users/bernd/postgres.git
20 years agoUpdate AIX FAQ.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 30 Jul 2005 03:39:40 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
Update AIX FAQ.

Chris Browne

20 years agoBack-patch fix for NOT-below-a-NOT case.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:40:26 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
Back-patch fix for NOT-below-a-NOT case.

20 years agoAvoid crashing pg_dump if we can't connect to the database server, and
Neil Conway [Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:15:03 +0000 (05:15 +0000)]
Avoid crashing pg_dump if we can't connect to the database server, and
no database has been explicitly specified. Per gripe from Omar Kilani.

20 years agoFix compare_fuzzy_path_costs() to behave a bit more sanely. The original
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:12:33 +0000 (19:12 +0000)]
Fix compare_fuzzy_path_costs() to behave a bit more sanely.  The original
coding would ignore startup cost differences of less than 1% of the
estimated total cost; which was OK for normal planning but highly not OK
if a very small LIMIT was applied afterwards, so that startup cost becomes
the name of the game.  Instead, compare startup and total costs fuzzily
but independently.  This changes the plan selected for two queries in the
regression tests; adjust expected-output files for resulting changes in
row order.  Per reports from Dawid Kuroczko and Sam Mason.

20 years agoIt appears that Darwin (OS X) does not cope well with C functions that
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:37:23 +0000 (21:37 +0000)]
It appears that Darwin (OS X) does not cope well with C functions that
have the same name as the containing shared library --- as best I can
tell, the compiler internally creates a function of that name, and does
not warn you about the conflict.  Fix buildfarm failure in back branches
by renaming tsearch() trigger function at the C level.

20 years agoBack-patch fix for erroneous backslashing of LIKE pattern.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:18:19 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
Back-patch fix for erroneous backslashing of LIKE pattern.

20 years agoMemSet() must not cast its pointer argument to int32* until after it has
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jul 2005 15:53:46 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
MemSet() must not cast its pointer argument to int32* until after it has
checked that the pointer is actually word-aligned.  Casting a non-aligned
pointer to int32* is technically illegal per the C spec, and some recent
versions of gcc actually generate bad code for the memset() when given
such a pointer.  Per report from Andrew Morrow.

20 years agoMake pg_regress accept a command-line option for the temporary installation's
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:29:13 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
Make pg_regress accept a command-line option for the temporary installation's
port number, and use a default value for it that is dependent on the
configuration-time DEF_PGPORT.  Should make the world safe for running
parallel 'make check' in different branches.  Back-patch as far as 7.4
so that this actually is useful.

20 years agoBack-patch recent changes to alter the order of -L flags inserted from
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:05:49 +0000 (04:05 +0000)]
Back-patch recent changes to alter the order of -L flags inserted from
LDFLAGS versus those built into the Makefiles.  This looks like it will
fix several buildfarm failures in the back branches.

20 years agoCheck for out-of-range varoattno in deparse_context_for_subplan.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:40:20 +0000 (18:40 +0000)]
Check for out-of-range varoattno in deparse_context_for_subplan.
I have seen this case in CVS tip due to new "physical tlist" optimization
for subqueries.  I believe it probably can't happen in existing releases,
but the check is not going to hurt anything, so backpatch to 8.0 just
in case.

20 years agoFix overenthusiastic optimization of 'x IN (SELECT DISTINCT ...)' and related
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:09:50 +0000 (17:09 +0000)]
Fix overenthusiastic optimization of 'x IN (SELECT DISTINCT ...)' and related
cases: we can't just consider whether the subquery's output is unique on its
own terms, we have to check whether the set of output columns we are going to
use will be unique.  Per complaint from Luca Pireddu and test case from
Michael Fuhr.

20 years agoFix libpq memory leak during PQreset() --- closePGconn() was not
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:26:06 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
Fix libpq memory leak during PQreset() --- closePGconn() was not
freeing all transient state of the PGconn object.

20 years agoFix config file lexer to not barf if postgresql.conf ends with a comment
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Jul 2005 18:41:55 +0000 (18:41 +0000)]
Fix config file lexer to not barf if postgresql.conf ends with a comment
that has no terminating newline.  Per report from maps.on at gmx.net.

