This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause
to override it per expression, and B-tree index support.
Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
FK constraints that are marked NOT VALID may later be VALIDATED, which uses an
ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on constraint table and RowShareLock on referenced
table. Significantly reduces lock strength and duration when adding FKs.
New state visible from psql.
Simon Riggs, with reviews from Marko Tiikkaja and Robert Haas
Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot
Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any
serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a
method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by
Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable
Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation,
but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and
aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method
produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even
though there is no anomaly.
To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c.
Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared
memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a
page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a
single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching
tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index
scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not
there are any matching keys at the moment.
A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another
predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock
manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions
participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for
for other transactions.
Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until
all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that
we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a
lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions.
If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU
pool.
We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode.
That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies
that wouldn't otherwise occur.
Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level.
Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have
always had.
Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and
Anssi Kääriäinen
Add the current xlog insert location to the response of
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM, and adds result sets containing start
and stop location of backups to BASE_BACKUP responses.
When included, this makes the base backup a complete working
"clone" of the initial database, ready to have a postmaster
started against it without the need to set up any log archiving
or similar.
Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
The target of sscanf with a %o format had better be of integer width,
but "mode_t" conceivably isn't that. Another compiler warning seen
only on some platforms; this one I think is potentially a real bug
and not just a warning.
This tool makes it possible to do the pg_start_backup/
copy files/pg_stop_backup step in a single command.
There are still some steps to be done before this is a
complete backup solution, such as the ability to stream
the required WAL logs, but it's still usable, and
could do with some buildfarm coverage.
In passing, make the checkpoint request optionally
fast instead of hardcoding it.
Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Dimitri Fontaine
It appears that gcc 4.5 can issue such warnings for whole structs, not
just scalar variables as in the past. Refactor some pg_dump code slightly
so that the OutputContext local variables are always initialized, even
if they won't be used. It's cheap enough to not be worth worrying about.
Fix broken test for pre-existing postmaster, caused by wrong code for
appending lines to the lockfile; don't write a failed listen_address
setting into the lockfile; don't arbitrarily change the location of the
data directory in the lockfile compared to previous releases; provide more
consistent and useful definitions of the socket path and listen_address
entries; avoid assuming that pg_ctl has the same DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR as
the postmaster; assorted code style improvements.
which is stored in pg_largeobject_metadata.
No backpatch to 9.0 because you can't migrate from 9.0 to 9.0 with the
same catversion (because of tablespace conflict), and a pre-9.0
migration to 9.0 has not large object permissions to migrate.
Toast tables have identical pg_class.oid and pg_class.relfilenode, but
for clarity it is good to preserve the pg_class.oid.
Update comments regarding what is preserved, and do some
variable/function renaming for clarity.
Foreign tables are a core component of SQL/MED. This commit does
not provide a working SQL/MED infrastructure, because foreign tables
cannot yet be queried. Support for foreign table scans will need to
be added in a future patch. However, this patch creates the necessary
system catalog structure, syntax support, and support for ancillary
operations such as COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL.
Shigeru Hanada, heavily revised by Robert Haas
The contents of an unlogged table are WAL-logged; thus, they are not
available on standby servers and are truncated whenever the database
system enters recovery. Indexes on unlogged tables are also unlogged.
Unlogged GiST indexes are not currently supported.
This privilege is required to do Streaming Replication, instead of
superuser, making it possible to set up a SR slave that doesn't
have write permissions on the master.
Superuser privileges do NOT override this check, so in order to
use the default superuser account for replication it must be
explicitly granted the REPLICATION permissions. This is backwards
incompatible change, in the interest of higher default security.
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
mkdir_p and check_data_dir will be useful in CREATE TABLESPACE, since we
have agreed that that command should handle subdirectory creation just like
initdb creates the PGDATA directory. Push them into src/port/ so that they
are available to both initdb and the backend. Rename to pg_mkdir_p and
pg_check_dir, just to be on the safe side. Add FreeBSD's copyright notice
to pgmkdirp.c, since that's where the code came from originally (this
really should have been in initdb.c). Very marginal code/comment cleanup.
Purely cosmetic patch to make our coding standards more consistent ---
we were doing symbolic some places and octal other places. This patch
fixes all C-coded uses of mkdir, chmod, and umask. There might be some
other calls I missed. Inconsistency noted while researching tablespace
directory permissions issue.
With hundreds of thousands of TOC entries, the repeated searches in
reduce_dependencies() become the dominant cost. Get rid of that searching
by constructing reverse-dependency lists, which we can do in O(N) time
during the fix_dependencies() preprocessing. I chose to store the reverse
dependencies as DumpId arrays for consistency with the forward-dependency
representation, and keep the previously-transient tocsByDumpId[] array
around to locate actual TOC entry structs quickly from dump IDs.
While this fixes the slow case reported by Vlad Arkhipov, there is still
a potential for O(N^2) behavior with sufficiently many tables:
fix_dependencies itself, as well as mark_create_done and
inhibit_data_for_failed_table, are doing repeated searches to deal with
table-to-table-data dependencies. Possibly this work could be extended
to deal with that, although the latter two functions are also used in
non-parallel restore where we currently don't run fix_dependencies.
Another TODO is that we fail to parallelize restore of multiple blobs
at all. This appears to require changes in the archive format to fix.
Back-patch to 9.0 where the problem was reported. 8.4 has potential issues
as well; but since it doesn't create a separate TOC entry for each blob,
it's at much less risk of having enough TOC entries to cause real problems.
to make it easier to reuse that code. There is no user-visible changes.
This is in preparation for the patch to add a new archive format, a directory,
to perform a custom-like dump but with each table being dumped to a separate
file (that in turn is a prerequisite for parallel pg_dump). This also makes it
easier to add new compression methods in the future, and makes the
pg_backup_custom.c code easier to read, when the compression-related code is
factored out.
Joachim Wieland, with heavy editorialization by me.
Basically, we want to distinguish all cases where the connection was
not made from those where it was. A convenient proxy for this is to
see if we got a message with a SQLSTATE code back from the postmaster.
