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Bruce Momjian ede83e04aa Document that configure --with-libxslt controls just /contrib/xml2.
Nikolay Samokhvalov
2007-11-04 18:10:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 69500b05d6 Prevent continuing disk-space bloat when profiling (with PROFILE_PID_DIR
enabled) and autovacuum is on.  Since there will be a steady stream of autovac
worker processes exiting and dropping gmon.out files, allowing them to make
separate subdirectories results in serious bloat; and it seems unlikely that
anyone will care about those profiles anyway.  Limit the damage by forcing all
autovac workers to dump in one subdirectory, PGDATA/gprof/avworker/.

Per report from Jšrg Beyer and subsequent discussion.
2007-11-04 17:55:15 +00:00
Tom Lane a2899ebdc2 Teach CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER to convert old-style foreign key
trigger definitions into regular foreign key constraints.  This seems
necessary given that some people evidently never did get around to
running adddepend on their schemas, and without some sort of hack the
old definitions will no longer work.  Per report from Olivier Prenant
and subsequent investigation.
2007-11-04 01:16:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 97ddfc9607 Ensure that EquivalenceClasses generated from ORDER BY keys contain proper
RelabelType nodes when the sort key is binary-compatible with the sort
operator rather than having exactly its input type.  We did this correctly
for index columns but not sort keys, leading to failure to notice that
a varchar index matches an ORDER BY request.  This requires a bit more work
in make_sort_from_pathkeys, but not anyplace else that I can find.
Per bug report and subsequent discussion.
2007-11-02 18:54:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 65bd783614 Mention that internal hash functions changed in 8.3 release notes. 2007-11-01 22:38:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 9423be4449 Some corrections/improvements to new acronym list. 2007-11-01 20:27:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 388c7e28c5 Update discussion of shared memory sizing for 8.3: adjust multipliers,
mention autovacuum_max_workers.  Minor copy-editing too.
2007-11-01 19:06:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5c996884a0 Update Czech FAQ.
Pavel Stehule
2007-11-01 17:28:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6287c31b5a Acronym spelling fix. 2007-11-01 17:16:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 53e3f9dcfd Add documentation mention that FSM == Free Space Map, so the config
parameter name makes more sense.
2007-11-01 17:06:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 61c8163957 Add acronym section to our documentation. 2007-11-01 17:00:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f0cd76fcc4 Add:
> * Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement
>    starvation
2007-10-31 20:12:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e6a5c0aa2c More precise error message 2007-10-31 10:55:25 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier 2a34c1f288 removed from CVS 2007-10-30 23:38:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e07904b0a4 Add note on PostgreSQL vs. Postgres. 2007-10-30 23:06:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 406ee67c9a Update some obsolete stuff in the GRANT and REVOKE reference pages:
simplify the syntax examples by unifying user and group cases, and fix
no-longer-correct example of psql \z output.  Per Erwin Brandstetter.
2007-10-30 19:43:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 897313e824 Add a note pointing out that some other databases make GREATEST and
LEAST handle NULL arguments differently than we do.  Per a discussion
on 30-Jun that somehow didn't get done.
2007-10-30 19:06:56 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier b973530737 simple script to pull together a very small (<500k) tar file that builds
*just* libpq ... its not perfect, as it pulls in more files then is
necessarily required to build, but as it is, it requires one simple patch
to configure.in in order to work ...

Tested on FreeBSD ... patch for configure.in hasn't been applied, but
putting the script in place so that it doesn't get lost ...
2007-10-30 02:34:48 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 92be6991ad In the previous commit message, I forgot to credit Simon Riggs who provided
the patch, which I modified only slightly before applying.
2007-10-29 22:17:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 2aae35d049 Mention the index name in 'could not create unique index' errors,
per suggestion from Rene Gollent.
2007-10-29 21:31:28 +00:00
Tom Lane b17b7fae8c Remove the hack in the grammar that "optimized away" DEFAULT NULL clauses.
Instead put in a test to drop a NULL default at the last moment before
storing the catalog entry.  This changes the behavior in a couple of ways:
* Specifying DEFAULT NULL when creating an inheritance child table will
  successfully suppress inheritance of any default expression from the
  parent's column, where formerly it failed to do so.
* Specifying DEFAULT NULL for a column of a domain type will correctly
  override any default belonging to the domain; likewise for a sub-domain.
The latter change happens because by the time the clause is checked,
it won't be a simple null Const but a CoerceToDomain expression.

