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17 years agoStamp 8.2, except configure.in.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 04:12:39 +0000 (04:12 +0000)]
Stamp 8.2, except configure.in.

17 years agoUpdate for release 8.2.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 04:12:11 +0000 (04:12 +0000)]
Update for release 8.2.

17 years agoWording refinement for external references in man pages.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:26:19 +0000 (01:26 +0000)]
Wording refinement for external references in man pages.

17 years agoDon't ship spi_* man pages. (We don't do that anyway, but now it's automatic.)
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:25:50 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
Don't ship spi_* man pages.  (We don't do that anyway, but now it's automatic.)

17 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:16:16 +0000 (01:16 +0000)]
Translation updates

17 years agoPut release date in release notes.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:46:46 +0000 (00:46 +0000)]
Put release date in release notes.

17 years agoAdd some documentation for DTrace support. Simon Riggs
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:42:54 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Add some documentation for DTrace support.  Simon Riggs

17 years agoMake Options for Windows a second-level heading instead of first-level.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:34:52 +0000 (00:34 +0000)]
Make Options for Windows a second-level heading instead of first-level.

17 years agoEditorial improvements for GIN documentation.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 23:46:46 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
Editorial improvements for GIN documentation.

17 years agoSome more supported-platforms updates: buildfarm hare is alive again,
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 21:17:51 +0000 (21:17 +0000)]
Some more supported-platforms updates: buildfarm hare is alive again,
and penguin reported in recently enough to justify the assumption that
we haven't broken ARM support in 8.2.

17 years agoDocument the recently-understood hazard that a rollback can release row-level
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 20:49:53 +0000 (20:49 +0000)]
Document the recently-understood hazard that a rollback can release row-level
locks that logically should not be released, because when a subtransaction
overwrites XMAX all knowledge of the previous lock state is lost.  It seems
unlikely that we will be able to fix this before 8.3...

17 years agoMake the bgwriter's error recovery path do smgrcloseall(). On Windows this
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:55:28 +0000 (19:55 +0000)]
Make the bgwriter's error recovery path do smgrcloseall().  On Windows this
should allow delete-pending files to actually go away, and thereby work
around the various complaints we've seen about 'permission denied'
errors in such cases.  Should be reasonably harmless in any case...

17 years agoEditorial improvements to backup and warm-standby documentation.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:29:15 +0000 (03:29 +0000)]
Editorial improvements to backup and warm-standby documentation.

17 years agoMinor wording improvements.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 03:19:48 +0000 (03:19 +0000)]
Minor wording improvements.

17 years agoAdjust the description of locking to clarify that locks held by a
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 01:04:36 +0000 (01:04 +0000)]
Adjust the description of locking to clarify that locks held by a
subtransaction are released if the subtransaction aborts --- in user-level
terminology, this means either rolling back to a savepoint or escaping from
a plpgsql exception block.  Per recent suggestion from Simon.

17 years agoBetter solution to the tr problem: use sed instead. Per Martijn and Andrew.
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:21:24 +0000 (22:21 +0000)]
Better solution to the tr problem: use sed instead.  Per Martijn and Andrew.

17 years agoImprove portability of 'tr' invocation in PGAC_ARG_CHECK. Reported by
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:44:12 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
Improve portability of 'tr' invocation in PGAC_ARG_CHECK.  Reported by
Olivier Prenant, fixed by Peter.

17 years agoUpdate supported-platforms list based on recent buildfarm results.
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:30:22 +0000 (21:30 +0000)]
Update supported-platforms list based on recent buildfarm results.

