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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
846cd0f1c2 Update TODO item:
o Add ALTER TABLE table SET WITHOUT CLUSTER
2004-05-02 12:27:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a273556a3 Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2004-05-01 01:27:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
f378288e3b Minor copy-editing. 2004-04-29 04:37:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a3b0c90e24 Fix typo:
<   columns and indexes with many duplicate keys
2004-04-28 16:35:36 +00:00
Neil Conway
a3015829ee Fix typo in libpq docs. 2004-04-24 22:58:40 +00:00
Neil Conway
f0c3a09ab3 Document that PQoidValue(), PQcmdTuples(), and PQoidStatus() now work
when the command that generated the PGresult was an EXECUTE of an
appropriate prepared statement.
2004-04-24 22:53:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f5dd5bf297 Add mention to run thread test program if user is experiencing problems
with threaded applications.
2004-04-24 00:14:28 +00:00
Neil Conway
fc7fd50182 Add ceiling() as an alias for ceil(), and power() as an alias for pow().
Regression tests and documentation have both been updated.

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

RELEASE NOTES: should state that pow() is considered deprecated
(although I don't see the need to ever remove it.)
2004-04-23 20:32:20 +00:00
Neil Conway
0fa2afa93a Make psql's \d+ command indicate whether the table in question
contains OIDs. Also, minor documentation improvements to the
psql reference page.
2004-04-22 17:38:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65b020bd61 Fix filename mention in psqlrc.sample file. 2004-04-22 14:33:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
19f1649bed Put information about tag in Outputs section, where it belongs. 2004-04-22 11:46:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c16fa67c87 Fix typo 2004-04-22 08:36:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
2ff4e44043 Improvements to the backup & restore documentation. 2004-04-22 07:02:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e3391133ae Update EXECUTE docs to mention tag matches prepared statement.
Update log_statement to more clearly state it doesn't filter based on
the statement type of the prepared statement.
2004-04-22 04:18:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be6bbcef56 Add global psql config file, psql.rc.sample. 2004-04-22 01:53:37 +00:00
Neil Conway
4906841901 Minor improvement to CREATE AGGREGATE docs: add an xref to the docs for
builtin aggregate functions.
2004-04-21 21:52:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
aeee856564 New link for Solaris IPC article 2004-04-21 13:18:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
49d3d9cf40 Change COPY CSV keyword to be:
FORCE QUOTE to force quotes
	FORCE NOT NULL to quote null input values
2004-04-21 00:34:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d1221bf89 Done:
< * Add NO WAIT option to various SQL commands
> * -Add NO WAIT LOCKs
2004-04-20 20:16:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6022a7d72f Add doc mention that:
process directly.  Some parameters can only be set at server start;
    any changes to their entries in the configuration file will be ignored
    until the server is restarted.
2004-04-20 16:56:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cfb8d57ba1 Add:
> * Allow AFTER triggers on system tables
2004-04-20 14:03:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8149029162 Improve IS NULL partial index wording. 2004-04-20 12:53:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8b10da1056 Done:
> * -Exit postmaster if postgresql.conf can not be opened
2004-04-20 04:26:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bb18b47390 Document partial indexes for IS NULL lookups. 2004-04-20 04:25:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f2a3439a5 Remove additional tcl doc mention. 2004-04-20 01:14:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c310d28766 Remove TCL docs. 2004-04-20 01:11:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6ef77149f7 > >> My question is whether postgres can index null values, and if not, do I
> >> have to accept a full table scan when locating records.
> >
> > It indexes them, but "is null" is not an indexable operator, so you
> > can't directly solve the above with a 3-column index.  What you can do
> > instead is use a partial index, for instance
> >
> > create index i on CUSTOMER.WCCustOrderStatusLog (WCOrderStatusID)
> > where Acknowledged is null and Processing is null;
>
> That's a very nifty trick and exactly the sort of answer I was after!

Add CREATE INDEX doc mention of using partial indexes for IS NULL
indexing;  idea from Tom.
2004-04-20 01:00:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d1b3915ce1 In reading the 7.4.2 docs, the sql reference page for PREPARE doesn't
reference DEALLOCATE in any way. It points to EXECUTE, but not to
DEALLOCATE. Suggested fix:

... This also means that a single  prepared statement cannot be used by
multiple simultaneous database clients; however, each client can create
their own prepared statement  to use. The prepared statement can be
manually cleaned up using the DEALLOCATE command.

