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15 years agoUpgrade to Autoconf 2.63
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 2 Jul 2009 18:55:40 +0000 (18:55 +0000)]
Upgrade to Autoconf 2.63

This upgrades the configure infrastructure to the latest Autoconf version.
Some notable news are:
 - The workaround for the broken fseeko() test is gone.
 - Checking for unknown options is now provided by Autoconf itself.
 - Fixes for Mac OS X

15 years agoRegression test for XML mapping functionality
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:03:18 +0000 (07:03 +0000)]
Regression test for XML mapping functionality

I wrote this one while chasing down some bugs in the closing days of 8.4.  It
could be useful in the long run.  This area of the code had no test coverage
at all before.

15 years agoRemove useless References column for pg_listener catalog description. Per Shigehiro...
Tom Lane [Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:57:33 +0000 (23:57 +0000)]
Remove useless References column for pg_listener catalog description.  Per Shigehiro Honda.

15 years agoStamp HEAD as 8.5devel.
Tom Lane [Wed, 1 Jul 2009 23:15:55 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel.

15 years agoAdd missed src/include/foreign subdirectory to the set installed into
Tom Lane [Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:38:50 +0000 (17:38 +0000)]
Add missed src/include/foreign subdirectory to the set installed into
INSTALLDIR/include/server/.  Itagaki Takahiro

15 years agoRevert addition of "o" to tar options. This was intended to fix bug #4883, REL8_4_0
Tom Lane [Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:06:46 +0000 (21:06 +0000)]
Revert addition of "o" to tar options.  This was intended to fix bug #4883,
but the cure appears to be worse than the disease.  It turns out that GNU
tar versions 1.14.x misinterpret -o as --same-owner, not --no-same-owner,
leading to exactly the wrong behavior for both root and nonroot users.
While that bug has been fixed for nearly five years, these tar versions
are still found in the wild, notably in OS X 10.4.  Given that #4883 was
the first complaint we'd heard, it's definitely not worth fixing at the
risk of breaking things for other users.  Perhaps revisit at a later date
when we're not up against a release deadline.

15 years agoBundle v8.4.0
Marc G. Fournier [Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:14:47 +0000 (00:14 +0000)]
Bundle v8.4.0

15 years agoUpdate release notes in final preparation for 8.4.0.
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:23:17 +0000 (22:23 +0000)]
Update release notes in final preparation for 8.4.0.

15 years agoAdd a note about SystemTap vs DTrace spelling of probe names.
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:08:17 +0000 (22:08 +0000)]
Add a note about SystemTap vs DTrace spelling of probe names.

15 years agoMarginal improvement of description of recovery_end_command.
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:06:11 +0000 (22:06 +0000)]
Marginal improvement of description of recovery_end_command.

15 years agoCleanup and code review for the patch that made bgwriter active during
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:29:04 +0000 (20:29 +0000)]
Cleanup and code review for the patch that made bgwriter active during
archive recovery.  Invent a separate state variable and inquiry function
for XLogInsertAllowed() to clarify some tests and make the management of
writing the end-of-recovery checkpoint less klugy.  Fix several places
that were incorrectly testing InRecovery when they should be looking at
RecoveryInProgress or XLogInsertAllowed (because they will now be executed
in the bgwriter not startup process).  Clarify handling of bad LSNs passed
to XLogFlush during recovery.  Use a spinlock for setting/testing
SharedRecoveryInProgress.  Improve quite a lot of comments.

Heikki and Tom

15 years agoTranslation updates for 8.4 release.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:33:52 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
Translation updates for 8.4 release.

File that are translated less than 80% have been removed, as per new
translation team policy.

15 years agoExtract tarballs with "o" option (tar xof), to behave reasonably when run
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:40:57 +0000 (06:40 +0000)]
Extract tarballs with "o" option (tar xof), to behave reasonably when run
as root, as would usually be the case during make install.

per bug #4883

15 years agoUse $(TAR) instead of tar in makefiles.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:37:14 +0000 (06:37 +0000)]
Use $(TAR) instead of tar in makefiles.

15 years agoAdd __attribute__((format_arg(1))) to the declaration of err_gettext(),
Tom Lane [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:07:15 +0000 (23:07 +0000)]
Add __attribute__((format_arg(1))) to the declaration of err_gettext(),
to restore gcc's ability to crosscheck format arguments within elog.c.
Noted in a test compilation with -Wformat-nonliteral enabled.

