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5912 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Conway
f124e820a1 Add some missing SGML markup. 2005-07-27 13:42:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
58d214e51f Basic documentation for ROLEs. The user-manag chapter still needs to
be rewritten, but at least the reference pages are reasonably sane.
2005-07-26 23:24:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
af019fb9ae Add a role property 'rolinherit' which, when false, denotes that the role
doesn't automatically inherit the privileges of roles it is a member of;
for such a role, membership in another role can be exploited only by doing
explicit SET ROLE.  The default inherit setting is TRUE, so by default
the behavior doesn't change, but creating a user with NOINHERIT gives closer
adherence to our current reading of SQL99.  Documentation still lacking,
and I think the information schema needs another look.
2005-07-26 16:38:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
f9fd176461 Add pg_has_role() family of privilege inquiry functions modeled after the
existing ones for object privileges.  Update the information_schema for
roles --- pg_has_role() makes this a whole lot easier, removing the need
for most of the explicit joins with pg_user.  The views should be a tad
faster now, too.  Stephen Frost and Tom Lane.
2005-07-26 00:04:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
e5d6b91220 Add SET ROLE. This is a partial commit of Stephen Frost's recent patch;
I'm still working on the has_role function and information_schema changes.
2005-07-25 22:12:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ad9e694ac Add:
> 	o Allow postgresql.conf file values to be changed via an SQL API
> 	o Allow the server to be stopped/restarted via an SQL API
2005-07-25 15:27:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
4c80071b81 With the interval/day patch, the horology regression test no longer
fails near DST transition days, so remove the advice about that testing
problem.  Also improve the description of variant-comparison-file
selection.
2005-07-24 17:07:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
d007a95055 Simple constraint exclusion. For now, only child tables of inheritance
scans are candidates for exclusion; this should be fixed eventually.
Simon Riggs, with some help from Tom Lane.
2005-07-23 21:05:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
261026575d Fix AT TIME ZONE for timestamps without time zones:
test=> select ('2005-07-20 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) at
	time zone 'Europe/Paris';
	        timezone
	------------------------
	 2005-07-19 22:00:00-04

Udpate documentation.
2005-07-22 21:16:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e5c62d065 Add:
<
> * Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
2005-07-21 13:43:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
dc73819f2e Fix breakage of INSTALL document build. 2005-07-20 23:57:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
db05f4a7eb Add 'day' field to INTERVAL so 1 day interval can be distinguished from
24 hours. This is very helpful for daylight savings time:

	select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '24 hours';
	      ?column?
	----------------------
	2005-05-04 01:00:00-04

	select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '1 day';
	      ?column?
	----------------------
	2005-05-04 01:00:00-04

Michael Glaesemann
2005-07-20 16:42:32 +00:00
Neil Conway
ca76df425b Documentation tweak: make <command>CREATE OPERATOR CLASS</command> into
an <xref/>.
2005-07-19 01:27:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
37464a0326 Fix some bogosities in geometric-function documentation: add an entry
for circle(polygon), which was missing; remove bogus entry for
point(lseg, lseg), which does not exist, and the documentation seemed to
describe lseg_interpt, which we already document as an operator not a
function.  Also remove entry for box_intersect, which likewise is
preferentially used via the operator #.
2005-07-18 22:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
507465525e \pset numericsep -> numericlocale. 2005-07-18 20:57:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5e544e4eb7 Fix SGML spacing. 2005-07-15 19:02:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
45a19efa9e Change numericsep to a boolean, and make it locale-aware. 2005-07-14 08:42:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
c3f1b0f4dd This doc patch replaces all inappropriate references to SQL:1999 when it
is used as if it were the latest (and/or still valid) SQL standard.
SQL:2003 is used in its place. Patch from Simon Riggs.
2005-07-14 06:17:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
29094193f5 Integrate autovacuum functionality into the backend. There's still a
few loose ends to be dealt with, but it seems to work.  Alvaro Herrera,
based on the contrib code by Matthew O'Connor.
2005-07-14 05:13:45 +00:00
Neil Conway
d6375d6109 Documentation for some new PL/Perl features. Patch from David Fetter,
various editorialization from Neil Conway.
2005-07-13 02:10:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
d78397d301 Change typreceive function API so that receive functions get the same
optional arguments as text input functions, ie, typioparam OID and
atttypmod.  Make all the datatypes that use typmod enforce it the same
way in typreceive as they do in typinput.  This fixes a problem with
failure to enforce length restrictions during COPY FROM BINARY.
2005-07-10 21:14:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d1cffe2f77 Add --encoding to pg_dump.
The Problem:  Occassionally a DBA needs to dump a database to a new
encoding.   In instances where the current encoding, (or lack of an
encoding, like SQL_ASCII) is poorly supported on the target  database
server, it can be useful to dump into a particular  encoding.  But,
currently the only way to set the encoding of  a pg_dump file is to
change  client_encoding in postgresql.conf and restart postmaster.
This is more  than a little awkward for production systems.

