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23732 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
3455b0a5d5 Update fsync test to match new O_DIRECT behavior.
Greg Smith
2006-11-23 16:41:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
eb1fbbe5c4 Update wording:
> * Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week
2006-11-23 16:18:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
28568e585f Spelling and related minor fixes for the GIN docs. 2006-11-23 05:58:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
ce3d1a4fbc Un-break ecpg regression test. 2006-11-23 05:47:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
34036c8658 More minor SGML improvements for xfunc.sgml, including making some
titles more concise. (We usually don't need to repeat the name of a
section in the title of one of its subsections.)
2006-11-23 05:43:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebf071643a Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
or queries over the network.
2006-11-23 05:39:17 +00:00
Neil Conway
4ed6f6d479 Fix a typo in recent xfunc addition, do some routine SGML police work. 2006-11-23 05:28:18 +00:00
Neil Conway
546d6848ca Add a comment noting that heap_copytuple_with_tuple() results in a
HeapTuple that is no longer allocated as a single palloc() block; if
used carelessly, this might result in a subsequent memory leak after
heap_freetuple().
2006-11-23 05:27:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c6f167c4a Update lock comments for concurrent index creation, analyze.
Walter Cruz
2006-11-23 05:14:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3bd2e3e92b Add:
> * Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1
> * Add an ISO year field to extract() called 'isoyear'
2006-11-23 05:09:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb21b9fc13 Add:
> * Allow SQL-language functions to return results from RETURNING queries
2006-11-23 05:01:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
956c2d6683 Make ecpg test variable 'times' static so as not to conflict with libc
symbol.
2006-11-23 04:38:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab79444e7b Add "(assuming <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> is
<literal>off</>)" clauses for bytea.
2006-11-23 04:27:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5f78aa5acf Shared Memory Hooks Documentation
This patch, against xfunc.sgml, adds a new subsection 33.9.12, Shared
Memory and LWLocks in C-Language Functions, describing how shared memory
and lwlocks may be requested by C add-in functions.

Marc Munro
2006-11-23 03:52:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3e0c96b2ec Add release entry for 8.1.5 that was missing:
<listitem><para>Fix rare bug in continuous archiving (Tom)</para></listitem>
2006-11-23 03:30:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
395249ecbe Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory during
AbortTransaction, which would lead to recursion and eventual PANIC exit
as illustrated in recent report from Jeff Davis.  First, in xact.c create
a special dedicated memory context for AbortTransaction to run in.  This
solves the problem as long as AbortTransaction doesn't need more than 32K
(or whatever other size we create the context with).  But in corner cases
it might.  Second, in trigger.c arrange to keep pending after-trigger event
records in separate contexts that can be freed near the beginning of
AbortTransaction, rather than having them persist until CleanupTransaction
as before.  Third, in portalmem.c arrange to free executor state data
earlier as well.  These two changes should result in backing off the
out-of-memory condition before AbortTransaction needs any significant
amount of memory, at least in typical cases such as memory overrun due
to too many trigger events or too big an executor hash table.  And all
the same for subtransaction abort too, of course.
2006-11-23 01:14:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a55984162 More HA wording improvements. 2006-11-22 18:15:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b035722f29 Update HA docs with more wording improvements. 2006-11-22 18:14:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6346355a9b Wording and term clarification for HA docs, per Markus Schiltknecht. 2006-11-22 17:36:52 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
84151d0644 Avoid infinity calculations in rank_cd 2006-11-22 15:55:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ba2edcac4f Mention OIDs are now not created by default. 2006-11-22 04:17:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c556ce1c2 New async/sync multi-master headings for docs. 2006-11-22 04:01:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b0313580e New async/sync multi-master headings for docs. 2006-11-22 04:00:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ffa0e8f0cd Add mention of shared-memory/disk for multi-master clustering. 2006-11-22 03:44:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
617f123f06 Get rid of retail definitions of HAVE_STRDUP and HAVE_VSNPRINTF in
some of the Windows-only makefiles; the correct place to assert these
things is pg_config.h.win32.  Per bug #2677.
2006-11-21 23:26:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
d735804f88 Translate Windows' GMT Standard Time/GMT Daylight Time zones to
zic's Europe/London, rather than Europe/Dublin as before.  This seems
a less surprising choice, particularly with respect to dates before
1948.  Original suggestion was to translate to straight GMT, but this
seems wrong given that these zones *are* DST-aware.  Per offlist
discussion with Magnus.
2006-11-21 23:11:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
188b744d95 HA doc wording improvement. 2006-11-21 22:48:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
7ec1c5a867 Prevent intratransaction memory leak when a subtransaction is aborted
in the middle of executing a SPI query.  This doesn't entirely fix the
problem of memory leakage in plpgsql exception handling, but it should
get rid of the lion's share of leakage.
2006-11-21 22:35:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
5fc2d7e451 Suppress timezone (%Z) part of timestamp display when running on Windows,
because on that platform strftime produces localized zone names in varying
encodings.  Even though it's only in a comment, this can cause encoding
errors when reloading the dump script.  Per suggestion from Andreas
Seltenreich.  Also, suppress %Z on Windows in the %s escape of
log_line_prefix ... not sure why this one is different from the other two,
but it shouldn't be.
2006-11-21 22:19:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
c714e5cba7 Fix plpython to work (or at least pass its regression tests) with
python 2.5.  This involves fixing several violations of the published
spec for creating PyTypeObjects, and adding another regression test
expected output for yet another variation of error message spelling.
2006-11-21 21:51:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a48e92ea1d Mention pgpool-II can do Clustering For Parallel Query Execution. 2006-11-21 21:37:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
3ad0728c81 On systems that have setsid(2) (which should be just about everything except
Windows), arrange for each postmaster child process to be its own process
group leader, and deliver signals SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to the whole
process group not only the direct child process.  This provides saner behavior
for archive and recovery scripts; in particular, it's possible to shut down a
warm-standby recovery server using "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", since delivery
of SIGQUIT to the startup subprocess will result in killing the waiting
recovery_command.  Also, this makes Query Cancel and statement_timeout apply
to scripts being run from backends via system().  (There is no support in the
core backend for that, but it's widely done using untrusted PLs.)  Per gripe
from Stephen Harris and subsequent discussion.
2006-11-21 20:59:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
de597154a8 Update Statement-Based Replication Middleware docs to be more general. 2006-11-21 18:31:57 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
dd92a8c33f Fix type in return value 2006-11-21 18:31:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca646f66f7 In HA/load balancing does:
Clarify sync/async replication propogation delay issues.
Add SGML comment about Oracle RAC and remove doc mention.
Add item about Multi-master replication with conflict resolution.
2006-11-21 18:15:45 +00:00
Neil Conway
66eda1c7b3 VC build patch from Magnus:
Typo in the changes to plperl - uses wrong dir, and had a missing slash.

