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Bruce Momjian a83437fcfd Slight wording improvement in documentation. 2006-08-04 04:07:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 49954b4526 Add URL for terminate backend test:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00174.php
2006-08-04 01:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 7946f77220 Cause ALTER TABLE to perform ALTER COLUMN DROP DEFAULT operations during
the DROP pass rather than the ADD_CONSTR pass.  On examining the code I
think this was just an oversight rather than intentional, and it seems
to satisfy the principle of least surprise better than the alternative
solution that was discussed.  Add an example to the ref page showing how
to do ALTER TYPE and update the default in one command.  Per gripe from
Markus Bertheau that that wasn't possible.
2006-08-03 20:57:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 9649b182a1 Fix documentation error: GRANT/REVOKE for roles only accept role names
as grantees, not PUBLIC ... and you can't say GROUP either.  Noted by
Brian Hurt.
2006-08-02 16:29:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 97eefd6996 Update:
< 	o Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling
> 	o Add COPY TO STDIN handling
2006-08-02 13:36:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f05fc17cf4 Add:
> 	o In rules, allow VALUES() to contain a mixture of 'old' and 'new'
> 	  references
2006-08-02 13:29:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b5a5524342 Done:
o -Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
2006-08-02 03:11:54 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 5f69890e15 Editorialize a bit on the recent patch, reverting to the original versions
of the text where appropiate.
2006-08-01 19:17:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c61607bd52 Add pg_dump -X no-data-for-failed-tables option to suppress loading data
if table creation failed (the table already exists).

Martin Pitt
2006-08-01 18:21:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6d0f5ea574 Done:
< 	o %Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches  [pg_dump]
<
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-01/msg00190.php
<
> 	o -Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches, exclusion
> 	   ability, and regular expression object matching
2006-08-01 18:07:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aa88497a3a Remove TODO.detail/pg_dump. 2006-08-01 18:06:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8977b68a42 Allow multiple -n (schema) and -t (table) pg_dump options, and add -T
and -N options to exclude objects.  Also support regular expressions for
option object names.

Greg Sabino Mullane
2006-08-01 18:05:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8d5f3c8d89 Improvements to Maintenance and External Projects documentation.
Joshua D. Drake
Robert Treat
2006-08-01 00:09:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ffb62be07a Add:
> * Consider compressed annealing to search for query plans
>
>   This might replace GEQO, http://sixdemonbag.org/Djinni.
2006-07-31 23:04:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 09d3670df3 Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relation
(table or index) before trying to open its relcache entry.  This fixes
race conditions in which someone else commits a change to the relation's
catalog entries while we are in process of doing relcache load.  Problems
of that ilk have been reported sporadically for years, but it was not
really practical to fix until recently --- for instance, the recent
addition of WAL-log support for in-place updates helped.

