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Bruce Momjian 99a1b0d630 Update port list. 2002-10-29 02:57:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2e447d21b8 Update port list. 2002-10-29 02:38:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3b2796e6d2 Update port list. 2002-10-29 02:36:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb5f8918c4 Update ports list. 2002-10-27 23:50:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f3f39d0b9c Update ports. 2002-10-26 20:45:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e3edb8c69b Update ports list. 2002-10-26 20:15:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 458222e76f Update port list. 2002-10-26 20:12:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5d42962bd3 Update ports. 2002-10-26 20:04:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0ed0a9ddc0 Update BSD/OS as supported platform. 2002-10-26 02:17:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 6b704bf501 Add note about sort order of character datatypes being locale-dependent,
per suggestion from Nicolaus Erichsen.
2002-10-24 21:19:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 3a0fde3b51 Make link to schema inspection functions more clear. 2002-10-24 21:10:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 266a280584 Add introductory sections explaining what each book is about. Remove Y2K
statement.
2002-10-24 17:48:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3675d064c9 Add mention of postgres signals to reference page
Joseph Shraibman
2002-10-23 23:33:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 68c8bce69e Updated German FAQ, from Ian Barwick 2002-10-22 21:44:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 19cc7bcbe5 Specify that we need bison >= 1.50. 2002-10-22 13:46:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f3e1937e5d Move libpgeasy.sgml to gborg. 2002-10-21 23:14:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9761f1a07e Move odbc.sgml to gborg ODBC project. 2002-10-21 23:10:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b6f0c50232 Small update for the removal of some memory leaks in plpython SGML example.
Nigel J. Andrews
2002-10-21 20:34:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cc4f576957 Improve ECPG documentation. 2002-10-21 18:04:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 210a039d4f Since ANY is a reserved word, better suggest that ANY be quoted when
used for the input type of an aggregate.
2002-10-21 04:33:39 +00:00
Tom Lane 156408e97b Fix documented sizes of geometric types. 2002-10-21 02:12:08 +00:00
Tom Lane a92df3a208 Fix example of doing a restore. 2002-10-21 02:11:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 189c3481c4 Updates from Ian Barwick. 2002-10-21 00:47:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 76cadb59fe Remove trailing blanks in cvs.sgml. 2002-10-20 20:58:02 +00:00
Tom Lane c918be6a17 Update description of numeric constants to match 7.3 reality.
Miscellaneous other copy-editing.
2002-10-20 05:05:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2b2cf392fe Update char/varchar()/text/bytea to mention they have similar performance
characteristics.
2002-10-20 02:58:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c650d52e14 Update Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura. 2002-10-20 02:37:49 +00:00
Tom Lane f1c0071d5a Add warning that autocommit=off is not well-supported yet. 2002-10-20 01:43:32 +00:00
Tom Lane ab901c60c8 Move BeOS and QNX4 to unsupported-platform list, until someone cares
to expend the effort to update them for new semaphore code.
2002-10-20 01:38:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 272bf59d29 Fix inconsistent formatting. 2002-10-19 23:09:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 93dca0d224 Fix incomplete definition of ALTER TABLE ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT syntax.
Add some verbiage about recent tweaks to behavior of ADD and DROP
COLUMN when there are descendant tables.
2002-10-19 22:51:45 +00:00
Tom Lane c1f91a38e2 Fix rewrite code so that rules are in fact executed in order by name,
rather than being reordered according to INSTEAD attribute for
implementation convenience.
Also, increase compiled-in recursion depth limit from 10 to 100 rewrite
cycles.  10 seems pretty marginal for situations where multiple rules
exist for the same query.  There was a complaint about this recently,
so I'm going to bump it up.  (Perhaps we should make the limit a GUC
parameter, but that's too close to being a new feature to do in beta.)
2002-10-19 19:00:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 44dc9c1faa Fix psql's \copy to accept table names containing schemas, as well as
a column list.  Bring its parsing of quoted names and quoted strings
somewhat up to speed --- I believe it now handles all non-error cases
the same way the backend would, but weird boundary conditions are not
necessarily done the same way.
2002-10-19 00:22:14 +00:00
Tom Lane fb9bc342ff Improve discussion of FOR UPDATE. 2002-10-18 18:26:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f99e525f0f Update for tables returning function, item 5.3, from Joe Conway. 2002-10-17 23:34:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 841e4b2089 Put the disk information all in one chapter. 2002-10-16 22:06:33 +00:00
Tom Lane d508b057ac Adjust handling of command status strings in the presence of rules,
as per recent pghackers discussions.  initdb forced due to change in
fields of stored Query nodes.
2002-10-14 22:14:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8fc1f413f4 - Link the entries in the table to the catalog heading
- Wrap them in the <database class="table"> tags, since thats what they
are (no markup rules for this, so it inherits from parent -- no style
change)
- Mention that pg_database, pg_shadow, and pg_group are global, and the
rest are local to the specific DB. (I believe this is correct).

