be7976d5a2
Fix a typo in the documentation for geqo_effort.
2004-03-12 00:56:00 +00:00
fe9c4420e4
Improve documentation for the newly-added NOWAIT clause of LOCK TABLE.
2004-03-12 00:52:23 +00:00
bfd6f52b0e
Allow 'Infinity' and '-Infinity' as input to the float4 and float8
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types. Update the regression tests and the documentation to reflect
this. Remove the UNSAFE_FLOATS #ifdef.
This is only half the story: we still unconditionally reject
floating point operations that result in +/- infinity. See
recent thread on -hackers for more information.
2004-03-12 00:25:43 +00:00
0f8c4bc4a2
Document the SSL and Kerberos are not thread-safe.
2004-03-11 02:39:10 +00:00
0b86ade1c2
Add NOWAIT option to LOCK command
2004-03-11 01:47:41 +00:00
ae22a6c185
Fix a typo.
2004-03-10 20:10:26 +00:00
f28d5614ce
Tweak some text to avoid using <command>SET</command> as a verb, per
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suggestion from Peter E.
2004-03-09 23:15:47 +00:00
832e6df893
Remove blank line in Makefile.
2004-03-09 20:10:10 +00:00
66cb7e2e99
Add HISTORY/INSTALL clean target to 7.4.X.
2004-03-09 20:08:10 +00:00
47110ace3a
Add documentation for the recent 'ALSO' patch for CREATE RULE. Along
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the way, fix a typo and make a few SGML cleanups.
2004-03-09 19:30:21 +00:00
80ec228389
Refer to GUC variables using <xref> tags rather than <varname> tags,
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where appropriate. Add "id" and "xreflabel" tags to the descriptions
of the GUC variables to facilitate this. Also make a few minor docs
cleanups.
2004-03-09 16:57:47 +00:00
943eae92fb
Add ALSO keyword to CREATE RULE.
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Fabien COELHO
2004-03-09 05:05:41 +00:00
96ef6682e3
Done:
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> * -Allow log lines to include session-level information, like database and user
2004-03-09 04:45:48 +00:00
2d3fe86bc4
Add:
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#log_line_prefix = '' # e.g. '<%u%%%d> '
# %u=user name %d=database name
# %r=remote host and port
# %p=PID %t=timestamp %i=command tag
# %c=session id %l=session line number
# %s=session start timestamp
# %x=stop here in non-session processes
# %%='%'
Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-09 04:43:07 +00:00
e0bed412a2
Have SGML make clean remove text files output as well
2004-03-08 23:59:23 +00:00
fb5eb6ac87
Update German FAQ.
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Ian Barwick
2004-03-08 17:38:31 +00:00
0bdce30f6b
Some editorial work on 7.4.2 release notes.
2004-03-07 22:07:56 +00:00
9e5a091f02
Added multidimensional arrays as todo for ecpg.
2004-03-07 14:35:47 +00:00
5ae38167cf
Improve discussion of using OIDs for identifying rows, fix an instance of
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incorrect SGML markup.
2004-03-07 04:31:01 +00:00
cb659ecb40
Explicitely mention that some GUC variables cannot be changed at
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runtime.
2004-03-07 01:02:55 +00:00
ab8faed00d
Editorialization of some text discussing 'IS NULL' vs. '= NULL'.
2004-03-07 01:01:44 +00:00
565b4f2de5
Use lynx -stdin and regenerate HISTORY
2004-03-06 02:52:46 +00:00
96c229dd7a
Improve documentation of virtual_host parameter: old text failed to
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indicate that you could specify multiple listen addresses.
2004-03-05 23:16:17 +00:00
ff47b8518e
First update of release notes for 7.4.2. Still needs work.
2004-03-05 19:51:56 +00:00
39042637dd
Oops, '-' doesn't work for my lynx either.
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Change back to /dev/stdin, even though it isn't portable. Let's wait for
someone to complain they don't have /dev/stdin.
2004-03-05 19:50:55 +00:00
8fc7522cad
Use '-' for stdin on lynx, my lynx version doesn't support -stdin.
2004-03-05 19:48:03 +00:00
aef037723f
Update Polish FAQ, from Marcin Mazurek.
