Tom Lane
db42e32a74
Fix documentation misstatement: OLD is not valid in ON SELECT.
2002-01-24 18:28:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf77a2a034
Overhaul PL/Tcl documentation.
2002-01-23 21:08:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
35a5129a08
Add Goggle mention of previous discussion.
2002-01-23 19:22:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ac3b16789
Add new email;remove old entries.
2002-01-23 18:40:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9d25b39c80
Add:
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> * Reorder postgresql.conf WAL items in order of importance
> * Remove wal_files postgresql.conf option because WAL files are now recycled
> * Find proper defaults for postgresql.conf WAL entries
> * Add checkpoint_min_warning postgresql.conf option to warn about checkpoints
> that are too frequent
2002-01-23 16:14:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7b7241059
Clarify URL:
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< http://www1.distributed.net/source , in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
---
> from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source ,
> in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
2002-01-22 22:22:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f898e60ec9
Document SMP detection code.
2002-01-22 22:15:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e7e25b2d93
Re-group items.
2002-01-22 21:55:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b8016948e
Break PERFORMANCE up into subsections.
2002-01-22 20:50:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fdf881d155
Add:
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> * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
2002-01-22 20:40:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
859a9eb468
Update FAQ.
2002-01-22 20:24:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bf43bed848
Spell-check and markup police
2002-01-20 22:19:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
75f0ba9fe3
Mention that 'make distclean' is a good idea when changing configure
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options. Document --with-pam and --enable-depend, do some minor
copy-editing.
2002-01-20 05:45:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a712718ca
Add IN/EXISTS file.
2002-01-20 05:12:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e0764fdf28
Add
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> * Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS [exists]
2002-01-20 04:56:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c8429ca31
Add missing literal endtag.
2002-01-18 21:17:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
0dd19ad21d
Add info about how to enable large-file support, so that pg_dump won't
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choke at 2Gb of output. From Andrew Sullivan.
2002-01-18 20:56:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
74c8c09338
Add:
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> * Use thread-safe crypt() in libpq, if available
2002-01-18 20:46:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a724463c8a
Improve non-thread-safe mention of libpq's crypt.
2002-01-18 20:39:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9600ccad13
Improve description of autocommit behavior in ecpg manual pages.
2002-01-18 20:32:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
1d174c3086
Explain privileges required for LOCK. Minor wordsmithing too.
2002-01-18 01:05:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
9ad737978d
Point out that superusers bypass privilege checking. Minor wordsmithing.
2002-01-18 01:04:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e1d82040e
pg_upgrade doesn't live here anymore. Remove dangling references.
2002-01-15 05:05:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
92a8bc9634
Move pg_upgrade to /contrib. Still need to make Peter's portability
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changes.
2002-01-14 17:32:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b2ebe95e9
Wow, it actually worked for the regression database. More testing needed.
2002-01-13 01:13:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c6fdf8bcfc
More man pages improvements; also needed to test sgml build.
2002-01-11 20:48:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3bb77555b1
Sync up.
2002-01-11 20:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ba3231a2a0
More cleanups.
2002-01-11 06:08:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bd45e5264
Handle int4-int8 sequence migration without full data dump.
2002-01-11 04:39:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ae53160da
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:41:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e6aa4584ca
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:35:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b010afe0dd
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:35:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d356ec9a01
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
775a61009e
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:33:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e8869056fa
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:32:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e19d7b7b95
Update FAQ.
2002-01-10 23:07:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0385ba1121
Temporary workaround for links within bibliography references fouling up
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footnote count.
2002-01-10 18:22:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7a0672b7b1
More pg_upgrade improvements. Almost done, except for max transaction
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setting.
2002-01-10 04:58:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
4d72af6cb3
Describe type casts under the heading of Value Expressions, and explain
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the difference between a run-time type cast and casting a literal string
to a specific type. Minor editorial work in same area.
2002-01-09 23:38:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5461983d08
Update with new features. Still disabled.
2002-01-09 21:50:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
da1c1144e7
Make spelling of operating system names match official version closely.
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And listing QNX 6 as both supported and unsupported is probably not helpful.
2002-01-09 00:52:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c58d5d5fcb
Adjust spelling of article titles to match the originals, add some links.
2002-01-08 23:50:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aecd85d3a1
Update Lockhart's email address.
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< * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
---
> * Thomas is Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>
2002-01-08 20:04:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
89e6ce1245
Update Thomas Lockhart's email address to lockhart@fourpalms.org.
