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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane ab901c60c8 Move BeOS and QNX4 to unsupported-platform list, until someone cares
to expend the effort to update them for new semaphore code.
2002-10-20 01:38:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 10f41b2b80 Replace &version; by appropriate version. 2002-10-12 16:29:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bc49968764 Add more appropriate markup. 2002-09-21 18:32:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut da123b7c58 Update installation instructions and put mostly everything in one place.
Also, some editing in PL/Perl and PL/Python chapters.
2002-09-18 20:09:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fe80b5ed8a Remove more references to pgaccess as a build target in docs. 2002-09-08 02:33:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 47c51db5f3 Update documentation for --with-perl. 2002-08-30 17:14:30 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart e62660080c Add NetBSD/MIPS as a supported platform. 2002-06-15 02:41:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5c1f31d2d4 Readline and Zlib now required by default. Add options --without-readline
and --without-zlib to turn them off.
2002-04-10 22:47:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 563673e15d Add make install-strip target. 2002-04-10 16:45:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 867901db9e Locale support is on by default. The choice of locale is done in initdb
and/or with GUC variables.
2002-04-03 05:39:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 75f0ba9fe3 Mention that 'make distclean' is a good idea when changing configure
options.  Document --with-pam and --enable-depend, do some minor
copy-editing.
2002-01-20 05:45:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut da1c1144e7 Make spelling of operating system names match official version closely.
And listing QNX 6 as both supported and unsupported is probably not helpful.
2002-01-09 00:52:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 6896693d64 Fix directions for a client-only install, per comments from Alexey Borzov
and Vivek Khera.
2001-12-23 20:45:11 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 9640666c6f Spiff up discussion of precision on date/time data types.
Add a NetBSD/alpha and update info on a few other platforms.
2001-12-21 03:54:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 41acf3d820 Some tuning 2001-12-19 18:49:56 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 68cb184b56 Update list of currently supported platforms.
Mention SQL9x precision syntax for date/time types.
Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenly
 between Postgres and PostgreSQL.
2001-12-08 03:24:23 +00:00
Tom Lane e469fac240 Recommend --enable-debug with somewhat more enthusiasm. 2001-12-04 02:21:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 651a639b8b proof-reading 2001-11-28 20:49:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6e4a88a8ec Update BSD/OS as supported on 7.2. 2001-11-27 20:35:08 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart eec9511f0a Update for first platforms reported as working
for the upcoming 7.2 release.
2001-11-21 05:52:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 9b03776ff2 A bunch of small doco updates motivated by scanning the comments on
the interactive docs.
2001-11-19 03:58:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d6b2d6b640 Empty ulinks show the url string as hot text; no need to repeat the url as
element content.
2001-10-31 20:35:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1d3a47af0c Attached patch for unconditional enabling of pltcl-unknown support.
Enabling this feature adds very light overhead of 1 select from pg_class on
first using of pl/tcl in backend if unknown suppport is really unused.
But pl/tcl with this support has very improved functionality.

Patch includes changes to documentation.
2001-10-13 04:23:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ec5c62874d Allow optional () after current_user, session_user, user, current_time,
current_timestamp, current_date for ODBC compatibility.

Add more functions to odbc.sql catalog extension, use new CREATE OR
REPLACE FUNCTION.

