> > a) Write documentation how the win32 console needs to be set up so that
> > psql can handle 8-bit characters.
> > Where should it be added? The Section "Installation on Windows" in the
> > Administrator's Guide seems natural to me.
> >
> > b) Add code to psql that prints a warning on startup of psql when the
> > console codepage differs from the windows codepage, something like
> >
> > Warning: Console codepage (850) differs from windows codepage (1252)
> > 8-bit characters will not work correctly. See PostgreSQL
> > documentation "Installation on Windows" for details.
>
Attached are two patches:
- installdoc.patch contains an additional paragraph on the win32 console
codepage for the chapter "Installation on Windows"
Due to a lack of SGML-tools, I have only edited the text and not tested
the SGML code - please check it before merging into the CVS branch.
- psqlcodepage.patch adds the warning about a problematic codepage to psql.
Christoph Dalitz
on pgsql-hackers.
A cast is included in the dump output if any of the objects does
not belong to a system namespace and all of the non-system namespace
objects belong to dumped namespaces. System namespace is defined
as nspname begins with "pg_".
Jan
are not longer than 8 characters. But sometimes they are, and that made
the display quite ugly. So just format them vertically so that everyone
can read them.
AUTHORIZATION clause to specify the desired owner. This allows a
superuser to restore schemas owned by users without CREATE-SCHEMA
permissions (ie, schemas originally created by a superuser using
AUTHORIZATION). --no-owner can be specified to suppress the
AUTHORIZATION clause if need be.
to control object ownership. The use-set-session-authorization and
no-reconnect switches are obsolete (still accepted on the command line,
but they don't do anything). This is a precursor to fixing handling
of CREATE SCHEMA, which will be a separate commit.
sequence every time it's called is bogus --- it interferes with user
control over the seed, and actually decreases randomness overall
(because a seed based on time(NULL) is pretty predictable). If you really
want a reproducible result from geqo, do 'set seed = 0' before planning
a query.
o allow configure to see include/port/win32 include files
o add matching Win32 accept() prototype
o allow pg_id to compile with native Win32 API
o fix invalide mbvalidate() function calls (existing bug)
o allow /scripts to compile with native Win32 API
o add win32.c to Win32 compiles (already in *.mak files)
max_connections at initdb time. Get rid of DEF_NBUFFERS and DEF_MAXBACKENDS
macros, which aren't doing anything useful anymore, and put more likely
defaults into postgresql.conf.sample.
gcc -pipe -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations
-I../../../src/include -c -o pg_id.o pg_id.c -MMD
pg_id.c: In function `main':
pg_id.c:35: warning: unused variable `optarg'
The attached trivial patch fixes the warning by removing the variable.
Neil Conway
getopt_long(). This is more or less the same problem as we saw earlier
with getaddrinfo() and struct addrinfo, and for the same reason: random
user-added libraries might contain the subroutine, but there's no
guarantee we will find the matching header files.
heuristic determination of day vs month in date/time input. Add the
ability to specify that input is interpreted as yy-mm-dd order (which
formerly worked, but only for yy greater than 31). DateStyle's input
component now has the preferred spellings DMY, MDY, or YMD; the older
keywords European and US are now aliases for the first two of these.
Per recent discussions on pgsql-general.
>>ISTM that "source" is worth knowing.
>
> Hm, possibly. Any other opinions?
This version has the seven fields I proposed, including "source". Here's
an example that shows why I think it's valuable:
regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name | enable_seqscan
setting | on
context | user
vartype | bool
source | default
min_val |
max_val |
regression=# update pg_settings set setting = 'off' where name =
'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]---
set_config | off
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source | session
min_val |
max_val |
regression=# alter user postgres set enable_seqscan to 'off';
ALTER USER
(log out and then back in again)
regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source | user
min_val |
max_val |
In the first case, enable_seqscan is set to its default value. After
setting it to off, it is obvious that the value has been changed for the
session only. In the third case, you can see that the value has been set
specifically for the user.
