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Bruce Momjian 56bb7f2a02 Remove "all balls" mention of network address; change IPv6 address to ::/0. 2011-03-19 10:05:04 -04:00
Robert Haas fbcf4b92aa Fix possible "tuple concurrently updated" error in ALTER TABLE.
When adding an inheritance parent to a table, an AccessShareLock on the
parent isn't strong enough to prevent trouble, so take
ShareUpdateExclusiveLock instead.  Since this is a behavior change,
albeit a fairly unobtrusive one, and since we have only one report
from the field, no back-patch.

Report by Jon Nelson, analysis by Alvaro Herrera, fix by me.
2011-03-18 22:09:57 -04:00
Robert Haas 727589995a Move synchronous_standbys_defined updates from WAL writer to BG writer.
This is advantageous because the BG writer is alive until much later in
the shutdown sequence than WAL writer; we want to make sure that it's
possible to shut off synchronous replication during a smart shutdown,
else it might not be possible to complete the shutdown at all.

Per very reasonable gripes from Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs.
2011-03-18 21:43:45 -04:00
Robert Haas f78ba0a73a Woops. Previous patch to remove -X options missed getopt_long calls().
Noted by Tom Lane.
2011-03-18 21:23:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0191e120e6 Document that the timestamp returned by pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp is
the time on the primary that the transaction was generated.
2011-03-18 19:18:08 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a7136b7fa2 Document the all-balls IPv6 address. 2011-03-18 18:41:33 -04:00
Robert Haas 7a37900443 Make synchronous replication query cancel/die messages more consistent.
Per a gripe from Thom Brown about my previous commit in this area,
commit 9a56dc3389.
2011-03-18 10:20:22 -04:00
Robert Haas c5eb835bbf Remove ancient -X options to pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore.
The last version in which these options were documented is now EOL, so
it's time to get rid of them for real.  We now use GNU-style long
options instead.
2011-03-18 09:44:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 777e8c0015 Remove bogus semicolons in recoveryPausesHere.
Without this, the startup process goes into a tight loop, consuming
100% of one CPU and failing to respond to interrupts.
2011-03-18 08:09:09 -04:00
Robert Haas f94c6f9c0f Minor fixes for high availability documentation.
Erik Rijkers and me
2011-03-17 15:46:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 76dbb46153 Protocol documentation for Hot Standby feedback messages. 2011-03-17 15:10:55 -04:00
Robert Haas 02b1f84e7d Remove bogus comment. 2011-03-17 14:43:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 1c249fcfcc Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices
Report and patch from Daniel Popowich, bug #5842
(with some debugging help from Alex Hunsaker)
2011-03-17 15:26:15 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 8c0a5eb78a Raise maximum value of several timeout parameters
The maximum value of deadlock_timeout, max_standby_archive_delay,
max_standby_streaming_delay, log_min_duration_statement, and
log_autovacuum_min_duration was INT_MAX/1000 milliseconds, which is
about 35min, which is too short for some practical uses.  Raise the
maximum value to INT_MAX; the code that uses the parameters already
supports that just fine.
2011-03-17 20:19:51 +02:00
Robert Haas 84abea76f6 Add pause_at_recovery_target to recovery.conf.sample; improve docs.
Fujii Masao, but with the proposed behavior change reverted, and the
rest adjusted accordingly.
2011-03-17 14:04:11 -04:00
Robert Haas 9a56dc3389 Fix various possible problems with synchronous replication.
1. Don't ignore query cancel interrupts.  Instead, if the user asks to
cancel the query after we've already committed it, but before it's on
the standby, just emit a warning and let the COMMIT finish.

2. Don't ignore die interrupts (pg_terminate_backend or fast shutdown).
Instead, emit a warning message and close the connection without
acknowledging the commit.  Other backends will still see the effect of
the commit, but there's no getting around that; it's too late to abort
at this point, and ignoring die interrupts altogether doesn't seem like
a good idea.

3. If synchronous_standby_names becomes empty, wake up all backends
waiting for synchronous replication to complete.  Without this, someone
attempting to shut synchronous replication off could easily wedge the
entire system instead.

