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21 years agoImplement feature of new FE/BE protocol whereby RowDescription identifies
Tom Lane [Tue, 6 May 2003 00:20:33 +0000 (00:20 +0000)]
Implement feature of new FE/BE protocol whereby RowDescription identifies
the column by table OID and column number, if it's a simple column
reference.  Along the way, get rid of reskey/reskeyop fields in Resdoms.
Turns out that representation was not convenient for either the planner
or the executor; we can make the planner deliver exactly what the
executor wants with no more effort.
initdb forced due to change in stored rule representation.

21 years agoDitch ExecGetTupType() in favor of the much simpler ExecGetResultType(),
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 May 2003 17:57:47 +0000 (17:57 +0000)]
Ditch ExecGetTupType() in favor of the much simpler ExecGetResultType(),
which does the same thing.  Perhaps at one time there was a reason to
allow plan nodes to store their result types in different places, but
AFAICT that's been unnecessary for a good while.

21 years agoAlter plpgsql's lexer so that yylineno and yymore are not used. This
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 May 2003 16:46:28 +0000 (16:46 +0000)]
Alter plpgsql's lexer so that yylineno and yymore are not used.  This
avoids 'input buffer overflow' failure on long literals, improves
performance, gives the right answer for line position in functions
containing multiline literals, suppresses annoying compiler warnings,
and generally is so much better I wonder why we didn't do it before.

21 years agoProvide a real link to CREATE SEQUENCE's reference page in nextval/setval
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 May 2003 15:08:49 +0000 (15:08 +0000)]
Provide a real link to CREATE SEQUENCE's reference page in nextval/setval
discussion.

21 years agoNot sure why parser() was still doing clearerr(stdin) ... but it's
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 May 2003 01:59:02 +0000 (01:59 +0000)]
Not sure why parser() was still doing clearerr(stdin) ... but it's
*got* to be pointless.

21 years agoExtended query protocol: parse, bind, execute, describe FE/BE messages.
Tom Lane [Mon, 5 May 2003 00:44:56 +0000 (00:44 +0000)]
Extended query protocol: parse, bind, execute, describe FE/BE messages.
Only lightly tested as yet, since libpq doesn't know anything about 'em.

21 years agoDisable alternate locations on Win32 because it doesn't support symlinks.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 4 May 2003 04:42:52 +0000 (04:42 +0000)]
Disable alternate locations on Win32 because it doesn't support symlinks.

21 years agoAllow 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values.
Tom Lane [Sun, 4 May 2003 04:30:15 +0000 (04:30 +0000)]
Allow 60 in seconds fields of timestamp, time, interval input values.
Per recent discussion on pgsql-general, this is appropriate for spec
compliance, and has the nice side-effect of easing porting from old
pg_dump files that exhibit the 59.999=>60.000 roundoff problem.

21 years agoLast round of reference page editing.
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 4 May 2003 02:23:16 +0000 (02:23 +0000)]
Last round of reference page editing.

21 years agoWhen a TIMESTAMP, TIME, or INTERVAL precision is specified larger than our
Tom Lane [Sun, 4 May 2003 00:03:55 +0000 (00:03 +0000)]
When a TIMESTAMP, TIME, or INTERVAL precision is specified larger than our
implementation limits, do not issue an ERROR; instead issue a NOTICE and use
the max supported value.  Per pgsql-general discussion of 28-Apr, this is
needed to allow easy porting from pre-7.3 releases where the limits were
higher.

Unrelated change in same area: accept GLOBAL TEMP/TEMPORARY as a synonym
for TEMPORARY, as per pgsql-hackers discussion of 15-Apr.  We previously
rejected it, but that was based on a misreading of the spec --- SQL92's
GLOBAL temp tables are really closer to what we have than their LOCAL ones.

21 years agoFix erroneous space calculation leading to core dump in dumpProcLangs,
Tom Lane [Sat, 3 May 2003 22:18:59 +0000 (22:18 +0000)]
Fix erroneous space calculation leading to core dump in dumpProcLangs,
per report from Olivier Prenant.  Also fix off-by-one space calculation
in ReadToc; this woould not have hurt us until we had more than 100
dependencies for a single object, but wrong is wrong.

