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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
e1ccaff6ee Rework parsing of ConstraintAttributeSpec to improve NOT VALID handling.
The initial commit of the ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY NOT VALID feature
failed to support labeling such constraints as deferrable.  The best fix
for this seems to be to fold NOT VALID into ConstraintAttributeSpec.
That's a bit more general than the documented syntax, but it allows
better-targeted syntax error messages.

In addition, do some mostly-but-not-entirely-cosmetic code review for
the whole NOT VALID patch.
2011-06-15 19:06:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
da023acd1a Document that psql's \d also works with composite types
This has always been true, it was just never documented.
2011-06-14 23:48:59 +03:00
Bruce Momjian
776fa18359 In pg_upgrade, document that link mode has to have data directories on
the same file system, and that authentication should lock out normal
users.

Per suggestsion from #postgresql irc channel.

Backpatch to 9.1.
2011-06-14 16:48:34 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
8cfd59dd65 Fix grammatical mistake introduced by previous commit
Per note from Tom
2011-06-14 14:07:24 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
fc7e99872c Mention DROP TABLE as well as ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT
... when talking about how good they are in replacement of bulk DELETE
in partitioned setups.

The original wording was a bit confusing.

Per an observation from David Wheeler.
2011-06-14 11:27:25 -04:00
Robert Haas
c3ad1e8dbd Improve accuracy of ON_ERROR_STOP documentation.
Per a gripe from Tom Lane.
2011-06-14 11:07:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
2fccc881a9 Document that bits to the right of the CIDR mask "should" be zero, not
"must".
2011-06-13 20:55:25 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
a03feb9354 Expand warnings on locks acquired by CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
The previous wording wasn't explicit enough, which could misled readers
into thinking that the locks acquired are more restricted in nature than
they really are.  The resulting optimism can be damaging to morale when
confronted with reality, as has been observed in the field.

Greg Smith
2011-06-13 17:17:16 -04:00
Robert Haas
2202891669 Remove parentheses from mention of current_schemas function.
This is more consistent with what we do elsewhere, and hopefully avoids
creating the perception that current_schemas takes no arguments.

As suggested by Brendan Jurd
2011-06-13 13:02:54 -04:00
Robert Haas
6b02ed66e2 Clarify that NATURAL without matching columns is like CROSS JOIN.
As suggested by Grzegorz Szpetkowski.
2011-06-13 12:59:04 -04:00
Robert Haas
2a89042142 Add doc cross-reference to search_path discussion of current_schemas().
Brendan Jurd
2011-06-13 12:37:49 -04:00
Robert Haas
dfe8ec3ab9 Document GUC context for synchronous_standby_names/hot_standby_feedback.
Fujii Masao
2011-06-13 12:23:42 -04:00
Robert Haas
d4c7e934df In ALTER EXTENSION docs, document left_type/right_type.
Noted by Daniele Varrazzo.
2011-06-13 10:24:37 -04:00
Robert Haas
9052e285b5 Markup fix.
Fujii Masao
2011-06-13 10:14:02 -04:00
Robert Haas
43ea23a346 More foreign table documentation improvements.
Shigeru Hanada, with some additional wordsmithing by me
2011-06-13 08:29:38 -04:00
Robert Haas
5fe241c5f9 Corrections to ALTER FOREIGN TABLE documentation.
Shigeru Hanada, with a minor grammar correction.
2011-06-12 00:18:43 -04:00
Tom Lane
c962792211 Stamp HEAD as 9.2devel. 2011-06-11 17:46:49 -04:00
Tom Lane
829ae4bf83 Tag 9.1beta2. 2011-06-09 19:40:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
43958a0280 Ecpg doc cleanups, as reported by Marc Cousin. 2011-06-09 18:48:16 -04:00
Tom Lane
e9c9a92068 Update 9.1 release notes to reflect commits through today.
Also do some desultory copy-editing on the notes.
2011-06-09 18:44:46 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
7e6ec04d96 Support silent mode for service registrations on win32
Using -s when registering a service will now suppress
the application eventlog entries stating that the service
is starting and started.

MauMau
2011-06-09 18:24:59 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
7d43ae6713 Fix documentation of information_schema.element_types
The documentation of the columns collection_type_identifier and
dtd_identifier was wrong.  This effectively reverts commits
8e1ccad519 and
57352df66d and updates the name
array_type_identifier (the name in SQL:1999) to
collection_type_identifier.

closes bug #5926
2011-06-09 07:24:14 +03:00
Tom Lane
3ebc061c18 Make citext's equality and hashing functions collation-insensitive.
This is an ugly hack to get around the fact that significant parts of the
core backend assume they don't need to worry about passing collation to
equality and hashing functions.  That's true for the core string datatypes,
but citext should ideally have equality behavior that depends on the
specified collation's LC_CTYPE.  However, there's no chance of fixing the
core before 9.2, so we'll have to live with this compromise arrangement for
now.  Per bug #6053 from Regina Obe.

