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Author SHA1 Message Date
Neil Conway bbf4fdc253 Prevent corr() from returning the wrong results for negative correlation
values. The previous coding essentially assumed that x = sqrt(x*x), which
does not hold for x < 0.

Thanks to Jie Zhang at Greenplum and Gavin Sherry for reporting this
issue.
2007-09-19 22:31:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4893eadc3c Remove tabs from SGML file. 2007-09-19 03:13:57 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 55613bf9cd Close previously open holes for invalidly encoded data to enter the
database via builtin functions, as recently discussed on -hackers.

chr() now returns a character in the database encoding. For UTF8 encoded databases
the argument is treated as a Unicode code point. For other multi-byte encodings
the argument must designate a strict ascii character, or an error is raised,
as is also the case if the argument is 0.

ascii() is adjusted so that it remains the inverse of chr().

The two argument form of convert() is gone, and the three argument form now
takes a bytea first argument and returns a bytea. To cover this loss three new
functions are introduced:
. convert_from(bytea, name) returns text - converts the first argument from the
  named encoding to the database encoding
. convert_to(text, name) returns bytea - converts the first argument from the
  database encoding to the named encoding
. length(bytea, name) returns int - gives the length of the first argument in
  characters in the named encoding
2007-09-18 17:41:17 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 8544110042 Avoid possibly-unportable initializer, per buildfarm warning
per notice by Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
2007-09-18 15:03:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc29d703d8 Doc reminder that integer pg version also needs updating. 2007-09-18 01:52:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 851745a97a Remove extra tab in postgresql.conf 2007-09-17 21:40:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 039dc49d55 Remove Assert(BgWriterShmem != NULL), which is rather pointless since
we'd dump core anyway immediately afterward if it were null; and it
seems to confuse some versions of icc into generating bad code.
Per report from Sergey Koposov.  Patched in HEAD only, for the moment,
since this is only likely to affect developers.
2007-09-16 16:33:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 22d98e7934 Fix overflow in extract(epoch from interval) for intervals exceeding 68 years.
Seems to have been introduced in 8.1 by careless SECS_PER_DAY
search-and-replace.
2007-09-16 15:56:20 +00:00
Tom Lane e92da1a9d1 Update release notes for last-minute fix. 2007-09-16 03:03:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 43b0c9182f Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating away
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table.  We thought we could throw away
pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such
tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have
removed the index entries.  The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely
race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction
that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial
scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages.
But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that
hard to hit.  This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug
reports.
2007-09-16 02:37:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9a36a09f2e Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-09-15 00:58:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c16ffbc677 Add:
>
> 	o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
> 	  advancement starvation
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-06/msg01645.php
2007-09-14 19:02:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc8a8a0463 Add:
>
> * Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD
>   rules, such as for partitioning setups
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00577.php
2007-09-14 18:50:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18cad61e67 Fix markup. 2007-09-14 18:39:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 637878cd85 Update pronunciation FAQ item. 2007-09-14 18:38:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 23221f4eea Update to mention alternate project name is "Postgres". 2007-09-14 18:29:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 63490ddf1e Remove GIN interface section, which is now documented in SGML.
Heikki Linnakangas
2007-09-14 16:28:17 +00:00
Tom Lane b2acd633e4 Fix markup that doesn't work in back branches. 2007-09-14 16:15:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7f9de5407a Fix GSS API pointer checking.
Kris Jurka
2007-09-14 15:58:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 12afe7bc76 Document atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.
Andrew Maclean
2007-09-14 15:53:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 9b2afa90bf Minor editorialization on release notes. 2007-09-14 15:50:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4b836d8312 Add some links for escape strings.
Brendan Jurd

Fix markup in previous commit.
2007-09-14 14:54:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f6a168e2c3 Add LDAP URL documentation.
Albe Laurenz
2007-09-14 14:31:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 13e26073bd Update documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we
don't need to recommend nightly analyzes anymore unless autovacuum is off.
2007-09-14 13:43:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fc79628641 Clarify tar documentation about return error codes.
Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-09-14 13:26:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ae36e0d589 Update tsearch include location in example.
Oleg.
2007-09-14 13:21:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 17aae41afd Add tsearch tab completion support:
* adds a few missing words to some commands (like adding GIN as a valid
index type or OWNED BY for ALTER SEQUENCE,...)

