required if a datatype is to be accepted by GROUP BY, DISTINCT, or
ORDER BY. This is documentation for code changes made pursuant to
pgsql-hackers discussion around 29-Nov-02.
beginning/end of cursor.
Have MOVE return 0/1 depending on cursor position.
Matches SQL spec.
Pass cursor counter from parser as a long rather than int.
Doc updates.
< * Bruce is Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
< * Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
< * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
> * Bruce is Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> of Software Research Assoc.
> * Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> of
> Family Health Network
> * D'Arcy is D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> of The Cain Gang Ltd.
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< * Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
< * Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>
> * Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> of Red Hat
> * Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au> of Alcove Systems Engineering
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< * Jan is Jan Wieck <wieck@sapserv.debis.de>
< * Liam is Liam Stewart <liams@redhat.com>
< * Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
> * Jan is Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> of PeerDirect Corp.
> * Liam is Liam Stewart <liams@redhat.com> of Red Hat
> * Marc is Marc Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> of PostgreSQL, Inc.
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< * Marko is Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>
< * Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
> * Michael is Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> of Credativ
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< * Peter M is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>
> * Peter M is Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> of Retep Software
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< * Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
> * Philip is Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> of Albatross Consulting Pty. Ltd.
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< * Ryan is Ryan Bradetich <rbrad@hpb50023.boi.hp.com>
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< * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
< * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
< * Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
< * TomH is Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.no>
< * Vadim is Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o@email.com>
> * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> of Software Research Assoc.
> * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> of Jet Propulsion Labratory
> * Tom is Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> of Red Hat
> * Vadim is Vadim B. Mikheev <vadim4o@email.com> of Sector Data
> I'm not objecting to improving the text. I am objecting to deleting it
> outright...
Ok, fair enough. I've attached a revised version of the patch -- let me
know you think it needs further improvements.
Neil Conway
>
> In pg.py the attributes of DB are defined as being the same as
> the attributes of the corresponding pgobject "db", using the following
...
> The problem is that the attributes of db (which are read only)
> are not static (they are actually function calls to PostgreSQL),
> especially "status" and "error", but those attributes are copied
> and this is done only once when initializing the DB object.
>
> So, in effect, only the attribute "db.error" of a DB instance
> will be updated, but not the attribute "error". Same with "status".
> Don't copy the (read only) attributes of the pgobject to the
> DB object, but only the methods, and all of them, like this:
>
> --------------- change in pg.py ------------------
> # Create convience methods, in a way that is still overridable.
> for e in self.db.__methods__:
> setattr(self, e, getattr(self.db, e))
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Furthermore, make an addition to the documentation of the
> DB wrapper class (i.e. in pygresql-pg-db.html):
> After the sentence "All pgobject methods are included in this class also."
> add the following sentence "The pgobject read-only attributes can be
> accessed py adding the prefix 'db.' to them."
Christoph Zwerschke
* Add schema, cast, and conversion backslash commands to psql
I had to create a new publically available function,
pg_conversion_is_visible, as it seemed to be missing from the catalogs.
This required me to do no small amount of hacking around in namespace.c
I have updated the \? help and sgml docs.
\dc - list conversions [PATTERN]
\dC - list casts
\dn list schemas
I didn't support patterns with casts as there's nothing obvious to match
against.
Catalog version incremented --- initdb required.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
make VALUE a non-reserved word again, use less invasive method of passing
ConstraintTestValue into transformExpr, fix problems with nested constraint
testing, do correct thing with NULL result from a constraint expression,
remove memory leak. Domain checks still need much more work if we are going
to allow ALTER DOMAIN, however.
>
> * Wire Protocol Changes
> o Show transaction status in psql
> o Allow binding of query parameters, support for prepared queries
> o Add optional textual message to NOTIFY
> o Remove hard-coded limits on user/db/password names
> o Remove unused elements of startup packet (unused, tty, passlength)
> o Fix COPY/fastpath protocol?
> o Replication support?
> o Error codes
> o Dynamic character set handling
> o Special passing of binary values in platform-neutral format (bytea?)
> o ecpg improvements?
> o Add decoded type, length, precision
documentation and regression test mods. It seemed small and unobtrusive enough
to not require a specific proposal on the hackers list -- but if not, let me
know and I'll make a pitch. Otherwise, if there are no objections please apply.
Joe Conway
-hackers a couple days ago.
Notes/caveats:
- added regression tests for the new functionality, all
regression tests pass on my machine
- added pg_dump support
- updated PL/PgSQL to support per-statement triggers; didn't
look at the other procedural languages.
