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2010-07-29Work around a documentation toolchain problem by replacing the "AIX-fixlevels"Tom Lane
table with a <variablelist> carrying the same information. Previously the 9.0 documentation was failing to build as a US-size PDF file. It's quite obscure what the real problem is or why this avoids it, but we need a hack now so we can build docs for beta4. In passing do a bit of editing in the AIX installation docs, in particular remove a long-obsolete claim that the regression tests are likely to fail.
2010-07-27Fix typo in PL/pgsql code example.Robert Haas
Backpatch to 8.4. Marc Cousin. Review by Kevin Grittner.
2010-07-27Spelling fixesPeter Eisentraut
2010-07-26Fix grammarPeter Eisentraut
backpatched to 8.1
2010-07-26Add table creation and population to examplePeter Eisentraut
from John Gage
2010-07-25Add INSERT statement to example so that it can be reproducedPeter Eisentraut
from John Gage
2010-07-25Prevent pg_upgrade from migrating databases that use reg* data typesBruce Momjian
where the oid is not preserved by pg_upgrade (everything but pg_type). Update documentation. Per bug report from depstein@alliedtesting.com.
2010-07-24Fix typoPeter Eisentraut
2010-07-24Tidy up boolean data type pagePeter Eisentraut
by Thom Brown
2010-07-16Fix typo spotted by Thom Brown.Heikki Linnakangas
2010-07-16Add a paragraph explaining what restartpoints are. Mention thatHeikki Linnakangas
wal_keep_segments does not take effect during recovery. Fujii Masao
2010-07-14Use an <xref> for restore_command reference. Marko TiikkajaTom Lane
2010-07-14Allow full SSL certificate verification (wherein libpq checks its host nameTom Lane
parameter against server cert's CN field) to succeed in the case where both host and hostaddr are specified. As with the existing precedents for Kerberos, GSSAPI, SSPI, it is the calling application's responsibility that host and hostaddr match up --- we just use the host name as given. Per bug #5559 from Christopher Head. In passing, make the error handling and messages for the no-host-name-given failure more consistent among these four cases, and correct a lie in the documentation: we don't attempt to reverse-lookup host from hostaddr if host is missing. Back-patch to 8.4 where SSL cert verification was introduced.
2010-07-10Clarify that "psql -c" ignores psqlrc files.Robert Haas
Tim Landscheidt
2010-07-08Update release notes for 9.0 beta 3.Bruce Momjian
2010-07-08Some small changes for plperl.sgml:Peter Eisentraut
- wrapped long code-lines, for pdf - typo Erik Rijkers
2010-07-08Install safeguard against running PL/Python 2 and 3 in the same sessionPeter Eisentraut
2010-07-08Doc change: effected -> affected, per correction from Matthew WakelingBruce Momjian
2010-07-08Add a cross-reference to precedence information to CREATE OPERATOR'sTom Lane
documentation. Per suggestion from Marc Cousin.
2010-07-08Add support for TCP keepalives on Windows, both for backend and the newMagnus Hagander
libpq support.
2010-07-07Document the interaction of write-barrier-enabled file systems, and BBUBruce Momjian
caches, per June email thread.
2010-07-06Make log_temp_files based on kB, and revert docs & comments to match.Robert Haas
Per extensive discussion on pgsql-hackers. We are deliberately not back-patching this even though the behavior of 8.3 and 8.4 is unquestionably broken, for fear of breaking existing users of this parameter. This incompatibility should be release-noted.
2010-07-06Add note that using PL/Python 2 and 3 in the same session will probably crashPeter Eisentraut
2010-07-06Support setting the keepalive idle time on MacOS X.Robert Haas
MacOS X uses TCP_KEEPALIVE rather than TCP_KEEPIDLE for this purpose. Thanks to Fujii Masao for the review.
2010-07-05Split the LDFLAGS make variable into two parts: LDFLAGS is now used forTom Lane
linking both executables and shared libraries, and we add on LDFLAGS_EX when linking executables or LDFLAGS_SL when linking shared libraries. This provides a significantly cleaner way of dealing with link-time switches than the former behavior. Also, make sure that the various platform-specific %.so: %.o rules incorporate LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_SL; most of them missed that before. (I did not add these variables for the platforms that invoke $(LD) directly, however. It's not clear if we can do that safely, since for the most part we assume these variables use CC command-line syntax.) Per gripe from Aaron Swenson and subsequent investigation.
2010-07-03Remove SGML tab.Bruce Momjian
2010-07-03Make vacuum_defer_cleanup_age be PGC_SIGHUP level, since it's not sensibleTom Lane
to have different values in different processes of the primary server. Also put it into the "Streaming Replication" GUC category; it doesn't belong in "Standby Servers" because you use it on the master not the standby. In passing also correct guc.c's idea of wal_keep_segments' category.
2010-07-03Replace max_standby_delay with two parameters, max_standby_archive_delay andTom Lane
max_standby_streaming_delay, and revise the implementation to avoid assuming that timestamps found in WAL records can meaningfully be compared to clock time on the standby server. Instead, the delay limits are compared to the elapsed time since we last obtained a new WAL segment from archive or since we were last "caught up" to WAL data arriving via streaming replication. This avoids problems with clock skew between primary and standby, as well as other corner cases that the original coding would misbehave in, such as the primary server having significant idle time between transactions. Per my complaint some time ago and considerable ensuing discussion. Do some desultory editing on the hot standby documentation, too.
2010-07-03Document more clearly on XML namespaces inside xpath functionBruce Momjian
Nikolay Samokhvalov
2010-07-03Fix assorted misstatements and poor wording in the descriptions of the I/OTom Lane
formats for geometric types. Per bug #5536 from Jon Strait, and my own testing. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this doco has been wrong right along -- we certainly haven't changed the I/O behavior of these types in many years.
2010-07-03Additional cross-references to window functions documentation.Robert Haas
Erik Rijkers
2010-07-02Remove hstore % text[] operator; use slice() function instead.Robert Haas
David Wheeler, with one small correction by me.
2010-07-01Update 9.0 release notes so streaming replication and hot standby is notBruce Momjian
assumed to require continuous archiving. Per report from Fujii Masao
2010-06-30Correct missing/misspelled surname.Andrew Dunstan
2010-06-30Document that /bin/true on Windows is implemented by 'REM'.Bruce Momjian
2010-06-29In documentation, use "lower case"/"upper case" consistently (use spaceBruce Momjian
between words).
2010-06-29Document that shared_preload_libraries and local_preload_librariesBruce Momjian
lowercase the library names, unless double-quoted.
2010-06-29Add compatibility note warning that plpgsql is now stricter about the columnTom Lane
datatypes of composite results, per gripe from Marcel Asio. Some desultory copy-editing of plpgsql-related sections of the release notes.
2010-06-29Add note clarifying that XML fragments don't accept DTDsPeter Eisentraut
per complaint from Craig Ringer
2010-06-28Fix doc double-wording in non-durable patch.Bruce Momjian
Report from Thom Brown
2010-06-28Add new Non-Durable Settings documentation section.Bruce Momjian
Document that synchronous_commit can lose transactions in a db crash, not just a OS crash.
2010-06-28Add guidelines for formatting errcontext stringsPeter Eisentraut
2010-06-28Remove tab from SGML.Bruce Momjian
2010-06-25Rewrite docs for new libpq keepalive parameters.Robert Haas
The revised documentation makes it more clear that these are client-side parameters, rather than server side parameters. It also puts the main point of each parameter first, and consolidates the conditions under which it might be ignored in a single list at the end.
2010-06-25Make AIX suggestions about disabling ipv6 more version-sensitive.Robert Haas
Chris Browne, based on a report from John Pierce.
2010-06-25Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.Simon Riggs
stat(2) field st_size returns bytes not kilobytes. Bug found during recent performance tuning for PostgreSQL user.
2010-06-24Some copy-editing of the Hot Standby documentation.Robert Haas
Thanks to Joshua Tolley for the review.
2010-06-24Further 9.0 release notes updates.Robert Haas
Josh Berkus
2010-06-24Mention that when alter rewrites a table, indexes are also rebuilt.Bruce Momjian
2010-06-23Add TCP keepalive support to libpq.Robert Haas
This adds four additional connection parameters to libpq: keepalives, keepalives_idle, keepalives_count, and keepalives_interval. keepalives default to on, per discussion, but can be turned off by specifying keepalives=0. The remaining parameters, where supported, can be used to adjust how often keepalives are sent and how many can be lost before the connection is broken. The immediate motivation for this patch is to make sure that walreceiver will eventually notice if the master reboots without closing the connection cleanly, but it should be helpful in other cases as well. Tollef Fog Heen, Fujii Masao, and me.