sake of brevity and clarity.
Make pg_reload_conf(), pg_rotate_logfile(), and pg_cancel_backend()
return a boolean rather than an integer to indicate success or failure.
Along the way, make some minor cleanups to dbsize.c -- in particular,
use elog() rather than ereport() for "shouldn't happen" error
conditions, and remove some of the more flagrant violations of the
Postgres indentation conventions.
Catalog version bumped.
bytes. This shouldn't make any difference on x86 machines, where the size
happened to be 16 bytes anyway, but on 64-bit machines and machines with
slock_t int or wider, it will speed array indexing and hopefully reduce
SMP cache contention effects. Per recent experimentation.
recovered. I did not see any actual leak while testing this in CVS tip,
but 8.0 definitely has a problem with leaking the space temporarily
palloc'd by BufferSync(). In any case this seems a good idea to forestall
similar problems in future. Per report from Arjen van der Meijden.
to drop connections unceremoniously. Also some other marginal cleanups:
don't query getsockopt() repeatedly if it fails, and avoid having the
apparent definition of struct Port depend on which system headers you
might have included or not. Oliver Jowett and Tom Lane.
> found in a pg_dump archive. It had problems with dollar-quote tags
broken across bufferload boundaries (this may explain bug report from
Rod Taylor), also with dollar-quote literals of the form $a$a$...,
and was also confused about the rules for backslash in double quoted
identifiers (ie, they're not special). Also put in placeholder support
for E'...' literals --- this will need more work later.
really the source or destination of the archive. I think this will
resolve recent complaints that password prompting is broken in pg_restore
on Windows. Note that password prompting and reading from stdin is an
unworkable combination on Windows ... but that was true anyway.
is certainly no longer immutable, but must indeed be marked volatile.
I wonder if it should use the value of now() (that is, transaction
start time) so that it could be marked stable. But it's probably not
important enough to be worth changing the code for ... indeed, I'm not
even going to force an initdb for this catalog change, seeing that we
just did one a few hours ago.
in the zic database or zone names found in the date token table. This
preserves the old ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST' along with the new
ability to do AT TIME ZONE 'PST8PDT'. Per gripe from Bricklen Anderson.
Also, fix some inconsistencies in usage of TZ_STRLEN_MAX --- the old
code had the potential for one-byte buffer overruns, though given
alignment considerations it's unlikely there was any real risk.
for procedural languages. This replaces the hard-wired table I had
originally proposed as a stopgap solution. For the moment, the initial
contents only include languages shipped with the core distribution.
as per my recent proposal. For now the template data is hard-wired in
proclang.c --- this should be replaced later by a new shared system
catalog, but we don't want to force initdb during 8.1 beta. This change
lets us cleanly load existing dump files even if they contain outright
wrong information about a PL's support functions, such as a wrong path
to the shared library or a missing validator function. Also, we can
revert the recent kluges to make pg_dump dump PL support functions that
are stored in pg_catalog.
While at it, I removed the code in pg_regress that replaced $libdir
with a hardcoded path for temporary installations. This is no longer
needed given our support for relocatable installations.
when there are extra resjunk columns in the child node. I found some
additional cases involving Append nodes that weren't handled by the
prior patch, and it's not clear how to fix them in the same way without
breaking inheritance cases. So the prudent path seems to be to narrow
the scope of the optimization.
has to recopy the input plan node's targetlist if it removes a
SubqueryScan node just below the non-projecting node. For simplicity
I made it recopy always. Per bug report from Allan Wang and Michael Fuhr.
on a page, as suggested by ITAGAKI Takahiro. Also, change a few places
that were using some other estimates of max-items-per-page to consistently
use MaxOffsetNumber. This is conservatively large --- we could have used
the new MaxHeapTuplesPerPage macro, or a similar one for index tuples ---
but those places are simply declaring a fixed-size buffer and assuming it
will work, rather than actively testing for overrun. It seems safer to
size these buffers in a way that can't overflow even if the page is
corrupt.
saves nearly 700kB in the default shared memory segment size, which seems
worthwhile, and it is a feature that many users won't use anyway. Per
Heikki's argument, there is no point in a compromise value --- those who
are using 2PC at all will probably want it at least equal to max_connections.
