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19 years agoRemove justify_hours call from interval_mul and interval_div, and make
Tom Lane [Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:13:07 +0000 (17:13 +0000)]
Remove justify_hours call from interval_mul and interval_div, and make
some small stylistic improvements in these functions.  Also fix several
places where TMODULO() was being used with wrong-sized quotient argument,
creating a risk of overflow --- interval2tm was actually capable of going
into an infinite loop because of this.

19 years agoSmall grammar correction.
Tom Lane [Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:47:51 +0000 (15:47 +0000)]
Small grammar correction.

19 years agoFix Windows setitimer() emulation to not depend on delivering an APC
Tom Lane [Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:15:16 +0000 (15:15 +0000)]
Fix Windows setitimer() emulation to not depend on delivering an APC
to the main thread.  This allows removal of WaitForSingleObjectEx() calls
from the main thread, thereby allowing us to re-enable Qingqing Zhou's
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS performance improvement.  Qingqing, Magnus, et al.

19 years agoUpdate 24 hours/1 day distinction in release notes.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:12:22 +0000 (15:12 +0000)]
Update 24 hours/1 day distinction in release notes.

19 years agoChange trace_sort to output to the log, rather than the user's terminal.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:47:08 +0000 (13:47 +0000)]
Change trace_sort to output to the log, rather than the user's terminal.

19 years agoUpdate the URL for "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation".
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:38:09 +0000 (13:38 +0000)]
Update the URL for "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation".

Sergey E. Koposov

19 years agoIBM has addressed the socket address storage issue as of AIX 5.3
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:30:35 +0000 (22:30 +0000)]
IBM has addressed the socket address storage issue as of AIX 5.3
maintenance level 5300-03; the following patch adds documentation to
FAQ_AIX.

Chris Browne

19 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:08:52 +0000 (18:08 +0000)]
Add:

> * Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain
>   constraints

19 years agoMore forcefully recommend MD5 over crypt authentication.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:49:54 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
More forcefully recommend MD5 over crypt authentication.

19 years agoFix incorrect wording about function failure time on unsafe ops - these
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:39:50 +0000 (15:39 +0000)]
Fix incorrect wording about function failure time on unsafe ops - these
are now caught by the validator. And a small visit from the perl style police:
check the return value from open().

19 years agoI have applied the following patch to document PQinitSSL() and
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:38:37 +0000 (15:38 +0000)]
I have applied the following patch to document PQinitSSL() and
PQregisterThreadLock().

I also remove the crypt() mention in the libpq threading section and
added a single sentence in the client-auth manual page under crypt().
Crypt authentication is so old now that a separate paragraph about it
seemed unwise.

I also added a comment about our use of locking around pqGetpwuid().

19 years agoEnsure that a plpgsql LOOP with an empty body still executes at least
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:10:22 +0000 (15:10 +0000)]
Ensure that a plpgsql LOOP with an empty body still executes at least
one CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call, so that you can control-C out of the
loop.  Reported by Merlin Moncure.

19 years agoA bit of minor copy-editing.
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:29:49 +0000 (19:29 +0000)]
A bit of minor copy-editing.

19 years agoI've confirmed 8.1beta4 passes regression tests on all hardware platforms
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:30:49 +0000 (18:30 +0000)]
I've confirmed 8.1beta4 passes regression tests on all hardware platforms
of RHEL 4.  Update supported-platforms list accordingly.

19 years agoupdate configure and bugtemplate for beta 4 ... REL8_1_0BETA4
PostgreSQL Daemon [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:46:33 +0000 (22:46 +0000)]
update configure and bugtemplate for beta 4 ...

19 years agoAdd a note about GNU tar's propensity to complain if a file changes
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:09:49 +0000 (22:09 +0000)]
Add a note about GNU tar's propensity to complain if a file changes
while tar is copying it.  This behavior is unhelpful when taking a base
backup.  Per gripe from Pallav Kalva back in April.

19 years agoCopy-editing for recent documentation changes relevant to WAL,
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:56:07 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
Copy-editing for recent documentation changes relevant to WAL,
full_page_writes, etc.

