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19 years agoUpdate comments for new encoding names.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:19:13 +0000 (00:19 +0000)]
Update comments for new encoding names.

19 years agoAdd missing identification comment, remove entirely inappropriate include
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:32:26 +0000 (23:32 +0000)]
Add missing identification comment, remove entirely inappropriate include
of postgres.h.

19 years agoAdd some missing #includes.
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:27:38 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
Add some missing #includes.

19 years agoIncrement all major version numbers in 8.0.X to force recompile of
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:04:29 +0000 (22:04 +0000)]
Increment all major version numbers in 8.0.X to force recompile of
client aplications so 7.4.X releases can be installed on the same
machine as 8.0.X.

19 years agoForgot that I had intended to replace division by masking in hash calculation.
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:59:40 +0000 (19:59 +0000)]
Forgot that I had intended to replace division by masking in hash calculation.

19 years agoRemove CENTER tag.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:27:53 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
Remove CENTER tag.

19 years agoMake default_with_oids default to false -- user-created tables will now
Neil Conway [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:36:31 +0000 (09:36 +0000)]
Make default_with_oids default to false -- user-created tables will now
no longer include OIDs, unless WITH OIDS is specified or the
default_with_oids configuration parameter is enabled. Update the docs
accordingly.

19 years agoMore ordering adjustments.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:31:04 +0000 (05:31 +0000)]
More ordering adjustments.

19 years agoUpdate obsolete comment.
Neil Conway [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:19:26 +0000 (05:19 +0000)]
Update obsolete comment.

19 years agoFix markup.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:16:33 +0000 (05:16 +0000)]
Fix markup.

19 years agoMore markup changes.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:11:49 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
More markup changes.

19 years agoMore cleanups.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:35:06 +0000 (04:35 +0000)]
More cleanups.

19 years agoMore improvements.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:10:23 +0000 (04:10 +0000)]
More improvements.

19 years agoMore additions to the table.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:44:51 +0000 (03:44 +0000)]
More additions to the table.

19 years agoKeep changing the markup until I like it. :-)
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:02:08 +0000 (03:02 +0000)]
Keep changing the markup until I like it.  :-)

19 years agoMore table markup improvements.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:54:34 +0000 (02:54 +0000)]
More table markup improvements.

19 years agoMore table markup fixes.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:33:03 +0000 (02:33 +0000)]
More table markup fixes.

19 years agoRework "aliases" column for encodings.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:20:50 +0000 (02:20 +0000)]
Rework "aliases" column for encodings.

19 years agoFix markup typo.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:07:04 +0000 (02:07 +0000)]
Fix markup typo.

19 years agoAdd missing conversion documentation for certain encodings.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:02:44 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
Add missing conversion documentation for certain encodings.

19 years agoReorder documented encodings to be alphabetical.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:30:59 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
Reorder documented encodings to be alphabetical.

Remove warning about pre-7.2 LATIN5 usage.

19 years agoDocument aliases for our supported encodings.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:26:30 +0000 (01:26 +0000)]
Document aliases for our supported encodings.

Add a few encodings that were not documented.

19 years agoWhen cloning template0 (or other fully-frozen databases), set the new
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:33:55 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
When cloning template0 (or other fully-frozen databases), set the new
database's datallowconn and datfrozenxid to the current transaction ID
instead of copying the source database's values.  This is OK because we
assume the source DB contains no normal transaction IDs whatsoever.
This keeps VACUUM from immediately starting to complain about unvacuumed
databases in the situation where we are more than 2 billion transactions
out from the XID stamp of template0.  Per discussion with Milen Radev
(although his complaint turned out to be due to something else, but the
problem is real anyway).

19 years agoFix ALTER DATABASE RENAME to allow the operation if user is a superuser
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:11:50 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
Fix ALTER DATABASE RENAME to allow the operation if user is a superuser
who for some reason isn't marked usecreatedb.  Per report from Alexander
Pravking.  Also fix sloppy coding in have_createdb_privilege().

19 years agoAdjust the API for aggregate function calls so that a C-coded function
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:25:06 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
Adjust the API for aggregate function calls so that a C-coded function
can tell whether it is being used as an aggregate or not.  This allows
such a function to avoid re-pallocing a pass-by-reference transition
value; normally it would be unsafe for a function to scribble on an input,
but in the aggregate case it's safe to reuse the old transition value.
Make int8inc() do this.  This gets a useful improvement in the speed of
COUNT(*), at least on narrow tables (it seems to be swamped by I/O when
the table rows are wide).  Per a discussion in early December with
Neil Conway.  I also fixed int_aggregate.c to check this, thereby
turning it into something approaching a supportable technique instead
of being a crude hack.

