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30605 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
4ff6856cb1 Improve release notes' description of Teodor's fixes for polygon overlaps
and contains operators.
2010-09-01 15:14:42 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
e4b96380c3 Add missing markup for translatability 2010-08-31 05:57:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
174a51332f Cosmetic fixes for KnownAssignedXidsGetOldestXmin, per Fujii Masao. 2010-08-30 17:30:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
eb36d1ad51 Fix oversight in RelFileNodeBackend patch: CreateFakeRelcacheEntry needs to
initialize the rd_backend field of a fake Relation entry correctly.
Fortunately, that is easy, since only non-temp relations should ever be
mentioned in the WAL stream.
2010-08-30 16:46:23 +00:00
Simon Riggs
ac791d3ca1 Fix misleading DEBUG2 issued during RemoveOldXlogFiles() 2010-08-30 15:37:41 +00:00
Simon Riggs
e72f15ed60 Truncate subtrans after each restartpoint.
Issue reported by Harald Kolb, patch by Fujii Masao, review by me.
2010-08-30 14:22:05 +00:00
Simon Riggs
e24d1dc069 Teach GetOldestXmin() about KnownAssignedXids during recovery.
Very minor issue, though this is required for a later patch.
Reported by Heikki Linnakangas.
2010-08-30 14:16:48 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
e1cc96dbf0 Fix typo in comment. 2010-08-30 06:33:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
8fa30f906b Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.
This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR,
rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field
from time to time:
* right sibling's left-link doesn't match;
* PageAddItem failure during _bt_split();
* parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel().
In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit
more verbose, with additional values included.

The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for
subsequent analysis.  But with so many users whose platforms don't capture
core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard
to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the
problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be
necessary.  It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages
indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level
malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more
robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found.

Backpatch to 8.2.  The code before that is sufficiently different that
it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.
2010-08-29 19:33:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
a9a999bc1a Remove obsolete remark that PQprepare() is more flexible than PREPARE.
Spotted by Dmitriy Igrishin.  Back-patch to 8.2, which is when the PREPARE
statement was improved to allow parameter types to be omitted.
2010-08-29 15:19:05 +00:00
Robert Haas
462583be1c Insert additional compiler placation into objectaddress.c.
Peter Eisentraut reports that some bits of the "address" variable
in get_object_address() give "may be used uninitialized" warnings;
this likes the only excuse his compiler could have for thinking
that's possible.
2010-08-27 21:31:19 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
2355b69b1e Small refactoring of makeVar() from a TargetEntry 2010-08-27 20:30:08 +00:00
Robert Haas
c10575ff00 Rewrite comment code for better modularity, and add necessary locking.
Review by Alvaro Herrera, KaiGai Kohei, and Tom Lane.
2010-08-27 11:47:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
73b3bd5574 Document the existence of the socket lock file under unix_socket_directory,
which is perhaps not a terribly good spot for it but there doesn't seem to be
a better place.  Also add a source-code comment pointing out a couple reasons
for having a separate lock file.  Per suggestion from Greg Smith.
2010-08-26 22:00:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
4832291655 Explain automatic creation (or lack of it) of indexes for the various types
of constraints.

Kevin Grittner
2010-08-26 21:08:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
16567b0581 Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l: DST law changes in
Egypt and Palestine.  Added new names for two Micronesian timezones:
Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred
abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over
Pacific/Ponape.  Historical corrections for Finland.
2010-08-26 19:58:36 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
7788b76acd Improve wording for privilege description on certain failure messages; the
original misleadingly suggests that only access is meant, causing confusion.
Per recent trouble report by Robert McGehee on pgsql-admin.
2010-08-26 19:49:08 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
3a1b51de19 Remove duplicate translatable phrase 2010-08-26 19:23:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
db2d9c602c Fix ExecMakeTableFunctionResult to verify that all rows returned by a SRF
returning "record" actually do have the same rowtype.  This is needed because
the parser can't realistically enforce that they will all have the same typmod,
as seen in a recent example from David Wheeler.

Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as we have the notion of RECORD
subtypes being distinguished by typmod.  Wheeler's example depends on
8.4-and-up features, but I suspect there may be ways to provoke similar
failures before 8.4.
2010-08-26 18:54:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
39ce62b110 Don't auto-create the subdirectories holding built documentation in a VPATH
build tree.  If we actually build the docs in the VPATH tree, those dirs
will get created then; but if they're present and empty, they capture the
vpathsearch searches in "make install", preventing installation of prebuilt
docs that might exist in the source tree.  Per bug #5595 from Dmtiriy Igrishin.
Fix based on idea from Peter Eisentraut.
2010-08-26 18:34:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
13e6d6c5da Remove docs for "Incrementally Updated Backups" because it was of
questionable reliability;  information moved to a wiki:

	http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups

Backpatch to 9.0.
2010-08-25 23:55:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
9389ac8928 Document filtering dictionaries in textsearch.sgml.
While at it, copy-edit the description of prefix-match marker support in
synonym dictionaries, and clarify the description of the default unaccent
dictionary a bit more.
2010-08-25 21:42:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
acac35adca Improve hint message for ENOMEM failure from shmget().
It turns out that some platforms return ENOMEM for a request that violates
SHMALL, whereas we were assuming that ENOSPC would always be used for that.
Apparently the latter is a Linuxism while ENOMEM is the BSD tradition.
Extend the ENOMEM hint to suggest that raising SHMALL might be needed.
Per gripe from A.M.

Backpatch to 9.0, but not further, because this doesn't seem important
enough to warrant creating extra translation work in the stable branches.
(If it were, we'd have figured this out years ago.)
2010-08-25 20:10:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0d812f1966 Update release notes, per comments from Simon Riggs. 2010-08-25 19:41:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c76a4f8dea Catch null pointer returns from PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtr
This is reproducibly possible in Python 2.7 if the user turned
PendingDeprecationWarning into an error, but it's theoretically also possible
in earlier versions in case of exceptional conditions.

backpatched to 8.0
2010-08-25 19:37:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
52ba9a537b Add missing description of reloftype field 2010-08-25 18:18:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
7fc614c698 Docs review for unaccent: fix grammar, markup, etc. 2010-08-25 02:12:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
1dab218a69 Avoid passing signed chars to <ctype.h> functions ... same old
portability mistake as always.  Per buildfarm member pika.
2010-08-25 00:53:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
f121c408e2 Update 9.0 release notes for changes since beta4.
Note: as usual, bug fixes that were also applied in back branches are not
considered material to include in a new major release's notes.
2010-08-25 00:47:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
7dc04cd204 Further editing of release notes. 2010-08-24 23:45:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
99ee43c57b Make EXPLAIN show the function call expression of a FunctionScan plan node,
but only in VERBOSE mode.  Per discussion.
2010-08-24 21:20:36 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
5c788e7cf5 When in automatic dependency mode, never delete any intermediate
files automatically.  Otherwise, the following could happen: When
starting from a clean source tree, the first build would delete the
intermediate file, but also create the dependency file, which
mentions the intermediate file, thus making it non-intermediate.
The second build will then need to rebuild the now non-intermediate
missing file.  So the second build will do work even though nothing
had changed.  One place where this happens is the .c -> .o -> .so
chain for some contrib modules.
2010-08-24 18:06:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b1e2e9c1ef Fix awkward wording in Incrementally Updated Backups docs.
Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-08-24 15:22:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f5878cd38f Clarifications for 9.0 release notes
Josh Berkus
2010-08-24 14:46:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c107c35df3 Update autovacuum_freeze_max_age documentation to mention that the
default is low because of pg_clog file removal.

Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-08-24 13:32:25 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
49b27ab551 Add string functions: concat(), concat_ws(), left(), right(), and reverse().
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by me.
2010-08-24 06:30:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
b9defe0405 Marginal code cleanup for streaming replication.
There is no reason that proc.c should have to get involved in this dirty hack
for letting the postmaster know which children are walsenders.  Revert that
file to the way it was, and confine the kluge to pmsignal.c and postmaster.c.
2010-08-23 17:20:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
e57cd3936f Make pg_archivecleanup log messages more consistent.
Erik Rijkers
2010-08-23 02:56:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
005e427a22 Make an editorial pass over the 9.0 release notes.
This is mostly about grammar, style, and presentation, though I did find
a few small factual errors.
2010-08-23 02:43:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d8986332cb Document that autovacuum_freeze_max_age is used for pg_clog recycling.
We already mentioned xid wraparound.
2010-08-22 02:37:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
95cacd1345 Use a non-locale-dependent definition of isspace() in array_in/array_out.
array_in discards unquoted leading and trailing whitespace in array values,
while array_out is careful to quote array elements that contain whitespace.
This is problematic when the definition of "whitespace" varies between
locales: array_in could drop characters that were meant to be part of the
value.  To avoid that, lock down "whitespace" to mean only the traditional
six ASCII space characters.

