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.
option settings. Sort out SIGHUP vs BACKEND -- there is no total ordering
here, so make explicit checks. Add comments explaining all of this.
Removed permissions check on SHOW command.
Add examine_subclass to the game, rename to SQL_inheritance to fit the
official data model better. Adjust documentation.
Standalone backend needs to reset all options before it starts. To
facilitate that, have IsUnderPostmaster be set by the postmaster itself,
don't wait for the magic -p switch.
Also make sure that all environment variables and argv's survive
init_ps_display(). Use strdup where necessary.
Have initdb make configuration files (postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf) mode
0600 -- having configuration files is no fun if you can't edit them.
to apply the tempname->realname mapping to type name lookup as well
as relation name lookup, else the type tuple will not be found when
wanted. This fixes bugs like this one:
create temp table foo (f1 int);
select foo.f2 from foo;
ERROR: Unable to locate type name 'foo' in catalog
are opened in a consistent order by different backends (I ordered them
by index OID because that's easy, but any other consistent order would
do as well). This avoids potential deadlock for index types that we
acquire exclusive locks on ... ie, rtree.
entries now for int8 and network hash indexes. int24_ops and int42_ops
are gone. pg_opclass no longer contains multiple entries claiming to be
the default opclass for the same datatype. opr_sanity regress test
extended to catch errors like these in the future.
materialized tupleset is small enough) instead of a temporary relation.
This was something I was thinking of doing anyway for performance, and Jan
says he needs it for TOAST because he doesn't want to cope with toasting
noname relations. With this change, the 'noname table' support in heap.c
is dead code, and I have accordingly removed it. Also clean up 'noname'
plan handling in planner --- nonames are either sort or materialize plans,
and it seems less confusing to handle them separately under those names.
discussion of 5/19/00). pg_index is now searched for indexes of a
relation using an indexscan. Moreover, this is done once and cached
in the relcache entry for the relation, in the form of a list of OIDs
for the indexes. This list is used by the parser and executor to drive
lookups in the pg_index syscache when they want to know the properties
of the indexes. Net result: index information will be fully cached
for repetitive operations such as inserts.
pointers, namely the catcache tuple fetch routines. Also get rid of
the unused and possibly confusing 'size' field in struct cachedesc.
Since it doesn't allow for variable-length fields, anyone who
actually trusted it would likely be making a mistake...
we'll get there one day.
Use `cat' to create aclocal.m4, not `aclocal'. Some people don't
have automake installed.
Only run the autoconf rule in the top-level GNUmakefile if the
invoker specified `make configure', don't run it automatically
because of CVS timestamp skew.
--- ie, they're only called for side-effects. Add a PG_RETURN_VOID()
macro and use it where appropriate. This probably doesn't change the
machine code by a single bit ... it's just for documentation.
to_char. I don't know about the rest of the world, but the "standard" in
Australia is the following:
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th - 9th
10th - 19th
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th - 29th (similarly for 30s - 90s)
110th - 119th (and for all "teens")
121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th - 129th
I think you see the trend. The current code works fine except that it
produces:
111st, 112nd, 113rd, 114th - 119th
211st, 212nd, 213rd, 214th - 219th ... and so on.
Without knowing anything about what's supported (and what isn't) in the usual
I18N libraries, should this type of behaviour be defined within the locales?
Daniel Baldoni
CPP) to create platform independent files. Unfortunately, that means that
every config.status (or configure) run invariably causes a relink of the
postmaster and also that we can't put these files in the distribution
(usefully). So we make it a little smarter: when the output files already
exist and it notices that it would recreate them in identical form, it
doesn't touch them. In order to avoid re-running the make rule all the time
we update a timestamp file instead.
Update release_prep accordingly. Also make Gen_fmgrtab.sh use the awk that
is detected at configure time, not necessarily named `awk' and have it check
for exit statuses a little better.
In other news... Remove USE_LOCALE from the templates, it was set to `no'
everywhere anyway. Also remove YACC and YFLAGS from the templates, configure
is smart enough to find bison or yacc itself. Use AC_PROG_YACC for that
instead of the hand-crafted code. Do not set YFLAGS to `-d'. The make rules
that need this flag should explicitly invoke it. YFLAGS should be a user
variable. Update the makefiles to that effect.
over multiple lookups --- it should use SearchSysCacheTupleCopy instead.
This accounts for rare failures like 'init_fcache: null probin for procedure 481'
when running concurrently with a VACUUM.
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.
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)
built-in procedures are named after the prosrc field of pg_proc (ie,
the actual C function name), not the proname field. This did not use
to make a difference back when the two were always the same, but in the
presence of overloaded proname values we'd best try to use the C name
instead. AFAICT this change affects no existing code, but it is
necessary to be able to get at some built-in functions that no macro
was being generated for before.
to 10, and be consistent about whether it counts the trailing null (it
does not). Also increase MAXDATELEN to be sure no buffer overflows are
caused by the longer MAXTZLEN.
key call sites are changed, but most called functions are still oldstyle.
An exception is that the PL managers are updated (so, for example, NULL
handling now behaves as expected in plperl and plpgsql functions).
NOTE initdb is forced due to added column in pg_proc.
other than the most common value in a column. We had had 0.5, make it
0.1 to make it more likely that an indexscan will be chosen. Really
need better statistics instead, but this should stem the bleeding
meanwhile ...
project I am working on (Recall - a distributed, fault-tolerant,
replicated, storage framework @ http://www.fault-tolerant.org).
Recall is written in C++. I need to include the postgres headers and
there are some problems when including the headers w/C++.
Attached is a patch generated from postgres/src that fixes my problems.
