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Peter Eisentraut 4b1742a192 Move the documentation of --no-security-label to a more sensible place
The order on the pg_dump/pg_dumpall man pages is not very strict, but
surely putting it under connection options was wrong.
2010-12-24 14:11:11 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut b2fd345ab9 Release notes for 9.1alpha3 2010-12-24 13:50:34 +02:00
Robert Haas a1b0035949 Document pg_dump(all) --no-security-label instead of --security-label.
The former is the option actually supported by these commands.
2010-12-23 23:22:40 -05:00
Michael Meskes 727a5a1620 Added rule to ecpg lexer to accept "Unicode surrogate pair in extended quoted
string". This is not really needed because the string gets copied to the output
untranslated anyway, but by adding this rule the lexer stays in sync with the
backend lexer.
2010-12-23 20:37:42 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9de3aa65f0 Rewrite the GiST insertion logic so that we don't need the post-recovery
cleanup stage to finish incomplete inserts or splits anymore. There was two
reasons for the cleanup step:

1. When a new tuple was inserted to a leaf page, the downlink in the parent
needed to be updated to contain (ie. to be consistent with) the new key.
Updating the parent in turn might require recursively updating the parent of
the parent. We now handle that by updating the parent while traversing down
the tree, so that when we insert the leaf tuple, all the parents are already
consistent with the new key, and the tree is consistent at every step.

2. When a page is split, we need to insert the downlink for the new right
page(s), and update the downlink for the original page to not include keys
that moved to the right page(s). We now handle that by setting a new flag,
F_FOLLOW_RIGHT, on the non-rightmost pages in the split. When that flag is
set, scans always follow the rightlink, regardless of the NSN mechanism used
to detect concurrent page splits. That way the tree is consistent right after
split, even though the downlink is still missing. This is very similar to the
way B-tree splits are handled. When the downlink is inserted in the parent,
the flag is cleared. To keep the insertion algorithm simple, when an
insertion sees an incomplete split, indicated by the F_FOLLOW_RIGHT flag, it
finishes the split before doing anything else.

These changes allow removing the whole "invalid tuple" mechanism, but I
retained the scan code to still follow invalid tuples correctly. While we
don't create any such tuples anymore, we want to handle them gracefully in
case you pg_upgrade a GiST index that has them. If we encounter any on an
insert, though, we just throw an error saying that you need to REINDEX.

The issue that got me into doing this is that if you did a checkpoint while
an insert or split was in progress, and the checkpoint finishes quickly so
that there is no WAL record related to the insert between RedoRecPtr and the
checkpoint record, recovery from that checkpoint would not know to finish
the incomplete insert. IOW, we have the same issue we solved with the
rm_safe_restartpoint mechanism during normal operation too. It's highly
unlikely to happen in practice, and this fix is far too large to backpatch,
so we're just going to live with in previous versions, but this refactoring
fixes it going forward.

With this patch, you don't get the annoying
'index "FOO" needs VACUUM or REINDEX to finish crash recovery' notices
anymore if you crash at an unfortunate moment.
2010-12-23 16:21:47 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 7a1ca8977f Document that BBU's do not allow partial page writes to be safely turned
off unless they guarantee that all writes to the BBU arrive in 8kB chunks.

Per discussion with Greg Smith
2010-12-22 21:12:00 -05:00
Robert Haas 2a0f13a765 Typo fix.
Noted by Thom Brown.
2010-12-22 09:33:34 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 28d5c565ce Wording improvements for pg_ctl manual page. 2010-12-22 09:11:33 -05:00
Magnus Hagander de9a4c27fe Add PQlibVersion() function to libpq
This function is like the PQserverVersion() function except
it returns the version of libpq, making it possible for a client
program or driver to determine which version of libpq is in
use at runtime, and not just at link time.

Suggested by Harald Armin Massa and several others.
2010-12-22 14:23:56 +01:00
Robert Haas 32ba2b5160 Use memcmp() rather than strncmp() when shorter string length is known.
It appears that this will be faster for all but the shortest strings;
at least one some platforms, memcmp() can use word-at-a-time comparisons.

Noah Misch, somewhat pared down.
2010-12-21 22:11:40 -05:00
Robert Haas c5160b7eec Fix typos.
Andreas Karlsson
2010-12-21 17:58:53 -05:00
Robert Haas 24ecde7742 Work around unfortunate getppid() behavior on BSD-ish systems.
On MacOS X, and apparently also on other BSD-derived systems, attaching
a debugger causes getppid() to return the pid of the debugging process
rather than the actual parent PID.  As a result, debugging the
autovacuum launcher, startup process, or WAL sender on such systems
causes it to exit, because the previous coding of PostmasterIsAlive()
detects postmaster death by testing whether getppid() == PostmasterPid.

Work around that behavior by checking the return value of getppid()
more carefully.  If it's PostmasterPid, the postmaster must be alive;
if it's 1, assume the postmaster is dead.  If it's any other value,
assume we've been debugged and fall through to the less-reliable
kill() test.

Review by Tom Lane.
2010-12-21 06:30:32 -05:00
Robert Haas f6a0863e3c Allow transactions that don't write WAL to commit asynchronously.
This case can arise if a transaction has written data, but only to
temporary tables.  Loss of the commit record in case of a crash won't
matter, because the temporary tables will be lost anyway.

Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas and Simon Riggs.
2010-12-20 12:59:33 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera f9e9763b62 Fix typo
Jaime Casanova
2010-12-20 12:05:12 -03:00
Magnus Hagander d382828f6e Remove thread dumping constant that requires newer Platform SDK
Since we're not multithreaded it only provides marginally useful
information, and it does require a newer version of the Platform SDK
than we target. We may want to reconsider this in the future along
with a fix for MinGW.
2010-12-19 21:32:58 +01:00
Tom Lane 1b19e2c0ba Fix up handling of simple-form CASE with constant test expression.
eval_const_expressions() can replace CaseTestExprs with constants when
the surrounding CASE's test expression is a constant.  This confuses
ruleutils.c's heuristic for deparsing simple-form CASEs, leading to
Assert failures or "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" errors.  I had put in
a hack solution for that years ago (see commit
514ce7a331 of 2006-10-01), but bug #5794
from Peter Speck shows that that solution failed to cover all cases.

Fortunately, there's a much better way, which came to me upon reflecting
that Peter's "CASE TRUE WHEN" seemed pretty redundant: we can "simplify"
the simple-form CASE to the general form of CASE, by simply omitting the
constant test expression from the rebuilt CASE construct.  This is
intuitively valid because there is no need for the executor to evaluate
the test expression at runtime; it will never be referenced, because any
CaseTestExprs that would have referenced it are now replaced by constants.
This won't save a whole lot of cycles, since evaluating a Const is pretty
cheap, but a cycle saved is a cycle earned.  In any case it beats kluging
ruleutils.c still further.  So this patch improves const-simplification
and reverts the previous change in ruleutils.c.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  The bug exists in 8.1 too, but it's
out of warranty.
2010-12-19 15:30:44 -05:00
Tom Lane abc1026269 Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery input "... & !(subexpression) | ..."
After parsing a parenthesized subexpression, we must pop all pending
ANDs and NOTs off the stack, just like the case for a simple operand.
Per bug #5793.

Also fix clones of this routine in contrib/intarray and contrib/ltree,
where input of types query_int and ltxtquery had the same problem.

Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-12-19 12:48:34 -05:00
Magnus Hagander dcb09b595f Support for collecting crash dumps on Windows
Add support for collecting "minidump" style crash dumps on
Windows, by setting up an exception handling filter. Crash
dumps will be generated in PGDATA/crashdumps if the directory
is created (the existance of the directory is used as on/off
switch for the generation of the dumps).

Craig Ringer and Magnus Hagander
2010-12-19 16:45:28 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 7e95337d58 Properly print the IP number and "localhost" for failed localhost
connections when the server is down, on Win32.
2010-12-18 11:26:17 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 4754dbf4c3 Make GUC variables for syslog and SSL always visible
Make the variables visible (but not used) even when
support is not compiled in.
2010-12-18 16:53:59 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera 3026027ec3 set_ps_display when calling functions via fastpath
This improves tag output by log_line_prefix
2010-12-17 18:51:22 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera b68193c0c7 Remove unnecessary definition for autovacuum in SignalSomeChildren. 2010-12-17 15:59:19 -03:00
Robert Haas 8bd4b89e24 Try to save a kernel call in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs.
If there's no work to be done, just exit quickly, before initialization.
2010-12-17 11:32:02 -05:00
Robert Haas 611fed3712 Reset 'ps' display just once when resolving VXID conflicts.
This prevents the word "waiting" from briefly disappearing from the ps
status line when ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs begins a new
iteration of the outer loop.

Along the way, remove some useless pgstat_report_waiting() calls;
the startup process doesn't appear in pg_stat_activity.

Fujii Masao
2010-12-17 08:30:57 -05:00
Robert Haas df142bf82c Waiting for complete startup is now a well-defined operation.
Per report from Fujii Masao, and subsequent discussion.
2010-12-16 20:57:33 -05:00
Tom Lane 14ed7735f5 Improve comments around startup_hacks() code.
These comments were not updated when we added the EXEC_BACKEND
mechanism for Windows, even though it rendered them inaccurate.

Also unify two unnecessarily-separate #ifdef __alpha code blocks.
2010-12-16 17:57:57 -05:00
Tom Lane 61b53695fb Remove optreset from src/port/ implementations of getopt and getopt_long.
We don't actually need optreset, because we can easily fix the code to
ensure that it's cleanly restartable after having completed a scan over the
argv array; which is the only case we need to restart in.  Getting rid of
it avoids a class of interactions with the system libraries and allows
reversion of my change of yesterday in postmaster.c and postgres.c.

Back-patch to 8.4.  Before that the getopt code was a bit different anyway.
2010-12-16 16:23:05 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera cd1fefa973 Avoid clobbering errno, per comment from Tom. 2010-12-16 17:15:37 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 83c759ea0e Fix inconsequential FILE pointer leakage 2010-12-16 16:45:11 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera e359b8496d Add some minor missing error checks 2010-12-16 12:23:07 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 16ca75baeb Simplify SignalSomeChildren(BACKEND_TYPE_ALL) to SignalChildren() 2010-12-16 12:23:07 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 48da2b87e3 Fix crash caused by NULL lookup when reporting IP address of failed
libpq connection, per report from Magnus.  This happens only on GIT
master and only on Win32 because that is the platform where "" maps to
an IP address (localhost).
2010-12-16 10:13:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 5cdd65f324 Fix up getopt() reset management so it works on recent mingw.
The mingw people don't appear to care about compatibility with non-GNU
versions of getopt, so force use of our own copy of getopt on Windows.
Also, ensure that we make use of optreset when using our own copy.

Per report from Andrew Dunstan.  Back-patch to all versions supported
on Windows.
2010-12-15 23:50:41 -05:00
Tom Lane 2a6ebe70fb Fix contrib/seg's GiST picksplit method.
This patch replaces Guttman's generalized split method with a simple
sort-by-center-points algorithm.  Since the data is only one-dimensional
we don't really need the slow and none-too-stable Guttman method.

This is in part a bug fix, since seg has the same size_alpha versus
size_beta typo that was recently fixed in contrib/cube.  It seems
prudent to apply this rather aggressive fix only in HEAD, though.
Back branches will just get the typo fix.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Yeb Havinga
2010-12-15 21:24:47 -05:00
Robert Haas 290f1603b4 Some copy editing of pg_read_binary_file() patch. 2010-12-15 21:02:31 -05:00
Robert Haas afc8f47b58 Document timestamptz a little better. 2010-12-15 20:53:40 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 03db44eae3 Add pg_read_binary_file() and whole-file-at-once versions of pg_read_file().
One of the usages of the binary version is to read files in a different
encoding from the server encoding.

