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17 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:58:19 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ.

Jun Kuwamura

17 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:02:46 +0000 (19:02 +0000)]
Add:

>
>  o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
>    advancement starvation
>
>    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-06/msg01645.php

17 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:50:48 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
Add:

>
> * Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD
>   rules, such as for partitioning setups
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00577.php

17 years agoFix markup.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:39:58 +0000 (18:39 +0000)]
Fix markup.

17 years agoUpdate pronunciation FAQ item.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:38:44 +0000 (18:38 +0000)]
Update pronunciation FAQ item.

17 years agoUpdate to mention alternate project name is "Postgres".
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:29:59 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
Update to mention alternate project name is "Postgres".

17 years agoRemove GIN interface section, which is now documented in SGML.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:28:17 +0000 (16:28 +0000)]
Remove GIN interface section, which is now documented in SGML.

Heikki Linnakangas

17 years agoFix markup that doesn't work in back branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:15:35 +0000 (16:15 +0000)]
Fix markup that doesn't work in back branches.

17 years agoFix GSS API pointer checking.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:58:02 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Fix GSS API pointer checking.

Kris Jurka

17 years agoDocument atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:53:48 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
Document atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.

Andrew Maclean

17 years agoMinor editorialization on release notes.
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:50:51 +0000 (15:50 +0000)]
Minor editorialization on release notes.

17 years agoAdd some links for escape strings.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:54:25 +0000 (14:54 +0000)]
Add some links for escape strings.

Brendan Jurd

Fix markup in previous commit.

17 years agoAdd LDAP URL documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:22 +0000 (14:31 +0000)]
Add LDAP URL documentation.

Albe Laurenz

17 years agoUpdate documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:43:03 +0000 (13:43 +0000)]
Update documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we
don't need to recommend nightly analyzes anymore unless autovacuum is off.

17 years agoClarify tar documentation about return error codes.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:26:22 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
Clarify tar documentation about return error codes.

Backpatch to 8.2.X.

17 years agoUpdate tsearch include location in example.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:21:30 +0000 (13:21 +0000)]
Update tsearch include location in example.

Oleg.

17 years agoAdd tsearch tab completion support:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:25:24 +0000 (04:25 +0000)]
Add tsearch tab completion support:

* adds a few missing words to some commands (like adding GIN as a valid
index type or OWNED BY for ALTER SEQUENCE,...)

* support for ALTER TABLE foo ENABLE/DISABLE REPLICA TRIGGER/RULE

* autocomplete CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE (mostly done to prevent
conflicts with the TEMPLATE keyword for text search)

* support for ALTER/CREATE/DROP TEXT SEARCH as well as COMMENT ON TEXT
SEARCH and the corresponding psql backslash commands.
This proved a little more difficult than expected due to the fact that
words_after_create[] is used for two purposes - one is to provide a list
of words that follow immediatly after CREATE (or DROP) and the other
purpose is to use it for autocompleting anywhere in the statement if the
word in that struct is found with a query.
Since TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION|DICTIONARY|TEMPLATE|PARSER results in 3
words instead of one (as all the other words in that list are) I added a
flag to the struct to tell create_command_generator() to skip that entry
 for autocompleting immediatly after CREATE which feels like a dirty
hack (but that holds true for a lot of code in tab-complete.c).

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

17 years agoThis is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required as
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:18:27 +0000 (04:18 +0000)]
This is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required as
of PostgreSQL 8.2) and provides a link to compiling and linking section.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

17 years agoUpdate GNU tar error code documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:15:50 +0000 (04:15 +0000)]
Update GNU tar error code documentation.

Backpatch to 8.2.X.

17 years agoMentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:53:54 +0000 (03:53 +0000)]
Mentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of
the problems non-root reading /etc/shadow.

17 years agoRemove ill-considered (not to mention undocumented) attempt to make
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:25:31 +0000 (03:25 +0000)]
Remove ill-considered (not to mention undocumented) attempt to make
contrib/intarray's GIN opclass override the built-in default.  Per bug #3048
and other complaints.

17 years agoUpdate documented error text.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:43:18 +0000 (02:43 +0000)]
Update documented error text.

Fujii Masao

17 years agoClarify age() 'months' calculation documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:52:45 +0000 (00:52 +0000)]
Clarify age() 'months' calculation documentation.

