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3043 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
3a9f82bf78 Update performance section. 2002-06-11 10:29:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8d1c1d40ec Update fsync FAQ item. 2002-06-11 02:22:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c86fac2787 Fix link. 2002-06-10 20:45:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fc53730c94 Move ruler to separate sections. 2002-06-10 19:49:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9aac62305b Add item for plpgsql temp table access. 2002-06-10 19:47:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
090319b20f Fix spacing. 2002-06-10 16:13:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6146200219 Update new Russian FAQ, from Victor Vislobokov 2002-06-08 04:23:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
31d9184239 None. 2002-06-07 20:22:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c78e411fef Add:
> * Allow DEFERRABLE UNIQUE constraints
2002-06-07 04:19:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4ac77d3708 Mark as done:
> 	o -Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
2002-06-07 03:47:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40690c120c Add /dev/zero mention for anon mmap(). 2002-06-05 04:01:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
448ca1fe0b Update Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura 2002-06-04 05:12:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e3c1609df3 Update as done:
> * -Add deleted bit to index tuples to reduce heap access
2002-06-03 22:46:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07cc12b833 Remove NOCREATE patch from TODO.detail. 2002-06-03 17:45:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc574c4482 Update index growth problem. 2002-06-03 17:41:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e301b855d1 The attached patch fixes a typo in the documentation for SET
CONSTRAINTS.

Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
2002-06-03 01:10:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
85af3be5e2 Remove mention of timestamp() in SGML docs; doesn't exist anymore. 2002-06-02 21:56:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bf886d5baf Add section explaining unspecified expression evaluation order. 2002-06-01 20:56:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1731048c12 Indent verbatim environments. 2002-06-01 20:56:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50b7148218 Mention btree:
> * Add FILLFACTOR to btree index creation
2002-06-01 19:53:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
606db06f83 Improve manual's discussion of locking and MVCC. 2002-05-30 20:45:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
970ff81e2f Add a note about the interpretation of amcanmulticol and amindexnulls:
a multicolumn-capable index AM *must* support nulls in index columns
after the first one.
2002-05-29 17:36:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dc20063e43 Remove 32-bit mention:
> * Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris
2002-05-29 00:44:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6005c50fa6 Update:
> * Add BSD-licensed qsort() for 32-bit Solaris
2002-05-28 01:06:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3cde085158 Add
> * Add getpid() function to backend
2002-05-25 22:44:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d60f10b0e7 Add optional "validator" function to languages that can validate the
function body (and other properties) as a function in the language
is created.  This generalizes ad hoc code that already existed for
the built-in languages.

The validation now happens after the pg_proc tuple of the new function
is created, so it is possible to define recursive SQL functions.

Add some regression test cases that cover bogus function definition
attempts.
2002-05-22 17:21:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c961474c96 Mark as done:
> 	o -Disallow missing columns in INSERT ... VALUES, per ANSI
2002-05-20 22:22:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2c50f6344b Revise command completion tags as per hackers message on 20 March. 2002-05-18 15:44:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e8ac187c68 Allow functions to be executed with the privileges of the function owner.
I took the opportunity to remove the pg_proc.proistrusted field.
2002-05-18 13:48:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
94bdc4855c Extend syntax of CREATE FUNCTION to resemble SQL99. 2002-05-17 18:32:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
f0811a74b3 Merge the last few variable.c configuration variables into the generic
GUC support.  It's now possible to set datestyle, timezone, and
client_encoding from postgresql.conf and per-database or per-user
settings.  Also, implement rollback of SET commands that occur in a
transaction that later fails.  Create a SET LOCAL var = value syntax
that sets the variable only for the duration of the current transaction.
All per previous discussions in pghackers.
2002-05-17 01:19:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa613fa1ea Fix obsolete statement about permissions on COPY ref page, and confusion
about TO/FROM direction in several places.
2002-05-14 18:47:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5c4e5aa3ff Make regression tests locale-proof by setting some locale categories
to C at run-time, and providing alternative output files for different
sort orders.
2002-05-14 13:05:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
c5741a448e AVG probably shouldn't be upper case here, considering
that we don't upcase the others.
2002-05-13 19:22:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
f69bc37be8 Make operators have their own comments separate from those of the
underlying function; but cause psql's \do to show the underlying
function's comment if the operator has no comment of its own, to preserve
the useful functionality of the original behavior.  Also, implement
COMMENT ON SCHEMA.  Patch from Rod Taylor.
2002-05-13 17:45:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
71009354c8 Update for additional options in CREATE OPERATOR. 2002-05-11 02:09:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
9f0ae0c820 First pass at schema-fying pg_dump/pg_restore. Much to do still,
but the basic capability seems to work.
2002-05-10 22:36:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1944bff1d6 Make initdb print a message about which locale it is about to use.
Re-add warning if the locale prevents LIKE-optimization.  Done within
initdb now.
2002-05-09 13:30:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
2822788993 Accept SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
to reset session userid to the originally-authenticated name.  Also,
relax SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to allow specifying one's own username
even if one is not superuser, so as to avoid unnecessary error messages
when loading a pg_dump file that uses this command.  Per discussion from
several months ago.
2002-05-06 19:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
8338cc03a8 Remove the last traces of datatypes datetime and timespan. 2002-05-03 04:11:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
e4f06dc12e Clean up loose ends remaining from schema privileges discussion.
I concluded that RENAME should require CREATE privilege on the namespace
as well as ownership of the table.
2002-04-30 01:26:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
857661ba2e Enforce EXECUTE privilege for aggregate functions. 2002-04-29 22:28:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c763cfa9e8 Add Polish FAQ from Marcin Mazurek. 2002-04-29 02:57:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aafe72efb2 Update DROP COLUMN example to use transactions and rollback-able DROP TABLE> 2002-04-27 03:04:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e90dbd27b1 Updated:
> 	o Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
2002-04-26 18:32:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
a309032d2f Add current_schema() and current_schemas() inquiry functions.
Update has_table_privilege functions to cope with schema-qualified
names in the same way as nextval() and others.
2002-04-26 01:24:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
d9375ad564 Add a reference page for CREATE SCHEMA. 2002-04-25 21:47:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be004a0c09 Added:
> * Allow backslash handling in quoted strings to be disabled for portability
2002-04-25 20:39:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8cec968784 Improve display of headings in HTML. 2002-04-25 20:20:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
e358a61d76 Updates for schema features. 2002-04-25 20:14:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
52200befd0 Implement types regprocedure, regoper, regoperator, regclass, regtype
per pghackers discussion.  Add some more typsanity tests, and clean
up some problems exposed thereby (broken or missing array types for
some built-in types).  Also, clean up loose ends from unknownin/out
patch.
2002-04-25 02:56:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f20d467e6b Add missing SGML file. 2002-04-24 02:53:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a02f83426b Here's a doc patch for ALTER TRIGGER RENAME. Please apply if there are
no objections.

