Clarify documentation on PITR and warm standby on the fact that the standby
restore_command should report failure on non-existent .backup and .history
files. Tidy up some related text along the way.
Patch by Markus Bertheau, with some editing by Simon Riggs and myself.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:36:04 +0000 (02:36 +0000)]
Add:
> * Allow one transaction to see tuples using the snapshot of another
> transaction
>
> This would assist multiple backends in working together.
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00400.php
Tom Lane [Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:00:11 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
Department of second thoughts: the rule that ORDER BY and DISTINCT are
useless for an ungrouped-aggregate query holds regardless of whether
optimize_minmax_aggregates succeeds. So we might as well apply the
optimization in any case.
I'll leave 8.3 as it was, since this version is a tad more invasive
than my earlier patch.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:37:43 +0000 (20:37 +0000)]
Add to TODO:
>
> * Consider being smarter about memory and external files used during
> sorts
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg01101.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-12/msg00045.php
Tom Lane [Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:06:14 +0000 (19:06 +0000)]
When we have successfully optimized a MIN or MAX aggregate into an indexscan,
the query result must be exactly one row (since we don't do this when there's
any GROUP BY). Therefore any ORDER BY or DISTINCT attached to the query is
useless and can be dropped. Aside from saving useless cycles, this protects
us against problems with matching the hacked-up tlist entries to sort clauses,
as seen in a bug report from Taiki Yamaguchi. We might need to work harder
if we ever try to optimize grouped queries with this approach, but this
solution will do for now.
Tom Lane [Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:57:34 +0000 (03:57 +0000)]
Reduce the need for frontend programs to include "postgres.h" by refactoring
inclusions in src/include/catalog/*.h files. The main idea here is to push
function declarations for src/backend/catalog/*.c files into separate headers,
rather than sticking them into the corresponding catalog definition file as
has been done in the past. This commit only carries out that idea fully for
pg_proc, pg_type and pg_conversion, but that's enough for the moment ---
if pg_list.h ever becomes unsafe for frontend code to include, we'll need
to work a bit more.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:20:48 +0000 (16:20 +0000)]
Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create a
snapmgmt.c file for the former. The header files have also been reorganized
in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file
snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c.
tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum.
This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a
transaction; there is no functionality change.
Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and
subsequent discussion.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:39:46 +0000 (02:39 +0000)]
Update TODO:
< o Consider invalidating the cache or keeping seperate cached
< copies when search_path changes
> o Consider keeping seperate cached copies when search_path changes
Tom Lane [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:42:46 +0000 (22:42 +0000)]
Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C
strings. This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text,
cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and
two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString. A number of
existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed.
Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one
function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used
to be needed. There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin,
and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via
memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though).
This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory
leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach
text_to_cstring. We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few
places where it was easy, but much more could be done.
Neil Conway [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:26:54 +0000 (19:26 +0000)]
Add a new tuplestore API function, tuplestore_putvalues(). This is
identical to tuplestore_puttuple(), except it operates on arrays of
Datums + nulls rather than a fully-formed HeapTuple. In several places
that use the tuplestore API, this means we can avoid creating a
HeapTuple altogether, saving a copy.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:47:49 +0000 (02:47 +0000)]
Add to pl/pgsql TODO:
>
> o Consider invalidating the cache or keeping seperate cached
> copies when search_path changes
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg01009.php
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:11:22 +0000 (02:11 +0000)]
Add to TODO:
>
> * Improve detection of shared memory segments being used by other
> FreeBSD jails
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00656.php
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:42:23 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Add to TODO:
>
> * Move pgfoundry's xlogdump to /contrib and have it rely more closely
> on the WAL backend code
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00035.php
>
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:11:48 +0000 (00:11 +0000)]
Add:
> o Prevent concurrent CREATE TABLE table1 from sometimes returning
> a cryptic error message
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2007-10/msg00169.php
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:46:21 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
Add to TODO:
>
> * Allow xml arrays to be cast to other data types
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00981.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-10/msg00231.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00471.php
>
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:53:04 +0000 (21:53 +0000)]
When a relation has been proven empty by constraint exclusion, propagate that
knowledge up through any joins it participates in. We were doing that already
in some special cases but not in the general case. Also, defend against zero
row estimates for the input relations in cost_mergejoin --- this fix may have
eliminated the only scenario in which that can happen, but be safe. Per
report from Alex Solovey.
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:47:35 +0000 (19:47 +0000)]
Use new errdetail_log() mechanism to provide a less klugy way of reporting
large numbers of dependencies on a role that couldn't be dropped.
Per a comment from Alvaro.
