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2001-08-14Add HISTORY for 7.1.3. Packaging done.Bruce Momjian
2001-08-13Make LANCOMPILER clause in CREATE LANGUAGE optional. Allow "identifier"Peter Eisentraut
syntax for language names (instead of 'string'). createlang now handles the case where a second language uses the same call handler as an already installed language (e.g., plperl/plperlu). droplang now handles the reverse case, i.e., dropping a language where the call handler is still used by another language. Moreover, droplang can now be used to drop any user-defined language, not just the supplied ones.
2001-08-13Patch NAME section of reference pages.Bruce Momjian
2001-08-12Make pg_dump handle the new privileges.Peter Eisentraut
Don't hardcode the maximum accepted server version, use PG_VERSION instead. Install a notice processor so notices are handled like error messages. Word smithing.
2001-08-10Document column-name-list option of CREATE VIEW ... which has been thereTom Lane
awhile, but the man page didn't know it.
2001-08-10Mention that COPY cannot be used on a view (per recent suggestion).Tom Lane
Other small improvements.
2001-08-10Since PQoidStatus is deprecated, we should probably stop using it inTom Lane
our own code ...
2001-08-10Cleanup some minor oversights in optional-OIDs stuff.Tom Lane
2001-08-10Make OIDs optional, per discussions in pghackers. WITH OIDS is still theTom Lane
default, but OIDS are removed from many system catalogs that don't need them. Some interesting side effects: TOAST pointers are 20 bytes not 32 now; pg_description has a three-column key instead of one. Bugs fixed in passing: BINARY cursors work again; pg_class.relhaspkey has some usefulness; pg_dump dumps comments on indexes, rules, and triggers in a valid order. initdb forced.
2001-08-10The portion about the PQgetssl() function in the libpq documentationBruce Momjian
appears to be duplicated (two identical <listitems> right after each other). Here is a quick patch to remove one instance of it. Magnus Hagander
2001-08-10Patch to LOCK multiple tables in one LOCK command.Bruce Momjian
Neil Padgett
2001-08-09corrections from the DocNotesPeter Eisentraut
2001-08-07some clarifications inspired by the DocNotesPeter Eisentraut
2001-08-06Update now-obsolete example of platform-specific regression comparisonTom Lane
files.
2001-08-06Modify partial-index-predicate applicability tester to test whetherTom Lane
clauses are equal(), before trying to match them up using btree opclass inference rules. This allows it to recognize many simple cases involving non-btree operations, for example 'x IS NULL'. Clean up code a little.
2001-08-04Back out LOCK A,B,C patch at Tom's suggestion.Bruce Momjian
2001-08-04Add LOCK A,B,C functionality as LOCK A;LOCK B;LOCK C; as agreed.Bruce Momjian
Neil Padgett
2001-08-03For some reason, CREATE TYPE has only accepted alignment specificationsTom Lane
of 'int4' and 'double'. Add 'char' and 'int2' to allow user-defined types to access the full set of supported alignments.
2001-08-02Add a SPI_copytupledesc function that parallels SPI_copytuple --- ie,Tom Lane
it copies the tupdesc into upper-executor memory. This is necessary for returning tuple descriptors without leaking all of lower exec memory.
2001-08-02I noticed that pltcl didn't have any way to get to SPI_lastoid like plpgsql ↵Bruce Momjian
does.. I started using pltcl a lot because I like to decide when and how my queries get planned.. so I put one together really quick Sorry I don't have the original around to make a quick diff, but its a very small change... I think this should be in the next release, there's no reason not to have it. its a function with no expected arguments, so you can use it like: spi_exec "INSERT INTO mytable(columns...) VALUES(values..)" set oid [spi_lastoid] spi_exec "SELECT mytable_id from mytable WHERE oid=$oid" It just didn't make sense for me to use plpgsql and pltcl, or just screw them both and use SPI from C. bob@redivi.com
2001-08-01Support ident authentication on local (Unix) socket connections, if theTom Lane
system supports SO_PEERCRED requests for Unix sockets. This is an amalgamation of patches submitted by Helge Bahmann and Oliver Elphick, with some editorializing by yours truly.
2001-08-01Add documentation changes for new pg_hba.conf behavior.Bruce Momjian
2001-07-31Remove WIN32_NON_BLOCKING_CONNECTIONS tests, since we don't need 'emTom Lane
anymore.
2001-07-16Partial indexes work again, courtesy of Martijn van Oosterhout.Tom Lane
Note: I didn't force an initdb, figuring that one today was enough. However, there is a new function in pg_proc.h, and pg_dump won't be able to dump partial indexes until you add that function.
