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Bruce Momjian
7ef5634701 Here is a doc patch for the SHOW X changes and new config-settings
functions. If there are no objections, please apply.

Joe Conway
2002-08-04 03:53:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
21cf6b2166 Remove unused drop TODO.detail. 2002-08-02 20:03:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7c63a0db29 No need for TODO.detail link anymore:
> 	o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature
2002-08-02 20:03:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
543409a752 Done:
> 	o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN feature [drop]
2002-08-02 20:02:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
38bb77a5d1 ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN works. Patch by Christopher Kings-Lynne,
code review by Tom Lane.  Remaining issues: functions that take or
return tuple types are likely to break if one drops (or adds!)
a column in the table defining the type.  Need to think about what
to do here.

Along the way: some code review for recent COPY changes; mark system
columns attnotnull = true where appropriate, per discussion a month ago.
2002-08-02 18:15:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
ce7565ab91 Instead of having a configure-time DEFAULT_ATTSTATTARGET, store -1 in
attstattarget to indicate 'use the default'.  The default is now a GUC
variable default_statistics_target, and so may be changed on the fly.  Along
the way we gain the ability to have pg_dump dump the per-column statistics
target when it's not the default.  Patch by Neil Conway, with some kibitzing
from Tom Lane.
2002-07-31 17:19:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8be3cfbbd5 Done:
> * -Remove LockMethodTable.prio field, not used (Bruce)
2002-07-31 03:13:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
52457ca6af Move backend_pid to functions/misc. 2002-07-31 02:27:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1107531c91 Rename pid function to backend_pid(). 2002-07-31 01:49:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8efa8755c Done:
> * -Add getpid() function to backend
2002-07-31 00:40:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2c2c43d05f Updated:
< 	o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column SET DEFAULT should fill existing
> 	o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column DEFAULT should fill existing
2002-07-30 19:47:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b30ccbe32a Clarification from Tom:
< 	o ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN column SET DEFAULT should fill existing
> 	o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column SET DEFAULT should fill existing
2002-07-30 19:43:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f514bb3e25 Would it be wise to have the plsql.sgml file renamed to plpgsql.sgml?
All of the internal tags are of the latter.

The other thing I noticed is that most of the quick examples in the file
use a para and synopsis.  Is there a reason we're not using <example/> ?

Rod Taylor
2002-07-30 19:36:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6c01708c46 Added for Neil Conway:
> * Use CHECK constraints to improve optimizer decisions
2002-07-30 19:34:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
65b6868b13 Replace ad-hoc insertions into pg_opclass and friends with CREATE
OPERATOR CLASS commands.  Further tweaking of documentation for same.
2002-07-30 17:34:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
620abeb271 Done:
> 	o -Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs
2002-07-30 16:56:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
874148fe34 IMPROVED VERSION APPLIED:
The attached patch completes the following TODO item:

    * Generate failure on short COPY lines rather than pad NULLs

I also restructed a lot of the existing COPY code, did some code
review on the column list patch sent in by Brent Verner a little
while ago, and added some regression tests. I also added an
explicit check (and resultant error) for extra data before
the end-of-line.

Neil Conway
2002-07-30 16:55:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
23a8b77d42 Here are two patches. The guc_and_tablefunc patch addresses the two
changes mentioned above, and also adds a new function to the tablefunc
API. The tablefunc API change adds the following function:

* Oid foidGetTypeId(Oid foid) - Get a function's typeid given the
* function Oid. Use this together with TypeGetTupleDesc() to get a
* TupleDesc which is derived from the function's declared return type.

In the next post I'll send the contrib/tablefunc patch, which
illustrates the usage of this new function. Also attached is a doc patch
for this change. The doc patch also adds a function that I failed to
document previously.

