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2001-07-06Fix typo. createdb -t --> createdb -TTatsuo Ishii
2001-07-03Correct substring() example, found by Thomas T. Thai.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-30Allow default transaction isolation level (a.k.a. set sessionPeter Eisentraut
characteristics) to be set through GUC.
2001-06-30fix markupPeter Eisentraut
2001-06-30The System V resources discussed here apply to NetBSD as well. In factD'Arcy J.M. Cain
I just finished changing the GENERIC files and the options(4) man page on NetBSD to make this clearer.
2001-06-27Install infrastructure for shared-memory free space map. Doesn't actuallyTom Lane
do anything yet, but it has the necessary connections to initialization and so forth. Make some gestures towards allowing number of blocks in a relation to be BlockNumber, ie, unsigned int, rather than signed int. (I doubt I got all the places that are sloppy about it, yet.) On the way, replace the hardwired NLOCKS_PER_XACT fudge factor with a GUC variable.
2001-06-23Add TEMPORARY sequences and have SERIAL on a temp table have a temporaryBruce Momjian
sequence.
2001-06-23fix markupPeter Eisentraut
2001-06-22updates for new startup sequence, some reformattingPeter Eisentraut
2001-06-22Attached is documentation describing plperlu differences from plperl.Bruce Momjian
Alex Pilosov
2001-06-22Mention that EXPLAIN results on small tables shouldn't be extrapolatedTom Lane
to large tables. Recommend ANALYZE or VACUUM ANALYZE after populating a table.
2001-06-19Add IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN boolean tests, fix the existing booleanTom Lane
tests to return the correct results per SQL9x when given NULL inputs. Reimplement these tests as well as IS [NOT] NULL to have their own expression node types, instead of depending on special functions. From Joe Conway, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2001-06-18Fix some references to USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES that Bruce missed;Tom Lane
plus a few trivial improvements in wording.
2001-06-18Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-18Add GUC setting for Australian timezones. Uses new GUC boolean callbackBruce Momjian
functions to clear date cache. Allow regression tests to pass when timezone set.
2001-06-18Improve wording of authentication files.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-15Oops, forgot to commit doco updates for has_table_privilege.Tom Lane
2001-06-13Docs for:Bruce Momjian
> >> inet(text), cidr(text): convert a text value into inet/cidr > >> set_masklen(inet): set masklen on the inet value Alex Pilosov
2001-06-12Clean up various to-do items associated with system indexes:Tom Lane
pg_database now has unique indexes on oid and on datname. pg_shadow now has unique indexes on usename and on usesysid. pg_am now has unique index on oid. pg_opclass now has unique index on oid. pg_amproc now has unique index on amid+amopclaid+amprocnum. Remove pg_rewrite's unnecessary index on oid, delete unused RULEOID syscache. Remove index on pg_listener and associated syscache for performance reasons (caching rows that are certain to change before you need 'em again is rather pointless). Change pg_attrdef's nonunique index on adrelid into a unique index on adrelid+adnum. Fix various incorrect settings of pg_class.relisshared, make that the primary reference point for whether a relation is shared or not. IsSharedSystemRelationName() is now only consulted to initialize relisshared during initial creation of tables and indexes. In theory we might now support shared user relations, though it's not clear how one would get entries for them into pg_class &etc of multiple databases. Fix recently reported bug that pg_attribute rows created for an index all have the same OID. (Proof that non-unique OID doesn't matter unless it's actually used to do lookups ;-)) There's no need to treat pg_trigger, pg_attrdef, pg_relcheck as bootstrap relations. Convert them into plain system catalogs without hardwired entries in pg_class and friends. Unify global.bki and template1.bki into a single init script postgres.bki, since the alleged distinction between them was misleading and pointless. Not to mention that it didn't work for setting up indexes on shared system relations. Rationalize locking of pg_shadow, pg_group, pg_attrdef (no need to use AccessExclusiveLock where ExclusiveLock or even RowExclusiveLock will do). Also, hold locks until transaction commit where necessary.
2001-06-11Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-11Update EXPLAIN discussion and examples to match current sources.Tom Lane
2001-06-10Update or remove mentions of versions where appropriate.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-09Allow GRANT/REVOKE to/from more than one user per invocation. Command tagPeter Eisentraut
for GRANT/REVOKE is now just that, not "CHANGE". On the way, migrate some of the aclitem internal representation away from the parser and build a real parse tree instead. Also add some 'const' qualifiers.
