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5077 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane 17dc173660 To reduce confusion over whether VACUUM FULL is needed for anti-wraparound
vacuuming (it's not), say "database-wide VACUUM" instead of "full-database
VACUUM" in the relevant hint messages.  Also, document the permissions needed
to do this.  Per today's discussion.
2008-12-11 18:16:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 218b4e8dd8 Append major version number and for libraries soname major version number
to the gettext domain name, to simplify parallel installations.

Also, rename set_text_domain() to pg_bindtextdomain(), because that is what
it does.
2008-12-11 07:34:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 253fa736b9 Update journaling performance docs based on comments by Michael Renner. 2008-12-10 11:05:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 5932915fef Add a specific example of parenthesizing when extracting a field of a
composite column.  Might help cut down on future questions...
2008-12-09 20:52:03 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 9edd720050 Clearify how processes are started by autovacuum, and what the effect
of autovacuum_max_workers parameter is.

Per discussion with Alvaro.
2008-12-08 20:30:58 +00:00
Magnus Hagander bd33aca36e Add note that autovacuum can use up several times maintenance_work_mem,
with warning against setting it too high.
2008-12-08 15:11:39 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera aa7f00464d Desultorily enclose programlisting tags in CDATA, to get rid of some obnoxious
SGML-escaping.
2008-12-07 23:46:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ff1ea2173a Allow CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to add columns to the _end_ of the view.
Robert Haas
2008-12-06 23:22:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 31076c8beb Document that non-data journaling is a recommended mount option. 2008-12-06 21:34:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 455dffbb73 Default values for function arguments
Pavel Stehule, with some tweaks by Peter Eisentraut
2008-12-04 17:51:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 44ff90966c Update key words table to 8.4 and SQL:2008. 2008-12-03 12:39:57 +00:00
Magnus Hagander b0729b8d4e Documentation for wildcard certificates patch 2008-12-02 12:42:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6355e69d1e Add braces to clarify syntax synopsis 2008-12-01 09:38:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e3764aa1b1 Small correction 2008-12-01 09:20:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d653d47f37 typo 2008-12-01 08:24:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 3f936aacc0 Add a "LIKE = typename" clause to CREATE TYPE for base types. This allows
the basic representational details (typlen, typalign, typbyval, typstorage)
to be copied from an existing type rather than listed explicitly in the
CREATE TYPE command.  The immediate reason for this is to provide a simple
solution for add-on modules that want to define types represented as int8,
float4, or float8: as of 8.4 the appropriate PASSEDBYVALUE setting is
platform-specific and so it's hard for a SQL script to know what to do.

This patch fixes the contrib/isn breakage reported by Rushabh Lathia.
2008-11-30 19:01:29 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 5d2a1a41d0 Support regular expressions in pg_ident.conf. 2008-11-28 14:26:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c3cee16fe8 Add that PL/Java is an implementation of SQL/JRT, and drop claim that
PL/pgSQL has much to do with SQL/PSM.
2008-11-27 12:12:02 +00:00
Tom Lane e309739670 Tweak wording of DISCARD ALL description to avoid giving the impression
that the presented list of equivalent operations is meant to be the
primary definition of what it does.  Per comment from Guillaume Smet.
2008-11-27 00:28:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f900afff3e configure check for docbook2man program, used in the new XML-based man
page build target.  This covers from-source, Debian, and Fedora
installation variants.
2008-11-26 11:26:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 1b26b07379 Make DISCARD ALL discard advisory locks, too. Marko Kreen 2008-11-26 01:21:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 8a10096440 information_schema.key_column_usage.position_in_unique_constraint was
misdocumented as not being implemented.  In reality it has worked since
the release of 8.2.
2008-11-25 20:47:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 1304f297a4 Remove PGINTERVALSTYLE from the set of special environment variables for
libpq.  As noted by Peter, adding this variable created a risk of unexpected
connection failures when talking to older server versions, and since it
doesn't do anything you can't do with PGOPTIONS, it doesn't seem really
necessary.  Removing it does occasion a few extra lines in pg_regress.c,
but saving a getenv() call per libpq connection attempt is perhaps worth
that anyway.
2008-11-25 19:30:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0884acbcab Move FAQ_AIX information to installation instructions.
The information on why the shared libraries are built the way they are
was not relevant to end users and has been made a mailing list archive
link in Makefile.shlib.
2008-11-24 11:59:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a378555501 CLUSTER VERBOSE and corresponding clusterdb --verbose option
Jim Cox and Peter Eisentraut
2008-11-24 08:46:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 86422cbbfc Minor copy-editing. 2008-11-21 20:21:59 +00:00
Magnus Hagander bae2116ac6 Document which GUC settings are enums and not strings, along with a short
paragraph about what that means.
2008-11-21 19:42:12 +00:00
Magnus Hagander e5c032d898 Docs update for enumvals patch. 2008-11-21 19:31:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 47d6d641dd Include the platform "FAQs" into the installation instructions.
I weeded out some really old information along the way.
FAQ_AIX needs separate consideration and will be dealt with later.
2008-11-21 16:46:19 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5758d5ea31 Use relation_expr for TABLE command, requested by Tom. 2008-11-21 11:47:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 3d7ac0d0b1 Note that the example aggregate array_accum is comparable to the now
built-in array_agg.  Per suggestion from Robert Haas.
2008-11-20 21:10:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 170b66a0c5 Issue a proper error message when MD5 is attempted when
db_user_namespace is enabled.

