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Bruce Momjian 80963144ad Rename "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in 3 places. 2007-09-26 20:38:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9692324734 Rename "PostgreSQL" to "Postgres" in 7 places in the FAQ. 2007-09-26 20:36:50 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera b83e11639b Adjust the new memory limit in the lazy vacuum code to use MaxHeapTuplesPerPage
tuples per page instead of fixed 200, to better cope with systems that use a
different block size.
2007-09-26 20:16:28 +00:00
Tom Lane cdf0231c88 Create a function variable "join_search_hook" to let plugins override the
join search order portion of the planner; this is specifically intended to
simplify developing a replacement for GEQO planning.  Patch by Julius
Stroffek, editorialized on by me.  I renamed make_one_rel_by_joins to
standard_join_search and make_rels_by_joins to join_search_one_level to better
reflect their place within this scheme.
2007-09-26 18:51:51 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 149af068ff Properly pass -c parameter to ecpg when building regression tests.
Per Michael.
2007-09-26 11:19:09 +00:00
Michael Meskes d49b20fbe6 Applied patch by ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp> to get prepare thread-safe. 2007-09-26 10:57:01 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 689df1bc77 Fix crash of to_tsvector() function on huge input: compareWORD()
function didn't return correct result for word position greate than
limit.

Per report from Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net>
2007-09-26 10:09:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 10e1b9df5c Add:
> * Implement Boyer-Moore searching in strpos()
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-08/msg00012.php
2007-09-26 08:47:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1b57b8bfdc Document that libpq's PQntuples() might overflow. 2007-09-26 08:45:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f21c57a97 In the integer-datetimes case, date2timestamp and date2timestamptz need
to check for overflow because the legal range of type date is actually
wider than timestamp's.  Problem found by Neil Conway.
2007-09-26 01:10:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 93407d3998 Use SYSV semaphores rather than POSIX on Darwin >= 6.0 (i.e., OS X 10.2
and up), per Chris Marcellino.  This avoids consuming O(N^2) file
descriptors to support N backends.  Tests suggest it's about a wash for
small installations, but large ones would have a problem.
2007-09-26 00:32:46 +00:00
Tom Lane f828f878e9 Change on-disk representation of NUMERIC datatype so that the sign_dscale
word comes before the weight instead of after.  This will allow future
binary-compatible extension of the representation to support compact formats,
as discussed on pgsql-hackers around 2007/06/18.  The reason to do it now is
that we've already pretty well broken any chance of simple in-place upgrade
from 8.2 to 8.3, but it's possible that 8.3 to 8.4 (or whenever we get around
to squeezing NUMERIC) could otherwise be data-compatible.
2007-09-25 22:21:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 7a315a09dc Dept. of second thoughts: fix loop in BgBufferSync so that the exit when
bgwriter_lru_maxpages is exceeded leaves the loop variables in the
expected state.  In the original coding, we'd fail to advance
next_to_clean, causing that buffer to be probably-uselessly rechecked next
time, and also have an off-by-one idea of the number of buffers scanned.
2007-09-25 22:11:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f5c38dcd0 Just-in-time background writing strategy. This code avoids re-scanning
buffers that cannot possibly need to be cleaned, and estimates how many
buffers it should try to clean based on moving averages of recent allocation
requests and density of reusable buffers.  The patch also adds a couple
more columns to pg_stat_bgwriter to help measure the effectiveness of the
bgwriter.

Greg Smith, building on his own work and ideas from several other people,
in particular a much older patch from Itagaki Takahiro.
2007-09-25 20:03:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 588901df84 Small string tweaks 2007-09-25 16:29:34 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan e5b5739a2d Use proper search for contrib makefiles in vcregress.pl 2007-09-24 21:42:34 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 3f2a191b44 fix typo in vcregress.pl 2007-09-24 21:14:54 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan a1b14ae1dd Add comments re text <-> bytea internal equivalence in convert routines. 2007-09-24 16:38:24 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 82467e4e70 Use correct PG_GETARG macro in pg_convert 2007-09-24 14:59:37 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 45cbdaa038 Avoid having autovacuum read pgstats data too many times in quick succession.
This is problematic for the autovac launcher when there are many databases,
so we keep data for a full second before reading it again.
2007-09-24 04:12:01 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 5853662630 Reduce the size of memory allocations by lazy vacuum when processing a small
table, by allocating just enough for a hardcoded number of dead tuples per
page.  The current estimate is 200 dead tuples per page.