Document iODBC/unixODBC build options.
2001-10-09 22:32:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ffb8f73890 Bunch of copy fitting and style sheet tweakage to get decent looking print
output (from pdfjadetex).  Also updated instructions to install documentation
processing toolchain.
2001-10-09 18:46:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 034895125d > > > > > - PostgreSQL requires to be compiled with --enable-multibyte
> > > > >   and --enable-unicode-convertion if it ought to work correctly
> > > > >   with Tcl/Tk >= 8.1 (client or server side).
> > > > >
> > > > > - PL/Tcl needs to be changed to use pg_do_encoding_conversion
> > > > >   if it runs on a Tcl version >= 8.1 .
> > >
> > > > I'll do pl/tcl part in the next version of patch. Using this approach we
> > > > can eliminate overhead for databases in UNICODE.
> > >
> > > Any progress on this?  I'd prefer to get rid of this --enable-pltcl-utf
> > > option before release.
> >
> > Done
> >
> > Next version removes --enable-pltcl-utf switch and enables embedded
> > utf conversion of pgsql if tcl version >=8.1 and --enable-unicode-conversion
2001-10-01 15:33:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 91778e890d Suggest running ldconfig after installation if available. 2001-09-21 23:20:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4e77b4a548 Readd test/regress/README file, this time with a well-defined and simple
rule to remake it when necessary.
2001-09-21 18:37:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 264f8f2b6c Install dynamically loadable modules into a private subdirectory
under libdir, for a cleaner separation in the installation layout
and compatibility with binary packaging standards.  Point backend's
default search location there.  The contrib modules are also
installed in the said location, giving them the benefit of the
default search path as well.  No changes in user interface
nevertheless.
2001-09-16 16:11:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f93449eb34 'chown -R postgres /usr/local/pgsql' is wrong. Need to do some more typing. 2001-09-12 20:57:28 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 531126c854 Short version of install procedure fails due to lacking chown. 2001-09-10 08:46:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d07454f559 Markup additions and spell check. (covers Admin Guide) 2001-09-09 23:52:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 16910e44de Next version of patch.
Now with documentation update and disabling of UTF conversion for Tcl <=8.0

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Vsevolod Lobko wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > > Is this looks better?
> >
> > It does, but one small gripe: the lack of semicolons will probably cause
> > pg_indent to mess up the indentation.  (I know emacs' autoindent mode
> > will not work nicely with it, either.)  Please set up the macros so that
> > you write
> >
> >                         UTF_BEGIN;
> >                         Tcl_DStringAppend(&unknown_src, UTF_E2U(part), -1);
> >                         UTF_END;
> >
> > and then I'll be happy.
>
> Attached revised patch
>
> > Your point about overhead is a good one, so I retract the gripe about
> > using a configure switch.  But please include documentation patches to
> > describe the configure option in the administrator's guide (installation
> > section).
>
> This patch still uses configure switch for enabling feature.
>
> For enabling based on tcl version we have 2 posibilites:
>  1) having feature enabled by default, but in pltcl.c check for tcl
>     version and disable it for old versions
>  2) enable or disable at configure time based on tcl version, but there
>     are problem - current configure don't checks for tcl version at all
>     and my configure skills not enought for adding this
>

Vsevolod Lobko
2001-09-06 02:56:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f5944af8ba Include directory rearrangement
Client headers are no longer in a subdirectory, since they have been made
namespace-clean.

Internal libpq headers are in a private subdirectory.

Server headers are in a private subdirectory.  pg_config has a new option
to point there.
2001-08-28 14:20:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e542036461 Native Language Support (NLS)
Use --enable-nls to turn it on; see installation instructions for details.
See developer's guide how to make use of it in programs and how to add
translations.

psql sources have been almost fully prepared and an incomplete German
translation has been provided.  In the backend, only elog() calls are
currently translatable, and the provided German translation file is more
of a placeholder.
2001-06-02 18:25:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7d802e07a7 Fix 'set path' for csh. 2001-05-14 16:16:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 01839df6dd Add index. Only some parts of the manual set have index entries so far... 2001-05-12 22:51:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian acd16eadf5 Change --with-pltcl-unknown to --enable-pltcl-unknown 2001-05-09 19:41:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f7659a9c18 This patch adds a new configure option --with-pltcl-unknown which
enables pltcl unknown support.


Also it adds substituting of tclsh with tclsh that was by configure in
pltcl_*mod scripts. For example, On freebsd, tclsh can be called
tclsh8.2 or
tclsh8.3 depending on installed version of Tcl.

