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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian 03c25dd900 Mark all GUC variables with <varname> markup, rather than <literal>. 2011-02-02 18:06:38 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 0c5933d010 Wrap PL/Python SPI calls into subtransactions
This allows the language-specific try/catch construct to catch and
handle exceptions arising from SPI calls, matching the behavior of
other PLs.

As an additional bonus you no longer get all the ugly "unrecognized
error in PLy_spi_execute_query" errors.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer
2011-02-02 22:06:10 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 5a6ba62be5 Document that CREATE VIEW that uses "*" for the column list will not
auto-add columns later added to the base table.
2011-02-01 17:17:34 -05:00
Bruce Momjian d56d246e70 Properly capitalize hyphenated words in documentation titles. 2011-02-01 17:00:26 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7106f74e2a Clarify documentation to state that "zero_damaged_pages" does not force
data to disk, so the table or index should be recreated before the
parameter is turned off again.
2011-02-01 16:44:22 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 6c6e6f7fd3 Document that effective cache size does not assume data remains in the
cache between queries.
2011-02-01 15:23:35 -05:00
Bruce Momjian e8cdc238cf Document that Slony can do upgrades easier _because_ it supports
replication between different Postgres major versions.
2011-02-01 15:21:22 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 902aae5ec5 Clarify pg_upgrade install instructions, per suggestion from Robert Haas. 2011-02-01 13:57:43 -05:00
Bruce Momjian d2888d1ca3 Add missing period "." in pg_upgrade documentation. 2011-02-01 13:53:04 -05:00
Simon Riggs 56b21b7ae3 Re-classify ERRCODE_DATABASE_DROPPED to 57P04 2011-02-01 08:44:01 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro 03282bfa89 Add a link from client_encoding parameter to the list of character sets
in documentation.

Thom Brown
2011-02-01 14:26:17 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 00dd340210 Improve docs for pg_authid encryption description with better markup and
a mention of unencrypted passwords.
2011-01-31 22:53:58 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 2dbed56c5a In pg_authid.rolpassword docs, make "md5" appear as a literal. 2011-01-31 22:29:10 -05:00
Tom Lane 6e2f3ae884 Support LIKE and ILIKE index searches via contrib/pg_trgm indexes.
Unlike Btree-based LIKE optimization, this works for non-left-anchored
search patterns.  The effectiveness of the search depends on how many
trigrams can be extracted from the pattern.  (The worst case, with no
trigrams, degrades to a full-table scan, so this isn't a panacea.  But
it can be very useful.)

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Jan Urbanski
2011-01-31 21:34:49 -05:00
Simon Riggs 9e95c9ad55 Create new errcode for recovery conflict caused by db drop on master.
Previously reported as ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN, this case is now
reported as ERRCODE_T_R_DATABASE_DROPPED. No message text change.
Unlikely to happen on most servers, so low impact change to allow
session poolers to correctly handle this situation.

Tatsuo Ishii, edits by me, review by Robert Haas
2011-02-01 00:20:53 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 44df84df72 Remove spurious word, spotted by Thom Brown. 2011-01-31 22:52:27 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 49450f01ec Update pg_upgrade docs to mention its use in a less risk-warning way,
and update the pg_upgrade docs to mention its reliance on no changes to
the storage format (the later based on Robert Haas's patch).
2011-01-31 15:21:51 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ff20fbd6c2 Fix SGML markup for upgrade doc addition. 2011-01-31 14:58:49 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 51be78b09a Update docs on building for Windows to accomodate current reality.
Document how to build 64 bit Windows binaries using the MinGW64 tool set.
Remove recommendation against using Mingw as a build platform.
Be more specific about when Cygwin is useful and when it's not,  in
particular note its usefulness for running psql, and
add a note about building on Cygwin in non-C locales.

Per recent discussions.
2011-01-31 13:40:45 -05:00
Bruce Momjian c5ba11f8fb Move upgrade instructions into its own section under "Server Setup and
Operation", merged from upgrade sections in "Installation from Source
Code" and "Backup and Restore".  This now gives a single place for all
upgrade information.
2011-01-31 12:32:03 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 997b48ed96 Support multiple concurrent pg_basebackup backups.
With this patch, pg_basebackup doesn't write a backup_label file in the
data directory, so it doesn't interfere with a pg_start/stop_backup() based
backup anymore. backup_label is still included in the backup, but it is
injected directly into the tar stream.

Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Magnus Hagander.
2011-01-31 18:25:39 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 507069de6d Add option to include WAL in base backup
When included, this makes the base backup a complete working
"clone" of the initial database, ready to have a postmaster
started against it without the need to set up any log archiving
or similar.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-01-30 21:30:09 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 5d5678d7c3 Properly capitalize documentation headings; some only had initial-word
capitalization.
2011-01-29 13:01:48 -05:00
Tom Lane 6f489dca65 Make installation.sgml build standalone again.
We must not try to link to sections that aren't part of the standalone
"make INSTALL" build.  Corrects build failure introduced in commit
159e3d8629.
2011-01-29 12:51:44 -05:00
Tom Lane b2826ad52d Copy-edit a paragraph in the contrib/seg documentation.
Although this improves the style, an ulterior motive is to keep the two
table links from breaking across lines in PDF output, per complaint from
Josh Kupershmidt.
2011-01-28 14:34:42 -05:00
Tom Lane 20a0f97273 Rephrase pg_conversion description to avoid splitting link across page.
The link to the CREATE CONVERSION manual page was split across a page
boundary in the PDF output, leading to "\pdfendlink ended up in different
nesting level than \pdfstartlink" error while building PDFs.

