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Peter Eisentraut
342bcee4aa doc: Update pg_receivexlog note
The old note about how to use pg_receivexlog as an alternative to
archive_command was obsoleted by replication slots.
2014-11-07 20:16:41 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
f36f4fbdca Fix generation of SP-GiST vacuum WAL records.
I broke these in 8776faa81c. Backpatch to
9.4, where that was done.
2014-11-07 21:18:34 +02:00
Tom Lane
eed245a113 Cope with more than 64K phrases in a thesaurus dictionary.
dict_thesaurus stored phrase IDs in uint16 fields, so it would get confused
and even crash if there were more than 64K entries in the configuration
file.  It turns out to be basically free to widen the phrase IDs to uint32,
so let's just do so.

This was complained of some time ago by David Boutin (in bug #7793);
he later submitted an informal patch but it was never acted on.
We now have another complaint (bug #11901 from Luc Ouellette) so it's
time to make something happen.

This is basically Boutin's patch, but for future-proofing I also added a
defense against too many words per phrase.  Note that we don't need any
explicit defense against overflow of the uint32 counters, since before that
happens we'd hit array allocation sizes that repalloc rejects.

Back-patch to all supported branches because of the crash risk.
2014-11-06 20:52:47 -05:00
Tom Lane
42020f5deb Fix normalization of numeric values in JSONB GIN indexes.
The default JSONB GIN opclass (jsonb_ops) converts numeric data values
to strings for storage in the index.  It must ensure that numeric values
that would compare equal (such as 12 and 12.00) produce identical strings,
else index searches would have behavior different from regular JSONB
comparisons.  Unfortunately the function charged with doing this was
completely wrong: it could reduce distinct numeric values to the same
string, or reduce equivalent numeric values to different strings.  The
former type of error would only lead to search inefficiency, but the
latter type of error would cause index entries that should be found by
a search to not be found.

Repairing this bug therefore means that it will be necessary for 9.4 beta
testers to reindex GIN jsonb_ops indexes, if they care about getting
correct results from index searches involving numeric data values within
the comparison JSONB object.

Per report from Thomas Fanghaenel.
2014-11-06 11:41:18 -05:00
Fujii Masao
cc76577873 Prevent the unnecessary creation of .ready file for the timeline history file.
Previously .ready file was created for the timeline history file at the end
of an archive recovery even when WAL archiving was not enabled.
This creation is unnecessary and causes .ready file to remain infinitely.

This commit changes an archive recovery so that it creates .ready file for
the timeline history file only when WAL archiving is enabled.

Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-11-06 21:25:12 +09:00
Tom Lane
26a95a1e52 Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions.
In general, datatype I/O functions are supposed to be immutable or at
worst stable.  Some contrib I/O functions were, through oversight, not
marked with any volatility property at all, which made them VOLATILE.
Since (most of) these functions actually behave immutably, the erroneous
marking isn't terribly harmful; but it can be user-visible in certain
circumstances, as per a recent bug report from Joe Van Dyk in which a
cast to text was disallowed in an expression index definition.

To fix, just adjust the declarations in the extension SQL scripts.  If we
were being very fussy about this, we'd bump the extension version numbers,
but that seems like more trouble (for both developers and users) than the
problem is worth.

A fly in the ointment is that chkpass_in actually is volatile, because
of its use of random() to generate a fresh salt when presented with a
not-yet-encrypted password.  This is bad because of the general assumption
that I/O functions aren't volatile: the consequence is that records or
arrays containing chkpass elements may have input behavior a bit different
from a bare chkpass column.  But there seems no way to fix this without
breaking existing usage patterns for chkpass, and the consequences of the
inconsistency don't seem bad enough to justify that.  So for the moment,
just document it in a comment.

Since we're not bumping version numbers, there seems no harm in
back-patching these fixes; at least future installations will get the
functions marked correctly.
2014-11-05 11:34:13 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
63ff971e06 doc: Move misplaced paragraph 2014-11-04 16:13:38 -05:00
Tom Lane
a192d5d05d Drop no-longer-needed buffers during ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE.
The previous coding assumed that we could just let buffers for the
database's old tablespace age out of the buffer arena naturally.
The folly of that is exposed by bug #11867 from Marc Munro: the user could
later move the database back to its original tablespace, after which any
still-surviving buffers would match lookups again and appear to contain
valid data.  But they'd be missing any changes applied while the database
was in the new tablespace.

This has been broken since ALTER SET TABLESPACE was introduced, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-11-04 13:24:10 -05:00
Tom Lane
21495a2bb7 Docs: fix incorrect spelling of contrib/pgcrypto option.
pgp_sym_encrypt's option is spelled "sess-key", not "enable-session-key".
Spotted by Jeff Janes.

In passing, improve a comment in pgp-pgsql.c to make it clearer that
the debugging options are intentionally undocumented.
2014-11-03 11:11:43 -05:00
Noah Misch
f229170c75 Re-remove dependency on the DLL of pythonxx.def file.
The reasons behind commit 0d147e43ad still
stand, so this reverts the non-cosmetic portion of commit
a7983e989d.  Back-patch to 9.4, where the
latter commit first appeared.
2014-11-02 21:45:01 -05:00
Noah Misch
63d2c0c573 Make ECPG test programs depend on "ecpg$(X)", not "ecpg".
Cygwin builds require this of dependencies pertaining to pattern rules.
On Cygwin, stat("foo") in the absence of a file with that exact name can
locate foo.exe.  While GNU make uses stat() for dependencies of ordinary
rules, it uses readdir() to assess dependencies of pattern rules.
Therefore, a pattern rule dependency should match any underlying file
name exactly.  Back-patch to 9.4, where the dependency was introduced.
2014-11-02 21:45:00 -05:00
Noah Misch
94c1dec0d9 Fix win32setlocale.c const-related warnings.
Back-patch to 9.2, like commit db29620d4d.
2014-11-02 21:44:21 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
25ca2a69ea Fix generation of INSTALL file by removing link 2014-11-02 20:18:15 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
16381b2a78 Add configure --enable-tap-tests option
Don't skip the TAP tests anymore when IPC::Run is not found.  This will
fail normally now.
2014-11-02 09:17:49 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
4ffa8806ee PL/Python: Fix example
Revert "6f6b46c9c0ca3d96acbebc5499c32ee6369e1eec", which was broken.

Reported-by: Jonathan Rogers <jrogers@socialserve.com>
2014-11-01 11:33:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
f41ed7b66a doc: Fix typos
per Andres Freund
2014-10-31 08:11:49 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
1414868d08 doc: Wording and formatting improvements in new logical decoding docs 2014-10-30 22:52:21 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
7dacab9769 doc: Improve CREATE VIEW / WITH documentation
Similar to 590eb0c14e, remove the options
list from the synopsis and elaborate in the main description.
2014-10-30 22:50:02 -04:00
Tom Lane
7f4ece03d6 Test IsInTransactionChain, not IsTransactionBlock, in vac_update_relstats.
As noted by Noah Misch, my initial cut at fixing bug #11638 didn't cover
all cases where ANALYZE might be invoked in an unsafe context.  We need to
test the result of IsInTransactionChain not IsTransactionBlock; which is
notationally a pain because IsInTransactionChain requires an isTopLevel
flag, which would have to be passed down through several levels of callers.
I chose to pass in_outer_xact (ie, the result of IsInTransactionChain)
rather than isTopLevel per se, as that seemed marginally more apropos
for the intermediate functions to know about.
2014-10-30 13:04:13 -04:00
Robert Haas
1c49dae165 "Pin", rather than "keep", dynamic shared memory mappings and segments.
Nobody seemed concerned about this naming when it originally went in,
but there's a pending patch that implements the opposite of
dsm_keep_mapping, and the term "unkeep" was judged unpalatable.
"unpin" has existing precedent in the PostgreSQL code base, and the
English language, so use this terminology instead.

Per discussion, back-patch to 9.4.
2014-10-30 11:44:22 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
ae3eb9b8ef Remove use of TAP subtests
They turned out to be too much of a portability headache, because they
need a fairly new version of Test::More to work properly.
2014-10-29 19:43:51 -04:00
Tom Lane
22b3003d70 Avoid corrupting tables when ANALYZE inside a transaction is rolled back.
VACUUM and ANALYZE update the target table's pg_class row in-place, that is
nontransactionally.  This is OK, more or less, for the statistical columns,
which are mostly nontransactional anyhow.  It's not so OK for the DDL hint
flags (relhasindex etc), which might get changed in response to
transactional changes that could still be rolled back.  This isn't a
problem for VACUUM, since it can't be run inside a transaction block nor
in parallel with DDL on the table.  However, we allow ANALYZE inside a
transaction block, so if the transaction had earlier removed the last
index, rule, or trigger from the table, and then we roll back the
transaction after ANALYZE, the table would be left in a corrupted state
with the hint flags not set though they should be.

To fix, suppress the hint-flag updates if we are InTransactionBlock().
This is safe enough because it's always OK to postpone hint maintenance
some more; the worst-case consequence is a few extra searches of pg_index
et al.  There was discussion of instead using a transactional update,
but that would change the behavior in ways that are not all desirable:
in most scenarios we're better off keeping ANALYZE's statistical values
even if the ANALYZE itself rolls back.  In any case we probably don't want
to change this behavior in back branches.

Per bug #11638 from Casey Shobe.  This has been broken for a good long
time, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, initial diagnosis by Andres Freund
2014-10-29 18:12:04 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
fcca871203 Reset error message at PQreset()
If you call PQreset() repeatedly, and the connection cannot be
re-established, the error messages from the failed connection attempts
kept accumulating in the error string.

Fixes bug #11455 reported by Caleb Epstein. Backpatch to all supported
versions.
2014-10-29 14:41:32 +02:00
Tom Lane
d1f8e7a015 Remove obsolete commentary.
Since we got rid of non-MVCC catalog scans, the fourth reason given for
using a non-transactional update in index_update_stats() is obsolete.
The other three are still good, so we're not going to change the code,
but fix the comment.
2014-10-28 18:36:16 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
3345ba4d0d Remove unnecessary assignment.
Reported by MauMau.
2014-10-28 20:28:07 +02:00
Noah Misch
c68bff6443 MinGW: Include .dll extension in .def file LIBRARY commands.
Newer toolchains append the extension implicitly if missing, but
buildfarm member narwhal (gcc 3.4.2, ld 2.15.91 20040904) does not.
This affects most core libraries having an exports.txt file, namely
libpq and the ECPG support libraries.  On Windows Server 2003, Windows
API functions that load and unload DLLs internally will mistakenly
unload a libpq whose DLL header reports "LIBPQ" instead of "LIBPQ.dll".
When, subsequently, control would return to libpq, the backend crashes.
Back-patch to 9.4, like commit 846e91e022.
Before that commit, we used a different linking technique that yielded
"libpq.dll" in the DLL header.

Commit 53566fc094 worked around this by
eliminating a call to a function that loads and unloads DLLs internally.
That commit is no longer necessary for correctness, but its improving
consistency with the MSVC build remains valid.
2014-10-27 19:59:52 -04:00
Robert Haas
89fbe97fca Add missing equals signs to pg_recvlogical documentation.
Michael Paquier
2014-10-27 11:08:31 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
c366e1d169 Fix two bugs in tsquery @> operator.
1. The comparison for matching terms used only the CRC to decide if there's
a match. Two different terms with the same CRC gave a match.

2. It assumed that if the second operand has more terms than the first, it's
never a match. That assumption is bogus, because there can be duplicate
terms in either operand.

Rewrite the implementation in a way that doesn't have those bugs.

Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-10-27 10:51:24 +02:00
Tom Lane
c53a82b99d Fix undersized result buffer in pset_quoted_string().
The malloc request was 1 byte too small for the worst-case output.
This seems relatively unlikely to cause any problems in practice,
as the worst case only occurs if the input string contains no
characters other than single-quote or newline, and even then
malloc alignment padding would probably save the day.  But it's
definitely a bug.

David Rowley
2014-10-26 19:17:57 -04:00
Tom Lane
859e2b9dd4 Improve planning of btree index scans using ScalarArrayOpExpr quals.
Since we taught btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively (commit
9e8da0f757), the planner has always included
ScalarArrayOpExpr quals in index conditions if possible.  However, if the
qual is for a non-first index column, this could result in an inferior plan
because we can no longer take advantage of index ordering (cf. commit
807a40c551).  It can be better to omit the
ScalarArrayOpExpr qual from the index condition and let it be done as a
filter, so that the output doesn't need to get sorted.  Indeed, this is
true for the query introduced as a test case by the latter commit.

To fix, restructure get_index_paths and build_index_paths so that we
consider paths both with and without ScalarArrayOpExpr quals in non-first
index columns.  Redesign the API of build_index_paths so that it reports
what it found, saving useless second or third calls.

Report and patch by Andrew Gierth (though rather heavily modified by me).
Back-patch to 9.2 where this code was introduced, since the issue can
result in significant performance regressions compared to plans produced
by 9.1 and earlier.
2014-10-26 16:12:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
76e190d522 Fix TAP tests with Perl 5.12
Perl 5.12 ships with a somewhat broken version of Test::Simple, so skip
the tests if that is found.

The relevant fix is

    0.98  Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:38:02 +1100
        Bug Fixes
        * subtest() should not fail if $? is non-zero. (Aaron Crane)
2014-10-26 10:27:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
6b531cd077 Fix TAP tests with Perl 5.8
The prove program included in Perl 5.8 does not support the --ext
option, so don't use that and use wildcards on the command line instead.

Note that the tests will still all be skipped, because, for instance,
the version of Test::More is too old, but at least the regular
mechanisms for handling that will apply, instead of failing to call
prove altogether.
2014-10-26 09:50:31 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
c3c2d98697 Work around Windows locale name with non-ASCII character.
Windows has one a locale whose name contains a non-ASCII character:
"Norwegian (Bokmål)" (that's an 'a' with a ring on top). That causes
trouble; when passing it setlocale(), it's not clear what encoding the
argument should be in. Another problem is that the locale name is stored in
pg_database catalog table, and the encoding used there depends on what
server encoding happens to be in use when the database is created. For
example, if you issue the CREATE DATABASE when connected to a UTF-8
database, the locale name is stored in pg_database in UTF-8. As long as all
locale names are pure ASCII, that's not a problem.

To work around that, map the troublesome locale name to a pure-ASCII alias
of the same locale, "norwegian-bokmal".

Now, this doesn't change the existing values that are already in
pg_database and in postgresql.conf. Old clusters will need to be fixed
manually. Instructions for that need to be put in the release notes.

This fixes bug #11431 reported by Alon Siman-Tov. Backpatch to 9.2;
backpatching further would require more work than seems worth it.
2014-10-24 19:59:46 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas
4bdf5e5755 Make the locale comparison in pg_upgrade more lenient
If the locale names are not equal, try to canonicalize both of them by
passing them to setlocale(). Before, we only canonicalized the old cluster's
locale if upgrading from a 8.4-9.2 server, but we also need to canonicalize
when upgrading from a pre-8.4 server. That was an oversight in the code. But
we should also canonicalize on newer server versions, so that we cope if the
canonical form changes from one release to another. I'm about to do just
that to fix bug #11431, by mapping a locale name that contains non-ASCII
characters to a pure-ASCII alias of the same locale.

This is partial backpatch of commit 33755e8edf
in master. Apply to 9.2, 9.3 and 9.4. The canonicalization code didn't exist
before 9.2. In 9.2 and 9.3, this effectively also back-patches the changes
from commit 58274728fb, to be more lax about
the spelling of the encoding in the locale names.
2014-10-24 19:33:29 +03:00
Tom Lane
1cf54b00ba Improve ispell dictionary's defenses against bad affix files.
Don't crash if an ispell dictionary definition contains flags but not
any compound affixes.  (This isn't a security issue since only superusers
can install affix files, but still it's a bad thing.)

Also, be more careful about detecting whether an affix-file FLAG command
is old-format (ispell) or new-format (myspell/hunspell).  And change the
error message about mixed old-format and new-format commands into something
intelligible.

Per bug #11770 from Emre Hasegeli.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-10-23 13:11:31 -04:00
Fujii Masao
6d12cc1f01 Prevent the already-archived WAL file from being archived again.
Previously the archive recovery always created .ready file for
the last WAL file of the old timeline at the end of recovery even when
it's restored from the archive and has .done file. That is, there was
the case where the WAL file had both .ready and .done files.
This caused the already-archived WAL file to be archived again.

This commit prevents the archive recovery from creating .ready file
for the last WAL file if it has .done file, in order to prevent it from
being archived again.

This bug was added when cascading replication feature was introduced,
i.e., the commit 5286105800.
So, back-patch to 9.2, where cascading replication was added.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier
2014-10-23 16:22:41 +09:00
Tom Lane
b53942e596 Ensure libpq reports a suitable error message on unexpected socket EOF.
The EOF-detection logic in pqReadData was a bit confused about who should
set up the error message in case the kernel gives us read-ready-but-no-data
rather than ECONNRESET or some other explicit error condition.  Since the
whole point of this situation is that the lower-level functions don't know
there's anything wrong, pqReadData itself must set up the message.  But
keep the assumption that if an errno was reported, a message was set up at
lower levels.

Per bug #11712 from Marko Tiikkaja.  It's been like this for a very long
time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-10-22 18:41:47 -04:00
Noah Misch
2f51f424bb MinGW: Use -static-libgcc when linking a DLL.
When commit 846e91e022 switched the linker
driver from dlltool/dllwrap to gcc, it became possible for linking to
choose shared libgcc.  Backends having loaded a module dynamically
linked to libgcc can exit abnormally, which the postmaster treats like a
crash.  Resume use of static libgcc exclusively, like 9.3 and earlier.
Back-patch to 9.4.
2014-10-21 22:56:42 -04:00
Noah Misch
9e02e20ab6 MinGW: Link with shell32.dll instead of shfolder.dll.
This improves consistency with the MSVC build.  On buildfarm member
narwhal, since commit 846e91e022,
shfolder.dll:SHGetFolderPath() crashes when dblink calls it by way of
pqGetHomeDirectory().  Back-patch to 9.4, where that commit first
appeared.  How it caused this regression remains a mystery.  This is a
partial revert of commit 889f038129, which
adopted shfolder.dll for Windows NT 4.0 compatibility.  PostgreSQL 8.2
dropped support for that operating system.
2014-10-21 22:56:28 -04:00
Tom Lane
7a14edb83e Update expected/sequence_1.out.
The last three updates to the sequence regression test have all forgotten
to touch the alternate expected-output file.  Sigh.

Michael Paquier
2014-10-21 18:26:01 -04:00
Andres Freund
5607e996f4 Flush unlogged table's buffers when copying or moving databases.
CREATE DATABASE and ALTER DATABASE .. SET TABLESPACE copy the source
database directory on the filesystem level. To ensure the on disk
state is consistent they block out users of the affected database and
force a checkpoint to flush out all data to disk. Unfortunately, up to
now, that checkpoint didn't flush out dirty buffers from unlogged
relations.

That bug means there could be leftover dirty buffers in either the
template database, or the database in its old location. Leading to
problems when accessing relations in an inconsistent state; and to
possible problems during shutdown in the SET TABLESPACE case because
buffers belonging files that don't exist anymore are flushed.

This was reported in bug #10675 by Maxim Boguk.

Fix by Pavan Deolasee, modified somewhat by me. Reviewed by MauMau and
Fujii Masao.

Backpatch to 9.1 where unlogged tables were introduced.
2014-10-20 23:45:20 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan
6e0a053a96 Correct volatility markings of a few json functions.
json_agg and json_object_agg and their associated transition functions
should have been marked as stable rather than immutable, as they call IO
functions indirectly. Changing this probably isn't going to make much
difference, as you can't use an aggregate function in an index
expression, but we should be correct nevertheless.

json_object, on the other hand, should be marked immutable rather than
stable, as it does not call IO functions.

As discussed on -hackers, this change is being made without bumping the
catalog version, as we don't want to do that at this stage of the  cycle,
and  the changes are very unlikely to affect anyone.
2014-10-20 14:55:35 -04:00
Tom Lane
33343b862c Fix mishandling of FieldSelect-on-whole-row-Var in nested lateral queries.
If an inline-able SQL function taking a composite argument is used in a
LATERAL subselect, and the composite argument is a lateral reference,
the planner could fail with "variable not found in subplan target list",
as seen in bug #11703 from Karl Bartel.  (The outer function call used in
the bug report and in the committed regression test is not really necessary
to provoke the bug --- you can get it if you manually expand the outer
function into "LATERAL (SELECT inner_function(outer_relation))", too.)

The cause of this is that we generate the reltargetlist for the referenced
relation before doing eval_const_expressions() on the lateral sub-select's
expressions (cf find_lateral_references()), so what's scheduled to be
emitted by the referenced relation is a whole-row Var, not the simplified
single-column Var produced by optimizing the function's FieldSelect on the
whole-row Var.  Then setrefs.c fails to match up that lateral reference to
what's available from the outer scan.

Preserving the FieldSelect optimization in such cases would require either
major planner restructuring (to recursively do expression simplification
on sub-selects much earlier) or some amazingly ugly kluge to change the
reltargetlist of a possibly-already-planned relation.  It seems better
just to skip the optimization when the Var is from an upper query level;
the case is not so common that it's likely anyone will notice a few
wasted cycles.

AFAICT this problem only occurs for uplevel LATERAL references, so
back-patch to 9.3 where LATERAL was added.
2014-10-20 12:23:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
48b2d88c10 psql: Improve \pset without arguments
Revert the output of the individual backslash commands that change print
settings back to the 9.3 way (not showing the command name in
parentheses).  Implement \pset without arguments separately, showing all
settings with values in a table form.
2014-10-18 22:01:22 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
5c8758e6ed doc: Clean up pg_recvlogical reference page
This needed a general cleanup of wording, typos, outdated terminology,
formatting, and hard-to-understand and borderline incorrect information.

Also tweak the pg_receivexlog page a bit to make the two more
consistent.
2014-10-18 09:26:49 -04:00
Tom Lane
b45f048ed8 Declare mkdtemp() only if we're providing it.
Follow our usual style of providing an "extern" for a standard library
function only when we're also providing the implementation.  This avoids
issues when the system headers declare the function slightly differently
than we do, as noted by Caleb Welton.

We might have to go to the extent of probing to see if the system headers
declare the function, but let's not do that until it's demonstrated to be
necessary.

Oversight in commit 9e6b1bf258.  Back-patch
to all supported branches, as that was.
2014-10-17 22:55:23 -04:00
Tom Lane
16bbe5a3cc Avoid core dump in _outPathInfo() for Path without a parent RelOptInfo.
Nearly all Paths have parents, but a ResultPath representing an empty FROM
clause does not.  Avoid a core dump in such cases.  I believe this is only
a hazard for debugging usage, not for production, else we'd have heard
about it before.  Nonetheless, back-patch to 9.1 where the troublesome code
was introduced.  Noted while poking at bug #11703.
2014-10-17 22:33:04 -04:00
Tom Lane
3205b30bb7 Fix core dump in pg_dump --binary-upgrade on zero-column composite type.
This reverts nearly all of commit 28f6cab61a
in favor of just using the typrelid we already have in pg_dump's TypeInfo
struct for the composite type.  As coded, it'd crash if the composite type
had no attributes, since then the query would return no rows.

Back-patch to all supported versions.  It seems to not really be a problem
in 9.0 because that version rejects the syntax "create type t as ()", but
we might as well keep the logic similar in all affected branches.

Report and fix by Rushabh Lathia.
2014-10-17 12:49:03 -04:00
Tom Lane
4b3b44b141 Support timezone abbreviations that sometimes change.
Up to now, PG has assumed that any given timezone abbreviation (such as
"EDT") represents a constant GMT offset in the usage of any particular
region; we had a way to configure what that offset was, but not for it
to be changeable over time.  But, as with most things horological, this
view of the world is too simplistic: there are numerous regions that have
at one time or another switched to a different GMT offset but kept using
the same timezone abbreviation.  Almost the entire Russian Federation did
that a few years ago, and later this month they're going to do it again.
And there are similar examples all over the world.

To cope with this, invent the notion of a "dynamic timezone abbreviation",
which is one that is referenced to a particular underlying timezone
(as defined in the IANA timezone database) and means whatever it currently
means in that zone.  For zones that use or have used daylight-savings time,
the standard and DST abbreviations continue to have the property that you
can specify standard or DST time and get that time offset whether or not
DST was theoretically in effect at the time.  However, the abbreviations
mean what they meant at the time in question (or most recently before that
time) rather than being absolutely fixed.

The standard abbreviation-list files have been changed to use this behavior
for abbreviations that have actually varied in meaning since 1970.  The
old simple-numeric definitions are kept for abbreviations that have not
changed, since they are a bit faster to resolve.

While this is clearly a new feature, it seems necessary to back-patch it
into all active branches, because otherwise use of Russian zone
abbreviations is going to become even more problematic than it already was.
This change supersedes the changes in commit 513d06ded et al to modify the
fixed meanings of the Russian abbreviations; since we've not shipped that
yet, this will avoid an undesirably incompatible (not to mention incorrect)
change in behavior for timestamps between 2011 and 2014.

This patch makes some cosmetic changes in ecpglib to keep its usage of
datetime lookup tables as similar as possible to the backend code, but
doesn't do anything about the increasingly obsolete set of timezone
abbreviation definitions that are hard-wired into ecpglib.  Whatever we
do about that will likely not be appropriate material for back-patching.
Also, a potential free() of a garbage pointer after an out-of-memory
failure in ecpglib has been fixed.

This patch also fixes pre-existing bugs in DetermineTimeZoneOffset() that
caused it to produce unexpected results near a timezone transition, if
both the "before" and "after" states are marked as standard time.  We'd
only ever thought about or tested transitions between standard and DST
time, but that's not what's happening when a zone simply redefines their
base GMT offset.

In passing, update the SGML documentation to refer to the Olson/zoneinfo/
zic timezone database as the "IANA" database, since it's now being
maintained under the auspices of IANA.
2014-10-16 15:22:13 -04:00
Tom Lane
9bb6b7c5ed Print planning time only in EXPLAIN ANALYZE, not plain EXPLAIN.
We've gotten enough push-back on that change to make it clear that it
wasn't an especially good idea to do it like that.  Revert plain EXPLAIN
to its previous behavior, but keep the extra output in EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
Per discussion.

Internally, I set this up as a separate flag ExplainState.summary that
controls printing of planning time and execution time.  For now it's
just copied from the ANALYZE option, but we could consider exposing it
to users.
2014-10-15 18:50:16 -04:00