Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 26 Aug 1996 20:35:29 +0000 (20:35 +0000)]
The following patch makes postmaster -D work. -D specifies a different PGDATA
directory. The code that looks for the pg_hba file doesn't use it, though,
so the postmaster uses the wrong pg_hba file. Also, when the postmaster
looks in one directory and the user thinks it is looking in another
directory, the error messages don't give enough information to solve the
problem. I extended the error message for this.
Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 26 Aug 1996 20:27:46 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
|The patch that is applied at the end of the email makes sure that these
|conditions are always met. The patch can be applied to any version
|of Postgres95 from 1.02 to 1.05. After applying the patch, queries
|using indices on bpchar and varchar fields should (hopefully ;-) )
|always return the same tuple set regardless to the fact whether
|indices are used or not.
|
Marc G. Fournier [Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:56:42 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
This patch for Versions 1 and 2 corrects the following bug:
In a catalog class that has a "name" type attribute, UPDATEing of an
instance of that class may destroy all of the attributes of that
instance that are stored as or after the "name" attribute.
This is caused by the alignment value of the "name" type being set to
"double" in Class pg_type, but "integer" in Class pg_attribute.
Postgres constructs a tuple using double alignment, but interprets it
using integer alignment.
The fix is to change the alignment to integer in pg_type.
Note that this corrects the problem for new Postgres systems. Existing
databases already contain the error and it can't easily be repaired because
this very bug prevents updating the class that contains it.
--
Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
San Jose, California
Marc G. Fournier [Sat, 24 Aug 1996 20:54:52 +0000 (20:54 +0000)]
The patch does several things:
It adds a WITH OIDS option to the copy command, which allows
dumping and loading of oids.
If a copy command tried to load in an oid that is greater than
its current system max oid, the system max oid is incremented. No
checking is done to see if other backends are running and have cached
oids.
pg_dump as its first step when using the -o (oid) option, will
copy in a dummy row to set the system max oid value so as rows are
loaded in, they are certain to be lower than the system oid.
pg_dump now creates indexes at the end to speed loading
Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Marc G. Fournier [Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:31:14 +0000 (04:31 +0000)]
|May I suggest to add access to the oid of an inserted
|record, by a small patch to libpq++? At least until the
|feature that will allow dumped oid's to be re-loaded into
|a database becomes available, I need access to the oids
|of newly created records... To this end, I have written a
|three-line wrapper for the PQoidStatus function in libpq and
|named this wrapper OidStatus() (I'd appreciate suggestions for
|a name that would better fit into the general naming scheme).
|
|Regards,
|
|Ernst
|
Marc G. Fournier [Wed, 21 Aug 1996 04:23:34 +0000 (04:23 +0000)]
Here's a patch for Versions 1 and 2 that fixes the following bug:
When you try to do any UPDATE of the catalog class pg_class, such as
to change ownership of a class, the backend crashes.
This is really two serial bugs: 1) there is a hardcoded copy of the
schema of pg_class in the postgres program, and it doesn't match the
actual class that initdb creates in the database; 2) Parts of postgres
determine whether to pass an attribute value by value or by reference
based on the attbyval attribute of the attribute in class
pg_attribute. Other parts of postgres have it hardcoded. For the
relacl[] attribute in class pg_class, attbyval does not match the
hardcoded expectation.
The fix is to correct the hardcoded schema for pg_attribute and to
change the fetchatt macro so it ignores attbyval for all variable
length attributes. The fix also adds a bunch of logic documentation and
extends genbki.sh so it allows source files to contain such documentation.
--
Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
San Jose, California
Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:50:44 +0000 (13:50 +0000)]
Added a SVR4 port
---
below my signature, there are a coupls of diffs and files in a shell
archive, which were needed to build postgres95 1.02 on Siemens Nixdorfs
MIPS based SINIX systems. Except for the compiler switches "-W0" and
"-LD-Blargedynsym" these diffs should also apply for other SVR4 based
systems. The changes in "Makefile.global" and "genbki.sh" can probably
be ignored (I needed gawk, to make the script run).
There is one bugfix thou. In "src/backend/parser/sysfunc.c" the
function in this file didn't honor the EUROPEAN_DATES ifdef.
