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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Haas
1c850fa807 Make smart shutdown work in combination with Hot Standby/Streaming Replication.
At present, killing the startup process does not release any locks it holds,
so we must wait to stop the startup and walreceiver processes until all
read-only backends have exited.  Without this patch, the startup and
walreceiver processes never exit, so the server gets permanently stuck in
a half-shutdown state.

Fujii Masao, with review, docs, and comment adjustments by me.
2010-04-08 01:39:37 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
0f11ed5886 Allow quotes to be escaped in recovery.conf, by doubling them. This patch
also makes the parsing a little bit stricter, rejecting garbage after the
parameter value and values with missing ending quotes, for example.
2010-04-07 10:58:49 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
370f770c15 Forbid using pg_xlogfile_name() and pg_xlogfile_name_offset() during
recovery. We might want to relax this in the future, but ThisTimeLineID
isn't currently correct in backends during recovery, so the filename
returned was wrong.
2010-04-07 06:12:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
08c1d4e560 Reword exclusion constriants to mention that the operator can return
false or null, per Tom.
2010-04-06 02:18:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
87d5c22925 Clean up description of 9.0's incompatible changes in SIMILAR TO and
SQL-style substring().
2010-04-05 02:46:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
60bd2b1941 Arrange to remove pg_default_acl entries completely if their ACL setting
is changed to match the hard-wired default.  This avoids accumulating useless
catalog entries, and also provides a path for dropping the owning role without
using DROP OWNED BY.  Per yesterday's complaint from Jaime Casanova, the
need to use DROP OWNED BY for that is less than obvious, so providing this
alternative method might save some user frustration.
2010-04-05 01:58:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
87ecae72ba Minor wording improvement. 2010-04-03 21:46:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a8af3d1a57 Clarify documentation of to_char EEEE pattern 2010-04-03 07:53:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6dcce3985b Remove unnecessary xref endterm attributes and title ids
The endterm attribute is mainly useful when the toolchain does not support
automatic link target text generation for a particular situation.  In  the
past, this was required by the man page tools for all reference page links,
but that is no longer the case, and it now actually gets in the way of
proper automatic link text generation.  The only remaining use cases are
currently xrefs to refsects.
2010-04-03 07:23:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7969145483 Allow for more room in the man page title, so that
"CREATE TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION" is not truncated.
2010-04-03 07:16:05 +00:00
Simon Riggs
3e754a89ea Clarify some behaviours of REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED BY. 2010-04-02 17:29:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a5c317cf78 Fix the build and install rules for man pages with SQL section != 7
The previous coding failed in various scenarios possibly including vpath
builds and doing make install without preceding make all.
2010-04-02 14:02:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
399ea9e7a5 Change test -e to test -f in docs, for portability. 2010-04-01 13:52:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0189c42f31 Add contraint exclusion section to contraint docs.
Takahiro Itagaki
2010-04-01 01:18:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
38672aaaa1 Add full names for release note item authors. 2010-04-01 00:32:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
570e01becc Use test -e rather than test -f. 2010-04-01 00:31:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ae5160bf3 Improve 9.0 release notes by removing extra parentheses and linking to a
more appropriate place for exclusion constraints.
2010-04-01 00:18:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d93e4d819c Revert change that prevented ellipses from looking like ../. 2010-03-31 23:51:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2af244021 Clarify ellipses use in archive_command example, per Josh Kupershmidt. 2010-03-31 23:39:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cba3498596 Document why 'cp -i </dev/null' is suggested for archive command. 2010-03-31 23:35:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
f185fc3c5e Fix typos, spotted by Thom Brown. 2010-03-31 20:41:50 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
ec9ee9381f Enhance standby documentation.
Original patch by Fujii Masao, with heavy editing and bitrot-fixing
after my other commit.
2010-03-31 20:35:09 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
259f60e9b6 Mention in the docs that if special keywords like "sameuser" and
"replication" are quoted in pg_hba.conf, they lose their special meaning.
2010-03-31 20:18:10 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
991bfe11d2 Enhance documentation of the build-in standby mode, explaining the retry
loop in standby mode, trying to restore from archive, pg_xlog and
streaming.

