Update installation instructions and put mostly everything in one place.

Also, some editing in PL/Perl and PL/Python chapters.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
index a4093a2382f5658c3852bec57e69622704386d24..febe4d373261a4ae7345b3d8e33fd05e435495e0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  Localization</></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">     </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">    </sect2></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-   <sect2></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    <title>About Unicode
-
-    Unicode
-
-    
-     An automatic encoding translation between Unicode and other
-     encodings has been supported since PostgreSQL 7.1.
-     For 7.1 it was not enabled by default.
-     To enable this feature, run configure with the
-     --enable-unicode-conversion option. Note that this requires
-     the --enable-multibyte option also.
-    
-    
-    For 7.2, --enable-unicode-conversion is not necessary.
-    The Unicode conversion functionality is automatically enabled
-    if --enable-multibyte is specified.
-    
-    
-    For 7.3, --enable-unicode-conversion nor
-    --enable-multibyte is needed.
-    
-   
-
    
     What happens if the translation is not possible?
 

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
index dc4b2649c1319ac9fe33a72ef58a1ff696c3b25a..6e1d76522a1bfabb7f45e432d469c3a3973c9f80 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -583,10 +583,9 @@ local   db1,db2,@demodbs  all                                       md5
 
    
     In order to use Kerberos, support for it must be
-    enabled at build time. Both Kerberos 4 and 5 are supported
-    (./configure --with-krb4 or ./configure
-    --with-krb5 respectively), although only one version can be
-    supported in any one build.
+    enabled at build time.  See  for more
+    information.  Both Kerberos 4 and 5 are supported, but only one
+    version can be supported in any one build.
    
 
    