Dimitri Fontaine and Itagaki Takahiro.
2010-12-16 06:56:28 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 16b5e08dec Use "upgrade" in preference over "migrate" in pg_upgrade messages and
documentation.  (Many were left over from the old pg_migrator naming.)
2010-12-15 07:11:31 -05:00
Robert Haas 34c70c7ac4 Instrument checkpoint sync calls.
Greg Smith, reviewed by Jeff Janes
2010-12-14 09:26:19 -05:00
Robert Haas 9878e295dc Improved tab completion for views with triggers.
Allow INSERT INTO, UPDATE, and DELETE FROM to be completed with
either the name of a table (as before) or the name of a view with
an appropriate INSTEAD OF rule.

Along the way, allow CREATE TRIGGER to be completed with INSTEAD OF,
as well as BEFORE and AFTER.

David Fetter, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro
2010-12-13 22:46:55 -05:00
Tom Lane f9224c8ec2 Update release notes for releases 9.0.2, 8.4.6, 8.3.13, 8.2.19, and 8.1.23. 2010-12-13 20:22:52 -05:00
Robert Haas d368e1a2a7 Allow plugins to suppress inlining and hook function entry/exit/abort.
This is intended as infrastructure to allow an eventual SE-Linux plugin to
support trusted procedures.

KaiGai Kohei
2010-12-13 19:15:53 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 843a490f0a Remove recently reintroduced CVS keyword 2010-12-13 23:22:52 +02:00
Robert Haas d26849ee26 Document replacement of pg_class.relistemp with relpersistence.
Noted by Tom Lane.
2010-12-13 13:08:45 -05:00
Tom Lane f5e4f743e6 Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010o: DST law changes in
Fiji and Samoa.  Historical corrections for Hong Kong.
2010-12-13 12:45:31 -05:00
Robert Haas 5f7b58fad8 Generalize concept of temporary relations to "relation persistence".
This commit replaces pg_class.relistemp with pg_class.relpersistence;
and also modifies the RangeVar node type to carry relpersistence rather
than istemp.  It also removes removes rd_istemp from RelationData and
instead performs the correct computation based on relpersistence.

For clarity, we add three new macros: RelationNeedsWAL(),
RelationUsesLocalBuffers(), and RelationUsesTempNamespace(), so that we
can clarify the purpose of each check that previous depended on
rd_istemp.

This is intended as infrastructure for the upcoming unlogged tables
patch, as well as for future possible work on global temporary tables.
2010-12-13 12:34:26 -05:00
Tom Lane 0c90442355 Reset all database-level stats in pgstat_recv_resetcounter().
We were failing to zero out some pg_stat_database counters that have
been added since the initial pgstats coding.  This is a bug, but not
back-patching the fix since changing this behavior in a minor release
seems a cure worse than the disease.

Report and patch by Tomas Vondra.
2010-12-12 15:09:53 -05:00
Tom Lane 5132ad8bdf Make S_IRGRP etc available in mingw builds as well as MSVC.
(Hm, I wonder whether BCC defines them either...)

Also label dangling endifs a bit better in this area.
2010-12-12 13:43:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 3864afa1d1 Clean up some copied-and-pasted code in pg_upgrade.
1. Don't reimplement S_ISDIR() and S_ISREG() badly.
2. Don't reimplement access() badly.

This code appears to have been copied from ancient versions of the
corresponding backend routines, and not patched to incorporate subsequent
fixes (see my commits of 2008-03-31 and 2010-01-14 respectively).
It might be a good idea to change it to just *call* those routines,
but for now I'll just transpose these fixes over.
2010-12-11 14:17:46 -05:00
Tom Lane 1319002e2e Provide a complete set of file-permission-bit macros in win32.h.
My previous patch exposed the fact that we didn't have these.  Those
hard-wired octal constants were actually wrong on Windows, not just
inconsistent.
2010-12-11 13:11:18 -05:00