Magnus Hagander
2005-07-10 15:08:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
42e7b0f02f Update.
< 	  computations should adjust based on the time zone rules, e.g.
< 	  adding 24 hours to a timestamp would yield a different result from
< 	  adding one day.
<
> 	  computations should adjust based on the time zone rules.
2005-07-10 05:06:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75a64eeb4b I made the patch that implements regexp_replace again.
The specification of this function is as follows.

regexp_replace(source text, pattern text, replacement text, [flags
text])
returns text

Replace string that matches to regular expression in source text to
replacement text.

 - pattern is regular expression pattern.
 - replacement is replace string that can use '\1'-'\9', and '\&'.
    '\1'-'\9': back reference to the n'th subexpression.
    '\&'     : entire matched string.
 - flags can use the following values:
    g: global (replace all)
    i: ignore case
    When the flags is not specified, case sensitive, replace the first
    instance only.

Atsushi Ogawa
2005-07-10 04:54:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
73a7c322c3 Add psql \pset numericsep to allow output numbers like 100,000.0 or
100.000,0.

Eugen Nedelcu
2005-07-10 03:46:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a4ffa38234 Done:
> * -Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects
2005-07-08 02:44:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
59d1b3d99e Track dependencies on shared objects (which is to say, roles; we already
have adequate mechanisms for tracking the contents of databases and
tablespaces).  This solves the longstanding problem that you can drop a
user who still owns objects and/or has access permissions.
Alvaro Herrera, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2005-07-07 20:40:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
442b59dd8b Update:
< 	   writer.
> 	   writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
> 	   into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
> 	   replaced from WAL.
2005-07-07 16:02:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f0a2a91918 Update:
>
> 	o  -Add ability to turn off full page writes
> 	o  When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
> 	   on recovery
> 	o  Write full pages during file system write and not when
> 	   the page is modified in the buffer cache
>
> 	   This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
> 	   writer.
2005-07-07 15:18:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
261ffd03f7 Reverse out because the lack of using pgport in timezone/ is causing
problems:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler.
This relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.
2005-07-06 21:04:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a923602855 Add pg_column_size() to return storage size of a column, including
possible compression.

Mark Kirkwood
2005-07-06 19:02:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0bf8b27348 Update description of GUC full_page_writes.
Michael Paesold
2005-07-06 14:45:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d2e1cb730 Done:
> * -Add function to return compressed length of TOAST data values
2005-07-06 03:40:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
326a7a0788 Add GUC full_page_writes to control writing full pages to WAL. 2005-07-05 23:18:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d22a3727a5 Remove, now have GUC:
< * Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled
<
<   If fsync is off, there is no purpose in writing full pages to WAL
<
2005-07-05 22:59:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3bf4e4120d Add:
<
881a881,882
> 	o Improve xid wraparound detection by recording per-table rather
> 	  than per-database
2005-07-05 19:37:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
de5d30069b More TODO list section restructuring. 2005-07-04 17:43:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ea398513e Restructure TODO sections. 2005-07-04 17:00:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e652d2c476 Update
> * Allow GIST indexes to create certain complex index types, like digital
>   trees (see Aoki)
>
783a787
>
2005-07-04 12:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3848532c79 Update wording:
<   Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the
>   Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write
877c877
< * Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled
> * Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled
2005-07-04 04:06:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
85884cb1de Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler. This
relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.
2005-07-03 18:54:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea1e2b948d Remove GIST concurrency limitations section.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2005-07-02 20:08:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9caeace71c Add SGML markup for on/off values in run-time section. 2005-07-02 19:16:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6aa0fdc4aa Use on/off consistently for GUC variables in postgresql.conf and the
documentation, to match SHOW.
2005-07-02 18:29:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
654efe6aaa Update:
< * Add rtree index support for line, lseg, path, point
> * Add more gist index support for geometric data types
2005-07-02 14:30:38 +00:00
Neil Conway
c425dcb4ec In PL/PgSQL, allow a block's label to be optionally specified at the
end of the block:

<<label>>
begin
    ...
end label;

Similarly for loops. This is per PL/SQL. Update the documentation and
add regression tests. Patch from Pavel Stehule, code review by Neil
Conway.
2005-07-02 08:59:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f009248af1 Clarify:
< 	o Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall for cleaning of
< 	  roles with separate DROP commands
> 	o Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
>           cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
2005-07-01 17:35:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fee590c8b1 Update for roles:
< * Allow limits on per-db/user connections
> * Allow limits on per-db/role connections
< * Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and roles
<
<   Currently, if a user is removed while he still owns objects, a new
<   user given might be given their user id and inherit the
<   previous users objects.
<
450c444
< * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, roles, databases
> * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
609c603
< 	  users and roles with separate DROP commands
> 	  roles with separate DROP commands
2005-07-01 17:32:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b00f557dd1 Update for roles:
< * Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups
> * Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and roles
450c450
< * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, groups, databases
> * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, roles, databases
609c609
< 	  users and groups with separate DROP commands
> 	  users and roles with separate DROP commands
2005-07-01 17:05:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ab306e4ea Item superceeded now that groups exist:
< * Add group object ownership, so groups can rename/drop/grant on objects,
<   so we can implement roles
2005-07-01 15:08:25 +00:00