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17 years agoArrange for the authentication request type to be preserved in
Joe Conway [Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:11:51 +0000 (17:11 +0000)]
Arrange for the authentication request type to be preserved in
PGconn. Invent a new libpq connection-status function,
PQconnectionUsedPassword() that returns true if the server
demanded a password during authentication, false otherwise.
This may be useful to clients in general, but is immediately
useful to help plug a privilege escalation path in dblink.
Per list discussion and design proposed by Tom Lane.

17 years agoRemove TODO.detail/win32intr, no longer needed.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 8 Jul 2007 00:42:07 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
Remove TODO.detail/win32intr, no longer needed.

17 years agoRemove, per Magnus:
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 8 Jul 2007 00:41:11 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
Remove, per Magnus:

<  o Check WSACancelBlockingCall() for interrupts [win32intr]

17 years agoFix a couple of planner bugs introduced by the new ability to discard
Tom Lane [Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:46:45 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
Fix a couple of planner bugs introduced by the new ability to discard
ORDER BY <constant> as redundant.  One is that this means query_planner()
has to canonicalize pathkeys even when the query jointree is empty;
the canonicalization was always a no-op in such cases before, but no more.
Also, we have to guard against thinking that a set-returning function is
"constant" for this purpose.  Add a couple of regression tests for these
evidently under-tested cases.  Per report from Greg Stark and subsequent
experimentation.

17 years agoMove parse.h into src/backend on msvc, which is where it is on Unix.
Magnus Hagander [Sat, 7 Jul 2007 07:43:21 +0000 (07:43 +0000)]
Move parse.h into src/backend on msvc, which is where it is on Unix.
Fixes builds from tarballs where the file is pre-generated.

Yoshiyuki Asaba

17 years agoChanged new \usleep command into \sleep with an optional time unit
Jan Wieck [Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:17:02 +0000 (20:17 +0000)]
Changed new \usleep command into \sleep with an optional time unit
argument to specify us, ms or s. As per suggestion by Peter E.

Jan

17 years agoAdded a new scripting meta command
Jan Wieck [Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:36:55 +0000 (13:36 +0000)]
Added a new scripting meta command

    \usleep [milliseconds|:variable]

which can be used in -f scripts to insert a thinking time between
other commands.

Jan

17 years agoFix up hash functions for datetime datatypes so that they don't take
Tom Lane [Fri, 6 Jul 2007 04:16:00 +0000 (04:16 +0000)]
Fix up hash functions for datetime datatypes so that they don't take
unwarranted liberties with int8 vs float8 values for these types.
Specifically, be sure to apply either hashint8 or hashfloat8 depending
on HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP.  Per my gripe of even date.

17 years agoImprove description of SPI_scroll_cursor_move's return values, per a
Tom Lane [Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:15:12 +0000 (19:15 +0000)]
Improve description of SPI_scroll_cursor_move's return values, per a
gripe by Pavel Stehule awhile ago.

17 years agoFix incorrect comment about the timing of AbsorbFsyncRequests() during
Tom Lane [Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:51:24 +0000 (14:51 +0000)]
Fix incorrect comment about the timing of AbsorbFsyncRequests() during
checkpoint.  The comment claimed that we could do this anytime after
setting the checkpoint REDO point, but actually BufferSync is relying
on the assumption that buffers dumped by other backends will be fsync'd
too.  So we really could not do it any sooner than we are doing it.

17 years agoAdd ALTER VIEW ... RENAME TO, and a RENAME TO clause to ALTER SEQUENCE.
Neil Conway [Tue, 3 Jul 2007 01:30:37 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
Add ALTER VIEW ... RENAME TO, and a RENAME TO clause to ALTER SEQUENCE.
Sequences and views could previously be renamed using ALTER TABLE, but
this was a repeated source of confusion for users. Update the docs,
and psql tab completion. Patch from David Fetter; various minor fixes
by myself.

17 years ago- Fix the -w (wait) option to work in Windows service mode, per bug #3382.
Magnus Hagander [Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:58:31 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
- Fix the -w (wait) option to work in Windows service mode, per bug #3382.
- Prevent the -w option being passed to the postmaster.
- Read the postmaster options file when starting as a Windows service.