Also fixes error checking for xsubpp - it was broken in a way that hid
the problem above when run more than once (which is the normal case when
developing).
2006-11-21 17:54:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ae81a6329d Move libpq environment reference in psql documentation to a more
appropriate place, per Andrew Dunstan.
2006-11-21 17:01:58 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
f87fcd43c6 remove duplicate declaration, per report from Magnus Hagander. 2006-11-21 16:59:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
bcd713a618 If SSL negotiation fails and SSLMODE is 'prefer', then retry without SSL.
Negotiation failure is only likely to happen if one side or the other is
misconfigured, eg. bad client certificate.  I'm not 100% convinced that
a retry is really the best thing, hence not back-patching this fix for now.
Per gripe from Sergio Cinos.
2006-11-21 16:28:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cc6c10a7a0 Add capitalization mention. 2006-11-21 15:38:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
150328cd61 I noticed that the Partitioning section of the docs has *two* sections
of caveats in different places, but close together. One called caveats,
one not. That looks like it just led to somebody not reading some
appropriate caveats in the second group of caveats (on -admin).

Simon Riggs
2006-11-21 03:44:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
414c7a537e Change the default setting for log_min_error_statement to ERROR. Per
recent discussion in which majority opinion was that this is a more
widely useful setting than the previous default of PANIC.
2006-11-21 01:23:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
e82d9e6283 Adjust elog.c so that elog(FATAL) exits (including cases where ERROR is
promoted to FATAL) end in exit(1) not exit(0).  Then change the postmaster to
allow exit(1) without a system-wide panic, but not for the startup subprocess
or the bgwriter.  There were a couple of places that were using exit(1) to
deliberately force a system-wide panic; adjust these to be exit(2) instead.
This fixes the problem noted back in July that if the startup process exits
with elog(ERROR), the postmaster would think everything is hunky-dory and
proceed to start up.  Alternative solutions such as trying to run the entire
startup process as a critical section seem less clean, primarily because of
the fact that a fair amount of startup code is shared by all postmaster
children in the EXEC_BACKEND case.  We'd need an ugly special case somewhere
near the head of main.c to make it work if it's the child process's
responsibility to determine what happens; and what's the point when the
postmaster already treats different children differently?
2006-11-21 00:49:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
778bb7b60d Retitle documentation section, "Statement-Based Replication Using Middleware". 2006-11-20 22:07:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b8c01d9dac Add mention that Shared Disk Failover can use file system mirroring of
the mirroring is consistent.
2006-11-20 21:26:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fb2619859c Update Brazilian FAQ.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-11-20 20:58:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
016e0b4177 For to_char() day/month abbrevitions, mention "3 chars in English,
localized lengths vary".
2006-11-20 20:20:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f88fff1e61 Our MingW FAQ appears to be seriously out of date. Couple of fixes: we
want to direct MSI downloads to main download site, NT4 not supported
anymore, msvc build env in progress, pgsql-hackers-win32 is no more.

Magnus Hagander
2006-11-20 19:31:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
aaef29b377 More MSVC build fixes:
* New versions of OpenSSL come with proper debug versions, and use
suffixed names on the LIBs for that. Adapts library handling to deal
with that.

* Fixes error where it incorrectly enabled Kerberos based on NLS
configuration instead of Kerberos configuration

* Specifies path of perl in config, instead of using current one.
Required when using a 64-bit perl normally, but want to build pl/perl
against 32-bit one (required)

* Fix so pgevent generates win32ver.rc automatically

Magnus Hagander
2006-11-20 19:18:02 +00:00
Neil Conway
e2b1dbd394 Overhaul the "External Projects" chapter in the manual. Replace
the variabelist with a more concise table, add a URL for each project,
remove some orphaned projects, add PL/Py, and various other changes.
Initial patch from Robert Treat, subsequent work by Neil Conway.
2006-11-20 17:42:16 +00:00