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 69aa6737f6b65577162ed170c00bc3df5189e21f..be27b9dddf8beb5fc797153e1ce98251aa9ba638 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  <![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">   </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">   <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-   The following prerequisites exist for building <productname>PostgreSQL</>:</div>
<div class="diff add">+   The following software packages are required for building</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <productname>PostgreSQL</>:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff ctx">    <itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <para></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       <indexterm></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <primary>flex</primary></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <indexterm></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <primary>bison</primary></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <indexterm></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <primary>yacc</primary></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <primary>installation</primary></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <secondary>on Windows</secondary></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <acronym>GNU</> <application>Flex</> and <application>Bison</> are</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      needed to build from scratch, but they are</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <emphasis>not</> required when building from a released source</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      package because pre-generated output files are included in released</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      packages. You will</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      need these programs only when building from a CVS tree or if you</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      changed the actual scanner and parser definition files. If</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      you need them, be sure to get <application>Flex</> 2.5.4 or</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      later and <application>Bison</> 1.28 or later. Other <application>yacc</></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      programs can sometimes be used, but doing so requires extra</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      effort and is not recommended. Other <application>lex</> programs will</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      definitely not work.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      To build on <productname>Windows NT</> or <productname>Windows</div>
<div class="diff add">+      2000</> you need the <productname>Cygwin</> and</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <productname>cygipc</> packages. See the file</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <filename>doc/FAQ_MSWIN</> for details.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+   </itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   The following packages are optional.  They are not required in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+   default configuration, but they are needed when certain build</div>
<div class="diff add">+   options are enabled, as explained below.</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      To build the server programming language PL/Perl you need a full</div>
<div class="diff add">+      Perl installation, including the <filename>libperl</filename></div>
<div class="diff add">+      library and the header files.  Since PL/Perl is a shared</div>
<div class="diff add">+      library, the <indexterm><primary>libperl</primary></indexterm></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <filename>libperl</filename> library must be a shared library</div>
<div class="diff add">+      also on most platforms.  At the time of this writing, this is</div>
<div class="diff add">+      almost never the case in prebuilt Perl packages.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      If this difficulty arises in your situation, a message like this</div>
<div class="diff add">+      will appear during the build to point out this fact:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+*** Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.</div>
<div class="diff add">+*** You might have to rebuild your Perl installation.  Refer to</div>
<div class="diff add">+*** the documentation for details.</div>
<div class="diff add">+</screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+      (If you don't follow the onscreen output you will merely notice</div>
<div class="diff add">+      the the PL/Perl library object will not be installed.)  If you</div>
<div class="diff add">+      see this, you will have to re-build and install</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <productname>Perl</productname> manually to be able to build</div>
<div class="diff add">+      PL/Perl.  During the configuration process for</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <productname>Perl</productname>, request a shared library.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      To build the Python interface module or the PL/Python server</div>
<div class="diff add">+      programming language, you need a Python installation, including</div>
<div class="diff add">+      the header files.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      Since PL/Python is a shared library, the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <indexterm><primary>libpython</primary></indexterm></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <filename>libpython</filename> library must be a shared library</div>
<div class="diff add">+      also on most platforms.  This is not the case in a default</div>
<div class="diff add">+      Python installation.  If after building and installing you have</div>
<div class="diff add">+      a file called <filename>plpython.so</filename> (possibly a</div>
<div class="diff add">+      different extension), then everything went well.  Otherwise you</div>
<div class="diff add">+      should have seen a notice like this flying by:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+*** Cannot build PL/Python because libpython is not a shared library.</div>
<div class="diff add">+*** You might have to rebuild your Python installation.  Refer to</div>
<div class="diff add">+*** the documentation for details.</div>
<div class="diff add">+</screen></div>
<div class="diff add">+      That means you have to rebuild (part of) your Python</div>
<div class="diff add">+      installation to supply this shared library.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      The catch is that the Python distribution or the Python</div>
<div class="diff add">+      maintainers do not provide any direct way to do this.  The</div>
<div class="diff add">+      closest thing we can offer you is the information in <ulink</div>
<div class="diff add">+      url="http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.30">Python FAQ</div>
<div class="diff add">+      3.30</ulink>.  On some operating systems you don't really have</div>
<div class="diff add">+      to build a shared library, but then you will have to convince</div>
<div class="diff add">+      the PostgreSQL build system of this.  Consult the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <filename>Makefile</filename> in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <filename>src/pl/plpython</filename> directory for details.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      If you want to build Tcl or Tk components (clients and the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      PL/Tcl language) you of course need a Tcl installation.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      To build the JDBC driver, you need</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <application>Ant</application> 1.5 or higher and a</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <acronym>JDK</acronym>.  <application>Ant</application> is a</div>
<div class="diff add">+      special tool for building Java-based packages.  It can be</div>
<div class="diff add">+      downloaded from the <ulink</div>
<div class="diff add">+      url="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html"><application>Ant</application></div>
<div class="diff add">+      web site</ulink>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      If you have several Java compilers installed, it depends on the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      Ant configuration which one gets used.  Precompiled</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <application>Ant</application> distributions are typically set</div>
<div class="diff add">+      up to read a file <filename>.antrc</filename> in the current</div>
<div class="diff add">+      user's home directory for configuration.  For example, to use a</div>
<div class="diff add">+      different <acronym>JDK</acronym> than the default, this may</div>
<div class="diff add">+      work:</div>
<div class="diff add">+<programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/sun-jdk1.3</div>
<div class="diff add">+JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java</div>
<div class="diff add">+</programlisting></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <note></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+       Do not try to build the driver by calling</div>
<div class="diff add">+       <command>ant</command> or even <command>javac</command></div>
<div class="diff add">+       directly.  This will not work.  Run <command>gmake</command></div>
<div class="diff add">+       normally as described below.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+     </note></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      To enable Native Language Support (<acronym>NLS</acronym>), that</div>
<div class="diff add">+      is, the ability to display a program's messages in a language</div>
<div class="diff add">+      other than English, you need an implementation of the Gettext</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <acronym>API</acronym>.  Some operating systems have this</div>
<div class="diff add">+      built-in (e.g., <systemitem class="osname">Linux</>, <systemitem</div>
<div class="diff add">+      class="osname">NetBSD</>, <systemitem</div>
<div class="diff add">+      class="osname">Solaris</>), for other systems you can download</div>
<div class="diff add">+      an add-on package from here: <ulink</div>
<div class="diff add">+      url="http://www.postgresql.org/~petere/gettext.html" ></ulink>.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      If you are using the <application>gettext</> implementation in</div>
<div class="diff add">+      the GNU C library then you will additionally need the</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <productname>GNU Gettext</productname> package for some utility</div>
<div class="diff add">+      programs.  For any of the other implementations you will not</div>
<div class="diff add">+      need it.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+    </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+     <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+      Kerberos, OpenSSL, or PAM, if you want to support</div>
<div class="diff add">+      authentication using these services.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">      </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff add">+   </itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff add">+  </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff add">+  <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   If you are build from a CVS tree instead of using a released source</div>
<div class="diff add">+   package, or if you want to do development, you also need the</div>
<div class="diff add">+   following packages:</div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+   <itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">      <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       <indexterm></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <primary>installation</primary></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <secondary>on Windows</secondary></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <primary>flex</primary></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <indexterm></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <primary>bison</primary></div>
<div class="diff add">+      </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff add">+      <indexterm></div>
<div class="diff add">+       <primary>yacc</primary></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       </indexterm></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-      To build on <productname>Windows NT</> or <productname>Windows</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      2000</> you need the <productname>Cygwin</> and</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <productname>cygipc</> packages. See the file</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <filename>doc/FAQ_MSWIN</> for details.</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <acronym>GNU</> <application>Flex</> and <application>Bison</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      are needed to build a CVS checkout or if you changed the actual</div>
<div class="diff add">+      scanner and parser definition files. If you need them, be sure</div>
<div class="diff add">+      to get <application>Flex</> 2.5.4 or later and</div>
<div class="diff add">+      <application>Bison</> 1.28 or later. Other <application>yacc</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      programs can sometimes be used, but doing so requires extra</div>
<div class="diff add">+      effort and is not recommended. Other <application>lex</></div>
<div class="diff add">+      programs will definitely not work.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">      </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">     </listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">    </itemizedlist></div>
<div class="diff ctx">   </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">- </div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff ctx">   <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">    If you need to get a <acronym>GNU</acronym> package, you can find</div>
<div class="diff ctx">    it at your local <acronym>GNU</acronym> mirror site (see <ulink</div>
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<div class="diff ctx">   <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">    Also check that you have sufficient disk space. You will need about</div>
<div class="diff rem">-   30 MB for the source tree during compilation and about 10 MB for the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-   installation directory. An empty database cluster takes about 20 MB, databases</div>
<div class="diff rem">-   take about five times the amount of space that a flat text file</div>
<div class="diff rem">-   with the same data would take. If you are going to run the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-   regression tests you will temporarily need an extra 20 MB. Use the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-   <command>df</command> command to check for disk space.</div>
<div class="diff add">+   65 MB for the source tree during compilation and about 15 MB for</div>
<div class="diff add">+   the installation directory. An empty database cluster takes about</div>
<div class="diff add">+   25 MB, databases take about five times the amount of space that a</div>
<div class="diff add">+   flat text file with the same data would take. If you are going to</div>
<div class="diff add">+   run the regression tests you will temporarily need up to an extra</div>
<div class="diff add">+   90 MB. Use the <command>df</command> command to check for disk</div>
<div class="diff add">+   space.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">   </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">  </sect1></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
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<div class="diff ctx">     This script will run a number of tests to guess values for various</div>
<div class="diff ctx">     system dependent variables and detect some quirks of your</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    operating system, and finally will create several files in the build</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    tree to record what it found.</div>
<div class="diff add">+    operating system, and finally will create several files in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+    build tree to record what it found.  (You can also run</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <filename>configure</filename> in a directory outside the source</div>
<div class="diff add">+    tree if you want to keep the build directory separate.)</div>
<div class="diff ctx">    </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">    <para></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">        prefix, the documentation will be installed in</div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <filename>/usr/local/doc/postgresql</filename>, but if the</div>
<div class="diff ctx">        prefix is <filename>/opt/postgres</filename>, then it will be</div>
<div class="diff rem">-       in <filename>/opt/postgres/doc</filename>.  Second, the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-       installation layout of the C and C++ header files has been</div>
<div class="diff rem">-       reorganized in the 7.2 release.  The public header files of the</div>
<div class="diff add">+       in <filename>/opt/postgres/doc</filename>.  The public C header files of the</div>
<div class="diff ctx">        client interfaces are installed into</div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <varname>includedir</varname> and are namespace-clean.  The</div>
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<div class="diff ctx">        <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">          Enables single-byte character set recode support. See</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <![%standalone-include[the <citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle>]]></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <![%standalone-ignore[<xref linkend="recode">]]> about this feature.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--enable-multibyte</option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Allows the use of multibyte character encodings (including Unicode)</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         and character set encoding conversion. Read </div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <![%standalone-include[the <citetitle>Administrator's Guide</citetitle>]]></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <![%standalone-ignore[<xref linkend="multibyte">]]></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         for details.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Note that some interfaces (such as Tcl or Java) expect all character</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         strings to be in Unicode, so this option will be required to correctly</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         support these interfaces.</div>
<div class="diff add">+         <![%standalone-include[the <citetitle>Administrator's</div>
<div class="diff add">+         Guide</citetitle>]]> <![%standalone-ignore[<xref</div>
<div class="diff add">+         linkend="recode">]]> about this feature.  Note that a more</div>
<div class="diff add">+         general form of character set conversion is supported in the</div>
<div class="diff add">+         default configuration; this feature is obsolete.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">         </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        </listitem></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">        <term><option>--enable-nls<optional>=<replaceable>LANGUAGES</replaceable></optional></option></term></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Enables Native Language Support (<acronym>NLS</acronym>), that is, the ability</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         to display a program's messages in a language other than</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         English.  <replaceable>LANGUAGES</replaceable> is a space</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         separated list of codes of the languages that you want</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         supported, for example <literal>--enable-nls='de fr'</>.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         (The intersection between your list and the set</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         of actually provided translations will be computed</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         automatically.)  If you do not specify a list, then all available</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         translations are installed.</div>
<div class="diff add">+         Enables Native Language Support (<acronym>NLS</acronym>),</div>
<div class="diff add">+         that is, the ability to display a program's messages in a</div>
<div class="diff add">+         language other than English.</div>
<div class="diff add">+         <replaceable>LANGUAGES</replaceable> is a space separated</div>
<div class="diff add">+         list of codes of the languages that you want supported, for</div>
<div class="diff add">+         example <literal>--enable-nls='de fr'</>.  (The intersection</div>
<div class="diff add">+         between your list and the set of actually provided</div>
<div class="diff add">+         translations will be computed automatically.)  If you do not</div>
<div class="diff add">+         specify a list, then all available translations are</div>
<div class="diff add">+         installed.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">         </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <comment></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         The list of provided translations should be shown somewhere.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </comment></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">          To use this option, you will need an implementation of the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <application>gettext</> API.  Some operating systems have this built-in</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         (e.g., <systemitem class="osname">Linux</>, <systemitem class="osname">NetBSD</>, <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</>), for other systems you can download</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         an add-on package from here:  <ulink</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         url="http://www.postgresql.org/~petere/gettext.html"</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         ></ulink>.  If</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         you are using the <application>gettext</> implementation in the GNU C library</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         then you will additionally need the <productname>GNU gettext</productname> package for</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         some utility programs.  For any of the other implementations</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         you will not need it.</div>
<div class="diff add">+         <application>gettext</> API; see above.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">         </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <comment></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         The download location should be moved.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </comment></div>
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<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--with-CXX</option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Build the C++ interface library.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">        <term><option>--with-python</option></term></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Build the Python interface module<span class="marked">. You need to have root</span></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         access to be able to install the Python module at its default</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         place</div>
<div class="diff add">+         Build the Python interface module<span class="marked"> and the PL/Python</span></div>
<div class="diff add">+         server-side language. You need to have root access to be able</div>
<div class="diff add">+         <span class="marked">to install the Python module at its default </span>place</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          (<filename>/usr/lib/python<replaceable>x</>.<replaceable>y</></>).</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          To be able to use this option, you must have Python installed</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          and your system needs to support shared libraries. If you</div>
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<div class="diff ctx">       </varlistentry></div>
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<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--enable-odbc</option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Build the ODBC driver.  By default, the driver will be independent</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         of a driver manager.  To work better with a driver manager already</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         installed on your system, use one of the following options in addition</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         to this one.  More information can be found in the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <citetitle>Programmer's Guide</citetitle>.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--with-iodbc</option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Build the ODBC driver for use with <productname>iODBC</>.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--with-unixodbc</option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Build the ODBC driver for use with <productname>unixODBC</>.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--with-odbcinst=<replaceable>DIRECTORY</></option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Specifies the directory where the ODBC driver will expect its</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <filename>odbcinst.ini</> configuration file. The default is</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <filename>/usr/local/pgsql/etc</filename> or whatever you</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         specified as <option>--sysconfdir</option>. It should be</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         arranged that the driver reads the same file as the driver</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         manager.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         If either the option <option>--with-iodbc</option> or the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         option <option>--with-unixodbc</option> is used, this option</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         will be ignored because in that case the driver manager</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         handles the location of the configuration file.</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff ctx">       <varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <term><option>--with-java</option></term></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        <listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">          Build the <acronym>JDBC</acronym> driver and associated Java</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         packages.  This option requires</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <application>Ant</application> to be installed (as well as a</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <acronym>JDK</acronym>, of course).  Refer to the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <acronym>JDBC</acronym> driver documentation in the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <citetitle>Programmer's Guide</citetitle> for more</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         information.</div>
<div class="diff add">+         packages.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">         </para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">        </listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       </varlistentry></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">        </listitem></div>
<div class="diff ctx">       </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-      <varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <term><option>--enable-syslog</option></term></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       <listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-        <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-         Enables the <productname>PostgreSQL</> server to use the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         <systemitem>syslog</> logging facility. (Using this option does not mean</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         that you must log with <systemitem>syslog</> or even that it will be done</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         by default, it simply makes it possible to turn that option</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         on at run time.)</div>
<div class="diff rem">-        </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-       </listitem></div>
<div class="diff rem">-      </varlistentry></div>
<div class="diff rem">-</div>
<div class="diff ctx">       <varlistentry></div>
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<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff ctx">      </variablelist></div>
<div class="diff rem">-   </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <span class="marked"> </span></para></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </div>
<div class="diff rem">-   <para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    If you prefer a C or C++ compiler different from the one</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    <filename>configure</filename> picks then you can set the</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    environment variables <envar>CC</> or <envar>CXX</envar>,</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    respectively, to the program of your choice.  Similarly, you can</div>
<div class="diff rem">-    override the default compiler flags with the <envar>CFLAGS</envar></div>
<div class="diff rem">-    and <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar> variables.  For example:</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+     If you prefer a C compiler different from the one</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <filename>configure</filename> picks then you can set the</div>
<div class="diff add">+     environment variable <envar>CC</> to the program of your choice.</div>
<div class="diff add">+     By default, <filename>configure</filename> will pick</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <filename>gcc</filename> unless this is inappropriate for the</div>
<div class="diff add">+     platform.  Similarly, you can override the default compiler flags</div>
<div class="diff add">+     with the <envar>CFLAGS</envar> variable.</div>
<div class="diff add">+    </para></div>
<div class="diff add">+</div>
<div class="diff add">+    <para></div>
<div class="diff add">+     You can specify environment variables on the</div>
<div class="diff add">+     <filename>configure</filename> command line, for example:</div>
<div class="diff ctx"> <screen></div>
<div class="diff rem">-<userinput><span class="marked">env CC=/opt/bin/gcc CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe' ./configure</span></></div>
<div class="diff add">+<userinput><span class="marked">./configure CC=/opt/bin/gcc CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe'</span></></div>
<div class="diff ctx"> </screen></div>
<div class="diff rem">-   </para></div>
<div class="diff rem">-  </step></div>
<div class="diff add">+   <span class="marked"> </span></para></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">    <title>Build
@@ -1057,34 +1101,40 @@ All of PostgreSQL is successfully made. Ready to install.
 
     
    
+  
+  
 
+  
+   Uninstall:
    
     To undo the installation use the command gmake
     uninstall. However, this will not remove any created directories.
    
