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6102 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
e885554c8d Clarify autovacuum wording. 2005-09-23 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
01ead29b0c Please find attached a patch which tells about what the spiffy,
integrated autovacuum now does :)

David Fetter
2005-09-23 02:25:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9822c73a9d Mention that autovacuum also needs stats. 2005-09-23 02:06:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18ea8ae531 Attached patch takes a swing at improving the autovacuum wording in
maintenance.sgml.

Robert Treat

[ Also fix create domain markup.]
2005-09-23 02:01:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0135cd88bd Add warning about DOMAINs.
David Fetter
2005-09-22 23:56:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c79671bdbb Add:
> * Allow CREATE INDEX to take an additional parameter for use with
>   special index types
>
2005-09-22 23:54:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec294fc6cb Move table constraint patch up into the main new features section of the
release notes.
2005-09-22 23:47:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8a64ec6285 Add "basic" for table partitioning. 2005-09-22 23:24:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c37ddf371d Add:
>
> 	  Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT queries in a COPY.
2005-09-22 21:50:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
62da04f8e3 Add:
>
> 	o Allow COPY to output from views
>
2005-09-22 16:01:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
1128f55659 Fix postgresql.conf lexer to accept doubled single quotes in literal
strings.  This is consistent with SQL conventions, and since Bruce
already changed initdb in a way that assumed it worked like this, seems
we'd better make it work like this.
2005-09-21 20:33:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8d86982a11 Merge items:
<   This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.
>   This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.  This is
>   already used by GROUP BY.
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< * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20 20:51:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a34ec0ab4a Fix typo:
< * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by
> * Allow WAL traffic to be streamed to another server for stand-by
2005-09-20 02:21:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7caaf8a022 Add:
> * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20 02:16:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
519d848eb5 Update profile file location. 2005-09-20 01:28:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32f2cd3f35 Add:
> * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by
>   replication
2005-09-20 00:11:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
78b06948d0 Remove:
< * Research use of sched_yield() for spinlock acquisition failure
2005-09-19 22:32:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
658657177e Print proper cause of statement cancel, user interaction or timeout. 2005-09-19 17:21:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
591a29b398 update timestamp on file. 2005-09-19 15:01:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
b98f9898d1 Fix typo in link label, per Evgeny Gridasov. 2005-09-18 04:02:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3743f07a53 Add:
>
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> * Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
2005-09-17 12:12:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e8960fc34f Add:
> 	o Fix SELECT INTERVAL '1' MONTH
2005-09-16 19:39:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
892e525e24 Update numbering.
Michael Fuhr
2005-09-16 18:07:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d64084daa5 Add:
<
> * Update Bonjour to work with newer cross-platform SDK
2005-09-16 17:37:10 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
cd85918090 tag it all beta2 ... 2005-09-16 17:15:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0296606f78 Update wording:
<
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<
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< 	  removed or have its heap and index files truncated.  One
> 	  be removed or have its heap and index files truncated.  One
< * Use a phantom command counter for nested subtransactions to reduce
<   per-tuple overhead
2005-09-16 16:46:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3f558e3dae Add:
> 	o Add single-step debugging of PL/PgSQL functions
2005-09-16 11:24:02 +00:00
Neil Conway
e4d9b69779 Rename pg_complete_relation_size() to pg_total_relation_size(), for the
sake of brevity and clarity.

Make pg_reload_conf(), pg_rotate_logfile(), and pg_cancel_backend()
return a boolean rather than an integer to indicate success or failure.

Along the way, make some minor cleanups to dbsize.c -- in particular,
use elog() rather than ereport() for "shouldn't happen" error
conditions, and remove some of the more flagrant violations of the
Postgres indentation conventions.