19 years agoMake code for selecting default WAL sync method less confusing.
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:27:17 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
Make code for selecting default WAL sync method less confusing.

19 years agoFix documentation to specify the correct range of timezone offsets for
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:33:57 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
Fix documentation to specify the correct range of timezone offsets for
type time with time zone, ie, +/- 13:59 not +/- 12:00.  Also some minor
wording improvements.

19 years agoTemporarily disable Qingqing's Windows signal processing patch, so that
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:09:48 +0000 (17:09 +0000)]
Temporarily disable Qingqing's Windows signal processing patch, so that
WaitForSingleObjectEx is always called by CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS.  This
should be reinstated but the setitimer() emulation will have to be
redesigned first.

19 years agoFix typo.
Alvaro Herrera [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:44:35 +0000 (14:44 +0000)]
Fix typo.

19 years agominor code cleanup - replace useless struct timezone argument to
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:27:29 +0000 (14:27 +0000)]
minor code cleanup - replace useless struct timezone argument to
gettimeofday with NULL in a few places, making it consistent with
usage elsewhere.

19 years agoImprove performance of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() macro on Windows by not doing
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:43:46 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Improve performance of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() macro on Windows by not doing
a kernel call unless there's some evidence of a pending signal.  This should
bring its performance on Windows into line with the Unix version.  Problem
diagnosis and patch by Qingqing Zhou.  Minor stylistic tweaks by moi ...
if it's broken, it's my fault.

19 years agoClean up autovacuum documentation, which was a bit out of sync with what
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:39:08 +0000 (19:39 +0000)]
Clean up autovacuum documentation, which was a bit out of sync with what
the code actually does, and needed copy-editing anyway.  Also take the
opportunity to expand the section on routine reindexing.

19 years agoFix EXPLAIN ANALYZE bug noted by Wiebe Cazemier: although we were
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:43:33 +0000 (16:43 +0000)]
Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE bug noted by Wiebe Cazemier: although we were
properly advancing the CommandCounter between multiple sub-queries
generated by rules, we forgot to update the snapshot being used, so
that the successive sub-queries didn't actually see each others'
results.  This is still not *exactly* like the semantics of normal
execution of the same queries, in that we don't take new transaction
snapshots and hence don't see changes from concurrently committed
commands, but I think that's OK and probably even preferable for
EXPLAIN ANALYZE.

19 years agoAdd an implicit cast from varchar to regclass, so that existing code
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:45:06 +0000 (15:45 +0000)]
Add an implicit cast from varchar to regclass, so that existing code
of the form nextval('foo'::varchar) doesn't break.  Per gripe from
Jean-Pierre Pelletier.  Initdb forced :-(

19 years agoAdd missing PQinitSSL and PQregisterThreadLock to exports.txt.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:21:21 +0000 (15:21 +0000)]
Add missing PQinitSSL and PQregisterThreadLock to exports.txt.

19 years agoUpdate obsolete URL, per Chris.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:59:05 +0000 (13:59 +0000)]
Update obsolete URL, per Chris.

19 years agoMinor PL/PgSQL doc tweak: use current_timestamp rather than now() in
Neil Conway [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 05:11:23 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
Minor PL/PgSQL doc tweak: use current_timestamp rather than now() in
an example function.

19 years agoClean up some obsolete statements about GiST indexes, and add a section
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:41:28 +0000 (01:41 +0000)]
Clean up some obsolete statements about GiST indexes, and add a section
documenting GiST crash recovery procedures, as requested some time ago
by Teodor.  (The GiST chapter doesn't seem quite the right place for
the latter, but I'm not sure what else to do with it.)

19 years agoImprove testlibpq3.c's example of PQexecParams() usage to include sending
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:57:52 +0000 (23:57 +0000)]
Improve testlibpq3.c's example of PQexecParams() usage to include sending
a parameter in binary format.  Also, add a TIP explaining how to use casts
in the query text to avoid needing to specify parameter types by OID.
Also fix bogus spacing --- apparently somebody expanded the tabs in the
example programs to 8 spaces instead of 4 when transposing them into SGML.