After patching files
  src/pl/tcl/modules/pltcl_listmod
  src/pl/tcl/modules/pltcl_loadmod
  src/pl/tcl/modules/pltcl_delmod
must be renamed(copied,repocopied) to
  src/pl/tcl/modules/pltcl_listmod.in
  src/pl/tcl/modules/pltcl_loadmod.in
  src/pl/tcl/modules/pltcl_delmod.in

seva@sevasoft.kiev.ua
2001-05-09 19:19:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 248365f2c6 Revert wrong SCO OpenServer report, update comments and improve formatting
a bit.  Regenerate INSTALL.
2001-04-06 15:52:41 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f7f0b17909 Final (?) platform update for the 7.1 release. Includes new platform
NetBSD/PPC from Henry Hotz, several other platform updates, and move
 QNX to the unsupported list for now.
2001-04-06 05:52:10 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 53de19647f Update info for platforms BeOS, Tru64, Linux/MIPS, Linux/x86, NetBSD/Alpha,
NetBSD/arm, NetBSD/VAX, OpenBSD/Sparc, Solaris, Ultrix.
2001-04-02 15:19:15 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f7a4db10b2 Update to the current state of platform support.
Still need some tested for the 7.1 release.
2001-03-24 02:36:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1088e72054 Add note about saving large objects during upgrade. 2001-03-19 16:19:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 06351c36a6 Document --with-java. 2001-03-10 16:57:18 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart a9a047e347 Freshen with a few recent platform reports:
Linux/Alpha, Linux/Sparc, MacOS-X.
2001-02-23 02:17:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 2884073848 Document --enable-cassert. 2001-02-19 22:25:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 81ff09eeb5 Catch some stray references to .htm files. 2001-02-17 16:52:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut be274f47d0 Document that NetBSD's libedit can be used instead of readline. 2001-02-10 18:24:14 +00:00
Tom Lane d08741eab5 Restructure the key include files per recent pghackers discussion: there
are now separate files "postgres.h" and "postgres_fe.h", which are meant
to be the primary include files for backend .c files and frontend .c files
respectively.  By default, only include files meant for frontend use are
installed into the installation include directory.  There is a new make
target 'make install-all-headers' that adds the whole content of the
src/include tree to the installed fileset, for use by people who want to
develop server-side code without keeping the complete source tree on hand.
Cleaned up a whole lot of crufty and inconsistent header inclusions.
2001-02-10 02:31:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1ced7f3b30 Adjust file names. 2001-01-15 21:17:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1b555ce791 Replace incorrect uses of 'which' with 'that'. (so-called "wicked which") 2000-12-22 18:57:50 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart e4d97cb70e Update info for BeOS and MacOS-X-darwin as supported platforms. 2000-12-20 17:23:39 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 48781d44e4 Support IBM S/390. Patches from Neale Ferguson@softwareAG-usa.com. 2000-12-03 14:41:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f09df7f40 Minor tweaks in installation instructions, regenerate INSTALL file. 2000-11-30 21:44:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5350ff2523 Correct directory names.
Thanks to Martin A. Marques <martin@math.unl.edu.ar> for the tip.
2000-11-20 22:01:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bee6cc6f9c Update for recent developments (C++, shlib), minor fixes 2000-11-05 20:52:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 33581195d5 Per my ongoing discussion with PeterE, here is the patch I applied to
src/template/unixware:

Larry Rosenman
2000-10-21 15:50:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7c177a4908 Remove portions of SSL documentation patch that were installed twice. 2000-10-21 01:08:34 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0db3cb253d * doc/src/sgml/regress.sgml: Update for new driver script.
* doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml: ditto.

* src/test/regress/README: Regenerate.

* doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml: Explain how it was done.  Explain how
INSTALL and HISTORY are (now) generated.

* doc/src/sgml/Makefile: Implement HISTORY generation to be analoguous
to INSTALL.
2000-10-17 15:26:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 06dc338ee9 Here is a patch against the same cvs tree as the SSL patch (Aug 20).
I hope I didn't mess the SGML up too bad, but somebody should definitly
look that over. I tried to steal as much as I could from around :-)

This patch updates:
* Installation instructions (paragraph on how to compile with openssl)
* Documentation of pg_hba.conf (added "hostssl" record docs)
* Libpq documentation (added connection option, documentation of
  PQgetssl() function)
* Add section on SSL to "Server Runtime Environment"

If you beleive any particular area needs more attention, please let me know.

//Magnus
2000-10-16 03:25:17 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 984b0b4df8 Append "/postgresql" to (certain) installation subdirectories when
installing into a shared location.  Also Makefile.global organizational
cleanup.
2000-10-08 21:13:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0ba77c14aa Convert more charset/locale documentation to DocBook 2000-09-30 16:58:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 72ad5fe15c Add `id' attributes to all `chapter' and `sect1' tags, to generate useful
names for the HTML files (e.g., not x4856.htm).
2000-09-29 20:21:34 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 664ce79dd8 Fixes for Cygwin, with help from Pete Forman <gsez020@kryten.bedford.waii.com>.
Update the installation instructions (formerly misnamed "FAQ"), add configure
checks for some headers rather than having users copy stubs manually (ugh!).
Use Autoconf check for exe extension.  This also avoids inheriting the value
of $(X) from the environment.
2000-09-27 15:17:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a279ced884 document configure --without-tk 2000-09-25 22:52:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 418bd67eda Add a blurb about what tools are required to build. 2000-09-17 20:35:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ffd9aaa0a9 A bit of cleanup after SSL patch. Add it to config file, improve
documentation.
2000-09-06 19:54:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 67cd018e77 Startup is actually start-up. 2000-08-29 20:02:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c51041f4ba Here is a patch against the same cvs tree as the SSL patch (Aug 20).
I hope I didn't mess the SGML up too bad, but somebody should definitly
look that over. I tried to steal as much as I could from around :-)

This patch updates:
* Installation instructions (paragraph on how to compile with openssl)
* Documentation of pg_hba.conf (added "hostssl" record docs)
* Libpq documentation (added connection option, documentation of
  PQgetssl() function)
* Add section on SSL to "Server Runtime Environment"

If you beleive any particular area needs more attention, please let me know.

//Magnus
2000-08-29 04:15:43 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 996832caee Make the location of the Kerberos server key file run time configurable
(rather than compile time). For libpq, even when Kerberos support is
compiled in, the default user name should still fall back to geteuid()
if it can't be determined via the Kerberos system.

A couple of fixes for string type configuration parameters, now that there
is one.
2000-08-25 10:00:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 100dd889d6 typos 2000-07-22 14:48:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8004bcf00e Update installation instructions to new realities. Combined into one file.
Improved automation of INSTALL file generation.
2000-07-21 00:44:13 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 8bd6c1f8e9 Polishing for 7.0 release. Fix up inconsistant spacing in release notes. 2000-05-04 16:15:08 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 45f79cae14 Fixups in content and markup for 7.0 release. 2000-05-02 20:02:03 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 73d8bbc2ac Minor markup changes. Refer to (".../catalog") in the emacs hints. 2000-03-31 03:27:42 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f75bf1877a Accumulated fixups.
Add some chapters on new topics.
Change to referencing OASIS/Docbook v3.1 rather than Davenport/Docbook v3.0
Grepped for and fixed apparent tag mangling from emacs
 "Normalize" operation. Should be the last of those.
2000-03-30 22:22:41 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart b6332952b7 Remove references to PostgreSQL as "public-domain" since that has a
specific meaning wrt copyright (or lack thereof).
1999-12-06 16:37:11 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 7b5f84d12d Add blurb on new docs in release notes.
Make minor info and markup changes for v6.5 release.
1999-06-04 15:51:42 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f3d2b2e0c7 Markup changes for v6.5 release.
Clean out duplicate stuff in odbc.sgml resulting from a faulty patch.
1999-06-03 04:21:51 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 9474dd7ed6 Add chapters on CVS access, MVCC, SQL theory to the docs.
Add an appendix with more details on date/time attributes and handling.
Update most references to Postgres version numbers to 6.5,
 *except* for the porting list which will require a report
 from a successful installation to be updated.
1999-05-26 17:30:30 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 40064c2b24 Move configuration info to after installation procedure.
Include only the current release  in the release notes section.
1998-11-02 15:53:02 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart f1f9ec3344 Minor editing and markup changes as a result of preparing the Postscript
documentation for v6.4.
Bigger updates to the installation instructions (install and config).
1998-10-30 19:37:19 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart ded961296a First cut at standalone installation guide to replace INSTALL text source. 1998-10-27 06:11:08 +00:00