Also document this limitation.
2008-11-20 20:45:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b09a1a2942 TABLE command 2008-11-20 14:04:46 +00:00
Magnus Hagander f179d5ea99 Add support for using SSL client certificates to authenticate to the
database (only for SSL connections, obviously).
2008-11-20 11:48:26 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 3c486fbd1c Control client certificate requesting with the pg_hba option "clientcert"
instead of just relying on the root certificate file to be present.
2008-11-20 09:29:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5054867632 Add WITH as a refname to the SELECT reference page.
Now "\help WITH" works and there will be a separate WITH(7) man page.
2008-11-19 12:21:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 89ad92a216 Add "Most Common Implementation" row to high availablity table so the
table is less abstract.  Most common implementations were already
mentioned in the text.
2008-11-19 04:46:37 +00:00
Tom Lane e125e28e78 Add auto-explain contrib module for automatic logging of the plans of
slow-running queries.

Takahiro Itagaki
2008-11-19 02:59:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f426fbf746 Ident authentication over Unix-domain sockets on Solaris, using
getpeerucred() function.

Author: Garick Hamlin <ghamlin@isc.upenn.edu>
2008-11-18 13:10:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 29ad832dba Document that Bucardo is an example of mulit-master replication with
conflict resolution.
2008-11-17 18:55:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 18004101ac Modify UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF to use the FOR UPDATE infrastructure to
locate the target row, if the cursor was declared with FOR UPDATE or FOR
SHARE.  This approach is more flexible and reliable than digging through the
plan tree; for instance it can cope with join cursors.  But we still provide
the old code for use with non-FOR-UPDATE cursors.  Per gripe from Robert Haas.
2008-11-16 17:34:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 07c179a82b Document a gotcha that happens on Windows when using libpq's new event
procedure support: it's possible to get confused because exported procedures
have two different addresses.  Per Andrew Chernow.
2008-11-14 22:58:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 32cc9e5533 Reduce contrib/intagg to a thin wrapper around the new core functions
array_agg() and unnest().  We could drop it entirely in the future,
but let's keep it for a release or two as a compatibility assist.
2008-11-14 19:58:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d129255077 Set SQL man pages to be section 7 by default, and only transform them to
another section if required by the platform (instead of the old way of
building them in section "l" and always transforming them to the
platform-specific section).

This speeds up the installation on common platforms, and it avoids some
funny business with the man page tools and build process.
2008-11-14 10:22:48 +00:00
Tom Lane c889ebce0a Implement the basic form of UNNEST, ie unnest(anyarray) returns setof
anyelement.  This lacks the WITH ORDINALITY option, as well as the multiple
input arrays option added in the most recent SQL specs.  But it's still a
pretty useful subset of the spec's functionality, and it is enough to
allow obsoleting contrib/intagg.
2008-11-14 00:51:47 +00:00
Tom Lane c23b6fa7b5 Marginal editorial improvements for array_agg patch documentation. 2008-11-13 23:01:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3379fae6de array_agg aggregate function, as per SQL:2008, but without ORDER BY clause
Rearrange the documentation a bit now that array_agg and xmlagg have similar
semantics and issues.

best of Robert Haas, Jeff Davis, Peter Eisentraut
2008-11-13 15:59:51 +00:00
Magnus Hagander c89404edf3 Fix libpq certificate validation for SSL connections.
Add config parameter "sslverify" to control the verification. Default
is to do full verification.

Clean up some old SSL code that never really worked.
2008-11-13 09:45:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2b2fb7d85d Support for man page links, if a man page has more than one refname.
We don't actually use this anywhere, but it might come in handy for dealing
with SELECT/WITH/TABLE.

It works with both the old and the new man page target (for some value of
"works").
2008-11-12 16:01:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 18eeacc463 Remove unnecessary whitespace in refname elements. This confuses the
man page tools.
2008-11-12 15:53:34 +00:00