Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:42:31 +0000 (15:42 +0000)]
spell checker run
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:01:51 +0000 (14:01 +0000)]
Fix XML Schema structure for char types without length (bug #3782)
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:30:36 +0000 (13:30 +0000)]
Improve terminology
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:30:16 +0000 (13:30 +0000)]
Fix typo
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:03:50 +0000 (11:03 +0000)]
Add credit to Pavel Stehule for XML functionality
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:10:14 +0000 (10:10 +0000)]
Fix column number
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:17:46 +0000 (09:17 +0000)]
Properly recognize and announce input errors.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:13:41 +0000 (05:13 +0000)]
Add a few current_* variable index entries to the docs.
Guillaume Lelarge
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:01:24 +0000 (05:01 +0000)]
Add comments about VACUUM to free space map docs.
Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:24:38 +0000 (04:24 +0000)]
Change a stop word on the right-hand-side in the thesaurus file to be an
ERROR, not NOTICE.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:58:44 +0000 (19:58 +0000)]
Fix plpgsql to not lookup block labels except in contexts where a block label
is sane (eg, EXIT argument or first part of a qualified identifier), and cause
more-closely-nested record variables to take precedence over outer block
labels. This cures the breakage exhibited by Marko Kreen that 8.3 no longer
allowed a function's name to be used for a variable within the function, and
makes plpgsql's handling of block labels more like Oracle's. It's important
to fix this now because we are documenting the use of block labels as variable
qualifiers for the first time in 8.3.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:13:30 +0000 (19:13 +0000)]
Fix pg_regress to check the directory it is actually reading files from,
not the image that (theoretically) should exist in the current directory.
Jørgen Austvik
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:29:11 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
Add quote_literal(anyelement) to preserve (and, in fact, extend) a
useful consequence of the former liberal implicit casting to text;
namely that you can feed non-string values to quote_literal() and get
unsurprising results. Per discussion.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:13:01 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
Suppress compiler warning.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:46:36 +0000 (16:46 +0000)]
Add example of MONEY casting to numeric if locale is known.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:21:05 +0000 (12:21 +0000)]
Make casts from xml to text independent of the XML option setting, thus
immutable and indexable. Also fix the volatility settings of some other
XML-related functions.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:17:27 +0000 (12:17 +0000)]
correct capitalization
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:05:57 +0000 (06:05 +0000)]
Wording improvement for MONEY casting.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:49:58 +0000 (05:49 +0000)]
Add documentation about the issues of casting MONEY to/from numeric
types.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:31:09 +0000 (23:31 +0000)]
Add:
< * -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type
< * Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies
<
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg01432.php
< http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01181.php
<
< * MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
< restore to a system with a different locale
>
> * MONEY data type
>
> o -Make 64-bit version of the MONEY data type
> * Add locale-aware MONEY type, and support multiple currencies
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-08/msg01432.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg01181.php
>
> * MONEY dumps in a locale-specific format making it difficult to
> restore to a system with a different locale
> * Allow MONEY to be cast to/from other numeric data types
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:36:33 +0000 (21:36 +0000)]
Change index_name to name for consistency.
Tom Lane [Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:46:51 +0000 (16:46 +0000)]
Fix select_common_type() so that it can select a domain type, if all inputs
to a UNION, CASE, or related construct are of the same domain type. The
main part of this routine smashes domains to their base types, which seems
necessary because the logic involves TypeCategory() and IsPreferredType(),
neither of which work usefully on domains. However, we can add a first
pass that just detects whether all the inputs are exactly the same type,
and if so accept that without question (so long as it's not UNKNOWN).
Per recent gripe from Dean Rasheed.
In passing, remove some tests for InvalidOid, which have clearly been dead
code for quite some time now, because getBaseType() would fail on that input.
Also, clarify the manual's not-very-precise description of the existing
algorithm's behavior.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:31:07 +0000 (12:31 +0000)]
Require a specific Autoconf version, instead of a lower bound only.
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:35:41 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
Allow for X as well as x to be the prefix for hexadecimal character ref entity numbers,
as in HTML.
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:37:11 +0000 (15:37 +0000)]
Fix XML tag namespace change inadvertantly missed from previous fix. Add
regression test for XML names and numeric entities.
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:08:11 +0000 (12:08 +0000)]
Use double quotes for quoting xml attributes.