4. Avoid depending on the assumption that if a walsender updates
MyProc->syncRepState, we'll see the change even if we read it without
holding the lock.  The window for this appears to be quite narrow (and
probably doesn't exist at all on machines with strong memory ordering)
but protecting against it is practically free, so do that.

5. Remove useless state SYNC_REP_MUST_DISCONNECT, which isn't needed and
doesn't actually do anything.

There's still some further work needed here to make the behavior of fast
shutdown plausible, but that looks complex, so I'm leaving it for a
separate commit.  Review by Fujii Masao.
2011-03-17 13:12:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e148443ddd Document guc context values, and reference them from the config doc section.
Tom Lane
2011-03-17 00:27:01 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 5b079cb248 Use correct PATH separator for Cygwin in pg_regress.c.
This has been broken for years, and I'm not sure why it has not been
noticed before, but now a very modern Cygwin breaks on it, and the fix
is clearly correct. Backpatching to all live branches.
2011-03-17 00:06:52 -04:00
Robert Haas ad3aff45f0 Tab completion for \pset format and \pset linestyle.
Pavel Stehule
2011-03-16 17:46:15 -04:00
Robert Haas 5f588e2005 Corrections to CREATE FOREIGN TABLE documentation.
Omit incorrect = sign, and properly document server_name parameter.

Shigeru Hanada
2011-03-16 08:13:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 72cfc17aef Improve handling of unknown-type literals in UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
This patch causes unknown-type Consts to be coerced to the resolved output
type of the set operation at parse time.  Formerly such Consts were left
alone until late in the planning stage.  The disadvantage of that approach
is that it disables some optimizations, because the planner sees the set-op
leaf query as having different output column types than the overall set-op.
We saw an example of that in a recent performance gripe from Claudio
Freire.

Fixing such a Const requires scribbling on the leaf query in
transformSetOperationTree, but that should be all right since if the leaf
query's semantics depended on that output column, it would already have
resolved the unknown to something else.

Most of the bulk of this patch is a simple adjustment of
transformSetOperationTree's API so that upper levels can get at the
TargetEntry containing a Const to be replaced: it now returns a list of
TargetEntries, instead of just the bare expressions.
2011-03-15 21:52:10 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 898a14e1a0 Remove unused copy_dir() function from pg_upgrade. 2011-03-15 20:52:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a858ca19df Adjust doc wording about the casting exceptions for composite types. 2011-03-15 20:47:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 2b8364de69 Add hint suggesting the use of EXECUTE CREATE TABLE ... AS for EXECUTE INTO. 2011-03-15 20:18:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b774efa9d5 Fix spelling error in fuzzystrmatch docs. 2011-03-15 19:50:02 -04:00
Bruce Momjian df4a9595c2 Wording adjustment for restart_after_crash entry
Specifically, mention that "restart" is disabled by this parameter.
2011-03-15 12:43:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ddd6ff289f Add database comments to template0 and postgres databases, and improve
the comments on the template1 database.  No catalog version bump because
they are just comments.
2011-03-15 11:26:57 -04:00
Robert Haas f0f3617135 Minor sync rep documentation improvements.
- Make the name of the ID tag for the GUC entry match the GUC name.
- Clarify that synchronous_replication waits for xlog flush, not receipt.
- Mention that synchronous_replication won't wait if max_wal_senders=0.
2011-03-15 11:25:04 -04:00
Robert Haas 5ca4dfc79f Remove 13 keywords that are used only for ROLE options.
Review by Tom Lane.
2011-03-15 10:22:58 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 01c1a12a5b Remove special case allowing parameters to ident auth for initdb
This was required in pre-8.4 versions to allow the specification of
"ident sameuser", but sameuser is no longer required. It could be extended
to allow all parameters in the future, but should then apply to all
methods and not just ident.
2011-03-14 19:51:09 +01:00
Tom Lane f12423d75a Adjust regression test to avoid platform-dependent failure.
We have a test that verifies that max(anyarray) will cope if the array
column elements aren't all the same array type.  However, it's now possible
for that to produce a collation-related error message instead of the
expected one, if the first two column elements happen to be of the same
type and it's one that expects to be given collation info.  Tweak the test
to ensure this doesn't happen.  Per buildfarm member pika.
2011-03-14 12:52:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b051a34fd8 Remove duplicate time-based macros recently added. 2011-03-14 10:40:14 -04:00
Tom Lane a2eb9e0c08 Simplify list traversal logic in add_path().
Its mechanism for recovering after deleting the current list cell was
a bit klugy.  Borrow the technique used in other places.
2011-03-13 12:57:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 696d1f7f06 Make all comparisons done for/with statistics use the default collation.
While this will give wrong answers when estimating selectivity for a
comparison operator that's using a non-default collation, the estimation
error probably won't be large; and anyway the former approach created
estimation errors of its own by trying to use a histogram that might have
been computed with some other collation.  So we'll adopt this simplified
approach for now and perhaps improve it sometime in the future.

