Previously, all fields were unsigned, with only a trailing "ago" to
indicate negative intervals. Now, ISO format does not use "ago", and
and the traditional PostgreSQL format has the first numeric field unsigned
with "ago" supporting that field. So "1 month - 2 days ago" is two days
less than a month in the past.
Fix interval arithmetic across daylight savings time boundaries.
Previously, most math across boundaries introduced a one hour offset.
Allow some date/time functions to return NULL if called with NULL args.
Implement functions for AT TIME ZONE support.
Support "SAT" as an Australian time zone if USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES
is defined.
any available string type. Previously, all candidate choices must have
fallen within the same "type category" for PostgreSQL to be willing to
choose any of them.
Need to apply the same fixup to operator type resolution.
confused in src/interfaces/libpq for some reason. Seemingly, different
GNU make versions have several mutually conflicting problems with implicit
rule chains. Words are not sufficient...
target files in implicit rule chains. That might have been a cool idea
but it seems to be too buggy to work, as it caused spurious recompiles in
several places.
included, and then include <strings.h> if so. Several systems already
needed <strings.h> anyway. Some new systems that claim to conform to the
Unix 9x "standard" do not declare str[n]casemp() in string.h, and C99
compilers will not like that.
Bruce Hartzler <bruceh@mail.utexas.edu>. It contains shared library
support, regression test map, and the usual template files. The dynamic
loader is missing, the spin lock code apparently doesn't assemble due to
syntax problems, and semaphores are to be hoped for from Apple.
position() and substring() functions, so that it works transparently for
bit types as well. Alias the text functions appropriately.
Add position() for bit types.
Add new constant node T_BitString that represents literals of the form
B'1001 and pass those to zpbit type.
code conversion between Unicode and other encodings. Note that
this option requires --enable-multibyte also.
The reason why this is optional is that the feature requires huge
mapping tables and I don't think every user need the feature.
equivalent.
In linux.h there were some #undef HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE, which are useless
because HAVE_TM_ZONE overrides it anyway, and messing with configure
results isn't cool.
subqueries. It passes the normal 'runcheck' tests, and I've tried
a few simple things like
select 1 as foo union (((((select 2))))) order by foo;
There are a few things that it doesn't do that have been talked
about here at least a little:
1) It doesn't allow things like "IN(((select 1)))" -- the select
here has to be at the top level. This is not new.
2) It does NOT preserve the odd syntax I found when I started looking
at this, where a SELECT statement could begin with parentheses. Thus,
(SELECT a from foo) order by a;
fails.
I have preserved the ability, used in the regression tests, to
have a single select statement in what appears to be a RuleActionMulti
(but wasn't -- the parens were part of select_clause syntax).
In my version, this is a special form.
This may cause some discussion: I have differentiated the two kinds
of RuleActionMulti. Perhaps nobody knew there were two kinds, because
I don't think the second form appears in the regression tests. This
one uses square brackets instead of parentheses, but originally was
otherwise the same as the one in parentheses. In this version of
gram.y, the square bracket form treats SELECT statements the same
as the other allowed statements. As discussed before on this list,
psql cannot make sense out of the results of such a thing, but an
application might. And I have designs on just such an application.
++ kevin o'gorman
path into executables and shared libraries (-rpath or -R for most). Can be
disabled with --disable-rpath, since some binary packaging standards do not
like this option.
on pghackers. Arrange for the sort ordering of general INET values
to be network part as major sort key, host part as minor sort key.
I did not force an initdb for this change, but anyone who's running
indexes on general INET values may need to recreate those indexes.
ExecutorRun. This allows LIMIT to work in a view. Also, LIMIT in a
cursor declaration will behave in a reasonable fashion, whereas before
it was overridden by the FETCH count.
MULTIBYTE support is not compiled (you just can't set them to anything
but SQL_ASCII). This should reduce interoperability problems between
MB-enabled clients and non-MB-enabled servers.
support is not present. This allows a non-MB server to load a pg_dumpall
script produced by an MB-enabled server, so long as only ASCII encoding
was used.
the -l options. (This was not the case when using the OpenSSL or Kerberos
options.) Also make sure that shared library links get to see all the -L
options. Get Kerberos 5 support to compile on Redhat 7.0. Add OpenSSL and
-lsocket (if used/found) to libpq link.