This presumes that the postmaster will always send us a SQLSTATE in
a failure message, which is true for 7.4 and later postmasters in
every case except fork failure. (We could possibly complicate the
postmaster code to do something about that, but it seems not worth
the trouble, especially since pg_ctl's response for that case should
be to keep waiting anyway.)
If we did get a SQLSTATE from the postmaster, there are basically only
two cases, as per last week's discussion: ERRCODE_CANNOT_CONNECT_NOW
and everything else. Any other error code implies that the postmaster
is in principle willing to accept connections, it just didn't like or
couldn't handle this particular request. We want to make a special
case for ERRCODE_CANNOT_CONNECT_NOW so that "pg_ctl start -w" knows
it should keep waiting.
In passing, pick names for the enum constants that are a tad less
likely to present collision hazards in future.
This adds support for changing the schema of a conversion, operator,
operator class, operator family, text search configuration, text search
dictionary, text search parser, or text search template.
Dimitri Fontaine, with assorted corrections and other kibitzing.
status, including a status where the server is running but refuses a
postgres connection.
Have pg_ctl use this new function. This fixes the case where pg_ctl
reports that the server is not running (cannot connect) but in fact it
is running.
This commit adds columns amoppurpose and amopsortfamily to pg_amop, and
column amcanorderbyop to pg_am. For the moment all the entries in
amcanorderbyop are "false", since the underlying support isn't there yet.
Also, extend the CREATE OPERATOR CLASS/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands with
[ FOR SEARCH | FOR ORDER BY sort_operator_family ] clauses to allow the new
columns of pg_amop to be populated, and create pg_dump support for dumping
that information.
I also added some documentation, although it's perhaps a bit premature
given that the feature doesn't do anything useful yet.
Teodor Sigaev, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
Replace for loops in makefiles with proper dependencies. Parallel
make can now span across directories. Also, make -k and make -q work
properly.
GNU make 3.80 or newer is now required.
\dn without "S" now hides all pg_XXX schemas as well as information_schema.
Thus, in a bare database you'll only see "public". ("public" is considered
a user schema, not a system schema, mainly because it's droppable.)
Per discussion back in late September.
Per C standard, these are semantically the same thing; but saying NULL
when you mean NULL is good for readability.
Marti Raudsepp, per results of INRIA's Coccinelle.
The previous wording might have suggested that \du only showed login roles
and \dg only group roles, but that is no longer the case.
proposed by Josh Kupershmidt
Original patch failed to include new exclusive states in a switch that
needed to include them; and also was guilty of very fuzzy thinking
about how to handle error cases. Per bug #5729 from Alan Choi.
- Avoid closing stdin, since we didn't open it. Previously multiple
inclusions of stdin would be terminated with a single quit, now a separate
quit is needed for each invocation. Previous behavior also accessed stdin
after it was fclose()d, which is undefined behavior per ANSI C.
- Properly restore pset.inputfile, since the caller expects to be able
to free that memory.
Marti Raudsepp
After much expenditure of effort, we've got this to the point where the
performance penalty is pretty minimal in typical cases.
Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Brendan Jurd, Dean Rasheed, and Tom Lane
Completion is supported in the context of \set and when interpolating
a variable value using :foo etc.
In passing, fix some places in tab-complete.c that weren't following
project style for comment formatting.
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro
This patch adds the SQL-standard concept of an INSTEAD OF trigger, which
is fired instead of performing a physical insert/update/delete. The
trigger function is passed the entire old and/or new rows of the view,
and must figure out what to do to the underlying tables to implement
the update. So this feature can be used to implement updatable views
using trigger programming style rather than rule hacking.
In passing, this patch corrects the names of some columns in the
information_schema.triggers view. It seems the SQL committee renamed
them somewhere between SQL:99 and SQL:2003.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Bernd Helmle; some additional hacking by me.
This is intended as infrastructure to support integration with label-based
mandatory access control systems such as SE-Linux. Further changes (mostly
hooks) will be needed, but this is a big chunk of it.
KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas
servers. AFAICT it's harmless at the moment because nothing can depend on
either, but as soon as we introduce an object type with such dependencies,
tableoid needs to be set or pg_dump will fail to interpret the dependencies
correctly. In theory, I guess the uninitialized garbage in tableoid could
cause the object to be mistaken for some other object with same OID as well.
an online backup instead of performing one. pg_ctl can detect that by
checking if recovery.conf exists.
Backup label file is renamed away early in recovery, so the window where
backup label exists during recovery is normally very small, but you can run
into it e.g if restore_command is set incorrectly and the startup process
never finds even the first WAL segment containing the checkpoint record to
start recovery from.
Fujii Masao with comments by me.
The original coding tended to break down in the face of modified restore
orders, as shown in bug #5626 from Albert Ullrich, because it would flip over
into parallel-restore operation too soon. That causes problems because we
don't have sufficient dependency information in dump archives to allow safe
parallel processing of SECTION_PRE_DATA items. Even if we did, it's probably
undesirable to allow that to override the commanded restore order.
To fix the problem of omitted items causing unexpected changes in restore
order, tweak SortTocFromFile so that omitted items end up at the head of
the list not the tail. This ensures that they'll be examined and their
dependencies will be marked satisfied before we get to any interesting
items.
In HEAD and 9.0, we can easily change restore_toc_entries_parallel so that
all SECTION_PRE_DATA items are guaranteed to be processed in the initial
serial-restore loop, and hence in commanded order. Only DATA and POST_DATA
items are candidates for parallel processing. For them there might be
variations from the commanded order because of parallelism, but we should
do it in a safe order thanks to dependencies.
In 8.4 it's much harder to make such a guarantee. I settled for not
letting the initial loop break out into parallel processing mode if
it sees a DATA/POST_DATA item that's not to be restored; this at least
prevents a non-restorable item from causing premature exit from the loop.
This means that 8.4 will be more likely to fail given a badly-ordered -L
list than 9.x, but we don't really promise any such thing will work anyway.
elsewhere.
