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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
c9de6b922e Document the behavior of GRANT/REVOKE in cases where the privilege is
held by means of role membership, rather than directly.  Per discussion
and bug fix of a couple weeks ago.
2005-10-20 19:18:01 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
48f3d77858 replace use of predefined perl vars $a and $b with $x and $y - per Greg Sabino Mullane 2005-10-18 22:53:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
a33fadfd6d Add an entry to the discussion of regression test failures about the
possibility of a failure due to stack overflow when max_stack_depth is
not set properly for the platform.
2005-10-18 21:43:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
220f2a7d15 Code review for regexp_replace patch. Improve documentation and comments,
fix problems with replacement-string backslashes that aren't followed by
one of the expected characters, avoid giving the impression that
replace_text_regexp() is meant to be called directly as a SQL function,
etc.
2005-10-18 20:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
d330f1554d Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'.
Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines
altogether.
2005-10-17 16:24:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
8ffdcbf23b Add note that some versions of OS X require SHMMAX to be an exact multiple
of 4096.  Also add comment explaining why we don't suggest using
/etc/sysctl.conf to avoid needing to edit /etc/rc.
2005-10-16 21:22:12 +00:00
Neil Conway
2c19629f93 Remove a long comment from cvs.sgml -- AFAICS this is no longer useful,
or at any rate doesn't belong as a comment in a random SGML file.
2005-10-15 20:15:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
fc8f4bac0e Fix assorted typos in the documentation, and use American spelling
rather than British. Patch from Michael Fuhr.
2005-10-15 20:12:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
6faa334bef Update 'supported platforms' list with current buildfarm results. 2005-10-15 17:59:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d62616e6ca Fix kerberos description: localhost -> server hostname. 2005-10-15 15:29:24 +00:00
Neil Conway
1d2e0e6d3e Merge some user-submitted suggestions for improvement into the
documentation. Mostly add some <xref>s, fix a few typos, and
document that zlib is required in the installation docs.
2005-10-15 01:47:12 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
1b5cd6dcdc Fix typo. 2005-10-15 01:15:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
abd3f43b4c Fix syslog bug: if any messages are emitted to write_syslog before
the facility has been set, the facility gets set to LOCAL0 and cannot
be changed later.  This seems reasonably plausible to happen, particularly
at higher debug log levels, though I am not certain it explains Han Holl's
recent report.  Easiest fix is to teach the code how to change the value
on-the-fly, which is nicer anyway.  I made the settings PGC_SIGHUP to
conform with log_destination.
2005-10-14 20:53:56 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
f620098dc8 fix nonsensical summary row on example 2005-10-14 20:48:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a93bf4503f Allow times of 24:00:00 to match rounding behavior:
regression=# select '23:59:59.9'::time(0);
	   time
	----------
	 24:00:00
	(1 row)

	This is bad because:

	regression=# select '24:00:00'::time(0);
	ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "24:00:00"

The last example now works.
2005-10-14 11:47:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
dbc214f7e6 Add documentation mentioning that there are separate regression tests
for the PL languages and for contrib.
2005-10-13 23:41:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
412734767a Improve documentation about CREATEROLE privilege. 2005-10-13 23:26:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5aae047e23 Update krb_server_name to document that a missing entry defaults to
'localhost'.

Improve kerberos error message.
2005-10-13 22:55:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
f91370cd2f Update documentation to reflect the new ALTER OWNER rules for all
affected types of objects.
2005-10-13 22:44:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
a9980ec37b Describe the behavior of the SQL_ASCII encoding more accurately. 2005-10-13 21:43:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
6f9cb4eb43 Adjust the discussion of triggers to more clearly guide people in the
direction of writing triggers in a procedural language, rather than C.
Per discussion.
2005-10-13 21:09:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8ac386226d The patch updates the documentation to reflect the fact that higher values
of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.

We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR.  When running a file like

SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';

DROP TABLE doesntexist;

with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.

Kris Jurka
2005-10-13 20:58:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
12ee2b98ce Turn off list of tables, figures, and examples. 2005-10-13 20:10:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6d62338d5e Rewording, use the more common multi-threaded/single-threaded. 2005-10-13 17:55:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8fc0aa4cca Clarify causes of possible mismatch between Win32 libraries and
applications that use FILE pointers.
2005-10-13 17:46:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
165565cd94 Some additional doc changes based around compression of page images in
WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.

The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.

Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.

Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml

Simon Riggs
2005-10-13 17:32:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7d43349ab5 Fix capitalization of example. 2005-10-13 14:44:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4a6dcf0322 Update trigger demo to reflect new trigger ordering. 2005-10-13 02:23:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3d50e107ad Remove extra <para> 2005-10-13 02:00:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
249f07b8c6 Update:
> * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
>   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
>   it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
2005-10-13 01:23:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
23e2f9ebf7 Fix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr. 2005-10-12 23:19:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
adc58f145c Remove item:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
<   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
<   surrounded by quotes.
<
2005-10-12 22:39:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
6b97e437ca Add warning about plperl nested named subroutines
Andrew Dunstan
2005-10-12 14:28:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0a28eb4622 No longer needed:
<
< * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
<   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
<   in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
<
<   On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly,
<   while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
<   holding the lock can complete and release it.
2005-10-12 14:06:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4aebb5ad55 Rearrange:
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
< 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
< 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> 	o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
604a603
> 	o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
2005-10-12 13:41:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d5310ca920 Done:
< 	o %Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
<           cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
608a607
>
2005-10-12 13:39:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87a67d186b Add:
<
> 	o Allow pg_dump --clean to drop roles that own objects or have
> 	  privileges
2005-10-12 13:39:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
4102640683 Update keywords table for 8.1. 2005-10-12 09:45:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
752290207d Add description:
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name?
> * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
>
>   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
>   surrounded by quotes.
>
2005-10-12 03:26:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
368f0b28f3 Add:
> 	o Add options like pg_restore -l and -L to pg_dump
2005-10-12 02:57:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e4aa5be90c Add:
> 	o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
> 	  tables
> 	o In a selective dump, allow dumping of an object and all its
> 	  dependencies
2005-10-11 23:55:10 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
5f470ad491 update to beta3 before tagging ... 2005-10-11 23:26:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
96a83d8807 Release notes up to date as of today. 2005-10-11 21:17:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
c6b9924bec Remove the DELETEs from pg_shadow and pg_group that pg_dumpall used to
emit when given the --clean option, in favor of individual DROP ROLE
commands.  The old technique could not possibly work in 8.1, and was
never a very good idea anyway IMHO.  The DROP ROLE approach has the
defect that the DROPs will fail for roles that own objects or have
privileges, but perhaps we can improve that later.
2005-10-10 22:29:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
7754f7634c Fix a thinko in description of krb_server_hostname. 2005-10-08 20:27:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ab13353d31 Update:
< * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
735a736,737
>
>   This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
2005-10-07 14:04:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
02eb6ea9b7 Add:
<
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
>   several rows as a single index entry
2005-10-07 02:43:59 +00:00
Neil Conway
663476919c Minor tweaks for PL/PgSQL documentation. 2005-10-06 20:51:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
cb8b6618ce Revise pgstats stuff to fix the problems with not counting accesses
generated by bitmap index scans.  Along the way, simplify and speed up
the code for counting sequential and index scans; it was both confusing
and inefficient to be taking care of that in the per-tuple loops, IMHO.
initdb forced because of internal changes in pg_stat view definitions.
2005-10-06 02:29:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8c6f345005 Improve wording of entry. 2005-10-05 19:52:22 +00:00