-  
-  
+  
 
-  
-   After the installation you can make room by removing the built
-   files from the source tree with the gmake clean
-   command. This will preserve the files made by the configure
-   program, so that you can rebuild everything with gmake
-   later on. To reset the source tree to the state in which it was
-   distributed, use gmake distclean. If you are going to
-   build for several platforms from the same source tree you must do
-   this and re-configure for each build.
-  
+  
+   Cleaning:
+
+   
+    After the installation you can make room by removing the built
+    files from the source tree with the command gmake
+    clean. This will preserve the files made by the configure
+    program, so that you can rebuild everything with gmake
+    later on. To reset the source tree to the state in which it was
+    distributed, use gmake distclean. If you are going to
+    build for several platforms from the same source tree you must do
+    this and re-configure for each build.
+   
+  
 
   
-   If you perform a build and then discover that your configure options
-   were wrong, or if you change anything that configure investigates
-   (for example, you install GNU Readline), then it's
-   a good idea to do gmake distclean before reconfiguring
-   and rebuilding.  Without this, your changes in configuration choices
+   If you perform a build and then discover that your configure
+   options were wrong, or if you change anything that configure
+   investigates (for example, software upgrades), then it's a good
+   idea to do gmake distclean before reconfiguring and
+   rebuilding.  Without this, your changes in configuration choices
    may not propagate everywhere they need to.
   
-
  
 
  
@@ -1139,17 +1189,13 @@ setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/pgsql/lib
     building.
    
 
-
+
    
     If in doubt, refer to the manual pages of your system (perhaps
     ld.so or rld). If you later
@@ -1194,14 +1240,21 @@ libpq.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 
    
     If you installed into /usr/local/pgsql or some other
-    location that is not searched for programs by default, you need to
+    location that is not searched for programs by default, you should
     add /usr/local/pgsql/bin (or whatever you set
     --bindir to in )
-    into your PATH. To do this, add the following to your
-    shell start-up file, such as ~/.bash_profile (or
-    /etc/profile, if you want it to affect every user):
+    into your PATH.  Strictly speaking, this is not
+    necessary, but it will make the use of PostgreSQL much more
+    convenient.
+   
+
+   
+    To do this, add the following to your shell start-up file, such as
+    ~/.bash_profile (or /etc/profile, if you
+    want it to affect every user):
 
 PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH
+export PATH
 
     If you are using csh or tcsh, then use this command:
 
@@ -1216,9 +1269,11 @@ set path = ( /usr/local/pgsql/bin $path )
     
     To enable your system to find the man
     documentation, you need to add a line like the following to a
-    shell start-up file:
+    shell start-up file unless you installed into a location that is
+    searched by default.
 
 MANPATH=/usr/local/pgsql/man:$MANPATH
+export MANPATH
 
    
 

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/jdbc.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/jdbc.sgml
index c77817d16a49cad3032411ca3d042a5b3aa5fa51..69220dd59c93217947684b0957db7c4a04717f5f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/jdbc.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/jdbc.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  
@@ -51,92 +51,34 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Attic/jdbc.sgml,v 1.36 2002/03/22 19:20:11
    
 
    
-    Alternatively you can build the driver from source.  Although you 
-    should only need to do this if you are making changes to the source
-    code.
+    Alternatively you can build the driver from source, but you
+    should only need to do this if you are making changes to the
+    source code.  For details, refer to the PostgreSQL installation
+    instructions.  After installation, the driver should be found in
+    PREFIX/share/java/postgresql.jar.
+    The resulting driver will be built for the version of Java you are
+    running.  If you build with a 1.1 JDK you will build a version
+    that supports the JDBC 1 specification, if you build with a Java 2
+    JDK (e.g., JDK 1.2 or JDK 1.3) you will build a version that
+    supports the JDBC 2 specification.
    
-
-   
-    Starting with PostgreSQL version 7.1,
-    the JDBC driver is built using
-    Ant, a special tool for building
-    Java-based packages.  You should download
-    Ant from the 
-    url="http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html">Ant
-    web site and install it before proceeding.  Precompiled
-    Ant distributions are typically set up
-    to read a file .antrc in the current user's
-    home directory for configuration.  For example, to use a different
-    JDK than the default, this may work:
-
-JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/sun-jdk1.3
-JAVACMD=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
-
-   
-
-   
-    To build the driver, add the --with-java option to your
-    configure command line, e.g.,
-
-$ ./configure --prefix=xxx --with-java ...
-
-    This will build and install the driver along with the rest of the
-    PostgreSQL package when you issue the
-    make/gmake and make/gmake install
-    commands.  If you only want to build the driver and not the rest
-    of PostgreSQL, change into the
-    directory 
-    class="directory">src/interfaces/jdbc and issue the
-    respective make/gmake command there.  Refer to the
-    PostgreSQL installation instructions
-    for more information about the configuration and build process.
-   
-
-   When building the driver from source the jar file that is created
-    will be named postgresql.jar.  The build will 
-    create this file in the src/interfaces/jdbc/jars
-    directory.  The resulting driver will be built for the version of 
-    Java you are running.  If you build with a 1.1 JDK you will build
-    a version that supports the jdbc1 specification, if you build with a 
-    Java2 JDK (i.e. JDK1.2 or JDK1.3) you will build a version that 
-    supports the jdbc2 specification. 
-   
- 
-   
-    
-     Do not try to build the driver by calling javac 
-     directly, as the driver uses some dynamic loading techniques for
-     performance reasons, and javac cannot cope.
-     Do not try to run ant directly either, because
-     some configuration information is communicated through the
-     makefiles.  Running ant directly without
-     providing these parameters will result in a broken driver.
-    
-   
   
 
   
    Setting up the Class Path
 
    
-    To use the driver, the jar archive (named
+    To use the driver, the JAR archive (named
     postgresql.jar if you built from source, otherwise
     it will likely be named jdbc7.2-1.1.jar or 
-    jdbc7.2-1.2.jar for the jdbc1 and jdbc2 versions
+    jdbc7.2-1.2.jar for the JDBC 1 and JDBC 2 versions
     respectively)
     needs to be included in the
     class path, either by putting it in the CLASSPATH
     environment variable, or by using flags on the
-    java command line.  By default, the jar archive
-    is installed in the directory 
-    class="directory">/usr/local/pgsql/share/java.  You may
-    have it in a different directory if you used the
-    --prefix option when you ran
-    configure, or if you are using a binary distribution
-    that places it in some different location.
+    java command line.
    
 
-   
     
      For instance, I have an application that uses the
      JDBC driver to access a large database
@@ -163,7 +105,6 @@ java Finder
      Loading the driver from within the application is covered in
      .
     
-   
   
 
   
@@ -183,7 +124,7 @@ java Finder
     Also, the client authentication setup in the
     pg_hba.conf file may need to be configured.
     Refer to the Administrator's Guide for
-    details.  The JDBC Driver supports trust,
+    details.  The JDBC Driver supports the trust,
     ident, password, md5, and crypt authentication methods.
    
   


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml

index 9793cd93503333d2c2778366f748be12b6eb36b8..939eba14237f8037349ff9563f7ddd4a59cbac68 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -424,14 +424,13 @@ VACUUM
 
   
    The simplest production-grade approach to managing log output is to
-   send it all to syslog and let syslog
-   deal with file rotation. To do this, make sure
-   PostgreSQL was built with the
-   --enable-syslog configure option, and set
+   send it all to syslog and let
+   syslog deal with file rotation. To do this, set
    syslog to 2 (log to syslog only) in
    postgresql.conf. Then you can send a
-   SIGHUP signal to the syslog daemon
-   whenever you want to force it to start writing a new log file.
+   SIGHUP signal to the syslog
+   daemon whenever you want to force it to start writing a new log
+   file.
   
 
   


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml

index c04ff95d929d100b8866c99b70f93c5f6a8a8849..97981bf603e8f422a9eb4c7174f6385b8c0310f9 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  
@@ -14,154 +14,75 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.16 2002/03/06 19:05:57 momj
   
 
   
-   PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language
-   that enables the Perl programming
-   language to be used to write 
-   PostgreSQL functions.
-  
-
-  
-
-  
-   Overview
-
-   
-    Normally, PL/Perl is installed as a trusted programming
-    language named plperl.  In this setup, certain Perl
-    operations are disabled to preserve security.  In general, the operations
-    that are restricted are those that interact with the environment. This
-    includes file handle operations, require, and
-    use (for external modules).
-    There is no way to access internals of the
-    database backend or to gain OS-level access under the permissions of the
-    PostgreSQL user ID, as a C function can do.
-    Thus, any unprivileged database user may be
-    permitted to use this language.
-   
-   
-    Sometimes it is desirable to write Perl functions that are not restricted
-    --- for example, one might want a Perl function that sends
-    mail.  To handle these cases, PL/Perl can also be installed as an
-    untrusted language (usually named plperlu).
-    In this case the full Perl language is available.  The writer of a PL/PerlU
-    function must take care that the function cannot be used to do anything
-    unwanted, since it will be able to do anything that could be done by
-    a user logged in as the database administrator.  Note that the database
-    system allows only database superusers to create functions in untrusted
-    languages.
-   
- 
-
- 
-  Building and Installing PL/Perl
-
-  
-   If the --with-perl option was supplied to the
-   configure
-   configure script,
-   the PostgreSQL build process will attempt to
-   build the PL/Perl shared library and install it in the 
-   PostgreSQL library directory.
+   PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write
+   PostgreSQL functions in the 
+   url="http://www.perl.com">Perl programming language.
   
 
   
-   On most platforms, since PL/Perl is a shared library, the
-   libperl
-   libperl library must be a shared library also.
-   At the time of this writing, this is almost never the case in prebuilt
-   Perl packages.  If this difficulty arises in your situation, a
-   message like this will appear during the build to point out this
-   fact:
-
-
-*** Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.
-*** You might have to rebuild your Perl installation.  Refer to
-*** the documentation for details.
-
-
-   If you see this, you will have to re-build and install
-   Perl manually to be able to build
-   PL/Perl.  During the configuration process for
-   Perl, request a shared library.
+   To install PL/Perl in a particular database, use
+   createlang plperl dbname.
   