19 years agoAdd pg_buffercache contrib module, from Mark Kirkwood.
Neil Conway [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:36:24 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
Add pg_buffercache contrib module, from Mark Kirkwood.

19 years agoSome builds (depends on crypto engine support?) of OpenSSL
Neil Conway [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:53:54 +0000 (06:53 +0000)]
Some builds (depends on crypto engine support?) of OpenSSL
0.9.7x have EVP_DigestFinal function which which clears all of
EVP_MD_CTX.  This makes pgcrypto crash in functions which
re-use one digest context several times: hmac() and crypt()
with md5 algorithm.

Following patch fixes it by carring the digest info around
EVP_DigestFinal and re-initializing cipher.

Marko Kreen.

19 years agoDocumention all our supported encodings.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 06:28:17 +0000 (06:28 +0000)]
Documention all our supported encodings.

19 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:41:38 +0000 (05:41 +0000)]
Done:

<  o Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage
>  o -Allow COPY FROM ... CSV to interpret newlines and carriage

19 years agoHandle carriage returns and line feeds in COPY CSV mode.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:41:34 +0000 (05:41 +0000)]
Handle carriage returns and line feeds in COPY CSV mode.

Andrew Dunstan

19 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:25:49 +0000 (05:25 +0000)]
Done:

* -Add a warning when the free space map is too small

19 years agoAdd warning about the need to increase "max_fsm_relations" and
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:21:52 +0000 (05:21 +0000)]
Add warning about the need to increase "max_fsm_relations" and
"max_fsm_relations" for vacuums.  Also improve VACUUM VERBOSE final
message text.

Ron Mayer

19 years agoFix snprintf() to properly handle precision specification for %f.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:00:56 +0000 (04:00 +0000)]
Fix snprintf() to properly handle precision specification for %f.

19 years agoFix problem with infinite recursion between write_syslogger_file and
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:54:44 +0000 (01:54 +0000)]
Fix problem with infinite recursion between write_syslogger_file and
elog if the former has trouble writing its file.  Code review for
Magnus' patch to redirect stderr to syslog on Windows (Bruce's version
seems right, but did some minor prettification).

Backpatch both changes to 8.0 branch.

19 years agoHere's the patch to fix a lot of markup errors in the HTML FAQs. Doesn't
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:46:54 +0000 (21:46 +0000)]
Here's the patch to fix a lot of markup errors in the HTML FAQs. Doesn't
change content (at least not supposed to).

Magnus Hagander

19 years agoAdd fprintf() custom version to libpgport.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:13:43 +0000 (19:13 +0000)]
Add fprintf() custom version to libpgport.

Document use of macros for pg_printf functions.

Bump major versions of all interfaces to handle movement of get_progname
from libpq to libpgport in 8.0, and probably other libpgport changes in 8.1.

19 years agoDefine snprintf() to call pg_snprintf() so our own snprintf-like
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:20:35 +0000 (17:20 +0000)]
Define snprintf() to call pg_snprintf() so our own snprintf-like
implementation doesn't export out via libpq and get used by a user
application.

19 years agoAdd 'static' to initdb.c file-global variables.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:36:27 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
Add 'static' to initdb.c file-global variables.

19 years agoMark file-global function and variables as static.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:25:31 +0000 (15:25 +0000)]
Mark file-global function and variables as static.

19 years agoFix typos.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:09:39 +0000 (13:09 +0000)]
Fix typos.

Hashem Masoud

19 years agoFix typos.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:59:16 +0000 (11:59 +0000)]
Fix typos.

Robert Treat

19 years agoFix typos.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:43:45 +0000 (11:43 +0000)]
Fix typos.

Robert Treat

19 years agoFix typo.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:42:03 +0000 (11:42 +0000)]
Fix typo.

19 years agoSlight refactoring and optimization of some code in WaitOnLock().
Neil Conway [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:52:06 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
Slight refactoring and optimization of some code in WaitOnLock().

19 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:45:25 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
Add:

> * Fix cross-compiling of time zone database via 'zic'

19 years agoMake the behavior of HAVING without GROUP BY conform to the SQL spec.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:21:26 +0000 (23:21 +0000)]
Make the behavior of HAVING without GROUP BY conform to the SQL spec.
Formerly, if such a clause contained no aggregate functions we mistakenly
treated it as equivalent to WHERE.  Per spec it must cause the query to
be treated as a grouped query of a single group, the same as appearance
of aggregate functions would do.  Also, the HAVING filter must execute
after aggregate function computation even if it itself contains no
aggregate functions.