Joe Conway
annoyed me the other day while I was documenting my current project. It
makes pg_dump use the same layout for types as for tables, by putting "\n\t"
before the first field and "\n" before the final ");"
Can't really justify this too much except to say I had an itch and I
scratched it ;-)
Andrew Dunstan
psql4win32.patch - changes in the psql source code
psql-ref.patch - changes in the documentation psql-ref.sgml
(for new builtin variable WIN32_CONSOLE)
To apply them use "patch -p 1" in the root directory of the
postgres source directory.
These patches fix the following problems of psql on Win32
(all changes only have effect #ifdef WIN32):
a) Problem: Static library libpq.a did not work
Solution: Added WSAStartup() in fe-connect.c
b) Problem: Secret Password was echoed by psql
Solution: Password echoing disabled in sprompt.c
c) Problem: 8bit characters were displayed/interpreted wrong in psql
This is due to the fact that the Win32 "console" uses a
different encoding than the rest of the Windows system
Solution: Introduced a new psql variable WIN32_CONSOLE
When set with "\set WIN32_console", the function OemToChar()
is applied after reading input and CharToOem() before
displaying Output
Christoph Dalitz
print.c: Add one more line to pager calculation to account for the prompt.
help.c: Call PageOutput with correct number of lines within slashUsage
Add one to line count in helpSQL to account for "Available help:" line.
Make copyright match COPYRIGHT file. (Just "1994")
Greg Sabino Mullane
> thought that I would see if I could come up with a simple solution, and
> have my first delve into the code for PostgreSQL.
>
> Attached is a diff against 7.3.3 source, of changes to describe.c for
> psql. This should print out a list of parent tables in a similar style
> to that of the index listing. I have done some testing on my side and it
> all seems fine, can some other people have a quick look? What do people
> think? Useful?
Nick Barr
dropped columns. Fix by using LEFT JOIN rather than straight join
between pg_attribute and pg_type. Also, use pg_type.oid as input to
format_type, so that we don't get a failure on deleted types of deleted
columns (this may be a change we ought to backpatch to 7.3....).
Alias the appropriate columns back to their original name.
Fixed formatting of a few other places as I went along (indenting)
--
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
> > It seems that readline() on my system (FreeBSD 4.8) isn't declared to
> > take the prompt as a const. Thus, remove const from gets_interactive()
> > to remove the warning.
>
> I think it would be a lot cleaner to just put a cast to char * into the
> readline call (with a note about why).
Ok.. that works.
I must say it's a little strange being able to take a constant and say
its no longer constant anymore -- but I suppose it's no different than
defining then undefining pre-processor constants.
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
shared_buffers and max_connections values to use before we run the
bootstrap process. Without this, initdb would fail on platforms where
the hardwired default values are too large. (We could get around that
by making the hardwired defaults tiny, perhaps, but why slow down
bootstrap by starving it for buffers...)
and 100 respectively, if the platform will allow it. initdb selects
values that are not too large to allow the postmaster to start, and
places these values in the installed postgresql.conf file. This allows
us to continue to start up out-of-the-box on platforms with small SHMMAX,
while having somewhat-realistic default settings on platforms with
reasonable SHMMAX. Per recent pghackers discussion.
without needing a running backend. Reorder postgresql.conf.sample
to match new layout of runtime.sgml. This commit re-adds work lost
in Wednesday's crash.
client-side AUTOCOMMIT mode now: '\set AUTOCOMMIT off' supports
SQL-spec commit behavior. Get rid of LO_TRANSACTION hack --- the
LO operations just work now, using libpq's ability to track the
transaction status. Add a VERBOSE variable to control verboseness
of error message display, and add a %T prompt-string code to show
current transaction-block status. Superuser state display in the
prompt string correctly follows SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION commands.
Control-C works to get out of COPY IN state.
