441 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
f72aad5678 Update discussion of aggregate syntax to mention ALL. 2000-02-21 01:20:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
a7f85783fb Update SELECT documentation to have a more thorough discussion
of LIMIT, and fix a few other glitches too.
2000-02-21 01:13:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bd8e071482 Forgot to include the documentation for \encoding ... 2000-02-20 14:29:21 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
58a9ea9d80 Clean up markup so docs will compile. 2000-02-19 08:14:54 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
ac324075de Update for new Irix info. 2000-02-19 08:14:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
598ea2c359 Finish repairing 6.5's problems with r-tree indexes: create appropriate
selectivity functions and make the r-tree operators use them.  The
estimation functions themselves are just stubs, unfortunately, but
perhaps someday someone will make them compute realistic estimates.
Change pg_am so that the optimizer can reliably tell the difference
between ordered and unordered indexes --- before it would think that
an r-tree index can be scanned in '<<' order, which is not right AFAIK.
Repair broken negator links for network_sup and related ops.
Initdb forced.  This might be my last initdb force for 7.0 ... hope so
anyway ...
2000-02-17 03:40:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
9c80cceb02 Update EXPLAIN documentation to reflect the fact that the
planner now produces two cost numbers instead of one.
2000-02-15 23:37:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
b1577a7c78 New cost model for planning, incorporating a penalty for random page
accesses versus sequential accesses, a (very crude) estimate of the
effects of caching on random page accesses, and cost to evaluate WHERE-
clause expressions.  Export critical parameters for this model as SET
variables.  Also, create SET variables for the planner's enable flags
(enable_seqscan, enable_indexscan, etc) so that these can be controlled
more conveniently than via PGOPTIONS.

Planner now estimates both startup cost (cost before retrieving
first tuple) and total cost of each path, so it can optimize queries
with LIMIT on a reasonable basis by interpolating between these costs.
Same facility is a win for EXISTS(...) subqueries and some other cases.

Redesign pathkey representation to achieve a major speedup in planning
(I saw as much as 5X on a 10-way join); also minor changes in planner
to reduce memory consumption by recycling discarded Path nodes and
not constructing unnecessary lists.

Minor cleanups to display more-plausible costs in some cases in
EXPLAIN output.

Initdb forced by change in interface to index cost estimation
functions.
2000-02-15 20:49:31 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
f0c66e539b Fix extraneous ending tag on libpq.sgml.
Renormalize query.sgml and fix indenting.
2000-02-15 03:57:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9672d38f91 Adjusted psql echoing options (-a and -e) 2000-02-13 21:45:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2fb0ff0c5b Default argument for createdb
Changed EXIT_ON_ERROR to ON_ERROR_STOP in psql
2000-02-10 20:08:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5d93742b8d You will need to copy "config.h.win32" to "config.h" in the include
directory.

I think this patch to the docs should be what is needed.

 Magnus Hagander
2000-02-10 15:47:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b1b8fc813f Update length to 31. 2000-02-10 04:08:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
394af52795 I'm sending patch with new version of to_char numbers formatting.
The PostgreSQL's to_char() is very compatible with Oracle's to_char
 now. I hope that to_char's 3000 rows of source is without bugs, but
 will good if anyone test it, for me it works very well :-)


                                                        Karel

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Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>              http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/
2000-02-08 15:57:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
9ceb5d8a7b Fixed psql double quoting of SQL ids
Fixed libpq printing functions
2000-02-07 23:10:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a64d3bc433 Solaris has always had problems with 1947 in the
regression tests so I prepared a set of expected
files to make things look OK.

There's also a file to account for minor variations
in the geopmetry output and a resultmap patch to
pull them all together.

With these changes PostgreSQL, from CVS, builds and
regression tests (runcheck) cleanly.

