Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:19:48 +0000 (01:19 +0000)]
Add a fudge factor to genericcostestimate() to prevent the planner from
thinking that indexes of different sizes are equally attractive. Per
gripe from Jim Nasby. (I remain unconvinced that there's such a problem
in existing releases, but CVS HEAD definitely has got a problem because
of its new count-only-leaf-pages approach to indexscan costing.)
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 23:08:46 +0000 (23:08 +0000)]
Convert the lock manager to use the new dynahash.c support for partitioned
hash tables, instead of the previous kluge involving multiple hash tables.
This partially undoes my patch of last December.
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:34:45 +0000 (18:34 +0000)]
Fix oversight in sizing of shared buffer lookup hashtable. Because
BufferAlloc tries to insert a new mapping entry before deleting the old one
for a buffer, we have a transient need for more than NBuffers entries ---
one more in 8.1, and as many as NUM_BUFFER_PARTITIONS more in CVS HEAD.
In theory this could lead to an "out of shared memory" failure if shmem
had already been completely claimed by the time the extra entries were
needed.
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:07:58 +0000 (03:07 +0000)]
Split the buffer mapping table into multiple separately lockable
partitions, as per discussion. Passes functionality checks, but
I don't have any performance data yet.
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:04:39 +0000 (23:04 +0000)]
Add support to dynahash.c for partitioning shared hashtables according
to the low-order bits of the entry hash value. Also make some incidental
cleanups in the dynahash API, such as not exporting the hash header
structs to the world.
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:04:40 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
Hmm, seems --disable-spinlocks has been broken for awhile and nobody
noticed. Fix SpinlockSemas() to report the correct count considering
that PG 8.1 adds a spinlock to each shared-buffer header.
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:41:56 +0000 (15:41 +0000)]
In the recent changes to make the planner account better for cache
effects in a nestloop inner indexscan, I had only dealt with plain index
scans and the index portion of bitmap scans. But there will be cache
benefits for the heap accesses of bitmap scans too, so fix
cost_bitmap_heap_scan() to account for that.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:37:37 +0000 (22:37 +0000)]
For automatic dependency tracking, replace our sed hackery with the GCC-
-built-in mechanism through the -MP flag. Adjust the file extensions to
look more like Automake practice. This frees up the .d suffix for use by
DTrace.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:51:33 +0000 (20:51 +0000)]
Add the full set of comparison functions for type TID, including a btree
opclass. This is not so much because anyone's likely to create an index
on TID, as that sorting TIDs can be useful. Also added max and min
aggregates while at it, so that one can investigate the clusteredness of
a table with queries like SELECT min(ctid), max(ctid) FROM tab WHERE ...
Greg Stark and Tom Lane
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:24:04 +0000 (00:24 +0000)]
Ah, I finally realize why Magnus wanted to add a --bindir option to
pg_regress: there's no other way to cope with testing a relocated
installation. Seems better to call it --psqldir though, since the
only thing we need to find in that case is psql. It'd be better if
we could use find_other_exec, but that's not happening unless we are
willing to install pg_regress alongside psql, which seems unlikely
to happen.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:25:30 +0000 (16:25 +0000)]
As a stopgap to get the Windows buildfarm members running again, hot-wire
the check on diff's exit status to check for literally 0 or 1. Someone
should look into why WIFEXITED/WEXITSTATUS don't work for this, but I've
spent more than enough time on it already.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:10:00 +0000 (02:10 +0000)]
Fix pg_regress.c to report tests in a parallel group when they finish,
not when they're started. This mimics a subtle point of the behavior
of the old shell script, and gives better feedback when watching the
tests.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:16:57 +0000 (01:16 +0000)]
Make pg_regress.c get paths from pg_config_paths.h, instead of -D
switches passed from the Makefile. This looks like it will fix
problem with virtual vs real paths under msys.
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:46:42 +0000 (00:46 +0000)]
Don't try to truncate multixact SLRU files in checkpoints done during xlog
recovery. In the first place, it doesn't work because slru's
latest_page_number isn't set up yet (this is why we've been hearing reports
of strange "apparent wraparound" log messages during crash recovery, but
only from people who'd managed to advance their next-mxact counters some
considerable distance from 0). In the second place, it seems a bit unwise
to be throwing away data during crash recovery anwyway. This latter
consideration convinces me to just disable truncation during recovery,
rather than computing latest_page_number and pushing ahead.
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:02:59 +0000 (17:02 +0000)]
Adjust spawn_process() to avoid unnecessary overhead processes: we can
just exec instead of creating a subprocess. This reduces process usage
from four processes per parallel test to two. I have no idea whether
a comparable optimization is possible or useful in the Windows port.
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:23:17 +0000 (16:23 +0000)]
Adjust pg_regress to print out the exact string given to system() when
'make install' or 'initdb' fails. Also minor simplification of fgets()
usage --- fgets guarantees a trailing null anyway.
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:37:00 +0000 (02:37 +0000)]
Rewrite pg_regress as a C program instead of a shell script.
This allows it to be used on Windows without installing mingw
(though you do still need 'diff'), and opens the door to future
improvements such as message localization.
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:18:08 +0000 (22:18 +0000)]
The Win32 DEF files that are generated for libpq contain the attribute
"DESCRIPTION", which is actually only allowed for device drivers. The
compilers ignore it with a warning - if we remove them, we get rid of
the warning.
