Bruce Momjian [Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:41:44 +0000 (17:41 +0000)]
This patch adds native LDAP auth, for those platforms that don't have
PAM (such as Win32, but also unixen without PAM). On Unix, uses
OpenLDAP. On win32, uses the builin WinLDAP library.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:10:31 +0000 (17:10 +0000)]
Add:
> o Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> like CHECK that are inherited by child tables
>
> Dropping constraints should only be possible with CASCADE.
>
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 6 Mar 2006 05:22:31 +0000 (05:22 +0000)]
Update:
< * %Disallow changing sequence characteristics like INCREMENT for SERIAL columns
> * %Disallow ALTER SEQUENCE changes for SERIAL sequences because pg_dump
> does not dump the changes
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 6 Mar 2006 04:53:50 +0000 (04:53 +0000)]
in the docs, the function "ascii(text)" is described as
returning "ASCII code of the first character of the argument"
(see
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-string.html,
Table 9-6. "Other String Functions").
Presumably this should read "ASCII code of the first byte of the
argument",
which is what is returned when the argument is a multi-byte character
(although then with UTF-8 at least that might not necessarily be an
ASCII
code).
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 6 Mar 2006 04:45:21 +0000 (04:45 +0000)]
In psql, save history of backslash commands used in multi-line
statements before the multi-line statement, rather than inside the
multi-line statement.
Neil Conway [Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:34:34 +0000 (21:34 +0000)]
Per recent discussion on -hackers, we should sometimes reorder the
columns of the grouping clause to avoid redundant sorts. The optimizer
is not currently capable of doing this, so this patch implements a
simple hack in the analysis phase (transformGroupClause): if any
subset of the GROUP BY clause matches a prefix of the ORDER BY list,
that prefix is moved to the front of the GROUP BY clause. This
shouldn't change the semantics of the query, and allows a redundant
sort to be avoided for queries like "GROUP BY a, b ORDER BY b".
Tom Lane [Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:30:12 +0000 (19:30 +0000)]
Incorporate a couple of recent tuplesort.c improvements into tuplestore.c.
In particular, ensure that enlargement of the memtuples[] array doesn't
fall foul of MaxAllocSize when work_mem is very large, and don't bother
enlarging it if that would force an immediate switch into 'tape' mode anyway.
Tom Lane [Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:05:06 +0000 (19:05 +0000)]
Prevent sorting from requesting a SortTuple array that exceeds MaxAllocSize;
we'll go over to disk-based sort if we reach that limit.
This fixes Stefan Kaltenbrunner's observation that sorting can suffer an
'invalid memory alloc request size' failure when sort_mem is set large
enough. It's unfortunately not so easy to fix in 8.1 ...
Tatsuo Ishii [Sat, 4 Mar 2006 10:57:35 +0000 (10:57 +0000)]
Tighten up SJIS byte sequence check. Now we reject invalid SJIS byte
sequence such as "0x95 0x27". Patches from Akio Ishida.
Also update copyright notice.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Mar 2006 04:44:07 +0000 (04:44 +0000)]
> gettimeofday.c:35: warning: integer constant is too large for "long"
> type
Wouldn't it be better to use the UINT64CONST macro? I realize this
file is Windows-only, but we do worry about more than one compiler
on that platform.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Mar 2006 03:47:29 +0000 (03:47 +0000)]
That was a typo in my comment before the code (the nutshell
descriptions after the code are correct). Only shmmax needs to be
multiples of the page size (at least, that's how I interpret the
Darwin code).
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:38:30 +0000 (23:38 +0000)]
Improve pg_dump and psql to use libpq's newer COPY support routines,
instead of the old deprecated ones.
Volkan Yazici, with some editorializing by moi.
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:57:32 +0000 (20:57 +0000)]
Teach PQcmdTuples() that a COPY command tag might contain a row count,
and tighten up its sanity checking of the tag as a safety measure.
Volkan Yazici.
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:54:10 +0000 (19:54 +0000)]
Make the COPY command return a command tag that includes the number of
rows copied. Backend side of Volkan Yazici's recent patch, with
corrections and documentation.
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:25:14 +0000 (18:25 +0000)]
Dept. of second thoughts: rejigger the TRUNCATE ... CASCADE patch so that
relations are still checked for permissions etc as soon as they are
opened. The original form of the patch could hold exclusive lock for a
long time on relations that the user doesn't even have permissions to
access, let alone truncate.
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:02:02 +0000 (00:02 +0000)]
Arrange to call AbsorbFsyncRequests every so often while performing a
checkpoint in the bgwriter. This forestalls overflow of the fsync request
queue, which is not fatal but causes considerable performance degradation
when it occurs (because backends then have to do their own fsyncs). Per
patch from Itagaki Takahiro, modified a little bit by me.
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:56:14 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
Remove unnecessary lo_lseek call in lo_open. Apparently there was once
a need for it back in the neolithic era, but it's certainly dead code in
any PG release we would recognize as such. Since it forces an additional
network round trip to the backend, getting rid of it should provide some
small performance improvement for large-object-using clients.
