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19 years agoFix memory clobber problem reported by John Hansen: plperl_safe_init()
Tom Lane [Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:35:42 +0000 (21:35 +0000)]
Fix memory clobber problem reported by John Hansen: plperl_safe_init()
may expand the Perl stack, therefore we must SPAGAIN to reload the local
stack pointer after calling it.  Also a couple other marginal readability
improvements.

19 years agoWhoops, missed converting the other sleep() call to pg_usleep().
Tom Lane [Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:13:38 +0000 (17:13 +0000)]
Whoops, missed converting the other sleep() call to pg_usleep().

19 years agoTranslation update
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:09:59 +0000 (10:09 +0000)]
Translation update

19 years agoForce pg_database updates out to disk immediately after ALTER DATABASE;
Tom Lane [Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:14:26 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
Force pg_database updates out to disk immediately after ALTER DATABASE;
this is to avoid scenarios where incoming backends find no live copies
of a database's row because the only live copy is in an as-yet-unwritten
shared buffer, which they can't see.  Also, use FlushRelationBuffers()
for forcing out pg_database, instead of the much more expensive BufferSync().
There's no need to write out pages belonging to other relations.

19 years agoInclude <getopt.h> if available, to avoid warnings on Windows.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:37:47 +0000 (21:37 +0000)]
Include <getopt.h> if available, to avoid warnings on Windows.

19 years agoRename vacuum_cost_limit switch from -N to -l to avoid conflict with
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:30:36 +0000 (21:30 +0000)]
Rename vacuum_cost_limit switch from -N to -l to avoid conflict with
existing Windows-only switch.

19 years agoRemove ill-considered suppression of gcc warnings in plperl, and fix
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 21:23:36 +0000 (21:23 +0000)]
Remove ill-considered suppression of gcc warnings in plperl, and fix
some of the bugs exposed thereby.  The remaining 'might be used uninitialized'
warnings look like live bugs, but I am not familiar enough with Perl/C hacking
to tell how to fix them.

19 years agoFix off-by-one memory allocation, as reported by Rod Taylor. Also
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:54:24 +0000 (19:54 +0000)]
Fix off-by-one memory allocation, as reported by Rod Taylor.  Also
avoid repalloc'ing twice when once is sufficient.

19 years agoSet DEFAULT_EDITOR to notepad.exe on Windows, as per recent discussion.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:32:31 +0000 (18:32 +0000)]
Set DEFAULT_EDITOR to notepad.exe on Windows, as per recent discussion.

19 years agoSome further editorial adjustment of PITR recovery procedure description.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:29:02 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
Some further editorial adjustment of PITR recovery procedure description.

19 years agoForce LANG=en on Windows, since system may fail to default to English.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:06:04 +0000 (18:06 +0000)]
Force LANG=en on Windows, since system may fail to default to English.

19 years agoAdd installcheck-parallel regression test target. Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:05:06 +0000 (18:05 +0000)]
Add installcheck-parallel regression test target.  Magnus Hagander

19 years agoUse pg_usleep() not sleep(), per Andrew Dunstan.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:50:20 +0000 (17:50 +0000)]
Use pg_usleep() not sleep(), per Andrew Dunstan.

19 years agoMiscellaneous Cygwin build fixes from Reini Urban.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:46:24 +0000 (17:46 +0000)]
Miscellaneous Cygwin build fixes from Reini Urban.

19 years agoAdd variant regression file to support BSDen that underflow to plus zero instead
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:25:32 +0000 (17:25 +0000)]
Add variant regression file to support BSDen that underflow to plus zero instead
of minus zero.  Per Andrew Dunstan.

19 years agoInstall include/port header files, and fix PGXS build to use them.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:16:17 +0000 (17:16 +0000)]
Install include/port header files, and fix PGXS build to use them.
Fabien COELHO

19 years agoAdjust SHLIB_LINK for cygwin case.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:08:15 +0000 (17:08 +0000)]
Adjust SHLIB_LINK for cygwin case.
Reini Urban

19 years agoAdd options to pg_autovacuum to support setting the cost-based-vacuum
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:54:15 +0000 (16:54 +0000)]
Add options to pg_autovacuum to support setting the cost-based-vacuum
parameters differently from their default values.  Matthew T. O'Connor

19 years agoBe sure length limit passed to snprintf matches what malloc was given.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:34:42 +0000 (16:34 +0000)]
Be sure length limit passed to snprintf matches what malloc was given.
Just paranoia ...

