invalid (has the wrong magic number) until the build is entirely
complete. This turns out to cost no additional writes in the normal
case, since we were rewriting the metapage at the end of the process
anyway. In normal scenarios there's no real gain in security, because
a failed index build would roll back the transaction leaving an unused
index file, but for rebuilding shared system indexes this seems to add
some useful protection.
> > a) Write documentation how the win32 console needs to be set up so that
> > psql can handle 8-bit characters.
> > Where should it be added? The Section "Installation on Windows" in the
> > Administrator's Guide seems natural to me.
> >
> > b) Add code to psql that prints a warning on startup of psql when the
> > console codepage differs from the windows codepage, something like
> >
> > Warning: Console codepage (850) differs from windows codepage (1252)
> > 8-bit characters will not work correctly. See PostgreSQL
> > documentation "Installation on Windows" for details.
>
Attached are two patches:
- installdoc.patch contains an additional paragraph on the win32 console
codepage for the chapter "Installation on Windows"
Due to a lack of SGML-tools, I have only edited the text and not tested
the SGML code - please check it before merging into the CVS branch.
- psqlcodepage.patch adds the warning about a problematic codepage to psql.
Christoph Dalitz
now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache
indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method. This
leaves only shared system indexes as special cases. Remove the 'index
deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared-
index case. Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone
mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX. -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes)
now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates.
It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS. Upshot: reindexing system catalogs
can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except
shared catalogs.
to control object ownership. The use-set-session-authorization and
no-reconnect switches are obsolete (still accepted on the command line,
but they don't do anything). This is a precursor to fixing handling
of CREATE SCHEMA, which will be a separate commit.
Per recent discussion, this does not work because other backends can't
reliably see tuples in a temp table and so cannot run the RI checks
correctly. Seems better to disallow this case than go back to accessing
temp tables through shared buffers. Also, disallow FK references to
ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS tables. We already caught this problem for normal
TRUNCATE, but the path used by ON COMMIT didn't check.
comments/examples in pg_hba.conf. This patch remedies that, adds a brief
explanation of the connection types, and adds a missing period in the
docs.
Jon Jensen
Use question marks rather than brackets to delimit optional elements in
Tcl synopses.
Fix stylesheet misfeature leading to excessively long cross-reference text
when linking to a different "part".
Remove <body> attributes -- CSS stylesheets should handle that.
Improve bibliography formatting.
Add fast-forward links for more convenient navigation.
sequence every time it's called is bogus --- it interferes with user
control over the seed, and actually decreases randomness overall
(because a seed based on time(NULL) is pretty predictable). If you really
want a reproducible result from geqo, do 'set seed = 0' before planning
a query.