Dave Page

17 years agoFix failure to restart Postgres when Linux kernel returns EIDRM for shmctl().
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Jul 2007 20:11:55 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
Fix failure to restart Postgres when Linux kernel returns EIDRM for shmctl().

This is a Linux kernel bug that apparently exists in every extant kernel
version: sometimes shmctl() will fail with EIDRM when EINVAL is correct.
We were assuming that EIDRM indicates a possible conflict with pre-existing
backends, and refusing to start the postmaster when this happens.  Fortunately,
there does not seem to be any case where Linux can legitimately return EIDRM
(it doesn't track shmem segments in a way that would allow that), so we can
get away with just assuming that EIDRM means EINVAL on this platform.

Per reports from Michael Fuhr and Jon Lapham --- it's a bit surprising
we have not seen more reports, actually.

17 years agoAdd notes about configuring Visual Studio Express for use with the
Magnus Hagander [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:40:37 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
Add notes about configuring Visual Studio Express for use with the
Platform SDK.

17 years agoReduce the maximum sleep interval in the autovac launcher to 1 second,
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:30:54 +0000 (18:30 +0000)]
Reduce the maximum sleep interval in the autovac launcher to 1 second,
so that it responds to SIGQUIT reasonably promptly even on machines where
SA_RESTART signals restart a sleep from scratch.  (This whole area could
stand some rethinking, but for now make it work like the other processes
do.)  Also some marginal stylistic cleanups.

17 years agoTreat the autovac launcher more like a regular backend, in that we wait
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:28:41 +0000 (18:28 +0000)]
Treat the autovac launcher more like a regular backend, in that we wait
for it to die before telling the bgwriter to initiate shutdown checkpoint.
Since it's connected to shared memory, this seems more prudent than the
alternative of letting it quit asynchronously.  Resolves my complaint
of yesterday about repeated shutdown checkpoints in CVS HEAD.

17 years agoAvoid memory leakage when a series of subtransactions invoke AFTER triggers
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:45:42 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Avoid memory leakage when a series of subtransactions invoke AFTER triggers
that are fired at end-of-statement (as is the normal case for foreign keys,
for example).  In this situation the per-subxact deferred trigger context
is always empty when subtransaction exit is reached; so we could free it,
but were not doing so, leading to an intratransaction leak of 8K or more
per subtransaction.  Per off-list example from Viatcheslav Kalinin
subsequent to bug #3418 (his original bug report omitted a foreign key
constraint needed to cause this leak).

Back-patch to 8.2; prior versions were not using per-subxact contexts
for deferred triggers, so did not have this leak.

17 years agoFix comments not updated in recent patch.
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 02:22:23 +0000 (02:22 +0000)]
Fix comments not updated in recent patch.

17 years agoAdd 'volatile' to suppress 'variable might be clobbered by longjmp'
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Jul 2007 02:20:59 +0000 (02:20 +0000)]
Add 'volatile' to suppress 'variable might be clobbered by longjmp'
warning emitted by some versions of gcc.

17 years agoImprove logging of checkpoints. Patch by Greg Smith, worked over
Tom Lane [Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:12:02 +0000 (19:12 +0000)]
Improve logging of checkpoints.  Patch by Greg Smith, worked over
by Heikki and a little bit by me.

17 years agoAvoid crash in interrupted autovacuum worker, caused by leaving the current
Alvaro Herrera [Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:08:05 +0000 (04:08 +0000)]
Avoid crash in interrupted autovacuum worker, caused by leaving the current
memory context pointing at a context not long lived enough.

Also, create a fake PortalContext where to store the vac_context, if only
to avoid having it be a top-level memory context.

17 years agoArrange for SIGINT in autovacuum workers to cancel the current table and
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:07:39 +0000 (17:07 +0000)]
Arrange for SIGINT in autovacuum workers to cancel the current table and
continue with the schedule.  Change current uses of SIGINT to abort a worker
into SIGTERM, which keeps the old behaviour of terminating the process.

Patch from ITAGAKI Takahiro, with some editorializing of my own.

17 years agoFix computation of PG_VERSION_NUM by configure: remove unnecessary and
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:18:43 +0000 (16:18 +0000)]
Fix computation of PG_VERSION_NUM by configure: remove unnecessary and
unportable backslashes in awk script (per Patrick Welche), and add
brackets to prevent autoconf from mangling sed's regexp (the sed call
here never did what was expected).