19 years agoMinor adjustment of message style.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:26:59 +0000 (16:26 +0000)]
Minor adjustment of message style.

19 years agoWin32 build cleanups, from Andrew Dunstan.
Neil Conway [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:30:11 +0000 (08:30 +0000)]
Win32 build cleanups, from Andrew Dunstan.

19 years agoRemove debugging printf from #ifdef WIN32 section.
Neil Conway [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 04:05:42 +0000 (04:05 +0000)]
Remove debugging printf from #ifdef WIN32 section.

19 years agoMicro-optimization of markpos() and restrpos() in btree and hash indexes.
Neil Conway [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:13:38 +0000 (03:13 +0000)]
Micro-optimization of markpos() and restrpos() in btree and hash indexes.
Rather than using ReadBuffer() to increment the reference count on an
already-pinned buffer, we should use IncrBufferRefCount() as it is
faster and does not require acquiring the BufMgrLock.

19 years agoDocument a limitation of COPY's new CSV mode. Doc patch from Andrew
Neil Conway [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:50:06 +0000 (02:50 +0000)]
Document a limitation of COPY's new CSV mode. Doc patch from Andrew
Dunstan, editorializing by Neil Conway.

19 years agoDon't allow pg_start_backup() to be invoked if archive_command has not
Neil Conway [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 02:22:54 +0000 (02:22 +0000)]
Don't allow pg_start_backup() to be invoked if archive_command has not
been defined. Patch from Gavin Sherry, editorializing by Neil Conway.

19 years agoFix Win32 problems with signals and sockets, by making the forkexec code
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:14:14 +0000 (00:14 +0000)]
Fix Win32 problems with signals and sockets, by making the forkexec code
even uglier than it was already :-(.  Also, on Windows only, use temporary
shared memory segments instead of ordinary files to pass over critical
variable values from postmaster to child processes.  Magnus Hagander

19 years agoPrevent a backend crash when processing CREATE TABLE commands with
Neil Conway [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 23:34:26 +0000 (23:34 +0000)]
Prevent a backend crash when processing CREATE TABLE commands with
more than 65K columns, or when the created table has more than 65K columns
due to adding inherited columns from parent relations. Fix a similar
crash when processing SELECT queries with more than 65K target list
entries. In all three cases we would eventually detect the error and
elog, but the check was being made too late.

19 years agoTranslation update
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:58:44 +0000 (22:58 +0000)]
Translation update

19 years agoAdjust safety restrictions for plperl functions. Andrew Dunstan's
Tom Lane [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:05:22 +0000 (22:05 +0000)]
Adjust safety restrictions for plperl functions.  Andrew Dunstan's
patch, but allow srand and disallow sprintf as per subsequent discussion.

19 years agoSuppress duplicate rules for lib$(NAME).a on WIN32 and Cygwin.
Tom Lane [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:51:13 +0000 (21:51 +0000)]
Suppress duplicate rules for lib$(NAME).a on WIN32 and Cygwin.
Andrew Dunstan

19 years agoUse dynamically-sized buffers in pgwin32_is_service().
Tom Lane [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:52:22 +0000 (19:52 +0000)]
Use dynamically-sized buffers in pgwin32_is_service().
Magnus Hagander

19 years agoRethink plpgsql's way of handling SPI execution during an exception block.
Tom Lane [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:10:16 +0000 (18:10 +0000)]
Rethink plpgsql's way of handling SPI execution during an exception block.
We don't really want to start a new SPI connection, just keep using the old
one; otherwise we have memory management problems as illustrated by
John Kennedy's bug report of today.  This requires a bit of a hack to
ensure the SPI stack state is properly restored, but then again what we
were doing before was a hack too, strictly speaking.  Add a regression
test to cover this case.

19 years agoTrivial wording improvement.
Tom Lane [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:00:36 +0000 (15:00 +0000)]
Trivial wording improvement.

19 years agoAdd index entries for all GUC configuration parameters.
Neil Conway [Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:33:14 +0000 (05:33 +0000)]
Add index entries for all GUC configuration parameters.