15 years agoFix some serious bugs in archive recovery, now that bgwriter is active
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:36:00 +0000 (21:36 +0000)]
Fix some serious bugs in archive recovery, now that bgwriter is active
during it:

When bgwriter is active, the startup process can't perform mdsync() correctly
because it won't see the fsync requests accumulated in bgwriter's private
pendingOpsTable. Therefore make bgwriter responsible for the end-of-recovery
checkpoint as well, when it's active.

When bgwriter is active (= archive recovery), the startup process must not
accumulate fsync requests to its own pendingOpsTable, since bgwriter won't
see them there when it performs restartpoints. Make startup process drop its
pendingOpsTable when bgwriter is launched to avoid that.

Update minimum recovery point one last time when leaving archive recovery.
It won't be updated by the end-of-recovery checkpoint because XLogFlush()
sees us as out of recovery already.

This fixes bug #4879 reported by Fujii Masao.

15 years agoMan pages back to lowercase names, with additional fixup to make the .so
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:15:38 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
Man pages back to lowercase names, with additional fixup to make the .so
links work.

15 years agoMake prior patch pgindent-safe.
Tom Lane [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:33:25 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
Make prior patch pgindent-safe.

15 years agoThe code to unlink dropped relations in FinishPreparedTransaction() was
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:05:52 +0000 (19:05 +0000)]
The code to unlink dropped relations in FinishPreparedTransaction() was
acting like runs inside WAL recovery, but it doesn't. I must've copy-pasted
this from a redo-function in the relation forks patch. Noticed by Tom Lane
while he was looking through callers of smgrdounlink().

15 years agoDisable pg_standby -l option because the backend doesn't expect the recovered
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:03:11 +0000 (12:03 +0000)]
Disable pg_standby -l option because the backend doesn't expect the recovered
file to be a symlink. We tried to fix this issue with an earlier server-side
patch, but it didn't fix the whole issue.

The same bug is present in older releases as well, but the 8.4 train is
about to leave the station, and I'm not sure if have consensus on whether
we can remove the -l option in back-branches or do we need to attempt a
server-side fix to make symlinking safe.

Patch by Simon Riggs, per discussion on bug identified by Fujii Masao.

15 years agoDisallow empty passwords in LDAP authentication, the same way
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:30:08 +0000 (11:30 +0000)]
Disallow empty passwords in LDAP authentication, the same way
we already do it for PAM.

15 years agoCorrect grammar in picksplit debug messages
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:16:22 +0000 (15:16 +0000)]
Correct grammar in picksplit debug messages

15 years agoFix incorrect LDAP example, noted by Tom.
Magnus Hagander [Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:46:32 +0000 (13:46 +0000)]
Fix incorrect LDAP example, noted by Tom.

15 years agoparse_ident_usermap() shuold use ereport(LOG) and not ERROR, and put the
Magnus Hagander [Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:39:42 +0000 (13:39 +0000)]
parse_ident_usermap() shuold use ereport(LOG) and not ERROR, and put the
return value in the *error_p variable.

Noted by Tom.

15 years agoProvide a link to the UPDATE reference page in the 'Updating Data'
Tom Lane [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:33:25 +0000 (20:33 +0000)]
Provide a link to the UPDATE reference page in the 'Updating Data'
section of the docs.  Per suggestion from Brad Bowman.

15 years agoProperly initialize SSL engines when used from libpq. This is required for
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:13:23 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
Properly initialize SSL engines when used from libpq. This is required for
most external engines.

Per report and initial code from Lars Kanis

15 years agoFix an ancient error in dist_ps (distance from point to line segment), which
Tom Lane [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:25:02 +0000 (16:25 +0000)]
Fix an ancient error in dist_ps (distance from point to line segment), which
a number of other geometric operators also depend on.  It miscalculated the
slope of the perpendicular to the given line segment anytime that slope was
other than 0, infinite, or +/-1.  In some cases the error would be masked
because the true closest point on the line segment was one of its endpoints
rather than the intersection point, but in other cases it could give an
arbitrarily bad answer.  Per bug #4872 from Nick Roosevelt.

