2. Reap unused tuples too
3. Reap empty pages
4. Check if a page is initialized, initialize it if not
and reap it
5. Binary search in list of reapped pages/tids to check
is the heap' tid pointed by a index' tuple on this list
(it's mu-u-uch faster)
cache. I found if I manually added a line to flush the whole relation
cache, the assert error disappeared. Looking through the code, I found
that the relation cache is flushed at the end of each query if the
reference count is zero for the relation. However, printf's showed that
the rd_relcnt(reference count) for the accessed query was not returning
to zero after each query.
It turns out the parser was doing a heap_ropen in parser/analyze.c to
get information about the table's columns, but was not doing a
heap_close.
This was causing the query after the ALTER TABLE ADD to see the old
table structure, and the executor's assert was reporting the problem.
correct way to do this. Theoretically you could have a NULL
pointer that isn't represented internally as all 0 bits. This
guarantees that it convert correctly.
Submitted by: darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
NAMEDATALEN
OIDDATALEN
EUROPEAN_DATES
HBA
DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT
OPENLINK_PATCHES
NULL_PATCH
ARRAY_PATCH
Attempting to document and centralize as many of the "defines" as possible...
kinda useless to have defines if nobody knows they exist, eh?
function so I am going to assume that it is such a good idea that no
one sees any point in discussing it. :-) I have made two changes -
I have merged this into pgtclCmds.c and I have taken out any code for
updating tuples after the loop body runs. See comments for discussion
of this.
I have also fixed up the error checking stuff so that break, continue
and syntax errors have the expected result.
Submitted by: D'Arcy Cain
my postmaster 1.07.
It's really simple, the loop dealing with all sockets
can't handle more than one ready socket :-)
A simple logic error dealing with lists.
OR IS THERE ANY REASON FOR SETTING curr TO 0?
Submitted by: Carsten Heyl <Heyl@nads.de>
with some versions of sh, and a bug in the master make file that
causes it to issue the message "postgres has been built" at the wrong
time.
Submitted by: bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net (Bryan Henderson)
To: Postgres95-development <pg95-dev@ki.net>
Subject: [PG95-DEV] postgres.h patch
This removes the parameters from the func_ptr prototype in postgres.h in
2.0.
To: Postgres95-development <pg95-dev@ki.net>
Subject: [PG95-DEV] Makefile.global patch
Can we apply the following patch to make EUROPEAN_DATES consistent with
other parameters?
way one creates a database system. Parts that were in "make install"
are not either in "make all" or initdb. Nothing goes in the PGDATA
directory besides user data. Creating multiple database systems is
easier.
In addition to applying the patch, it is necessary to move the file
libpq/pg_hba to backend/libpq/pg_hba.sample.
Submitted by: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
--- src/backend/storage/file/fd.c Thu Sep 12 17:23:38 1996
***************
*** 262,268 ****
Delete(file);
/* save the seek position */
! fileP->seekPos = lseek(fileP->fd, 0L, SEEK_CUR);
Assert( fileP->seekPos != -1);
/* if we have written to the file, sync it */
--- 262,268 ----
Delete(file);
/* save the seek position */
! fileP->seekPos = (long) lseek(fileP->fd, 0L, SEEK_CUR);
Assert( fileP->seekPos != -1);
/* if we have written to the file, sync it */
Submitted by: Randy Terbush <randy@zyzzyva.com>
- 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)
NOTE: Makefile.custom is commented out, since it isn't there by default.
If you read the section telling you about it to know to create it,
you can uncomment it while you are there ...
current state of development...namely, we are on 2.0
NOTE:
BTW, the is also a check in postmaster which won't let you use an older
version of the database by checking the version number. The version number
of a database is in data/PG_VERSION (a plain ASCII file).
- Andrew
attributes as tcl arrays. The previous code had problems with some chars
used as delimiter by Tcl. The new code should be more robust.
By: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
Async notifies received while a backend is in the middle of a begin/end
transaction block are lost by libpq when the final end command is issued.
The bug is in the routine PQexec of libpq. The routine throws away any
message from the backend when a message of type 'C' is received. This
type of message is sent when the result of a portal query command with
no tuples is returned. Unfortunately this is the case of the end command.
As all async notification are sent only when the transaction is finished,
if they are received in the middle of a transaction they are lost in the
libpq library. I added some tracing code to PQexec and this is the output:
Submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
execute an sql function containing an utility command (create, notify, ...).
The bug is part in the planner, which returns a number of plans different
than the number of commands if there are utility commands in the query, and
in part in the function executor which assumes that all commands are normal
query commands and causes a SIGSEGV trying to execute commands without plan.
Submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
|
|Here's a patch for Version 2 only. It just adds an Assert to catch some
|inconsistencies in the catalog classes.
|
|--
|Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
|San Jose, California
|
The problem is that the function arguments are not considered as possible key
candidates for index scan and so only a sequential scan is possible inside
the body of a function. I have therefore made some patches to the optimizer
so that indices are now used also by functions. I have also moved the plan
debug message from pg_eval to pg_plan so that it is printed also for plans
genereated for function execution. I had also to add an index rescan to the
executor because it ignored the parameters set in the execution state, they
were flagged as runtime variables in ExecInitIndexScan but then never used
by the executor so that the scan were always done with any key=1. Very odd.
This means that an index rescan is now done twice for each function execution
which uses an index, the first time when the index scan is initialized and
the second when the actual function arguments are finally available for the
execution. I don't know what is the cost of an double index scan but I
suppose it is anyway less than the cost of a full sequential scan, at leat
for large tables. This is my patch, you must also add -DINDEXSCAN_PATCH in
Makefile.global to enable the changes.
Submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
The comparison routines for text and char data type give incorrect results
if the input data contains characters greater than 127. As these routines
perform the comparison using signed char variables all character codes
greater than 127 are interpreted as less than 0. These codes are used to
encode the iso8859 char sets.
The other text-like data types seem to work as expected as they use unsigned
chars in comparisons.
Submitted by: Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>
tree, instead of having include files all over the place...
Immediate goal...a 'config.h' file so that we can make #ifdef's
being used throughout the code more a rarity as far as porting
is concerned
conditions are always met. The patch can be applied to any version
of Postgres95 from 1.02 to 1.05. After applying the patch, queries
using indices on bpchar and varchar fields should (hopefully ;-) )
always return the same tuple set regardless to the fact whether
indices are used or not.
Submitted by: Gerhard Reithofer <tbr_laa@AON.AT>
In a catalog class that has a "name" type attribute, UPDATEing of an
instance of that class may destroy all of the attributes of that
instance that are stored as or after the "name" attribute.
This is caused by the alignment value of the "name" type being set to
"double" in Class pg_type, but "integer" in Class pg_attribute.
Postgres constructs a tuple using double alignment, but interprets it
using integer alignment.
The fix is to change the alignment to integer in pg_type.
Note that this corrects the problem for new Postgres systems. Existing
databases already contain the error and it can't easily be repaired because
this very bug prevents updating the class that contains it.
--
Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
San Jose, California
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>
This presumably corrects a problem of initdb failing on systems that have
an awk that is sensitive to this.
--
Bryan Henderson Phone 408-227-6803
San Jose, California
|record, by a small patch to libpq++? At least until the
|feature that will allow dumped oid's to be re-loaded into
|a database becomes available, I need access to the oids
|of newly created records... To this end, I have written a
|three-line wrapper for the PQoidStatus function in libpq and
|named this wrapper OidStatus() (I'd appreciate suggestions for
|a name that would better fit into the general naming scheme).
|
|Regards,
|
|Ernst
|
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
---
below my signature, there are a coupls of diffs and files in a shell
archive, which were needed to build postgres95 1.02 on Siemens Nixdorfs
MIPS based SINIX systems. Except for the compiler switches "-W0" and
"-LD-Blargedynsym" these diffs should also apply for other SVR4 based
systems. The changes in "Makefile.global" and "genbki.sh" can probably
be ignored (I needed gawk, to make the script run).
There is one bugfix thou. In "src/backend/parser/sysfunc.c" the
function in this file didn't honor the EUROPEAN_DATES ifdef.
---
Submitted by: Frank Ridderbusch <ridderbusch.pad@sni.de>
Here's a couple more small fixes that I've made to make my runtime
checker happy with the code. More along the lines of those that
I sent in the past, ie, a pointer to an array != the name of
an array. The last patch is that I mailed about yesterday -- I got
two replies of "do it", so it's done. As far as I can tell, however,
the function in question is never called by pg95, so either way
it can't hurt...
From: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>
When you connect to a database with PQsetdb, as with psql, depending on
how your uninitialized variables are set, you can get a failure with a
"There is no connection to the backend" message.
The fix is to move a call to PQexec() from inside connectDB() to
PQsetdb() after connectDB() returns to PQsetdb(). That way a connection
doesn't have to be already established in order to establish it!
From: bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net (Bryan Henderson)
|
|This patch fixes a backend crash that happens sometimes when you try to
|join on a field that contains NULL in some rows. Postgres tries to
|compute a hash value of the field you're joining on, but when the field
|is NULL, the pointer it thinks is pointing to the data is really just
|pointing to random memory. This forces the hash value of NULL to be 0.
|
|It seems that nothing matches NULL on joins, even other NULL's (with or
|without this patch). Is that what's supposed to happen?
|
CLUSTER command couldn't rename correctly the new created heap relation.
The table base name resulted in some "temp_XXXX" instead of the correct
base name.