2004-03-05 19:29:23 +00:00
1973971821
Per a brief conversation with Tom, I've created a patch for adding
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support for 'week' within the date_trunc function.
Within the patch I added a couple of test cases and associated target
output, and changed the documentation to add 'week' appropriately.
Robert Creager
2004-03-05 02:41:14 +00:00
033e37bed1
Fix for underscore in ID sgml markup.
2004-03-05 01:00:45 +00:00
65a0db19f4
Add new SPI functions for use by PL/Java:
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+extern Oid SPI_getargtypeid(void *plan, int argIndex);
+extern int SPI_getargcount(void *plan);
+extern bool SPI_is_cursor_plan(void *plan);
Thomas Hallgren
2004-03-05 00:47:01 +00:00
2146bfc869
Emit a warning when an empty string is input to the oid, float4, and
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float8 types. This begins the deprecation of this feature: in 7.6,
this input will be rejected.
Also added a new error code for warnings about deprecated features,
and updated the regression tests.
2004-03-04 21:47:18 +00:00
0b1f7cccd7
The trim function doc did not say that the second argument could be
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be omitted. This patch fixes that. It also fixes a bug where the
type text was not wrapped as <type>text</type>.
2004-03-04 20:09:29 +00:00
f503b6a821
Better document INSTEAD behavior for rules.
2004-03-04 14:32:12 +00:00
c934cf1e96
Add a few more cross-references where appropriate, add more text about
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the FROM clause and an example to the UPDATE reference page, and make
a few other SGML tweaks.
2004-03-03 22:22:24 +00:00
6008fca4d9
Remove Jan:
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< o Add PL/PHP (Joe, Jan)
> o Add PL/PHP (Joe)
2004-03-03 14:26:48 +00:00
58c69eab00
Add:
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> o Add way to remove cluster specification on a table
2004-03-03 05:16:53 +00:00
49032ca765
Update Turkish FAQ, Devrim GUNDUZ
2004-03-02 15:46:22 +00:00
340d44686b
Update release notes for 7.3.6.
2004-03-02 00:38:46 +00:00
3811d7a08f
Replace unportable use of /dev/stdin with lynx's -stdin switch.
2004-03-02 00:03:02 +00:00
1a6a27650d
Add a few more xrefs, where they seemed appropriate: for example, refer
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to the discussion of planner statistics in the documentation for the
default_statistics_target GUC var.
2004-03-01 17:58:39 +00:00
4a43b24cec
Enable some additional warnings when running openjade and onsgmls.
2004-03-01 16:08:58 +00:00
e3f27c1847
Fix a typo in a recent commit to func.sgml that apparently broke the doc
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build for some versions of OpenJade (unfortunately, my local version of
OpenJade didn't report the error...) -- thanks to Andrew Dunstan for
the report.
2004-02-29 15:45:53 +00:00
fd015c5c99
Fix a bunch (~88) typos that the OpenJade tools don't warn about by
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default: some SGML tags weren't properly terminated.
2004-02-29 15:36:46 +00:00
f46a80c362
Fix a few omissions in the initcap() documentation & source code
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comments, make some unrelated improvements to the functions
documentation, and perform some minor consistency cleanup
elsewhere. Original initcap() change from Dennis B., additional
changes by Neil C.
2004-02-27 03:59:23 +00:00
2f17547c67
Update plpython docs to mention shared libs are possible in 2.3 or
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later.
2004-02-27 01:23:18 +00:00
23168fb3bf
Update the pl/python shared build docs to match the recent version of
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python.
2004-02-26 02:09:40 +00:00
f83356c7f5
Do a direct probe during postmaster startup to determine the maximum
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number of openable files and the number already opened. This eliminates
depending on sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), and allows much saner behavior on
platforms where open-file slots are used up by semaphores.
2004-02-23 20:45:59 +00:00
45f5eba90b
Document the family() function (added during the 7.4 dev cycle but not
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documented), and fix a typo.
2004-02-22 04:14:06 +00:00
0d02533943
Add:
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> * Have psql show more information about sequences
2004-02-20 20:37:11 +00:00
e53c56d34a
Add:
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> * Allow external interfaces to extend the GUC variable set
2004-02-20 18:45:35 +00:00
5e4b9d1ef0
Add to PL/java description.