> Works for me, though I suppose we could explain what the exceptions are
> like in general terms.  Perhaps something like
>
> 'Most system catalogs are copied from the template database during
> database creation, and are thereafter database-specific.  A few
> catalogs are physically shared across all databases in an installation;
> these are marked in the descriptions of the individual catalogs.'

Ok, new patch.

Rod Taylor
2002-10-14 04:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian daaf999fcb Improvements to Ian Barwick patch. 2002-10-14 03:15:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0896707ef6 FAQ updates from Ian Barwick. 2002-10-14 02:50:28 +00:00
Tom Lane ad4ce7aa5b Make SET really not start a transaction. 2002-10-13 16:55:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0cd5ce6b11 Compute version number for docs on the fly. 2002-10-12 16:34:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 08028faa22 Handle indentation of verbatim environments in HTML output via CSS. 2002-10-12 16:33:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut af514dca9e Fix linking problem. 2002-10-12 16:31:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 10f41b2b80 Replace &version; by appropriate version. 2002-10-12 16:29:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c086590380 Assorted reference page updates 2002-10-11 23:03:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3379f7b9e0 Update FAQ. 2002-10-11 17:55:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e350d3d988 Update Russian FAQ. 2002-10-11 17:45:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1aa4a37f6a Add replication, encryption, and cross database FAQ items. 2002-10-11 05:02:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6a7bb0afbc Prevent tv_sec from becoming negative in connection timeout code. 2002-10-11 04:12:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 52f6918c28 Update IN/EXISTS item. 2002-10-10 03:15:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5aa7849e1b set.patch updates an example in ref/set.sgml to have microsecond
precision.

vacuum.patch updates ref/vacuum.sgml to explicitly state that an
exclusive lock is not obtained during normal (non-FULL) vacuum.

  Rod Taylor
2002-10-09 16:27:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d015dcbe4e Have SET not start transaction when autocommit off, with doc updates. 2002-10-09 04:59:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fb5e61fd2d Fix markup error. 2002-10-05 23:43:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0c88e38eda Add more documentation about CURRENT_TIMESTAMP.
Also, code < and > as &lt;/&gt; for cleaner SGML.
2002-10-05 19:03:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 916d8164df Restrict CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to superusers, per discussion some weeks
ago.
2002-10-04 22:19:29 +00:00
Tom Lane d2db166c75 Require superuser privilege to create a binary-compatible cast, per
discussion some weeks ago.  Also, add a check that two types to be
binary-equivalenced match as to typlen, typbyval, and typalign; if
they don't then it's surely a mistake to equivalence them.
2002-10-04 22:08:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04287daa83 Add wording so people know PANIC is really "off" for log_min_error_statement. 2002-10-03 02:26:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 71e74a2f58 Re-enable pg_resetxlog to accept -l values in hexadecimal (it used to
be able to do that, but the ability seems to have got lost in the
shuffle).  Add a -o nextOID switch for completeness.  Improve the
documentation to explain how and why to use these switches.
2002-10-02 21:30:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c74c7e604c Turn GUC log_min_error_statement off by default by setting it to PANIC. 2002-10-02 16:27:57 +00:00
Barry Lind 5aa14def55 Applied doc patch to jdbc doc which documents support for datasources
patch submitted by ammulder@alumni.princeton.edu

 Modified Files:
 	jdbc.sgml
2002-10-01 04:09:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04957acd91 Update FAQ for 7.2.3 version. 2002-10-01 03:28:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fbc48fac11 Update HISTORY/release.sgml for 7.2.3. 2002-10-01 03:23:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dcc59f8ed6 Simplify SSL certificate instructions. 2002-09-27 02:04:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 15b95cf872 Allow SSL to work withouth client-side certificate infrastructure. 2002-09-26 04:41:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c889c9c901 Enhance the description of user and database management. Reduce the
number of forward references in the admin guide.
2002-09-25 21:16:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a6c00af4c8 Make PL/pgSQL capitalization consistent. 2002-09-24 23:37:42 +00:00
Tom Lane c6367df506 Change default privileges for languages and functions to be PUBLIC USAGE
and PUBLIC EXECUTE, respectively.  Per discussion about easing updates
from prior versions.
2002-09-24 23:14:25 +00:00
Tom Lane e92bec2844 Update some obsolete comments and column descriptions. 2002-09-24 21:26:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8c3ab663ab Tweak conversion names to follow the established naming scheme, and
document that scheme.
2002-09-24 20:14:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 44f68fc7bd Fix broken markup. 2002-09-23 23:20:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0d3be98ae9 Move PyGreSQL usage documentation from README into DocBook. Some other
editing.
2002-09-23 21:10:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 909a8377db The valid return value should be MODIFY instead of MODIFIED.
The error message said so :-)

