for circle(polygon), which was missing; remove bogus entry for
point(lseg, lseg), which does not exist, and the documentation seemed to
describe lseg_interpt, which we already document as an operator not a
function. Also remove entry for box_intersect, which likewise is
preferentially used via the operator #.
optional arguments as text input functions, ie, typioparam OID and
atttypmod. Make all the datatypes that use typmod enforce it the same
way in typreceive as they do in typinput. This fixes a problem with
failure to enforce length restrictions during COPY FROM BINARY.
The Problem: Occassionally a DBA needs to dump a database to a new
encoding. In instances where the current encoding, (or lack of an
encoding, like SQL_ASCII) is poorly supported on the target database
server, it can be useful to dump into a particular encoding. But,
currently the only way to set the encoding of a pg_dump file is to
change client_encoding in postgresql.conf and restart postmaster.
This is more than a little awkward for production systems.
Magnus Hagander
< computations should adjust based on the time zone rules, e.g.
< adding 24 hours to a timestamp would yield a different result from
< adding one day.
<
> computations should adjust based on the time zone rules.
The specification of this function is as follows.
regexp_replace(source text, pattern text, replacement text, [flags
text])
returns text
Replace string that matches to regular expression in source text to
replacement text.
- pattern is regular expression pattern.
- replacement is replace string that can use '\1'-'\9', and '\&'.
'\1'-'\9': back reference to the n'th subexpression.
'\&' : entire matched string.
- flags can use the following values:
g: global (replace all)
i: ignore case
When the flags is not specified, case sensitive, replace the first
instance only.
Atsushi Ogawa
have adequate mechanisms for tracking the contents of databases and
tablespaces). This solves the longstanding problem that you can drop a
user who still owns objects and/or has access permissions.
Alvaro Herrera, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
< writer.
> writer. It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
> into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
> replaced from WAL.
>
> o -Add ability to turn off full page writes
> o When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
> on recovery
> o Write full pages during file system write and not when
> the page is modified in the buffer cache
>
> This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
> writer.
problems:
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Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler.
This relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.
< Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write the
> Currently, to protect against partial disk page writes, we write
877c877
< * Turn off after-change writes if fsync is disabled
> * Turn off full page writes if fsync is disabled
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Similarly for loops. This is per PL/SQL. Update the documentation and
add regression tests. Patch from Pavel Stehule, code review by Neil
Conway.
< o Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall for cleaning of
< roles with separate DROP commands
> o Replace crude DELETE FROM method of pg_dumpall --clean for
> cleaning of roles with separate DROP commands
< * Allow limits on per-db/user connections
> * Allow limits on per-db/role connections
< * Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and roles
<
< Currently, if a user is removed while he still owns objects, a new
< user given might be given their user id and inherit the
< previous users objects.
<
450c444
< * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, roles, databases
> * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (roles, databases
609c603
< users and roles with separate DROP commands
> roles with separate DROP commands
< * Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and groups
> * Prevent default re-use of sysids for dropped users and roles
450c450
< * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, groups, databases
> * Add COMMENT ON for all cluster global objects (users, roles, databases
609c609
< users and groups with separate DROP commands
> users and roles with separate DROP commands
and pg_auth_members. There are still many loose ends to finish in this
patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for
instance). But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can
make some progress on shared dependencies. The catalog changes should
be pretty much done.
with main, avoid using a SQL-defined SQLSTATE for what is most definitely
not a SQL-compatible error condition, fix documentation omissions,
adhere to message style guidelines, don't use two GUC_REPORT variables
when one is sufficient. Nothing done about pg_dump issues.
literally.
Add GUC variables:
"escape_string_warning" - warn about backslashes in non-E strings
"escape_string_syntax" - supports E'' syntax?
"standard_compliant_strings" - treats backslashes literally in ''
Update code to use E'' when escapes are used.
should fix the recent reports of "index is not a btree" failures,
as well as preventing a more obscure race condition involving changes
to a template database just after copying it with CREATE DATABASE.
> * Add NUMERIC division operator that doesn't round?
>
> Currently NUMERIC _rounds_ the result to the specified precision.
> This means division can return a result that multiplied by the
> divisor is greater than the dividend, e.g. this returns a value > 10:
>
> SELECT (10::numeric(2,0) / 6::numeric(2,0))::numeric(2,0) * 6;
>
> The positive modulus result returned by NUMERICs might be considered
> inaccurate, in one sense.
>
to the existing X-direction tests. An rtree class now includes 4 actual
2-D tests, 4 1-D X-direction tests, and 4 1-D Y-direction tests.
This involved adding four new Y-direction test operators for each of
box and polygon; I followed the PostGIS project's lead as to the names
of these operators.