19 years agoAdd spinlock support for Itanium processor with Intel compiler.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:41:01 +0000 (21:41 +0000)]
Add spinlock support for Itanium processor with Intel compiler.

Vikram Kalsi

19 years agoRefactor fork()-related code. We need to do various housekeeping tasks
Neil Conway [Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:14:03 +0000 (07:14 +0000)]
Refactor fork()-related code. We need to do various housekeeping tasks
before we can invoke fork() -- flush stdio buffers, save and restore the
profiling timer on Linux with LINUX_PROFILE, and handle BeOS stuff. This
patch moves that code into a single function, fork_process(), instead of
duplicating it at the various callsites of fork().

This patch doesn't address the EXEC_BACKEND case; there is room for
further cleanup there.

19 years agoAdd comma.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:27:31 +0000 (13:27 +0000)]
Add comma.

19 years agoFix markup of URL.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 8 Mar 2005 03:52:57 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
Fix markup of URL.

19 years agoAdd URL for patches queues.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 8 Mar 2005 01:15:33 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
Add URL for patches queues.

19 years agoUnbreak out-of-tree builds, by fixing a typo.
Neil Conway [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:18:06 +0000 (23:18 +0000)]
Unbreak out-of-tree builds, by fixing a typo.

19 years agoReplace an instance of $Id$ and an instance of $Header$ with $PostgreSQL$
Neil Conway [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:59:43 +0000 (22:59 +0000)]
Replace an instance of $Id$ and an instance of $Header$ with $PostgreSQL$

19 years agoProperly implement "Response files" for bcc. Add URL's to describe the
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:10:58 +0000 (21:10 +0000)]
Properly implement "Response files" for bcc.  Add URL's to describe the
feature for Win32 and bcc.

19 years agoAdjust creation/destruction of TupleDesc data structure to reduce the
Tom Lane [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:42:17 +0000 (04:42 +0000)]
Adjust creation/destruction of TupleDesc data structure to reduce the
number of palloc calls.  This has a salutory impact on plpgsql operations
with record variables (which create and destroy tupdescs constantly)
and probably helps a bit in some other cases too.

19 years agoRename canonical encodings, per Peter:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:30:55 +0000 (04:30 +0000)]
Rename canonical encodings, per Peter:

UNICODE => UTF8
ALT => WIN866
WIN => WIN1251
TCVN => WIN1258

The old codes continue to work.

19 years agoHere's a tiny fix for a harmless typo in catalog.c:
Neil Conway [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 04:15:34 +0000 (04:15 +0000)]
Here's a tiny fix for a harmless typo in catalog.c:

Too much space is allocated for tablespace file path, I guess the
directory name used to be "pg_tablespaces" instead of "pg_tblspc" at
some point.

Heikki Linnakangas

19 years agoAdd a note that regression test row ordering differences can be caused
Tom Lane [Mon, 7 Mar 2005 02:00:28 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
Add a note that regression test row ordering differences can be caused
by non-default planner parameter settings.

19 years agoRevise hash join code so that we can increase the number of batches
Tom Lane [Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:15:05 +0000 (22:15 +0000)]
Revise hash join code so that we can increase the number of batches
on-the-fly, and thereby avoid blowing out memory when the planner has
underestimated the hash table size.  Hash join will now obey the
work_mem limit with some faithfulness.  Per my recent proposal
(hash aggregate part isn't done yet though).

19 years agoPrevent rank change in case of duplicate search terms
Teodor Sigaev [Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:48:32 +0000 (15:48 +0000)]
Prevent rank change in case of duplicate search terms

19 years agoReplace the BufMgrLock with separate locks on the lookup hashtable and
Tom Lane [Fri, 4 Mar 2005 20:21:07 +0000 (20:21 +0000)]
Replace the BufMgrLock with separate locks on the lookup hashtable and
the freelist, plus per-buffer spinlocks that protect access to individual
shared buffer headers.  This requires abandoning a global freelist (since
the freelist is a global contention point), which shoots down ARC and 2Q
as well as plain LRU management.  Adopt a clock sweep algorithm instead.
Preliminary results show substantial improvement in multi-backend situations.

19 years agoMove snprintf int64 compatibility letters into a NOT_USED block.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:56:53 +0000 (23:56 +0000)]
Move snprintf int64 compatibility letters into a NOT_USED block.

19 years agoFix misspelling of sysctl, per Stefan Hans.
Tom Lane [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 19:58:54 +0000 (19:58 +0000)]
Fix misspelling of sysctl, per Stefan Hans.