20 years agoMake libpq_gettext save and restore errno in a Windows-compatible way.
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Jul 2005 15:24:53 +0000 (15:24 +0000)]
Make libpq_gettext save and restore errno in a Windows-compatible way.
Also, back-patch fix into back branches.

20 years agoBackpatch to 8.0.X openssl portability fixes to pgcrypto.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:42:39 +0000 (14:42 +0000)]
Backpatch to 8.0.X openssl portability fixes to pgcrypto.

20 years agoFix date_trunct for December dates that are in the next year, e.g.:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:12:45 +0000 (14:12 +0000)]
Fix date_trunct for December dates that are in the next year, e.g.:

SELECT date_trunc('week', '2002-12-31'::date);

Backpatch to 8.0.X.

Per report from Nick Johnson.

20 years agoFix memory leak in plperl_hash_from_tuple(), per report from Jean-Max Reymond.
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Jul 2005 21:56:27 +0000 (21:56 +0000)]
Fix memory leak in plperl_hash_from_tuple(), per report from Jean-Max Reymond.

20 years agoModify pg_dump to assume that a check constraint is inherited if its
Tom Lane [Mon, 27 Jun 2005 02:18:14 +0000 (02:18 +0000)]
Modify pg_dump to assume that a check constraint is inherited if its
name matches the name of any parent-table constraint, without looking
at the constraint text.  This is a not-very-bulletproof workaround for
the problem exhibited by Berend Tober last month.  We really ought to
record constraint inheritance status in pg_constraint, but it's looking
like that may not get done for 8.1 --- and even if it does, we will
need this kluge for dumping from older servers.

20 years agoForce a checkpoint before committing a CREATE DATABASE command. This
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 22:47:49 +0000 (22:47 +0000)]
Force a checkpoint before committing a CREATE DATABASE command.  This
should fix the recent reports of "index is not a btree" failures,
as well as preventing a more obscure race condition involving changes
to a template database just after copying it with CREATE DATABASE.

20 years agoFix ancient memory leak in index_create(): RelationInitIndexAccessInfo
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 16:54:00 +0000 (16:54 +0000)]
Fix ancient memory leak in index_create(): RelationInitIndexAccessInfo
was being called twice in normal operation, leading to a leak of one set
of relcache subsidiary info.  Per report from Jeff Gold.

20 years agoCorrect some code in pg_restore when reading the header of a tar archive:
Neil Conway [Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:02:09 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
Correct some code in pg_restore when reading the header of a tar archive:

(1) The code doesn't initialize `sum', so the initial "does the checksum
    match?" test is wrong.

(2) The loop that is intended to check for a "null block" just checks
    the first byte of the tar block 512 times, rather than each of the
    512 bytes one time (!), which I'm guessing was the intent.

It was only through sheer luck that this worked in the first place.

Per Coverity static analysis performed by EnterpriseDB.

20 years agoFix a potential backend crash during authentication when parsing a
Neil Conway [Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:23:25 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
Fix a potential backend crash during authentication when parsing a
malformed ident map file.  This was introduced by the linked list
rewrite in 8.0 -- mea maxima culpa.

Per Coverity static analysis performed by EnterpriseDB.

20 years agoexec_eval_datum leaks memory when dealing with ROW or REC values.
Tom Lane [Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:51:49 +0000 (22:51 +0000)]
exec_eval_datum leaks memory when dealing with ROW or REC values.
It never leaked memory before PG 8.0, so none of the callers are
expecting this.  Cleanest fix seems to be to make it allocate the needed
memory in estate->eval_econtext, where it will be cleaned up by
the next exec_eval_cleanup.  Per report from Bill Rugolsky.

20 years agoplpgsql's exec_assign_value() freed the old value of a variable before
Tom Lane [Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:44:50 +0000 (20:44 +0000)]
plpgsql's exec_assign_value() freed the old value of a variable before
copying/converting the new value, which meant that it failed badly on
"var := var" if var is of pass-by-reference type.  Fix this and a similar
hazard in exec_move_row(); not sure that the latter can manifest before
8.0, but patch it all the way back anyway.  Per report from Dave Chapeskie.

