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2011-04-01Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.Robert Haas
This mostly involves making it work with the objectaddress.c framework, which does most of the heavy lifting. In that vein, change GetForeignDataWrapperOidByName to get_foreign_data_wrapper_oid and GetForeignServerOidByName to get_foreign_server_oid, to match the pattern we use for other object types. Robert Haas and Shigeru Hanada
2011-03-31Reword the phrase on zero replication_timeout in the docs.Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-30Automatically terminate replication connections that are idle for moreHeikki Linnakangas
than replication_timeout (a new GUC) milliseconds. The TCP timeout is often too long, you want the master to notice a dead connection much sooner. People complained about that in 9.0 too, but with synchronous replication it's even more important to notice dead connections promptly. Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-28Add maintainer-check targetPeter Eisentraut
This can do various source code checks that are not appropriate for either the build or the regression tests. Currently: duplicate_oids, SGML syntax and tabs check, NLS syntax check.
2011-03-28Add 9.1 release note link for synchronous replication.Bruce Momjian
We already had links to the GUC variables that control it.
2011-03-28Mark up release notes using <link>.REL9_1_ALPHA5Robert Haas
Unlike <xref>, this actually works.
2011-03-28Get rid of links that don't work when building HISTORY.Tom Lane
2011-03-27Typo fix in SSI docs.Robert Haas
Kevin Grittner
2011-03-27Correct "characters" to "bytes" in createdb docs.Robert Haas
Susanne Ebrecht
2011-03-26Remove disclaimer stating that fsync=off slows down sync rep.Robert Haas
The underlying problem that caused this phenomenon was fixed by commit 92f4786fa9b730fd12cbfe973eb96addc6e98924.
2011-03-26Update release notes for latest commits.Robert Haas
In addition, correct the entry for pg_object_description, and some other minor cleanup.
2011-03-25Document collation handling in SQL and plpgsql functions.Tom Lane
This is pretty minimal but covers the bare facts.
2011-03-25Remove alpha release notes.Robert Haas
Temporarily move some of the alpha release note disclaimers into the regular release notes, for the sake of alpha5.
2011-03-25Fix broken markup, and remove tabsAlvaro Herrera
2011-03-25Documented some ecpg command line options that were missing:Michael Meskes
-r no_indicator -r prepare -r questionsmarks
2011-03-24Edits to 9.1 release notes.Robert Haas
Add some new items and some additional details to existing items, mostly by cribbing from the 9.1alpha notes. Some additional clarifications and corrections elsewhere, and a few typo fixes.
2011-03-23Improve user-defined-aggregates documentation.Tom Lane
On closer inspection, that two-element initcond value seems to have been a little white lie to avoid explaining the full behavior of float8_accum. But if people are going to expect the examples to be exactly correct, I suppose we'd better explain. Per comment from Thom Brown.
2011-03-23Fix ancient typo in user-defined-aggregates documentation.Tom Lane
The description of the initcond value for the built-in avg(float8) aggregate has been wrong since it was written. Noted by Disc Magnet.
2011-03-22Cosmetic capitalization fixPeter Eisentraut
2011-03-22Update docs to say you need fsync to make sync rep work fast.Simon Riggs
2011-03-20Markup and wording improvements for 9.1 release notes.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-20Another 9.1 release note typo fix.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-20Fix snapshot isolation level typo in 9.1 release notes.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-20Reorder some 9.1 release item documentation entries, fix some awkward wording.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-20Fix up handling of C/POSIX collations.Tom Lane
Install just one instance of the "C" and "POSIX" collations into pg_collation, rather than one per encoding. Make these instances exist and do something useful even in machines without locale_t support: to wit, it's now possible to force comparisons and case-folding functions to use C locale in an otherwise non-C database, whether or not the platform has support for using any additional collations. Fix up severely broken upper/lower/initcap functions, too: the C/POSIX fastpath now does what it is supposed to, and non-default collations are handled correctly in single-byte database encodings. Merge the two separate collation hashtables that were being maintained in pg_locale.c, and be more wary of the possibility that we fail partway through filling a cache entry.
2011-03-20Move PITR and StreamingRep up one level of heading in the 9.1 releaseBruce Momjian
notes. Remove excessive linking to pg_ctl manual page. Reorder incompatibility sections.