21 years agoPatch to fix up LONGVARBINARY support submitted by Amit Gollapudi
Barry Lind [Sat, 3 May 2003 20:40:45 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
Patch to fix up LONGVARBINARY support submitted by Amit Gollapudi
(agollapudi@demandsolutions.com).
Also applied the RefCursor support patch by Nic Ferrier.  This patch allows
you too return a get a result set from a function that returns a refcursor.
For example:
call.registerOutParameter(1, Types.OTHER);
call.execute();
ResultSet rs = (ResultSet) call.getObject(1);

Modified Files:
  jdbc/org/postgresql/core/BaseStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1ResultSet.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1Statement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/Jdbc1CallableStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/Jdbc1PreparedStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/Jdbc1Statement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Jdbc2CallableStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Jdbc2PreparedStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Jdbc2Statement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc3/Jdbc3CallableStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc3/Jdbc3PreparedStatement.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc3/Jdbc3Statement.java
 Added Files:
  jdbc/org/postgresql/PGRefCursorResultSet.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/Jdbc1RefCursorResultSet.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Jdbc2RefCursorResultSet.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc3/Jdbc3RefCursorResultSet.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/RefCursorTest.java

21 years agoCleanup patch for exec() handling.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 3 May 2003 05:13:20 +0000 (05:13 +0000)]
Cleanup patch for exec() handling.

21 years agoHandle clog structure in shared memory in exec() case, for Win32.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 3 May 2003 03:52:07 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
Handle clog structure in shared memory in exec() case, for Win32.

21 years agoSECOND ATTEMPT
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 2 May 2003 22:02:47 +0000 (22:02 +0000)]
SECOND ATTEMPT

Dump/read non-default GUC values for use by exec'ed backend, for Win32.

21 years agoBack out second part of patch.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 2 May 2003 22:01:51 +0000 (22:01 +0000)]
Back out second part of patch.

21 years agoBack out last commit --- wrong patch.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 2 May 2003 21:59:31 +0000 (21:59 +0000)]
Back out last commit --- wrong patch.

21 years agoDump/read non-default GUC values for use by exec'ed backends, for Win32.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 2 May 2003 21:52:42 +0000 (21:52 +0000)]
Dump/read non-default GUC values for use by exec'ed backends, for Win32.

21 years agoPortal and memory management infrastructure for extended query protocol.
Tom Lane [Fri, 2 May 2003 20:54:36 +0000 (20:54 +0000)]
Portal and memory management infrastructure for extended query protocol.
Both plannable queries and utility commands are now always executed
within Portals, which have been revamped so that they can handle the
load (they used to be good only for single SELECT queries).  Restructure
code to push command-completion-tag selection logic out of postgres.c,
so that it won't have to be duplicated between simple and extended queries.
initdb forced due to addition of a field to Query nodes.

21 years agoRepair sloppiness about where cached mergeclause pathkeys are allocated.
Tom Lane [Fri, 2 May 2003 19:48:53 +0000 (19:48 +0000)]
Repair sloppiness about where cached mergeclause pathkeys are allocated.
Without this fix, CVS tip dumps core when running the regression tests
with geqo_threshold = 2.  I would think that a similar patch might be
needed in 7.3, but cannot duplicate the failure in that branch --- so
for now, leave well enough alone.

21 years agoFixed double definition of ecpg_compat_mode.
Michael Meskes [Fri, 2 May 2003 14:43:25 +0000 (14:43 +0000)]
Fixed double definition of ecpg_compat_mode.

21 years agoAdded an option to force ecpg to also parse files includes via '#include' and some...
Michael Meskes [Thu, 1 May 2003 17:16:57 +0000 (17:16 +0000)]
Added an option to force ecpg to also parse files includes via '#include' and some more Informix stuff.

21 years agoDocumentation refers to box() function where it should say box_intersect().
Tom Lane [Thu, 1 May 2003 00:57:05 +0000 (00:57 +0000)]
Documentation refers to box() function where it should say box_intersect().
Thanks to Wes Sheldah for finding this one.

21 years agoUpdate to describe new set of globally-known contexts planned for support
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:04:12 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
Update to describe new set of globally-known contexts planned for support
of extended query features in new FE/BE protocol.  TransactionCommandContext
is gone (PortalContext replaces it for some purposes), and QueryContext
has taken on a new meaning (MessageContext plays its old role).

21 years agoInfrastructure for deducing Param types from context, in the same way
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:13:11 +0000 (22:13 +0000)]
Infrastructure for deducing Param types from context, in the same way
that the types of untyped string-literal constants are deduced (ie,
when coerce_type is applied to 'em, that's what the type must be).
Remove the ancient hack of storing the input Param-types array as a
global variable, and put the info into ParseState instead.  This touches
a lot of files because of adjustment of routine parameter lists, but
it's really not a large patch.  Note: PREPARE statement still insists on
exact specification of parameter types, but that could easily be relaxed
now, if we wanted to do so.

21 years agoRemove unneeded define.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:25:54 +0000 (18:25 +0000)]
Remove unneeded define.

21 years agoCode review for holdable-cursors patch. Fix error recovery, memory
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Apr 2003 03:21:30 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Code review for holdable-cursors patch.  Fix error recovery, memory
context sloppiness, some other things.  Includes Neil's mopup patch
of 22-Apr.

21 years agoUpdate German FAQ, from Ian Barwick
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 22:40:38 +0000 (22:40 +0000)]
Update German FAQ, from  Ian Barwick

21 years agoMinor wordsmithing on .pgpass description.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 19:30:49 +0000 (19:30 +0000)]
Minor wordsmithing on .pgpass description.

21 years agoMinor improvement in wording.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 05:17:31 +0000 (05:17 +0000)]
Minor improvement in wording.

21 years agoMissed some corner cases (PGSERVICE mostly)...
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:52:13 +0000 (04:52 +0000)]
Missed some corner cases (PGSERVICE mostly)...

21 years agoOkay, I've had it with PQsetdbLogin having slightly different defaults
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Apr 2003 04:29:12 +0000 (04:29 +0000)]
Okay, I've had it with PQsetdbLogin having slightly different defaults
than PQconnectdb.  Reimplement the former to use the same code as the
latter.  Fix documentation omissions while at it.

21 years agoMake getaddrinfo's behavior with NULL node parameter agree with the
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:56:53 +0000 (23:56 +0000)]
Make getaddrinfo's behavior with NULL node parameter agree with the
Linux man page for it.  This error was preventing CVS tip from accepting
remote connections.

21 years agoPrevent coredump in current_schemas() if someone has just deleted a
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:22:13 +0000 (23:22 +0000)]
Prevent coredump in current_schemas() if someone has just deleted a
schema that was in our search path.

21 years agoFix plpgsql so that variables of composite types (rowtypes) can be
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:21:22 +0000 (22:21 +0000)]
Fix plpgsql so that variables of composite types (rowtypes) can be
declared without having to write %ROWTYPE.  If the declared type of
a variable is a composite type, it'll be taken to be a row variable
automatically.

21 years agoPut back encoding-conversion step in processing of incoming queries;
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 20:09:44 +0000 (20:09 +0000)]
Put back encoding-conversion step in processing of incoming queries;
I had inadvertently omitted it while rearranging things to support
length-counted incoming messages.  Also, change the parser's API back
to accepting a 'char *' query string instead of 'StringInfo', as the
latter wasn't buying us anything except overhead.  (I think when I put
it in I had some notion of making the parser API 8-bit-clean, but
seeing that flex depends on null-terminated input, that's not really
ever gonna happen.)

21 years agoDepartment of second thoughts: probably still need an IsTransactionState
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 18:01:46 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
Department of second thoughts: probably still need an IsTransactionState
test in there...

21 years agoClean up some problems in SetClientEncoding: failed to honor doit flag
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:31:25 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
Clean up some problems in SetClientEncoding: failed to honor doit flag
in all cases, leaked TopMemoryContext memory in others.  Make the
interaction between SetClientEncoding and InitializeClientEncoding
cleaner and better documented.  I suspect these changes should be
back-patched into 7.3, but will wait on Tatsuo's verification.

21 years agoEditing of more reference pages.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 23:56:51 +0000 (23:56 +0000)]
Editing of more reference pages.

21 years agoRepair permissions problem in RI triggers: query parsing has to be done
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 22:21:47 +0000 (22:21 +0000)]
Repair permissions problem in RI triggers: query parsing has to be done
as the correct user, not only query execution.  Per report from Sean
Chittenden.

21 years agoAdd transaction status field to ReadyForQuery messages, and make room
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 20:23:00 +0000 (20:23 +0000)]
Add transaction status field to ReadyForQuery messages, and make room
for tableID/columnID in RowDescription.  (The latter isn't really
implemented yet though --- the backend always sends zeroes, and libpq
just throws away the data.)

21 years agoTweak stats collector start logic so that we will not try to spawn a
Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:57:14 +0000 (02:57 +0000)]
Tweak stats collector start logic so that we will not try to spawn a
new stats collector oftener than once a minute.  Per gripe from Erik Walthinsen
4/25/03.