Along the way, remove pg_am.amconcurrent: all AMs are now expected to support
concurrent update.
2006-07-31 20:09:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e38e34d64 Change the bootstrap sequence so that toast tables for system catalogs are
created in the bootstrap phase proper, rather than added after-the-fact
by initdb.  This is cleaner than before because it allows us to retire the
undocumented ALTER TABLE ... CREATE TOAST TABLE command, but the real reason
I'm doing it is so that toast tables of shared catalogs will now have
predetermined OIDs.  This will allow a reasonably clean solution to the
problem of locking tables before we load their relcache entries, to appear
in a forthcoming patch.
2006-07-31 01:16:38 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 638860ce35 Fix confusion between COPY FROM and COPY TO, per Gavin Sharry and Arul Shaji. 2006-07-31 01:10:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d6603791ea Add:
> * Consider detoasting keys before sorting
2006-07-30 01:48:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6dd2b7728b Add entry:
> * Add column to pg_stat_activity that shows the progress of long-running
>   commands like CREATE INDEX and VACUUM
2006-07-29 18:08:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d06f44a811 Add:
> * Add support for SQL-standard GENERATED/IDENTITY columns
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg00543.php
2006-07-29 15:56:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 51175d1d00 Remove update TODO.detail item. 2006-07-28 19:28:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e1992ebaf2 Updates per Tom:
> * Allow DISTINCT to work in multiple-argument aggregate calls
< 	o Allow UPDATE to handle complex aggregates [update]?
2006-07-28 19:00:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 1249cf8f38 SQL2003-standard statistical aggregates, by Sergey Koposov. I've added only
the float8 versions of the aggregates, which is all that the standard requires.
Sergey's original patch also provided versions using numeric arithmetic,
but given the size and slowness of the code, I doubt we ought to include
those in core.
2006-07-28 18:33:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 0fd087af83 Fix table title. 2006-07-28 16:21:57 +00:00
Tom Lane b8cd6b4f25 Make it clearer that not every Postgres character set can be used as a
server-side character set.
2006-07-28 15:33:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4917564f1b Update Tatsuo:
< * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> of Software Research Assoc.
> * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> of SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
2006-07-28 12:24:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 67cdc61369 Add URL for UPDATE/SET for multiple values. 2006-07-27 22:05:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8de82ede51 Add for UPDATE SET for multiple values:
>
>           A subselect can also be used as the value source.
2006-07-27 22:01:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 108fe47301 Aggregate functions now support multiple input arguments. I also took
the opportunity to treat COUNT(*) as a zero-argument aggregate instead
of the old hack that equated it to COUNT(1); this is materially cleaner
(no more weird ANYOID cases) and ought to be at least a tiny bit faster.
Original patch by Sergey Koposov; review, documentation, simple regression
tests, pg_dump and psql support by moi.
2006-07-27 19:52:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 43c79378c8 Allow LDAP lookups from pg_service.conf.
Albe Laurenz
2006-07-27 13:20:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b517e65348 Allow units to be specified with configuration settings. 2006-07-27 08:30:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5ffa0bb47a Reorder items:
< 	  o Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled
< 	    write-ahead logs? [pitr]
> 	  o Add command to archive partially filled write-ahead logs? [pitr]
< 	    of a disk failure. This could be triggered by a user command or
< 	    a timer.
> 	    of a disk failure.
< 	    recovery.  A function call to do this would also be useful.
> 	    recovery.
> 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
> 	    part of partial log file archiving
>
> 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
> 	    an external program.
>
< 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
< 	    part of partial log file archiving
<
< 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
< 	    an external program.
2006-07-26 17:23:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 79bc99a467 Convert effective_cache_size to an integer, for better integration with
upcoming units feature.
2006-07-26 11:35:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 88b39634cd Done:
> * -Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2006-07-26 00:35:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian edd49fcf69 Add reason for WAL offset reporting:
>
> 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
> 	    an external program.
2006-07-25 16:23:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8633a9cdff Add offset mention:
< 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file, perhaps as part of
< 	    partial log file archiving
> 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
> 	    part of partial log file archiving
2006-07-25 15:27:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cb6f5f1552 Update PITR:
< 	    write-ahead logs [pitr]
> 	    write-ahead logs? [pitr]
< 	    recovery.
> 	    recovery.  A function call to do this would also be useful.
2006-07-25 15:21:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a859695b7e Done:
> 	o -Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the
2006-07-25 04:11:24 +00:00
Tom Lane d8b5c95ca8 Remove hard-wired lists of timezone abbreviations in favor of providing
configuration files that can be altered by a DBA.  The australian_timezones
GUC setting disappears, replaced by a timezone_abbreviations setting (set this
to 'Australia' to get the effect of australian_timezones).  The list of zone
names defined by default has undergone a bit of cleanup, too.  Documentation
still needs some work --- in particular, should we fix Table B-4, or just get
rid of it?  Joachim Wieland, with some editorializing by moi.
2006-07-25 03:51:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e9b4969062 DTrace support, with a small initial set of probes
by Robert Lor
2006-07-24 16:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9652b79ae4 Update documentation on GRANT SCEMA USAGE, again. 2006-07-20 18:00:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a8e44f0b1b Update GRANT USAGE on schema permission description. 2006-07-19 18:42:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 60cfe25e68 Adjust spawn_process() to avoid unnecessary overhead processes: we can
just exec instead of creating a subprocess.  This reduces process usage
from four processes per parallel test to two.  I have no idea whether
a comparable optimization is possible or useful in the Windows port.
2006-07-19 17:02:59 +00:00
Tom Lane a38c85bd5d Rewrite pg_regress as a C program instead of a shell script.
This allows it to be used on Windows without installing mingw
(though you do still need 'diff'), and opens the door to future
improvements such as message localization.
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.
2006-07-19 02:37:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c5fad5f35e Done:
o -Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df
2006-07-18 18:20:51 +00:00
Neil Conway c1e59cc5d9 Minor documentation tweak: in the tables of functions and operators,
don't include a space between the function name and the parenthesis
that begins its parameter list, for consistency.
2006-07-16 23:59:58 +00:00
Neil Conway a10fc5f254 Minor doc tweak: replace a "--" with "&mdash;". 2006-07-14 00:13:05 +00:00
Neil Conway f2a8aa0f89 Reorder the entries in the function section of the manual, to ensure they
are alphabetically ordered. I believe the tables were correctly ordered in
the past, but some of them had subsequently regressed.
2006-07-13 23:59:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian de7e81fff4 Update schema USAGE permission description. 2006-07-12 15:37:10 +00:00
Tom Lane d29b66882a Tweak fillfactor code as per my recent proposal. Fix nbtsort.c so that
it can handle small fillfactors for ordinary-sized index entries without
failing on large ones; fix nbtinsert.c to distinguish leaf and nonleaf
pages; change the minimum fillfactor to 10% for all index types.
2006-07-11 21:05:57 +00:00