Joe Conway
2002-07-30 16:20:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf7d8e4299 Update contributions link. 2002-07-30 15:05:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
c2d0ebce75 Rewrite xindex.sgml for CREATE OPERATOR CLASS. catalogs.sgml finally
contains descriptions of every single system table.  Update 'complex'
tutorial example too.
2002-07-30 05:24:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5bf55525c3 Move item:
< * Allow logging of query durations
2002-07-30 03:12:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
122b0cd86f Update FAQ. 2002-07-30 01:35:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be347dcba6 Update FAQ. 2002-07-29 23:56:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea4686e3e1 Implement CREATE/DROP OPERATOR CLASS. Work still remains: need more
documentation (xindex.sgml should be rewritten), need to teach pg_dump
about it, need to update contrib modules that currently build pg_opclass
entries by hand.  Original patch by Bill Studenmund, grammar adjustments
and general update for 7.3 by Tom Lane.
2002-07-29 22:14:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b9459c6adb Fix from Neil Conway:
< 	o ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN column SET DEFAULT should fill existing
> 	o ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN column SET DEFAULT should fill existing
2002-07-29 21:41:19 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
06ad580f75 Structure reference pages consistently. Document that structure.
Add information about environment variables.
2002-07-28 15:22:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b02c56f584 Clean documentation subtree during make clean. 2002-07-28 15:19:59 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b0c3c48eb3 Assemble portability modules into libpgport library.
Some makefile simplifications.
2002-07-27 20:10:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
739adf32ee Remove unused system table columns:
pg_language.lancompiler
pg_operator.oprprec
pg_operator.oprisleft
pg_proc.proimplicit
pg_proc.probyte_pct
pg_proc.properbyte_cpu
pg_proc.propercall_cpu
pg_proc.prooutin_ratio
pg_shadow.usetrace
pg_type.typprtlen
pg_type.typreceive
pg_type.typsend

Attempts to use the obsoleted attributes of pg_operator or pg_proc
in the CREATE commands will be greeted by a warning.  For pg_type,
there is no warning (yet) because pg_dump scripts still contain these
attributes.

Also remove new but already obsolete spellings
isVolatile, isStable, isImmutable in WITH clause.  (Use new syntax
instead.)
2002-07-24 19:11:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f7ba1db755 Done:
> * -Add Intimate Shared Memory(ISM) for Solaris
2002-07-24 17:42:12 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
88b74dcddf Add pg_conversion system catalog. Update description for multibyte support. 2002-07-24 05:51:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b4b3c63b2b Done:
> * -Allow UPDATE/DELETE on inherited table
2002-07-23 23:28:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e9c013f4bd Add unique index on pg_cast.oid, and document pg_cast table. 2002-07-22 20:23:19 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
a7ffd69d4c Fix typo. 2002-07-22 13:00:00 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
8d25d5c5c7 Add CREATE CONVERSION/DROP CONVERSOION reference manual 2002-07-22 08:57:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f9d74d75e7 Schema TODO.detail file not needed anymore. 2002-07-21 04:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
17b28503d0 Mark items as done:
> * -Add GUC parameter for DATESTYLE
> 	o -Allow specification of column names
> 	o -Change syntax to WITH DELIMITER, (keep old syntax around?)
> 	o -Remove SET KSQO option now that OR processing is improved (Tom)
> 	o -Allow SHOW to output as a query result, like EXPLAIN
> * -Add SQL92 schemas (Tom)
2002-07-20 16:45:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
c33a6343cd Code review for SHOW output changes; fix horology expected files for
new SHOW output format.
2002-07-20 15:12:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
59a471fc4c Make note that ALTER TABLE can change table owner these days. 2002-07-19 18:53:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d7d741afbe Done:
> * -Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris
2002-07-19 17:26:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4feeee17ce Done:
> * -HOLDER/HOLDERTAB rename to PROCLOCK/PROCLOCKTAG (Bruce)
2002-07-19 00:17:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
97377048b4 pg_cast table, and standards-compliant CREATE/DROP CAST commands, plus
extension to create binary compatible casts.  Includes dependency tracking
as well.

pg_proc.proimplicit is now defunct, but will be removed in a separate
commit.

pg_dump provides a migration path from the previous scheme to declare
casts.  Dumping binary compatible casts is currently impossible, though.
2002-07-18 23:11:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a345ac8842 Done:
> * -Merge LockMethodCtl and LockMethodTable into one shared structure (Bruce)
2002-07-18 23:07:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
11333426f1 Implement DROP SCHEMA. It lacks support for dropping conversions and
operator classes, both of which are schema-local and so should really
be droppable.
2002-07-18 16:47:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
8bed350c4a Fix copy-and-pasteo (CASCADE/RESTRICT in wrong place). 2002-07-18 15:49:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fb94c09ae4 Done:
> * -Make sure all block numbers are unsigned to increase maximum table size
2002-07-18 05:01:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5a5e46ea7e Here (finally ;-)) is a doc patch covering the Table Function C API. It
reflects the changes in the tablefunc-fix patch that I sent in the other
day. It also refers to "see contrib/tablefunc for more examples", which
is next on my list of things to finish and submit.

