inputs have been converted to newstyle. This should go a long way towards
fixing our portability problems with platforms where char and short
parameters are passed differently from int-width parameters. Still
more to do for the Alpha port however.
Implement "date/time grand unification".
Transform datetime and timespan into timestamp and interval.
Deprecate datetime and timespan, though translate to new types in gram.y.
Transform all datetime and timespan catalog entries into new types.
Make "INTERVAL" reserved word allowed as a column identifier in gram.y.
Remove dt.h, dt.c files, and retarget datetime.h, datetime.c as utility
routines for all date/time types.
date.{h,c} now deals with date, time types.
timestamp.{h,c} now deals with timestamp, interval types.
nabstime.{h,c} now deals with abstime, reltime, tinterval types.
Make NUMERIC a known native type for purposes of type coersion. Not tested.
from a constraint condition does not violate the constraint (cf. discussion
on pghackers 12/9/99). Implemented by adding a parameter to ExecQual,
specifying whether to return TRUE or FALSE when the qual result is
really NULL in three-valued boolean logic. Currently, ExecRelCheck is
the only caller that asks for TRUE, but if we find any other places that
have the wrong response to NULL, it'll be easy to fix them.
expressions in CREATE TABLE. There is no longer an emasculated expression
syntax for these things; it's full a_expr for constraints, and b_expr
for defaults (unfortunately the fact that NOT NULL is a part of the
column constraint syntax causes a shift/reduce conflict if you try a_expr.
Oh well --- at least parenthesized boolean expressions work now). Also,
stored expression for a column default is not pre-coerced to the column
type; we rely on transformInsertStatement to do that when the default is
actually used. This means "f1 datetime default 'now'" behaves the way
people usually expect it to.
BTW, all the support code is now there to implement ALTER TABLE ADD
CONSTRAINT and ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a default value. I didn't
actually teach ALTER TABLE to call it, but it wouldn't be much work.
* 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.
here is the patch that includes PL/pgSQL into the build
(currently with make errors ignored) and adds a regression
test for it. A clean build and regression ran fine here.
Can you please apply it?
The tar should be extracted in /usr/local/src/pgsql and
creates the following files:
src/pl/Makefile
called by toplevel GNUmakefile and for now only calls
src/pl/plpgsql/Makefile
src/pl/plpgsql/Makefile
calls src/pl/plpgsql/src/Makefile (here the call to
make ignores build errors - this must be changed
later for the final release).
src/test/regress/input/install_plpgsql.source
SQL script installing PL/pgSQL language in regression
database. Will be modified by .../input/Makefile to
point to correct PGLIB directory where plpgsql.so
gets installed.
src/test/regress/output/install_plpgsql.source
expected output for installation script.
src/test/regress/sql/plpgsql.sql
the main regression test. It tests functions and
triggers written in PL/pgSQL including views that use
supportfunctions in this language.
src/test/regress/expected/plpgsql.out
the expected output for the above regression test.
make_plpgsql.diff
patch that adds some lines to
src/GNUmakefile.in
src/test/regress/expected/Makefile
src/test/regress/input/Makefile
src/test/regress/output/Makefile
src/test/regress/sql/Makefile
src/test/regress/sql/tests
1. Remove the char2, char4, char8 and char16 types from postgresql
2. Change references of char16 to name in the regression tests.
3. Rename the char16.sql regression test to name.sql. 4. Modify
the regression test scripts and outputs to match up.
Might require new regression.{SYSTEM} files...
Darren King
the DROP TABLE calls from the destroy.sql file to the 'types' .sql files,
so that they are self-contained
btree_index, hash_index and misc all fail as there seems to be missing
a 'misc.out' expected file...have asked Thomas for one...
=============== destroying old regression database... =================
=============== creating new regression database... =================
=============== running regression queries... =================
create_function_1 .. ok
create_type .. ok
create_table .. ok
create_function_2 .. ok
Tom Lane
Thomas G. Lockhart
Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier
Vadim B. Mikheev