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2005-05-10Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow postgresql.conf values to be set so they can not be changed by > the user
2005-05-10Done:Bruce Momjian
< * Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity > * -Add session start time and last statement time to pg_stat_activity 134c134 < * Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity > * -Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity
2005-05-09Rename encryption section.Bruce Momjian
2005-05-09Remove encryption FAQ item now that we have a doc section.Bruce Momjian
2005-05-09Improve wording of new documentation section on encryption, and move itBruce Momjian
a few sections up.
2005-05-09Complete the following TODO items:Neil Conway
* Add session start time to pg_stat_activity * Add the client IP address and port to pg_stat_activity Original patch from Magnus Hagander, code review by Neil Conway. Catalog version bumped. This patch sends the client IP address and port number in every statistics message; that's not ideal, but will be fixed up shortly.
2005-05-09Update release notes for upcoming re-releases.Tom Lane
2005-05-08Add encryption section to documentation.Bruce Momjian
Christopher Browne
2005-05-08Documentation adjustments.Bruce Momjian
Vladimir Chukharev
2005-05-07Add description:Bruce Momjian
< Currently locale can only be set during initdb. > Currently locale can only be set during initdb. No global tables have > locale-aware columns. However, the database template used during > database creation might have locale-aware indexes. The indexes would > need to be reindexed to match the new locale.
2005-05-07Done:Bruce Momjian
> o -Allow COPY to optionally include column headings in the first line
2005-05-07Add items:Bruce Momjian
> * Prevent to_char() on interval from returning meaningless values > > For example, to_char('1 month', 'mon') is meaningless. Basically, > most date-related parameters to to_char() are meaningless for > intervals because interval is not anchored to a date. > > * Allow to_char() on interval values to accumulate the highest unit > requested > > o to_char(INTERVAL '1 hour 5 minutes', 'MI') => 65 > o to_char(INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'MI' ) => 2600 > o to_char(INTERVAL '43 hours 20 minutes', 'WK:DD:HR:MI') => 0:1:19:20 > o to_char(INTERVAL '3 years 5 months','MM') => 41 > > Some special format flag would be required to request such > accumulation. Such functionality could also be added to EXTRACT. > Prevent accumulation that crosses the month/day boundary because of > the uneven number of days in a month. >
2005-05-07Add COPY WITH CVS HEADER to allow a heading line as the first line inBruce Momjian
COPY. Andrew Dunstan
2005-05-06Adjust question spacing.Bruce Momjian
2005-05-06Update misleading comment about the use of lanpltrusted ... it isTom Lane
significant regardless of the value of lanispl.
2005-05-06Remove documentation that CSV didn't handle carriage returns and lineBruce Momjian
feeds properly.
2005-05-05Per core discussion, we should push out a 7.2.* release too whileTom Lane
we are at it. Add release notes.
2005-05-05Update "control" item.Bruce Momjian
Rosser Schwarz
2005-05-05Typo fix, Dave HeldBruce Momjian
2005-05-04Preliminary release notes for 8.0.3, 7.4.8, 7.3.10.Tom Lane
2005-05-03Alter the signature for encoding conversion functions to declare theTom Lane
output area as INTERNAL not CSTRING. This is to prevent people from calling the functions by hand. This is a permanent solution for the back branches but I hope it is just a stopgap for HEAD.
2005-05-02Add FAQ on who controls the project.Bruce Momjian
2005-05-02Completed:Bruce Momjian
< * Remove unreferenced table files created by transactions that were > * -Check for unreferenced table files created by transactions that were
2005-05-02Check the file system on postmaster startup and report any unreferencedBruce Momjian
files in the server log. Heikki Linnakangas
2005-05-02Add some missing "See Also" entries to the domain-related SQL referenceNeil Conway
pages. From Robert Treat.
2005-05-02Change SPI functions to use a `long' when specifying the number of tuplesNeil Conway
to produce when running the executor. This is consistent with the internal executor APIs (such as ExecutorRun), which also use a long for this purpose. It also allows FETCH_ALL to be passed -- since FETCH_ALL is defined as LONG_MAX, this wouldn't have worked on platforms where int and long are of different sizes. Per report from Tzahi Fadida.
2005-05-01Change CREATE TYPE to require datatype output and send functions to haveTom Lane
only one argument. (Per recent discussion, the option to accept multiple arguments is pretty useless for user-defined types, and would be a likely source of security holes if it was used.) Simplify call sites of output/send functions to not bother passing more than one argument.
2005-05-01Fix incorrect backslashing in regexp example, per Robert Treat.Tom Lane
2005-05-01Mention the actual stored size of NUMERIC values, per David Fetter.Tom Lane
2005-04-30Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-30Update replication FAQ.Bruce Momjian
Christopher Browne
2005-04-29Done:Bruce Momjian
> * -Implement shared row locks and use them in RI triggers
2005-04-28Implement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key referencesTom Lane
to eliminate unnecessary deadlocks. This commit adds SELECT ... FOR SHARE paralleling SELECT ... FOR UPDATE. The implementation uses a new SLRU data structure (managed much like pg_subtrans) to represent multiple- transaction-ID sets. When more than one transaction is holding a shared lock on a particular row, we create a MultiXactId representing that set of transactions and store its ID in the row's XMAX. This scheme allows an effectively unlimited number of row locks, just as we did before, while not costing any extra overhead except when a shared lock actually has to be shared. Still TODO: use the regular lock manager to control the grant order when multiple backends are waiting for a row lock. Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
2005-04-28Add psql \set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK to allow statements in a transaction toBruce Momjian
error without affecting the entire transaction. Valid values are "on|interactive|off".
2005-04-27Wording improvement.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-27Update PAM documentation, per Alvaro.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-26Mention that PAM requires the user already exist in the database, perBruce Momjian
Dick Davies.
2005-04-25Update description:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 to select high/low value without sort or > * Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT # to select high/low value without sort or 868c868 < Right now, if no index exists, ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 requires we sort > Right now, if no index exists, ORDER BY ... LIMIT # requires we sort 870a871 > MIN/MAX already does this, but not for LIMIT > 1.
2005-04-25Re-add item with better description:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 to select high/low value without sort or > index using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values > > Right now, if no index exists, ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 requires we sort > all values to return the high/low value. Instead The idea is to do a > sequential scan to find the high/low value, thus avoiding the sort. >
2005-04-25Add description for concurrent sequential scans:Bruce Momjian
> One possible implementation is to start sequential scans from the lowest > numbered buffer in the shared cache, and when reaching the end wrap > around to the beginning, rather than always starting sequential scans > at the start of the table.
2005-04-24Update wording:Bruce Momjian
< This allows vacuum to reclaim free space without requiring < a sequential scan > This allows vacuum to target specific pages for possible free space > without requiring a sequential scan.
2005-04-24Update wording.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-24Clean up HTML.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-24Add replication FAQ item.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-24Add line break.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-24Update book items.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-23Turns out our existing page size is already optimal in most cases:Bruce Momjian
< * Research the use of larger page sizes
2005-04-23Item already added to existing 'thread' item:Bruce Momjian
< * Consider parallel processing a single query < < This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization, < sorting, or execution of single query. The major advantage of such a < feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a < single query. <
2005-04-23Remove item, not sure what it refers to:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT 1 to select high/low value without sort or < index using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values < < If only one value is needed, there is no need to sort the entire < table. Instead a sequential scan could get the matching value. <
2005-04-23New item:Bruce Momjian
> * Change WAL to use 32-bit CRC, for performance reasons