oidvector/int2vector. pg_dump code was assuming that it would see
exactly FUNC_MAX_ARGS integers in the string returned by the backend.
That's no longer true. (Perhaps that change wasn't such a good idea
after all --- will it break any other applications??)
I finally got around to schlepping through pg_dump, to finish what I started
about three months (or more) ago. Attached is a gzipped diff file to apply
in the bin/pg_dump directory. This should remove all string length
dependencies, except one, which I'm working on. It has been through some
rudimentary unit testing, but that's about it, so if any of you would give
it a more strenuous run-through, I'd be grateful for the feedback.
Cheers...
Ansley, Michael
Make all system indexes unique.
Make all cache loads use system indexes.
Rename *rel to *relid in inheritance tables.
Rename cache names to be clearer.
unless necessary.
Label internal bpchar types as "character" and varchar types as
"character varying" to be less Postgres-specific. These types map to
the SQL92 definitions anyway.
Redefine g_force_quotes to be the local variable force_quotes.
Pass this as an argument to fmtId().
These should help with handling the single-byte internal "char" type.
Formerly did so only for those which clearly required it, but that
would still miss things like reserved key words which also require it.
Implement the "-n" switch to revert the double quote behavior
to put DQs only where there is more than lower-case, digits,
and underscores.
prompt_for_password code that psql does. We fixed psql a month or
two back to permit usernames and passwords longer than 8 characters.
I propagated the same fix into pg_dump.
Tom Lane
Subject: [PATCHES] pg_dump memory leak patch
This patch fixes a HUGE memory leak problem in pg_dump.
Pretty much anything that was allocated was never freed and Purify
reported about 40% possible memory leak and 6% actual leak. I added
functions to clear out all the allocated structures. After the patch
Purify returns 0 for number of bytes leaked...
It adds a WITH OIDS option to the copy command, which allows
dumping and loading of oids.
If a copy command tried to load in an oid that is greater than
its current system max oid, the system max oid is incremented. No
checking is done to see if other backends are running and have cached
oids.
pg_dump as its first step when using the -o (oid) option, will
copy in a dummy row to set the system max oid value so as rows are
loaded in, they are certain to be lower than the system oid.
pg_dump now creates indexes at the end to speed loading
Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Thomas G. Lockhart
Vadim B. Mikheev
Marc G. Fournier
Bryan Henderson