 
-  
-   After having reinstalled Perl, change to the directory
-   src/pl/plperl in the
-   PostgreSQL source tree and issue the commands
-
-gmake clean
-gmake all
-gmake install
-
-   to complete the build and installation of the PL/Perl shared library.
-  
-
-   
-    To install
-    PL/Perl and/or PL/PerlU in a particular database, use the
-    createlang script, for example
-    createlang plperl dbname or
-    createlang plperlu dbname.
-   
-
   
    
     If a language is installed into template1, all subsequently
     created databases will have the language installed automatically.
    
   
-  
-
-  
 
-  
-   Description
-
-   
-    PL/Perl Functions and Arguments
+  
+   
+    Users of source packages must specially enable the build of
+    PL/Perl during the installation process (refer to the installation
+    instructions for more information).  Users of binary packages
+    might find PL/Perl in a separate subpackage.
+   
+  
 
-    >
-     To create a function in the PL/Perl language, use the standard syntax
+ >
+  PL/Perl Functions and Arguments
 
-     
+  
+   To create a function in the PL/Perl language, use the standard syntax:
+
 CREATE FUNCTION funcname (argument-types) RETURNS return-type AS '
     # PL/Perl function body
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
-     
-
-     PL/PerlU is the same, except that the language should be specified as
-     plperlu.
-    
+
+   The body of the function is ordinary Perl code.
+  
 
-    
-     The body of the function is ordinary Perl code.  Arguments and
-     results are handled as in any other Perl subroutine: arguments
-     are passed in @_, and a result value is returned
-     with return or as the last expression evaluated in the
-     function.  For example, a function
-     returning the greater of two integer values could be defined as:
+  
+   Arguments and results are handled as in any other Perl subroutine:
+   Arguments are passed in @_, and a result value
+   is returned with return or as the last expression
+   evaluated in the function.  For example, a function returning the
+   greater of two integer values could be defined as:
 
-     
+
 CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS '
     if ($_[0] > $_[1]) { return $_[0]; }
     return $_[1];
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
-     
-
-     If a NULL is passed to a function, the argument value will appear
-     as undefined in Perl.  The above function definition will
-     not behave very nicely with NULL inputs (in fact, it will act as
-     though they are zeroes).  We could add WITH (isStrict)
-     to the function definition to make PostgreSQL
-     do something more reasonable: if a NULL is passed, the
-     function will not be called at all, but will just return a NULL
-     result automatically.  Alternatively, we could check for undefined
-     inputs in the function body.  For example, suppose that we wanted perl_max
-     with one null and one non-null argument to return the non-null
-     argument, rather than NULL:
-
-     
+
+  
+
+  
+   If an SQL null value is passed to a function, the argument value
+   will appear as undefined in Perl.  The above function
+   definition will not behave very nicely with null inputs (in fact,
+   it will act as though they are zeroes).  We could add
+   STRICT to the function definition to make
+   PostgreSQL do something more reasonable:
+   if a null value is passed, the function will not be called at all,
+   but will just return a null result automatically.  Alternatively,
+   we could check for undefined inputs in the function body.  For
+   example, suppose that we wanted perl_max with
+   one null and one non-null argument to return the non-null argument,
+   rather than a null value:
+
+
 CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS '
     my ($a,$b) = @_;
     if (! defined $a) {
@@ -172,21 +93,21 @@ CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS '
     if ($a > $b) { return $a; }
     return $b;
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
-     
-    
+
+  
 
-    
-     As shown above,
-     to return a NULL from a PL/Perl function, return an undefined
-     value.  This can be done whether the function is strict or not.
-    
+  
+   As shown above, to return an SQL null value from a PL/Perl
+   function, return an undefined value.  This can be done whether the
+   function is strict or not.
+  
 
-    
-     Composite-type arguments are passed to the function as references to
-     hashes.  The keys of the hash are the attribute names of the composite
-     type.  Here is an example:
+  
+   Composite-type arguments are passed to the function as references
+   to hashes.  The keys of the hash are the attribute names of the
+   composite type.  Here is an example:
 
-     
+
 CREATE TABLE employee (
     name text,
     basesalary integer,
@@ -199,25 +120,97 @@ CREATE FUNCTION empcomp(employee) RETURNS integer AS '
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
 
 SELECT name, empcomp(employee) FROM employee;
-     
-    
+
+  
 
-    
-     There is not currently any support for returning a composite-type
-     result value.
-    
+  
+   There is currently no support for returning a composite-type result
+   value.
+  
 
   
    
     Because the function body is passed as an SQL string literal to
     CREATE FUNCTION, you have to escape single
-    quotes and backslashes within your Perl source, typically by doubling them
-    as shown in the above example.  Another possible approach is to
-    avoid writing single quotes by using Perl's extended quoting functions
-    (q[], qq[],
-    qw[]).
+    quotes and backslashes within your Perl source, typically by
+    doubling them as shown in the above example.  Another possible
+    approach is to avoid writing single quotes by using Perl's
+    extended quoting operators (q[],
+    qq[], qw[]).
    
   
+ 
+
+ 
+  Data Values in PL/Perl
+
+  
+   The argument values supplied to a PL/Perl function's script are
+   simply the input arguments converted to text form (just as if they
+   had been displayed by a SELECT statement).
+   Conversely, the return command will accept any string
+   that is acceptable input format for the function's declared return
+   type.  So, the PL/Perl programmer can manipulate data values as if
+   they were just text.
+  
+ 
+
+ 
+  Database Access from PL/Perl
+
+  
+   Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done via
+   an experimental module 
+   url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/">DBD::PgSPI
+   (also available at CPAN
+   mirror sites). This module makes available a
+   DBI-compliant database-handle named
+   $pg_dbh that can be used to perform queries
+   with normal DBI syntax.
+  
+
+  
+   PL/Perl itself presently provides only one additional Perl command:
+
+   
+    
+     
+      elog
+      PL/Perl
+     
+
+     elog level, msg
+     
+      
+       Emit a log or error message. Possible levels are
+       DEBUG, LOG, INFO,
+       NOTICE, WARNING, and ERROR.
+       ERROR raises an error condition: further execution
+       of the function is abandoned, and the current transaction is
+       aborted.
+      
+     
+    
+   
+  
+ 
+
+ 
+  Trusted and Untrusted PL/Perl
+
+  
+   Normally, PL/Perl is installed as a trusted programming
+   language named plperl.  In this setup, certain Perl
+   operations are disabled to preserve security.  In general, the
+   operations that are restricted are those that interact with the
+   environment. This includes file handle operations,
+   require, and use (for
+   external modules).  There is no way to access internals of the
+   database backend process or to gain OS-level access with the
+   permissions of the PostgreSQL user ID,
+   as a C function can do.  Thus, any unprivileged database user may
+   be permitted to use this language.
+  
 
   
    Here is an example of a function that will not work because file
@@ -231,89 +224,66 @@ CREATE FUNCTION badfunc() RETURNS integer AS '
 
    The creation of the function will succeed, but executing it will not.
   
+
   
-   Note that if the same function was created by a superuser using language 
-   plperlu, execution would succeed.
+   Sometimes it is desirable to write Perl functions that are not
+   restricted --- for example, one might want a Perl function that
+   sends mail.  To handle these cases, PL/Perl can also be installed
+   as an untrusted language (usually called
+   PL/PerlU).  In this case the full Perl language is
+   available.  If the createlang program is used to
+   install the language, the language name plperlu
+   will select the untrusted PL/Perl variant.
   
 
-   
-
-   
-    Data Values in PL/Perl
-
-    
-     The argument values supplied to a PL/Perl function's script are simply
-     the input arguments converted to text form (just as if they had been
-     displayed by a SELECT statement).  Conversely, the return
-     command will accept any string that is acceptable input format for
-     the function's declared return type.  So, the PL/Perl programmer can
-     manipulate data values as if they were just text.
-    
+  
+   The writer of a PL/PerlU function must take care that the function
+   cannot be used to do anything unwanted, since it will be able to do
+   anything that could be done by a user logged in as the database
+   administrator.  Note that the database system allows only database
+   superusers to create functions in untrusted languages.
+  
 
-   
+  
+   If the above function was created by a superuser using the language
+   plperlu, execution would succeed.
+  
+ 
 
-   >
-    Database Access from PL/Perl</span>
+ >
+  Missing Features</span>
 
   
-   Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done via
-   an experimental module 
-   url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/">DBD::PgSPI
-   (also available at CPAN
-   mirror sites). This module makes available a
-   DBI-compliant database-handle named
-   $pg_dbh that can be used to perform queries
-   with normal DBI syntax.
+   The following features are currently missing from PL/Perl, but they
+   would make welcome contributions:
+
+   
+    
+     
+      PL/Perl functions cannot call each other directly (because they
+      are anonymous subroutines inside Perl).  There's presently no
+      way for them to share global variables, either.
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      PL/Perl cannot be used to write trigger functions.
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      DBD::PgSPI or similar capability
+      should be integrated into the standard
+      PostgreSQL distribution.
+     
+    
+   
   
+ 
 
-    
-     PL/Perl itself presently provides only one additional Perl command:
-    
-
-    
-     
-      
-       elog
-      
-      elog level, msg
-      
-       
-   Emit a log or error message. Possible levels are
-   DEBUG, LOG, INFO,
-   NOTICE, WARNING, and ERROR.
-   ERROR raises an error condition: further execution
-   of the function is abandoned, and the current transaction is
-   aborted.
-       
-      
-     
-
-    
-
-   
-
-   
-    Missing Features
-
-    
-     PL/Perl functions cannot call each other directly (because they
-     are anonymous subroutines inside Perl).  There's presently
-     no way for them to share global variables, either.
-    
-
-    
-     PL/Perl cannot currently be used to write trigger functions.
-    
-
-    
-     DBD::PgSPI or similar capability should be integrated
-     into the standard PostgreSQL distribution.
-    
-
-   
-
-  
- 
+
 
 
+
 
 
  PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
@@ -6,90 +6,42 @@
  PL/Python
  Python
 
- 
-  Introduction
+ 
+  The PL/Python procedural language allows
+  PostgreSQL functions to be written in the
+  Python language.
+ 
 
-  
-   The PL/Python procedural language allows
-   PostgreSQL functions to be written in
-   the Python language.
-  
+ 
+  To install PL/Python in a particular database, use
+  createlang plpython dbname.
+ 
 
+ 
   
-   The current version of PL/Python
-   functions as a trusted language only; access to the file system and
-   other local resources is disabled.  Specifically,
-   PL/Python uses the Python restricted
-   execution environment, further restricts it to prevent the use of
-   the file open call, and allows only modules from a
-   specific list to be imported.  Presently, that list includes:
-   array, bisect, binascii, calendar, cmath, codecs, errno, marshal,
-   math, md5, mpz, operator, pcre, pickle, random, re, regex, sre,
-   sha, string, StringIO, struct, time, whrandom, and zlib.
+   Users of source packages must specially enable the build of
+   PL/Python during the installation process (refer to the
+   installation instructions for more information).  Users of binary
+   packages might find PL/Python in a separate subpackage.
   