17 years agoUpdate documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather than
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:43:35 +0000 (23:43 +0000)]
Update documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather than
administrator-scheduled vacuums.

17 years agoFix typo in typecasting.
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:54:35 +0000 (06:54 +0000)]
Fix typo in typecasting.
patch from  ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

17 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ, backpatch.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:34:11 +0000 (03:34 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ, backpatch.

Jun Kuwamura

17 years agoFix a memory leak in the autovacuum launcher code. Noted by Darcy Buskermolen,
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:14:59 +0000 (22:14 +0000)]
Fix a memory leak in the autovacuum launcher code.  Noted by Darcy Buskermolen,
who reported it privately to me.

17 years agoRedefine the lp_flags field of item pointers as having four states, rather
Tom Lane [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:10:26 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
Redefine the lp_flags field of item pointers as having four states, rather
than two independent bits (one of which was never used in heap pages anyway,
or at least hadn't been in a very long time).  This gives us flexibility to
add the HOT notions of redirected and dead item pointers without requiring
anything so klugy as magic values of lp_off and lp_len.  The state values
are chosen so that for the states currently in use (pre-HOT) there is no
change in the physical representation.

17 years agoPerform post-escaping encoding validity checks on SQL literals and COPY input
Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:49:27 +0000 (20:49 +0000)]
Perform post-escaping encoding validity checks on SQL literals and COPY input
so that invalidly encoded data cannot enter the database by these means.

17 years agoWhitespace improvement.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:27:16 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
Whitespace improvement.

17 years agoRevert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches. Per
Tom Lane [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:28:55 +0000 (14:28 +0000)]
Revert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches.  Per
Jeremy Drake.

17 years agoInstall dictionary sample files.
Magnus Hagander [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:58:23 +0000 (13:58 +0000)]
Install dictionary sample files.
Per buildfarm and Teodor.

17 years agoDocument an efficient way to create documentation for back branches.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:21:20 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Document an efficient way to create documentation for back branches.

17 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ to current release number.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:11:42 +0000 (03:11 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ to current release number.

17 years agoAdd a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay point
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:05:48 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay point
was removed.

17 years agoGive ICC its preferred, documented form of the no-strict-aliasing
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:50:25 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
Give ICC its preferred, documented form of the no-strict-aliasing
switch, viz '-fno-alias'.  Since we have a separate code path here
anyway, it's just as easy to cooperate.

17 years agoSync timezone data with 2007g zic release.
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:43:27 +0000 (17:43 +0000)]
Sync timezone data with 2007g zic release.

17 years agoUpcoming most recent release will be 8.2.5.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:34:12 +0000 (17:34 +0000)]
Upcoming most recent release will be 8.2.5.

17 years agoStamp
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:19:49 +0000 (17:19 +0000)]
Stamp

17 years agoMake sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries to
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:15:33 +0000 (17:15 +0000)]
Make sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries to
recover from elog(ERROR).  Problem was created by introduction of hash seq
search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter;
in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too.  (Not sure
that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might
someday.)  Per report from Sergey Koposov.

17 years agoInclude hash table name in all the internal-error elog messages in
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:17:46 +0000 (16:17 +0000)]
Include hash table name in all the internal-error elog messages in
dynahash.c.  Sergey Koposov's current open problem shows the possible
usefulness of this, and it doesn't add much code.

17 years agoRemove QueryOperand->istrue flag, it was used only in cover ranking
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:01:40 +0000 (16:01 +0000)]
Remove QueryOperand->istrue flag, it was used only in cover ranking
(ts_rank_cd). Use palloc'ed array in ranking instead of flag.

17 years agoFix header's size of structs defines in ispell.
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:57:05 +0000 (12:57 +0000)]
Fix header's size of structs defines in ispell.
Backpatch is needed for contrib version.

17 years agoAdd regression tests for ispell, synonym and thesaurus dictionaries.
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:54:42 +0000 (11:54 +0000)]
Add regression tests for ispell, synonym and thesaurus dictionaries.
Rename synonym.syn.sample and thesaurs.ths.sample to
synonym_sample.syn and thesaurs_sample.ths accordingly to be able to use they
in regression test.

Ispell dictionary uses synthetic simple dictionary files.