I modified the current ODBC driver for
* referential integrity error reporting,
* SELECT in transactions and
* disabling autocommit.
I tested these changes with Borland C++ Builder -> ODBCExpress ->
WinODBC driver (DLL) -> Postgres 7.0beta1 and Borland C++ Builder -> BDE ->
WinODBC driver (DLL) -> Postgres 7.0beta1. The patch is based on snapshot of
22th April (I don't think that someone has modified it since that: Byron
hasn't gave any sign of living for about a month and I didn't find any
comments about the ODBC driver on the list).
'AbortTransaction and not in in-progress state' when client disconnects
just after an error. Notice seems pretty harmless, so I'm not going
to worry about back-patching this into 7.0.* ...
as full as possible, seems better to use a tuple size around BLCKSZ/4
so that less space is wasted when a LO tuple is updated. Also, this
lets us use a logical page size that's an exact power of two, avoiding
partial-page writes when client is sending us stuff in power-of-2
buffer chunks.
kibitzing from Tom Lane. Large objects are now all stored in a single
system relation "pg_largeobject" --- no more xinv or xinx files, no more
relkind 'l'. This should offer substantial performance improvement for
large numbers of LOs, since there won't be directory bloat anymore.
It'll also fix problems like running out of locktable space when you
access thousands of LOs in one transaction.
Also clean up cruft in read/write routines. LOs with "holes" in them
(never-written byte ranges) now work just like Unix files with holes do:
a hole reads as zeroes but doesn't occupy storage space.
INITDB forced!
source, due to addition of header overhead), store it as plain data
rather than pseudo-compressed data. This saves a few microseconds when
reading it out, but much more importantly guarantees that the toaster
won't actually expand tuples that contain incompressible data. That's
essential to avoid 'Tuple too big' failures with large objects.
particular, allow linking with arbitrary commands rather than only $(AR) or
$(LD), and treat C++ without hacks.
Add option to disable shared libraries. This takes the place of the
BSD_SHLIB variable. The regression test driver ignores the plpgsql test
if there are no shared libraries available.
from bufmgr - it would be nice to have separate hash in smgr
for node <--> fd mappings, but for the moment it's easy to
add new hash to relcache.
Fixed small bug in xlog.c:ReadRecord.
as well allow DROP multiple INDEX, RULE, TYPE as well. Add missing
CommandCounterIncrement to DROP loop, which could cause trouble otherwise
with multiple DROP of items affecting same catalog entries. Try to
bring a little consistency to various error messages using 'does not exist',
'nonexistent', etc --- I standardized on 'does not exist' since that's
what the vast majority of the existing uses seem to be.
* Makefile: Add more standard targets. Improve shell redirection in GNU
make detection.
* src/backend/access/transam/rmgr.c: Fix incorrect(?) C.
* src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c (StreamConnection): Work around accept() bug.
* src/include/port/unixware.h: ...with help from here.
* src/backend/nodes/print.c (plannode_type): Remove some "break"s after
"return"s.
* src/backend/tcop/dest.c (DestToFunction): ditto.
* src/backend/nodes/readfuncs.c: Add proper prototypes.
* src/backend/utils/adt/numutils.c (pg_atoi): Cope specially with strtol()
setting EINVAL. This saves us from creating an extra set of regression test
output for the affected systems.
* src/include/storage/s_lock.h (tas): Correct prototype.
* src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c (parseServiceInfo): Don't use variable
as dimension in array definition.
* src/makefiles/Makefile.unixware: Add support for GCC.
* src/template/unixware: same here
* src/test/regress/expected/abstime-solaris-1947.out: Adjust whitespace.
* src/test/regress/expected/horology-solaris-1947.out: Part of this file
was evidently missing.
* src/test/regress/pg_regress.sh: Fix shell. mkdir -p returns non-zero if
the directory exists.
