2ff501590b
Tag appropriate files for rc3
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Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
883ac5ca7a
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-30 21:45:37 +00:00
c3d583ddce
More updates and copy-editing. Rearrange order of sections a little bit
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to put more widely useful info before less widely useful info.
2004-12-30 03:13:56 +00:00
ec0e307596
Convert external-projects to an appendix.
2004-12-29 23:36:47 +00:00
d9236a69fc
Make libpq default to localhost connections on machines without Unix-domain
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sockets, rather than failing as it formerly did. Revert the
thereby-obsoleted patch to make psql supply the localhost default.
2004-12-28 23:17:54 +00:00
797c2b2501
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-28 22:47:15 +00:00
7737d01ece
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-28 19:08:58 +00:00
31cc047d94
BDST should be "British double SUMMER time", not Standard time.
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Per John Smith.
2004-12-28 15:25:55 +00:00
af71fbafd0
Add:
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> * Improve the background writer
>
> Allow the background writer to more efficiently write dirty buffers
> from the end of the LRU cache and use a clock sweep algorithm to
> write other dirty buffers to reduced checkpoint I/O
2004-12-27 22:44:44 +00:00
008e9e452f
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-27 22:30:10 +00:00
39475990e0
Move info about psql console code page issues out of install-win32.sgml,
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where it doesn't belong, and put it in the psql reference page.
2004-12-27 20:13:48 +00:00
370f90970d
Cause pg_hba.conf file inclusion (@file stuff) to behave as documented,
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that is, files are sought in the same directory as the referencing file.
Also allow absolute paths in @file constructs. Improve documentation
to actually say what is allowed in an included file.
2004-12-27 19:19:24 +00:00
cdd402f8b3
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-26 23:06:56 +00:00
e40ae565c2
Improve Win32 install instructions.
2004-12-24 19:20:18 +00:00
7cc37511a2
Minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-24 19:12:37 +00:00
c62465cba3
Back out Win32 changes until Tom is done.
2004-12-24 18:37:26 +00:00
91e081d515
Adjust documention for Win32 installation options.
2004-12-24 18:32:50 +00:00
e4ff7c5e94
Update docs for Win32 installation, per Tom.
2004-12-24 18:11:16 +00:00
860d507b89
Updates from Ian Barwick.
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Update FAQ with new URL's for site.
2004-12-24 17:19:23 +00:00
8a10119bf3
Update FAQ.
2004-12-24 17:13:51 +00:00
bad4897d9f
Update FAQ with new URL's for site.
2004-12-24 16:02:36 +00:00
0add759825
More minor updates and copy-editing.
2004-12-23 23:07:38 +00:00
f8ffb60492
A small pass of docs review and copy-editing.
2004-12-23 05:37:40 +00:00
766b0bbb4d
Add mention that pg_ctl will return an accurate exit code when waiting
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for startup or shutdown. We have always done this but it wasn't documented.
2004-12-22 02:17:15 +00:00
c20d6062a3
Add:
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> * Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2004-12-21 01:23:54 +00:00
7f938227c5
Add:
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> * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
2004-12-21 01:21:50 +00:00
bbb2e21e14
I was recently surprised to find that EXTRACT's day of the week
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numbering is different than TO_CHAR's ditto. EXTRACT starts at 0==Sunday
while TO_CHAR starts at 1==Sunday.
A suggestion for two documentation notes is attached as a patch to
current CVS HEAD.
Troels Arvin
2004-12-21 01:02:28 +00:00
b5ae0d69da
Mark the TimeZone parameter as GUC_REPORT, so that JDBC can find out
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when it changes. Per request from Kris Jurka.
2004-12-20 18:15:07 +00:00
59bffa3707
Adjust pg_resetxlog to handle 8.0 WAL file names properly.
2004-12-20 01:42:11 +00:00
8562b032d8
Fix broken markup.
2004-12-19 22:10:41 +00:00
cd5c7e7cbd
Add:
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> * Allow psql \pset boolean variables to set to fixed values, rather than toggle
2004-12-19 04:36:27 +00:00
afc4ffe3c8
Add note warning that OS X updates usually overwrite /etc/rc.
2004-12-18 18:36:33 +00:00
5dac7c73c7
Changes the doc's to reflect what the user will find as default.
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Robert Treat
2004-12-18 04:21:43 +00:00
50b1651df7
Many thanks to Joachim Wieland for a big list of corrections / updates.
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Ian Barwick
2004-12-18 04:18:21 +00:00
2f7faa5473
Update from Ian Barwick
2004-12-18 04:13:20 +00:00
92c001bbaf
Minor copy-editing in tutorial.
2004-12-17 04:50:32 +00:00
480777e56c
Allow 'ELSEIF' as an alternative to 'ELSIF' in PL/PgSQL. There have been
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several reports of users being confused when they attempt to use ELSEIF
and run into trouble due to PL/PgSQL's lax parser. The parser will be
improved for 8.1, but we can fix most of the problem by allowing ELSEIF
for now.
2004-12-17 03:51:36 +00:00
dfdae5d63c
Hook up the plpython result-object nrows and status methods correctly.
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Adjust documentation to match current reality.
2004-12-17 02:14:48 +00:00
24658a2d53
Add Win32:
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> o Disallow encodings like UTF8 which which PostgreSQL supports
> but the operating system does not (already disallowed by
> pginstaller)
2004-12-17 00:04:30 +00:00
8e0598f7b1
Add port report
2004-12-16 11:23:16 +00:00
50f1daeaaa
Add French IRC channel.
2004-12-16 01:08:23 +00:00
d78fc95bda
Add Spanish IRC channel to FAQ.
2004-12-16 00:01:33 +00:00
e61648d835
Update IRC mention.
2004-12-15 03:11:26 +00:00
70dc2f6abb
Add port reports
2004-12-14 10:24:27 +00:00
374abf9178
Add more port reports.
2004-12-14 00:36:12 +00:00
3ff0418293
Remove:
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< o Allow the shared memory address to be configured via GUC
2004-12-13 18:40:30 +00:00
5ec30faee6
Spell checker run
2004-12-13 18:05:10 +00:00
cc4f22c167
Done:
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< o Remove per-backend parameter file and move into shared memory
Add for Win32:
> o Allow the shared memory address to be configured via GUC
2004-12-13 18:00:51 +00:00
e13c5cd33b
Add:
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>
> * Allow the size of the buffer cache used by temporary objects to be
> specified as a GUC variable
>
> Larger local buffer cache sizes requires more efficient handling of
> local cache lookups.
2004-12-13 14:21:32 +00:00
cbc1886b30
Update FAQ.
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2004-12-13 03:37:09 +00:00