Bug goes clear back to Berkeley days, so patch all supported branches.
Make a couple of cosmetic adjustments while at it.

15 years agoFix the makefiles to fail cleanly if Perl is needed but not present. This
Tom Lane [Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:46:00 +0000 (03:46 +0000)]
Fix the makefiles to fail cleanly if Perl is needed but not present.  This
used to work as intended, but got broken some time ago (a quoted empty string
is not an empty string), and got broken some more by the changes to generate
ecpg's preproc.y automatically.  Given all the unprotected uses of $(PERL)
elsewhere, it seems best to make use of the $(missing) script rather than
trying to ensure each such use is protected individually.  Also fix various
bits of documentation that omitted to mention Perl as a requirement for
building from a CVS pull.  Per a complaint from Robert Haas.

15 years agobundle RC2 REL8_4_RC2
Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:15:02 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
bundle RC2

15 years agoFor bulk write operations (eg COPY IN), use a ring buffer of 16MB instead
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:04:28 +0000 (20:04 +0000)]
For bulk write operations (eg COPY IN), use a ring buffer of 16MB instead
of the 256KB limit originally enforced by a patch committed 2008-11-06.
Per recent test results, the smaller size resulted in an undesirable decrease
in bulk data loading speed, due to COPY processing frequently getting blocked
for WAL flushing.  This area might need more tweaking later, but this setting
seems to be good enough for 8.4.

15 years agoMake to_timestamp and friends skip leading spaces before an integer field,
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:54:30 +0000 (17:54 +0000)]
Make to_timestamp and friends skip leading spaces before an integer field,
even when not in FM mode.  This improves compatibility with Oracle and with
our pre-8.4 behavior, as per bug #4862.

Brendan Jurd

Add a couple of regression test cases for this.  In passing, get rid of the
labeling of the individual test cases; doesn't seem to be good for anything
except causing extra work when inserting a test...

Tom Lane

15 years agoAdd more explicit note that the parameters of MOVE are identical to FETCH.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:12:50 +0000 (07:12 +0000)]
Add more explicit note that the parameters of MOVE are identical to FETCH.

per David Wheeler

15 years agoRevert dubious message wording change.
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:37:18 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Revert dubious message wording change.

15 years agoMessage fixes
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:15:32 +0000 (20:15 +0000)]
Message fixes

15 years agoFix things so that array_agg_finalfn does not modify or free its input
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:45:28 +0000 (18:45 +0000)]
Fix things so that array_agg_finalfn does not modify or free its input
ArrayBuildState, per trouble report from Merlin Moncure.  By adopting
this fix, we are essentially deciding that aggregate final-functions
should not modify their inputs ever.  Adjust documentation and comments
to match that conclusion.

15 years agoExtend man page installation hackery so that the man page section is also
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:15:13 +0000 (19:15 +0000)]
Extend man page installation hackery so that the man page section is also
fixed up in the .so links.

15 years agoDon't convert the man page names to lower case, so that the .so links work.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:14:25 +0000 (19:14 +0000)]
Don't convert the man page names to lower case, so that the .so links work.
This is pretty much a workaround for incomplete tools, but having the man
page names in upper case looks more natural anyway.

15 years agoAdd manvolnum, so that man pages are generated.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:28:25 +0000 (15:28 +0000)]
Add manvolnum, so that man pages are generated.

15 years agoDon't attempt to "rm" directories on uninstall.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:10:35 +0000 (15:10 +0000)]
Don't attempt to "rm" directories on uninstall.

15 years agoRecursive Joins -> Recursive Queries
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:42:08 +0000 (14:42 +0000)]
Recursive Joins -> Recursive Queries

per Erik Rijkers

15 years agoAdd some more documentation and cross-links on using dblink with SQL/MED.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:34:36 +0000 (14:34 +0000)]
Add some more documentation and cross-links on using dblink with SQL/MED.

15 years agoRefine the use of terminology around bound and unbound cursors and cursor
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:22:09 +0000 (10:22 +0000)]
Refine the use of terminology around bound and unbound cursors and cursor
variables. Remove the confusing term "reference cursor".

15 years agoFix a few errors in comments. Patch by Fujii Masao, plus the one in
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:08:08 +0000 (10:08 +0000)]
Fix a few errors in comments. Patch by Fujii Masao, plus the one in
visibilitymap.c by me.

