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Tom Lane 6d3f74d801 Update and copy-edit description of privileges. 2005-03-25 16:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e26c00297 Fix to_date to behave reasonably when CC and YY fields are both used.
Karel Zak
2005-03-25 16:08:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 87a4f9b6a3 Print URL in printed output.. 2005-03-25 01:01:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 07ebb9fba9 Add URL of how to report bugs:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
2005-03-25 00:51:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2104f9af87 Add:
<
> * Add GUC to issue notice about queries that use unjoined tables
2005-03-24 05:15:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b1f57d88f5 Change Win32 O_SYNC method to O_DSYNC because that is what the method
currently does.  This is now the default Win32 wal sync method because
we perfer o_datasync to fsync.

Also, change Win32 fsync to a new wal sync method called
fsync_writethrough because that is the behavior of _commit, which is
what is used for fsync on Win32.

Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-03-24 04:36:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0275b3f783 Update INTERVAL items. 2005-03-24 03:50:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c58071a5d1 Change ANSI to ISO standard:
< * Add ANSI INTERVAL handling
> * Add ISo INTERVAL handling
< 	o Interpret syntax that isn't uniquely ANSI or PG, like '1:30' or
< 	  '1' as ANSI syntax, e.g. interpret '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as
> 	o Interpret syntax that isn't uniquely ISO or PG, like '1:30' or
> 	  '1' as ISO syntax, e.g. interpret '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as
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< * Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ANSI syntax to supported
> * Add pre-parsing phase that converts non-ISO syntax to supported
2005-03-24 02:11:06 +00:00
Neil Conway 50ce8ab9fc Revert changes to CREATE TRIGGER and ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY locking,
per request from Tom.
2005-03-24 00:03:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8abba63859 Update wording:
< 	o Process mixed ANSI/PG syntax, and round value to requested
< 	  precision or generate an error
< 	o Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS
< 	  INTERVAL MONTH), and this should return '12 months'
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> 	o Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS
> 	  INTERVAL MONTH), and this should return '12 months'
> 	o Round or truncate values to the requested precision, e.g.
> 	  INTERVAL '11 months' AS YEAR should return one or zero
2005-03-23 22:57:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d5dd9dbbfe Update item on ambiguous INTERVAL syntax:
< 	o Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04'
> 	o Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04'
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< 	o Interpret INTERVAL '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as '1 minute 30 seconds'
> 	o Interpret syntax that isn't uniquely ANSI or PG, like '1:30' or
> 	  '1' as ANSI syntax, e.g. interpret '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as
> 	  '1 minute 30 seconds'
2005-03-23 21:49:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a15699b9e0 Update ANSI INTERVAL section:
< * Add support for ANSI time INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO SECOND
< * Add support for ANSI date INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '20-6' YEAR TO MONTH
< * Process mixed ANSI/PG INTERVAL syntax, and round value to requested precision
<
<   Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS INTERVAL
<   MONTH), and this should return '12 months'
<
< * Interpret INTERVAL '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as '1 minute 30 seconds'
> * Add ANSI INTERVAL handling
> 	o Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04'
> 	  DAY TO SECOND
> 	o Add support for year-month syntax, INTERVAL '50-6' YEAR TO MONTH
> 	o Process mixed ANSI/PG syntax, and round value to requested
> 	  precision or generate an error
> 	o Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS
> 	  INTERVAL MONTH), and this should return '12 months'
> 	o Interpret INTERVAL '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as '1 minute 30 seconds'
> 	o Support precision, CREATE TABLE foo (a INTERVAL MONTH(3))
2005-03-23 21:10:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 87ba04eeaf Add note about risks involved in replaying CREATE TABLESPACE commands
from WAL.  A couple other grammatical improvements too.
2005-03-23 19:38:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d27061a3ab Update numbers in example:
< * Add support for ANSI date INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '9-3' YEAR TO MONTH
> * Add support for ANSI date INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '20-6' YEAR TO MONTH
2005-03-23 17:05:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 70d782e64c Update:
< * Add support for ANSI date INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '1-2' YEAR TO MONTH
> * Add support for ANSI date INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '9-3' YEAR TO MONTH
2005-03-23 16:38:55 +00:00
Neil Conway f30c76ce8d Adjust CREATE TRIGGER and ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY to acquire
ExclusiveLock rather than AccessExclusiveLock. This will allow concurrent
SELECT queries to proceed on the table. Per discussion with Andrew at
SuperNews.
2005-03-23 07:44:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ac323044cf Add:
> 	o Add MOVE to PL/pgSQL
2005-03-23 06:11:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f6c1f990ab Assign:
> 	o Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
2005-03-23 05:50:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9be9c1fb0c Add:
>
> * Interpret INTERVAL '1:30' MINUTE TO SECOND as '1 minute 30 seconds'
2005-03-23 05:49:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3113d38bec Add INTERVAL items:
> * Add support for ANSI time INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO SECOND
> * Add support for ANSI date INTERVAL syntax, INTERVAL '1-2' YEAR TO MONTH
> * Process mixed ANSI/PG INTERVAL syntax, and round value to requested precision
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>   Interpret INTERVAL '1 year' MONTH as CAST (INTERVAL '1 year' AS INTERVAL
>   MONTH), and this should return '12 months'
2005-03-23 05:42:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e96ab26277 Remove duplicate:
< * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
2005-03-23 02:50:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b7c2258833 Add:
> * Allow WAL replay of CREATE TABLESPACE to work when the directory
>   structure on the recovery computer is different from the original
2005-03-23 02:49:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0b2adc1e5f Add:
> 	o Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API
2005-03-23 02:41:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 09c165e41e Remove:
< 	o Update to use the newer COPY syntax
2005-03-23 02:21:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee10720834 Add for pg_dump:
> 	o Update to use the newer COPY syntax
2005-03-23 02:14:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aab0159cfb Add:
>
> * Support table partitioning that allows a single table to be stored
>   in subtables that are partitioned based on the primary key or a WHERE
>   clause
2005-03-23 01:25:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4201ba2459 Remove:
<
< 	o Prevent conflicting SET options from being set
<
< 	  This requires a checking function to be called after the server
< 	  configuration file is read.
2005-03-23 00:36:14 +00:00
Tom Lane ee4ddac137 Convert index-related tuple handling routines from char 'n'/' ' to bool
convention for isnull flags.  Also, remove the useless InsertIndexResult
return struct from index AM aminsert calls --- there is no reason for
the caller to know where in the index the tuple was inserted, and we
were wasting a palloc cycle per insert to deliver this uninteresting
value (plus nontrivial complexity in some AMs).
I forced initdb because of the change in the signature of the aminsert
routines, even though nothing really looks at those pg_proc entries...
2005-03-21 01:24:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1c14db5a77 Done:
> * -Allow the size of the buffer cache used by temporary objects to be
2005-03-20 01:57:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 91728fa26c Add temp_buffers GUC variable to allow users to determine the size
of the local buffer arena for temporary table access.
2005-03-19 23:27:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5955ebe334 Add link to INSERT in docs.
Robert Treat
2005-03-17 20:24:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 28d150d8e9 Update file system snapshot docs. 2005-03-17 15:38:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 118bf5bc22 Mention tablespaces as a problem for using file system snapshots. 2005-03-17 05:10:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca2d08579e Document use of rsync for file system backups.
Tino Wildenhain
2005-03-17 05:03:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 82c46e5a70 Add mention of compatibility problem with turning off backslash escapes:
<   SQL-spec compliant, so allow such handling to be disabled.
>   SQL-spec compliant, so allow such handling to be disabled.  However,
>   disabling backslashes could break many third-party applications and tools.
2005-03-17 04:42:15 +00:00
Neil Conway 957f51ea6b Add a reference to the documentation on alternate index operator classes in
the locale docs. Patch from Chris KL, editorialization by Neil Conway.
2005-03-17 00:22:24 +00:00
Tom Lane f97aebd162 Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassembly
of tuples when passing data up through multiple plan nodes.  A slot can now
hold either a normal "physical" HeapTuple, or a "virtual" tuple consisting
of Datum/isnull arrays.  Upper plan levels can usually just copy the Datum
arrays, avoiding heap_formtuple() and possible subsequent nocachegetattr()
calls to extract the data again.  This work extends Atsushi Ogawa's earlier
patch, which provided the key idea of adding Datum arrays to TupleTableSlots.
(I believe however that something like this was foreseen way back in Berkeley
days --- see the old comment on ExecProject.)  A test case involving many
levels of join of fairly wide tables (about 80 columns altogether) showed
about 3x overall speedup, though simple queries will probably not be
helped very much.

I have also duplicated some code in heaptuple.c in order to provide versions
of heap_formtuple and friends that use "bool" arrays to indicate null
attributes, instead of the old convention of "char" arrays containing either
'n' or ' '.  This provides a better match to the convention used by
ExecEvalExpr.  While I have not made a concerted effort to get rid of uses
of the old routines, I think they should be deprecated and eventually removed.
2005-03-16 21:38:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 86ad33cd48 Update to 8.0.1. 2005-03-15 22:38:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 05be5cc4e0 Add:
> * Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent
>   sequentiqal scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning"
2005-03-15 05:31:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d5bc23878a Update Win32 item:
<         o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which PostgreSQL supports
<           but the operating system does not (already disallowed by
< 	  pginstaller)
>         o Add support for Unicode
< 	  To fix UTF8, the data needs to be converted to UTF16 and then
< 	  the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions
> 	  To fix this, the data needs to be converted to/from UTF16/UTF8
>           so the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions
< 	  locales but provides no ordering.
<
> 	  locales but provides no ordering or character set classes.
2005-03-15 04:01:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 17c8276d24 Clean up win1252 documentation. Mention how we determine the number of
bytes/character for each encoding.
2005-03-15 02:30:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e7fb9f18bf Add support for Win1252 encoding.
Roland Volkmann
2005-03-14 18:31:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2ed560c99f Completed:
> * -Cache last known per-tuple offsets to speed long tuple access
2005-03-14 16:37:02 +00:00
Neil Conway 9abced035d Fix mistakes in SGML markup. From David Fetter. 2005-03-14 06:49:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 251d3f75d0 Note that the -F and -R command line options only affect unaligned
output mode.  This was already stated in other places in the psql
reference page, but not here.
2005-03-14 06:19:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d1022ce3a1 Document client-only encodings. 2005-03-14 03:59:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4973296035 Fix typo on URL. 2005-03-14 03:07:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c1186dd594 Add user:
> * Support triggers on columns (Greg Sabino Mullane)
2005-03-14 03:00:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a03bb609b3 Finalize character set documentation changes. 2005-03-14 02:14:42 +00:00
Neil Conway c069655441 Allow ALTER FUNCTION to change a function's strictness, volatility, and
whether or not it is a security definer. Changing a function's strictness
is required by SQL2003, and the other capabilities make sense. Also, allow
an optional RESTRICT noise word to be specified, for SQL conformance.

Some trivial regression tests added and the documentation has been
updated.
2005-03-14 00:19:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cbc100af66 Increment all major version numbers in 8.0.X to force recompile of
client aplications so 7.4.X releases can be installed on the same
machine as 8.0.X.
2005-03-13 22:04:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8264cbcb50 Remove CENTER tag. 2005-03-13 19:27:53 +00:00
Neil Conway ff02d0a052 Make default_with_oids default to false -- user-created tables will now
no longer include OIDs, unless WITH OIDS is specified or the
default_with_oids configuration parameter is enabled. Update the docs
accordingly.
2005-03-13 09:36:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0edc2f14e0 More ordering adjustments. 2005-03-13 05:31:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c151e6374c Fix markup. 2005-03-13 05:16:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 119807e397 More markup changes. 2005-03-13 05:11:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1c0aeec65b More cleanups. 2005-03-13 04:35:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cbe4b4163e More improvements. 2005-03-13 04:10:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a717ab6fa6 More additions to the table. 2005-03-13 03:44:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1fa8445233 Keep changing the markup until I like it. :-) 2005-03-13 03:02:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 382f24b187 More table markup improvements. 2005-03-13 02:54:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7b7abb7ccb More table markup fixes. 2005-03-13 02:33:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6109a1ce18 Rework "aliases" column for encodings. 2005-03-13 02:20:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 074ba31e41 Fix markup typo. 2005-03-13 02:07:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f949baf9a2 Add missing conversion documentation for certain encodings. 2005-03-13 02:02:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e42e3b6c56 Reorder documented encodings to be alphabetical.
Remove warning about pre-7.2 LATIN5 usage.
2005-03-13 01:30:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee1bd33dd0 Document aliases for our supported encodings.
Add a few encodings that were not documented.
2005-03-13 01:26:30 +00:00
Tom Lane fa5e44017a Adjust the API for aggregate function calls so that a C-coded function
can tell whether it is being used as an aggregate or not.  This allows
such a function to avoid re-pallocing a pass-by-reference transition
value; normally it would be unsafe for a function to scribble on an input,
but in the aggregate case it's safe to reuse the old transition value.
Make int8inc() do this.  This gets a useful improvement in the speed of
COUNT(*), at least on narrow tables (it seems to be swamped by I/O when
the table rows are wide).  Per a discussion in early December with
Neil Conway.  I also fixed int_aggregate.c to check this, thereby
turning it into something approaching a supportable technique instead
of being a crude hack.
2005-03-12 20:25:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 852ef58da9 Documention all our supported encodings. 2005-03-12 06:28:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 948c41f404 Done:
< 	o Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage
> 	o -Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage
2005-03-12 05:41:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 06a61d66f9 Done:
* -Add a warning when the free space map is too small
2005-03-12 05:25:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b9de4a26cf Here's the patch to fix a lot of markup errors in the HTML FAQs. Doesn't
change content (at least not supposed to).

Magnus Hagander
2005-03-11 21:46:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian db48396a8a Fix typos.
Hashem Masoud
2005-03-11 13:09:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 85ecedf1d8 Fix typos.
Robert Treat
2005-03-11 11:59:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e185618f5d Fix typos.
Robert Treat
2005-03-11 11:43:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7e3a8d9a83 Fix typo. 2005-03-11 11:42:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a258a1bba8 Add:
> * Fix cross-compiling of time zone database via 'zic'
2005-03-11 03:45:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 595ed2a855 Make the behavior of HAVING without GROUP BY conform to the SQL spec.
Formerly, if such a clause contained no aggregate functions we mistakenly
treated it as equivalent to WHERE.  Per spec it must cause the query to
be treated as a grouped query of a single group, the same as appearance
of aggregate functions would do.  Also, the HAVING filter must execute
after aggregate function computation even if it itself contains no
aggregate functions.
2005-03-10 23:21:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e829f82223 Add comma. 2005-03-08 13:27:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3716e12808 Fix markup of URL. 2005-03-08 03:52:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2b26458a91 Add URL for patches queues. 2005-03-08 01:15:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e3d7de6b99 Rename canonical encodings, per Peter:
UNICODE => UTF8
	ALT => WIN866
	WIN => WIN1251
	TCVN => WIN1258

The old codes continue to work.
2005-03-07 04:30:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 1fcfa038ce Add a note that regression test row ordering differences can be caused
by non-default planner parameter settings.
2005-03-07 02:00:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 5d5087363d Replace the BufMgrLock with separate locks on the lookup hashtable and
the freelist, plus per-buffer spinlocks that protect access to individual
shared buffer headers.  This requires abandoning a global freelist (since
the freelist is a global contention point), which shoots down ARC and 2Q
as well as plain LRU management.  Adopt a clock sweep algorithm instead.
Preliminary results show substantial improvement in multi-backend situations.
2005-03-04 20:21:07 +00:00
Tom Lane 5c2e68ba6b Fix misspelling of sysctl, per Stefan Hans. 2005-03-02 19:58:54 +00:00
Neil Conway 87aafa1600 SGML improvements to the DML chapter. 2005-03-01 23:45:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5edb76d4fc Done:
> * -Make src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe
2005-03-01 05:00:20 +00:00
Neil Conway 484f0464ff Implement max() and min() aggregates for array types. Patch from Koju
Iijima, reviewed by Neil Conway. Catalog version number bumped,
regression tests updated.
2005-02-28 03:45:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2d22f16132 Rename planner stats detail to avoid label confict. 2005-02-27 01:17:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 234d50812c Add documentation on how statistics are used by the planner.
Mark Kirkwood
2005-02-27 00:49:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f55339577b Adjust OS-specific kernel settings to mention old and new BSD methods of
adjusting values:

> But to be on the safe side, it would make sense to do something similar
> to the BSD section, and comment about older distributions maybe needing
> to manipulate /proc/kernel/* directly.