Tom Lane [Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:32:42 +0000 (00:32 +0000)]
Make pg_regress a tad simpler and more general-purpose by removing its
code to forcibly drop regressuser[1-4] and regressgroup[1-2]. Instead,
let the privileges.sql test do that for itself (this is made easy by
the recent addition of DROP ROLE IF EXISTS). Per a recent patch proposed
by Joachim Wieland --- the rest of his patch is superseded by the
rewrite into C, but this is a good idea we should adopt.
Neil Conway [Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:21:23 +0000 (00:21 +0000)]
Improve psql's \df slash command to include the argument names and modes
(OUT or INOUT) of the function. Patch from David Fetter, editorialization
by Neil Conway.
Neil Conway [Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:59:58 +0000 (23:59 +0000)]
Minor documentation tweak: in the tables of functions and operators,
don't include a space between the function name and the parenthesis
that begins its parameter list, for consistency.
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:17:04 +0000 (20:17 +0000)]
In a Windows backend, don't build src/port/pgsleep.c's version of
pg_usleep at all. Instead call the replacement function in
port/win32/signal.c by that name. Avoids tricky macro-redefinition
logic and suppresses a compiler warning; furthermore it ensures that
no one can accidentally use the non-signal-aware version of pg_usleep
in a Windows backend.
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:17:14 +0000 (18:17 +0000)]
Ensure that we retry rather than erroring out when send() or recv() return
EINTR; the stats code was failing to do this and so were a couple of places
in the postmaster. The stats code assumed that recv() could not return EINTR
if a preceding select() showed the socket to be read-ready, but this is
demonstrably false with our Windows implementation of recv(), and it may
not be the case on all Unix variants either. I think this explains the
intermittent stats regression test failures we've been seeing, as well
as reports of stats collector instability under high load on Windows.
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Jul 2006 01:35:28 +0000 (01:35 +0000)]
Fix lack of repeat-inclusion guard in win32 substitute sys/socket.h.
I think this explains the 'implicit declaration of function gai_strerror'
warnings visible in the current buildfarm report from snake: if
sys/socket.h is included again after getaddrinfo.h, the file would
merrily undefine the gai_strerror macro.
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Jul 2006 00:54:22 +0000 (00:54 +0000)]
Fix getDatumCopy(): don't use store_att_byval to copy into a Datum
variable (this accounts for regression failures on PPC64, and in fact
won't work on any big-endian machine). Get rid of hardwired knowledge
about datum size rules; make it look just like datumCopy().
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:47:17 +0000 (15:47 +0000)]
Put back some more not-so-unused-as-all-that #includes. This un-breaks
the EXEC_BACKEND code on my machines, so hopefully it will fix the
Windows buildfarm members.
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:33:14 +0000 (03:33 +0000)]
Fix some makefiles that fail to yield good results from 'make -qp'.
This doesn't really matter for ordinary building of Postgres, but it's
useful for automated checks, such as my just-committed pgcheckdefines.
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:27:42 +0000 (03:27 +0000)]
Create a tool to catch #include omissions that might not result in any
compiler warning, specifically #ifdef or #if defined tests on symbols
that are defined in a file not included. The results are a bit noisy
and require care to interpret, but it's a lot better than no tool at all.
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:05:52 +0000 (19:05 +0000)]
Fix misguided removal of access/tuptoaster.h inclusion, per Kris Jurka.
I'm going to insist on reversion of this entire patch unless pgrminclude
is upgraded to a less broken state, but in the meantime let's get contrib
passing regression again.
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:28:29 +0000 (05:28 +0000)]
Fix a passel of recently-committed violations of the rule 'thou shalt
have no other gods before c.h'. Also remove some demonstrably redundant
#include lines, mostly of <errno.h> which was added to c.h years ago.
Neil Conway [Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:59:47 +0000 (23:59 +0000)]
Reorder the entries in the function section of the manual, to ensure they
are alphabetically ordered. I believe the tables were correctly ordered in
the past, but some of them had subsequently regressed.
Joe Conway [Wed, 12 Jul 2006 02:31:56 +0000 (02:31 +0000)]
Clean up for warning:
fe-auth.c:573: warning: passing argument 1 of 'free' discards qualifiers
from pointer target type
pg_krb5_authname used to return a (const char *) to memory allocated by
krb. Somewhere along the lines this was changed so that a copy was
made, returned, and freed instead. However the const modifier was never
removed.
Apply entab fix from Marko Kreen for these problems:
- halt.c did not include stdlib.h, thus missed exit() prototype
- Makefile ignores BINDIR for install.
- Makefile calls install with user/group args, thus failing for regular user.
While trying it I noticed that the Makefile does not support VPATH builds ...
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:05:57 +0000 (21:05 +0000)]
Tweak fillfactor code as per my recent proposal. Fix nbtsort.c so that
it can handle small fillfactors for ordinary-sized index entries without
failing on large ones; fix nbtinsert.c to distinguish leaf and nonleaf
pages; change the minimum fillfactor to 10% for all index types.
GIN improvements
- Replace sorted array of entries in maintenance_work_mem to binary tree,
this should improve create performance.
- More precisely calculate allocated memory, eliminate leaks
with user-defined extractValue()
- Improve wordings in tsearch2