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10335 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Eisentraut
60497722ac Put lists in sensible order 2011-05-22 22:38:53 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
7920d033d8 Put documentation of backslash commands back in alphabetical order 2011-05-22 15:13:17 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
51ad1784cc Clarify the documentation of the --with-ossp-uuid option 2011-05-22 14:29:36 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
c8e0c32119 Rename pg_dump --no-security-label to --no-security-labels
Other similar options also use the plural form.
2011-05-19 23:20:11 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
4a6a5c86db Remove obsolete comment 2011-05-19 01:19:57 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
c13dc6402b Spell checking and markup refinement 2011-05-19 01:14:45 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
0ee391b77a /contrib/foo -> contrib/foo
Since contrib is a relative directory specification, a leading slash
is inappropriate.
2011-05-19 00:30:31 +03:00
Bruce Momjian
8a849cdee4 Remove redundant privilege doc sentences. 2011-05-16 11:22:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
6c19bd96bc Allow pg_upgrade to honor libpq environment variables. Add 'local'
checks for PGHOST and PGHOSTADDR.
2011-05-16 10:48:40 -04:00
Robert Haas
9bb6d97952 More cleanup of FOREIGN TABLE permissions handling.
This commit fixes psql, pg_dump, and the information schema to be
consistent with the backend changes which I made as part of commit
be90032e0d, and also includes a
related documentation tweak.

Shigeru Hanada, with slight adjustment.
2011-05-13 15:51:03 -04:00
Tom Lane
ea964a451e Be more explicit about the meaning of the change in standard_conforming_strings. 2011-05-10 23:44:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
64cc297dc9 Mention "backslash" escape processing change in 9.1 release notes. 2011-05-10 20:57:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
87631ac98d Add some punctuation 2011-05-10 22:37:50 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
df6d033197 Put options in more alphabetical order 2011-05-10 22:37:22 +03:00
Tom Lane
1453cd8f82 Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.
The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using
"unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone.  But I forgot
to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
2011-05-10 13:48:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
a9cc9df021 Documentation cleanup for the possible values of the datatype 'boolean'. 2011-05-09 23:25:16 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
832c095d68 Update documentation to state there is three-value logic, not
three-value boolean logic.

Backpatch to 9.0.X since we just got another bug report about this
today.
2011-05-09 21:04:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
e567c9ff34 Add xreflabels to /contrib manuals so links appear correct. Also update
README.links to explain xref properly.
2011-05-07 22:29:20 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
5293de5807 Add missing documention connecting word. 2011-05-07 14:31:00 -04:00
Robert Haas
3ef5b2df97 Fix typos in SECURITY LABEL documentation.
KaiGai Kohei
2011-05-06 21:19:15 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
fb3ad7895e Improve style of generate_history.pl Perl script. 2011-05-05 12:49:23 -04:00
Tom Lane
671322751a Include unary plus in the Operator Precedence table.
Per gripe from Grzegorz Szpetkowski.

Also, change the subsection heading from "Lexical Precedence" (which is
a contradiction in terms) to "Operator Precedence".
2011-05-04 15:02:34 -04:00
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