Keith Parks.
2000-02-06 05:09:42 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
83fd594a3d Add short chapter in developer's guide on formatting source code. 2000-02-02 16:25:04 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
6454ae37a5 Add information on QNX port from Andreas Kardos. 2000-02-02 16:24:19 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
215935daa3 Remove extraneous end tag. Code now compiles cleanly. 2000-02-02 16:23:37 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
acaa064fa8 Add info on debian package installation of sgml toolkits. 2000-02-02 16:22:45 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
fd54baa945 Add detailed information on Australian time zones. 2000-02-02 16:21:06 +00:00
Thomas G. Lockhart
911fc20c41 Update with current summary information on pgadmin.
From pgadmin author on 99-12-24.
2000-02-02 16:19:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2b84cbb60f A few minor psql enhancements
Initdb help correction
Changed end/abort to commit/rollback and changed related notices
Commented out way old printing functions in libpq
Fixed a typo in alter table / alter column
2000-01-29 16:58:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
dd979f66be Redesign DISTINCT ON as discussed in pgsql-sql 1/25/00: syntax is now
SELECT DISTINCT ON (expr [, expr ...]) targetlist ...
and there is a check to make sure that the user didn't specify an ORDER BY
that's incompatible with the DISTINCT operation.
Reimplement nodeUnique and nodeGroup to use the proper datatype-specific
equality function for each column being compared --- they used to do
bitwise comparisons or convert the data to text strings and strcmp().
(To add insult to injury, they'd look up the conversion functions once
for each tuple...)  Parse/plan representation of DISTINCT is now a list
of SortClause nodes.
initdb forced by querytree change...
2000-01-27 18:11:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b866d2e2d7 as attache of this mail is patch (to the main tree) with to_char's
family functions. Contain:

  conversion from a datetype to formatted text:

	to_char( datetime, 	text)
	to_char( timestamp,	text)
	to_char( int4,		text)
	to_char( int8,		text)
	to_char( float4,	text)
	to_char( float8,	text)
	to_char( numeric,	text)

  vice versa:

	to_date		( text, text)
	to_datetime	( text, text)
	to_timestamp	( text, text)
	to_number	( text, text)	   (convert to numeric)


  PostgreSQL to_char is very compatible with Oracle's to_char(), but not
total exactly (now). Small differentions are in number formating. It will
fix in next to_char() version.


! If will this patch aplly to the main tree, must be delete the current
  to_char version in contrib (directory "dateformat" and note in contrib's
  README), this patch not erase it (sorry Bruce).



The patch patching files:

	doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
                     ^^^^^^^^
   Hmm, I'm not sure if my English... :( Check it anyone (volunteer)?

   Thomas, it is right? SGML is not my primary lang  and compile
   the current PG docs tree is very happy job (hard variables setting in
   docs/sgml/Makefile --> HSTYLE= /home/users/t/thomas/....  :-)

   What add any definition to global configure.in and set Makefiles in docs
   tree via ./configure?