But we can't set it to zero by default without breaking the prepared_xacts
regression test.
so that the latter estimates the number of groups that grouping will
produce. This is needed because it is primarily query_planner that
makes the decision between fast-start and fast-finish plans, and in the
original coding it was unable to make more than a crude rule-of-thumb
choice when the query involved grouping. This revision helps us make
saner choices for queries like SELECT ... GROUP BY ... LIMIT, as in a
recent example from Mark Kirkwood. Also move the responsibility for
canonicalizing sort_pathkeys and group_pathkeys into query_planner;
this information has to be available anyway to support the first change,
and doing it this way lets us get rid of compare_noncanonical_pathkeys
entirely.
to copy the whole plan tree before invoking adjust_plan_varnos(); else
if there is any multiply-linked substructure, the latter might increment
some Var's varno twice. Previously there were some retail copyObject
calls inside adjust_plan_varnos, but it seems a lot safer to just dup the
whole tree first. Also, set_inner_join_references was trying to avoid
work by not recursing if a BitmapHeapScan's bitmapqualorig contained no
outer references; which was OK at the time the code was written, I think,
but now that create_bitmap_scan_plan removes duplicate clauses from
bitmapqualorig it is possible for that field to be NULL while outer
references still remain in the qpqual and/or contained indexscan nodes.
For safety, always recurse even if the BitmapHeapScan looks to be outer
reference free. Per reports from Michael Fuhr and Oleg Bartunov.
the parent table, even if the command that creates them is executed by
someone else (such as a superuser or a member of the owning role).
Per gripe from Michael Fuhr.
in interval_mul and interval_div. This avoids an optimization bug
in A Certain Company's compiler (and given their explanation, I wouldn't
be surprised if other compilers blow it too). Besides the code seems
more clear this way --- in the original formulation, you had to mentally
recognize the common subexpression in order to understand what was going
on.
IPv6 is obsoleted by recent Windows patch. Perform the runtime test
whenever HAVE_IPV6 is set. This should be OK since initdb can get
getaddrinfo from libpgport if needed.
use these instead of its previous hack of changing pg_class.reltriggers.
Documentation is lacking, will add that later.
Patch by Satoshi Nagayasu, review and some extra work by Tom Lane.
Windows. The test itself is bypassed in configure as discussed, and
libpq has been updated appropriately to allow it to build in thread-safe
mode.
Dave Page
after the fact. Fix bug with incorrect test for whether we are at end
of logfile segment. Arrange for writes triggered by XLogInsert's
is-cache-more-than-half-full test to synchronize with the cache boundaries,
so that in long transactions we tend to write alternating halves of the
cache rather than randomly chosen portions of it; this saves one more
write syscall per cache load.
erroring out as it has done for the last couple weeks. Document that this
form is now ignored because indexes can't usefully have different owners
from their parent tables. Fix pg_dump to not generate ALTER OWNER commands
for indexes.
discussion of getting around this by relaxing the checks made for regular
users, but I'm disinclined to toy with the security model right now,
so just special-case it for superusers where needed.
not accepting queries).
errmsg("database is not accepting queries to avoid
wraparound data loss in database \"%s\"",
errhint("Stop the postmaster and use a standalone
backend to VACUUM database \"%s\".",
in postgresql.conf.sample, mark custom_variable_classes as SIGHUP not
POSTMASTER to agree with the documentation (I can't see a reason it has
to be POSTMASTER so I think the docs are right).
to 'Size' (that is, size_t), and install overflow detection checks in it.
This allows us to remove the former arbitrary restrictions on NBuffers
etc. It won't make any difference in a 32-bit machine, but in a 64-bit
machine you could theoretically have terabytes of shared buffers.
(How efficiently we could manage 'em remains to be seen.) Similarly,
num_temp_buffers, work_mem, and maintenance_work_mem can be set above
2Gb on a 64-bit machine. Original patch from Koichi Suzuki, additional
work by moi.
insufficient paranoia in code that follows t_ctid links. (We must do both
because even with VACUUM doing it properly, the intermediate state with
a dangling t_ctid link is visible concurrently during lazy VACUUM, and
could be seen afterwards if either type of VACUUM crashes partway through.)
Also try to improve documentation about what's going on. Patch is a bit
bulky because passing the XMAX information around required changing the
APIs of some low-level heapam.c routines, but it's not conceptually very
complicated. Per trouble report from Teodor and subsequent analysis.
This needs to be back-patched, but I'll do that after 8.1 beta is out.
or OFFSET clauses by using estimate_expression_value(). The main advantage
of this is that if the expression is a Param and we have a value for the
Param, we'll use that value rather than defaulting. Also, fix some
thinkos in the logic for combining LIMIT/OFFSET with an externally
supplied tuple fraction (this covers cases like EXISTS(...LIMIT...)).