* support for ALTER TABLE foo ENABLE/DISABLE REPLICA TRIGGER/RULE

* autocomplete CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE (mostly done to prevent
conflicts with the TEMPLATE keyword for text search)

* support for ALTER/CREATE/DROP TEXT SEARCH as well as COMMENT ON TEXT
SEARCH and the corresponding psql backslash commands.
This proved a little more difficult than expected due to the fact that
words_after_create[] is used for two purposes - one is to provide a list
of words that follow immediatly after CREATE (or DROP) and the other
purpose is to use it for autocompleting anywhere in the statement if the
word in that struct is found with a query.
Since TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION|DICTIONARY|TEMPLATE|PARSER results in 3
words instead of one (as all the other words in that list are) I added a
flag to the struct to tell create_command_generator() to skip that entry
 for autocompleting immediatly after CREATE which feels like a dirty
hack (but that holds true for a lot of code in tab-complete.c).


Stefan Kaltenbrunner
2007-09-14 04:25:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c0f2b109bc This is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required as
of PostgreSQL 8.2) and provides a link to compiling and linking section.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-09-14 04:18:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian edc18429bd Update GNU tar error code documentation.
Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-09-14 04:15:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6c9e4d7e08 Mentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of
the problems non-root reading /etc/shadow.
2007-09-14 03:53:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 2d6cb170d4 Remove ill-considered (not to mention undocumented) attempt to make
contrib/intarray's GIN opclass override the built-in default.  Per bug #3048
and other complaints.
2007-09-14 03:25:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aa33bdd783 Update documented error text.
Fujii Masao
2007-09-14 02:43:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dfe2e3f7a5 Clarify age() 'months' calculation documentation. 2007-09-14 00:52:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f307fe4c9b Update documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather than
administrator-scheduled vacuums.
2007-09-13 23:43:35 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 3e805fdcf7 Fix typo in typecasting.
patch from  ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
2007-09-13 06:54:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e8e2bd799f Update Japanese FAQ, backpatch.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-09-13 03:34:11 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 945ba50dc3 Fix a memory leak in the autovacuum launcher code. Noted by Darcy Buskermolen,
who reported it privately to me.
2007-09-12 22:14:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 6889303531 Redefine the lp_flags field of item pointers as having four states, rather
than two independent bits (one of which was never used in heap pages anyway,
or at least hadn't been in a very long time).  This gives us flexibility to
add the HOT notions of redirected and dead item pointers without requiring
anything so klugy as magic values of lp_off and lp_len.  The state values
are chosen so that for the states currently in use (pre-HOT) there is no
change in the physical representation.
2007-09-12 22:10:26 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan eb0a7735ba Perform post-escaping encoding validity checks on SQL literals and COPY input
so that invalidly encoded data cannot enter the database by these means.
2007-09-12 20:49:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 22b613ebd9 Whitespace improvement. 2007-09-12 19:27:16 +00:00
Tom Lane e435bddb9c Revert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches. Per
Jeremy Drake.
2007-09-12 14:28:55 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 6ee3b2dfe4 Install dictionary sample files.
Per buildfarm and Teodor.
2007-09-12 13:58:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1e0eeab155 Document an efficient way to create documentation for back branches. 2007-09-12 03:21:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8049626ee2 Update Japanese FAQ to current release number. 2007-09-12 03:11:42 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 9588e1bd65 Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay point
was removed.
2007-09-12 02:05:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 861f7357b9 Give ICC its preferred, documented form of the no-strict-aliasing
switch, viz '-fno-alias'.  Since we have a separate code path here
anyway, it's just as easy to cooperate.
2007-09-11 19:50:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 16f8a9e4e1 Sync timezone data with 2007g zic release. 2007-09-11 17:43:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0735264aab Upcoming most recent release will be 8.2.5. 2007-09-11 17:34:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da7192d1d4 Stamp 2007-09-11 17:19:49 +00:00
Tom Lane f181f9e1e4 Make sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries to
recover from elog(ERROR).  Problem was created by introduction of hash seq
search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter;
in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too.  (Not sure
that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might
someday.)  Per report from Sergey Koposov.
2007-09-11 17:15:33 +00:00