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7553 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
c45fa5598b In FAQ, reference upgrade info via URL. 2007-03-20 17:43:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d89b968319 Not done, reverted:
< 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
> 	o Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
2007-03-20 16:36:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e7bb07ea13 Done:
> 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01481.php
2007-03-20 16:32:42 +00:00
Neil Conway
9eb78beeae Add three new regexp functions: regexp_matches, regexp_split_to_array,
and regexp_split_to_table. These functions provide access to the
capture groups resulting from a POSIX regular expression match,
and provide the ability to split a string on a POSIX regular
expression, respectively. Patch from Jeremy Drake; code review by
Neil Conway, additional comments and suggestions from Tom and
Peter E.

This patch bumps the catversion, adds some regression tests,
and updates the docs.
2007-03-20 05:45:00 +00:00
Jan Wieck
0fe16500d3 Changes pg_trigger and extend pg_rewrite in order to allow triggers and
rules to be defined with different, per session controllable, behaviors
for replication purposes.

This will allow replication systems like Slony-I and, as has been stated
on pgsql-hackers, other products to control the firing mechanism of
triggers and rewrite rules without modifying the system catalog directly.

The firing mechanisms are controlled by a new superuser-only GUC
variable, session_replication_role, together with a change to
pg_trigger.tgenabled and a new column pg_rewrite.ev_enabled. Both
columns are a single char data type now (tgenabled was a bool before).
The possible values in these attributes are:

     'O' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "origin"
           (default) or "local". This is the default behavior.

     'D' - Trigger/Rule is disabled and fires never

     'A' - Trigger/Rule fires always regardless of the setting of
           session_replication_role

     'R' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "replica"

The GUC variable can only be changed as long as the system does not have
any cached query plans. This will prevent changing the session role and
accidentally executing stored procedures or functions that have plans
cached that expand to the wrong query set due to differences in the rule
firing semantics.

The SQL syntax for changing a triggers/rules firing semantics is

     ALTER TABLE <tabname> <when> TRIGGER|RULE <name>;

     <when> ::= ENABLE | ENABLE ALWAYS | ENABLE REPLICA | DISABLE

psql's \d command as well as pg_dump are extended in a backward
compatible fashion.

Jan
2007-03-19 23:38:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e927f8f14e Remove last line of patch license, per Zeugswetter Andreas:
"If the patch is not BSD-licensed, it will be rejected."
2007-03-19 16:53:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
79929fff76 Add URL for:
* Simplify ability to create partitioned tables
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00375.php
2007-03-19 15:50:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
00c56bb7f8 Add URL for:
* Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent
  sequential scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning"

  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00415.php
2007-03-19 15:24:17 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
e6e78187ef msvc build actually needs Bison 2.2 or later, not 2.1. Or 1.875 as before. 2007-03-17 17:11:41 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
15f4842d70 Add note that diff is required for regression tests. 2007-03-17 14:30:00 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
51d7741db1 Add new columns for tuple statistics on a database level to
pg_stat_database.
2007-03-16 17:57:36 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
348b621894 Show aggregate return types in psql \da output.
Greg Sabino Mullane
2007-03-16 08:28:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
95f6d2d209 Make use of plancache module for SPI plans. In particular, since plpgsql
uses SPI plans, this finally fixes the ancient gotcha that you can't
drop and recreate a temp table used by a plpgsql function.

Along the way, clean up SPI's API a little bit by declaring SPI plan
pointers as "SPIPlanPtr" instead of "void *".  This is cosmetic but
helps to forestall simple programming mistakes.  (I have changed some
but not all of the callers to match; there are still some "void *"'s
in contrib and the PL's.  This is intentional so that we can see if
anyone's compiler complains about it.)
2007-03-15 23:12:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
0169c354bf Arrange to install a "posixrules" entry in our timezone database, so that
POSIX-style timezone specs that don't exactly match any database entry will
be treated as having correct USA DST rules.  Also, document that this can
be changed if you want to use some other DST rules with a POSIX zone spec.

We could consider changing localtime.c's TZDEFRULESTRING, but since that
facility can only deal with one DST transition rule, it seems fairly useless
now; might as well just plan to override it using a "posixrules" entry.

Backpatch as far as 8.0.  There isn't much we can do in 7.x ... either your
libc gets it right, or it doesn't.
2007-03-14 17:38:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
68a6e5e877 Fix broken markup, strange tab width. 2007-03-14 00:15:26 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
be40754e91 Rewrite win32 install documentation (it's not client only anymore, and it's
now complete). Update for the MSVC6/Borland support now being only libpq.
Move most of the information about full MSVC build from README file into
documentation.
2007-03-13 16:03:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
02284e224c Minor edits 2007-03-06 09:59:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f12f220e5a Add more information about avoiding Linux OOM killer.
by Toru SHIMOGAKI
2007-03-06 09:54:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a535cdf130 Revert temp_tablespaces because of coding problems, per Tom. 2007-03-06 02:06:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
37fc8a667e Remove timeline for 8.3 release, now on web site. 2007-03-05 18:04:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0763a56501 Add lo_truncate() to backend and libpq for large object truncation.
Kris Jurka
2007-03-03 19:52:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e52c4a6e26 Add GUC log_lock_waits to log long wait times.
Simon Riggs
2007-03-03 18:46:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f52019cf80 Done:
> 	o -Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather
2007-03-03 17:24:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
df910a52a6 Allow \pset and \x, \t to use boolean constants on/off, rather than just
toggle.