2011-03-20Misc minor fixes to 9.1 release notesMagnus Hagander
Thom Brown
2011-03-20Word-wrap 9.1 release note lines.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-19Add links to documentation from 9.1 release notes.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-19Add SGML markup for keywords, terms, functions, commands, etc.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-19Initial version of PG 9.1 release notes.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-19Rename ident authentication over local connections to peerMagnus Hagander
This removes an overloading of two authentication options where one is very secure (peer) and one is often insecure (ident). Peer is also the name used in libpq from 9.1 to specify the same type of authentication. Also make initdb select peer for local connections when ident is chosen, and ident for TCP connections when peer is chosen. ident keyword in pg_hba.conf is still accepted and maps to peer authentication.
2011-03-19Remove "all balls" mention of network address; change IPv6 address to ::/0.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-18Document that the timestamp returned by pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp isBruce Momjian
the time on the primary that the transaction was generated.
2011-03-18Document the all-balls IPv6 address.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-17Minor fixes for high availability documentation.Robert Haas
Erik Rijkers and me
2011-03-17Protocol documentation for Hot Standby feedback messages.Robert Haas
2011-03-17Add pause_at_recovery_target to recovery.conf.sample; improve docs.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao, but with the proposed behavior change reverted, and the rest adjusted accordingly.
2011-03-17Fix various possible problems with synchronous replication.Robert Haas
1. Don't ignore query cancel interrupts. Instead, if the user asks to cancel the query after we've already committed it, but before it's on the standby, just emit a warning and let the COMMIT finish. 2. Don't ignore die interrupts (pg_terminate_backend or fast shutdown). Instead, emit a warning message and close the connection without acknowledging the commit. Other backends will still see the effect of the commit, but there's no getting around that; it's too late to abort at this point, and ignoring die interrupts altogether doesn't seem like a good idea. 3. If synchronous_standby_names becomes empty, wake up all backends waiting for synchronous replication to complete. Without this, someone attempting to shut synchronous replication off could easily wedge the entire system instead. 4. Avoid depending on the assumption that if a walsender updates MyProc->syncRepState, we'll see the change even if we read it without holding the lock. The window for this appears to be quite narrow (and probably doesn't exist at all on machines with strong memory ordering) but protecting against it is practically free, so do that. 5. Remove useless state SYNC_REP_MUST_DISCONNECT, which isn't needed and doesn't actually do anything. There's still some further work needed here to make the behavior of fast shutdown plausible, but that looks complex, so I'm leaving it for a separate commit. Review by Fujii Masao.
2011-03-17Document guc context values, and reference them from the config doc section.Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
2011-03-16Corrections to CREATE FOREIGN TABLE documentation.Robert Haas
Omit incorrect = sign, and properly document server_name parameter. Shigeru Hanada
2011-03-15Adjust doc wording about the casting exceptions for composite types.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-15Fix spelling error in fuzzystrmatch docs.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-15Wording adjustment for restart_after_crash entryBruce Momjian
Specifically, mention that "restart" is disabled by this parameter.
2011-03-15Minor sync rep documentation improvements.Robert Haas
- Make the name of the ID tag for the GUC entry match the GUC name. - Clarify that synchronous_replication waits for xlog flush, not receipt. - Mention that synchronous_replication won't wait if max_wal_senders=0.
2011-03-12Use "backend process" rather than "backend server", where appropriate.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11In docs, rename "backwards compatibility" to "backward compatibility"Bruce Momjian
for consistency.
2011-03-11Create an explicit concept of collations that work for any encoding.Tom Lane
Use collencoding = -1 to represent such a collation in pg_collation. We need this to make the "default" entry work sanely, and a later patch will fix the C/POSIX entries to be represented this way instead of duplicating them across all encodings. All lookup operations now search first for an entry that's database-encoding-specific, and then for the same name with collencoding = -1. Also some incidental code cleanup in collationcmds.c and pg_collation.c.
2011-03-11Remove duplicate indexterm to silence openjade wrning.Tom Lane
2011-03-11Update documentation on FreeBSD write cache control.Bruce Momjian