Move sections around to make the high availability chapter more
coherent: the most prominent part is now a "Log-Shipping Standby Servers"
section that describes what a standby server is (like the old
"Warm Standby Servers for High Availability" section), and how to
set up a warm standby server, including streaming replication, using the
built-in standby mode. The pg_standby method is desribed in another
section called "Alternative method for log shipping", with the added
caveat that it doesn't work with streaming replication.
2010-03-31 19:13:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
29ccc32c30 Separate targets "make docs" and "make install-docs" for the documentation
It is no longer installed by default, but included in "make world"/"make
install-world".  Documentation updated accordingly.

Also, fix vpathsearch function to work when calling make install-docs
without previous make docs.
2010-03-30 00:10:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3f76f9613d Add note that XML Schema validation is not supported
requested by Andrew Lardinois
2010-03-29 22:01:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1e24678349 Add some information about what it means for PL/Python to be untrusted.
Similar information already appears in the PL/Perl and PL/Tcl chapters.
2010-03-29 21:35:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
51d2c9b0bb Add some documentation about PL/Python limitations
suggested by Steve White (bug #5272)
2010-03-29 21:20:58 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
be8cebc717 Prevent ALTER USER f RESET ALL from removing the settings that were put there
by a superuser -- "ALTER USER f RESET setting" already disallows removing such a
setting.

Apply the same treatment to ALTER DATABASE d RESET ALL when run by a database
owner that's not superuser.
2010-03-25 14:44:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f9d2316d5 Typo fix from IRC breinbaas 2010-03-23 22:37:14 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
7e2411429c Remove CRs for each line in pgbench.sgml. 2010-03-23 04:09:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a9ae3c0a56 Add back other xlog() function author names. 2010-03-23 02:28:48 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
a887c486d5 Each worker thread will have its own log file in pgbench to avoid interleaved
writes. The first worker still uses "pgbench_log.<pid>" for the name, but
additional workers use "pgbench_log.<pid>.<serial-number>" instead.

Reported by Greg Smith.
2010-03-23 01:29:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1d34814ac2 Properly credit Simon for functions pg_last_xlog_replay_location, etc. 2010-03-22 22:56:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
260d843d70 Re-order createuser and vacuumedb documentation options, for
consistency.

Gabrielle (Roth)
2010-03-22 14:56:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0885dd1517 Remove 9.0 release notes xref's to HISTORY.html can be built.
Document this restriction.
2010-03-21 22:12:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6ad4249b5c Add more 9.0 release note documentation links. 2010-03-21 02:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4748faa50a Add links to documentation sections in 9.0 release notes.
Also update tagging instructions, and add id tags to a few documentation
sections.
2010-03-21 00:43:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a12e98c46 In 9.0 release notes, move libpq/ecpg up into their own sections, like I
did with server-side languages.
2010-03-20 16:31:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9e6c5f1e74 Move server-side languages up one section in the 9.0 release notes. 2010-03-20 14:03:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
128b1c5022 Create 9.0 release notes; keep 9.0-alpha release notes in place. 2010-03-20 03:30:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4430907d95 Update sgml release note markup suggestions. 2010-03-20 03:12:52 +00:00
Simon Riggs
f42ddc4772 Clarify docs about database parameter in streaming replication primary_conninfo.
Docs were unclear on whether or not database=replication was required,
nor did they mention the FATAL error this causes if database parameter is
mentioned explicitly, whatever its value.
2010-03-19 19:31:06 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a401226bd8 Prevent the injection of invalidly encoded strings by PL/Python into PostgreSQL
with a few strategically placed pg_verifymbstr calls.
2010-03-18 19:43:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
5f6285616d Fix missing parentheses for current_query(), per bug #5378.
Also make a couple other minor editorial improvements.
2010-03-18 15:29:44 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
c21ac0b58e Add restartpoint_command option to recovery.conf. Fix bug in %r handling
in recovery_end_command, it always came out as 0 because InRedo was
cleared before recovery_end_command was executed. Also, always take
ControlFileLock when reading checkpoint location for %r.

