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Tom Lane abc3120e9b Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasks
such as debugging and performance measurement.  This consists of two features:
a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared
libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries"
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit
cooperation from the client application.  To make local_preload_libraries
as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead,
it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/.  The
existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to
LOAD libraries stored in this directory.

This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to
shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some
code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity.

Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2006-08-15 18:26:59 +00:00
config Fix typo. 2006-08-11 18:51:50 +00:00
contrib Fix pgbench to handle empty lines in script files as documented. 2006-08-15 13:05:30 +00:00
doc Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasks 2006-08-15 18:26:59 +00:00
src Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasks 2006-08-15 18:26:59 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure Fix inadequate quoting in test for AIX xlc. 2006-08-04 15:16:14 +00:00
configure.in Fix inadequate quoting in test for AIX xlc. 2006-08-04 15:16:14 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts. 2006-03-05 15:59:11 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Build src/test/regress/README during tarball making like the other 2006-04-06 18:54:37 +00:00
Makefile please find attached an alternate submission which addresses open item 2004-10-06 08:50:02 +00:00
README Fix spectacular misspellings of procedural language names 2006-07-24 16:55:59 +00:00
README.CVS Some further editorializing on README.CVS. 2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
common listed below:

C++ - http://thaiopensource.org/development/libpqxx/
JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
PHP - http://www.php.net
Python - http://www.initd.org/
Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
parties.

PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
a short but not complete list is below:

PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Java - http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php
PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.