James Robinson
2004-04-19 23:36:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
862b20b382 Complete TODO item:
o -Allow dump/load of CSV format

This adds new keywords to COPY and \copy:

        CSV - enable CSV mode (comma separated variable)
        QUOTE - specify quote character
        ESCAPE - specify escape character
        FORCE - force quoting of specified column
	LITERAL - suppress null comparison for columns

Doc changes included.  Regression updates coming from Andrew.
2004-04-19 17:22:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
83ab1c0475 Done:
> 	o -Allow dump/load of CSV format
2004-04-19 17:03:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7931a8fdd1 Fix typo:
< * -Allow psql \du to show groups, and add \dg for groups
> * -Allow psql \du to show users, and add \dg for groups
2004-04-19 15:37:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
77c7e8bcb8 Clarify meaning of second DateStyle value. 2004-04-15 04:46:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
18229e080c Update name:
< * Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
> * Alvaro is Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
2004-04-14 19:15:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76e953bd70 Update owners of items:
< * Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces]
> * Add the concept of dataspaces/tablespaces [tablespaces] (Gavin)
167c167
< * Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Bruce)
> * Allow savepoints / nested transactions [transactions] (Alvaro)
240c240
< 	o Allow Java server-side programming [java]
> 	o Allow Java server-side programming [java] (Dave)
496a497
> * Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
2004-04-14 18:33:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
abdabeb995 Change psql \copy stdin/stdout to read from command input/output.
Add pstdin/pstdout to read from psql's stdin/stdout.

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE
2004-04-12 15:58:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7b3189c185 > > This update fixes a few small typos in names,
> > pronouns and formatting in the Russian FAQ.

Serguei Mokhov
2004-04-12 03:22:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1934055cbe Please find a small patch to fix the brain damage "century" and
"millennium" date part implementation in postgresql, both in the code
and the documentation, so that it conforms to the official definition.
If you do not agree with the official definition, please send your
complaint to "pope@vatican.org". I'm not responsible for them;-)

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

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

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

BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE

Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr
2004-04-10 18:02:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
296f485492 Remove libpgeasy and odbc doc reference in filelist.sgml --- removed to
gborg.
2004-04-09 18:03:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
14bd7a0181 Add SQL 2003 standards. 2004-04-07 23:32:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9fa14b1ea0 Remove bad URL. 2004-04-07 22:02:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d17c92b24f Update:
< * Allow LOCALE on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
> * Allow locale to be set at database creation
> * Allow locale on a per-column basis, default to ASCII
> * Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used (Peter E)
105d106
< * Optimize locale to have minimal performance impact when not used (Peter E)
111d111
< * Allow locale to be set at database creation
2004-04-07 19:14:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75688a27d2 Add:
> * Allow locale to be set at database creation
2004-04-07 18:34:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f1d0269861 Done:
> * -Allow logging of only data definition(DDL), or DDL and modification statements

Add:
> * Add a session mode to warn about non-standard SQL usage
2004-04-07 17:04:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
58a1cb1024 Update FAQ_DEV. 2004-04-07 14:23:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6a25c6e1d1 > >>1. change the type of "log_statement" option from boolean to string,
> >>with allowed values of "all, mod, ddl, none" with default "none".

OK, here is a patch that implements #1.  Here is sample output:

        test=> set client_min_messages = 'log';
        SET
        test=> set log_statement = 'mod';
        SET
        test=> select 1;
         ?column?
        ----------
                1
        (1 row)

        test=> update test set x=1;
        LOG:  statement: update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> update test set x=1;
        LOG:  statement: update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> copy test from '/tmp/x';
        LOG:  statement: copy test from '/tmp/x';
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> copy test to  '/tmp/x';
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> prepare xx as select 1;
        PREPARE
        test=> prepare xx as update x set y=1;
        LOG:  statement: prepare xx as update x set y=1;
        ERROR:  relation "x" does not exist
        test=> explain analyze select 1;;
                                             QUERY PLAN
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         Result  (cost=0.00..0.01 rows=1 width=0) (actual time=0.006..0.007 rows=1 loops=1)
         Total runtime: 0.046 ms
        (2 rows)

        test=> explain analyze update test set x=1;
        LOG:  statement: explain analyze update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist
        test=> explain update test set x=1;
        ERROR:  relation "test" does not exist

It checks PREPARE and EXECUTE ANALYZE too.  The log_statement values are
'none', 'mod', 'ddl', and 'all'.  For 'all', it prints before the query
is parsed, and for ddl/mod, it does it right after parsing using the
node tag (or command tag for CREATE/ALTER/DROP), so any non-parse errors
will print after the log line.
2004-04-07 05:05:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6165bbab8c Remove 'syslog' GUC variable, and add more logical 'log_destination'
variable to control logoutput location on Unix and Win32.