Similarly rename the version in mbprint.c, not because this affects anything
but just to keep the two copies in exact sync. There was some discussion of
having only one copy in src/port/ instead, but this function is so small
and unlikely to change that that seems like overkill.
Slightly editorialized version of a patch by Joseph Adams. (The bug-fix
aspect of his patch was applied separately, and back-patched.)
in particular, propagate a fix in the test to see whether a UTF8 character has
length 4 bytes. This is likely of little real-world consequence because
5-or-more-byte UTF8 sequences are not supported by Postgres nor seen anywhere
in the wild, but still we may as well get it right. Problem found by Joseph
Adams.
Bug is aboriginal, so back-patch all the way.
and input file name, per bug #5617 from Leo Shklovskii. Rearrange the
corresponding code in pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that all three programs
handle this in a consistent, straightforward fashion.
Back-patch to 9.0, but no further. Although this is certainly a bug, it's
possible that people have scripts that will be broken by the added error
check, so it seems better not to change the behavior in stable branches.
and the editor's cursor will be initially placed on that line. In \e the
lines are counted with respect to the query buffer, while in \ef they are
counted with line 1 = first line of function body. These choices are useful
for positioning the cursor on the line of a previously-reported error.
To avoid assumptions about what switch the user's editor takes for this
purpose, invent a new psql variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH with (at
present) no default value.
One incompatibility from previous behavior is that "\e 1234" will now
take "1234" as a line number not a file name. There are at least two
ways to select a numerically-named file if you really want to.
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski, with further editing by Robert Haas
and Tom Lane
the parameters of \connect, and fix oversight of not enabling translation
of the messages. Also, adjust \connect's similar messages to match, and
deal with 8.2-era violation of basic translatability guidelines there.
We now use the phrase 'via local socket in' rather than 'on host' in both
\c and \conninfo output, when applicable.
Fujii Masao, with some kibitzing by me.
I've added a quote_all_identifiers GUC which affects the behavior
of the backend, and a --quote-all-identifiers argument to pg_dump
and pg_dumpall which sets the GUC and also affects the quoting done
internally by those applications.
Design by Tom Lane; review by Alex Hunsaker; in response to bug #5488
filed by Hartmut Goebel.
Per discussion with David Christensen, there can be multiple
instances of PG accessible via local sockets, and you need the port
to see which one you're actually connected to. David's original
patch worked this way, but I inadvertently ripped it out during
commit.
to dump a PUBLIC user mapping correctly, as per bug #5560 from Shigeru Hanada.
Use the pg_user_mappings view rather than trying to access pg_user_mapping
directly, so that the code doesn't fail when run by a non-superuser. And
clean up some minor carelessness such as unsafe usage of fmtId().
Back-patch to 8.4 where this code was added.
linking both executables and shared libraries, and we add on LDFLAGS_EX when
linking executables or LDFLAGS_SL when linking shared libraries. This
provides a significantly cleaner way of dealing with link-time switches than
the former behavior. Also, make sure that the various platform-specific
%.so: %.o rules incorporate LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS_SL; most of them missed that
before. (I did not add these variables for the platforms that invoke $(LD)
directly, however. It's not clear if we can do that safely, since for the
most part we assume these variables use CC command-line syntax.)
Per gripe from Aaron Swenson and subsequent investigation.
as well as fseeko, and to not assume that fseeko(fp, 0, SEEK_CUR) proves
anything. Also improve some related comments. Per my observation that
the SEEK_CUR test didn't actually work on some platforms, and subsequent
discussion with Robert Haas.
Back-patch to 8.4. In earlier releases it's not that important whether
we get the hasSeek test right, but with parallel restore it matters.
contain data offsets (which it won't, if pg_dump thought its output wasn't
seekable). To do that, remove an unnecessarily aggressive error check, and
instead fail if we get to the end of the archive without finding the desired
data item. Also improve the error message to be more specific about the
cause of the problem. Per discussion of recent report from Igor Neyman.
Back-patch to 8.4 where parallel restore was introduced.
to be initialized with proper values. Affected parameters are
fillfactor, analyze_threshold, and analyze_scale_factor.
Especially uninitialized fillfactor caused inefficient page usage
because we built a StdRdOptions struct in which fillfactor is zero
if any reloption is set for the toast table.
In addition, we disallow toast.autovacuum_analyze_threshold and
toast.autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor because we didn't actually
support them; they are always ignored.
Report by Rumko on pgsql-bugs on 12 May 2010.
Analysis by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera. Patch by me.
Backpatch to 8.4.
"val AS name" to "name := val", as per recent discussion.
This patch catches everything in the original named-parameters patch,
but I'm not certain that no other dependencies snuck in later (grepping
the source tree for all uses of AS soon proved unworkable).
In passing I note that we've dropped the ball at least once on keeping
ecpg's lexer (as opposed to parser) in sync with the backend. It would
be a good idea to go through all of pgc.l and see if it's in sync now.
I didn't attempt that at the moment.
output stream. This typically indicates that the user quit out of $PAGER,
or that we are writing to a file and ran out of disk space. In either case
we shouldn't bother to continue fetching data.
Stephen Frost
is specified. Per bug report from Russell Smith and ensuing discussion.
Since this is a corner case behavioral change, I'm going to be conservative
and not back-patch it.
In passing, also rename the RestoreOptions field for the -C switch to
something less generic than "create".
My initial impression that glibc was measuring the precision in characters
(which is what the Linux man page says it does) was incorrect. It does take
the precision to be in bytes, but it also tries to truncate the string at a
character boundary. The bottom line remains the same: it will mess up
if the string is not in the encoding it expects, so we need to avoid %.*s
anytime there's a significant risk of that. Previous code changes are still
good, but adjust the comments to reflect this knowledge. Per research by
Hernan Gonzalez.
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters. Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do. Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.
This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez. In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
refers to itself (directly or indirectly). Instead, print a message when
recursion is detected, and don't expand the repeated reference. Per bug
#5448 from Francis Markham.