17 years agoFix typos
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:50:44 +0000 (20:50 +0000)]
Fix typos

17 years agoMinor adjustments to make failures in startup/shutdown behave more cleanly.
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:29:12 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
Minor adjustments to make failures in startup/shutdown behave more cleanly.
StartupXLOG and ShutdownXLOG no longer need to be critical sections, because
in all contexts where they are invoked, elog(ERROR) would be translated to
elog(FATAL) anyway.  (One change in bgwriter.c is needed to make this true:
set ExitOnAnyError before trying to exit.  This is a good fix anyway since
the existing code would have gone into an infinite loop on elog(ERROR) during
shutdown.)  That avoids a misleading report of PANIC during semi-orderly
failures.  Modify the postmaster to include the startup process in the set of
processes that get SIGTERM when a fast shutdown is requested, and also fix it
to not try to restart the bgwriter if the bgwriter fails while trying to write
the shutdown checkpoint.  Net result is that "pg_ctl stop -m fast" does
something reasonable for a system in warm standby mode, and so should Unix
system shutdown (ie, universal SIGTERM).  Per gripe from Stephen Harris and
some corner-case testing of my own.

17 years agoFix bug with page deletion. If inner page is removed and it tries to
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:22:32 +0000 (16:22 +0000)]
Fix bug with page deletion. If inner page is removed and it tries to
remove page on next level linked from next inner page, ginScanToDelete()
wrongly sets parent page. Bug reveals when many item pointers from index
was deleted ( several hundred thousands).

Bug is discovered by hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@gmail.com>

Suppose, we need rc2 before release...

17 years agoFix Makefile problem which prevented installation on VPATH builds.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:21:03 +0000 (21:21 +0000)]
Fix Makefile problem which prevented installation on VPATH builds.

17 years agoIgnore libedit/libreadline while probing for strlcpy and some other
Tom Lane [Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:12:31 +0000 (20:12 +0000)]
Ignore libedit/libreadline while probing for strlcpy and some other
standard functions.  Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.

17 years agoMore MSVC build support from Magnus.
Tom Lane [Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:49:31 +0000 (19:49 +0000)]
More MSVC build support from Magnus.

17 years agoSpelling fix
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:50:07 +0000 (14:50 +0000)]
Spelling fix

17 years agoAdd an example showing how to cope with mixed-case names in pg_dump
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:54:18 +0000 (22:54 +0000)]
Add an example showing how to cope with mixed-case names in pg_dump
switches.

17 years agoUpdate timezone data to tzdata2006p zic distribution. It seems Western
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:37:03 +0000 (19:37 +0000)]
Update timezone data to tzdata2006p zic distribution.  It seems Western
Australia decided to institute DST with one month's notice ... way to go,
politicians.

17 years agoMark to_char(timestamp without timezone) as stable, not immutable, since its
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:18:44 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
Mark to_char(timestamp without timezone) as stable, not immutable, since its
result now depends on the lc_messages setting, as noted by Bruce.
Also, mark to_number() and the numeric-type variants of to_char() as stable,
because their results depend on lc_numeric; this is a longstanding oversight.
Also, mark to_date() and to_char(interval) as stable; although these appear
not to depend on any GUC variables as of CVS HEAD, that seems a property
unlikely to survive future improvements.  It seems best to mark all the
formatting functions stable and be done with it.
catversion not bumped, because this does not seem critical enough to force
a post-RC1 initdb, and anyway we cannot do so in the back branches.

17 years agoFix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent does
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:54:42 +0000 (12:54 +0000)]
Fix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent does
not destroy them.  Maybe we can adjust pgindent sometime.

17 years agoAdd workaround for localizing May and abbreviated May differently. Idea
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:53:44 +0000 (12:53 +0000)]
Add workaround for localizing May and abbreviated May differently.  Idea
of Dennis Björklund.

17 years agoAlso install ecpg_config.h
Michael Meskes [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:44:06 +0000 (12:44 +0000)]
Also install ecpg_config.h

17 years agoAdd $(CFLAGS) to the simplified build rule for .so libraries on Darwin.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:45:43 +0000 (05:45 +0000)]
Add $(CFLAGS) to the simplified build rule for .so libraries on Darwin.
Arguably we should do this on *all* platforms, but for the moment Ill

17 years agoprotect vfprintf from hijacking by Windows gettext just like other members of the...
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:12:34 +0000 (01:12 +0000)]
protect vfprintf from hijacking by Windows gettext just like other members of the *printf family.

17 years agoFix inheritance description to note that not-null constraints are
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:09:01 +0000 (01:09 +0000)]
Fix inheritance description to note that not-null constraints are
inherited, per Taiki Yamaguchi.