15 years agoFix the just-reported problem that you can't specify all four trigger event
Tom Lane [Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:27:02 +0000 (01:27 +0000)]
Fix the just-reported problem that you can't specify all four trigger event
types in CREATE TRIGGER.  While at it, clean up the amazingly tedious and
inextensible way that the trigger event type list was handled.  Per report
from Greg Sabino Mullane.

15 years agoProofreading for Bruce's recent round of documentation proofreading.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:58:49 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
Proofreading for Bruce's recent round of documentation proofreading.
Most of those changes were good, but some not so good ...

15 years agoExecAgg() failed to finish running out set-returning functions in the last
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:05:34 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
ExecAgg() failed to finish running out set-returning functions in the last
aggregated tuple of a run.  Per report from Laurenz Albe.  This is a new
bug in 8.4, but only because prior versions rejected SRFs in an Agg plan
node altogether.

15 years agoAdd another link of a GUC variable to where it is explained.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:59:28 +0000 (13:59 +0000)]
Add another link of a GUC variable to where it is explained.

15 years agoFix typo in error message: tgargv -> tg_argv
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:46:12 +0000 (13:46 +0000)]
Fix typo in error message: tgargv -> tg_argv

15 years agoChange test tables in copy2 regression test to be temporary tables.
Tom Lane [Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:24 +0000 (00:00 +0000)]
Change test tables in copy2 regression test to be temporary tables.
This prevents autovacuum from reclaiming free space in them and causing
the test's output row order to change, which is causing intermittent
bogus failure reports in the buildfarm.

Backpatch to 8.3.  The issue exists further back, but since autovacuum was
not on by default before 8.3, it's not a problem for buildfarm testing.

15 years agoFix get_sort_group_operators() so that it doesn't think arrays can be grouped
Tom Lane [Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:42:09 +0000 (15:42 +0000)]
Fix get_sort_group_operators() so that it doesn't think arrays can be grouped
via hashing.  Eventually we ought to make that possible, but it won't happen
for 8.4.  Per yesterday's report from Robert Haas.

15 years agoTweak the display of incoming foreign-key constraints in \d, per discussion
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:43:34 +0000 (13:43 +0000)]
Tweak the display of incoming foreign-key constraints in \d, per discussion
on hackers.  Also, take that string out of the translation roster, since
it's now entirely pseudo-SQL.

15 years agoImprove documentation about GiST opclass support functions.
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:48:53 +0000 (19:48 +0000)]
Improve documentation about GiST opclass support functions.
Dimitri Fontaine

15 years agoFix several places where a function was declared static and then defined
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:17:29 +0000 (16:17 +0000)]
Fix several places where a function was declared static and then defined
without static.  Per testing with a compiler that complains about this.

15 years agoAdd info about minimum recommended AIX fix levels, per Laurenz Albe.
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:53:32 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
Add info about minimum recommended AIX fix levels, per Laurenz Albe.

15 years agotime to tag rc1 ... REL8_4_RC1
Marc G. Fournier [Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:19:22 +0000 (05:19 +0000)]
time to tag rc1 ...

15 years agoTighten typedef check for Linux.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:09:07 +0000 (03:09 +0000)]
Tighten typedef check for Linux.

15 years agoMention BSD/OS find_typedef behavior.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:04:48 +0000 (03:04 +0000)]
Mention BSD/OS find_typedef behavior.

15 years agoDocument struct/union problem with pgindent.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:21:44 +0000 (22:21 +0000)]
Document struct/union problem with pgindent.

15 years agoUpdate release notes to today.
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:44:26 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
Update release notes to today.

15 years agoRevisit AlterTableCreateToastTable's API once again, hoping to make it what
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:46:11 +0000 (20:46 +0000)]
Revisit AlterTableCreateToastTable's API once again, hoping to make it what
pg_migrator actually needs and not just a partial solution.  We have to be
able to specify the OID that the new toast table should be created with.

15 years agoRemove our inadequate kluge that tried to get AIX's various broken versions
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:00:15 +0000 (19:00 +0000)]
Remove our inadequate kluge that tried to get AIX's various broken versions
of getaddrinfo() to work.  Instead, recommend updating the OS to get a working
version of getaddrinfo.  Per recent discussions.

