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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
Neil Conway
11acc1ffd6 Fix a minor SGML markup infelicity in recently-applied log_disconnections 
patch.
 2004-02-17 05:45:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c53611e3e7 This patch brings up to date what I did last year (now unfortunately 
bitrotted) to allow the logging of the end of a session, enabled by
the config setting "log_disconnections".

Andrew Dunstan
 2004-02-17 03:54:57 +00:00
Neil Conway
6dfb2b2517 Minor SGML markup improvements. 2004-02-17 02:53:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
f0c9397f80 First steps towards statistics on expressional (nee functional) indexes. 
This commit teaches ANALYZE to store such stats in pg_statistic, but
nothing is done yet about teaching the planner to use 'em.
Also, repair longstanding oversight in separate ANALYZE command: it
updated the pg_class.relpages and reltuples counts for the table proper,
but not for indexes.
 2004-02-15 21:01:39 +00:00
Neil Conway
effd0dea7e Minor documentation tweak. 2004-02-15 06:27:37 +00:00
Jan Wieck
f884090371 Documentation for vacuum_cost config options. 
Jan
 2004-02-13 12:25:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a4652333b Mention psql variable names are case-sensitive. 2004-02-13 05:10:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
72509752df Fix typo: 
< * Allow cross-db queries with transaction sematics
> * Allow cross-db queries with transaction semantics
 2004-02-13 04:47:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1decc208ac Tom Lane wrote: 
> momjian@svr1.postgresql.org (Bruce Momjian) writes:
>>      someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
>>      release notes as 3rd change:
>>      http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html
>>      Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
>>      retroactively change the release-notes though.
>
> This is completely erroneous, please undo it.
>
> 2003-05-21 14:14  tgl
>
>       * src/: backend/utils/adt/ri_triggers.c,
>       test/regress/expected/foreign_key.out (REL7_3_STABLE): Back-patch
>       Jan's fix to avoid primary key lookup (and lock) if foreign key
>       does not change on UPDATE.

Oh ... didn't know that you did a backpatch. Sorry


Jan
 2004-02-13 04:40:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1e376bfb5e Add: 
> * Use nested transactions to prevent syntax errors from aborting a transaction
 2004-02-13 04:36:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65010e34e0 Add: 
> * Allow temporary views on non-temporary tables
 2004-02-13 02:30:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
69946411d3 Add hooks for type-specific calculation of ANALYZE statistics. Idea and 
coding by Mark Cave-Ayland, some kibitzing by Tom Lane.  initdb forced
due to new column in pg_type.
 2004-02-12 23:41:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d27471fe0a Add from Joe Conway: 
> 	o Modify array literal representation to handle array index lower bound
> 	  of other than one
>
183d185
<
 2004-02-12 23:27:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e850e30fc8 Jan: 
someone asked me about the FK deadlock fix, mentioned in the 7.3.3
release notes as 3rd change:

     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-3-3.html

Actually, that fix was available with 7.4, not 7.3. Don't know if we can
retroactively change the release-notes though.
 2004-02-12 20:17:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a1c29f87e Improve \? wording, remove 'internal'. 2004-02-12 19:58:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6a13bdd8f3 Add bitmap discussion to performance TODO.detail. 2004-02-12 18:13:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b721d3d41 Remove TODO.detail files that contained useless or very old information. 
Update TODO accordingly.
 2004-02-12 18:11:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5de02e283f Done: 
<
<
< Reporting
< =========
<
< * Show location of syntax error in query [yacc]
 2004-02-12 18:11:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b3efb9f037 File not needed: 
.< * Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead) [vacuum]
> * Improve speed with indexes (perhaps recreate index instead)
369c369
<   lock and truncate table [vacuum]
>   lock and truncate table
371c371
<   rather than in /contrib [vacuum]
>   rather than in /contrib
 2004-02-12 18:09:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8369db5fc Mostly done: 
< * Allow better handling of numeric constants, type conversion [typeconv]
 2004-02-12 18:05:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f66f437fac File not needed: 
< * Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
> * Add replication of distributed databases
 2004-02-12 18:01:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b23d694544 Remove: 
< 	o http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
 2004-02-12 17:59:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
db55d7a212 Merge files: 
< * Allow persistent backends [persistent]
> * Allow persistent backends [pool]
397c397
<   connection pooling
>   connection pooling [pool]
 2004-02-12 17:51:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b4c0b196fb Not needed: 
<   float4, numeric/decimal too [optimizer]
>   float4, numeric/decimal too
422c422
< * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc. [optimizer]
> * Missing optimizer selectivities for date, r-tree, etc
 2004-02-12 17:38:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b3fbb4b801 Not needed: 
< * Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too [fsync]
> * Delay fsync() when other backends are about to commit too
 2004-02-12 17:32:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebf4bb7f2e Not needed: 
< * Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity [foreign]
> * Add MATCH PARTIAL referential integrity
 2004-02-12 17:31:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
de4b486eed Remove crossdb content. 2004-02-12 17:23:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fbfc9dc20b Add, dblink doesn't do this: 
> * Allow cross-db queries with transaction sematics
 2004-02-12 17:22:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
329207e817 Done, mostly by dblink, I think: 
< * Allow queries across multiple databases [crossdb]
 2004-02-12 17:21:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
209e866a5a Fix typo: 
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:28, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christophe Combelles wrote:
> > At the bottom of this doc file :
> > file:///usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/tutorial-createdb.html
> > "and it also happens that that user always has permission"
> >                       ---- x2
> The first "that" serves as a conjuction, the second one serves as an
> article.  Looks correct to me.

A better workaround for the sentence would be something like:

        "and it also happens that the user always has permission"

Looks easier to read, I think.

Enver ALTIN (a.k.a. skyblue)
 2004-02-12 16:38:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43d37a81dd Add: 
<
> * Allow substring/replace() to get/set bit values
 2004-02-12 16:05:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
76f02b51b6 Remove URL for specific pljava implementation: 
< 	o Allow Java server-side programming, http://pljava.sourceforge.net
< 	  [java]
> 	o Allow Java server-side programming [java]
 2004-02-12 14:41:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b6bf0c07d Add: 
> 	o Disallow dropping of an inherited constraint
 2004-02-11 22:04:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ac4ad7bf2c Does not apply anymore: 
< * Make blind writes go through the file descriptor cache
 2004-02-11 17:04:04 +00:00
Neil Conway
e29d8f3c34 SGML markup improvements. 2004-02-10 20:51:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fd44e2fb14 Add URL for most current version. 2004-02-10 15:16:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
04e82e5008 Add mention of the developer's FAQ. 2004-02-08 03:16:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9534fd73d8 Add mention of PostgreSQL as a community project. 2004-02-08 03:09:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9f361350d7 Add PITR web page: 
< * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
< * Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
> * Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log,
>   http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/pitr.html
> * Create native Win32 port, http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project/win32.html
 2004-02-08 01:17:09 +00:00
Joe Conway
687d7cf355 Documentation for generate_series() functions committed a few days ago. 2004-02-05 22:54:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
391c3811a2 Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem. 
Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints
use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit.
Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their
old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
 2004-02-03 17:34:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
39d715bee6 Add: 
> * Make pg_restore continue after errors, so it acts more like pg_dump scripts
 2004-02-03 16:53:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
e1826d037a Update char_length() example for new semantics. 2004-02-01 06:55:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
f27976c85b Make length() disregard trailing spaces in char(n) values, per discussion 
some time ago and recent patch from Gavin Sherry.  Update documentation
to point out that trailing spaces are insignificant in char(n).
 2004-02-01 06:27:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
777babeced Add: 
<
> * Allow libpq to return information about prepared queries
 2004-01-30 11:11:07 +00:00
Neil Conway
45842e6c52 Improve the documentation of the 'join_collapse_limit' GUC var. Thanks to 
Tom Lane for some editorial suggestions.
 2004-01-27 16:51:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
af29187f2e Add Name: 
> * -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)
 2004-01-26 22:38:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee96c82cc2 Done: 
> * -Add checks for fclose() failure (Tom)
 2004-01-26 22:38:10 +00:00
Neil Conway
e0707cbae9 The attached patch clarifies (or, rather, makes explicit) to readers how 
to handle memory management for char pointers returned by libpq functions.
Original patch by Gavin Sherry, some tweaking and consistency improvements
by Neil Conway.
 2004-01-26 22:13:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7a14a72e08 Added: 
> * Dump large object comments in custom dump format
 2004-01-26 18:32:08 +00:00
Neil Conway
f30d39e706 Add usage examples for PREPARE and EXECUTE. Original patch from Gavin 
Sherry, editorializing by Neil Conway.
 2004-01-26 17:26:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee2f149d30 Clarify that the 'user' column still applies for 'trust'. 2004-01-26 05:35:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3761f968c8 Update datestamp. 2004-01-26 05:33:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
34f0a8e72d *** empty log message *** 2004-01-25 04:56:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ccf3a0440a Add Joe to TODO: 
> * Joe is Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
 2004-01-25 04:50:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
acfa013e81 Fix typo I mistakenly added. 2004-01-25 03:30:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
afe7b7b60e Update null storage description. 2004-01-25 02:28:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8303a3d1ea Mention that log_statement only prints query on PREPARE, not EXECUTE, 
and PL/pgSQL only prints queries on first function call.
 2004-01-25 00:36:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
9d8888079d Support named parameters in information_schema.parameters, 
per Dennis Bjorklund.  I did not force initdb for this, but
you'd need to do one to get the improved view.
 2004-01-24 23:45:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
c8bcd5ca92 Fix problems with dropped columns in pltcl triggers, per report from Patrick Samson. 2004-01-24 23:06:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
0152f14812 Example of a function taking a composite type should show how to call it. 2004-01-24 22:05:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
3969f2924b Revise GEQO planner to make use of some heuristic knowledge about SQL, namely 
that it's good to join where there are join clauses rather than where there
are not.  Also enable it to generate bushy plans at need, so that it doesn't
fail in the presence of multiple IN clauses containing sub-joins.  These
changes appear to improve the behavior enough that we can substantially reduce
the default pool size and generations count, thereby decreasing the runtime,
and yet get as good or better plans as we were getting in 7.4.  Consequently,
adjust the default GEQO parameters.  I also modified the way geqo_effort is
used so that it affects both population size and number of generations;
it's now useful as a single control to adjust the GEQO runtime-vs-plan-quality
tradeoff.  Bump geqo_threshold to 12, since even with these changes GEQO
seems to be slower than the regular planner at 11 relations.
 2004-01-23 23:54:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
81c554bbe8 Add: 
> * Improve CREATE SCHEMA regression test
 2004-01-23 15:13:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8e32f78b1d Add MySQL mention of licensing difference. 2004-01-23 14:41:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d84db7d56d Add: 
> * Allow column-level privileges
 2004-01-23 05:05:34 +00:00
Neil Conway
58ae3cf12c Minor improvements to the trigger documentation, and a few SGML fixes. 2004-01-22 19:50:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
672a807028 Repair error apparently introduced in the initial coding of GUC: the 
default value for geqo_effort is supposed to be 40, not 1.  The actual
'genetic' component of the GEQO algorithm has been practically disabled
since 7.1 because of this mistake.  Improve documentation while at it.
 2004-01-21 23:33:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
04cc4e18dd Implement '\copy from -' to support reading copy data from the same 
source the \copy came from.  Also, fix prompting logic so that initial
and per-line prompts appear for all cases of reading from an interactive
terminal.  Patch by Mark Feit, with some kibitzing by Tom Lane.
 2004-01-20 23:48:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
0f8a313508 Remove no-longer-relevant note about forcing the type of an integer 
constant.  Per Kris Jurka.
 2004-01-20 22:46:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
18f7a8e262 This is a patch to support readline prompts which contain non-printing 
characters, as for fancy colorized prompts.  This was nearly a direct
lift from bash-2.05b's lib/readline/display.c, per guidance from Chet Ramey.

Reece Hart
 2004-01-20 19:49:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
bd046b99f0 Remove JDBC from the build system and documentation, too. 2004-01-19 21:20:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
163edee632 Improve discussion of consistent-snapshot backup technique. Haphazard 
editing of this text had left nearly contradictory statements in
adjacent paragraphs ...
 2004-01-19 20:12:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b89744198e Some refinement of XSLT processing: The result now looks just about as good 
as the result of the SGML-based tool chain.
 2004-01-15 23:51:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e27d500235 Make rule and stylesheet to try out XSLT for DocBook processing 2004-01-13 18:45:19 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1fee65f479 Put See Also links back in alphabetical order. 2004-01-11 09:24:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
024f3fa52f Minor documentation improvements. 2004-01-11 05:46:58 +00:00
Neil Conway
e97b8f2da9 Add CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE INDEX, and CREATE SEQUENCE to the list of 
expressions supported by CREATE SCHEMA.

Also added the beginning of some regression tests for CREATE SCHEMA;
plenty more work is needed here.
 2004-01-11 04:58:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
98dcf085e3 Implement "WITH / WITHOID OIDS" clause for CREATE TABLE AS. This is 
intended to allow application authors to insulate themselves from
changes to the default value of 'default_with_oids' in future releases
of PostgreSQL.

This patch also fixes a bug in the earlier implementation of the
'default_with_oids' GUC variable: code in gram.y should not examine
the value of GUC variables directly due to synchronization issues.
 2004-01-10 23:28:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a620a760ed Allow BEGIN WORK to specify transaction isolation level, like START 
TRANSACTION.
 2004-01-10 02:21:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cff58dd54e Done: 
> * -Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
 2004-01-09 21:12:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0150dbdce5 Allow libpq to do thread-safe SIGPIPE handling. This allows it to 
ignore SIGPIPE from send() in libpq, but terminate on any other SIGPIPE,
unless the user installs their own signal handler.

This is a minor fix because the only time you get SIGPIPE from libpq's
send() is when the backend dies.
 2004-01-09 02:02:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
acc57543de German FAQ update. 
Ian Barwick
 2004-01-09 01:51:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c3f859ecf Update Russian FAQ. 
Viktor Vislobokov
 2004-01-08 16:01:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f5e12a84c Not done, per Tom: 
> 	o Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
 2004-01-07 17:54:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a95df8f2bf Completed, I am pretty sure: 
> 	o -Allow parameters to be specified by name and type during definition
 2004-01-07 04:32:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
a77e32d7c5 Apply the core parts of Dennis Bjorklund's patch to allow function 
parameters to be declared with names.  pg_proc has a column to store
names, and CREATE FUNCTION can insert data into it, but that's all as
yet.  I need to do more work on the pg_dump and plpgsql portions of the
patch before committing those, but I thought I'd get the bulky changes
in before the tree drifts under me.
initdb forced due to pg_proc change.
 2004-01-06 23:55:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
89aafae009 Favor Freenode rather than EFnet in IRC listing. Freenode is more popular. 2004-01-06 21:44:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf2a591ffc Done: 
> * -Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
 2004-01-06 20:01:13 +00:00
Neil Conway
bc028beb16 Make the 'wal_debug' GUC variable a boolean (rather than an integer), and 
hide it behind #ifdef WAL_DEBUG blocks.
 2004-01-06 17:26:23 +00:00
Neil Conway
71998c1e51 Remove an old and out-of-date SGML comment from this file: we already 
have WAL, outer joins, and TOAST.
 2004-01-05 20:39:23 +00:00
Neil Conway
af7a21cb99 Fix (yet another) instance of incorrect markup for a GUC variable. 2004-01-05 20:37:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf488a6842 Update for 7.4.1 as newest version. 2004-01-05 00:54:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a7b30b9c48 Correct gettext URL. 2004-01-04 16:43:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
5e54515167 Recommend SHOW, instead of pg_controldata, for checking LC_COLLATE and 
LC_CTYPE settings of a database.
 2003-12-30 23:36:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
debeb47c92 Be a little more consistent about which terms are uppercased in 
index entries.
 2003-12-26 21:30:48 +00:00
Michael Meskes
99827af7e0 Fixed docs to clearly note that ecpg is originally a C precompiler and C++ stuff is not 100%. 2003-12-26 20:00:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c757c49fa > > I have no idea if this in Oracle or not. But it's something I 
> > needed, and other people in the past asked about it too.
>
> It is in Oracle, but you aren't exactly on the spot.  It should be
>
> IYYY - 4 digits  ('2003')
> IYY  - 3 digits  ('003')
> IY   - 2 digits  ('03')
> I    - 1 digit   ('3')

Here is an updated patch that does that.

Kurt Roeckx
 2003-12-25 03:36:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a922472a2a Supress non-temp schemas from psql \dn display. 2003-12-23 23:13:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
9adaf64da3 Mop-up for HAS_TEST_AND_SET refactoring. Un-break two or three platforms 
that were broken, try to make layout of s_lock.h entries consistent,
use HAVE_SPINLOCKS in preference to HAS_TEST_AND_SET everywhere outside
s_lock.h itself.
 2003-12-23 18:13:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
86d34e4123 Clarification: 
< * Have psql \dn show only visible schemas using current_schemas()
> * Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
 2003-12-22 16:30:27 +00:00