17 years agoFix gratuitous message spelling differences
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:50:55 +0000 (15:50 +0000)]
Fix gratuitous message spelling differences

17 years agoMake pg_restore usage examples more useful: illustrate restoring into
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:11:11 +0000 (18:11 +0000)]
Make pg_restore usage examples more useful: illustrate restoring into
both the same database name and a different one.

17 years agoFix misspellings of GB.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:55:59 +0000 (22:55 +0000)]
Fix misspellings of GB.

17 years agoCorrect misspellings of kB.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 25 Nov 2006 22:44:48 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
Correct misspellings of kB.

17 years agoCosmetic release note fix.
Neil Conway [Sat, 25 Nov 2006 07:03:57 +0000 (07:03 +0000)]
Cosmetic release note fix.

17 years agoupdate for rc1 REL8_2_RC1
PostgreSQL Daemon [Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:34:13 +0000 (03:34 +0000)]
update for rc1

17 years agoCopy fsync() defines into test_fsync.c, someday place them in an
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:22:28 +0000 (01:22 +0000)]
Copy fsync() defines into test_fsync.c, someday place them in an
include.

Propery align for O_DIRECT.

Check for write()/fsync() failures.

17 years agoDocument that to_char() "TM" is controlled by lc_messages.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:38:53 +0000 (00:38 +0000)]
Document that to_char() "TM" is controlled by lc_messages.

17 years agoUpdate release notes for RC1.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:31:55 +0000 (23:31 +0000)]
Update release notes for RC1.

17 years agoFix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle state
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:06:50 +0000 (23:06 +0000)]
Fix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle state
(in particular, causing the ReadyForQuery message to be eaten) before
returning from do_copy.  The only known consequence of failing to do so is
that get_prompt might show a wrong result for the %x transaction status
escape, as reported by Bernd Helmle; but it's possible there are other issues.

Back-patch as far as 7.4, the oldest version supporting %x.

17 years agoRevert (too late in beta):
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:25:56 +0000 (22:25 +0000)]
Revert (too late in beta):

Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

17 years agoChange pg_stat_all_tables and sister views to put the recently-added
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 21:18:42 +0000 (21:18 +0000)]
Change pg_stat_all_tables and sister views to put the recently-added
vacuum/analyze timestamp columns at the end, rather than at a random
spot in the middle as in the original patch.  This was deemed more usable
as well as less likely to break existing application code.  initdb forced
accordingly.  In passing, remove former kluge for initializing
pg_stat_file()'s pg_proc entry --- bootstrap mode was fixed recently
so that this can be done without any hacks, but I overlooked this usage.

17 years agoMake contrib/isn pass the opr_sanity sanity checks: add missing
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:44:37 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
Make contrib/isn pass the opr_sanity sanity checks: add missing
commutator operators, and mark hash-opclass members as oprcanhash.
This is a pretty ugly, brute-force solution, but it seems that getting
rid of all these redundant-looking operators would require some tweaks
in the core operator-resolution code to behave nicely, and I'm not
willing to risk that just before RC1.

17 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:11:57 +0000 (17:11 +0000)]
Translation updates

17 years agoSeparate release preparation jobs for all releases and for major releases
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:03:50 +0000 (17:03 +0000)]
Separate release preparation jobs for all releases and for major releases

17 years agoFix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:26:18 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

17 years agoKB -> kB
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:20:12 +0000 (09:20 +0000)]
KB -> kB

17 years agoFix lowercasing while parse OO dictionary
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:35:14 +0000 (17:35 +0000)]
Fix lowercasing while parse OO dictionary

17 years agoRevert out:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:20:47 +0000 (17:20 +0000)]
Revert out:

Update fsync test to match new O_DIRECT behavior.

Greg Smith

17 years agoUpdate fsync test to match new O_DIRECT behavior.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:41:11 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
Update fsync test to match new O_DIRECT behavior.