Joe Conway
2002-07-18 04:47:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a90db34b54 The attached patch (against HEAD) implements
COPY x (a,d,c,b) from stdin;
  COPY x (a,c) to stdout;

as well as the corresponding changes to pg_dump to use the new
functionality.  This functionality is not available when using
the BINARY option.  If a column is not specified in the COPY FROM
statement, its default values will be used.

In addition to this functionality, I tweaked a couple of the
error messages emitted by the new COPY <options> checks.

Brent Verner
2002-07-18 04:43:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
df432df9fa Done, not sure when, reported by Neil Conway:
> * -Report failure to find readline or zlib at end of configure run
2002-07-17 22:15:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
5af19e4227 Add more dependency insertions --- this completes the basic pg_depend
functionality.  Of note: dropping a table that has a SERIAL column
defined now drops the associated sequence automatically.
2002-07-16 22:12:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
93d6a8aa7d > pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org wrote:
>  > David Clark (dclarknospam@opsi.co.za) reports a bug with a severity
>  > Table 3-7 SQL Literal escaped octets shows the input escape
>  > representation for a single quote as '\\'' , but the third paragraph
>  > below table 3-8 SQL Output Escaped Octets says that the single quote
>  > must be input as '\''
>
> Nice catch. '\'' is correct as shown in the example in Table 3-7.
>
>  >
>  > Also in the same paragraph mentioned above it says input for the
>  > single quote must be '\'' (or '\\134') shouldn't this be (or '\\047')
>
> Also a bug. Should be '\\047', as you pointed out.
>

Here's a patch to fix the binary string doc errors.

Joe Conway
2002-07-16 17:05:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d76eef3e7c Add mention of TOAST storage for character columns. 2002-07-16 04:45:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b3341ddbf2 Mark 'line' as 'not implemented' in SGML and psql \dT, per Thomas
Lockhart.  initdb not forced.
2002-07-16 03:30:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7fb9b5d434 This fixes 2 inaccuracies in the recently added SQL99 feature list docs.
UNIQUE and DISTINCT predicates are both listed as implemented -- AFAIK,
neither is.

I also included another trivial patch which adds the default location
of the DSSSL stylesheets on my system (Debian unstable, docbook-dsssl
1.76) to the list of paths that configure looks for.