15 years agoMark contrib's GiST and GIN opclass support functions as STRICT, for safety.
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:30:03 +0000 (18:30 +0000)]
Mark contrib's GiST and GIN opclass support functions as STRICT, for safety.
(Note: GiST penalty functions could possibly be non-strict, but none are at
present.)

15 years agoUpdate time zone data files to tzdata release 2009i: DST law changes in
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:45:38 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009i: DST law changes in
Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan.

15 years agoFix things so that you can still do "select foo()" where foo is a SQL
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:25:39 +0000 (17:25 +0000)]
Fix things so that you can still do "select foo()" where foo is a SQL
function returning setof record.  This used to work, more or less
accidentally, but I had broken it while extending the code to allow
materialize-mode functions to be called in select lists.  Add a regression
test case so it doesn't get broken again.  Per gripe from Greg Davidson.

15 years agoSomebody seems to have thought they could get away without checking for
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:14:18 +0000 (16:14 +0000)]
Somebody seems to have thought they could get away without checking for
rsinfo->expectedDesc == NULL in deflist_to_tuplestore(), but that doesn't
look very safe to me.  Noted in passing while studying problem report
from Greg Davidson.

15 years ago8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:49:15 +0000 (14:49 +0000)]
8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list
provided by Andrew.

15 years agoAdd FreeBSD support for find_typedef, per request from Andrew.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:14:08 +0000 (03:14 +0000)]
Add FreeBSD support for find_typedef, per request from Andrew.

15 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:42:44 +0000 (23:42 +0000)]
Translation updates

15 years agoArrange that the string "syntax error" generated by bison is translated.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:11:52 +0000 (23:11 +0000)]
Arrange that the string "syntax error" generated by bison is translated.

15 years agoFix ill-advised whitespace prettification, per buildfarm.
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:03:32 +0000 (23:03 +0000)]
Fix ill-advised whitespace prettification, per buildfarm.

15 years agoClarify to the translator that plpgsql_yyerror() deals with the translation
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:34:11 +0000 (22:34 +0000)]
Clarify to the translator that plpgsql_yyerror() deals with the translation
of "syntax error", not the literal string.

This same change was made in the backend a while ago; but it applies to
plpgsql as well.

15 years agoProperly mark pg_freespace() function as strict. Also update
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:12:28 +0000 (22:12 +0000)]
Properly mark pg_freespace() function as strict.  Also update
uninstall script to match reality.

15 years agoClarify error message
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:51:56 +0000 (21:51 +0000)]
Clarify error message

15 years agoSupport Kerberos on platforms where libcom_err depends on OpenSSL, as
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:24:11 +0000 (21:24 +0000)]
Support Kerberos on platforms where libcom_err depends on OpenSSL, as
reportedly is true on OpenBSD.  Also support OpenBSD's spelling of
-Wl,--as-needed.  Per Simon Bertrang.

15 years agoAdd warning that xpath() doesn't work with non-UTF8 data.
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:25:41 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
Add warning that xpath() doesn't work with non-UTF8 data.

15 years agoImprove capitalization and punctuation in recently added GiST message.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:02:15 +0000 (20:02 +0000)]
Improve capitalization and punctuation in recently added GiST message.

15 years agoAdd a warning about possible strange behavior of volatile functions
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:21:37 +0000 (19:21 +0000)]
Add a warning about possible strange behavior of volatile functions
in cursors.  This has always been the case, but given the lack of user
complaints about it, I'm not going to bother back-patching this.

15 years agoKeep rs_startblock the same during heap_rescan, so that a rescan of a SeqScan
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:54:16 +0000 (18:54 +0000)]
Keep rs_startblock the same during heap_rescan, so that a rescan of a SeqScan
node starts from the same place as the first scan did.  This avoids surprising
behavior of scrollable and WITH HOLD cursors, as seen in Mark Kirkwood's bug
report of yesterday.

It's not entirely clear whether a rescan should be forced to drop out of the
syncscan mode, but for the moment I left the code behaving the same on that
point.  Any change there would only be a performance and not a correctness
issue, anyway.

Back-patch to 8.3, since the unstable behavior was created by the syncscan
patch.

