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2011-03-10More wording improvements for disallowed SQL function commands.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-10Improve SQL function disallowed command wording.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-10Clarify what commands are not allowed in SQL functions.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-10Revert addition of third argument to format_type().Tom Lane
Including collation in the behavior of that function promotes a world view we do not want. Moreover, it was producing the wrong behavior for pg_dump anyway: what we want is to dump a COLLATE clause on attributes whose attcollation is different from the underlying type, and likewise for domains, and the function cannot do that for us. Doing it the hard way in pg_dump is a bit more tedious but produces more correct output. In passing, fix initdb so that the initial entry in pg_collation is properly pinned. It was droppable before :-(
2011-03-10Add missing index terms for recovery control functions.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao
2011-03-10Use '=' when documenting long options.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-09Remove collation information from TypeName, where it does not belong.Tom Lane
The initial collations patch treated a COLLATE spec as part of a TypeName, following what can only be described as brain fade on the part of the SQL committee. It's a lot more reasonable to treat COLLATE as a syntactically separate object, so that it can be added in only the productions where it actually belongs, rather than needing to reject it in a boatload of places where it doesn't belong (something the original patch mostly failed to do). In addition this change lets us meet the spec's requirement to allow COLLATE anywhere in the clauses of a ColumnDef, and it avoids unfriendly behavior for constructs such as "foo::type COLLATE collation". To do this, pull collation information out of TypeName and put it in ColumnDef instead, thus reverting most of the collation-related changes in parse_type.c's API. I made one additional structural change, which was to use a ColumnDef as an intermediate node in AT_AlterColumnType AlterTableCmd nodes. This provides enough room to get rid of the "transform" wart in AlterTableCmd too, since the ColumnDef can carry the USING expression easily enough. Also fix some other minor bugs that have crept in in the same areas, like failure to copy recently-added fields of ColumnDef in copyfuncs.c. While at it, document the formerly secret ability to specify a collation in ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TYPE, ALTER TYPE ADD ATTRIBUTE, and ALTER TYPE ALTER ATTRIBUTE TYPE; and correct some misstatements about what the default collation selection will be when COLLATE is omitted. BTW, the three-parameter form of format_type() should go away too, since it just contributes to the confusion in this area; but I'll do that in a separate patch.
2011-03-09Document that server single-user mode does not do checkpoints or otherBruce Momjian
background processing.
2011-03-09Adjust the permissions required for COMMENT ON ROLE.Tom Lane
Formerly, any member of a role could change the role's comment, as of course could superusers; but holders of CREATEROLE privilege could not, unless they were also members. This led to the odd situation that a CREATEROLE holder could create a role but then could not comment on it. It also seems a bit dubious to let an unprivileged user change his own comment, let alone those of group roles he belongs to. So, change the rule to be "you must be superuser to comment on a superuser role, or hold CREATEROLE to comment on non-superuser roles". This is the same as the privilege check for creating/dropping roles, and thus fits much better with the rule for other object types, namely that only the owner of an object can comment on it. In passing, clean up the documentation for COMMENT a little bit. Per complaint from Owen Jacobson and subsequent discussion.
2011-03-09Remove '=' from initdb switch syntax.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-09Improve wording of initdb and pg_controldata manual pages.REL9_1_ALPHA4Bruce Momjian
gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>
2011-03-09Remove 's' from recovery_target_timeline's' from the release note.Itagaki Takahiro
2011-03-09synchronous_standby_names is a string parameter.Itagaki Takahiro
2011-03-09Make alpha release notes more consistent as regards periods.Robert Haas
2011-03-09Update alpha release notes for latest commits.Robert Haas
2011-03-08A bit more editing for collation documentation.Tom Lane
2011-03-08Create "replication and recovery" section in alpha release notes.Robert Haas
2011-03-08Assorted editing for collation documentation.Tom Lane
I made a pass over this to familiarize myself with the feature, and found some things that could be improved.