Personally I think this should be back-patched, but there doesn't seem to
be consensus for that on pgsql-hackers, so refraining.
2007-10-29 19:40:40 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev bf5ccf382c - Add check of already changed page while replay WAL. This touches only
ginRedoInsert(), because other ginRedo* functions rewrite whole page or
make changes which could be applied several times without consistent's loss

- Remove check of identifying of corresponding split record:
it's possible that replaying of WAL starts after actual page split, but before
removing of that split from incomplete splits list. In this case, that check
cause FATAL error.

Per stress test which reproduces bug reported by Craig McElroy
<craig.mcelroy@contegix.com>
2007-10-29 19:26:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f7967d4c69 Documentation wording fixes.
Guillaume Lelarge
2007-10-29 17:29:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e1f55afe7d Update Russian FAQ.
corochoone@gmail.com
2007-10-29 17:27:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 96805a18c6 Clarify restart is of the "database" server, in FAQ. 2007-10-29 17:22:20 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 5140058071 Make variable static, per Tom. 2007-10-29 14:04:42 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 85376c6f7d Fix coredump during replay WAL after crash. Change entrySplitPage() to prevent
usage of any information from system catalog, because it could be called during
replay of WAL.

Per bug report from Craig McElroy <craig.mcelroy@contegix.com>. Patch doesn't
change on-disk storage.
2007-10-29 13:49:21 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 811be893fa Add compat file for dynamically loading the functions that MinGW is missing
the imports for. Add RegisterWaitForSingleObject() to the list of such
functions, which should take care of the current buildfarm breakage.
2007-10-29 12:35:41 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 6f14effbf9 New versions of mingw have gettimeofday(), so add an autoconf test
for this.
2007-10-29 11:25:42 +00:00
Tom Lane f9e83a5588 Remove claim that ts_headline knows how to generate multiple ellipsis-separated
excerpts of a document.  That's clearly desirable, but the functionality
is not there yet.
2007-10-29 01:55:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 3fe266207b Ooops, fat-fingered last commit message. Should have
mentioned updating FAQ_IRIX for information about buggy MIPSPro
compiler version, now confirmed by Herve Boulouis.
2007-10-28 22:33:25 +00:00
Tom Lane d034a268a2 FAQ_IRIX 2007-10-28 22:30:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 27c033ed98 Make pg_dump and friends consistently report both the filename and the
errno string when complaining of fopen failures.  Per gripe from Bob
Pawley, it's not always instantly obvious to the user which name we
tried to open.
2007-10-28 21:55:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 006f42c74d Fix a couple of issues with pg_dump's handling of inheritance child tables
that have default expressions different from their parent.  First, if the
parent table's default expression has to be split out as a separate
ALTER TABLE command, we need a dependency constraint to ensure that the
child's command is given second.  This is because the ALTER TABLE on the
parent will propagate to the child.  (We can't prevent that by using ONLY on
the parent's command, since it's possible that other children exist that
should receive the inherited default.)  Second, if the child has a NULL
default where the parent does not, we have to explicitly say DEFAULT NULL on
the child in order for this state to be preserved after reload.  (The latter
actually doesn't work right because of a backend bug, but that is a separate
issue.)