21 years agoMake [VACUUM] ANALYZE safe on zero-column tables.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:29:18 +0000 (21:29 +0000)]
Make [VACUUM] ANALYZE safe on zero-column tables.

21 years agoIn the continuing saga of FE/BE protocol revisions, add reporting of
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:45:10 +0000 (19:45 +0000)]
In the continuing saga of FE/BE protocol revisions, add reporting of
initial values and runtime changes in selected parameters.  This gets
rid of the need for an initial 'select pg_client_encoding()' query in
libpq, bringing us back to one message transmitted in each direction
for a standard connection startup.  To allow server version to be sent
using the same GUC mechanism that handles other parameters, invent the
concept of a never-settable GUC parameter: you can 'show server_version'
but it's not settable by any GUC input source.  Create 'lc_collate' and
'lc_ctype' never-settable parameters so that people can find out these
settings without need for pg_controldata.  (These side ideas were all
discussed some time ago in pgsql-hackers, but not yet implemented.)

21 years agoPrevent unlink/rename Win32 mapping on frontends.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:18:40 +0000 (16:18 +0000)]
Prevent unlink/rename Win32 mapping on frontends.

21 years agoAdd new versions DLL lists, from Karl Waclawek
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:20:21 +0000 (14:20 +0000)]
Add new versions DLL lists, from Karl Waclawek

21 years agoFix typo in DLL list.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:18:59 +0000 (14:18 +0000)]
Fix typo in DLL list.

21 years agoconst-ify info_cb() to match recent openssl releases. Per Joe Conway.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 04:37:23 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
const-ify info_cb() to match recent openssl releases.  Per Joe Conway.

21 years agoFix breakage induced by yours truly in Kerberos and PAM code.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:28:55 +0000 (03:28 +0000)]
Fix breakage induced by yours truly in Kerberos and PAM code.

21 years agoCOPY and pg_dump failed to cope with zero-column tables. Fix 'em.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:28:22 +0000 (02:28 +0000)]
COPY and pg_dump failed to cope with zero-column tables.  Fix 'em.

21 years agoUse closesocket() for all socket/pipe closing, because Win32 requires
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:24:00 +0000 (01:24 +0000)]
Use closesocket() for all socket/pipe closing, because Win32 requires
it, and map that to close() on Unix.

21 years agoAdjust subquery qual pushdown rules so that we can push down a qual
Tom Lane [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:43:09 +0000 (23:43 +0000)]
Adjust subquery qual pushdown rules so that we can push down a qual
into a UNION that has some type coercions applied to the component
queries, so long as the qual itself does not reference any columns that
have such coercions.  Per example from Jonathan Bartlett 24-Apr-03.

21 years agoAdd Win32 Makefile for IPC stuff.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:25:34 +0000 (21:25 +0000)]
Add Win32 Makefile for IPC stuff.

21 years agoNo need for include for Win32 right now.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:24:36 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
No need for include for Win32 right now.

21 years agoAdd Win32 shmem/sema prototypes.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:23:01 +0000 (21:23 +0000)]
Add Win32 shmem/sema prototypes.

21 years agoInfrastructure for upgraded error reporting mechanism. elog.c is
Tom Lane [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 21:16:45 +0000 (21:16 +0000)]
Infrastructure for upgraded error reporting mechanism.  elog.c is
rewritten and the protocol is changed, but most elog calls are still
elog calls.  Also, we need to contemplate mechanisms for controlling
all this functionality --- eg, how much stuff should appear in the
postmaster log?  And what API should libpq expose for it?

21 years agopgindent new Win32 files.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:14:22 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
pgindent new Win32 files.

21 years agoAdd shared memory and semaphore routines for Win32.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:20:23 +0000 (17:20 +0000)]
Add shared memory and semaphore routines for Win32.

Also update copyright to be ours, with approval from Jan.

21 years agoAdd shared memory and semaphore routines for Win32.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:16:13 +0000 (17:16 +0000)]
Add shared memory and semaphore routines for Win32.

21 years agoAdd comments to replace/unlink Win32 functions.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:40:17 +0000 (16:40 +0000)]
Add comments to replace/unlink Win32 functions.

21 years agoAdd PQunescapeBytea() and PQfeeMem() to the Win32 DLL list.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:09:27 +0000 (15:09 +0000)]
Add PQunescapeBytea() and PQfeeMem() to the Win32 DLL list.