2011-03-08Adjust CHAR() doc mention of pattern matching issues for trailingBruce Momjian
spaces.
2011-03-08Document that char() ignores spaces in non-pattern comparisons, not inBruce Momjian
pattern comparisons such as LIKE and regex.
2011-03-07Improve description of inquiry functions that accept regclass.Tom Lane
Per a suggestion from Thom Brown, though this is not his proposed patch.
2011-03-07Minor copy-editing in CREATE TRIGGER reference page.Tom Lane
Per suggestions from Thom Brown and Robert Haas.
2011-03-07If recovery_target_timeline is set to 'latest' and standby mode is enabled,Heikki Linnakangas
periodically rescan the archive for new timelines, while waiting for new WAL segments to arrive. This allows you to set up a standby server that follows the TLI change if another standby server is promoted to master. Before this, you had to restart the standby server to make it notice the new timeline. This patch only scans the archive for TLI changes, it won't follow a TLI change in streaming replication. That is much needed too, but it would be a much bigger patch than I dare to sneak in this late in the release cycle. There was discussion on improving the sanity checking of the WAL segments so that the system would notice more reliably if the new timeline isn't an ancestor of the current one, but that is not included in this patch. Reviewed by Fujii Masao.
2011-03-07Reword alpha release note item on SSI.Robert Haas
Per Josh Berkus; some additional explanatory text by me.
2011-03-07Synchronous replication doc corrections.Robert Haas
Thom Brown
2011-03-07Document the DEFERRABLE option in SET TRANSACTION command.Heikki Linnakangas
Kevin Grittner
2011-03-06Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.Simon Riggs
If a standby is broadcasting reply messages and we have named one or more standbys in synchronous_standby_names then allow users who set synchronous_replication to wait for commit, which then provides strict data integrity guarantees. Design avoids sending and receiving transaction state information so minimises bookkeeping overheads. We synchronize with the highest priority standby that is connected and ready to synchronize. Other standbys can be defined to takeover in case of standby failure. This version has very strict behaviour; more relaxed options may be added at a later date. Simon Riggs and Fujii Masao, with reviews by Yeb Havinga, Jaime Casanova, Heikki Linnakangas and Robert Haas, plus the assistance of many other design reviewers.
2011-03-05Adjust documentation about pg_pltemplate to reflect latest thinking.Tom Lane
It's more likely that pg_pltemplate will go away in the future than that we'll add additional specialized infrastructure for it.
2011-03-05Make plpythonu language use plpython2 shared library directly.Tom Lane
The original scheme for this was to symlink plpython.$DLSUFFIX to plpython2.$DLSUFFIX, but that doesn't work on Windows, and only accidentally failed to fail because of the way that CREATE LANGUAGE created or didn't create new C functions. My changes of yesterday exposed the weakness of that approach. To fix, get rid of the symlink and make pg_pltemplate show what's really going on.
2011-03-05Convert createlang/droplang to use CREATE/DROP EXTENSION.Tom Lane
In createlang this is a one-line change. In droplang there's a whole lot of cruft that can be discarded since the extension mechanism now manages removal of the language's support functions. Also, add deprecation notices to these two programs' reference pages, since per discussion we may toss them overboard altogether in a release or two.
2011-03-05Remove one copy of duplicated alpha4 release note.Robert Haas
Noted by Andy Colson
2011-03-05Add missing word.Robert Haas
2011-03-05First cut at 9.1alpha4 release notes.Robert Haas
2011-03-05Remove emphasis from 9.1alpha3 items.Robert Haas
In preparation for 9.1alpha4 release notes, where only the 9.1alpha4 features will be emphasized.
2011-03-05Update documentation to reflect that standard PLs are now extensions.Tom Lane
Recommend use of CREATE EXTENSION rather than plain CREATE LANGUAGE where relevant. Encourage PL authors to provide extension wrappers for their PLs.