Greg Smith

17 years agoUpdate wording:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:18:12 +0000 (16:18 +0000)]
Update wording:
> * Add a field 'isoyear' to extract(), based on the ISO week

17 years agoSpelling and related minor fixes for the GIN docs.
Neil Conway [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:58:01 +0000 (05:58 +0000)]
Spelling and related minor fixes for the GIN docs.

17 years agoUn-break ecpg regression test.
Tom Lane [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:47:48 +0000 (05:47 +0000)]
Un-break ecpg regression test.

17 years agoMore minor SGML improvements for xfunc.sgml, including making some
Neil Conway [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:43:32 +0000 (05:43 +0000)]
More minor SGML improvements for xfunc.sgml, including making some
titles more concise. (We usually don't need to repeat the name of a
section in the title of one of its subsections.)

17 years agoDocument that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:39:17 +0000 (05:39 +0000)]
Document that Kerberos is for authentication, and does not encrypt data
or queries over the network.

17 years agoFix a typo in recent xfunc addition, do some routine SGML police work.
Neil Conway [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:28:18 +0000 (05:28 +0000)]
Fix a typo in recent xfunc addition, do some routine SGML police work.

17 years agoAdd a comment noting that heap_copytuple_with_tuple() results in a
Neil Conway [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:27:18 +0000 (05:27 +0000)]
Add a comment noting that heap_copytuple_with_tuple() results in a
HeapTuple that is no longer allocated as a single palloc() block; if
used carelessly, this might result in a subsequent memory leak after
heap_freetuple().

17 years agoUpdate lock comments for concurrent index creation, analyze.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:14:04 +0000 (05:14 +0000)]
Update lock comments for concurrent index creation, analyze.

Walter Cruz

17 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:09:26 +0000 (05:09 +0000)]
Add:

> * Add ISO day of week format 'ID' to to_char() where Monday = 1
> * Add an ISO year field to extract() called 'isoyear'

17 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:01:47 +0000 (05:01 +0000)]
Add:

> * Allow SQL-language functions to return results from RETURNING queries

17 years agoMake ecpg test variable 'times' static so as not to conflict with libc
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:38:01 +0000 (04:38 +0000)]
Make ecpg test variable 'times' static so as not to conflict with libc
symbol.

17 years agoAdd "(assuming <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> is
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:27:33 +0000 (04:27 +0000)]
Add "(assuming <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> is
<literal>off</>)" clauses for bytea.

17 years agoShared Memory Hooks Documentation
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:52:05 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
Shared Memory Hooks Documentation

This patch, against xfunc.sgml, adds a new subsection 33.9.12, Shared
Memory and LWLocks in C-Language Functions, describing how shared memory
and lwlocks may be requested by C add-in functions.

Marc Munro

17 years agoAdd release entry for 8.1.5 that was missing:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:30:49 +0000 (03:30 +0000)]
Add release entry for 8.1.5 that was missing:

<listitem><para>Fix rare bug in continuous archiving (Tom)</para></listitem>

17 years agoSeveral changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory during
Tom Lane [Thu, 23 Nov 2006 01:14:59 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory during
AbortTransaction, which would lead to recursion and eventual PANIC exit
as illustrated in recent report from Jeff Davis.  First, in xact.c create
a special dedicated memory context for AbortTransaction to run in.  This
solves the problem as long as AbortTransaction doesn't need more than 32K
(or whatever other size we create the context with).  But in corner cases
it might.  Second, in trigger.c arrange to keep pending after-trigger event
records in separate contexts that can be freed near the beginning of
AbortTransaction, rather than having them persist until CleanupTransaction
as before.  Third, in portalmem.c arrange to free executor state data
earlier as well.  These two changes should result in backing off the
out-of-memory condition before AbortTransaction needs any significant
amount of memory, at least in typical cases such as memory overrun due
to too many trigger events or too big an executor hash table.  And all
the same for subtransaction abort too, of course.

17 years agoMore HA wording improvements.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:15:34 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
More HA wording improvements.

17 years agoUpdate HA docs with more wording improvements.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:14:26 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
Update HA docs with more wording improvements.