The recovery_end_command bug and the missing locking was present in 8.4
as well, that part of this patch will be backported separately.
2010-03-18 09:17:18 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b2640888d9 Make typography consistent 2010-03-17 20:53:19 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
ad8f6fec3b Typo fixes.
Fujii Masao
2010-03-17 18:03:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a95e51962d Update broken and permanently moved links 2010-03-17 17:12:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
f248e11f70 Fix incorrect example in CREATE INDEX reference page, per Josh Kupershmidt.
Also fix and uncomment an old example of creating a GIST index, and make
a couple of other minor editorial adjustments.
2010-03-17 15:55:50 +00:00
Simon Riggs
0131088f18 Fix typo in streaming replication protocol docs. 2010-03-17 00:28:15 +00:00
Simon Riggs
ce701c1e73 Fix typo in math function docs, spotted by Heikki. 2010-03-16 16:03:24 +00:00
Simon Riggs
bd11a0f67f Document that trig functions accept/return values in radians. 2010-03-15 19:03:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
66cac8feab Add some more structure and bits of information to PL/Python documentation 2010-03-13 20:55:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a6c1cea2b7 Add libpq warning message if the .pgpass-retrieved password fails.
Add ERRCODE_INVALID_PASSWORD sqlstate error code.
2010-03-13 14:55:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
8b2ae44dc8 Update shared memory configuration information for Linux
In particular, the assertion that shmall is sufficiently sized by default
is slowly becoming untrue.
2010-03-13 11:00:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5473df9eb7 Document what user name email symbols are supported by tsearch. 2010-03-13 03:09:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c24b2ef217 Re-add comma, oops. 2010-03-12 23:21:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb08f6b688 Remove unnecessary comma in documentation. 2010-03-12 17:46:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
8c9a120f6b Preliminary release notes for releases 8.4.3, 8.3.10, 8.2.16, 8.1.20, 8.0.24,
7.4.28.
2010-03-10 01:58:11 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
aa8eed3172 Add missing space in example.
Tim Landscheidt
2010-03-08 12:38:37 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
43d07d63b1 Revert patch for --psqlrc=FILENAME in psql. 2010-03-07 17:02:34 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
66c2cc2ba9 Add --psqlrc=FILENAME parameter to psql, to process an explicitly named
file instead of ~/.psqlrc on startup.
2010-03-06 15:28:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea066f87c3 Document that "Q" is ignored by to_date and to_timestamp. Add C comment
about the behavior.