15 years agoFix cash_in() to behave properly in locales where frac_digits is zero,
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:31:32 +0000 (16:31 +0000)]
Fix cash_in() to behave properly in locales where frac_digits is zero,
eg Japan.  Report and fix by Itagaki Takahiro.  Also fix CASHDEBUG printout
format for branches with 64-bit money type, and some minor comment cleanup.

Back-patch to 7.4, because it's broken all the way back.

15 years agoFix Linux typedef code.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:13:45 +0000 (15:13 +0000)]
Fix Linux typedef code.

15 years agoCorrect/improve the datetime_precision field in the information schema.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:03:34 +0000 (07:03 +0000)]
Correct/improve the datetime_precision field in the information schema.
In particular, always show 0 for the date type instead of null, and show
6 (the default) for time, timestamp, and interval without a declared
precision.  This is now in fuller conformance with the SQL standard.

Also clarify the documentation about this.

discovered and analyzed by Konstantin Izmailov and Tom Lane

15 years agoMake handling of INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE and INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND input
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:05:03 +0000 (05:05 +0000)]
Make handling of INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE and INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND input
more consistent with other cases, by having an unlabeled integer field
be treated as a number of minutes or seconds respectively.  These cases
are outside the spec (which insists on full "dd hh:mm" or "dd hh:mm:ss"
input respectively), so it's not much help to us in deciding what to do.
But with this change, it's uniformly the case that an unlabeled integer
will be considered as being a number of the interval's rightmost field.
The change also takes us back to the 8.3 behavior of throwing error
for certain ambiguous inputs such as INTERVAL '1 2' DAY TO MINUTE.
Per recent discussion.

15 years agoEnsure xmlFree(NULL) is a no-op instead of a core dump. Per report from
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:44:35 +0000 (03:44 +0000)]
Ensure xmlFree(NULL) is a no-op instead of a core dump.  Per report from
Sergey Burladyan, there are at least some dank corners of libxml2 that
assume this behavior, even though their published documentation suggests
they shouldn't.

This is only really a live problem in 8.3, but the code is still there
for possible debugging use in HEAD, so patch both branches.

15 years agoFix BSD find_typedef logic.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:38:32 +0000 (03:38 +0000)]
Fix BSD find_typedef logic.

15 years agoUpdate pgindent instructions.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:51:44 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
Update pgindent instructions.

15 years agoDocument new location for typedef list.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:47:59 +0000 (01:47 +0000)]
Document new location for typedef list.

15 years agoFix xmlattribute escaping XML special characters twice (bug #4822).
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 22:00:57 +0000 (22:00 +0000)]
Fix xmlattribute escaping XML special characters twice (bug #4822).

Author: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

15 years agoMark internal_in as not strict, so that the construct "null::internal"
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:51:00 +0000 (19:51 +0000)]
Mark internal_in as not strict, so that the construct "null::internal"
will throw an error, rather than possibly allowing someone to synthesize
a manual call to an internal-accepting function.  As of CVS HEAD and existing
releases, all such functions are either STRICT or careful about null inputs,
so there is no current security issue here.  But it seems like a good idea
to lock this down to protect against future mistakes.

In passing, similarly lock down trigger_in, language_handler_in, opaque_in,
and shell_in.  These are not believed to present any security risk, but
there's still no good reason to allow nulls of these types to be created.
I left the polymorphic pseudotypes (anyelement etc) alone, since a null
of one of those types doesn't seem to be a problem --- the worst you can
say about it is that it doesn't have an underlying non-polymorphic type.

If we were to make this change during normal development, we'd just
automatically bump catversion for a pg_proc.h change.  But since this doesn't
create a compatibility risk and isn't believed to be fixing a live bug, it
seems better not to force a catversion bump in late beta.

15 years agoFix typo, per Tom
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:36:28 +0000 (19:36 +0000)]
Fix typo, per Tom

15 years agoSwitch order of tests to avoid possible Assert failure for
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:15:04 +0000 (18:15 +0000)]
Switch order of tests to avoid possible Assert failure for
"array_agg_finalfn(null)".  We should modify pg_proc entries to prevent this
query from being accepted, but let's just make the function itself secure too.
Per my note of today.

