Commit Graph

540 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian 09c29cc57b Text search documentation word improvements; move configuration section
to be more logical.
2007-08-29 21:51:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb8f629c7a Move full text search operators, functions, and data type sections into
the main documentation, out of its own text search chapter.
2007-08-29 20:37:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 140d4ebcb4 Tsearch2 functionality migrates to core. The bulk of this work is by
Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, but I did a lot of editorializing,
so anything that's broken is probably my fault.

Documentation is nonexistent as yet, but let's land the patch so we can
get some portability testing done.
2007-08-21 01:11:32 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan e1a1da9f4b minor typo fixes in CSVlog docs, per Michael Glaesemann 2007-08-19 03:23:30 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan fd801f4faa Provide for logfiles in machine readable CSV format. In consequence, rename
redirect_stderr to logging_collector.
Original patch from Arul Shaji, subsequently modified by Greg Smith, and then
heavily modified by me.
2007-08-19 01:41:25 +00:00
Tom Lane a44af6df85 Document that the regexp split functions ignore zero-length matches in
certain corner cases.  Per discussion, the code does what we want, but
it really needs to be documented that these functions act differently
from regexp_matches.
2007-08-13 01:18:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 1b70619311 Code review for regexp_matches/regexp_split patch. Refactor to avoid assuming
that cached compiled patterns will still be there when the function is next
called.  Clean up looping logic, thereby fixing bug identified by Pavel
Stehule.  Share setup code between the two functions, add some comments, and
avoid risky mixing of int and size_t variables.  Clean up the documentation a
tad, and accept all the flag characters mentioned in table 9-19 rather than
just a subset.
2007-08-11 03:56:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian df7128bd34 Document that age() adds days, then full months. 2007-07-18 03:12:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 2d4db3675f Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable cases that
were accepted by prior Postgres releases.  This takes care of the loose end
left by the preceding patch to downgrade implicit casts-to-text.  To avoid
breaking desirable behavior for array concatenation, introduce a new
polymorphic pseudo-type "anynonarray" --- the added concatenation operators
are actually text || anynonarray and anynonarray || text.
2007-06-06 23:00:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7d3b7011b0 Add documentation reference to statistical functions from func.sgml.
Jim Nasby
2007-05-30 18:13:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3963574d13 XPath fixes:
- Function renamed to "xpath".
 - Function is now strict, per discussion.
 - Return empty array in case when XPath expression detects nothing
   (previously, NULL was returned in such case), per discussion.
 - (bugfix) Work with fragments with prologue: select xpath('/a',
   '<?xml version="1.0"?><a /><b />'); // now XML datum is always wrapped
   with dummy <x>...</x>, XML prologue simply goes away (if any).
 - Some cleanup.

Nikolay Samokhvalov

Some code cleanup and documentation work by myself.
2007-05-21 17:10:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e292090b59 Grammar correction 2007-05-07 07:53:26 +00:00
Neil Conway 3a96742ad2 Doc tweak: add an xref. 2007-05-07 02:03:58 +00:00
Neil Conway 64ee1a8a55 Fix a few typos in the docs. 2007-04-07 03:58:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5f3fbe14f3 In docs, Symetric -> Symmetric.
Michael Fuhr
2007-04-07 03:34:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 43666e8216 Improve documentation/warning when --with-libxml is not used in the
installation.
2007-04-05 01:46:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 626b4416b9 Put documentation on XML data type and functions in better positions. Add
some index terms.
2007-04-02 15:27:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 57690c6803 Support enum data types. Along the way, use macros for the values of
pg_type.typtype whereever practical.  Tom Dunstan, with some kibitzing
from Tom Lane.
2007-04-02 03:49:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0b75afda92 Mapping schemas and databases to XML and XML Schema.
Refactor and document the remaining mapping code.
2007-04-01 09:00:26 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 75c6519ff6 Add new encoding EUC_JIS_2004 and SHIFT_JIS_2004,
along with new conversions among EUC_JIS_2004, SHIFT_JIS_2004 and UTF-8.
catalog version has been bump up.
2007-03-25 11:56:04 +00:00
Neil Conway 9eb78beeae Add three new regexp functions: regexp_matches, regexp_split_to_array,
and regexp_split_to_table. These functions provide access to the
capture groups resulting from a POSIX regular expression match,
and provide the ability to split a string on a POSIX regular
expression, respectively. Patch from Jeremy Drake; code review by
Neil Conway, additional comments and suggestions from Tom and
Peter E.

This patch bumps the catversion, adds some regression tests,
and updates the docs.
2007-03-20 05:45:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b92767d525 Update "encode" documentation to mention that 'escape' only changes null
bytes and backslashes, remove "ASCII" mention.  Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-02-20 19:59:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ddd8817f45 Wording improvement. 2007-02-20 18:18:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8272fc3f7b Comment-out documentation for IS OF because it doesn't conform to the
ISO SQL behavior. Backpatch removal to 8.2.X.
2007-02-20 14:04:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6126d3e70b Document IS [NOT] OF, which was added in 7.3. 2007-02-20 00:25:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c62de15bec Document that to_char('J'/Julian) is midnight-based, per report that
Julian technically is noon to noon.
2007-02-19 22:51:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9772e0007c Wording improvement. 2007-02-19 22:10:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 70007b4dd5 Clarify documentation for "day of the week" handling for to_char() and
EXTRACT().
2007-02-19 18:20:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3e803f7273 Add "isodow" option to EXTRACT() and date_part() where Sunday = 7. 2007-02-19 17:41:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 355e05ab41 Functions for mapping table data and table schemas to XML (a.k.a. XML export) 2007-02-16 07:46:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ab7ea5ace Remove tabs from SGML files to help tag alingment and improve
detection of tabs are added in the future.
2007-02-16 03:50:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ebb0cf9c3 Add two new format fields for use with to_char(), to_date() and
to_timestamp():
    - ID for day-of-week
    - IDDD for day-of-year

This makes it possible to convert ISO week dates to and from text
fully represented in either week ('IYYY-IW-ID') or day-of-year
('IYYY-IDDD') format.