19 years agoDon't quote the value of EDITOR on Unix, only on Windows. Per discussion.
Tom Lane [Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:15:12 +0000 (23:15 +0000)]
Don't quote the value of EDITOR on Unix, only on Windows.  Per discussion.

19 years agoReplace "--" and "---" with "&mdash;" as appropriate, for better-looking
Neil Conway [Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:32:15 +0000 (06:32 +0000)]
Replace "--" and "---" with "&mdash;" as appropriate, for better-looking
output.

19 years agoFix typo, other minor improvements.
Neil Conway [Mon, 15 Nov 2004 04:35:57 +0000 (04:35 +0000)]
Fix typo, other minor improvements.

19 years agoUse English-style quotes in error messages, per Serguei Mokhov.
Tom Lane [Sun, 14 Nov 2004 23:36:53 +0000 (23:36 +0000)]
Use English-style quotes in error messages, per Serguei Mokhov.

19 years agoRemove replicaiton FAQ item.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:33:10 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
Remove replicaiton FAQ item.

19 years agoRemove GUC USERLIMIT variable category, making the affected variables
Tom Lane [Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:35:35 +0000 (19:35 +0000)]
Remove GUC USERLIMIT variable category, making the affected variables
plain SUSET instead.  Also delay processing of options received in
client connection request until after we know if the user is a superuser,
so that SUSET values can be set that way by legitimate superusers.
Per recent discussion.

19 years agoImprovements to the PITR docs. Initial patch from Gavin Sherry, additional
Neil Conway [Sun, 14 Nov 2004 06:10:12 +0000 (06:10 +0000)]
Improvements to the PITR docs. Initial patch from Gavin Sherry, additional
improvements by Neil Conway.

19 years agoThere is no need for ReadBuffer() call sites to check that the returned
Neil Conway [Sun, 14 Nov 2004 02:04:14 +0000 (02:04 +0000)]
There is no need for ReadBuffer() call sites to check that the returned
buffer is valid, as ReadBuffer() will elog on error. Most of the call
sites of ReadBuffer() got this right, but this patch fixes those call
sites that did not.

19 years agoNot entirely sure when this broke, but libpq's VC++ build is currently
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 13 Nov 2004 03:18:50 +0000 (03:18 +0000)]
Not entirely sure when this broke, but libpq's VC++ build is currently
lacking pqsignal which is now required. This was found and fixed for
VC++ by Shachar Shemesh, I simply duplicated the fix for the Borland
makefile (untested, as I don't have that compiler).

Dave Page

19 years agoUpdate:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:26:37 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
Update:

< * Eliminate WAL logging for CREATE INDEX/REINDEX/CREATE TABLE AS when
<   not doing WAL archiving
> * Eliminate WAL logging for CREATE TABLE AS when not doing WAL archiving

19 years agoRemove now-redundant description of Postgres file layout, in favor of
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:55:01 +0000 (21:55 +0000)]
Remove now-redundant description of Postgres file layout, in favor of
referencing the Database File Layout chapter I just added to the main
documentation.

19 years agoAdd some real documentation about the overall filesystem layout used by
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:50:53 +0000 (21:50 +0000)]
Add some real documentation about the overall filesystem layout used by
a Postgres database.  Update page.sgml to match 8.0 tuple header layout.

19 years agoFix obsolete comments.
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:08:40 +0000 (20:08 +0000)]
Fix obsolete comments.

19 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 18:12:12 +0000 (18:12 +0000)]
Add:

> * Eliminate WAL logging for CREATE INDEX/REINDEX/CREATE TABLE AS when
>   not doing WAL archiving

19 years ago> I think in addition the system global name "sharemem.1" should be made more
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:59:42 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
> I think in addition the system global name "sharemem.1" should be made more
> pg specific, like "PostgreSQL.1". I have not done this since a new compile
> would not detect a running old beta. But now would be the time (or never).

Zeugswetter Andreas

19 years agoRemember to close the file on failure (pretty much redundant, really,
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:08:23 +0000 (00:08 +0000)]
Remember to close the file on failure (pretty much redundant, really,
since this path will lead to postmaster exit anyway...)

19 years agoUn-break custom_variable_classes kluge ... mea culpa.
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:45:13 +0000 (23:45 +0000)]
Un-break custom_variable_classes kluge ... mea culpa.