15 years agoRestore dblink_current_query() to being a C-language function, so as to not
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:41:02 +0000 (17:41 +0000)]
Restore dblink_current_query() to being a C-language function, so as to not
create an ABI break between 8.3 and 8.4.  It is still just a wrapper around
the built-in current_query() function, but at a different implementation
level.  Per my proposal.

Note: this change doesn't break 8.4beta installations, since their
SQL-language definition of the function still works fine.

15 years agoDynamically set a lower bound on autovacuum nap time so that we don't rebuild
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:41:02 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
Dynamically set a lower bound on autovacuum nap time so that we don't rebuild
the database list too often.

Per bug report from Łukasz Jagiełło and ensuing discussion on
pgsql-performance.

15 years agoDefault client encoding to server encoding for dblink connections. Addresses
Joe Conway [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 16:35:36 +0000 (16:35 +0000)]
Default client encoding to server encoding for dblink connections. Addresses
issue raised by Ruzsinszky Attila and confirmed by others.

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15 years agoFix failure to double-quote function argument names when needed, in
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2009 14:36:06 +0000 (14:36 +0000)]
Fix failure to double-quote function argument names when needed, in
pg_get_function_arguments() and related functions.  Per report from
Andreas Nolte.

15 years agoFix map_sql_table_to_xmlschema() with dropped attributes.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:32:33 +0000 (21:32 +0000)]
Fix map_sql_table_to_xmlschema() with dropped attributes.

also backpatched to 8.3

15 years agoFix contrib/pageinspect to not create an ABI breakage between 8.3 and 8.4.
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:22:44 +0000 (16:22 +0000)]
Fix contrib/pageinspect to not create an ABI breakage between 8.3 and 8.4.
The original implementation of the 3-argument form of get_raw_page() risked
core dumps if the 8.3 SQL function definition was mistakenly used with the
8.4 module, which is entirely likely after a dump-and-reload upgrade.  To
protect 8.4 beta testers against upgrade problems, add a check on PG_NARGS.

In passing, fix missed additions to the uninstall script, and polish the
docs a trifle.

15 years agoBe a bit more verbose about the effects of string literal processing
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:57:21 +0000 (14:57 +0000)]
Be a bit more verbose about the effects of string literal processing
changes in plpgsql.  Per bug #4843.

15 years agoRevert my patch of 2009-04-04 that removed contrib/intarray's definitions of
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Jun 2009 20:09:34 +0000 (20:09 +0000)]
Revert my patch of 2009-04-04 that removed contrib/intarray's definitions of
the <@ and @> operators.  These are not in fact equivalent to the built-in
anyarray operators of the same names, because they have different behavior for
empty arrays, namely they don't think empty arrays are contained in anything.
That is mathematically wrong, no doubt, but until we can persuade GIN indexes
to implement the mathematical definition we should probably not change this.
Another reason for not changing it now is that we can't yet ensure the
opclasses will be updated correctly in a dump-and-reload upgrade.  Per
recent discussions.

15 years agoImprove the IndexVacuumInfo/IndexBulkDeleteResult API to allow somewhat sane
Tom Lane [Sat, 6 Jun 2009 22:13:52 +0000 (22:13 +0000)]
Improve the IndexVacuumInfo/IndexBulkDeleteResult API to allow somewhat sane
behavior in cases where we don't know the heap tuple count accurately; in
particular partial vacuum, but this also makes the API a bit more useful
for ANALYZE.  This patch adds "estimated_count" flags to both structs so
that an approximate count can be flagged as such, and adjusts the logic
so that approximate counts are not used for updating pg_class.reltuples.

This fixes my previous complaint that VACUUM was putting ridiculous values
into pg_class.reltuples for indexes.  The actual impact of that bug is
limited, because the planner only pays attention to reltuples for an index
if the index is partial; which probably explains why beta testers hadn't
noticed a degradation in plan quality from it.  But it needs to be fixed.

The whole thing is a bit messy and should be redesigned in future, because
reltuples now has the potential to drift quite far away from reality when
a long period elapses with no non-partial vacuums.  But this is as good as
it's going to get for 8.4.

15 years agoAdd support for using SQL/MED compliant FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, SERVER,
Joe Conway [Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:27:56 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
Add support for using SQL/MED compliant FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, SERVER,
and USER MAPPING as method to supply dblink connect parameters. Per
mailing list and PGCon discussions.