Neil Conway
2002-07-16 00:51:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a6f91c9f3 Item not needed:
< * Use our own getopt() for FreeBSD/OpenBSD to allow --xxx flags (Bruce)
2002-07-15 23:34:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b9104e3a97 Remove certain Makefile dependencies by using full pathnames in
configure.in.
2002-07-15 21:34:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91dfa1af97 Fix \? and \pset pager handling. \? wasn't honoring pager before. 2002-07-15 01:56:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
c4fb2b4e9e Remove no-longer-appropriate notes about lack of CASCADE/RESTRICT behavior. 2002-07-14 22:47:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
59097af0bb Mark as done, per Rod:
> o -Add ALTER TABLE DROP non-CHECK CONSTRAINT
> * -Allow psql \d to show foreign keys
> * -Auto-destroy sequence on DROP of table with SERIAL; perhaps a separate
> * -Prevent column dropping if column is used by foreign key
> * -Automatically drop constraints/functions when object is dropped
> * -Make foreign key constraints clearer in dump file
> * -Make foreign keys easier to identify
2002-07-13 02:42:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fa064e9794 Both done:
o -Add SET or BEGIN timeout parameter to cancel query
> * -Add pg_depend table for dependency recording; use sysrelid, oid,
2002-07-13 02:21:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4db8718e84 Add SET statement_timeout capability. Timeout is in ms. A value of
zero turns off the timer.
2002-07-13 01:02:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ccb3f90f06 Re-add -I documentation, per Tom. 2002-07-13 00:55:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
7c6df91dda Second phase of committing Rod Taylor's pg_depend/pg_constraint patch.
pg_relcheck is gone; CHECK, UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, and FOREIGN KEY
constraints all have real live entries in pg_constraint.  pg_depend
exists, and RESTRICT/CASCADE options work on most kinds of DROP;
however, pg_depend is not yet very well populated with dependencies.
(Most of the ones that are present at this point just replace formerly
hardwired associations, such as the implicit drop of a relation's pg_type
entry when the relation is dropped.)  Need to add more logic to create
dependency entries, improve pg_dump to dump constraints in place of
indexes and triggers, and add some regression tests.
2002-07-12 18:43:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
839a346560 Not a valid item:
< * Add version file format stamp to heap and other table types
2002-07-11 21:41:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ccdb8a8d3a Remove duplicate:
< * Use BlockNumber rather than int where appropriate
2002-07-11 21:40:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c20ae1ce50 Remove references to pre-7.1; too old. 2002-07-11 16:38:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dddd8608b3 Update FAQ. 2002-07-11 16:35:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2bb1cfa85 Done, according to Rod Taylor:
> * -Add ALTER TRIGGER ... RENAME
2002-07-11 02:56:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87c963658c Fix pg_restore flags in documentation. 2002-07-10 02:57:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6797ddcc32 Fix typo mentioned by Rich Morin. 2002-07-09 04:47:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9af7179a10 Done:
> * -Make one version of simple_prompt() in code (Bruce, Tom)
2002-07-08 02:01:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d66f172f4b Don't document that UNDO is certain to be added in the future. 2002-07-05 19:06:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b2f2415c92 Mark person:
> * -Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure (Tom)
2002-07-05 02:10:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ebbf01838 Done
> * -Allow psql \d to show temporary table structure
2002-07-05 02:09:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
37e37daa03 Add explanation of the various *_min_messages elog() values. 2002-07-05 01:17:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
250a802c02 Fix capitalization. 2002-07-05 00:14:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be64da227c Add NULL space mention. 2002-07-04 19:26:10 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
c7eea66c39 Move INTERSECT DISTINCT to the supported category. Error in docs. 2002-07-04 15:10:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3722dee6d9 Document function args are required for pg_restore -P.
Fix pg_dump to not quote the function name in the storage tag.
Fix pg_dump so GRANT/REVOKE(ACL) tag entries are not quoted, for
	consistency.
Fix pg_restore to properly handle quotes and some spaces in -P.
2002-07-04 03:04:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2b057b29cc Done:
>         o -Add support for CallableStatements
2002-07-03 16:55:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
95a5f7d858 Not done:
> * Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
2002-06-28 19:28:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c445edefe1 Done:
> * -Add the functionality for WITH CHECK OPTION clause of CREATE VIEW
2002-06-28 18:57:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cdfa456d15 Update FAQ. 2002-06-25 03:35:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c1e2f351f8 Add more info on regex's using INDEX. 2002-06-25 03:32:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0b584830f0 Update FAQ. 2002-06-25 01:45:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
6918df16a5 plpgsql's PERFORM statement now sets FOUND depending on whether any
rows were returned by the performed query.  Per recent pgsql-general
discussion.
2002-06-24 23:12:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
e11f167718 Document quote_ident and quote_literal in the main list of string functions,
as suggested by Josh Berkus.
2002-06-24 22:17:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
407bd1c29b Add MIN/MAX LIMIT/OFFSET mention. 2002-06-23 21:16:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a0361c46e6 Rename command to reindexdb, for consistency. 2002-06-23 03:51:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a36711c368 Mention REINDEX can be used for disk space reclaimation too. 2002-06-23 03:45:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
30be6c23c1 Handle mixed-case names in reindex script.
Document need for reindex in SGML docs.
2002-06-23 03:37:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a8a1f15877 uint -> uint32, portability. 2002-06-22 04:08:07 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
90edb265e3 Implement SQL99 CREATE CAST and DROP CAST statements.
Also implement alternative forms to expose the PostgreSQL CREATE FUNCTION
 features.
Implement syntax for READ ONLY and READ WRITE clauses in SET TRANSACTION.
 READ WRITE is already implemented (of course).
Implement syntax for "LIKE table" clause in CREATE TABLE. Should be fairly
 easy to complete since it resembles SELECT INTO.
Implement MATCH SIMPLE clause for foreign key definitions. This is explicit
 SQL99 syntax for the default behavior, so we now support it :)
Start implementation of shorthand for national character literals in
 scanner. For now, just swallow the leading "N", but sometime soon let's
 figure out how to pass leading type info from the scanner to the parser.
 We should use the same technique for binary and hex bit string literals,
 though it might be unusual to have two apparently independent literal
 types fold into the same storage type.
2002-06-22 02:04:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc8839a10b Done:
> * -Test hash index performance and discourage usage
2002-06-21 20:13:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
561dca3263 Mention dbsize in database sizing manual section. 2002-06-21 19:17:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dad0e20f29 Mention "PostgreSQL"'s hashes as slower/similar to btree. 2002-06-21 19:06:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1415a8388f Update hash warning in manual. 2002-06-21 16:52:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebe4375fa1 Document problems with hash indexes compared to btree. 2002-06-21 03:25:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8188474a5c Update FAQ. 2002-06-21 02:01:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bed81bcbec Add pg_dump/restore item to FAQ.
Martijn van Oosterhout
2002-06-21 02:00:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d1fcd337e0 Add new documentation on page format.
Martijn van Ooster
2002-06-20 21:48:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d84fe82230 Update copyright to 2002. 2002-06-20 20:29:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b2e7a4c4a0 > Here's the first doc patch for SRFs. The patch covers general
> information and SQL language specific info wrt SRFs. I've taken to
> calling this feature "Table Fuctions" to be consistent with (at least)
> one well known RDBMS.