	src/backend/utils/adt/Makefile
	src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c
	src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
	src/include/utils/formatting.h
Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>              http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/
2000-01-25 23:53:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
90aaad06cf Remove obsolete references to 8K query limit. 2000-01-25 07:04:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
bdb41ad0e7 Made abstime/reltime use int4 instead of time_t (TODO item)
Made type equivalency apply to aggregates (TODO item)
Fixed parsing bug in psql
Reverted some stupid options changes I made to pg_dump
2000-01-24 19:34:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
0dbffa704a First cut at making useful selectivity estimates for range queries
(ie, WHERE x > lowbound AND x < highbound).  It's not very bright yet
but it does something useful.  Also, rename intltsel/intgtsel to
scalarltsel/scalargtsel to reflect usage better.  Extend convert_to_scalar
to do something a little bit useful with string data types.  Still need
to make it do something with date/time datatypes, but I'll wait for
Thomas's datetime unification dust to settle first.  Eventually the
routine ought not have any type-specific knowledge at all; it ought to
be calling a type-dependent routine found via a pg_type column; but
that's a task for another day.
2000-01-24 07:16:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da5aba105f Remove Ops parameter from STATRELID cache lookup, for Tom Lane and
optimizer.
2000-01-24 02:12:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
49581f9848 updated install file
updated date/time types doc
fixed small psql bug
removed libpq code that lower-cased db names
make notice when long identifier is truncated
2000-01-23 01:27:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
71ed7eb494 Revise handling of index-type-specific indexscan cost estimation, per
pghackers discussion of 5-Jan-2000.  The amopselect and amopnpages
estimators are gone, and in their place is a per-AM amcostestimate
procedure (linked to from pg_am, not pg_amop).
2000-01-22 23:50:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e3415aa834 Rename 7.0.0 to 7.0 to be consistent with prior release numbering. 2000-01-20 22:21:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
13f8875017 Added new pg_id to fix initdb problems
New INSTALL file
Fixed a copyright notice
2000-01-20 21:51:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
65e0051843 another round of user interface cleanups
removed pg_id
fixed a few bugs in the scripts
2000-01-19 20:08:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f565cf41ab another set of cleanups 2000-01-18 23:30:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
41d4548b0f Freebsd update for sgml, from Alfred Perlstein 2000-01-18 06:10:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
10d7287ab9 Libpq non-blocking mode, from Alfred Perlstein 2000-01-18 06:09:24 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
28125ed5e0 Updated user interfaces on initdb, initlocation, pg_dump, ipcclean to a GNU-compliant'ish state.
Made ipcclean work on Linux.
2000-01-18 00:03:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
759fba4873 Included all yacc and lex files into the distribution. 2000-01-16 20:05:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2a1bfbce24 - Allow array on int8
- Prevent permissions on indexes
- Instituted --enable-multibyte option and tweaked the MB build process where necessary
- initdb prompts for superuser password
2000-01-15 18:30:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
7c9390caa1 Fixed psql variables vs array syntax, as well as minor psql enhancements 2000-01-14 22:18:03 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4ceb2d0cb6 * User management commands no longer user pg_exec_query_dest -> more robust
* Let unprivileged users change their own passwords.

* The password is now an Sconst in the parser, which better reflects its text datatype and also
forces users to quote them.

* If your password is NULL you won't be written to the password file, meaning you can't connect
until you have a password set up (if you use password authentication).

* When you drop a user that owns a database you get an error. The database is not gone.
2000-01-14 22:11:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
2af360ed1c Clean up some problems in new asynchronous-connection logic
in libpq --- mostly, poor response to error conditions.  You now actually
get to see the postmaster's 'The Data Base System is starting up' message,
which you didn't before.  I suspect the SSL code is still broken though.
2000-01-14 05:33:15 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
f6689a328f Fixed a few "fixes" and bugs. Adjusted messages and options to GNU suggestions. 2000-01-12 19:36:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
ac295f43f5 Update struct Trigger definition. 2000-01-11 05:37:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
ac401e06c5 Change oid8/int28 -> oidvector/int2vector. 2000-01-11 01:40:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
b86ca72f39 Update platform-specific-expected-file support so that platforms can be
specified by regular-expression patterns.  Add some more files.
2000-01-09 20:54:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
aa48a22a82 The psql online help for ALTER TABLE (\h alter table) is corrupt. I
traced this back to what I believe is an error in the sgml file used to
generate this comment, found in pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml.


Stephen Birch
2000-01-09 17:35:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b16bd18546 Clearify DECLARE syntax by saying cursorname, not just cursor. 1999-12-30 22:58:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1c2257648a > > It would be nice for new users; I think it would make it easier
> > for them to actually set out and do it.  Many new users are
> > of the not-so-knowledgable variety, and shell scripting isn't
> > something they want to undertake.
>
> Can someone modify the vacuumdb shell script to do that?
i tried it... it seems to work

neko@kredit.sth.sz
1999-12-18 08:34:50 +00:00