I have also added an 'isoyear' field for use with extract / date_part.

Brendan Jurd
2007-02-16 03:39:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2f8ee82964 Fix typo 2007-02-14 18:46:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 09a9f10e7f Consistenly use colons before '<programlisting>' blocks, where
appropriate.
2007-02-01 00:28:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a134ee3379 Update documentation on may/can/might:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".

Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ed9f1d9b7 Update documentation for backslashes to mention escape string syntax
more, and standard_conforming_strings less, because in the future non-E
strings will not treat backslashes specially.

Also use E'' strings where backslashes are used in examples. (The
existing examples would have drawn warnings.)

Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-01-30 22:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ae875d318e Update documentation for pg_get_serial_sequence() function. 2007-01-30 02:39:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 48ba3f5711 Update documentation on XML functions 2007-01-29 13:24:30 +00:00
Neil Conway 726f0807ad Update docs for recent change to setseed() return value. 2007-01-20 21:59:34 +00:00
Neil Conway cf57ef4e50 Implement width_bucket() for the float8 data type.
The implementation is somewhat ugly logic-wise, but I don't see an
easy way to make it more concise.

When writing this, I noticed that my previous implementation of
width_bucket() doesn't handle NaN correctly:

    postgres=# select width_bucket('NaN', 1, 5, 5);
     width_bucket
    --------------
                6
    (1 row)

AFAICS SQL:2003 does not define a NaN value, so it doesn't address how
width_bucket() should behave here. The patch changes width_bucket() so
that ereport(ERROR) is raised if NaN is specified for the operand or the
lower or upper bounds to width_bucket(). For float8, NaN is disallowed
for any of the floating-point inputs, and +/- infinity is disallowed
for the histogram bounds (but allowed for the operand).

Update docs and regression tests, bump the catversion.
2007-01-16 21:41:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 9a54b76b39 Fix handling of CC (century) format spec in to_date/to_char. According to
standard convention the 21st century runs from 2001-2100, not 2000-2099,
so make it work like that.  Per bug #2885 from Akio Iwaasa.

Backpatch to 8.2, but no further, since this is really a definitional
change; users of older branches are probably more interested in stability.
2007-01-12 23:34:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 92dffbd029 Update to_char("CC") description. 2007-01-12 20:06:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8c1de5fb00 Initial SQL/XML support: xml data type and initial set of functions. 2006-12-21 16:05:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f14d43d2d3 Document that to_char() "TM" is controlled by lc_messages. 2006-11-25 00:38:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 016e0b4177 For to_char() day/month abbrevitions, mention "3 chars in English,
localized lengths vary".
2006-11-20 20:20:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0ff4352d7a Add some real descriptions to the multiargument aggregate functions rather
than just showing the incomprehensible formulas.
2006-10-23 19:57:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0f763503ff Spellchecking and such 2006-10-23 18:10:32 +00:00
Tom Lane e69c09c1e9 date_trunc also accepts 'quarter'. Noted by Yoshihisa Nakano. 2006-10-01 18:54:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 673a573dcc Remove duplicate (and now incorrect) documentation for row-wise IS [NOT]
NULL.  Noted by Teodor.
2006-09-29 18:36:45 +00:00
Tom Lane f213131f20 Fix IS NULL and IS NOT NULL tests on row-valued expressions to conform to
the SQL spec, viz IS NULL is true if all the row's fields are null, IS NOT
NULL is true if all the row's fields are not null.  The former coding got
this right for a limited number of cases with IS NULL (ie, those where it
could disassemble a ROW constructor at parse time), but was entirely wrong
for IS NOT NULL.  Per report from Teodor.

I desisted from changing the behavior for arrays, since on closer inspection
it's not clear that there's any support for that in the SQL spec.  This
probably needs more consideration.
2006-09-28 20:51:43 +00:00
Tom Lane e893e87530 Update timezone documentation to reflect current reality: instead of
giving tables of known timezone names, refer the user to the system views.
Joachim Wieland
2006-09-22 16:20:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 0efa510bf7 Add documentation for new in-core advisory lock functions. Merlin Moncure 2006-09-20 23:43:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 32cebaecff Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 65ab9f4f24 Add a couple of information functions to support direct checks on whether
a schema is our own temp schema or another backend's temp schema, and use
these in place of some former kluges in information_schema.  Per my
proposal of yesterday.
2006-09-14 22:05:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 69b7c99265 Add missing documentation for new anyarray-overlap operator. 2006-09-10 19:03:57 +00:00
Tom Lane ba920e1c91 Rename contains/contained-by operators to @> and <@, per discussion that
agreed these symbols are less easily confused.  I made new pg_operator
entries (with new OIDs) for the old names, so as to provide backward
compatibility while making it pretty easy to remove the old names in
some future release cycle.  This commit only touches the core datatypes,
contrib will be fixed separately.
2006-09-10 00:29:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 7bae5a289c Get rid of the separate RULE privilege for tables: now only a table's owner
can create or modify rules for the table.  Do setRuleCheckAsUser() while
loading rules into the relcache, rather than when defining a rule.  This
ensures that permission checks for tables referenced in a rule are done with
respect to the current owner of the rule's table, whereas formerly ALTER TABLE
OWNER would fail to update the permission checking for associated rules.
Removal of separate RULE privilege is needed to prevent various scenarios
in which a grantee of RULE privilege could effectively have any privilege
of the table owner.  For backwards compatibility, GRANT/REVOKE RULE is still
accepted, but it doesn't do anything.  Per discussion here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg01138.php
2006-09-05 21:08:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7d03215f31 Update setseed() documentation. 2006-09-04 21:47:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04b84f5a93 Generalize width_bucket() documentation because b1/b2 can be
interchanged.
2006-08-22 00:49:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 2b2a50722c Fix all known problems with pg_dump's handling of serial sequences
by abandoning the idea that it should say SERIAL in the dump.  Instead,
dump serial sequences and column defaults just like regular ones.
Add a new backend command ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY to let pg_dump recreate
the sequence-to-column dependency that was formerly created "behind the
scenes" by SERIAL.  This restores SERIAL to being truly "just a macro"
consisting of component operations that can be stated explicitly in SQL.
Furthermore, the new command allows sequence ownership to be reassigned,
so that old mistakes can be cleaned up.