The code changes in this commit should be reverted in full once the core
code is up to speed, but be careful about reverting the docs changes:
I fixed a number of obsolete statements while at it.
2011-06-08 15:25:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
1bcdd66315 Reorder pg_ctl promote after pg_ctl status
Since start/stop/restart/reload/status is a kind of standard command
set, it seems odd to insert the special-purpose "promote" in between
the closely related "restart" and "reload".  So put it after "status"
in code and documentation.

Put the documentation of the -U option in some sensible place.

Rewrite the synopsis sentence in help and documentation to make it
less of a growing mouthful.
2011-06-08 20:51:25 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
36a1ba9d5e Fix documentation reference to "above" example
found by Thom Brown
2011-06-04 23:12:27 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
4dd4bd4d8e More ECPG documentation fixes
Marc Cousin
2011-06-04 22:52:01 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
b51d05b511 ECPG documentation fix
Marc Cousin, Satoshi Nagayasu
2011-06-04 22:52:01 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
3ece3913d0 Truncate id to <=44 characters
This is the original DocBook SGML limit, but apparently most
installations have changed it or ignore it, which is why few people
have run into this problem.

pointed out by Brendan Jurd
2011-06-03 22:25:26 +03:00
Bruce Momjian
a20bc9c866 Use proper SGML doc entities rather than angle-brackets.
Marco Nenciarini
2011-06-02 19:33:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
c82d415acc Sort COMMENT synopsis and add more examples
Josh Kupershmidt
2011-06-03 00:17:45 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
596b0c213f Some copy editing of the release notes 2011-06-01 22:22:18 +03:00
Tom Lane
6923d699bc Protect GIST logic that assumes penalty values can't be negative.
Apparently sane-looking penalty code might return small negative values,
for example because of roundoff error.  This will confuse places like
gistchoose().  Prevent problems by clamping negative penalty values to
zero.  (Just to be really sure, I also made it force NaNs to zero.)
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Alexander Korotkov
2011-05-31 17:53:45 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
85ffed431a Use entities to encode non-ASCII characters in SGML documentation
This has already been the case for the most part; just some cases had
slipped through.
2011-05-31 23:11:46 +03:00
Tom Lane
be4585b1c2 Replace use of credential control messages with getsockopt(LOCAL_PEERCRED).
It turns out the reason we hadn't found out about the portability issues
with our credential-control-message code is that almost no modern platforms
use that code at all; the ones that used to need it now offer getpeereid(),
which we choose first.  The last holdout was NetBSD, and they added
getpeereid() as of 5.0.  So far as I can tell, the only live platform on
which that code was being exercised was Debian/kFreeBSD, ie, FreeBSD kernel
with Linux userland --- since glibc doesn't provide getpeereid(), we fell
back to the control message code.  However, the FreeBSD kernel provides a
LOCAL_PEERCRED socket parameter that's functionally equivalent to Linux's
SO_PEERCRED.  That is both much simpler to use than control messages, and
superior because it doesn't require receiving a message from the other end
at just the right time.

Therefore, add code to use LOCAL_PEERCRED when necessary, and rip out all
the credential-control-message code in the backend.  (libpq still has such
code so that it can still talk to pre-9.1 servers ... but eventually we can
get rid of it there too.)  Clean up related autoconf probes, too.

This means that libpq's requirepeer parameter now works on exactly the same
platforms where the backend supports peer authentication, so adjust the
documentation accordingly.
2011-05-31 16:10:46 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
2367da886d Don't recommend upgrading to latest available Windows SDK
We only support up to version 7.0, so don't recommend
upgrading past it. The rest of the documentation around this
was already updated, but one spot was missed.
2011-05-30 20:46:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
6fa79755bd Add pg_basebackup -z option for compression with default level 2011-05-30 01:02:02 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
cb0defe523 Correct description of log_connections and log_disconnections
The previous claim when these parameters could be changed was
incorrect.

Fujii Masao
2011-05-29 21:59:10 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
d68714b29c Allow pg_basebackup compressed tar output to stdout 2011-05-29 01:18:17 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
420dcaaeb1 Drop "meaning" column from error code table
This is currently the same as the condition name, so it doesn't add
any value, only clutter.
2011-05-28 00:25:33 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut
3439e40f9a Put options in some sensible order
For the --help output and reference pages of pg_dump, pg_dumpall,
pg_restore, put the options in some consistent, mostly alphabetical,
and consistent order, rather than newest option last or something like
that.
2011-05-25 21:53:26 +03:00
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