17 years agoAdd a note that pg_start_backup will take awhile because of new
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:46:21 +0000 (15:46 +0000)]
Add a note that pg_start_backup will take awhile because of new
distributed checkpoint behavior.  Explain how to work around this
by issuing a manual CHECKPOINT command.  Per discussion with Heikki.

17 years agoFix a passel of ancient bugs in to_char(), including two distinct buffer
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:51:35 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
Fix a passel of ancient bugs in to_char(), including two distinct buffer
overruns (neither of which seem likely to be exploitable as security holes,
fortunately, since the provoker can't control the data written).  One of
these is due to choosing to stomp on the output of a called function, which
is bad news in any case; make it treat the called functions' results as
read-only.  Avoid some unnecessary palloc/pfree traffic too; it's not
really helpful to free small temporary objects, and again this is presuming
more than it ought to about the nature of the results of called functions.
Per report from Patrick Welche and additional code-reading by Imad.

17 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:55:00 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
Done:

> * -Reduce checkpoint performance degredation by forcing data to disk

17 years agoFix incorrect tests for undef Perl values in some places in plperl.c.
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:49:59 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
Fix incorrect tests for undef Perl values in some places in plperl.c.
The correct test for defined-ness is SvOK(sv), not anything involving
SvTYPE.  Per bug #3415 from Matt Taylor.
Back-patch as far as 8.0; no apparent problem in 7.x.

17 years agoAdd the function's volatility to the output of psql's \df+ command.
Neil Conway [Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:40:16 +0000 (06:40 +0000)]
Add the function's volatility to the output of psql's \df+ command.
Update the psql reference page accordingly.

17 years agoImplement "distributed" checkpoints in which the checkpoint I/O is spread
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:02:40 +0000 (00:02 +0000)]
Implement "distributed" checkpoints in which the checkpoint I/O is spread
over a fairly long period of time, rather than being spat out in a burst.
This happens only for background checkpoints carried out by the bgwriter;
other cases, such as a shutdown checkpoint, are still done at full speed.

Remove the "all buffers" scan in the bgwriter, and associated stats
infrastructure, since this seems no longer very useful when the checkpoint
itself is properly throttled.

Original patch by Itagaki Takahiro, reworked by Heikki Linnakangas,
and some minor API editorialization by me.

17 years agoFix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres
Tom Lane [Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:05:04 +0000 (22:05 +0000)]
Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres
installations whose pg_config program does not appear first in the PATH.
Per gripe from Eddie Stanley and subsequent discussions with Fabien Coelho
and others.

17 years agoRemove unused "caller" argument from stringToQualifiedNameList.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:48:09 +0000 (16:48 +0000)]
Remove unused "caller" argument from stringToQualifiedNameList.

17 years agoAdd extra checks for buildfarm to pick up errors when running
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:43:56 +0000 (11:43 +0000)]
Add extra checks for buildfarm to pick up errors when running
on XP or earlier versions of Windows.

Andrew Dunstan

17 years agoRemove unused BAD_LOCATION definition.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:12:07 +0000 (17:12 +0000)]
Remove unused BAD_LOCATION definition.

17 years agoImprove autovacuum launcher's ability to detect a problem in worker startup,
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:09:03 +0000 (16:09 +0000)]
Improve autovacuum launcher's ability to detect a problem in worker startup,
by having the postmaster signal it when certain failures occur.  This requires
the postmaster setting a flag in shared memory, but should be as safe as the
pmsignal.c code is.

Also make sure the launcher honor's a postgresql.conf change turning it off
on SIGHUP.

17 years agoSeparate parse-analysis for utility commands out of parser/analyze.c
Tom Lane [Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:12:52 +0000 (22:12 +0000)]
Separate parse-analysis for utility commands out of parser/analyze.c
(which now deals only in optimizable statements), and put that code
into a new file parser/parse_utilcmd.c.  This helps clarify and enforce
the design rule that utility statements shouldn't be processed during
the regular parse analysis phase; all interpretation of their meaning
should happen after they are given to ProcessUtility to execute.
(We need this because we don't retain any locks for a utility statement
that's in a plan cache, nor have any way to detect that it's stale.)

We are also able to simplify the API for parse_analyze() and related
routines, because they will now always return exactly one Query structure.