This patch incorporates changes from Andres Freund to make sure that
selfuncs.c passes a valid collation OID to any datatype-specific function
it calls, in case that function wants collation information.  Said OID will
now always be DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, but at least we won't get errors.
2011-03-12 16:30:36 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 94fe9c0f4e Use "backend process" rather than "backend server", where appropriate. 2011-03-12 09:38:56 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3a3f39fdc0 Use macros for time-based constants, rather than constants. 2011-03-12 09:35:56 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 3d9f7ec1ff Add test case for collation mismatch in recursive query
This isn't very important by itself, but was left on my list of things
without test coverage for the collation feature.
2011-03-12 10:07:23 +02:00
Tom Lane 2a26639a5d On further reflection, we'd better do the same in int.c.
We previously heard of the same problem in int24div(), so there's not a
good reason to suppose the problem is confined to cases involving int8.
2011-03-11 19:04:02 -05:00
Tom Lane 72330995a5 Put in some more safeguards against executing a division-by-zero.
Add dummy returns before every potential division-by-zero in int8.c,
because apparently further "improvements" in gcc's optimizer have
enabled it to break functions that weren't broken before.

Aurelien Jarno, via Martin Pitt
2011-03-11 18:18:55 -05:00
Tom Lane 8acdb8bf9c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types.
CollateClause is now used only in raw grammar output, and CollateExpr after
parse analysis.  This is for clarity and to avoid carrying collation names
in post-analysis parse trees: that's both wasteful and possibly misleading,
since the collation's name could be changed while the parsetree still
exists.

Also, clean up assorted infelicities and omissions in processing of the
node type.
2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7a8f43968a In docs, rename "backwards compatibility" to "backward compatibility"
for consistency.
2011-03-11 14:33:10 -05:00
Tom Lane e3c732a85c Create an explicit concept of collations that work for any encoding.
Use collencoding = -1 to represent such a collation in pg_collation.
We need this to make the "default" entry work sanely, and a later
patch will fix the C/POSIX entries to be represented this way instead
of duplicating them across all encodings.  All lookup operations now
search first for an entry that's database-encoding-specific, and then
for the same name with collencoding = -1.

Also some incidental code cleanup in collationcmds.c and pg_collation.c.
2011-03-11 13:20:11 -05:00
Tom Lane ac435a79c8 Remove duplicate indexterm to silence openjade wrning. 2011-03-11 11:41:51 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4869d10afc Update documentation on FreeBSD write cache control. 2011-03-11 11:36:42 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ffe92d15d5 Document that to_char('FM') removes only trailing zeros. 2011-03-11 10:48:30 -05:00
Bruce Momjian a1bb5a480d Document how listen_addresses can do only IPv4 or IPv6. 2011-03-11 10:31:43 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 30e8b3e58e In ecpg preprocessor, don't try to look up constants in the test for
variable hiding. A constant is not a variable. It worked in most cases by
accident, because we add constants to the global list of variables (why?),
but float constants like 1.23 were interpreted as struct field references,
and not found.

Backpatch to 9.0, where the test for variable hiding was added.
2011-03-11 17:27:57 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 59bacbe147 Adds index entries for session_user and pg_describe_object
Removes extraneous closing parenthesis from pg_describe_object
Puts pg_describe_object and has_sequence_privilege in correct
alphabetical position in function listing

Thom Brown
2011-03-11 10:23:59 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 35a1964e55 In plpsql docs, use RAISE rather than undefined log function. 2011-03-11 08:47:44 -05:00
Bruce Momjian cbd2811461 Improve extract(day) documentation with interval values. 2011-03-11 08:17:49 -05:00