+ 
 
-  
-   In the current version, any database error encountered while
-   running a PL/Python function will result
-   in the immediate termination of that function by the server.  It is
-   not possible to trap error conditions using Python try
-   ... catch constructs.  For example, a syntax error in an
-   SQL statement passed to the plpy.execute() call
-   will terminate the function.  This behavior may be changed in a
-   future release.
-  
- 
-
- 
-  Installation
-
-  
-   To build PL/Python, the --with-python option needs
-   to be specified when running configure.  If
-   after building and installing you have a file called
-   plpython.so (possibly a different extension),
-   then everything went well.  Otherwise you should have seen a notice
-   like this flying by:
-
-*** Cannot build PL/Python because libpython is not a shared library.
-*** You might have to rebuild your Python installation.  Refer to
-*** the documentation for details.
-
-   That means you have to rebuild (part of) your Python installation
-   to supply this shared library.
-  
-
-  
-   The catch is that the Python distribution or the Python maintainers
-   do not provide any direct way to do this.  The closest thing we can
-   offer you is the information in 
-   url="http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.30">Python FAQ
-   3.30.  On some operating systems you don't really have to
-   build a shared library, but then you will have to convince the
-   PostgreSQL build system of this.  Consult the
-   Makefile in the
-   src/pl/plpython directory for details.
-  
- 
-
- 
-  Using PL/Python
+ 
+  PL/Python Functions
 
   
-   There are sample functions in
-   plpython_function.sql.  The Python code you
-   write gets transformed into a function.  E.g.,
+   The Python code you write gets transformed into a function.  E.g.,
 
-CREATE FUNCTION myfunc(text) RETURNS text AS
-'return args[0]'
-LANGUAGE 'plpython';
+CREATE FUNCTION myfunc(text) RETURNS text
+    AS 'return args[0]'
+    LANGUAGE 'plpython';
 
 
    gets transformed into
 
 
 def __plpython_procedure_myfunc_23456():
-   return args[0]
+        return args[0]
 
 
    where 23456 is the OID of the function.
@@ -98,51 +50,68 @@ def __plpython_procedure_myfunc_23456():
   
    If you do not provide a return value, Python returns the default
    None which may or may not be what you want.  The
-   language module translates Python's None into SQL NULL.
+   language module translates Python's None into the
+   SQL null value.
   
 
   
-   PostgreSQL function variables are available in the global
-   args list.  In the myfunc
-   example, args[0] contains whatever was passed in as the text
-   argument.  For myfunc2(text, integer), args[0]
-   would contain the text variable and args[1] the integer variable.
+   The PostgreSQL function parameters are available in
+   the global args list.  In the
+   myfunc example, args[0] contains
+   whatever was passed in as the text argument.  For
+   myfunc2(text, integer), args[0]
+   would contain the text variable and
+   args[1] the integer variable.
   
 
   
-   The global dictionary SD is available to store data between
-   function calls.  This variable is private static data.  The global
-   dictionary GD is public data, available to all python functions
-   within a backend.  Use with care.
+   The global dictionary SD is available to store
+   data between function calls.  This variable is private static data.
+   The global dictionary GD is public data,
+   available to all Python functions within a session.  Use with care.
   
 
   
    Each function gets its own restricted execution object in the
    Python interpreter, so that global data and function arguments from
    myfunc are not available to
-   myfunc2.  The exception is the data in the GD
-   dictionary, as mentioned above.
+   myfunc2.  The exception is the data in the
+   GD dictionary, as mentioned above.
   
+ 
+
+ 
+  Trigger Functions
 
   
-   When a function is used in a trigger, the dictionary TD contains
-   transaction related values.  The trigger tuples are in TD["new"]
-   and/or TD["old"] depending on the trigger event.  TD["event"]
-   contains the event as a string (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or
-   UNKNOWN).  TD["when"] contains one of (BEFORE, AFTER, or
-   UNKNOWN).  TD["level"] contains one of ROW, STATEMENT, or
-   UNKNOWN.  TD["name"] contains the trigger name, and TD["relid"]
-   contains the relation id of the table on which the trigger occurred.
-   If the trigger was called with arguments they are available
-   in TD["args"][0] to TD["args"][(n -1)].
+   When a function is used in a trigger, the dictionary
+   TD contains trigger-related values.  The trigger
+   rows are in TD["new"] and/or TD["old"]
+   depending on the trigger event.  TD["event"] contains
+   the event as a string (INSERT, UPDATE,
+   DELETE, or UNKNOWN).
+   TD["when"] contains one of BEFORE,
+   AFTER, and UNKNOWN.
+   TD["level"] contains one of ROW,
+   STATEMENT, and UNKNOWN.
+   TD["name"] contains the trigger name, and
+   TD["relid"] contains the relation ID of the table on
+   which the trigger occurred.  If the trigger was called with
+   arguments they are available in TD["args"][0] to
+   TD["args"][(n-1)].
   
 
   
-   If the trigger when is BEFORE, you may return None or "OK"
-   from the Python function to indicate the tuple is unmodified,
-   "SKIP" to abort the event, or "MODIFIED" to indicate you've
-   modified the tuple.
+   If the TD["when"] is BEFORE, you may
+   return None or "OK" from the
+   Python function to indicate the row is unmodified,
+   "SKIP" to abort the event, or "MODIFIED" to
+   indicate you've modified the row.
   
+ 
+
+ 
+  Database Access
 
   
    The PL/Python language module automatically imports a Python module
@@ -150,54 +119,64 @@ def __plpython_procedure_myfunc_23456():
    this module are available to you in the Python code as
    plpy.foo.  At present
    plpy implements the functions
-   plpy.debug("msg"), 
+   plpy.debug("msg"),
    plpy.log("msg"),
    plpy.info("msg"),
    plpy.notice("msg"),
    plpy.warning("msg"),
    plpy.error("msg"), and
    plpy.fatal("msg").  They are mostly equivalent
-   to calling elog(LEVEL, "msg").
-   plpy.error and plpy.fatal
-   actually raise a Python exception which, if uncaught, causes the
-   PL/Python module to call elog(ERROR, msg) when
-   the function handler returns from the Python interpreter.  Long
-   jumping out of the Python interpreter is probably not good.
-   raise plpy.ERROR("msg") and raise
+   to calling elog(LEVEL, "msg")
+   from C code.  plpy.error and
+   plpy.fatal actually raise a Python exception
+   which, if uncaught, causes the PL/Python module to call
+   elog(ERROR, msg) when the function handler
+   returns from the Python interpreter.  Long-jumping out of the
+   Python interpreter is probably not good.  raise
+   plpy.ERROR("msg") and raise
    plpy.FATAL("msg") are equivalent to calling
-   plpy.error or plpy.fatal.
+   plpy.error and
+   plpy.fatal, respectively.
   
 
   
-   Additionally, the plpy module provides two functions called
-   execute and prepare.
-   Calling plpy.execute with a query string, and
-   an optional limit argument, causes that query to be run, and the
-   result returned in a result object.  The result object emulates a
+   Additionally, the plpy module provides two
+   functions called execute and
+   prepare.  Calling
+   plpy.execute with a query string and an
+   optional limit argument causes that query to be run and the result
+   to be returned in a result object.  The result object emulates a
    list or dictionary object.  The result object can be accessed by
-   row number, and field name.  It has these additional methods:
+   row number and field name.  It has these additional methods:
    nrows() which returns the number of rows
    returned by the query, and status which is the
    SPI_exec return variable.  The result object
    can be modified.
+  
 
+  
+   For example,
 
 rv = plpy.execute("SELECT * FROM my_table", 5)
 
-   returns up to 5 rows from my_table.  Ff my_table has a column
-   my_field it would be accessed as
+   returns up to 5 rows from my_table.  If
+   my_table has a column
+   my_field, it would be accessed as
 
 foo = rv[i]["my_field"]
 
+  
+
+  
    The second function plpy.prepare is called
-   with a query string, and a list of argument types if you have bind
-   variables in the query.
+   with a query string and a list of argument types if you have bind
+   variables in the query.  For example:
 
 plan = plpy.prepare("SELECT last_name FROM my_users WHERE first_name = $1", [ "text" ])
 
-   text is the type of the variable you will be passing as $1.  After
-   preparing you use the function plpy.execute to
-   run it.
+   text is the type of the variable you will be
+   passing as $1.  After preparing a statement, you
+   use the function plpy.execute to run it:
 
 rv = plpy.execute(plan, [ "name" ], 5)
 
@@ -205,6 +184,17 @@ rv = plpy.execute(plan, [ "name" ], 5)
    plpy.execute.
   