Tom Lane [Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:09:46 +0000 (02:09 +0000)]
Fix thinko in comment.
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:37:04 +0000 (21:37 +0000)]
Reduce routine successful-archiving message from LOG to DEBUG1 grade,
to reduce chattiness of logs. Per discussion.
Simon Riggs
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:20:07 +0000 (21:20 +0000)]
Fix (I think) broken usage of MultiByteToWideChar. I had missed the
subtlety that this function only returns a null terminator if it's
fed input that includes one; which, in the usage here, it's not.
This probably fixes bugs reported by Thomas Haegi.
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:16:55 +0000 (21:16 +0000)]
Slightly more paranoia and slightly better comments for use of
Windows-specific MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte calls.
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:41:35 +0000 (20:41 +0000)]
Add missed entry for new money regression test.
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:26:49 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
Move resetting of currSchema to a spot where it's not vulnerable to getting
missed in possible future partial-drop scenarios. Improve comment.
Per report from Zoltan Boszormenyi.
D'Arcy J.M. Cain [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:49:23 +0000 (19:49 +0000)]
Add regression tests for MONEY type.
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:08:51 +0000 (19:08 +0000)]
Save another little bit of planner overhead on simple queries, by having
clauselist_selectivity skip some analysis that's useless when there's only
one clause in the given list. Actually this can win even for not-so-simple
queries, because we also apply clauselist_selectivity to sublists such as the
quals matching an index; which are likely to have only a single entry even
when the total query is quite complicated.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:45:32 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
If pg_dump drops a schema, make sure 'search_path' it SET the next time
it is needed --- basically don't remember the previous 'search_path'
after a drop schema because it might have failed but be created later.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:18:48 +0000 (16:18 +0000)]
Clarify how MONEY trims off trailing thousands separator.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:28:02 +0000 (15:28 +0000)]
Make the MONEY data type have a thousands separator != decimal symbol,
if the locale has the thousands separator as "". This now matches the
to_char and psql numericlocale behavior. (Previously this data type was
basically useless for such setups.)
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:55:26 +0000 (01:55 +0000)]
Borland BCC does not support SSPI, per cnliou9@fastmail.fm.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:32:48 +0000 (01:32 +0000)]
Borland CC 5.5.1 needs ssize_t, per cnliou9@fastmail.fm.
Tom Lane [Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:39:44 +0000 (00:39 +0000)]
Change fix_scan_expr() to avoid copying the input node tree in the common case
where rtoffset == 0. In that case there is no need to change Var nodes,
and since filling in unset opfuncid fields is always safe, scribbling on the
input tree to that extent is not objectionable. This brings the cost of this
operation back down to what it was in 8.2 for simple queries. Per
investigation of performance gripe from Guillaume Smet.
Tom Lane [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:57:44 +0000 (19:57 +0000)]
Avoid uselessly building a duplicate of the original clause in trivial cases
where the EquivalenceClass machinery is unable to deduce anything more from a
simple "var = const" qual clause. There are probably some more cases where
this could be done, but this seems to take care of most of the added overhead
for simple queries. Per gripe from Guillaume Smet.
In passing, fix a problem that was exposed by this change:
reconsider_outer_join_clause and friends were passing the wrong relids to
build_implied_join_equality, resulting in RestrictInfos with the wrong
required_relids. This mistake was masked in typical cases since the bogus
RestrictInfos would never have escaped from the EquivalenceClass machinery,
but I think there might be corner cases involving "broken" ECs where there
would have been a visible failure even without the new optimization. In any
case the code was certainly not operating as intended.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (19:54 +0000)]
Fix white space in MONEY type code. Rename 'comma' to more generic
'ssymbol' as used in previous function.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:37:55 +0000 (16:37 +0000)]
Update text:
< * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement
> * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid advancement
>
> The problem is that autovacuum cannot vacuum them to set frozen xids;
> only the session that created them can do that.
>
>
>
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:46:34 +0000 (01:46 +0000)]
Fix buggy usage of vsnprintf in PL/Python by removing it altogether, instead
relying on stringinfo.c. This fixes a problem reported by Marko Kreen, but I
didn't use his patch, per subsequent discussion.