Magnus Hagander
2004-04-05 03:02:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
375369acd1 Replace TupleTableSlot convention for whole-row variables and function
results with tuples as ordinary varlena Datums.  This commit does not
in itself do much for us, except eliminate the horrid memory leak
associated with evaluation of whole-row variables.  However, it lays the
groundwork for allowing composite types as table columns, and perhaps
some other useful features as well.  Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2004-04-01 21:28:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
076055ed10 Add description of log_statement_stats's function (total statement stats
rather than per-stage stats).
2004-03-31 19:59:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a302b8e150 Back out tutorial changes:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.  In keeping with the recent discussion that there should be more
said about views, stored procedures, and triggers, in the tutorial, I
have added a bit of verbiage to that end.

2.  Some formatting changes to the datetime discussion, as well as
addition of a citation of a relevant book on calendars.

Christopher Browne
2004-03-31 16:20:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d15b90e5b Add psql backslash command discussion. 2004-03-31 01:05:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b5db560c7a Add:
* Move psql backslash database information into the backend, use
nmumonic commands? [psql]
2004-03-31 01:04:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07ff3afa2a Remove:
* Prevent unneeded quoting in psql \d output using fmtId()
2004-03-31 01:01:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7b43450931 Fix markup errors from recent patch. 2004-03-30 22:08:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aaad011940 1. In keeping with the recent discussion that there should be more
said about views, stored procedures, and triggers, in the tutorial, I
have added a bit of verbiage to that end.

2.  Some formatting changes to the datetime discussion, as well as
addition of a citation of a relevant book on calendars.

Christopher Browne
2004-03-30 21:58:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cf9c2be7e8 Add:
> * Add GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 format
2004-03-30 21:51:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
45edc20283 Add mention of how to use \df to find functions using/returning specific
data types.
2004-03-30 15:54:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fd071bd478 Fix to_char for 1 BC. Previously it returned 1 AD.
Fix to_char(year) for BC dates.  Previously it returned one less than
the current year.

Add documentation mentioning that there is no 0 AD.
2004-03-30 15:53:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
80683f2a07 Update FAQ from Robert Treat 2004-03-29 05:07:20 +00:00
Neil Conway
1090aa8cc7 More cross-reference work, other minor SGML fixes and improvements. 2004-03-26 03:18:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
7a944e41b4 Convert some GUC variable references to links. 2004-03-25 18:57:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
8899a2aba9 Replace max_expr_depth parameter with a max_stack_depth parameter that
is measured in kilobytes and checked against actual physical execution
stack depth, as per my proposal of 30-Dec.  This gives us a fairly
bulletproof defense against crashing due to runaway recursive functions.
2004-03-24 22:40:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a09b9a36d3 Add:
* Have pg_dump use multi-statement transactions for INSERT dumps
2004-03-24 18:15:56 +00:00
Neil Conway
ce5273757b Make a cross-reference in the ALTER TABLE ref page into a <xref>. 2004-03-24 09:49:20 +00:00
Neil Conway
d6bc5944a0 Fix a minor typo in the log_line_prefix docs and make a couple other
tiny improvements.
2004-03-24 03:48:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6daf396879 Add thread locking to SSL and Kerberos connections.
I have removed the docs mentioning that SSL and Kerberos are not
thread-safe.

Manfred Spraul
2004-03-24 03:45:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fcfa2c790a Document fallback to tcp/ip localhost connection from psql on ports
without unix domain sockets (win32).
2004-03-24 03:27:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
1c4da387ad PQresult should be PGresult. 2004-03-23 23:37:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
8ed89773c5 Fix small typo. 2004-03-23 22:57:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
121cf2b904 Repair misleading description of MOVE's command tag result. 2004-03-23 22:39:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
f862c42009 Use dollar-quoting for function bodies, unless disabled with
--disable-dollar-quoting.