* src/test/regress/resultmap: Add entries for Unixware.
and DropBuffers. Formerly we cleared the flag for each buffer currently
belonging to the target rel or database, but that's completely wrong!
Must look at BufferTagLastDirtied to see whether the BufferDirtiedByMe
flag is relevant to target rel or not; this is *independent* of the
current contents of the buffer. Vadim spotted this problem, but his
fix was only partially correct...
> Regression tests opr_sanity and sanity_check are now failing.
Um, Bruce, I've said several times that I didn't think Perchine's large
object changes should be applied until someone had actually reviewed
them.
Makefile.port, since they are of no use to configure and much of the
library magic happens in Makefile.port anyway.
Use __alpha, not __alpha__, since the former is universally available.
Remove -DNOFIXADE from the compile command line and put it in the port
include file.
I tested it restoring my database with > 100000 BLOBS, and dumping it out.
But unfortunatly I can not restore it back due to problems in pg_dump.
--
Sincerely Yours,
Denis Perchine
source directory. This involves mostly makefiles using $(srcdir) when they
might have used ".". (Regression tests don't work with this, yet.)
Sort out usage of CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS (and CXXFLAGS). Add "override" keyword
in most places, to preserve necessary flags even when the user overrode the
flags.
anywhere else that Makefile.shlib needs to modify CFLAGS to produce
valid code for a shared library. I'm not real clear on *why* the use
of override causes make to ignore the later attempt to assign
CFLAGS +=
but it indubitably does --- at least on gmake 3.79.1. gmake bug?
This patch forces the use of 'DROP VIEW' to destroy views.
It also changes the syntax of DROP VIEW to
DROP VIEW v1, v2, ...
to match the syntax of DROP TABLE.
Some error messages were changed so this patch also includes changes to the
appropriate expected/*.out files.
Doc changes for 'DROP TABLE" and 'DROP VIEW' are included.
--
Mark Hollomon
* doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml: ditto.
* src/test/regress/README: Regenerate.
* doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml: Explain how it was done. Explain how
INSTALL and HISTORY are (now) generated.
* doc/src/sgml/Makefile: Implement HISTORY generation to be analoguous
to INSTALL.
I prepared and tested a patch vs. 7.0.2, and it works fine. I've added
another option which allows users to have their own service file in
~/.pg_service.conf, which might come handy sometimes.
Mario Weilguni
I have noticed that there are some identical files in
postgresql-7.0.2/src/test/regress/expected/
> diff float8-cygwin.out float8-small-is-zero.out #I recommend deleting
float8-cygwin.out
> diff geometry-cygwin-precision.out geometry-solaris-precision.out #I
recommend deleting geometry-cygwin-precision.out
below is the diff of postgresql-7.0.2/src/test/regress/resultmap
that has the above files deleted plus the addition of an alpha regression
test built with alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e/2.95.2/ . The alpha geometry
regression file is attached
11c11
< float8/i.86-pc-cygwin*=float8-cygwin
---
> float8/i.86-pc-cygwin*=float8-small-is-zero
18c18
< geometry/i.86-pc-cygwin*=geometry-cygwin-precision
---
> geometry/i.86-pc-cygwin*=geometry-solaris-precision
21a22
> geometry/alpha.*-dec-osf=geometry-alpha-precision
Ricardo Muggli
Systems Manager
Information and Technology Services
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Only two have shown up on the web site. Even the mbox is missing the
second.
The missing patch is a one-liner, so here it is. I can resend the
whole bug report if wanted.
Pete Forman
As a result, backend/libpq/pqcomm.c and interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c
fail to compile.
The <netinet/tcp.h> header needs to be preceded by <netinet/in.h>, at
least on IRIX, Solaris and AIX. The simple configure test fails.
(That header on Linux is idempotent.)
The basic problem is that <netinet/tcp.h> is a BSD header. The
correct header for TCP internals such as TCP_NODELAY on a UNIX system
is <xti.h>. By UNIX I mean UNIX95 (aka XPG4v2 or SUSv1) or later.