---
Submitted by: Frank Ridderbusch <ridderbusch.pad@sni.de>
Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:34:49 +0000 (13:34 +0000)]
Fixes:
Here's a couple more small fixes that I've made to make my runtime
checker happy with the code. More along the lines of those that
I sent in the past, ie, a pointer to an array != the name of
an array. The last patch is that I mailed about yesterday -- I got
two replies of "do it", so it's done. As far as I can tell, however,
the function in question is never called by pg95, so either way
it can't hurt...
Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 19 Aug 1996 13:23:19 +0000 (13:23 +0000)]
Fixes for PQsetdb():
When you connect to a database with PQsetdb, as with psql, depending on
how your uninitialized variables are set, you can get a failure with a
"There is no connection to the backend" message.
The fix is to move a call to PQexec() from inside connectDB() to
PQsetdb() after connectDB() returns to PQsetdb(). That way a connection
doesn't have to be already established in order to establish it!
Marc G. Fournier [Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:07:43 +0000 (01:07 +0000)]
|This patch fixes a backend crash that happens sometimes when you try to
|join on a field that contains NULL in some rows. Postgres tries to
|compute a hash value of the field you're joining on, but when the field
|is NULL, the pointer it thinks is pointing to the data is really just
|pointing to random memory. This forces the hash value of NULL to be 0.
|
|It seems that nothing matches NULL on joins, even other NULL's (with or
|without this patch). Is that what's supposed to happen?
|
Originally, I thought the problem was caused by a function that gets
called as a normal function where we want to return a value, and as a
signal handler where we need to have it accept a parameter (the signal
number) and it returns nothing, I was going to case the function name in
the signal call as (void (*)(int)).
Looking at all the source, it turns out this function only gets used as
a signal handler, so I set an int parameter and return void.
I have removed the Linux defines because they are not needed. BSD let
this sloppiness slide. Linux gave a compile error.
Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Marc G. Fournier [Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:19:23 +0000 (02:19 +0000)]
Fixes:
In postgres95/src/backend/nodes/readfuncs, lines 1188 and 1189,
local_node->relname is taken to point to a NameType, while its
defined as a pointer to char. Both the casting to Name and the
call of namestrcpy should, IMHO, be changed appropriately (first
patch).
As far as I could see from the Linux signal header file,
a signal handler is declared as
typedef void (*__sighandler_t)(int);
Few changes to postgres95/src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c seem
appropriate to comply with this.
Finally, postgres95/src/bin/pg_version/pg_version.c defines
a function GetDataHome (by default, returning an integer)
and returns NULL in the function, which isn't an integer...
Marc G. Fournier [Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:11:23 +0000 (02:11 +0000)]
Fixes:
updates the psql.1 manual page for \ options
add row count and ties it to the header option
updated manual pages and comment for above change
got \? to display in one screen-full (almost, \? scrolls off top)
moved \r to \E, and \z to \r (for historical reasons with monitor)
small code alignment cleanup
Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Marc G. Fournier [Tue, 30 Jul 1996 07:56:04 +0000 (07:56 +0000)]
Fixes:
> INDEXED searches in some cases DO NOT WORK.
> Although simple search expressions (i.e. with a constant value on
> the right side of an operator) work, performing a join (by putting
> a field of some other table on the right side of an operator) produces
> empty output.
> WITHOUT indices, everything works fine.
>
submitted by: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <root@ais.sable.krasnoyarsk.su>
Marc G. Fournier [Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:29:51 +0000 (02:29 +0000)]
This is a patch to pg_dump which fixes varchar and char printing in the
case where the attribute length is variable (stored as -1). Previously,
you'd get output that looked like:
CREATE TABLE foo (bar varchar(-1));
Monitor and psql don't like this at all :). Here is a fix:
Marc G. Fournier [Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:27:55 +0000 (02:27 +0000)]
My patch to fe-connect.c introduced a new bug which is triggered only, if
Kerberos is being used (attempt to free static memory).
The error was caused by a confusing doublespeak of fe_getauthname():
Returns a pointer to static memory, if you authenticate via Kerberos,
a pointer to dynamic memory otherwise.
Submitted by: Erich Stamberger <eberger@gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at>
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