Back-patch to 8.0. Although the issue exists in 7.4 as well, it seems
impractical to fix there because of the lack of any state stack that
could be used to track active expansions.
archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from
other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in
the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby
to enable/disable hot standby.
Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index
without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of
the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a
hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections,
max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings
change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and
update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in
the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint
records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the
standby until the first checkpoint after the change.
Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to
the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches
changed it to 0x9003.
Add missing completions for:
- ALTER SEQUENCE name OWNER TO
- ALTER TYPE name RENAME TO
- ALTER VIEW name ALTER COLUMN
- ALTER VIEW name OWNER TO
- ALTER VIEW name SET SCHEMA
Fix wrong completions for:
- ALTER FUNCTION/AGGREGATE name (arguments) ...
"(arguments)" has been ignored.
- ALTER ... SET SCHEMA
"SCHEMA" has been considered as a variable name.
Those options do nothing right now, but might be wanted later, and in
any case it's confusing for the command to be interpreted as \dd if
anything is appended. Per Jaime Casanova.
by joining to pg_constraint.conindid, instead of the former technique of
joining indirectly through pg_depend. This is much more straightforward
and probably faster as well. I had originally desisted from changing these
queries when conindid was added because I was worried about losing
performance, but if we join on conrelid as well as conindid then the index
on conrelid can be used when pg_constraint is large.
--single-transaction are both used and the failure happens in commit,
e.g. failed deferred trigger. Also properly free BEGIN/COMMIT result
structures from --single-transaction.
Per report from Dominic Bevacqua
formats; a null string must not be formatted as a numeric. The more exotic
formats latex and troff also incorrectly formatted all strings as numerics
when numericlocale was on.
Backpatch to 8.1 where numericlocale option was added.
This fixes bug #5355 reported by Andy Lester.
This was evidently broken by the CREATE TABLE OF TYPE patch. It would have
been noticed if anyone had bothered to try dumping and restoring the
regression database ...
"dumping data out of order is not supported" to "restoring data out of order
is not supported", because you get that error during pg_restore not pg_dump.
Also fix some comments that didn't look so good after being pgindented as
perhaps they did originally.
- The message "server stopped" should be affected by the -s option, just
like "server started" already was.
- The message "could not start server" should consistently go to stderr.
a separate archive entry for each BLOB, and use pg_dump's standard methods
for dealing with its ownership, ACL if any, and comment if any. This means
that switches like --no-owner and --no-privileges do what they're supposed
to. Preliminary testing says that performance is still reasonable even
with many blobs, though we'll have to see how that shakes out in the field.
KaiGai Kohei, revised by me
Newly supported syntax are:
- ALTER {TABLE|INDEX|TABLESPACE} {SET|RESET} with options
- ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN {SET|RESET} with options
- ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SET STORAGE
- CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
- CREATE INDEX ON (without name)
- CREATE INDEX ... USING with pg_am.amname instead of hard-corded names
- CREATE TRIGGER with events
- DROP AGGREGATE function with arguments
In addition, add support for a "payload" string to be passed along with
each notify event.
This implementation should be significantly more efficient than the old one,
and is also more compatible with Hot Standby usage. There is not yet any
facility for HS slaves to receive notifications generated on the master,
although such a thing is possible in future.
Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Jeff Davis; also hacked on by me.
VACUUM FULL INPLACE), along with a boatload of subsidiary code and complexity.
Per discussion, the use case for this method of vacuuming is no longer large
enough to justify maintaining it; not to mention that we don't wish to invest
the work that would be needed to make it play nicely with Hot Standby.
Aside from the code directly related to old-style VACUUM FULL, this commit
removes support for certain WAL record types that could only be generated
within VACUUM FULL, redirect-pointer removal in heap_page_prune, and
nontransactional generation of cache invalidation sinval messages (the last
being the sticking point for Hot Standby).
We still have to retain all code that copes with finding HEAP_MOVED_OFF and
HEAP_MOVED_IN flag bits on existing tuples. This can't be removed as long
as we want to support in-place update from pre-9.0 databases.
of shared or nailed system catalogs. This has two key benefits:
* The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs.
* We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing
shared catalogs.
CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on
shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would
only be visible in one database.
Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and
crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed;
shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared.
This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of
deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other
concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch. As a stopgap,
parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid
such failures during the regression tests.
If expand_dbname is non-zero and dbname contains an = sign, it is taken as
a conninfo string in exactly the same way as if it had been passed to
PQconnectdb. This is equivalent to the way PQsetdbLogin() works, allowing
PQconnectdbParams() to be a complete alternative.
Also improve the way the new function is called from psql and replace a
previously missed call to PQsetdbLogin() in psql. Additionally use
PQconnectdbParams() for pg_dump and friends, and the bin/scripts
command line utilities such as vacuumdb, createdb, etc.
Finally, update the documentation for the new parameter, as well as the
nuances of precedence in cases where key words are repeated or duplicated
in the conninfo string.
(failure to free col_lineptrs[] array elements) and exacerbated in the
current devel cycle (failure to free "wrap"). This resulted in moderate
bloat of psql over long script runs. Noted while testing bug #5302,
although what the reporter was complaining of was backend-side leakage.
PQconnectStartParams. These are analogous to PQconnectdb and PQconnectStart
respectively. They differ from the legacy functions in that they accept
two NULL-terminated arrays, keywords and values, rather than conninfo
strings. This avoids the need to build the conninfo string in cases
where it might be inconvenient to do so. Includes documentation.
Also modify psql to utilize PQconnectdbParams rather than PQsetdbLogin.
This allows the new config parameter application_name to be set, which
in turn is displayed in the pg_stat_activity view and included in CSV
log entries. This will also ensure both new functions get regularly
exercised.
Patch by Guillaume Lelarge with review and minor adjustments by
Joe Conway.
These files have apparently been edited over the years by a dozen people
with as many different editor settings, which made the alignment of the
paragraphs quite inconsistent and ugly. I made a pass of M-q with Emacs
to straighten it out.
Attributes can now have options, just as relations and tablespaces do, and
the reloptions code is used to parse, validate, and store them. For
simplicity and because these options are not performance critical, we store
them in a separate cache rather than the main relcache.
Thanks to Alex Hunsaker for the review.
dump IDs, because the array we're using is sized according to the highest
dump ID actually defined in the archive file. In a partial dump there could
be references to higher dump IDs that weren't dumped. Treat these the same
as references to in-range IDs that weren't dumped. (The whole thing is a
bit scary because the missing objects might have been part of dependency
chains, which we won't know about. Not much we can do though --- throwing
an error is probably overreaction.)
Also, reject parallel restore with pre-1.8 archive version (made by pre-8.0
pg_dump). In these old versions the dependency entries are OIDs, not dump
IDs, and we don't have enough information to interpret them.
Per bug #5288 from Jon Erdman.
pg_constraint before searching pg_trigger. This allows saner handling of
corner cases; in particular we now say "constraint is not deferrable"
rather than "constraint does not exist" when the command is applied to
a constraint that's inherently non-deferrable. Per a gripe several months
ago from hubert depesz lubaczewski.
To make this work without breaking user-defined constraint triggers,
we have to add entries for them to pg_constraint. However, in return
we can remove the pgconstrname column from pg_constraint, which represents
a fairly sizable space savings. I also replaced the tgisconstraint column
with tgisinternal; the old meaning of tgisconstraint can now be had by
testing for nonzero tgconstraint, while there is no other way to get
the old meaning of nonzero tgconstraint, namely that the trigger was
internally generated rather than being user-created.
In passing, fix an old misstatement in the docs and comments, namely that
pg_trigger.tgdeferrable is exactly redundant with pg_constraint.condeferrable.
Actually, we mark RI action triggers as nondeferrable even when they belong to
a nominally deferrable FK constraint. The SET CONSTRAINTS code now relies on
that instead of hard-coding a list of exception OIDs.
we're not going to support that anymore.
I did keep the 64-bit-CRC-with-32-bit-arithmetic code, since it has a
performance excuse to live. It's a bit moot since that's all ifdef'd
out, of course.
VACUUM FULL was renamed to VACUUM FULL INPLACE. Also added a new
option -i, --inplace for vacuumdb to perform FULL INPLACE vacuuming.
Since the new VACUUM FULL uses CLUSTER infrastructure, we cannot
use it for system tables. VACUUM FULL for system tables always
fall back into VACUUM FULL INPLACE silently.
Itagaki Takahiro, reviewed by Jeff Davis and Simon Riggs.
This patch only supports seq_page_cost and random_page_cost as parameters,
but it provides the infrastructure to scalably support many more.
In particular, we may want to add support for effective_io_concurrency,
but I'm leaving that as future work for now.
Thanks to Tom Lane for design help and Alvaro Herrera for the review.
recovery instead of reading the backup history file. This is more robust,
as it stops you from prematurely starting up an inconsisten cluster if the
backup history file is lost for some reason, or if the base backup was
never finished with pg_stop_backup().
This also paves the way for a simpler streaming replication patch, which
doesn't need to care about backup history files anymore.
The backup history file is still created and archived as before, but it's
not used by the system anymore. It's just for informational purposes now.
Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION as the location of the backup startpoint is now
written to a new field in pg_control, and catversion because initdb is
required
Original patch by Fujii Masao per Simon's idea, with further fixes by me.
Modify pg_dump --binary-upgrade and add backend support routines to
support the preservation of pg_type oids when doing a binary upgrade.
This allows user-defined composite types and arrays to be binary
upgraded.
Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record.
New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far.
This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required.
Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit.
Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
short-circuit the rather expensive identify_system_timezone() procedure,
which we have no real need for during initdb since nothing done here depends
on the timezone setting. Since we launch quite a few standalone backends
during the initdb sequence, this adds up to a significant savings, and seems
worth doing to save developer time even though it will hardly matter to end
users. Per my report today on pgsql-hackers.
pg_ctl gets a new mode that runs initdb. Adjust the documentation a bit to
not assume that initdb is the only way to run database cluster initialization.
But don't replace initdb as the canonical way.
Author: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>
support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality. Two rows
violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for
each of the columns in the constraint.
Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas
in the formerly-always-blank columns just to left and right of the data.
Different marking is used for a line break caused by a newline in the data
than for a straight wraparound. A newline break is signaled by a "+" in the
right margin column in ASCII mode, or a carriage return arrow in UNICODE mode.
Wraparound is signaled by a dot in the right margin as well as the following
left margin in ASCII mode, or an ellipsis symbol in the same places in UNICODE
mode. "\pset linestyle old-ascii" is added to make the previous behavior
available if anyone really wants it.
In passing, this commit also cleans up a few regression test files that
had unintended spacing differences from the current actual output.
Roger Leigh, reviewed by Gabrielle Roth and other members of PDXPUG.
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.
For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER
triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of
a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can
be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired.
Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding.
The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection
of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding.
Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases,
and fix callers appropriately. Only initdb actually changes behavior,
since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases
equivalent.
Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap. Not going to bother back-patching, since
no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely,
specify the encoding you want).
directly. This was a lot of trouble, but should be worth it in terms of
not having to keep the plpgsql lexer in step with core anymore. In addition
the handling of keywords is significantly better-structured, allowing us to
de-reserve a number of words that plpgsql formerly treated as reserved.
mainloop.c. This ensures that postgres_fe.h is read before including
any system headers, which is necessary to avoid problems on some platforms
where we make nondefault selections of feature macros for stdio.h or
other headers. We have had this policy for flex modules in the backend
for many years, but for some reason it was not applied to psql.
Per trouble report from Alexandra Roy and diagnosis by Albe Laurenz.
are named in the UPDATE's SET list.
Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started
to use a column that was there all along. catversion bumped anyway so that
this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes
to system catalog contents.