In 25.3. Using PL/Python

        If the trigger "when" is BEFORE, you may return None or "OK"
        from the Python function to indicate the tuple is unmodified, "SKIP"
        to abort the event, or "MODIFIED" to indicate you've modified the tuple.

should read
        If the trigger "when" is BEFORE, you may return None or "OK"
        from the Python function to indicate the tuple is unmodified, "SKIP"
        to abort the event, or "MODIFY" to indicate you've modified the tuple.

elein
2002-09-23 01:51:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 286fb25243 Make \dS work more like it used to, viz, show only system objects. 2002-09-22 20:44:22 +00:00
Tom Lane c328b6dd8b Replace pg_attribute.attisinherited with attislocal and attinhcount
columns, to allow more correct behavior in multiple-inheritance cases.
Patch by Alvaro Herrera, review by Tom Lane.
2002-09-22 19:42:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 634e440b58 Fix busted markup. 2002-09-22 18:47:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 9946b83ded Bring SIMILAR TO and SUBSTRING into some semblance of conformance with
the SQL99 standard.  (I'm not sure that the character-class features are
quite right, but that can be fixed later.)  Document SQL99 and POSIX
regexps as being different features; provide variants of SUBSTRING for
each.
2002-09-22 17:27:25 +00:00
Tom Lane eb3adab568 Provide an upgrade strategy for dump files containing functions declared
with OPAQUE.  CREATE LANGUAGE, CREATE TRIGGER, and CREATE TYPE will all
accept references to functions declared with OPAQUE --- but they will
issue a NOTICE, and will modify the function entries in pg_proc to have
the preferred type-safe argument or result types instead of OPAQUE.
Per recent pghackers discussions.
2002-09-21 18:39:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bc49968764 Add more appropriate markup. 2002-09-21 18:32:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut de96cd5e3a Revision 2002-09-20 18:39:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 708a000efe Mention that pg_get_viewdef(name) is deprecated.
Rod Taylor
2002-09-20 03:44:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 674818dce8 This patch corrects a minor mis-statement in the CREATE DOMAIN docs,
pointed out by Chris KL on -hackers a little while ago -- NOT NULL !=
CHECK xxx IS NOT NULL.

Neil Conway
2002-09-20 03:39:15 +00:00
Tom Lane b26dfb9522 Extend pg_cast castimplicit column to a three-way value; this allows us
to be flexible about assignment casts without introducing ambiguity in
operator/function resolution.  Introduce a well-defined promotion hierarchy
for numeric datatypes (int2->int4->int8->numeric->float4->float8).
Change make_const to initially label numeric literals as int4, int8, or
numeric (never float8 anymore).
Explicitly mark Func and RelabelType nodes to indicate whether they came
from a function call, explicit cast, or implicit cast; use this to do
reverse-listing more accurately and without so many heuristics.
Explicit casts to char, varchar, bit, varbit will truncate or pad without
raising an error (the pre-7.2 behavior), while assigning to a column without
any explicit cast will still raise an error for wrong-length data like 7.3.
This more nearly follows the SQL spec than 7.2 behavior (we should be
reporting a 'completion condition' in the explicit-cast cases, but we have
no mechanism for that, so just do silent truncation).
Fix some problems with enforcement of typmod for array elements;
it didn't work at all in 'UPDATE ... SET array[n] = foo', for example.
Provide a generalized array_length_coerce() function to replace the
specialized per-array-type functions that used to be needed (and were
missing for NUMERIC as well as all the datetime types).
Add missing conversions int8<->float4, text<->numeric, oid<->int8.
initdb forced.
2002-09-18 21:35:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut da123b7c58 Update installation instructions and put mostly everything in one place.
Also, some editing in PL/Perl and PL/Python chapters.
2002-09-18 20:09:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0db8c41523 Remove pgeasy and odbc. 2002-09-18 20:07:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 445732a5ff Point out that CREATE INDEX uses sorts and hence sort_mem GUC parameter. 2002-09-17 21:41:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5ea9322872 Cast functions can be immutable or stable. 2002-09-15 13:04:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 1b69b122bb Some PL/PgSQL documentation improvements from Neil Conway. 2002-09-14 20:11:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 49c86099f3 Shrink the pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf default files and move most of the
inline documentation to the main docs.
2002-09-14 18:35:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6d77f6e5fb Add more information about schemas. Combines some previously existing
material into the new location.
2002-09-12 22:05:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 81186865fe Joe Conway wrote:
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
 >
 >> It seems that my last mail on this did not get through to the list
 >> ;(
 >>
 >> Please consider renaming the new builtin function
 >> split(text,text,int)
 >>
 >> to something else, perhaps
 >>
 >> split_part(text,text,int)
 >>
 >> (like date_part)
 >>
 >> The reason for this request is that 3 most popular scripting
 >> languages (perl, python, php) all have also a function with similar
 >> signature, but returning an array instead of single element and the
 >> (optional) third argument is limit (maximum number of splits to
 >> perform)
 >>
 >> I think that it would be good to have similar function in (some
 >> future release of) postgres, but if we now let in a function with
 >> same name and arguments but returning a single string instead an
 >> array of them, then we will need to invent a new and not so easy to
 >> recognise name for the "real" split function.
 >>
 >
 > This is a good point, and I'm not opposed to changing the name, but
 > it is too bad your original email didn't get through before beta1 was
 >  rolled. The change would now require an initdb, which I know we were
 >  trying to avoid once beta started (although we could change it
 > without *requiring* an initdb I suppose).
 >
 > I guess if we do end up needing an initdb for other reasons, we
 > should make this change too. Any other opinions? Is split_part an
 > acceptable name?
 >
 > Also, if we add a todo to produce a "real" split function that
 > returns an array, similar to those languages, I'll take it for 7.4.

No one commented on the choice of name, so the attached patch changes
the name of split(text,text,int) to split_part(text,text,int) per
Hannu's recommendation above. This can be applied without an initdb if
current beta testers are advised to run:

   update pg_proc set proname = 'split_part' where proname = 'split';

in the case they want to use this function. Regression and doc fix is
also included in the patch.

Joe Conway
2002-09-12 00:21:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6a5733a1ea Fix atan() description.
Bruno Wolff III
2002-09-11 02:56:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fe80b5ed8a Remove more references to pgaccess as a build target in docs. 2002-09-08 02:33:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 24507acc0b Changes to documentation and the regression tests for the default
NAMEDATALEN of 64.

Kris Jurka
2002-09-07 18:39:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fba5c7b944 Remove pgaccess from docs; not shipping it anymore. 2002-09-07 16:49:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 40853dd445 Allow pg_dumpall to work with previous releases again. Don't pass the -c
option down to pg_dump, where it's useless, and clarify the meaning of -c
in the documentation.
2002-09-07 16:14:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 38e444aae6 Make sure the pg_dump tar archiver can handle members larger than 2 GB, but
does not create members larger than allowed by the tar format.  Also, fix
the generation of the tar header to conform to POSIX.
2002-09-06 21:58:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b4295d052e Fix another typo. 2002-09-06 20:26:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 022eb280af Fix typo. 2002-09-06 20:08:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd06c70d9a Missed mention of PGPASSWORDFILE. 2002-09-05 22:09:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5fc10c3d17 Remove PGPASSWORDFILE and default to always trying $HOME/.pgpass.
Cleanup up memory allocation for $HOME in related psql places.

Update mention of $HOME/.pgpass in the docs;  add mention in pg_dumpall.
2002-09-05 22:05:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 04604fd1a4 Fill in section on table modification. 2002-09-05 21:32:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 79ecb80c74 Brand 7.3. Ready for beta! 2002-09-04 07:23:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4f1a32b37e Update new HISTORY file for 7.3! 2002-09-04 07:16:32 +00:00
Tom Lane d61de58906 Arrange for the default permissions on a database to allow temp table
creation to world, but disallow temp table creation in template1.  Per
latest round of pghackers discussion.
I did not force initdb, but the permissions lockdown on template1 will
not take effect unless you do one (or manually REVOKE TEMP ON DATABASE template1 FROM public).
2002-09-03 22:17:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bfd5854574 Fix SGML build failure. 2002-09-03 16:21:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 4a954ce79d Documentation improvements. 2002-09-03 01:11:37 +00:00
Tom Lane ab82bde7e0 Code review and documentation updates for indisclustered patch. 2002-09-03 01:04:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 8c8aa53953 pg_on_connection_loss command for libpgtcl. Patch from
Gerhard Hintermayer, revised and documented by Tom Lane.