Mark Kirkwood
2005-02-26 23:19:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ffef9a9de4 Clarify PGPASSWORD usage:
! authentication.  Use of this environment variable is not
! recommended for security reasons (some operating systems
! allow non-root users to see process environment variables via
! <application>ps</>); instead consider using  the
! <filename>~/.pgpass</> file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">).
2005-02-26 18:39:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 891497d3a9 Correct overstatement in locking docs: we said ExclusiveLock is never
taken automatically, but this is only true with respect to user tables.
2005-02-26 18:37:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0060023c3d State PGPASSWORD is "not recommended" rather than "depricated". 2005-02-26 14:21:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 93aa22fc8e Please find enclosed a patch, per Dennis Bj<C3><B6>rklund, that uses -f
for input files rather than <.  This makes error messages, &c. more
expressive.

David Fetter
2005-02-25 04:56:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6b80ca2f06 Fix plpgsql error message for dropped temporary tables. 2005-02-25 04:18:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e49da4855c Clarify object ownership language to prevent confusion with database
ownership.
2005-02-25 02:34:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0c6568424a Updatge wording. 2005-02-25 00:45:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3debf968ef Fix markup. 2005-02-25 00:32:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 026a8510a3 Fix HTML markup and add NULL sorting item to existing NULL FAQ item.
Greg Sabino Mullan
2005-02-25 00:32:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d2557833e9 Add:
> * Improve psql's handling of multi-line queries
2005-02-25 00:24:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0b58d30168 Add wording about UTF8:
< 	  like towupper().
> 	  like towupper().  However, UTF8 already works with normal
> 	  locales but provides no ordering.
2005-02-24 23:39:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0ae430a207 Done:
> 	o -Change PL/PgSQL to use palloc() instead of malloc()
2005-02-24 14:14:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 26b9a2860f Document that only a table's owner may TRUNCATE it. Per Keith Worthington. 2005-02-22 19:06:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 64011b4dce Add:
> 	* Add internationalized message strings
2005-02-22 04:08:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 78bb800bc2 Update initdb locale/encoding documentation description. Backpatch to
8.0.X.
2005-02-22 02:54:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3236250238 Add port mention:
< * Add the client IP address to pg_stat_activity
> * Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity
2005-02-21 18:51:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian daab1a7dc0 Update Russian FAQ.
Viktor Vislobokov
2005-02-21 17:33:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ac1cbc8079 Clarify item:
< * Allow server configuration parameters to be remotely modified
> * Allow pg_hba.conf settings to be controlled via SQL
>
>   This would require a new global table that is dumped to flat file for
>   use by the postmaster.  We do a similar thing for pg_shadow currently.
>
2005-02-21 17:30:33 +00:00
Neil Conway ccf5db73eb Fix two typos, per report from Hashem Masoud. 2005-02-21 06:12:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d5b98e4ce0 Clarify item:
< * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
> * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching,
>   especially for WAL writes
2005-02-21 04:58:52 +00:00
Neil Conway 99bf6a1634 Updates to the bibliography. Patch from Michael Fuhr. 2005-02-21 02:21:03 +00:00
Neil Conway f18752dab5 Document the "register" and "unregister" pg_ctl subcommands, for use on
Windows. Patch from Magnus Hagander.
2005-02-21 02:13:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 60b2444cc3 Add code to prevent transaction ID wraparound by enforcing a safe limit
in GetNewTransactionId().  Since the limit value has to be computed
before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database
startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid.
This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on
the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are
not properly updated during WAL recovery.  The code I've added to
startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and
it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing
the XID wraparound limit value.  This will eventually allow us to get
rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add
a trigger to pg_database.
2005-02-20 02:22:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2abe40aac7 Fix typo in SGML. 2005-02-19 04:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eea1ef2c85 Add reference to the NewbieDoc Docbook Guide. 2005-02-19 04:34:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 477a64d9c8 Update question text:
<H4><A name="4.20">4.20</A>) Why do I get "missing oid" errors when
    accessing temporary tables in PL/PgSQL functions?</H4>