2004-02-20 18:31:03 +00:00
2e3d5f1160
Update:
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< * Add GUC variable to prevent waiting on locks
> * Add NO WAIT option to various SQL commands
2004-02-18 21:42:22 +00:00
afcc6fbb60
Remove a caveat from the "backup" documentation: pg_dump now does a
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better job of handling dependencies between database objects.
2004-02-17 23:56:07 +00:00
0128c17c93
Done:
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> * -Change CVS ID to PostgreSQL
2004-02-17 15:46:44 +00:00
e170701712
Add:
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> o Allow the schema of objects to be changed
2004-02-17 15:37:48 +00:00
9c8d5f0be1
Add a few more <xref> tags to the SGML docs, where appropriate. Original
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patch from Michael Glaesemann, additional changes by Neil Conway.
2004-02-17 09:07:16 +00:00
d46b1f904e
Minor editorializing on cost-based vacuum description.
2004-02-17 07:36:47 +00:00
ee33fe889e
Significant improvements to the documentation for the new cost-based
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vacuum delay feature, including updating the docs for Tom's recent
improvements. There is still more work to be done here: for example,
adding some more information on the practical use of cost-based
vacuum delay to the "maintenance" section would probably be a good
idea.
2004-02-17 06:28:05 +00:00
11acc1ffd6
Fix a minor SGML markup infelicity in recently-applied log_disconnections
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patch.
2004-02-17 05:45:17 +00:00
c53611e3e7
This patch brings up to date what I did last year (now unfortunately
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bitrotted) to allow the logging of the end of a session, enabled by
the config setting "log_disconnections".
Andrew Dunstan
2004-02-17 03:54:57 +00:00
6dfb2b2517
Minor SGML markup improvements.
2004-02-17 02:53:03 +00:00
f0c9397f80
First steps towards statistics on expressional (nee functional) indexes.
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This commit teaches ANALYZE to store such stats in pg_statistic, but
nothing is done yet about teaching the planner to use 'em.
Also, repair longstanding oversight in separate ANALYZE command: it
updated the pg_class.relpages and reltuples counts for the table proper,
but not for indexes.
2004-02-15 21:01:39 +00:00
effd0dea7e
Minor documentation tweak.
2004-02-15 06:27:37 +00:00
f884090371
Documentation for vacuum_cost config options.
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Jan
2004-02-13 12:25:09 +00:00
1a4652333b
Mention psql variable names are case-sensitive.
2004-02-13 05:10:02 +00:00
72509752df
Fix typo:
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< * Allow cross-db queries with transaction sematics
> * Allow cross-db queries with transaction semantics
2004-02-13 04:47:13 +00:00
1decc208ac
Tom Lane wrote:
...
> momjian@svr1.postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
>> someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
>> release notes as 3rd change:
>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html
>> Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
>> retroactively change the release-notes though.
>
> This is completely erroneous, please undo it.
>
> 2003-05-21 14:14 tgl
>
> * src/: backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c,
> test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out (REL7_3_STABLE): Back-patch
> Jan's fix to avoid primary key lookup (and lock) if foreign key
> does not change on UPDATE.
Oh ... didn't know that you did a backpatch. Sorry
Jan
2004-02-13 04:40:06 +00:00
1e376bfb5e
Add:
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> * Use nested transactions to prevent syntax errors from aborting a transaction
2004-02-13 04:36:02 +00:00
65010e34e0
Add:
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> * Allow temporary views on non-temporary tables
2004-02-13 02:30:53 +00:00
69946411d3
Add hooks for type-specific calculation of ANALYZE statistics. Idea and
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coding by Mark Cave-Ayland, some kibitzing by Tom Lane. initdb forced
due to new column in pg_type.
2004-02-12 23:41:04 +00:00
d27471fe0a
Add from Joe Conway:
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> o Modify array literal representation to handle array index lower bound
> of other than one
>
183d185
<
2004-02-12 23:27:52 +00:00
e850e30fc8
Jan:
...
someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
release notes as 3rd change:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html
Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
retroactively change the release-notes though.
