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Bruce Momjian
e00664da48 Reverse order of performance guides so powerpostgresql is first. 2006-08-08 19:05:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cbf0468d66 Add detail on packages:
>
> 		  A package would be a schema with its own variables,
> 		  private functions, and initialization functions
>
2006-08-08 19:03:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
46d759cfff Add package item:
< 		o Add Oracle-style packages
> 		o Add Oracle-style packages  (Pavel)
> * Pavel is Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@hotmail.com>
2006-08-08 19:02:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2392cdb795 Done:
< 	  o Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
> 	  o -Automatically force archiving of partially-filled WAL files when
<
< 	    Doing this will allow administrators to know more easily when
< 	    the archive contains all the files needed for point-in-time
< 	    recovery.
< 	    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-04/msg00121.php
<
< 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
> 	  o -Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
<
< 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
< 	    an external program.
<
2006-08-08 17:40:02 +00:00
Michael Meskes
75b5630726 Clarified COPY FROM STDIN in ecpg todo 2006-08-08 11:52:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d42cb5d880 Done:
< * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00165.php
> * -Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged, if text mode
2006-08-08 01:24:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3716f90c39 For protocol-level prepare/bind/execute:
o  print user name for all
	o  print portal name if defined for all
	o  print query for all
	o  reduce log_statement header to single keyword
	o  print bind parameters as DETAIL if text mode
2006-08-08 01:23:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
704ddaaa09 Add support for forcing a switch to a new xlog file; cause such a switch
to happen automatically during pg_stop_backup().  Add some functions for
interrogating the current xlog insertion point and for easily extracting
WAL filenames from the hex WAL locations displayed by pg_stop_backup
and friends.  Simon Riggs with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2006-08-06 03:53:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a83437fcfd Slight wording improvement in documentation. 2006-08-04 04:07:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
49954b4526 Add URL for terminate backend test:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00174.php
2006-08-04 01:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
7946f77220 Cause ALTER TABLE to perform ALTER COLUMN DROP DEFAULT operations during
the DROP pass rather than the ADD_CONSTR pass.  On examining the code I
think this was just an oversight rather than intentional, and it seems
to satisfy the principle of least surprise better than the alternative
solution that was discussed.  Add an example to the ref page showing how
to do ALTER TYPE and update the default in one command.  Per gripe from
Markus Bertheau that that wasn't possible.
2006-08-03 20:57:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
9649b182a1 Fix documentation error: GRANT/REVOKE for roles only accept role names
as grantees, not PUBLIC ... and you can't say GROUP either.  Noted by
Brian Hurt.
2006-08-02 16:29:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97eefd6996 Update:
< 	o Add COPY TO STDIN / STDOUT handling
> 	o Add COPY TO STDIN handling
2006-08-02 13:36:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f05fc17cf4 Add:
> 	o In rules, allow VALUES() to contain a mixture of 'old' and 'new'
> 	  references
2006-08-02 13:29:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b5a5524342 Done:
o -Allow INSERT INTO tab (col1, ..) VALUES (val1, ..), (val2, ..)
2006-08-02 03:11:54 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
5f69890e15 Editorialize a bit on the recent patch, reverting to the original versions
of the text where appropiate.
2006-08-01 19:17:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c61607bd52 Add pg_dump -X no-data-for-failed-tables option to suppress loading data
if table creation failed (the table already exists).

Martin Pitt
2006-08-01 18:21:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d0f5ea574 Done:
< 	o %Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches  [pg_dump]
<
< 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-01/msg00190.php
<
> 	o -Allow pg_dump to use multiple -t and -n switches, exclusion
> 	   ability, and regular expression object matching
2006-08-01 18:07:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa88497a3a Remove TODO.detail/pg_dump. 2006-08-01 18:06:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8977b68a42 Allow multiple -n (schema) and -t (table) pg_dump options, and add -T
and -N options to exclude objects.  Also support regular expressions for
option object names.

Greg Sabino Mullane
2006-08-01 18:05:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8d5f3c8d89 Improvements to Maintenance and External Projects documentation.
Joshua D. Drake
Robert Treat
2006-08-01 00:09:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ffb62be07a Add:
> * Consider compressed annealing to search for query plans
>
>   This might replace GEQO, http://sixdemonbag.org/Djinni.
2006-07-31 23:04:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
09d3670df3 Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relation
(table or index) before trying to open its relcache entry.  This fixes
race conditions in which someone else commits a change to the relation's
catalog entries while we are in process of doing relcache load.  Problems
of that ilk have been reported sporadically for years, but it was not
really practical to fix until recently --- for instance, the recent
addition of WAL-log support for in-place updates helped.