Also, downgrade the OWNED-BY dependency from INTERNAL to AUTO, since there
is no longer any very compelling argument why the sequence couldn't be
dropped while keeping the column.  (This forces initdb, to be sure the
right kinds of dependencies are in there.)

Along the way, add checks to prevent ALTER OWNER or SET SCHEMA on an
owned sequence; you can now only do this indirectly by changing the
owning table's owner or schema.  This is an oversight in previous
releases, but probably not worth back-patching.
2006-08-21 00:57:26 +00:00
Tom Lane e8ea9e9587 Implement archive_timeout feature to force xlog file switches to occur no more
than N seconds apart.  This allows a simple, if not very high performance,
means of guaranteeing that a PITR archive is no more than N seconds behind
real time.  Also make pg_current_xlog_location return the WAL Write pointer,
add pg_current_xlog_insert_location to return the Insert pointer, and fix
pg_xlogfile_name_offset to return its results as a two-element record instead
of a smashed-together string, as per recent discussion.

Simon Riggs
2006-08-17 23:04:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 704ddaaa09 Add support for forcing a switch to a new xlog file; cause such a switch
to happen automatically during pg_stop_backup().  Add some functions for
interrogating the current xlog insertion point and for easily extracting
WAL filenames from the hex WAL locations displayed by pg_stop_backup
and friends.  Simon Riggs with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2006-08-06 03:53:44 +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
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 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
Neil Conway 2fa7a041f3 Correct the description of the pg_get_viewdef() function. Do some nearby
SGML cleanup: sort table entries alphabetically.
2006-07-11 19:11:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a77275fe3b Please find attached two patches for documentation and regression tests
for the usage of full time zone names.

Joachim Wieland
2006-07-06 01:46:38 +00:00
Tom Lane eaf8f312c7 Some editorial work on the documentation of the current-date/time
functions.
2006-06-19 16:13:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5266f221a2 Merge postmaster and postgres command into just postgres. postmaster
symlink is kept for now for compatibility.  To call single-user mode, use
postgres --single.
2006-06-18 15:38:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eb5558bce8 Fix to_ascii() markup error. 2006-06-15 17:52:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 712e824ff1 Move list of supported to_ascii() encodings from footnote to main
description.

Nis Jorgensen
2006-06-15 17:38:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b6477c6295 Add regexp_replace() to string functions section.
Joachim Wieland
2006-05-30 11:54:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 45ec63cb24 Change <type>string</> to <parameter>string</>. 2006-05-18 03:18:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d6a35c8125 Make function param_name/type documentation more consistent. 2006-05-18 00:50:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 82a2881c5b Code review for GRANT CONNECT patch. Spell the privilege as CONNECT not
CONNECTION, fix a number of places that were missed (eg pg_dump support),
avoid executing an extra search of pg_database during startup.
2006-04-30 21:15:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e6004f0151 Add statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp(), and
transaction_timestamp() (just like now()).

Also update statement_timeout() to mention it is statement arrival time
that is measured.

Catalog version updated.
2006-04-25 00:25:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian efe3de07e9 Removes or minimizes some documentation mentions of backward
compatibility for release 7.2 and earlier.  I have not altered any
mentions of release 7.3 or later.  The release notes were not modified,
so the changes are still documented, just not in the main docs.
2006-04-23 03:39:52 +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
Bruce Momjian 135fe1899d SGML typo fix. 2006-03-06 22:54:14 +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 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 43e9bab94a Rename Online Backup to Continuous Archiving. 2006-03-03 22:02:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1b658473ea Add support for Windows codepages 1253, 1254, 1255, and 1257 and clean
up a bunch of the support utilities.

In src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode remove nearly duplicate copies of the
UCS_to_XXX perl script and replace with one version to handle all generic
files.  Update the Makefile so that it knows about all the map files.
This produces a slight difference in some of the map files, using a
uniform naming convention and not mapping the null character.

In src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs create a master utf8<->win
codepage function like the ISO 8859 versions instead of having a separate
handler for each conversion.

There is an externally visible change in the name of the win1258 to utf8
conversion.  According to the documentation notes, it was named
incorrectly and this changes it to a standard name.

Running the Unicode mapping perl scripts has shown some additional mapping
changes in koi8r and iso8859-7.
2006-02-18 16:15:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f695750c43 Allow to_char() to print localized month and day names.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-02-12 04:44:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f9a726aa88 I've created a new shared catalog table pg_shdescription to store
comments on cluster global objects like databases, tablespaces, and
roles.

It touches a lot of places, but not much in the way of big changes.  The
only design decision I made was to duplicate the query and manipulation
functions rather than to try and have them handle both shared and local
comments.  I believe this is simpler for the code and not an issue for
callers because they know what type of object they are dealing with.
This has resulted in a shobj_description function analagous to
obj_description and backend functions [Create/Delete]SharedComments
mirroring the existing [Create/Delete]Comments functions.

pg_shdescription.h goes into src/include/catalog/

Kris Jurka
2006-02-12 03:22:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1372515271 Add INET/CIDR operators: and, or, not, plus int8, minus int8, and inet
minus inet.