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-23 22:06:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
24614a9880 Upgrade ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN so that it can drop an OID column, and
remove separate implementation of ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS in favor
of doing a regular DROP.  Also, cause CREATE TABLE to account completely
correctly for the inheritance status of the OID column.  This fixes
problems with dropping OID columns that have dependencies, as noted by
Christopher Kings-Lynne, as well as making sure that you can't drop an
OID column that was inherited from a parent.
2004-03-23 19:35:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
446b5476e5 Minor SGML improvements. 2004-03-23 13:21:41 +00:00
Neil Conway
9f894981da Fix typo in postmaster reference page: from Tom. 2004-03-23 06:09:00 +00:00
Neil Conway
fd4f3b3b62 Improve the locale and character set docs, add some <xref>s pointing
to the character set docs where appropriate, and improve the postmaster
reference page. Character set cross-refs suggested by Gavin Kistner.
2004-03-23 02:47:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
2e45c143ef Replace the virtual_host and tcpip_socket parameters with a unified
listen_addresses parameter, as per recent discussion.  The default behavior
is now to listen on localhost, which eliminates the need for the -i
postmaster switch in many scenarios.

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-23 01:23:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
3b7ca96c2c Clean up rather poor description of the difference between INHERITS and
LIKE.  Per gripe from Patrick Samson.
2004-03-22 16:18:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3ceda5eab3 I just noticed that \dp outputs "Table" to indicate relations (tables,
sequences and views).  This patch allows it to handle views and
sequences.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2004-03-22 03:38:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
f938c2b91b Revise syntax-error reporting behavior to give pleasant results for
errors in internally-generated queries, such as those submitted by
plpgsql functions.  Per recent discussions with Fabien Coelho.
2004-03-21 22:29:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
6c7e6d2baa Add a usage example for has_function_privilege(). 2004-03-19 19:13:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3700335baf Done:
> * -Order duplicate index entries on creation by tid for faster heap lookups
2004-03-17 22:30:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c702ea7ac Modify:
< * Order duplicate index entries by tid for faster heap lookups
> * Order duplicate index entries on creation by tid for faster heap lookups
2004-03-17 17:40:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d245b6bd9f Document SPI_push() and SPI_pop(). 2004-03-17 01:05:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2c7e473434 Add:
> * Allow pg_dumpall to use non-text output formats
>
2004-03-16 16:13:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e2d8c1b2bb log_statement was not removed by the previous patch. It only updated
its description.
2004-03-15 17:57:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
221c0adaa8 Update random regression test text to be clearer. 2004-03-15 16:11:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
48c9fbd35c Update random test description because it fails less frequently now. 2004-03-15 16:06:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d6b57925ca Remove GUC log_statement, log_pid, log_timestamp, log_source_port.
Functionality superceeded by log_line_prefix.

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-15 15:56:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
98bb1d2085 Fix typo. 2004-03-15 14:21:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10afaf472a Mention Linux syslog will sync lines to disk, and describe how to
disable it.
2004-03-15 14:15:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
afaf252cee Done:
> * -Issue NOTICE if foreign key data requires costly test to match primary key
2004-03-13 23:17:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e3d6ee6c28 Update FAQ with current release version. 2004-03-12 13:51:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fab1a5950b Update Russian FAQ, Viktor Vislobokov 2004-03-12 13:51:33 +00:00
Neil Conway
be7976d5a2 Fix a typo in the documentation for geqo_effort. 2004-03-12 00:56:00 +00:00
Neil Conway
fe9c4420e4 Improve documentation for the newly-added NOWAIT clause of LOCK TABLE. 2004-03-12 00:52:23 +00:00
Neil Conway
bfd6f52b0e Allow 'Infinity' and '-Infinity' as input to the float4 and float8
types. Update the regression tests and the documentation to reflect
this. Remove the UNSAFE_FLOATS #ifdef.

This is only half the story: we still unconditionally reject
floating point operations that result in +/- infinity. See
recent thread on -hackers for more information.
2004-03-12 00:25:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0f8c4bc4a2 Document the SSL and Kerberos are not thread-safe. 2004-03-11 02:39:10 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
0b86ade1c2 Add NOWAIT option to LOCK command 2004-03-11 01:47:41 +00:00
Neil Conway
ae22a6c185 Fix a typo. 2004-03-10 20:10:26 +00:00
Neil Conway
f28d5614ce Tweak some text to avoid using <command>SET</command> as a verb, per
suggestion from Peter E.
2004-03-09 23:15:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
832e6df893 Remove blank line in Makefile. 2004-03-09 20:10:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
66cb7e2e99 Add HISTORY/INSTALL clean target to 7.4.X. 2004-03-09 20:08:10 +00:00
Neil Conway
47110ace3a Add documentation for the recent 'ALSO' patch for CREATE RULE. Along
the way, fix a typo and make a few SGML cleanups.
2004-03-09 19:30:21 +00:00
Neil Conway
80ec228389 Refer to GUC variables using <xref> tags rather than <varname> tags,
where appropriate. Add "id" and "xreflabel" tags to the descriptions
of the GUC variables to facilitate this. Also make a few minor docs
cleanups.
2004-03-09 16:57:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
943eae92fb Add ALSO keyword to CREATE RULE.
Fabien COELHO
2004-03-09 05:05:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
96ef6682e3 Done:
> * -Allow log lines to include session-level information, like database and user
2004-03-09 04:45:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d3fe86bc4 Add:
#log_line_prefix = ''         # e.g. '<%u%%%d> '
                              # %u=user name %d=database name
                              # %r=remote host and port
                              # %p=PID %t=timestamp %i=command tag
                              # %c=session id %l=session line number
                              # %s=session start timestamp
                              # %x=stop here in non-session processes
                              # %%='%'

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-09 04:43:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e0bed412a2 Have SGML make clean remove text files output as well 2004-03-08 23:59:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fb5eb6ac87 Update German FAQ.
Ian Barwick
2004-03-08 17:38:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
0bdce30f6b Some editorial work on 7.4.2 release notes. 2004-03-07 22:07:56 +00:00
Michael Meskes
9e5a091f02 Added multidimensional arrays as todo for ecpg. 2004-03-07 14:35:47 +00:00
Neil Conway
5ae38167cf Improve discussion of using OIDs for identifying rows, fix an instance of
incorrect SGML markup.
2004-03-07 04:31:01 +00:00
Neil Conway
cb659ecb40 Explicitely mention that some GUC variables cannot be changed at
runtime.
2004-03-07 01:02:55 +00:00
Neil Conway
ab8faed00d Editorialization of some text discussing 'IS NULL' vs. '= NULL'. 2004-03-07 01:01:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
565b4f2de5 Use lynx -stdin and regenerate HISTORY 2004-03-06 02:52:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
96c229dd7a Improve documentation of virtual_host parameter: old text failed to
indicate that you could specify multiple listen addresses.
2004-03-05 23:16:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ff47b8518e First update of release notes for 7.4.2. Still needs work. 2004-03-05 19:51:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
39042637dd Oops, '-' doesn't work for my lynx either.
Change back to /dev/stdin, even though it isn't portable.  Let's wait for
someone to complain they don't have /dev/stdin.
2004-03-05 19:50:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fc7522cad Use '-' for stdin on lynx, my lynx version doesn't support -stdin. 2004-03-05 19:48:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aef037723f Update Polish FAQ, from Marcin Mazurek. 2004-03-05 19:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1973971821 Per a brief conversation with Tom, I've created a patch for adding
support for 'week' within the date_trunc function.

Within the patch I added a couple of test cases and associated target
output, and changed the documentation to add 'week' appropriately.

Robert Creager
2004-03-05 02:41:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
033e37bed1 Fix for underscore in ID sgml markup. 2004-03-05 01:00:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65a0db19f4 Add new SPI functions for use by PL/Java:
+extern Oid SPI_getargtypeid(void *plan, int argIndex);
	+extern int SPI_getargcount(void *plan);
	+extern bool SPI_is_cursor_plan(void *plan);

Thomas Hallgren
2004-03-05 00:47:01 +00:00
Neil Conway
2146bfc869 Emit a warning when an empty string is input to the oid, float4, and
float8 types. This begins the deprecation of this feature: in 7.6,
this input will be rejected.

Also added a new error code for warnings about deprecated features,
and updated the regression tests.
2004-03-04 21:47:18 +00:00
Dennis Bjorklund
0b1f7cccd7 The trim function doc did not say that the second argument could be
be omitted. This patch fixes that. It also fixes a bug where the
type text was not wrapped as <type>text</type>.
2004-03-04 20:09:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f503b6a821 Better document INSTEAD behavior for rules. 2004-03-04 14:32:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
c934cf1e96 Add a few more cross-references where appropriate, add more text about
the FROM clause and an example to the UPDATE reference page, and make
a few other SGML tweaks.
2004-03-03 22:22:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6008fca4d9 Remove Jan:
< 	o Add PL/PHP (Joe, Jan)
> 	o Add PL/PHP (Joe)
2004-03-03 14:26:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
58c69eab00 Add:
> 	o Add way to remove cluster specification on a table
2004-03-03 05:16:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
49032ca765 Update Turkish FAQ, Devrim GUNDUZ 2004-03-02 15:46:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
340d44686b Update release notes for 7.3.6. 2004-03-02 00:38:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
3811d7a08f Replace unportable use of /dev/stdin with lynx's -stdin switch. 2004-03-02 00:03:02 +00:00
Neil Conway
1a6a27650d Add a few more xrefs, where they seemed appropriate: for example, refer
to the discussion of planner statistics in the documentation for the
default_statistics_target GUC var.
2004-03-01 17:58:39 +00:00
Neil Conway
4a43b24cec Enable some additional warnings when running openjade and onsgmls. 2004-03-01 16:08:58 +00:00
Neil Conway
e3f27c1847 Fix a typo in a recent commit to func.sgml that apparently broke the doc
build for some versions of OpenJade (unfortunately, my local version of
OpenJade didn't report the error...) -- thanks to Andrew Dunstan for
the report.
2004-02-29 15:45:53 +00:00
Neil Conway
fd015c5c99 Fix a bunch (~88) typos that the OpenJade tools don't warn about by
default: some SGML tags weren't properly terminated.
2004-02-29 15:36:46 +00:00
Neil Conway
f46a80c362 Fix a few omissions in the initcap() documentation & source code
comments, make some unrelated improvements to the functions
documentation, and perform some minor consistency cleanup
elsewhere. Original initcap() change from Dennis B., additional
changes by Neil C.
2004-02-27 03:59:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f17547c67 Update plpython docs to mention shared libs are possible in 2.3 or
later.
2004-02-27 01:23:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23168fb3bf Update the pl/python shared build docs to match the recent version of
python.
2004-02-26 02:09:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
f83356c7f5 Do a direct probe during postmaster startup to determine the maximum
number of openable files and the number already opened.  This eliminates
depending on sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX), and allows much saner behavior on
platforms where open-file slots are used up by semaphores.
2004-02-23 20:45:59 +00:00
Neil Conway
45f5eba90b Document the family() function (added during the 7.4 dev cycle but not
documented), and fix a typo.
2004-02-22 04:14:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d02533943 Add:
> * Have psql show more information about sequences
2004-02-20 20:37:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e53c56d34a Add:
> * Allow external interfaces to extend the GUC variable set
2004-02-20 18:45:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5e4b9d1ef0 Add to PL/java description. 2004-02-20 18:31:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2e3d5f1160 Update:
< * Add GUC variable to prevent waiting on locks
> * Add NO WAIT option to various SQL commands
2004-02-18 21:42:22 +00:00
Neil Conway
afcc6fbb60 Remove a caveat from the "backup" documentation: pg_dump now does a
better job of handling dependencies between database objects.
2004-02-17 23:56:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0128c17c93 Done:
> * -Change CVS ID to PostgreSQL
2004-02-17 15:46:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e170701712 Add:
> 	o Allow the schema of objects to be changed
2004-02-17 15:37:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
9c8d5f0be1 Add a few more <xref> tags to the SGML docs, where appropriate. Original
patch from Michael Glaesemann, additional changes by Neil Conway.
2004-02-17 09:07:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
d46b1f904e Minor editorializing on cost-based vacuum description. 2004-02-17 07:36:47 +00:00
Neil Conway
ee33fe889e Significant improvements to the documentation for the new cost-based
vacuum delay feature, including updating the docs for Tom's recent
improvements. There is still more work to be done here: for example,
adding some more information on the practical use of cost-based
vacuum delay to the "maintenance" section would probably be a good
idea.
2004-02-17 06:28:05 +00:00