Tom Lane
ceb1cc90e3
Put release date in release notes.
2006-12-02 00:46:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
606b10f959
Add some documentation for DTrace support. Simon Riggs
2006-12-02 00:42:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d92b939a0a
Make Options for Windows a second-level heading instead of first-level.
2006-12-02 00:34:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
08fa6a6851
Editorial improvements for GIN documentation.
2006-12-01 23:46:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
a88ec7b4bb
Some more supported-platforms updates: buildfarm hare is alive again,
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and penguin reported in recently enough to justify the assumption that
we haven't broken ARM support in 8.2.
2006-12-01 21:17:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
c184470be3
Document the recently-understood hazard that a rollback can release row-level
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locks that logically should not be released, because when a subtransaction
overwrites XMAX all knowledge of the previous lock state is lost. It seems
unlikely that we will be able to fix this before 8.3...
2006-12-01 20:49:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
b02414bb82
Editorial improvements to backup and warm-standby documentation.
2006-12-01 03:29:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
f378ccc261
Minor wording improvements.
2006-12-01 03:19:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
da6daee216
Adjust the description of locking to clarify that locks held by a
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subtransaction are released if the subtransaction aborts --- in user-level
terminology, this means either rolling back to a savepoint or escaping from
a plpgsql exception block. Per recent suggestion from Simon.
2006-12-01 01:04:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
cd99debb3d
Update supported-platforms list based on recent buildfarm results.
2006-11-30 21:30:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f1e3e3238d
Fix typos
2006-11-30 20:50:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
7bbe35a540
Add an example showing how to cope with mixed-case names in pg_dump
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switches.
2006-11-28 22:54:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
c15de02f61
Fix inheritance description to note that not-null constraints are
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inherited, per Taiki Yamaguchi.
2006-11-28 01:09:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
81b0b06462
Make pg_restore usage examples more useful: illustrate restoring into
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both the same database name and a different one.
2006-11-26 18:11:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
50271fc9b3
Fix misspellings of GB.
2006-11-25 22:55:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
818ac8479b
Correct misspellings of kB.
2006-11-25 22:44:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
b12add99c2
Cosmetic release note fix.
2006-11-25 07:03:57 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
c11b5228cf
update for rc1
2006-11-25 03:34:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f14d43d2d3
Document that to_char() "TM" is controlled by lc_messages.
2006-11-25 00:38:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
a7a3d0f0d9
Update release notes for RC1.
2006-11-24 23:31:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
988a87a03a
Change pg_stat_all_tables and sister views to put the recently-added
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vacuum/analyze timestamp columns at the end, rather than at a random
spot in the middle as in the original patch. This was deemed more usable
as well as less likely to break existing application code. initdb forced
accordingly. In passing, remove former kluge for initializing
pg_stat_file()'s pg_proc entry --- bootstrap mode was fixed recently
so that this can be done without any hacks, but I overlooked this usage.
2006-11-24 21:18:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb1fbbe5c4
Update wording:
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> * Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week
2006-11-23 16:18:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
28568e585f
Spelling and related minor fixes for the GIN docs.
2006-11-23 05:58:01 +00:00
Neil Conway
34036c8658
More minor SGML improvements for xfunc.sgml, including making some
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titles more concise. (We usually don't need to repeat the name of a
section in the title of one of its subsections.)
2006-11-23 05:43:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebf071643a
Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
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or queries over the network.
2006-11-23 05:39:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
4ed6f6d479
Fix a typo in recent xfunc addition, do some routine SGML police work.
2006-11-23 05:28:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3bd2e3e92b
Add:
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> * Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1
> * Add an ISO year field to extract() called 'isoyear'
2006-11-23 05:09:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb21b9fc13
Add:
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> * Allow SQL-language functions to return results from RETURNING queries
2006-11-23 05:01:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab79444e7b
Add "(assuming <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> is
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<literal>off</>)" clauses for bytea.
2006-11-23 04:27:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f78aa5acf
Shared Memory Hooks Documentation
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This patch, against xfunc.sgml, adds a new subsection 33.9.12, Shared
Memory and LWLocks in C-Language Functions, describing how shared memory
and lwlocks may be requested by C add-in functions.
Marc Munro
2006-11-23 03:52:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3e0c96b2ec
Add release entry for 8.1.5 that was missing:
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<listitem><para>Fix rare bug in continuous archiving (Tom)</para></listitem>
2006-11-23 03:30:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a55984162
More HA wording improvements.
2006-11-22 18:15:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b035722f29
Update HA docs with more wording improvements.
2006-11-22 18:14:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6346355a9b
Wording and term clarification for HA docs, per Markus Schiltknecht.