 
+  
+   In the current version, any database error encountered while
+   running a PL/Python function will result
+   in the immediate termination of that function by the server; it is
+   not possible to trap error conditions using Python try
+   ... catch constructs.  For example, a syntax error in an
+   SQL statement passed to the plpy.execute() call
+   will terminate the function.  This behavior may be changed in a
+   future release.
+  
+
   
    When you prepare a plan using the PL/Python module it is
    automatically saved.  Read the SPI documentation (
@@ -220,4 +210,21 @@ plan = plpy.prepare("SOME OTHER QUERY")
   
  
 
+ 
+  Restricted Environment
+
+  
+   The current version of PL/Python
+   functions as a trusted language only; access to the file system and
+   other local resources is disabled.  Specifically,
+   PL/Python uses the Python restricted
+   execution environment, further restricts it to prevent the use of
+   the file open call, and allows only modules from a
+   specific list to be imported.  Presently, that list includes:
+   array, bisect, binascii, calendar, cmath, codecs, errno, marshal,
+   math, md5, mpz, operator, pcre, pickle, random, re, regex, sre,
+   sha, string, StringIO, struct, time, whrandom, and zlib.
+  
+ 
+
 


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml

index 3bded5cf93bd9d936c65d93bd5c7ff3600197819..c4a605683b9eadc6f1db756050ad6df27596b1bc 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -2274,33 +2274,6 @@ $endif
     readline feature. Read its documentation
     for further details.)
     
-
-    
-    If you have the readline library installed but
-    psql does not seem to use it, you must
-    make sure that PostgreSQL's top-level
-    configure script finds it.
-    configure needs to find both the library
-    libreadline.a (or a shared library equivalent)
-    and the header files
-    readline.h and history.h
-    (or readline/readline.h and
-    readline/history.h) in appropriate directories.
-    If you have the library and header files installed in an obscure
-    place you must tell configure about them, for
-    example:
-
-$ ./configure --with-includes=/opt/gnu/include --with-libs=/opt/gnu/lib  ...
-
-    Then you have to recompile psql (not
-    necessarily the entire code tree).
-    
-
-    
-    The GNU readline library can be obtained from the
-    GNU project's FTP server at
-    ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
-    
    
   
  


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

index b993323db61c147aca5f88b3b236d1d63f7c3e89..3ae2750fd0cd55ce74d38efddc0e24fb949434b2 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -973,8 +973,8 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
         to turn this on, as it might expose programming mistakes. To use
         this option, the macro USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
         must be defined when PostgreSQL is
-        built (see the configure option
-        <literal>--enable-cassert>). Note that
+        built (accomplished by the configure option
+        <option>--enable-cassert>). Note that
         DEBUG_ASSERTIONS defaults to on if
         PostgreSQL has been built with
    assertions enabled.
@@ -1176,11 +1176,6 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
         syslog is off. This option must be set at server
         start.
        
-       
-        To use syslog, the build of
-        PostgreSQL must be configured with
-        the --enable-syslog option.
-       
       
      
 




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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
index 9793cd93503333d2c2778366f748be12b6eb36b8..939eba14237f8037349ff9563f7ddd4a59cbac68 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -424,14 +424,13 @@ VACUUM
 
   
    The simplest production-grade approach to managing log output is to
-   send it all to syslog and let syslog
-   deal with file rotation. To do this, make sure
-   PostgreSQL was built with the
-   --enable-syslog configure option, and set
+   send it all to syslog and let
+   syslog deal with file rotation. To do this, set
    syslog to 2 (log to syslog only) in
    postgresql.conf. Then you can send a
-   SIGHUP signal to the syslog daemon
-   whenever you want to force it to start writing a new log file.
+   SIGHUP signal to the syslog
+   daemon whenever you want to force it to start writing a new log
+   file.
   
 
   

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
index c04ff95d929d100b8866c99b70f93c5f6a8a8849..97981bf603e8f422a9eb4c7174f6385b8c0310f9 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  
@@ -14,154 +14,75 @@ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.16 2002/03/06 19:05:57 momj
   
 
   
-   PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language
-   that enables the Perl programming
-   language to be used to write 
-   PostgreSQL functions.
-  
-
-  
-
-  
-   Overview
-
-   
-    Normally, PL/Perl is installed as a trusted programming
-    language named plperl.  In this setup, certain Perl
-    operations are disabled to preserve security.  In general, the operations
-    that are restricted are those that interact with the environment. This
-    includes file handle operations, require, and
-    use (for external modules).
-    There is no way to access internals of the
-    database backend or to gain OS-level access under the permissions of the
-    PostgreSQL user ID, as a C function can do.
-    Thus, any unprivileged database user may be
-    permitted to use this language.
-   
-   
-    Sometimes it is desirable to write Perl functions that are not restricted
-    --- for example, one might want a Perl function that sends
-    mail.  To handle these cases, PL/Perl can also be installed as an
-    untrusted language (usually named plperlu).
-    In this case the full Perl language is available.  The writer of a PL/PerlU
-    function must take care that the function cannot be used to do anything
-    unwanted, since it will be able to do anything that could be done by
-    a user logged in as the database administrator.  Note that the database
-    system allows only database superusers to create functions in untrusted
-    languages.
-   
- 
-
- 
-  Building and Installing PL/Perl
-
-  
-   If the --with-perl option was supplied to the
-   configure
-   configure script,
-   the PostgreSQL build process will attempt to
-   build the PL/Perl shared library and install it in the 
-   PostgreSQL library directory.
+   PL/Perl is a loadable procedural language that enables you to write
+   PostgreSQL functions in the 
+   url="http://www.perl.com">Perl programming language.
   
 
   
-   On most platforms, since PL/Perl is a shared library, the
-   libperl
-   libperl library must be a shared library also.
-   At the time of this writing, this is almost never the case in prebuilt
-   Perl packages.  If this difficulty arises in your situation, a
-   message like this will appear during the build to point out this
-   fact:
-
-
-*** Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.
-*** You might have to rebuild your Perl installation.  Refer to
-*** the documentation for details.
-
-
-   If you see this, you will have to re-build and install
-   Perl manually to be able to build
-   PL/Perl.  During the configuration process for
-   Perl, request a shared library.
+   To install PL/Perl in a particular database, use
+   createlang plperl dbname.
   
 
-  
-   After having reinstalled Perl, change to the directory
-   src/pl/plperl in the
-   PostgreSQL source tree and issue the commands
-
-gmake clean
-gmake all
-gmake install
-
-   to complete the build and installation of the PL/Perl shared library.
-  
-
-   
-    To install
-    PL/Perl and/or PL/PerlU in a particular database, use the
-    createlang script, for example
-    createlang plperl dbname or
-    createlang plperlu dbname.
-   
-
   
    
     If a language is installed into template1, all subsequently
     created databases will have the language installed automatically.
    
   
-  
-
-  
 
-  
-   Description
-
-   
-    PL/Perl Functions and Arguments
+  
+   
+    Users of source packages must specially enable the build of
+    PL/Perl during the installation process (refer to the installation
+    instructions for more information).  Users of binary packages
+    might find PL/Perl in a separate subpackage.
+   
+  
 
-    >
-     To create a function in the PL/Perl language, use the standard syntax
+ >
+  PL/Perl Functions and Arguments
 
-     
+  
+   To create a function in the PL/Perl language, use the standard syntax:
+
 CREATE FUNCTION funcname (argument-types) RETURNS return-type AS '
     # PL/Perl function body
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
-     
-
-     PL/PerlU is the same, except that the language should be specified as
-     plperlu.
-    
+
+   The body of the function is ordinary Perl code.
+  
 
-    
-     The body of the function is ordinary Perl code.  Arguments and
-     results are handled as in any other Perl subroutine: arguments
-     are passed in @_, and a result value is returned
-     with return or as the last expression evaluated in the
-     function.  For example, a function
-     returning the greater of two integer values could be defined as:
+  
+   Arguments and results are handled as in any other Perl subroutine:
+   Arguments are passed in @_, and a result value
+   is returned with return or as the last expression
+   evaluated in the function.  For example, a function returning the
+   greater of two integer values could be defined as:
 
-     
+
 CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS '
     if ($_[0] > $_[1]) { return $_[0]; }
     return $_[1];
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
-     
-
-     If a NULL is passed to a function, the argument value will appear
-     as undefined in Perl.  The above function definition will
-     not behave very nicely with NULL inputs (in fact, it will act as
-     though they are zeroes).  We could add WITH (isStrict)
-     to the function definition to make PostgreSQL
-     do something more reasonable: if a NULL is passed, the
-     function will not be called at all, but will just return a NULL
-     result automatically.  Alternatively, we could check for undefined
-     inputs in the function body.  For example, suppose that we wanted perl_max
-     with one null and one non-null argument to return the non-null
-     argument, rather than NULL:
-
-     
+
+  
+
+  
+   If an SQL null value is passed to a function, the argument value
+   will appear as undefined in Perl.  The above function
+   definition will not behave very nicely with null inputs (in fact,
+   it will act as though they are zeroes).  We could add
+   STRICT to the function definition to make
+   PostgreSQL do something more reasonable:
+   if a null value is passed, the function will not be called at all,
+   but will just return a null result automatically.  Alternatively,
+   we could check for undefined inputs in the function body.  For
+   example, suppose that we wanted perl_max with
+   one null and one non-null argument to return the non-null argument,
+   rather than a null value:
+
+
 CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS '
     my ($a,$b) = @_;
     if (! defined $a) {
@@ -172,21 +93,21 @@ CREATE FUNCTION perl_max (integer, integer) RETURNS integer AS '
     if ($a > $b) { return $a; }
     return $b;
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
-     
-    
+
+  
 
-    
-     As shown above,
-     to return a NULL from a PL/Perl function, return an undefined
-     value.  This can be done whether the function is strict or not.
-    
+  
+   As shown above, to return an SQL null value from a PL/Perl
+   function, return an undefined value.  This can be done whether the
+   function is strict or not.
+  
 
-    
-     Composite-type arguments are passed to the function as references to
-     hashes.  The keys of the hash are the attribute names of the composite
-     type.  Here is an example:
+  
+   Composite-type arguments are passed to the function as references
+   to hashes.  The keys of the hash are the attribute names of the
+   composite type.  Here is an example:
 
-     
+
 CREATE TABLE employee (
     name text,
     basesalary integer,
@@ -199,25 +120,97 @@ CREATE FUNCTION empcomp(employee) RETURNS integer AS '
 ' LANGUAGE plperl;
 
 SELECT name, empcomp(employee) FROM employee;
-     
-    
+
+  
 
-    
-     There is not currently any support for returning a composite-type
-     result value.
-    
+  
+   There is currently no support for returning a composite-type result
+   value.
+  
 
   
    
     Because the function body is passed as an SQL string literal to
     CREATE FUNCTION, you have to escape single
-    quotes and backslashes within your Perl source, typically by doubling them
-    as shown in the above example.  Another possible approach is to
-    avoid writing single quotes by using Perl's extended quoting functions
-    (q[], qq[],
-    qw[]).
+    quotes and backslashes within your Perl source, typically by
+    doubling them as shown in the above example.  Another possible
+    approach is to avoid writing single quotes by using Perl's
+    extended quoting operators (q[],
+    qq[], qw[]).
    