Catalog version bumped.
2005-09-16 05:35:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
b09bfc654d Update release notes for changes between beta1 and beta2. 2005-09-16 03:37:35 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
3e579cf3c0 Add note about pg_autovacuum settings not being saved on a dump, per
Robert Treat.
2005-09-16 03:12:32 +00:00
Neil Conway
3b0453b24f Various documentation improvements. Add a lot of index entries for
the builtin functions (although some more entries are still needed),
and remove the duplicate index entries that have been causing
collateindex.pl warnings. Consistently use "int" and "bigint", rather
than a mix of "int", "integer", "int4", "bigint", and "int8". Make
parenthesis style in syntax examples more consistent. Various
copy-editing for newly-added documentation and SGML markup fixes.
2005-09-14 21:14:26 +00:00
Neil Conway
d6bc885bb9 Minor SGML markup fixes. 2005-09-13 15:24:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
c93912b711 Document the new autovacuum daemon. 2005-09-13 01:51:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
2a11a4937e Fix cut-and-paste-o in TCP keepalives documentation. 2005-09-12 23:09:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
fe9f96b14c Minor documentation tweak: make the capitalization of a section title
consistent with the other sections in this chapter.
2005-09-12 22:39:30 +00:00
Neil Conway
9813fc1bae Make the documentation of GUC variables a separate chapter, rather than
a section of the "Server Run-time Environment" chapter. Also, move the
SGML for the new chapter to a separate file and fix the resulting
fallout.
2005-09-12 22:11:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
37a3ed6e40 Update manual's introduction to indexes to reflect 8.1 changes; in
particular the addition of bitmap scans and the relaxation of rules
about when multicolumn indexes can be used.  Also some minor editorial
work in other parts of the chapter.
2005-09-12 19:17:45 +00:00
Neil Conway
f7259f5ba6 Fix a mistake in the documentation for SPI_getbinval(), per Michael Fuhr. 2005-09-12 18:40:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
b93a72afbf Forgot to add pg_pltemplate to the list of shared system catalogs that
appears in the REINDEX ref page.
2005-09-12 16:43:29 +00:00
Neil Conway
4fe4563550 Add a few items to the release notes, and make a few more minor cleanups. 2005-09-12 05:10:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
f7a5f90c46 Many small improvements and copy edits to the release notes. Use "&mdash;"
rather than "-" for the "dash" character. Correct SGML markup. Make
references to the names of contributors more consistent. Rewrite a bit
of prose, and make some other similar cleanups.
2005-09-11 23:40:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d1348895a7 Update URL for FAQ_MINGW. 2005-09-10 05:21:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
a239af02c3 Fix the various forms of AT TIME ZONE to accept either timezones found
in the zic database or zone names found in the date token table.  This
preserves the old ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST' along with the new
ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST8PDT'.  Per gripe from Bricklen Anderson.
Also, fix some inconsistencies in usage of TZ_STRLEN_MAX --- the old
code had the potential for one-byte buffer overruns, though given
alignment considerations it's unlikely there was any real risk.
2005-09-09 02:31:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
48123de717 Create the pg_pltemplate system catalog to hold template information
for procedural languages.  This replaces the hard-wired table I had
originally proposed as a stopgap solution.  For the moment, the initial
contents only include languages shipped with the core distribution.
2005-09-08 20:07:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
e0dedd0559 Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural languages,
as per my recent proposal.  For now the template data is hard-wired in
proclang.c --- this should be replaced later by a new shared system
catalog, but we don't want to force initdb during 8.1 beta.  This change
lets us cleanly load existing dump files even if they contain outright
wrong information about a PL's support functions, such as a wrong path
to the shared library or a missing validator function.  Also, we can
revert the recent kluges to make pg_dump dump PL support functions that
are stored in pg_catalog.
While at it, I removed the code in pg_regress that replaced $libdir
with a hardcoded path for temporary installations.  This is no longer
needed given our support for relocatable installations.
2005-09-05 23:50:49 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
2739e1d1c2 Add a note about CSV lines with trailing spaces.
Suggestion by Darcy Buskermolen, reworded by me.
2005-09-05 14:44:05 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
e8f35414ef Fix typo in Richard's last name. 2005-09-04 13:40:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b72fe49b9c Add idea:
<   cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory.
>   cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory.  Another idea is to
>   store both cmin and cmax only in local memory.
2005-09-03 00:41:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
264cd5f04a Update.
< 	  have its heap and index files truncated.  One issue is
< 	  that no other backend should be able to add to the table
< 	  at the same time, which is something that is currently
< 	  allowed.
> 	  removed or have its heap and index files truncated.  One
> 	  issue is that no other backend should be able to add to
> 	  the table at the same time, which is something that is
> 	  currently allowed.
2005-09-02 21:23:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ef6d5b4e25 Update:
> 	o Allow COPY on a newly-created table to skip WAL logging
450a452,456
> 	  On crash recovery, the table involved in the COPY would
> 	  have its heap and index files truncated.  One issue is
> 	  that no other backend should be able to add to the table
> 	  at the same time, which is something that is currently
> 	  allowed.
2005-09-02 21:10:59 +00:00