Along the way, remove pg_am.amconcurrent: all AMs are now expected to support
concurrent update.
2006-07-31 20:09:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
6e38e34d64 Change the bootstrap sequence so that toast tables for system catalogs are
created in the bootstrap phase proper, rather than added after-the-fact
by initdb.  This is cleaner than before because it allows us to retire the
undocumented ALTER TABLE ... CREATE TOAST TABLE command, but the real reason
I'm doing it is so that toast tables of shared catalogs will now have
predetermined OIDs.  This will allow a reasonably clean solution to the
problem of locking tables before we load their relcache entries, to appear
in a forthcoming patch.
2006-07-31 01:16:38 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
638860ce35 Fix confusion between COPY FROM and COPY TO, per Gavin Sharry and Arul Shaji. 2006-07-31 01:10:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d6603791ea Add:
> * Consider detoasting keys before sorting
2006-07-30 01:48:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6dd2b7728b Add entry:
> * Add column to pg_stat_activity that shows the progress of long-running
>   commands like CREATE INDEX and VACUUM
2006-07-29 18:08:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d06f44a811 Add:
> * Add support for SQL-standard GENERATED/IDENTITY columns
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg00543.php
2006-07-29 15:56:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
51175d1d00 Remove update TODO.detail item. 2006-07-28 19:28:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e1992ebaf2 Updates per Tom:
> * Allow DISTINCT to work in multiple-argument aggregate calls
< 	o Allow UPDATE to handle complex aggregates [update]?
2006-07-28 19:00:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
1249cf8f38 SQL2003-standard statistical aggregates, by Sergey Koposov. I've added only
the float8 versions of the aggregates, which is all that the standard requires.
Sergey's original patch also provided versions using numeric arithmetic,
but given the size and slowness of the code, I doubt we ought to include
those in core.
2006-07-28 18:33:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
0fd087af83 Fix table title. 2006-07-28 16:21:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
b8cd6b4f25 Make it clearer that not every Postgres character set can be used as a
server-side character set.
2006-07-28 15:33:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4917564f1b Update Tatsuo:
< * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> of Software Research Assoc.
> * Tatsuo is Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp> of SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
2006-07-28 12:24:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
67cdc61369 Add URL for UPDATE/SET for multiple values. 2006-07-27 22:05:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8de82ede51 Add for UPDATE SET for multiple values:
>
>           A subselect can also be used as the value source.
2006-07-27 22:01:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
108fe47301 Aggregate functions now support multiple input arguments. I also took
the opportunity to treat COUNT(*) as a zero-argument aggregate instead
of the old hack that equated it to COUNT(1); this is materially cleaner
(no more weird ANYOID cases) and ought to be at least a tiny bit faster.
Original patch by Sergey Koposov; review, documentation, simple regression
tests, pg_dump and psql support by moi.
2006-07-27 19:52:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
43c79378c8 Allow LDAP lookups from pg_service.conf.
Albe Laurenz
2006-07-27 13:20:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b517e65348 Allow units to be specified with configuration settings. 2006-07-27 08:30:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5ffa0bb47a Reorder items:
< 	  o Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled
< 	    write-ahead logs? [pitr]
> 	  o Add command to archive partially filled write-ahead logs? [pitr]
< 	    of a disk failure. This could be triggered by a user command or
< 	    a timer.
> 	    of a disk failure.
< 	    recovery.  A function call to do this would also be useful.
> 	    recovery.
> 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
> 	    part of partial log file archiving
>
> 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
> 	    an external program.
>
< 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
< 	    part of partial log file archiving
<
< 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
< 	    an external program.
2006-07-26 17:23:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
79bc99a467 Convert effective_cache_size to an integer, for better integration with
upcoming units feature.
2006-07-26 11:35:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
88b39634cd Done:
> * -Change LIMIT/OFFSET and FETCH/MOVE to use int8
2006-07-26 00:35:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
edd49fcf69 Add reason for WAL offset reporting:
>
> 	    The offset allows parts of a WAL file to be archived using
> 	    an external program.
2006-07-25 16:23:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8633a9cdff Add offset mention:
< 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file, perhaps as part of
< 	    partial log file archiving
> 	  o Add reporting of the current WAL file and offset, perhaps as
> 	    part of partial log file archiving
2006-07-25 15:27:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cb6f5f1552 Update PITR:
< 	    write-ahead logs [pitr]
> 	    write-ahead logs? [pitr]
< 	    recovery.
> 	    recovery.  A function call to do this would also be useful.
2006-07-25 15:21:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a859695b7e Done:
> 	o -Allow customization of the known set of TZ names (generalize the
2006-07-25 04:11:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
d8b5c95ca8 Remove hard-wired lists of timezone abbreviations in favor of providing
configuration files that can be altered by a DBA.  The australian_timezones
GUC setting disappears, replaced by a timezone_abbreviations setting (set this
to 'Australia' to get the effect of australian_timezones).  The list of zone
names defined by default has undergone a bit of cleanup, too.  Documentation
still needs some work --- in particular, should we fix Table B-4, or just get
rid of it?  Joachim Wieland, with some editorializing by moi.
2006-07-25 03:51:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
e9b4969062 DTrace support, with a small initial set of probes
by Robert Lor
2006-07-24 16:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9652b79ae4 Update documentation on GRANT SCEMA USAGE, again. 2006-07-20 18:00:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a8e44f0b1b Update GRANT USAGE on schema permission description. 2006-07-19 18:42:31 +00:00