Karl Waclawek

21 years agoRemove Win32 special rename/unlink from libpq.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 19:42:27 +0000 (19:42 +0000)]
Remove Win32 special rename/unlink from libpq.

21 years agoUpdate CVS with new FAQ.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 18:03:00 +0000 (18:03 +0000)]
Update CVS with new FAQ.

21 years agoMore editing of reference pages.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:08:08 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
More editing of reference pages.

21 years agogetaddrinfo has no business doing unlink().
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 03:52:56 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
getaddrinfo has no business doing unlink().

21 years agoAdd dirmod to libpq Makefile.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:21:34 +0000 (02:21 +0000)]
Add dirmod to libpq Makefile.

21 years agoAdd Win32 unlink/rename file.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:18:48 +0000 (02:18 +0000)]
Add Win32 unlink/rename file.

21 years agoAdd Win32 versions of unlink and rename --- loop until success.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:18:09 +0000 (02:18 +0000)]
Add Win32 versions of unlink and rename --- loop until success.

21 years agoAnother round of protocol changes. Backend-to-frontend messages now all
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:08:07 +0000 (00:08 +0000)]
Another round of protocol changes.  Backend-to-frontend messages now all
have length words.  COPY OUT reimplemented per new protocol: it doesn't
need \. anymore, thank goodness.  COPY BINARY to/from frontend works,
at least as far as the backend is concerned --- libpq's PQgetline API
is not up to snuff, and will have to be replaced with something that is
null-safe.  libpq uses message length words for performance improvement
(no cycles wasted rescanning long messages), but not yet for error
recovery.

21 years agoPrevent palloc(0) error when parent table has zero columns.
Tom Lane [Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:19:55 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
Prevent palloc(0) error when parent table has zero columns.

21 years agoAdd mention of Novell Netware 6 port.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:54:15 +0000 (14:54 +0000)]
Add mention of Novell Netware 6 port.

21 years agostddev() and variance() should return NULL when there is just one input
Tom Lane [Mon, 21 Apr 2003 00:22:24 +0000 (00:22 +0000)]
stddev() and variance() should return NULL when there is just one input
value, per recent discussion on pgsql-general.

21 years agoApple's assembler likes the inlined TAS syntax too, so no reason to
Tom Lane [Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:54:34 +0000 (21:54 +0000)]
Apple's assembler likes the inlined TAS syntax too, so no reason to
maintain a separate out-of-line version of PPC tas() anymore.
Also fix S_UNLOCK for __powerpc64__ platforms.

21 years agoFix multiple causes of breakage in plperl's error handling.
Tom Lane [Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:15:34 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
Fix multiple causes of breakage in plperl's error handling.

21 years agoAvoid O(N^2) behavior with lots of deferred triggers by making
Tom Lane [Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:03:25 +0000 (17:03 +0000)]
Avoid O(N^2) behavior with lots of deferred triggers by making
deferredTriggerInvokeEvents only scan events added since it last ran.
Stephan Szabo, some corrections by Tom Lane.

21 years agoMake it clear it is the server version that determines if crlf is used. Idea from...
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:52:55 +0000 (01:52 +0000)]
Make it clear it is the server version that determines if crlf is used.  Idea from Joe Conway.

21 years agoAllow \r and \r\n termination for COPY files.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 19 Apr 2003 20:36:03 +0000 (20:36 +0000)]
Allow \r and \r\n termination for COPY files.

Output \r\n termination on Win32.

Disallow literal carriage return as a data value,
backslash-carriage-return and \r still allowed.

Doc changes already committed.

21 years agoAdd pipe parameter to COPY function to allow proper line termination.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 19 Apr 2003 19:55:37 +0000 (19:55 +0000)]
Add pipe parameter to COPY function to allow proper line termination.

21 years agoAdd more documentation about shared memory costs.
Tom Lane [Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:37:28 +0000 (00:37 +0000)]
Add more documentation about shared memory costs.

21 years agoSecond round of FE/BE protocol changes. Frontend->backend messages now
Tom Lane [Sat, 19 Apr 2003 00:02:30 +0000 (00:02 +0000)]
Second round of FE/BE protocol changes.  Frontend->backend messages now
have length counts, and COPY IN data is packetized into messages.

21 years agoFix breakage from recent variable-handling changes.
Tom Lane [Fri, 18 Apr 2003 23:38:47 +0000 (23:38 +0000)]
Fix breakage from recent variable-handling changes.

