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Bruce Momjian af2e8a872d Documentation cleanup mention:
non-ascii                       convert to & escapes
2005-12-06 18:45:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dae896b67d Since my name has a non-ascii-letter in it, it's often spelled wrong. In
the latest release notes there is a latin1 character that shouldn't be
there so I made a patch to fix that. This patch also fixes some old
entries that uses o instead of ö (which is also wrong but not as
bad as including a latin1 character in the sgml file).

Dennis Bj?rklund
2005-12-06 18:43:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 99552287e1 Update:
< 	  Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.
> 	  Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.  Another
> 	  option is to wait for the MinGW project to fix it, or use the
> 	  code from the LibGW32C project as a guide.
2005-12-04 21:16:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8752479dfc Add:
> 	o Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
>
> 	  While Win32 supports 64-bit files, the MinGW API does not,
> 	  meaning we have to build an fseeko replacement on top of the
> 	  Win32 API, and we have to make sure MinGW handles it.
2005-12-04 04:33:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bedb5fc309 Add:
> * Add SPI_gettypmod() to return the typemod for a TupleDesc
2005-12-04 04:14:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 49bbff0f8d Add for autovacuum:
> 	o Consider logging activity either to the logs or a system view
2005-12-04 04:02:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 10e3d224e0 Add configure flag to allow libedit to be preferred over GNU readline:
--with-libedit-preferred  prefer BSD Libedit over GNU Readline
2005-12-04 03:52:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d20901a39b Allow to_char(interval) and to_char(time) to use AM/PM specifications.
Map them to a single day, so '30 hours' is 'AM'.

Have to_char(interval) and to_char(time) use "HH", "HH12" as 12-hour
intervals, rather than bypass and print the full interval hours.  This
is neeeded because to_char(time) is mapped to interval in this function.
Intervals should use "HH24", and document suggestion.

Allow "D" format specifiers for interval/time.
2005-12-03 16:45:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eb339c7840 Item removed:
< * Add function to return the thread safety status of libpq and ecpg
2005-12-03 13:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 1cf65140d0 Fix obsolete description of -h option, per Andreas Schmidt. 2005-12-02 23:13:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5ab2598875 Remove idea of increasing NUMERIC length:
< * Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision, and increase it
> * Change NUMERIC to enforce the maximum precision
2005-12-02 17:39:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9322a04759 Add calcluation of bitmap storage capacity.
<   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.  Another idea is to maintain
<   a bitmap of heap pages where all rows are visible to all backends,
<   and allow index lookups to reference that bitmap to avoid heap
<   lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might add someday to determine
<   which heap pages need vacuuming.
>   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
>   Another idea is to maintain a bitmap of heap pages where all rows
>   are visible to all backends, and allow index lookups to reference
>   that bitmap to avoid heap lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might
>   add someday to determine which heap pages need vacuuming.  Frequently
>   accessed bitmaps would have to be stored in shared memory.  One 8k
>   page of bitmaps could track 512MB of heap pages.
2005-12-02 04:28:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 113ece8f3d Add all heap page rows visible bitmap idea:
<   the heap.  One way to allow this is to set a bit to index tuples
>   the heap.  One way to allow this is to set a bit on index tuples
<   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
<
>   be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.  Another idea is to maintain
>   a bitmap of heap pages where all rows are visible to all backends,
>   and allow index lookups to reference that bitmap to avoid heap
>   lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might add someday to determine
>   which heap pages need vacuuming.
2005-12-01 22:30:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 915fb7f687 Add MERGE TODO.detail:
>   [merge]
378a380
>   [merge]
2005-12-01 22:12:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f28bdd95c1 Add merge TODO.detail item. 2005-12-01 22:12:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 24e1a04591 Split out MERGE and REPLACE/UPSERT items.
< * Add MERGE command that does UPDATE/DELETE, or on failure, INSERT (rules,
<   triggers?)
> * Add SQL-standard MERGE command, typically used to merge two tables
>
>   This is similar to UPDATE, then for unmatched rows, INSERT.
>   Whether concurrent access allows modifications which could cause
>   row loss is implementation independent.
>
> * Add REPLACE or UPSERT command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT
2005-12-01 22:07:59 +00:00
Neil Conway cab40818ea Fix typo in PL/PgSQL documentation, per Chris KL. 2005-12-01 10:36:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 339fbbb9a0 Update for 8.2:
< #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.1 release.#
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.2 release.#
2005-11-29 02:02:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8ed7065c7b Item removed, looping always required:
< * Remove Win32 rename/unlink looping if unnecessary
2005-11-29 02:01:52 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 19fecee06e Document PGXS' REGRESS feature. 2005-11-29 01:46:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee4aa3021e Improve documentation for COALESCE and NULLIF. Add references for NVL
and IFNULL.

Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-28 23:18:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a4371a6813 Add:
> * Allow COMMENT ON to accept an expression rather than just a string
2005-11-28 22:21:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c0a2f8cc4d Add space. 2005-11-24 04:40:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3f69c4193f Add item:
<
> 	o Add -f to pg_dumpall
2005-11-24 04:28:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ce1d8293f0 Done:
> 	o -Allow NULLs in arrays
2005-11-22 23:22:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c28c00ecc8 Add:
>
> * Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*)
>
>   This would use the planner ANALYZE statistatics to return an estimated
>   count.
2005-11-22 23:06:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e196eedd8a Update most recent version number. 2005-11-22 16:27:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b621efbbb8 Update wording and cleanup for new items. 2005-11-22 15:31:23 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 5b352d8e12 DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS variant 2005-11-22 15:24:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 179211a683 Markup TODO as a URL. 2005-11-22 15:21:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d2f568dc6c Fix markup italics problem. 2005-11-22 15:17:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2a69a0e147 Update item tags. 2005-11-22 15:17:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 508f96f529 Change to using "id=" HTML tags instead of "name=" tags. 2005-11-22 15:13:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ab96739be Update FAQ to explain process of submitting bug and feature requests. 2005-11-22 15:04:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 725ace44f9 Reorder "who controls PostgreSQL" to near the top. 2005-11-21 21:01:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian afae55720c Reorder version FAQ item to be right after "how do I get the software". 2005-11-21 20:54:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ba14edbd5c Clarify copyright wording. 2005-11-21 20:51:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d253c79a52 Reorder bug items. 2005-11-21 20:44:11 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera cec3b0a9e6 Implement DROP OWNED and REASSIGN OWNED. These new commands facilitate the
process of dropping roles by dropping objects owned by them and privileges
granted to them, or giving the owned objects to someone else, through the
use of the data stored in the new pg_shdepend catalog.

Some refactoring of the GRANT/REVOKE code was needed, as well as ALTER OWNER
code.  Further cleanup of code duplication in the GRANT code seems necessary.

Implemented by me after an idea from Tom Lane, who also provided various kind
of implementation advice.

Regression tests pass.  Some tests for the new functionality are also added,
as well as rudimentary documentation.
2005-11-21 12:49:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 659f681638 Change array comparison rules to consider dimensionality information,
not only the array contents, before claiming two arrays are equal.
Per recent discussion.
2005-11-19 19:44:55 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan daea4d8eae DROP objecttype IF EXISTS for the following objects:
table view index sequence schema type domain conversion
2005-11-19 17:39:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 1e9a1a70ad Change array_push and array_cat so that they retain the lower bound of
the array (for array_push) or higher-dimensional array (for array_cat)
rather than decrementing it as before.  This avoids generating lower
bounds other than one for any array operation within the SQL spec.  Per
recent discussion.
Interestingly, this seems to have been the original behavior, because
while updating the docs I noticed that a large fraction of relevant
examples were *wrong* for the old behavior and are now right.  Is it
worth correcting this in the back-branch docs?
2005-11-19 01:50:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3201b7f3d0 Update Japanese FAQ.
J.Kuwamura
2005-11-18 00:40:46 +00:00
Tom Lane cecb607559 Make SQL arrays support null elements. This commit fixes the core array
functionality, but I still need to make another pass looking at places
that incidentally use arrays (such as ACL manipulation) to make sure they
are null-safe.  Contrib needs work too.
I have not changed the behaviors that are still under discussion about
array comparison and what to do with lower bounds.
2005-11-17 22:14:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 84bb3876bc Update, add mention of user locking table before MERGE:
<   so duplicate checking can be easily performed.
>   so duplicate checking can be easily performed.  It is possible to
>   do it without a unique index if we require the user to LOCK the table
>   before the MERGE.
2005-11-16 18:45:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 01798a06b9 Add batch mode, make new libpq section:
< * Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
< * Add PQescapeIdentifier() to libpq
< * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
<
<   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
<   it has so we need a way to prevent it
<
648a642,661
>
>
> libpq
>
> 	o Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
> 	o Add PQescapeIdentifier()
> 	o Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
> 	  PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but
> 	  historically it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
> 	o Allow query results to be automatically batched to the client
>
> 	  Currently, all query results are transfered to the libpq
> 	  client before libpq makes the results available to the
> 	  application.  This feature would allow the application to make
> 	  use of the first result rows while the rest are transfered, or
> 	  held on the server waiting for them to be requested by libpq.
> 	  One complexity is that a query like SELECT 1/col could error
> 	  out mid-way through the result set.
2005-11-16 16:33:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04ce3cb02d Properly document return value of strpos(). 2005-11-16 03:56:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 698ee9c3e7 Update MERGE:
>
>   To implement this cleanly requires that the table have a unique index
>   so duplicate checking can be easily performed.
>
2005-11-15 23:08:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 788f7c63a1 Add reminder that we should link to the documentation section for new
features.
2005-11-15 22:16:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 2a8d3d83ef R-tree is dead ... long live GiST. 2005-11-07 17:36:47 +00:00