Stephen R. van den Berg
2006-02-11 03:32:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 8d8bf12760 Clean up the INET-vs-CIDR situation. Get rid of the internal is_cidr flag
and rely exclusively on the SQL type system to tell the difference between
the types.  Prevent creation of invalid CIDR values via casting from INET
or set_masklen() --- both of these operations now silently zero any bits
to the right of the netmask.  Remove duplicate CIDR comparison operators,
letting the type rely on the INET operators instead.
2006-01-26 02:35:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 782eefc580 Create a standard function pg_sleep() to sleep for a specified amount of time.
Replace the former ad-hoc implementation used in the regression tests.
Joachim Wieland
2006-01-11 20:12:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e07709760 Implement SQL-compliant treatment of row comparisons for < <= > >= cases
(previously we only did = and <> correctly).  Also, allow row comparisons
with any operators that are in btree opclasses, not only those with these
specific names.  This gets rid of a whole lot of indefensible assumptions
about the behavior of particular operators based on their names ... though
it's still true that IN and NOT IN expand to "= ANY".  The patch adds a
RowCompareExpr expression node type, and makes some changes in the
representation of ANY/ALL/ROWCOMPARE SubLinks so that they can share code
with RowCompareExpr.

I have not yet done anything about making RowCompareExpr an indexable
operator, but will look at that soon.

initdb forced due to changes in stored rules.
2005-12-28 01:30:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2ddac948f8 Add documentation example of using interval multiplication with 'days'.
Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-12-21 23:22:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3086f6e4f0 Add additional example for interval multiplication.
Fix example for day and hours interval subtraction for new computation
method.

Update interval examples to display zero seconds, which is our default.

Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-12-21 16:02:24 +00:00
Neil Conway be8100d64e Implement IS NOT DISTINCT FROM, update the regression tests and docs.
Patch from Pavel Stehule, minor fixups by myself.
2005-12-11 10:54:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d20901a39b Allow to_char(interval) and to_char(time) to use AM/PM specifications.
Map them to a single day, so '30 hours' is 'AM'.

Have to_char(interval) and to_char(time) use "HH", "HH12" as 12-hour
intervals, rather than bypass and print the full interval hours.  This
is neeeded because to_char(time) is mapped to interval in this function.
Intervals should use "HH24", and document suggestion.

Allow "D" format specifiers for interval/time.
2005-12-03 16:45:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee4aa3021e Improve documentation for COALESCE and NULLIF. Add references for NVL
and IFNULL.

Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-28 23:18:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 659f681638 Change array comparison rules to consider dimensionality information,
not only the array contents, before claiming two arrays are equal.
Per recent discussion.
2005-11-19 19:44:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 1e9a1a70ad Change array_push and array_cat so that they retain the lower bound of
the array (for array_push) or higher-dimensional array (for array_cat)
rather than decrementing it as before.  This avoids generating lower
bounds other than one for any array operation within the SQL spec.  Per
recent discussion.
Interestingly, this seems to have been the original behavior, because
while updating the docs I noticed that a large fraction of relevant
examples were *wrong* for the old behavior and are now right.  Is it
worth correcting this in the back-branch docs?
2005-11-19 01:50:08 +00:00
Tom Lane cecb607559 Make SQL arrays support null elements. This commit fixes the core array
functionality, but I still need to make another pass looking at places
that incidentally use arrays (such as ACL manipulation) to make sure they
are null-safe.  Contrib needs work too.
I have not changed the behaviors that are still under discussion about
array comparison and what to do with lower bounds.
2005-11-17 22:14:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04ce3cb02d Properly document return value of strpos(). 2005-11-16 03:56:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 39dfbe5791 Spellchecking run, final cleanups 2005-11-04 23:14:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 03381695c6 Avoid referring to a specific version of the SQL standard except where
necessary, and be careful to refer to the right version where it is
useful to do so.  This partially reverts an ill-considered search and
replace from a few months ago.
2005-11-04 02:56:31 +00:00
Tom Lane c78f3039f2 Small grammar correction. 2005-10-25 15:47:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 220f2a7d15 Code review for regexp_replace patch. Improve documentation and comments,
fix problems with replacement-string backslashes that aren't followed by
one of the expected characters, avoid giving the impression that
replace_text_regexp() is meant to be called directly as a SQL function,
etc.
2005-10-18 20:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane aa731ed843 Change nextval and other sequence functions to specify their sequence
argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string.  The frontend
conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an
implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass.  This provides
backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument
is explicitly typed as 'text'.  When the argument is just an unadorned
literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the
stored representation will be an OID.  This solves longstanding problems
with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as
well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or
moving them to another schema.  All per recent discussion.
Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support
for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).
2005-10-02 23:50:16 +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
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
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
Bruce Momjian 4ea18a11fa Fix memory leak when using justify_hours. 2005-08-25 01:30:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 009e8d44f8 Remove statement that to_char(interval) is deprecated; seems we are
going to keep it after all.
2005-08-24 20:49:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 070a3ad76b Rename pg_stat_file columns to be more consistent. Split apart change
and creation columns to behave for Unix or Win32.
2005-08-15 23:00:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 2af9a44fa9 Make pg_stat_file() use OUT parameters so that the user doesn't have to
remember the output parameter set for himself.  It's a bit of a kluge
but fixing array_in to work in bootstrap mode looks worse.
I removed the separate pg_file_length() function, as it no longer has any
real notational advantage --- you can write (pg_stat_file(...)).length.
2005-08-13 19:02:34 +00:00
Tom Lane a43ea120bf Code & docs review for server instrumentation patch. File timestamps
should surely be timestamptz not timestamp; fix some but not all of the
holes in check_and_make_absolute(); other minor cleanup.  Also put in
the missed catversion bump.
2005-08-12 18:23:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cb29f669b0 Add markup for GUC mention in docs. 2005-08-12 15:57:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b609695b7a Add files to do read I/O on the cluster directory:
pg_stat_file()
	pg_read_file()
	pg_ls_dir()
	pg_reload_conf()
	pg_rotate_logfile()

Dave Page
Andreas Pflug
2005-08-12 03:25:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 0001e98d54 Code and docs review for pg_column_size() patch. 2005-08-02 16:11:57 +00:00
Tom Lane ecf7fccebc Fix broken markup and spelling, put paragraph in a somewhat less random
place.
2005-07-30 22:53:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b2b6548c79 Please find attached diffs for documentation and simple regression
tests for the new interval->day changes. I added tests for
justify_hours() and justify_days() to interval.sql, as they take
interval input and produce interval output. If there's a more
appropriate place for them, please let me know.

Michael Glaesemann
2005-07-30 14:52:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 358a897fa1 Move dbsize functions into the backend. New functions:
pg_tablespace_size
	pg_database_size
	pg_relation_size
	pg_complete_relation_size
	pg_size_pretty

Remove /contrib/dbsize.

Dave Page
2005-07-29 14:47:04 +00:00
Tom Lane af019fb9ae Add a role property 'rolinherit' which, when false, denotes that the role
doesn't automatically inherit the privileges of roles it is a member of;
for such a role, membership in another role can be exploited only by doing
explicit SET ROLE.  The default inherit setting is TRUE, so by default
the behavior doesn't change, but creating a user with NOINHERIT gives closer
adherence to our current reading of SQL99.  Documentation still lacking,
and I think the information schema needs another look.
2005-07-26 16:38:29 +00:00
Tom Lane f9fd176461 Add pg_has_role() family of privilege inquiry functions modeled after the
existing ones for object privileges.  Update the information_schema for
roles --- pg_has_role() makes this a whole lot easier, removing the need
for most of the explicit joins with pg_user.  The views should be a tad
faster now, too.  Stephen Frost and Tom Lane.
2005-07-26 00:04:19 +00:00
Tom Lane e5d6b91220 Add SET ROLE. This is a partial commit of Stephen Frost's recent patch;
I'm still working on the has_role function and information_schema changes.
2005-07-25 22:12:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 261026575d Fix AT TIME ZONE for timestamps without time zones:
test=> select ('2005-07-20 00:00:00'::timestamp without time zone) at
	time zone 'Europe/Paris';
	        timezone
	------------------------
	 2005-07-19 22:00:00-04

Udpate documentation.
2005-07-22 21:16:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian db05f4a7eb Add 'day' field to INTERVAL so 1 day interval can be distinguished from
24 hours. This is very helpful for daylight savings time:

	select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '24 hours';
	      ?column?
	----------------------
	2005-05-04 01:00:00-04

	select '2005-05-03 00:00:00 EST'::timestamp with time zone + '1 day';
	      ?column?
	----------------------
	2005-05-04 01:00:00-04

Michael Glaesemann
2005-07-20 16:42:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 37464a0326 Fix some bogosities in geometric-function documentation: add an entry
for circle(polygon), which was missing; remove bogus entry for
point(lseg, lseg), which does not exist, and the documentation seemed to
describe lseg_interpt, which we already document as an operator not a
function.  Also remove entry for box_intersect, which likewise is
preferentially used via the operator #.
2005-07-18 22:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5e544e4eb7 Fix SGML spacing. 2005-07-15 19:02:12 +00:00
Neil Conway c3f1b0f4dd This doc patch replaces all inappropriate references to SQL:1999 when it
is used as if it were the latest (and/or still valid) SQL standard.
SQL:2003 is used in its place. Patch from Simon Riggs.
2005-07-14 06:17:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 75a64eeb4b I made the patch that implements regexp_replace again.
The specification of this function is as follows.

regexp_replace(source text, pattern text, replacement text, [flags
text])
returns text

Replace string that matches to regular expression in source text to
replacement text.

 - pattern is regular expression pattern.
 - replacement is replace string that can use '\1'-'\9', and '\&'.
    '\1'-'\9': back reference to the n'th subexpression.
    '\&'     : entire matched string.
 - flags can use the following values:
    g: global (replace all)
    i: ignore case
    When the flags is not specified, case sensitive, replace the first
    instance only.

Atsushi Ogawa
2005-07-10 04:54:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a923602855 Add pg_column_size() to return storage size of a column, including
possible compression.

Mark Kirkwood
2005-07-06 19:02:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a29d815a7a Improve gettimeofday() documentation.
Karl O. Pinc
2005-06-29 01:52:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 7762619e95 Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authid
and pg_auth_members.  There are still many loose ends to finish in this
patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for
instance).  But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can
make some progress on shared dependencies.  The catalog changes should
be pretty much done.
2005-06-28 05:09:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 943b396245 Add Oracle-compatible GREATEST and LEAST functions. Pavel Stehule 2005-06-26 22:05:42 +00:00
Tom Lane b90f8f20f0 Extend r-tree operator classes to handle Y-direction tests equivalent
to the existing X-direction tests.  An rtree class now includes 4 actual
2-D tests, 4 1-D X-direction tests, and 4 1-D Y-direction tests.
This involved adding four new Y-direction test operators for each of
box and polygon; I followed the PostGIS project's lead as to the names
of these operators.
NON BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE CHANGE: the poly_overleft (&<) and poly_overright
(&>) operators now have semantics comparable to box_overleft and box_overright.
This is necessary to make r-tree indexes work correctly on polygons.
Also, I changed circle_left and circle_right to agree with box_left and
box_right --- formerly they allowed the boundaries to touch.  This isn't
actually essential given the lack of any r-tree opclass for circles, but
it seems best to sync all the definitions while we are at it.
2005-06-24 20:53:34 +00:00
Neil Conway 4aaff55359 Minor SGML markup cleanup. 2005-06-15 06:29:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0851a6fbc7 This patch makes it possible to use the full set of timezones when doing
"AT TIME ZONE", and not just the shorlist previously available. For
example:

SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London';

works fine now. It will also obey whatever DST rules were in effect at
just that date, which the previous implementation did not.