Tatsuo Ishii [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:24:12 +0000 (00:24 +0000)]
Fix "Overall Page Layout" table. The second row should be ItemIdData, not
ItemPointerData.
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:40:25 +0000 (19:40 +0000)]
Actually ... it's pretty silly that parse_oper.c doesn't set up the
opfuncid of an OpExpr initially, considering that it has the information
at hand already. We'll still treat opfuncid as a cache rather than a
guaranteed-valid value, but this change saves one more syscache lookup
in the normal code path.
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:09:23 +0000 (19:09 +0000)]
Save one syscache lookup when examining volatility or strictness of
OpExpr and related nodes. We're going to have to set the opfuncid of
such nodes eventually (if we haven't already), so we might as well
exploit the opportunity to cache the function OID. Buys back some
of the extra planner overhead noted by Guillaume Smet, though I still
need to fool with equivclass.c to really respond to that.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:51:39 +0000 (17:51 +0000)]
Add more comments about thousands separator handling.
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:47:28 +0000 (17:47 +0000)]
Prevent Perl from introducing a possibly-incompatible definition of type
"bool" into plperl.c. This has always been a hazard since Perl allows a
platform-specific choice to define bool as int rather than char, but
evidently this didn't happen on any platform we support ... until OS X 10.5.
Per report from Brandon Maust.
Back-patch as far as 8.0 --- a bit arbitrary, but it seems unlikely anyone
will be trying to port 7.x onto new platforms.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:10:05 +0000 (15:10 +0000)]
Add comments about thousands separator logic.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:04:52 +0000 (15:04 +0000)]
Document that doc builds now build indexes by default, unless "draft" is
used.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:13:36 +0000 (23:13 +0000)]
WSATYPE_NOT_FOUND was already defined for BCC so don't redefine it
(conflicting values).
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:03:44 +0000 (23:03 +0000)]
Fix build of libpq for Borland CC.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:28:18 +0000 (22:28 +0000)]
When setting default thousands separator when locale has "", use logic
so new thousands separator doesn't match decimal symbol.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:49:22 +0000 (21:49 +0000)]
Fix typo in comment.
Tom Lane [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:01:37 +0000 (04:01 +0000)]
Clarify the syntax rules for raw tsvector input.
Tom Lane [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:14:41 +0000 (23:14 +0000)]
Fix bogus length calculation that could lead to crash if the string
happened to be right up against the end of memory, per report from
Matt Magoffin. While at it, avoid useless multiple copying of string
by not depending on xmlStrncatNew.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:24:26 +0000 (19:24 +0000)]
Fix pg_ctl -t to register -t value, per Alvaro.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:10:25 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
Split release notes up into smaller sections; easier to read.
Tom Lane [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:58:52 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Fix some missed usages of 'HTML tag' and 'HTML entity'.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:23:20 +0000 (05:23 +0000)]
Make "contrib/" tag consistent.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:16:31 +0000 (05:16 +0000)]
Split out data types and function entries into separate sections in the
release notes.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:00:24 +0000 (05:00 +0000)]
Release note adjustments suggested by IRC users.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:23:10 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
Adjust contrib/tsearch2 regression results to use XML tag and XML entity descriptions, as now used by core text search default parser.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:00:27 +0000 (04:00 +0000)]
Reorder a few release notes items for consistency.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:34:14 +0000 (03:34 +0000)]
Trim down release section headings (no need for Changes).
Re-order some items as migration changes.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:25:22 +0000 (02:25 +0000)]
Change descriptions of entity and tag objects to "XML entity" and "XML tag".