2006-11-22 17:36:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ba2edcac4f
Mention OIDs are now not created by default.
2006-11-22 04:17:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c556ce1c2
New async/sync multi-master headings for docs.
2006-11-22 04:01:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b0313580e
New async/sync multi-master headings for docs.
2006-11-22 04:00:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ffa0e8f0cd
Add mention of shared-memory/disk for multi-master clustering.
2006-11-22 03:44:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
188b744d95
HA doc wording improvement.
2006-11-21 22:48:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a48e92ea1d
Mention pgpool-II can do Clustering For Parallel Query Execution.
2006-11-21 21:37:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
de597154a8
Update Statement-Based Replication Middleware docs to be more general.
2006-11-21 18:31:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca646f66f7
In HA/load balancing does:
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Clarify sync/async replication propogation delay issues.
Add SGML comment about Oracle RAC and remove doc mention.
Add item about Multi-master replication with conflict resolution.
2006-11-21 18:15:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae81a6329d
Move libpq environment reference in psql documentation to a more
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appropriate place, per Andrew Dunstan.
2006-11-21 17:01:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc6c10a7a0
Add capitalization mention.
2006-11-21 15:38:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
150328cd61
I noticed that the Partitioning section of the docs has *two* sections
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of caveats in different places, but close together. One called caveats,
one not. That looks like it just led to somebody not reading some
appropriate caveats in the second group of caveats (on -admin).
Simon Riggs
2006-11-21 03:44:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
414c7a537e
Change the default setting for log_min_error_statement to ERROR. Per
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recent discussion in which majority opinion was that this is a more
widely useful setting than the previous default of PANIC.
2006-11-21 01:23:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
778bb7b60d
Retitle documentation section, "Statement-Based Replication Using Middleware".
2006-11-20 22:07:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8c01d9dac
Add mention that Shared Disk Failover can use file system mirroring of
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the mirroring is consistent.
2006-11-20 21:26:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fb2619859c
Update Brazilian FAQ.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-11-20 20:58:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
016e0b4177
For to_char() day/month abbrevitions, mention "3 chars in English,
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localized lengths vary".
2006-11-20 20:20:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f88fff1e61
Our MingW FAQ appears to be seriously out of date. Couple of fixes: we
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want to direct MSI downloads to main download site, NT4 not supported
anymore, msvc build env in progress, pgsql-hackers-win32 is no more.
Magnus Hagander
2006-11-20 19:31:27 +00:00
Neil Conway
e2b1dbd394
Overhaul the "External Projects" chapter in the manual. Replace
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the variabelist with a more concise table, add a URL for each project,
remove some orphaned projects, add PL/Py, and various other changes.
Initial patch from Robert Treat, subsequent work by Neil Conway.
2006-11-20 17:42:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
900c9962f7
Update documentation to use Statement-Based Replication rather than
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Query Broadcast.
2006-11-20 15:07:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa3d622cb0
Clarify description of CIDR-address column of pg_hba.conf, to discourage
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people from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does
not mean what you probably think. Per example from Paul Forgey.
2006-11-17 23:25:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e1693e514c
Rename replication section "High Availability and Load Balancing".
2006-11-17 16:38:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc9698254c
Data Partitioning documentation section reduced and moved to the end.
2006-11-17 13:29:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
42cfdfb453
Fix a typo.
2006-11-17 09:00:03 +00:00
Michael Meskes
4b8049b815
Fixed small typo, missing 'l' in 'Cluserting'
2006-11-17 08:46:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
be4dbd9b26
Remove a bunch of antique information from the appendix in the docs
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that discusses CVS. Remove the recommendation to use cvs 1.10. Remove
discussion of alleged CVSup binaries on postgresql.org, because they
have not existed for several years. Remove discussion of how to
build cvsup from source because the existing text is outdated, and
more accurate information is available from the CVSup homepage.
2006-11-17 05:29:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
58a7efa03b
Use more standard terms for replication, ideas from Markus Schiltknecht.
2006-11-17 04:52:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8a6193333c
Mention two-phase commit for having all transactions commit on all servers.
2006-11-16 21:45:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a1e5b5c832
Reconfigure failover/replication doc items to be varlist entries, rather
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than new sections, so they appear all on the same web page.
2006-11-16 21:43:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c7a6046a59
Clarify replication items, and define some terms.
2006-11-16 18:25:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b7cef5fb3
Improve broadcast wording for failover/clustering documentation.
2006-11-15 01:09:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9497454ca6
Add URL for case identifiers.
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<
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php
2006-11-14 22:26:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0fc2947729
Fix xrefs for failover changes.
2006-11-14 22:25:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca21417a34
Update failover docs, per suggestions from Chris Browne.
2006-11-14 21:43:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
77f24a46b7
Fix URL for patch hold queue.
2006-11-14 04:18:55 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
751e3e6bd8
Force plperl and plperlu to run in separate interpreters. Create an error
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on an attempt to create the second interpreter if this is not supported by
the perl installation. Per recent -hackers discussion.
2006-11-13 17:13:57 +00:00
Neil Conway
f49baa73ef
Do a round of copy-editing for the system catalog chapter. In particular,
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consistently capitalize the content of the "Description" column but do
not include a terminating period, as is the convention elsewhere in the
docs. Also, remove the "References" column from catalog that do not
have any referencing columns, for the sake of brevity. Make various
other SGML and grammar fixes.
2006-11-12 06:25:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
2b5fedc0d7
Minor improvements to the description of archive_timeout.
2006-11-12 05:12:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
792d6edd5b
Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon.
2006-11-10 22:32:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
1456c5b507
Improve formatting of PQexecParams argument descriptions, per
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Theo Kramer.
2006-11-10 22:15:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
2c2faa17f2
Emphasize that immutable and stable functions are not allowed to modify
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the database. xfunc.sgml was already pretty definite on the point, but
it doesn't hurt to make it clear here too.
2006-11-10 20:52:18 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
9b3aee524f
Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ...
2006-11-07 17:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
9c3f24bb46
Update release notes in preparation for RC1.
2006-11-06 17:00:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
48188e1621
Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularly
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in PITR scenarios. We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with
FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to
PITR slave databases. Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be
preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to
have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId. Add new GUC variables and
pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that
users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work
done. Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables
approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the
autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather
than per-database. initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database,
and pg_autovacuum catalogs. Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-11-05 22:42:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
10c70b8602
Add note about space usage of 'manual' approach to clustering, per
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suggestion from Sergey Koposov. Also some other minor editing.
2006-11-04 19:03:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
6fada49805
Correct documentation error: in 8.1 and 8.2, %p in archive and restore
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command strings inserts relative not absolute path of file to process.
This is a side-effect of 2005-07-04 change that makes the server use
relative paths in general. Noted by Bernd Helmle.
2006-11-04 18:20:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
17a814ca02
Mention 'void' as the proper return type when there's nothing to
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return, per suggestion from Joachim Wieland.
2006-11-03 07:17:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
7e63445d59
Fix misstatement about the results of using -1 with BEGIN.
2006-10-31 02:29:15 +00:00
Neil Conway
bc4b856e7b
Add text to the VACUUM, REINDEX, DROP TABLESPACE and CREATE TABLESPACE
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reference pages documenting that these commands cannot be used within
a transaction block. Also make some minor improvements to the psql
reference page. Patch from Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by
myself.
2006-10-31 01:52:31 +00:00
Neil Conway
e45edb35e1
Fix typo in backup docs. Patch from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2006-10-30 00:08:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
27163e3872
Fix typo in docs.
2006-10-27 12:40:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50f479a112
Fix spelling mistake in docs.
2006-10-26 17:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75f0655345
Add missing file for documentation section on failover, replication,
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load balancing, and clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2cbdb5522b
Add documentation section on failover, replication, load balancing, and
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clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:26:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9601745d35
Correctino, add URL on :
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* Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*)
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b1ccefe72
Add URL for:
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* Speed up COUNT(*)
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:41:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
cfb3a42831
Rewrite discussion of ORDER BY to emphasize the SQL99 expression case
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instead of the SQL92 output-column-ID case.
2006-10-24 02:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
66f5264a2e
Stamp 8.2beta2.
2006-10-23 22:50:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0ff4352d7a
Add some real descriptions to the multiargument aggregate functions rather
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than just showing the incomprehensible formulas.
2006-10-23 19:57:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
28b14b034a
Fix broken markup.
2006-10-23 19:29:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0f763503ff
Spellchecking and such
2006-10-23 18:10:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
033cb9d30b
Fix list of environment variables for configure. Remove some variables
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that are almost never used. Put documentation-related variables into the
documentation chapter.
2006-10-23 14:13:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa5d08fbf8
Some desultory copy-editing.
2006-10-22 03:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
ed19393326
Some marginal editorial improvements and updates in the tutorial.
2006-10-21 23:12:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
890ce3975e
Further release-note editorialization.
2006-10-21 18:41:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
425417d498
Editorial improvements for recent plpython doc updates.
2006-10-21 18:33:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
90f53d8487
Update PQserverVersion() to use 8.1.X as an example, rather than 7.4
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because the function didn't exist in 7.4.X.
2006-10-21 18:25:01 +00:00