Chad Wagner
2007-03-03 17:19:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bb8b5b83da Update license wording in FAQ_DEV. 2007-03-03 16:12:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b7f73bedc8 Add URLs for:
* Add REPLACE or UPSERT command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT
  [merge]
2007-03-03 03:08:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
61c3e5b248 Make log_min_error_statement put LOG level at the same priority as
log_min_messages does; and arrange to suppress the duplicative output
that would otherwise result from log_statement and log_duration messages.
Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.
2007-03-02 23:37:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a7f6302bc HTML markup fix. 2007-03-02 21:03:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4c644ed7b0 Fix HTML markup. 2007-03-02 21:03:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23ef7b6cf4 in FAQ_DEV, mention we don't want non-BSD-compatible licensed patches. 2007-03-02 17:51:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
50acd427a5 Fix broken markup, improve wording. 2007-03-02 06:01:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
fb276438b6 Suppress useless searches for unused line pointers in PageAddItem. To do
this, add a 16-bit "flags" field to page headers by stealing some bits from
pd_tli.  We use one flag bit as a hint to indicate whether there are any
unused line pointers; the remaining 15 are available for future use.

This is a cut-down form of an idea proposed by Hiroki Kataoka in July 2005.
At the time it was rejected because the original patch increased the size of
page headers and it wasn't clear that the benefit outweighed the distributed
cost.  The flag-bit approach gets most of the benefit without requiring an
increase in the page header size.

Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
2007-03-02 00:48:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d1ce4f7396 Add language about rights given by posting a patch:
<li>PostgreSQL is licensed under a BSD license.  By posting a patch
    to the public PostgreSQL mailling lists, you are giving the PostgreSQL
    Global Development Group the non-revokable right to distribute your
    patch under the BSD license.  If you use code that is available under
    some other license that is BSD compatible (eg. public domain), please
    note that in your email submission.</li>
2007-02-28 17:28:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
234a02b2a8 Replace direct assignments to VARATT_SIZEP(x) with SET_VARSIZE(x, len).
Get rid of VARATT_SIZE and VARATT_DATA, which were simply redundant with
VARSIZE and VARDATA, and as a consequence almost no code was using the
longer names.  Rename the length fields of struct varlena and various
derived structures to catch anyplace that was accessing them directly;
and clean up various places so caught.  In itself this patch doesn't
change any behavior at all, but it is necessary infrastructure if we hope
to play any games with the representation of varlena headers.
Greg Stark and Tom Lane
2007-02-27 23:48:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0459b591fc Update release timeline to use unnumber lists HTML. 2007-02-27 23:12:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a5f96f69cb Update DEV FAQ for CVS/SVN issue.
Robert Treat
2007-02-27 21:07:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7780bf391 Remove Kerberos mention in Solaris FAQ. 2007-02-27 19:10:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7395c76159 Update Solaris FAQ. 2007-02-23 23:22:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e7aa8ab2ab Spelling fix. 2007-02-23 20:37:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
53ec43b41b Update Solaris FAQ wording, per Peter. 2007-02-23 20:30:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1449e6f981 Update upgrade FAQ info. 2007-02-23 19:06:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b950596ffd Update Solaris FAQ.
Zdenek Kotala
2007-02-23 18:38:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7031dd6869 Add psql \prompt capability.
Chad Wagner
2007-02-23 18:20:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
eab6b8b27e Turn the rangetable used by the executor into a flat list, and avoid storing
useless substructure for its RangeTblEntry nodes.  (I chose to keep using the
same struct node type and just zero out the link fields for unneeded info,
rather than making a separate ExecRangeTblEntry type --- it seemed too
fragile to have two different rangetable representations.)

Along the way, put subplans into a list in the toplevel PlannedStmt node,
and have SubPlan nodes refer to them by list index instead of direct pointers.
Vadim wanted to do that years ago, but I never understood what he was on about
until now.  It makes things a *whole* lot more robust, because we can stop
worrying about duplicate processing of subplans during expression tree
traversals.  That's been a constant source of bugs, and it's finally gone.

There are some consequent simplifications yet to be made, like not using
a separate EState for subplans in the executor, but I'll tackle that later.
2007-02-22 22:00:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
849000c782 Remove extra tab. 2007-02-21 23:22:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7c656baf15 Remove tabs from SGML reference files, so their addition can be detected
in the future.
2007-02-21 23:21:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c98fd6e7f Update upgrade wording. 2007-02-21 22:54:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
526b1d6979 Update FAQ about minor updates. 2007-02-21 19:48:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9bc6af8026 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-02-21 17:23:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bded8fdd8d Update URL in German FAQ for bug form, per Schima, Fabian 2007-02-21 16:49:37 +00:00