2011-03-04Allow non-superusers to create (some) extensions.Tom Lane
Remove the unconditional superuser permissions check in CREATE EXTENSION, and instead define a "superuser" extension property, which when false (not the default) skips the superuser permissions check. In this case the calling user only needs enough permissions to execute the commands in the extension's installation script. The superuser property is also enforced in the same way for ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE cases. In other ALTER EXTENSION cases and DROP EXTENSION, test ownership of the extension rather than superuserness. ALTER EXTENSION ADD/DROP needs to insist on ownership of the target object as well; to do that without duplicating code, refactor comment.c's big switch for permissions checks into a separate function in objectaddress.c. I also removed the superuserness checks in pg_available_extensions and related functions; there's no strong reason why everybody shouldn't be able to see that info. Also invent an IF NOT EXISTS variant of CREATE EXTENSION, and use that in pg_dump, so that dumps won't fail for installed-by-default extensions. We don't have any of those yet, but we will soon. This is all per discussion of wrapping the standard procedural languages into extensions. I'll make those changes in a separate commit; this is just putting the core infrastructure in place.
2011-03-02Add collations to information_schema.usage_privilegesPeter Eisentraut
This is faked information like for domains.
2011-03-02Add 'collatable' to the Parameters section of CREATE TYPE.Tom Lane
2011-03-02Add KNNGIST support to contrib/btree_gist.Tom Lane
This extends GiST's support for nearest-neighbor searches to many of the standard data types. Teodor Sigaev
2011-03-02Fix erroneous documentation of the syntax of CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER.Tom Lane
The grammar requires a specific ordering of the clauses, but the documentation showed a different order. This error was introduced in commit b47953f9c69d48a9261bd643e3170017b93f6337, which merged the CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER documentation into the CREATE TRIGGER page. There is no code bug AFAICS.
2011-03-02Correct mistaken claims about EXPLAIN ANALYZE's handling of triggers.Tom Lane
Time spent executing AFTER triggers is not included in the runtime of the associated ModifyTable node; in my patch of yesterday I confused queuing of these triggers with their actual execution. Spotted by Marko Tiikkaja.
2011-03-01Change pg_last_xlog_receive_location() not to move backwards. That makesHeikki Linnakangas
it a lot more useful for determining which standby is most up-to-date, for example. There was long discussions on whether overwriting existing existing WAL makes sense to begin with, and whether we should do some more extensive variable renaming, but this change nevertheless seems quite uncontroversial. Fujii Masao, reviewed by Jeff Janes, Robert Haas, Stephen Frost.
2011-03-01Update discussion of EXPLAIN to reflect existence of ModifyTable nodes.Tom Lane
Back-patch to 9.0, since this was changed then.
2011-03-01Avoid excessive Hot Standby feedback messages.Robert Haas
Without this patch, when wal_receiver_status_interval=0, indicating that no status messages should be sent, Hot Standby feedback messages are instead sent extremely frequently. Fujii Masao, with documentation changes by me.
2011-02-28PL/Python custom SPI exceptionsPeter Eisentraut
This provides a separate exception class for each error code that the backend defines, as well as the ability to get the SQLSTATE from the exception object. Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer
2011-02-28Add documentation for data-modifying statements in WITH clauses.Tom Lane
Marko Tiikkaja, somewhat reworked by Tom
2011-02-27Document that last vacuum statistics and counts are for non-FULL vacuums.Bruce Momjian
2011-02-27PL/Python explicit subtransactionsPeter Eisentraut
Adds a context manager, obtainable by plpy.subtransaction(), to run a group of statements in a subtransaction. Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer, additional scribbling by me
2011-02-27Fix markup for pg_options_to_table() to report the return column names,Bruce Momjian
per suggestion from Andrew.
2011-02-26Increase the default for wal_sender_delay from 200ms to 1s. Now that WALHeikki Linnakangas
sender is immediately woken up by transaction commit, there's no need to wake up so aggressively.