19 years agopg_restore --help improvements, from Tom Lane:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:06:46 +0000 (17:06 +0000)]
pg_restore --help improvements, from Tom Lane:

!       printf(_("  -d, --dbname=NAME        connect to database name\n"));

!       printf(_("  -C, --create             create the target database\n"));

19 years agoCleanup:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:36:55 +0000 (04:36 +0000)]
Cleanup:

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< * ECPG (?)
> * ECPG
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19 years agoFix a handful of typos in the release notes introduced by Bruce's recent
Neil Conway [Thu, 11 Nov 2004 04:11:07 +0000 (04:11 +0000)]
Fix a handful of typos in the release notes introduced by Bruce's recent
commit. Per Gavin Sherry.

19 years agoCleaups:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:59:14 +0000 (03:59 +0000)]
Cleaups:

< * Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be given to all schema objects with one
> * Allow GRANT/REVOKE permissions to be applied to all schema objects with one
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<   specifications.  This is because new databases are created by copying
>   specifications.  This is because new databases are created by copying
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<   directory would create a new database with tables that had incorrect
>   directory would create a new database with tables that had incorrect
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<
>
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<   By not showing commented-out variables, we discourage people from
>   By not showing commented-out variables, we discourage people from
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< * Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled write-ahead
> * Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled write-ahead
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<   Currently all schemas are owned by the super-user because they are
>   Currently all schemas are owned by the super-user because they are
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< * Allow INET subnet tests with non-constants to be indexed
> * Allow INET subnet tests using non-constants to be indexed
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< * Allow to_char to print localized month names
< * Allow functions to have a search path specified at creation time
> * Allow to_char() to print localized month names
> * Allow functions to have a schema search path specified at creation time
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< * Add GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 format
> * Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601 format
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< * Prevent inet cast to cidr if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
<   zero bits
> * Prevent INET cast to CIDR if the unmasked bits are not zero, or
>   zero the bits
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<  o Allow nulls in arrays
>  o Allow NULLs in arrays
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<  o Delay resolution of array expression type so assignment coercion
<    can be performed on empty array expressions
>  o Delay resolution of array expression's data type so assignment
>    coercion can be performed on empty array expressions
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<   key, foreign key  [inheritance]
< * UNIQUE INDEX on base column not honored on inserts/updates from
>   key, foreign key
> * UNIQUE INDEX on base column not honored on INSERTs/UPDATEs from
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<   (dup) should fail [inheritance]
>   (dup) should fail
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< * Fetch heap pages matching index entries in sequential order [performance]
> * Fetch heap pages matching index entries in sequential order
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<   functionality in DELETE.  It's been agreed that the keyword should
>   functionality in DELETE.  It's been agreed that the keyword should
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< * Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types based on the SQL
> * Allow PREPARE to automatically determine parameter types based on the SQL
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< * Allow CREATE TABLE foo (f1 INT CHECK (f1 > 0) CHECK (f1 < 10)) to work
<   by searching for non-conflicting constraint names, and prefix with
<   table name?
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<   new database.
>   a new database.
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< * Ignore temporary tables from other sessions when processing
<   inheritance?
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< * Add a session mode to warn about non-standard SQL usage in queries
< * Add MERGE command that does UPDATE/DELETE, or on failure, INSERT (rules, triggers?)
> * Add a GUC variable to warn about non-standard SQL usage in queries
> * Add MERGE command that does UPDATE/DELETE, or on failure, INSERT (rules,
>   triggers?)
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< * Add NOVICE output level for helpful messages like automatic sequence/index creation
< * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, groups,
<   databases and tablespaces)
> * Add NOVICE output level for helpful messages like automatic sequence/index
>   creation
> * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, groups, databases
>   and tablespaces)
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<   When enabled, this would allow errors in multi-statement transactions
>   When enabled, this would allow errors in multi-statement transactions
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<  o Allow COPY to optionally include column headings as the first line
>  o Allow COPY to optionally include column headings in the first line
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<
>
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<  o Handle references to temporary tables that are created, destroyed,
>  o Handle references to temporary tables that are created, destroyed,
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<
>
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<  o Improve PL/PgSQL exception handling using savepoints
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<
>
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<
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<  o Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps.
>  o Add pg_dumpall custom format dumps.
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<    This is probably best done by combining pg_dump and pg_dumpall
>    This is probably best done by combining pg_dump and pg_dumpall
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<  o Improve error handling (?)
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<   Adding shared locks requires recording the table/rows numbers in a
>   Adding shared locks requires recording the table/rows numbers in a
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<   Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and
>   Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and
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<   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
>   from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
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< * Add connection pooling [pool]
> * Add connection pooling
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<
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<
>
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<   so an abrupt operating system restart might lose a few seconds of
>   so an abrupt operating system restart might lose a few seconds of
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< * Add utility to compute accurate random_page_cost value
> * Create utility to compute accurate random_page_cost value
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< * Allow sorting, temp files, temp tables to use multiple work directories
<
<   This allows the I/O load to be spread across multiple disk drives.
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>
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<
< * Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory or to write WAL files (?) [mmap]
>
> * Use mmap() rather than SYSV shared memory or to write WAL files (?)
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<   portability issues. Anonymous mmap (or mmap to /dev/zero) is required
<   to prevent I/O overhead.
>   portability issues. Anonymous mmap (or mmap to /dev/zero) is required
>   to prevent I/O overhead.
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<   Doing I/O to large tables would consume a lot of address space or
<   require frequent mapping/unmapping.  Extending the file also causes
<   mapping problems that might require mapping only individual pages,
>   Doing I/O to large tables would consume a lot of address space or
>   require frequent mapping/unmapping.  Extending the file also causes
>   mapping problems that might require mapping only individual pages,
821c812
<   way to _prevent_ I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes
>   way to _prevent_ I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes
826c817
<   tuple overhead
>   per-tuple overhead
829,831c820,822
<   This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization,
<   sorting, or execution of single query.  The major advantage of such a
<   feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a
>   This would involve using multiple threads or processes to do optimization,
>   sorting, or execution of single query.  The major advantage of such a
>   feature would be to allow multiple CPUs to work together to process a
834c825
< * Research the use of larger pages sizes
> * Research the use of larger page sizes
842a834
> * Move some /contrib modules out to their own project sites
845d836
< * Improve access-permissions check on data directory in Cygwin (Tom)
847,848c838
< * Clarify use of 'application' and 'command' tags in SGML docs
< * Better document ability to build only certain interfaces (Marc)
> * Improve documentation to build only interfaces (Marc)
852,853d841
< * Research interaction of setitimer() and sleep() used by statement_timeout
< * Rename /scripts directory because they are all C programs now
856,857d843
< * Allow binaries to be statically linked so they are more easily relocated
< * Move some /contrib modules out to their own project sites
862c848
<  o Remove per-backend parameter file and move into shared memory?
>  o Remove per-backend parameter file and move into shared memory
877,878c863,864
<  o Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
<    result sets using new query protocol
>  o Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names
>    of result sets using new query protocol
900d885
< * Kris is Kris Jurka
910c895
< * Simon is Simon Riggs
> * Simon is Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
913d897
< * Teodor is

19 years agoRemove obsolete comment from btbuild() and hashbuild(): we no longer use
Neil Conway [Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:32:50 +0000 (00:32 +0000)]
Remove obsolete comment from btbuild() and hashbuild(): we no longer use
a global variable to control building indexes.

19 years agoAdd character set declaration to HTML files, so they have a chance to
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:01:47 +0000 (23:01 +0000)]
Add character set declaration to HTML files, so they have a chance to
validate and display correctly.

19 years agoFix some spacing problems.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:54:23 +0000 (21:54 +0000)]
Fix some spacing problems.

19 years agoAdd SGML markup to 8.0 release notes.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:43:50 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Add SGML markup to 8.0 release notes.

19 years agoList VALUE as a keyword.
Michael Meskes [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:48:10 +0000 (13:48 +0000)]
List VALUE as a keyword.

20 years agoFix sgml markup tags.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:13:12 +0000 (06:13 +0000)]
Fix sgml markup tags.

20 years agoUpdate release notes to match CVS.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:09:59 +0000 (06:09 +0000)]
Update release notes to match CVS.

20 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:47:07 +0000 (05:47 +0000)]
Done:

<
< * psql tab completion
<
<  o Provide a list of conversions after ALTER CONVERSION?
<  o Support for ALTER SEQUENCE clauses
<  o Add RENAME TO to ALTER TRIGGER
<  o Support for ALTER USER
<  o Fix ALTER (GROUP|DOMAIN|...) <sth> DROP
<  o Support for ALTER LANGUAGE <sth> RENAME TO
<  o Improve support for COPY
<  o Improve support for ALTER TABLE

20 years agoRemove performance TODO.detail. In TODO.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:48:59 +0000 (02:48 +0000)]
Remove performance TODO.detail.  In TODO.