2001-07-15Restructure index AM interface for index building and index tuple deletion,Tom Lane
per previous discussion on pghackers. Most of the duplicate code in different AMs' ambuild routines has been moved out to a common routine in index.c; this means that all index types now do the right things about inserting recently-dead tuples, etc. (I also removed support for EXTEND INDEX in the ambuild routines, since that's about to go away anyway, and it cluttered the code a lot.) The retail indextuple deletion routines have been replaced by a "bulk delete" routine in which the indexscan is inside the access method. I haven't pushed this change as far as it should go yet, but it should allow considerable simplification of the internal bookkeeping for deletions. Also, add flag columns to pg_am to eliminate various hardcoded tests on AM OIDs, and remove unused pg_am columns. Fix rtree and gist index types to not attempt to store NULLs; before this, gist usually crashed, while rtree managed not to crash but computed wacko bounding boxes for NULL entries (which might have had something to do with the performance problems we've heard about occasionally). Add AtEOXact routines to hash, rtree, and gist, all of which have static state that needs to be reset after an error. We discovered this need long ago for btree, but missed the other guys. Oh, one more thing: concurrent VACUUM is now the default.
2001-07-15NLS for libpq. Clean up the message formats and change the documentationPeter Eisentraut
accordingly.
2001-07-12Remove grammar restrictions on order of optional clauses in CREATE GROUP.Tom Lane
From Vince Vielhaber.
2001-07-11> > Put encode() into base system. Used part of Alex' patchBruce Momjian
> > for docs, hope he does not mind ;) Marko Kreen
2001-07-11More comment out of block quote.Bruce Momjian
2001-07-11Better document use of ident on localhost, per Tom Lane's idea.Bruce Momjian
2001-07-11Remove mention that PREPARE is not implemented.Bruce Momjian
2001-07-11Update FAQ_DEV.Bruce Momjian
2001-07-11Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-07-10Changes from Vince Vielhaber to allow the optional clauses of CREATETom Lane
USER and ALTER USER to appear in any order, not only the fixed order they used to be required to appear in. Also, some changes from Tom Lane to create a FULL option for VACUUM; it doesn't do anything yet, but I needed to change many of the same files to make that happen, so now seemed like a good time.
2001-07-09Fix rule rewriter so that new ordering of ON INSERT actions appliesTom Lane
in cases of qualified rules as well as unqualified ones. Tweak rules test to avoid cluttering output with dummy SELECT results. Update documentation to match code.
2001-07-09Add SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock mode, coming soon to a VACUUM near you.Tom Lane
Name chosen per pghackers discussion around 6/22/01.
2001-07-06Fix typo. createdb -t --> createdb -TTatsuo Ishii
2001-07-03Correct substring() example, found by Thomas T. Thai.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-30Allow default transaction isolation level (a.k.a. set sessionPeter Eisentraut
characteristics) to be set through GUC.
2001-06-30fix markupPeter Eisentraut
2001-06-30The System V resources discussed here apply to NetBSD as well. In factD'Arcy J.M. Cain
I just finished changing the GENERIC files and the options(4) man page on NetBSD to make this clearer.
2001-06-27Install infrastructure for shared-memory free space map. Doesn't actuallyTom Lane
do anything yet, but it has the necessary connections to initialization and so forth. Make some gestures towards allowing number of blocks in a relation to be BlockNumber, ie, unsigned int, rather than signed int. (I doubt I got all the places that are sloppy about it, yet.) On the way, replace the hardwired NLOCKS_PER_XACT fudge factor with a GUC variable.
2001-06-23Add TEMPORARY sequences and have SERIAL on a temp table have a temporaryBruce Momjian
sequence.
2001-06-23fix markupPeter Eisentraut
2001-06-22updates for new startup sequence, some reformattingPeter Eisentraut
2001-06-22Attached is documentation describing plperlu differences from plperl.Bruce Momjian
Alex Pilosov
2001-06-22Mention that EXPLAIN results on small tables shouldn't be extrapolatedTom Lane
to large tables. Recommend ANALYZE or VACUUM ANALYZE after populating a table.
2001-06-19Add IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN boolean tests, fix the existing booleanTom Lane
tests to return the correct results per SQL9x when given NULL inputs. Reimplement these tests as well as IS [NOT] NULL to have their own expression node types, instead of depending on special functions. From Joe Conway, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2001-06-18Fix some references to USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES that Bruce missed;Tom Lane
plus a few trivial improvements in wording.
2001-06-18Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian