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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane 6cda3ad8fe Cause planner to make use of average-column-width statistic that is now
collected by ANALYZE.  Also, add some modest amount of intelligence to
guesses that are used for varlena columns in the absence of any ANALYZE
statistics.  The 'width' reported by EXPLAIN is finally something less
than totally bogus for varlena columns ... and, in consequence, hashjoin
estimating should be a little better ...
2001-05-09 00:35:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b66a0cca57 Update runtime shared memory computations. 2001-05-08 21:09:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1c1c58c76c Add SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command. 2001-05-08 21:06:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 530dc73cd1 Remove pgadmin.sgml file. 2001-05-08 19:28:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3044bc4043 Add new emails to file. 2001-05-08 19:21:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a5b17eb280 Remove LISP manual reference. Added to web "interfaces" page. 2001-05-08 19:14:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aea4f6f993 Update TODO list. 2001-05-08 19:01:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 04e14fa350 drop_function.sgml:
===================
In Notes:
 Refer to CREATE FUNCTION for information on creating aggregate functions.
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I assume it must read C function instead.

In Compatibility SQL/PSM:
 SQL/PSM is a proposed standard.

 We had that before: remove proposed.


drop_index.sgml:
================
<REFNAME>: Removes existing indexes from a database

as far as I can see index should be singular. The command description is
written as if only one index can be removed at a time. Interestingly
enough, in v7.0.2 it was in fact singular. Am I mistaken here?

drop_operator.sgml:
===================
In Outputs the arguments are referred to as type and type2, but the synopsis
and Inputs section these are left_type and right_type, respectively. Also,
oper is used in Outputs versus id in Inputs/Synopsis. In the translation I
follow the replaceables used in the Inputs/Synopsis part.

Frank Wegmann
2001-05-08 17:51:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cd11d33a36 drop_function.sgml:
===================
In Notes:
 Refer to CREATE FUNCTION for information on creating aggregate functions.
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I assume it must read C function instead.

Frank Wegmann
2001-05-08 17:35:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 46c93bd532 Further cleanup of RAISE discussion; in particular, remove example
that doesn't actually work.
2001-05-08 02:53:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 24baa1d95f Fix raise mention that %% output as %. 2001-05-08 02:26:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f4832defa9 Update RAISE manual concerning % format symbols. 2001-05-08 00:30:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a9ac332a4e Update TODO list. 2001-05-08 00:19:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c1983858c0 Update TODO list. 2001-05-08 00:14:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e86c31c74f Update RAISE mention in manual to take string/variable not format/identifier. 2001-05-08 00:09:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5fdae774a1 Add mention of functional indexes for case-insensitive comparisons. 2001-05-07 19:58:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 232724af0d Add \cd command to psql. 2001-05-07 19:31:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ab420e2114 Update TODO list. 2001-05-07 18:40:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ef71c8fccf Update TODO list. 2001-05-07 17:05:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 84fd16516c Update FAQ to use new pgsql-cygwin@postgresql.org list. 2001-05-07 16:02:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f83f740a13 Solaris startup cleanup from Justin Clift 2001-05-07 15:55:27 +00:00
Tom Lane f905d65ee3 Rewrite of planner statistics-gathering code. ANALYZE is now available as
a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too).
pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are
stored.  ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values,
not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values).  Random
sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large
tables.  The number of values and histogram bins collected is now
user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command.

There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere
they could be in the planner.  But the remaining changes for this project
should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before.

A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison
routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.
2001-05-07 00:43:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7038554c4e Allow 'psql -f -' to read from standard input. 2001-05-06 17:38:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 84e8e5b427 Make prompt customization work with changeable Unix socket location. 2001-05-06 17:21:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1564bd11e3 UPdate for release tomorrow. 2001-05-05 02:57:40 +00:00
Tom Lane e669b8d751 COMMIT_DELAY and COMMIT_SIBLINGS were missing from the list of WAL
configuration parameters in chapter 3.
2001-05-04 23:11:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8d2fe903b0 Update TODO list. 2001-05-04 22:08:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9278262181 Update TODO list. 2001-05-04 20:48:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 602b742507 Add missing tag. 2001-05-04 02:54:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0cec2bb0cd BTW it does not add encodign it just patches existing one (KOI8) to
support two - KOI8-R and KOI8-U (latter is superset of the former if
not to take to the account pseudographics)

Andy Rysin
2001-05-03 21:38:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c434ae3539 pg_dump can dump 7.0 databases. 2001-05-03 20:39:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 77fe28f33e Describe handling of multiply-inherited fields correctly. 2001-05-03 17:50:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d31b9f3101 Update shared memory docs. 2001-05-03 17:28:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7efc878104 Final stamp for 7.1.1. All done. 2001-05-03 17:17:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 13e9cea634 Some updates for 7.1.1. 2001-05-03 16:26:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ad073cf4c In the outputs section the NOTICE reads:
aggregate 'agg' for 'type' does not exist.

