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Tom Lane 6d19e9ffad Marginal improvements to the documentation for PGOPTIONS. 2008-06-01 16:23:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 66e4da4c86 Done: -Remove psql newline patch when we find out why mingw outputs an extra newline 2008-05-31 15:05:46 +00:00
Tom Lane bf4bd50ff7 Copy refint.so and autoinc.so into the src/test/regress directory during
"make all", and then reference them there during the actual tests.  This
makes the handling of these files more parallel to that of regress.so,
and in particular simplifies use of the regression tests outside the
original build tree.  The PGDG and Red Hat RPMs have been doing this via
patches for a very long time.  Inclusion of the change in core was requested
by Jørgen Austvik of Sun, and I can't see any reason not to.

I attempted to fix the MSVC scripts for this too, but they may need
further tweaking ...
2008-05-30 00:04:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e19d10b595 Add description to:
* Add deferred trigger queue file

<   This item involves dumping large queues into files.
>   This item involves dumping large queues into files, or doing some
>   kind of join to process all the triggers, or some bulk operation.
2008-05-29 02:04:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 882576aa89 Add URL for:
* Add deferred trigger queue file

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00876.php
2008-05-29 01:58:29 +00:00
Tom Lane a8f98c068e Improve GRANT documentation to point out that UPDATE and DELETE typically
require SELECT privilege as well, since you normally need to read existing
column values within such commands.  This behavior is according to spec,
but we'd never documented it before.  Per gripe from Volkan Yazici.
2008-05-28 00:45:40 +00:00
Tom Lane e35ee671a8 Clarify description of typmod input function, per Jeff Davis. 2008-05-27 18:05:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 7b8a63c3e9 Alter the xxx_pattern_ops opclasses to use the regular equality operator of
the associated datatype as their equality member.  This means that these
opclasses can now support plain equality comparisons along with LIKE tests,
thus avoiding the need for an extra index in some applications.  This
optimization was not possible when the pattern opclasses were first introduced,
because we didn't insist that text equality meant bitwise equality; but we
do now, so there is no semantic difference between regular and pattern
equality operators.

I removed the name_pattern_ops opclass altogether, since it's really useless:
name's regular comparisons are just strcmp() and are unlikely to become
something different.  Instead teach indxpath.c that btree name_ops can be
used for LIKE whether or not the locale is C.  This might lead to a useful
speedup in LIKE queries on the system catalogs in non-C locales.

The ~=~ and ~<>~ operators are gone altogether.  (It would have been nice to
keep them for backward compatibility's sake, but since the pg_amop structure
doesn't allow multiple equality operators per opclass, there's no way.)

A not-immediately-obvious incompatibility is that the sort order within
bpchar_pattern_ops indexes changes --- it had been identical to plain
strcmp, but is now trailing-blank-insensitive.  This will impact
in-place upgrades, if those ever happen.

Per discussions a couple months ago.
2008-05-27 00:13:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian abb5fd8604 Done:
< 	o Use LC_TIME for localized weekday/month names, rather than
> 	o -Use LC_TIME for localized weekday/month names, rather than
2008-05-20 00:35:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 07a5606735 Make to_char()'s localized month/day names depend on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2008-05-19 18:08:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 1bfe97e5a8 Rewrite the warning about non-transaction-safety of TRUNCATE ... RESTART
IDENTITY to be more explicit about the possible hazards.  Per gripe from Neil
and subsequent discussion.  Eventually we may be able to get rid of this
warning, but for now it had better be there.
2008-05-17 23:36:27 +00:00
Tom Lane caede71b44 Allow ALTER SEQUENCE START WITH to change the recorded start_value of a
sequence.  This seems an obvious extension to the recent patch, and it
makes the code noticeably cleaner and more orthogonal.
2008-05-17 01:20:39 +00:00
Tom Lane 10a3471bed Add a RESTART (without parameter) option to ALTER SEQUENCE, allowing a
sequence to be reset to its original starting value.  This requires adding the
original start value to the set of parameters (columns) of a sequence object,
which is a user-visible change with potential compatibility implications;
it also forces initdb.

Also add hopefully-SQL-compatible RESTART/CONTINUE IDENTITY options to
TRUNCATE TABLE.  RESTART IDENTITY executes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART for all
sequences "owned by" any of the truncated relations.  CONTINUE IDENTITY is
a no-op option.

Zoltan Boszormenyi
2008-05-16 23:36:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9263d86f59 Update psql startup banner to be shorter, suggest "help" for help.
Add a few "help" entries.

Move \g help entry into "General".

Update psql version mismatch warning text.

Joshua D. Drake
2008-05-16 17:17:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7adddb4002 Done in TODO:
> 	o -Have \l+ show database size, if permissions allow
2008-05-16 17:03:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 43ee22826b Add detection of psql pager to trigger on wide output. Also add pager
detection for wrapped lines or lines with newlines that need pager to
display.
2008-05-16 16:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane e6dbcb72fa Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support
prefix matching using this facility.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4eb0900768 Done:
PL/pgSQL

> 	o -Add CASE capability to language (already in SQL)
2008-05-16 02:23:44 +00:00
Tom Lane b62f246fb0 Support SQL/PSM-compatible CASE statement in plpgsql.
Pavel Stehule
2008-05-15 22:39:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 93c701edc6 Add support for tracking call counts and elapsed runtime for user-defined
functions.