In passing, fix bug #3403 concerning trying to add a serial column to
an existing temp table (this is largely Heikki's work, but we needed
all that restructuring to make it safe).

17 years agoAdd a <tip> that log_line_prefix should usually end with a space to
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:15:23 +0000 (16:15 +0000)]
Add a <tip> that log_line_prefix should usually end with a space to
provide visual separation from the rest of the log line; I've been
noticing lately that quite a few newbies fail to figure this out for
themselves.  Also a little editorial cleanup of the log_line_prefix
description.

17 years agoIn psql, when running a SELECT query using a cursor, flush the query
Neil Conway [Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:09:28 +0000 (01:09 +0000)]
In psql, when running a SELECT query using a cursor, flush the query
output after each FETCH. This ensures that incremental results are
available to clients that are executing long-running SELECT queries
via the FETCH_COUNT feature.

17 years agoAllow trailing whitespace in parse_real(), for consistency with
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:59:12 +0000 (22:59 +0000)]
Allow trailing whitespace in parse_real(), for consistency with
parse_int() and with itself (strtod allows leading whitespace, so it
seems odd not to allow trailing whitespace).  parse_bool remains
not-whitespace-friendly, but this is generically true for non-numeric
GUC variables, so I'll desist from changing it.

17 years agoProvide a HINT listing the allowed unit names when a GUC variable seems to
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:14:21 +0000 (18:14 +0000)]
Provide a HINT listing the allowed unit names when a GUC variable seems to
contain a wrong unit specification, per discussion.
In passing, fix the code to avoid unnecessary integer overflows when
converting units, and to detect overflows when they do occur.

17 years agoUpdate password example.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:20:10 +0000 (12:20 +0000)]
Update password example.

17 years agoUpdate examples of create/drop scripts.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:43:09 +0000 (10:43 +0000)]
Update examples of create/drop scripts.

17 years agoAdd a caveat pointing out that constraint exclusion doesn't work with
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:11:38 +0000 (23:11 +0000)]
Add a caveat pointing out that constraint exclusion doesn't work with
constraints the planner is unable to disprove, hence simple btree-compatible
conditions should be used.  We've seen people try to get cute with stuff
like date_part(something) = something at least twice now.  Even if we
wanted to try to teach predtest.c about the properties of date_part,
most of the useful variants aren't immutable so nothing could be proved.

17 years agoRemove some empty columns from a few system catalog tables in the
Neil Conway [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:24:05 +0000 (19:24 +0000)]
Remove some empty columns from a few system catalog tables in the
SGML docs.

17 years agoRestrict deadlock_timeout to the range for which the implementation
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:31:39 +0000 (18:31 +0000)]
Restrict deadlock_timeout to the range for which the implementation
actually works sanely, viz not 0 and not more than INT_MAX/1000
(else TimestampTzPlusMilliseconds can overflow).  Per discussion with
Greg Stark.  Since this is a superuser-only setting and there was not
previously any big reason to change it, not worth back-patching.

17 years agotransformColumnDefinition failed to complain about
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:21:00 +0000 (18:21 +0000)]
transformColumnDefinition failed to complain about
create table foo (bar int default null default 3);
due to not thinking about the special-case handling of DEFAULT NULL.
Problem noticed while investigating bug #3396.

17 years agoCREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL failed because gram.y special-cases DEFAULT
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:15:49 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL failed because gram.y special-cases DEFAULT
NULL and DefineDomain didn't.  Bug goes all the way back to original coding
of domains.  Per bug #3396 from Sergey Burladyan.

17 years agoQuiet warnings about redefined PGPORT macros for MSVC.
Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:19:00 +0000 (17:19 +0000)]
Quiet warnings about redefined PGPORT macros for MSVC.

17 years agoMinor code cleanup: calling FreeFile() before ereport(ERROR) is not
Neil Conway [Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:02:49 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
Minor code cleanup: calling FreeFile() before ereport(ERROR) is not
necessary, since files opened via AllocateFile() are closed automatically
as part of error recovery.

17 years agoOnly log 'process acquired lock' if we actually did get the lock. This
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:15 +0000 (22:01 +0000)]
Only log 'process acquired lock' if we actually did get the lock.  This
test seems inessential right now since the only control path for not
getting the lock is via CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS which won't return control
to ProcSleep, but it would be important if we ever allow the deadlock
code to kill someone else's transaction instead of our own.