Joe Conway
2002-04-24 02:49:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19b31e0713 Oops, wrong commit on previous. It was:
The attached patch allows views to have default values. You can't
specify a default value within a CREATE VIEW statement, it must be
done using ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT after the
view has already been created. Most of the hard work was done by
Tom Lane, I just patched pg_dump and updated the documentation.

Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
2002-04-24 02:40:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9fcc1159be Appears I forgot to update the docs earlier.
Please note I have no way to test this.  Docbook doesn't like my
cygwin setup.

--
Rod Taylor
2002-04-24 02:31:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
695a042532 Add item:
> * Improve ability to display optimizer analysis using OPTIMIZER_DEBUG
2002-04-23 20:26:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c11d9353f1 Update as done:
> * -Use faster flex flags for performance improvement (Peter E)
2002-04-23 18:59:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0666ac296b Update for syslog and name Tom in trigger:
> * -Allow user to control trigger firing order (Tom)
> * -Compile in syslog functionaility by default (Tatsuo)
2002-04-23 16:59:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
44cd58e47e Update:
> * -Allow user to control trigger firing order
> * Add ALTER TRIGGER ... RENAME
2002-04-23 16:56:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c1fe3d2b9 Update SQL-command reference pages for schema features. 2002-04-23 02:07:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
fccda9eb90 Update GRANT example and discussion to match current sources. 2002-04-22 19:17:40 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
c05f29e895 Augment the date/time examples in the User's Guide to reflect the newer
capabilities of specifying time zones as intervals per SQL9x.
Put refentrytitle contents on the same line as the tag.
 Otherwise, leading whitespace is propagated into the product, which
 (at least) messes up the ToC layout.
Remove (some) docinfo tags containing dates. Best to omit if the dates
 are not accurate; maybe use CVS dates instead or leave them out.
2002-04-21 19:02:39 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
b76b6f61b0 Minor wording change for readability. 2002-04-21 18:58:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
b0bcf8aab2 Restructure AclItem representation so that we can have more than eight
different privilege bits (might as well make use of the space we were
wasting on padding).  EXECUTE and USAGE bits for procedures, languages
now are separate privileges instead of being overlaid on SELECT.  Add
privileges for namespaces and databases.  The GRANT and REVOKE commands
work for these object types, but we don't actually enforce the privileges
yet...
2002-04-21 00:26:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d6ca2166c Change naming rule for ON SELECT rules of views: they're all just
_RETURN now, since there's no need to keep 'em unique anymore.
2002-04-19 23:13:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
201737168c pg_trigger's index on tgrelid is replaced by a unique index on
(tgrelid, tgname).  This provides an additional check on trigger name
uniqueness per-table (which was already enforced by the code anyway).
With this change, RelationBuildTriggers will read the triggers in
order by tgname, since it's scanning using this index.  Since a
predictable trigger ordering has been requested for some time, document
this behavior as a feature.  Also document that rules fire in name
order, since yesterday's changes to pg_rewrite indexing cause that too.
2002-04-19 16:36:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
b3120804ad Rule names are now unique per-relation, rather than unique globally.
DROP RULE and COMMENT ON RULE syntax adds an 'ON tablename' clause,
similar to TRIGGER syntaxes.  To allow loading of existing pg_dump
files containing COMMENT ON RULE, the COMMENT code will still accept
the old syntax --- but only if the target rulename is unique across
the whole database.
2002-04-18 20:01:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4e08a625b0 Suggest another possible solution for funcs using temp tables:
< 	  without using PL/PgSQL EXECUTE, needs cached plan invalidation
> 	  without using PL/PgSQL EXECUTE, needs cache prevention/invalidation
2002-04-18 17:26:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
979be308d1 More neutral:
> 	o Abort all, some or, no SET changes made in an aborted transaction
2002-04-18 17:24:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
953287768e Update:
> 	o Abort all or commit all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
2002-04-18 14:32:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f8c77a089c Correct documention of lo_unlink return value as int, not Oid. 2002-04-18 14:28:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a44a0a4509 Update:
> 	o Allow Java server-side programming, http://pljava.sourceforge.net
> 	  [java]