Note that because this patch changes FmgrInfo, any external C functions
you might be testing with 8.4 will need to be recompiled.

Patch by Martin Pihlak, some editorialization by me (principally, removing
tracking of getrusage() numbers)
2008-05-15 00:17:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 36f0b1cab7 Remove odd duplicate wording in psql pager section. 2008-05-14 04:07:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 4107478d37 Improve plpgsql's RAISE command. It is now possible to attach DETAIL and
HINT fields to a user-thrown error message, and to specify the SQLSTATE
error code to use.  The syntax has also been tweaked so that the
Oracle-compatible case "RAISE exception_name" works (though you won't get a
very nice error message if you just write that much).  Lastly, support
the Oracle-compatible syntax "RAISE" with no parameters to re-throw
the current error from within an EXCEPTION block.

In passing, allow the syntax SQLSTATE 'nnnnn' within EXCEPTION lists,
so that there is a way to trap errors with custom SQLSTATE codes.

Pavel Stehule and Tom Lane
2008-05-13 22:10:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9340c6372f Todo done:
> * -Improve dead row detection during multi-statement transactions usage
2008-05-12 20:50:52 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 000086b49c Document that "ROLLBACK TO savepoint" does not un-close cursors. 2008-05-12 16:23:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2cabe2db79 Add URL for:
o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00500.php
2008-05-10 01:50:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d603b3e48a Add to TODO:
> 	o Allow an existing index to be marked as a table's primary key
2008-05-10 01:50:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f586e70665 Add URL for:
* Add column to pg_stat_activity that shows the progress of long-running
  commands like CREATE INDEX and VACUUM
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00203.php
>
2008-05-10 01:40:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1526a701c4 Add TODO item:
> 	o Clear table counters on TRUNCATE
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00169.php
2008-05-10 00:33:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1d18d1dd7b TODOs done:
> 	o -Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> 	o -Prevent child tables from altering or dropping constraints
2008-05-10 00:25:08 +00:00
Tom Lane cd902b331d Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same
as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child
table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent.
This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent
will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some
longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether
check constraints were really inherited or not.

The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to
pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute)
and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for
columns.

Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom Lane
2008-05-09 23:32:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c56b444496 Add to TODO:
>
> * Improve the /contrib installation experience
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00132.php
2008-05-09 03:58:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5adf98ae24 Add psql '\pset format wrapped' mode to wrap output to screen width, or
file/pipe output too if \pset columns' is set.

Bryce Nesbitt
2008-05-08 17:04:26 +00:00
Tom Lane eb915caf92 Fix contrib/xml2 makefile to not override CFLAGS, and in passing make it
auto-configure properly for libxslt present or not.
2008-05-08 16:49:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9c9732e3c7 Update TODO wording:
< * Improve detection of shared memory segments being used by other
<   FreeBSD jails

> * Improve detection of shared memory segments being used by others
>   by checking the SysV shared memory field 'nattch'
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00673.php
2008-05-08 02:24:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b4362eeaa7 Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Add CREATE SCHEMA ... LIKE that copies a schema
>
2008-05-08 01:49:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5b9c14cdf9 Add to TODO:
> * Add database and transaction-level triggers
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00451.php
2008-05-08 01:45:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5bf049b56c Remove OID/foreign key mention in psql variable interpolation docs. 2008-05-08 00:27:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 09005f2fec Add Simon Riggs' email address. 2008-05-07 18:48:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 00756a5691 Move Client Authentication right after Server Configuration in docs.
Scott Marlowe
2008-05-07 16:36:43 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 0423de4d30 Make the pg_stat_activity view call a SRF (pg_stat_get_activity())
instead of calling a bunch of individual functions.

This function can also be called directly, taking a PID as an argument, to
return only the data for a single PID.
2008-05-07 14:41:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8008988be3 Fix TODO typo. 2008-05-07 04:46:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 44ba6f3476 Add URL for
< * Consider increasing the number of default statistics target, and
<   reduce statistics target overhead
2008-05-07 04:45:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bd8131ee8f Update TODO wording:
< 	o Allow dictionary to filter out only stop words
> 	o Allow dictionaries to change the token that is passed on to
> 	  later dictionaries
2008-05-07 04:34:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 40941c5129 Add item, make text search section:
o Consider changing error to warning for strings larger than one
          megabyte

          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-02/msg00190.php
          http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-03/msg00062.php
2008-05-07 04:12:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2d592d2e86 Done:
> * -Add function to report the time of the most recent server reload
2008-05-06 16:14:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 93afd6f619 Done:
> 	o -Improve display of enums to show valid enum values
2008-05-06 00:47:53 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 27a52fa2d9 Document extra information provided by psql's \dT+ (not \dt+ as per recent commit). 2008-05-05 01:38:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan a87f15d506 Display ACLS using multiple lines for psql's \z. Brendan Jurd. 2008-05-05 01:21:03 +00:00
Tom Lane b6d15590f7 Add timestamp and timestamptz versions of generate_series().
Hitoshi Harada
2008-05-04 23:19:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 600da67fbe Add pg_conf_load_time() function to report when the Postgres configuration
files were last loaded.

George Gensure
2008-05-04 21:13:36 +00:00