Mismatch with synopsis, agg must be name here.

Frank Wegmann
2001-05-02 20:35:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8e393fc501 Added mention of SHMALL and removed BSD/OS-specific table. 2001-05-02 17:04:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4929d85e50 description of the command line option echo should read:
Echo the queries that createuser generates and sends to the backend.
                      ^^^^^^^^^^

Frank Wegmann
2001-05-02 14:46:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut adee1da002 Bump version to 7.1.1. Now run over to hub to rebuild documentation
before release...
2001-05-01 10:50:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4f268b01cd More markup fixes 2001-05-01 10:48:57 +00:00
Tom Lane d45c0794df Fix slightly confused description of debug options. 2001-05-01 03:00:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 48bdf021b6 Update FAQ_HPUX now that we have reports of out-of-the-box build
on HPUX 11.
2001-04-30 23:55:26 +00:00
Tom Lane c8b5598a11 Document pltcl's return_null command. 2001-04-30 22:22:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 955c8771f8 Repair freshly-broken markup. 2001-04-30 22:21:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 60ba30d13a Break up PQexec() result functions into subsections to be clearer. Both
libpq and libpq++ reorganized.
2001-04-30 17:38:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cfc4d6c510 Update TODO list. 2001-04-30 15:57:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9a878b4ec7 Add mention of libpgtcl's options to manual, libpq++ markup fixes. 2001-04-30 04:26:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 189a752ef9 Update TODO list. 2001-04-30 02:35:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 82511e3375 In create_function there is a remark concerning SQL/PSM not
being ratified as yet. This is certainly no longer true, it wasn't
even true in Q2/1998 when I did a little research for Date's book.
SQL/PSM had been published on 1996-12-15 as ISO/IEC 9075:4. So you
might want to update that section.


Frank Wegmann
2001-04-28 13:59:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 651acdaa6e A small patch for a small option (for rel. 7.1).
Jimmy Olgeni
2001-04-27 01:31:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8926d8b28d Update FAQ. 2001-04-27 00:55:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1531ed897b Update FAQ. 2001-04-27 00:22:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ea0d2dab06 Update FAQ. 2001-04-27 00:21:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cbeda8401a Update TODO list. 2001-04-25 17:49:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 38b0f2fb3b typological errors 2001-04-24 20:05:02 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart e6767a3205 Final markup for 7.1 hardcopy release. Mostly typo and table-fitting
adjustments. Note that many tables are being abused with *really* long
 description columns. Should probably shrink those columns to be more
 concise, and move some of the info to follow-on reference notes.
2001-04-20 15:52:33 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 072174f941 Add option --refentry to change \keepn (keep with next paragraph) to
\keep (keep current paragraph together). This fixes most troubles with
 reference pages marked up with <refentry> tags.
Use on reference.rtf, generated by "make reference.rtf".
2001-04-20 15:50:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 73470b27ce Update TODO list. 2001-04-19 15:22:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e4c06b2125 Update TODO list. 2001-04-18 17:52:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4a5905184f Update TODO list. 2001-04-17 14:17:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d32422f796 Update Japanese FAQ's. 2001-04-16 04:20:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 10cdcf1c7b Add new item. 2001-04-16 04:11:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c8e05affe4 Update TODO list. 2001-04-16 01:36:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7f2de4937a Update TODO list. 2001-04-15 01:56:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e47d6d440e Update FAQ. 2001-04-09 19:28:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f34fa8ba89 Update FAQ. 2001-04-08 22:57:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cdbf1762dc Update to reflect OpenSSL 0.9.6a release. 2001-04-08 16:36:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8ca722b678 Update TODO list. 2001-04-07 02:30:58 +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 54329ac4a0 Utility to add the stylesheet "s0" definition to an RTF file.
This stylesheet must be present for Applixware to be happy generating
 a ToC. M$Word does not seem to care one way or the other.
2001-04-06 15:01:25 +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
Bruce Momjian 8b588a19b4 Update TODO list. 2001-04-04 21:32:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9a7c273a3f Update TODO list. 2001-04-04 21:16:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d3ad2ad689 Update TODO list. 2001-04-04 20:58:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 41f166db73 update 2001-04-04 20:02:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7cdbc1e2ab See attached for a minor documentation patch that more accurately reflects
the current state of and the issues with PostgreSQL on Windows.

