update documentation for configuration

diff --git a/docs/customize/Settings.md b/docs/customize/Settings.md
index ebfa2421a12d79a7a7580afb504b073642c4844b..ef0e1f215f6d0c0bf6fb4699b13b561a00ec207e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/customize/Settings.md
+++ b/docs/customize/Settings.md
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ The option is only used by the Legacy tokenizer and ignored otherwise.
 | --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
 | **Description:**   | Tokenizer used for normalizing and parsing queries and names |
 | **Format:**        | string |
-| **Default:**       | legacy |
+| **Default:**       | icu |
 | **After Changes:** | cannot be changed after import |
 
 Sets the tokenizer type to use for the import. For more information on
@@ -148,29 +148,6 @@ Setting this option to 'yes' means that Nominatim skips reindexing of contained
 objects when the area becomes too large.
 
 
-#### NOMINATIM_UPDATE_FORWARD_DEPENDENCIES
-
-| Summary            |                                                     |
-| --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
-| **Description:**   | Forward geometry changes to dependet objects |
-| **Format:**        | bool |
-| **Default:**       | no |
-| **Comment:**       | EXPERT ONLY. Must not be enabled after import. |
-
-The geometry of OSM ways and relations may change when a node that is part
-of the object is moved around. These changes are not propagated per default.
-The geometry of ways/relations is only updated the next time that the object
-itself is touched. When enabling this option, then dependent objects will
-be marked for update when one of its member objects changes.
-
-Enabling this option may slow down updates significantly.
-
-!!! warning
-    If you want to enable this option, it must be set already on import.
-    Do not enable this option on an existing database that was imported with
-    NOMINATIM_UPDATE_FORWARD_DEPENDENCIES=no.
-    Updates will become unusably slow.
-
 #### NOMINATIM_LANGUAGES
 
 | Summary            |                                                     |
@@ -575,6 +552,8 @@ used.
 | **Format:**        | boolean |
 | **Default:**       | no |
 | **After Changes:** | run `nominatim refresh --website` |
+| **Comment:**       | PHP frontend only |
+
 
 This feature is currently undocumented and potentially broken.
 
@@ -587,6 +566,7 @@ This feature is currently undocumented and potentially broken.
 | **Format:**        | integer |
 | **Default:**       | 500 |
 | **After Changes:** | run `nominatim refresh --website` |
+| **Comment:**       | PHP frontend only |
 
 This setting defines the threshold over which a name is no longer considered
 as rare. When searching for places with rare names, only the name is used
@@ -636,6 +616,7 @@ Setting this parameter to 0 disables polygon output completely.
 | **Format:**        | boolean |
 | **Default:**       | no |
 | **After Changes:** | run `nominatim refresh --website` |
+| **Comment:**       | PHP frontend only |
 
 Enable to search elements just within countries.
 
@@ -644,6 +625,68 @@ finds a geometry of a region, do not return the geometry.
 Return "Unable to geocode" instead.
 
 
+#### NOMINATIM_SERVE_LEGACY_URLS
+
+| Summary            |                                                     |
+| --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Description:**   | Enable serving via URLs with a .php suffix |
+| **Format:**        | boolean |
+| **Default:**       | yes |
+| **Comment:**       | Python frontend only |
+
+When enabled, then endpoints are reachable as `/<name>` as well as `/<name>.php`.
+This can be useful when you want to be backwards-compatible with previous
+versions of Nominatim.
+
+
+#### NOMINATIM_API_POOL_SIZE
+
+| Summary            |                                                     |
+| --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Description:**   | Number of parallel database connections per worker |
+| **Format:**        | number |
+| **Default:**       | 10 |
+| **Comment:**       | Python frontend only |
+
+Sets the maximum number of database connections available for a single instance
+of Nominatim. When configuring the maximum number of connections that your
+PostgreSQL database can handle, you need at least `<pool size> * <worker>`
+connections.
+
+#### NOMINATIM_QUERY_TIMEOUT
+
+| Summary            |                                                     |
+| --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Description:**   | Timeout for SQL queries to the database |
+| **Format:**        | number (seconds) |
+| **Default:**       | 10 |
+| **Comment:**       | Python frontend only |
+
+When this timeout is set, then all SQL queries that run longer than the
+specified numbers of seconds will be cancelled and the user receives a
+timeout exceptions. Users of the API see a 503 HTTP error.
+
+The timeout does ont apply when using the
+[low-level DB access](../library/Low-Level-DB-Access.md)
+of the library. A timeout can be manually set, if required.
+
+
+#### NOMINATIM_REQUEST_TIMEOUT
+
+| Summary            |                                                     |
+| --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Description:**   | Timeout for search queries |
+| **Format:**        | number (seconds) |
+| **Default:**       | 60 |
+| **Comment:**       | Python frontend only |
+
+When this timeout is set, a search query will finish sending queries
+to the database after the timeout has passed and immediately return the
+results gathered so far.
+
+Note that under high load you may observe that users receive different results
+than usual without seeing an error. This may cause some confusion.
+
 ### Logging Settings
 
 #### NOMINATIM_LOG_DB
@@ -687,3 +730,20 @@ given in seconds and corresponds to the time the query took executing in PHP.
 type contains the name of the endpoint used.
 
 Can be used as the same time as NOMINATIM_LOG_DB.
+
+#### NOMINATIM_DEBUG_SQL
+
+| Summary            |                                                     |
+| --------------     | --------------------------------------------------- |
+| **Description:**   | Enable printing of raw SQL by SQLAlchemy |
+| **Format:**        | boolean |
+| **Default:**       | no |
+| **Comment:**       | **For developers only.** |
+
+This settings enables
+[SQL debugging](https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/core/engines.html#dbengine-logging)
+by SQLAlchemy. This can be helpful when debugging some bugs with internal
+query handling. It should only be used together with the CLI query functions.
+Enabling it for server mode may have intended consequences. Use the `debug`
+parameter instead, which prints information on how the search is executed
+including SQL statements.

diff --git a/settings/env.defaults b/settings/env.defaults
index ff0a7648741021377ce3009ad3eb48882ccb9940..64a160c7197b9c7593a10670c439d66de3c7fab1 100644 (file)
--- a/settings/env.defaults
+++ b/settings/env.defaults
@@ -77,20 +77,10 @@ NOMINATIM_HTTP_PROXY_PASSWORD=
 # EXPERT ONLY. You should usually use the supplied osm2pgsql.
 NOMINATIM_OSM2PGSQL_BINARY=
 
-# Directory where to find US Tiger data files to import.
-# OBSOLETE: use `nominatim add-data --tiger-data <dir>` to explicitly state
-#           the directory on import
-NOMINATIM_TIGER_DATA_PATH=
-
 # Directory where to find pre-computed Wikipedia importance files.
 # When unset, the data is expected to be located in the project directory.
 NOMINATIM_WIKIPEDIA_DATA_PATH=
 
-# Configuration file for special phrase import.
-# OBSOLETE: use `nominatim special-phrases --config <file>` or simply put
-#           a custom phrase-settings.json into your project directory.
-NOMINATIM_PHRASE_CONFIG=
-
 # Configuration file for rank assignments.
 NOMINATIM_ADDRESS_LEVEL_CONFIG=address-levels.json
 
@@ -245,5 +235,5 @@ NOMINATIM_LOG_DB=no
 NOMINATIM_LOG_FILE=
 
 # Echo raw SQL from SQLAlchemy statements.
-# Works only in command line/library use.
+# EXPERT: Works only in command line/library use.
 NOMINATIM_DEBUG_SQL=no