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Tom Lane faac769a6b Minor editorial improvements to txid functions' documentation: put back
some text that got dropped, improve markup, improve descriptions of
snapshot components.
2007-11-05 17:40:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c00055ea80 Document that syncronhous commit can be turned off in a single
multi-statement transaction.
2007-11-05 17:35:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 11d740ed9e Remove <sect1> of txid functions. 2007-11-05 16:57:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bd2ef63aa8 Move txid snapshot field description table from datatype to functions section. 2007-11-05 16:45:52 +00:00
Magnus Hagander f5f375330e Fix typos.
Guillaume Lelarge
2007-11-05 15:55:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ec1aafca7d Document txid functions.
Marko Kreen
2007-11-05 14:51:08 +00:00
D'Arcy J.M. Cain f00e542746 Remove deprecation notice and add comment about safely restoring backups.
As per discussion on hackers.
2007-11-05 12:02:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1e941153a2 Working improvement. 2007-11-04 21:50:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c066d27f36 Add link to NFS section from "creating a database cluster. 2007-11-04 21:48:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3372380cc4 Document possible problems with NFS tablespaces. 2007-11-04 21:40:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 729d2b08c0 Properly indent tablespace SGML section. 2007-11-04 19:43:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 38fe3a9646 Mention "replication" in the title of the high availability and load
balancing chapter because some people were looking for 'replication' and
didn't realize that chapter addressed it.
2007-11-04 19:23:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f96e1e0faa Update wording for xsl configure option. 2007-11-04 18:53:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ede83e04aa Document that configure --with-libxslt controls just /contrib/xml2.
Nikolay Samokhvalov
2007-11-04 18:10:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 65bd783614 Mention that internal hash functions changed in 8.3 release notes. 2007-11-01 22:38:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 9423be4449 Some corrections/improvements to new acronym list. 2007-11-01 20:27:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 388c7e28c5 Update discussion of shared memory sizing for 8.3: adjust multipliers,
mention autovacuum_max_workers.  Minor copy-editing too.
2007-11-01 19:06:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5c996884a0 Update Czech FAQ.
Pavel Stehule
2007-11-01 17:28:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6287c31b5a Acronym spelling fix. 2007-11-01 17:16:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 53e3f9dcfd Add documentation mention that FSM == Free Space Map, so the config
parameter name makes more sense.
2007-11-01 17:06:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 61c8163957 Add acronym section to our documentation. 2007-11-01 17:00:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f0cd76fcc4 Add:
> * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement
>    starvation
2007-10-31 20:12:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e07904b0a4 Add note on PostgreSQL vs. Postgres. 2007-10-30 23:06:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 406ee67c9a Update some obsolete stuff in the GRANT and REVOKE reference pages:
simplify the syntax examples by unifying user and group cases, and fix
no-longer-correct example of psql \z output.  Per Erwin Brandstetter.
2007-10-30 19:43:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 897313e824 Add a note pointing out that some other databases make GREATEST and
LEAST handle NULL arguments differently than we do.  Per a discussion
on 30-Jun that somehow didn't get done.
2007-10-30 19:06:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f7967d4c69 Documentation wording fixes.
Guillaume Lelarge
2007-10-29 17:29:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e1f55afe7d Update Russian FAQ.
corochoone@gmail.com
2007-10-29 17:27:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 96805a18c6 Clarify restart is of the "database" server, in FAQ. 2007-10-29 17:22:20 +00:00
Tom Lane f9e83a5588 Remove claim that ts_headline knows how to generate multiple ellipsis-separated
excerpts of a document.  That's clearly desirable, but the functionality
is not there yet.
2007-10-29 01:55:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 3fe266207b Ooops, fat-fingered last commit message. Should have
mentioned updating FAQ_IRIX for information about buggy MIPSPro
compiler version, now confirmed by Herve Boulouis.
2007-10-28 22:33:25 +00:00
Tom Lane d034a268a2 FAQ_IRIX 2007-10-28 22:30:21 +00:00
Tom Lane d015d08b43 Rename default text search parser's "uri" token type to "url_path",
per recommendation from Alvaro.  This doesn't force initdb since the
numeric token type in the catalogs doesn't change; but note that
the expected regression test output changed.