Thanks,
Jason

--
Jason Tishler
2001-04-03 18:14:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ea283f1555 Remove last-updated date stamp for 7.1. 2001-04-03 13:38:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 39f0357b77 Update HISTORY/release.sgml to current. 2001-04-02 17:59:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b1646ad0e1 Update TODO list. 2001-04-02 17:40:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b0f95aa676 Update TODO list. 2001-04-02 16:27:04 +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
Bruce Momjian 6939d20f5d Update TODO list. 2001-04-02 15:10:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 55f0f5d97a Update TODO list. 2001-04-01 01:00:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8484f66923 Update TODO list. 2001-03-31 17:25:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8e7d7142b8 Add elog file. 2001-03-31 17:24:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 491ae80c38 Update TODO list. 2001-03-31 15:28:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1f9f8edb29 Update TODO list. 2001-03-31 01:08:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5a31e564a7 Update TODO list. 2001-03-31 01:07:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c09db358b2 Update TODO list. 2001-03-31 01:06:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 188e0fe457 Update TODO list. 2001-03-30 18:36:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dd52673803 Update TODO list. 2001-03-30 18:34:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut fdf1319d22 small fixes 2001-03-29 18:25:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a27860cf59 Update TODO list. 2001-03-29 00:12:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c7ea372df5 Update TODO list. 2001-03-28 21:20:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 0cadec788e Correct erroneous description of MVCC Read Committed semantics. 2001-03-28 20:46:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ec12e80019 > Kinda looks like Ian broke the compile-in-source-dir case while
> making the compile-in-separate-dir case work.  Tut tut.

Yes.  My apologies.  This patch is one way to fix things.

Ian
2001-03-27 16:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 341cb70044 The following patch updates the FAQ_AIX and makes C++ code work with
more recent versions of the IBM C++ compiler (now called VisualAge C++).
The C++ part was previously broken (g++ and xlC), thus this is zero risk.
Only AIX specific parts are touched (1 Makefile.shlib line (link with $(COMPILER
) instead
of $(CC) and one shell script line (parameter -C to nm to not demangle C++ symbo
ls for
.exp file)).

I thus ask you to please apply this patch before release.

With or without this patch RC1 on AIX 4.3.2 RS6000 passes "gmake check" for both
 the native
compiler vac.C 5.0.1 and gcc 2.95.2 :-)

