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Bruce Momjian
a60af96a00 Done:
< * Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
<   value [qsort]
<
<   This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
<
2006-10-19 19:58:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
877f08da14 Fix up timetz input so that a date is required only when the specified
timezone actually has a daylight-savings rule.  This avoids breaking
cases that used to work because they went through the DecodePosixTimezone
code path.  Per contrib regression failures (mea culpa for not running
those yesterday...).  Also document the already-applied change to allow
GMT offsets up to 14 hours.
2006-10-18 16:43:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
723f716be0 Fix array operator refererence in release notes, per David Wheeler. 2006-10-18 03:53:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
022fd99668 Fix up some problems in handling of zic-style time zone names in datetime
input routines.  Remove the former "DecodePosixTimezone" function in favor of
letting the zic code handle POSIX-style zone specs (see tzparse()).  In
particular this means that "PST+3" now means the same as "-03", whereas it
used to mean "-11" --- the zone abbreviation is effectively just a noise word
in this syntax.  Make sure that all named and POSIX-style zone names will be
parsed as a single token.  Fix long-standing bogosities in printing and input
of fractional-hour timezone offsets (since the tzparse() code will accept
these, we'd better make 'em work).  Also correct an error in the original
coding of the zic-zone-name patch: in "timestamp without time zone" input,
zone names are supposed to be allowed but ignored, but the coding was such
that the zone changed the interpretation anyway.
2006-10-17 21:03:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d58f09e6b3 Mark 8.2 release as 2006-??, not 2005-??, per observation by David
Wheeler.
2006-10-17 20:17:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
47fecaf504 Attached files fix the link problem in FAQ_DEV.html, remove some parts
related to website development and change the link to the FAQ_DEV.html.

Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-17 12:54:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10d9bbaf01 Fixes for CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page.
Michael Paesold
2006-10-17 12:53:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
0b35b01e7a Arrange for timezone names to be recognized case-insensitively; for
example SET TIME ZONE 'america/new_york' works now.  This seems a good
idea on general user-friendliness grounds, and is part of the solution
to the timestamp-input parsing problems I noted recently.
2006-10-16 19:58:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a2ebf81913 CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page wording improvements.
Michael Paesold
2006-10-16 19:33:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52831f7911 Update to CREATE CONSTRAINT manual page.
Michael Glaesemann
2006-10-16 19:30:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2e7da1f62 I updated RPM related parts in FAQ_DEV against HEAD to be more current.
Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-16 19:03:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
389fad1e6b Remove use of '<' and '>' in SGML, use '&' escapes.
Update find_gt_lt to allow grep parameters to be passed into it.
2006-10-16 17:28:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87eed2e3e1 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-10-15 03:10:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fdbe9facdc FAQ updates --- This is a small cosmetic patch that adds pt_BR IRC
channel to the lists of IRC channels, fixes a typo in the OID's
question, and corrects the PGCluster's project name.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-10-14 23:08:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
1314983fd3 Code review for --no-data-for-failed-tables patch. Instead of trashing
one of the program's core data structures, make use of the existing
ability to selectively exclude TOC items by ID.  Slightly more code but
much less likely to create future maintenance problems.
2006-10-14 23:07:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
f58eac82ee Code and docs review for ALTER TABLE INHERIT/NO INHERIT patch. 2006-10-13 21:43:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d63ddfb872 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-10-13 17:29:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
7de6cf2743 Fix typo in version number. 2006-10-13 15:24:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
efa0e8639f Remove:
< 	o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
< 	  DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
2006-10-12 22:33:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab1cec93c5 Add url's for hints:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00517.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00663.php
2006-10-12 21:40:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ee7c794c7 Add:
> 	o Issue a notice if CREATE TABLE ... ON COMMIT { DELETE ROWS |
> 	  DROP } is issued outside a multi-statement transaction
2006-10-12 21:29:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
bfc6e9c970 Make some incremental improvements and fixes to the documentation on
Continuous Archiving. Plenty of editorial work remains...
2006-10-12 19:38:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c9983889a Update release notes for SQL functions vs triggers fix. 2006-10-12 19:25:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
7055867a01 In the installation docs, add some links to the documentation on LDAP
to the discussion of the "--with-ldap" configure option. Patch from
Albe Laurenz.
2006-10-12 18:49:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
953c85646e A bit of copy-editing on back-branch release notes. 2006-10-11 20:55:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4e46f4799e Cleanup pass 2006-10-10 22:19:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
16795b9899 Update FAQ for latest release 8.1.5. 2006-10-10 00:28:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
24e9752863 Revise psql pattern-matching switches as per discussion. The rule is now
to process all inclusion switches then all exclusion switches, so that the
behavior is independent of switch ordering.
Use of -T does not cause non-table objects to be suppressed.  And
the patterns are now interpreted the same way psql's \d commands do it,
rather than as pure regex commands; this allows for example -t schema.tab
to do what it should have been doing all along.  Re-enable the --blobs
switch to do something useful, ie, add back blobs into a dump they were
otherwise suppressed from.
2006-10-09 23:36:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
77d2b1b625 Improve description of the pattern matching rules used by psql's \d
commands (and soon by pg_dump).
2006-10-09 23:31:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d9dddd1100 Update release notes for releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5. 2006-10-09 23:23:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
842c00776b Updated keyword table for 8.2 2006-10-08 20:51:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
92fb5edbc1 Update multi-line editing wording in release notes. 2006-10-08 19:18:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
978ddf65ed In release notes, mention that multi-line history saving does not work
on Win32.
2006-10-08 18:15:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa198e5f14 Simplify <link> regex cleanup code. 2006-10-07 23:48:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dc1e047baf Allow HISTORY/history.html to be generated by removing <link> elements,
per suggestion from Peter.  Without this, the main doc links prevent
those files from being built.
2006-10-07 23:28:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ddbbe95fe In release notes, always use </link> rather than </>. 2006-10-07 22:06:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2b25e1169f The -X option in pg_dump was supposed to be a workaround for the lack of
portable long options.  But we have had portable long options for a long
time now, so this is obsolete.  Now people have added options which *only*
work with -X but not as regular long option, so I'm putting a stop to this:
-X is deprecated; it still works, but it has been removed from the
documentation, and please don't add more of them.
2006-10-07 20:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
71a6f8b85b On platforms that have getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK), use it to ensure that
max_stack_depth is not set to an unsafe value.

