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by Joachim Wieland --- the rest of his patch is superseded by the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
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:10:39 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
Fix ALTER TABLE to check pre-existing NOT NULL constraints when rewriting
a table. Otherwise a USING clause that yields NULL can leave the table
violating its constraint (possibly there are other cases too). Per report
from Alexander Pravking.
Improve vacuum code to track minimum Xids per table instead of per database.
To this end, add a couple of columns to pg_class, relminxid and relvacuumxid,
based on which we calculate the pg_database columns after each vacuum.
We now force all databases to be vacuumed, even template ones. A backend
noticing too old a database (meaning pg_database.datminxid is in danger of
falling behind Xid wraparound) will signal the postmaster, which in turn will
start an autovacuum iteration to process the offending database. In principle
this is only there to cope with frozen (non-connectable) databases without
forcing users to set them to connectable, but it could force regular user
database to go through a database-wide vacuum at any time. Maybe we should
warn users about this somehow. Of course the real solution will be to use
autovacuum all the time ;-)
There are some additional improvements we could have in this area: for example
the vacuum code could be smarter about not updating pg_database for each table
when called by autovacuum, and do it only once the whole autovacuum iteration
is done.
I updated the system catalogs documentation, but I didn't modify the
maintenance section. Also having some regression tests for this would be nice
but it's not really a very straightforward thing to do.
Catalog version bumped due to system catalog changes.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 6 Jul 2006 02:18:07 +0000 (02:18 +0000)]
Add index information to /contrib/pgstattuple:
This is an extension of pgstattuple to query information from indexes.
It supports btree, hash and gist. Gin is not supported. It scans only
index pages and does not read corresponding heap tuples. Therefore,
'dead_tuple' means the number of tuples with LP_DELETE flag.
Also, I added an experimental feature for btree indexes. It checks
fragmentation factor of indexes. If an leaf has the right link on the
next adjacent page in the file, it is assumed to be continuous (not
fragmented). It will help us to decide when to REINDEX.