This patch also fixes a 'must fix' bug: libpgtcl's LISTEN/NOTIFY
support was broken by the recent changes to the PGnotify structure.
Guess that change wasn't quite so safe as we thought.
2002-09-02 21:51:47 +00:00
Tom Lane b356b969ef Fix obsolete description of PGnotify struct. 2002-09-02 20:21:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 8f60f43f2e Department of second thoughts: make checks for replacing a view slightly
more flexible, and improve the error reporting.  Also, add documentation
for REPLACE RULE/VIEW.
2002-09-02 20:04:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 6dff9bc97d Fix broken markup. 2002-09-02 13:45:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 81efc82608 This patch fixes a minor inaccuracy in the documentation: NOT NULL is
not synonymous with CHECK (xxx IS NOT NULL) -- for example, consider
ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY, which checks for 'NOT NULL', not a check
constraint.

Neil Conway
2002-09-02 06:20:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a12b4e279b I checked all the previous string handling errors and most of them were
already fixed by You. However there were a few left and attached patch
should fix the rest of them.

I used StringInfo only in 2 places and both of them are inside debug
ifdefs. Only performance penalty will come from using strlen() like all
the other code does.

I also modified some of the already patched parts by changing
snprintf(buf, 2 * BUFSIZE, ... style lines to
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), ... where buf is an array.

Jukka Holappa
2002-09-02 06:11:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e82bcba5e0 Here's a doc patch for the new string functions recently committed --
replace, split, and to_hex. The patch also moves encode and decode into
alphabetical order (since everything else in the table was).

Joe Conway
2002-09-02 05:53:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ab5fe2a91f Move pg_settings doc into the right section. 2002-09-02 05:52:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c7be7ffdb0 Here is a documentation patch for the pg_settings virtual table. If
there are no objections, please apply.

Joe Conway
2002-09-02 05:44:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9fd842c4b2 Add GUC variable to print original query to the server logs when there
is an error, warning, etc.

Gavin Sherry
2002-09-02 05:42:54 +00:00
Tom Lane c7a165adc6 Code review for HeapTupleHeader changes. Add version number to page headers
(overlaying low byte of page size) and add HEAP_HASOID bit to t_infomask,
per earlier discussion.  Simplify scheme for overlaying fields in tuple
header (no need for cmax to live in more than one place).  Don't try to
clear infomask status bits in tqual.c --- not safe to do it there.  Don't
try to force output table of a SELECT INTO to have OIDs, either.  Get rid
of unnecessarily complex three-state scheme for TupleDesc.tdhasoids, which
has already caused one recent failure.  Improve documentation.
2002-09-02 01:05:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 548d646e65 Add log_duration to GUC/postgresql.conf.
Rename debug_print_query to log_statement and rename show_query_stats to
show_statement_stats.
2002-09-01 23:26:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 470a1048ec plpgsql functions can return RECORD, per Neil Conway. 2002-09-01 16:28:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 1903221517 Minor copy-editing. 2002-09-01 02:37:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a03f9adb98 Remove mention of wal_files in a SHOW example. 2002-09-01 01:59:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 1bab464eb4 Code review for pg_locks feature. Make shmemoffset of PROCLOCK structs
available (else there's no way to interpret the list links).  Change
pg_locks view to show transaction ID locks separately from ordinary
relation locks.  Avoid showing N duplicate rows when the same lock is
held multiple times (seems unlikely that users care about exact hold
count).  Improve documentation.
2002-08-31 17:14:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c279355fb Updates to reflect availability of autocommit option. 2002-08-30 22:45:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 26993b2918 AUTOCOMMIT mode is now an available backend GUC variable; setting it
to false provides more SQL-spec-compliant behavior than we had before.
I am not sure that setting it false is actually a good idea yet; there
is a lot of client-side code that will probably be broken by turning
autocommit off.  But it's a start.