Andreas
2001-03-27 14:56:20 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 46f4cdeb7a Fix typo 2001-03-26 08:32:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 96ed4d4c88 Update TODO list. 2001-03-25 21:41:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 39ceedf5e0 The regexp pattern characters ^ and $ should be explained as matching
at the beginning and end of the input string, not the beginning and end
of "a line", since Postgres does not allow them to match at newline
characters in the data.
2001-03-25 18:14:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut bdff9d80dc spell fix 2001-03-25 10:16:12 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b67e7bb1f7 Allow building documentation outside source tree.
from Ian Lance Taylor
2001-03-25 08:32:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0967057b5d minor copy editing 2001-03-24 23:03:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b420c47434 Disable pg_upgrade. 2001-03-24 13:21:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 1a9840cd63 Update info about mailing lists, make a few other minor improvements. 2001-03-24 03:40:44 +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
Thomas G. Lockhart 15dc7d11ea Fix up wording slightly. No change in content. 2001-03-24 02:35:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 27b5a8ef0f Miscellaneous updates and minor copy-editing. 2001-03-24 00:24:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 3311e250cd Doc update from Roberto Mello: improved versions of instr() examples. 2001-03-23 22:07:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aba61c5211 Update TODO list. 2001-03-23 17:09:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 4e911c847c Fix SPI example to reflect new-style calling convention for textout(). 2001-03-23 01:51:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6cf8707b82 correction 2001-03-21 19:09:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 34dba9c9c4 Update TODO list. 2001-03-21 15:46:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cfbd8a781b Add mmap info. Seems mmap may not be a good idea. 2001-03-21 04:39:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 698a0b87c9 Update TODO list. 2001-03-21 04:30:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2bea1e0aec Update Japanese FAQ. 2001-03-20 22:15:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3938b80637 Update TODO list. 2001-03-20 22:04:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 40dc76e315 Recommend CREATE TABLE AS in preference to SELECT INTO. Remove the
(inadequate anyway) mention of SELECT INTO from the main SELECT ref page.
Point out that SELECT INTO means something else in plpgsql and ecpg.
2001-03-20 20:54:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 192d7245b5 Update TODO list. 2001-03-20 20:32:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7433081a6f Update TODO list. 2001-03-20 20:31:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f4cb2be88e Update TODO list. 2001-03-20 20:31:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 86f8949271 Update TODO list. 2001-03-20 19:56:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 9e07c9a39c Mention that parallel regress script needs to be run under ksh not sh
on HPUX.
2001-03-20 00:18:21 +00:00
Tom Lane ca03b551fc Discuss LOCALE differences as a reason for regression test failure. 2001-03-20 00:09:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6ea087b243 Add missing TO. 2001-03-19 16:20:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 1088e72054 Add note about saving large objects during upgrade. 2001-03-19 16:19:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 11fd91579a Repair. 2001-03-17 18:08:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 406183fbed Tuning for docbook2man. 2001-03-17 16:27:31 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart 3d4fda8d19 New updates from Roberto Mello sent privately today due to email troubles. 2001-03-17 01:53:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 937ec0064f Make note that version 1.1.8 doesn't work. 2001-03-16 22:12:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 9d645fd84c Support syncing WAL log to disk using either fsync(), fdatasync(),
O_SYNC, or O_DSYNC (as available on a given platform).  Add GUC parameter
to control sync method.
Also, add defense to XLogWrite to prevent it from going nuts if passed
a target write position that's past the end of the buffers so far filled
by XLogInsert.
2001-03-16 05:44:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 25f03eb30c Update sample error messages to agree with current code. 2001-03-15 20:01:32 +00:00
Tom Lane d584bf4867 Improve description of to_char templates. 2001-03-15 01:07:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2736ad31dc Fix markup. 2001-03-14 22:20:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3534e3b68f Update TODO list. 2001-03-14 19:28:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 253c8fecfb update 2001-03-13 20:52:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a0d82817da update 2001-03-13 20:42:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fb8cdc2fbd Update FAQ. 2001-03-13 14:41:09 +00:00
Philip Warner 704d7fa800 Document changed features of pg_dump, including:
- Large Object dumps
- Compressed custom format
- Requirement to use template0 when creating DB
2001-03-13 14:08:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 4d14fe0048 XLOG (and related) changes:
* Store two past checkpoint locations, not just one, in pg_control.
  On startup, we fall back to the older checkpoint if the newer one
  is unreadable.  Also, a physical copy of the newest checkpoint record
  is kept in pg_control for possible use in disaster recovery (ie,
  complete loss of pg_xlog).  Also add a version number for pg_control
  itself.  Remove archdir from pg_control; it ought to be a GUC
  parameter, not a special case (not that it's implemented yet anyway).

* Suppress successive checkpoint records when nothing has been entered
  in the WAL log since the last one.  This is not so much to avoid I/O
  as to make it actually useful to keep track of the last two
  checkpoints.  If the things are right next to each other then there's
  not a lot of redundancy gained...

* Change CRC scheme to a true 64-bit CRC, not a pair of 32-bit CRCs
  on alternate bytes.  Polynomial borrowed from ECMA DLT1 standard.

* Fix XLOG record length handling so that it will work at BLCKSZ = 32k.

* Change XID allocation to work more like OID allocation.  (This is of
  dubious necessity, but I think it's a good idea anyway.)

* Fix a number of minor bugs, such as off-by-one logic for XLOG file
  wraparound at the 4 gig mark.

* Add documentation and clean up some coding infelicities; move file
  format declarations out to include files where planned contrib
  utilities can get at them.