Document that quotes in to_date, to_timestamp, to_number skip input
characters.
2010-03-03 22:28:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8b420770b3 Fix SGML markup. 2010-03-03 03:23:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d859b17f0f Restructure CREATE FUNCTION "NOTES" section to be shorter; move items
into proper sections, per suggestion from Tom.
2010-03-03 03:14:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7c55be792b Adjust max_standby_delay documentation to be clearer, and mention that
two adjacent long-running queries have much less than max_standby_delay
before query cancel is possible.
2010-03-02 23:38:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b098dbec0d Document the effect of max_standby_delay on increasing the delay of data
from master to slave, and discourage its use during slave/master
keep-xid-alive connections.
2010-03-02 21:18:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9393bc62c5 Update keywords list for 9.0 2010-03-02 20:40:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bd7246f65e Update complex locale example in the documentation. 2010-02-28 02:20:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0ff1c3e547 *** empty log message *** 2010-02-28 02:19:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9295eea839 Document ATAPI FLUSH CACHE EXT. 2010-02-27 20:16:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c685b942e5 Document trace_recovery_messages() parameter as an enum, not string.
Fujii Masao
2010-02-27 14:46:05 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
7ab9305cc9 Document max_standby_delay=-1 option, now that it's allowed again. 2010-02-27 09:29:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
4ec700a8ec Entity-ify a few new uses of literal <, >, and &. 2010-02-27 04:29:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7c93458a9 Use <> for libpq #include in example programs, per suggestion from Josh Berkus. 2010-02-27 03:41:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adfb444581 Document ATAPI drive flush command, and mention SSD drives. 2010-02-27 01:39:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca8e3a51a0 Document pg_restore --jobs as a performance enhancement. 2010-02-26 02:31:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87f609c4fe Remove 'emphasis' markup inside literal; not allowed. 2010-02-26 01:11:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d98039d896 Document that after triggers that need to see changed rows should not be
marked stable.
2010-02-25 22:24:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1951c97805 Document clearly the meaning of none/all for log_statements. 2010-02-25 19:20:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bfd0cd5568 Clearly document that timestamp alone means timestamp without timezone,
per SQL standard, and mention 7.3 behavior at the end.
2010-02-25 18:16:53 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
413d34be4e Add configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to control
how often we do SSL session key renegotiation. Can be set to
0 to disable renegotiation completely, which is required if
a broken SSL library is used (broken patches to CVE-2009-3555
a known cause) or when using a client library that can't do
renegotiation.
2010-02-25 13:26:16 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
0ccc5153f8 Fix typos, per Richard Huxton 2010-02-25 10:02:30 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
0a4807dd93 Clarify that the connection string for primary_conninfo is in the same
format as in PQconnectdb(). As pointed out by Thom Brown.
2010-02-25 09:32:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
6e11a10c4c Fix typo. 2010-02-25 09:16:42 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
7c6c09c039 Small streaming replication document improvements. Be more explicit that
it's asynchronous.
2010-02-25 08:57:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
aed0829c63 Improve warning about creating nested named subroutines in plperl.
Per discussion.
2010-02-25 03:08:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
673fb4da02 Document that pg_restore -t can use -n for its schema qualification. 2010-02-24 16:27:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
99ef515280 Revert removal of pre-7.4 documenation behavior mentions. 2010-02-24 15:54:31 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
b5a6a52fba Remove stray semicolon, per report from strk 2010-02-24 14:10:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7bfd95a4a2 Remove pre-7.4 documentaiton mentions, now that 8.0 is the oldest
supported release.
2010-02-24 03:33:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
11b5847058 Add an OR REPLACE option to CREATE LANGUAGE.
This operates in the same way as other CREATE OR REPLACE commands, ie,
it replaces everything but the ownership and ACL lists of an existing
entry, and requires the caller to have owner privileges for that entry.

While modifying an existing language has some use in development scenarios,
in typical usage all the "replaced" values come from pg_pltemplate so there
will be no actual change in the language definition.  The reason for adding
this is mainly to allow programs to ensure that a language exists without
triggering an error if it already does exist.

This commit just adds and documents the new option.  A followon patch
will use it to clean up some unpleasant cases in pg_dump and pg_regress.
2010-02-23 22:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
edf344a5e3 Revert recent COPY manual change about encoding; add mention of "server". 2010-02-23 21:38:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
1bc8acca25 Clarify statements about tar archive format. 2010-02-23 17:28:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a54803149a Revert recent change of to_char('HH12') handling for intervals; instead
improve documentation, and add C comment.
2010-02-23 16:14:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1180b64075 Make documentation more direct about the handling of COPY files based on
the client encoding.
2010-02-23 05:17:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1379fb052f Document that expression indexes that call functions allow function-level
statistics.
2010-02-23 02:47:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
485b19ec3c Update pg_restore documentation to show new pg_restore custom listing
format.

Pavel Golub
2010-02-23 00:21:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
752672ced7 Remove long-commented-out paragraph in documentation about function
inheritance in create table, per Andrew Dunstan.
2010-02-22 23:51:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c750cb4bd3 Document that pg_ctl cares about the PGHOST environment variable. 2010-02-22 22:30:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f235c9208d Remove protocol documentation paragraph about environment variable
passing being "covered elsewhere", per Dave Page.
2010-02-22 18:12:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dd1486ccd4 Briefly document in two places that pg_dump and pg_dumpall cannot be
used for continuous archiving.
2010-02-22 17:15:10 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
3229db2d42 Move documentation of all recovery.conf option to a new chapter.
They used to be scattered between the "backup and restore" and "streaming
replication" chapters.
2010-02-22 11:47:30 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
f90a4c5df5 Adjust sample auto-explain output to reflect query text inclusion. 2010-02-20 22:24:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fada4204b9 Make 'include_realm' ordering consistent in the docs, to match recent
doc change.
2010-02-20 21:04:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
786e2f6871 Clarify documentation about username mapping when authenticating with
GSSAPI or Kerberos.

