< be cleared when a heap tuple is expired. Another idea is to maintain
< a bitmap of heap pages where all rows are visible to all backends,
< and allow index lookups to reference that bitmap to avoid heap
< lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might add someday to determine
< which heap pages need vacuuming.
> be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
>
> Another idea is to maintain a bitmap of heap pages where all rows
> are visible to all backends, and allow index lookups to reference
> that bitmap to avoid heap lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might
> add someday to determine which heap pages need vacuuming. Frequently
> accessed bitmaps would have to be stored in shared memory. One 8k
> page of bitmaps could track 512MB of heap pages.
< the heap. One way to allow this is to set a bit to index tuples
> the heap. One way to allow this is to set a bit on index tuples
< be cleared when a heap tuple is expired.
<
> be cleared when a heap tuple is expired. Another idea is to maintain
> a bitmap of heap pages where all rows are visible to all backends,
> and allow index lookups to reference that bitmap to avoid heap
> lookups, perhaps the same bitmap we might add someday to determine
> which heap pages need vacuuming.
< * Add MERGE command that does UPDATE/DELETE, or on failure, INSERT (rules,
< triggers?)
> * Add SQL-standard MERGE command, typically used to merge two tables
>
> This is similar to UPDATE, then for unmatched rows, INSERT.
> Whether concurrent access allows modifications which could cause
> row loss is implementation independent.
>
> * Add REPLACE or UPSERT command that does UPDATE, or on failure, INSERT
< #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.1 release.#
> #A hyphen, "-", marks changes that will appear in the upcoming 8.2 release.#
process of dropping roles by dropping objects owned by them and privileges
granted to them, or giving the owned objects to someone else, through the
use of the data stored in the new pg_shdepend catalog.
Some refactoring of the GRANT/REVOKE code was needed, as well as ALTER OWNER
code. Further cleanup of code duplication in the GRANT code seems necessary.
Implemented by me after an idea from Tom Lane, who also provided various kind
of implementation advice.
Regression tests pass. Some tests for the new functionality are also added,
as well as rudimentary documentation.
the array (for array_push) or higher-dimensional array (for array_cat)
rather than decrementing it as before. This avoids generating lower
bounds other than one for any array operation within the SQL spec. Per
recent discussion.
Interestingly, this seems to have been the original behavior, because
while updating the docs I noticed that a large fraction of relevant
examples were *wrong* for the old behavior and are now right. Is it
worth correcting this in the back-branch docs?
functionality, but I still need to make another pass looking at places
that incidentally use arrays (such as ACL manipulation) to make sure they
are null-safe. Contrib needs work too.
I have not changed the behaviors that are still under discussion about
array comparison and what to do with lower bounds.
< so duplicate checking can be easily performed.
> so duplicate checking can be easily performed. It is possible to
> do it without a unique index if we require the user to LOCK the table
> before the MERGE.
< * Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
< * Add PQescapeIdentifier() to libpq
< * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
<
< PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
< it has so we need a way to prevent it
<
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>
>
> libpq
>
> o Add a function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability
> o Add PQescapeIdentifier()
> o Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
> PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but
> historically it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
> o Allow query results to be automatically batched to the client
>
> Currently, all query results are transfered to the libpq
> client before libpq makes the results available to the
> application. This feature would allow the application to make
> use of the first result rows while the rest are transfered, or
> held on the server waiting for them to be requested by libpq.
> One complexity is that a query like SELECT 1/col could error
> out mid-way through the result set.
to fail to successfully build the release candidates.
However, a patch has emerged (thanks, Seneca!) that does allow it to
work, and which I'd expect to be portable (better still!).
We are still actively pursuing why it breaks, but supposing that still
remains outstanding, at least the following would allow AIX users to
better survive a build...
Chris Browne
necessary, and be careful to refer to the right version where it is
useful to do so. This partially reverts an ill-considered search and
replace from a few months ago.
< o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601
< format
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> o Add a GUC variable to allow output of interval values in ISO8601
> format
> o Improve timestamptz subtraction to be DST-aware
>
> Currently, subtracting one date from another that crosses a
> daylight savings time adjustment can return '1 day 1 hour', but
> adding that back to the first date returns a time one hour in
> the future. This is caused by the adjustment of '25 hours' to
> '1 day 1 hour', and '1 day' is the same time the next day, even
> if daylight savings adjustments are involved.
>
> o Fix interval display to support values exceeding 2^31 hours
> o Add overflow checking to timestamp and interval arithmetic
inFromCl true, meaning that they will list out as explicit RTEs if they
are in a view or rule. Update comments about inFromCl to reflect the way
it's now actually used. Per recent discussion.
>
> o Add auto-expanded mode so expanded output is used if the row
> length is wider than the screen width.
>
> Consider using auto-expanded mode for backslash commands like \df+.
PQregisterThreadLock().
I also remove the crypt() mention in the libpq threading section and
added a single sentence in the client-auth manual page under crypt().
