and history files as per recent discussion. While at it, remove
pg_terminate_backend, since we have decided we do not have time during
this release cycle to address the reliability concerns it creates.
Split the 'Miscellaneous Functions' documentation section into
'System Information Functions' and 'System Administration Functions',
which hopefully will draw the eyes of those looking for such things.
mode (per complaint from Kris Jurka) and it was only by chance that it
didn't fail in simple-query mode. A COMMIT or ROLLBACK has to be
executed by a portal, therefore it's wrong to suppose that there aren't
any live portals at CleanupTransaction time.
error code for string-too-long errors. It should be STRING_DATA_RIGHT_TRUNCATION
not STRING_DATA_LENGTH_MISMATCH. The latter probably should only be
applied to cases where a string must be exactly so many bits --- there are
no cases at all where it applies to character strings, only bit strings.
executed. Previously, the DECLARE would succeed but subsequent FETCHes
would fail since the parameter values supplied to DECLARE were not
propagated to the portal created for the cursor.
In support of this, add type Oids to ParamListInfo entries, which seems
like a good idea anyway since code that extracts a value can double-check
that it got the type of value it was expecting.
Oliver Jowett, with minor editorialization by Tom Lane.
to the old owner with the new owner. This is not necessarily right, but
it's sure a lot more likely to be what the user wants than doing nothing.
Christopher Kings-Lynne, some rework by Tom Lane.
number of active subtransaction XIDs in each backend's PGPROC entry,
and use this to avoid expensive probes into pg_subtrans during
TransactionIdIsInProgress. Extend EOXactCallback API to allow add-on
modules to get control at subxact start/end. (This is deliberately
not compatible with the former API, since any uses of that API probably
need manual review anyway.) Add basic reference documentation for
SAVEPOINT and related commands. Minor other cleanups to check off some
of the open issues for subtransactions.
Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
>takes a string to specify the local authentication method:
>
> initdb --auth 'ident'
>
>or whatever the user wants. I think this is more flexible and more
>compact. It would default to 'trust', and the packagers could
>set it to
>whatever they want. If their OS supports local ident, they can use
>that.
>
>Also keep in mind you might want some ident map file:
>
> initdb --auth 'ident mymap'
>
>so you would need to allow multiple words in the string.
Magnus Hagander
more nearly Oracle-equivalent. Allow matching by category as well as
specific error code. Document the set of available condition names
(or more accurately, synchronize it with the existing documentation). In
passing, update errcodes.sgml to include codes added during 7.5 development.
Create a shared function to convert a SPI error code into a string
(replacing near-duplicate code in several PLs), and use it anywhere
that a SPI function call error is reported.
machines, break tie scores by preferring shorter zone names over longer;
for names of equal length, prefer the alphabetically first name. This
yields for example 'EST5EDT' not 'America/New_York' for US eastern time.
On Windows, abandon the whole concept of inspecting the detailed behavior
of the system TZ library, because it doesn't bear inspection :-(. Instead
use a hardwired mapping table to select our zone name based on the
result of strftime %Z output. Windows code from Magnus Hagander.
There are still some things that need refinement; in particular I fear
that the recognized set of error condition names probably has little in
common with what Oracle recognizes. But it's a start.
>you will see changes for pg_config_paths.h and for thread safety. Can
>you look at those changes, merge them into bcc.mak. There might be
>other changes in there you want to add to bcc.mak too.
>
>
>
OK, having no M$ diff, I attach files src\interfaces\libpq\bcc32.mak and
src\interfaces\libpq\win32.h
Steve Holdoway
possible to trap an error inside a function rather than letting it
propagate out to PostgresMain. You still have to use AbortCurrentTransaction
to clean up, but at least the error handling itself will cooperate.
password/group files. Also allow read-only subtransactions of a read-write
parent, but not vice versa. These are the reasonably noncontroversial
parts of Alvaro's recent mop-up patch, plus further work on large objects
to minimize use of the TopTransactionResourceOwner.
SAVEPOINT/RELEASE/ROLLBACK-TO syntax. (Alvaro)
Cause COMMIT of a failed transaction to report ROLLBACK instead of
COMMIT in its command tag. (Tom)
Fix a few loose ends in the nested-transactions stuff.
live backends, the archiver and stats processes never got sent a
kill signal. They'd eventually exit on their own, but not for awhile,
which is a bit annoying when you are trying to replace the executable
file on a platform that doesn't allow removal of busy executables.
Also, tweak main loop logic so that we will perform the background
tasks after select() returns EINTR.
recovery_target_timeline --- otherwise there is no path from the backup
to the requested timeline. This check was foreseen in the original
discussion but I forgot to implement it.
recovered from archive is not corrupt. It's not much but it will catch
one common problem, viz out-of-disk-space.
Also, force a WAL recovery scan when recovery.conf is present, even if
pg_control shows a clean shutdown. This allows recovery with a tar backup
that was taken with the postmaster shut down, as per complaint from
Mark Kirkwood.
timezone database for the system behavior we find ourselves in. Scan
backwards from current time and choose the zone that matches furthest
back. As per discussion a week or so back.
recovery more manageable. Also, undo recent change to add FILE_HEADER
and WASTED_SPACE records to XLOG; instead make the XLOG page header
variable-size with extra fields in the first page of an XLOG file.
This should fix the boundary-case bugs observed by Mark Kirkwood.
initdb forced due to change of XLOG representation.
* Fix help text ordering
* Add back --set-session-authorization to pg_dumpall. Updated the docs
for that. Updated help for that.
* Dump ALTER USER commands for the cluster owner ("pgsql"). These are
dumped AFTER the create user and create database commands in case the
permissions to do these have been revoked.
* Dump ALTER OWNER for public schema (because it's possible to change
it). This was done by adding TOC entries for the public schema, and
filtering them out at archiver time. I also save the owner in the TOC
entry just for the public schema.
* Suppress dumping single quotes around schema_path and DateStyle
options when they are set using ALTER USER or ALTER DATABASE. Added a
comment to the steps in guc.c to remind people to update that list.
* Fix dumping in --clean mode against a pre-7.3 server. It just sets
all drop statements to assume the public schema, allowing it to restore
without error.
* Cleaned up text output. eg. Don't output -- Tablespaces comment if
there are none. Same for groups and users.
* Make the commands to DELETE FROM pg_shadow and DELETE FROM pg_group
only be output when -c mode is enabled. I'm not sure why that hasn't
been done before?!?!
This should be good for application asap, after which I will start on
regression dumping 7.0-7.4 databases.
Christopher Kings-Lynne
force relcache rebuild for the other table as well as the column's
own table. Otherwise, already-cached foreign key triggers will stop
working. Per example from Alexander Pravking.
keep track of portal-related resources separately from transaction-related
resources. This allows cursors to work in a somewhat sane fashion with
nested transactions. For now, cursor behavior is non-subtransactional,
that is a cursor's state does not roll back if you abort a subtransaction
that fetched from the cursor. We might want to change that later.
* perl_useshrplib gets set to "yes" and not to "true". I assume it's set
to "true" on unix, so I left both.
* Need to translate backslashes into slashes
* The linker config coming out of perl was for MSVC and not for mingw
Magnus Hagander
> ---skiped---
> -P user name of account to register PostgreSQL server
> -U password of account to register PostgreSQL server
> ---skiped---
>
> I think that isn't right ;)
Claudio Natoli
AUTHORIZATION commands by default. Move all GRANT and REVOKE commands
to the end of the dump to avoid restore failures in several situations.
Bring back --use-set-session-authorization option to get previous SET
behaviour
Christopher Kings-Lyne
(.dylib format) on Mac OS X, while not messing up loadable modules for
the backend (which are the same kind of animal as a shared library on
every other platform, but not here). Also get the naming convention
to match OS X practice, viz libFOO.version.so not libFOO.so.version.
In support of that last, refactor code in Makefile.shlib to make it
easier to have platform-specific shlib naming conventions.
This patch is loosely based on the Fink project's current postgresql.patch.
Tested by yours truly on OS X 10.3.4; does anyone have 10.2.* to check
it on?
currently unapplied regarding spi_internal.c, makes some additional
fixes relating to return types, and also contains the fix for
preventing the use of insecure versions of Safe.pm.
There is one remaing return case that does not appear to work, namely
return of a composite directly in a select, i.e. if foo returns some
composite type, 'select * from foo()' works but 'select foo()' doesn't.
We will either fix that or document it as a limitation.
The function plperl_func_handler is a mess - I will try to get it
cleaned up (and split up) in a subsequent patch, time permitting.
Also, reiterating previous advice - this changes slightly the API for
spi_exec_query - the returned object has either 2 or 3 members: 'status'
(string) and 'proceesed' (int,- number of rows) and, if rows are
returned, 'rows' (array of tuple hashes).
Andrew Dunstan
> user must initialize the lock. The problem are concurrent "first" users
> - the pthread_mutex_t initialization must be synchronized.
> The current implementation is broken, the attached patches fixes that:
> mutex_initlock is a spinlock. If the pthread_mutex_t mutex is not
> initialized, then the spinlock is acquired, if the pthread_mutex_t is
> initialized if it's not yet initialized and then the spinlock is dropped.
