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2005-09-22Add:Bruce Momjian
> > Another idea would be to allow actual SELECT queries in a COPY.
2005-09-22Add:Bruce Momjian
> > o Allow COPY to output from views >
2005-09-21Fix postgresql.conf lexer to accept doubled single quotes in literalTom Lane
strings. This is consistent with SQL conventions, and since Bruce already changed initdb in a way that assumed it worked like this, seems we'd better make it work like this.
2005-09-20Merge items:Bruce Momjian
< This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values. > This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values. This is > already used by GROUP BY. 946d946 < * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20Fix typo:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by > * Allow WAL traffic to be streamed to another server for stand-by
2005-09-20Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
2005-09-20Update profile file location.Bruce Momjian
2005-09-20Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow WAL traffic to be steamed to another server for stand-by > replication
2005-09-19Remove:Bruce Momjian
< * Research use of sched_yield() for spinlock acquisition failure
2005-09-19Print proper cause of statement cancel, user interaction or timeout.Bruce Momjian
2005-09-19update timestamp on file.Bruce Momjian
2005-09-18Fix typo in link label, per Evgeny Gridasov.Tom Lane
2005-09-17Add:Bruce Momjian
> 1032a1034 > * Remove BeOS and QNX-specific code
2005-09-16Add:Bruce Momjian
> o Fix SELECT INTERVAL '1' MONTH
2005-09-16Update numbering.Bruce Momjian
Michael Fuhr
2005-09-16Add:Bruce Momjian
< > * Update Bonjour to work with newer cross-platform SDK
2005-09-16Update wording:Bruce Momjian
< 390d388 < 453c451 < removed or have its heap and index files truncated. One > be removed or have its heap and index files truncated. One < * Use a phantom command counter for nested subtransactions to reduce < per-tuple overhead
2005-09-16Add:Bruce Momjian
> o Add single-step debugging of PL/PgSQL functions
2005-09-16Rename pg_complete_relation_size() to pg_total_relation_size(), for theNeil Conway
sake of brevity and clarity. Make pg_reload_conf(), pg_rotate_logfile(), and pg_cancel_backend() return a boolean rather than an integer to indicate success or failure. Along the way, make some minor cleanups to dbsize.c -- in particular, use elog() rather than ereport() for "shouldn't happen" error conditions, and remove some of the more flagrant violations of the Postgres indentation conventions. Catalog version bumped.
2005-09-16Update release notes for changes between beta1 and beta2.Tom Lane
2005-09-16Add note about pg_autovacuum settings not being saved on a dump, perAlvaro Herrera
Robert Treat.
2005-09-14Various documentation improvements. Add a lot of index entries forNeil Conway
the builtin functions (although some more entries are still needed), and remove the duplicate index entries that have been causing collateindex.pl warnings. Consistently use "int" and "bigint", rather than a mix of "int", "integer", "int4", "bigint", and "int8". Make parenthesis style in syntax examples more consistent. Various copy-editing for newly-added documentation and SGML markup fixes.
2005-09-13Minor SGML markup fixes.Neil Conway
2005-09-13Document the new autovacuum daemon.Alvaro Herrera
2005-09-12Fix cut-and-paste-o in TCP keepalives documentation.Tom Lane
2005-09-12Minor documentation tweak: make the capitalization of a section titleNeil Conway
consistent with the other sections in this chapter.
2005-09-12Make the documentation of GUC variables a separate chapter, rather thanNeil Conway
a section of the "Server Run-time Environment" chapter. Also, move the SGML for the new chapter to a separate file and fix the resulting fallout.
2005-09-12Update manual's introduction to indexes to reflect 8.1 changes; inTom Lane
particular the addition of bitmap scans and the relaxation of rules about when multicolumn indexes can be used. Also some minor editorial work in other parts of the chapter.
2005-09-12Fix a mistake in the documentation for SPI_getbinval(), per Michael Fuhr.Neil Conway
2005-09-12Forgot to add pg_pltemplate to the list of shared system catalogs thatTom Lane
appears in the REINDEX ref page.
2005-09-12Add a few items to the release notes, and make a few more minor cleanups.Neil Conway
2005-09-11Many small improvements and copy edits to the release notes. Use "&mdash;"Neil Conway
rather than "-" for the "dash" character. Correct SGML markup. Make references to the names of contributors more consistent. Rewrite a bit of prose, and make some other similar cleanups.
2005-09-10Update URL for FAQ_MINGW.Bruce Momjian
2005-09-09Fix the various forms of AT TIME ZONE to accept either timezones foundTom Lane
in the zic database or zone names found in the date token table. This preserves the old ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST' along with the new ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST8PDT'. Per gripe from Bricklen Anderson. Also, fix some inconsistencies in usage of TZ_STRLEN_MAX --- the old code had the potential for one-byte buffer overruns, though given alignment considerations it's unlikely there was any real risk.
2005-09-08Create the pg_pltemplate system catalog to hold template informationTom Lane
for procedural languages. This replaces the hard-wired table I had originally proposed as a stopgap solution. For the moment, the initial contents only include languages shipped with the core distribution.
2005-09-05Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural languages,Tom Lane
as per my recent proposal. For now the template data is hard-wired in proclang.c --- this should be replaced later by a new shared system catalog, but we don't want to force initdb during 8.1 beta. This change lets us cleanly load existing dump files even if they contain outright wrong information about a PL's support functions, such as a wrong path to the shared library or a missing validator function. Also, we can revert the recent kluges to make pg_dump dump PL support functions that are stored in pg_catalog. While at it, I removed the code in pg_regress that replaced $libdir with a hardcoded path for temporary installations. This is no longer needed given our support for relocatable installations.
2005-09-05Add a note about CSV lines with trailing spaces.Andrew Dunstan
Suggestion by Darcy Buskermolen, reworded by me.
2005-09-04Fix typo in Richard's last name.Alvaro Herrera
2005-09-03Add idea:Bruce Momjian
< cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory. > cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory. Another idea is to > store both cmin and cmax only in local memory.
2005-09-02Update.Bruce Momjian
< have its heap and index files truncated. One issue is < that no other backend should be able to add to the table < at the same time, which is something that is currently < allowed. > removed or have its heap and index files truncated. One > issue is that no other backend should be able to add to > the table at the same time, which is something that is > currently allowed.
2005-09-02Update:Bruce Momjian
> o Allow COPY on a newly-created table to skip WAL logging 450a452,456 > On crash recovery, the table involved in the COPY would > have its heap and index files truncated. One issue is > that no other backend should be able to add to the table > at the same time, which is something that is currently > allowed.
2005-09-02Update:Bruce Momjian
< o Allow COPY into an empty table to skip WAL logging > o Allow COPY into an new table to skip WAL logging
2005-09-02Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Use UTF8 encoding for NLS messages so all server encodings can > read them properly < o %Add support for Unicode < < To fix this, the data needs to be converted to/from UTF16/UTF8 < so the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions < like towupper(). However, UTF8 already works with normal < locales but provides no ordering or character set classes.
2005-09-02Update wording:Bruce Momjian
< could only see committed rows from another transaction. However, > could only see rows from another completed transaction. However, 981c981 < proper visibility of the row, for example, for cursors. > proper visibility of the row's cmin, for example, for cursors.
2005-09-02Add:Bruce Momjian
> o Allow COPY into an empty table to skip WAL logging
2005-09-02Add text:Bruce Momjian
* Merge xmin/xmax/cmin/cmax back into three header fields Before subtransactions, there used to be only three fields needed to store these four values. This was possible because only the current transaction looks at the cmin/cmax values. If the current transaction created and expired the row the fields stored where xmin (same as xmax), cmin, cmax, and if the transaction was expiring a row from a another transaction, the fields stored were xmin (cmin was not needed), xmax, and cmax. Such a system worked because a transaction could only see committed rows from another transaction. However, subtransactions can see rows from outer transactions, and once the subtransaction completes, the outer transaction continues, requiring the storage of all four fields. With subtransactions, an outer transaction can create a row, a subtransaction expire it, and when the subtransaction completes, the outer transaction still has to have proper visibility of the row, for example, for cursors. One possible solution is to create a phantom cid which represents a cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory.
2005-09-02Add some notes about how pg_dump relates to the practices recommendedTom Lane
under 'Populating a Database'.
2005-09-02Update performance discussion for 8.1. Add a little more explanatoryTom Lane
material in the EXPLAIN section, update examples to match current reality, show examples of bitmap indexscans as well as plain ones.
2005-09-02Duplicate:Bruce Momjian
< * Maintain a map of recently-expired rows < < This allows vacuum to target specific pages for possible free space < without requiring a sequential scan. < Update entry: > One complexity is that index entries still have to be vacuumed, and > doing this without an index scan (by using the heap values to find the > index entry) might be slow and unreliable, especially for user-defined > index functions.
2005-09-01Update storage.sgml to reflect current reality.Tom Lane