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Bruce Momjian
fb2b198609 Add:
< * Experiment with multi-threaded backend [thread]
> * Experiment with multi-threaded backend for backend creation [thread]
1003a1004,1008
>
> * Experiment with multi-threaded backend better resource utilization
>
>   This would allow a single query to make use of multiple CPU's or
>   multiple I/O channels simultaneously.
2006-04-09 20:24:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
83843a4439 Update:
> * Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending
>   specifiers
>
>   This is possible now by creating an operator class with reversed sort
>   operators.  One complexity is that NULLs would then appear at the start
>   of the result set, and this might affect certain sort types, like
>   merge join.
>
2006-04-09 03:27:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
0bc2a8ca65 Build src/test/regress/README during tarball making like the other
generated text files.  Fix build of that file, too.

Put the text files in the right place during make dist, so there are no
extra manual steps required anymore.
2006-04-06 18:54:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e0eff05ca Update AIX FAQ to show readline options more clearly.
Backpatch FAQ's to 8.1.X.
2006-04-05 22:55:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
7fdb4305db Fix a bunch of problems with domains by making them use special input functions
that apply the necessary domain constraint checks immediately.  This fixes
cases where domain constraints went unchecked for statement parameters,
PL function local variables and results, etc.  We can also eliminate existing
special cases for domains in places that had gotten it right, eg COPY.

Also, allow domains over domains (base of a domain is another domain type).
This almost worked before, but was disallowed because the original patch
hadn't gotten it quite right.
2006-04-05 22:11:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
147d4bf3e5 Modify all callers of datatype input and receive functions so that if these
functions are not strict, they will be called (passing a NULL first parameter)
during any attempt to input a NULL value of their datatype.  Currently, all
our input functions are strict and so this commit does not change any
behavior.  However, this will make it possible to build domain input functions
that centralize checking of domain constraints, thereby closing numerous holes
in our domain support, as per previous discussion.

While at it, I took the opportunity to introduce convenience functions
InputFunctionCall, OutputFunctionCall, etc to use in code that calls I/O
functions.  This eliminates a lot of grotty-looking casts, but the main
motivation is to make it easier to grep for these places if we ever need
to touch them again.
2006-04-04 19:35:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
eaef111396 Define a separately configurable XLOG_BLCKSZ symbol for the page size
used within WAL files.  Historically this was the same as the data file
BLCKSZ, but there's no necessary connection, and it's possible that
performance gains might ensue from reducing XLOG_BLCKSZ.  In any case
distinguishing two symbols should improve code clarity.  This commit
does not actually change the page size, only provide the infrastructure
to make it possible to do so.  initdb forced because of addition of a
field to pg_control.
Mark Wong, with some help from Simon Riggs and Tom Lane.
2006-04-03 23:35:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ef524d1775 Add to qsort TODO.detail. 2006-04-03 03:46:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97ae541cf4 Update for max row size. 2006-04-03 03:40:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
713cc92531 Update max row size to 400gb, per Tom. 2006-04-03 03:39:23 +00:00
Neil Conway
7815ca7bef Rewrite much of psql's \connect code, for the sake of code clarity and
to fix regressions introduced in the recent patch adding additional
\connect options. This is based on work by Volkan YAZICI, although
this version of the patch doesn't bear much resemblance to Volkan's
version.

\connect takes 4 optional arguments: database name, user name, host
name, and port number. If any of those parameters are omitted or
specified as "-", the value of that parameter from the previous
connection is used instead; if there is no previous connection,
the libpq default is used. Note that this behavior makes it
impossible to reuse the libpq defaults without quitting psql and
restarting it; I don't really see the use case for needing to do
that.
2006-04-02 20:08:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f7ae90041e Update information schema for SQL:2003 and new PostgreSQL features. 2006-04-02 17:38:13 +00:00
Neil Conway
d73336f8f4 Correct some errors and do some SGML police work on the reference pages
for REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED.
2006-04-02 04:02:40 +00:00
Neil Conway
a619e068d3 Minor improvement to DROP TABLE reference page. 2006-04-02 03:56:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0220282266 Add recent /port/qsort comparison discussion. 2006-04-02 01:27:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5094f99830 Document long names for format options (plain, tar, custom). They already
worked and someone asked about them, so we might as well document them.
2006-03-17 16:02:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f3d99d160d Add CVS tag lines to files that were lacking them. 2006-03-11 04:38:42 +00:00
Neil Conway
0ebf1cc834 Implement 4 new aggregate functions from SQL2003. Specifically: var_pop(),
var_samp(), stddev_pop(), and stddev_samp(). var_samp() and stddev_samp()
are just renamings of the historical Postgres aggregates variance() and
stddev() -- the latter names have been kept for backward compatibility.
This patch includes updates for the documentation and regression tests.
The catversion has been bumped.