   
+ 
+
+ 
+  Data Values in PL/Perl
+
+  
+   The argument values supplied to a PL/Perl function's script are
+   simply the input arguments converted to text form (just as if they
+   had been displayed by a SELECT statement).
+   Conversely, the return command will accept any string
+   that is acceptable input format for the function's declared return
+   type.  So, the PL/Perl programmer can manipulate data values as if
+   they were just text.
+  
+ 
+
+ 
+  Database Access from PL/Perl
+
+  
+   Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done via
+   an experimental module 
+   url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/">DBD::PgSPI
+   (also available at CPAN
+   mirror sites). This module makes available a
+   DBI-compliant database-handle named
+   $pg_dbh that can be used to perform queries
+   with normal DBI syntax.
+  
+
+  
+   PL/Perl itself presently provides only one additional Perl command:
+
+   
+    
+     
+      elog
+      PL/Perl
+     
+
+     elog level, msg
+     
+      
+       Emit a log or error message. Possible levels are
+       DEBUG, LOG, INFO,
+       NOTICE, WARNING, and ERROR.
+       ERROR raises an error condition: further execution
+       of the function is abandoned, and the current transaction is
+       aborted.
+      
+     
+    
+   
+  
+ 
+
+ 
+  Trusted and Untrusted PL/Perl
+
+  
+   Normally, PL/Perl is installed as a trusted programming
+   language named plperl.  In this setup, certain Perl
+   operations are disabled to preserve security.  In general, the
+   operations that are restricted are those that interact with the
+   environment. This includes file handle operations,
+   require, and use (for
+   external modules).  There is no way to access internals of the
+   database backend process or to gain OS-level access with the
+   permissions of the PostgreSQL user ID,
+   as a C function can do.  Thus, any unprivileged database user may
+   be permitted to use this language.
+  
 
   
    Here is an example of a function that will not work because file
@@ -231,89 +224,66 @@ CREATE FUNCTION badfunc() RETURNS integer AS '
 
    The creation of the function will succeed, but executing it will not.
   
+
   
-   Note that if the same function was created by a superuser using language 
-   plperlu, execution would succeed.
+   Sometimes it is desirable to write Perl functions that are not
+   restricted --- for example, one might want a Perl function that
+   sends mail.  To handle these cases, PL/Perl can also be installed
+   as an untrusted language (usually called
+   PL/PerlU).  In this case the full Perl language is
+   available.  If the createlang program is used to
+   install the language, the language name plperlu
+   will select the untrusted PL/Perl variant.
   
 
-   
-
-   
-    Data Values in PL/Perl
-
-    
-     The argument values supplied to a PL/Perl function's script are simply
-     the input arguments converted to text form (just as if they had been
-     displayed by a SELECT statement).  Conversely, the return
-     command will accept any string that is acceptable input format for
-     the function's declared return type.  So, the PL/Perl programmer can
-     manipulate data values as if they were just text.
-    
+  
+   The writer of a PL/PerlU function must take care that the function
+   cannot be used to do anything unwanted, since it will be able to do
+   anything that could be done by a user logged in as the database
+   administrator.  Note that the database system allows only database
+   superusers to create functions in untrusted languages.
+  
 
-   
+  
+   If the above function was created by a superuser using the language
+   plperlu, execution would succeed.
+  
+ 
 
-   >
-    Database Access from PL/Perl</span>
+ >
+  Missing Features</span>
 
   
-   Access to the database itself from your Perl function can be done via
-   an experimental module 
-   url="http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/DBD/APILOS/">DBD::PgSPI
-   (also available at CPAN
-   mirror sites). This module makes available a
-   DBI-compliant database-handle named
-   $pg_dbh that can be used to perform queries
-   with normal DBI syntax.
+   The following features are currently missing from PL/Perl, but they
+   would make welcome contributions:
+
+   
+    
+     
+      PL/Perl functions cannot call each other directly (because they
+      are anonymous subroutines inside Perl).  There's presently no
+      way for them to share global variables, either.
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      PL/Perl cannot be used to write trigger functions.
+     
+    
+
+    
+     
+      DBD::PgSPI or similar capability
+      should be integrated into the standard
+      PostgreSQL distribution.
+     
+    
+   
   
+ 
 
-    
-     PL/Perl itself presently provides only one additional Perl command:
-    
-
-    
-     
-      
-       elog
-      
-      elog level, msg
-      
-       
-   Emit a log or error message. Possible levels are
-   DEBUG, LOG, INFO,
-   NOTICE, WARNING, and ERROR.
-   ERROR raises an error condition: further execution
-   of the function is abandoned, and the current transaction is
-   aborted.
-       
-      
-     
-
-    
-
-   
-
-   
-    Missing Features
-
-    
-     PL/Perl functions cannot call each other directly (because they
-     are anonymous subroutines inside Perl).  There's presently
-     no way for them to share global variables, either.
-    
-
-    
-     PL/Perl cannot currently be used to write trigger functions.
-    
-
-    
-     DBD::PgSPI or similar capability should be integrated
-     into the standard PostgreSQL distribution.
-    
-
-   
-
-  
- 
+
 
 
+
 
 
  PL/Python - Python Procedural Language
@@ -6,90 +6,42 @@
  PL/Python
  Python
 
- 
-  Introduction
+ 
+  The PL/Python procedural language allows
+  PostgreSQL functions to be written in the
+  Python language.
+ 
 
-  
-   The PL/Python procedural language allows
-   PostgreSQL functions to be written in
-   the Python language.
-  
+ 
+  To install PL/Python in a particular database, use
+  createlang plpython dbname.
+ 
 
+ 
   
-   The current version of PL/Python
-   functions as a trusted language only; access to the file system and
-   other local resources is disabled.  Specifically,
-   PL/Python uses the Python restricted
-   execution environment, further restricts it to prevent the use of
-   the file open call, and allows only modules from a
-   specific list to be imported.  Presently, that list includes:
-   array, bisect, binascii, calendar, cmath, codecs, errno, marshal,
-   math, md5, mpz, operator, pcre, pickle, random, re, regex, sre,
-   sha, string, StringIO, struct, time, whrandom, and zlib.
+   Users of source packages must specially enable the build of
+   PL/Python during the installation process (refer to the
+   installation instructions for more information).  Users of binary
+   packages might find PL/Python in a separate subpackage.
   
+ 
 
-  
-   In the current version, any database error encountered while
-   running a PL/Python function will result
-   in the immediate termination of that function by the server.  It is
-   not possible to trap error conditions using Python try
-   ... catch constructs.  For example, a syntax error in an
-   SQL statement passed to the plpy.execute() call
-   will terminate the function.  This behavior may be changed in a
-   future release.
-  
- 
-
- 
-  Installation
-
-  
-   To build PL/Python, the --with-python option needs
-   to be specified when running configure.  If
-   after building and installing you have a file called
-   plpython.so (possibly a different extension),
-   then everything went well.  Otherwise you should have seen a notice
-   like this flying by:
-
-*** Cannot build PL/Python because libpython is not a shared library.
-*** You might have to rebuild your Python installation.  Refer to
-*** the documentation for details.
-
-   That means you have to rebuild (part of) your Python installation
-   to supply this shared library.
-  
-
-  
-   The catch is that the Python distribution or the Python maintainers
-   do not provide any direct way to do this.  The closest thing we can
-   offer you is the information in 
-   url="http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#3.30">Python FAQ
-   3.30.  On some operating systems you don't really have to
-   build a shared library, but then you will have to convince the
-   PostgreSQL build system of this.  Consult the
-   Makefile in the
-   src/pl/plpython directory for details.
-  
- 
-
- 
-  Using PL/Python
+ 
+  PL/Python Functions
 
   
-   There are sample functions in
-   plpython_function.sql.  The Python code you
-   write gets transformed into a function.  E.g.,
+   The Python code you write gets transformed into a function.  E.g.,
 
-CREATE FUNCTION myfunc(text) RETURNS text AS
-'return args[0]'
-LANGUAGE 'plpython';
+CREATE FUNCTION myfunc(text) RETURNS text
+    AS 'return args[0]'
+    LANGUAGE 'plpython';
 
 
    gets transformed into
 
 
 def __plpython_procedure_myfunc_23456():
-   return args[0]
+        return args[0]
 
 
    where 23456 is the OID of the function.
@@ -98,51 +50,68 @@ def __plpython_procedure_myfunc_23456():
   
    If you do not provide a return value, Python returns the default
    None which may or may not be what you want.  The
-   language module translates Python's None into SQL NULL.
+   language module translates Python's None into the
+   SQL null value.
   
 
   
-   PostgreSQL function variables are available in the global
-   args list.  In the myfunc
-   example, args[0] contains whatever was passed in as the text
-   argument.  For myfunc2(text, integer), args[0]
-   would contain the text variable and args[1] the integer variable.
+   The PostgreSQL function parameters are available in
+   the global args list.  In the
+   myfunc example, args[0] contains
+   whatever was passed in as the text argument.  For
+   myfunc2(text, integer), args[0]
+   would contain the text variable and
+   args[1] the integer variable.
   
 
   
-   The global dictionary SD is available to store data between
-   function calls.  This variable is private static data.  The global
-   dictionary GD is public data, available to all python functions
-   within a backend.  Use with care.
+   The global dictionary SD is available to store
+   data between function calls.  This variable is private static data.
+   The global dictionary GD is public data,
+   available to all Python functions within a session.  Use with care.
   