Loosely based on a patch by David Van Wie.
2002-08-30 22:18:07 +00:00
Tom Lane e2d156fa6e Add attisinherited column to pg_attribute; use it to guard against
column additions, deletions, and renames that would let a child table
get out of sync with its parent.  Patch by Alvaro Herrera, with some
kibitzing by Tom Lane.
2002-08-30 19:23:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 47c51db5f3 Update documentation for --with-perl. 2002-08-30 17:14:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2c65658c04 Improve wording after wal_files removal. 2002-08-30 16:53:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 63653f7ffa Complete TODO item:
* Remove wal_files postgresql.conf option because WAL files are
	  now recycled
2002-08-30 16:50:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f7e089b3fa Back out password packet length check.
Improve wording of pre-7.3 syntax mention.
2002-08-30 16:00:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cafebdd4d8 Add comment on old sytax for SELECT FOR UPDATE/LIMIT and COPY. 2002-08-30 03:18:23 +00:00
Tom Lane e107f3a7e3 PL/pgSQL functions can return sets. Neil Conway's patch, modified so
that the functionality is available to anyone via ReturnSetInfo, rather
than hard-wiring it to PL/pgSQL.
2002-08-30 00:28:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6d27cfdd89 Make pg_resetxlog options parsing more standard and prepare messages for
translation.
2002-08-29 22:19:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 31fbdad6e5 The unit for statement_timeout is s/1000, not s/1000000
Manfred Koizar
2002-08-29 19:53:58 +00:00
Tom Lane e4186762ff Adjust nodeFunctionscan.c to reset transient memory context between calls
to the table function, thus preventing memory leakage accumulation across
calls.  This means that SRFs need to be careful to distinguish permanent
and local storage; adjust code and documentation accordingly.  Patch by
Joe Conway, very minor tweaks by Tom Lane.
2002-08-29 17:14:33 +00:00
Tom Lane bf59ccc7d8 A few more fixes for the <replaceable>able> fiasco. 2002-08-29 05:17:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 99fd5cbd41 FOUND patch was a bit over-enthusiastic: SQL commands that are not
INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE shouldn't change FOUND.  IMHO anyway.
Also, try to make documentation a little clearer.
2002-08-29 04:12:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 5241a6259f Remove support for version-0 FE/BE protocol, per pghackers discussion.
This breaks support for 6.2 or older client libraries.
2002-08-29 03:22:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 64505ed58b Code review for standalone composite types, query-specified composite
types, SRFs.  Not happy with memory management yet, but I'll commit these
other changes.
2002-08-29 00:17:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1923816c37 Add mention of foreign key dependency and SERIAL in 7.2 data restores.
Note can probably be removed after a couple of releases.

Rod Taylor
2002-08-28 20:17:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 83501ef4ca Update info about relkind and pg_type entries for composite-types patch. 2002-08-28 15:02:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6077db92c2 Allow FOR UPDATE to appear after LIMIT/OFFSET to match MySQL syntax and as
a more logical ordering.
2002-08-28 14:35:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7292131c66 Enable locale, so case conversion (identifier processing) and number
formatting (\timing) works correctly.  Change "Total time" to "Time"
since there is nothing that "total" refers to.  Remove non-multibyte
code.
2002-08-27 20:16:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7af5ea736f Reimplement pg_dumpall in C. Currently no change in functionality,
except that it's more robust, reconnects less often, and is NLS'ed.
2002-08-27 18:57:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 28e82066a1 PREPARE/EXECUTE statements. Patch by Neil Conway, some kibitzing
from Tom Lane.
2002-08-27 04:55:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e0a77f56e3 Cleanup of SGML 2002-08-27 03:55:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c0ad595386 I attach a little patch to make CLUSTER set and reset the indisclustered
bit on the indexes.

I also attach clusterdb and clusterdb.sgml; both of them are blatant
rips of vacuumdb and vacuumdb.sgml, but get the job done.  Please review
them, as I'm probably making a lot of mistakes with SGML and I can't
compile it here.

vacuumdb itself is not very comfortable to use when the databases have
passwords, because it has to connect once for each table (I can probably
make it connect only once for each database; should I?).  Because of
this I added a mention of PGPASSWORDFILE in the documentation, but I
don't know if that is the correct place for that.

Alvaro Herrera
2002-08-27 03:38:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 90997ddaac Add OS X link line example for external functions. 2002-08-26 23:22:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 43e740b317 Add mention of 1 terrabyte databases. 2002-08-26 01:05:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d46172e4fa Update docs for 7.2.2 release info. 2002-08-25 14:34:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 58e47c40a0 Update Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura 2002-08-25 12:58:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 976246cc7e The cstring datatype can now be copied, passed around, etc. The typlen
value '-2' is used to indicate a variable-width type whose width is
computed as strlen(datum)+1.  Everything that looks at typlen is updated
except for array support, which Joe Conway is working on; at the moment
it wouldn't work to try to create an array of cstring.
2002-08-24 15:00:47 +00:00
Tom Lane a2a3192802 Further cleanup around the edges of OPAQUE/pseudotype changes. Correct
the declarations of some index access method support functions.  Support
SQL functions returning VOID.
2002-08-23 16:41:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6415ffe7af Not sure how I fixed it the first time, but here's a fix for another
instance in which the docs mention that 'NAMEDATALEN == 32".