17 years agoFix ts_debug function to prevent unneeded calls of ts_lexize().
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:51:22 +0000 (08:51 +0000)]
Fix ts_debug function to prevent unneeded calls of ts_lexize().
It will be mush better to reimplement ts_debug in C (instead of SQL as now),
but it's planned for the future.

17 years agoRefactor from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:46:29 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
Refactor from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:

* Defined new struct WordEntryPosVector that holds a uint16 length and a
variable size array of WordEntries. This replaces the previous
convention of a variable size uint16 array, with the first element
implying the length. WordEntryPosVector has the same layout in memory,
but is more readable in source code. The POSDATAPTR and POSDATALEN
macros are still used, though it would now be more readable to access
the fields in WordEntryPosVector directly.

* Removed needfree field from DocRepresentation. It was always set to false.

* Miscellaneous other commenting and refactoring

17 years agoRename recently-added pg_stat_activity column from txn_start to xact_start,
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:28:05 +0000 (03:28 +0000)]
Rename recently-added pg_stat_activity column from txn_start to xact_start,
for consistency with other column names such as in pg_stat_database.

17 years agoArrange for SET LOCAL's effects to persist until the end of the current top
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:06:42 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
Arrange for SET LOCAL's effects to persist until the end of the current top
transaction, unless rolled back or overridden by a SET clause for the same
variable attached to a surrounding function call.  Per discussion, these
seem the best semantics.  Note that this is an INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: in 8.0
through 8.2, SET LOCAL's effects disappeared at subtransaction commit
(leading to behavior that made little sense at the SQL level).

I took advantage of the opportunity to rewrite and simplify the GUC variable
save/restore logic a little bit.  The old idea of a "tentative" value is gone;
it was a hangover from before we had a stack.  Also, we no longer need a stack
entry for every nesting level, but only for those in which a variable's value
actually changed.

17 years agoMake CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in their
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:59:37 +0000 (21:59 +0000)]
Make CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in their
database-wide editions.

Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.

17 years agoRelease the exclusive lock on the table early after truncating it in lazy
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:40:03 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
Release the exclusive lock on the table early after truncating it in lazy
vacuum, instead of waiting till commit.

17 years agoHeikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:37:36 +0000 (20:37 +0000)]
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:

Add tsearch subdirectory is added to Makefile to allow
compile  custom tsearch dictionary as an external module.

17 years agoFix recently introduced bugs about parsing ispell/hunspell files.
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:27:12 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
Fix recently introduced bugs about parsing ispell/hunspell files.
In most cases it cause because of unneeded lowercasing of flags.

Per experiment with regression checks with ispell dictionary.

17 years agoRemove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we hold
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:58:45 +0000 (17:58 +0000)]
Remove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we hold
an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon
as possible.  This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the
empty pages at the end of the table.

An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before
starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum
due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our
cost delay settings).  This case could be considered in the balancing code, but
it is simpler this way.

17 years agoChange void* opaque argument to Datum type, add argument's
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:36:41 +0000 (12:36 +0000)]
Change void* opaque argument to Datum type, add argument's
name to PushFunction type definition.

Per suggestion by Tome Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

17 years agoFixes from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:39:56 +0000 (10:39 +0000)]
Fixes from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:

Apparently it's a bug I introduced when I refactored spell.c to use the
readline function for reading and recoding the input file. I didn't
notice that some calls to STRNCMP used the non-lowercased version of the
input line.

17 years agoRevert temporary patch that made synchronous_commit default to OFF.
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:01:19 +0000 (02:01 +0000)]
Revert temporary patch that made synchronous_commit default to OFF.

17 years agoSet the correct context (PGC_SIGHUP) for log_autovacuum, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:39:19 +0000 (01:39 +0000)]
Set the correct context (PGC_SIGHUP) for log_autovacuum, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.
Fix grammatical errors in its description.

17 years agoCode review for GUC revert-values-if-removed-from-postgresql.conf patch;
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:57:22 +0000 (00:57 +0000)]
Code review for GUC revert-values-if-removed-from-postgresql.conf patch;
and in passing, fix some bogosities dating from the custom_variable_classes
patch.  Fix guc-file.l to correctly check changes in custom_variable_classes
that are attempted concurrently with additions/removals of custom variables,
and don't allow the new setting to be applied in advance of checking it.
Clean up messy and undocumented situation for string variables with NULL
boot_val.  Fix DefineCustomVariable functions to initialize boot_val
correctly.  Prevent find_option from inserting bogus placeholders for custom
variables that are simply inquired about rather than being set.

