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2000-01-12Fixed a few "fixes" and bugs. Adjusted messages and options to GNU suggestions.Peter Eisentraut
2000-01-11Update struct Trigger definition.Tom Lane
2000-01-11Change oid8/int28 -> oidvector/int2vector.Tom Lane
2000-01-09Update platform-specific-expected-file support so that platforms can beTom Lane
specified by regular-expression patterns. Add some more files.
2000-01-09The psql online help for ALTER TABLE (\h alter table) is corrupt. IBruce Momjian
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
1999-12-30Clearify DECLARE syntax by saying cursorname, not just cursor.Bruce Momjian
1999-12-18> > It would be nice for new users; I think it would make it easierBruce Momjian
> > 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
1999-12-17Fix typo in tag.Thomas G. Lockhart
1999-12-17This is my -- hopefully sufficiently portable -- attempt at cleaning outBruce Momjian
initdb. No more obscure dependencies on environment variables or paths. It now finds the templates and the right postgres itself (with cmd line options as fallback). It also no longer depends on $USER (su safe), and doesn't advertise that --username allows you to install the db as a different user, since that doesn't work anyway. Also, recovery and cleanup on all errors. Consistent options, clearer documentation. Please take a look at this and adopt it if you feel it's safe enough. I have simulated all the stupid circumstances I could think of, but you never know with shell scripts. Oh yeah, you can give the postgres user a default password now. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
1999-12-14Depending on my interpreting (and programming) skills, this might solveBruce Momjian
anywhere from zero to two TODO items. * Allow flag to control COPY input/output of NULLs I got this: COPY table .... [ WITH NULL AS 'string' ] which does what you'd expect. The default is \N, otherwise you can use empty strings, etc. On Copy In this acts like a filter: every data item that looks like 'string' becomes a NULL. Pretty straightforward. This also seems to be related to * Make postgres user have a password by default If I recall this discussion correctly, the problem was actually that the default password for the postgres (or any) user is in fact "\N", because of the way copy is used. With this change, the file pg_pwd is copied out with nulls as empty strings, so if someone doesn't have a password, the password is just '', which one would expect from a new account. I don't think anyone really wants a hard-coded default password. Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
1999-12-13Update documentation to reflect availability of aggregate(DISTINCT).Tom Lane
Try to provide a more lucid discussion in 'Using Aggregate Functions' tutorial section.
1999-12-12Meanwhile, database names with single quotes in names don't work very wellBruce Momjian
at all, and because of shell quoting rules this can't be fixed, so I put in error messages to that end. Also, calling create or drop database in a transaction block is not so good either, because the file system mysteriously refuses to roll back rm calls on transaction aborts. :) So I put in checks to see if a transaction is in progress and signal an error. Also I put the whole call in a transaction of its own to be able to roll back changes to pg_database in case the file system operations fail. The alternative location issues I posted recently were untouched, awaiting the outcome of that discussion. Other than that, this should be much more fool-proof now. The docs I cleaned up as well. Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
1999-12-07Okay, that should put us back in sync. These two patches (src & doc) areBruce Momjian
against the sources from one hour ago and contain all the portable and up to date stuff. A few other CVS "householding" things you might want to take care of: * Remove the src/bin/cleardbdir directory * Remove the file src/bin/psql/sql_help.h from the repository, as it is a derived file and is build by the release_prep. Peter Eisentraut
1999-12-06Update entries with recent results for Alpha and ARM processors.Thomas G. Lockhart
Remove references to Ultrix; haven't heard from it for a *long* time :(
1999-12-06Fix markup (a couple of missing tags) and renormalize.Thomas G. Lockhart
1999-12-06Remove references to PostgreSQL as "public-domain" since that has aThomas G. Lockhart
specific meaning wrt copyright (or lack thereof).