2001-06-09Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-06-09Fix a few missed NOIND usages.Tom Lane
2001-06-07reset all: command line and .conf options change defaultsBruce Momjian
on RESET ALL those are restored. show all: GUC + non-GUC. SHOW ALL, RESET ALL Marko Kreen
2001-06-04This patch adds support for %TYPE in CREATE FUNCTION argument and returnBruce Momjian
types. This version has an elog() to remind the user the type resolution is not dynamic. Ian Lance Taylor
2001-06-02Native Language Support (NLS)Peter Eisentraut
Use --enable-nls to turn it on; see installation instructions for details. See developer's guide how to make use of it in programs and how to add translations. psql sources have been almost fully prepared and an incomplete German translation has been provided. In the backend, only elog() calls are currently translatable, and the provided German translation file is more of a placeholder.
2001-06-01Clean up some minor problems exposed by further thought about Panon's bugTom Lane
report on old-style functions invoked by RI triggers. We had a number of other places that were being sloppy about which memory context FmgrInfo subsidiary data will be allocated in. Turns out none of them actually cause a problem in 7.1, but this is for arcane reasons such as the fact that old-style triggers aren't supported anyway. To avoid getting burnt later, I've restructured the trigger support so that we don't keep trigger FmgrInfo structs in relcache memory. Some other related cleanups too: it's not really necessary to call fmgr_info at all while setting up the index support info in relcache entries, because those ScanKeyEntry structs are never used to invoke the functions. This should speed up relcache initialization a tiny bit.
2001-06-01Update release 1.09 dateBruce Momjian
2001-05-31Forgot SGML section section id tag for 7.1.Bruce Momjian
2001-05-30Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-05-30Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-05-30Oops, had 0.2 release date wrong.Bruce Momjian
2001-05-30This is a docs patch to go with my DROP CONSTRAINT patch.Bruce Momjian
Christopher Kings
2001-05-30Correct obsolete example of FROM-less query.Tom Lane
2001-05-30In chapter:Bruce Momjian
7.7. Keys you have However, my application requires that each collection will also have a unique name. Why? So that a human being who wants to modify a collection will be able to identify it. It's much harder to know, if you have two collections named "Life Science", the the one tagged 24433 is the one you need, and the one tagged 29882 is not I think 'the the' shouldn't be repeated twice. Although taken from an email it would be cool to fix. Cheers, Maxim Maletsky
2001-05-28Cause plpgsql's PERFORM to behave according to its documentation,Tom Lane
which says that PERFORM will execute any SELECT query and discard the result. The former implementation would in fact raise an error if the result contained more than one row or more than one column. Also, change plpgsql's error-logging mechanism to emit the additional messages about error location at NOTICE rather than DEBUG level. This allows them to be seen by the client without having to dig into the postmaster log file (which may be nonexistent or inaccessible by the client).
2001-05-28markup fixPeter Eisentraut
2001-05-28Sample output that appears below the table attributes for \d:Bruce Momjian
Indicies: palm_buy_date_idx palm_user_date_idx Primary Key: palm_buyers_pkey Unique Key: palm_buyers_username Constraint: "$1" ((sex = 'M'::bpchar) OR (sex = 'F'::bpchar)) Note that check constraint name now shown as well. (Makes it a lot easier to test inheritance support in ADD/DROP constraint :) ) Attached is a docs change for psql. Christopher Kings
2001-05-27Make UPDATE and DELETE privileges distinct. Add REFERENCES and TRIGGERPeter Eisentraut
privileges. INSERT and COPY FROM now require INSERT (only). Add privileges regression test.
2001-05-25Oops, only wanted python change in the last commit. Backing out.Bruce Momjian
2001-05-25While changing Cygwin Python to build its core as a DLL (like Win32Bruce Momjian
Python) to support shared extension modules, I have learned that Guido prefers the style of the attached patch to solve the above problem. I feel that this solution is particularly appropriate in this case because the following: PglargeType PgType PgQueryType are already being handled in the way that I am proposing for PgSourceType. Jason Tishler
2001-05-24SQL function bit_lengthPeter Eisentraut
2001-05-22Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-05-22Make bit and bit varying types reject too long input. (They already triedPeter Eisentraut
to do that, but inconsistently.) Make bit type reject too short input, too, per SQL. Since it no longer zero pads, 'zpbit*' has been renamed to 'bit*' in the source, hence initdb.
2001-05-22more indices -> indexesPeter Eisentraut
2001-05-22ELSEIF PL/PgSQL doc patch.Bruce Momjian
Klaus Reger
2001-05-21Make char(n) and varchar(n) types raise an error if the inserted string isPeter Eisentraut
too long. While I was adjusting the regression tests I moved the array things all into array.sql, to make things more manageable.
2001-05-19Allow special '$libdir' macro to show up in object file path in CREATEPeter Eisentraut
FUNCTION command. Guard against trying to load a directory. Update documentation some.