17 years agofix typo in regression Makefile.
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:53:33 +0000 (22:53 +0000)]
fix typo in regression Makefile.

17 years agoProvide for a file specifying non-standard config options for temp install
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:40:54 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
Provide for a file specifying non-standard config options for temp install
for pg_regress, via --temp-config option. Pick this up in the make file
via TEMP_CONFIG setting.

17 years agoReplace the former method of determining snapshot xmax --- to wit, calling
Tom Lane [Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:31:15 +0000 (20:31 +0000)]
Replace the former method of determining snapshot xmax --- to wit, calling
ReadNewTransactionId from GetSnapshotData --- with a "latestCompletedXid"
variable that is updated during transaction commit or abort.  Since
latestCompletedXid is written only in places that had to lock ProcArrayLock
exclusively anyway, and is read only in places that had to lock ProcArrayLock
shared anyway, it adds no new locking requirements to the system despite being
cluster-wide.  Moreover, removing ReadNewTransactionId from snapshot
acquisition eliminates the need to take both XidGenLock and ProcArrayLock at
the same time.  Since XidGenLock is sometimes held across I/O this can be a
significant win.  Some preliminary benchmarking suggested that this patch has
no effect on average throughput but can significantly improve the worst-case
transaction times seen in pgbench.  Concept by Florian Pflug, implementation
by Tom Lane.

17 years agoDon't take ProcArrayLock while exiting a transaction that has no XID; there is
Tom Lane [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:59:26 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
Don't take ProcArrayLock while exiting a transaction that has no XID; there is
no need for serialization against snapshot-taking because the xact doesn't
affect anyone else's snapshot anyway.  Per discussion.  Also, move various
info about the interlocking of transactions and snapshots out of code comments
and into a hopefully-more-cohesive discussion in access/transam/README.

Also, remove a couple of now-obsolete comments about having to force some WAL
to be written to persuade RecordTransactionCommit to do its thing.

17 years agoAdd Hash thread URL:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:07:58 +0000 (19:07 +0000)]
Add Hash thread URL:

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php

17 years agoImprove page split in rtree emulation. Now if splitted result has
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:04:26 +0000 (17:04 +0000)]
Improve page split in rtree emulation. Now if splitted result has
big misalignement, then it tries to split page basing on distribution
of boxe's centers.

Per report from  Dolafi, Tom <dolafit@janelia.hhmi.org>

 Backpatch is needed, change doesn't affect on-disk storage.

17 years agoImprovements from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 16:03:40 +0000 (16:03 +0000)]
Improvements from  Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

- change the alignment requirement of lexemes in TSVector slightly.
Lexeme strings were always padded to 2-byte aligned length to make sure
that if there's position array (uint16[]) it has the right alignment.
The patch changes that so that the padding is not done when there's no
positions. That makes the storage of tsvectors without positions
slightly more compact.

- added some #include "miscadmin.h" lines I missed in the earlier when I
added calls to check_stack_depth().

- Reimplement the send/recv functions, and added a comment
above them describing the on-wire format. The CRC is now recalculated in
tsquery as well per previous discussion.

17 years agoImproving various checks by Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:35:11 +0000 (15:35 +0000)]
Improving various checks by Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

- add code to check that the query tree is well-formed. It was indeed
  possible to send malformed queries in binary mode, which produced all
  kinds of strange results.

- make the left-field a uint32. There's no reason to
  arbitrarily limit it to 16-bits, and it won't increase the disk/memory
  footprint either now that QueryOperator and QueryOperand are separate
  structs.

- add check_stack_depth() call to all recursive functions I found.
  Some of them might have a natural limit so that you can't force
  arbitrarily deep recursions, but check_stack_depth() is cheap enough
  that seems best to just stick it into anything that might be a problem.

17 years agoRefactoring by Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> with
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:09:56 +0000 (15:09 +0000)]
Refactoring by Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> with
small editorization by me

- Brake the QueryItem struct into QueryOperator and QueryOperand.
  Type was really the only common field between them. QueryItem still
  exists, and is used in the TSQuery struct as before, but it's now a
  union of the two. Many other changes fell from that, like separation
  of pushval_asis function into pushValue, pushOperator and pushStop.