2007-10-27 16:01:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 5b5a70aedf Stamp 8.3beta2. 2007-10-27 00:22:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 2aac6f10f6 Minor wording improvements per suggestion from Jeff Davis. Also tweak
hyphenated-word parser examples per earlier discussion with Alvaro.
2007-10-27 00:19:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ffda32e9fd Remove second-in-paragraph usage of "Postgres" in FAQ_DEV. 2007-10-26 19:08:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f201257991 Remove use of "Postgres" aliases in the FAQ in second-in-paragraph
cases.
2007-10-26 19:04:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 350196df4a Set Japanese FAQ character code to UTF-8.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-10-26 03:59:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fa9eb3152e Add plpgsql doc example of RETURN NEXT.
Ulrich Kroener
2007-10-26 01:11:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 9ddfe034c7 Fix ALTER SEQUENCE so that it does not affect the value of currval() for
the sequence.  Also, make setval() with is_called = false not affect the
currval state, either.  Per report from Kris Jurka that an implicit
ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY unexpectedly caused currval() to become valid.
Since this isn't 100% backwards compatible, it will go into HEAD only;
I'll put a more limited patch into 8.2.
2007-10-25 18:54:03 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 0e3ddc8dd5 Use more real-world examples in the text search parser documentation. 2007-10-25 13:06:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 41f207620a Update release notes to current CVS. 2007-10-25 02:50:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 048efc25e4 Disallow scrolling of FOR UPDATE/FOR SHARE cursors, so as to avoid problems
in corner cases such as re-fetching a just-deleted row.  We may be able to
relax this someday, but let's find out how many people really care before
we invest a lot of work in it.  Per report from Heikki and subsequent
discussion.

While in the neighborhood, make the combination of INSENSITIVE and FOR UPDATE
throw an error, since they are semantically incompatible.  (Up to now we've
accepted but just ignored the INSENSITIVE option of DECLARE CURSOR.)
2007-10-24 23:27:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 8a35b07e18 Remove obsolete statement that you can't update through a cursor. 2007-10-24 22:55:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 592c88a0d2 Remove the aggregate form of ts_rewrite(), since it doesn't work as desired
if there are zero rows to aggregate over, and the API seems both conceptually
and notationally ugly anyway.  We should look for something that improves
on the tsquery-and-text-SELECT version (which is also pretty ugly but at
least it works...), but it seems that will take query infrastructure that
doesn't exist today.  (Hm, I wonder if there's anything in or near SQL2003
window functions that would help?)  Per discussion.
2007-10-24 02:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane dbaec70c15 Rename and slightly redefine the default text search parser's "word"
categories, as per discussion.  asciiword (formerly lword) is still
ASCII-letters-only, and numword (formerly word) is still the most general
mixed-alpha-and-digits case.  But word (formerly nlword) is now
any-group-of-letters-with-at-least-one-non-ASCII, rather than all-non-ASCII as
before.  This is no worse than before for parsing mixed Russian/English text,
which seems to have been the design center for the original coding; and it
should simplify matters for parsing most European languages.  In particular
it will not be necessary for any language to accept strings containing digits
as being regular "words".  The hyphenated-word categories are adjusted
similarly.
2007-10-23 20:46:12 +00:00
Tom Lane f551348417 Clarify example of planner cost computation, per a suggestion from
James Shaw.  Also update a couple of examples to reflect 8.3's improved
plan-printing code.
2007-10-22 21:34:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 3e17ef1cfa Adjust ts_debug's output as per my proposal of yesterday: show the
active dictionary and its output lexemes as separate columns, instead
of smashing them into one text column, and lowercase the column names.
Also, define the output rowtype using OUT parameters instead of a
composite type, to be consistent with the other built-in functions.
2007-10-22 20:13:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 6088bfb8b6 Create a quick-and-dirty list of known migration issues for pre-8.3
users of tsearch.  This isn't meant to be permanent documentation,
but to call out the areas that need either fixing or real documentation.
2007-10-22 03:37:04 +00:00
Tom Lane dfc6f130b4 Editorial overhaul for text search documentation. Organize the info
more clearly, improve a lot of unclear descriptions, add some missing
material.  We still need a migration guide though.
2007-10-21 20:04:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6cb00e67ef Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-10-20 23:59:15 +00:00