remaining shift/reduce conflict. But the very same conflict is in gram.y, so
I don't dig into it very much now.
Anyway, I just saw that there were minor changes made to ecpg by others. Now
I like that but I would prefer if I was told about that. Otherwise my
version numbering and Changelog maintaining might break. Or simply change
these too. :-)
Also I had to add #include <errno.h> to backend/libpq/pqcomprim.c to be
able to compile postgresql.
Patch is attached. Since my resubscription process is still not finished
yet, I still send them here.
Michael
INTERSECT and EXCEPT is available for postgresql-v6.4!
The patch against v6.4 is included at the end of the current text
(in uuencoded form!)
I also included the text of my Master's Thesis. (a postscript
version). I hope that you find something of it useful and would be
happy if parts of it find their way into the PostgreSQL documentation
project (If so, tell me, then I send the sources of the document!)
The contents of the document are:
-) The first chapter might be of less interest as it gives only an
overview on SQL.
-) The second chapter gives a description on much of PostgreSQL's
features (like user defined types etc. and how to use these features)
-) The third chapter starts with an overview of PostgreSQL's internal
structure with focus on the stages a query has to pass (i.e. parser,
planner/optimizer, executor). Then a detailed description of the
implementation of the Having clause and the Intersect/Except logic is
given.
Originally I worked on v6.3.2 but never found time enough to prepare
and post a patch. Now I applied the changes to v6.4 to get Intersect
and Except working with the new version. Chapter 3 of my documentation
deals with the changes against v6.3.2, so keep that in mind when
comparing the parts of the code printed there with the patched sources
of v6.4.
Here are some remarks on the patch. There are some things that have
still to be done but at the moment I don't have time to do them
myself. (I'm doing my military service at the moment) Sorry for that
:-(
-) I used a rewrite technique for the implementation of the Except/Intersect
logic which rewrites the query to a semantically equivalent query before
it is handed to the rewrite system (for views, rules etc.), planner,
executor etc.
-) In v6.3.2 the types of the attributes of two select statements
connected by the UNION keyword had to match 100%. In v6.4 the types
only need to be familiar (i.e. int and float can be mixed). Since this
feature did not exist when I worked on Intersect/Except it
does not work correctly for Except/Intersect queries WHEN USED IN
COMBINATION WITH UNIONS! (i.e. sometimes the wrong type is used for the
resulting table. This is because until now the types of the attributes of
the first select statement have been used for the resulting table.
When Intersects and/or Excepts are used in combination with Unions it
might happen, that the first select statement of the original query
appears at another position in the query which will be executed. The reason
for this is the technique used for the implementation of
Except/Intersect which does a query rewrite!)
NOTE: It is NOT broken for pure UNION queries and pure INTERSECT/EXCEPT
queries!!!
-) I had to add the field intersect_clause to some data structures
but did not find time to implement printfuncs for the new field.
This does NOT break the debug modes but when an Except/Intersect
is used the query debug output will be the already rewritten query.
-) Massive changes to the grammar rules for SELECT and INSERT statements
have been necessary (see comments in gram.y and documentation for
deatails) in order to be able to use mixed queries like
(SELECT ... UNION (SELECT ... EXCEPT SELECT)) INTERSECT SELECT...;
-) When using UNION/EXCEPT/INTERSECT you will get:
NOTICE: equal: "Don't know if nodes of type xxx are equal".
I did not have time to add comparsion support for all the needed nodes,
but the default behaviour of the function equal met my requirements.
I did not dare to supress this message!
That's the reason why the regression test for union will fail: These
messages are also included in the union.out file!
-) Somebody of you changed the union_planner() function for v6.4
(I copied the targetlist to new_tlist and that was removed and
replaced by a cleanup of the original targetlist). These chnages
violated some having queries executed against views so I changed
it back again. I did not have time to examine the differences between the
two versions but now it works :-)
If you want to find out, try the file queries/view_having.sql on
both versions and compare the results . Two queries won't produce a
correct result with your version.
regards
Stefan
file containing the latest version of the JDBC driver, allowing it to be
compiled and used under JDK 1.2 and later.
NB: None (well almost none) of the new methods actually do anything. This
release only handles getting it to compile and run. Now this is done, I'll
start working on implementing the new stuff.
Now this tar file replaces everything under src/interfaces/jdbc. I had to
do it this way, rather than diffs, because most of the classes under the
postgresql subdirectory have moved to a new directory under that one, to
enable the support of the two JDBC standards.
Here's a list of files in the tar file. Any file not listed here (in the
postgresql directory) will have to be deleted, otherwise it could cause
the driver to fail:
Peter Mount
seem to be portable (HPUX doesn't like it, anyway). Also, clean up
StreamConnection(), which was mis-coded to assume that the address
family field is already set when it's called.
