
         'P1Y1M'::interval = 1 year 1 month.

Attached is a patch that addressed all the discussed issues that
did not break backward compatability, including the ability to
output ISO-8601 compliant intervals by setting datestyle to
iso8601basic.

Interval values can now be written as  ISO 8601 time intervals, using
the "Format with time-unit designators". This format always starts with
the character 'P', followed  by a string of values followed
by single character time-unit designators. A 'T' separates the date and
time parts of the interval.

Ron Mayer
2003-12-20 15:32:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
cb95ec2f7a 7.4.1 release note improvements 2003-12-19 20:06:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e9aec81792 Please find enclosed a patch exemplifying typical use of the ARE
Class-Shorthand Escapes<C2><AE>.  I believe it will help intrepid regex
users. :)

David Fetter
2003-12-18 03:59:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d5fce355b Restore information schema upgrade instructions of Peter. 2003-12-17 07:07:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4b1a35b3c2 Add example for converting epoch back to timestamp. 2003-12-16 15:27:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
39d66b5494 Mention ecpg SET CONNECTION is not thread-aware. 2003-12-16 01:06:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a6dbd64947 Override some of the changes in DocBook DSSSL stylesheets 1.78 to restore
previous behavior of <literal>, <envar>, <acronym>, and others.
2003-12-15 23:58:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
34cb0f7b46 Update HISTORY and release notes for 7.4.1. 2003-12-15 22:24:59 +00:00
Neil Conway
6efdd4186c Fix two typos in the documentation for PREPARE. 2003-12-14 00:55:46 +00:00
Neil Conway
81e9455150 This patch fixes a few more uppercase GUC vars. I also removed an
example from the RESET reference page because it seemed completely
redundant.
2003-12-14 00:15:03 +00:00
Neil Conway
0b52062265 This patch makes some improvements and adds some additional detail
to the documentation on routine database maintainence activities.
I also corrected a bunch of SGML markup.
2003-12-14 00:10:32 +00:00
Neil Conway
e24018728c This patch makes some SGML markup more consistent and makes a small
improvement to the SSL auth docs.
2003-12-14 00:05:29 +00:00
Neil Conway
7fb5a9992c This patch makes some SGML markup more consistent and makes a small
improvement to the SSL auth docs.
2003-12-13 23:59:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62f92ff32d SGML doc build instructions --- no more DTDDECL, fix double dash in path name. 2003-12-13 20:09:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
42610b1b8a Fix for vpath build 2003-12-11 22:10:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d87e109b88 Make some wording consistent with DROP OPERATOR description. 2003-12-11 20:13:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
60425f39c3 Fix instructions how to shut down postmaster. 2003-12-11 19:56:54 +00:00
Joe Conway
f0943278c1 Documentation update for previously committed changes: read-only GUC variables
and pg_settings view.
2003-12-06 23:10:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
005a1217fb Massive overhaul of pg_dump: make use of dependency information from
pg_depend to determine a safe dump order.  Defaults and check constraints
can be emitted either as part of a table or domain definition, or
separately if that's needed to break a dependency loop.  Lots of old
half-baked code for controlling dump order removed.
2003-12-06 03:00:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
59b1a23028 Markup improvements 2003-12-04 21:24:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
0fd336c61d Update release notes for 7.3.5. 2003-12-02 16:14:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
145d9fa46c Code and docs review for numeric-factorial patch. 2003-12-02 00:26:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8f61184db7 Hi, this doco patch is a quick one to add explicit mention of the need
for the AT clause in threaded ECPG applications.

Philip Yarra
2003-12-01 22:36:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8bb60b6423 attached is a patch that adds display of the groups a user belongs to to
\du and a \dg command to psql. It's against 7.4beta5.

Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
2003-12-01 22:21:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7ce9b7c0d8 This patch adds a new GUC var, "default_with_oids", which follows the
proposal for eventually deprecating OIDs on user tables that I posted
earlier to pgsql-hackers. pg_dump now always specifies WITH OIDS or
WITHOUT OIDS when dumping a table. The documentation has been updated.

Neil Conway
2003-12-01 22:08:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e2ac58c7bd Remove mention of factorial as casting example. New example needed. 2003-12-01 21:53:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
af03663878 Minor wordsmithing in datetime docs to try to address gripes raised by
cnliou.
2003-12-01 20:34:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
3e5da0a8da Fix typos noted by Halley Pacheco de Oliveira. 2003-12-01 17:58:27 +00:00
Joe Conway
b8f40ced2f Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other, and
octal escape all octets outside the range 0x20 to 0x7e. This fixes
the problem pointed out by Sergey Yatskevich here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2003-11/msg00140.php
2003-11-30 20:55:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
09ab9b5915 Remove INTO recommendation for plpgsql language. 2003-11-30 05:45:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a7c373d18 There is an unused variable in an example function in the PL/PgSQL
documentation; this patch removes it.

Neil Conway
2003-11-30 04:47:37 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
dd01cfe1c4 Remove possibility to specify an installation root after --with-krbx and
--with-openssl options.  This creates too much risk to pick up the wrong
directory accidentally (for example when there are lib64 directories), and
does not really help much with contemporary installation layouts.
2003-11-27 19:44:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
185430aef9 Add NetBSD Sparc as supported. 2003-11-26 15:56:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
38ba28e5c1 Fix language. 2003-11-25 19:27:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
cf87eb4726 Upgrade to DocBook V4.2 SGML. 2003-11-24 19:08:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e7cc995a98 Fix markup. 2003-11-24 16:56:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b3d72d3ec5 Use --with-docdir to choose installation location of documentation; put
back --infodir, which several automatic build environments expect to exist.
Add --without-docdir to prevent installation of documentation, which is
helpful for things like RPM that have their own method of installing
documentation.
2003-11-24 14:52:58 +00:00