- Moved some structs that were for internal use only from header files
  to the right .c-files.

- Moved tsvector parser to a new tsvector_parser.c file. Parser code was
  about half of the size of tsvector.c, it's also used from tsquery.c, and
  it has some data structures of its own, so it seems better to separate
  it. Cleaned up the API so that TSVectorParserState is not accessed from
  outside tsvector_parser.c.

- Separated enumerations (#defines, really) used for QueryItem.type
  field and as return codes from gettoken_query. It was just accidental
  code sharing.

- Removed ParseQueryNode struct used internally by makepol and friends.
  push*-functions now construct QueryItems directly.

- Changed int4 variables to just ints for variables like "i" or "array
  size", where the storage-size was not significant.

17 years agoAdd turkish stopword list. Thanks to Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@CommandPrompt.com>
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:46:43 +0000 (14:46 +0000)]
Add turkish stopword list. Thanks to Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@CommandPrompt.com>

17 years agoAllow CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY to disregard transactions in other
Tom Lane [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:58:57 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
Allow CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY to disregard transactions in other
databases, per gripe from hubert depesz lubaczewski.  Patch from
Simon Riggs.

17 years agoMake eval_const_expressions() preserve typmod when simplifying something like
Tom Lane [Thu, 6 Sep 2007 17:31:58 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
Make eval_const_expressions() preserve typmod when simplifying something like
null::char(3) to a simple Const node.  (It already worked for non-null values,
but not when we skipped evaluation of a strict coercion function.)  This
prevents loss of typmod knowledge in situations such as exhibited in bug
#3598.  Unfortunately there seems no good way to fix that bug in 8.1 and 8.2,
because they simply don't carry a typmod for a plain Const node.

In passing I made all the other callers of makeNullConst supply "real" typmod
values too, though I think it probably doesn't matter anywhere else.

17 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:58:47 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
Done:

< * Reduce XID consumption of read-only queries
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<    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-08/msg00516.php
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> * -Reduce XID consumption of read-only queries

17 years agoVolatile-qualify the ProcArray PGPROC pointer in a bunch of routines
Tom Lane [Wed, 5 Sep 2007 21:11:19 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
Volatile-qualify the ProcArray PGPROC pointer in a bunch of routines
that examine fields that could change under them.  This is just to make
really sure that when we are fetching a value 'only once', that's what
actually happens.  Possibly this is a bug that should be back-patched,
but in the absence of solid evidence that it's needed, I won't bother.

17 years agoQuick hack to make the VXID of a prepared transaction be -1/XID,
Tom Lane [Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:53:17 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
Quick hack to make the VXID of a prepared transaction be -1/XID,
so that different prepared xacts can be told apart in the pg_locks
view.  Per suggestion from Florian.

17 years agoImplement lazy XID allocation: transactions that do not modify any database
Tom Lane [Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:10:48 +0000 (18:10 +0000)]
Implement lazy XID allocation: transactions that do not modify any database
rows will normally never obtain an XID at all.  We already did things this way
for subtransactions, but this patch extends the concept to top-level
transactions.  In applications where there are lots of short read-only
transactions, this should improve performance noticeably; not so much from
removal of the actual XID-assignments, as from reduction of overhead that's
driven by the rate of XID consumption.  We add a concept of a "virtual
transaction ID" so that active transactions can be uniquely identified even
if they don't have a regular XID.  This is a much lighter-weight concept:
uniqueness of VXIDs is only guaranteed over the short term, and no on-disk
record is made about them.

Florian Pflug, with some editorialization by Tom.

17 years agoProvide for binary input/output of enums, to fix complaint from Merlin Moncure.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:41:43 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
Provide for binary input/output of enums, to fix complaint from Merlin Moncure.
This just provides text values, we're not exposing the underlying Oid representation.
Catalog version bumped.

17 years agoSynced parser and keyword list.
Michael Meskes [Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:02:29 +0000 (10:02 +0000)]
Synced parser and keyword list.

17 years agoSync examples of psql \dF output with current CVS HEAD behavior.
Tom Lane [Tue, 4 Sep 2007 03:46:36 +0000 (03:46 +0000)]
Sync examples of psql \dF output with current CVS HEAD behavior.
Random other wordsmithing.

