Tom Lane [Wed, 28 May 2008 00:45:40 +0000 (00:45 +0000)]
Improve GRANT documentation to point out that UPDATE and DELETE typically
require SELECT privilege as well, since you normally need to read existing
column values within such commands. This behavior is according to spec,
but we'd never documented it before. Per gripe from Volkan Yazici.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 May 2008 22:18:04 +0000 (22:18 +0000)]
Require bind_textdomain_codeset() not just gettext() to enable NLS support.
GNU gettext before 0.10.36 does not have that function, and is generally too
incomplete to be usable.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 27 May 2008 12:24:42 +0000 (12:24 +0000)]
Explicitly bind gettext() to the UTF8 locale when in use.
This is required on Windows due to the special locale
handling for UTF8 that doesn't change the full environment.
Fixes crash with translated error messages per bugs 4180
and 4196.
Tom Lane [Tue, 27 May 2008 00:13:09 +0000 (00:13 +0000)]
Alter the xxx_pattern_ops opclasses to use the regular equality operator of
the associated datatype as their equality member. This means that these
opclasses can now support plain equality comparisons along with LIKE tests,
thus avoiding the need for an extra index in some applications. This
optimization was not possible when the pattern opclasses were first introduced,
because we didn't insist that text equality meant bitwise equality; but we
do now, so there is no semantic difference between regular and pattern
equality operators.
I removed the name_pattern_ops opclass altogether, since it's really useless:
name's regular comparisons are just strcmp() and are unlikely to become
something different. Instead teach indxpath.c that btree name_ops can be
used for LIKE whether or not the locale is C. This might lead to a useful
speedup in LIKE queries on the system catalogs in non-C locales.
The ~=~ and ~<>~ operators are gone altogether. (It would have been nice to
keep them for backward compatibility's sake, but since the pg_amop structure
doesn't allow multiple equality operators per opclass, there's no way.)
A not-immediately-obvious incompatibility is that the sort order within
bpchar_pattern_ops indexes changes --- it had been identical to plain
strcmp, but is now trailing-blank-insensitive. This will impact
in-place upgrades, if those ever happen.
Tom Lane [Mon, 26 May 2008 18:54:29 +0000 (18:54 +0000)]
Fix an old corner-case bug in set_config_option: push_old_value has to be
called before, not after, calling the assign_hook if any. This is because
push_old_value might fail (due to palloc out-of-memory), and in that case
there would be no stack entry to tell transaction abort to undo the GUC
assignment. Of course the actual assignment to the GUC variable hasn't
happened yet --- but the assign_hook might have altered subsidiary state.
Without a stack entry we won't call it again to make it undo such actions.
So this is necessary to make the world safe for assign_hooks with side
effects. Per a discussion a couple weeks ago with Magnus.
Back-patch to 8.0. 7.x did not have the problem because it did not have
allocatable stacks of GUC values.
Tom Lane [Sun, 25 May 2008 21:51:00 +0000 (21:51 +0000)]
Adjust timestamp regression tests to prevent two low-probability failure
cases. Recent buildfarm experience shows that it is sometimes possible
to execute several SQL commands in less time than the granularity of
Windows' not-very-high-resolution gettimeofday(), leading to a failure
because the tests expect the value of now() to change and it doesn't.
Also, it was recognized some time ago that the same area of the tests
could fail if local midnight passes between the insertion and the checking
of the values for 'yesterday', 'tomorrow', etc. Clean all this up per
ideas from myself and Greg Stark.
There remains a window for failure if the transaction block is entered
exactly at local midnight (so that 'now' and 'today' have the same value),
but that seems low-probability enough to live with.
Since the point of this change is mostly to eliminate buildfarm noise,
back-patch to all versions we are still actively testing.
Remove arbitrary 10MB limit on two-phase state file size. It's not that hard
to go beoynd 10MB, as demonstrated by Gavin Sharry's example of dropping a
schema with ~25000 objects. The really bogus thing about the limit was that
it was enforced when a state file file was read in, not when it was written,
so you would end up with a prepared transaction that you can't commit or
abort, and the only recourse was to shut down the server and remove the file
by hand.