Neil Conway
2002-08-23 04:27:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2e0e430659 This patch updates the CREATE OPERATOR sgml docs for the new default
settings of NAMEDATALEN. I looked through the docs for other
references to NAMEDATALEN, but this is the only one I could find.

Neil Conway
2002-08-23 02:54:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b5ccfc216a Update Russian FAQ. 2002-08-23 02:53:20 +00:00
Tom Lane ebddac07a9 Very minor copy-editing. 2002-08-23 01:28:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 6bd8a1c2d3 Add note that explains that \df omits functions it thinks are I/O functions. 2002-08-23 01:27:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 41ff800bb2 Update reference to value of NAMEDATALEN. Someone needs to troll the
docs and find the other obsolete statements that no doubt lurk.
2002-08-23 00:33:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ec35e4592d Mark 7.2.2 as newest release. 2002-08-22 23:20:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0540b2b59d Update FAQ. 2002-08-22 23:20:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5530b0c666 Improve wording of upgrade section. 2002-08-22 15:31:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 090884bed3 Fix for documention:
>>" It's also possible to select no escape character by writing ESCAPE ''.
>>In this case there is no way to turn off the special meaning of
>>underscore and percent signs in the pattern."

Joe Conway
2002-08-22 04:56:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c76f5aa530 > > I had great difficulty in finding how to change the search path, so here
> > is a patch to add some cross-referencing.

Oliver Elphick
2002-08-22 04:52:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f6353c6ee4 Remove libpq++ SGML documentation. 2002-08-22 03:17:38 +00:00
Tom Lane b663f3443b Add a bunch of pseudo-types to replace the behavior formerly associated
with OPAQUE, as per recent pghackers discussion.  I still want to do some
more work on the 'cstring' pseudo-type, but I'm going to commit the bulk
of the changes now before the tree starts shifting under me ...
2002-08-22 00:01:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0f9f2feee4 Fix bad markup detected by Alvaro Herrera 2002-08-21 16:08:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cbe19208ee Fix markup, Alvaro Herrera. 2002-08-21 05:25:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6faf8024fa Enable large file support.
Use off_t and size_t in pg_dump to handle file offset arithmetic correctly.
2002-08-20 17:54:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ebe1be1321 This patch improves the behavior of FOUND in PL/PgSQL. In Oracle,
FOUND is set whenever a SELECT INTO returns > 0 rows, *or* when an
INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE affects > 0 rows. We implemented the first
part of this behavior, but not the second.

I also improved the documentation on the various situations in which
FOUND can be set (excluding inside FOR loops, which I still need to
think about), and added some regression tests for this behavior.

Neil Conway
2002-08-20 05:28:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5243f9a998 Allow pg_statistics to be reset by calling pg_stat_reset().
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2002-08-20 04:47:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian de9801fc62 Add current_database().
> Quick system function to pull out the current database.
>
> I've used this a number of times to allow stored procedures to find out
> where they are.  Especially useful for those that do logging or hit a
> remote server.
>
> It's called current_database() to match with current_user().

It's also a necessity for an informational schema.  The catalog
(database) name is required in a number of places.

Rod Taylor
2002-08-20 04:46:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c43760a714 Add mention of -F not supported by pg_dumpall. Code already disallows it. 2002-08-20 02:20:48 +00:00
Tom Lane a0bf1a7f2e Fix pg_dump to dump serial columns as serials. Per pghackers discussion,
cause SERIAL column declaration not to imply UNIQUE, so that this can be
done without creating an extra index.
2002-08-19 19:33:36 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii d35dc342f1 Fix broken tag. 2002-08-19 04:05:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c828ec8820 Make pg_dump output more portable and more pleasing to look at.
The -n and -N options were removed.  Quoting is now smart enough to
supply quotes if and only if necessary.

Numerical types are now printed without quotes, except in cases of
special values such as NaN.

Boolean values printed as true and false.

Most string literals now do not escape whitespace characters (newlines,
etc.) for portability.

SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION argument is a string literal, to follow SQL.