This change also works around a bug in OS X and some older BSD systems, in
which isspace() could return true for character fragments in UTF8 locales.
(There may be other places in PG where that bug could cause problems, but
this is the only one complained of so far; see recent report from Steven
Schlansker.)

Back-patch to 9.0, but not further.  Given the lack of previous reports
of trouble, changing this behavior in stable branches seems to offer
more risk of breaking applications than reward of avoiding problems.
2010-08-21 16:55:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
c5d6d5bc6d Improve parallel restore's ability to cope with selective restore (-L option).
The original coding tended to break down in the face of modified restore
orders, as shown in bug #5626 from Albert Ullrich, because it would flip over
into parallel-restore operation too soon.  That causes problems because we
don't have sufficient dependency information in dump archives to allow safe
parallel processing of SECTION_PRE_DATA items.  Even if we did, it's probably
undesirable to allow that to override the commanded restore order.

To fix the problem of omitted items causing unexpected changes in restore
order, tweak SortTocFromFile so that omitted items end up at the head of
the list not the tail.  This ensures that they'll be examined and their
dependencies will be marked satisfied before we get to any interesting
items.

In HEAD and 9.0, we can easily change restore_toc_entries_parallel so that
all SECTION_PRE_DATA items are guaranteed to be processed in the initial
serial-restore loop, and hence in commanded order.  Only DATA and POST_DATA
items are candidates for parallel processing.  For them there might be
variations from the commanded order because of parallelism, but we should
do it in a safe order thanks to dependencies.

In 8.4 it's much harder to make such a guarantee.  I settled for not
letting the initial loop break out into parallel processing mode if
it sees a DATA/POST_DATA item that's not to be restored; this at least
prevents a non-restorable item from causing premature exit from the loop.
This means that 8.4 will be more likely to fail given a badly-ordered -L
list than 9.x, but we don't really promise any such thing will work anyway.
2010-08-21 13:59:44 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
5abd2d704d Adjust regression tests for previous commit, that I forgot
to include...
2010-08-21 13:18:02 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
946045f04d Add vacuum and analyze counters to pg_stat_*_tables views. 2010-08-21 10:59:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
efe2e9a758 Add missing processing of OptTemp in CREATE IF NOT EXISTS variant
for typed tables.  Noted by Robert Haas.
2010-08-20 14:55:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
5344945810 Avoid saying "random" when randomness is not actually meant.
Per Thom Brown.
2010-08-20 13:59:45 +00:00
Robert Haas
a481ff71af Remove the isLocalBuf argument from ReadBuffer_common.
Since an SMgrRelation now knows whether or not the underlying relation is
temporary, there's no point in also passing that information via an
additional argument.
2010-08-20 01:07:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
79dc97a401 Bring some sanity to the trace_recovery_messages code and docs.
Per gripe from Fujii Masao, though this is not exactly his proposed patch.
Categorize as DEVELOPER_OPTIONS and set context PGC_SIGHUP, as per Fujii,
but set the default to LOG because higher values aren't really sensible
(see the code for trace_recovery()).  Fix the documentation to agree with
the code and to try to explain what the variable actually does.  Get rid
of no-op calls trace_recovery(LOG), which accomplish nothing except to
demonstrate that this option confuses even its author.
2010-08-19 22:55:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
9676b01028 Allow USING and INTO clauses of plpgsql's EXECUTE to appear in either order.
Aside from being more forgiving, this prevents a rather surprising misbehavior
when the "wrong" order was used: the old code didn't throw a syntax error,
but absorbed the INTO clause into the last USING expression, which then did
strange things downstream.

Intentionally not changing the documentation; we'll continue to advertise
only the "standard" clause order.

Backpatch to 8.4, where the USING clause was added to EXECUTE.
2010-08-19 18:57:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
f4b4a46f01 Keep exec_simple_check_plan() from thinking "SELECT foo INTO bar" is simple.
It's not clear if this situation can occur in plpgsql other than via the
EXECUTE USING case Heikki illustrated, which I will shortly close off.
However, ignoring the intoClause if it's there is surely wrong, so let's
patch it for safety.

Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far back as this code has a PlannedStmt
to deal with.  There might be another way to make an equivalent test
before that, but since this is just preventing hypothetical bugs,
I'm not going to obsess about it.
2010-08-19 18:10:48 +00:00