2004-02-12 20:17:34 +00:00
4a1c29f87e
Improve \? wording, remove 'internal'.
2004-02-12 19:58:16 +00:00
6a13bdd8f3
Add bitmap discussion to performance TODO.detail.
2004-02-12 18:13:29 +00:00
2b721d3d41
Remove TODO.detail files that contained useless or very old information.
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Update TODO accordingly.
2004-02-12 18:11:54 +00:00
5de02e283f
Done:
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<
<
< Reporting
< =========
<
< * Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]
2004-02-12 18:11:16 +00:00
b3efb9f037
File not needed:
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.< * Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead) [vacuum]
> * Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead)
369c369
< lock and truncate table [vacuum]
> lock and truncate table
371c371
< rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
> rather than in /contrib
2004-02-12 18:09:43 +00:00
b8369db5fc
Mostly done:
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< * Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
2004-02-12 18:05:51 +00:00
f66f437fac
File not needed:
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< * Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
> * Add replication of distributed databases
2004-02-12 18:01:20 +00:00
b23d694544
Remove:
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< o http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
2004-02-12 17:59:50 +00:00
db55d7a212
Merge files:
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< * Allow persistent backends [persistent]
> * Allow persistent backends [pool]
397c397
< connection pooling
> connection pooling [pool]
2004-02-12 17:51:03 +00:00
b4c0b196fb
Not needed:
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< float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer]
> float4, numeric/decimal too
422c422
< * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
> * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc
2004-02-12 17:38:50 +00:00
b3fbb4b801
Not needed:
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< * Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too [fsync]
> * Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too
2004-02-12 17:32:38 +00:00
ebf4bb7f2e
Not needed:
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< * Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity [foreign]
> * Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
2004-02-12 17:31:09 +00:00
de4b486eed
Remove crossdb content.
2004-02-12 17:23:30 +00:00
fbfc9dc20b
Add, dblink doesn't do this:
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> * Allow cross-db queries with transaction sematics
2004-02-12 17:22:39 +00:00
329207e817
Done, mostly by dblink, I think:
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< * Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
2004-02-12 17:21:41 +00:00
209e866a5a
Fix typo:
...
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:28, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
> > At the bottom of this doc file :
> > file:///usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/tutorial-createdb.html
> > "and it also happens that that user always has permission"
> > ---- x2
> The first "that" serves as a conjuction, the second one serves as an
> article. Looks correct to me.
A better workaround for the sentence would be something like:
"and it also happens that the user always has permission"
Looks easier to read, I think.
Enver ALTIN (a.k.a. skyblue)
2004-02-12 16:38:04 +00:00
43d37a81dd
Add:
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<
> * Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
2004-02-12 16:05:15 +00:00
76f02b51b6
Remove URL for specific pljava implementation:
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< o Allow Java server-side programming, http://pljava.sourceforge.net
< [java]
> o Allow Java server-side programming [java]
2004-02-12 14:41:13 +00:00
3b6bf0c07d
Add:
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> o Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
2004-02-11 22:04:35 +00:00
ac4ad7bf2c
Does not apply anymore:
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< * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
2004-02-11 17:04:04 +00:00
e29d8f3c34
SGML markup improvements.
2004-02-10 20:51:39 +00:00
fd44e2fb14
Add URL for most current version.
2004-02-10 15:16:36 +00:00
04e82e5008
Add mention of the developer's FAQ.
2004-02-08 03:16:31 +00:00
9534fd73d8
Add mention of PostgreSQL as a community project.
2004-02-08 03:09:12 +00:00
9f361350d7
Add PITR web page:
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< * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
< * Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
> * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log,
> http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/pitr.html
> * Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html
2004-02-08 01:17:09 +00:00
687d7cf355
Documentation for generate_series() functions committed a few days ago.
2004-02-05 22:54:36 +00:00
391c3811a2
Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.
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Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints
use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit.
Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their
old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
2004-02-03 17:34:04 +00:00
39d715bee6
Add:
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> * Make pg_restore continue after errors, so it acts more like pg_dump scripts
2004-02-03 16:53:56 +00:00
Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian
Tatsuo Ishii
Tom Lane
Michael Meskes
Dennis Bjorklund
Jan Wieck
Joe Conway