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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
2011-03-11Document that to_char('FM') removes only trailing zeros.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11Document how listen_addresses can do only IPv4 or IPv6.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11Adds index entries for session_user and pg_describe_objectBruce Momjian
Removes extraneous closing parenthesis from pg_describe_object Puts pg_describe_object and has_sequence_privilege in correct alphabetical position in function listing Thom Brown
2011-03-11In plpsql docs, use RAISE rather than undefined log function.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11Improve extract(day) documentation with interval values.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11Fix "unparenthesized" mention in vacuum docs.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11Update kernel docs for Solaris 10.Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus
2011-03-11Document that pg_dump --clean might generate some harmless errors on restore.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-11Document that libpq's PQgetResult() should be called after a fatal errorBruce Momjian
to fully process errors.
2011-03-11Document that the parenthesized VACUUM syntax is deprecated, not theBruce Momjian
FREEZE functionality.
2011-03-10Reference doc "examples" section for pg_dump options that often needBruce Momjian
complex quoting, e.g. -t and -n.
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