20 years agoAdd bitmap info:
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:48:41 +0000 (02:48 +0000)]
Add bitmap info:

<   heap page to find matching rows.
>   heap page to find matching rows, or perhaps use a mixed solution where
>   tids are recorded for pages with only a few matches and per-page bitmaps
>   are used for more dense pages.  Another idea is to use a 32-bit bitmap
>   for every page and set a bit based on the item number mod(32).

20 years agoAllow planner to fold "stable" functions to constants when forming
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:42:53 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
Allow planner to fold "stable" functions to constants when forming
selectivity estimates, per recent discussion.

20 years agoPut in place some defenses against being fooled by accidental match of
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:30:18 +0000 (21:30 +0000)]
Put in place some defenses against being fooled by accidental match of
shared memory segment ID.  If we can't access the existing shmem segment,
it must not be relevant to our data directory.  If we can access it,
then attach to it and check for an actual match to the data directory.
This should avoid some cases of failure-to-restart-after-boot without
introducing any significant risk of failing to detect a still-running
old backend.

20 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 16:50:59 +0000 (16:50 +0000)]
Add:

>
> * Research the use of larger pages sizes

20 years agoGet rid of perror(), substitute some better phrased error messages.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:57:57 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
Get rid of perror(), substitute some better phrased error messages.
malloc() doesn't set errno, so most uses were buggy anyway.

20 years agoUpdate bitmap index description:
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:11:11 +0000 (15:11 +0000)]
Update bitmap index description:

<   Such indexes could be more compact if there are only a few unique values.
>   Such indexes could be more compact if there are only a few distinct values.
>   Such indexes can also be compressed.  Keeping such indexes updated can be
>   costly.

20 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:46:37 +0000 (14:46 +0000)]
Translation updates

20 years agoClarify some strings
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:39:44 +0000 (14:39 +0000)]
Clarify some strings

20 years agoTranslation update
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:38:48 +0000 (14:38 +0000)]
Translation update

20 years agoClarify some error messages
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:01:27 +0000 (13:01 +0000)]
Clarify some error messages

20 years agoTranslation update
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:00:05 +0000 (13:00 +0000)]
Translation update

20 years agoDelete the `remove-old-headers' target, as it is no longer useful. Patch
Neil Conway [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 06:23:50 +0000 (06:23 +0000)]
Delete the `remove-old-headers' target, as it is no longer useful. Patch
from Alvaro Herrera.

20 years agoThis patch makes some cleanups to contrib/ to silence some sparse
Neil Conway [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 06:09:40 +0000 (06:09 +0000)]
This patch makes some cleanups to contrib/ to silence some sparse
warnings:

- remove pointless "extern" keyword from some function definitions in
contrib/tsearch2

- use "NULL" not "0" as NULL pointer in contrib/tsearch,
contrib/tsearch2, contrib/pgbench, and contrib/vacuumlo

20 years agoFix typo:
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 04:14:07 +0000 (04:14 +0000)]
Fix typo:

<   Such indexes could be more compact if there are few unique value.
>   Such indexes could be more compact if there are only a few unique values.

20 years agoUpdate mmap details:
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 03:57:42 +0000 (03:57 +0000)]
Update mmap details:

<   portability issues. Anonymous mmap is required to prevent I/O
<   overhead.
>   portability issues. Anonymous mmap (or mmap to /dev/zero) is required
>   to prevent I/O overhead.
>
> * Consider mmap()'ing files into a backend?
>
>   Doing I/O to large tables would consume a lot of address space or
>   require frequent mapping/unmapping.  Extending the file also causes
>   mapping problems that might require mapping only individual pages,
>   leading to thousands of mappings.  Another problem is that there is no
>   way to _prevent_ I/O to disk from the dirty shared buffers so changes
>   could hit disk before WAL is written.

20 years agoRemove mmap TODO.detail, now in TODO.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 03:57:16 +0000 (03:57 +0000)]
Remove mmap TODO.detail, now in TODO.

