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2001-03-17Repair.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-17Tuning for docbook2man.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-17New updates from Roberto Mello sent privately today due to email troubles.Thomas G. Lockhart
2001-03-16Make note that version 1.1.8 doesn't work.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-16Support syncing WAL log to disk using either fsync(), fdatasync(),Tom Lane
O_SYNC, or O_DSYNC (as available on a given platform). Add GUC parameter to control sync method. Also, add defense to XLogWrite to prevent it from going nuts if passed a target write position that's past the end of the buffers so far filled by XLogInsert.
2001-03-15Update sample error messages to agree with current code.Tom Lane
2001-03-15Improve description of to_char templates.Tom Lane
2001-03-14Fix markup.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-14Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-13updatePeter Eisentraut
2001-03-13updatePeter Eisentraut
2001-03-13Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-13Document changed features of pg_dump, including:Philip Warner
- Large Object dumps - Compressed custom format - Requirement to use template0 when creating DB
2001-03-13XLOG (and related) changes:Tom Lane
* Store two past checkpoint locations, not just one, in pg_control. On startup, we fall back to the older checkpoint if the newer one is unreadable. Also, a physical copy of the newest checkpoint record is kept in pg_control for possible use in disaster recovery (ie, complete loss of pg_xlog). Also add a version number for pg_control itself. Remove archdir from pg_control; it ought to be a GUC parameter, not a special case (not that it's implemented yet anyway). * Suppress successive checkpoint records when nothing has been entered in the WAL log since the last one. This is not so much to avoid I/O as to make it actually useful to keep track of the last two checkpoints. If the things are right next to each other then there's not a lot of redundancy gained... * Change CRC scheme to a true 64-bit CRC, not a pair of 32-bit CRCs on alternate bytes. Polynomial borrowed from ECMA DLT1 standard. * Fix XLOG record length handling so that it will work at BLCKSZ = 32k. * Change XID allocation to work more like OID allocation. (This is of dubious necessity, but I think it's a good idea anyway.) * Fix a number of minor bugs, such as off-by-one logic for XLOG file wraparound at the 4 gig mark. * Add documentation and clean up some coding infelicities; move file format declarations out to include files where planned contrib utilities can get at them. * Checkpoint will now occur every CHECKPOINT_SEGMENTS log segments or every CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT seconds, whichever comes first. It is also possible to force a checkpoint by sending SIGUSR1 to the postmaster (undocumented feature...) * Defend against kill -9 postmaster by storing shmem block's key and ID in postmaster.pid lockfile, and checking at startup to ensure that no processes are still connected to old shmem block (if it still exists). * Switch backends to accept SIGQUIT rather than SIGUSR1 for emergency stop, for symmetry with postmaster and xlog utilities. Clean up signal handling in bootstrap.c so that xlog utilities launched by postmaster will react to signals better. * Standalone bootstrap now grabs lockfile in target directory, as added insurance against running it in parallel with live postmaster.
2001-03-11Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-11Add uninstall target to Java build.Peter Eisentraut
Respect default port setting in JDBC driver. Pick up version number from Makefile.global. Change installation directory to share/java/. Document.
2001-03-10BOX documentation disagreed with code about corner order.Tom Lane
2001-03-10Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-10Document --with-java.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-10Eliminate some hackery when creating text files (INSTALL) with a few linesPeter Eisentraut
of DSSSL.
2001-03-09Integrate "Porting from Oracle PL/SQL" HOWTO from Roberto Mello.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-08Add Japanese FAQ>Bruce Momjian
2001-03-08Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-08Update FAQ.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-06Sync rule for making INSTALL file.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-06Some editing, enhance markup, move description section before options list.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-06Shorten TOAST mentionBruce Momjian
2001-03-06Update/correct/refine.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-06- Reflect change of option -U to -LPhilip Warner
2001-03-06- Minor correction to usagePhilip Warner
2001-03-05Add missing space, change some markup.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-05Sorry, that change was not correct.Peter Eisentraut
2001-03-05I'm attaching those diffs for the Reference Guide in a tar file, asBruce Momjian
not all of them attached properly in the post I made a few minutes ago. Please disregard those earlier files. The diffs in the tar file replace them. Pierce Tyler
2001-03-05Update email addresses.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-04PyGreSQL documentation. Based on the README, converted to DocBook byPeter Eisentraut
Mikhail Terekhov <terekhov@emc.com>.
2001-03-03Document TEMP option.Tom Lane
2001-03-02Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-01Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-01Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-28Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-28Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-26Implement COMMIT_SIBLINGS parameter to allow pre-commit delay to occurTom Lane
only if at least N other backends currently have open transactions. This is not a great deal of intelligence about whether a delay might be profitable ... but it beats no intelligence at all. Note that the default COMMIT_DELAY is still zero --- this new code does nothing unless that setting is changed. Also, mark ENABLEFSYNC as a system-wide setting. It's no longer safe to allow that to be set per-backend, since we may be relying on some other backend's fsync to have synced the WAL log.
2001-02-25Even better example for operator precedence mis-parsing.Peter Eisentraut
2001-02-24Choose a more suitable example for the operator precedence mis-parsingPeter Eisentraut
example.
2001-02-24Markup, spell check, refine JDBC documentation.Peter Eisentraut
2001-02-23Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-23Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-23Update TODO list.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-23Freshen with a few recent platform reports:Thomas G. Lockhart
Linux/Alpha, Linux/Sparc, MacOS-X.
2001-02-22Update mutibyte docTatsuo Ishii