Raise the limit to MaxAllocSize, and enforce it also when a state file is
written. We could've removed the limit altogether, but reading in a file
larger than MaxAllocSize would fail anyway because we read it into a
palloc'd buffer.
Backpatch down to 8.1, where 2PC and this issue was introduced.
Tom Lane [Mon, 19 May 2008 04:14:24 +0000 (04:14 +0000)]
Coercion sanity check in ri_HashCompareOp failed to allow for enums, as per
example from Rod Taylor. On reflection the correct test here is for any
polymorphic type, not specifically ANYARRAY as in the original coding.
Tom Lane [Sun, 18 May 2008 20:13:12 +0000 (20:13 +0000)]
Make another try at using -Wl,--as-needed to suppress linking of unnecessary
shared libraries. We've tried this before and had problems with libreadline
not linking properly on some platforms, but that seems to be a libreadline
bug that may have been fixed by now. In any case, it's early enough in the
8.4 devel cycle that we can afford to have some transient breakage while
we work out any portability problems.
On Darwin, we try -Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs, which seems to be the equivalent
incantation there.
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 18 May 2008 06:50:08 +0000 (06:50 +0000)]
Remove old kluge put in to allow Windows regression tests to succeed, and now
found to have been made necessary by our skipping tty detection on Windows. Now
that we are doing tty detection on Windows the kluge is unnecessary and wrong.
Tom Lane [Sat, 17 May 2008 23:36:27 +0000 (23:36 +0000)]
Rewrite the warning about non-transaction-safety of TRUNCATE ... RESTART
IDENTITY to be more explicit about the possible hazards. Per gripe from Neil
and subsequent discussion. Eventually we may be able to get rid of this
warning, but for now it had better be there.
Tom Lane [Sat, 17 May 2008 17:52:14 +0000 (17:52 +0000)]
Fix utterly-bogus code for computing row heights. Per crashes on
spoonbill, though one wonders why it didn't misbehave everywhere.
In passing remove some unnecessary modulo calculations.
Tom Lane [Sat, 17 May 2008 17:24:57 +0000 (17:24 +0000)]
Fix a subtle bug exposed by recent wal_sync_method rearrangements.
Formerly, the default value of wal_sync_method was determined inside xlog.c,
but now it is determined inside guc.c. guc.c was reading xlogdefs.h
without having read <fcntl.h>, leading to wrong determination of
DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD. Obviously xlogdefs.h needs to include <fcntl.h>
for itself to ensure stable results.
Tom Lane [Sat, 17 May 2008 01:20:39 +0000 (01:20 +0000)]
Allow ALTER SEQUENCE START WITH to change the recorded start_value of a
sequence. This seems an obvious extension to the recent patch, and it
makes the code noticeably cleaner and more orthogonal.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 May 2008 23:36:05 +0000 (23:36 +0000)]
Add a RESTART (without parameter) option to ALTER SEQUENCE, allowing a
sequence to be reset to its original starting value. This requires adding the
original start value to the set of parameters (columns) of a sequence object,
which is a user-visible change with potential compatibility implications;
it also forces initdb.
Also add hopefully-SQL-compatible RESTART/CONTINUE IDENTITY options to
TRUNCATE TABLE. RESTART IDENTITY executes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART for all
sequences "owned by" any of the truncated relations. CONTINUE IDENTITY is
a no-op option.
Tom Lane [Fri, 16 May 2008 18:34:51 +0000 (18:34 +0000)]
Suppress a possibly-uninitialized-variable warning. (I'm only seeing it
on Apple's gcc and not my other machines, but still it seems worth
getting rid of.)
Magnus Hagander [Fri, 16 May 2008 18:30:53 +0000 (18:30 +0000)]
Implement error checking for pthreads calls in thread-safe mode. They really
should always succeed, but in the likely event of a failure we would
previously fall through *without locking* - the new code will exit(1).
Printing the error message on stderr will not work for all applications, but
it's better than nothing at all - and our API doesn't provide a way to return
the error to the caller.
