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2011-05-10Be more explicit about the meaning of the change in standard_conforming_strings.Tom Lane
2011-05-10Mention "backslash" escape processing change in 9.1 release notes.Bruce Momjian
2011-05-10Add some punctuationPeter Eisentraut
2011-05-10Put options in more alphabetical orderPeter Eisentraut
2011-05-10Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.Tom Lane
The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using "unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone. But I forgot to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
2011-05-09Documentation cleanup for the possible values of the datatype 'boolean'.Bruce Momjian
2011-05-09Update documentation to state there is three-value logic, notBruce Momjian
three-value boolean logic. Backpatch to 9.0.X since we just got another bug report about this today.
2011-05-07Add xreflabels to /contrib manuals so links appear correct. Also updateBruce Momjian
README.links to explain xref properly.
2011-05-07Add missing documention connecting word.Bruce Momjian
2011-05-06Fix typos in SECURITY LABEL documentation.Robert Haas
KaiGai Kohei
2011-05-05Improve style of generate_history.pl Perl script.Bruce Momjian
2011-05-04Include unary plus in the Operator Precedence table.Tom Lane
Per gripe from Grzegorz Szpetkowski. Also, change the subsection heading from "Lexical Precedence" (which is a contradiction in terms) to "Operator Precedence".
2011-05-04Link some tables into the surrounding text by their idPeter Eisentraut
2011-05-03Update obsolete mention of Sequoia, now known as TungstenAlvaro Herrera
Per http://joomla.aws.continuent.com/community/lab-projects/sequoia Greg Smith
2011-05-03Improve description of read/write traffic scalabilityAlvaro Herrera
Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
2011-05-02Add ID attribute to some sect2's missing itAlvaro Herrera
David Fetter
2011-05-02Update some ALTER USER cross-references to ALTER ROLEAlvaro Herrera
Greg Smith
2011-05-02Small cleanup of spacing in verbatim DocBook elementsPeter Eisentraut
2011-04-28The arguments to pg_ctl kill are not optional - remove brackets in the docs.Heikki Linnakangas
Fujii Masao
2011-04-27Make a quick copy-editing pass over the 9.1 release notes.Tom Lane
Also remove the material about this being an alpha release. The notes still need a lot of work, but they're more or less presentable as a beta version now.
2011-04-27Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datatype values.Tom Lane
There was already one recommendation in the documentation about writing C functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes, but make it stronger. Also fix an example that was still using direct assignment to a varlena length word, which no longer works since the varvarlena changes.
2011-04-27Doc wording improvement for NUMERIC limit paragraph.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-26Reword documentation for NUMERIC with no specified precision.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-26Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-25Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.Robert Haas
Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role, and revoked similarly. GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW. The set of accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for regular tables, and views. Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
2011-04-25Normalize whitespace in the arguments of <indexterm>Peter Eisentraut
Strip leading and trailing whitespace and replace interior whitespace by a single space. This avoids problems with the index generator producing duplicate index entries for terms that differ only in whitespace. Commit dca30da3433c40b5f92f1704c496cda052decef9 actually fixed all the indexterm elements that would cause this problem at the moment, but in case it sneaks in again, we're set.
2011-04-23Adjust comments about collate.linux.utf8 regression test.Tom Lane
This test should now work in any database with UTF8 encoding, regardless of the database's default locale. The former restriction was really "doesn't work if default locale is C", and that was because of not handling mbstowcs/wcstombs correctly.
2011-04-22Make a code-cleanup pass over the collations patch.Tom Lane
This patch is almost entirely cosmetic --- mostly cleaning up a lot of neglected comments, and fixing code layout problems in places where the patch made lines too long and then pgindent did weird things with that. I did find a bug-of-omission in equalTupleDescs().
2011-04-21Improve doc wording for SQL syntax of LIMIT/OFFSET.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-20Allow ALTER TYPE .. ADD ATTRIBUTE .. CASCADE to recurse to descendants.Robert Haas
Without this, adding an attribute to a typed table with an inheritance child fails, which is surprising. Noah Misch, with minor changes by me.