Submitted by: Dirk Koeser <koeser@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
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 is a fix for the psql alignment problem. It turns out that libpq
|was trying to determine if the column contained only numeric values so
|it could right justify it. The 'e' values were taked as exponient
|values and all columns were considered numeric.
|
|The patch excludes 'e' and 'E' as being valid first-column numeric
|values.
|
Submitted by: Bruce...
pg_dump and load to 2.0. I haven't gotten any feedback on whether
people want it, so I am submitting it for others to decide. I would
recommend an install in 1.02.1.
I had said that the 2.0 pg_dump could dump a 1.02.1 database, but I was
wrong. The copy is actually performed by the backend, and the 2.0
database will not be able to read 1.02.1 databases because of the new
system columns.
This patch does several things. It copies nulls out as \N, so they can
be distinguished from '' strings. It fixes a problem where backslashes
in the input stream were not output as double-backslashes. Without this
patch, backslashes copied out were deleted upon input, or interpreted as
special characters. Third, input is now terminated by backslash-period.
This can not be part of a normal input stream.
I tested this by creating a database with all sorts of nulls, backslash,
and period fields and dumped the database and reloaded into a new
database and compared them.
Submitted by: Bruce
pg_dump and load to 2.0. I haven't gotten any feedback on whether
people want it, so I am submitting it for others to decide. I would
recommend an install in 1.02.1.
I had said that the 2.0 pg_dump could dump a 1.02.1 database, but I was
wrong. The copy is actually performed by the backend, and the 2.0
database will not be able to read 1.02.1 databases because of the new
system columns.
This patch does several things. It copies nulls out as \N, so they can
be distinguished from '' strings. It fixes a problem where backslashes
in the input stream were not output as double-backslashes. Without this
patch, backslashes copied out were deleted upon input, or interpreted as
special characters. Third, input is now terminated by backslash-period.
This can not be part of a normal input stream.
I tested this by creating a database with all sorts of nulls, backslash,
and period fields and dumped the database and reloaded into a new
database and compared them.
Submitted by: Bruce
and found out that one of the patches is a show stopper for
compiling under a strict ansi package.
Please make sure the following fix makes it into the 1.02.1
release...
Thanks.
-Kurt
|We're all too familiar with psql's "no response from backend" message.
|Users can't tell what this means, and psql continues prompting for
|commands after it even though the backend is dead and no commands can
|succeed. It eventually dies on a signal when the dead socket fills
|up. I extended the message to offer a better explanation and made
|psql exit when it finds the backend is dead.
|
|I also added a short message and newline when the user does a ctl-D so
|it doesn't mess up the terminal display.
|
|
Submitted by: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
don't indicate that the libpq.a library is a dependency of all the /bin
programs. So if the library changes, the /bin programs don't get remade.
Submitted by: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
directory. The code that looks for the pg_hba file doesn't use it, though,
so the postmaster uses the wrong pg_hba file. Also, when the postmaster
looks in one directory and the user thinks it is looking in another
directory, the error messages don't give enough information to solve the
problem. I extended the error message for this.
Submitted by: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
does 2 things:
1) Make it hard to not notice the make failed. (As you recall, someone on
the mailing list had this problem. I've had it to some extent myself).
The 1.02 make files continue with the next subdirectory when a make
in a subdirectory fails. The patch makes the make stop in the
conventional way when a submake fails. It also adds a reassuring message
when the make succeeds and adds a note to the INSTALL file to expect it.
2) Include loader flags on all invocations of the linker.
The 1.02 make files omit the $(LDFLAGS) on some of the linker invocations.
On my system, I need one of those flags just to make it invoke the proper
version of the compiler/linker, so LDFLAGS has to be everywhere.
Submitted by: Bryan Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>
Attached is a patch to allow libpq to determine if a field is null.
This is needed because text fields will return a PQgetlength() of 0
whether it is '' or NULL. There is even a comment in the source noting
the fact.
I have changed the value of the 'len' field for NULL result fields. If
the field is null, the len is set to -1 (NULL_LEN). I have changed
PQgetlength() to return a 0 length for both '' and NULL. A new function
PQgetisnull() returns true or false for NULL.
The only risk is to applications that do not use the suggested
PQgetlength() call, but read the result 'len' field directly.
As this is not recommended, I think we are safe here.
A separate documentation patch will be sent.
Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
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>
This patch forces postgres95 to assume any floating-point value is a
float8. It removes the requirement that you cast all floating-point
constants to float8.
We can remove alot of casts in the regression test after we are sure
this works.
If I have missed anything, would someone let me know. I have tested
inserts of floating-point values into float8 fields, and it worked well.
Casting the number to float4 showed the same precision loss as previous
uncast values showed.
Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
There is a support routine in the standard 4.4BSD C library
called "err()". There is also a utility routine in
.../src/backend/bootstrap/bootstrap.c
with the same name.
Here's a patch that renames the pg95 routine to something a little
more sane. As a bonus, one more bit of system-specific code leaves
the system...
Submitted by: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@va.pubnix.com>
