Commit Graph

10313 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Eisentraut
a3b681f0bc Link some tables into the surrounding text by their id 2011-05-04 20:24:07 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera
04be7ac271 Update obsolete mention of Sequoia, now known as Tungsten
Per http://joomla.aws.continuent.com/community/lab-projects/sequoia

Greg Smith
2011-05-03 11:35:17 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera
5614857096 Improve description of read/write traffic scalability
Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
2011-05-03 11:34:27 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera
155743ad31 Add ID attribute to some sect2's missing it
David Fetter
2011-05-02 19:13:49 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera
52897e54db Update some ALTER USER cross-references to ALTER ROLE
Greg Smith
2011-05-02 13:40:24 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut
4b08bf8ce7 Small cleanup of spacing in verbatim DocBook elements 2011-05-02 19:19:48 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas
39850c7fdb The arguments to pg_ctl kill are not optional - remove brackets in the docs.
Fujii Masao
2011-04-28 12:54:17 +03:00
Tom Lane
993c5e5904 Tag 9.1beta1. 2011-04-27 17:17:22 -04:00
Tom Lane
bb1051eb2d Make a quick copy-editing pass over the 9.1 release notes.
Also remove the material about this being an alpha release.

The notes still need a lot of work, but they're more or less presentable
as a beta version now.
2011-04-27 16:52:02 -04:00
Tom Lane
4f6c75b541 Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datatype values.
There was already one recommendation in the documentation about writing
C functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes, but make it stronger.

Also fix an example that was still using direct assignment to a varlena
length word, which no longer works since the varvarlena changes.
2011-04-27 14:06:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
dedcc48c56 Doc wording improvement for NUMERIC limit paragraph. 2011-04-27 00:06:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
8ce83b5bdc Reword documentation for NUMERIC with no specified precision. 2011-04-26 23:43:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
0cdbef6cec Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range. 2011-04-26 11:54:57 -04:00
Robert Haas
be90032e0d Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.
Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can
be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role,
and revoked similarly.  GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer
supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW.  The set of
accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for
regular tables, and views.

Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
2011-04-25 16:39:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
9412606265 Normalize whitespace in the arguments of <indexterm>
Strip leading and trailing whitespace and replace interior whitespace
by a single space.  This avoids problems with the index generator
producing duplicate index entries for terms that differ only in
whitespace.

Commit dca30da343 actually fixed all the
indexterm elements that would cause this problem at the moment, but in
case it sneaks in again, we're set.
2011-04-25 01:25:43 +03:00
Tom Lane
1abd146ddd Adjust comments about collate.linux.utf8 regression test.
This test should now work in any database with UTF8 encoding, regardless
of the database's default locale.  The former restriction was really
"doesn't work if default locale is C", and that was because of not handling
mbstowcs/wcstombs correctly.
2011-04-23 12:51:47 -04:00
Tom Lane
9e9b9ac7d1 Make a code-cleanup pass over the collations patch.
This patch is almost entirely cosmetic --- mostly cleaning up a lot of
neglected comments, and fixing code layout problems in places where the
patch made lines too long and then pgindent did weird things with that.
I did find a bug-of-omission in equalTupleDescs().
2011-04-22 17:43:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
0cfdc1c657 Improve doc wording for SQL syntax of LIMIT/OFFSET. 2011-04-21 22:26:04 -04:00
Robert Haas
a0e8df527e Allow ALTER TYPE .. ADD ATTRIBUTE .. CASCADE to recurse to descendants.
Without this, adding an attribute to a typed table with an inheritance
child fails, which is surprising.

Noah Misch, with minor changes by me.
2011-04-20 22:49:37 -04:00
Robert Haas
68739ba856 Allow ALTER TABLE name {OF type | NOT OF}.
This syntax allows a standalone table to be made into a typed table,
or a typed table to be made standalone.  This is possibly a mildly
useful feature in its own right, but the real motivation for this
change is that we need it to make pg_upgrade work with typed tables.
This doesn't actually fix that problem, but it's necessary
infrastructure.

Noah Misch
2011-04-20 21:38:47 -04:00
Tom Lane
2d4617126f Document COLLATE option in CREATE TYPE reference page.
Curiously, it was already documented in ALTER TYPE ADD ATTRIBUTE, but
not here.
2011-04-17 17:05:51 -04:00
Tom Lane
c947325856 Support a COLLATE clause in plpgsql variable declarations.
This allows the usual rules for assigning a collation to a local variable
to be overridden.  Per discussion, it seems appropriate to support this
rather than forcing all local variables to have the argument-derived
collation.
2011-04-17 14:54:19 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
3affae58b7 Note that Bison on GnuWin32 has trouble with paths with spaces
Peter Eisentraut
2011-04-15 15:30:21 +02:00
Magnus Hagander
9e1526eddd Specify which versions of the Platform SDK are supported
Anything including Visual Studio 2010 compilers is not yet
supported for building on Windows.
2011-04-15 15:30:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
f536d41942 Rename pg_regress option --multibyte to --encoding
Also refactor things a little bit so that the same methods for setting
test locale and encoding can be used everywhere.
2011-04-15 08:42:05 +03:00
Tom Lane
98eded936c Update release notes for releases 9.0.4, 8.4.8, 8.3.15, and 8.2.21. 2011-04-14 15:52:18 -04:00
Robert Haas
07e58cbe19 Advise Debian/Ubuntu users to use openjade1.3.
The latest openjade packages for Ubuntu 10.10 seg fault when building
our documentation.

Josh Berkus
2011-04-14 11:35:41 -07:00
Tom Lane
dd95a1d3dd Add some useful cross-references to the CREATE EXTENSION reference page.
Per a suggestion from Josh Kupershmidt, though I modified his patch
quite a lot.
2011-04-13 02:56:33 -04:00
Tom Lane
1e16a8107d Teach regular expression operators to honor collations.
This involves getting the character classification and case-folding
functions in the regex library to use the collations infrastructure.
Most of this work had been done already in connection with the upper/lower
and LIKE logic, so it was a simple matter of transposition.

While at it, split out these functions into a separate source file
regc_pg_locale.c, so that they can be correctly labeled with the Postgres
project's license rather than the Scriptics license.  These functions are
100% Postgres-written code whereas what remains in regc_locale.c is still
mostly not ours, so lumping them both under the same copyright notice was
getting more and more misleading.
2011-04-10 18:03:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
7c76906b7e Don't show unusable collations in psql's \dO command.
"Unusable" collations are those not matching the current database's
encoding.  The former behavior inconsistently showed such collations
some of the time, depending on the details of the pattern argument.
2011-04-09 14:08:41 -04:00
Tom Lane
dca30da343 Avoid extra whitespace in the arguments of <indexterm>.
As noted by Thom Brown, this confuses the DocBook index processor; it
fails to merge entries that differ only in whitespace, and sorts them
unexpectedly as well.  Seems like a toolchain bug, but I'm not going to
hold my breath waiting for a fix.

Note: easiest way to find these is to look for double spaces in HTML.index.
2011-04-08 11:36:05 -04:00
Tom Lane
8ad58279fa Add an example of WITH (UPDATE RETURNING) INSERT to the INSERT ref page.
Per a discussion with Gavin Flower.  This barely scratches the surface
of potential WITH (something RETURNING) use cases, of course, but it's
one of the simplest compelling examples I can think of.
2011-04-08 10:54:03 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
bf6848bc8c Update key words table for 9.1 2011-04-06 00:16:13 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera
38d15f1651 Change "Id" to "id" in some SGML tags
Gabriele Bartolini
2011-04-05 15:06:06 -03:00
Robert Haas
ad275473a5 Typo fixes.
Erik Rijkers
2011-04-05 12:40:17 -04:00
Robert Haas
f5e524d92b Add casts from int4 and int8 to numeric.
Joey Adams, per gripe from Ramanujam.  Review by myself and Tom Lane.
2011-04-05 09:35:43 -04:00
Simon Riggs
479ee1b962 Centralise release note items related to recovery and replication 2011-04-04 22:38:43 +01:00
Simon Riggs
35d2a660fe Update comments and credit doc proofreaders 2011-04-04 22:36:09 +01:00
Robert Haas
240067b3b0 Merge synchronous_replication setting into synchronous_commit.
This means one less thing to configure when setting up synchronous
replication, and also avoids some ambiguity around what the behavior
should be when the settings of these variables conflict.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me.
2011-04-04 16:25:52 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
fc3459d70c Uppercase <!ENTITY> and <!DOCTYPE> tags in SGML source
This improves compatibility with external toolchains, such as those used
by some documentation translation tools.

Gabriele Bartolini
2011-04-04 16:09:10 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
8c250f3741 Duplicate expansion of "direction" from FETCH's synopsis into MOVE 2011-04-04 12:04:43 -04:00
Robert Haas
cabf5d84b6 Improve documentation on the range of the numeric data type.
Gianni Ciolli, reviewed by Noah Misch
2011-04-03 19:56:22 -04:00
Robert Haas
1981fb7313 Remove mention of using "man" from the tutorial.
This isn't applicable on Windows, and the internal link to the
psql documentation should be more than sufficient.

Susanne Ebrecht
2011-04-03 19:49:05 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
d420ba2a2d Escape greater than and less than characters in docs.
Susanne Ebrecht and me
2011-04-02 17:08:06 +03:00
Robert Haas
50533a6dc5 Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.
This mostly involves making it work with the objectaddress.c framework,
which does most of the heavy lifting.  In that vein, change
GetForeignDataWrapperOidByName to get_foreign_data_wrapper_oid and
GetForeignServerOidByName to get_foreign_server_oid, to match the
pattern we use for other object types.

Robert Haas and Shigeru Hanada
2011-04-01 11:28:28 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
647f8b3dba Reword the phrase on zero replication_timeout in the docs. 2011-03-31 10:19:29 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas
754baa21f7 Automatically terminate replication connections that are idle for more
than replication_timeout (a new GUC) milliseconds. The TCP timeout is often
too long, you want the master to notice a dead connection much sooner.
People complained about that in 9.0 too, but with synchronous replication
it's even more important to notice dead connections promptly.

Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-30 10:20:37 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
6c0dfc0356 Add maintainer-check target
This can do various source code checks that are not appropriate for
either the build or the regression tests.  Currently: duplicate_oids,
SGML syntax and tabs check, NLS syntax check.
2011-03-28 22:56:52 +03:00
Bruce Momjian
5c22c0eda1 Add 9.1 release note link for synchronous replication.
We already had links to the GUC variables that control it.
2011-03-28 14:50:08 -04:00
Robert Haas
7c7fd882a5 Mark up release notes using <link>.
Unlike <xref>, this actually works.
2011-03-28 09:42:09 -04:00