Here's another patch for the libpq backend areas. This patch removes all
usage of "FILE *" on the communications channel. It also cleans up the
comments and headers in the pqcomm.c file - a lot of things were either
missing or incorrect. Finally, it removes a couple of unused functions
(leftovers from the time of shared code between the libpq backend and
frontend).
Here is a first patch to cleanup the backend side of libpq.
This patch removes all external dependencies on the "Pfin" and "Pfout" that
are declared in pqcomm.h. These variables are also changed to "static" to
make sure.
Almost all the change is in the handler of the "copy" command - most other
areas of the backend already used the correct functions.
This change will make the way for cleanup of the internal stuff there - now
that all the functions accessing the file descriptors are confined to a
single directory.
when deciding whether a field is a year field. Assume *anything* longer
than 2 digits (if it isn't a special-case doy) is a valid year.
This should fix the "Y1K" and "Y10K" problems
pointed out by Massimo recently.
Check usage of BC to require a positive-valued year; before just used it
to flip the sign of the year without checking. This led to problems
near year zero.
Allow a 5 digit "concatenated date" of 2 digit year plus day of year.
Do 2->4 digit year correction for 6 and 5 digit "concatenated dates".
Somehow forgot this originally. Guess not many folks use it...
I think NAN is already guaranteed to be there from Jan's work on NUMERIC,
but perhaps HUGE_VAL needs some #ifndef's in the same place.
Should also include "-Infinity" as -HUGE_VAL sometime; not there yet.
to give HAVE_TM_ZONE priority. This fixes glibc2 machines and any other
machine which passes both tests in configure.
Repair HAVE_TM_ZONE code which stuffs tm structure with date type values.
Same problems as were originally there before v6.1, but never noticed.
Thanks to Oleg for nagging :)
Nakajima. Since he is not subscribing the mailing list, I'm posting
his patches by his request. According to him, he has successfully
compiled and passed the regression test on Mac SE/30 running
NetBSD/m68k. Also, another person has reported that with the patches
PostgreSQL is working on NetBSD/sun3 too.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
+
+Wed Dec 9 11:24:54 MEZ 1998
+
+ - Synced preproc.y with gram.y and the keywords.c files to add CASE
+ statement.
+
+Tue Dec 22 14:16:11 CET 1998
+
+ - Synced preproc.y with gram.y for locking statements.
+ - Set version to 2.4.5
- the first patch is just to preven listing the perl warning in the
make output unless it is actually emitted by the make. this may
prevent new users from being confused by the warning in their output
- the second patch (to 2 files) just enables building/installing
pgaccess if TCL and TK are available. a Makefile is created to do
this, but you may wish to change the heading information in it since
I just copied another Makefile to use as a template.
I hope these make it into 6.4.1.
Cheers,
Brook
6.4.1. Here is the list:
- The type int8 now works. In fact, the bug(s) were in
src/backend/port/snprintf.c, so int8 is probably broken in every platform
that hasn't a native snprintf/vsnprintf. The type itself worked as
expected, only the output was wrong. Anyway, this patch should be checked
in other platforms.
- The regression tests for int2 and int4, which were broken due to
differences in the error messages, are fixed.
- The regression test for float8, which was broken in the reference
platform, is also fixed. I don't know if the new file (float8-OSF1.out)
will work on other platforms, but it might be worth to try it.
- Two new template files are provided (alpha_cc, which includes
optimization, and alpha_gcc), and src/templates/.similar is updated
accordingly. src/templates/alpha should be removed from the distribution.
*IMPORTANT NOTE*: I don't know if you can use gcc to compile postgres;
I've written the alpha_gcc file because alpha_cc has some flags that are
specific to DEC C.
- There is a (very basic) Digital Unix specific FAQ in
doc/FAQ_DigitalUnix.
--
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Pedro José Lobo Perea Tel: +34 91 336 78 19
missed before the release. It's simply a symbol that is undefined. This
patch defines this symbol in "win32.h", so it should have no effect on any
other platforms. It should go into 6.4.1 if possible, since compilation is
completely broken without it.
I am also attaching a patch for the "win32.mak" file - it leaves a file
behind when doing "make clean" after the library is built on Visual C++ 6.0.
This is not at all as urgent, but I don't see it breaking here, so I think
it might as well go in there too?
//Magnus
where you state a format and arguments. the old behavior required
each appendStringInfo to have to have a sprintf() before it if any
formatting was required.
Also shortened several instances where there were multiple appendStringInfo()
calls in a row, doing nothing more then adding one more word to the String,
instead of doing them all in one call.
support. Included patches will solve it and should be applied to
both trees. Also, it fix the problem with \c command of psql when
switching different encoding databases.
