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Peter Eisentraut 48d03278a2 Enhance documentation of date/time functions. Add extract, current_date,
current_time, current_timestamp.  Add more examples.  Remove age(), because
it doesn't work like it is documented, and no one could explain it to me.
2001-02-18 17:17:17 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b9c7d371ed Make <lineannotation> italic. Fix syntax error in print style. 2001-02-18 17:15:03 +00:00
Tom Lane df8186b282 Add note that partial indices are not currently supported. 2001-02-18 06:07:37 +00:00
Tom Lane c3151c29de Update description of fsync option for 7.1. 2001-02-18 05:30:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 57e0847180 Change default commit_delay to zero, update documentation. 2001-02-18 04:50:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 33cc5d8a4d Change s_lock to not use any zero-delay select() calls; these are just a
waste of cycles on single-CPU machines, and of dubious utility on multi-CPU
machines too.
Tweak s_lock_stuck so that caller can specify timeout interval, and
increase interval before declaring stuck spinlock for buffer locks and XLOG
locks.
On systems that have fdatasync(), use that rather than fsync() to sync WAL
log writes.  Ensure that WAL file is entirely allocated during XLogFileInit.
2001-02-18 04:39:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 58c4ab9d62 Remove bogus set_ps_display call --- changing displayed status here is
either wrong or unnecessary in most cases, and on systems where setting
status takes a kernel call, the overhead of setting status three times
per command rather than two is annoying.
2001-02-18 04:28:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 81ff09eeb5 Catch some stray references to .htm files. 2001-02-17 16:52:53 +00:00
Tom Lane ec22e3127d No more .htm files, so don't try to add them to the doc tarballs. 2001-02-17 16:47:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b5f8c90c15 Update TODO list. 2001-02-17 14:35:48 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 2bc2738fc4 Fix a bug in psql. unescape() does not work for multi-byte encodings. 2001-02-17 10:03:33 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 4571439297 Fix README in Japanese to sync with README.pgbench updated by Tom.
(thanks!)
2001-02-17 06:50:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 81357b3c02 Seems a bad idea to assume that select(2) doesn't touch the input masks
if it returns EINTR.
2001-02-17 03:37:22 +00:00
Tom Lane b634118af9 Add current seek position to FDDEBUG output for FileRead,
FileWrite, FileSeek.
2001-02-17 01:00:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 6249971b41 Just noticed that use of 'volatile' in HPPA S_UNLOCK() was causing gcc
to generate unnecessarily stupid code.  Tweak macro to describe a series
of store-constant ops, not store/load/store/load/store/load/store.
2001-02-16 23:50:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 810c0b85d2 Update README's install instructions to agree with current reality. 2001-02-16 21:41:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 64a1b6263d Update bsdi shared memory stuff. 2001-02-16 19:43:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 88c55990ce Update BSDI FAQ. 2001-02-16 19:27:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 1ad93b7e45 Defend against starting a non-MULTIBYTE-enabled backend in a database
with encoding other than SQL_ASCII.  Per recent discussion in pghackers.
2001-02-16 18:50:40 +00:00
Peter Mount cdbd27cb23 Some more updates...
Fri Feb 17 15:11:00 GMT 2001 peter@retep.org.uk
        - Reduced the object overhead in PreparedStatement by reusing the same
          StringBuffer object throughout. Similarly SimpleDateStamp's are alse
          reused in a thread save manner.
        - Implemented in PreparedStatement: setNull(), setDate/Time/Timestamp
          using Calendar, setBlob(), setCharacterStream()
        - Clob's are now implemented in ResultSet & PreparedStatement!
        - Implemented a lot of DatabaseMetaData & ResultSetMetaData methods.
          We have about 18 unimplemented methods left in JDBC2 at the current
          time.
2001-02-16 16:45:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 016f0eed24 Update BSDI SGML. 2001-02-16 16:10:06 +00:00
Tom Lane eb90c16dd7 ichar() has been renamed to chr(), so fix translation table. 2001-02-16 03:49:40 +00:00
Tom Lane a2dafc6416 Fix bugs in pltcl's new return_null command: it was liable to go belly up
if the return datatype's input converter was at all strict, because the
converter would get called on junk data when returning NULL.  Also
ensure that it gives an error rather than coredumping if someone tries
to use it in a trigger function.
2001-02-16 03:26:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 60d1d671a8 Fix erroneous sort request in pltcl selftest. 2001-02-16 03:22:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 13cc7eb3e2 Clean up two rather nasty bugs in operator selection code.
1. If there is exactly one pg_operator entry of the right name and oprkind,
oper() and related routines would return that entry whether its input type
had anything to do with the request or not.  This is just premature
optimization: we shouldn't return the single candidate until after we verify
that it really is a valid candidate, ie, is at least coercion-compatible
with the given types.

2. oper() and related routines only promise a coercion-compatible result.
Unfortunately, there were quite a few callers that assumed the returned
operator is binary-compatible with the given datatype; they would proceed
to call it without making any datatype coercions.  These callers include
sorting, grouping, aggregation, and VACUUM ANALYZE.  In general I think
it is appropriate for these callers to require an exact or binary-compatible
match, so I've added a new routine compatible_oper() that only succeeds if
it can find an operator that doesn't require any run-time conversions.
Callers now call oper() or compatible_oper() depending on whether they are
prepared to deal with type conversion or not.