It wouldn't be worth changing text that's undergoing active editing to
avoid this, since other editing might result in moving the link away from
the page end anyway.  But this paragraph has been static for a long time,
so might as well fix it to prevent it from being an issue in future.
2011-01-27 18:42:12 -05:00
Tom Lane 4305462497 Update release notes.
Security: CVE-2010-4015
2011-01-27 17:47:10 -05:00
Tom Lane 29d442199a Update release notes for releases 9.0.3, 8.4.7, 8.3.14, and 8.2.20. 2011-01-27 16:09:39 -05:00
Tom Lane 85f345bec2 Improve grammar and spelling in durability discussion. 2011-01-27 12:48:57 -05:00
Bruce Momjian b34ee30115 Update non-durable docs about non-synchronous-commit allowing
transaction loss for a _database_ crash.
2011-01-27 12:06:56 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 81c48aeaa8 Restructure streaming docs so streaming seems more integrated in the
paragraphs, per suggestion from Dan Birken.
2011-01-26 19:54:41 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 159e3d8629 Update contrib documention mentions to point to actual documentation
sections, rather than just calling it "/contrib/module_name".

Also update pg_test_fsync build instructions now that it is in /contrib.
2011-01-26 09:22:21 -05:00
Bruce Momjian e84730a916 Update sync commit performance documentation to be consistent with other
non-durable items, per Robert Haas.
2011-01-26 09:15:52 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 69039ea8b5 Make 'on' uppercase in a sql example. 2011-01-26 22:35:01 +09:00
Bruce Momjian a91c950658 Update warning about synchronous-commit durability, per suggestion from
Robvert Haas.
2011-01-25 20:32:26 -05:00
Robert Haas 2b2b2ae2aa Correct ALTER TYPE -> SET DATA TYPE in ALTER TABLE documentation.
The latter is the correct name of the operation to change the data type
of a column.

Noah Misch
2011-01-25 18:52:49 -05:00
Tom Lane 5042d16d12 Remove old claim that ExclusiveLock is sometimes taken on system catalogs.
We used to do that on pg_listener, but pg_listener is no more.

Also add a bit more documentation for ShareRowExclusive mode.
2011-01-25 18:39:01 -05:00
Robert Haas 558d1c95ae Fix thinko in ALTER FOREIGN TABLE documentation.
Noah Misch
2011-01-25 17:56:22 -05:00
Tom Lane bd1ad1b019 Replace pg_class.relhasexclusion with pg_index.indisexclusion.
There isn't any need to track this state on a table-wide basis, and trying
to do so introduces undesirable semantic fuzziness.  Move the flag to
pg_index, where it clearly describes just a single index and can be
immutable after index creation.
2011-01-25 17:51:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 88452d5ba6 Implement ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX.
This feature allows a unique or pkey constraint to be created using an
already-existing unique index.  While the constraint isn't very
functionally different from the bare index, it's nice to be able to do that
for documentation purposes.  The main advantage over just issuing a plain
ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY is that the index can be created with
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, so that there is not a long interval where the
table is locked against updates.

On the way, refactor some of the code in DefineIndex() and index_create()
so that we don't have to pass through those functions in order to create
the index constraint's catalog entries.  Also, in parse_utilcmd.c, pass
around the ParseState pointer in struct CreateStmtContext to save on
notation, and add error location pointers to some error reports that didn't
have one before.

Gurjeet Singh, reviewed by Steve Singer and Tom Lane
2011-01-25 15:43:05 -05:00
Robert Haas ea2c2641f9 More documentation cleanup for sepgsql.
Thom Brown and Robert Haas
2011-01-24 08:42:44 -05:00
Robert Haas 194c8f713a First round of cleanup of sepgsql code and documentation.
Robert Haas, with a few suggestions from Thom Brown
2011-01-23 22:48:22 -05:00
Robert Haas 968bc6fac9 sepgsql, an SE-Linux integration for PostgreSQL
This is still pretty rough - among other things, the documentation
needs work, and the messages need a visit from the style police -
but this gets the basic framework in place.

KaiGai Kohei
2011-01-23 20:48:27 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7f508f1c6b Add 'directory' format to pg_dump. The new directory format is compatible
with the 'tar' format, in that untarring a tar format archive produces a
valid directory format archive.

Joachim Wieland and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-01-23 23:10:15 +02:00
Magnus Hagander f88a638199 Only show pg_stat_replication details to superusers 2011-01-23 17:28:19 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 048d148fe6 Add pg_basebackup tool for streaming base backups
This tool makes it possible to do the pg_start_backup/
copy files/pg_stop_backup step in a single command.

There are still some steps to be done before this is a
complete backup solution, such as the ability to stream
the required WAL logs, but it's still usable, and
could do with some buildfarm coverage.

In passing, make the checkpoint request optionally
fast instead of hardcoding it.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Dimitri Fontaine
2011-01-23 12:21:23 +01:00
Tom Lane 0f73aae13d Allow the wal_buffers setting to be auto-tuned to a reasonable value.
If wal_buffers is initially set to -1 (which is now the default), it's
replaced by 1/32nd of shared_buffers, with a minimum of 8 (the old default)
and a maximum of the XLOG segment size.  The allowed range for manual
settings is still from 4 up to whatever will fit in shared memory.

Greg Smith, with implementation correction by me.
2011-01-22 20:31:24 -05:00
Tom Lane bc616703e8 Clean up pg_test_fsync commit.
Actually rename the program, rather than just claiming we did.  Hook it
into the build system.  Get rid of useless dependency on libpq.  Clean up
#include list and messy whitespace.
2011-01-21 19:27:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 0cf3db2175 Fix broken markup, also minor copy-editing. 2011-01-21 18:42:46 -05:00
Robert Haas d3b372e92d Emphasize where OVER needs to be when using a window function.
Jeff Turner
2011-01-21 12:59:15 -05:00