Regression tests passed.
--
Tatsuo Ishii
t-ishii@sra.co.jp
Fix one usage of substr() which mapped to the "Oracle compatibility" funcs
rather than the more recent (and closer to SQL92) function in varlena.c.
Add more DESC() entries for conversion functions.
unless necessary.
Label internal bpchar types as "character" and varchar types as
"character varying" to be less Postgres-specific. These types map to
the SQL92 definitions anyway.
Redefine g_force_quotes to be the local variable force_quotes.
Pass this as an argument to fmtId().
These should help with handling the single-byte internal "char" type.
over HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE. This may help out linux/glibc2 and Dec Alpha.
Included #error precompiler macros to catch cases where neither is defined
but USE_POSIX_TIME is (shouldn't happen). Hopefully this isn't just
a gcc-ism.
instead of our own halfway-there code. Add AC_STRUCT_TIMEZONE call
to check whether tm_zone exists in struct tm. Revise reading of template
file so that templates can define any variables they feel like (and,
indeed, can execute arbitrary shell code) rather than being constrained
to a fixed set of variable names.
destructions in 6.4 source using purify.
(1) parser/gram.y:fmtId()
It writes n+3 bytes into n+1 byte-long memory area if mixed case or
non-ascii identifiers given.
(2) catalog/index.c:
ATTRIBUTE_TUPLE_SIZE bytes are allocated but
sizeof(FormData_pg_attribute) bytes are written. Note that
ATTRIBUTE_TUPLE_SIZE is smaller than
sizeof(FormData_pg_attribute). (for example, on solaris 2.6,
Tatsuo Ishii
But it may be self-satisfied.
Please check my patch at the end of this posting.
Case 1. executor evaluates functions twice
Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp
Digital Uni x with both DEC cc and gcc) behaviour of modifying an
lvalue on the left side an d then using it on the right side of an
assignment. Since this code modifies the
dbname parameter, it was changing, for example, "dbname=template1"
into "dbname =emplate1".
David Smith Programmer P
in the ACL code, and spell "GRANT RULE" correctly.
Apply patch from Oliver Elphick to not dump inherited constraints.
Apply patch from Constantin Teodorescu to dump table definitions with a
readable layout.
SunOS has tas(), but not memmove or strerror, and its sprintf() doesn't
return int. Also, older versions of GNU Make don't like rules with
empty left-hand sides...
instead of relying on port's os.h to tell us. (Needed for HPUX
where system major version is not enough info.)
configure unsets USE_TK if X libraries not found.
doc/Makefile uses gzcat or zcat as found by autoconf.
than silently returning zero on some machines. Correct float8 regress test
to agree. Also fix pow() overflow/underflow check to work correctly on
HPUX.
fail to consume the rest of the input string, and worse it would write
one more byte than it should into the buffer, probably resulting in coredump.
Fortunately there's a correct implementation next door in pqcomprim.c.
selected when they match a prefix of the value. The previous method,
which stripped all version data from and then tried to match that
against .similar entries, was entirely useless when .similar contained
several entries for different version numbers of a single OS name.
a backend core dump, because it was concatenating a potentially long
string onto another string that didn't necessarily have enough room.
Shame, shame.
This is the default, but the new flag will allow overriding an alias,
for example. So psql -n -N will put in the double quotes,
and psql -n can be an alias for psql.
Also, add a few braces around a nested single-line conditional construct
to suppress compiler warnings about "an ambiguous else".
From: SHIOZAKI Takehiko <takehi-s@ascii.co.jp>
I tried snapshot(Oct30) and made some patches.
# I think that it is confused to manage both Makefile.shlib and
# makefiles/Makefile.*, don't you?
* configure
Now FreeBSD 2.X is not supported..., so I added its entry.
If ELF_SYSTEM is set, gmake treat it defined even though
it is "false". So nothing should be set to use "ifdef".
BSD_SHLIB etc. may have same problems.
* Makefile.shlib
As you said, FreeBSD entry is much like BSD's.
I only added ELF_SYSTEM code.
* makefiles/Makefile.freebsd
Ifdef/else/endif can not be indented with TABs.
ie, not when user specifies --with-CC. This corrects a scripting error
that I'm surprised hasn't been reported more often. Moving the macro call
to the earlier point in the script is correct anyway: if -traditional is needed,
it should get added to CFLAGS before we start using the compiler for
other tests.
mistakes in creating pg_operator table. NOTE: right now, this will
fail because of conflicting definitions for point @ path operator.
I trust we're gonna fix that.
oprlsortop and oprrsortop links. There's still a bug involving
conflicting definitions for point @ path, but I'm not taking
responsibility for deciding which one is right...