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:12:49 +0000 (19:12 +0000)]
Fix various infelicities that have snuck into usage of errdetail() and
friends. Avoid double translation of some messages, ensure other messages
are exposed for translation (and make them follow the style guidelines),
avoid unsafe passing of an unpredictable message text as a format string.
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:22:36 +0000 (18:22 +0000)]
Adjust the recent patch for reporting of deadlocked queries so that we report
query texts only to the server log. This eliminates the issue of possible
leaking of security-sensitive data in other sessions' queries. Since the
log is presumed secure, we can now log the queries of all sessions involved
in the deadlock, whether or not they belong to the same user as the one
reporting the failure.
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:08:47 +0000 (18:08 +0000)]
Add a new ereport auxiliary function errdetail_log(), which works the same as
errdetail except the string goes only to the server log, replacing the normal
errdetail there. This provides a reasonably clean way of dealing with error
details that are too security-sensitive or too bulky to send to the client.
This commit just adds the infrastructure --- actual uses to follow.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:05:45 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
Add to TODO:
> * Improve reporting of UNION type mismatches
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-04/msg00944.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg00597.php
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:17:06 +0000 (14:17 +0000)]
Update wording:
< o Allow pre/data/post files when dumping a single object, for
< performance reasons
> o Allow pre/data/post files when schema and data are dumped
> separately, for performance reasons
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:32:33 +0000 (00:32 +0000)]
Add to pg_dump TODO:
> o Allow pre/data/post files when dumping a single object, for
> performance reasons
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00205.php
>
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:24:20 +0000 (00:24 +0000)]
Create a function quote_nullable(), which works the same as quote_literal()
except that it returns the string 'NULL', rather than a SQL null, when called
with a null argument. This is often a much more useful behavior for
constructing dynamic queries. Add more discussion to the documentation
about how to use these functions.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:14:41 +0000 (00:14 +0000)]
Add to Win3 TODO:
>
> o Fix MSVC NLS support, like for to_char()
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-02/msg00485.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-02/msg00038.php
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:32:19 +0000 (22:32 +0000)]
Refactor to_char/to_date formatting code; primarily, replace DCH_processor
with two new functions DCH_to_char and DCH_from_char that have less confusing
APIs. Brendan Jurd
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:30:21 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
Add URLs for:
* Simplify ability to create partitioned tables
This would allow creation of partitioned tables without requiring
creation of triggers or rules for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, and constraints
for rapid partition selection. Options could include range and hash
partition selection.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:41:48 +0000 (22:41 +0000)]
Remove TypeName struct's timezone flag, which has been write-only storage
for a very long time --- in current usage it's entirely redundant with the
name field.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:08:31 +0000 (21:08 +0000)]
Report the current queries of all backends involved in a deadlock
(if they'd be visible to the current user in pg_stat_activity).
This might look like it's subject to race conditions, but it's actually
pretty safe because at the time DeadLockReport() is constructing the
report, we haven't yet aborted our transaction and so we can expect that
everyone else involved in the deadlock is still blocked on some lock.
(There are corner cases where that might not be true, such as a statement
timeout triggering in another backend before we finish reporting; but at
worst we'd report a misleading activity string, so it seems acceptable
considering the usefulness of reporting the queries.)
Original patch by Itagaki Takahiro, heavily modified by me.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:34:33 +0000 (19:34 +0000)]
Add:
>
> o Prevent SSL from sending network packets to avoid interference
> with Win32 signal emulation
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-12/msg00455.php
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:31:43 +0000 (01:31 +0000)]
Get rid of a bunch of #ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP conditionals by inventing
a new typedef TimeOffset to represent an intermediate time value. It's
either int64 or double as appropriate, and in most usages will be measured
in microseconds or seconds the same as Timestamp. We don't call it
Timestamp, though, since the value doesn't necessarily represent an absolute
time instant.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:42:48 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
Arrange for an explicit cast applied to an ARRAY[] constructor to be applied
directly to all the member expressions, instead of the previous implementation
where the ARRAY[] constructor would infer a common element type and then we'd
coerce the finished array after the fact. This has a number of benefits,
one being that we can allow an empty ARRAY[] construct so long as its
element type is specified by such a cast.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:36:58 +0000 (17:36 +0000)]
Support a --no-tablespaces option in pg_dump/pg_dumpall/pg_restore, so that
dumps can be loaded into databases without the same tablespaces that the
source had. The option acts by suppressing all "SET default_tablespace"
commands, and also CREATE TABLESPACE commands in pg_dumpall's case.
Gavin Roy, with documentation and minor fixes by me.
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