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Bruce Momjian 0fc2947729 Fix xrefs for failover changes. 2006-11-14 22:25:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ca21417a34 Update failover docs, per suggestions from Chris Browne. 2006-11-14 21:43:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 77f24a46b7 Fix URL for patch hold queue. 2006-11-14 04:18:55 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 751e3e6bd8 Force plperl and plperlu to run in separate interpreters. Create an error
on an attempt to create the second interpreter if this is not supported by
the perl installation. Per recent -hackers discussion.
2006-11-13 17:13:57 +00:00
Neil Conway f49baa73ef Do a round of copy-editing for the system catalog chapter. In particular,
consistently capitalize the content of the "Description" column but do
not include a terminating period, as is the convention elsewhere in the
docs. Also, remove the "References" column from catalog that do not
have any referencing columns, for the sake of brevity. Make various
other SGML and grammar fixes.
2006-11-12 06:25:37 +00:00
Neil Conway 2b5fedc0d7 Minor improvements to the description of archive_timeout. 2006-11-12 05:12:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 792d6edd5b Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon. 2006-11-10 22:32:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 1456c5b507 Improve formatting of PQexecParams argument descriptions, per
Theo Kramer.
2006-11-10 22:15:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 2c2faa17f2 Emphasize that immutable and stable functions are not allowed to modify
the database.  xfunc.sgml was already pretty definite on the point, but
it doesn't hurt to make it clear here too.
2006-11-10 20:52:18 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon 9b3aee524f Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ... 2006-11-07 17:59:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 9c3f24bb46 Update release notes in preparation for RC1. 2006-11-06 17:00:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 48188e1621 Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularly
in PITR scenarios.  We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with
FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to
PITR slave databases.  Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be
preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to
have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId.  Add new GUC variables and
pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that
users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work
done.  Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables
approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the
autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather
than per-database.  initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database,
and pg_autovacuum catalogs.  Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-11-05 22:42:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 10c70b8602 Add note about space usage of 'manual' approach to clustering, per
suggestion from Sergey Koposov.  Also some other minor editing.
2006-11-04 19:03:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 6fada49805 Correct documentation error: in 8.1 and 8.2, %p in archive and restore
command strings inserts relative not absolute path of file to process.
This is a side-effect of 2005-07-04 change that makes the server use
relative paths in general.  Noted by Bernd Helmle.
2006-11-04 18:20:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 17a814ca02 Mention 'void' as the proper return type when there's nothing to
return, per suggestion from Joachim Wieland.
2006-11-03 07:17:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 7e63445d59 Fix misstatement about the results of using -1 with BEGIN. 2006-10-31 02:29:15 +00:00
Neil Conway bc4b856e7b Add text to the VACUUM, REINDEX, DROP TABLESPACE and CREATE TABLESPACE
reference pages documenting that these commands cannot be used within
a transaction block. Also make some minor improvements to the psql
reference page. Patch from Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by
myself.
2006-10-31 01:52:31 +00:00
Neil Conway e45edb35e1 Fix typo in backup docs. Patch from Euler Taveira de Oliveira. 2006-10-30 00:08:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 27163e3872 Fix typo in docs. 2006-10-27 12:40:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 50f479a112 Fix spelling mistake in docs. 2006-10-26 17:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 75f0655345 Add missing file for documentation section on failover, replication,
load balancing, and clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2cbdb5522b Add documentation section on failover, replication, load balancing, and
clustering options.
2006-10-26 15:26:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9601745d35 Correctino, add URL on :
* Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*)
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:42:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2b1ccefe72 Add URL for:
* Speed up COUNT(*)
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24 02:41:22 +00:00
Tom Lane cfb3a42831 Rewrite discussion of ORDER BY to emphasize the SQL99 expression case
instead of the SQL92 output-column-ID case.
2006-10-24 02:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 66f5264a2e Stamp 8.2beta2. 2006-10-23 22:50:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0ff4352d7a Add some real descriptions to the multiargument aggregate functions rather
than just showing the incomprehensible formulas.