The current UNIX standard (UNIX98 aka SUSv2) is available online at
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/>.
The fix is to add header support for <xti.h> into configure.in and
config.h.in.
The 2 files which conditionally include <netinet/tcp.h> need also to
conditionally include <xti.h>.
Pete Forman
I have counted 9 differences in the least significant digit compared
with geometry-positive-zeros.out. It would be wise for someone else
to double check.
Pete Forman
it previously. The patch included is against fairly current sources, but
it may apply cleanly against 7.0.2 as well.
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Vilson farias wrote:
> I found a irregular behavior with constraints.
>
> I can only set a referencial integrity between these tables when there are
> no data, even if there are no change to referential integrity violation.
couldn't produce a full patch using cvs diff -c this time since I have
created new files and anonymous cvs usage doesn't allow you to
adds. I'm supplying the modified src/interfaces/jdbc as a tarball at :
http://www.candleweb.no/~gunnar/projects/pgsql/postgres-jdbc-2000-10-05.tgz
The new files that should be added are :
? org/postgresql/PGStatement.java
? org/postgresql/ObjectPool.java
? org/postgresql/ObjectPoolFactory.java
There is now a global static pool of free byte arrays and used byte arrays
connected to a statement object. This is the role of the new PGStatement
class. Access to the global free array is synchronized, while we rely on
the PG_Stream synchronization for the used array.
My measurements show that the perfomance boost on this code is not quite as
big as my last shot, but it is still an improvement. Maybe some of the
difference is due to the new synchronization on the global array. I think I
will look into choosing between on a connection level and global level.
I have also started experimented with improving the performance of the
various conversions. The problem here is ofcourse related handle the
various encodings. One thing I found to speed up ResultSet.getInt() a lot
was to do custom conversion on the byte array into int instead of going
through the getString() to do the conversion. But I'm unsure if this is
portable, can we assume that a digit never can be represented by more than
one byte ? It works fine in my iso-latin-8859-1 environment, but what about
other environments ? Maybe we could provide different ResultSet
implementations depending on the encoding used or delegate some methods of
the result set to an "converter class".
Check the org/postgresql/jdbc2/FastResultSet.java in the tarball above to
see the modified getInt() method.
Regards,
Gunnar
for the library. not sure if this will cause problems on other
platforms, but if it does it can be easily fixed. Also remove the
references to the GeekGadgets includes as the majority of users don't
have them installed and they foul the build process. We can document
that adding them if you have them installed is a good idea.
David Reid
> > For a while I though it might be because we are using an alpha TAS in
> > the spinlock rather than the old semaphore. I replaced our spinlock
> > with the standard one and it made no difference. We have been running
> > with our spinlock implementation for nearly 2 months on a production
> > database now without a hitch, so I think it is ok. Did I ever submit
> > any patches for the Alpha spinlock?
>
> Not that I recall. We did get some advice from some Alpha gurus at DEC
> who seemed to think the existing TAS code is OK. What was it that you
> felt needed to be improved?
The current code uses semaphores, which has the advantage that it works
well even on multi-processor machines, but the disadvantage that it is not
the fastest way possible. Writing a spinlock on Alpha for SMP machines is
very difficult, as you need to deal with memory barriers. A real mess. But
then one of the people at Compaq pointed out to us that there is a
ready-made routine on Alpha. We implemented it with the two patches below.
I ran tests with lots of parallel back-ends and got around a 10% speed
increase. I include the two patches. Perhaps some of the other people
running Tru64 can have a look at these as well.
Cheers,
Adriaan Joubert
> this is patch v 0.4 to support transactions with BLOBs.
> All BLOBs are in one table. You need to make initdb.
>
> --
> Sincerely Yours,
> Denis Perchine
after that dynamic loading isn't working and shared memory handling is
broken.
Attached with this message, there is a Zip file which contain :
* beos.diff = patch file generated with difforig
* beos = folder with beos support files which need to be moved in /
src/backend/port
* expected = foler with three file for message and precision
difference in regression test
* regression.diff = rule problem (need to kill the backend manualy)
* dynloader = dynloader files (they are also in the pacth files,
but there is so much modification that I have join full files)
Everything works except a problem in 'rules' Is there some problems
with rules in the current tree ? It used to works with last week tree.