Itagaki Takahiro
ASCII-art style of table output to be upgraded to use Unicode box drawing
characters if desired. By default, psql will use the Unicode characters
whenever client_encoding is UTF8.
The patch forces linestyle=ascii in pg_regress usage, ensuring we don't
break the regression tests in Unicode locales.
Roger Leigh
Add a variant of pg_get_triggerdef with a second argument "pretty" that
causes the output to be formatted in the way pg_dump used to do. Use this
variant in pg_dump with server versions >= 8.5.
This insulates pg_dump from most future trigger feature additions, such as
the upcoming column triggers patch.
Author: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Create a new catalog pg_db_role_setting where they are now stored, and better
encapsulate the code that deals with settings into its realm. The old
datconfig and rolconfig columns are removed.
psql has gained a \drds command to display the settings.
Backwards compatibility warning: while the backwards-compatible system views
still have the config columns, they no longer completely represent the
configuration for a user or database.
Catalog version bumped.
the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects.
Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects
created in particular schemas too. A notable benefit is that users can
override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE
privilege traditionally granted by default for functions.
Petr Jelinek
to create a function for it.
Procedural languages now have an additional entry point, namely a function
to execute an inline code block. This seemed a better design than trying
to hide the transient-ness of the code from the PL. As of this patch, only
plpgsql has an inline handler, but probably people will soon write handlers
for the other standard PLs.
In passing, remove the long-dead LANCOMPILER option of CREATE LANGUAGE.
Petr Jelinek
Instead of requiring translators to translate the entire SQL command
synopses, change create_help.pl to only require them to translate the
placeholders, and paste those into the synopsis using a printf mechanism.
Make some small updates to the markup to make it easier to parse.
Note: This causes msgmerge of gettext 0.17 to segfault. You will need
the patch from https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27474 to make it work.
msgmerge usually only runs on babel.postgresql.org, however.
append_history(), if libreadline is new enough to have those functions
(they seem to be present at least since 4.2; but libedit may not have them).
This gives significantly saner behavior when two or more sessions overlap in
their use of the history file; although having two sessions exit at just the
same time is still perilous to your history. The behavior of \s remains
unchanged, ie, overwrite whatever was there.
Per bug #5052 from Marek Wójtowicz.
use that value when the backend is new enough to allow it. This responds
to bug report from Keh-Cheng Chu pointing out that although 2 extra digits
should be sufficient to dump and restore float8 exactly, it is possible to
need 3 extra digits for float4 values.
flat password file, because it never will anymore. We had managed to
miss this during the recent flat-file-ectomy because it only happens if
--pwfile or --pwprompt is specified to initdb. Apparently, few hackers
use those. Reported by Erik Rijkers.
(could happen if either postgresql.conf or postmaster.opts is empty).
It's been broken since the C version was written for 8.0, so patch
all the way back.
initdb's copy of the function is broken in the same way, but it's
less important there since the input files should never be empty.
Patch that in HEAD only, and also fix some cosmetic differences that
crept into that copy of the function.
Per report from Corry Haines and Jeff Davis.
Recent commits have removed the various uses it was supporting. It was a
performance bottleneck, according to bug report #4919 by Lauris Ulmanis; seems
it slowed down user creation after a billion users.
XID) in checkpoint records. This eliminates the need to recompute the value
from scratch during database startup, which is one of the two remaining
reasons for the flatfile code to exist. It should also simplify life for
hot-standby operation.
To avoid bloating the checkpoint records unreasonably, I switched from
tracking the oldest database by name to tracking it by OID. This turns
out to save cycles in general (everywhere but the warning-generating
paths, which we hardly care about) and also helps us deal with the case
that the oldest database got dropped instead of being vacuumed. The prior
coding might go for a long time without updating the wrap limit in that case,
which is bad because it might result in a lot of useless autovacuum activity.
source directory even for out-of-tree builds. They are now alsl built in
the build tree. This should be more convenient for certain developers'
workflows, and shouldn't really break anything else.
script.
To do this, have pg_ctl pass down its parent shell's PID in an environment
variable PG_GRANDPARENT_PID, and teach CreateLockFile() to disregard that PID
as a false match if it finds it in postmaster.pid. This allows us to cope
with one level of postgres-owned shell process even with pg_ctl in the way,
so it's just as safe as starting the postmaster directly. You still have to
be careful about how you write the initscript though.
Adjust the comments in contrib/start-scripts/ to not deprecate use of
pg_ctl. Also, fix the ROTATELOGS option in the OSX script, which was
indulging in exactly the sort of unsafe coding that renders this fix
pointless :-(. A pipe inside the "sudo" will probably result in more
than one postgres-owned process hanging around.
Update install-sh to that from Autoconf 2.63, plus our Darwin-specific
changes (which I simplified a bit). install-sh is now able to install
multiple files in one run, so we could simplify our makefiles sometime.
install-sh also now has a -d option to create directories, so we don't need
mkinstalldirs anymore.
Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in configure.in, so we can use mkdir -p when available
instead of install-sh -d. For consistency with the rest of the world,
the corresponding make variable has been renamed from $(mkinstalldirs) to
$(MKDIR_P).
#include the version of history.h that is in the same directory as the
readline.h we are using. This avoids problems in some scenarios where both
readline and editline are installed. Report and patch by Zdenek Kotala.
two new lists, rather than repeatedly rescanning the main TOC list.
This avoids a potential O(N^2) slowdown, although you'd need a *lot*
of tables to make that really significant; and it might simplify future
improvements in the scheduling algorithm by making the set of ready
items more easily inspectable. The original thought that it would
in itself result in a more efficient job dispatch order doesn't seem
to have been borne out in testing, but it seems worth doing anyway.
Test coverage support now covers the entire source tree, including
contrib, instead of just src/backend. In a related but independent
development, the commands make coverage and make coverage-html can be run
in any directory.