2002-01-08 20:03:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9c9a72b807
Repair the GEQO bibliography. It was marked up all wrong. Move some of
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the info to the main bibliography.
2002-01-08 18:03:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f8728467ff
Point to main CPAN site, and reword a little.
2002-01-08 16:13:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
d09f6f7741
Minor wordsmithing.
2002-01-08 15:38:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a6e704ce95
Make FreeBSD URL point to the right chapter again.
2002-01-08 15:16:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
055d4f9208
Email address no longer valid.
2002-01-08 05:45:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc9ae0b63c
Update bad URL's with good ones.
2002-01-08 05:39:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
731204e090
Editorial review
2002-01-07 02:29:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
96ad60e919
Fix ecpg wording to be consistent.
2002-01-06 18:12:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
88ebc0f2f7
Remove ecpg TODO section:
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> Looking at this I also found an ecpg TODO list in the docs:
>
>
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/ecpg-develop.html
>
> Seems that TODO section should be removed. Some items are done,
others
> are on the main TODO list.
That's correct. I did not fix the docs for quite some time.
Michael
--
Michael Meskes
2002-01-06 17:54:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
e59c15e4bb
Fix copy-and-paste brain damage. (These commands do not create a
...
database.)
2002-01-06 03:33:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f3efaf892e
Spelling fix:
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< * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
---
> * Consider use of open/fcntl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
2002-01-05 04:03:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ef4925fdc
Re-order items:
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> * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
> * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
391d392
< * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
409d409
< * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
2002-01-04 21:32:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7a38672169
Added:
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> * Consider use of open/fctl(O_DIRECT) to minimize OS caching
2002-01-04 21:08:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
99a3396822
ecpg.sgml manual page updated to ON.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------
When you run 'ecpg --help' you get the following:
-t turn on autocommit of transactions
amongst the other options... Shouldn't this be OFF as per the
documentation?
Best regards, Lee.
--
Lee Kindness, Senior Software Engineer, lkindness@csl.co.uk
2002-01-04 18:58:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
35fcb84946
Change:
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< perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user" (Gavin)
---
> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH OWNER = "user" (Gavin)
2002-01-04 18:42:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
11d4c2c590
Add from Vadim:
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> * Allow command blocks that can ignore certain types of errors
2002-01-04 18:23:56 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
c5c28ed06a
Add more complete details on date/time keywords and parsing rules.
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Move some tabular information on these from the chapter on data types to
the appendix on dates and times.
2002-01-04 17:02:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b79ed2745
Update FAQ.
2002-01-04 05:44:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b5213b5c37
Give attribution:
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< perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user"
---
> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user" (Gavin)
2002-01-04 05:03:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f27b0eeea7
Remove:
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< * Allow only owner to create indexes
2002-01-04 04:53:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e3793e621
Prefer savepoints term:
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< allow error codes to be specified; requires nested transactions
---
> allow error codes to be specified; requires savepoints
321c321
< * Allow nested transactions / savepoints [transactions]
---
> * Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions]
2002-01-03 21:15:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a2dc469ac7
Update:
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< allow error codes to be specified
---
> allow error codes to be specified; requires nested transactions
2002-01-03 20:42:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d78fdae7f
Add:
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> o Allow COPY to report error lines and continue; optionally
> allow error codes to be specified
2002-01-03 18:25:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
258af1d57a
Add:
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> * Make equals sign optional in CREATE DATABASE WITH param = 'val'
2002-01-03 18:22:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8dcc4c058d
Added:
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> * Prevent create/drop scripts from allowing extra args (Bruce)
2002-01-03 18:13:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8ef396d6b
Added:
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> * Allow only owner to create indexes
2002-01-03 17:31:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
13acb5b37d
Updated:
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< * Add config file check for $ODBCINI, $HOME/.odbc.ini, and /etc/odbc.ini
---
> * Add config file check for $ODBCINI, $HOME/.odbc.ini, installpath/etc/odbc.ini
2002-01-03 17:29:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
85974a75fc
Add to java mention of pl/j.
2002-01-03 17:18:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8be67450aa
Update FAQ_DEV.
2002-01-03 08:20:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b24a98f2a
Update FAQ_DEV.