21 years agoMake Win32 tests to match existing Cygwin tests, where appropriate.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 18 Apr 2003 01:03:42 +0000 (01:03 +0000)]
Make Win32 tests to match existing Cygwin tests, where appropriate.

21 years agoFirst phase of FE/BE protocol modifications: new StartupPacket layout
Tom Lane [Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:26:02 +0000 (22:26 +0000)]
First phase of FE/BE protocol modifications: new StartupPacket layout
with variable-width fields.  No more truncation of long user names.
Also, libpq can now send its environment-variable-driven SET commands
as part of the startup packet, saving round trips to server.

21 years agoMake pg_dump's concurency capability more prominent.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:34:37 +0000 (15:34 +0000)]
Make pg_dump's concurency capability more prominent.

21 years agoFix abstime-to-time cast function, which has had broken implementation
Tom Lane [Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:50:20 +0000 (04:50 +0000)]
Fix abstime-to-time cast function, which has had broken implementation
since 7.2, per bug #947.  Turns out it had wrong volatility label, too.
Can't force initdb in 7.3 branch, but fix anyway for future installs.

21 years agoApplied patches from Kris Jurka fixing a string tokenizing problem and
Barry Lind [Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:37:07 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Applied patches from Kris Jurka fixing a string tokenizing problem and
fixing an order by problem for index metadata results.
Also includes removing some unused code as well as a fix to the toString
method on statement.

 Modified Files:
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1DatabaseMetaData.java
  jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1Statement.java

21 years agoVarious clarifications; add a clear DRAFT marker; minor adjustments in
Tom Lane [Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:53:38 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
Various clarifications; add a clear DRAFT marker; minor adjustments in
some message types.  In particular add text/binary flag to StartCopyIn
and StartCopyOut, so that client library can know what is expected or
forthcoming.

21 years agoAdd mention of OpenProjects IRC channel. It is as large as EFNet now.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:56:24 +0000 (18:56 +0000)]
Add mention of OpenProjects IRC channel.  It is as large as EFNet now.

21 years agoFix some problems exposed by building outside the source tree.
Tom Lane [Wed, 16 Apr 2003 05:23:55 +0000 (05:23 +0000)]
Fix some problems exposed by building outside the source tree.

21 years agoFix stupid oversight ...
Tom Lane [Wed, 16 Apr 2003 04:37:58 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Fix stupid oversight ...

21 years agoFirst draft of revised FE/BE protocol specification. Still needs work,
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:51:18 +0000 (22:51 +0000)]
First draft of revised FE/BE protocol specification.  Still needs work,
but I'm putting it up so people can see and comment on it.

21 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 15 Apr 2003 21:00:27 +0000 (21:00 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ, from Jun Kuwamura.

21 years agoChange names of ISO-8859-x encodings to ISO_8859_x, to match reality.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:26:54 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
Change names of ISO-8859-x encodings to ISO_8859_x, to match reality.

21 years agoBring SQL ref pages to consistent format, part 1.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:25:08 +0000 (13:25 +0000)]
Bring SQL ref pages to consistent format, part 1.

21 years agoAdd better markup and improve some text here and there.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:23:35 +0000 (13:23 +0000)]
Add better markup and improve some text here and there.

21 years agoeqjoinsel's logic for case where MCV lists are not present should
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Apr 2003 05:18:12 +0000 (05:18 +0000)]
eqjoinsel's logic for case where MCV lists are not present should
account for NULLs; in hindsight this is obvious since the code for
the MCV-lists case would reduce to this when there are zero entries
in both lists.  Per example from Alec Mitchell.

21 years agopath.c needs to be included in libpq; per Joe Conway.
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:15:13 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
path.c needs to be included in libpq; per Joe Conway.

21 years agoAnother try at correctly explaining the difference between Postgres and
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:08:58 +0000 (18:08 +0000)]
Another try at correctly explaining the difference between Postgres and
SQL92 temp tables.  Possibly I got it right this time.

21 years agoReorganize clog's error reporting so that PANIC on clog I/O error can
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:31:33 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
Reorganize clog's error reporting so that PANIC on clog I/O error can
be reduced to a plain ERROR.  Should make it at least a little less
painful to deal with data-corruption problems.

21 years agoDocument file name as optional for \o in psql help (\h).
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:23:36 +0000 (16:23 +0000)]
Document file name as optional for \o in psql help (\h).