This turned out to be much easier than feared. Besides a few ad hoc fixes
to pass the make target down the tree, change all affected makefiles to
list their directories in the SUBDIRS variable, changed from variants like
DIRS and WANTED_DIRS. MSVC build fix was attempted as well.
when we reach the post-COPY "pump it dry" error recovery code that was added
2006-11-24. Per a report from Neil Best, there is at least one code path
in which this occurs, leading to an infinite loop in code that's supposed
to be making it more robust not less so. A reasonable response seems to be
to call PQputCopyEnd() again, so let's try that.
Back-patch to all versions that contain the cleanup loop.
The previous implementation got it right in most cases but failed in one:
if you pg_dump into an archive with standard_conforming_strings enabled, then
pg_restore to a script file (not directly to a database), the script will set
standard_conforming_strings = on but then emit large object data as
nonstandardly-escaped strings.
At the moment the code is made to emit hex-format bytea strings when dumping
to a script file. We might want to change to old-style escaping for backwards
compatibility, but that would be slower and bulkier. If we do, it's just a
matter of reimplementing appendByteaLiteral().
This has been broken for a long time, but given the lack of field complaints
I'm not going to worry about back-patching.
Both hex format and the traditional "escape" format are automatically
handled on input. The output format is selected by the new GUC variable
bytea_output.
As committed, bytea_output defaults to HEX, which is an *incompatible
change*. We will keep it this way for awhile for testing purposes, but
should consider whether to switch to the more backwards-compatible
default of ESCAPE before 8.5 is released.
Peter Eisentraut
The current implementation fires an AFTER ROW trigger for each tuple that
looks like it might be non-unique according to the index contents at the
time of insertion. This works well as long as there aren't many conflicts,
but won't scale to massive unique-key reassignments. Improving that case
is a TODO item.
Dean Rasheed
Changes:
Pass in the keyword lookup array instead of having it be hardwired.
(This incidentally allows elimination of some duplicate coding in ecpg.)
Re-order the token declarations in gram.y so that non-keyword tokens have
numbers that won't change when keywords are added or removed.
Add ".." and ":=" to the set of tokens recognized by scan.l. (Since these
combinations are nowhere legal in core SQL, this does not change anything
except the precise wording of the error you get when you write this.)
For servers older than 8.3, sort display of child tables by relname instead
of oid::regclass::text, because the cast from regclass to text did not work
back then. The older display may be slightly worse when different schemas
are involved, but that should be rare enough.
Safely schema-qualify the pg_get_indexdef call, make the query a bit
prettier in -E mode, remove useless join to pg_index, make it more obvious
that the header[] array is not overrun.
This adds a column called "Definition" to the output of psql \d on an
index, which shows the full expression behind the index column. For indexes
on plain columns, this is redundant, but for expression indexes, this
reveals the real expression.
Author: Khee Chin <kheechin@gmail.com>
As per discussion, \d shows only the number of child tables, because that
could be hundreds, when used for partitioning. \d+ shows the actual list.
Author: Damien Clochard <damien@dalibo.info>
used to work as intended, but got broken some time ago (a quoted empty string
is not an empty string), and got broken some more by the changes to generate
ecpg's preproc.y automatically. Given all the unprotected uses of $(PERL)
elsewhere, it seems best to make use of the $(missing) script rather than
trying to ensure each such use is protected individually. Also fix various
bits of documentation that omitted to mention Perl as a requirement for
building from a CVS pull. Per a complaint from Robert Haas.
cosmetic --- I'm wondering if geteuid could have side effects on errno,
thus possibly resulting in a misleading error message after failure of
getpwuid.
throwing an error as 8.4 had been doing. The error interfered with porting
old database definitions (particularly for pg_migrator) without really buying
any safety. Per bug #4817 and subsequent discussion.
an expression that's not supposed to contain variables. Per discussion
with Gevik Babakhani, this eliminates the need for an ugly kluge (namely,
specifying some unrelated relation name). Remove one such kluge from
pg_dump.
in its CREATE DATABASE commands only for databases that have settings
different from the installation defaults. This is a low-tech method of
avoiding unnecessary platform dependencies in dump files. Eventually we ought
to have a platform-independent way of specifying LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE, but
that's not going to happen for 8.4, and this patch at least avoids the issue
for people who aren't setting up per-database locales. ENCODING doesn't have
the platform dependency problem, but it seems consistent to make it act the
same as the locale settings.
If a currently running item needs an exclusive lock on any item that the candidate items needs
any sort of lock on, or vice versa, then the candidate item is not allowed to run now, and
must wait till later.
tablespaces in an order that has some chance of working.
Per a complaint from Kevin Bailey.
This is a pre-existing bug, but given the lack of prior complaints I'm
not sure it's worth back-patching. In most cases failure of the DROP
commands wouldn't be that important anyway.
In passing, fix syntax errors in dumpCreateDB()'s queries for old servers;
these were apparently introduced in recent binary_upgrade patch.
cstring from the output of \df. Now that the default behavior is to
exclude all system functions, the de-cluttering rationale for this behavior
seems pretty weak; and it was always quite confusing/unhelpful if you were
actually looking for I/O functions. (Not to mention if you were looking
for encoding converters or other cases that might take or return cstring.)
are using our own ports of getopt or getopt_long, those will define
the variable for themselves; and if not, we don't need these, because
we never touch the variable anyway.
In the backend, I changed only a handful of exemplary or important-looking
instances to make use of the plural support; there is probably more work
there. For the rest of the source, this should cover all relevant cases.
is still available, but you must now write the long equivalent --inserts
or --column-inserts. This change is made to eliminate confusion with the
use of -d to specify a database name in most other Postgres client programs.
Original patch by Greg Mullane, modified per subsequent discussion.
running pg_restore, which might run in parallel).
Only reopen archive file when we really need to read from it, in parallel code. Otherwise,
close it immediately in a worker, if possible.
kwlist.h, to avoid having to link the backend object file into other programs
like pg_dump. We can now simply symlink a single source file from the backend
(kwlookup.c, containing the shared routine ScanKeywordLookup) and compile it
locally, which is a lot cleaner.
missing.
Since this touches most lines of the help output, also change the mix of
puts and printf calls to printf everywhere, for easier code editing and
reviewing.
wrappers (similar to procedural languages). This way we don't need to retain
the nearly empty libraries, and we are more free in how to implement the
wrapper API in the future.
post-data step is run in a separate worker child (a thread on Windows, a child
process elsewhere) up to the concurrent number specified by the new pg_restore
command-line --multi-thread | -m switch.
Andrew Dunstan, with some editing by Tom Lane.
qualifier, and add support for this in pg_dump.
This allows TOAST tables to have user-defined fillfactor, and will also
enable us to move the autovacuum parameters to reloptions without taking
away the possibility of setting values for TOAST tables.
showing system tables, make \dS pattern show system table details, and
have \dtS show system and _user_ tables, to be consistent with other \d*
commands.
array types for composite types. Although pg_dump understood it wasn't
supposed to dump these array types as separate objects, it must include
them in the dependency ordering analysis, and it was improperly assigning them
the same relatively-high sort priority as regular types. This resulted in
effectively moving composite types and tables up to that same high priority,
which broke any ordering requirements that weren't explicitly enforced by
dependencies. In particular user-defined operator classes, which should come
out before tables, failed to do so. Per report from Brendan Jurd.
In passing, also fix an ill-considered decision to give text search objects
the same sort priority as functions and operators --- the sort result looks
a lot nicer if different object types are kept separate. The recent
foreign-data patch had copied that decision, making the sort ordering even
messier :-(
It's not possible to do CREATE DATABASE inside a transaction, so previously
we just got a server error instead.
Backpatch to 8.2, which is where the -1 feature appeared.
performing dumps and restores in accordance with a security policy that
forbids logging in directly as superuser, but instead specifies that you
should log into an admin account and then SET ROLE to the superuser.
In passing, clean up some ugly and mostly-broken code for quoting shell
arguments in pg_dumpall.
Benedek László, with some help from Tom Lane
various display commands, not only for \z.
In passing, fix some infelicities in the newly added \d commands for SQL-MED
catalogs.
Andreas Scherbaum and Tom Lane
so that user-defined window functions are possible. For the moment you'll
have to write them in C, for lack of any interface to the WindowObject API
in the available PLs, but it's better than no support at all.
There was some debate about the best syntax for this. I ended up choosing
the "it's an attribute" position --- the other approach will inevitably be
more work, and the likely market for user-defined window functions is
probably too small to justify it.
This doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules
like plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for
managing their connection information.
Martin Pihlak and Peter Eisentraut
results (ie, an empty "broken" buffer) if memory overrun occurs anywhere
along the way to filling the buffer. The previous coding would just silently
discard portions of the intended buffer contents, as exhibited in trouble
report from Sam Mason. Also, tweak psql's main loop to correctly detect
and report such overruns. There's probably much more that should be done
in this line, but this is a start.
Sort the output by command name. This previously only worked by source
file name, which doesn't always match the command name exactly. And it
certainly won't work for multiple refnames.
up a SSL connection, but psql is compiled without support for it.
Not a really realistic use-case, but the patch also cuts down on
the number of places with #ifdef's...
specifically, we can input either the "format with designators" or the
"alternative format", and we can output the former when IntervalStyle is set
to iso_8601.
Ron Mayer
different locales. This is just syntactical sweetener over --lc-collate and
--lc-ctype. Per discussion.
While at it, properly document --lc-ctype and --lc-collate in SGML docs,
which apparently were forgotten (or purposefully ommited?) when they were
created.
("there might be triggers") rather than an exact count. This is necessary
catalog infrastructure for the upcoming patch to reduce the strength of
locking needed for trigger addition/removal. Split out and committed
separately for ease of reviewing/testing.
In passing, also get rid of the unused pg_class columns relukeys, relfkeys,
and relrefs, which haven't been maintained in many years and now have no
chance of ever being maintained (because of wishing to avoid locking).
Simon Riggs
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching
the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's
restrictions). IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the
standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval
input.
Ron Mayer
to dump sequence values cope with sequences outside the search path and/or
having names that need quoting. No back-patch needed because these are new
problems in 8.4.
Kris Jurka (also a little bit of code beautification by tgl)
There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL
(should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses.
These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a
pretty useful feature.
There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles,
which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly. But let's land
the patch now so we can get on with other development.
Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each
relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM).
This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any
trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation.
Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also
introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in
contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and
a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
ctype are now more like encoding, stored in new datcollate and datctype
columns in pg_database.
This is a stripped-down version of Radek Strnad's patch, with further
changes by me.
referenced tables are dumped before the referencing tables. This avoids
failures when the data is loaded with the FK constraints already active.
If no such ordering is possible because of circular or self-referential
constraints, print a NOTICE to warn the user about it.
for editing if no function name is specified. This seems a much cleaner way
to offer that functionality than the original patch had. In passing,
de-clutter the error displays that are given for a bogus function-name
argument, and standardize on "$function$" as the default delimiter for the
function body. (The original coding would use the shortest possible
dollar-quote delimiter, which seems to create unnecessarily high risk of
later conflicts with the user-modified function body.)
In support of that, create a backend function pg_get_functiondef().
The psql command is functional but maybe a bit rough around the edges...
Abhijit Menon-Sen
returns NULL instead of a PGresult. The former coding would fail, which
is OK, but it neglected to give you the PQerrorMessage that might tell
you why. In the oldest branches, there was another problem: it'd sometimes
report PQerrorMessage from the wrong connection.
This allows the use of a ramdrive (either through mount or symlink) for
the temporary file that's written every half second, which should
reduce I/O.
On server shutdown/startup, the file is written to the old location in
the global directory, to preserve data across restarts.
Bump catversion since the $PGDATA directory layout changed.
Peter Eisentraut
Simon Riggs
Heikki Linnakangas
Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane
Robert Haas
Bruce Momjian
Itagaki Takahiro
Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera
Joe Conway