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Author SHA1 Message Date
Alvaro Herrera b5a6a52fba Remove stray semicolon, per report from strk 2010-02-24 14:10:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7bfd95a4a2 Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest
supported release.
2010-02-24 03:33:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 11b5847058 Add an OR REPLACE option to CREATE LANGUAGE.
This operates in the same way as other CREATE OR REPLACE commands, ie,
it replaces everything but the ownership and ACL lists of an existing
entry, and requires the caller to have owner privileges for that entry.

While modifying an existing language has some use in development scenarios,
in typical usage all the "replaced" values come from pg_pltemplate so there
will be no actual change in the language definition.  The reason for adding
this is mainly to allow programs to ensure that a language exists without
triggering an error if it already does exist.

This commit just adds and documents the new option.  A followon patch
will use it to clean up some unpleasant cases in pg_dump and pg_regress.
2010-02-23 22:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian edf344a5e3 Revert recent COPY manual change about encoding; add mention of "server". 2010-02-23 21:38:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 1bc8acca25 Clarify statements about tar archive format. 2010-02-23 17:28:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a54803149a Revert recent change of to_char('HH12') handling for intervals; instead
improve documentation, and add C comment.
2010-02-23 16:14:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1180b64075 Make documentation more direct about the handling of COPY files based on
the client encoding.
2010-02-23 05:17:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1379fb052f Document that expression indexes that call functions allow function-level
statistics.
2010-02-23 02:47:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 485b19ec3c Update pg_restore documentation to show new pg_restore custom listing
format.

Pavel Golub
2010-02-23 00:21:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 752672ced7 Remove long-commented-out paragraph in documentation about function
inheritance in create table, per Andrew Dunstan.
2010-02-22 23:51:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c750cb4bd3 Document that pg_ctl cares about the PGHOST environment variable. 2010-02-22 22:30:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f235c9208d Remove protocol documentation paragraph about environment variable
passing being "covered elsewhere", per Dave Page.
2010-02-22 18:12:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dd1486ccd4 Briefly document in two places that pg_dump and pg_dumpall cannot be
used for continuous archiving.
2010-02-22 17:15:10 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3229db2d42 Move documentation of all recovery.conf option to a new chapter.
They used to be scattered between the "backup and restore" and "streaming
replication" chapters.
2010-02-22 11:47:30 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan f90a4c5df5 Adjust sample auto-explain output to reflect query text inclusion. 2010-02-20 22:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fada4204b9 Make 'include_realm' ordering consistent in the docs, to match recent
doc change.
2010-02-20 21:04:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 786e2f6871 Clarify documentation about username mapping when authenticating with
GSSAPI or Kerberos.

Ian Turner
2010-02-20 19:21:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian de9ec65431 Document that many solid-state drives have volatile write-back caches. 2010-02-20 18:28:37 +00:00
Simon Riggs 7363021df3 Copy editing of Hot Standby docs. Some clarifications, addition
of missing items and minor edits.
2010-02-20 10:07:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2f6cf9192c Revert version stamping in wrong branch 2010-02-19 18:42:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a779afb40c Version stamp 9.0alpha4 2010-02-19 16:03:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f8f0140d73 Document --version and --help options for all client applications (they
all support it).

Per report from Josh Kupershmidt
2010-02-19 14:36:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2f6b4560af First pass over client applications documentation proofreading.
gabrielle
2010-02-19 03:50:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4e3a616355 Remove mention that binary distributions pre-compile the tutorial files. 2010-02-19 01:15:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1222296768 Preliminary release notes for 9.0alpha4 2010-02-19 00:35:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a70d039104 Hot Standby documentation updates
Greg Smith
2010-02-19 00:15:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9529f4d532 Add missing close tag. 2010-02-18 04:14:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1bee1a3725 Wordsmithing of HS and SR documentation, with some wording improvements
from Erik Rijkers too.
2010-02-18 03:16:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 50a90fac40 Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5
(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
2010-02-17 04:19:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 750ff8bdf7 Tweak description of payload parameter. 2010-02-17 00:57:06 +00:00
Tom Lane d1e027221d Replace the pg_listener-based LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism with an in-memory queue.
In addition, add support for a "payload" string to be passed along with
each notify event.

This implementation should be significantly more efficient than the old one,
and is also more compatible with Hot Standby usage.  There is not yet any
facility for HS slaves to receive notifications generated on the master,
although such a thing is possible in future.

Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Jeff Davis; also hacked on by me.
2010-02-16 22:34:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 813135d8c9 Move log_error_verbosity GUC setting to "What to log" section, and
document the behavior of terse and verbose output options.
2010-02-16 21:35:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 70d8a2c29e Honor to_char() "FM" specification in YYY, YY, and Y; it was already
honored by YYYY.  Also document Oracle "toggle" FM behavior.

Per report from Guy Rouillier
2010-02-16 21:18:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aa7e7ae9a6 Have SELECT and CREATE TABLE AS queries return a row count. While this
is invisible in psql, other interfaces, like libpq, make this value
visible.

Boszormenyi Zoltan
2010-02-16 20:58:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 93a57c3b57 Clarify documentation on the behavior of unnamed bind queries. 2010-02-16 20:15:14 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro 3d4a2cea57 Fix synopsis of DO statement. 2010-02-16 00:49:42 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro 714f279457 Add psql tab completion for DO blocks.
Also adjust documentation of DO.

Patch from David Fetter and subsequent discussion.
2010-02-15 02:55:01 +00:00
Tom Lane c5d644a867 Ooops, let's get the non-null vs null bit right ... 2010-02-14 01:01:35 +00:00
Tom Lane a9aad1b868 Document the behavior of STRICT VARIADIC functions. 2010-02-14 00:48:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a5acb7dfb9 Remove tabs from sgml. 2010-02-13 03:38:26 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 1b04b8f1bc Add plperl.on_plperl_init and plperl.on_plperlu_init settings for language-specific startup. Rename recently added plperl.on_perl_init to plperl.on_init. Also, code cleanup for utf8 hack. Patch from Tim Bunce, reviewed by Alex Hunsaker. 2010-02-12 19:35:25 +00:00
Tom Lane ec4be2ee68 Extend the set of frame options supported for window functions.
This patch allows the frame to start from CURRENT ROW (in either RANGE or
ROWS mode), and it also adds support for ROWS n PRECEDING and ROWS n FOLLOWING
start and end points.  (RANGE value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING isn't there yet ---
the grammar works, but that's all.)

Hitoshi Harada, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2010-02-12 17:33:21 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas a5348fafd1 Update Hot Standby documentation to reflect the change in the LOG
messages printed at startup. As pointed out by Simon Riggs.
2010-02-12 14:53:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1026be15b6 Clean up Streaming Replication documentation a little bit. A lot more
needs to be done, but it's a step forward..
2010-02-12 08:28:44 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8740fe7136 Move "Warm Standby Servers for High Availability" and "Hot Standby"
sections under "High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication"
chapter. Streaming replication chapter needs a lot more work, but this
commit just moves things around.
2010-02-09 16:50:25 +00:00
Tom Lane d5768dce10 Create an official API function for C functions to use to check if they are
being called as aggregates, and to get the aggregate transition state memory
context if needed.  Use it instead of poking directly into AggState and
WindowAggState in places that shouldn't know so much.

We should have done this in 8.4, probably, but better late than never.

Revised version of a patch by Hitoshi Harada.
2010-02-08 20:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3ab41f02ed Update high availability/replication documentation chart for new hot
standby featureset.
2010-02-08 13:41:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 0a469c8769 Remove old-style VACUUM FULL (which was known for a little while as
VACUUM FULL INPLACE), along with a boatload of subsidiary code and complexity.
Per discussion, the use case for this method of vacuuming is no longer large
enough to justify maintaining it; not to mention that we don't wish to invest
the work that would be needed to make it play nicely with Hot Standby.

Aside from the code directly related to old-style VACUUM FULL, this commit
removes support for certain WAL record types that could only be generated
within VACUUM FULL, redirect-pointer removal in heap_page_prune, and
nontransactional generation of cache invalidation sinval messages (the last
being the sticking point for Hot Standby).

We still have to retain all code that copes with finding HEAP_MOVED_OFF and
HEAP_MOVED_IN flag bits on existing tuples.  This can't be removed as long
as we want to support in-place update from pre-9.0 databases.
2010-02-08 04:33:55 +00:00
Tom Lane b9b8831ad6 Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodes
of shared or nailed system catalogs.  This has two key benefits:

* The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs.

* We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing
  shared catalogs.

CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on
shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would
only be visible in one database.

Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and
crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed;
shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared.

This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of
deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other
concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch.  As a stopgap,
parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid
such failures during the regression tests.
2010-02-07 20:48:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6ba9b9102a Mention warm and now "hot" standby servers in the high availability docs. 2010-02-05 23:53:22 +00:00