2011-04-20Allow ALTER TABLE name {OF type | NOT OF}.Robert Haas
This syntax allows a standalone table to be made into a typed table, or a typed table to be made standalone. This is possibly a mildly useful feature in its own right, but the real motivation for this change is that we need it to make pg_upgrade work with typed tables. This doesn't actually fix that problem, but it's necessary infrastructure. Noah Misch
2011-04-17Document COLLATE option in CREATE TYPE reference page.Tom Lane
Curiously, it was already documented in ALTER TYPE ADD ATTRIBUTE, but not here.
2011-04-17Support a COLLATE clause in plpgsql variable declarations.Tom Lane
This allows the usual rules for assigning a collation to a local variable to be overridden. Per discussion, it seems appropriate to support this rather than forcing all local variables to have the argument-derived collation.
2011-04-15Note that Bison on GnuWin32 has trouble with paths with spacesMagnus Hagander
Peter Eisentraut
2011-04-15Specify which versions of the Platform SDK are supportedMagnus Hagander
Anything including Visual Studio 2010 compilers is not yet supported for building on Windows.
2011-04-15Rename pg_regress option --multibyte to --encodingPeter Eisentraut
Also refactor things a little bit so that the same methods for setting test locale and encoding can be used everywhere.
2011-04-14Update release notes for releases 9.0.4, 8.4.8, 8.3.15, and 8.2.21.Tom Lane
2011-04-14Advise Debian/Ubuntu users to use openjade1.3.Robert Haas
The latest openjade packages for Ubuntu 10.10 seg fault when building our documentation. Josh Berkus
2011-04-13Add some useful cross-references to the CREATE EXTENSION reference page.Tom Lane
Per a suggestion from Josh Kupershmidt, though I modified his patch quite a lot.
2011-04-10Teach regular expression operators to honor collations.Tom Lane
This involves getting the character classification and case-folding functions in the regex library to use the collations infrastructure. Most of this work had been done already in connection with the upper/lower and LIKE logic, so it was a simple matter of transposition. While at it, split out these functions into a separate source file regc_pg_locale.c, so that they can be correctly labeled with the Postgres project's license rather than the Scriptics license. These functions are 100% Postgres-written code whereas what remains in regc_locale.c is still mostly not ours, so lumping them both under the same copyright notice was getting more and more misleading.
2011-04-09Don't show unusable collations in psql's \dO command.Tom Lane
"Unusable" collations are those not matching the current database's encoding. The former behavior inconsistently showed such collations some of the time, depending on the details of the pattern argument.
2011-04-08Avoid extra whitespace in the arguments of <indexterm>.Tom Lane
As noted by Thom Brown, this confuses the DocBook index processor; it fails to merge entries that differ only in whitespace, and sorts them unexpectedly as well. Seems like a toolchain bug, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for a fix. Note: easiest way to find these is to look for double spaces in HTML.index.
2011-04-08Add an example of WITH (UPDATE RETURNING) INSERT to the INSERT ref page.Tom Lane
Per a discussion with Gavin Flower. This barely scratches the surface of potential WITH (something RETURNING) use cases, of course, but it's one of the simplest compelling examples I can think of.
2011-04-06Update key words table for 9.1Peter Eisentraut
2011-04-05Change "Id" to "id" in some SGML tagsAlvaro Herrera
Gabriele Bartolini
2011-04-05Typo fixes.Robert Haas
Erik Rijkers
2011-04-05Add casts from int4 and int8 to numeric.Robert Haas
Joey Adams, per gripe from Ramanujam. Review by myself and Tom Lane.
2011-04-04Centralise release note items related to recovery and replicationSimon Riggs
2011-04-04Update comments and credit doc proofreadersSimon Riggs
2011-04-04Merge synchronous_replication setting into synchronous_commit.Robert Haas
This means one less thing to configure when setting up synchronous replication, and also avoids some ambiguity around what the behavior should be when the settings of these variables conflict. Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me.