* Checkpoint will now occur every CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS log segments or
  every CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT seconds, whichever comes first.  It is also
  possible to force a checkpoint by sending SIGUSR1 to the postmaster
  (undocumented feature...)

* Defend against kill -9 postmaster by storing shmem block's key and ID
  in postmaster.pid lockfile, and checking at startup to ensure that no
  processes are still connected to old shmem block (if it still exists).

* Switch backends to accept SIGQUIT rather than SIGUSR1 for emergency
  stop, for symmetry with postmaster and xlog utilities.  Clean up signal
  handling in bootstrap.c so that xlog utilities launched by postmaster
  will react to signals better.

* Standalone bootstrap now grabs lockfile in target directory, as added
  insurance against running it in parallel with live postmaster.
2001-03-13 01:17:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 74c732cb87 Update TODO list. 2001-03-11 19:26:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 671be61916 Add uninstall target to Java build.
Respect default port setting in JDBC driver.
Pick up version number from Makefile.global.
Change installation directory to share/java/.
Document.
2001-03-11 11:07:01 +00:00
Tom Lane af129857c4 BOX documentation disagreed with code about corner order. 2001-03-10 21:16:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1455f68a55 Update TODO list. 2001-03-10 18:18:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 06351c36a6 Document --with-java. 2001-03-10 16:57:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7ad278817c Eliminate some hackery when creating text files (INSTALL) with a few lines
of DSSSL.
2001-03-10 16:05:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f975590f69 Integrate "Porting from Oracle PL/SQL" HOWTO from Roberto Mello. 2001-03-09 19:09:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 131e85dd3a Add Japanese FAQ> 2001-03-08 17:00:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3228f86333 Update TODO list. 2001-03-08 16:53:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f4e3be7241 Update FAQ. 2001-03-08 16:52:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4eaa654bd6 Sync rule for making INSTALL file. 2001-03-06 20:41:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0dcd17702a Some editing, enhance markup, move description section before options list. 2001-03-06 18:55:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4888d077be Shorten TOAST mention 2001-03-06 18:11:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 668c598a30 Update/correct/refine. 2001-03-06 17:43:56 +00:00
Philip Warner 3df52c0c2a - Reflect change of option -U to -L 2001-03-06 05:22:50 +00:00
Philip Warner d3464631e3 - Minor correction to usage 2001-03-06 05:22:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0ab27ad5e0 Add missing space, change some markup. 2001-03-05 19:00:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 27d8dcd55f Sorry, that change was not correct. 2001-03-05 19:00:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 47065aec11 I'm attaching those diffs for the Reference Guide in a tar file, as
not all of them attached properly in the post I made a few minutes
ago. Please disregard those earlier files. The diffs in the tar file
replace them.

