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2008-07-14Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Consider allowing control of upper/lower case folding of unquoted identifiers > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00415.php
2008-07-14Done, per Simon:Bruce Momjian
< o Fix server restart problem when the server was shutdown during > o -Fix server restart problem when the server was shutdown during
2008-07-14Create a type-specific typanalyze routine for tsvector, which collects statsTom Lane
on the most common individual lexemes in place of the mostly-useless default behavior of counting duplicate tsvectors. Future work: create selectivity estimation functions that actually do something with these stats. (Some other things we ought to look at doing: using the Lossy Counting algorithm in compute_minimal_stats, and using the element-counting idea for stats on regular arrays.) Jan Urbanski
2008-07-12Fix a couple of stray misuses of "binary compatible".Tom Lane
2008-07-11Multi-column GIN indexes. Teodor SigaevTom Lane
2008-07-11Allow binary-coercible types for cast function arguments and return types.Peter Eisentraut
Document return type of cast functions. Also change documentation to prefer the term "binary coercible" in its present sense instead of the previous term "binary compatible".
2008-07-10Add unchangeable GUC "variables" segment_size, wal_block_size, andTom Lane
wal_segment_size to make those configuration parameters available to clients, in the same way that block_size was previously exposed. Bernd Helmle, with comments from Abhijit Menon-Sen and some further tweaking by me.
2008-07-07Added documentation for function xmlagg.Peter Eisentraut
2008-07-03Add a function pg_get_keywords() to let clients find out the set of keywordsTom Lane
known to the SQL parser. Dave Page
2008-07-03Don't print the name of the database in psql \z.Peter Eisentraut
2008-07-03Fix psql's \d and allied commands to work with all server versions back to 7.4.Tom Lane
Guillaume Lelarge, with some additional fixes by me.
2008-07-01Documentation patch by Kevin L. McBride explaining GUC lock variables,Bruce Momjian
which are available if LOCK_DEBUG is defined.
2008-07-01Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
* Add database and transaction-level triggers
2008-07-01Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Fix TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY so its affect on sequences is rolled > back on transaction abort
2008-06-30Add psql TODO:Bruce Momjian
> o Add "auto" expanded mode that outputs in expanded format if > "wrapped" mode can't wrap the output to the screen width > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00417.php >
2008-06-30Add psql TODO item:Bruce Momjian
> o Add option to wrap column values at whitespace boundaries, > rather than chopping them at a fixed width. > Currently, "wrapped" format chops values into fixed > widths. Perhaps the word wrapping could use the same > algorithm documented in the W3C specification. > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00404.php > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#auto-table-layout
2008-06-30Turn PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE into a GUC variable, track_activity_query_size.Heikki Linnakangas
As the buffer could now be a lot larger than before, and copying it could thus be a lot more expensive than before, use strcpy instead of memcpy to copy the query string, as was already suggested in comments. Also, only copy the PgBackendStatus struct and string if the slot is in use. Patch by Thomas Lee, with some changes by me.
2008-06-27Mention actual function names in documentation of how to pass binaryBruce Momjian
values to libpq.
2008-06-27Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Fix system views like pg_stat_all_tables to use set-returning > functions, rather than views of per-column functions
2008-06-27Clarify plpgsql documentation by not treating IF THEN ELSE IF ... as aTom Lane
truly distinct version of IF. Per suggestion from Marko Kreen.
2008-06-26Use SGML table to show backslash string escapes, rather than have themBruce Momjian
appear in a paragraph. Andy Anderson
2008-06-26Add MERGE TODO URL:Bruce Momjian
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01890.php
2008-06-26Add TODO about security:Bruce Momjian
* Improve server security options http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01875.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-05/msg00000.php
2008-06-26More FAQ URL updates from Curtis Gallant.Bruce Momjian
2008-06-26Update FAQ URLs as suggested by Curtis Gallant.Bruce Momjian
2008-06-26Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > * Improve LDAP authentication configuration options > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01745.php
2008-06-26Remove use of postmaster.opts.default by pg_ctl.Bruce Momjian
2008-06-24TODO item done:Bruce Momjian
< o Prevent pg_dump/pg_restore from being affected by > o -Prevent pg_dump/pg_restore from being affected by
2008-06-23Add TODO:Bruce Momjian
> > o Allow COPY to report errors sooner > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg01169.php
2008-06-23Add URL for Merge.Bruce Momjian
2008-06-23Backup wording improvement.Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake
2008-06-23Add to TODO:Bruce Momjian
> * Allow custom variables to appear in pg_settings()
2008-06-23Add item:Bruce Momjian
* Implement a module capability for loading /contrib-style extensions http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00164.php
2008-06-23Add libpq comment about how to determine the format used for passingBruce Momjian
binary values. Add comments to libpq C function for parameter passing.
2008-06-23Add TODO:Bruce Momjian
* Consider whether duplicate keys should be sorted by block/offset http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00558.php Create new "Sorting" TODO section.
2008-06-19Add URL for:Bruce Momjian
o Allow pg_hba.conf to specify host names along with IP addresses > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00569.php
2008-06-18Fix a few typos in the DTrace docs. Patch from Euler Taveira de Oliveira,Neil Conway
along with an additional typo I noticed along the way.
2008-06-16Rewrite docs section about routine vacuuming --- it's gotten rather mangled ofTom Lane
late, with lots of redundancy, bad grammar, and just plain poor exposition. Make it clear that autovacuum is now considered the normal solution.
2008-06-15Rearrange ALTER TABLE syntax processing as per my recent proposal: theTom Lane
grammar allows ALTER TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW interchangeably for all subforms of those commands, and then we sort out what's really legal at execution time. This allows the ALTER SEQUENCE/VIEW reference pages to fully document all the ALTER forms available for sequences and views respectively, and eliminates a longstanding cause of confusion for users. The net effect is that the following forms are allowed that weren't before: ALTER SEQUENCE OWNER TO ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT ALTER VIEW OWNER TO ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA (There's no actual functionality gain here, but formerly you had to say ALTER TABLE instead.) Interestingly, the grammar tables actually get smaller, probably because there are fewer special cases to keep track of. I did not disallow using ALTER TABLE for these operations. Perhaps we should, but there's a backwards-compatibility issue if we do; in fact it would break existing pg_dump scripts. I did however tighten up ALTER SEQUENCE and ALTER VIEW to reject non-sequences and non-views in the new cases as well as a couple of cases where they didn't before. The patch doesn't change pg_dump to use the new syntaxes, either.
2008-06-14In log_filename documentation, mention that strftime is not used directly toAlvaro Herrera
expand the pattern specifier. Per gripe from Josh Drake.
2008-06-13Modify TODO entry to be a function:Bruce Momjian
> o Add functions to syntax check configuration files > < * Add pg_ctl option to do a syntax check of postgresql.conf
2008-06-12Use macro to document size of ecpg sqlerrmc string.Bruce Momjian
2008-06-12Update item to mention target list problem:Bruce Momjian
< * Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING inside a SELECT 'FROM' clause > * Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING inside a SELECT 'FROM' clause or > target list > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00124.php
2008-06-11Add:Bruce Momjian
> * Add pg_ctl option to do a syntax check of postgresql.conf
2008-06-11Add optional on/off argument to \timing.Heikki Linnakangas
David Fetter.
2008-06-10Make XML building work silently on VPATH builds (untested on regular builds).Alvaro Herrera
2008-06-09Update Japanese FAQ.Bruce Momjian
Jun Kuwamura
2008-06-08Update release notes for ALTER AGGREGATE fix.Tom Lane
2008-06-07Update release notes for 8.3.3 et al.Tom Lane
2008-06-05Fix missing "not", per Frank Millman (bug #4212).Alvaro Herrera