2002-01-03 08:13:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9c00d0de57
Added
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> * Add config file check for $ODBCINI, $HOME/.odbc.ini, and /etc/odbc.ini
2002-01-03 08:04:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b96b0415fa
Added suggested syntax:
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> * Make it easier to create a database owned by someone who can't createdb,
> perhaps CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH USER = "user"
2002-01-03 08:01:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bc29b06b0a
Add mention of index on foreign key for frequently updated primary key
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tables.
2002-01-03 06:26:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a4ee277e17
droplang had same problem as createlang; default are backwards and did
...
not work. Fixed to match createlang.
2002-01-03 06:09:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f9b792c5c3
Add to pool discussion.
2002-01-03 05:52:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2446e300fa
Added
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< o Move to using 'make' rather than 'ant'(?)
---
> o Support both 'make' and 'ant'
2002-01-03 05:48:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9d77dcc366
Add mention of PRIMARY in ALTER TABLE ... [ UNIQUE | PRIMARY ]
2002-01-03 05:37:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04f3342e03
In createlang, make dbname optional, not langname, or rather, make
...
existing code of dbname optional actually work.
2002-01-03 05:30:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b3d9768f3b
Remove:
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< * Change 'createlang [langname] dbname' to 'createlang langname [dbname]'
2002-01-03 05:20:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d5de91ddad
Added:
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> * Change 'createlang [langname] dbname' to 'createlang langname [dbname]'
2002-01-03 05:06:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
e274325e02
Fix incorrect description of rowtype variable declarations. Eventually
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(IMHO) the code should be fixed to do what the documentation formerly
claimed, and then revert this change.
2002-01-02 00:41:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
e7d9a6bf63
Repair example, per note in interactive docs.
2001-12-30 04:36:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23ef0926e1
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-30 04:31:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3f53ad7108
*** empty log message ***
2001-12-30 01:51:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
550d38458c
Add
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> * Make locking of shared data structures more fine-grained
2001-12-30 01:48:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
48ad40ba99
Added
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> * Change factorial to return a numeric
2001-12-29 20:40:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
642f2fe7cf
Add missing <varlistentry>; shown in build logs.
2001-12-29 20:29:49 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
dd0279b1ba
Document the precision arguments for date/time types per SQL9x.
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Update the list of recognized time zones.
Document the range of arguments allowed for SET TIME ZONE.
Still need to add info on other date/time symbols (e.g. "AM", "T")
and to freshen the docs on the date/time parsing rules.
2001-12-29 18:35:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3e87bfc1f1
Add crossdb TODO.detail item.
2001-12-29 17:58:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
51517f514d
Add crossdb TODO.detail item:
...
---
> * Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
2001-12-29 17:56:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c80a067cae
Update server DEBUG startup tag fixes:
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> * Change DEBUG startup tag to NOTICE; change NOTICE to output to client
> only if client exists (Bruce)
This item is not done:
< * -Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG (Peter E)
---
> * Make elog(LOG) in WAL its own output type, distinct from DEBUG
2001-12-29 17:19:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a78337908f
Add to java.
2001-12-29 17:06:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d3aebbc86
Added
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> * Add --port flag to regression tests
2001-12-29 05:22:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fcac3b09ca
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-29 05:15:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54481d10f3
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-29 05:12:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3c70669e7e
Added
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> * Change FIXED_CHAR_SEL to 0.20 from 0.04 to give better selectivity (Bruce)
2001-12-29 04:55:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e0de8d9821
Update FAQ_DEV.
2001-12-29 03:42:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ce286ff6b5
Added
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> * Report failure to find readline or zlib at end of configure run
2001-12-28 19:47:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
472186af96
Add
...
> o Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
2001-12-28 19:44:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ab5ac86e8
Add
...
> * Add WAL index reliability improvement to non-btree indexes
2001-12-28 19:35:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7dfb1c606
Add pljava messages.
2001-12-28 18:33:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e32ee1fabe
Typo.
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< * Improve access-permissions check on data directory in CYGWIN (Tom)
---
> * Improve access-permissions check on data directory in Cygwin (Tom)
2001-12-28 18:31:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ce845c530e
Added
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<
---
> * Improve access-permissions check on data directory in CYGWIN (Tom)
2001-12-28 18:30:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
774490c3db
Add
...
> * Allow binding query args over FE/BE protocol
2001-12-28 05:26:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b2f169d67
Added
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> o Have ALTER TABLE OWNER change all dependant objects like indexes
2001-12-28 05:09:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c23f380ff4
Add thread item.