Ian Turner
2010-02-20 19:21:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
de9ec65431 Document that many solid-state drives have volatile write-back caches. 2010-02-20 18:28:37 +00:00
Simon Riggs
7363021df3 Copy editing of Hot Standby docs. Some clarifications, addition
of missing items and minor edits.
2010-02-20 10:07:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2f6cf9192c Revert version stamping in wrong branch 2010-02-19 18:42:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a779afb40c Version stamp 9.0alpha4 2010-02-19 16:03:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f8f0140d73 Document --version and --help options for all client applications (they
all support it).

Per report from Josh Kupershmidt
2010-02-19 14:36:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f6b4560af First pass over client applications documentation proofreading.
gabrielle
2010-02-19 03:50:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4e3a616355 Remove mention that binary distributions pre-compile the tutorial files. 2010-02-19 01:15:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1222296768 Preliminary release notes for 9.0alpha4 2010-02-19 00:35:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a70d039104 Hot Standby documentation updates
Greg Smith
2010-02-19 00:15:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9529f4d532 Add missing close tag. 2010-02-18 04:14:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1bee1a3725 Wordsmithing of HS and SR documentation, with some wording improvements
from Erik Rijkers too.
2010-02-18 03:16:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
50a90fac40 Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5
(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
2010-02-17 04:19:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
750ff8bdf7 Tweak description of payload parameter. 2010-02-17 00:57:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
d1e027221d Replace the pg_listener-based LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism with an in-memory queue.
In addition, add support for a "payload" string to be passed along with
each notify event.

This implementation should be significantly more efficient than the old one,
and is also more compatible with Hot Standby usage.  There is not yet any
facility for HS slaves to receive notifications generated on the master,
although such a thing is possible in future.

Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Jeff Davis; also hacked on by me.
2010-02-16 22:34:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
813135d8c9 Move log_error_verbosity GUC setting to "What to log" section, and
document the behavior of terse and verbose output options.
2010-02-16 21:35:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
70d8a2c29e Honor to_char() "FM" specification in YYY, YY, and Y; it was already
honored by YYYY.  Also document Oracle "toggle" FM behavior.

Per report from Guy Rouillier
2010-02-16 21:18:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa7e7ae9a6 Have SELECT and CREATE TABLE AS queries return a row count. While this
is invisible in psql, other interfaces, like libpq, make this value
visible.

Boszormenyi Zoltan
2010-02-16 20:58:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
93a57c3b57 Clarify documentation on the behavior of unnamed bind queries. 2010-02-16 20:15:14 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
3d4a2cea57 Fix synopsis of DO statement. 2010-02-16 00:49:42 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
714f279457 Add psql tab completion for DO blocks.
Also adjust documentation of DO.

Patch from David Fetter and subsequent discussion.
2010-02-15 02:55:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
c5d644a867 Ooops, let's get the non-null vs null bit right ... 2010-02-14 01:01:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
a9aad1b868 Document the behavior of STRICT VARIADIC functions. 2010-02-14 00:48:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a5acb7dfb9 Remove tabs from sgml. 2010-02-13 03:38:26 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
1b04b8f1bc Add plperl.on_plperl_init and plperl.on_plperlu_init settings for language-specific startup. Rename recently added plperl.on_perl_init to plperl.on_init. Also, code cleanup for utf8 hack. Patch from Tim Bunce, reviewed by Alex Hunsaker. 2010-02-12 19:35:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
ec4be2ee68 Extend the set of frame options supported for window functions.
This patch allows the frame to start from CURRENT ROW (in either RANGE or
ROWS mode), and it also adds support for ROWS n PRECEDING and ROWS n FOLLOWING
start and end points.  (RANGE value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING isn't there yet ---
the grammar works, but that's all.)