I was hoping to get this into the main source. It's very small (2k) and
3 files are changed: backend/utils/fmgr/fmgr.c,
backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.sh.in, and include/access/tupdesc.h.
In C++, you get a multiply defined symbol because the variable
(FmgrInfo *fmgr_pl_finfo) is defined in the header (the patch moves it
to the .c file). The other problem in tupdesc.h is the use of typeid
is a problem in c++ (I renamed it to oidtypeid).
Thanks,
Neal Norwitz
really ought to fix relcache entry construction so that it does not
do so much with CurrentMemoryContext = CacheCxt. As is, relatively
harmless leaks in either sequential or index scanning translate to
permanent leaks if they occur when called from relcache build.
For the moment, however, the path of least resistance is to repair
all such leaks...
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
just use the portable form,
tr ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
There were a bunch of places that weren't paying attention to configure's
result anyway (including configure itself!?); clean them up too.
pg_char_to_encoding() in multibyte disbaled case so that it does not
throw an error, rather return HARD CODED default value (currently SQL_ASCII).
This would solve the "non-mb backend vs. mb-enabled frontend" problem.
(LIKE and regexp matches). These are not yet referenced in pg_operator,
so by default the system will continue to use eqsel/neqsel.
Also, tweak convert_to_scalar() logic so that common prefixes of strings
are stripped off, allowing better accuracy when all strings in a table
share a common prefix.
subsequent elogs() in the same COPY operation to display the wrong
line number. Fix is to clear lineno only when elog level is such
that we will not return to caller.
logged queries to 1024, truncating longer queries. That is about half of
the size I need (I have a union that is 2K long). Can someone consider
bumping it to 4K or so? Patch attached...
Regards,
Ed Loehr
Add a random number generator and seed setter (random(), SET SEED)
Fix up the interval*float8 math to carry partial months
into the time field.
Add float8*interval so we have symmetry in the available math.
Fix the parser and define.c to accept SQL92 types as field arguments.
Fix the parser to accept SQL92 types for CREATE TYPE, etc. This is
necessary to allow...
Bit/varbit support in contrib/bit cleaned up to compile and load
cleanly. Still needs some work before final release.
Implement the "SOME" keyword as a synonym for "ANY" per SQL92.
Implement ascii(text), ichar(int4), repeat(text,int4) to help
support the ODBC driver.
Enable the TRUNCATE() function mapping in the ODBC driver.
pg_internal.init file in-place, which meant that if another backend
started at about the same time, it might read the incomplete file.
init_irels tries to guard against that, but I have now seen a crash
due to reading bad data from a partly-written file. (This may indicate
a kernel bug on my platform? Not sure.) Anyway, clearly the safest
course is to write the new pg_internal.init file under a unique temporary
filename, and rename it into place only after it's all written.
to next integer. Previously, if selectivity was small, we could compute
very tiny scan cost on the basis of estimating that only 0.001 tuple
would be fetched, which is silly. This naturally led to some rather
silly plans...
Clean up grotty coding in them, too. AFAICS from the CVS logs, these
have been broken since Postgres95, so I'm not going to insist on an
initdb to fix them now...
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...
small changes in formatting.c code (better memory usage ...etc.) and
better
to_char's cache (will fastly for more to_char()s in one query).
(It is probably end of to_char() development in 7.0 cycle.)
Karel
Implement TIME WITH TIME ZONE type (timetz internal type).
Remap length() for character strings to CHAR_LENGTH() for SQL92
and to remove the ambiguity with geometric length() functions.
Keep length() for character strings for backward compatibility.
Shrink stored views by removing internal column name list from visible rte.
Implement min(), max() for time and timetz data types.
Implement conversion of TIME to INTERVAL.
Implement abs(), mod(), fac() for the int8 data type.
Rename some math functions to generic names:
round(), sqrt(), cbrt(), pow(), etc.
Rename NUMERIC power() function to pow().
Fix int2 factorial to calculate result in int4.
Enhance the Oracle compatibility function translate() to work with string
arguments (from Edwin Ramirez).
Modify pg_proc system table to remove OID holes.
(ie, allow rounding to occur at a digit position left of the decimal
point). Apparently this is how Oracle handles it, and there are
precedents in other programming languages as well.
Since we detect oversize tuples elsewhere, I see no reason not to allow
string constants that are 'too long' --- after all, they might never get
stored in a tuple at all.
Here's a patch to fix the " '.' not allowed in db path" problem I ran into.
I removed '.' from the set of illegial characters, but added backtick. I also
included an explicit test for attempting include a reference to a parent dir.
How that?
Ross
the to_char() source code is large, here are regression tests for
numeric/timestamp/int8 part. It is probably enough test for formatting
code in the formatting.c module. The others (float4/float8/int4) types
share this formatting code and eventual bugs for these types aren't
few probable.
Patch fix timestamp_to_char() for infinity/invalid timestamp too.
Karel
when you have networks with the same prefix, but different netmasks.
This is due to the fact that occassionally there is random
(uninitialized?)
data in the extra bits past the point where the netmask cares about
them.
ie (real data from a real live database):
10.0/10 == 00001010.00100000.00100000.00011000
10.0/11 == 00001010.00000000.00000000.00000000
^ Bad data, normally never seen
The v4bitncmp() function was only taking one bit length argument so
it would determine that the networks were different, even though
they really aren't (and the netmask test wouldn't be used). This
ONLY happens if the tuple with the longer bit length is used as the
ip_bits() for the v4bitncmp call AND there happens to be junk data
in place in the shorter tuple. Odd and random, but I saw it happen
a couple times so...
Ryan Mooney
