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Peter Eisentraut
765b69ddb1 Translation updates for 9.0.0 2010-09-16 19:09:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
57d115c449 Stamp 9.0 release notes with expected release date; also some last-minute
copy-editing.
2010-09-16 18:15:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
a59eaf28cc Fix bad grammar. 2010-09-16 14:31:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
c5ed269164 Fix two new-in-9.0 bugs in hstore.
There was an incorrect Assert in hstoreValidOldFormat(), which would cause
immediate core dumps when attempting to work with pre-9.0 hstore data,
but of course only in an assert-enabled build.

Also, ghstore_decompress() incorrectly applied DatumGetHStoreP() to a datum
that wasn't actually an hstore, but rather a ghstore (ie, a gist signature
bitstring).  That used to be harmless, but could now result in misbehavior
if the hstore format conversion code happened to trigger.  In reality,
since ghstore is not marked toastable (and doesn't need to be), this
function is useless anyway; we can lobotomize it down to returning the
passed-in pointer.

Both bugs found by Andrew Gierth, though this isn't exactly his proposed
patch.
2010-09-16 02:54:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
e3171be674 Add a compatibility note about plpgsql's treatment of SELECT INTO rec.fld
when fld is of composite type.  Per discussion of bug #5644 from Valentine
Gogichashvili.
2010-09-15 17:46:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
bab9f1d585 Fix join-removal logic for pseudoconstant and outerjoin-delayed quals.
In these cases a qual can get marked with the removable rel in its
required_relids, but this is just to schedule its evaluation correctly, not
because it really depends on the rel.  We were assuming that, in effect,
we could throw away *all* quals so marked, which is nonsense.  Tighten up
the logic to be a little more paranoid about which quals belong to the
outer join being considered for removal, and arrange for all quals that
don't belong to be updated so they will still get evaluated correctly.

Also fix another problem that happened to be exposed by this test case,
which was that make_join_rel() was failing to notice some cases where
a constant-false qual could be used to prove a join relation empty.  If it's
a pushed-down constant false, then the relation is empty even if it's an
outer join, because the qual applies after the outer join expansion.

Per report from Nathan Grange.  Back-patch into 9.0.
2010-09-14 23:15:37 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
105faeb356 Don't warn about an in-progress online backup, when we're recovering from
an online backup instead of performing one. pg_ctl can detect that by
checking if recovery.conf exists.

Backup label file is renamed away early in recovery, so the window where
backup label exists during recovery is normally very small, but you can run
into it e.g if restore_command is set incorrectly and the startup process
never finds even the first WAL segment containing the checkpoint record to
start recovery from.

Fujii Masao with comments by me.
2010-09-14 08:05:54 +00:00
Robert Haas
3b08e09fe7 Elaborate on what gets stored in pg_authid.rolpasswd.
Also, add cross-reference from pg_shadow.passwd to pg_authid.rolpasswd and
fix a bit of markup I muffed in my previous commit.

Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
2010-09-13 17:03:23 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
d9ac2fdaa9 Remove prototype for non-existent function from walreceiver.h. Tidy up by
separating prototypes for functions in walreceiver.c and walreceiverfuncs.c
with comments.
2010-09-13 10:14:30 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
035081676b Process options from the startup packed in walsender. Only few options
make sense for walsender, but for example application_name and client_encoding
do. We still don't apply per-role settings from pg_db_role_setting, because
that would require connecting to a database to read the table.

Fujii Masao
2010-09-13 09:00:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6bb4a7b305 Don't try aligning comments for new archive_command Win32 doc example;
it doesn't work.

Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-09-13 01:35:54 +00:00
Robert Haas
1cdf188aa6 Link from pg_shadow docs to pg_authid docs.
Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
2010-09-13 01:25:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f499c211d8 Re-add documentation for Win32 copy syntax for archive_command.
Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-09-12 13:47:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
e266be9110 Remove obsolete claim that gzip is needed while installing PG's documentation.
It isn't, now that we ship the docs as loose files rather than a sub-tarball.

Also adjust the wording in a couple of places to make the lists of required
software read more consistently.
2010-09-09 17:19:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a8745a9afd Doc fixes:
- remove excessive table cells
- moving function parameters into function tags rather than having
  them being considered separate
- add return type column on XML2 contrib module functions list and
  removing return types from function
- add table header to XML2 contrib parameter table

Thom Brown

Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-09-09 00:48:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
83756a241a Add tip about building plpython 2 and 3. Fix link to Python docs. 2010-09-08 20:35:53 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f48fb5d823 Clarify that surrogate pairs are not encoded in UTF-8 directly 2010-09-07 18:54:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d3581d3161 Modify pg_upgrade to set/restore all environment variables related to
collation/encoding to match English when reading controldata.  This now
matches the English variable setting used by pg_regress.c.

Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-09-07 14:10:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
b74f775142 Pad the ps_status display with nulls, not blanks, on Darwin.
A long time ago, this didn't work nicely, but it seems to work on all recent
versions of OS X.  The blank-pad method is less desirable since it results
in lots of extra space in ps' output.  Per Alexey Klyukin.
2010-09-04 17:46:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
a2145a5b43 Clean up description of ecpg's dtcvfmtasc function.
Per KOIZUMI Satoru.
2010-09-02 14:57:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
ec3747f77e Clean up some bad grammar and punctuation in description of ecpg's decimal
type.  Per KOIZUMI Satoru.
2010-09-02 14:46:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
7c18d3f1e0 Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly by
SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache.

In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry
whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry.  This caused problems
at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report
from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of
unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model.

The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good
thing anyway from a structural perspective.  The cost is that we have to
search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed.  There
are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear
it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries
in typical operation.

Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area.
The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given
that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in
the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
2010-09-02 03:16:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
43e48de4a5 Clarify documentation of handling of null arguments for aggregates.
Per discussion.
2010-09-01 18:22:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
41c8287de0 Improve release notes' description of Teodor's fixes for polygon overlaps
and contains operators.
2010-09-01 15:14:48 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
9602630f40 Add missing markup for translatability 2010-08-31 05:57:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
bdf6b6a573 Cosmetic fixes for KnownAssignedXidsGetOldestXmin, per Fujii Masao. 2010-08-30 17:30:49 +00:00
Simon Riggs
34a7ee82c4 Fix misleading DEBUG2 issued during RemoveOldXlogFiles() 2010-08-30 15:38:17 +00:00
Simon Riggs
4c5fb76c39 Truncate subtrans after each restartpoint.
Issue reported by Harald Kolb, patch by Fujii Masao, review by me.
2010-08-30 15:21:18 +00:00
Simon Riggs
7ab0236500 Teach GetOldestXmin() about KnownAssignedXids during recovery.
Very minor issue, though this is required for a later patch.
Reported by Heikki Linnakangas.
2010-08-30 15:20:31 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
e123939e8b Fix typo in comment. 2010-08-30 06:33:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
b39bec1ac4 Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.
This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR,
rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field
from time to time:
* right sibling's left-link doesn't match;
* PageAddItem failure during _bt_split();
* parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel().
In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit
more verbose, with additional values included.

The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for
subsequent analysis.  But with so many users whose platforms don't capture
core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard
to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the
problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be
necessary.  It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages
indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level
malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more
robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found.

Backpatch to 8.2.  The code before that is sufficiently different that
it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.
2010-08-29 19:33:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
0808cb109b Remove obsolete remark that PQprepare() is more flexible than PREPARE.
Spotted by Dmitriy Igrishin.  Back-patch to 8.2, which is when the PREPARE
statement was improved to allow parameter types to be omitted.
2010-08-29 15:19:12 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier
ee48d27e34 tag rc1 ... final stretch ... 2010-08-27 03:04:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
d7a1feba67 Document the existence of the socket lock file under unix_socket_directory,
which is perhaps not a terribly good spot for it but there doesn't seem to be
a better place.  Also add a source-code comment pointing out a couple reasons
for having a separate lock file.  Per suggestion from Greg Smith.
2010-08-26 22:00:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf95e921ff Explain automatic creation (or lack of it) of indexes for the various types
of constraints.