Hitoshi Harada, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2010-02-12 17:33:21 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
a5348fafd1 Update Hot Standby documentation to reflect the change in the LOG
messages printed at startup. As pointed out by Simon Riggs.
2010-02-12 14:53:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
1026be15b6 Clean up Streaming Replication documentation a little bit. A lot more
needs to be done, but it's a step forward..
2010-02-12 08:28:44 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
8740fe7136 Move "Warm Standby Servers for High Availability" and "Hot Standby"
sections under "High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication"
chapter. Streaming replication chapter needs a lot more work, but this
commit just moves things around.
2010-02-09 16:50:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
d5768dce10 Create an official API function for C functions to use to check if they are
being called as aggregates, and to get the aggregate transition state memory
context if needed.  Use it instead of poking directly into AggState and
WindowAggState in places that shouldn't know so much.

We should have done this in 8.4, probably, but better late than never.

Revised version of a patch by Hitoshi Harada.
2010-02-08 20:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ab41f02ed Update high availability/replication documentation chart for new hot
standby featureset.
2010-02-08 13:41:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
0a469c8769 Remove old-style VACUUM FULL (which was known for a little while as
VACUUM FULL INPLACE), along with a boatload of subsidiary code and complexity.
Per discussion, the use case for this method of vacuuming is no longer large
enough to justify maintaining it; not to mention that we don't wish to invest
the work that would be needed to make it play nicely with Hot Standby.

Aside from the code directly related to old-style VACUUM FULL, this commit
removes support for certain WAL record types that could only be generated
within VACUUM FULL, redirect-pointer removal in heap_page_prune, and
nontransactional generation of cache invalidation sinval messages (the last
being the sticking point for Hot Standby).

We still have to retain all code that copes with finding HEAP_MOVED_OFF and
HEAP_MOVED_IN flag bits on existing tuples.  This can't be removed as long
as we want to support in-place update from pre-9.0 databases.
2010-02-08 04:33:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
b9b8831ad6 Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodes
of shared or nailed system catalogs.  This has two key benefits:

* The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs.

* We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing
  shared catalogs.

CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on
shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would
only be visible in one database.

Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and
crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed;
shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared.

This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of
deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other
concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch.  As a stopgap,
parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid
such failures during the regression tests.
2010-02-07 20:48:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6ba9b9102a Mention warm and now "hot" standby servers in the high availability docs. 2010-02-05 23:53:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4b113d9cdc Document that archive_timeout will force new WAL files even if a single
checkpoint has happened, and recommend adjusting checkpoint_timeout to
reduce the impact of this.
2010-02-05 23:37:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c1ae9bae7d Previous commit was: Properly document that OVER and WINDOW are Postgres reserved words. 2010-02-05 19:38:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d5c861af6c Previous commit was to have tab checking as part of gmake check. 2010-02-05 19:31:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a93226f0d *** empty log message *** 2010-02-05 19:28:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ac9f254684 Improve PL/Perl documentation of database access functions.
Alexey Klyukin
2010-02-05 18:11:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb4bd52ad9 Add SGML 'check-tabs' Makefile rule to check for tabs. 2010-02-05 14:51:50 +00:00
Joe Conway
f419a82c70 Modify recently added PQconnectdbParams() with new argument, expand_dbname.
If expand_dbname is non-zero and dbname contains an = sign, it is taken as
a conninfo string in exactly the same way as if it had been passed to
PQconnectdb. This is equivalent to the way PQsetdbLogin() works, allowing
PQconnectdbParams() to be a complete alternative.

Also improve the way the new function is called from psql and replace a
previously missed call to PQsetdbLogin() in psql. Additionally use
PQconnectdbParams() for pg_dump and friends, and the bin/scripts
command line utilities such as vacuumdb, createdb, etc.

Finally, update the documentation for the new parameter, as well as the
nuances of precedence in cases where key words are repeated or duplicated
in the conninfo string.
2010-02-05 03:09:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
c00353aa6c Three out of four of us like this phrasing better. 2010-02-04 00:19:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
73a835eea0 Mention "unquoted" identifiers are case-insensitive. 2010-02-03 22:48:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf62b1a078 Proofreading improvements for the Administration documentation book. 2010-02-03 17:25:06 +00:00