NON BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE CHANGE: the poly_overleft (&<) and poly_overright
(&>) operators now have semantics comparable to box_overleft and box_overright.
This is necessary to make r-tree indexes work correctly on polygons.
Also, I changed circle_left and circle_right to agree with box_left and
box_right --- formerly they allowed the boundaries to touch. This isn't
actually essential given the lack of any r-tree opclass for circles, but
it seems best to sync all the definitions while we are at it.
< * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions
<
< Right now, SIGTERM will terminate a session, but it is treated as
< though the postmaster has paniced and shared memory might not be
< cleaned up properly. A new signal is needed for safe termination
< because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
< have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
<
> * Allow administrators to safely terminate individual sessions either
> via an SQL function or SIGTERM
in the database. The old behavior (reindex system catalogs only) is now
available as REINDEX SYSTEM. I did not add the complementary REINDEX USER
case since there did not seem to be consensus for this, but it would be
trivial to add later. Per recent discussions.
argument list contains parameter symbols ($n) declared as type VOID,
discard these arguments. This allows the driver to avoid renumbering
mixed IN and OUT argument placeholders (the JDBC syntax involves writing
? for both IN and OUT parameters, but on the server side we don't think
that OUT parameters are arguments). This doesn't break any currently-
useful cases since VOID is not used as an input argument type.
using the recently added lo_create() function. The restore logic in
pg_restore is greatly simplified as well, since there's no need anymore
to try to adjust database references to match a new set of blob OIDs.
unlike template0 and template1 does not have any special status in
terms of backend functionality. However, all external utilities such
as createuser and createdb now connect to "postgres" instead of
template1, and the documentation is changed to encourage people to use
"postgres" instead of template1 as a play area. This should fix some
longstanding gotchas involving unexpected propagation of database
objects by createdb (when you used template1 without understanding
the implications), as well as ameliorating the problem that CREATE
DATABASE is unhappy if anyone else is connected to template1.
Patch by Dave Page, minor editing by Tom Lane. All per recent
pghackers discussions.
old suggestion by Oliver Jowett. Also, add a transaction column to the
pg_locks view to show the xid of each transaction holding or awaiting
locks; this allows prepared transactions to be properly associated with
the locks they own. There was already a column named 'transaction',
and I chose to rename it to 'transactionid' --- since this column is
new in the current devel cycle there should be no backwards compatibility
issue to worry about.
> * Auto-fill the free space map by scanning the buffer cache or by
> checking pages written by the background writer
< * Auto-fill the free space map by scanning the buffer cache or by
< checking pages written by the background writer
>
> * Create a bitmap of pages that need vacuuming
>
> Instead of sequentially scanning the entire table, have the background
> writer or some other process record pages that have expired rows, then
> VACUUM can look at just those pages rather than the entire table. In
> the event of a system crash, the bitmap would probably be invalidated.
"AT TIME ZONE", and not just the shorlist previously available. For
example:
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London';
works fine now. It will also obey whatever DST rules were in effect at
just that date, which the previous implementation did not.
It also supports the AT TIME ZONE on the timetz datatype. The whole
handling of DST is a bit bogus there, so I chose to make it use whatever
DST rules are in effect at the time of executig the query. not sure if
anybody is actuallyi *using* timetz though, it seems pretty
unpredictable just because of this...
Magnus Hagander
part of service principal. If not set, any service principal matching
an entry in the keytab can be used.
NEW KERBEROS MATCHING BEHAVIOR FOR 8.1.
Todd Kover
instead of just scalar variables. Add regression tests and update the
documentation. Along the way, remove some redundant error checking
code from exec_stmt_perform().
Original patch from Pavel Stehule, reworked by Neil Conway.
nonconsecutive columns of a multicolumn index, as per discussion around
mid-May (pghackers thread "Best way to scan on-disk bitmaps"). This
turns out to require only minimal changes in btree, and so far as I can
see none at all in GiST. btcostestimate did need some work, but its
original assumption that index selectivity == heap selectivity was
quite bogus even before this.
mode to only affect the presentation of normal query results, not the
output of psql slash commands. Documentation updated. I also made
some unrelated minor psql cleanup. Per suggestion from Stuart Cooper.
a descriptor that uses the current transaction snapshot, rather than
SnapshotNow as it did before (and still does if INV_WRITE is set).
This means pg_dump will now dump a consistent snapshot of large object
contents, as it never could do before. Also, add a lo_create() function
that is similar to lo_creat() but allows the desired OID of the large
object to be specified. This will simplify pg_restore considerably
(but I'll fix that in a separate commit).