Backpatch as far as 8.0.  7.x pg_dump has enough issues with altered tables
(due to lack of dependency analysis) that trying to fix this one doesn't seem
very productive.
2007-10-28 19:08:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 73e6f9d3b6 Change text search parsing rules for hyphenated words so that digit strings
containing decimal points aren't considered part of a hyphenated word.
Sync the hyphenated-word lookahead states with the subsequent part-by-part
reparsing states so that we don't get different answers about how much text
is part of the hyphenated word.  Per my gripe of a few days ago.
2007-10-27 19:03:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 1aaf39bd20 Add some rudimentary tracing code to the default text search parser, to help
in debugging its state-machine rules.  Const-ify all the constant tables.
Minor other code cleanup, including using "token" rather than "lexeme" to
describe the output strings.
2007-10-27 17:53:15 +00:00
Tom Lane d015d08b43 Rename default text search parser's "uri" token type to "url_path",
per recommendation from Alvaro.  This doesn't force initdb since the
numeric token type in the catalogs doesn't change; but note that
the expected regression test output changed.
2007-10-27 16:01:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 834ddc6272 Avoid considering both sort directions as equally useful for merging.
This doubles the planning workload for mergejoins while not actually
accomplishing much.  The only useful case is where one of the directions
matches the query's ORDER BY request; therefore, put a thumb on the scales
in that direction, and otherwise arbitrarily consider only the ASC direction.
(This is a lot easier now than it would've been before 8.3, since we have
more semantic knowledge embedded in PathKeys now.)
2007-10-27 05:45:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 5b5a70aedf Stamp 8.3beta2. 2007-10-27 00:22:42 +00:00
Tom Lane 2aac6f10f6 Minor wording improvements per suggestion from Jeff Davis. Also tweak
hyphenated-word parser examples per earlier discussion with Alvaro.
2007-10-27 00:19:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8a8bcb447a Translation updates 2007-10-27 00:13:43 +00:00
Magnus Hagander bb98b2e27e Change win32 child-death tracking code to use a threadpool to wait for
childprocess deaths instead of using one thread per child. This drastastically
reduces the address space usage and should allow for more backends running.

Also change the win32_waitpid functionality to use an IO Completion Port for
queueing child death notices instead of using a fixed-size array.
2007-10-26 21:50:10 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera acac68b2bc Allow an autovacuum worker to be interrupted automatically when it is found
to be locking another process (except when it's working to prevent Xid
wraparound problems).
2007-10-26 20:45:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ffda32e9fd Remove second-in-paragraph usage of "Postgres" in FAQ_DEV. 2007-10-26 19:08:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f201257991 Remove use of "Postgres" aliases in the FAQ in second-in-paragraph
cases.
2007-10-26 19:04:37 +00:00
Tom Lane cd2a2ce904 Change have_join_order_restriction() so that we do not force a clauseless join
if either of the input relations can legally be joined to any other rels using
join clauses.  This avoids uselessly (and expensively) considering a lot of
really stupid join paths when there is a join restriction with a large
footprint, that is, lots of relations inside its LHS or RHS.  My patch of
15-Feb-2007 had been causing the code to consider joining *every* combination
of rels inside such a group, which is exponentially bad :-(.  With this
behavior, clauseless bushy joins will be done if necessary, but they'll be
put off as long as possible.  Per report from Jakub Ouhrabka.

Backpatch to 8.2.  We might someday want to backpatch to 8.1 as well, but 8.1
does not have the problem for OUTER JOIN nests, only for IN-clauses, so it's
not clear anyone's very likely to hit it in practice; and the current patch
doesn't apply cleanly to 8.1.
2007-10-26 18:10:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 462227dc00 Avoid having backend-only code compiled into ecpg. Per Zdenek Kotala 2007-10-26 14:17:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 8164fb8887 Avoid including any backend-only stuff in the zic utility program.
Per gripe from Zdenek Kotala, though not exactly his patch.
2007-10-26 13:30:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 350196df4a Set Japanese FAQ character code to UTF-8.
Jun Kuwamura
2007-10-26 03:59:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fa9eb3152e Add plpgsql doc example of RETURN NEXT.
Ulrich Kroener
2007-10-26 01:11:09 +00:00