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2006-11-20Update Brazilian FAQ.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-11-20For to_char() day/month abbrevitions, mention "3 chars in English,Bruce Momjian
localized lengths vary".
2006-11-20Our MingW FAQ appears to be seriously out of date. Couple of fixes: weBruce Momjian
want to direct MSI downloads to main download site, NT4 not supported anymore, msvc build env in progress, pgsql-hackers-win32 is no more. Magnus Hagander
2006-11-20Overhaul the "External Projects" chapter in the manual. ReplaceNeil Conway
the variabelist with a more concise table, add a URL for each project, remove some orphaned projects, add PL/Py, and various other changes. Initial patch from Robert Treat, subsequent work by Neil Conway.
2006-11-20Update documentation to use Statement-Based Replication rather thanBruce Momjian
Query Broadcast.
2006-11-17Clarify description of CIDR-address column of pg_hba.conf, to discourageTom Lane
people from trying notations like '10.6/16', which is accepted but does not mean what you probably think. Per example from Paul Forgey.
2006-11-17Rename replication section "High Availability and Load Balancing".Bruce Momjian
2006-11-17Data Partitioning documentation section reduced and moved to the end.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-17Fix a typo.Neil Conway
2006-11-17Fixed small typo, missing 'l' in 'Cluserting'Michael Meskes
2006-11-17Remove a bunch of antique information from the appendix in the docsNeil Conway
that discusses CVS. Remove the recommendation to use cvs 1.10. Remove discussion of alleged CVSup binaries on postgresql.org, because they have not existed for several years. Remove discussion of how to build cvsup from source because the existing text is outdated, and more accurate information is available from the CVSup homepage.
2006-11-17Use more standard terms for replication, ideas from Markus Schiltknecht.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-16Mention two-phase commit for having all transactions commit on all servers.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-16Reconfigure failover/replication doc items to be varlist entries, ratherBruce Momjian
than new sections, so they appear all on the same web page.
2006-11-16Clarify replication items, and define some terms.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-15Improve broadcast wording for failover/clustering documentation.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-14Add URL for case identifiers.Bruce Momjian
< > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg01527.php
2006-11-14Fix xrefs for failover changes.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-14Update failover docs, per suggestions from Chris Browne.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-14Fix URL for patch hold queue.Bruce Momjian
2006-11-13Force plperl and plperlu to run in separate interpreters. Create an errorAndrew Dunstan
on an attempt to create the second interpreter if this is not supported by the perl installation. Per recent -hackers discussion.
2006-11-12Do a round of copy-editing for the system catalog chapter. In particular,Neil Conway
consistently capitalize the content of the "Description" column but do not include a terminating period, as is the convention elsewhere in the docs. Also, remove the "References" column from catalog that do not have any referencing columns, for the sake of brevity. Make various other SGML and grammar fixes.
2006-11-12Minor improvements to the description of archive_timeout.Neil Conway
2006-11-10Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon.Tom Lane
2006-11-10Improve formatting of PQexecParams argument descriptions, perTom Lane
Theo Kramer.
2006-11-10Emphasize that immutable and stable functions are not allowed to modifyTom Lane
the database. xfunc.sgml was already pretty definite on the point, but it doesn't hurt to make it clear here too.
2006-11-06Update release notes in preparation for RC1.Tom Lane
2006-11-05Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularlyTom Lane
in PITR scenarios. We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to PITR slave databases. Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId. Add new GUC variables and pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work done. Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather than per-database. initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database, and pg_autovacuum catalogs. Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-11-04Add note about space usage of 'manual' approach to clustering, perTom Lane
suggestion from Sergey Koposov. Also some other minor editing.
2006-11-04Correct documentation error: in 8.1 and 8.2, %p in archive and restoreTom Lane
command strings inserts relative not absolute path of file to process. This is a side-effect of 2005-07-04 change that makes the server use relative paths in general. Noted by Bernd Helmle.
2006-11-03Mention 'void' as the proper return type when there's nothing toTom Lane
return, per suggestion from Joachim Wieland.
2006-10-31Fix misstatement about the results of using -1 with BEGIN.Tom Lane
2006-10-31Add text to the VACUUM, REINDEX, DROP TABLESPACE and CREATE TABLESPACENeil Conway
reference pages documenting that these commands cannot be used within a transaction block. Also make some minor improvements to the psql reference page. Patch from Simon Riggs, minor editorialization by myself.
2006-10-30Fix typo in backup docs. Patch from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.Neil Conway
2006-10-27Fix typo in docs.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-26Fix spelling mistake in docs.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-26Add missing file for documentation section on failover, replication,Bruce Momjian
load balancing, and clustering options.
2006-10-26Add documentation section on failover, replication, load balancing, andBruce Momjian
clustering options.
2006-10-24Correctino, add URL on :Bruce Momjian
* Add estimated_count(*) to return an estimate of COUNT(*) > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Speed up COUNT(*) > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-11/msg00943.php
2006-10-24Rewrite discussion of ORDER BY to emphasize the SQL99 expression caseTom Lane
instead of the SQL92 output-column-ID case.
2006-10-23Add some real descriptions to the multiargument aggregate functions ratherPeter Eisentraut
than just showing the incomprehensible formulas.
2006-10-23Fix broken markup.Tom Lane
2006-10-23Spellchecking and suchPeter Eisentraut
2006-10-23Fix list of environment variables for configure. Remove some variablesPeter Eisentraut
that are almost never used. Put documentation-related variables into the documentation chapter.
2006-10-22Some desultory copy-editing.Tom Lane
2006-10-21Some marginal editorial improvements and updates in the tutorial.Tom Lane
2006-10-21Further release-note editorialization.Tom Lane
2006-10-21Editorial improvements for recent plpython doc updates.Tom Lane
2006-10-21Update PQserverVersion() to use 8.1.X as an example, rather than 7.4Bruce Momjian
because the function didn't exist in 7.4.X.