17 years agoRemove duplicate #include.
Neil Conway [Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:24:48 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
Remove duplicate #include.

17 years agoCode review for log_lock_waits patch. Don't try to issue log messages from
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:13:22 +0000 (20:13 +0000)]
Code review for log_lock_waits patch.  Don't try to issue log messages from
within a signal handler (this might be safe given the relatively narrow code
range in which the interrupt is enabled, but it seems awfully risky); do issue
more informative log messages that tell what is being waited for and the exact
length of the wait; minor other code cleanup.  Greg Stark and Tom Lane

17 years agoArrange for quote_identifier() and pg_dump to not quote keywords that are
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:40:58 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
Arrange for quote_identifier() and pg_dump to not quote keywords that are
unreserved according to the grammar.  The list of unreserved words has gotten
extensive enough that the unnecessary quoting is becoming a bit of an eyesore.
To do this, add knowledge of the keyword category to keywords.c's table.
(Someday we might be able to generate keywords.c's table and the keyword lists
in gram.y from a common source.)  For the moment, lie about WITH's status in
the table so it will still get quoted --- this is because of the expectation
that WITH will become reserved when the SQL recursive-queries patch gets done.

I didn't force initdb because this affects nothing on-disk; but note that a
few regression tests have changed expected output.

17 years agoRemove comment about modifying tab-complete.c for userset GUC.
Magnus Hagander [Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:02:57 +0000 (10:02 +0000)]
Remove comment about modifying tab-complete.c for userset GUC.

Simon Riggs

17 years agoUpdate obsolete comment: it's no longer the case that mdread() will allow
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:47:20 +0000 (00:47 +0000)]
Update obsolete comment: it's no longer the case that mdread() will allow
reads beyond EOF, except by special coercion.

17 years agoMarginal hacking to improve the speed of COPY OUT. I had found in a bit of
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:39:28 +0000 (23:39 +0000)]
Marginal hacking to improve the speed of COPY OUT.  I had found in a bit of
profiling that CopyAttributeOutText was taking an unreasonable fraction of
the backend run time (like 66%!) on the following trivial test case:

$ time psql -c "copy (select repeat('xyzzy',50) from generate_series(1,10000000)) to stdout" regression >/dev/null

The time is all being spent on scanning the string for characters to be
escaped, which most of the time there aren't any of.  Some tweaking to take
as many tests as possible out of the inner loop reduced the runtime of this
example by more than 10%.  In a real-world case it wouldn't be as useful
a speedup, but it still seems worth adding a few lines here.

17 years agoRevert an ill-considered portion of my patch of 12-Mar, which tried to save a
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:57:29 +0000 (18:57 +0000)]
Revert an ill-considered portion of my patch of 12-Mar, which tried to save a
few lines in sql_exec_error_callback() by using the function source string
field that the patch added to SQL function cache entries.  This doesn't work
because the fn_extra field isn't filled in yet during init_sql_fcache().
Probably it could be made to work, but it doesn't seem appropriate to contort
the main code paths to make an error-reporting path a tad faster.  Per report
from Pavel Stehule.

17 years agoTweak the API for per-datatype typmodin functions so that they are passed
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:56:52 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
Tweak the API for per-datatype typmodin functions so that they are passed
an array of strings rather than an array of integers, and allow any simple
constant or identifier to be used in typmods; for example
create table foo (f1 widget(42,'23skidoo',point));
Of course the typmodin function has still got to pack this info into a
non-negative int32 for storage, but it's still a useful improvement in
flexibility, especially considering that you can do nearly anything if you
are willing to keep the info in a side table.  We can get away with this
change since we have not yet released a version providing user-definable
typmods.  Per discussion.

17 years agoApplied patch by Joachim to enable checktcp again
Michael Meskes [Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:23:52 +0000 (08:23 +0000)]
Applied patch by Joachim to enable checktcp again

17 years agoAvoid having autovacuum run multiple ANALYZE commands in a single transaction,
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:53:14 +0000 (13:53 +0000)]
Avoid having autovacuum run multiple ANALYZE commands in a single transaction,
to prevent possible deadlock problems.  Per request from Tom Lane.

