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19 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 29 Nov 2004 02:29:28 +0000 (02:29 +0000)]
Add:

> * Auto-vacuum
>  o Move into the backend code
>  o Scan the buffer cache to find free space or use background writer
>  o Use free-space map information to guide refilling

19 years agoTypo fixes.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:58:10 +0000 (01:58 +0000)]
Typo fixes.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

19 years agoHave initdb display relative paths to start postmaster if used to invoke
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:14:45 +0000 (01:14 +0000)]
Have initdb display relative paths to start postmaster if used to invoke
initdb, and display in a path-native way.

19 years agoMake pg_dumplo schema-aware. Karel Zak
Tom Lane [Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:49:49 +0000 (23:49 +0000)]
Make pg_dumplo schema-aware.  Karel Zak

19 years agoAvoid scribbling on original parsetree during DECLARE CURSOR. This
Tom Lane [Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:16:31 +0000 (22:16 +0000)]
Avoid scribbling on original parsetree during DECLARE CURSOR.  This
prevents problems when the DECLARE is in a portal and is executed
repeatedly, as is possible in v3 protocol.  Per analysis by Oliver
Jowett, though I didn't use his patch exactly.

19 years agoAdd description:
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:12:19 +0000 (05:12 +0000)]
Add description:

<   information, either by name or offset from UTC
>   information, either zone name or offset from UTC
>
>   If the TIMESTAMP value is stored with a time zone name, interval
>   computations should adjust based on the time zone rules, e.g. adding
>   24 hours to a timestamp would yield a different result from adding one
>   day.
>

19 years agoMega-clarifications from Joachim Wieland.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 28 Nov 2004 04:56:04 +0000 (04:56 +0000)]
Mega-clarifications from Joachim Wieland.

19 years agoWork around lack of NLS support in libpgport by making those components
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:44:15 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
Work around lack of NLS support in libpgport by making those components
who use it scan the relevant source files for their own catalog.  It
creates a bit of duplicate work for translators, but it gets the job done
for now.

19 years agoCorrectly name the Windows operating systems
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:56:05 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
Correctly name the Windows operating systems

19 years agoUpdate of conformance information to SQL:2003
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:27:08 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
Update of conformance information to SQL:2003
by Troels Arvin, Simon Riggs, Elein Mustain

Make spelling of SQL standard names uniform.

19 years agoFix HAVE_OPTRESET to be HAVE_INT_OPTRESET. Typos spotted by Lorne Sunley.
Tom Lane [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:51:08 +0000 (18:51 +0000)]
Fix HAVE_OPTRESET to be HAVE_INT_OPTRESET.  Typos spotted by Lorne Sunley.

19 years agoAdd web development faq item.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:02:53 +0000 (06:02 +0000)]
Add web development faq item.

19 years agoAdd mention of Cygwin. Update version number.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:15:21 +0000 (05:15 +0000)]
Add mention of Cygwin. Update version number.

19 years agoAdd to CPPFLAGS/CFLAGS in template files, don't over-ride them.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 05:03:26 +0000 (05:03 +0000)]
Add to CPPFLAGS/CFLAGS in template files, don't over-ride them.

19 years agoThis adds mention of my latest tweak to the tsearch2/pg_trgm
Tom Lane [Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:01:02 +0000 (00:01 +0000)]
This adds mention of my latest tweak to the tsearch2/pg_trgm
integration.  It is much better to create a word list of unstemmed words
than stemmed ones.

Chris K-L

19 years agoRelOptInfo.pages should really be declared as BlockNumber, not long.
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:08:35 +0000 (21:08 +0000)]
RelOptInfo.pages should really be declared as BlockNumber, not long.

19 years agoInstall Tcl regex fixes to sync our regex engine with Tcl 8.4.8 (up from
Tom Lane [Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:56:54 +0000 (22:56 +0000)]
Install Tcl regex fixes to sync our regex engine with Tcl 8.4.8 (up from
8.4.1).  This corrects some curious regex bugs, though not the greediness
issue I was hoping to find a solution for :-(

19 years agoOur interface code for Spencer's regexp package was checking for regexp
Tom Lane [Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:44:07 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
Our interface code for Spencer's regexp package was checking for regexp
error conditions during regexp compile, but not during regexp execution;
any sort of "can't happen" errors would be treated as no-match instead
of being reported as they should be.  Noticed while trying to duplicate
a reported Tcl bug.

19 years agoA client_encoding specification coming from the connection request has
Tom Lane [Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:51:05 +0000 (19:51 +0000)]
A client_encoding specification coming from the connection request has
to be processed by GUC before InitPostgres, because any required lookup
of the encoding conversion function has to be done during InitializeClientEncoding.
So, I broke this last week by moving GUC processing to after InitPostgres :-(.
What we can do as a compromise is process non-SUSET variables during
command line scanning (the same as before), and postpone the processing
of only SUSET variables.  None of the SUSET variables need to be set
before InitPostgres.