20 years agoWhen using C-string lookup keys in a dynahash.c hash table, use strncpy()
Tom Lane [Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:51:44 +0000 (20:51 +0000)]
When using C-string lookup keys in a dynahash.c hash table, use strncpy()
not memcpy() to copy the offered key into the hash table during HASH_ENTER.
This avoids possible core dump if the passed key is located very near the
end of memory.  Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.

20 years agoNetBSD uses "options" not "option".
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:46:45 +0000 (16:46 +0000)]
NetBSD uses "options" not "option".

20 years agoTranslation updates
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:42:02 +0000 (11:42 +0000)]
Translation updates

20 years agoThe random selection in function linear() could deliver a value equal to max
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:21:23 +0000 (14:21 +0000)]
The random selection in function linear() could deliver a value equal to max
if geqo_rand() returns exactly 1.0, resulting in failure due to indexing
off the end of the pool array.  Also, since this is using inexact float math,
it seems wise to guard against roundoff error producing values slightly
outside the expected range.  Per report from bug@zedware.org.

20 years agoFix bug in MIC -> EUC_JP conversion. Per Atsushi Ogawa.
Tatsuo Ishii [Sat, 11 Jun 2005 02:46:16 +0000 (02:46 +0000)]
Fix bug in MIC -> EUC_JP conversion. Per Atsushi Ogawa.

20 years agoRepair error in description of nonblocking usage of PQgetCopyData().
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:08:36 +0000 (19:08 +0000)]
Repair error in description of nonblocking usage of PQgetCopyData().
Per Volkan Yazici.

20 years agoUse just NULL not NULL::TEXT --- the latter coding is unnecessary and
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Jun 2005 14:05:01 +0000 (14:05 +0000)]
Use just NULL not NULL::TEXT --- the latter coding is unnecessary and
not schema-safe.  Per report from Jochem van Dieten.

20 years agoAdd files from parent branch HEAD:
branch-fixup [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:30:42 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
Add files from parent branch HEAD:
doc/src/FAQ/FAQ_hungarian.html

20 years agoUpdate Hungarian FAQ and add an HTML version.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:30:42 +0000 (16:30 +0000)]
Update Hungarian FAQ and add an HTML version.

Laszlo Hornyak

20 years agoTrivial markup improvement.
Tom Lane [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:29:01 +0000 (16:29 +0000)]
Trivial markup improvement.

20 years agoNab some low-hanging fruit: replace the planner's base_rel_list and
Tom Lane [Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:13:36 +0000 (04:13 +0000)]
Nab some low-hanging fruit: replace the planner's base_rel_list and
other_rel_list with a single array indexed by rangetable index.
This reduces find_base_rel from O(N) to O(1) without any real penalty.
While find_base_rel isn't one of the major bottlenecks in any profile
I've seen so far, it was starting to creep up on the radar screen
for complex queries --- so might as well fix it.

20 years agoRemove planner's private fields from Query struct, and put them into
Tom Lane [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 22:32:58 +0000 (22:32 +0000)]
Remove planner's private fields from Query struct, and put them into
a new PlannerInfo struct, which is passed around instead of the bare
Query in all the planning code.  This commit is essentially just a
code-beautification exercise, but it does open the door to making
larger changes to the planner data structures without having to muck
with the widely-known Query struct.

20 years agoAdd description for backend termination:
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 03:39:54 +0000 (03:39 +0000)]
Add description for backend termination:

<   cleaned up properly.  A new signal is needed for safe termination.
>   cleaned up properly.  A new signal is needed for safe termination
>   because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
>   have run the query cancel cleanup routine.

20 years agoHere's a patch to do the following:
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 03:16:42 +0000 (03:16 +0000)]
Here's a patch to do the following:

1. Rename spi_return_next to return_next.
2. Add a new test for return_next.
3. Update the expected output.
4. Update the documentation.

Abhijit Menon-Sen

20 years agoCode for SET/SHOW TIME ZONE with a fixed-interval timezone was not
Tom Lane [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 01:49:06 +0000 (01:49 +0000)]
Code for SET/SHOW TIME ZONE with a fixed-interval timezone was not
prepared for HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP.  Per report from Guillaume Beaudoin.

20 years agoAdd 2phase TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:46:13 +0000 (00:46 +0000)]
Add 2phase TODO.detail.

20 years agoAdd TODO.detail for 2phase commit:
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:45:22 +0000 (00:45 +0000)]
Add TODO.detail for 2phase commit:
> * Add two-phase commit [2phase]

20 years agoReplace the parser's namespace tree (which formerly had the same
Tom Lane [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:38:11 +0000 (00:38 +0000)]
Replace the parser's namespace tree (which formerly had the same
representation as the jointree) with two lists of RTEs, one showing
the RTEs accessible by qualified names, and the other showing the RTEs
accessible by unqualified names.  I think this is conceptually simpler
than what we did before, and it's sure a whole lot easier to search.
This seems to eliminate the parse-time bottleneck for deeply nested
JOIN structures that was exhibited by phil@vodafone.

20 years agoAdd TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:28:36 +0000 (00:28 +0000)]
Add TODO.detail.

<   logs
>   logs [pitr]
130c130
< * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
> * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries [pitr]

20 years agoRemove duplicate emails.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:22:35 +0000 (00:22 +0000)]
Remove duplicate emails.

20 years agoAdd TODO.detail for timezone:
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:20:02 +0000 (00:20 +0000)]
Add TODO.detail for timezone:

<   information, either zone name or offset from UTC
>   information, either zone name or offset from UTC [timezone]

20 years agoAdd TODO.detail of standard timezone data type.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 5 Jun 2005 00:18:42 +0000 (00:18 +0000)]
Add TODO.detail of standard timezone data type.

20 years agoAdd pg_upgrade TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 23:33:17 +0000 (23:33 +0000)]
Add pg_upgrade TODO.detail.

20 years agoAdd TODO.detail:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 23:32:34 +0000 (23:32 +0000)]
Add TODO.detail:

> * Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade
>   [pg_upgrade]

20 years agoAdd pg_dump TODO.detail for multiple -t / -n flags.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 23:07:15 +0000 (23:07 +0000)]
Add pg_dump TODO.detail for multiple -t / -n flags.

20 years agoAdd pg_dump to TODO.detail.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 23:06:29 +0000 (23:06 +0000)]
Add pg_dump to TODO.detail.

20 years agoBack out patch:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 22:57:22 +0000 (22:57 +0000)]
Back out patch:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> a_ogawa <a_ogawa@hi-ho.ne.jp> writes:
> > It is a reasonable idea. However, the majority part of MemSet was not
> > able to be avoided by this idea. Because the per-tuple contexts are used
> > at the early stage of executor.
>
> Drat.  Well, what about changing that?  We could introduce additional
> contexts or change the startup behavior so that the ones that are
> frequently reset don't have any data in them unless you are working
> with pass-by-ref values inside the inner loop.

That might be possible. However, I think that we should change only
aset.c about this article.
I thought further: We can check whether context was used from the last
reset even when blocks list is not empty. Please see attached patch.

20 years agoAdd comment for multi-byte computation.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:56:13 +0000 (20:56 +0000)]
Add comment for multi-byte computation.

20 years agoAllow kerberos name and username case sensitivity to be specified from
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:42:43 +0000 (20:42 +0000)]
Allow kerberos name and username case sensitivity to be specified from
postgresql.conf.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's an updated version of the patch, with the following changes:

1) No longer uses "service name" as "application version". It's instead
hardcoded as "postgres". It could be argued that this part should be
backpatched to 8.0, but it doesn't make a big difference until you can
start changing it with GUC / connection parameters. This change only
affects kerberos 5, not 4.

2) Now downcases kerberos usernames when the client is running on win32.

3) Adds guc option for "krb_caseins_users" to make the server ignore
case mismatch which is required by some KDCs such as Active Directory.
Off by default, per discussion with Tom. This change only affects
kerberos 5, not 4.

4) Updated so it doesn't conflict with the rendevouz/bonjour patch
already in ;-)

Magnus Hagander

20 years agoAt 2005-05-21 20:18:50 +0530, ams@oryx.com wrote:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:33:06 +0000 (20:33 +0000)]
At 2005-05-21 20:18:50 +0530, ams@oryx.com wrote:
>
> > The second issue is where plperl returns a large result set.

I have attached the following seven patches to address this problem:

1. Trivial. Replaces some errant spaces with tabs.

2. Trivial. Fixes the spelling of Jan's name, and gets rid of many
   inane, useless, annoying, and often misleading comments. Here's
   a sample: "plperl_init_all() - Initialize all".

   (I have tried to add some useful comments here and there, and will
   continue to do so now and again.)

3. Trivial. Splits up some long lines.

4. Converts SRFs in PL/Perl to use a Tuplestore and SFRM_Materialize
   to return the result set, based on the PL/PgSQL model.

   There are two major consequences: result sets will spill to disk when
   they can no longer fit in work_mem; and "select foo_srf()" no longer
   works. (I didn't lose sleep over the latter, since that form is not
   valid in PL/PgSQL, and it's not documented in PL/Perl.)

5. Trivial, but important. Fixes use of "undef" instead of undef. This
   would cause empty functions to fail in bizarre ways. I suspect that
   there's still another (old) bug here. I'll investigate further.

6. Moves the majority of (4) out into a new plperl_return_next()
   function, to make it possible to expose the functionality to
   Perl; cleans up some of the code besides.

7. Add an spi_return_next function for use in Perl code.

If you want to apply the patches and try them out, 8-composite.diff is
what you should use. (Note: my patches depend upon Andrew's use-strict
and %_SHARED patches being applied.)

Here's something to try:

    create or replace function foo() returns setof record as $$
    $i = 0;
    for ("World", "PostgreSQL", "PL/Perl") {
        spi_return_next({f1=>++$i, f2=>'Hello', f3=>$_});
    }
    return;
    $$ language plperl;
    select * from foo() as (f1 integer, f2 text, f3 text);

(Many thanks to Andrews Dunstan and Supernews for their help.)

Abhijit Menon-Sen

20 years agoTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 20:14:12 +0000 (20:14 +0000)]
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> a_ogawa <a_ogawa@hi-ho.ne.jp> writes:
> > It is a reasonable idea. However, the majority part of MemSet was not
> > able to be avoided by this idea. Because the per-tuple contexts are used
> > at the early stage of executor.
>
> Drat.  Well, what about changing that?  We could introduce additional
> contexts or change the startup behavior so that the ones that are
> frequently reset don't have any data in them unless you are working
> with pass-by-ref values inside the inner loop.

That might be possible. However, I think that we should change only
aset.c about this article.
I thought further: We can check whether context was used from the last
reset even when blocks list is not empty. Please see attached patch.

The effect of the patch that I measured is as follows:

o Execution time that executed the SQL ten times.
(1)Linux(CPU: Pentium III, Compiler option: -O2)
 - original: 24.960s
 - patched : 23.114s

(2)Linux(CPU: Pentium 4, Compiler option: -O2)
 - original: 8.730s
 - patched : 7.962s

(3)Solaris(CPU: Ultra SPARC III, Compiler option: -O2)
 - original: 37.0s
 - patched : 33.7s

Atsushi Ogawa (a_ogawa)

20 years agoChange expandRTE() and ResolveNew() back to taking just the single
Tom Lane [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:19:42 +0000 (19:19 +0000)]
Change expandRTE() and ResolveNew() back to taking just the single
RTE of interest, rather than the whole rangetable list.  This makes
the API more understandable and avoids duplicate RTE lookups.  This
patch reverts no-longer-needed portions of my patch of 2004-08-19.

20 years agoBack out make_mkid change.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:20:43 +0000 (18:20 +0000)]
Back out make_mkid change.

20 years agoImprove readability of config location params by adding newline.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:13:59 +0000 (18:13 +0000)]
Improve readability of config location params by adding newline.

20 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 18:12:38 +0000 (18:12 +0000)]
Add:

> * Allow pg_ctl to work properly with configuration files located outside
>   the PGDATA directory
>
>   pg_ctl can not read the pid file because it isn't located in the
>   config directory but in the PGDATA directory.  The solution is to
>   allow pg_ctl to read and understand postgresql.conf to find the
>   data_directory value.
>

20 years agoAdd description:
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:53:48 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
Add description:
>
>   O_DIRECT doesn't have the same media write guarantees as fsync, so it
>   is in addition to the fsync method, not in place of it.
>

20 years agoFix NUMERIC modulus to properly truncate division in computation.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 14:12:50 +0000 (14:12 +0000)]
Fix NUMERIC modulus to properly truncate division in computation.
Division rounding was causing incorrect results.  Test case:

test=> SELECT 12345678901234567890 % 123;
 ?column?
----------
       78
(1 row)

Was returning -45.

20 years agoUpdate Chinese FAQ to fix XHTML format.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:33:25 +0000 (03:33 +0000)]
Update Chinese FAQ to fix XHTML format.

Weiping (Laser)

20 years agoRemove unused 'printCost' field from ExplainState, and simplify the code
Neil Conway [Sat, 4 Jun 2005 02:07:09 +0000 (02:07 +0000)]
Remove unused 'printCost' field from ExplainState, and simplify the code
accordingly (this field was always initialized to true). Patch from
Alvaro Herrera.

20 years agoRevise handling of dropped columns in JOIN alias lists to avoid a
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 23:05:30 +0000 (23:05 +0000)]
Revise handling of dropped columns in JOIN alias lists to avoid a
performance problem pointed out by phil@vodafone: to wit, we were
spending O(N^2) time to check dropped-ness in an N-deep join tree,
even in the case where the tree was freshly constructed and couldn't
possibly mention any dropped columns.  Instead of recursing in
get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(), change the data structure definition:
the joinaliasvars list of a JOIN RTE must have a NULL Const instead
of a Var at any position that references a now-dropped column.  This
costs nothing during normal parse-rewrite-plan path, and instead we
have a linear-time update to make when loading a stored rule that
might contain now-dropped columns.  While at it, move the responsibility
for acquring locks on relations referenced by rules into this separate
function (which I therefore chose to call AcquireRewriteLocks).
This saves effort --- namely, duplicated lock grabs in parser and rewriter
--- in the normal path at a cost of one extra non-locked heap_open()
in the stored-rule path; seems a good tradeoff.  A fringe benefit is
that it is now *much* clearer that we acquire lock on relations referenced
in rules before we make any rewriter decisions based on their properties.
(I don't know of any bug of that ilk, but it wasn't exactly clear before.)

20 years agoPut back WAL TODO.detail entries.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:46:02 +0000 (21:46 +0000)]
Put back WAL TODO.detail entries.

20 years agoRemove because it is partly done and we might not want to go farther:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 21:42:21 +0000 (21:42 +0000)]
Remove because it is partly done and we might not want to go farther:
< * -Compress WAL entries [wal]

20 years agoJust noticed that you can't Query-Cancel a long planner run, because
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 19:00:12 +0000 (19:00 +0000)]
Just noticed that you can't Query-Cancel a long planner run, because
no part of the planner did CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS().  Add one in a
suitably strategic spot.

20 years agoUpdate Russian FAQ.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:17:07 +0000 (18:17 +0000)]
Update Russian FAQ.

Viktor Vislobokov

20 years agoTrim TODO.detail for wal completed items.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 17:14:17 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
Trim TODO.detail for wal completed items.