Merlin Moncure
2005-02-15 04:35:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a284e174a3 Update Momjain book URL. 2005-02-15 04:03:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f58918ecd0 Update URL for Momjian book. 2005-02-15 04:02:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb8fcd6713 Change wording:
<   The agreed syntax is:
>   The proposed syntax is:
2005-02-15 03:54:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 50263789d6 Add mention of syntax for GRANT ALL:
>   The agreed syntax is:
> 	GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN public TO phpuser;
> 	GRANT SELECT ON NEW TABLES IN public TO phpuser;
>
2005-02-15 03:53:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b39ce1ccec Fix typo:
< 	o Allow COPY FROM ... CVS to interpret newlines and carriage
> 	o Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage
2005-02-15 03:17:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 43410176a8 Add:
> * Add xpath_array() to /contrib/xml2 to return results as an array
2005-02-15 02:27:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b25bb4fd44 Add:
> * Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending specifiers
2005-02-14 19:51:17 +00:00
Neil Conway 73f5c9d90e Minor consistency improvement. 2005-02-14 00:54:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f25df821a9 Add:
> * Make src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe
2005-02-14 00:03:57 +00:00
Tom Lane c6521b1b93 Write some real documentation about the index access method API. 2005-02-13 03:04:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5e73d4361c Clarify:
< * Add IP address to pg_stat_activity
> * Add the client IP address to pg_stat_activity
2005-02-13 00:10:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6370007ce8 Add:
> * Add IP address to pg_stat_activity
2005-02-13 00:09:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 49c320b19d Update to Russian FAQ, HEAD and 8.0.X. 2005-02-11 04:53:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 341251f202 Make clearer warning about using 'now' with DEFAULT:
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
	SELECT now();
	SELECT TIMESTAMP 'now';  -- incorrect for use with DEFAULT
2005-02-11 04:31:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 056a664fa1 Mention that some psql environment variables come from libpq and note
more variables can be found in the libpq manual section.

Mention .pgpass in the psql manual page section dealing with connection
parameters and point to the libpq section for more details.

Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-02-11 04:19:05 +00:00
Neil Conway 35878b9bc6 Add some index entries for RAISE and exception handling in PL/PgSQL. Per
suggestion from Rainer Brandt.
2005-02-10 06:08:22 +00:00
Neil Conway cf1f6f98f2 Improvements to documentation of shared memory configuration under
FreeBSD. From Mark Kirkwood, editorializing by Neil Conway.
2005-02-10 05:14:58 +00:00
Neil Conway 280cae35aa Use now() rather than 'now' in an example in the PL/PgSQL docs. From David
Fetter and Ben Calvert.
2005-02-10 05:01:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8f5b4c8c8c Update pginstaller URL to http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/win32/.
Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-02-10 04:52:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 38efdc8bc1 Spacing:
< *  Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
> * Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2005-02-08 03:23:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc95779679 It seems like most people don't want automatic failover so I am removing
the item:

< 	o Automatic failover
<
< 	  The proper solution to this will probably the use of a master/slave
< 	  replication solution like Sloney and a connection pooling tool like
< 	  pgpool.
<
2005-02-08 03:21:02 +00:00
Neil Conway c76ff4bc4e Better late than never: document that the GiST API changed in 8.0 in the
"incompatibilities" section of the release notes.
2005-02-06 22:31:50 +00:00
Tom Lane e507399790 Document array behavior for out-of-range subscripts. 2005-02-06 20:59:30 +00:00
Neil Conway ad893a361d Minor SGML improvements. 2005-02-03 07:12:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b3a7e987a1 Improve wording of to_char() change in 8.1:
The 8.1 release will remove the <function>to_char()</> function
      for intervals.
2005-02-02 18:16:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f69513df17 Update FAQ numbering. 2005-02-02 17:44:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 947ae56d80 Update RESET ALL items:
<   all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, etc.  This could be used
<   for connection pooling.  We could also change RESET ALL to have this
<   functionality.
>   all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, cursors, prepared
>   queries(?), currval()s, etc.  This could be used for connection pooling.
>   We could also change RESET ALL to have this functionality.
2005-02-02 17:26:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cde6056e34 Remove pgsql_tmp directory FAQ item. 2005-02-02 13:41:18 +00:00
Neil Conway 73f630500b Add support for temporary views, including documentation and regression
tests. Contributed by Koju Iijima, review from Neil Conway, Gavin Sherry
and Tom Lane.

Also, fix error in description of WITH CHECK OPTION clause in the CREATE
VIEW reference page: it should be "CASCADED", not "CASCADE".
2005-02-02 06:36:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 48522fd30d Add Josh's performance page. 2005-02-01 21:11:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 68b0e29800 Add FETCH/MOVE:
< * Change LIMIT/OFFSET to use int8
> * Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2005-02-01 04:56:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb14d8becf Add:
> * Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be inherited by objects based on
>   schema permissions
2005-02-01 04:54:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4f63cc6a30 Final FAQ cleanups to remove information about very old releases. 2005-02-01 02:40:50 +00:00