As an example I sent a bug-report on 26 Nov to tell that the fix included
below is necessary to compile pg95-current on Ultrix with Digital's
standard C compiler c89. In fact I think that this fix is needed
for any C compiler sticking very close the standard, see my discussion
in the original bug report.
Erik Bertelsen
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
transsup.c: In function `TransBlockGetLastTransactionIdStatus':
transsup.c:122: warning: unsigned value >= 0 is always 1
gmake[3]: *** [transsup.o] Error 1
...
(old _bt_compare always returned >= 0 while comparing with P_HIKEY
on root page - it breaks root page when _bt_insertonpg tries insert
new minimal key into root page).
2. Fixed bug concerns "empty" pages: non-rightmost pages with only P_HIKEY
present on it. Such pages appear after vacuum.
Changes:
* Unique index capability works using the syntax 'create unique
index'.
* Duplicate OID's in the system tables are removed. I put
little scripts called 'duplicate_oids' and 'find_oid' in
include/catalog that help to find and remove duplicate OID's.
I also moved 'unused_oids' from backend/catalog to
include/catalog, since it has to be in the same directory
as the include files in order to work.
* The backend tries converting the name of a function or aggregate
to all lowercase if the original name given doesn't work (mostly
for compatibility with ODBC).
* You can 'SELECT NULL' to your heart's content.
* I put my _bt_updateitem fix in instead, which uses
_bt_insertonpg so that even if the new key is so big that
the page has to be split, everything still works.
* All literal references to system catalog OID's have been
replaced with references to define'd constants from the catalog
header files.
* I added a couple of node copy functions. I think this was a
preliminary attempt to get rules to work.
I found another bug in btree index. Looking at the code it seems that NULL
keys are never used to build or scan a btree index (see the explain commands
in the example). However this is not the case when a null key is retrieved
in an outer loop of a join select and used in an index scan of an inner loop.
This bug causes at least three kinds of problems:
1) the backend crashes when it tries to compare a text string with a null.
2) it is not possible to find tuples with null keys in a join.
3) null is considered equal to 0 when the datum is passed by value, see
the last query.
Submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
My guess is that the thing had bugs, and the pfree was commented out.
The thing is probabally free'ed anyway at the end, so it was not a bad
thing.
If it does cause a bug, it will generate an error when hit, so I say
unless someone else knows, let's remove it and run the regression test.
-Bruce
- Added the header access/heapam.h.
- Changed all instances of "length" to "data_length" to quiet
the compiler.
- initialized a few variables. The compiler couldn't see that
the code guaranteed that these would be initialized before
being dereferenced. If anyone wants to check my work follow
the usage of these variables and make sure that this true
and wasn't actually a bug in the original code.
- added a missing break statement to a default case. This
was a benign error but bad style.
- layed out heap_sysattrlen differently. I think this way
makes the structure of the code crystal clear. There should
be no actual difference in the actual behaviour of the code.
Submitted by: darcy@druid.druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
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>
When you try to do any UPDATE of the catalog class pg_class, such as
to change ownership of a class, the backend crashes.
This is really two serial bugs: 1) there is a hardcoded copy of the
schema of pg_class in the postgres program, and it doesn't match the
actual class that initdb creates in the database; 2) Parts of postgres
determine whether to pass an attribute value by value or by reference
based on the attbyval attribute of the attribute in class
pg_attribute. Other parts of postgres have it hardcoded. For the
relacl[] attribute in class pg_class, attbyval does not match the
hardcoded expectation.
The fix is to correct the hardcoded schema for pg_attribute and to
change the fetchatt macro so it ignores attbyval for all variable
length attributes. The fix also adds a bunch of logic documentation and
extends genbki.sh so it allows source files to contain such documentation.
--
Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
San Jose, California
Postgres is not able to cluster a relation on which an rtree index is
defined. Postmaster gives the following error message:
Too Large Allocation Request("!(0 < (size) && (size) <= (0xfffffff)):size=0
[0x0]", File:"/export/home/postgres/src/backend/utils/mmgr/mcxt.c", Line: 220)
!(0 <(size) && (size) <= (0xfffffff)) (0) [No such file or directory]
Submitted by: Dirk Koeser <koeser@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
Here's a small patch that my run-time checker whines about
incessantly. The justification for the patch is along the
lines of passing a NULL is allowed if you have an
arguement that is a *POINTER* to something, but if
the arguement is an array reference, it's not really
a "pointer", so it can't be NULL.
If you question this, I refer you to
<URL:http://www.va.pubnix.com/staff/djm/lore/arrays-are-not-pointers>
Anyways, here's the patch:
-Kurt
Submitted by: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>
> INDEXED searches in some cases DO NOT WORK.
> Although simple search expressions (i.e. with a constant value on
> the right side of an operator) work, performing a join (by putting
> a field of some other table on the right side of an operator) produces
> empty output.
> WITHOUT indices, everything works fine.
>
submitted by: "Vadim B. Mikheev" <root@ais.sable.krasnoyarsk.su>