2001-12-28 05:04:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
593377f70c
Add more Christof Petig ecpg items.
2001-12-28 05:03:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
36e42823fb
Christof Petig changes where for HISTORY, not TODO.
2001-12-28 05:02:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
deab927470
Add mention of Christof Petig for ecpg items.
2001-12-28 05:00:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dbaddcfd2b
Added for Christof Petig:
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< o Allow SELECT of array of strings into a auto-sized variable
---
> o -Allow SELECT of array of strings into a auto-sized variable
> o auto allocation for indicator variable arrays (int *ind_p=NULL)
> o auto allocation for string arrays (char **foo_pp=NULL)
> o ECPGfree_auto_mem fixed
> o all function names with external linkage are now prefixed by ECPG
2001-12-28 04:57:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a740c228a5
Added:
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> * Add OpenBSD's getpeereid() call for local socket authentication (Bruce)
2001-12-28 04:32:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a6e59234f7
Update to show current capability and future direction, from Peter:
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> * -Allow secure single-user access without passwords using Unix socket permissions
> * Make single-user local socket access permissions the default (Peter E)
2001-12-28 04:30:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
107c5a83e1
Added:
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! * Add PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable or ~/.pgpass to store
! user/host/password combinations
2001-12-28 03:30:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
21e7e7e724
I know we talked about this in the past but I never got it on the TODO
...
list:
* Add optional CRC checksum to heap and index pages
2001-12-28 02:30:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
6f0f5bf2fb
Expand on description of when to use or not use TRUST auth method.
2001-12-27 21:37:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
9935a85fa4
Document obj_description and col_description functions; expand
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description of COMMENT command.
2001-12-27 21:36:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
44d1e9d552
Small fixes
2001-12-27 21:10:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adb1d4acfa
Mention datatype() casting change.
2001-12-27 04:46:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dbc3c859ab
Update TODO list.
2001-12-27 04:28:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
498d0087eb
Update for new timestamp behavior.
2001-12-27 00:04:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0181d9ffaa
Add cachable item.
2001-12-26 23:47:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
6896693d64
Fix directions for a client-only install, per comments from Alexey Borzov
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and Vivek Khera.
2001-12-23 20:45:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
ce4d01d96b
Update description of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and friends.
2001-12-23 20:22:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
78ec1cb027
Type interval takes a precision, too.
2001-12-23 20:21:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d1396696e0
Lots of content and formatting improvements in release notes. HISTORY
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now generated from DocBook sources.
2001-12-23 18:20:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3f3b7a9783
Add missing id attribute.
2001-12-23 18:18:09 +00:00
Michael Meskes
b2a7e1403e
Updated ECPG items
2001-12-23 12:21:05 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
95800e5530
Updates for next release from Bernd Tegge.
2001-12-21 06:00:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5446b1ba72
Remove:
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* Fix contrib/dbase to not require libiconv
2001-12-21 05:27:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a7aeb7db18
* Fix contrib/dbase to not require libiconv.
2001-12-21 04:31:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c3c36bf32f
pre-page -> after-change, per Vadim.
2001-12-21 03:55:45 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
9640666c6f
Spiff up discussion of precision on date/time data types.
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Add a NetBSD/alpha and update info on a few other platforms.
2001-12-21 03:54:02 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
2d004d7f95
Allow location of index creation perl script be be specified in
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Makefile.custom, to allow finding it on Mandrake systems (at least).
2001-12-21 03:53:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
20f94e16a9
Pre-page write additions.
2001-12-20 22:01:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
95668f0deb
Minor improvements
2001-12-19 18:50:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
41acf3d820
Some tuning
2001-12-19 18:49:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cafee83784
Update TODO list.
2001-12-15 17:28:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
79b89b4658
Update TODO list.
2001-12-15 16:11:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
cebfe90f0b
Revert breakage
2001-12-10 13:07:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e2024ec6f0
update
2001-12-10 13:03:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
63b312d2da
Add new Japanese FAQ versions.
2001-12-10 11:17:51 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
03a321d214
Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
...
between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:40 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
68cb184b56
Update list of currently supported platforms.
...
Mention SQL9x precision syntax for date/time types.
Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fe933d6a04
Update TODO list.
2001-12-06 10:19:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
140856ea16
Add to java.
2001-12-05 23:12:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d661a9f639
Update TODO list.
2001-12-05 23:11:30 +00:00