Pierce Tyler
2001-03-05 18:42:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 83d0e37947 Update email addresses. 2001-03-05 18:09:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5bbad66e0e PyGreSQL documentation. Based on the README, converted to DocBook by
Mikhail Terekhov <terekhov@emc.com>.
2001-03-04 18:54:07 +00:00
Tom Lane aee52a6de3 Document TEMP option. 2001-03-03 22:11:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 376fa516bd Update TODO list. 2001-03-02 16:10:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7c5b2487b0 Update TODO list. 2001-03-01 03:30:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f6f0b16e28 Update TODO list. 2001-03-01 02:17:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e96358a60a Update TODO list. 2001-02-28 18:36:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e921cdb894 Update TODO list. 2001-02-28 18:07:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c9936587c Implement COMMIT_SIBLINGS parameter to allow pre-commit delay to occur
only if at least N other backends currently have open transactions.  This
is not a great deal of intelligence about whether a delay might be
profitable ... but it beats no intelligence at all.  Note that the default
COMMIT_DELAY is still zero --- this new code does nothing unless that
setting is changed.
Also, mark ENABLEFSYNC as a system-wide setting.  It's no longer safe to
allow that to be set per-backend, since we may be relying on some other
backend's fsync to have synced the WAL log.
2001-02-26 00:50:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 60774e8210 Even better example for operator precedence mis-parsing. 2001-02-25 16:05:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3460181c3c Choose a more suitable example for the operator precedence mis-parsing
example.
2001-02-24 18:09:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2db9d5e53a Markup, spell check, refine JDBC documentation. 2001-02-24 12:40:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d106fd2fa8 Update TODO list. 2001-02-23 19:38:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8176465150 Update TODO list. 2001-02-23 19:21:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0bcd24f9f6 Update TODO list. 2001-02-23 19:14:52 +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
Tatsuo Ishii 74b0a18b6b Update mutibyte doc 2001-02-22 04:30:16 +00:00
Tom Lane e14a9deb93 Document timeofday(), mention start-of-transaction vs. current-time
semantics, a few other small improvements.
2001-02-21 23:15:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 496373e2e4 Fix markup. (A <keyword> isn't what it is in SQL.) Add jungle of more
markup. ;-)
2001-02-21 17:50:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3a65e4fca6 Add more details. 2001-02-20 22:27:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 824648afae Turn on section numbering. 2001-02-20 22:27:26 +00:00
Tom Lane c4a9023d52 Remove obsolete claim that it doesn't work to use gcc with HP's C++
compiler or g++ with HP's C compiler.
2001-02-20 19:06:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2bf32fef2b Update TODO list. 2001-02-20 17:35:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 40bddcc7b6 Update TODO list. 2001-02-20 17:25:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 72fa2426fd Update HPUX FAQ. 2001-02-20 01:33:07 +00:00
Tom Lane f35252de28 Fix pg_passwd's failure to cope with usernames > 8 chars. 2001-02-20 01:16:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 2884073848 Document --enable-cassert. 2001-02-19 22:25:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eda82e791c Update TODO list. 2001-02-19 21:52:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cdf220f848 Update TODO list. 2001-02-19 20:46:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 414f94f262 Change plpgsql's GET DIAGNOSTICS statement to use SQL99-compatible
syntax.  Fix the RESULT_OID case, which never worked.  Add documentation.
2001-02-19 19:49:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 66858ebc67 Update TODO list. 2001-02-19 19:06:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e4ecfdd790 Update TODO list. 2001-02-19 16:55:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da62249868 Update TODO list. 2001-02-19 15:23:08 +00:00
Tom Lane a276392e52 Update example of partially constraining join order to use a subselect
in FROM instead of an auxiliary view.  We didn't have subselect-in-FROM
when I wrote this originally...
2001-02-19 00:24:30 +00:00
Tom Lane fa0cd643d2 AND/OR truth table needs another row IMHO. 2001-02-19 00:01:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da84545d61 Add copyright mentions, per Tom Lane. 2001-02-18 18:34:02 +00:00
Tom Lane c3b00e7e29 Add --template option to createdb script to allow access to WITH TEMPLATE
option of CREATE DATABASE.  In pg_regress, create regression database
from template0 to ensure that any installation-local cruft in template1
will not mess up the tests.
2001-02-18 17:53:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 48d03278a2 Enhance documentation of date/time functions. Add extract, current_date,
current_time, current_timestamp.  Add more examples.  Remove age(), because
it doesn't work like it is documented, and no one could explain it to me.
2001-02-18 17:17:17 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b9c7d371ed Make <lineannotation> italic. Fix syntax error in print style. 2001-02-18 17:15:03 +00:00
Tom Lane df8186b282 Add note that partial indices are not currently supported. 2001-02-18 06:07:37 +00:00
Tom Lane c3151c29de Update description of fsync option for 7.1. 2001-02-18 05:30:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 57e0847180 Change default commit_delay to zero, update documentation. 2001-02-18 04:50:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 81ff09eeb5 Catch some stray references to .htm files. 2001-02-17 16:52:53 +00:00
Tom Lane ec22e3127d No more .htm files, so don't try to add them to the doc tarballs. 2001-02-17 16:47:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b5f8c90c15 Update TODO list. 2001-02-17 14:35:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 64a1b6263d Update bsdi shared memory stuff. 2001-02-16 19:43:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 88c55990ce Update BSDI FAQ. 2001-02-16 19:27:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 016f0eed24 Update BSDI SGML. 2001-02-16 16:10:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f65ebaddb4 Update bsdi faq. 2001-02-16 00:46:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d50f3cb9eb Update bsdi faq. 2001-02-16 00:17:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca71c66190 Update FAQ. 2001-02-15 22:21:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bb1095c66d Update FAQ. 2001-02-15 22:15:10 +00:00
Tom Lane bf0078d257 Update obsolete wording of error message. 2001-02-15 21:11:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 5341cddba8 Further polishing of documentation about new fmgr call convention. 2001-02-15 19:03:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bdacacdfb6 Update TODO list. 2001-02-15 16:21:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee2532c4cb Update TODO list. 2001-02-15 16:03:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4c2b0f1d73 Update for Tatsuo. 2001-02-15 13:31:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 21deb42897 Clarify meaning of GEQO_THRESHOLD parameter. 2001-02-15 04:28:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 52cacf46b4 Improve documentation of JOIN syntax. Explain NATURAL as an alternative
to ON and USING for specifying the join condition, not as an independent
kind of join semantics.
2001-02-15 04:10:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d42d31e78e Alter documentation of boolean type, add example. Someone figured that it
wasn't clear that the "boolean type" was actually called "boolean".  Add
tip about "casting" booleans using CASE.

