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2001-04-16Update Japanese FAQ's.Bruce Momjian
2001-04-09Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-04-08Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-04-06Revert wrong SCO OpenServer report, update comments and improve formattingPeter Eisentraut
a bit. Regenerate INSTALL.
2001-04-06Utility to add the stylesheet "s0" definition to an RTF file.Thomas G. Lockhart
This stylesheet must be present for Applixware to be happy generating a ToC. M$Word does not seem to care one way or the other.
2001-04-06Final (?) platform update for the 7.1 release. Includes new platformThomas G. Lockhart
NetBSD/PPC from Henry Hotz, several other platform updates, and move QNX to the unsupported list for now.
2001-04-03Remove last-updated date stamp for 7.1.Bruce Momjian
2001-04-02Update HISTORY/release.sgml to current.Bruce Momjian
2001-04-02Update info for platforms BeOS, Tru64, Linux/MIPS, Linux/x86, NetBSD/Alpha,Thomas G. Lockhart
NetBSD/arm, NetBSD/VAX, OpenBSD/Sparc, Solaris, Ultrix.
2001-03-29small fixesPeter Eisentraut
2001-03-28Correct erroneous description of MVCC Read Committed semantics.Tom Lane
2001-03-27> Kinda looks like Ian broke the compile-in-source-dir case whileBruce Momjian
> making the compile-in-separate-dir case work. Tut tut. Yes. My apologies. This patch is one way to fix things. Ian
2001-03-25The regexp pattern characters ^ and $ should be explained as matchingTom Lane
at the beginning and end of the input string, not the beginning and end of "a line", since Postgres does not allow them to match at newline characters in the data.
2001-03-25spell fixPeter Eisentraut
2001-03-25Allow building documentation outside source tree.Peter Eisentraut
from Ian Lance Taylor
2001-03-24minor copy editingPeter Eisentraut
2001-03-24Disable pg_upgrade.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-24Update info about mailing lists, make a few other minor improvements.Tom Lane
2001-03-24Update to the current state of platform support.Thomas G. Lockhart
Still need some tested for the 7.1 release.
2001-03-24Fix up wording slightly. No change in content.Thomas G. Lockhart
2001-03-24Miscellaneous updates and minor copy-editing.Tom Lane
2001-03-23Doc update from Roberto Mello: improved versions of instr() examples.Tom Lane
2001-03-23Fix SPI example to reflect new-style calling convention for textout().Tom Lane
2001-03-21correctionPeter Eisentraut
2001-03-20Update Japanese FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-20Recommend CREATE TABLE AS in preference to SELECT INTO. Remove theTom Lane
(inadequate anyway) mention of SELECT INTO from the main SELECT ref page. Point out that SELECT INTO means something else in plpgsql and ecpg.
2001-03-20Discuss LOCALE differences as a reason for regression test failure.Tom Lane
2001-03-19Add missing TO.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-19Add note about saving large objects during upgrade.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-17Repair.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-17Tuning for docbook2man.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-17New updates from Roberto Mello sent privately today due to email troubles.Thomas G. Lockhart
2001-03-16Support syncing WAL log to disk using either fsync(), fdatasync(),Tom Lane
O_SYNC, or O_DSYNC (as available on a given platform). Add GUC parameter to control sync method. Also, add defense to XLogWrite to prevent it from going nuts if passed a target write position that's past the end of the buffers so far filled by XLogInsert.
2001-03-15Update sample error messages to agree with current code.Tom Lane
2001-03-15Improve description of to_char templates.Tom Lane
2001-03-14Fix markup.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-13Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-13Document changed features of pg_dump, including:Philip Warner
- Large Object dumps - Compressed custom format - Requirement to use template0 when creating DB
2001-03-13XLOG (and related) changes:Tom Lane
* Store two past checkpoint locations, not just one, in pg_control. On startup, we fall back to the older checkpoint if the newer one is unreadable. Also, a physical copy of the newest checkpoint record is kept in pg_control for possible use in disaster recovery (ie, complete loss of pg_xlog). Also add a version number for pg_control itself. Remove archdir from pg_control; it ought to be a GUC parameter, not a special case (not that it's implemented yet anyway). * Suppress successive checkpoint records when nothing has been entered in the WAL log since the last one. This is not so much to avoid I/O as to make it actually useful to keep track of the last two checkpoints. If the things are right next to each other then there's not a lot of redundancy gained... * Change CRC scheme to a true 64-bit CRC, not a pair of 32-bit CRCs on alternate bytes. Polynomial borrowed from ECMA DLT1 standard. * Fix XLOG record length handling so that it will work at BLCKSZ = 32k. * Change XID allocation to work more like OID allocation. (This is of dubious necessity, but I think it's a good idea anyway.) * Fix a number of minor bugs, such as off-by-one logic for XLOG file wraparound at the 4 gig mark. * Add documentation and clean up some coding infelicities; move file format declarations out to include files where planned contrib utilities can get at them. * Checkpoint will now occur every CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS log segments or every CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT seconds, whichever comes first. It is also possible to force a checkpoint by sending SIGUSR1 to the postmaster (undocumented feature...) * Defend against kill -9 postmaster by storing shmem block's key and ID in postmaster.pid lockfile, and checking at startup to ensure that no processes are still connected to old shmem block (if it still exists). * Switch backends to accept SIGQUIT rather than SIGUSR1 for emergency stop, for symmetry with postmaster and xlog utilities. Clean up signal handling in bootstrap.c so that xlog utilities launched by postmaster will react to signals better. * Standalone bootstrap now grabs lockfile in target directory, as added insurance against running it in parallel with live postmaster.
2001-03-11Add uninstall target to Java build.Peter Eisentraut
Respect default port setting in JDBC driver. Pick up version number from Makefile.global. Change installation directory to share/java/. Document.
2001-03-10BOX documentation disagreed with code about corner order.Tom Lane
2001-03-10Document --with-java.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-10Eliminate some hackery when creating text files (INSTALL) with a few linesPeter Eisentraut
of DSSSL.
2001-03-09Integrate "Porting from Oracle PL/SQL" HOWTO from Roberto Mello.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-08Add Japanese FAQ>Bruce Momjian
2001-03-08Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-06Sync rule for making INSTALL file.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-06Some editing, enhance markup, move description section before options list.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-06Shorten TOAST mentionBruce Momjian
2001-03-06Update/correct/refine.Peter Eisentraut