It also supports the AT TIME ZONE on the timetz datatype. The whole
handling of DST is a bit bogus there, so I chose to make it use whatever
DST rules are in effect at the time of executig the query. not sure if
anybody is actuallyi *using* timetz though, it seems pretty
unpredictable just because of this...

Magnus Hagander
2005-06-15 00:34:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8b84aebddf Add BETWEEN SYMMETRIC.
Pavel Stehule
2005-06-14 23:47:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f5835b4b8d Add pg_postmaster_start_time() function.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Matthias Schmidt
2005-06-14 21:04:42 +00:00
Neil Conway 8c05ca7754 SGML cleanup: consistently use "endterm" in <xref>s that link to the
reference page for SQL commands, so that the link text is italicized.
2005-06-13 02:40:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4d0e7b4aac Please find attached a patch (diff -c against cvs HEAD) to add a
function that accepts a double precision argument assumed to be a Unix
epoch timestamp and returns timestamp with time zone, and accompanying
documentation.

Usage:

test=# select to_timestamp(200120400);
       to_timestamp
------------------------
  1976-05-05 14:00:00+09
(1 row)

Michael Glaesemann
2005-06-09 16:35:09 +00:00
Neil Conway 657c098e41 Add a function lastval(), which returns the value returned by the
last nextval() or setval() performed by the current session. Update the
docs, add regression tests, and bump the catalog version. Patch from
Dennis Björklund, various improvements by Neil Conway.
2005-06-07 07:08:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 128c25b52f Trivial markup improvement. 2005-06-06 16:29:01 +00:00
Neil Conway 1b41965d5d Remove some verbiage describing how min() and max() are slow when applied
to the entire table: as of current sources, they are no longer slow
provided there is an index on the column.
2005-05-23 01:50:01 +00:00
Neil Conway dd2894dfd6 Consistently do not include a terminating period in single-sentence
function descriptions in func.sgml; other minor SGML tweaks.
2005-05-23 01:29:54 +00:00
Neil Conway f3567eeaf2 Implement md5(bytea), update regression tests and documentation. Patch
from Abhijit Menon-Sen, minor editorialization from Neil Conway. Also,
improve md5(text) to allocate a constant-sized buffer on the stack
rather than via palloc.

Catalog version bumped.
2005-05-20 01:29:56 +00:00
Neil Conway a535a1522f Fix newly introduced spelling error. 2005-05-11 13:58:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 147144c6ca Add mention that not all functions are listed.
Update Chinese FAQ for HTML.
2005-05-11 13:36:14 +00:00
Neil Conway 6853a37a83 Minor consistency improvement to the documentation on array functions. 2005-04-13 00:20:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9e9724e8bd Fix wrong week returnded by date_trunc('week') for early dates in
January --- would return wrong year for 2005-01-01 and 2006-01-01.

per report from Robert Creager.

Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-04-01 14:25:23 +00:00
Neil Conway d4beb2636c Minor tweak to documentation. 2005-03-30 04:52:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e26c00297 Fix to_date to behave reasonably when CC and YY fields are both used.
Karel Zak
2005-03-25 16:08:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e7fb9f18bf Add support for Win1252 encoding.
Roland Volkmann
2005-03-14 18:31:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e3d7de6b99 Rename canonical encodings, per Peter:
UNICODE => UTF8
	ALT => WIN866
	WIN => WIN1251
	TCVN => WIN1258

The old codes continue to work.
2005-03-07 04:30:55 +00:00
Neil Conway 484f0464ff Implement max() and min() aggregates for array types. Patch from Koju
Iijima, reviewed by Neil Conway. Catalog version number bumped,
regression tests updated.
2005-02-28 03:45:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 341251f202 Make clearer warning about using 'now' with DEFAULT:
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;
	SELECT now();
	SELECT TIMESTAMP 'now';  -- incorrect for use with DEFAULT
2005-02-11 04:31:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 750d9171f6 Add documentation for format_type(), which somehow escaped it before. 2005-01-28 23:12:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 4de12d4470 Add docs for a couple of formerly-undocumented geometric conversion functions. 2005-01-26 20:42:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ced129aa3 More < and > cleanups converted to ampersands. 2005-01-22 22:56:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 0471cd5f62 Clarify description of greedy and non-greedy POSIX regular expressions,
per discussion in Nov 2004 with Ken Tanzer.
2005-01-09 20:08:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 6889537c48 Some small docs improvements motivated by reading the comments for the 7.4
7.4 interactive docs.
2005-01-08 05:19:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 0add759825 More minor updates and copy-editing. 2004-12-23 23:07:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bbb2e21e14 I was recently surprised to find that EXTRACT's day of the week
numbering is different than TO_CHAR's ditto. EXTRACT starts at 0==Sunday
while TO_CHAR starts at 1==Sunday.

A suggestion for two documentation notes is attached as a patch to
current CVS HEAD.

Troels Arvin
2004-12-21 01:02:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5ec30faee6 Spell checker run 2004-12-13 18:05:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2254d4ef1b Back out ARRAY() patch. 2004-12-03 18:34:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4af2ea329b Add documention on ARRAY() function.
David Fetter
2004-12-02 21:04:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 22c21bab92 Wording improvement. 2004-12-02 17:39:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 91cf5ef550 Document that btrim()'s second parameter is optional, and defaults to spaces. 2004-12-02 17:14:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 4828445d3c Clarify documentation of age() functions. 2004-12-01 19:32:12 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 49cbef7947 Update of conformance information to SQL:2003
by Troels Arvin, Simon Riggs, Elein Mustain

Make spelling of SQL standard names uniform.
2004-11-27 21:27:08 +00:00
Neil Conway ec7a6bd9a2 Replace "--" and "---" with "&mdash;" as appropriate, for better-looking
output.
2004-11-15 06:32:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4b3a2d854c Use correct function name in example 2004-11-08 15:57:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 3d2849820b Document IS DISTINCT FROM in a more obvious place, and add some more
index entries for IS-foo constructs.
2004-10-26 22:16:12 +00:00
Neil Conway 3da69bd18c Fix error in setseed() docs: "int32" is not a (SQL) type, but "integer" is. 2004-10-04 08:15:41 +00:00
Neil Conway bb467563ec Fix typo in docs. 2004-09-28 10:18:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian af032f15da Replace incorrect example for quote_ident
Greg Sabino Mullan
2004-08-18 03:06:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 97b1ac1aef Update documentation to reflect the fact that we now know exactly what
time zone names we support.
2004-08-10 00:55:08 +00:00
Tom Lane fcbc438727 Label CVS tip as 8.0devel instead of 7.5devel. Adjust various comments
and documentation to reference 8.0 instead of 7.5.
2004-08-04 21:34:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 58c41712d5 Add functions pg_start_backup, pg_stop_backup to create backup label
and history files as per recent discussion.  While at it, remove
pg_terminate_backend, since we have decided we do not have time during
this release cycle to address the reliability concerns it creates.
Split the 'Miscellaneous Functions' documentation section into
'System Information Functions' and 'System Administration Functions',
which hopefully will draw the eyes of those looking for such things.
2004-08-03 20:32:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e47cbb3bad Add has_tablespace_privilege().
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-07-12 20:23:59 +00:00
Tom Lane e34082ee3b Add missing operators of the form interval-plus-datetime, as required for
better SQL compliance in this area, per recent discussion.  Mark related
operators as commutators where possible.  (The system doesn't actually care
about commutator marking for operators not returning boolean, at the moment,
but this seems forward-thinking and besides it made it easier to verify
that we hadn't missed any.)
Also, remove interval-minus-time and interval-minus-timetz operators.
I'm not sure how these got in, but they are nonstandard and had very
obviously broken behavior.  (minus is not commutative in anyone's book.)
I doubt anyone had ever used 'em, because we'd surely have gotten a bug
report about it if so.
2004-07-02 22:50:23 +00:00
Joe Conway 0b89d261c7 Andreas Pflug wrote:
From an idea of Bruce, the attached patch implements the function
 pg_tablespace_databases(oid) RETURNS SETOF oid
 which delivers as set of database oids having objects in the selected
 tablespace, enabling an admin to examine only the databases affecting
 the tablespace for objects instead of scanning all of them.

initdb forced
2004-07-02 18:59:25 +00:00
Tom Lane a0e842d81b Add pg_get_serial_sequence() function, and cause pg_dump to use it.
This eliminates the assumption that a serial column's sequence will
have the same name on reload that it was given in the original database.

Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-06-25 17:20:29 +00:00
Tom Lane b5b9e33564 Add documentation for pg_cancel_backend and pg_terminate_backend.
Magnus Hagander
2004-06-24 19:57:14 +00:00
Tom Lane d70a42e642 Represent type-specific length coercion functions as pg_cast entries,
eliminating the former hard-wired convention about their names.  Allow
pg_cast entries to represent both type coercion and length coercion in
a single step --- this is represented by a function that takes an
extra typmod argument, just like a length coercion function.  This
nicely merges the type and length coercion mechanisms into something
at least a little cleaner than we had before.  Make use of the single-
coercion-step behavior to fix integer-to-bit coercion so that coercing
to bit(n) yields the rightmost n bits of the integer instead of the
leftmost n bits.  This should fix recurrent complaints about the odd
behavior of this coercion.  Clean up the documentation of the bit string
functions, and try to put it where people might actually find it.
Also, get rid of the unreliable heuristics in ruleutils.c about whether
to display nested coercion steps; instead require parse_coerce.c to
label them properly in the first place.
2004-06-16 01:27:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 8e7349b738 Fix doc bug: to_timestamp() returns timestamptz, not plain timestamp. 2004-06-14 19:01:09 +00:00
Tom Lane ba0f9ff3ba Code review for recently-added network functions. Get it to work when
log_hostname is enabled, clean up documentation.
2004-06-13 19:56:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 70f5a87ecc Small patch that adds some documentation for the area() function.
Specifically, point out that intersecting points in a path will yield
(most likely), unexpected results.  Visually these are identical paths,
but mathematically they're not the same.  Ex:

  area |                                           plan
------
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
    -0 | ((0,0),(0,1),(2,1),(2,2),(1,2),(1,0),(0,0))
     2 | ((0,0),(0,1),(1,1),(1,2),(2,2),(2,1),(1,1),(1,0),(0,0))

The current algorithm for area(PATH) is very quick, but only handles
non-intersecting paths.  I'm going to work on two other functions for
the PATH data type that determines if a PATH is intersecting or not,
and a function that returns the area() for an intersecting PATH.  The
intersecting area() function will be considerably slower (I think it's
going to be O(n!) or worse instead of the current O(n), but that comes
with the territory).