17 years agoAdd resultmap entries for mingw - same as for msvc
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:15:58 +0000 (13:15 +0000)]
Add resultmap entries for mingw - same as for msvc

17 years agoProperly identify mingw as a win32 platform needing different diff
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:10:11 +0000 (13:10 +0000)]
Properly identify mingw as a win32 platform needing different diff
options to deal with strange line endings.

17 years agoImplement a chunking protocol for writes to the syslogger pipe, with messages
Andrew Dunstan [Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:48:51 +0000 (01:48 +0000)]
Implement a chunking protocol for writes to the syslogger pipe, with messages
reassembled in the syslogger before writing to the log file. This prevents
partial messages from being written, which mucks up log rotation, and
messages from different backends being interleaved, which causes garbled
logs. Backport as far as 8.0, where the syslogger was introduced.

Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan

17 years agoSchema-qualify several references to the builtin function length(), to
Neil Conway [Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:59:47 +0000 (23:59 +0000)]
Schema-qualify several references to the builtin function length(), to
avoid mistakenly calling a function of the same name that might happen
to appear earlier in the schema search path.

17 years agoUpdate item:
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:38:00 +0000 (21:38 +0000)]
Update item:

< * Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily processed by scripts
> * Allow EXPLAIN output to be more easily processed by scripts, perhaps XML

17 years agoAvoid integer overflow issues in autovacuum.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:24:56 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
Avoid integer overflow issues in autovacuum.

17 years agoAdd some simple defenses against null fields in pg_largeobject, and add
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:46:24 +0000 (19:46 +0000)]
Add some simple defenses against null fields in pg_largeobject, and add
comments noting that there's an alignment assumption now that the data
field could be in 1-byte-header format.  Per discussion with Greg Stark.

17 years agoECPG requires a local include directory to override the project-wide ones.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:31:28 +0000 (18:31 +0000)]
ECPG requires a local include directory to override the project-wide ones.
Add ability to add "prefix include directories", and use it...

With this, ecpg regression tests now pass on MSVC builds.

17 years agoUpdate documentation of resultmap file format.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:49:12 +0000 (17:49 +0000)]
Update documentation of resultmap file format.

17 years agoAdd some comments about the safety of accessing rolpassword without using
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:16:52 +0000 (17:16 +0000)]
Add some comments about the safety of accessing rolpassword without using
the normal heap_getattr() machinery.  Per Greg Stark.

17 years agoMinor comment fixes.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:01:31 +0000 (16:01 +0000)]
Minor comment fixes.

17 years agoFix DecodeDateTime to allow timezone to appear before year. This had
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:58:32 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Fix DecodeDateTime to allow timezone to appear before year.  This had
historically worked in some but not all cases, but as of 8.2 it failed for all
timezone formats.  Fix, and add regression test cases to catch future
regressions in this area.  Per gripe from Adam Witney.

17 years agoVPATH fixes.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:00:41 +0000 (15:00 +0000)]
VPATH fixes.

17 years agoSpecifying a dbname should override the default database, not add to it.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:54:58 +0000 (13:54 +0000)]
Specifying a dbname should override the default database, not add to it.
Fixes buildfarm failures on contribcheck.

17 years agoFix missing variable initialization.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:26:45 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
Fix missing variable initialization.

17 years agoFix search/replace error in makefile for ecpg tests
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:09:58 +0000 (13:09 +0000)]
Fix search/replace error in makefile for ecpg tests

17 years agoFixed reduce/recuce problem due to CURRENT_P.
Michael Meskes [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:32:30 +0000 (11:32 +0000)]
Fixed reduce/recuce problem due to CURRENT_P.

17 years agoRewrite ECPG regression test driver in C, by splitting the standard
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:07:34 +0000 (11:07 +0000)]
Rewrite ECPG regression test driver in C, by splitting the standard
regression driver into two parts and reusing half of it. Required to
run ECPG tests without a shell on MSVC builds.

Fix ECPG thread tests for MSVC build (incl output files).

Joachim Wieland and Magnus Hagander

17 years agoSynced parser and keyword list.
Michael Meskes [Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:55:56 +0000 (07:55 +0000)]
Synced parser and keyword list.