- there's (even) more code duplication in trigger.c than there
was previously. Any suggestions on how to refactor the
ExecXXXTriggers() functions to reuse more code would be
welcome -- I took a brief look at it, but couldn't see an
easy way to do it (there are several subtly-different
versions of the code in question)
- updated the documentation. I also took the liberty of
removing a big chunk of duplicated syntax documentation in
the Programmer's Guide on triggers, and moving that
information to the CREATE TRIGGER reference page.
- I also included some spelling fixes and similar small
cleanups I noticed while making the changes. If you'd like
me to split those into a separate patch, let me know.
Neil Conway
results due to doing arithmetic on uninitialized values. Add some
documentation about the AT TIME ZONE construct. Update some other
date/time documentation that seemed out of date for 7.3.
database access outside a transaction; revert bogus performance improvement
in SIBackendInit(); improve comments; add documentation (this part courtesy
Neil Conway).
parameter to allow it to be forced off for comparison purposes.
Add ORDER BY clauses to a bunch of regression test queries that will
otherwise produce randomly-ordered output in the new regime.
- CLUSTER ALL clusters all the tables that have some index with
indisclustered set and the calling user owns.
- CLUSTER tablename clusters the named table, using the index with
indisclustered set. If no index has the bit set, throws elog(ERROR).
- The multi-relation version (CLUSTER ALL) uses a multitransaction
approach, similar to what VACUUM does.
Alvaro Herrera
before commit, not after :-( --- the original coding is not only unsafe
if an error occurs while it's processing, but it generates an invalid
sequence of WAL entries. Resurrect 7.2 logic for deleting items when
no longer needed. Use an enum instead of random macros. Editorialize
on names used for routines and constants. Teach backend/nodes routines
about new field in CreateTable struct. Add a regression test.
PL/PgSQL. Previously, it had been bundled together with the assign
statement implementation, for some reason that wasn't clear to me
(they certainly don't share any code with one another). So I separated
them and made PERFORM a statement like any other. No changes in
functionality.
Along the way, I added some regression tests for PERFORM, added a
bunch more SGML tags to the PL/PgSQL docs, and removed an obsolete
comment relating to the implementation of RETURN NEXT.
Neil Conway
"traditional" behavior, so the change should be transparent. Use the
command "\pset pager always" to turn it on. Anything else does the
normal toggle between "on" and "off"
Greg Sabino Mullane
precision for float4, float8, and geometric types. Set it in pg_dump
so that float data can be dumped/reloaded exactly (at least on platforms
where the float I/O support is properly implemented). Initial patch by
Pedro Ferreira, some additional work by Tom Lane.
the documentation and behavior of "pg_result $res -oid" when $res is not
from an INSERT. The documentation says it should return an empty
string, but in fact it returns 0. I think it used to return an empty
string around PostgreSQL-7.1.3 when PQoidStatus() was used, but now it
uses PQoidValue() which returns InvalidOid, 0 in this case.
Assuming the current behavior is desired, here is a patch to the
documentation doc/src/sgml/libpgtcl.sgml to match what really happens:
ljb
> * Add GUC variables extra_float_digits and extra_double_digits to
> control output digits
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> * Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
< A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.3 release.
> A dash (-) marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 7.4 release.
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< * -Change DEBUG startup tag to LOG (Bruce)
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< * -Add pg_backend_pid() function to backend
< * -Allow logging of query durations
<
<
< Permissions
< ===========
<
< * -Improve control over user privileges, including table creation
< * -Allow user/group names to be specified directly in pg_hba.conf (Bruce)
< * -Add ~/.pgpass to store passwords with user/host/password combinations
< * -Allow permissions for functions (Peter E)
< * -Allow object creation to be disabled for specific users
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< * -Make it easier to create a database owned by someone who can't createdb,
< perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH OWNER = "user" (Gavin)
< * -Make equals sign optional in CREATE DATABASE WITH param = 'val'
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< * -Prevent SIGHUP and 'pg_ctl reload' from changing command line
< specified parameters to postgresql.conf defaults (Peter E)
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< * -Reserve last few process slots for super-user if max_connections reached
< * -Add GUC parameter to print queries that generate errors
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< * -Add domain capability (Rod Taylor)
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< * -SELECT cash_out(2) crashes because of opaque
< * -Declare typein/out functions in pg_proc with a special "C string" data type
< * -Functions returning sets do not totally work
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< * -Add GUC parameter for DATESTYLE
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< * -Allow bytea to handle LIKE with non-TEXT patterns
< * -to_char(0,'FM999.99') returns a period, to_char(1,'FM999.99') doesn't (Karel)
< * -Add floor(float8) and other missing functions
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< o -Store binary-compatible type information in the system
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< o -Ensure we have array-eq operators for every built-in array type
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< * -Remove brackets as multi-statement rule grouping, must use parens (Bruce)
< * -Prevent aggregates from being used in rule WHERE clauses
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< * -Allow UPDATE/DELETE on inherited table
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< * -Add deleted bit to index tuples to reduce heap access
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< * -Test hash index performance and discourage usage
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< * -Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
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< * -Remove LIMIT #,# and force use LIMIT and OFFSET clauses in 7.3 (Bruce)
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< * -Disallow TRUNCATE on tables that are involved in referential constraints
< * -Add OR REPLACE clauses to non-FUNCTION object creation
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< * -Prevent create/drop scripts from allowing extra args (Bruce)
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< o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature
< o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
< o -ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY (Tom)
< o -ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE (Tom)
< o -ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP NOT NULL (Christopher)
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< o -Have ALTER TABLE OWNER change all dependant objects like indexes
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< o -Cluster all tables at once using pg_index.indisclustered set during
< previous CLUSTER
< o -Prevent loss of indexes, permissions, inheritance
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< o -Allow specification of column names
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< o -Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
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< o -Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs
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< o -Allow INSERT INTO my_table VALUES (a, b, c, DEFAULT, x, y, z, ...)
< o -Disallow missing columns in INSERT ... (col) VALUES, per ANSI
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< o -Add command to display locks
< o -Add SET or BEGIN timeout parameter to cancel query
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< o -Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Bruce)
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< o -Add SHOW command to see locale
< o -Allow SHOW to output as a query result, like EXPLAIN
< o -Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
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< o -Fix PL/PgSQL to handle quoted mixed-case identifiers
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< * -Have pg_dump use LEFT OUTER JOIN in multi-table SELECTs
< or multiple SELECTS to avoid bad system catalog entries
< * -Have pg_dump -C dump database location and encoding information
< * -Allow psql \d to show foreign keys
< * -Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure (Tom)
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< * -Have pg_dump use ADD PRIMARY KEY after COPY, for performance (Neil)
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< o -Updateable resultSet
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< o -Implement cancel() method on Statement
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< o -Add support for CallableStatements
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< o -Compile under jdk 1.4
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< * -Allow oid to act as a foreign key
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< * -Allow user to control trigger firing order (Tom)
< * -Add ALTER TRIGGER ... RENAME
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< * -Fix foreign key constraints to not error on intermediate db states (Stephan)
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< * -Add pg_depend table for dependency recording; use sysrelid, oid,
< depend_sysrelid, depend_oid, name
< * -Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL; perhaps a separate
< SERIAL type
< * -Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key
< * -Propagate column or table renaming to foreign key constraints
< * -Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped
< * -Make foreign key constraints clearer in dump file
< * -Make other constraints clearer in dump file
< * -Make foreign keys easier to identify
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< * -Allow autocommit so always in a transaction block
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< * -Add SQL92 schemas (Tom)
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< * -Cache most recent query plan(s) (Neil) [prepare]
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< * -Cache system catalog information in per-database files (Tom)
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< * -Reorder postgresql.conf WAL items in order of importance (Bruce)
< * -Remove wal_files postgresql.conf option because WAL files are now recycled
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< * -Improve dynamic memory allocation by introducing tuple-context memory
< allocation (Tom)
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< * -Nested FULL OUTER JOINs don't work (Tom)
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< * -Add new pg_proc cachable settings to specify whether function can be
< evaluated only once or once per query
< * -Change FIXED_CHAR_SEL to 0.20 from 0.04 to give better selectivity (Bruce)
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< * -Add Intimate Shared Memory(ISM) for Solaris
< * -Use faster flex flags for performance improvement (Peter E)
< * -Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris
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< * -Fix problems with libpq non-blocking/async code
< * -Make sure all block numbers are unsigned to increase maximum table size
< * -Merge LockMethodCtl and LockMethodTable into one shared structure (Bruce)
< * -HOLDER/HOLDERTAB rename to PROCLOCK/PROCLOCKTAG (Bruce)
< * -Remove LockMethodTable.prio field, not used (Bruce)
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< * -Make one version of simple_prompt() in code (Bruce, Tom)
< * -Compile in syslog functionaility by default (Tatsuo)
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< * -Report failure to find readline or zlib at end of configure run
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< * -Increase identifier length (NAMEDATALEN) if small performance hit,
< * -Increase maximum number of function parameters if little wasted space
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< * -Fix glibc's mktime() to handle pre-1970's dates
< * -Move /contrib/retep to gborg.postgresql.org
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Barry Lind