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:49:09 +0000 (21:49 +0000)]
Fix ancient error in large objects usage example: overwrite() subroutine
was opening with INV_READ flag and then writing. Prior to 8.1 the backend
did not reject this, but now it does.
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 2 Mar 2006 19:07:19 +0000 (19:07 +0000)]
Significantly improve ranking:
1) rank_cd now use weight of lexemes
2) rank_cd and rank can use any combination of normalization methods:
no normalization
normalization by log(length of document)
-----/------- by length of document
-----/------- by number of unique word in document
-----/------- by log(number of unique word in document)
-----/------- by number of covers (only rank_cd)
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Mar 2006 18:18:00 +0000 (18:18 +0000)]
Add:
> * Improve port/qsort() to handle sorts with 50% unique and 50% duplicate
> value [qsort]
>
> This involves choosing better pivot points for the quicksort.
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Mar 2006 05:34:12 +0000 (05:34 +0000)]
Fix possible crash at transaction end when a plpgsql function is used and
then modified within the same transaction. The code was using a linked list
of active PLpgSQL_expr structs, which was OK when it was written because
plpgsql never released any parse data structures for the life of the backend.
But since Neil fixed plpgsql's memory management, elements of the linked list
could be freed, leading to crash when the list is chased. Per report and test
case from Kris Jurka.
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Mar 2006 01:18:26 +0000 (01:18 +0000)]
Fix up pg_dump to emit shell-type definitions at the proper time, to
make use of the recently added ability to create a shell type explicitly.
I also put in place some infrastructure to allow dump/no dump decisions
to be made separately for each database object, rather than the former
hardwired 'dump if in a dumpable schema' policy. This was needed anyway
for shell types so now seemed a convenient time to do it. The flexibility
isn't exposed to the user yet, but is ready for future extensions.
Neil Conway [Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:00:56 +0000 (23:00 +0000)]
Woops: also update the alternative "expected" files for contrib/cube's
regression tests to account for the new error message wording. It seems
today is not my day...
Neil Conway [Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:09:32 +0000 (21:09 +0000)]
Update the expected regression test results to account for the changes to
error messages I made yesterday -- thanks to Andrew Dunstan for reporting
this, and my apologies for missing it the first time.
Neil Conway [Wed, 1 Mar 2006 06:51:01 +0000 (06:51 +0000)]
Attached is a patch that replaces a bunch of places where StringInfos
are unnecessarily allocated on the heap rather than the stack. If the
StringInfo doesn't outlive the stack frame in which it is created,
there is no need to allocate it on the heap via makeStringInfo() --
stack allocation is faster. While it's not a big deal unless the
code is in a critical path, I don't see a reason not to save a few
cycles -- using stack allocation is not less readable.
I also cleaned up a bit of code along the way: moved variable
declarations into a more tightly-enclosing scope where possible,
fixed some pointless copying of strings in dblink, etc.
Neil Conway [Wed, 1 Mar 2006 06:30:32 +0000 (06:30 +0000)]
This patch makes the error message strings throughout the backend
more compliant with the error message style guide. In particular,
errdetail should begin with a capital letter and end with a period,
whereas errmsg should not. I also fixed a few related issues in
passing, such as fixing the repeated misspelling of "lexeme" in
contrib/tsearch2 (per Tom's suggestion).
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:37:27 +0000 (22:37 +0000)]
Allow the syntax CREATE TYPE foo, with no parameters, to permit explicit
creation of a shell type. This allows a less hacky way of dealing with
the mutual dependency between a datatype and its I/O functions: make a
shell type, then make the functions, then define the datatype fully.
We should fix pg_dump to handle things this way, but this commit just deals
with the backend.
Martijn van Oosterhout, with some corrections by Tom Lane.
Neil Conway [Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:03:52 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
Allow PL/Python functions to return void, per gripe from James Robinson
(I didn't use his patch, however). A void-returning PL/Python function
must return None (from Python), which is translated into a void datum
(and *not* NULL) for Postgres. I also added some regression tests for
this functionality.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:10:28 +0000 (04:10 +0000)]
Extend the ExecInitNode API so that plan nodes receive a set of flag
bits indicating which optional capabilities can actually be exercised
at runtime. This will allow Sort and Material nodes, and perhaps later
other nodes, to avoid unnecessary overhead in common cases.
This commit just adds the infrastructure and arranges to pass the correct
flag values down to plan nodes; none of the actual optimizations are here
yet. I'm committing this separately in case anyone wants to measure the
added overhead. (It should be negligible.)
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:09:50 +0000 (16:09 +0000)]
Clean up CREATE FUNCTION syntax usage in contrib and elsewhere, in
particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH ()
construct.
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:58:12 +0000 (22:58 +0000)]
Improve sorting speed by pre-extracting the first sort-key column of
each tuple, as per my proposal of several days ago. Also, clean up
sort memory management by keeping all working data in a separate memory
context, and refine the handling of low-memory conditions.
Neil Conway [Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:36:23 +0000 (18:36 +0000)]
Implement the <> operator for the tid type. Original patch from Mark
Kirkwood, minor improvements by Neil Conway. The regression tests have
been updated and the catversion has been bumped.