17 years agoImprove UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF so that they can be used from plpgsql
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:22:42 +0000 (22:22 +0000)]
Improve UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF so that they can be used from plpgsql
with a plpgsql-defined cursor.  The underlying mechanism for this is that the
main SQL engine will now take "WHERE CURRENT OF $n" where $n is a refcursor
parameter.  Not sure if we should document that fact or consider it an
implementation detail.  Per discussion with Pavel Stehule.

17 years agoMinor wording improvement.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:08:32 +0000 (15:08 +0000)]
Minor wording improvement.

17 years agoShould not try to unlink stdout.
Michael Meskes [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:01:23 +0000 (12:01 +0000)]
Should not try to unlink stdout.

17 years agoFixed one memory leak in descriptor code.
Michael Meskes [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:52:08 +0000 (11:52 +0000)]
Fixed one memory leak in descriptor code.
Made sure ecpg deletes output file in case of an error.

17 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:51:50 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
Done:

<  o Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor
<
<    This requires using the row ctid to map cursor rows back to the
<    original heap row. This become more complicated if WITH HOLD cursors
<    are to be supported because WITH HOLD cursors have a copy of the row
<    and no FOR UPDATE lock.
<    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01014.php
<
>  o -Allow UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor

17 years agoSupport UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor_name, per SQL standard.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Jun 2007 01:16:30 +0000 (01:16 +0000)]
Support UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor_name, per SQL standard.

Along the way, allow FOR UPDATE in non-WITH-HOLD cursors; there may once
have been a reason to disallow that, but it seems to work now, and it's
really rather necessary if you want to select a row via a cursor and then
update it in a concurrent-safe fashion.

Original patch by Arul Shaji, rather heavily editorialized by Tom Lane.

17 years agoTeach heapam code to know the difference between a real seqscan and the
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jun 2007 18:49:55 +0000 (18:49 +0000)]
Teach heapam code to know the difference between a real seqscan and the
pseudo HeapScanDesc created for a bitmap heap scan.  This avoids some useless
overhead during a bitmap scan startup, in particular invoking the syncscan
code.  (We might someday want to do that, but right now it's merely useless
contention for shared memory, to say nothing of possibly pushing useful
entries out of syncscan's small LRU list.)  This also allows elimination of
ugly pgstat_discount_heap_scan() kluge.

17 years agoInsert ORDER BY into a few regression test queries that now have unstable
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jun 2007 17:24:46 +0000 (17:24 +0000)]
Insert ORDER BY into a few regression test queries that now have unstable
results due to syncscan patch, when shared_buffers is small enough.  Per
buildfarm reports and some local testing with shared_buffers set to the
lowest value considered by initdb.

17 years agoAllow numeric_fac() to be interrupted, since it can take quite a while for
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:52:30 +0000 (15:52 +0000)]
Allow numeric_fac() to be interrupted, since it can take quite a while for
large inputs.  Also cause it to error out immediately if the result will
overflow, instead of grinding through a lot of calculation first.
Per gripe from Jim Nasby.

17 years agoDisallow the cost balancing code from resulting in a zero cost limit, which
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:21:28 +0000 (21:21 +0000)]
Disallow the cost balancing code from resulting in a zero cost limit, which
causes a division-by-zero error in the vacuum code.  This can happen when there
are more workers than cost limit units.

Per report from Galy Lee in
<200705310914.l4V9E6JA094603@wwwmaster.postgresql.org>.

17 years agoAvoid passing zero as a value for vacuum_cost_limit, because it's not a valid
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:09:49 +0000 (21:09 +0000)]
Avoid passing zero as a value for vacuum_cost_limit, because it's not a valid
value for the vacuum code.  Instead, make zero signify getting the value from a
higher level configuration facility, just like -1 in the original coding.  We
still document that -1 is the value that disables the feature, to avoid
confusing the user unnecessarily.

Reported by Galy Lee in <200705310914.l4V9E6JA094603@wwwmaster.postgresql.org>;
per subsequent discussion.

17 years agoAdd note that LIMIT without ORDER BY can produce outright nondeterministic
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 20:26:18 +0000 (20:26 +0000)]
Add note that LIMIT without ORDER BY can produce outright nondeterministic
results.  Necessary due to introduction of syncscan patch.