19 years agoMinor tweak to libpq documentation: make "PREPARE" and "DEALLOCATE" xrefs.
Neil Conway [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:04:14 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
Minor tweak to libpq documentation: make "PREPARE" and "DEALLOCATE" xrefs.

19 years agoPostpone pg_timezone_initialize() until after creation of postmaster.pid,
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:05:45 +0000 (20:05 +0000)]
Postpone pg_timezone_initialize() until after creation of postmaster.pid,
since it can take a fair amount of time and this can confuse boot scripts
that expect postmaster.pid to appear quickly.  Move initialization of SSL
library and preloaded libraries to after that point, too, just for luck.
Per reports from Tony Caduto and others.

19 years agoDocument the behavior of GRANT/REVOKE in cases where the privilege is
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:18:01 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
Document the behavior of GRANT/REVOKE in cases where the privilege is
held by means of role membership, rather than directly.  Per discussion
and bug fix of a couple weeks ago.

19 years agoAdjust not-too-sane calculation of DDD value for to_char(interval).
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:59:46 +0000 (15:59 +0000)]
Adjust not-too-sane calculation of DDD value for to_char(interval).
Per gripe from Chris Matheson.

19 years agoClean up md5.c to make it clearer that it is a frontend-and-backend
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:54:08 +0000 (13:54 +0000)]
Clean up md5.c to make it clearer that it is a frontend-and-backend
module.  Don't rely on backend palloc semantics; in fact, best to not
use palloc at all, rather than #define'ing it to malloc, because that
just encourages errors of omission.  Bug spotted by Volkan YAZICI,
but I went further than he did to fix it.

19 years agoMake \d order a table's check constraints by constraint name instead
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:15:09 +0000 (05:15 +0000)]
Make \d order a table's check constraints by constraint name instead
of the text of the constraint condition.  Per Chris K-L, though I didn't
use his patch exactly.

19 years agoBetter solution to the problem of labeling whole-row Datums that are
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:30:30 +0000 (22:30 +0000)]
Better solution to the problem of labeling whole-row Datums that are
generated from subquery outputs: use the type info stored in the Var
itself.  To avoid making ExecEvalVar and slot_getattr more complex
and slower, I split out the whole-row case into a separate ExecEval routine.

19 years agoEnsure that the Datum generated from a whole-row Var contains valid
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:18:33 +0000 (18:18 +0000)]
Ensure that the Datum generated from a whole-row Var contains valid
type ID information even when it's a record type.  This is needed to
handle whole-row Vars referencing subquery outputs.  Per example from
Richard Huxton.

19 years agoFix oversight in recent changes to enable the 'physical tlist'
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:31:20 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
Fix oversight in recent changes to enable the 'physical tlist'
optimization for subquery and function scan nodes: we can't just do it
unconditionally, we still have to check whether there is any need for
a whole-row Var.  I had been thinking that these node types couldn't
have any system columns, which is true, but that loop is also checking
for attno zero, ie, whole-row Var.  Fix comment to not be so misleading.
Per test case from Richard Huxton.

19 years agoImprove trace_sort code to also show the total memory or disk space used.
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:59:37 +0000 (22:59 +0000)]
Improve trace_sort code to also show the total memory or disk space used.
Per request from Marc.

19 years agoreplace use of predefined perl vars $a and $b with $x and $y - per Greg Sabino Mullane
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:53:54 +0000 (22:53 +0000)]
replace use of predefined perl vars $a and $b with $x and $y - per Greg Sabino Mullane

19 years agoAdd an entry to the discussion of regression test failures about the
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:43:33 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Add an entry to the discussion of regression test failures about the
possibility of a failure due to stack overflow when max_stack_depth is
not set properly for the platform.

19 years agoCode review for regexp_replace patch. Improve documentation and comments,
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:38:58 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
Code review for regexp_replace patch.  Improve documentation and comments,
fix problems with replacement-string backslashes that aren't followed by
one of the expected characters, avoid giving the impression that
replace_text_regexp() is meant to be called directly as a SQL function,
etc.