And make sure the results of all this are shown by EXPLAIN. Per a
gripe from Merlin Moncure.
Fix to_char(interval) to return large year/month/day/hour values that
are larger than possible timestamp values.
Prevent to_char(interval) format specifications that make no sense, like
Month.
Clean up formatting.c code to more logically handle return lengths.
their OID parameter. It was possible to crash the backend with
select array_in('{123}',0,0); because that would bypass the needed step
of initializing the workspace. These seem to be the only two places
with a problem, though (record_in and record_recv don't have the issue,
and the other array functions aren't depending on user-supplied input).
Back-patch as far as 7.4; 7.3 does not have the bug.
(the stats system has always collected this info, but the views were
filtering it out). Modify autovacuum so that over-threshold activity
in a toast table can trigger a VACUUM of the parent table, even if the
parent didn't appear to need vacuuming itself. Per discussion a month
or so back about "short, wide tables".
other stuff; change \du and \dg to be role-aware (Stefan Kaltenbrunner).
Also make tab completion fetch the list of GUC variables from pg_settings
instead of having a hard-wired copy of the list (Tom Lane).
SearchCatCacheList and ReleaseCatCacheList. Previously, we incremented
and decremented the refcounts of list member tuples along with the list
itself, but that's unnecessary, and very expensive when the list is big.
It's cheaper to change only the list refcount. When we are considering
deleting a cache entry, we have to check not only its own refcount but
its parent list's ... but it's easy to arrange the code so that this
check is not made in any commonly-used paths, so the cost is really nil.
The bigger gain though is to refrain from DLMoveToFront'ing each individual
member tuple each time the list is referenced. To keep some semblance
of fair space management, lists are just marked as used or not since the
last cache cleanout search, and we do a MoveToFront pass only when about
to run a cleanout. In combination, these changes reduce the costs of
SearchCatCacheList and ReleaseCatCacheList from about 4.5% of pgbench
runtime to under 1%, according to my gprof results.
remember the output parameter set for himself. It's a bit of a kluge
but fixing array_in to work in bootstrap mode looks worse.
I removed the separate pg_file_length() function, as it no longer has any
real notational advantage --- you can write (pg_stat_file(...)).length.
stderr-in-service or output-from-syslogger-in-service code. Previously
everything was flagged as ERRORs there, which caused all instances to
log "LOG: logger shutting down" as error...
Please apply for 8.1. I'd also like it considered for 8.0 since logging
non-errors as errors can be cause for alarm amongst people who actually
look at their logs...
Magnus Hagander
> >> 3) I restarted the postmaster both times. I got this error
> both times.
> >> :25: ERROR: could not load library "C:/Program
> >> Files/PostgreSQL/8.0/lib/testtrigfuncs.dll": dynamic load error
>
> > Yes. We really need to look at fixing that error message. I had
> > forgotten it completely :-(
>
> > Bruce, you think we can sneak that in after feature freeze? I would
> > call it a bugfix :-)
>
> Me too. That's been on the radar for awhile --- please do
> send in a patch.
Here we go, that wasn't too hard :-)
Apart from adding the error handling, it does one more thing: it changes
the errormode when loading the DLLs. Previously if a DLL was broken, or
referenced other DLLs that couldn't be found, a popup dialog box would
appear on the screen. Which had to be clicked before the backend could
continue. This patch also disables the popup error message for DLL
loads.
I think this is something we should consider doing for the entire
backend - disable those popups, and say we deal with it ourselves. What
do you other win32 hackers thinnk about this?
In the meantime, this patch fixes the error msgs. Please apply for 8.1
and please consider a backpatch to 8.0.
Magnus Hagander
> > I ran across this yesterday on HEAD:
>
> > template1=# grant select on foo, foo to swm;
> > ERROR: tuple already updated by self
>
> Seems to fail similarly in every version back to 7.2; probably further,
> but that's all I have running at the moment.
>
> > We could do away with the error by producing a unique list of object names
> > -- but that would impose an extra cost on the common case.
>
> CommandCounterIncrement in the GRANT loop would be easier, likely.
> I'm having a hard time getting excited about it though...
Yeah, its not that exciting but that error message would throw your
average user.
I've attached a patch which calls CommandCounterIncrement() in each of the
grant loops.
Gavin Sherry