1999-12-05Remove destroylang.sgml.Bruce Momjian
1999-12-05Update.Bruce Momjian
1999-12-05UpdateBruce Momjian
1999-12-05I cleaned those out as well (the echo -n "bug" was in there ;) and movedBruce Momjian
them into the scripts dir. I also added a --list option to show already installed languages. This whole moving and renaming totally confused CVS and my checked out copy got completely fried last night. When you apply the source patch, please make sure that all the directories src/bin/{create|destroy}* as well as vacuumdb, cleardbdir are gone and that all the scripts (7) are in scripts/. Meanwhile I am still puzzled about what happened with the docs patch. Because I don't know what you got now, the second attachment contains the files ref/allfiles.sgml ref/commands.sgml ref/createlang.sgml ref/droplang.sgml doc/src/sgml/Makefile Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
1999-12-04Re-add destroylang.Bruce Momjian
1999-12-04Update scripts from Peter.Bruce Momjian
1999-12-04New scripts for create/drop user/db from Peter EisentrautBruce Momjian
1999-11-30create/alter user extensionBruce Momjian
This one should work much better than the one I sent in previously. The functionality is the same, but the patch was missing one file resulting in the compilation failing. The docs also received a minor fix. Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
1999-11-30This patch (against the current CVS sources) adds to libpq the functionsBruce Momjian
PQconnectStart PQconnectPoll PQresetStart PQresetPoll PQsetenvStart PQsetenvPoll PQsetenvAbort and brings into the published interface PQsetenv. The first four are asynchronous analogues of PQconnectdb and PQreset - they allow an application to connect to the DB without blocking on remote I/O. The PQsetenv functions perform an environment negotiation with the server. Internal to libpq, pqReadReady and pqWriteReady have been made available across the library (they were previously static functions inside fe-misc.c). A lot of internal rearrangement has been necessary to support these changes. The API documentation has been updated also. Caveats: o The Windows code does not default to using non-blocking sockets, since I have no documentation: Define WIN32_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECTIONS to do that. o The SSL code still blocks. Ewan Mellor.
1999-11-28Remove obsolete note about pg_vlock lock file.Tom Lane
1999-11-26* Includes tab completion. It's not magic, but it's very cool. At anyBruce Momjian
rate it's better than what used to be there. * Does proper SQL "host variable" substitution as pointed out by Andreas Zeugwetter (thanks): select * from :foo; Also some changes in how ':' and ';' are treated (escape with \ to send to backend). This does _not_ affect the '::' cast operator, but perhaps others that contain : or ; (but there are none right now). * To show description with a <something> listing, append '?' to command name, e.g., \df?. This seemed to be the convenient and logical solution. Or append a '+' to see more useless information, e.g., \df+. * Fixed fflush()'ing bug pointed out by Jan during the regression test discussion. * Added LastOid variable. This ought to take care of TODO item "Add a function to return the last inserted oid, for use in psql scripts" (under CLIENTS) E.g., insert into foo values(...); insert into bar values(..., :LastOid); \echo $LastOid * \d command shows constraints, rules, and triggers defined on the table (in addition to indices) * Various fixes, optimizations, corrections * Documentation update as well Note: This now requires snprintf(), which, if necessary, is taken from src/backend/port. This is certainly a little weird, but it should suffice until a source tree cleanup is done. Enjoy. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115
1999-11-23Cleanup paths in install files.Bruce Momjian
1999-11-23Change v6.5.2 to 6.5.2.Bruce Momjian
1999-11-22Add system indexes to match all caches.Bruce Momjian
Make all system indexes unique. Make all cache loads use system indexes. Rename *rel to *relid in inheritance tables. Rename cache names to be clearer.
1999-11-11Update for documentation in libpq changes.Bruce Momjian
1999-11-05Update psql bannerBruce Momjian
1999-11-05Update psql display.Bruce Momjian
1999-11-05Update man pages for new banner.Bruce Momjian
1999-11-04Update psql with man pages and new version of help.Bruce Momjian
1999-11-01Update for 6.5.3.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-29Make USING in COPY optional.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-26Add mention of NULL for COMMENT.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-26updateBruce Momjian
1999-10-26improve manual pageBruce Momjian
1999-10-26More comments.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-26Add documentation for comment.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-15Add S-tree doc for possible future use.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-14Update psql \? for \w.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-13Update for NUMERIC/DECIMAL data type.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-12Update sgml.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-12Update for 6.5.3, including new INSTALL file and updated HISTORY.Bruce Momjian
1999-10-12Fix bad markup.Thomas G. Lockhart
<term> not allowed in paragraphs; <option> is a better choice.
1999-10-12Add DEC and SESSION_USER as reserved words.Thomas G. Lockhart
Move around a few other keywords which were not in the right category. DEC and SESSION_USER are not yet committed to gram.y, since I'm in the middle of working on JOIN syntax too.
1999-10-12Sequence of date interpretation not quite right.Thomas G. Lockhart