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2007-12-17Update item description:Bruce Momjian
* Consider having the background writer update the transaction status hint bits before writing out the page Implementing this requires the background writer to have access to system catalogs and the transaction status log.
2007-12-16Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation.Tom Lane
Fix lots of bad markup, bad English, bad explanations. Last ones ... whew. Man, that was tedious.
2007-12-16Windows write-cache wording improvement.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-16Update write-cache docs to mention windows behavior for variousBruce Momjian
fsync_methods. Magnus.
2007-12-16Mention that HOT helps with DELETE space reuse.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-16Update OOM wording.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-16Add docs about OOM killer.Bruce Momjian
lst_hoe01@kwsoft.de
2007-12-16Mention pg_ctl kill for Win32 in docs.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-16Update pgpool-II mention.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-16Mark 8.3 as likely now January, 2008 in release notes.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-15Fix example archive_command for standalone backups so it doesn't return ↵Andrew Dunstan
spurious non-zero.
2007-12-15Use clearer error message for gmake postgres.pdf:Bruce Momjian
Makefile:171: *** Invalid target; use postgres-A4.pdf or postgres-US.pdf as targets. Stop.
2007-12-15Improve documentation about Julian dates; in particular, point out theTom Lane
difference between Julian and Gregorian reckoning of when JD 0 was.
2007-12-14Make error message more accuratePeter Eisentraut
2007-12-14Add default error rules for making postgres.pdf and postgres.ps,Bruce Momjian
suggesting proper target names.
2007-12-13Correct result type of convert_to, per Pavel Stehule.Alvaro Herrera
2007-12-13Change a couple of examples to say ALTER MAPPING instead of ADD MAPPING,Tom Lane
per Oleg.
2007-12-12Add random I/O URL:Bruce Momjian
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-12/msg00027.php
2007-12-12This item was fixed in a different way, so has been removed:Bruce Momjian
< < * Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans to avoid < kernel cache spoiling < < Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and < free-behind behavior, but it is unclear how the setting affects other < backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported < on all operating systems.
2007-12-12Adjust release notes for HISTORY.html generation.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-12Change 'merge sort join', a phrase we use nowhere else, to the moreTom Lane
usual 'merge join'.
2007-12-11Make CSV column ordering a bit more logical.Alvaro Herrera
2007-12-11Make documentation of -W options more accurate and uniform.Tom Lane
2007-12-11Remove the long-deprecated -u option from psql, since it does nothing veryTom Lane
useful and confuses people who think it is the same as -U. (Eventually we might want to re-introduce it as being an alias for -U, but that should not happen until the switch has actually not been there for a few releases.) Likewise in pg_dump and pg_restore. Per gripe from Robert Treat and subsequent discussion.
2007-12-11Typo pointed out by Erwin Brandstetter. Remove the whole makes it evenMagnus Hagander
better, per JD.
2007-12-11Extend the format of CSV logs to include the additional information suppliedAlvaro Herrera
with the logged event. CSV logs are now a first-class citizen along plain text logs in that they carry much of the same information. Per complaint from depesz on bug #3799.
2007-12-11Remove the -P options of oid2name and pgbench, as they are securityTom Lane
hazards. Instead teach these programs to prompt for a password when necessary, just like all our other programs. I did not bother to invent -W switches for them, since the return on investment seems so low.
2007-12-10Remove Stefan Kaltenbrunner mention from full text release note item.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-10Add release note introduction.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-10Mention Stefan Kaltenbrunner as contributor for text search because ofBruce Momjian
psql work.
2007-12-10Wording improvement for write-cache disabling instructions.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-10Write cache doc cleanupsBruce Momjian
Greg Smith
2007-12-10Document how to turn off disk write cache on popular operating systems.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-10Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation.Tom Lane
Fix lots of bad markup, bad English, bad explanations. Second round of commits. pgcrypto and pgstandby still to go...
2007-12-10Change the "distributed checkpoint" release note item to Greg Smith's proposedAlvaro Herrera
wording.
2007-12-10Update Brazilian FAQ.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-12-10FAQ wording and markup fix.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-12-09Fix up the PQconnectionUsedPassword mess: create a separateTom Lane
PQconnectionNeedsPassword function that tells the right thing for whether to prompt for a password, and improve PQconnectionUsedPassword so that it checks whether the password used by the connection was actually supplied as a connection argument, instead of coming from environment or a password file. Per bug report from Mark Cave-Ayland and subsequent discussion.
2007-12-08In the release notes, mention that the "Overview" items are listed inBruce Momjian
the sections below in more detail.
2007-12-07In release notes, mention "most" updates are improved with HOT.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-07Remove completed 8.3 TODO items:Bruce Momjian
< o -Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them < to defaults < o -Add a GUC variable to control the tablespace for temporary objects < and sort files < Monitoring < ========== < < * -Allow server log information to be output as CSV format < * -Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files < * -Allow user-defined types to accept 'typmod' parameters < < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-08/msg01142.php < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg00012.php < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-08/msg00149.php < < * -Add Globally/Universally Unique Identifier (GUID/UUID) < < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-09/msg00209.php < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-01/msg00853.php < < * -Support a data type with specific enumerated values (ENUM) < o -Add support for arrays of complex types < o -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type < * -Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1 < * -Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week < * -Add RESET SESSION command to reset all session state < o -Make CLUSTER preserve recently-dead tuples per MVCC requirements < o -Add more logical syntax CLUSTER table USING index; < support current syntax for backward compatibility < o -Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor < o -Add support for MOVE cursors < o -Allow PL/PythonU to return boolean rather than 1/0 < o -Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather < than toggle < o -Add -f to pg_dumpall < Dependency Checking < =================== < < * -Flush cached query plans when the dependent objects change or < when new ANALYZE statistics are available < * -Track dependencies in function bodies and recompile/invalidate < * -Invalidate prepared queries, like INSERT, when the table definition < is altered < < * -Allow use of indexes to search for NULLs < * -Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending < specifiers < * -Reduce checkpoint performance degredation by forcing data to disk < more evenly < * -Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent < sequential scans, also called "Synchronised Scanning" < * -Consider shrinking expired tuples to just their headers < * -Allow heap reuse of UPDATEd rows if no indexed columns are changed, < and old and new versions are on the same heap page < * -Reduce XID consumption of read-only queries < o -Turn on by default < o -Allow multiple vacuums so large tables do not starve small < tables < * -Allow the pg_xlog directory location to be specified during initdb < with a symlink back to the /data location < * -Allow buffered WAL writes and fsync < * -Allow ORDER BY ... LIMIT # to select high/low value without sort or < index using a sequential scan for highest/lowest values < * -Merge xmin/xmax/cmin/cmax back into three header fields < o -Support a smaller header for short variable-length fields < * -Move NAMEDATALEN from postgres_ext.h to pg_config_manual.h < * -Fix problem with excessive logging during SSL disconnection < < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-12/msg00122.php < http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-05/msg00065.php < < o -Add long file support for binary pg_dump output
2007-12-07Update HOT description to make index column changes clearer.Bruce Momjian
2007-12-07Change documentation, change "distributed" checkpoints to "smoothed"Bruce Momjian
checkpoints.
2007-12-07Fix typo in pg_standby docs. Arul Shaji.Neil Conway
2007-12-06Add missing table entry for lastval(), per Jeff Davis.Tom Lane
2007-12-06Make an editorial pass over the newly SGML-ified contrib documentation.Tom Lane
Fix lots of bad markup, bad English, bad explanations. This commit covers only about half the contrib modules, but I grow weary...
2007-12-05Remove unused, occasionally confusing graphics building support.Peter Eisentraut
2007-12-03Entity-ify a passel of & < > characters. Per gripe from Devrim.Tom Lane
2007-12-03Add missing documentation for SSPI packets.Magnus Hagander
2007-12-03Improve partitioning example, per Itagaki Takahiro.Tom Lane