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* Replace developer FAQ with a reference to the wiki, which is whereMagnus Hagander2008-04-22
| | | | it now lives (per discussion). Leave the other FAQs alone for now.
* Stamp releases 8.2.5, 8.1.10, 8.0.14, 7.4.18, 7.3.20.Bruce Momjian2007-09-11
| | | | Update FAQs for 8.2.5.
* Update FAQ to mention most recent release for releasesBruce Momjian2007-04-19
| | | | 8.2.4, 8.1.9, 8.0.13, 7.4.17, 7.3.19.
* Stamp release 8.1.6.Bruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* Update Japanese FAQ.Bruce Momjian2006-10-13
| | | | Jun Kuwamura
* Backpatch FAQs to 8.1.X.Bruce Momjian2006-10-10
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* Stamp releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5.Bruce Momjian2006-10-09
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* Stamp 8.1.4, except configure/configure.in.Bruce Momjian2006-05-19
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* Backpatch FAQs to 8.1.X.Bruce Momjian2006-05-19
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* Update AIX FAQ:Bruce Momjian2006-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | At any rate, here's a revision to CVS HEAD to reflect some changes by myself and by Seneca Cunningham for the AIX FAQ. It touches on the following issues: 1. memcpy pointer patch for dynahash.c 2. AIX memory management, which can, for 32 bit cases, bite people quite unexpectedly... Chris Browne
* Updated Japanese FAQ, version 2.Bruce Momjian2006-04-11
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* Update Japanese FAQ, backpatch.Bruce Momjian2006-04-11
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* There is updated Russian translation of the FAQ in the attachment.Bruce Momjian2006-04-11
| | | | Victor Vislobokov
* Update AIX FAQ to show readline options more clearly.Bruce Momjian2006-04-05
| | | | Backpatch FAQ's to 8.1.X.
* Update FAQ_DEV text file.Bruce Momjian2006-03-01
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* Update patch generation instructions.Bruce Momjian2006-03-01
| | | | Robert Treat
* Update Japanese FAQ, backpatched to 8.1.X.Bruce Momjian2006-03-01
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* Fix computation of sample table size.Bruce Momjian2006-02-25
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* Backpatch FAQ changes to 8.1.X.Bruce Momjian2006-02-24
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* Stamp 8.1.3, but exclude configure.in/configure change.Bruce Momjian2006-02-12
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* Stamp release 8.1.2.Bruce Momjian2006-01-05
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* Stamp 8.1.1.Bruce Momjian2005-12-08
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* Update 8.1.X FAQs.Bruce Momjian2005-12-08
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* Update Japanese FAQ.Bruce Momjian2005-11-18
| | | | J.Kuwamura
* Update FAQ for most recent release as 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-11-05
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* Update:Bruce Momjian2005-10-27
| | | | | < o Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT > o Add ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT, update index name also
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-27
| | | | | > o Have ALTER INDEX update the name of a constraint using that index > o Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT
* Add mention of errfinish.Bruce Momjian2005-10-27
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* Add items from Tom:Bruce Momjian2005-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | < o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 < format 212a211,223 > o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 > format > o Improve timestamptz subtraction to be DST-aware > > Currently, subtracting one date from another that crosses a > daylight savings time adjustment can return '1 day 1 hour', but > adding that back to the first date returns a time one hour in > the future. This is caused by the adjustment of '25 hours' to > '1 day 1 hour', and '1 day' is the same time the next day, even > if daylight savings adjustments are involved. > > o Fix interval display to support values exceeding 2^31 hours > o Add overflow checking to timestamp and interval arithmetic
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-25
| | | | | | | | > > o Add auto-expanded mode so expanded output is used if the row > length is wider than the screen width. > > Consider using auto-expanded mode for backslash commands like \df+.
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-24
| | | | | > * Allow user-defined functions retuning a domain value to enforce domain > constraints
* Update:Bruce Momjian2005-10-13
| | | | | | | | > * 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 >
* Remove item:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | | | | | < * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name < < One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are < surrounded by quotes. <
* No longer needed:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | | < < * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly < from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source, < in client/common/cpucheck.cpp < < On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly, < while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process < holding the lock can complete and release it.
* Rearrange:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | | | | | | < o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns < o %Add dumping of comments on index columns < o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode > o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns 604a603 > o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
* Done:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | | | | < o %Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for < cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands 608a607 >
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | | | < > o Allow pg_dump --clean to drop roles that own objects or have > privileges
* Add description:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | | | | | | < * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name? > * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name > > One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are > surrounded by quotes. >
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-12
| | | | > o Add options like pg_restore -l and -L to pg_dump
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-11
| | | | | | | > o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just > tables > o In a selective dump, allow dumping of an object and all its > dependencies
* Update:Bruce Momjian2005-10-07
| | | | | | | | < * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by > * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in 735a736,737 > > This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-10-07
| | | | | | < > * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by > several rows as a single index entry
* Update Japanese FAQ.Bruce Momjian2005-10-05
| | | | Jun Kuwamura
* Update FAQ for version number.Bruce Momjian2005-10-05
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* Remove, 8.1 completed items already removed:Bruce Momjian2005-10-03
| | | | < * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
* Done:Bruce Momjian2005-10-03
| | | | | | < * Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences, < seqname.nextval? > * -Have sequence dependency track use of DEFAULT sequences
* Update SQL conformance mention to 2003.Bruce Momjian2005-09-28
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* Update Russian FAQ.Bruce Momjian2005-09-28
| | | | Victor Vislobokov
* Done:Bruce Momjian2005-09-27
| | | | | < * +Add options to pg_config to show the share_dir, sysconfdir, < pkgincludedir, and localedir
* Add:Bruce Momjian2005-09-27
| | | | | > o Improve signal handling, > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-06/msg00027.php