for details). It doesn't really do that much yet, since there are no
short-term memory contexts in the executor, but the infrastructure is
in place and long-term contexts are handled reasonably. A few long-
standing bugs have been fixed, such as 'VACUUM; anything' in a single
query string crashing. Also, out-of-memory is now considered a
recoverable ERROR, not FATAL.
Eliminate a large amount of crufty, now-dead code in and around
memory management.
Fix problem with holding off SIGTRAP, SIGSEGV, etc in postmaster and
backend startup.
That means you can now set your options in either or all of $PGDATA/configuration,
some postmaster option (--enable-fsync=off), or set a SET command. The list of
options is in backend/utils/misc/guc.c, documentation will be written post haste.
pg_options is gone, so is that pq_geqo config file. Also removed were backend -K,
-Q, and -T options (no longer applicable, although -d0 does the same as -Q).
Added to configure an --enable-syslog option.
changed all callers from TPRINTF to elog(DEBUG)
IRIX systems using the native compilers. A summary is:
- Various files use "//" as a comment delimiter in c files.
- Problems caused by assuming "char" is signed.
cash.in: building -signed the rules regression test fails as described
in FAQ_QNX4. If CHAR_MAX is "255U" then ((signed char)CHAR_MAX) is -1.
postmaster.c: random number regression test failed without this change.
- Some generic build issues and warning message cleanup.
David Kaelbling
running gcc and HP's cc with warnings cranked way up. Signed vs unsigned
comparisons, routines declared static and then defined not-static,
that kind of thing. Tedious, but perhaps useful...
it's a good idea to choose the directory size based on the expected
number of entries. But ShmemInitHash was using a hard-wired constant.
Boo hiss. This accounts for recent report of postmaster failure when
asking for 64K or more buffers.
for the case of errors in backend startup, and proc_exit's method for
coping with errors during proc_exit was *completely* busted. Fixed per
discussions on pghackers around 11/6/99.
* Buffer refcount cleanup (per my "progress report" to pghackers, 9/22).
* Add links to backend PROC structs to sinval's array of per-backend info,
and use these links for routines that need to check the state of all
backends (rather than the slow, complicated search of the ShmemIndex
hashtable that was used before). Add databaseOID to PROC structs.
* Use this to implement an interlock that prevents DESTROY DATABASE of
a database containing running backends. (It's a little tricky to prevent
a concurrently-starting backend from getting in there, since the new
backend is not able to lock anything at the time it tries to look up
its database in pg_database. My solution is to recheck that the DB is
OK at the end of InitPostgres. It may not be a 100% solution, but it's
a lot better than no interlock at all...)
* In ALTER TABLE RENAME, flush buffers for the relation before doing the
rename of the physical files, to ensure we don't get failures later from
mdblindwrt().
* Update TRUNCATE patch so that it actually compiles against current
sources :-(.
You should do "make clean all" after pulling these changes.
offended my aesthestic sensibility that there was so much unreadable code
doing so little. Rewritten code is about half the size, faster, and
(I hope) much more intelligible.
the SInval spinlock while it is calling the passed invalFunction or
resetFunction. This is necessary to avoid deadlock with lmgr change;
InvalidateSharedInvalid can be called recursively now. It should be
a good performance improvement anyway --- holding a spinlock for more
than a very short interval is a no-no.
2. varsup.c:ReadNewTransactionId(): don't read nextXid from disk -
this func doesn't allocate next xid, so ShmemVariableCache->nextXid
may be used (but GetNewTransactionId() must be called first).
3. vacuum.c: change elog(ERROR, "Child item....") to elog(NOTICE) -
this is not ERROR, proper handling is just not implemented, yet.
4. s_lock.c: increase S_MAX_BUSY by 2 times.
5. shmem.c:GetSnapshotData(): have to call ReadNewTransactionId()
_after_ SpinAcquire(ShmemIndexLock).
through MAXBACKENDS array entries used to be fine when MAXBACKENDS = 64.
It's not so cool with MAXBACKENDS = 1024 (or more!), especially not in a
frequently-used routine like SIDelExpiredDataEntries. Repair by making
procState array size be the soft MaxBackends limit rather than the hard
limit, and by converting SIGetProcStateLimit() to a macro.
2. Much faster btree tuples deletion in the case when first on page
index tuple is deleted (no movement to the left page(s)).
3. Remember blkno of new root page in BTPageOpaque of
left/right siblings when root page is splitted.
shared memory space allocation. It's a wonder we have not seen bug
reports traceable to this area ... it's quite clear that the routine
dir_realloc() has never worked correctly, for example.
of MAXBACKENDS is now 1024, since all it's costing is about 32 bytes of memory
per array slot. configure's --with-maxbackends switch now controls DEF_MAXBACKENDS
which is simply the default value of the postmaster's -N switch. Thus,
the out-of-the-box configuration will still limit you to 64 backends,
but you can go up to 1024 backends simply by restarting the postmaster with
a different -N switch --- no rebuild required.
(--with-maxbackends). Add a postmaster switch (-N backends) that allows
the limit to be reduced at postmaster start time. (You can't increase it,
sorry to say, because there are still some fixed-size arrays.)
Grab the number of semaphores indicated by min(MAXBACKENDS, -N) at
postmaster startup, so that this particular form of bogus configuration
is exposed immediately rather than under heavy load.
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Vadim B. Mikheev