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9162 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
a07e5acebb Code review for FORCE QUOTE * patch: fix error checking to consider FORCE
QUOTE * as a variety of FORCE QUOTE, and update psql documentation to include
the option.  (The actual psql code doesn't seem to need any changes.)
2009-07-25 17:04:19 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
de7531a971 Allow * as parameter for FORCE QUOTE for COPY CSV. Itagaki Takahiro. 2009-07-25 00:07:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5e22994127 Document \dg+ and \du+
The fact that \dg and \du take the + option was missing in the documentation.

backpatched to 8.4

Author: Andreas Wenk <a.wenk@netzmeister-st-pauli.de>
2009-07-24 19:35:44 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
00f0b47539 Update location to download flex for building on Windows. 2009-07-23 17:06:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2afa73a9e8 Clarify NULLIF example
found by "Vesa-Matti J Kari" <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-22 18:07:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
ca7c8168de Tweak TOAST code so that columns marked with MAIN storage strategy are
not forced out-of-line unless that is necessary to make the row fit on a
page.  Previously, they were forced out-of-line if needed to get the row
down to the default target size (1/4th page).

Kevin Grittner
2009-07-22 01:21:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f3f45c87d2 Remove translated FAQs
The English FAQ has been moved to the wiki, so the translated versions should
have been removed at that point as well.

The FAQ_MINGW.html should have been removed when the platform FAQs were
integrated into the documentation (or earlier).

applied to both 8.4 and 8.5
2009-07-21 19:20:33 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7405f2cc85 Small additional clean from the rearrangement of the HTML index build rules 2009-07-20 18:34:58 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
e73131a16a DROP IF EXISTS for columns and constraints. Andres Freund. 2009-07-20 02:42:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
f5bc74192d Make GEQO's planning deterministic by having it start from a predictable
random number seed each time.  This is how it used to work years ago, but
we got rid of the seed reset because it was resetting the main random()
sequence and thus having undesirable effects on the rest of the system.
To fix, establish a private random number state for each execution of
geqo(), and initialize the state using the new GUC variable geqo_seed.
People who want to experiment with different random searches can do so
by changing geqo_seed, but you'll always get the same plan for the same
value of geqo_seed (if holding all other planner inputs constant, of course).

The new state is kept in PlannerInfo by adding a "void *" field reserved
for use by join_search hooks.  Most of the rather bulky code changes in
this commit are just arranging to pass PlannerInfo around to all the GEQO
functions (many of which formerly didn't receive it).

Andres Freund, with some editorialization by Tom
2009-07-16 20:55:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4ef8dc7a75 Rearrangement of the HTML docs build rules
Set up proper makefile dependencies in the documentation build rules,
especially around the HTML/index build.  The problem we've had with all
previous solutions is that we have used the same file name, such as HTML.index
or bookindex.sgml, to mean different things at different stages of the build,
and make can't distinguish that.  The solution here is that the first jade run
produces HTML.index, but does not require bookindex.sgml at all, and produces
no other html output (the latter an idea from Alvaro).  The second jade run
includes bookindex.sgml, but does not recreate HTML.index.  That way, when you
change an sgml file, jade is run twice and at the end all dependencies are
satisfied.  Omitting the html output in the first stage also makes the full
build a lot faster.

When you run one of the print format targets, only the first jade run is run,
then the print target-specific commands.  If an HTML build has completed
previously, the first jade run is skipped because the dependencies have
already been satisfied.

The draft and check targets for quick builds and syntax verification are still
there.
2009-07-14 22:16:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d1ba29420b Update information schema to SQL:2008
- yes_or_no domain for "boolean" data
 - new columns for VIEWS view
 - slight section renumbering
2009-07-13 20:25:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
da4b900176 Advance the minimum required version of "flex" from 2.5.4 to 2.5.31, and
update documentation accordingly.  This is required in order to have support
for a reentrant scanner.  I'm committing this bit separately in order to have
an easy reference if we later decide to make the minimum something different
(like 2.5.33).
2009-07-13 01:51:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
23d830bd9a Alter some gratuitous uses of "ANSI" when "SQL standard" might have been
meant or the reference to a standard was unnecessary.
2009-07-11 21:15:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c95db342e7 Correct what ISO stands for 2009-07-11 21:13:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
53e7229258 Add missing HOUR TO SECOND option to list of possible INTERVAL field sets,
as noted by Sebastien Flaesch.  Also update the claim that we simply throw
away fields outside this set --- that got changed later to only discard
less-significant fields.
2009-07-08 17:21:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e292dbcf54 More sensible character_octet_length
For character types with typmod, character_octet_length columns in the
information schema now show the maximum character length times the
maximum length of a character in the server encoding, instead of some
huge value as before.
2009-07-07 18:23:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f39df967e9 Add log_line_prefix placeholder %e to contain the current SQL state
Author: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>
2009-07-03 19:14:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
47f6699d00 Remove useless References column for pg_listener catalog description. Per Shigehiro Honda. 2009-07-01 23:57:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
f4ab0b032b Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel. 2009-07-01 23:15:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
4d53a2f969 Revert addition of "o" to tar options. This was intended to fix bug #4883,
but the cure appears to be worse than the disease.  It turns out that GNU
tar versions 1.14.x misinterpret -o as --same-owner, not --no-same-owner,
leading to exactly the wrong behavior for both root and nonroot users.
While that bug has been fixed for nearly five years, these tar versions
are still found in the wild, notably in OS X 10.4.  Given that #4883 was
the first complaint we'd heard, it's definitely not worth fixing at the
risk of breaking things for other users.  Perhaps revisit at a later date
when we're not up against a release deadline.
2009-06-27 21:06:46 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier
41f467f343 Bundle v8.4.0 2009-06-27 00:14:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
730e1a9c95 Update release notes in final preparation for 8.4.0. 2009-06-26 22:23:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
9d6469c9b2 Add a note about SystemTap vs DTrace spelling of probe names. 2009-06-26 22:08:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
df858fe58a Marginal improvement of description of recovery_end_command. 2009-06-26 22:06:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a87a1e5428 Extract tarballs with "o" option (tar xof), to behave reasonably when run
as root, as would usually be the case during make install.