Tom Lane [Thu, 15 May 2008 17:37:49 +0000 (17:37 +0000)]
Add code to eval_const_expressions() to support const-simplification of
CoerceViaIO nodes. This improves the ability of the planner to deal with
cases where the node input is a constant. Per bug #4170.
Tom Lane [Wed, 14 May 2008 19:10:29 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
Move the "instr_time" typedef and associated macros into a new header
file portability/instr_time.h, and add a couple more macros to eliminate
some abstraction leakage we formerly had. Also update psql to use this
header instead of its own copy of nearly the same code.
This commit in itself is just code cleanup and shouldn't change anything.
It lays some groundwork for the upcoming function-stats patch, though.
Magnus Hagander [Wed, 14 May 2008 14:02:57 +0000 (14:02 +0000)]
Remove the special variable for open_sync_bit used in O_SYNC and O_DSYNC
modes, replacing it with a call to a function that derives it from the
sync_method variable, now that it has distinct values for these two cases.
This means that assign_xlog_sync_method() no longer changes any settings,
thus fixing the bug introduced in the change to use a guc enum for
wal_sync_method.
Tom Lane [Tue, 13 May 2008 22:10:30 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
Improve plpgsql's RAISE command. It is now possible to attach DETAIL and
HINT fields to a user-thrown error message, and to specify the SQLSTATE
error code to use. The syntax has also been tweaked so that the
Oracle-compatible case "RAISE exception_name" works (though you won't get a
very nice error message if you just write that much). Lastly, support
the Oracle-compatible syntax "RAISE" with no parameters to re-throw
the current error from within an EXCEPTION block.
In passing, allow the syntax SQLSTATE 'nnnnn' within EXCEPTION lists,
so that there is a way to trap errors with custom SQLSTATE codes.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 12 May 2008 22:59:58 +0000 (22:59 +0000)]
Improve psql's internal print.c code by introducing an actual print API.
Provides for better code readability, but mainly this is infrastructure changes
to allow further changes such as arbitrary footers on printed tables. Also,
the translation status of each element in the table is more easily customized.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 12 May 2008 20:02:02 +0000 (20:02 +0000)]
Improve snapshot manager by keeping explicit track of snapshots.
There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which
is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack",
which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time.
This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory
allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot
assignment. This is all done automatically now.
As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no
more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that
long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:54 +0000 (00:00 +0000)]
Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing some
unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and
macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c
files.
For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created,
initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage.
While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more
consistent with our header style.
Tom Lane [Sat, 10 May 2008 03:31:58 +0000 (03:31 +0000)]
Restore psql's former behavior that padding spaces to the right of the last
output column are not emitted. (That change already caused more noise in
the regression test output files than I would like.) Provide some needed
editorial help for comments, clean up code formatting.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 10 May 2008 01:40:09 +0000 (01:40 +0000)]
Add URL for:
* Add column to pg_stat_activity that shows the progress of long-running
commands like CREATE INDEX and VACUUM
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> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2008-04/msg00203.php
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Tom Lane [Fri, 9 May 2008 23:32:05 +0000 (23:32 +0000)]
Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same
as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child
table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent.
This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent
will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some
longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether
check constraints were really inherited or not.
The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to
pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute)
and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for
columns.
Tom Lane [Fri, 9 May 2008 15:53:07 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
Give a warning if -s switch is used with a non-custom pgbench test.
Also, clean up the code that assigned the scale into :scale variables.
Greg Smith and Tom Lane
Fix incorrect archive truncation point calculation in the %r recovery_command
parameter. This fixes bug 4137 reported by Wojciech Strzalka, where a WAL
file is deleted too early when starting the recovery of a warm standby server.
Also add a sanity check in pg_standby so that it will refuse to delete anything
earlier than the file being restored, and improve the debug message in case
nothing is deleted.
Simon Riggs. Backpatch to 8.3, which is where %r was introduced.
Tom Lane [Fri, 9 May 2008 05:25:04 +0000 (05:25 +0000)]
Fix memory stomp that's turning the whole buildfarm pink: you can't hack up
pg_wcsformat without changing pg_wcssize to match. Add some comments to
try to make that clearer, and make a couple other minor editorializations.