17 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:45:22 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
Done:

< * Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent
> * -Allow sequential scans to take advantage of other concurrent
<
<   One possible implementation is to start sequential scans from the lowest
<   numbered buffer in the shared cache, and when reaching the end wrap
<   around to the beginning, rather than always starting sequential scans
<   at the start of the table.
<
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-12/msg00076.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00408.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-12/msg00784.php
<   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00415.php
<

17 years agoArrange for large sequential scans to synchronize with each other, so that
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:23:53 +0000 (18:23 +0000)]
Arrange for large sequential scans to synchronize with each other, so that
when multiple backends are scanning the same relation concurrently, each page
is (ideally) read only once.

Jeff Davis, with review by Heikki and Tom.

17 years agoRedefine IsTransactionState() to only return true for TRANS_INPROGRESS state,
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:45:59 +0000 (21:45 +0000)]
Redefine IsTransactionState() to only return true for TRANS_INPROGRESS state,
which is the only state in which it's safe to initiate database queries.
It turns out that all but two of the callers thought that's what it meant;
and the other two were using it as a proxy for "will GetTopTransactionId()
return a nonzero XID"?  Since it was in fact an unreliable guide to that,
make those two just invoke GetTopTransactionId() always, then deal with a
zero result if they get one.

17 years agoRework temp_tablespaces patch so that temp tablespaces are assigned separately
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:19:57 +0000 (19:19 +0000)]
Rework temp_tablespaces patch so that temp tablespaces are assigned separately
for each temp file, rather than once per sort or hashjoin; this allows
spreading the data of a large sort or join across multiple tablespaces.
(I remain dubious that this will make any difference in practice, but certain
people insisted.)  Arrange to cache the results of parsing the GUC variable
instead of recomputing from scratch on every demand, and push usage of the
cache down to the bottommost fd.c level.

17 years agoAvoid losing track of data for shared tables in pgstats. Report by Michael
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 7 Jun 2007 18:53:17 +0000 (18:53 +0000)]
Avoid losing track of data for shared tables in pgstats.  Report by Michael
Fuhr, patch from Tom Lane after a messier suggestion by me.

17 years agoFix array_dims() example to be consistent with the data previously shown.
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:49:56 +0000 (14:49 +0000)]
Fix array_dims() example to be consistent with the data previously shown.
Christian Rossow

17 years agoThe functions bt_metap, bt_page_stats and bt_page_items had moved
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:56:25 +0000 (09:56 +0000)]
The functions bt_metap, bt_page_stats and bt_page_items had moved
from contrib/pgstattuple to pageinspect. We've already fixed English
documentation, but Japanese version does not catch up.

ITAGAKI Takahiro

17 years agoFix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable cases that
Tom Lane [Wed, 6 Jun 2007 23:00:50 +0000 (23:00 +0000)]
Fix up text concatenation so that it accepts all the reasonable cases that
were accepted by prior Postgres releases.  This takes care of the loose end
left by the preceding patch to downgrade implicit casts-to-text.  To avoid
breaking desirable behavior for array concatenation, introduce a new
polymorphic pseudo-type "anynonarray" --- the added concatenation operators
are actually text || anynonarray and anynonarray || text.

17 years agoMinor editorialization: don't flush plan cache without need.
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:50:19 +0000 (21:50 +0000)]
Minor editorialization: don't flush plan cache without need.

17 years agoDowngrade implicit casts to text to be assignment-only, except for the ones
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:31:09 +0000 (21:31 +0000)]
Downgrade implicit casts to text to be assignment-only, except for the ones
from the other string-category types; this eliminates a lot of surprising
interpretations that the parser could formerly make when there was no directly
applicable operator.

Create a general mechanism that supports casts to and from the standard string
types (text,varchar,bpchar) for *every* datatype, by invoking the datatype's
I/O functions.  These new casts are assignment-only in the to-string direction,
explicit-only in the other, and therefore should create no surprising behavior.
Remove a bunch of thereby-obsoleted datatype-specific casting functions.

The "general mechanism" is a new expression node type CoerceViaIO that can
actually convert between *any* two datatypes if their external text
representations are compatible.  This is more general than needed for the
immediate feature, but might be useful in plpgsql or other places in future.

This commit does nothing about the issue that applying the concatenation
operator || to non-text types will now fail, often with strange error messages
due to misinterpreting the operator as array concatenation.  Since it often
(not always) worked before, we should either make it succeed or at least give
a more user-friendly error; but details are still under debate.

Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane