Hi -- a couple of small items concerning the January 23rd snapshot:
the inclusion of the Kerberos stuff in one Makefile, a "leading tab"
cleanup in another, and a fix for a typo in the configure script.
This is a patch to fix crashes in psql when executing queries from
an external file. The code also adds error checking to verify that
memory for "query" was allocated. The conditional for the block of
code was changed from "query == NULL" to "query_alloced == false".
The conditional, "query == NULL", was never true. This prevented
the memory being allocated for "query". A few lines later, an attempt
to write to an un-allocated memory area generated a SIGSEGV causing
the frontend to crash.
varchar length.
Cleans up code so attlen is always length.
Removed varchar() hack added earlier.
Will fix bug in selecting varchar() fields, and varchar() can be
variable length.
o A new patch that contains the following changes:
-- The pg_pwd file is now cached in the postmaster's memory.
-- pg_pwd is reloaded when the postmaster detects a flag file creat()'ed
by a backend.
-- qsort() is used to sort loaded password entries, and bsearch() is
is used to find entries in the pg_pwd cache.
-- backends now copy the pg_user relation to pg_pwd.pid, and then
rename the temp file to be pg_pwd.
-- The delimiter for pg_pwd has been changed to a tab character.
src. It is in the function ParseACL. When I find that I
can not allocate enough memory for the ACL structure I
return an NULL instead of doing an exit_nicely(g_conn);
From: Matthew C Aycock <maycock@scuba.pcpipeline.com>
Clean up formatting of code
Integrate new functions into dumpTable
This is not tested yet...have to recompile server due to patches from
Todd...but this compiles cleanly as it stands now
Subject: [PATCHES] sequences display in psql
Well, I am away at Progress training (not Postgres!!) and desided to do
this patch during a break. This will allow listing of sequences in
addition to listing of tables and indicies:
\d would should indicies, tables, and sequences
\ds would show sequences only.
Subject: [PATCHES] psql and large objects fix
Psql was broken by using "Inv[0-9]+" instead of "xin[xv][0-9]+" to not
show large object files. Been this way for a long time too. Relic of
an older naming convention, perhaps?
Subject: [PATCHES] More psql and libpq patches
Well..these would be the last patches until the release (I hope)...
I ran the regression tests while watching psql under purify, and it did
not leak even one byte.
In this patch:
* Plugged a major leak when PSQL reads files for input (either through
\i options or through -f option)
* Fixed the one remaining leak in PSQL in not clearing PGresult *results
everywhere it is supposed to. (Thanks Tymm)
* Fixed A small leak in PSQL not clearing all the PGsettings correctly.
* A not-so-obvious (but small) leak in Libpq when PQsetdb fails for any
reason.
* Added \n to some Libpq error messages to make them easier to digest..
* Finally, added /* PURIFY */ comment to some of the code indicating
the reason for why it was added/changed...for future developers.
psql.c: In function `HandleSlashCmds':
psql.c:1141: warning: `optarg3' might be used uninitialized in this function
psql.c:1157: warning: `optarg3' might be used uninitialized in this function
-> char *optarg3 = NULL;
Subject: [PATCHES] patch for a memory leak
Well...I screwed up and posted the wrong patch for psql originally..
The patch for that patch wposted below will fix it..
Subject: [PATCHES] Another destroydb patch
This is a patch to my previous destroydb patch cause some people wanted
slightly different behavior. After this patch is applied, destroydb
will destroy a database as usual, but if added -i flag (which could be
aliased like rm -i) would ask for confirmation.
Subject: [PATCHES] pg_dump memory leak patch
This patch fixes a HUGE memory leak problem in pg_dump.
Pretty much anything that was allocated was never freed and Purify
reported about 40% possible memory leak and 6% actual leak. I added
functions to clear out all the allocated structures. After the patch
Purify returns 0 for number of bytes leaked...
Subject: [PATCHES] psql - \dt,\di commands.
I sent this a couple of months ago in re a request by Maxim
Kozin, but I had the patch reversed, creating some confusion
over applying it.
Here's a more complete version.
Adds \dt to list only tables/views and \di to list only
indicies. \d will still work as before.
Subject: [PATCHES] destroydb patch
I am including a patch for destroydb to ask for confirmation before
deleting databases (after I accidentally deleted mine)...destroydb -y
would force delete without any confirmation.
Subject: [PATCHES] memory leak patches in libpq and psql
A couple of small memory leak patches (detected with Purify) primarily
in libpq.
* Fixed (NULL) border problem in psql (run psql, do \m, then select
something from a table...row separators will be nulls)
* Fixed memory leak with the abovementioned border not being freed
properly.
* Fixed memory leak in freePGconn() not freeing conn->port
* Fixed up PQclear() to free parts of PGresult only if these
parts are not null.
* Fixed a decent memory leak that occured after executing every command
in psql. PGresult *results was not freed most of the time.
There is still a leak being detected (2 bytes) in readline functions, but
I think this is old readline library. I will install new one and test it.
Subject: [PATCHES] Three small patches.
Hi,
Here are 3 small patches to the postgreSQL source sup'd on
the 6th May 1997.
The 1st 2 fix the shell backslash "c" handling used to suppress
the newline on some unix shells. (The \c needs to be inside quote.)
The 3rd may or may not be the correct way to fix the missing
define of INDEX_MAX_KEYS in pg_dump.h
FreeBSD
The Makefile(s) have all been cleaned up such that there is a single
LDFLAGS vs LD_ADD or LDADD or LDFLAGS or LDFLAGS_BE. The Makefile(s)
should be alot more straightforward then they were before...and
consistent
Subject: [HACKERS] password authentication
This patch adds support for plaintext password authentication. To use
it, you add a line like
host all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 password pg_pwd.conf
to your pg_hba.conf, where 'pg_pwd.conf' is the name of a file containing
the usernames and password hashes in the format of the first two fields
of a Unix /etc/passwd file. (Of course, you can use a specific database
name or IP instead.)
Then, to connect with a password through libpq, you use the PQconnectdb()
function, specifying the "password=" tag in the connect string and also
adding the tag "authtype=password".
I also added a command-line switch '-u' to psql that tells it to prompt
for a username and password and use password authentication.
${DATADIR}. The file is left as pg_geqo.sample, since, unlike
pg_hba.conf, it isn't a required file...but this way ppl know that
its there, and that its where it is required, if they choose to
use it
Add a check to configure for strdup
Remove all the '-ltermcap' checks from psql/Makefile
Have {psql,pg_dump}/Makefile modified if strdup doesn't exist on the system
|by neglecting to quote them.
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|I have made a minor change to pg_dump.c that will fix this.
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|Dates are dumped and restored OK with pg_dump in V6
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|We'll still need to fix the dump in both cases if the original dump is from V1.09.
From Keith Parks
be #ifdef'd into psql.c itself
From what I can tell, if USE_READLINE is true or false, psql works under
FreeBSD, without configure. Now to test it *again* under sparc_solaris
with configure and see if it works...
Marc G. Fournier
Bruce Momjian
Vadim B. Mikheev
Thomas G. Lockhart