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2011-11-18Further review of range-types patch.Tom Lane
Lots of documentation cleanup today, and still more type_sanity tests.
2011-11-17Extend the unknowns-are-same-as-known-inputs type resolution heuristic.Tom Lane
For a very long time, one of the parser's heuristics for resolving ambiguous operator calls has been to assume that unknown-type literals are of the same type as the other input (if it's known). However, this was only used in the first step of quickly checking for an exact-types match, and thus did not help in resolving matches that require coercion, such as matches to polymorphic operators. As we add more polymorphic operators, this becomes more of a problem. This patch adds another use of the same heuristic as a last-ditch check before failing to resolve an ambiguous operator or function call. In particular this will let us define the range inclusion operator in a less limited way (to come in a follow-on patch).
2011-11-17Remove ancient downcasing code from procedural language operations.Robert Haas
A very long time ago, language names were specified as literals rather than identifiers, so this code was added to do case-folding. But that style has ben deprecated for many years so this isn't needed any more. Language names will still be downcased when specified as unquoted identifiers, but quoted identifiers or the old style using string literals will be left as-is.
2011-11-14Return NULL instead of throwing error when desired bound is not available.Tom Lane
Change range_lower and range_upper to return NULL rather than throwing an error when the input range is empty or the relevant bound is infinite. Per discussion, throwing an error seems likely to be unduly hard to work with. Also, this is more consistent with the behavior of the constructors, which treat NULL as meaning an infinite bound.
2011-11-14Return FALSE instead of throwing error for comparisons with empty ranges.Tom Lane
Change range_before, range_after, range_adjacent to return false rather than throwing an error when one or both input ranges are empty. The original definition is unnecessarily difficult to use, and also can result in undesirable planner failures since the planner could try to compare an empty range to something else while deriving statistical estimates. (This was, in fact, the cause of repeatable regression test failures on buildfarm member jaguar, as well as intermittent failures elsewhere.) Also tweak rangetypes regression test to not drop all the objects it creates, so that the final state of the regression database contains some rangetype objects for pg_dump testing.
2011-11-12Add psql expanded auto modePeter Eisentraut
This adds the "auto" option to the \x command, which switches to the expanded mode when the normal output would be wider than the screen. reviewed by Noah Misch
2011-11-10Correct documentation for trace_userlocks.Robert Haas
2011-11-10Revert removal of trace_userlocks, because userlocks aren't gone.Robert Haas
This reverts commit 0180bd6180511875db046bf8ddcaa633a2952dfd. contrib/userlock is gone, but user-level locking still exists, and is exposed via the pg_advisory* family of functions.
2011-11-10Document that PQexec() can handle a NULL res pointer just fine.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.1. Mark Hills
2011-11-08Adjust range type docs for some last-minute changes I made to the patch.Heikki Linnakangas
non_empty(anyrange) function was removed, empty(anyrange) was renamed to isempty(anyrange), and !? operators were removed.
2011-11-08-DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0 should be in CPPFLAGS, not CFLAGSPeter Eisentraut
2011-11-07Remove hstore's text => text operator.Robert Haas
Since PostgreSQL 9.0, we've emitted a warning message when an operator named => is created, because the SQL standard now reserves that token for another use. But we've also shipped such an operator with hstore. Use of the function hstore(text, text) has been recommended in preference to =>(text, text). Per discussion, it's now time to take the next step and stop shipping the operator. This will allow us to prohibit the use of => as an operator name in a future release if and when we wish to support the SQL standard use of this token. The release notes should mention this incompatibility. Patch by me, reviewed by David Wheeler, Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane.
2011-11-07Minor grammar improvements.Robert Haas
2011-11-04Fix archive_command examplePeter Eisentraut
The given archive_command example didn't use %p or %f, which wouldn't really work in practice.
2011-11-04Add note about using GNU tar warning options for base backupsPeter Eisentraut
2011-11-03Role membership of superusers is only by explicit membership for HBA.Andrew Dunstan
Document that this rule applies to 'samerole' as well as to named roles. Per gripe from Tom Lane.
2011-11-03Do not treat a superuser as a member of every role for HBA purposes.Andrew Dunstan
This makes it possible to use reject lines with group roles. Andrew Dunstan, reviewd by Robert Haas.
2011-11-03Support range data types.Heikki Linnakangas
Selectivity estimation functions are missing for some range type operators, which is a TODO. Jeff Davis
2011-11-03Improve docs for timing and skipping of checkpointsSimon Riggs
Greg Smith
2011-11-01Document that multiple LDAP servers can be specifiedMagnus Hagander
2011-10-28Clarify that ORDER BY/FOR UPDATE can't malfunction at higher iso levels.Robert Haas
Kevin Grittner
2011-10-28Change "and and" to "and".Robert Haas
Report by Vik Reykja, patch by Kevin Grittner.
2011-10-26Typo fixes.Tom Lane
expect -> except, noted by Andrew Dunstan. Also, "cannot" seems more readable here than "can not", per David Wheeler.
2011-10-26Implement streaming xlog for backup toolsMagnus Hagander
Add option for parallel streaming of the transaction log while a base backup is running, to get the logfiles before the server has removed them. Also add a tool called pg_receivexlog, which streams the transaction log into files, creating a log archive without having to wait for segments to complete, thus decreasing the window of data loss without having to waste space using archive_timeout. This works best in combination with archive_command - suggested usage docs etc coming later.
2011-10-25Fix typoMagnus Hagander
2011-10-25Support configurable eventlog application names on WindowsMagnus Hagander
This allows different instances to use the eventlog with different identifiers, by setting the event_source GUC, similar to how syslog_ident works. Original patch by MauMau, heavily modified by Magnus Hagander
2011-10-22Support synchronization of snapshots through an export/import procedure.Tom Lane
A transaction can export a snapshot with pg_export_snapshot(), and then others can import it with SET TRANSACTION SNAPSHOT. The data does not leave the server so there are not security issues. A snapshot can only be imported while the exporting transaction is still running, and there are some other restrictions. I'm not totally convinced that we've covered all the bases for SSI (true serializable) mode, but it works fine for lesser isolation modes. Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Marko Tiikkaja, and rather heavily modified by Tom Lane
2011-10-19Document that postmaster.opts is excluded from base backupsRobert Haas
Fujii Masao
2011-10-18Make the CHECKPOINT reference page more clear.Robert Haas
Josh Kupershmidt, reviewed by Fujii Masao
2011-10-16Avoid assuming that index-only scan data matches the index's rowtype.Tom Lane
In general the data returned by an index-only scan should have the datatypes originally computed by FormIndexDatum. If the index opclasses use "storage" datatypes different from their input datatypes, the scan tuple will not have the same rowtype attributed to the index; but we had a hard-wired assumption that that was true in nodeIndexonlyscan.c. We'd already hacked around the issue for the one case where the types are different in btree indexes (btree name_ops), but this would definitely come back to bite us if we ever implement index-only scans in GiST. To fix, require the index AM to explicitly provide the tupdesc for the tuple it is returning. btree can just pass back the index's tupdesc, but GiST will have to work harder when and if it supports index-only scans. I had previously proposed fixing this by allowing the index AM to fill the scan tuple slot directly; but on reflection that seemed like a module layering violation, since TupleTableSlots are creatures of the executor. At least in the btree case, it would also be less efficient, since the tuple deconstruction work would occur even for rows later found to be invisible to the scan's snapshot.
2011-10-16Teach btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively.Tom Lane
This allows "indexedcol op ANY(ARRAY[...])" conditions to be used in plain indexscans, and particularly in index-only scans.
2011-10-15Marginal improvements to documentation of plpgsql's OPEN cursor statement.Tom Lane
Rearrange text to improve clarity, and add an example of implicit reference to a plpgsql variable in a bound cursor's query. Byproduct of some work I'd done on the "named cursor parameters" patch before giving up on it.
2011-10-15Document that is the psql version number, not the server version number,Bruce Momjian
that controls .psqlrc.
2011-10-15Improve doc wording of drop table permission.Bruce Momjian
2011-10-14Allow a major PG version psql .psqlrc file to be used if a minorBruce Momjian
matching version file does not exist. This avoids needing to rename .psqlrc files after minor version upgrades.
2011-10-14Measure the number of all-visible pages for use in index-only scan costing.Tom Lane
Add a column pg_class.relallvisible to remember the number of pages that were all-visible according to the visibility map as of the last VACUUM (or ANALYZE, or some other operations that update pg_class.relpages). Use relallvisible/relpages, instead of an arbitrary constant, to estimate how many heap page fetches can be avoided during an index-only scan. This is pretty primitive and will no doubt see refinements once we've acquired more field experience with the index-only scan mechanism, but it's way better than using a constant. Note: I had to adjust an underspecified query in the window.sql regression test, because it was changing answers when the plan changed to use an index-only scan. Some of the adjacent tests perhaps should be adjusted as well, but I didn't do that here.
2011-10-13Document actual string that has to be returned by the client for MD5Bruce Momjian
authentication. Report and pseudo code by Cyan Ogilvie
2011-10-13Remove all "traces" of trace_userlocks, because userlocks were removedBruce Momjian
in PG 8.2.
2011-10-13Update documentation about ts_rank().Bruce Momjian
2011-10-13Have pg_ctl return an exit status of 3 if the server is not running, toBruce Momjian
match the Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1. Aaron W. Swenson
2011-10-13Fix typo in dummy_seclabel documentation.Tom Lane
dummy_label -> dummy_seclabel Thom Brown
2011-10-13Document who can drop a table (owner and user with permissions).Bruce Momjian
2011-10-13Remove tab in sgml file.Bruce Momjian
2011-10-12Document how to accent Alvaro Herrera in the release notes.Bruce Momjian
2011-10-12Clarify wording of foreign key documentation to mention null entries asBruce Momjian
not matching the primary key. Report from Marek.Balgar@seznam.cz
2011-10-12Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql.Tom Lane
We have seen one too many reports of people trying to use 9.1 extension files in the old-fashioned way of sourcing them in psql. Not only does that usually not work (due to failure to substitute for MODULE_PATHNAME and/or @extschema@), but if it did work they'd get a collection of loose objects not an extension. To prevent this, insert an \echo ... \quit line that prints a suitable error message into each extension script file, and teach commands/extension.c to ignore lines starting with \echo. That should not only prevent any adverse consequences of loading a script file the wrong way, but make it crystal clear to users that they need to do it differently now. Tom Lane, following an idea of Andrew Dunstan's. Back-patch into 9.1 ... there is not going to be much value in this if we wait till 9.2.
2011-10-12Modify up/home macro to match standard parameter list; fixes doc build.Bruce Momjian
2011-10-12Improve documentation of psql's \q command.Tom Lane
The documentation neglected to explain its behavior in a script file (it only ends execution of the script, not psql as a whole), and failed to mention the long form \quit either.
2011-10-12Add Up/Home link to the top of the HTML doc output.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.0.X and 9.1.X.
2011-10-11Document that not backing up postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts mightBruce Momjian
help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused. Backpatch to 9.1.