Made commands output by pg_dump use consistent spacing and indentation.
2002-08-18 09:36:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2c6b34d959 Add db-local user names, per discussion on hackers. 2002-08-18 03:03:26 +00:00
Tom Lane e16591038a Fix typo. 2002-08-17 20:24:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 82119a696e [ Newest version of patch applied.]
This patch is an updated version of the lock listing patch. I've made
the following changes:

    - write documentation
    - wrap the SRF in a view called 'pg_locks': all user-level
      access should be done through this view
    - re-diff against latest CVS

One thing I chose not to do is adapt the SRF to use the anonymous
composite type code from Joe Conway. I'll probably do that eventually,
but I'm not really convinced it's a significantly cleaner way to
bootstrap SRF builtins than the method this patch uses (of course, it
has other uses...)

Neil Conway
2002-08-17 13:04:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f0ed4311b6 Add libpq connection timeout parameter.
Denis A Ustimenko
2002-08-17 12:33:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b813554dbd Improve documentation of trigger firing queue handling, cleanup.
Neil Conway
2002-08-17 12:15:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 2132ac89bf Editorial corrections. 2002-08-17 05:07:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 8bca70fad5 Broken markup. 2002-08-17 04:09:18 +00:00
Tom Lane d383b734f8 Add missing links. 2002-08-17 03:38:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 08f245bfd4 Add doc file for pg_resetxlog. 2002-08-17 02:45:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6945ea3445 Move pg_controldata to /bin. 2002-08-17 02:43:08 +00:00
Tom Lane a208ea72bc Modify pg_dump to dump foreign-key constraints as constraints, not as
sets of triggers.  Also modify psql \d command to show foreign key
constraints as such and hide the triggers.  pg_get_constraintdef()
function added to backend to support these.  From Rod Taylor, code
review and some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2002-08-16 23:01:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 141539c31e Improve wording. 2002-08-16 20:36:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd1f4087c9 Move pg_controldata from /contrib to src/bin. 2002-08-16 20:34:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8352113169 This patch improves the "Client Authentication" section of the user's
guide in a few minor ways.

Neil Conway
2002-08-16 04:48:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b4794bfb54 This patch improves the "Database Users and Permissions" section of
the Administrator's Guide. This section needs a lot more work, but
this is a start anyway...

Neil Conway
2002-08-16 04:47:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b1a5f87209 Tom Lane wrote:
> There's no longer a separate call to heap_storage_create in that routine
> --- the right place to make the test is now in the storage_create
> boolean parameter being passed to heap_create.  A simple change, but
> it passeth patch's understanding ...

Thanks.

Attached is a patch against cvs tip as of 8:30 PM PST or so. Turned out
that even after fixing the failed hunks, there was a new spot in
bufmgr.c which needed to be fixed (related to temp relations;
RelationUpdateNumberOfBlocks). But thankfully the regression test code
caught it :-)

Joe Conway
2002-08-15 16:36:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 38294db64b Reorder entry to be alphabetical to match others. 2002-08-15 14:26:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1276356268 PostgreSQL 7.2.1 Documentation
Chapter 1. libpq - C Library
1.3. Command Execution Functions
1.3.3. Escaping binary strings for inclusion in SQL queries

I found the line
"The result string length does not include the terminating zero byte of the result."
is not right.
The result string length does indeed include the terminating zero byte.

Christoph Haller
2002-08-15 03:00:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 88bd306832 > Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> writes:
> > This patch improves the documentation of the UPDATE and ALTER TABLE
> > commands to elaborate on the effect of specifying an "ONLY" clause.
>
> Unfortunately this is still only half the truth ... see the
> SQL_INHERITANCE configuration variable.

Okay, I've attached an updated patch with more information on
SQL_INHERITANCE and inheritance behavior in prior releases.

Neil Conway
2002-08-15 02:59:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7f4981f4af I'm giving a try at some TODO items. Currently it's the turn of the
PGPASSWORDFILE environment variable.  I have modified libpq to make use
of this variable.  I present the first cut here.

Currently the format for the file should be

host:port:database:user:password

Alvaro Herrera
2002-08-15 02:56:19 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 969e0246ed Add Cyrillic and other encodings for encoding conversion.
Patches submitted by Kaori Inaba (i-kaori@sra.co.jp).
2002-08-14 02:45:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f340648939 Update for longer NAMEDATALEN. 2002-08-13 20:41:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 46bb23ac01 Change NAMEDATALEN to 64, INDEX_MAX_KEYS/MAX_FUNC_ARGS to 32, per discussion on hackers. 2002-08-13 20:40:44 +00:00