Cyril VELTER
took some rejiggering of typename and ACL parsing, as well as moving
parse_analyze call out of parser(). Restructure postgres.c processing
so that parse analysis and rewrite are skipped when in abort-transaction
state. Only COMMIT and ABORT statements will be processed beyond the raw
parser() phase. This addresses problem of parser failing with database access
errors while in aborted state (see pghackers discussions around 7/28/00).
Also fix some bugs with COMMIT/ABORT statements appearing in the middle of
a single query input string.
Function, operator, and aggregate arguments/results can now use full
TypeName production, in particular foo[] for array types.
DROP OPERATOR and COMMENT ON OPERATOR were broken for unary operators.
Allow CREATE AGGREGATE to accept unquoted numeric constants for initcond.
SQL92 semantics, including support for ALL option. All three can be used
in subqueries and views. DISTINCT and ORDER BY work now in views, too.
This rewrite fixes many problems with cross-datatype UNIONs and INSERT/SELECT
where the SELECT yields different datatypes than the INSERT needs. I did
that by making UNION subqueries and SELECT in INSERT be treated like
subselects-in-FROM, thereby allowing an extra level of targetlist where the
datatype conversions can be inserted safely.
INITDB NEEDED!
working on the VERY latest version of BeOS. I'm sure there will be
alot of comments, but then if there weren't I'd be disappointed!
Thanks for your continuing efforts to get this into your tree.
Haven't bothered with the new files as they haven't changed.
BTW Peter, the compiler is "broken" about the bool define and so on.
I'm filing a bug report to try and get it addressed. Hopefully then we
can tidy up the code a bit.
I await the replies with interest :)
David Reid
problems with some bits of it, but when all the patches are in it'll build
and we can fix it from there :) I've got a version that builds and runs and
that is the basis for these patches.
The first file has the new additional files that are required,
template/beos
backend/port/dynloader/beos.c
backend/port/dynloader/beos.h
include/port/beos.h
makefiles/Makefile.beos
The second is a tarball of diffs against a few files. I've added sys/ipc.h
to configure and config.h via configure.in and config.h.in and then started
adding the check as this file isn't needed on BeOS and having loads of
#ifdef BEOS isn't as obvious as #ifdef HAVE_SYS_IPC_H and isn't as
autconf'ish :)
Files touched are
include/c.h
configure.in
include/config.h.in
include/storage/ipc.h
include/utils/int8.h
Let me know how these go. I'll await a response before submitting any more.
Any problems just get in touch.
David Reid
have already modified "next_insert()" in 7.0-ecpglib. However
in the meaning of speed-up, the patch will be needed.
--
Regards,
SAKAIDA Masaaki -- Osaka, Japan
would close and then re-open rel being truncated. Depending on the
luck of the draw, the re-opened relcache entry might or might not be
at the same physical location as before. Unfortunately, if it wasn't
then heap_truncate would crash and burn, because it still had a pointer
at the old location. Fix is to open and then close rel in
RelationTruncateIndexes, so that rel's refcount never goes to zero
until heap_truncate is done.
and the fmgr redesign.
It makes the homebrewn dl*() functions for more recent Versions of AIX
obsolete
by using the system dl*() functions instead.
It also fixes the expected file for the horology regression test.
Please regenerate configure from configure.in, I don't have the
environment/time.
Andreas
(Don't forget that an alias is required.) Views reimplemented as expanding
to subselect-in-FROM. Grouping, aggregates, DISTINCT in views actually
work now (he says optimistically). No UNION support in subselects/views
yet, but I have some ideas about that. Rule-related permissions checking
moved out of rewriter and into executor.
INITDB REQUIRED!
Update the installation instructions (formerly misnamed "FAQ"), add configure
checks for some headers rather than having users copy stubs manually (ugh!).
Use Autoconf check for exe extension. This also avoids inheriting the value
of $(X) from the environment.