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* Properly document that SIGTERM is OK for users to use on a postgresBruce Momjian2012-08-30
| | | | | | session, now that pg_terminate_backend() uses it. Josh Kupershmidt
* Document that PGDATA has to point to the configuration files, ratherBruce Momjian2012-08-15
| | | | | | than the actual data storage directory. Per suggestion from Thom Brown
* Support having multiple Unix-domain sockets per postmaster.Tom Lane2012-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace unix_socket_directory with unix_socket_directories, which is a list of socket directories, and adjust postmaster's code to allow zero or more Unix-domain sockets to be created. This is mostly a straightforward change, but since the Unix sockets ought to be created after the TCP/IP sockets for safety reasons (better chance of detecting a port number conflict), AddToDataDirLockFile needs to be fixed to support out-of-order updates of data directory lockfile lines. That's a change that had been foreseen to be necessary someday anyway. Honza Horak, reviewed and revised by Tom Lane
* Make documentation of --help and --version options more consistentPeter Eisentraut2012-06-18
| | | | | | Before, some places didn't document the short options (-? and -V), some documented both, some documented nothing, and they were listed in various orders. Now this is hopefully more consistent and complete.
* Improve documentation of postgres -C optionPeter Eisentraut2012-06-13
| | | | | | Clarify help (s/return/print/), and explain that this option is for use by other programs, not for user-facing use (it does not print units).
* Support index-only scans using the visibility map to avoid heap fetches.Tom Lane2011-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When a btree index contains all columns required by the query, and the visibility map shows that all tuples on a target heap page are visible-to-all, we don't need to fetch that heap page. This patch depends on the previous patches that made the visibility map reliable. There's a fair amount left to do here, notably trying to figure out a less chintzy way of estimating the cost of an index-only scan, but the core functionality seems ready to commit. Robert Haas and Ibrar Ahmed, with some previous work by Heikki Linnakangas.
* Add postmaster -C option to query configuration parameters, and haveBruce Momjian2011-10-06
| | | | | | pg_ctl use that to query the data directory for config-only installs. This fixes awkward or impossible pg_ctl operation for config-only installs.
* Remove whitespace from end of linesPeter Eisentraut2011-08-07
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* Document that server single-user mode does not do checkpoints or otherBruce Momjian2011-03-09
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* Improve wording of initdb and pg_controldata manual pages.REL9_1_ALPHA4Bruce Momjian2011-03-09
| | | | gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com>
* Properly capitalize documentation headings; some only had initial-wordBruce Momjian2011-01-29
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* Remove useless whitespace at end of linesPeter Eisentraut2010-11-23
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* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Document that pg_ctl cares about the PGHOST environment variable.Bruce Momjian2010-02-22
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* Minor copy-editing.Tom Lane2007-07-09
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* Remove useless database name from bootstrap argument processing (includingAlvaro Herrera2007-02-16
| | | | startup and bgwriter processes), and the -y flag. It's not used anywhere.
* Update reference documentation on may/can/might:Bruce Momjian2007-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
* Fix erroneous implementation of -s in postmaster.c (the switch doesn't takeTom Lane2007-01-04
| | | | | | an optarg). Add some comments noting that code in three different files has to be kept in sync. Fix erroneous description of -S switch (it sets work_mem not silent_mode), and do some light copy-editing elsewhere in postgres-ref.
* Merge postmaster and postgres command into just postgres. postmasterPeter Eisentraut2006-06-18
| | | | | symlink is kept for now for compatibility. To call single-user mode, use postgres --single.
* Make all command-line options of postmaster and postgres the same. SeePeter Eisentraut2006-01-05
| | | | | http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00151.php for the complete plan.
* Replace "--" and "---" with "&mdash;" as appropriate, for better-lookingNeil Conway2004-11-15
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* Whack some sense into the configuration-file-location patch.Tom Lane2004-10-08
| | | | | | | Refactor code into something reasonably understandable, cause use of the feature to not fail in standalone backends or in EXEC_BACKEND case, fix sloppy guc.c table entries, make the documentation minimally usable.
* Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.Tom Lane2004-02-03
| | | | | | | Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit. Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
* $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon2003-11-29
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* Put --describe-config in the right place.Peter Eisentraut2003-11-02
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* Add --describe-config to top of postgres manual page.Bruce Momjian2003-10-28
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* Document --describe-config.Bruce Momjian2003-10-28
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* Add mention of SIGHUP on the postmaster manual page.Bruce Momjian2003-10-16
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* Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache isTom Lane2003-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method. This leaves only shared system indexes as special cases. Remove the 'index deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared- index case. Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX. -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes) now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates. It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS. Upshot: reindexing system catalogs can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except shared catalogs.