The upshot of these bugs is revealed by the following silliness in PL/Tcl's
selftest: it creates an operator @< on int4, and then tries to use it to
sort a char(N) column.  The system would let it do that :-( (and evidently
has done so since 6.3 :-( :-().  The result in this case was just a silly
sort order, but the reverse combination would've provoked coredump from
trying to dereference integers.  With this fix you get more reasonable
behavior:
pltcl_test=# select * from T_pkey1 order by key1, key2 using @<;
ERROR:  Unable to identify an operator '@<' for types 'bpchar' and 'bpchar'
        You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast
2001-02-16 03:16:58 +00:00
Hiroshi Inoue b24b2a5be0 Add casting for numeric/float4/float8 type value
automatically to compensate the lack of automatic
conversion functionality of PostgreSQL server.
For example if there's a numeric type binding
   1.2567 --> 1.2567::numeric.
I hope this change would enable the use of numeric
type in MS-Access etc.

Thanks Hiroki Kataoka for his checking my code.
2001-02-16 03:10:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f65ebaddb4 Update bsdi faq. 2001-02-16 00:46:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d50f3cb9eb Update bsdi faq. 2001-02-16 00:17:57 +00:00
Tom Lane b29f68f611 Take OUTER JOIN semantics into account when estimating the size of join
relations.  It's not very bright, but at least it now knows that
A LEFT JOIN B must produce at least as many rows as are in A ...
2001-02-16 00:03:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca71c66190 Update FAQ. 2001-02-15 22:21:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb1095c66d Update FAQ. 2001-02-15 22:15:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 6da3b76a94 Add some notes about memory management of RI plans. 2001-02-15 21:57:43 +00:00
Tom Lane db3ac67d8f Update comments about memory management. 2001-02-15 21:47:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 5c2abb960d Update notes about memory context scheme. 2001-02-15 21:38:26 +00:00
Tom Lane bf0078d257 Update obsolete wording of error message. 2001-02-15 21:11:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 059e361481 Although we can't support out-of-line TOAST storage in indexes (yet),
compressed storage works perfectly well.  Might as well have a coherent
strategy for applying it, rather than the haphazard store-what-you-get
approach that was in the code before.  The strategy I've set up here is
to attempt compression of any compressible index value exceeding
BLCKSZ/16, or about 500 bytes by default.
2001-02-15 20:57:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 5341cddba8 Further polishing of documentation about new fmgr call convention. 2001-02-15 19:03:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 39b9c9f221 Reduce default selectivity estimates for geometric operators; it seems
the old ones were not small enough to ensure r-tree and gist indexes would
get picked when available.  These numbers are totally bogus anyway, but
in the absence of any real estimation technique, we'd like to select
indexes when available ...
2001-02-15 17:55:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 83b4ab53ad Update a couple of obsolete comments. 2001-02-15 17:46:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bdacacdfb6 Update TODO list. 2001-02-15 16:21:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee2532c4cb Update TODO list. 2001-02-15 16:03:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4c2b0f1d73 Update for Tatsuo. 2001-02-15 13:31:44 +00:00
Hiroshi Inoue 462c13215a 1) Change transaction boundary in autocommit off mode
per recent discussion in pgsql-odbc. Now SELECT is
   a boundary but VACUUM isn't.
2) Put back the error handling behavior. When elog(ERROR)
   was detected the driver automatically issue "ABORT"
   if a transaction is in progress.
3) Driver version is 7.01.0003(Dave already set it but
   it was put back).
2001-02-15 05:32:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 21deb42897 Clarify meaning of GEQO_THRESHOLD parameter. 2001-02-15 04:28:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 52cacf46b4 Improve documentation of JOIN syntax. Explain NATURAL as an alternative
to ON and USING for specifying the join condition, not as an independent
kind of join semantics.
2001-02-15 04:10:54 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 5c90733558 Unicode <-> SJIS new mapping tables (based on CP932.TXT) contributed by
Eiji Tokuya" <e-tokuya@Mail.Sankyo-Unyu.co.jp>
2001-02-15 01:56:29 +00:00
Tom Lane de434c2d5f Arrange for ORDER BY an expression on a UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT result,
such as
    SELECT f1 FROM foo UNION SELECT ... ORDER BY upper(f1)
to draw
'ORDER BY on a UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT result must be on one of the result columns'
rather than the uninformative 'f1 not found' we were producing before.
Eventually this should actually work, but that looks much too hard to try
to implement in late beta...
2001-02-15 01:10:28 +00:00
Tom Lane c7d2ce7bc6 Repair problems with duplicate index names generated when CREATE TABLE
specifies redundant UNIQUE conditions.
2001-02-14 23:32:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 4a66f9dd54 Change scoping of table and join refnames to conform to SQL92: a JOIN
clause with an alias is a <subquery> and therefore hides table references
appearing within it, according to the spec.  This is the same as the
preliminary patch I posted to pgsql-patches yesterday, plus some really
grotty code in ruleutils.c to reverse-list a query tree with the correct
alias name depending on context.  I'd rather not have done that, but unless
we want to force another initdb for 7.1, there's no other way for now.
2001-02-14 21:35:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d42d31e78e Alter documentation of boolean type, add example. Someone figured that it
wasn't clear that the "boolean type" was actually called "boolean".  Add
tip about "casting" booleans using CASE.

Spell check whole file.
2001-02-14 19:37:26 +00:00