19 years agoUse test && test rather than test -a, per Peter.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:42:35 +0000 (15:42 +0000)]
Use test && test rather than test -a, per Peter.

19 years agoFix for %I64d snprintf.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:32:39 +0000 (15:32 +0000)]
Fix for %I64d snprintf.

19 years agosnprintf() %I64d code fix.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:07:09 +0000 (15:07 +0000)]
snprintf() %I64d code fix.

19 years agoUse our own snprintf() only if NLS is enabled, and support %qd and %I64d.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:48:22 +0000 (14:48 +0000)]
Use our own snprintf() only if NLS is enabled, and support %qd and %I64d.

19 years agoPrevent large allocation in snprintf to hold positional parameters.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 05:22:22 +0000 (05:22 +0000)]
Prevent large allocation in snprintf to hold positional parameters.
Allocated size based on format string.

19 years agoAnother go at making pred_test() handle all reasonable combinations
Tom Lane [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:10:53 +0000 (04:10 +0000)]
Another go at making pred_test() handle all reasonable combinations
of AND and OR clauses.  The key point here is that an OR on the
predicate side has to be treated gingerly: we may be able to prove
that the OR is implied even when no one of its components is implied.
For example (x OR y) implies (x OR y OR z) even though no one of x,
y, or z can be individually proven.  This code handles both the
example shown recently by Sergey Koshcheyev and the one shown last
October by Dawid Kuroczko.

19 years agoFix snprintf on Win32:
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:21:52 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Fix snprintf on Win32:

 *  If vsnprintf() is not before snprintf() in this file, snprintf()
 *  will call the system vsnprintf() on MinGW.

19 years agoMake port snprintf.c finally thread-safe.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:02:13 +0000 (00:02 +0000)]
Make port snprintf.c finally thread-safe.

19 years agoSGML improvements to the DML chapter.
Neil Conway [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:45:00 +0000 (23:45 +0000)]
SGML improvements to the DML chapter.

19 years agoRelease proclock immediately in RemoveFromWaitQueue() if it represents
Tom Lane [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 21:14:59 +0000 (21:14 +0000)]
Release proclock immediately in RemoveFromWaitQueue() if it represents
no held locks.  This maintains the invariant that proclocks are present
only for procs that are holding or awaiting a lock; when this is not
true, LockRelease will fail.  Per report from Stephen Clouse.

19 years agoAllow Trace_lock_oidmin to be set to zero; this is a reasonable
Tom Lane [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:23:34 +0000 (20:23 +0000)]
Allow Trace_lock_oidmin to be set to zero; this is a reasonable
representation of not wanting tracing to be limited by object OID.

19 years agoSimplify/clean up code for varlena types
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:40:04 +0000 (15:40 +0000)]
Simplify/clean up code for varlena types

19 years agoMake snprintf() use already-defined int64/uint64 typedefs rather than
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 05:47:28 +0000 (05:47 +0000)]
Make snprintf() use already-defined int64/uint64 typedefs rather than
defining its own.

19 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 05:00:20 +0000 (05:00 +0000)]
Done:

> * -Make src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe

19 years agoAdjust OR indexscan logic to not generate redundant condition-free OR
Tom Lane [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:40:05 +0000 (01:40 +0000)]
Adjust OR indexscan logic to not generate redundant condition-free OR
indexscans involving partial indexes.  These would always be dominated
by a simple indexscan on such an index, so there's no point in considering
them.  Fixes overoptimism in a patch I applied last October.

19 years agoAnd while we are on it, I would like to submit minor
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:38:11 +0000 (00:38 +0000)]
And while we are on it, I would like to submit minor
changes to make snprintf() vsnprintf() and printf()
functions in src/port/snprintf.c thread-safe.

Nicolai Tufar

19 years agoRevert the logic for expanding AND/OR conditions in pred_test() to what
Tom Lane [Tue, 1 Mar 2005 00:24:52 +0000 (00:24 +0000)]
Revert the logic for expanding AND/OR conditions in pred_test() to what
it was in 7.4, and add some comments explaining why it has to be this way.
I broke it for OR'd index predicates in a fit of code cleanup last summer.
Per example from Sergey Koshcheyev.

19 years agoUn-break configure snprintf tests (partly my fault, partly Bruce's).
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:55:18 +0000 (20:55 +0000)]
Un-break configure snprintf tests (partly my fault, partly Bruce's).

19 years agoMove PGAC_FUNC_PRINTF_ARG_CONTROL to just above snprintf 64-bit tests so
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:36:05 +0000 (20:36 +0000)]
Move PGAC_FUNC_PRINTF_ARG_CONTROL to just above snprintf 64-bit tests so
its output can be used to select the proper printf outputs.

19 years agosnprintf.c has no sys/ioctl.h. Trivial patch below:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:16:16 +0000 (14:16 +0000)]
snprintf.c has no sys/ioctl.h. Trivial patch below:

Magnus Hagander

19 years agoImplement max() and min() aggregates for array types. Patch from Koju
Neil Conway [Mon, 28 Feb 2005 03:45:24 +0000 (03:45 +0000)]
Implement max() and min() aggregates for array types. Patch from Koju
Iijima, reviewed by Neil Conway. Catalog version number bumped,
regression tests updated.

19 years agoBecause the change to gettext. Needs a bunch of new includes. Patch
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:57:17 +0000 (22:57 +0000)]
Because the change to gettext. Needs a bunch of new includes. Patch
follows:

Magnus Hagander

19 years agoTab indent all actions in bcc32.mak, and do it on win32.mak too for
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:39:52 +0000 (22:39 +0000)]
Tab indent all actions in bcc32.mak, and do it on win32.mak too for
consistency.  Backpatch only bcc32.mak to 8.0.X.

19 years agoAdd explicit casts between int4 and boolean. Patch from Sean Chittenden,
Neil Conway [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:31:30 +0000 (08:31 +0000)]
Add explicit casts between int4 and boolean. Patch from Sean Chittenden,
editorializing by Neil Conway. Catalog version bumped.

19 years agoRename planner stats detail to avoid label confict.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:17:34 +0000 (01:17 +0000)]
Rename planner stats detail to avoid label confict.

19 years agoCause Win32 to output to the event log rather than stderr by default.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:02:57 +0000 (01:02 +0000)]
Cause Win32 to output to the event log rather than stderr by default.

Magnus Hagander

19 years agoAllow Win32 to support the O_SYNC open flag as an wal_sync_method method.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:53:29 +0000 (00:53 +0000)]
Allow Win32 to support the O_SYNC open flag as an wal_sync_method method.

Magnus Hagander

19 years agoAdd documentation on how statistics are used by the planner.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:49:28 +0000 (00:49 +0000)]
Add documentation on how statistics are used by the planner.

Mark Kirkwood

19 years agoAdd routines to dbsize to return the index size and total relation size.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:31:15 +0000 (23:31 +0000)]
Add routines to dbsize to return the index size and total relation size.
Improve documentation.

Ed L.

19 years agoAdjust OS-specific kernel settings to mention old and new BSD methods of
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:19:05 +0000 (23:19 +0000)]
Adjust OS-specific kernel settings to mention old and new BSD methods of
adjusting values:

> But to be on the safe side, it would make sense to do something similar
> to the BSD section, and comment about older distributions maybe needing
> to manipulate /proc/kernel/* directly.

Mark Kirkwood

19 years agoFinish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hack
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:43:34 +0000 (18:43 +0000)]
Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hack
in favor of looking at the flat file copy of pg_database during backend
startup.  This should finally eliminate the various corner cases in which
backend startup fails unexpectedly because it isn't able to distinguish
live and dead tuples in pg_database.  Simplify locking on pg_database
to be similar to the rules used with pg_shadow and pg_group, and eliminate
FlushRelationBuffers operations that were used only to reduce the odds
of failure of GetRawDatabaseInfo.
initdb forced due to addition of a trigger to pg_database.

19 years agoClarify PGPASSWORD usage:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:39:04 +0000 (18:39 +0000)]
Clarify PGPASSWORD usage:

! authentication.  Use of this environment variable is not
! recommended for security reasons (some operating systems
! allow non-root users to see process environment variables via
! <application>ps</>); instead consider using  the
! <filename>~/.pgpass</> file (see <xref linkend="libpq-pgpass">).

19 years agoCorrect overstatement in locking docs: we said ExclusiveLock is never
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 18:37:17 +0000 (18:37 +0000)]
Correct overstatement in locking docs: we said ExclusiveLock is never
taken automatically, but this is only true with respect to user tables.

19 years agoState PGPASSWORD is "not recommended" rather than "depricated".
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:21:40 +0000 (14:21 +0000)]
State PGPASSWORD is "not recommended" rather than "depricated".

19 years agoIn accordance to
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:13:29 +0000 (16:13 +0000)]
In accordance to
http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=2045361

change TimeATD to/from Datum macros.

Re-initdb is needed.

19 years agoAdd linking from /port to bcc makefile.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:57:33 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
Add linking from /port to bcc makefile.

19 years agoFix float8->int64 transformation
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:03:04 +0000 (14:03 +0000)]
Fix float8->int64 transformation