Per reports from Jeff Amiel, Erik Jones and Marko Kreen, and subsequent
discussion.
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2007-09-24 03:52:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 48f7e64395 Simplify and rename some GUC variables, per various recent discussions:
* stats_start_collector goes away; we always start the collector process,
unless prevented by a problem with setting up the stats UDP socket.

* stats_reset_on_server_start goes away; it seems useless in view of the
availability of pg_stat_reset().

* stats_block_level and stats_row_level are merged into a single variable
"track_counts", which controls all reports sent to the collector process.

* stats_command_string is renamed to track_activities.

* log_autovacuum is renamed to log_autovacuum_min_duration to better reflect
its meaning.

The log_autovacuum change is not a compatibility issue since it didn't exist
before 8.3 anyway.  The other changes need to be release-noted.
2007-09-24 03:12:23 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 02138357ff Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because if it
produces text it is an encoding hole and if not it's incompatible
with the spec, whatever the spec means (which we're not sure about anyway).
2007-09-24 01:29:30 +00:00
Tom Lane c3b193a5c3 Replace linear searches with binary searches in pg_dump's code to
lookup objects by OID.  Per gripe from nikitathespider.
2007-09-23 23:39:36 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan aabb7000dc Add perl replacements for build.bat and vcregress.bat. In due course
the .bat files will be altered to become tiny wrappers for these scripts,
and one or two other .bat files will disappear.
2007-09-23 21:52:56 +00:00
Tom Lane f71c7b9dfd Fix bugs in XML binary I/O functions. Heikki and Tom 2007-09-23 21:36:42 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan a8da5761a3 Restrict overly broad searches, and fix typo, in recent fix. Per Hannes Eder. 2007-09-23 20:32:40 +00:00
Tom Lane ea72d37ff7 Make autovacuum report the start time of its current activity in
pg_stat_activity.  Per gripe from Jim Nasby.
2007-09-23 20:07:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 1b3d400cac TransactionIdIsInProgress can skip scanning the ProcArray if the target XID is
later than latestCompletedXid, per Florian Pflug.  Also some minor
improvements in the XIDCACHE_DEBUG code --- make sure each call of
TransactionIdIsInProgress is counted one way or another.
2007-09-23 18:50:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d16f270e59 Typo fix from Brendan Jurd. 2007-09-23 18:06:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 33b9c8bd68 Temporarily modify tsearch regression tests to suppress notice that comes
out at erratic times, because it is creating a totally unacceptable level
of noise in our buildfarm results.  This patch can be reverted when and if
the code is fixed to not issue notices during cache reload events.
2007-09-23 15:58:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 7125687511 Fix cost estimates for EXISTS subqueries that are evaluated as initPlans
(because they are uncorrelated with the immediate parent query).  We were
charging the full run cost to the parent node, disregarding the fact that
only one row need be fetched for EXISTS.  While this would only be a
cosmetic issue in most cases, it might possibly affect planning outcomes
if the parent query were itself a subquery to some upper query.
Per recent discussion with Steve Crawford.
2007-09-22 21:36:40 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 576b8903f7 Replace calls to external dir program with perlish globs and File::Find
calls. Fixes complaint fron Hannes Eder, whose environment found a different
dir program.
2007-09-22 20:38:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 90c156f0d1 Document the translations from Postgres message severity levels to
syslog and eventlog severity levels, per suggestion from Josh Drake.
Also, some wordsmithing for the csvlog documentation.
2007-09-22 19:10:44 +00:00
Tom Lane f316222930 Fix erroneous Assert() in syslogger process start in EXEC_BACKEND case,
per ITAGAKI Takahiro.  Also, rewrite syslogger_forkexec() in hopes of
eliminating the confusion in the first place.
2007-09-22 18:19:18 +00:00