per bug #4883
2009-06-26 06:40:57 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6bcdb8aa85 Use $(TAR) instead of tar in makefiles. 2009-06-26 06:37:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e6b8f47047 Man pages back to lowercase names, with additional fixup to make the .so
links work.
2009-06-25 21:15:38 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
8fd733bd19 Disable pg_standby -l option because the backend doesn't expect the recovered
file to be a symlink. We tried to fix this issue with an earlier server-side
patch, but it didn't fix the whole issue.

The same bug is present in older releases as well, but the 8.4 train is
about to leave the station, and I'm not sure if have consensus on whether
we can remove the -l option in back-branches or do we need to attempt a
server-side fix to make symlinking safe.

Patch by Simon Riggs, per discussion on bug identified by Fujii Masao.
2009-06-25 12:03:11 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
286518e6f4 Fix incorrect LDAP example, noted by Tom. 2009-06-24 13:46:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
d82e9f72b9 Provide a link to the UPDATE reference page in the 'Updating Data'
section of the docs.  Per suggestion from Brad Bowman.
2009-06-23 20:33:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
8d355d7bbf Fix the makefiles to fail cleanly if Perl is needed but not present. This
used to work as intended, but got broken some time ago (a quoted empty string
is not an empty string), and got broken some more by the changes to generate
ecpg's preproc.y automatically.  Given all the unprotected uses of $(PERL)
elsewhere, it seems best to make use of the $(missing) script rather than
trying to ensure each such use is protected individually.  Also fix various
bits of documentation that omitted to mention Perl as a requirement for
building from a CVS pull.  Per a complaint from Robert Haas.
2009-06-23 03:46:00 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier
bc00ceb159 bundle RC2 2009-06-22 23:15:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
18df0ffbd2 Add more explicit note that the parameters of MOVE are identical to FETCH.
per David Wheeler
2009-06-22 07:12:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
82480e28f5 Fix things so that array_agg_finalfn does not modify or free its input
ArrayBuildState, per trouble report from Merlin Moncure.  By adopting
this fix, we are essentially deciding that aggregate final-functions
should not modify their inputs ever.  Adjust documentation and comments
to match that conclusion.
2009-06-20 18:45:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
87698ffa8e Extend man page installation hackery so that the man page section is also
fixed up in the .so links.
2009-06-19 19:15:13 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c79b4505c1 Don't convert the man page names to lower case, so that the .so links work.
This is pretty much a workaround for incomplete tools, but having the man
page names in upper case looks more natural anyway.
2009-06-19 19:14:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
6f1286c12d Add manvolnum, so that man pages are generated. 2009-06-19 15:28:25 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a091ac46ca Don't attempt to "rm" directories on uninstall. 2009-06-18 15:10:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
95289ea90b Recursive Joins -> Recursive Queries
per Erik Rijkers
2009-06-18 14:42:08 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9405b16f3a Add some more documentation and cross-links on using dblink with SQL/MED. 2009-06-18 14:34:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
12bc87e09b Refine the use of terminology around bound and unbound cursors and cursor
variables. Remove the confusing term "reference cursor".
2009-06-18 10:22:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
c30446b9c9 Proofreading for Bruce's recent round of documentation proofreading.
Most of those changes were good, but some not so good ...
2009-06-17 21:58:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5126826c52 Add another link of a GUC variable to where it is explained. 2009-06-17 13:59:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
a0a3883dd9 Improve documentation about GiST opclass support functions.
Dimitri Fontaine
2009-06-12 19:48:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
63e183ca46 Add info about minimum recommended AIX fix levels, per Laurenz Albe. 2009-06-12 15:53:32 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier
35daaa91d3 time to tag rc1 ... 2009-06-12 05:19:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
ae8a2d1a3a Update release notes to today. 2009-06-11 21:44:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
db16e77349 Remove our inadequate kluge that tried to get AIX's various broken versions
of getaddrinfo() to work.  Instead, recommend updating the OS to get a working
version of getaddrinfo.  Per recent discussions.
2009-06-11 19:00:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
14180f9214 Add warning that xpath() doesn't work with non-UTF8 data. 2009-06-10 20:25:41 +00:00