20 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:38:02 +0000 (16:38 +0000)]
Done:
> * -Compress WAL entries [wal]

20 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:36:50 +0000 (16:36 +0000)]
Done:
> * -Change WAL to use 32-bit CRC, for performance reasons

20 years agoPush enable/disable of notify and catchup interrupts all the way down
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:04:30 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
Push enable/disable of notify and catchup interrupts all the way down
to just around the bare recv() call that gets a command from the client.
The former placement in PostgresMain was unsafe because the intermediate
processing layers (especially SSL) use facilities such as malloc that are
not necessarily re-entrant.  Per report from counterstorm.com.

20 years agoThe no-lexer-backup speedup hadn't been there a week before somebody
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:45:19 +0000 (17:45 +0000)]
The no-lexer-backup speedup hadn't been there a week before somebody
broke it.  Maybe we do need an automated check ...

20 years ago- Fixed memory leak in ecpglib by adding some missing free() commands.
Michael Meskes [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 12:35:11 +0000 (12:35 +0000)]
- Fixed memory leak in ecpglib by adding some missing free() commands.
- Added patch by Gavin Scott <gavin@planetacetech.com> for Intel 64bit hardware.

20 years agoChange CRCs in WAL records from 64bit to 32bit for performance reasons.
Tom Lane [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 05:55:29 +0000 (05:55 +0000)]
Change CRCs in WAL records from 64bit to 32bit for performance reasons.
Instead of a separate CRC on each backup block, include backup blocks
in their parent WAL record's CRC; this is important to ensure that the
backup block really goes with the WAL record, ie there was not a page
tear right at the start of the backup block.  Implement a simple form
of compression of backup blocks: drop any run of zeroes starting at
pd_lower, so as not to store the unused 'hole' that commonly exists in
PG heap and index pages.  Tweak PageRepairFragmentation and related
routines to ensure they keep the unused space zeroed, so that the above
compression method remains effective.  All per recent discussions.

20 years agoCompleted:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:27:58 +0000 (01:27 +0000)]
Completed:
<  o Allow COPY to understand \x as a hex byte
>  o -Allow COPY to understand \x as a hex byte

20 years agoAdd support for \x hex strings in psql variables.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:23:48 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
Add support for \x hex strings in psql variables.

20 years agoAdd support for \x hex escapes in backend strings. Octal was already
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:23:08 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
Add support for \x hex escapes in backend strings.  Octal was already
supported.  This follows the C standard escapes.

20 years agoAdd support for \x hex escapes in COPY.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:21:22 +0000 (01:21 +0000)]
Add support for \x hex escapes in COPY.

Sergey Ten

20 years agoFix log_statement to properly recognize SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 1 Jun 2005 23:27:12 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
Fix log_statement to properly recognize SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS
and DDL statements.

Backpatch fix to 8.0.X.

Per report from Murthy Kambhampaty

20 years agopatternsel() was improperly stripping RelabelType from the derived
Tom Lane [Wed, 1 Jun 2005 17:05:25 +0000 (17:05 +0000)]
patternsel() was improperly stripping RelabelType from the derived
expressions it constructed, causing scalarineqsel to become confused
if the underlying variable was of a domain type.  Per report from
Kevin Grittner.

20 years agoPrevent to divide by zero and range out of 0..1
Teodor Sigaev [Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:46:09 +0000 (11:46 +0000)]
Prevent to divide by zero and range out of 0..1

20 years agoAdd test to WAL replay to verify that xl_prev points back to the previous
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 May 2005 19:11:28 +0000 (19:11 +0000)]
Add test to WAL replay to verify that xl_prev points back to the previous
WAL record; this is necessary to be sure we recognize stale WAL records
when a WAL page was only partially written during a system crash.

20 years agoTab cleanup for SGML.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 May 2005 14:48:47 +0000 (14:48 +0000)]
Tab cleanup for SGML.

Robert Treat

20 years agoFix information_schema for OUT and INOUT parameters.
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 May 2005 03:36:24 +0000 (03:36 +0000)]
Fix information_schema for OUT and INOUT parameters.

20 years agoTeach ruleutils to drill down into RECORD-type Vars in the same way
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 May 2005 03:03:59 +0000 (03:03 +0000)]
Teach ruleutils to drill down into RECORD-type Vars in the same way
that the parser now can, so that it can reverse-list cases involving
FieldSelect from a RECORD Var.