Crypt authentication is so old now that a separate paragraph about it
seemed unwise.
I also added a comment about our use of locking around pqGetpwuid().
documenting GiST crash recovery procedures, as requested some time ago
by Teodor. (The GiST chapter doesn't seem quite the right place for
the latter, but I'm not sure what else to do with it.)
a parameter in binary format. Also, add a TIP explaining how to use casts
in the query text to avoid needing to specify parameter types by OID.
Also fix bogus spacing --- apparently somebody expanded the tabs in the
example programs to 8 spaces instead of 4 when transposing them into SGML.
fix problems with replacement-string backslashes that aren't followed by
one of the expected characters, avoid giving the impression that
replace_text_regexp() is meant to be called directly as a SQL function,
etc.
the facility has been set, the facility gets set to LOCAL0 and cannot
be changed later. This seems reasonably plausible to happen, particularly
at higher debug log levels, though I am not certain it explains Han Holl's
recent report. Easiest fix is to teach the code how to change the value
on-the-fly, which is nicer anyway. I made the settings PGC_SIGHUP to
conform with log_destination.
regression=# select '23:59:59.9'::time(0);
time
----------
24:00:00
(1 row)
This is bad because:
regression=# select '24:00:00'::time(0);
ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "24:00:00"
The last example now works.
of client_min_messages (fatal + panic) are valid and also fixes a slight
issue with how psql tried to display error messages that aren't sent to
the client.
We often tell people to ignore errors in response to requests for things
like "drop if exists", but there's no good way to completely hide this
without upping client_min_messages past ERROR. When running a file like
SET client_min_messages TO 'FATAL';
DROP TABLE doesntexist;
with "psql -f filename" you get an error prefix of
"psql:/home/username/filename:3" even though there is no error message to
prefix because it isn't sent to the client.
Kris Jurka
WAL and the interaction of the new full_page_writes parameter with PITR.
The too-small WAL first sect1 has been merged with the one following
sect1 for clarity.
Some minor comments have been made in the WAL config section also.
Passes SGML make and proofread for typos.
Files changed:
patching file doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
patching file doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml
Simon Riggs
> * Prevent PQfnumber() from lowercasing unquoted the column name
>
> PQfnumber() should never have been doing lowercasing, but historically
> it has so we need a way to prevent it
>
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
<
< One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
< surrounded by quotes.
<
<
< * Add code to detect an SMP machine and handle spinlocks accordingly
< from distributted.net, http://www1.distributed.net/source,
< in client/common/cpucheck.cpp
<
< On SMP machines, it is possible that locks might be released shortly,
< while on non-SMP machines, the backend should sleep so the process
< holding the lock can complete and release it.
< o %Add dumping of comments on composite type columns
< o %Add dumping of comments on index columns
< o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
> o %Add dumping of comments on index columns and composite type columns
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> o Stop dumping CASCADE on DROP TYPE commands in clean mode
< * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name?
> * Prevent libpq's PQfnumber() from lowercasing the column name
>
> One idea is to lowercase all identifiers except those that are
> surrounded by quotes.
>
> o Allow selection of individual object(s) of all types, not just
> tables
> o In a selective dump, allow dumping of an object and all its
> dependencies
emit when given the --clean option, in favor of individual DROP ROLE
commands. The old technique could not possibly work in 8.1, and was
never a very good idea anyway IMHO. The DROP ROLE approach has the
defect that the DROPs will fail for roles that own objects or have
privileges, but perhaps we can improve that later.
< * Consider compressing indexes by storing key prefix values shared by
> * Consider compressing indexes by storing key values duplicated in
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>
> This is difficult because it requires datatype-specific knowledge.
generated by bitmap index scans. Along the way, simplify and speed up
the code for counting sequential and index scans; it was both confusing
and inefficient to be taking care of that in the per-tuple loops, IMHO.
initdb forced because of internal changes in pg_stat view definitions.
argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string. The frontend
conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an
implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass. This provides
backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument
is explicitly typed as 'text'. When the argument is just an unadorned
literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the
stored representation will be an OID. This solves longstanding problems
with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as
well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or
moving them to another schema. All per recent discussion.
Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support
for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).
relocated after installation. We can't trust the installation paths
inserted into Makefile.global by configure, so instead we must get the
paths from pg_config. This requires extending pg_config to support all
the separately-configurable path names, but that was on TODO anyway.
> * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged
> * Allow protocol-level EXECUTE that is actually a fetch to appear
> in the logs as a fetch rather than another execute
>
> o Display IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters in \df+
>
> It probably requires psql to output newlines in the proper
> column, which is already on the TODO list.
strings. This is consistent with SQL conventions, and since Bruce
already changed initdb in a way that assumed it worked like this, seems
we'd better make it work like this.
< This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values.
> This would be beneficial when there are few distinct values. This is
> already used by GROUP BY.
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< * Allow DISTINCT to use hashing like GROUP BY