19 years agoAvoid getting bit by roundoff error while checking $Safe::VERSION.
Tom Lane [Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:47:38 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
Avoid getting bit by roundoff error while checking $Safe::VERSION.
Per report from Mark Kirkwood.

19 years agoTrivial fix for a bug introduced in r1.94 of help.c: we want to only
Neil Conway [Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:58:42 +0000 (04:58 +0000)]
Trivial fix for a bug introduced in r1.94 of help.c: we want to only
include "\s" in \? output when readline is enabled, but that commit
supressed "\s" whether readline was enabled or not.

19 years agoAssert that BufferIsPinned() in IncrBufferRefCount(), rather than using
Neil Conway [Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:56:17 +0000 (02:56 +0000)]
Assert that BufferIsPinned() in IncrBufferRefCount(), rather than using
a home-brewed combination of assertions that boiled down to the same
thing.

19 years agoPrevent pgcrypto from successfully compiling if no valid random source
Neil Conway [Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:44:08 +0000 (23:44 +0000)]
Prevent pgcrypto from successfully compiling if no valid random source
has been defined. Previously, pgcrypto would compile but would be
unusable.

19 years agoNew translations
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:13:26 +0000 (23:13 +0000)]
New translations

19 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:16:04 +0000 (22:16 +0000)]
Translation updates

19 years agoClean files generated by htmlhelp target.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:41:24 +0000 (21:41 +0000)]
Clean files generated by htmlhelp target.

19 years agoAdd htmlhelp stylesheet and build target.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:27:59 +0000 (16:27 +0000)]
Add htmlhelp stylesheet and build target.

19 years agoFurther plperl cleanup: be more paranoid about checking the type of
Tom Lane [Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:21:24 +0000 (00:21 +0000)]
Further plperl cleanup: be more paranoid about checking the type of
data returned from Perl.  Consolidate multiple bits of code to convert
a Perl hash to a tuple, and drive the conversion off the keys present
in the hash rather than the tuple column names, so we detect error if
the hash contains keys it shouldn't.  (This means keys not in the hash
will silently default to NULL, which seems ok to me.)  Fix a bunch of
reference-count leaks too.

19 years agoThe beginnings of a regression test for plperl. Right now it only
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:32:59 +0000 (20:32 +0000)]
The beginnings of a regression test for plperl.  Right now it only
covers return value processing, but that was the most broken stuff...

19 years agoTry to instill some sanity in plperl's function result processing.
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:31:53 +0000 (20:31 +0000)]
Try to instill some sanity in plperl's function result processing.
Get rid of static variables for SETOF result, don't crash when called
from non-FROM context, eliminate dead code, etc.

19 years agoFix typo in release notes. Michael Fuhr.
Neil Conway [Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:30:22 +0000 (07:30 +0000)]
Fix typo in release notes. Michael Fuhr.

19 years agoupdate us to beta5 REL8_0_0BETA5
PostgreSQL Daemon [Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:06:35 +0000 (03:06 +0000)]
update us to beta5

19 years agoUpdate release notes for recent changes; also minor editorialization.
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:37:59 +0000 (00:37 +0000)]
Update release notes for recent changes; also minor editorialization.

19 years agoFix rounding problem in dynahash.c's decision about when the target
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:57:00 +0000 (22:57 +0000)]
Fix rounding problem in dynahash.c's decision about when the target
fill factor has been exceeded.  We usually run with ffactor == 1, but
the way the test was coded, it wouldn't split a bucket until the actual
fill factor reached 2.0, because of use of integer division.  Change
from > to >= so that it will split more aggressively when the table
starts to get full.

19 years agoReduce the default size of the PortalHashTable in order to save a
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:48:01 +0000 (22:48 +0000)]
Reduce the default size of the PortalHashTable in order to save a
few cycles during transaction exit.  A typical session probably
wouldn't have as many as half a dozen portals open at once, so the
original value of 64 seems far larger than needed.

19 years agoWhile fixing plperl and pltcl, I realized plpgsql wasn't doing
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:27:34 +0000 (22:27 +0000)]
While fixing plperl and pltcl, I realized plpgsql wasn't doing
subtransactions quite right either: the ReleaseCurrentSubTransaction
call should occur inside the PG_TRY, so that the proper path is taken
if an error occurs during subtransaction commit.  This assumes that
AbortSubTransaction can cope with the state left behind if
CommitSubTransaction fails partway through, but we were already
requiring that.

19 years agoSuppress remaining compile warnings, and add a comment about why
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:13:37 +0000 (22:13 +0000)]
Suppress remaining compile warnings, and add a comment about why
it's not really broken.  Andrew Dunstan

19 years agoFix plperl and pltcl error handling per my previous proposal. SPI
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 Nov 2004 21:17:07 +0000 (21:17 +0000)]
Fix plperl and pltcl error handling per my previous proposal.  SPI
operations are now run as subtransactions, so that errors in them
can be reported as ordinary Perl or Tcl errors and caught by the
normal error handling convention of those languages.  Also do some
minor code cleanup in pltcl.c: extract a large chunk of duplicated
code in pltcl_SPI_execute and pltcl_SPI_execute_plan into a shared
subroutine.