 
   
    Each function gets its own restricted execution object in the
    Python interpreter, so that global data and function arguments from
    myfunc are not available to
-   myfunc2.  The exception is the data in the GD
-   dictionary, as mentioned above.
+   myfunc2.  The exception is the data in the
+   GD dictionary, as mentioned above.
   
+ 
+
+ 
+  Trigger Functions
 
   
-   When a function is used in a trigger, the dictionary TD contains
-   transaction related values.  The trigger tuples are in TD["new"]
-   and/or TD["old"] depending on the trigger event.  TD["event"]
-   contains the event as a string (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, or
-   UNKNOWN).  TD["when"] contains one of (BEFORE, AFTER, or
-   UNKNOWN).  TD["level"] contains one of ROW, STATEMENT, or
-   UNKNOWN.  TD["name"] contains the trigger name, and TD["relid"]
-   contains the relation id of the table on which the trigger occurred.
-   If the trigger was called with arguments they are available
-   in TD["args"][0] to TD["args"][(n -1)].
+   When a function is used in a trigger, the dictionary
+   TD contains trigger-related values.  The trigger
+   rows are in TD["new"] and/or TD["old"]
+   depending on the trigger event.  TD["event"] contains
+   the event as a string (INSERT, UPDATE,
+   DELETE, or UNKNOWN).
+   TD["when"] contains one of BEFORE,
+   AFTER, and UNKNOWN.
+   TD["level"] contains one of ROW,
+   STATEMENT, and UNKNOWN.
+   TD["name"] contains the trigger name, and
+   TD["relid"] contains the relation ID of the table on
+   which the trigger occurred.  If the trigger was called with
+   arguments they are available in TD["args"][0] to
+   TD["args"][(n-1)].
   
 
   
-   If the trigger when is BEFORE, you may return None or "OK"
-   from the Python function to indicate the tuple is unmodified,
-   "SKIP" to abort the event, or "MODIFIED" to indicate you've
-   modified the tuple.
+   If the TD["when"] is BEFORE, you may
+   return None or "OK" from the
+   Python function to indicate the row is unmodified,
+   "SKIP" to abort the event, or "MODIFIED" to
+   indicate you've modified the row.
   
+ 
+
+ 
+  Database Access
 
   
    The PL/Python language module automatically imports a Python module
@@ -150,54 +119,64 @@ def __plpython_procedure_myfunc_23456():
    this module are available to you in the Python code as
    plpy.foo.  At present
    plpy implements the functions
-   plpy.debug("msg"), 
+   plpy.debug("msg"),
    plpy.log("msg"),
    plpy.info("msg"),
    plpy.notice("msg"),
    plpy.warning("msg"),
    plpy.error("msg"), and
    plpy.fatal("msg").  They are mostly equivalent
-   to calling elog(LEVEL, "msg").
-   plpy.error and plpy.fatal
-   actually raise a Python exception which, if uncaught, causes the
-   PL/Python module to call elog(ERROR, msg) when
-   the function handler returns from the Python interpreter.  Long
-   jumping out of the Python interpreter is probably not good.
-   raise plpy.ERROR("msg") and raise
+   to calling elog(LEVEL, "msg")
+   from C code.  plpy.error and
+   plpy.fatal actually raise a Python exception
+   which, if uncaught, causes the PL/Python module to call
+   elog(ERROR, msg) when the function handler
+   returns from the Python interpreter.  Long-jumping out of the
+   Python interpreter is probably not good.  raise
+   plpy.ERROR("msg") and raise
    plpy.FATAL("msg") are equivalent to calling
-   plpy.error or plpy.fatal.
+   plpy.error and
+   plpy.fatal, respectively.
   
 
   
-   Additionally, the plpy module provides two functions called
-   execute and prepare.
-   Calling plpy.execute with a query string, and
-   an optional limit argument, causes that query to be run, and the
-   result returned in a result object.  The result object emulates a
+   Additionally, the plpy module provides two
+   functions called execute and
+   prepare.  Calling
+   plpy.execute with a query string and an
+   optional limit argument causes that query to be run and the result
+   to be returned in a result object.  The result object emulates a
    list or dictionary object.  The result object can be accessed by
-   row number, and field name.  It has these additional methods:
+   row number and field name.  It has these additional methods:
    nrows() which returns the number of rows
    returned by the query, and status which is the
    SPI_exec return variable.  The result object
    can be modified.
+  
 
+  
+   For example,
 
 rv = plpy.execute("SELECT * FROM my_table", 5)
 
-   returns up to 5 rows from my_table.  Ff my_table has a column
-   my_field it would be accessed as
+   returns up to 5 rows from my_table.  If
+   my_table has a column
+   my_field, it would be accessed as
 
 foo = rv[i]["my_field"]
 
+  
+
+  
    The second function plpy.prepare is called
-   with a query string, and a list of argument types if you have bind
-   variables in the query.
+   with a query string and a list of argument types if you have bind
+   variables in the query.  For example:
 
 plan = plpy.prepare("SELECT last_name FROM my_users WHERE first_name = $1", [ "text" ])
 
-   text is the type of the variable you will be passing as $1.  After
-   preparing you use the function plpy.execute to
-   run it.
+   text is the type of the variable you will be
+   passing as $1.  After preparing a statement, you
+   use the function plpy.execute to run it:
 
 rv = plpy.execute(plan, [ "name" ], 5)
 
@@ -205,6 +184,17 @@ rv = plpy.execute(plan, [ "name" ], 5)
    plpy.execute.
   
 
+  
+   In the current version, any database error encountered while
+   running a PL/Python function will result
+   in the immediate termination of that function by the server; it is
+   not possible to trap error conditions using Python try
+   ... catch constructs.  For example, a syntax error in an
+   SQL statement passed to the plpy.execute() call
+   will terminate the function.  This behavior may be changed in a
+   future release.
+  
+
   
    When you prepare a plan using the PL/Python module it is
    automatically saved.  Read the SPI documentation (
@@ -220,4 +210,21 @@ plan = plpy.prepare("SOME OTHER QUERY")
   
  
 
+ 
+  Restricted Environment
+
+  
+   The current version of PL/Python
+   functions as a trusted language only; access to the file system and
+   other local resources is disabled.  Specifically,
+   PL/Python uses the Python restricted
+   execution environment, further restricts it to prevent the use of
+   the file open call, and allows only modules from a
+   specific list to be imported.  Presently, that list includes:
+   array, bisect, binascii, calendar, cmath, codecs, errno, marshal,
+   math, md5, mpz, operator, pcre, pickle, random, re, regex, sre,
+   sha, string, StringIO, struct, time, whrandom, and zlib.
+  
+ 
+
 


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml

index 3bded5cf93bd9d936c65d93bd5c7ff3600197819..c4a605683b9eadc6f1db756050ad6df27596b1bc 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -2274,33 +2274,6 @@ $endif
     readline feature. Read its documentation
     for further details.)
     
-
-    
-    If you have the readline library installed but
-    psql does not seem to use it, you must
-    make sure that PostgreSQL's top-level
-    configure script finds it.
-    configure needs to find both the library
-    libreadline.a (or a shared library equivalent)
-    and the header files
-    readline.h and history.h
-    (or readline/readline.h and
-    readline/history.h) in appropriate directories.
-    If you have the library and header files installed in an obscure
-    place you must tell configure about them, for
-    example:
-
-$ ./configure --with-includes=/opt/gnu/include --with-libs=/opt/gnu/lib  ...
-
-    Then you have to recompile psql (not
-    necessarily the entire code tree).
-    
-
-    
-    The GNU readline library can be obtained from the
-    GNU project's FTP server at
-    ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
-    
    
   
  


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml

index b993323db61c147aca5f88b3b236d1d63f7c3e89..3ae2750fd0cd55ce74d38efddc0e24fb949434b2 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -973,8 +973,8 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
         to turn this on, as it might expose programming mistakes. To use
         this option, the macro USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
         must be defined when PostgreSQL is
-        built (see the configure option
-        <literal>--enable-cassert>). Note that
+        built (accomplished by the configure option
+        <option>--enable-cassert>). Note that
         DEBUG_ASSERTIONS defaults to on if
         PostgreSQL has been built with
    assertions enabled.
@@ -1176,11 +1176,6 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
         syslog is off. This option must be set at server
         start.
        
-       
-        To use syslog, the build of
-        PostgreSQL must be configured with
-        the --enable-syslog option.
-       
       
      
 




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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
index 3bded5cf93bd9d936c65d93bd5c7ff3600197819..c4a605683b9eadc6f1db756050ad6df27596b1bc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
@@ -2274,33 +2274,6 @@ $endif
     readline feature. Read its documentation
     for further details.)
     
-
-    
-    If you have the readline library installed but
-    psql does not seem to use it, you must
-    make sure that PostgreSQL's top-level
-    configure script finds it.
-    configure needs to find both the library
-    libreadline.a (or a shared library equivalent)
-    and the header files
-    readline.h and history.h
-    (or readline/readline.h and
-    readline/history.h) in appropriate directories.
-    If you have the library and header files installed in an obscure
-    place you must tell configure about them, for
-    example:
-
-$ ./configure --with-includes=/opt/gnu/include --with-libs=/opt/gnu/lib  ...
-
-    Then you have to recompile psql (not
-    necessarily the entire code tree).
-    
-
-    
-    The GNU readline library can be obtained from the
-    GNU project's FTP server at
-    ftp://ftp.gnu.org.
-    
    
   
  

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index b993323db61c147aca5f88b3b236d1d63f7c3e89..3ae2750fd0cd55ce74d38efddc0e24fb949434b2 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
 
@@ -973,8 +973,8 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
         to turn this on, as it might expose programming mistakes. To use
         this option, the macro USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
         must be defined when PostgreSQL is
-        built (see the configure option
-        <literal>--enable-cassert>). Note that
+        built (accomplished by the configure option
+        <option>--enable-cassert>). Note that
         DEBUG_ASSERTIONS defaults to on if
         PostgreSQL has been built with
    assertions enabled.
@@ -1176,11 +1176,6 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
         syslog is off. This option must be set at server
         start.
        
-       
-        To use syslog, the build of
-        PostgreSQL must be configured with
-        the --enable-syslog option.
-