NB: SQL2003 requires that DISTINCT not be specified for any of these
aggregates. Per discussion on -patches, I have NOT implemented this
restriction: if the user asks for stddev(DISTINCT x), presumably they
know what they are doing.
2006-03-10 20:15:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
497b5ad928 Make $PostgreSQL CVS tags consistent for SGML files. 2006-03-10 19:10:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
66fc528d99 Remove somebody's flight of fancy about an UPDATE with ORDER BY and LIMIT. 2006-03-08 22:59:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ce1106d2fa Properly set "escape_string_warning" to default to true. 2006-03-07 02:54:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
135fe1899d SGML typo fix. 2006-03-06 22:54:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c02144731 Done though the second is default so off in 8.2:
> * -Eventually enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings
2006-03-06 22:51:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d69b163247 Attached is the new patch. To summarize:
- new function justify_interval(interval)
   - modified function justify_hours(interval)
   - modified function justify_days(interval)

These functions are defined to meet the requirements as discussed in
this thread.  Specifically:

   - justify_hours makes certain the sign bit on the hours
     matches the sign bit on the days.  It only checks the
     sign bit on the days, and not the months, when
     determining if the hours should be positive or negative.
     After the call, -24 < hours < 24.

   - justify_days makes certain the sign bit on the days
     matches the sign bit on the months.  It's behavior does
     not depend on the hours, nor does it modify the hours.
     After the call, -30 < days < 30.

   - justify_interval makes sure the sign bits on all three
     fields months, days, and hours are all the same.  After
     the call, -24 < hours < 24 AND -30 < days < 30.

Mark Dilger
2006-03-06 22:49:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19c21d115d Enable standard_conforming_strings to be turned on.
Kevin Grittner
2006-03-06 19:49:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebdc35822d Add:
> 	o Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> 	  like CHECK that are inherited by child tables
>
> 	  Dropping constraints should only be possible with CASCADE.
>
2006-03-06 17:10:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2abf8c7719 Update item. 2006-03-06 15:21:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d2eb1d12a0 Add for Win32:
> 	o Check WSACancelBlockingCall() for interrupts (win32intr)
>
2006-03-06 15:19:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07408e841d Add WSACancelBlockingCall TODO.detail item. 2006-03-06 15:19:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e166574a1d Add for ecpg:
> 	o Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling
2006-03-06 15:13:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f01703f90 Update:
< * %Disallow changing sequence characteristics like INCREMENT for SERIAL columns
> * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for SERIAL sequences because pg_dump
>   does not dump the changes
2006-03-06 05:22:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ad126314f Add:
> * %Disallow changing sequence characteristics like INCREMENT for SERIAL columns
2006-03-06 05:16:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d40942a27 in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"

(see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
Table  9-6. "Other String Functions").

Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the
argument",
which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
(although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an
ASCII
code).

Ian Barwick
2006-03-06 04:53:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f9520ac110 Add:
> 	o Port contrib/xml2
2006-03-05 18:28:46 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
5d723d05c0 Prepared queries for PLPerl, plus fixing a small plperl memory leak. Patch
and docs from Dmitry Karasik, slightly editorialised.
2006-03-05 16:40:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2f5b05655 Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts. 2006-03-05 15:59:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5173b1a40f Done:
> 	o -Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
2006-03-05 15:16:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
c1bb2877b2 Improve OS X shared-memory documentation: fix typos and provide a usable
example of /etc/sysctl.conf contents.
2006-03-05 03:50:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
5b8ac71042 Support include directives in postgresql.conf.
Patch by Joachim Wieland, somewhat reworked for clarity and portability.
2006-03-04 22:19:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18bc9ea561 Add:
> * Allow FSM page return free space based on table clustering, to assist
>   in maintaining clustering?
2006-03-04 05:02:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f1d7f80c1a > It doesn't say that only the listed commands acquire ACCESS EXCLUSIVE,
> just that certain commands do.  TRUNCATE isn't shown.

Patch against HEAD to add TRUNCATE to the list of commands that aquire
ACCESS EXCLUSIVE.

Jim C. Nasby, Sr.
2006-03-04 04:41:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
26d6054128 That was a typo in my comment before the code (the nutshell
descriptions after the code are correct). Only shmmax needs to be
multiples of the page size (at least, that's how I interpret the
Darwin code).

Chris Campbell
2006-03-04 03:47:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43e9bab94a Rename Online Backup to Continuous Archiving. 2006-03-03 22:02:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
523adeb111 Teach PQcmdTuples() that a COPY command tag might contain a row count,
and tighten up its sanity checking of the tag as a safety measure.
Volkan Yazici.
2006-03-03 20:57:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f4a4755734 Done:
> * -Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
2006-03-03 20:43:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c776fba1e1 Done:
< 	o %Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
> 	o -Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
2006-03-03 20:37:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
023570f5e3 Make the COPY command return a command tag that includes the number of
rows copied.  Backend side of Volkan Yazici's recent patch, with
corrections and documentation.
2006-03-03 19:54:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
984a6ced3e Add CASCADE option to TRUNCATE. Joachim Wieland 2006-03-03 03:30:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a0ba3f8dd Add:
> * Allow FSM to return free space toward the beginning of the heap file,
>   in hopes that empty pages at the end can be truncated by VACUUM
2006-03-03 03:13:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b35440eae8 Appended is a small documentation patch that adds a note to the CREATE
ROLE page, based on what Tom Lane told me here:

	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-11/msg00998.php


Joachim Wieland
2006-03-03 03:06:05 +00:00