Joe Conway
2002-06-20 16:57:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3f90b17339 Add from Dave Cramer:
JDBC
> 	o Compile under jdk 1.4
2002-06-20 16:55:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
585aa11587 Update as done:
JDBC:
> 	o -Updateable resultSet
2002-06-20 16:49:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c2c2fd57ee Improve COPY syntax to use WITH clause, keep backward compatibility. 2002-06-20 16:00:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2912fd45d1 This patch updates the CREATE LANGUAGE & pg_language docs for the 7.3
table structure.

 Dave Page
2002-06-20 15:44:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bad59c290e Add new Russian FAQ.
Viktor Vislobokov
2002-06-20 04:34:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cd75bb7011 Add:
> * -Allow object creation to be disabled for specific users
2002-06-19 16:36:13 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
17ce9a0a1e Split list of SQL99 features into "Supported" and "Unsupported" lists. 2002-06-19 06:11:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f91ee129a7 Simplify optional WITH handling in CREATE USER, ALTER USER, CREATE
GROUP.  Make WITH optional in CREATE DATABASE for consistency.
2002-06-17 05:40:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0dbfea39f3 Remove KSQO from GUC and move file to _deadcode. 2002-06-16 00:09:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
62d4526114 Ooops, fix busted markup. 2002-06-15 22:15:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
2da3742cf5 Add a little more material to the new section about evaluation order. 2002-06-15 21:28:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb1ad5b4b5 Patch for current_schemas to optionally include implicit ...
Second cut attached. This one just adds a boolean option to the existing
function to indicate that implicit schemas are to be included (or not).
I remembered the docs as well this time :-)

Dave Page
2002-06-15 20:03:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
82b14b62ca Update LOG_PID to mention it doesn't control syslog.
Oliver Elphick
2002-06-15 19:58:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7882179994 The normal operation of our servers is to have tcpip_sockets enabled,
but occasionally I may need to shut down the server and restart it
w/o tcpip sockets. Postmaster has the -i option to turn on tcpip
connections, but it wasn't immediately clear how to easily or
temporarily turn it off (when it's been enabled in postgresql.conf).

In fact, it wasn't clear to me until digging in to postmaster.c that
I could pass '-c tcpip_socket=false' or '--tcpip_socket=false'.
(And then of course when I looked more closely at the man page I
realized I'd missed the proper part of the documentation.) What I'd
been looking for is a flag that would have the opposite effect of
'-i', and it's conceivable that others will be looking for specific
flags to do the opposite of '-F' and '-S'.

I was preparing to add options to postmaster until I realized that
maybe the solution is just to add some documentation.

If you'd rather have 1 character options to accomplish this, I'd be
happy to do that-- adding those 9 lines of code is definitely within
my ability. :)  (Although, the "right" letter to be the opposite of -S
isn't clear to me, since -s is already taken.)

Ron Snyder.
2002-06-15 19:52:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eeb1dd5068 On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 01:41, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Is it a good idea to provide an example (such as the above), or should I
> > just try and describe the behaviour?
>
> Examples are generally good things ...

OK, the attached documentation patch provides some simple examples of
use of tablename as a parameter, %ROWTYPE and %TYPE.

In the end I decided that the documentation is literally correct, but
hard to follow without any examples explicitly showing the use of a
table name as a parameter.