2002-04-18 05:07:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bebe5acaf9 Add how to get database/user listing information. 2002-04-18 04:45:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cfa72faf96 Add user:
> * Rod is Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
2002-04-18 04:21:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
654fe4f998 Add to DROP COLUMN. 2002-04-18 04:17:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
69cd5efb23 Add to PREPARE archive. 2002-04-18 04:13:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b09f67bca1 Update for Neil:
> * Cache most recent query plan(s) (Neil) [prepare]
> * Neil is Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>
2002-04-18 04:08:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bac714b72a Update for Oleg:
>   using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values (Oleg)
2002-04-18 04:07:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f1b7e8416a Add:
Add to DROP COLUMN description.
2002-04-18 04:02:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54f91c9f8a Update:
> 	o Abort SET changes made in aborted transactions (?)
2002-04-18 03:59:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3cd9399d86 Change docs to do 20! rather than larger. 2002-04-18 03:37:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
af03e2edc9 Updated:
> * Add BETWEEN ASYMMETRIC/SYMMETRIC (Christopher)
> * Christopher is Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
2002-04-18 03:10:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
389ca3500d Add:
> * Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris
2002-04-18 03:07:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6abfa8c540 Add:
> 	o Allow SHOW to output as a query result, like EXPLAIN
2002-04-18 03:04:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b2ef38e883 Add mention of -DLINUX_PROFILE to profile mention. 2002-04-18 02:48:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
afd8067213 Add:
> * Try flex flags -Cf and -CF to see if performance improves
2002-04-18 01:41:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ed20cdfc53 Add:
> * Add utility to compute accurate random_page_cost value
2002-04-17 21:52:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
27a54ae282 Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to create
an 'opclass owner' column in pg_opclass.  Nothing is done with it at
present, but since there are plans to invent a CREATE OPERATOR CLASS
command soon, we'll probably want DROP OPERATOR CLASS too, which
suggests that a notion of ownership would be a good idea.
2002-04-17 20:57:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d85a81cbc3 Add:
> * Allow easy display of usernames in a group
2002-04-17 20:35:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d4963d7342 Add SQL92 document name. 2002-04-17 05:12:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bef0ea574c Update to point directly to ANSI store. 2002-04-17 05:10:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f417bbfb92 Add mention of standards documents. 2002-04-17 05:00:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ff200d9359 Add steps for typical patch. 2002-04-17 02:10:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
6cef5d2549 Operators live in namespaces. CREATE/DROP/COMMENT ON OPERATOR take
qualified operator names directly, for example CREATE OPERATOR myschema.+
( ... ).  To qualify an operator name in an expression you need to write
OPERATOR(myschema.+) (thanks to Peter for suggesting an escape hatch).
I also took advantage of having to reformat pg_operator to fix something
that'd been bugging me for a while: mergejoinable operators should have
explicit links to the associated cross-data-type comparison operators,
rather than hardwiring an assumption that they are named < and >.
2002-04-16 23:08:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
b66cbc1fa2 Adjust rules for search_path so that pg_catalog is never implicitly
selected as the creation target namespace; to make that happen, you
must explicitly set search_path that way.  This makes initdb a hair
more complex but seems like a good safety feature.
2002-04-15 22:33:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2f1e93aeb Update as completed:
> * -Allow oid to act as a foreign key
2002-04-15 20:52:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
31e179379a Add bitmap email to archive. 2002-04-14 17:32:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2e32eca8d0 Allow detection of collateindex.pl in stylesheet directory or in path,
which covers some recent installation schemes.

Add Mandrake installation layout to directories to check for stylesheets.

Allow documentation build to proceed if stylesheets were not found, in case
the stylesheets might be found through the SGML catalog mechanism.
2002-04-14 17:23:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
08479bcbca Update;
> 	  without using PL/PgSQL EXECUTE, needs cached plan invalidation
2002-04-14 17:20:35 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
3cf2d9cc23 Fix broken SGML tag. 2002-04-14 01:31:37 +00:00