Sean Chittenden
2004-06-02 21:34:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 97d625dd1c *) inet_(client|server)_(addr|port)() and necessary documentation for
the four functions.


> Also, please justify the temp-related changes.  I was not aware that we
> had any breakage there.

patch-tmp-schema.txt contains the following bits:

*) Changes pg_namespace_aclmask() so that the superuser is always able
to create objects in the temp namespace.
*) Changes pg_namespace_aclmask() so that if this is a temp namespace,
objects are only allowed to be created in the temp namespace if the
user has TEMP privs on the database.  This encompasses all object
creation, not just TEMP tables.
*) InitTempTableNamespace() checks to see if the current user, not the
session user, has access to create a temp namespace.

The first two changes are necessary to support the third change.  Now
it's possible to revoke all temp table privs from non-super users and
limiting all creation of temp tables/schemas via a function that's
executed with elevated privs (security definer).  Before this change,
it was not possible to have a setuid function to create a temp
table/schema if the session user had no TEMP privs.

patch-area-path.txt contains:

*) Can now determine the area of a closed path.


patch-dfmgr.txt contains:

*) Small tweak to add the library path that's being expanded.

I was using $lib/foo.so and couldn't easily figure out what the error
message, "invalid macro name in dynamic library path" meant without
looking through the source code.  With the path in there, at least I
know where to start looking in my config file.

Sean Chittenden
2004-05-26 18:35:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8096fe45ce The added aggregates are:
(1) boolean-and and boolean-or aggregates named bool_and and bool_or.
    they (SHOULD;-) correspond to standard sql every and some/any aggregates.
    they do not have the right name as there is a problem with
    the standard and the parser for some/any. Tom also think that
    the standard name is misleading because NULL are ignored.
    Also add 'every' aggregate.

(2) bitwise integer aggregates named bit_and and bit_or for
    int2, int4, int8 and bit types. They are not standard, but I find
    them useful. I needed them once.


The patches adds:

- 2 new very short strict functions for boolean aggregates in
  src/backed/utils/adt/bool.c,
  src/include/utils/builtins.h and src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h

- the new aggregates declared in src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h and
  src/include/catalog/pg_aggregate.h

- some documentation and validation about these new aggregates.

Fabien COELHO
2004-05-26 15:26:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d5003e5221 Document &< and &> properly.
William White <bwhite@frognet.net>
2004-05-19 23:56:38 +00:00
Neil Conway 0079547bcb Implement the width_bucket() function, per SQL2003. This commit only adds
a variant of the function for the 'numeric' datatype; it would be possible
to add additional variants for other datatypes, but I haven't done so yet.

This commit includes regression tests and minimal documentation; if we
want developers to actually use this function in applications, we'll
probably need to document what it does more fully.
2004-05-14 21:42:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 2f63232d30 Promote row expressions to full-fledged citizens of the expression syntax,
rather than allowing them only in a few special cases as before.  In
particular you can now pass a ROW() construct to a function that accepts
a rowtype parameter.  Internal generation of RowExprs fixes a number of
corner cases that used to not work very well, such as referencing the
whole-row result of a JOIN or subquery.  This represents a further step in
the work I started a month or so back to make rowtype values into
first-class citizens.
2004-05-10 22:44:49 +00:00
Neil Conway 9a939886ac Fix typo. 2004-05-10 21:08:28 +00:00
Neil Conway 3b8151a5ee Fix a typo in the documentation. 2004-05-05 09:33:38 +00:00
Neil Conway fc7fd50182 Add ceiling() as an alias for ceil(), and power() as an alias for pow().
Regression tests and documentation have both been updated.

SQL2003 requires that both ceiling() and ceil() be present, so I have
documented both spellings. SQL2003 doesn't mention pow() as far as I
can see, so I decided to replace pow() with power() in the documentation:
there is little reason to encourage the continued usage of a function
that isn't compliant with the standard, given a standard-compliant
alternative.

RELEASE NOTES: should state that pow() is considered deprecated
(although I don't see the need to ever remove it.)
2004-04-23 20:32:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1934055cbe Please find a small patch to fix the brain damage "century" and
"millennium" date part implementation in postgresql, both in the code
and the documentation, so that it conforms to the official definition.
If you do not agree with the official definition, please send your
complaint to "pope@vatican.org". I'm not responsible for them;-)

With the previous version, the centuries and millenniums had a wrong
number and started the wrong year. Moreover century number 0, which does
not exist in reality, lasted 200 years. Also, millennium number 0 lasted
2000 years.

If you want postgresql to have it's own definition of "century" and
"millennium" that does not conform to the one of the society, just give
them another name. I would suggest "pgCENTURY" and "pgMILLENNIUM";-)

IMO, if someone may use the options, it means that postgresql is used for
historical data, so it make sense to have an historical definition. Also,
I just want to divide the year by 100 or 1000, I can do that quite easily.

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE

Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr
2004-04-10 18:02:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fd071bd478 Fix to_char for 1 BC. Previously it returned 1 AD.
Fix to_char(year) for BC dates.  Previously it returned one less than
the current year.

Add documentation mentioning that there is no 0 AD.
2004-03-30 15:53:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 6c7e6d2baa Add a usage example for has_function_privilege(). 2004-03-19 19:13:26 +00:00
Neil Conway ae22a6c185 Fix a typo. 2004-03-10 20:10:26 +00:00
Neil Conway 80ec228389 Refer to GUC variables using <xref> tags rather than <varname> tags,
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
Neil Conway ab8faed00d Editorialization of some text discussing 'IS NULL' vs. '= NULL'. 2004-03-07 01:01:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1973971821 Per a brief conversation with Tom, I've created a patch for adding
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