Andrew McMillan
2002-06-15 19:34:51 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
133df7ce70 Add LOCALTIME and LOCALTIMESTAMP functions per SQL99 standard.
Remove ODBC-compatible empty parentheses from calls to SQL99 functions
 for which these parentheses do not match the standard.
Update the ODBC driver to ensure compatibility with the ODBC standard
 for these functions (e.g. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, CURRENT_USER, etc).
Include a new appendix in the User's Guide which lists the labeled features
 for SQL99 (the labeled features replaced the "basic", "intermediate",
 and "advanced" categories from SQL92). features.sgml does not yet split
 this list into "supported" and "unsupported" lists.
2002-06-15 03:00:09 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
e62660080c Add NetBSD/MIPS as a supported platform. 2002-06-15 02:41:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
63a354c4bb Make encryption of stored passwords the default, as discussed months ago. 2002-06-15 01:29:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
deec3cb91c Add:
> * Create native Win32 port [win32]
2002-06-13 18:01:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ad579a9e43 Add Win32 thread to TODO.detail. 2002-06-13 18:00:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9310caf589 Update for new SGML file. 2002-06-13 05:54:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d237c7c18 Move disk usage section into its own section. 2002-06-13 05:15:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5612949ff8 Add section on showing disk usage. 2002-06-13 04:36:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e6e577490d Add to ecpg:
> 	o Allow multi-threaded use of SQLCA
2002-06-12 23:39:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b3f0ef1db Cleanup. 2002-06-12 21:20:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
435941440b Mark as done:
> * -Add SIMILAR TO to allow character classes, 'pg_[a-c]%'
2002-06-11 21:28:17 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
062d8b9ebd Fix markup typo. 2002-06-11 16:00:17 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
ea01a451cc Implement SQL99 OVERLAY(). Allows substitution of a substring in a string.
Implement SQL99 SIMILAR TO as a synonym for our existing operator "~".
Implement SQL99 regular expression SUBSTRING(string FROM pat FOR escape).
 Extend the definition to make the FOR clause optional.
 Define textregexsubstr() to actually implement this feature.
Update the regression test to include these new string features.
 All tests pass.
Rename the regular expression support routines from "pg95_xxx" to "pg_xxx".
Define CREATE CHARACTER SET in the parser per SQL99. No implementation yet.
2002-06-11 15:44:38 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
090dd22de6 Implement SQL99 OVERLAY(). Allows substitution of a substring in a string.
Implement SQL99 SIMILAR TO as a synonym for our existing operator "~".
Implement SQL99 regular expression SUBSTRING(string FROM pat FOR escape).
 Extend the definition to make the FOR clause optional.
 Define textregexsubstr() to actually implement this feature.
Update the regression test to include these new string features.
 All tests pass.
Rename the regular expression support routines from "pg95_xxx" to "pg_xxx".
Define CREATE CHARACTER SET in the parser per SQL99. No implementation yet.
2002-06-11 15:32:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b993acf19 Fix link. 2002-06-11 10:36:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3a9f82bf78 Update performance section. 2002-06-11 10:29:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8d1c1d40ec Update fsync FAQ item. 2002-06-11 02:22:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c86fac2787 Fix link. 2002-06-10 20:45:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fc53730c94 Move ruler to separate sections. 2002-06-10 19:49:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9aac62305b Add item for plpgsql temp table access. 2002-06-10 19:47:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
090319b20f Fix spacing. 2002-06-10 16:13:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6146200219 Update new Russian FAQ, from Victor Vislobokov 2002-06-08 04:23:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
31d9184239 None. 2002-06-07 20:22:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c78e411fef Add:
> * Allow DEFERRABLE UNIQUE constraints
2002-06-07 04:19:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4ac77d3708 Mark as done:
> 	o -Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
2002-06-07 03:47:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40690c120c Add /dev/zero mention for anon mmap(). 2002-06-05 04:01:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
448ca1fe0b Update Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura 2002-06-04 05:12:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e3c1609df3 Update as done:
> * -Add deleted bit to index tuples to reduce heap access
2002-06-03 22:46:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
07cc12b833 Remove NOCREATE patch from TODO.detail. 2002-06-03 17:45:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc574c4482 Update index growth problem. 2002-06-03 17:41:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e301b855d1 The attached patch fixes a typo in the documentation for SET
CONSTRAINTS.

Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
2002-06-03 01:10:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
85af3be5e2 Remove mention of timestamp() in SGML docs; doesn't exist anymore. 2002-06-02 21:56:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bf886d5baf Add section explaining unspecified expression evaluation order. 2002-06-01 20:56:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1731048c12 Indent verbatim environments. 2002-06-01 20:56:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
50b7148218 Mention btree:
> * Add FILLFACTOR to btree index creation
2002-06-01 19:53:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
606db06f83 Improve manual's discussion of locking and MVCC. 2002-05-30 20:45:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
970ff81e2f Add a note about the interpretation of amcanmulticol and amindexnulls:
a multicolumn-capable index AM *must* support nulls in index columns
after the first one.
2002-05-29 17:36:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dc20063e43 Remove 32-bit mention:
> * Add BSD-licensed qsort() for Solaris
2002-05-29 00:44:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6005c50fa6 Update:
> * Add BSD-licensed qsort() for 32-bit Solaris
2002-05-28 01:06:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3cde085158 Add
> * Add getpid() function to backend
2002-05-25 22:44:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d60f10b0e7 Add optional "validator" function to languages that can validate the
function body (and other properties) as a function in the language
is created.  This generalizes ad hoc code that already existed for
the built-in languages.

The validation now happens after the pg_proc tuple of the new function
is created, so it is possible to define recursive SQL functions.

Add some regression test cases that cover bogus function definition
attempts.
2002-05-22 17:21:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c961474c96 Mark as done:
> 	o -Disallow missing columns in INSERT ... VALUES, per ANSI
2002-05-20 22:22:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2c50f6344b Revise command completion tags as per hackers message on 20 March. 2002-05-18 15:44:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e8ac187c68 Allow functions to be executed with the privileges of the function owner.
I took the opportunity to remove the pg_proc.proistrusted field.
2002-05-18 13:48:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
94bdc4855c Extend syntax of CREATE FUNCTION to resemble SQL99. 2002-05-17 18:32:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
f0811a74b3 Merge the last few variable.c configuration variables into the generic
GUC support.  It's now possible to set datestyle, timezone, and
client_encoding from postgresql.conf and per-database or per-user
settings.  Also, implement rollback of SET commands that occur in a
transaction that later fails.  Create a SET LOCAL var = value syntax
that sets the variable only for the duration of the current transaction.
All per previous discussions in pghackers.
2002-05-17 01:19:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa613fa1ea Fix obsolete statement about permissions on COPY ref page, and confusion
about TO/FROM direction in several places.
2002-05-14 18:47:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5c4e5aa3ff Make regression tests locale-proof by setting some locale categories
to C at run-time, and providing alternative output files for different
sort orders.
2002-05-14 13:05:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
c5741a448e AVG probably shouldn't be upper case here, considering
that we don't upcase the others.
2002-05-13 19:22:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
f69bc37be8 Make operators have their own comments separate from those of the
underlying function; but cause psql's \do to show the underlying
function's comment if the operator has no comment of its own, to preserve
the useful functionality of the original behavior.  Also, implement
COMMENT ON SCHEMA.  Patch from Rod Taylor.
2002-05-13 17:45:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
71009354c8 Update for additional options in CREATE OPERATOR. 2002-05-11 02:09:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
9f0ae0c820 First pass at schema-fying pg_dump/pg_restore. Much to do still,
but the basic capability seems to work.
2002-05-10 22:36:27 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
1944bff1d6 Make initdb print a message about which locale it is about to use.
Re-add warning if the locale prevents LIKE-optimization.  Done within
initdb now.
2002-05-09 13:30:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
2822788993 Accept SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION DEFAULT and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
to reset session userid to the originally-authenticated name.  Also,
relax SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION to allow specifying one's own username
even if one is not superuser, so as to avoid unnecessary error messages
when loading a pg_dump file that uses this command.  Per discussion from
several months ago.
2002-05-06 19:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
8338cc03a8 Remove the last traces of datatypes datetime and timespan. 2002-05-03 04:11:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
e4f06dc12e Clean up loose ends remaining from schema privileges discussion.
I concluded that RENAME should require CREATE privilege on the namespace
as well as ownership of the table.
2002-04-30 01:26:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
857661ba2e Enforce EXECUTE privilege for aggregate functions. 2002-04-29 22:28:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c763cfa9e8 Add Polish FAQ from Marcin Mazurek. 2002-04-29 02:57:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aafe72efb2 Update DROP COLUMN example to use transactions and rollback-able DROP TABLE> 2002-04-27 03:04:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e90dbd27b1 Updated:
> 	o Abort all SET changes made in an aborted transaction
2002-04-26 18:32:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
a309032d2f Add current_schema() and current_schemas() inquiry functions.
Update has_table_privilege functions to cope with schema-qualified
names in the same way as nextval() and others.
2002-04-26 01:24:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
d9375ad564 Add a reference page for CREATE SCHEMA. 2002-04-25 21:47:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be004a0c09 Added:
> * Allow backslash handling in quoted strings to be disabled for portability
2002-04-25 20:39:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8cec968784 Improve display of headings in HTML. 2002-04-25 20:20:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
e358a61d76 Updates for schema features. 2002-04-25 20:14:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
52200befd0 Implement types regprocedure, regoper, regoperator, regclass, regtype
per pghackers discussion.  Add some more typsanity tests, and clean
up some problems exposed thereby (broken or missing array types for
some built-in types).  Also, clean up loose ends from unknownin/out
patch.
2002-04-25 02:56:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f20d467e6b Add missing SGML file. 2002-04-24 02:53:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a02f83426b Here's a doc patch for ALTER TRIGGER RENAME. Please apply if there are
no objections.