19 years agoCode review for spi_query/spi_fetchrow patch: handle errors sanely,
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:13:14 +0000 (17:13 +0000)]
Code review for spi_query/spi_fetchrow patch: handle errors sanely,
avoid leaking memory.  I would add a regression test for error handling
except it seems eval{} can't be used in unprivileged plperl :-(

19 years agoWhen a cursor is opened using dblink_open, only start a transaction
Joe Conway [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:55:49 +0000 (02:55 +0000)]
When a cursor is opened using dblink_open, only start a transaction
if there isn't one already open. Upon dblink_close, only commit
the open transaction if it was started by dblink_open, and only
then when all cursors opened by dblink_open are closed. The transaction
accounting is done individually for all named connections, plus
the persistent unnamed connection.

19 years agoFix several contrib makefiles that failed in VPATH builds, particularly
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:30:49 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
Fix several contrib makefiles that failed in VPATH builds, particularly
when not using gcc (which has slightly nonstandard inclusion rules).

19 years agoA few trivial code cleanups motivated by reading warnings generated
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:06:24 +0000 (01:06 +0000)]
A few trivial code cleanups motivated by reading warnings generated
by a recent HP C compiler.  Mostly, get rid of useless local variables
that are assigned to but never used.

19 years agoClean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
Tom Lane [Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:24:20 +0000 (16:24 +0000)]
Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming the
exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'.
Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines
altogether.

19 years agoAdd note that some versions of OS X require SHMMAX to be an exact multiple
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:22:12 +0000 (21:22 +0000)]
Add note that some versions of OS X require SHMMAX to be an exact multiple
of 4096.  Also add comment explaining why we don't suggest using
/etc/sysctl.conf to avoid needing to edit /etc/rc.

19 years agoAdd space after description.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:26:00 +0000 (18:26 +0000)]
Add space after description.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

19 years agokerberos error message: localhost -> server hostname
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:27:19 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
kerberos error message: localhost -> server hostname

19 years agoSuppress warnings on platforms where fprintf is a macro (eg, recent
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:37:36 +0000 (20:37 +0000)]
Suppress warnings on platforms where fprintf is a macro (eg, recent
Fedora).  This was already done by somebody for the core flex files,
but these contrib files seem to have been missed.

19 years agoFix bogus error test in get_ti_Oid().
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:28:59 +0000 (20:28 +0000)]
Fix bogus error test in get_ti_Oid().

19 years agoFix unportable struct initializations.
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:24:00 +0000 (20:24 +0000)]
Fix unportable struct initializations.

19 years agoRemove a long comment from cvs.sgml -- AFAICS this is no longer useful,
Neil Conway [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:15:48 +0000 (20:15 +0000)]
Remove a long comment from cvs.sgml -- AFAICS this is no longer useful,
or at any rate doesn't belong as a comment in a random SGML file.

19 years agoFix assorted typos in the documentation, and use American spelling
Neil Conway [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:12:33 +0000 (20:12 +0000)]
Fix assorted typos in the documentation, and use American spelling
rather than British. Patch from Michael Fuhr.

19 years agoFix thinko in pg_read_file: testing for negative result is not the way
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:47:09 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
Fix thinko in pg_read_file: testing for negative result is not the way
to determine whether fread() failed.

19 years agoUpdate 'supported platforms' list with current buildfarm results.
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:59:38 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
Update 'supported platforms' list with current buildfarm results.

19 years agoFix kerberos description: localhost -> server hostname.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:29:24 +0000 (15:29 +0000)]
Fix kerberos description: localhost -> server hostname.

19 years agoStandard pgindent run for 8.1.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:49:52 +0000 (02:49 +0000)]
Standard pgindent run for 8.1.

19 years agoUpdate pgindent typedef list.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 02:14:22 +0000 (02:14 +0000)]
Update pgindent typedef list.

19 years agoMerge some user-submitted suggestions for improvement into the
Neil Conway [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:47:12 +0000 (01:47 +0000)]
Merge some user-submitted suggestions for improvement into the
documentation. Mostly add some <xref>s, fix a few typos, and
document that zlib is required in the installation docs.

19 years agoFix typo.
Alvaro Herrera [Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:15:33 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
Fix typo.

19 years agoFix syslog bug: if any messages are emitted to write_syslog before
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:53:56 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
Fix syslog bug: if any messages are emitted to write_syslog before
the facility has been set, the facility gets set to LOCAL0 and cannot
be changed later.  This seems reasonably plausible to happen, particularly
at higher debug log levels, though I am not certain it explains Han Holl's
recent report.  Easiest fix is to teach the code how to change the value
on-the-fly, which is nicer anyway.  I made the settings PGC_SIGHUP to
conform with log_destination.

19 years agofix nonsensical summary row on example
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:48:18 +0000 (20:48 +0000)]
fix nonsensical summary row on example

19 years agoPass a strdup'd ident string to openlog(), to ensure that reallocation
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:41:02 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
Pass a strdup'd ident string to openlog(), to ensure that reallocation
of GUC memory doesn't cause us to start emitting a bogus ident string.
Per report from Han Holl.  Also some trivial code cleanup in write_syslog.

19 years agoAllow times of 24:00:00 to match rounding behavior:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:47:57 +0000 (11:47 +0000)]
Allow times of 24:00:00 to match rounding behavior:

regression=# select '23:59:59.9'::time(0);
   time
----------
 24:00:00
(1 row)

This is bad because:

regression=# select '24:00:00'::time(0);
ERROR:  date/time field value out of range: "24:00:00"

The last example now works.

19 years agoAdd documentation mentioning that there are separate regression tests
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:41:07 +0000 (23:41 +0000)]
Add documentation mentioning that there are separate regression tests
for the PL languages and for contrib.

19 years agoImprove documentation about CREATEROLE privilege.
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:26:00 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
Improve documentation about CREATEROLE privilege.

19 years agoFix uppercase TRUE/FALSE that are WIN32 stuffl.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:22:11 +0000 (23:22 +0000)]
Fix uppercase TRUE/FALSE that are WIN32 stuffl.

19 years agoUpdate regression output for new prepare transaction error messages.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:12:04 +0000 (23:12 +0000)]
Update regression output for new prepare transaction error messages.

19 years agoMake stack_base_ptr non-static, for PL/Java.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:57:27 +0000 (22:57 +0000)]
Make stack_base_ptr non-static, for PL/Java.

19 years agoThis makes the error messages for PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:55:55 +0000 (22:55 +0000)]
This makes the error messages for PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
etc. match the docs, which talk about "transaction identifier" not
"gid" or "global transaction identifier".

Steve Woodcock

19 years agoUpdate krb_server_name to document that a missing entry defaults to
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:55:19 +0000 (22:55 +0000)]
Update krb_server_name to document that a missing entry defaults to
'localhost'.

Improve kerberos error message.

19 years agoUpdate documentation to reflect the new ALTER OWNER rules for all
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:44:51 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
Update documentation to reflect the new ALTER OWNER rules for all
affected types of objects.

19 years agoDescribe the behavior of the SQL_ASCII encoding more accurately.
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:43:43 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Describe the behavior of the SQL_ASCII encoding more accurately.

19 years agoAdjust the discussion of triggers to more clearly guide people in the
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:09:38 +0000 (21:09 +0000)]
Adjust the discussion of triggers to more clearly guide people in the
direction of writing triggers in a procedural language, rather than C.
Per discussion.

19 years agoThe patch updates the documentation to reflect the fact that higher values
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:58:42 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
The patch updates the documentation to reflect the fact that higher values
of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.

We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR.  When running a file like

SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';

DROP TABLE doesntexist;

with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.

Kris Jurka

19 years agoEnable threaded python builds on freebsd5, per report from Jim C. Nasby
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:40:04 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
Enable threaded python builds on freebsd5, per report from Jim C. Nasby

19 years agoTurn off list of tables, figures, and examples.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:10:03 +0000 (20:10 +0000)]
Turn off list of tables, figures, and examples.

19 years agoGo back to emitting path names with forward slashes on Windows.
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:58:44 +0000 (17:58 +0000)]
Go back to emitting path names with forward slashes on Windows.
I'm not clear on what the double-backslash idea was intended to fix,
but it breaks at least mingw GNU Make.  Per report from Thomas Hallgren.

19 years agoBack out this because of fear of changing error strings:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:57:57 +0000 (17:57 +0000)]
Back out this because of fear of changing error strings:

This makes the error messages for PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
etc. match the docs, which talk about "transaction identifier" not
"gid" or "global transaction identifier".

Steve Woodcock

19 years agoThis makes the error messages for PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:57:17 +0000 (17:57 +0000)]
This makes the error messages for PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED
etc. match the docs, which talk about "transaction identifier" not
"gid" or "global transaction identifier".

Steve Woodcock

19 years agoRewording, use the more common multi-threaded/single-threaded.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:55:18 +0000 (17:55 +0000)]
Rewording, use the more common multi-threaded/single-threaded.

19 years agoClarify causes of possible mismatch between Win32 libraries and
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:46:18 +0000 (17:46 +0000)]
Clarify causes of possible mismatch between Win32 libraries and
applications that use FILE pointers.

19 years agoSome additional doc changes based around compression of page images in
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:32:42 +0000 (17:32 +0000)]
Some additional doc changes based around compression of page images in
WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.

The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.

Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.

Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml

Simon Riggs

19 years agoMark xslt_process() as volatile.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:10:14 +0000 (16:10 +0000)]
Mark xslt_process() as volatile.

19 years agoUse get_progname() in backend main.c, rather than port-specific hack
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:37:14 +0000 (15:37 +0000)]
Use get_progname() in backend main.c, rather than port-specific hack
that is too fragile.

19 years agoFix small oversight in recent patch to add more CREATE-FUNCTION-time
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:34:19 +0000 (15:34 +0000)]
Fix small oversight in recent patch to add more CREATE-FUNCTION-time
syntax checking to plpgsql: check_sql_expr() wasn't being called by
make_select_stmt(), so that there was no SQL syntax check for SELECT
statements.

19 years agoChange xpath_table() and xslt_process() from IMMUTABLE to STABLE.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:58:33 +0000 (14:58 +0000)]
Change xpath_table() and xslt_process() from IMMUTABLE to STABLE.

19 years agoFix capitalization of example.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:44:58 +0000 (14:44 +0000)]
Fix capitalization of example.

19 years agoRemove an antiquated comment.
Neil Conway [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:24:05 +0000 (06:24 +0000)]
Remove an antiquated comment.

19 years agoAdd a comment describing the requirement that pointers into shared memory
Neil Conway [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:17:34 +0000 (06:17 +0000)]
Add a comment describing the requirement that pointers into shared memory
that is protected by a spinlock must be volatile, per recent discussion.

19 years agoUpdate trigger demo to reflect new trigger ordering.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:23:12 +0000 (02:23 +0000)]
Update trigger demo to reflect new trigger ordering.

19 years agoRemove extra <para>
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:00:09 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
Remove extra <para>

19 years agoUpdate:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:23:49 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
Update:

> * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
>   PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
>   it has so we need a way to prevent it
>

19 years agoDon't try to remove duplicate OR-subclauses in create_bitmap_subplan and
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:06:46 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
Don't try to remove duplicate OR-subclauses in create_bitmap_subplan and
make_restrictinfo_from_bitmapqual.  The likelihood of finding duplicates
seems much less than in the AND-subclause case, and the cost much higher,
because OR lists with hundreds or even thousands of subclauses are not
uncommon.  Per discussion with Ilia Kantor and andrew@supernews.

19 years agoFix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr.
Tom Lane [Wed, 12 Oct 2005 23:19:22 +0000 (23:19 +0000)]
Fix spelling error, per Michael Fuhr.

19 years agoRemove item:
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:39:35 +0000 (22:39 +0000)]
Remove item:

< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
<   One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
<   surrounded by quotes.
<