17 years agoRestrict tsearch config file base names to contain a-z, 0-9, and underscore,
Tom Lane [Tue, 4 Sep 2007 02:16:56 +0000 (02:16 +0000)]
Restrict tsearch config file base names to contain a-z, 0-9, and underscore,
instead of the initial policy of whatever isalpha() likes.  Per discussion.

17 years agoSupport SET FROM CURRENT in CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION, ALTER DATABASE, ALTER ROLE.
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:46:30 +0000 (18:46 +0000)]
Support SET FROM CURRENT in CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION, ALTER DATABASE, ALTER ROLE.
(Actually, it works as a plain statement too, but I didn't document that
because it seems a bit useless.)  Unify VariableResetStmt with
VariableSetStmt, and clean up some ancient cruft in the representation of
same.

17 years agoFix MSVC build (I think) for recent pg_proc.h column addition.
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 02:51:47 +0000 (02:51 +0000)]
Fix MSVC build (I think) for recent pg_proc.h column addition.
This business with two independent build systems does kinda suck.

17 years agoImprove stylistic consistency of descriptions of built-in objects by avoiding
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 02:30:45 +0000 (02:30 +0000)]
Improve stylistic consistency of descriptions of built-in objects by avoiding
initcap style --- the vast majority of the existing descriptions do not use
an initial cap.  I didn't change places where the first word was all-cap.

initdb not forced because this doesn't change any regression test results.

17 years agoAdd an ORDER BY to nail down the expected row order from a query that's
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:28:40 +0000 (01:28 +0000)]
Add an ORDER BY to nail down the expected row order from a query that's
been shown to be sensitive to concurrent autovacuum.  Per Alvaro.

17 years agoFix breakage of GIN support for varchar[] and cidr[] that I introduced in the
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 01:18:33 +0000 (01:18 +0000)]
Fix breakage of GIN support for varchar[] and cidr[] that I introduced in the
operator-family rewrite.  I had mistakenly supposed that these could use the
pg_amproc entries for text[] and inet[] respectively.  However, binary
compatibility of the underlying types does not make two array types binary
compatible (since they must differ in the header field that gives the element
type OID), and so the index support code doesn't consider those entries
applicable.  Add back the missing pg_amproc entries, and add an opr_sanity
query to try to catch such mistakes in future.  Per report from Gregory
Maxwell.

17 years agoImplement function-local GUC parameter settings, as per recent discussion.
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2007 00:39:26 +0000 (00:39 +0000)]
Implement function-local GUC parameter settings, as per recent discussion.
There are still some loose ends: I didn't do anything about the SET FROM
CURRENT idea yet, and it's not real clear whether we are happy with the
interaction of SET LOCAL with function-local settings.  The documentation
is a bit spartan, too.

17 years agoClean up whitespace.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:13:55 +0000 (01:13 +0000)]
Clean up whitespace.

17 years agoMore SGML alignment cleanups.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 1 Sep 2007 23:06:29 +0000 (23:06 +0000)]
More SGML alignment cleanups.

17 years agoProperly indent SGML source of libpq.sgml.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 1 Sep 2007 22:08:41 +0000 (22:08 +0000)]
Properly indent SGML source of  libpq.sgml.

17 years agoSince sort_bounded_heap makes state changes that should be made
Tom Lane [Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:47:39 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
Since sort_bounded_heap makes state changes that should be made
regardless of the number of tuples involved, it's incorrect to skip it
when memtupcount = 1; the number of cycles saved is minuscule anyway.
An alternative solution would be to pull the state changes out to the
call site in tuplesort_performsort, but keeping them near the corresponding
changes in make_bounded_heap seems marginally cleaner.  Noticed by
Greg Stark.

17 years agoApply a band-aid fix for the problem that 8.2 and up completely misestimate
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:35:22 +0000 (23:35 +0000)]
Apply a band-aid fix for the problem that 8.2 and up completely misestimate
the number of rows likely to be produced by a query such as
SELECT * FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 USING (key) WHERE t2.key IS NULL;
What this is doing is selecting for t1 rows with no match in t2, and thus
it may produce a significant number of rows even if the t2.key table column
contains no nulls at all.  8.2 thinks the table column's null fraction is
relevant and thus may estimate no rows out, which results in terrible plans
if there are more joins above this one.  A proper fix for this will involve
passing much more information about the context of a clause to the selectivity
estimator functions than we ever have.  There's no time left to write such a
patch for 8.3, and it wouldn't be back-patchable into 8.2 anyway.  Instead,
put in an ad-hoc test to defeat the normal table-stats-based estimation when
an IS NULL test is evaluated at an outer join, and just use a constant
estimate instead --- I went with 0.5 for lack of a better idea.  This won't
catch every case but it will catch the typical ways of writing such queries,
and it seems unlikely to make things worse for other queries.