19 years agoFix typo.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:28:39 +0000 (22:28 +0000)]
Fix typo.

19 years agoPatch of 2004-03-30 corrected date_part(timestamp) for extracting
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 22:12:44 +0000 (22:12 +0000)]
Patch of 2004-03-30 corrected date_part(timestamp) for extracting
the year from a BC date, but failed to make the same fix in
date_part(timestamptz).

19 years agoFix typo, per Bruno Wolff.
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:44:24 +0000 (21:44 +0000)]
Fix typo, per Bruno Wolff.

19 years agoFix up makefile dependencies for pg_config_paths.h.
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:13:06 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Fix up makefile dependencies for pg_config_paths.h.

19 years agoAvoid scanning the relcache during AtEOSubXact_RelationCache when there
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:19:52 +0000 (20:19 +0000)]
Avoid scanning the relcache during AtEOSubXact_RelationCache when there
is nothing to do, which is most of the time.  This is another simple
improvement to cut subtransaction entry/exit overhead.

19 years agoReduce the default size of the local lock hash table. There's usually
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 20:16:54 +0000 (20:16 +0000)]
Reduce the default size of the local lock hash table.  There's usually
no need for it to be nearly as big as the global hash table, and since
it's not in shared memory it can grow if it does need to be bigger.
By reducing the size, we speed up hash_seq_search(), which saves a
significant fraction of subtransaction entry/exit overhead.

19 years agoFix plperl's elog() function to convert elog(ERROR) into Perl croak(),
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:07:40 +0000 (19:07 +0000)]
Fix plperl's elog() function to convert elog(ERROR) into Perl croak(),
rather than longjmp'ing clear out of Perl and thereby leaving Perl in
a broken state.  Also some minor prettification of error messages.
Still need to do something with spi_exec_query() error handling.

19 years agoFix one more place where we were expecting lcons() to be nondestructive
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:59:31 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
Fix one more place where we were expecting lcons() to be nondestructive
to the original List; per report from Sebastian BÎck.  I think this is
the last such bug --- I examined every lcons() call in the backend and
the rest seem OK --- but it's nervous-making that we're still finding
'em so many months after the List rewrite went in.

19 years agoOn some HPUX versions/hardware, it seems we need to include libgcc.a in
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 03:52:00 +0000 (03:52 +0000)]
On some HPUX versions/hardware, it seems we need to include libgcc.a in
the regression test shared libraries.

19 years agoFix unportable isdigit() call --- must cast arg to unsigned char.
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:09:47 +0000 (02:09 +0000)]
Fix unportable isdigit() call --- must cast arg to unsigned char.

19 years agoMove pgstat_report_tabstat() call so that stats are not reported to the
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:48:58 +0000 (00:48 +0000)]
Move pgstat_report_tabstat() call so that stats are not reported to the
collector until the transaction commits.  Per recent discussion, this
should avoid confusing autovacuum when an updating transaction runs for
a long time.

19 years agoMake sure we produce a useful error message for the case where the
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:35:13 +0000 (00:35 +0000)]
Make sure we produce a useful error message for the case where the
postgresql.crt file simply isn't there, too.

19 years agoImprove error reporting for SSL connection failures. Remove redundant
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:18:18 +0000 (00:18 +0000)]
Improve error reporting for SSL connection failures.  Remove redundant
free operations in client_cert_cb --- openssl will also attempt to free
these structures, resulting in core dumps.

19 years agoFix incorrect documentation of plperl's method for accessing the number
Tom Lane [Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:22:54 +0000 (23:22 +0000)]
Fix incorrect documentation of plperl's method for accessing the number
of rows processed by a SPI query (David Fetter); also some other minor
editorial cleanup (Tom Lane).

19 years agoClean up rpath handling for HPUX --- we can't use the cc-style rpath
Tom Lane [Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:27:42 +0000 (21:27 +0000)]
Clean up rpath handling for HPUX --- we can't use the cc-style rpath
switch syntax when calling ld directly.

19 years agoSet rpath for plperl and plpython to ensure we can find the .so files
Tom Lane [Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:23:01 +0000 (19:23 +0000)]
Set rpath for plperl and plpython to ensure we can find the .so files
for the languages even when not installed in a standard directory.
pltcl may need this treatment as well, but we don't have the right path
conveniently available, so I'll leave it alone as long as there aren't
actual reports of trouble.

19 years agoModify the platform-specific makefiles so that macro 'rpath' is defined
Tom Lane [Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:41:39 +0000 (00:41 +0000)]
Modify the platform-specific makefiles so that macro 'rpath' is defined
in terms of macro 'rpathdir', as I proposed a few weeks ago.  In itself
this commit shouldn't change the behavior at all, but it opens the door
to using special rpaths for the PL shared libraries, as seems to be
needed for plperl in particular.

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.