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6517 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
cc3c9e1b29 Add to TODO:
> * Allow prepared transactions with temporary tables created and dropped
>   in the same transaction, and when an ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS temporary
>   table is accessed
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00047.php
2008-04-24 18:23:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a61fbe4582 Add TODO item:
>
> 	o Impove COPY performance
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00954.php
2008-04-24 17:32:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
82403f0350 Add URL for:
* Allow index scans to return matching index keys, not just the matching
  heap locations
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01657.php
>
2008-04-24 17:06:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a88b8943db Add to TODO:
> * Allow index scans to return matching index keys, not just the matching
>   heap locations
2008-04-24 16:42:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e242fec5f Add to TODO:
<
> * Allow adding enumerated values to an existing enumerated data
>   type
2008-04-24 16:14:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a3552f050f Remove, item done, description unclear:
< * Allow index scans to return matching index keys
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01079.php
2008-04-24 16:11:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9dd10490ed Update TODO description for GIT:
* Consider smaller indexes that record a range of values per heap page,
  rather than having one index entry for every heap row
2008-04-24 15:54:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19750904c8 Add GIT URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01589.php
2008-04-24 02:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b6b8cdc81 Add to TODO:
<
> 	o Add prompt escape to display the client and server versions
2008-04-24 00:39:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fef58c6943 Add URL for MERGE:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01475.php
2008-04-23 22:38:47 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
c979a1fefa Prevent shutdown in normal mode if online backup is running, and
have pg_ctl warn about this.

Cancel running online backups (by renaming the backup_label file,
thus rendering the backup useless) when shutting down in fast mode.

Laurenz Albe
2008-04-23 13:44:59 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
fc2117a4b5 Replace developer FAQ with a reference to the wiki, which is where
it now lives (per discussion). Leave the other FAQs alone for now.
2008-04-22 09:26:32 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
be9ab11366 Fix typo, noted by Stefan Kaltenbrunner. 2008-04-21 11:06:13 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
3bb6d101c4 Add link to major version release notes at the top of the minor
version ones, to make it clear to users just browsing the notes
that there are a lot more changes available from whatever version
they are at than what's in the minor version release notes.
2008-04-21 09:44:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
8472bf7a73 Allow float8, int8, and related datatypes to be passed by value on machines
where Datum is 8 bytes wide.  Since this will break old-style C functions
(those still using version 0 calling convention) that have arguments or
results of these types, provide a configure option to disable it and retain
the old pass-by-reference behavior.  Likewise, provide a configure option
to disable the recently-committed float4 pass-by-value change.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, plus configurability stuff by me.
2008-04-21 00:26:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ca214ed1a Update TODO using new script. 2008-04-19 12:33:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
883b6a8a51 Remove TODO.detail references; instead add TODO URLs pointing to the
archives.  We have been using URLs for a while for new items.
2008-04-19 12:16:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
87a2f050a9 Cause EXPLAIN's VERBOSE option to print the target list (output column list)
of each plan node, instead of its former behavior of dumping the internal
representation of the plan tree.  The latter display is still available for
those who really want it (see debug_print_plan), but uses for it are certainly
few and and far between.  Per discussion.

This patch also removes the explain_pretty_print GUC, which is obsoleted
by the change.
2008-04-18 01:42:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c5c7ba1b10 TODO Done:
> * -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
2008-04-17 20:57:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c4fd93b3f3 Re-enable pg_terminate_backend() using SIGTERM. SIGTERM testing still
needed.
2008-04-17 20:56:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
35390aab16 Update most recent release to 8.3.1. 2008-04-16 20:57:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0f839fc60 Update TODO wording. 2008-04-16 17:50:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
54495e387f Add to TODO:
> * Implement the non-threaded Avahi service discovery protocol
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00939.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00097.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01211.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00001.php
2008-04-16 17:25:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
17cdf848b8 Re-add terminate TODO item. 2008-04-15 21:39:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76365960d2 Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions. 2008-04-15 20:28:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1e40da49ae Add TODO item:
< * Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
>
> 	o Allow NOTIFY in rules involving conditionals
> 	o Improve LISTEN concurrency
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg01106.php
2008-04-15 15:08:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d2b258ad0 Move LISTEN/NOTIFY items to separate TODO section. 2008-04-15 15:07:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c28c9d69ef Add to TODO:
> * Allow XML to accept more liberal DOCTYPE specifications
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-02/msg00347.php
2008-04-15 14:24:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
56913735d0 Done:
> * -Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
2008-04-15 13:55:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18b286f3e3 Add pg_terminate_backend() to allow terminating only a single session. 2008-04-15 13:55:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
9b5c8d45f6 Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion.  The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes.  In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.

Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9afab58eed Add URL for:
* Consider automatic caching of statements at various levels:

> 	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00823.php
2008-04-14 13:33:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
24558da14a Phase 2 of project to make index operator lossiness be determined at runtime
instead of plan time.  Extend the amgettuple API so that the index AM returns
a boolean indicating whether the indexquals need to be rechecked, and make
that rechecking happen in nodeIndexscan.c (currently the only place where
it's expected to be needed; other callers of index_getnext are just erroring
out for now).  For the moment, GIN and GIST have stub logic that just always
sets the recheck flag to TRUE --- I'm hoping to get Teodor to handle pushing
that control down to the opclass consistent() functions.  The planner no
longer pays any attention to amopreqcheck, and that catalog column will go
away in due course.
2008-04-13 19:18:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
c22ed3d523 Turn the -i/--ignore-version options of pg_dump and pg_dumpall into no-ops:
the server version check is now always enforced.  Relax the version check to
allow a server that is of pg_dump's own major version but a later minor
version; this is the only case that -i was at all safe to use in.

pg_restore already enforced only a very weak version check, so this is
really just a documentation change for it.

Per discussion.
2008-04-13 03:49:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
00b1827ae1 Update wording:
< * Allow functions to control the transaction state
> * Allow calling of a procedure outside a SELECT that can control the
>   transaction state
2008-04-11 19:50:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
accbddc9bd Changed TODO wording:
< * Support procedures, which return no value
> * Allow functions to control the transaction state
2008-04-11 19:36:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
942550575f Add TODO:
> * Support procedures, which return no value
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg01375.php
2008-04-11 19:16:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a464dc07fe Update URLs for dead space map. 2008-04-11 19:14:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
4e82a95476 Replace "amgetmulti" AM functions with "amgetbitmap", in which the whole
indexscan always occurs in one call, and the results are returned in a
TIDBitmap instead of a limited-size array of TIDs.  This should improve
speed a little by reducing AM entry/exit overhead, and it is necessary
infrastructure if we are ever to support bitmap indexes.

In an only slightly related change, add support for TIDBitmaps to preserve
(somewhat lossily) the knowledge that particular TIDs reported by an index
need to have their quals rechecked when the heap is visited.  This facility
is not really used yet; we'll need to extend the forced-recheck feature to
plain indexscans before it's useful, and that hasn't been coded yet.
The intent is to use it to clean up 8.3's horrid @@@ kluge for text search
with weighted queries.  There might be other uses in future, but that one
alone is sufficient reason.

Heikki Linnakangas, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-10 22:25:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f260edb144 Add TODO URLs moved from open items queue:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00265.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01214.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-05/msg00013.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-07/msg00741.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00014.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00487.php
> * Allow index scans to return matching index keys
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01079.php
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-10/msg00166.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00049.php
2008-04-10 18:58:15 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
e863951a59 Remove mention of DBD::PgSPI, which is unmaintained and generally unnecessary. 2008-04-10 15:16:46 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
66782364a1 Mention pg_backend_pid() in the system information section in addition
to the monitoring section.

Jim Nasby
2008-04-10 13:34:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d44523638a Document that continuous archiving backup can be used for cases where
you can't get a simultaneous snapshot.
2008-04-09 02:52:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2662e03b64 Update text FAQ. 2008-04-09 01:04:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8cb3ad9f52 Revert sentence removal from nickname in FAQ. 2008-04-09 00:55:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
20c5542c8b Remove mention of the Berkeley origins of the alias "Postgres" ---
seems unnecessary to mention in the FAQ, per discussion on IRC.
2008-04-09 00:44:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8deafd6fdf Add to TODO:
>
> 	o Add ability to obfuscate function bodies
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-01/msg00125.php
2008-04-07 02:14:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a84171b078 Add documentation clarification for IS [NOT] NULL and row-valued
expressions.
2008-04-07 00:51:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
347dd6a1cf Make plpgsql support FOR over a query specified by a cursor declaration,
for improved compatibility with Oracle.

Pavel Stehule, with some fixes by me.
2008-04-06 23:43:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a1cf97c22 Have pg_stop_backup() wait for all archive files to be sent, rather than
returing right away.  This guarantees that when pg_stop_backup()
returns, you have a valid backup.

Simon Riggs
2008-04-05 01:34:06 +00:00