Joe Conway
2002-04-24 02:49:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
19b31e0713 Oops, wrong commit on previous. It was:
The attached patch allows views to have default values. You can't
specify a default value within a CREATE VIEW statement, it must be
done using ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DEFAULT after the
view has already been created. Most of the hard work was done by
Tom Lane, I just patched pg_dump and updated the documentation.

Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>
2002-04-24 02:40:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9fcc1159be Appears I forgot to update the docs earlier.
Please note I have no way to test this.  Docbook doesn't like my
cygwin setup.

--
Rod Taylor
2002-04-24 02:31:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
695a042532 Add item:
> * Improve ability to display optimizer analysis using OPTIMIZER_DEBUG
2002-04-23 20:26:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c11d9353f1 Update as done:
> * -Use faster flex flags for performance improvement (Peter E)
2002-04-23 18:59:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0666ac296b Update for syslog and name Tom in trigger:
> * -Allow user to control trigger firing order (Tom)
> * -Compile in syslog functionaility by default (Tatsuo)
2002-04-23 16:59:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
44cd58e47e Update:
> * -Allow user to control trigger firing order
> * Add ALTER TRIGGER ... RENAME
2002-04-23 16:56:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c1fe3d2b9 Update SQL-command reference pages for schema features. 2002-04-23 02:07:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
fccda9eb90 Update GRANT example and discussion to match current sources. 2002-04-22 19:17:40 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
c05f29e895 Augment the date/time examples in the User's Guide to reflect the newer
capabilities of specifying time zones as intervals per SQL9x.
Put refentrytitle contents on the same line as the tag.
 Otherwise, leading whitespace is propagated into the product, which
 (at least) messes up the ToC layout.
Remove (some) docinfo tags containing dates. Best to omit if the dates
 are not accurate; maybe use CVS dates instead or leave them out.
2002-04-21 19:02:39 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
b76b6f61b0 Minor wording change for readability. 2002-04-21 18:58:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
b0bcf8aab2 Restructure AclItem representation so that we can have more than eight
different privilege bits (might as well make use of the space we were
wasting on padding).  EXECUTE and USAGE bits for procedures, languages
now are separate privileges instead of being overlaid on SELECT.  Add
privileges for namespaces and databases.  The GRANT and REVOKE commands
work for these object types, but we don't actually enforce the privileges
yet...
2002-04-21 00:26:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
6d6ca2166c Change naming rule for ON SELECT rules of views: they're all just
_RETURN now, since there's no need to keep 'em unique anymore.
2002-04-19 23:13:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
201737168c pg_trigger's index on tgrelid is replaced by a unique index on
(tgrelid, tgname).  This provides an additional check on trigger name
uniqueness per-table (which was already enforced by the code anyway).
With this change, RelationBuildTriggers will read the triggers in
order by tgname, since it's scanning using this index.  Since a
predictable trigger ordering has been requested for some time, document
this behavior as a feature.  Also document that rules fire in name
order, since yesterday's changes to pg_rewrite indexing cause that too.
2002-04-19 16:36:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
b3120804ad Rule names are now unique per-relation, rather than unique globally.
DROP RULE and COMMENT ON RULE syntax adds an 'ON tablename' clause,
similar to TRIGGER syntaxes.  To allow loading of existing pg_dump
files containing COMMENT ON RULE, the COMMENT code will still accept
the old syntax --- but only if the target rulename is unique across
the whole database.
2002-04-18 20:01:11 +00:00