1298 Commits (2150c2edf184f4e1a136b235e36b96c1e7fdfd60)

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Bruce Momjian	2150c2edf1	UUNET is looking into offering PostgreSQL as a part of a managed web ... hosting product, on both shared and dedicated machines. We currently offer Oracle and MySQL, and it would be a nice middle-ground. However, as shipped, PostgreSQL lacks the following features we need that MySQL has: 1. The ability to listen only on a particular IP address. Each hosting customer has their own IP address, on which all of their servers (http, ftp, real media, etc.) run. 2. The ability to place the Unix-domain socket in a mode 700 directory. This allows us to automatically create an empty database, with an empty DBA password, for new or upgrading customers without having to interactively set a DBA password and communicate it to (or from) the customer. This in turn cuts down our install and upgrade times. 3. The ability to connect to the Unix-domain socket from within a change-rooted environment. We run CGI programs chrooted to the user's home directory, which is another reason why we need to be able to specify where the Unix-domain socket is, instead of /tmp. 4. The ability to, if run as root, open a pid file in /var/run as root, and then setuid to the desired user. (mysqld -u can almost do this; I had to patch it, too). The patch below fixes problem 1-3. I plan to address #4, also, but haven't done so yet. These diffs are big enough that they should give the PG development team something to think about in the meantime :-) Also, I'm about to leave for 2 weeks' vacation, so I thought I'd get out what I have, which works (for the problems it tackles), now. With these changes, we can set up and run PostgreSQL with scripts the same way we can with apache or proftpd or mysql. In summary, this patch makes the following enhancements: 1. Adds an environment variable PGUNIXSOCKET, analogous to MYSQL_UNIX_PORT, and command line options -k --unix-socket to the relevant programs. 2. Adds a -h option to postmaster to set the hostname or IP address to listen on instead of the default INADDR_ANY. 3. Extends some library interfaces to support the above. 4. Fixes a few memory leaks in PQconnectdb(). The default behavior is unchanged from stock 7.0.2; if you don't use any of these new features, they don't change the operation. David J. MacKenzie	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	c48025e799	Add new 7.0.3 item to all places.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	609f9199af	Repair markup	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	d55f878193	Markup enhancements, some factual corrections.	26 years ago
Thomas G. Lockhart	ecc367b764	Mention new AT TIME ZONE feature.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	a8555ad4f9	Eliminate word rot	26 years ago
Tom Lane	a210023008	Adjust INET/CIDR display conventions and reimplement some INET/CIDR ... functions, per recent discussions on pghackers. For now, I have called the verbose-display formatting function text(), but will reconsider if enough people object. initdb forced.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	d7f8ffa781	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	e0e694640c	Add update of HISTORY file for 7.0.3.	26 years ago
Tom Lane	83993240ac	Fix typos.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	a0951eec08	Please apply this patch to current, to fix a problem with runcheck, ... that installs into a different path than is configured. With this applied both postmaster and the shared libs are location independent for AIX 4.2 and up. Thanks Andreas	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	ac27a5b4b7	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	929a599369	Add '-c name=val' flag for setting run-time parameters.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	493635b25f	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	7267fdd7a3	Add some configure checks for DocBook and related tools. With a somewhat ... standard installation layout it should be possible to build the HTML and print documentation without additional manual setup.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	bee6cc6f9c	Update for recent developments (C++, shlib), minor fixes	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	d72eb7cbbd	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	66436e66e1	Update for createlang options in docs.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	ae2cf18f55	more procedural doc cleanup	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	4b71943bb2	Make PROCEDURAL optional in CREATE/DROP LANGUAGE.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	af17128656	Update FAQ_DEV.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	6952b3196b	Update FAQ_DEV.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	854307a11e	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	b7f4c64202	Add pg_dumpall --accounts-only option.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	cd5dbfb115	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	bc9b199c26	Change bool to boolean in docs.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	d1bfa6c72e	Add runtime configuration options to control permission bits and group ... owner of unix socket.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	81024e7d80	Fix java driver example.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	c9476bafdb	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	a9adde36ea	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	b0c1c53a43	Integer binary operators, from Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>. Renamed bitxor ... operator to '#' for consistency. Parser still needs work.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	c7fc242a06	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	e94161e060	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Tom Lane	4f44aa04b5	Major overhaul of large-object implementation, by Denis Perchine with ... kibitzing from Tom Lane. Large objects are now all stored in a single system relation "pg_largeobject" --- no more xinv or xinx files, no more relkind 'l'. This should offer substantial performance improvement for large numbers of LOs, since there won't be directory bloat anymore. It'll also fix problems like running out of locktable space when you access thousands of LOs in one transaction. Also clean up cruft in read/write routines. LOs with "holes" in them (never-written byte ranges) now work just like Unix files with holes do: a hole reads as zeroes but doesn't occupy storage space. INITDB forced!	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	62bc33df00	Update TODO list.	26 years ago
Tom Lane	c82c9559a7	Minor updates/corrections for CREATE/DROP FUNCTION/AGGREGATE/OPERATOR.	26 years ago
Tom Lane	9ace03183c	Some small polishing of Mark Hollomon's cleanup of DROP command: might ... as well allow DROP multiple INDEX, RULE, TYPE as well. Add missing CommandCounterIncrement to DROP loop, which could cause trouble otherwise with multiple DROP of items affecting same catalog entries. Try to bring a little consistency to various error messages using 'does not exist', 'nonexistent', etc --- I standardized on 'does not exist' since that's what the vast majority of the existing uses seem to be.	26 years ago
Tom Lane	cd57d64876	Fix typo.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	33581195d5	Per my ongoing discussion with PeterE, here is the patch I applied to ... src/template/unixware: Larry Rosenman	26 years ago
Peter Eisentraut	7c177a4908	Remove portions of SSL documentation patch that were installed twice.	26 years ago
Thomas G. Lockhart	039f3f1b05	Fix discrepency in field names. ... Thanks to Henry "He Weiping (Laser Henry)" <laser@zhengmai.com.cn> for catching this.	26 years ago
Thomas G. Lockhart	98dba6200a	Fix ids and xrefs to avoid duplicates. ... Remove copy/paste redundant extra section with slight merge of content.	26 years ago
Thomas G. Lockhart	577fd41c17	Remove ZP4, ZP5, ZP6 from docs since the current parser won't accept ... time zones with embedded numerals (parsing to a meaninless "ZP 4" instead). Support "SAT" as an Australian time zone if USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES is defined. Fix units in exposition on Julian calendar (from Lazer Henry I think...)	26 years ago
Thomas G. Lockhart	1495f56770	Fix up id tag parameters to omit illegal underscores. ... Remove lots of extraneous trailing ^Ms from pg_restore.sgml.	26 years ago
Tom Lane	be7c0a926b	Fix silly typo in redirection example.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	3649c75241	Solaris looks like it is OK now, FAQ item removed.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	ad763aadc6	Update solaris FAQ for pl/pgsql Michel Decima <michel.decima@rd.francetelecom.fr>	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	8cfa7acaad	Make it an FAQ.	26 years ago
Bruce Momjian	73677dd92f	The following patch was sent to the patches list: ... This patch forces the use of 'DROP VIEW' to destroy views. It also changes the syntax of DROP VIEW to DROP VIEW v1, v2, ... to match the syntax of DROP TABLE. Some error messages were changed so this patch also includes changes to the appropriate expected/*.out files. Doc changes for 'DROP TABLE" and 'DROP VIEW' are included. -- Mark Hollomon	26 years ago
Philip Warner	60dcf13ea1	Added pg_restore (probably rename later)	26 years ago