20 years agoParseComplexProjection should make use of expandRecordVariable so that
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 May 2005 01:03:23 +0000 (01:03 +0000)]
ParseComplexProjection should make use of expandRecordVariable so that
it can handle cases like (foo.x).y where foo is a subquery and x is
a function-returning-RECORD RTE in that subquery.

20 years agoChange relblocknumber field of pg_buffercache view from numeric to int8
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 May 2005 00:07:47 +0000 (00:07 +0000)]
Change relblocknumber field of pg_buffercache view from numeric to int8
for efficiency's sake.  Mark Kirkwood.

20 years agoDocument get_call_result_type() and friends; mark TypeGetTupleDesc()
Tom Lane [Mon, 30 May 2005 23:09:07 +0000 (23:09 +0000)]
Document get_call_result_type() and friends; mark TypeGetTupleDesc()
and RelationNameGetTupleDesc() as deprecated; remove uses of the
latter in the contrib library.  Along the way, clean up crosstab()
code and documentation a little.

20 years agoMove to ALTER section:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 21:12:23 +0000 (21:12 +0000)]
Move to ALTER section:

< * Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
<   inherited from the parent table
470a469,471
>
>  o Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
>    inherited from the parent table

20 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 21:08:27 +0000 (21:08 +0000)]
Add:

> * Prevent child tables from altering constraints like CHECK that were
>   inherited from the parent table

20 years agoAdd support for NUMERIC ^ NUMERIC based on power(numeric, numeric).
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 20:59:17 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
Add support for NUMERIC ^ NUMERIC based on power(numeric, numeric).

20 years agoWording improvement (may -> can)
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 19:32:44 +0000 (19:32 +0000)]
Wording improvement (may -> can)

20 years agoAdd support for FUNCTION RTEs to build_physical_tlist(), so that the
Tom Lane [Mon, 30 May 2005 18:55:49 +0000 (18:55 +0000)]
Add support for FUNCTION RTEs to build_physical_tlist(), so that the
physical-tlist optimization can be applied to FunctionScan nodes as well
as regular tables and SubqueryScans.

20 years agoSupport only octal for psql PROMPT values, rather than the confusing
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 18:28:11 +0000 (18:28 +0000)]
Support only octal for psql PROMPT values, rather than the confusing
hex/decimal/octal.  Documentation already updated.

BACKWARD COMPATIBLE CHANGE

20 years agoUse {xqoctesc} lex macro now that \ddd is standard.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 16:48:47 +0000 (16:48 +0000)]
Use {xqoctesc} lex macro now that \ddd is standard.

20 years agoUpdate psql docs for recent octal-only string behavior.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 15:24:23 +0000 (15:24 +0000)]
Update psql docs for recent octal-only string behavior.

20 years agoHave psql escape bytes in strings for variables follow the backend
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 14:50:35 +0000 (14:50 +0000)]
Have psql escape bytes in strings for variables follow the backend
conventions of only allowing octal, like \045.  Remove support for
\decimal, \0octal, and \0xhex which matches the strtol() function but
didn't make sense with backslashes.

These now return the same character:

test=> \set x '\54'
test=> \echo :x
,
test=> \set x '\054'
test=> \echo :x
,

THIS IS A BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY CHANGE.

20 years agoAdd missing <P>.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 30 May 2005 13:11:06 +0000 (13:11 +0000)]
Add missing <P>.

20 years agoWhen enqueueing after-row triggers for updates of a table with a foreign
Neil Conway [Mon, 30 May 2005 07:20:59 +0000 (07:20 +0000)]
When enqueueing after-row triggers for updates of a table with a foreign
key, compare the new and old row versions. If the foreign key column has
not changed, we needn't enqueue the trigger, since the update cannot
violate the foreign key. This optimization was previously applied in the
RI trigger function, but it is more efficient to avoid firing the trigger
altogether. Per recent discussion on pgsql-hackers.

Also add a regression test for some unintuitive foreign key behavior, and
refactor some code that deals with the OIDs of the various RI trigger
functions.