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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Eisentraut
f49beb3f50 In the SSH setup instructions, change
ssh -L 3333:foo.com:5432 joe@foo.com

I think this should be changed to

ssh -L 3333:localhost:5432 joe@foo.com

The reason is that this assumes the postgres server on foo.com allows
connections from foo.com, which is not allowed by the default
listen_addresses setting.  Add more detail explaining this.

pointed out by Faheem Mitha

Also change the example port number 3333 to 63333 so no one can complain
that we are stealing a reserved port number.
2008-02-26 16:07:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f26203ef32 Add information about format modifiers that apply to numeric formats.
These were previously only documented in the context of date/time formats.
2008-02-26 15:32:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
9713c06319 Change the declaration of struct varlena so that the length word is
represented as "char ...[4]" not "int32".  Since the length word is never
supposed to be accessed via this struct member anyway, this won't break
any existing code that is following the rules.  The advantage is that C
compilers will no longer assume that a pointer to struct varlena is
word-aligned, which prevents incorrect optimizations in TOAST-pointer
access and perhaps other places.  gcc doesn't seem to do this (at least
not at -O2), but the problem is demonstrable on some other compilers.

I changed struct inet as well, but didn't bother to touch a lot of other
struct definitions in which it wouldn't make any difference because there
were other fields forcing int alignment anyway.  Hopefully none of those
struct definitions are used for accessing unaligned Datums.
2008-02-23 19:11:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
84ce707ba8 Added --htmldir option to pg_config, equivalent to the new configure option. 2008-02-18 14:51:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
b120382353 Upgrade to Autoconf 2.61:
- Change configure.in to use Autoconf 2.61 and update generated files.
- Update build system and documentation to support now directory variables
  offered by Autoconf 2.61.
- Replace usages of PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF by AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, now available
  in Autoconf 2.61.
- Drop our patched version of AC_C_INLINE, as Autoconf now has the change.
2008-02-17 16:36:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ee7a6770f6 Move item as done:
<
> * -Allow AS in "SELECT col AS label" to be optional in certain cases
>
< * Allow AS in "SELECT col AS label" to be optional (not wanted)
2008-02-16 23:27:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
2874d38d7f Update docs to reflect the fact that we can now deal with DST rules
outside the 32-bit-time_t range.  Also, refer to Olson's tz database
as the 'zoneinfo' database, a name that upstream sometimes uses, not
'zic database' which they never use.
2008-02-16 21:51:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2f67722dda No need to use checkpoint_warning to log checkpoints --- we added
log_checkpoints in 8.3.
2008-02-16 21:14:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2fce2336dc Add suggestion about how to set checkpoint_warning to log all
checkpoints.
2008-02-16 21:11:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
e67867b26c Allow AS to be omitted when specifying an output column name in SELECT
(or RETURNING), but only when the output name is not any SQL keyword.
This seems as close as we can get to the standard's syntax without a
great deal of thrashing.  Original patch by Hiroshi Saito, amended by me.
2008-02-15 22:17:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0fa15b9ed3 Correct XML markup typo, <book> -> </book>
XMLPARSE (DOCUMENT '<?xml
 version="1.0"?><book><title>Manual</title><chapter>...</chapter></book>')

Backpatch to 8.3.X.
2008-02-13 22:46:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
74de091473 Add section to Migration talking about typical areas that change between
major releases.
2008-02-13 22:44:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf9e156156 Stamp HEAD as 8.4devel. 2008-02-13 03:40:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
745e6edaae Fix SPI_cursor_open() and SPI_is_cursor_plan() to push the SPI stack before
doing anything interesting, such as calling RevalidateCachedPlan().  The
necessity of this is demonstrated by an example from Willem Buitendyk:
during a replan, the planner might try to evaluate SPI-using functions,
and so we'd better be in a clean SPI context.

A small downside of this fix is that these two functions will now fail
outright if called when not inside a SPI-using procedure (ie, a
SPI_connect/SPI_finish pair).  The documentation never promised or suggested
that that would work, though; and they are normally used in concert with
other functions, mainly SPI_prepare, that always have failed in such a case.
So the odds of breaking something seem pretty low.

In passing, make SPI_is_cursor_plan's error handling convention clearer,
and fix documentation's erroneous claim that SPI_cursor_open would
return NULL on error.

Before 8.3 these functions could not invoke replanning, so there is probably
no need for back-patching.
2008-02-12 04:09:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
0028b22d68 Some small editorialization on the protocol documentation for GSSAPI/SSPI
authentication.
2008-02-08 18:18:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d9c7f63244 Add "automatically" to HOT release note description. 2008-02-07 22:28:54 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
8d363727f4 Fix very broken clean.bat for msvc install. The way we used subroutines
in .bat simply did not work, and it called them in the wrong order,
some several times, and some not at all. So this unrolls all subroutine
calls.

This should fix the issues with clean deleting the wrong files reported
by Dave Page.

While at it, add the "clean dist" option to act like "make distclean",
and no longer remove the flex/bison output files by default. This shuold
fix the problem reported by Pavel Golub in bug #3909.
2008-02-06 15:13:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
701cd5af45 Fix mistaken duplicate reference to max_fsm_pages, per bug #3926.
Also make links clickable.
2008-02-03 16:24:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
09bcb24806 Minor wordsmithing in release notes' description of asynchronous commit. 2008-02-02 23:30:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
19c40492f0 Move example of turning off synchronous_commit to a more logical place,
to wit in the description of that variable rather than some other one.
2008-02-02 23:29:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aad140b7ff Stamp 8.3 in CVS. _No_ update of configure/configure.in. 2008-02-01 02:59:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1ac09940db Update FAQ for most recent release as 8.3. 2008-02-01 02:55:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea3db8f79d Update item:
< * Improve deadlock detection when deleting items from shared buffers
> * Improve deadlock detection when a page cleaning lock conflicts
>   with a shared buffer that is pinned
2008-02-01 02:41:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b07e548590 Fix spelling typo in comment. 2008-01-31 23:31:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
694403d30e Add comment about possible URL changes for www7.hp.com:
<!-- If this URL chnages replace it with a URL to www.archive.org. -->
2008-01-31 23:30:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
162dc31428 Update spoofing /tmp symlink instructions to be more specific about the
name of the needed symlink file.
2008-01-31 23:03:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
06462f51e3 Mention synchronize_seqscans GUC variable in release notes.
Update expected release date.
2008-01-31 21:31:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
73d9544e27 Remove the old table of "supported platforms" in favor of a link to the
buildfarm plus a narrative description of the CPU types and operating systems
on which Postgres is likely to work.  Now that we've almost completely
decoupled CPU and OS considerations, the former tabular style isn't all that
enlightening anyway.  Perhaps more importantly, no one seems particularly
interested in maintaining the table by hand when we have the buildfarm.
2008-01-31 20:29:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
7c15b10a9a Improve pg_autovacuum documentation to clarify that the enabled field cannot
prevent anti-wraparound vacuuming, and to caution against setting unreasonably
small values of freeze_max_age.  Also put in a notice that this catalog is
likely to disappear entirely in some future release.  Per discussion of
bug #3898 from Steven Flatt.
2008-01-31 18:40:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8e9c7fe982 Document the idea of creating a symbolic link in /tmp to prevent server
spoofing when the socket file has been moved.
2008-01-31 17:22:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
55986a5eb8 Add:
> * Improve deadlock detection when deleting items from shared buffers
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00138.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00873.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-01/msg00365.php
2008-01-31 15:05:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
47df4f6688 Add a GUC variable "synchronize_seqscans" to allow clients to disable the new
synchronized-scanning behavior, and make pg_dump disable sync scans so that
it will reliably preserve row ordering.  Per recent discussions.
2008-01-30 18:35:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f73f18f92c Improve table reference 2008-01-30 10:49:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c7640c3298 Update key words table for 8.3 2008-01-30 10:37:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65b39ec347 Update wording:
< * Add anonymous transactions
> * Add autonomous transactions
2008-01-29 16:13:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1567133511 Add item:
> * Add anonymous transactions
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00893.php
>
2008-01-29 16:11:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
522f362975 Remove duplicat item:
< 	  o Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2008-01-29 16:09:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a38fae6c75 markup correct
from Gevik Babakhani
2008-01-29 13:03:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cf9990c66e Add "Communication Method" row to HA feature matrix documentation. 2008-01-28 18:43:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5518c8e88 Minor editorial improvements in documentation of session_replication_role;
in particular correct the obsolete claim that it can't be changed once
any plans have been cached.
2008-01-27 19:12:28 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
a794b99a31 Fix example of de-escaping bytea argument, per Florian Weimer. Also fix example
of escaping bytea return value. Both cases did not handle backslash values properly.
2008-01-25 15:28:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
79a323ab49 Change /contrib to contrib for consistency. 2008-01-24 06:23:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
1570d0467a Provide a concrete example of parameter expansion in archive_command.
Per discussion of bug #3877.  Simon Riggs, some fixes by moi.
2008-01-23 20:21:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
216e63bbce Avoid mathematical inconsistency in example about avoiding division by
zero with a CASE expression.  Per gripe from Russell Smith.
2008-01-23 19:51:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
6a7a63d3a3 Reference pgAdmin as a typical client-side tool, rather than the
no-longer-maintained PgAccess.  Per Erik Rijkers.
2008-01-23 02:04:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
1e985720eb Improve description of bgwriter_lru_multiplier, per discussion. 2008-01-21 03:28:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7b4be2ba2f Stamp release for 8.3RC2; configure will be stamped by packager. 2008-01-18 00:13:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d07de6c4ec Update Japanese FAQ.
Jun Kuwamura
2008-01-17 18:53:20 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
e467168e32 Typo fix.
Erik Rijkers
2008-01-17 14:34:45 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
98bb697f33 pgcrypto doc updates
Marko Kreen
2008-01-17 11:06:28 +00:00