17 years agoOnly use SGML indexterm "zone" when we want to get the entire section.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:33:48 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
Only use SGML indexterm "zone" when we want to get the entire section.

Some alignment cleanups.

17 years agoMake Gin/Gist text search tertiary index entries in the documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:55:57 +0000 (20:55 +0000)]
Make Gin/Gist text search tertiary index entries in the documentation.

17 years agoExtend whole-row Var evaluation to cope with the case that the sub-plan
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:33:40 +0000 (18:33 +0000)]
Extend whole-row Var evaluation to cope with the case that the sub-plan
generating the tuples has resjunk output columns.  This is not possible for
simple table scans but can happen when evaluating a whole-row Var for a view.
Per example from Patryk Kordylewski.  The problem exists back to 8.0 but
I'm not going to risk back-patching further than 8.2 because of the many
changes in this area.

17 years agoAdd comment on why SGML -wfully-tagged flag is needed (for older SGML
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:41:52 +0000 (16:41 +0000)]
Add comment on why SGML -wfully-tagged flag is needed (for older SGML
tool chains).

17 years agoPlace GiST and GIN text search indexes as secondary items under the main
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:33:36 +0000 (16:33 +0000)]
Place GiST and GIN text search indexes as secondary items under the main
"index" entries for GIN/GiST.

17 years agoAgain improve text search index entries.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:04:03 +0000 (05:04 +0000)]
Again improve text search index entries.

17 years agoIn text search docs, properly use indexterm _zone_ only when we want an
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:52:29 +0000 (04:52 +0000)]
In text search docs, properly use indexterm _zone_ only when we want an
entire section, per Peter.

17 years agoFix docs so indexes can be built by commenting out GiST/GIN index
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:26:27 +0000 (03:26 +0000)]
Fix docs so indexes can be built by commenting out GiST/GIN index
entries in textsearch.sgml.

17 years agoInstall check_stack_depth() protection in two recursive tsquery
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:26:29 +0000 (02:26 +0000)]
Install check_stack_depth() protection in two recursive tsquery
processing routines.  Per Heikki.

17 years agoAdd openjade warning -wfully-tagged to warn about missing close tags on
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:03:02 +0000 (02:03 +0000)]
Add openjade warning -wfully-tagged to warn about missing close tags on
older SGML toolchains.

17 years agoRewrite make_outerjoininfo's construction of min_lefthand and min_righthand
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:44:06 +0000 (01:44 +0000)]
Rewrite make_outerjoininfo's construction of min_lefthand and min_righthand
sets for outer joins, in the light of bug #3588 and additional thought and
experimentation.  The original methodology was fatally flawed for nests of
more than two outer joins: it got the relationships between adjacent joins
right, but didn't always come to the right conclusions about whether a join
could be interchanged with one two or more levels below it.  This was largely
caused by a mistaken idea that we should use the min_lefthand + min_righthand
sets of a sub-join as the minimum left or right input set of an upper join
when we conclude that the sub-join can't commute with the upper one.  If
there's a still-lower join that the sub-join *can* commute with, this method
led us to think that that one could commute with the topmost join; which it
can't.  Another problem (not directly connected to bug #3588) was that
make_outerjoininfo's processing-order-dependent method for enforcing outer
join identity #3 didn't work right: if we decided that join A could safely
commute with lower join B, we dropped all information about sub-joins under B
that join A could perhaps not safely commute with, because we removed B's
entire min_righthand from A's.

To fix, make an explicit computation of all inner join combinations that occur
below an outer join, and add to that the full syntactic relsets of any lower
outer joins that we determine it can't commute with.  This method gives much
more direct enforcement of the outer join rearrangement identities, and it
turns out not to cost a lot of additional bookkeeping.

Thanks to Richard Harris for the bug report and test case.