Kevin Grittner
2010-08-26 21:08:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
4ad4b95be2 Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l: DST law changes in
Egypt and Palestine.  Added new names for two Micronesian timezones:
Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred
abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over
Pacific/Ponape.  Historical corrections for Finland.
2010-08-26 19:58:50 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
2b9a93a21a Improve wording for privilege description on certain failure messages; the
original misleadingly suggests that only access is meant, causing confusion.
Per recent trouble report by Robert McGehee on pgsql-admin.
2010-08-26 19:49:41 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
803250e97b Remove duplicate translatable phrase 2010-08-26 19:24:40 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d97ccb83ba Translation updates for 9.0rc1 2010-08-26 19:23:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
62275d55c4 Fix ExecMakeTableFunctionResult to verify that all rows returned by a SRF
returning "record" actually do have the same rowtype.  This is needed because
the parser can't realistically enforce that they will all have the same typmod,
as seen in a recent example from David Wheeler.

Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as we have the notion of RECORD
subtypes being distinguished by typmod.  Wheeler's example depends on
8.4-and-up features, but I suspect there may be ways to provoke similar
failures before 8.4.
2010-08-26 18:54:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
b98317c8aa Don't auto-create the subdirectories holding built documentation in a VPATH
build tree.  If we actually build the docs in the VPATH tree, those dirs
will get created then; but if they're present and empty, they capture the
vpathsearch searches in "make install", preventing installation of prebuilt
docs that might exist in the source tree.  Per bug #5595 from Dmtiriy Igrishin.
Fix based on idea from Peter Eisentraut.
2010-08-26 18:34:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d685d4ec0 Remove docs for "Incrementally Updated Backups" because it was of
questionable reliability;  information moved to a wiki:

	http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups

Backpatch to 9.0.
2010-08-25 23:56:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
6a167730e3 Document filtering dictionaries in textsearch.sgml.
While at it, copy-edit the description of prefix-match marker support in
synonym dictionaries, and clarify the description of the default unaccent
dictionary a bit more.
2010-08-25 21:43:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5cf172d2c Improve hint message for ENOMEM failure from shmget().
It turns out that some platforms return ENOMEM for a request that violates
SHMALL, whereas we were assuming that ENOSPC would always be used for that.
Apparently the latter is a Linuxism while ENOMEM is the BSD tradition.
Extend the ENOMEM hint to suggest that raising SHMALL might be needed.
Per gripe from A.M.

Backpatch to 9.0, but not further, because this doesn't seem important
enough to warrant creating extra translation work in the stable branches.
(If it were, we'd have figured this out years ago.)
2010-08-25 20:10:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
167557b476 Update release notes, per comments from Simon Riggs. 2010-08-25 19:41:51 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7bc59f7cec Catch null pointer returns from PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtr
This is reproducibly possible in Python 2.7 if the user turned
PendingDeprecationWarning into an error, but it's theoretically also possible
in earlier versions in case of exceptional conditions.

backpatched to 8.0
2010-08-25 19:37:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
a60d200092 Add missing description of reloftype field 2010-08-25 18:18:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
0d495e3412 Docs review for unaccent: fix grammar, markup, etc. 2010-08-25 02:12:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
5b9399f0a1 Update 9.0 release notes for changes since beta4.
Note: as usual, bug fixes that were also applied in back branches are not
considered material to include in a new major release's notes.
2010-08-25 00:48:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
84cc6717bc Further editing of release notes. 2010-08-24 23:45:37 +00:00