17 years agoWording and term clarification for HA docs, per Markus Schiltknecht.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:36:52 +0000 (17:36 +0000)]
Wording and term clarification for HA docs, per Markus Schiltknecht.

17 years agoAvoid infinity calculations in rank_cd
Teodor Sigaev [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:55:05 +0000 (15:55 +0000)]
Avoid infinity calculations in rank_cd

17 years agoMention OIDs are now not created by default.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:17:03 +0000 (04:17 +0000)]
Mention OIDs are now not created by default.

17 years agoNew async/sync multi-master headings for docs.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:01:40 +0000 (04:01 +0000)]
New async/sync multi-master headings for docs.

17 years agoNew async/sync multi-master headings for docs.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:00:19 +0000 (04:00 +0000)]
New async/sync multi-master headings for docs.

17 years agoAdd mention of shared-memory/disk for multi-master clustering.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:44:52 +0000 (03:44 +0000)]
Add mention of shared-memory/disk for multi-master clustering.

17 years agoGet rid of retail definitions of HAVE_STRDUP and HAVE_VSNPRINTF in
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:26:47 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
Get rid of retail definitions of HAVE_STRDUP and HAVE_VSNPRINTF in
some of the Windows-only makefiles; the correct place to assert these
things is pg_config.h.win32.  Per bug #2677.

17 years agoTranslate Windows' GMT Standard Time/GMT Daylight Time zones to
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:11:55 +0000 (23:11 +0000)]
Translate Windows' GMT Standard Time/GMT Daylight Time zones to
zic's Europe/London, rather than Europe/Dublin as before.  This seems
a less surprising choice, particularly with respect to dates before
1948.  Original suggestion was to translate to straight GMT, but this
seems wrong given that these zones *are* DST-aware.  Per offlist
discussion with Magnus.

17 years agoHA doc wording improvement.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:48:33 +0000 (22:48 +0000)]
HA doc wording improvement.

17 years agoPrevent intratransaction memory leak when a subtransaction is aborted
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:35:29 +0000 (22:35 +0000)]
Prevent intratransaction memory leak when a subtransaction is aborted
in the middle of executing a SPI query.  This doesn't entirely fix the
problem of memory leakage in plpgsql exception handling, but it should
get rid of the lion's share of leakage.

17 years agoSuppress timezone (%Z) part of timestamp display when running on Windows,
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:19:46 +0000 (22:19 +0000)]
Suppress timezone (%Z) part of timestamp display when running on Windows,
because on that platform strftime produces localized zone names in varying
encodings.  Even though it's only in a comment, this can cause encoding
errors when reloading the dump script.  Per suggestion from Andreas
Seltenreich.  Also, suppress %Z on Windows in the %s escape of
log_line_prefix ... not sure why this one is different from the other two,
but it shouldn't be.

17 years agoFix plpython to work (or at least pass its regression tests) with
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:51:05 +0000 (21:51 +0000)]
Fix plpython to work (or at least pass its regression tests) with
python 2.5.  This involves fixing several violations of the published
spec for creating PyTypeObjects, and adding another regression test
expected output for yet another variation of error message spelling.

17 years agoMention pgpool-II can do Clustering For Parallel Query Execution.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:37:33 +0000 (21:37 +0000)]
Mention pgpool-II can do Clustering For Parallel Query Execution.

17 years agoOn systems that have setsid(2) (which should be just about everything except
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:59:53 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
On systems that have setsid(2) (which should be just about everything except
Windows), arrange for each postmaster child process to be its own process
group leader, and deliver signals SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to the whole
process group not only the direct child process.  This provides saner behavior
for archive and recovery scripts; in particular, it's possible to shut down a
warm-standby recovery server using "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", since delivery
of SIGQUIT to the startup subprocess will result in killing the waiting
recovery_command.  Also, this makes Query Cancel and statement_timeout apply
to scripts being run from backends via system().  (There is no support in the
core backend for that, but it's widely done using untrusted PLs.)  Per gripe
from Stephen Harris and subsequent discussion.

17 years agoUpdate Statement-Based Replication Middleware docs to be more general.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:31:57 +0000 (18:31 +0000)]
Update Statement-Based Replication Middleware docs to be more general.

17 years agoFix type in return value
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:31:28 +0000 (18:31 +0000)]
Fix type in return value

17 years agoIn HA/load balancing does:
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:15:45 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
In HA/load balancing does:

Clarify sync/async replication propogation delay issues.
Add SGML comment about Oracle RAC and remove doc mention.
Add item about Multi-master replication with conflict resolution.

17 years agoVC build patch from Magnus:
Neil Conway [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:54:26 +0000 (17:54 +0000)]
VC build patch from Magnus:

Typo in the changes to plperl - uses wrong dir, and had a missing slash.

Also fixes error checking for xsubpp - it was broken in a way that hid
the problem above when run more than once (which is the normal case when
developing).

17 years agoMove libpq environment reference in psql documentation to a more
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:01:58 +0000 (17:01 +0000)]
Move libpq environment reference in psql documentation to a more
appropriate place, per Andrew Dunstan.

17 years agoremove duplicate declaration, per report from Magnus Hagander.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:59:02 +0000 (16:59 +0000)]
remove duplicate declaration, per report from Magnus Hagander.

17 years agoIf SSL negotiation fails and SSLMODE is 'prefer', then retry without SSL.
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:28:00 +0000 (16:28 +0000)]
If SSL negotiation fails and SSLMODE is 'prefer', then retry without SSL.
Negotiation failure is only likely to happen if one side or the other is
misconfigured, eg. bad client certificate.  I'm not 100% convinced that
a retry is really the best thing, hence not back-patching this fix for now.
Per gripe from Sergio Cinos.

17 years agoAdd capitalization mention.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:38:09 +0000 (15:38 +0000)]
Add capitalization mention.

17 years agoI noticed that the Partitioning section of the docs has *two* sections
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:44:55 +0000 (03:44 +0000)]
I noticed that the Partitioning section of the docs has *two* sections
of caveats in different places, but close together. One called caveats,
one not. That looks like it just led to somebody not reading some
appropriate caveats in the second group of caveats (on -admin).

Simon Riggs

17 years agoChange the default setting for log_min_error_statement to ERROR. Per
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:23:37 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
Change the default setting for log_min_error_statement to ERROR.  Per
recent discussion in which majority opinion was that this is a more
widely useful setting than the previous default of PANIC.

17 years agoAdjust elog.c so that elog(FATAL) exits (including cases where ERROR is
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:49:55 +0000 (00:49 +0000)]
Adjust elog.c so that elog(FATAL) exits (including cases where ERROR is
promoted to FATAL) end in exit(1) not exit(0).  Then change the postmaster to
allow exit(1) without a system-wide panic, but not for the startup subprocess
or the bgwriter.  There were a couple of places that were using exit(1) to
deliberately force a system-wide panic; adjust these to be exit(2) instead.
This fixes the problem noted back in July that if the startup process exits
with elog(ERROR), the postmaster would think everything is hunky-dory and
proceed to start up.  Alternative solutions such as trying to run the entire
startup process as a critical section seem less clean, primarily because of
the fact that a fair amount of startup code is shared by all postmaster
children in the EXEC_BACKEND case.  We'd need an ugly special case somewhere
near the head of main.c to make it work if it's the child process's
responsibility to determine what happens; and what's the point when the
postmaster already treats different children differently?

17 years agoRetitle documentation section, "Statement-Based Replication Using Middleware".
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:07:56 +0000 (22:07 +0000)]
Retitle documentation section, "Statement-Based Replication Using Middleware".

17 years agoAdd mention that Shared Disk Failover can use file system mirroring of
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:26:22 +0000 (21:26 +0000)]
Add mention that Shared Disk Failover can use file system mirroring of
the mirroring is consistent.

17 years agoUpdate Brazilian FAQ.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:58:40 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
Update Brazilian FAQ.

 Euler Taveira de Oliveira

17 years agoFor to_char() day/month abbrevitions, mention "3 chars in English,
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:20:18 +0000 (20:20 +0000)]
For to_char() day/month abbrevitions, mention "3 chars in English,
localized lengths vary".