Allow tag and entity names that follow XML rules. Provide for hexadecimal
as well as decimal numeric entities. Adjust code names to coincide with
new descriptions.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:42:37 +0000 (01:42 +0000)]
Split "server changes" up into smaller sections in release notes.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:19:30 +0000 (01:19 +0000)]
Markup fix.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:13:00 +0000 (01:13 +0000)]
More release notes wording cleanups.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:18:46 +0000 (00:18 +0000)]
Update COMMENT item:
< o Prevent COMMENT ON dbname from issuing a warning when loading
< into a database with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON
< CURRENT DATABASE
> o Change pg_dump so that a comment on the dumped database is
> applied to the loaded database, even if the database has a
> different name. This will require new backend syntax, perhaps
> COMMENT ON CURRENT DATABASE.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:48:46 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
Update wording:
< o Allow COMMENT ON dbname to work when loading into a database
< with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON CURRENT
< DATABASE
> o Prevent COMMENT ON dbname from issuing a warning when loading
> into a database with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON
> CURRENT DATABASE
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:48:33 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
Update comment.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:27:03 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
Add suggested syntax for COMMENT ON DATABASE:
< with a different name
> with a different name, perhaps using COMMENT ON CURRENT
> DATABASE
>
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:44:06 +0000 (18:44 +0000)]
Add comment about COMMENT ON DATABASE failing for differently-named
databases.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:42:11 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
Add:
> o Allow COMMENT ON dbname to work when loading into a database
> with a different name
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:47:14 +0000 (03:47 +0000)]
Improve description of implicit-text-casting compatibility issue.
A bunch of other desultory copy-editing, too.
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:26:10 +0000 (02:26 +0000)]
Minor improvement in documentation of temp_tablespaces: avoid grammatical
ambiguity and say what the default value is.
Tom Lane [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:42:03 +0000 (18:42 +0000)]
Remove no-longer-accurate claim that REINDEX won't invalidate cached
plans.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:13:42 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Wordsmith improvements to first half of release notes, move TEXT cast
item to #1 imcompatibility slot.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:17:16 +0000 (15:17 +0000)]
Simplify TEXT cast working; spelling fixes to release notes.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:55:59 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
Improve GIN index build's tracking of memory usage by using
GetMemoryChunkSpace, not just the palloc request size. This brings the
allocatedMemory counter close enough to reality (as measured by
MemoryContextStats printouts) that I think we can get rid of the arbitrary
factor-of-2 adjustment that was put into the code initially. Given the
sensitivity of GIN build to work memory size, not using as much of work
memory as we're allowed to seems a pretty bad idea.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:50:06 +0000 (21:50 +0000)]
GIN index build's allocatedMemory counter needs to be long, not uint32.
Else, in a 64-bit machine with maintenance_work_mem set to above 4Gb,
the counter overflows and we never recognize having reached the
maintenance_work_mem limit. I believe this explains out-of-memory
failure recently reported by Sean Davis.
This is a bug, so backpatch to 8.2.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:47:32 +0000 (21:47 +0000)]
Fix inconsistent message wording, and split off a couple of duplicated strings.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:53:50 +0000 (19:53 +0000)]
Repair still another bug in the btree page split WAL reduction patch:
it failed for splits of non-leaf pages because in such pages the first
data key on a page is suppressed, and so we can't just copy the first
key from the right page to reconstitute the left page's high key.
Problem found by Koichi Suzuki, patch by Heikki.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:22:21 +0000 (17:22 +0000)]
Fix a few mentions of "Postgres" that slipped into the release notes.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:12:14 +0000 (16:12 +0000)]
Add release note that "Postgres" is now documented as an acceptable
alias.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:53:57 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
Simplify wording.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:50:31 +0000 (15:50 +0000)]
Add FAQ items about "Postgres" alias usage, remove old reference.
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:05:59 +0000 (15:05 +0000)]
Fix tsvectorout() and tsqueryout() to escape backslesh, add test of that.
Patch by Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Backpatch is needed, but it's impossible to apply it directly
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:28:07 +0000 (06:28 +0000)]
Fix markup that doesn't work in HISTORY generation.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:59:25 +0000 (04:59 +0000)]
Re-do configure with autoconf 2.59
Marc G. Fournier [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:29:45 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
update files for beta3
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:23:07 +0000 (03:23 +0000)]
Add a couple of notes pointing out that GIN index build time is very
sensitive to maintenance_work_mem (something I just learned the hard
way).
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:51:22 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
Small comment spacing improvement.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:25:15 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
Better guard token used by pgindent.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:12:24 +0000 (01:12 +0000)]
Run pgindent on remaining files now that LOOPBYTE is a usable macro.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:11:04 +0000 (01:11 +0000)]
Cleanup for new else/comment handling.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:57:55 +0000 (00:57 +0000)]
Fix stupid typo in recently-added code :-(
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:34:54 +0000 (00:34 +0000)]
Add snb_ru_init(internal) to list of stub functions in tsearch2
compatibility module. Needed to support loading of 8.1-era tsearch2
configuration data.