This commit also provides configure-time checking for <sys/resource.h>,
and cleans up some perhaps-unportable code associated with use of that
include file and getrlimit().
2006-10-07 19:25:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc1d55b74b Remove tabs added accidentally. 2006-10-07 03:32:28 +00:00
Neil Conway
9c53544950 Fix a typo. 2006-10-07 03:17:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
611b4c59c7 Add main documentation link tags to the release notes. 2006-10-07 02:18:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2332ea1e9 Add indenting to Solaris FAQ, for clarity. 2006-10-05 03:13:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b680a1d9ad Update DB2X texinfo example code.
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-05 02:04:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6fa875d7ce Update Solaris FAQ.
Zdenek Kotala
2006-10-04 22:03:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e23cd612e Improve readline psql prompt suggestion.
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-03 21:14:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
756d450313 Add experimental support for db2x texinfo
Andreas Seltenreich
2006-10-03 21:13:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6e6125dc69 This patch fixes a small typo in information_schema.sgml.
Guillaume Lelarge
2006-10-03 01:03:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e020a5a6a9 Add URL for strlcpy():
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg02108.php
2006-10-03 00:03:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
725ab82975 Add:
> 	* Fix SSL retry to avoid useless repeated connection attempts and
> 	  ensuing misleading error messages
2006-10-03 00:00:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ef72878b5 Update wording:
< * Use strlcpy() rather than StrNCpy() macro
> * Use strlcpy() rather than our StrNCpy() macro
2006-10-02 23:26:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9b9e0e61a5 Add:
>
> * Use strlcpy() rather than StrNCpy() macro
2006-10-02 23:23:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae9b60322e Remove mention of the -fast option from the Solaris FAQ.
Kenneth Marshall
2006-10-02 23:01:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5d52ad9dc8 Update recovery documentation.
Simon Riggs
2006-10-02 22:33:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9ec71d5d1b Add URL for cached copy of paper as SGML comment. 2006-10-02 22:28:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5257c7f829 Add release note item:
Drop privileges on startup so servers can be started from
        an administrative account (Magnus)
2006-10-02 15:32:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7de0a919a2 Move "Exotic Features" to the bottom of TODO. 2006-10-02 14:00:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
7ceec34a73 Improve documentation of configure's readline/libedit switches. 2006-10-01 23:47:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
e69c09c1e9 date_trunc also accepts 'quarter'. Noted by Yoshihisa Nakano. 2006-10-01 18:54:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bb9fc9fee Add:
> * Allow more complex user/database default GUC settings
>   Currently, ALTER USER and ALTER DATABASE support per-user and
>   per-database defaults.  Consider adding per-user-and-database
>   defaults so things like search_path can be defaulted for a
>   specific user connecting to a specific database.
>
>
2006-09-30 03:55:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7229b8cb8a Add MONEY URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01107.php
2006-09-30 02:59:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
352a56ba68 Allow assignment to array elements not contiguous with those already
present; intervening positions are filled with nulls.  This behavior
is required by SQL99 but was not implementable before 8.2 due to lack
of support for nulls in arrays.  I have only made it work for the
one-dimensional case, which is all that SQL99 requires.  It seems quite
complex to get it right in higher dimensions, and since we never allowed
extension at all in higher dimensions, I think that must count as a
future feature addition not a bug fix.
2006-09-29 21:22:21 +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
Bruce Momjian
d3aa4a8e33 Add URL for client_encoding being set by client:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01696.php
2006-09-28 17:43:36 +00:00
Neil Conway
de6ca63d7f GiST stands for "Generalized Search Tree", and therefore should not be
spelled with a capital "I".
2006-09-27 06:37:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1d5a13b154 Update wording of inheritance major release item. 2006-09-26 12:31:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8580985c2b Split out inheritance major feature item in release notes. 2006-09-26 11:45:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
03a68a7cae Done:
< 	  o Add command to archive partially filled write-ahead logs? [pitr]
<
< 	    Currently only full WAL files are archived. This means that the
< 	    most recent transactions aren't available for recovery in case
< 	    of a disk failure.
<

Reorder:

< 	  o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
< 	    transaction id for point-in-time recovery
> 	  o %Create dump tool for write-ahead logs for use in determining
> 	    transaction id for point-in-time recovery
2006-09-26 11:18:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
0f8fc35a5a Increase default value of effective_cache_size to 128MB, per discussion. 2006-09-25 22:12:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
6575920fa5 More incremental improvements for the release notes. 2006-09-25 15:35:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
1f4841a953 no-data-for-failed-tables is a pg_restore option, not a pg_dump option. 2006-09-25 15:31:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c858bd69e Fix name, "Laurenz Albe" at request of author. 2006-09-25 15:04:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
2804442da6 Minor incremental improvements to the release notes. 2006-09-24 18:47:56 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
bbed6678f3 Tag us Beta1 2006-09-23 01:33:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
d40d34863e Fix pg_locks view to call advisory locks advisory locks, while preserving
backward compatibility for anyone using the old userlock code that's now
on pgfoundry --- locks from that code still show as 'userlock'.
2006-09-22 23:20:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae3f415f1d Add to major release notes items, per Simon. 2006-09-22 18:09:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
ceefbbf718 Move incorrectly-located indexterm entry. 2006-09-22 16:35:55 +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
Bruce Momjian
9adb2c49dd Update release notes to only use HTML4 entities.
Add URL's to mention proper entity lists.
2006-09-22 15:41:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
29e53ca389 We're going to have to spell dotless i as plain i, because dotless i is
not in the character set supported by DocBook nor standard HTML.  (Sorry
Volkan.)  Also replace random character-set references by a pointer to
the actual standard.
2006-09-22 15:29:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
507447b585 Fix a lot of broken markup. 2006-09-22 15:22:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
285b5bdd6f Update release notes to be current as of CVS today. 2006-09-22 03:04:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7fa844b6c Update major release note items. 2006-09-22 01:52:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf31a62a6b First try at a major features list for 8.2. 2006-09-22 01:39:33 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
b0d64a090b Add comments about STORAGE option for GIN 2006-09-21 15:09:38 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
823ffd88e3 Fix table's caption 2006-09-21 15:03:53 +00:00
Michael Meskes
8ad3afee1a Updated several parts in particular variable handling. This is work that was part of SoC. 2006-09-21 09:10:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
323ff93afb Wording changes for continuous archving, per Simon. 2006-09-21 03:12:58 +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
e56ccad7b0 Add URL for domain casting:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01681.php
2006-09-20 23:01:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0e54962890 Update release notes to use scaron, rather than numeric code for entity. 2006-09-20 22:48:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
c59487cfb3 Fix bogus markup. 2006-09-20 21:30:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2aad31424 Add AIX shared library support item to release notes. 2006-09-20 19:55:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
06b33f0ee8 Release note wording improvement.
Alvaro.
2006-09-20 11:54:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c840db7f0d Add shared linking information to AIX FAQ.
Laurenz Albe
2006-09-20 02:10:11 +00:00
Neil Conway
c62172100b Improvements to the partitioning documentation. Original patch from Greg
Stark, additional fixes and editorialization by Neil Conway. Greg's patch
description:

    Some more doc patches for partitioned tables. In particular replace
    the caveat that INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS doesn't exist and replace it
    with documentation of, well, INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS.