Tom Lane bbda96d76d Fix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate(). 2007-09-22 05:35:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 571340a00e Parenthesize macro arguments safely. I see no bug among the current
uses of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_SLICE, but it's clearly trouble waiting to
happen.
2007-09-22 04:41:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e87ebb0c3 Although I'd misdiagnosed the reason for the recent failures on
buildfarm member grebe, I see no reason to revert the 1-byte-header-friendly
changes I made in varlena.c.  Instead, tweak the code a little bit to
get more advantage out of that.
2007-09-22 04:40:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 94470b9499 Doh --- what's really happening on buildfarm member grebe is that its
malloc returns NULL for malloc(0).  Defend against that case.
2007-09-22 04:37:53 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan e152893305 Go back to using a separate method for doing ILIKE for single byte
character encodings that doesn't involve calling lower(). This should
cure the performance regression in this case complained of by Guillaume
Smet. It still leaves the horrid performance for multi-byte encodings
introduced in 8.2, but there's no obvious solution for that in sight.
2007-09-22 03:58:34 +00:00
Tom Lane b5d1608b0a Fix varlena.c routines to allow 1-byte-header text values. This is now
demonstrably necessary for text_substring() since regexp_split functions
may pass it such a value; and we might as well convert the whole file
at once.  Per buildfarm results (though I wonder why most machines aren't
showing a failure).
2007-09-22 00:36:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 7583f9a7ca Fix regex, LIKE, and some other second-rank text-manipulation functions
to not cause needless copying of text datums that have 1-byte headers.
Greg Stark, in response to performance gripe from Guillaume Smet and
ITAGAKI Takahiro.
2007-09-21 22:52:52 +00:00
Tom Lane cc59049daf Improve handling of prune/no-prune decisions by storing a page's oldest
unpruned XMAX in its header.  At the cost of 4 bytes per page, this keeps us
from performing heap_page_prune when there's no chance of pruning anything.
Seems to be necessary per Heikki's preliminary performance testing.
2007-09-21 21:25:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 386a5d4268 Change tqual.c tests to use !TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId, rather than
TransactionIdDidAbort, when handling the case that xmin is one of the current
transaction's XIDs and the tuple has been deleted.  xmax must also be one of
the current transaction's XIDs, since no one else can see it yet, and it's
cheaper to look at local state than shared state to find out if xmax aborted.
Per an idea of Heikki's.
2007-09-21 18:24:28 +00:00
Tom Lane da072ab2ab Make some simple performance improvements in TransactionIdIsInProgress().
For XIDs of our own transaction and subtransactions, it's cheaper to ask
TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() than to look in shared memory.
Also, the xids[] work array is always the same size within any given
process, so malloc it just once instead of doing a palloc/pfree on every
call; aside from being faster this lets us get rid of some goto's, since
we no longer have any end-of-function pfree to do.  Both ideas by Heikki.
2007-09-21 17:36:53 +00:00
Tom Lane bd0af827da Fix comments that misspelled TransactionIdIsInProgress, per Heikki. 2007-09-21 16:32:19 +00:00
Michael Meskes 3e77c8c6c6 Removed superfluous ECPGfree() call. 2007-09-21 10:59:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 017daed0dd If we're gonna provide an --enable-profiling configure option, surely
it ought to know that you need -DLINUX_PROFILE on Linux.
2007-09-21 02:33:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 02185a0716 Insert a hack in pl/tcl to disable Tcl's built-in Notifier subsystem, which
has a bad habit of launching multiple threads within the backend and thereby
causing all kinds of havoc.  Fortunately, we don't need it, and recent Tcl
versions provide an easy way to disable it.  Diagnosis and fix by
Steve Marshall, Paul Bayer, and Doug Knight of WSI Corporation.
2007-09-21 00:30:49 +00:00
Tom Lane d22ae3ecc2 Solaris portability fix that was previously made in contrib/tsearch2
but got lost from the version committed to main tree.  Per Greg Stark.
2007-09-20 23:27:11 +00:00