2006-10-23 19:57:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 28b14b034a Fix broken markup. 2006-10-23 19:29:46 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 0f763503ff Spellchecking and such 2006-10-23 18:10:32 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 033cb9d30b Fix list of environment variables for configure. Remove some variables
that are almost never used.  Put documentation-related variables into the
documentation chapter.
2006-10-23 14:13:43 +00:00
Tom Lane fa5d08fbf8 Some desultory copy-editing. 2006-10-22 03:03:41 +00:00
Tom Lane ed19393326 Some marginal editorial improvements and updates in the tutorial. 2006-10-21 23:12:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 890ce3975e Further release-note editorialization. 2006-10-21 18:41:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 425417d498 Editorial improvements for recent plpython doc updates. 2006-10-21 18:33:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 90f53d8487 Update PQserverVersion() to use 8.1.X as an example, rather than 7.4
because the function didn't exist in 7.4.X.
2006-10-21 18:25:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a7701718b2 Update release notes for new pgcrypto additions.
Marko Kreen
2006-10-21 18:15:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 944c4e3feb Add URL for async I/O:
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00820.php
2006-10-21 17:31:18 +00:00
Tom Lane a003bd07f3 Rewrite discussion of string constant syntax to bring it into line with
the politically correct view that backslash escapes are deprecated.
2006-10-21 17:12:07 +00:00
Tom Lane c9c1c4edf2 Make index entry more specific. 2006-10-21 17:10:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 554032b3e4 Update release notes to current, and do a pass of editorial corrections. 2006-10-20 23:02:20 +00:00
Neil Conway 8b175c75a8 Minor doc tweak: make a reference to pg_locks into a link. 2006-10-20 20:35:13 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera b0b9bedf8d Fix typo. 2006-10-20 16:34:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 0549ba82e3 Clarify note about interaction of log_statement logging with errors.
Remove obsolete note about logging of statements generated by plpgsql
function execution ... that doesn't happen anymore.
2006-10-19 22:55:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6bc1f9b334 Remove qsort TODO.detail. All items completed. 2006-10-19 19:59:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a60af96a00 Done:
< * Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
<   value [qsort]
<
<   This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
<
2006-10-19 19:58:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 877f08da14 Fix up timetz input so that a date is required only when the specified
timezone actually has a daylight-savings rule.  This avoids breaking
cases that used to work because they went through the DecodePosixTimezone
code path.  Per contrib regression failures (mea culpa for not running
those yesterday...).  Also document the already-applied change to allow
GMT offsets up to 14 hours.
2006-10-18 16:43:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 723f716be0 Fix array operator refererence in release notes, per David Wheeler. 2006-10-18 03:53:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 022fd99668 Fix up some problems in handling of zic-style time zone names in datetime
input routines.  Remove the former "DecodePosixTimezone" function in favor of
letting the zic code handle POSIX-style zone specs (see tzparse()).  In
particular this means that "PST+3" now means the same as "-03", whereas it
used to mean "-11" --- the zone abbreviation is effectively just a noise word
in this syntax.  Make sure that all named and POSIX-style zone names will be
parsed as a single token.  Fix long-standing bogosities in printing and input
of fractional-hour timezone offsets (since the tzparse() code will accept
these, we'd better make 'em work).  Also correct an error in the original
coding of the zic-zone-name patch: in "timestamp without time zone" input,
zone names are supposed to be allowed but ignored, but the coding was such
that the zone changed the interpretation anyway.
2006-10-17 21:03:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d58f09e6b3 Mark 8.2 release as 2006-??, not 2005-??, per observation by David
Wheeler.
2006-10-17 20:17:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 47fecaf504 Attached files fix the link problem in FAQ_DEV.html, remove some parts
related to website development and change the link to the FAQ_DEV.html.

Devrim GUNDUZ
2006-10-17 12:54:45 +00:00