    Also, there was an instance of "LIKE WITH DEFAULTS" which is
    actually spelled "LIKE INCLUDING DEFAULTS".
2006-09-20 01:20:38 +00:00
Neil Conway
45e11d098f Do a round of copy-editing for the release notes: fix some typos and
grammatical errors, improve the description of some new features.
2006-09-19 19:54:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b27170b936 Dashed items are now for 8.3:
< #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.2 release.#
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.3 release.#
2006-09-19 19:20:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa3f396aca Remove completed TODO items:
< * -Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o
<   option is no longer needed
< * -Allow pooled connections to list all prepared statements
<
<   This would allow an application inheriting a pooled connection to know
<   the statements prepared in the current session.
<
< * -Re-enable the GUC full_page_writes in 8.2 when reliability issues have
<   been addressed
< 	o -Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
< 	o -Allow per-database permissions to be set via GRANT
<
< 	  Allow database connection checks based on GRANT rules in
< 	  addition to the existing access checks in pg_hba.conf.
<
< 	o -Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
> 	o Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
< 	  o -Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
< 	    pg_stop_backup() is called or the server is stopped
< 	  o -Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
< 	    part of partial log file archiving
< * -Allow server logs to be remotely read and removed using SQL commands
< * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
< * -Zero umasked bits in conversion from INET cast to CIDR
< * -Prevent INET cast to CIDR from dropping netmask, SELECT '1.1.1.1'::inet::cidr
< * -Allow INET + INT8 to increment the host part of the address or
<   throw an error on overflow
< * -Add 'tid != tid ' operator for use in corruption recovery
< 	o -Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the
< 	  present australian_timezones hack)
< 	o -Allow timezone names in SQL strings, '2006-05-24 21:11
< 	   Americas/New_York'::timestamptz
< 		o -Add support for day-time syntax, INTERVAL '1 2:03:04' DAY TO
< 		  SECOND
< 	o -Allow NULLs in arrays
< * -Add transaction_timestamp(), statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp()
<   functionality
<
<   Current CURRENT_TIMESTAMP returns the start time of the current
<   transaction, and gettimeofday() returns the wallclock time. This will
<   make time reporting more consistent and will allow reporting of
<   the statement start time.
<
< * -Allow to_char() to print localized month names
< * -Add sleep() function, remove from regress.c
< * -Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain
<   constraints
< * -Allow TRUNCATE ... CASCADE/RESTRICT
<
<   This is like DELETE CASCADE, but truncates.
<
< * -Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
<   and tablespaces)
< * -Make row-wise comparisons work per SQL spec
<
<   Right now, '(a, b) < (1, 2)' is processed as 'a < 1 and b < 2', but
<   the SQL standard requires it to be processed as a column-by-column
<   comparison, so the proper comparison is '(a < 1) OR (a = 1 AND b < 2)'.
<
< * -Enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings
> * Enable standard_conforming_strings
< 	o -Add ON COMMIT capability to CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT
< 	o -Allow an alias to be provided for the target table in
< 	  UPDATE/DELETE (Neil)
< 	o -Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updating
< 	  multiple columns
< 	o -Add ALTER TABLE tab INHERIT / NO INHERIT  parent
< 	o -Have COPY return the number of rows loaded/unloaded?
< 	o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
<
< 	o -Allow pooled connections to list all open WITH HOLD cursors
<
< 	  Because WITH HOLD cursors exist outside transactions, this allows
< 	  them to be listed so they can be closed.
<
< 	o -Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
< 	o -Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col
< 		o -Allow PL/python to return composite types and result sets
<
< * -Have initdb set the input DateStyle (MDY or DMY) based on locale
< 	o -Improve psql's handling of multi-line statements
<
< 	  Currently, while \e saves a single statement as one entry, interactive
< 	  statements are saved one line at a time.  Ideally all statements
< 	  would be saved like \e does.
<
< 	o -Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns
<
< 	  If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear
< 	  in the second display column, rather than the first column as it
< 	  does now.
<
< 	o -Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df
< 	o -Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches, exclusion
< 	   ability, and regular expression object matching
< 	o -Update pg_dump and psql to use the new COPY libpq API (Christopher)
< 	o -Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
< * -Add fillfactor to control reserved free space during index creation
< * -Add system view to show free space map contents
< * -Allow installing to directories containing spaces
<
<   This is possible if proper quoting is added to the makefiles for the
<   install targets.  Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it
<   is already possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain
<   spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
<
< * -%Clean up compiler warnings (especially with gcc version 4)
< * -Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
< 	o -Port contrib/xml2
2006-09-19 19:20:00 +00:00
Neil Conway
f7ea4eeed6 Document how to use psql's --single-transaction option to rollback restoring
an SQL dump if an error occurs. Along the way, make some improvements and
copy-edits to the surrounding text. Patch from Simon Riggs, additional
fixes by Neil Conway.
2006-09-19 19:04:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
85fca79a02 Fix broken markup. 2006-09-19 17:22:42 +00:00
Neil Conway
48fe137425 Minor additions and typo fixes for the backup documentation. Patch from
Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by Neil Conway.
2006-09-19 15:18:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a676d7f6d9 More 8.2 release item reordering. 2006-09-19 02:25:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cf90c54bb3 Reorder 8.2 release note items more logically. 2006-09-19 02:08:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
88057d0cf2 Update migration changes, more cleanups. 2006-09-19 00:57:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dd18c57979 Properly mention in the release notes that fillfactor controls both heap
and indexes.  Other cleanups.
2006-09-18 23:19:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e328f8b0ba Wrap long lines in 8.2 release notes. 2006-09-18 23:01:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1fc333f041 Updates from Jim Nasby. 2006-09-18 22:43:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
9b4cda0df6 Add built-in userlock manipulation functions to replace the former
contrib functionality.  Along the way, remove the USER_LOCKS configuration
symbol, since it no longer makes any sense to try to compile that out.
No user documentation yet ... mmoncure has promised to write some.
Thanks to Abhijit Menon-Sen for creating a first draft to work from.
2006-09-18 22:40:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7f308d6a6 Move 8.2 release documentation into SGML. 2006-09-18 21:45:10 +00:00
Neil Conway
ecf5009099 Make the order of the CASCADE and RESTRICT keywords in the DROP OWNED
syntax summary consistent with the other SQL reference pages. Patch
from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2006-09-18 21:19:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5b1eb80b7 Documentation for VALUES lists. Joe Conway and Tom Lane 2006-09-18 19:54:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f04ce3126 Add URL for commenting postgresql.conf:
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01481.php
2006-09-18 16:24:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c74c313519 Add URL for UUID:
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00209.php
>
2006-09-18 16:22:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e8efd98312 Add item:
>
> * Set client encoding based on the client operating system encoding
>
>   Currently client_encoding is set in postgresql.conf, which
>   defaults to the server encoding.
2006-09-18 15:52:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
329cec451e Add URL to UPDATE unique index case x=x+1:
<
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01458.php
2006-09-18 14:56:19 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
bcbb402e31 Improve wordings by David Fuhry <dfuhry@cs.kent.edu> 2006-09-18 12:11:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
da7540b9d1 Change ANALYZE to take ShareUpdateExclusiveLock not AccessShareLock on
the table being analyzed.  This prevents two ANALYZEs from running
concurrently on the same table and possibly suffering concurrent-update
failures while trying to store their results into pg_statistic.  The
downside is that a database-wide ANALYZE executed within a transaction
block will hold ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on many tables simultaneously,
which could lead to concurrency issues or even deadlock against another
such ANALYZE.  However, this seems a corner case of less importance
than getting unexpected errors from a foreground ANALYZE when autovacuum
elects to analyze the same table concurrently.  Per discussion.
2006-09-17 22:50:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f204274191 Update TODO for short header versions:
< 	o Reorder physical storage order to reduce padding?
<
< 	  This involves having the user-specified order of columns
< 	  be different from the physical order.  SELECT * would
< 	  need to reorder the physical values to match the
< 	  user-specified ordering.
<
< 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
<
< 	  This necessitates adding CPU-required padding when moving
< 	  rows from disk to memory.
<
< 	  One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits
< 	  first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php
> 	  One idea is to create zero-or-one-byte-header versions
> 	  of varlena data types.  In involves setting the high-bit and
> 	  0-127 length in the single-byte header, or clear the high bit
> 	  and store the 7-bit ASCII value in the rest of the byte.
> 	  The small-header versions have no alignment requirements.
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01372.php
2006-09-16 22:06:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
5ff4f39c0e Rename the recently-added pg_timezonenames view to pg_timezone_abbrevs,
and create a new view pg_timezone_names that provides information about
the zones known in the 'zic' database.  Magnus Hagander, with some
additional work by Tom Lane.
2006-09-16 20:14:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
1246d797e4 Rename xml_valid() to xml_is_well_formed(), but provide a temporary
alias with the old name for backwards compatibility.  Per discussion,
the old name is actively wrong because validity and well-formedness
have different meanings in XML.
2006-09-16 16:18:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32cebaecff Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5e550acbc4 Document Warm Standby for High Availability
Includes sample standby script.

Simon Riggs
2006-09-15 22:02:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
075c0caa90 Document WAL recovery now uses checkpoints.
Simon Riggs
2006-09-15 21:55:07 +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
Bruce Momjian
2a20412c45 Seems no one wants this:
< * -Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types based on the SQL
<   statement (Neil)
2006-09-14 21:44:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c1d1c50424 Done:
< * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged, if text mode
> * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
2006-09-14 21:41:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e467e5c8ad Not done yet:
< 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
> 	o Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
2006-09-14 21:37:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
c2314b9ece Fix missing markup. 2006-09-14 21:15:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e101e6bb8f Remove:
< * Research storing only active XIDs in subtransaction cache
2006-09-14 20:46:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3e6d1efa4a Add:
> * Research storing only active XIDs in subtransaction cache
2006-09-14 20:30:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a6e240a30f Add XML item.
>
> * Improve XML support
>
>   http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/XML_Support
2006-09-14 18:10:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa2801e361 Add description for variable-length header:
> 	  One idea is to store the header in network byte order (high bits
> 	  first), and read the high bits to determine the header length.
2006-09-14 17:34:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
536316aa42 Add recent ICU URL:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00662.php
2006-09-14 17:14:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f75537cd7 Update TODO items:
< 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
>
> 	  This involves having the user-specified order of columns
> 	  be different from the physical order.  SELECT * would
> 	  need to reorder the physical values to match the
> 	  user-specified ordering.
>
> 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
>
> 	  This necessitates adding CPU-required padding when moving
> 	  rows from disk to memory.
>
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg00848.php
>
2006-09-14 17:11:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9256b84e61 For release notes checklist, add UTF8 URL. 2006-09-14 16:55:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4f7b0fb103 In release notes checklist, add URL for HTML non-ASCII escapes, mention
UTF8 escapes.
2006-09-14 16:51:39 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
e25c3e84b6 Fix SGML markup 2006-09-14 13:40:28 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
0ca9907ce4 GIN documentation and slightly improving GiST docs.
Thanks to  Christopher Kings-Lynne <chris.kingslynne@gmail.com> for
initial version and Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> for inspection
2006-09-14 11:16:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
f8fe328c24 Some small editorialization on the description of CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY.  Greg Stark, some further tweaks by me.
2006-09-13 23:42:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
500da222f1 Add David Fetter:
> * David is David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
2006-09-12 21:02:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a80b1b4bfc Add items:
< * Research storing disk pages with no alignment/padding
> * Consider ways of storing rows more compactly on disk
>
> 	o Store disk pages with no alignment/padding?
> 	o Reorder physical storage order to reduce padding?
> 	o Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields?
> 	o Reduce the row header size?
2006-09-10 22:20:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
17c371fe82 Remove unhelpful/misleading advice about how to use SPI_saveplan().
Per gripe from Jack Orenstein.
2006-09-10 20:56:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
69b7c99265 Add missing documentation for new anyarray-overlap operator. 2006-09-10 19:03:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
684ad6a92f Rename contrib contains/contained-by operators to @> and <@, per discussion. 2006-09-10 17:36:52 +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
9cea5a82f8 Remove reference to contrib/mac, which isn't there anymore. 2006-09-09 18:45:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
b59d31c215 Tweak the behavior of log_duration as proposed by Guillaume Smet: rather
than being equivalent to setting log_min_duration_statement to zero, this
option now forces logging of all query durations, but doesn't force logging
of query text.  Also, add duration logging coverage for fastpath function
calls.
2006-09-08 15:55:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
893632be4e Clean up logging for extended-query-protocol operations, as per my recent
proposal.  Parameter logging works even for binary-format parameters, and
logging overhead is avoided when disabled.

log_statement = all output for the src/test/examples/testlibpq3.c example
now looks like

LOG:  statement: execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1
DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = 'joe''s place'
LOG:  statement: execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4
DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = '2'

and log_min_duration_statement = 0 results in

LOG:  duration: 2.431 ms  parse <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1
LOG:  duration: 2.335 ms  bind <unnamed> to <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1
DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = 'joe''s place'
LOG:  duration: 0.394 ms  execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1
DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = 'joe''s place'
LOG:  duration: 1.251 ms  parse <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4
LOG:  duration: 0.566 ms  bind <unnamed> to <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4
DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = '2'
LOG:  duration: 0.173 ms  execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4
DETAIL:  parameters: $1 = '2'

(This example demonstrates the folly of ignoring parse/bind steps for duration
logging purposes, BTW.)

Along the way, create a less ad-hoc mechanism for determining which commands
are logged by log_statement = mod and log_statement = ddl.  The former coding
was actually missing quite a few things that look like ddl to me, and it
did not handle EXECUTE or extended query protocol correctly at all.

This commit does not do anything about the question of whether log_duration
should be removed or made less redundant with log_min_duration_statement.
2006-09-07 22:52:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca6a4ff82b HTLM cleanup. 2006-09-07 00:12:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8dc8f44f58 Update Emacs/vim editor info. 2006-09-07 00:10:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c84db61c08 Update emacs info for FAQ_DEV.
Andrew Dunstan
2006-09-07 00:08:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a8db61f8ef Add XML documentation. 2006-09-07 00:04:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d511134776 Update tools directory name. 2006-09-06 22:03:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
5983a1aaa9 Change processing of extended-Query mode so that an unnamed statement
that has parameters is always planned afresh for each Bind command,
treating the parameter values as constants in the planner.  This removes
the performance penalty formerly often paid for using out-of-line
parameters --- with this definition, the planner can do constant folding,
LIKE optimization, etc.  After a suggestion by Andrew@supernews.
2006-09-06 20:40:48 +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
10964008c9 Remove GIN documentation
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2006-09-05 03:09:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
548e2c0a01 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2006-09-05 00:13:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d03215f31 Update setseed() documentation. 2006-09-04 21:47:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3bc7ededac Update LDAP installation wording.
Albe Laurenz
2006-09-04 21:43:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19dd2fbf7e Add GIN documentation.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
2006-09-04 20:10:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a65f7db3b5 Mention paremeterized queries do not work with partial indexes.
Simon Riggs
2006-09-04 19:58:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
091fe03775 Code review for UPDATE SET (columnlist) patch. Make it handle as much
of the syntax as this fundamentally dead-end approach can, in particular
combinations of single and multi column assignments.  Improve rather
inadequate documentation and provide some regression tests.
2006-09-03 22:37:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
676d1b4e67 Remove duplicated index entry. 2006-09-03 22:23:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
4ae15f29f7 Fix broken markup. 2006-09-03 22:15:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
7781916ab5 Fix non-improvement of description of archive_timeout. archive_command
is only invoked on completed WAL segments, period --- there's no 'by
default' about it.
2006-09-03 19:06:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f79f57a0af Remove:
< * Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2006-09-03 13:37:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5120f88c88 Reverted:
< * -Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
> * Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2006-09-03 03:26:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d387a07050 Update predicate locking text. 2006-09-03 01:59:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18f2e0351a Add:
> * Simplify ability to create partitioned tables
>
>   This would allow creation of partitioned tables without requiring
>   creation of rules for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, and constraints for
>   rapid partition selection.  Options could include range and hash
>   partition selection.
>
> * Allow auto-selection of partitioned tables for min/max() operations
2006-09-02 23:47:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e0938c3f5b Make autovacuum behavior more agressive, per discussion on hackers list
--- was part of autovacuum default 'on' patch that was reverted, but we
want this part.

Peter Eisentraut
2006-09-02 23:12:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a84952670 Change "superuser_reserved_connections" default to 3, because of
possible autovacuum use.
2006-09-02 23:04:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1f57aac024 Add URL for autovacuum default:
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg01852.php
2006-09-02 22:59:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4b636e35a5 Wording improvements for archive_timeout. 2006-09-02 21:11:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6e8596a146 Add UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updating
multiple columns

Susanne Ebrecht
2006-09-02 20:34:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e522d0816 Update:
< Last updated:		Sat Sep  2 08:31:04 EDT 2006
> Last updated:		Sat Sep  2 16:31:46 EDT 2006
< 	o Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (...) for updating multiple
< 	  columns
> 	o -Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updating
> 	  multiple columns
> 	o Allow UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (SELECT...)
<           A subselect can also be used as the value source.
2006-09-02 20:31:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
917bbebf7f Apply a simple solution to the problem of making INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE
RETURNING play nice with views/rules.  To wit, have the rule rewriter
rewrite any RETURNING clause found in a rule to produce what the rule's
triggering query asked for in its RETURNING clause, in particular drop
the RETURNING clause if no RETURNING in the triggering query.  This
leaves the responsibility for knowing how to produce the view's output
columns on the rule author, without requiring any fundamental changes
in rule semantics such as adding new rule event types would do.  The
initial implementation constrains things to ensure that there is
exactly one, unconditionally invoked RETURNING clause among the rules
for an event --- later we might be able to relax that, but for a post
feature freeze fix it seems better to minimize how much invention we do.
Per gripe from Jaime Casanova.
2006-09-02 17:06:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04912899e7 Add new variable "server_version_num", which is almost the same as
"server_version" but uses the handy PG_VERSION_NUM which allows apps to
do things like if ($version >= 80200) without having to parse apart the
value of server_version themselves.

Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
2006-09-02 13:12:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bb7be1ee10 Update wording:
< 		o -Allow PL/python to composite types and result sets
> 		o -Allow PL/python to return composite types and result sets
2006-09-02 12:31:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
819f22a302 Allow PL/python to return composite types and result sets
Sven Suursoho
2006-09-02 12:30:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b1620c538d Done:
o -Allow PL/python to composite types and result sets
2006-09-02 12:29:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5bb9c25904 Done:
< Last updated:		Tue Aug 29 12:21:52 EDT 2006
> Last updated:		Wed Aug 30 20:34:28 EDT 2006
< 	o Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
<
< 	  COPY should also be able to output views using COPY (SELECT
< 	  * FROM view) TO 'filename' internally.
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-09/msg00148.php
> 	o -Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
2006-08-31 00:34:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
85188ab883 Extend COPY to support COPY (SELECT ...) TO ...
Bernd Helmle
2006-08-30 23:34:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
c2f60711d2 Create a FETCH_COUNT parameter that causes psql to execute SELECT-like
queries via a cursor, fetching a limited number of rows at a time and
therefore not risking exhausting memory.  A disadvantage of the scheme
is that 'aligned' output mode will align each group of rows independently
leading to odd-looking output, but all the other output formats work
reasonably well.  Chris Mair, with some additional hacking by moi.
2006-08-29 22:25:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f6f70a04f Add autovacuum item:
> 	o Turn on by default
2006-08-29 16:22:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
ba9f9bf1b1 Revert change to turn autovacuum on by default. 2006-08-29 11:37:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bc24d5b976 Now bind displays prepare as detail, and execute displays prepare and
optionally bind.  I re-added the "statement:" label so people will
understand why the line is being printed (it is log_*statement
behavior).

Use single quotes for bind values, instead of double quotes, and double
literal single quotes in bind values (and document that).  I also made
use of the DETAIL line to have much cleaner output.
2006-08-29 02:11:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
216bb6662a Add URL:
> 	  http://people.planetpostgresql.org/greg/index.php?/archives/2006/06/10.html
>
2006-08-28 23:22:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
22bb6929cd Move to referential integrity section:
> 	o Allow DEFERRABLE and end-of-statement UNIQUE constraints?
>
> 	  This would allow UPDATE tab SET col = col + 1 to work if col has
> 	  a unique index.  Currently, uniqueness checks are done while the
> 	  command is being executed, rather than at the end of the statement
> 	  or transaction.
>
<
< * Allow DEFERRABLE and end-of-statement UNIQUE constraints?
<
<   This would allow UPDATE tab SET col = col + 1 to work if col has
<   a unique index.  Currently, uniqueness checks are done while the
<   command is being executed, rather than at the end of the statement
<   or transaction.
2006-08-28 23:21:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
79222272bb Update:
< * Allow DEFERRABLE UNIQUE constraints?
> * Allow DEFERRABLE and end-of-statement UNIQUE constraints?
>
>   This would allow UPDATE tab SET col = col + 1 to work if col has
>   a unique index.  Currently, uniqueness checks are done while the
>   command is being executed, rather than at the end of the statement
>   or transaction.
>
2006-08-28 23:20:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
88b8110443 Turn autovacuum on by default. (stats_row_level is also on by default.)
Threshold and scale factor are cut in half for more aggressive behavior.
2006-08-28 13:37:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea2e263539 Add new return codes SPI_OK_INSERT_RETURNING etc to the SPI API.
Fix all the standard PLs to be able to return tuples from FOO_RETURNING
statements as well as utility statements that return tuples.  Also,
fix oversight that SPI_processed wasn't set for a utility statement
returning tuples.  Per recent discussion.
2006-08-27 23:47:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
29a517eac9 Add blank line.> 2006-08-25 23:44:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9579acbe8b Add:
<
> * Implement SQL:2003 window functions
2006-08-25 23:43:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
e093dcdd28 Add the ability to create indexes 'concurrently', that is, without
blocking concurrent writes to the table.  Greg Stark, with a little help
from Tom Lane.
2006-08-25 04:06:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
726ede7370 Add:
> * Allow inlining of set-returning functions
2006-08-24 16:38:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7ad642d0b5 Add "AS" item:
< * All backends running as threads in a single process (not want)
> * All backends running as threads in a single process (not wanted)
< * Optimizer hints (not want)
> * Optimizer hints (not wanted)
>
> * Allow AS in "SELECT col AS label" to be optional (not wanted)
>
>   Because we support postfix operators, it isn't possible to make AS
>   optional and continue to use bison.
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/2006-08/msg00164.php
2006-08-23 18:32:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
efdec1ac1b Update COPY/VIEW item:
< 	o Allow COPY to output from SELECT
> 	o Allow COPY (SELECT ...) TO 'filename'
< 	  COPY should also be able to output views.
> 	  COPY should also be able to output views using COPY (SELECT
> 	  * FROM view) TO 'filename' internally.
2006-08-23 02:48:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
77f2c78ea6 Add info for get_* functions:
>
>   These would be for application use, not for use by pg_dump.
>
2006-08-22 03:40:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04b84f5a93 Generalize width_bucket() documentation because b1/b2 can be
interchanged.
2006-08-22 00:49:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f5caa1e9ec Add space between Win2000 and SP4. 2006-08-22 00:45:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
5405576a22 Fix encrypted-LDAP support so that it doesn't cause the server to fail
entirely on older Windows platforms without the needed library function.
Magnus Hagander
2006-08-21 19:21:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
548237fc84 Remove obsolete tip about casting bool to int, per Taiki Yamaguchi. 2006-08-21 16:23:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
35af5422f6 Make the server track an 'XID epoch', that is, maintain higher-order bits
of the transaction ID counter.  Nothing is done with the epoch except to
store it in checkpoint records, but this provides a foundation with which
add-on code can pretend that XIDs never wrap around.  This is a severely
trimmed and rewritten version of the xxid patch submitted by Marko Kreen.
Per discussion, the epoch counter seems the only part of xxid that really
needs to be in the core server.
2006-08-21 16:16:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1054c38069 Done:
< 	o Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
> 	o -Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
2006-08-21 12:50:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fe5d213378 Remove items, not needed anymore:
< * %Disallow changing DEFAULT expression of a SERIAL column?
<
<   This should be done only if the existing SERIAL problems cannot be
<   fixed.
<
< * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for SERIAL sequences because pg_dump
<   does not dump the changes
2006-08-21 12:20:26 +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
9bf760f7de Add a 'waiting' column to pg_stat_activity to carry the same information
that ps_status provides by appending 'waiting' to the PS display.  This
completes the project of making it feasible to turn off process title
updates and instead rely on pg_stat_activity.  Per my suggestion a few
weeks ago.
2006-08-19 01:36:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a8920e1d7 Add PQdescribePrepared, PQdescribePortal, and related functions to libpq
to allow obtaining information about previously prepared statements and
open cursors.  Volkan Yazici
2006-08-18 19:52:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
121dd1cdf5 Add space before SP4. 2006-08-18 16:27:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4c2aad4b26 Update Win2000SP4 mention. 2006-08-18 16:26:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
45436a403f Mention only Windows 2000SP4 works. 2006-08-18 15:51:28 +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
Peter Eisentraut
bb764e94ce Produce a clean failure in configure when dtrace is selected but cannot be
found.  Besides stopping those early who have no dtrace installed
whatsoever, this will also alert those who have dtrace in /usr/sbin, which
might not be in the path, which would produce confusing failures much later
in the build process.

Add documentation about pointing configure to find dtrace.
2006-08-17 17:25:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4e1bdcaabf Add:
< * Add support for arrays of domains
> 	o Add support for arrays of domains
> 	o Add support for arrays of complex types
2006-08-17 06:48:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
565de20ff7 Add:
> * Support a data type with specific enumerated values (ENUM)
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00979.php
2006-08-17 06:45:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6a5a241ee6 Add:
> * Add support for arrays of domains
2006-08-16 14:59:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
abc3120e9b Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasks
such as debugging and performance measurement.  This consists of two features:
a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared
libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries"
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit
cooperation from the client application.  To make local_preload_libraries
as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead,
it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/.  The
existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to
LOAD libraries stored in this directory.

This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to
shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some
code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity.

Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2006-08-15 18:26:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
3d1e01caa4 Support INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING in plpgsql, with rowcount checking
as per yesterday's proposal.  Also make things a tad more orthogonal by
adding the recent STRICT addition to EXECUTE INTO.
Jonah Harris and Tom Lane
2006-08-14 21:14:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
3f8db37c2f Tweak SPI_cursor_open to allow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING; this was
merely a matter of fixing the error check, since the underlying Portal
infrastructure already handles it.  This in turn allows these statements
to be used in some existing plpgsql and plperl contexts, such as a
plpgsql FOR loop.  Also, do some marginal code cleanup in places that
were being sloppy about distinguishing SELECT from SELECT INTO.
2006-08-12 20:05:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
510aad39d0 Done:
< 	o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col
<
< 	  This is useful for returning the auto-generated key for an INSERT.
< 	  One complication is how to handle rules that run as part of
< 	  the insert.
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00568.php
> 	o -Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col
2006-08-12 03:50:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aeb056f610 Fix wording, per Neil. 2006-08-12 03:48:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
7a3e30e608 Add INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING, with basic docs and regression tests.
plpgsql support to come later.  Along the way, convert execMain's
SELECT INTO support into a DestReceiver, in order to eliminate some ugly
special cases.

Jonah Harris and Tom Lane
2006-08-12 02:52:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
99c2b8b8e3 Done:
< 	o %Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
> 	o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them
2006-08-11 20:17:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
12e4660574 Revert undesired FAQ_DEV change. 2006-08-11 20:16:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c07fbcf577 plperl:
Allow conversion from perl to postgresql array in OUT parameters. Second,
allow hash form output from procedures with one OUT argument.

Pavel Stehule
2006-08-11 19:42:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6932048b9b Add Neil's presentation to FAQ_DEV. 2006-08-11 19:18:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d5877ab0c Update for company URL.
Ian Barwick
2006-08-11 18:47:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3638eff501 Add URLs
< * Allow encoding on a per-column basis
> * Allow encoding on a per-column basis optionally using the ICU library:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-08/msg00309.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-03/msg00233.php
2006-08-11 15:53:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
64214a2f01 Add URL for typmod:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00149.php
2006-08-09 18:10:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b1d78fc9c7 Add URL:
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2004-08/msg00349.php
2006-08-09 16:42:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c7fa4aa3e7 Add TODO items we don't want (Idea from Josh Berkus)
>
>
> Features We Do _Not_ Want
> =========================
>
> * All backends running as threads in a single process (not want)
>
>   This eliminates the process protection we get from the current setup.
>   Thread creation is usually the same overhead as process creation on
>   modern systems, so it seems unwise to use a pure threaded model.
>
> * Optimizer hints (not want)
>
>   Optimizer hints are used to work around problems in the optimizer.  We
>   would rather have the problems reported and fixed.
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00506.php
2006-08-09 16:35:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4f81337d9d Update packages:
< 		  A package would be a schema with public/private variables,
> 		  A package would be a schema with session-local variables,
> 		  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00384.php
2006-08-09 14:55:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
baefb735ff Update packages description:
< 		  A package would be a schema with its own variables,
< 		  private functions, and initialization functions.  It
> 		  A package would be a schema with public/private variables,
> 		  public/private functions, and initialization functions.  It
2006-08-09 02:48:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bed7d5f635 Update packages:
< 		  private functions, and initialization functions
> 		  private functions, and initialization functions.  It
> 		  is also possible to implement these capabilities
> 		  in all schemas and not use a separate "packages"
> 		  syntax at all.
2006-08-08 22:51:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f139b813c Update:
< 	o COPY FROM STDIN not implemented because not useful?
> 	o Implement COPY FROM STDIN
2006-08-08 22:39:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
b09bfcaa57 Add a feature for automatic initialization and finalization of dynamically
loaded libraries: call functions _PG_init() and _PG_fini() if the library
defines such symbols.  Hence we no longer need to specify an initialization
function in preload_libraries: we can assume that the library used the
_PG_init() convention, instead.  This removes one source of pilot error
in use of preloaded libraries.  Original patch by Ralf Engelschall,
preload_libraries changes by me.
2006-08-08 19:15:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e00664da48 Reverse order of performance guides so powerpostgresql is first. 2006-08-08 19:05:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cbf0468d66 Add detail on packages:
>
> 		  A package would be a schema with its own variables,
> 		  private functions, and initialization functions
>
2006-08-08 19:03:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
46d759cfff Add package item:
< 		o Add Oracle-style packages
> 		o Add Oracle-style packages  (Pavel)
> * Pavel is Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com>
2006-08-08 19:02:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2392cdb795 Done:
< 	  o Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
> 	  o -Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
<
< 	    Doing this will allow administrators to know more easily when
< 	    the archive contains all the files needed for point-in-time
< 	    recovery.
< 	    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-04/msg00121.php
<
< 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
> 	  o -Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
<
< 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
< 	    an external program.
<
2006-08-08 17:40:02 +00:00
Michael Meskes
75b5630726 Clarified COPY FROM STDIN in ecpg todo 2006-08-08 11:52:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d42cb5d880 Done:
< * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00165.php
> * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged, if text mode
2006-08-08 01:24:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3716f90c39 For protocol-level prepare/bind/execute:
o  print user name for all
	o  print portal name if defined for all
	o  print query for all
	o  reduce log_statement header to single keyword
	o  print bind parameters as DETAIL if text mode
2006-08-08 01:23:15 +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
Bruce Momjian
a83437fcfd Slight wording improvement in documentation. 2006-08-04 04:07:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
49954b4526 Add URL for terminate backend test:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00174.php
2006-08-04 01:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
7946f77220 Cause ALTER TABLE to perform ALTER COLUMN DROP DEFAULT operations during
the DROP pass rather than the ADD_CONSTR pass.  On examining the code I
think this was just an oversight rather than intentional, and it seems
to satisfy the principle of least surprise better than the alternative
solution that was discussed.  Add an example to the ref page showing how
to do ALTER TYPE and update the default in one command.  Per gripe from
Markus Bertheau that that wasn't possible.
2006-08-03 20:57:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
9649b182a1 Fix documentation error: GRANT/REVOKE for roles only accept role names
as grantees, not PUBLIC ... and you can't say GROUP either.  Noted by
Brian Hurt.
2006-08-02 16:29:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97eefd6996 Update:
< 	o Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling
> 	o Add COPY TO STDIN handling
2006-08-02 13:36:45 +00:00