Spell check whole file.
2001-02-14 19:37:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 41b4628916 Format <structname>, <structfield>, and <type> mono-spaced. 2001-02-14 19:35:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c1abe85529 Update TODO list. 2001-02-14 15:12:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18b04ae131 Update TODO list. 2001-02-14 02:42:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 22aeb5306e Hmm, so referencing a CSS stylesheet when there isn't one doesn't work
everywhere.
2001-02-13 22:35:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut fe4da2ffe8 Fix markup. 2001-02-13 22:05:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ab66098841 Didn't work when Makefile.custom is missing. 2001-02-13 21:51:17 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 702f1235b9 Custom DSSSL stylesheet. Style changes included here:
HTML:
* make .html the default extension
* allow use of CSS stylesheet ("stylesheet.css", not included)
* make <set> TOC two levels deep
* put time of creation into meta header
Print:
* make print output justified by default
* footnotes at bottom of each page
* allow TeX to hyphenate
2001-02-13 21:27:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut b08e00b2ae Fix tag. 2001-02-13 21:13:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 60261de80b Update TODO list. 2001-02-13 20:54:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 331d940fe9 Update TODO list. 2001-02-13 20:54:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 730d1c0dd0 Update TODO list. 2001-02-13 16:11:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8824741f99 User Manual
Chapter 4
   String Operators
    Table 4.7: Other String Functions
      strpos is missing the result in the result column, it should be 2
      Also to_ascii might need a result but maybe not.

Appendix A
In the Time Zone Table
 Greenwich is spelled Greenwish

David Aldrich
2001-02-12 14:21:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 69f506c01d New release format, Peter E style. 2001-02-12 13:09:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f6abf4e84b Move release date into release heading. 2001-02-11 14:20:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3f8e30651b Clean up HISTORY file, add dates to releases. 2001-02-11 01:48:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 31d3e21edf Repair markup. 2001-02-11 01:41:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut be274f47d0 Document that NetBSD's libedit can be used instead of readline. 2001-02-10 18:24:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 88517a2d9e Add note about the availability of contrib/mac for the macaddr data type. 2001-02-10 18:02:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d3fb67db26 Back out addition. Seems grammar doesn't handle CONSTRAINT as optional. 2001-02-10 16:41:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a5dbde8b0a Add mention of CONSTRAINT in ADD CONSTRAINT section. 2001-02-10 16:39:07 +00:00
Tom Lane a25a785f6d Minor improvements and copy-editing. 2001-02-10 08:30:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 08265ef9c2 Fix example of syntactic ambiguity between prefix/infix/postfix operators
--- Postgres now accepts the example we claimed it wouldn't.  Miscellaneous
copy-editing as well.
2001-02-10 07:08:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 618733de1a Fix documentation of EXECUTE, add documentation of FOR ... EXECUTE. 2001-02-10 05:32:33 +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 cf21985ab5 Update section about how to start server from boot scripts. 2001-02-10 00:50:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a1d28be831 Avoid a particular <simplelist>. jadetex has formatting problems,
apparently when the content is long enough to require line breaks.
2001-02-09 20:38:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f835a4f1f7 Large object manual updates. 2001-02-09 19:24:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 98d66c722c Mention NetBSD 2001-02-09 17:55:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 14f6445534 Remove pg_service mention. 2001-02-09 17:53:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 327385b693 Update TODO list. 2001-02-09 17:37:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b483ad84f8 Add -g as synonmym for --globals-only in pg_dumpall. Add info about
-c,--clean option to manual page.
2001-02-09 17:16:57 +00:00