20 years agoRemove inheritance, already in TODO.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 03:01:48 +0000 (03:01 +0000)]
Remove inheritance, already in TODO.

20 years agoUse a hopefully-more-reliable method of detecting default selectivity
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:34:46 +0000 (00:34 +0000)]
Use a hopefully-more-reliable method of detecting default selectivity
estimates when combining the estimates for a range query.  As pointed out
by Miquel van Smoorenburg, the existing check for an impossible combined
result would quite possibly fail to detect one default and one non-default
input.  It seems better to use the default range query estimate in such
cases.  To do so, add a check for an estimate of exactly DEFAULT_INEQ_SEL.
This is a bit ugly because it introduces additional coupling between
clauselist_selectivity and scalarltsel/scalargtsel, but it's not like
there wasn't plenty already...

20 years agoRemove fadvise TODO.detail. Merged into TODO.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:16:43 +0000 (20:16 +0000)]
Remove fadvise TODO.detail.  Merged into TODO.

20 years agoUpdate:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:16:20 +0000 (20:16 +0000)]
Update:

<   posix_fadvise() [fadvise]
>   posix_fadvise()
>
>   Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and
>   free-behind behavior, but it is unclear how the setting affects other
>   backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported
>   on all operating systems.
>

20 years agoRecommend that archive_command be coded to not overwrite existing files.
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:01:28 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
Recommend that archive_command be coded to not overwrite existing files.
Add explicit documentation of the recovery configuration settings.  Other
minor improvements in the PITR docs.  Simon Riggs, some editorialization
by Tom Lane.

20 years agoUpdate workding on why we use is_absolute_path() as a macro.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:34:23 +0000 (16:34 +0000)]
Update workding on why we use is_absolute_path() as a macro.

20 years agoUse correct function name in example
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:57:05 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
Use correct function name in example

20 years agoRemove count TODO.detail now that info is in TODO.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:35:52 +0000 (15:35 +0000)]
Remove count TODO.detail now that info is in TODO.

20 years agoRemove count TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:32:40 +0000 (15:32 +0000)]
Remove count TODO.detail.

20 years agoRemove atttypmod TODO.detail and merge into TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:19:31 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
Remove atttypmod TODO.detail and merge into TODO list.

20 years agoUpdate item description:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:18:16 +0000 (15:18 +0000)]
Update item description:

< * CREATE TABLE AS can not determine column lengths from expressions [atttypmod]
> * Allow CREATE TABLE AS to determine column lengths for complex
>   expressions like SELECT col1 || col2

20 years agoRemove view TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:55:05 +0000 (14:55 +0000)]
Remove view TODO.detail.

20 years agoUpdate view info:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:54:00 +0000 (14:54 +0000)]
Update view info:

< * Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99 [view]
> * Automatically create rules on views so they are updateable, per SQL99
>
>   We can only auto-create rules for simple views.  For more complex
>   cases users will still have to write rules.
>

20 years agoRemove win32 TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:46:52 +0000 (14:46 +0000)]
Remove win32 TODO.detail.

20 years agoAllow win32/cygwin link against the first matching library symbol rather
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 05:23:26 +0000 (05:23 +0000)]
Allow win32/cygwin link against the first matching library symbol rather
than erroring out.  This is the Unix behavior.

20 years agoKris Jurka pointed out that the qualified_name production wasn't
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 04:02:20 +0000 (04:02 +0000)]
Kris Jurka pointed out that the qualified_name production wasn't
working as intended --- for some reason, FROM a.b.c was getting
parsed as if it were a function name and not a qualified name.
I think there must be a bug in bison, because it should have
complained that the grammar was ambiguous.  Anyway, fix it along
the same lines previously used for func_name vs columnref, and get
rid of the right-recursion in attrs that seems to have confused
bison.

20 years agoFix unportable code in SockAddr_cidr_mask: you can't assume that
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Nov 2004 01:54:40 +0000 (01:54 +0000)]
Fix unportable code in SockAddr_cidr_mask: you can't assume that
shifting left by full word width gives zero.  Per bug report from
Tyson Thomson.

20 years agoNew translation
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:38:19 +0000 (23:38 +0000)]
New translation

20 years agoTranslation update
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:29:35 +0000 (23:29 +0000)]
Translation update

20 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:28:20 +0000 (23:28 +0000)]
Translation updates