* Put a tad more detail in the discussion of postmaster and postgresTom Lane2003-09-18
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* Add/edit index entries.Peter Eisentraut2003-08-31
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* Apply (a somewhat revised version of) Greg Mullane's patch to eliminateTom Lane2003-07-29
| | | | | | | | | heuristic determination of day vs month in date/time input. Add the ability to specify that input is interpreted as yy-mm-dd order (which formerly worked, but only for yy greater than 31). DateStyle's input component now has the preferred spellings DMY, MDY, or YMD; the older keywords European and US are now aliases for the first two of these. Per recent discussions on pgsql-general.
* Portal and memory management infrastructure for extended query protocol.Tom Lane2003-05-02
| | | | | | | | | Both plannable queries and utility commands are now always executed within Portals, which have been revamped so that they can handle the load (they used to be good only for single SELECT queries). Restructure code to push command-completion-tag selection logic out of postgres.c, so that it won't have to be duplicated between simple and extended queries. initdb forced due to addition of a field to Query nodes.
* Merge documentation into one book. (Build with "make html".) ReplacePeter Eisentraut2003-03-25
| | | | vague cross-references with real links.
* Another big editing pass for consistent content and presentation.Peter Eisentraut2003-03-24
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* This patch includes a lot of minor cleanups to the SGML documentation,Bruce Momjian2003-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | including: - replacing all the appropriate usages of <citetitle>PostgreSQL ...</citetitle> with &cite-user;, &cite-admin;, and so on - fix an omission in the EXECUTE documentation - add some more text to the EXPLAIN documentation - improve the PL/PgSQL RETURN NEXT documentation (more work to do here) - minor markup fixes Neil Conway
* Add mention of postgres signals to reference pageBruce Momjian2002-10-23
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* Assorted reference page updatesPeter Eisentraut2002-10-11
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* Structure reference pages consistently. Document that structure.Peter Eisentraut2002-07-28
| | | | Add information about environment variables.
* Augment the date/time examples in the User's Guide to reflect the newerThomas G. Lockhart2002-04-21
| | | | | | | | | capabilities of specifying time zones as intervals per SQL9x. Put refentrytitle contents on the same line as the tag. Otherwise, leading whitespace is propagated into the product, which (at least) messes up the ToC layout. Remove (some) docinfo tags containing dates. Best to omit if the dates are not accurate; maybe use CVS dates instead or leave them out.
* Spell checking and markup additionsPeter Eisentraut2002-03-22
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* Commit to match discussed elog() changes. Only update is that LOG isBruce Momjian2002-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | now just below FATAL in server_min_messages. Added more text to highlight ordering difference between it and client_min_messages. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REALLYFATAL => PANIC STOP => PANIC New INFO level the prints to client by default New LOG level the prints to server log by default Cause VACUUM information to print only to the client NOTICE => INFO where purely information messages are sent DEBUG => LOG for purely server status messages DEBUG removed, kept as backward compatible DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1 added DebugLvl removed in favor of new DEBUG[1-5] symbols New server_min_messages GUC parameter with values: DEBUG[5-1], INFO, NOTICE, ERROR, LOG, FATAL, PANIC New client_min_messages GUC parameter with values: DEBUG[5-1], LOG, INFO, NOTICE, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC Server startup now logged with LOG instead of DEBUG Remove debug_level GUC parameter elog() numbers now start at 10 Add test to print error message if older elog() values are passed to elog() Bootstrap mode now has a -d that requires an argument, like postmaster
* Use PostgreSQL consistantly throughout docs. Before, usage was split evenlyThomas G. Lockhart2001-12-08
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* proof-readingPeter Eisentraut2001-11-28
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* Further work on postmaster and postgres reference pages.Tom Lane2001-11-25
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* Remove useless LockDisable() function and associated overhead, per myTom Lane2001-09-27
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* Make the world somewhat safe for (not from) DELETE FROM pg_shadow;Peter Eisentraut2001-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assign the fixed user id 1 to the user created by initdb. A stand-alone backend will always set the user id to 1. (Consequently, the name of that user is no longer important.) In stand-alone mode, the user id 1 will have implicit superuser status, to allow repairs even if there are no users defined. Print a warning message when starting in stand-alone mode when no users are defined. Disallow dropping the current user and session user. Granting/revoking superuser status also grants/revokes usecatupd. (Previously, it would never grant it back. This could lead to "deadlocks".) CREATE USER and CREATE GROUP will start allocating user ids at 100 (unless explicitly specified), to prevent accidental creation of a superuser (plus some room for future extensions).
* Put some kind of grammatical uniformity in the <refpurpose> lines.Peter Eisentraut2001-09-03
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* Tuning for docbook2man.Peter Eisentraut2001-03-17
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* Refine some things to create better looking man pages.Peter Eisentraut2000-12-25
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