Manfred Spraul
user must initialize the lock. The problem are concurrent "first" users
- the pthread_mutex_t initialization must be synchronized.
The current implementation is broken, the attached patches fixes that:
mutex_initlock is a spinlock. If the pthread_mutex_t mutex is not
initialized, then the spinlock is acquired, if the pthread_mutex_t is
initialized if it's not yet initialized and then the spinlock is
dropped.
Manfred Spraul
live in database or schema's default tablespace, as per today's discussion.
Also, remove some unused keywords from the grammar (PATH, PENDANT,
VERSION), and fix ALSO, which was added as a keyword but not added
to the keyword classification lists, thus making it worse-than-reserved.
probably should have been to begin with; this is to cover cases like
needing to recreate the per-db directory during WAL replay.
Also, fix heap_create to force pg_class.reltablespace to be zero instead
of the database's default tablespace; this makes the world safe for
CREATE DATABASE to handle all tables in the default tablespace alike,
as per previous discussion. And force pg_class.reltablespace to zero
when creating a relation without physical storage (eg, a view); this
avoids possibly having dangling references in this column after a
subsequent DROP TABLESPACE.
shift support code into heapam.c accordingly. This is in service of
soon-to-be-committed ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE code that will want to
use this same record type for both heaps and indexes.
Theoretically I should have forced initdb for this, but in practice there
is no change in xlog contents because CVS tip will never really emit this
record type anyhow...
than 'datetime BC zone', because the former is accepted by the timestamptz
input converter while the latter may not be depending on spacing. This
is not a loss of compatibility w.r.t. 7.4 and before, because until very
recently there was never a case where we'd output both zone and 'BC'.
accurate matching of our time zone to the system's zone. This method is
able to distinguish Antarctica/Casey from Australia/Perth, as in Chris
K-L's recent example; and it is not materially slower than before, because
the extra checks generally don't get done against very many time zones.
It seems possible that with this test we'd be able to correctly identify
Windows timezones without looking at the timezone name, but I do not
have the ability to try it.
Also a quick but half-baked attempt to make trim_trailing_separator
do the right thing with path consisting only of '/' --- still needs
work for Windows I think.
This is required by SQL spec to avoid failures in cases like
SELECT sum(win)/sum(lose) FROM ... GROUP BY ... HAVING sum(lose) > 0;
AFAICT we have gotten this wrong since day one. Kudos to Holger Jakobs
for being the first to notice.
FOR loops are giving weird syntax errors. Restructure parsing of FOR
loops so that the integer-loop-vs-query-loop decision is driven off
the presence of '..' between IN and LOOP, rather than the presence
of a matching record/row variable name. Hopefully this will make the
behavior a bit more transparent.
better SQL compliance in this area, per recent discussion. Mark related
operators as commutators where possible. (The system doesn't actually care
about commutator marking for operators not returning boolean, at the moment,
but this seems forward-thinking and besides it made it easier to verify
that we hadn't missed any.)
Also, remove interval-minus-time and interval-minus-timetz operators.
I'm not sure how these got in, but they are nonstandard and had very
obviously broken behavior. (minus is not commutative in anyone's book.)
I doubt anyone had ever used 'em, because we'd surely have gotten a bug
report about it if so.
From an idea of Bruce, the attached patch implements the function
pg_tablespace_databases(oid) RETURNS SETOF oid
which delivers as set of database oids having objects in the selected
tablespace, enabling an admin to examine only the databases affecting
the tablespace for objects instead of scanning all of them.
initdb forced
for cleaning up. It seems possible that the memory contexts SPI_finish
would try to touch are already gone; and there's no need for SPI itself
to delete them, since the containing contexts will surely be going away
anyway at transaction end.
plperlNG. Review and minor cleanup/improvements by Joe Conway.
Summary of new functionality:
- Shared data space and namespace. There is a new global variable %_SHARED
that functions can use to store and save data between invocations of a
function, or between different functions. Also, all trusted plperl function
now share a common Safe container (this is an optimization, also), which
they can use for storing non-lexical variables, functions, etc.
- Triggers are now supported
- Records can now be returned (as a hash reference)
- Sets of records can now be returned (as a reference to an array of hash
references).
- New function spi_exec_query() provided for performing db functions or
getting data from db.
- Optimization for counting hash keys (Abhijit Menon-Sen)
- Allow return of 'record' and 'setof record'
performance front, but with feature freeze upon us I think it's time to
drive a stake in the ground and say that this will be in 7.5.
Alvaro Herrera, with some help from Tom Lane.
Note that this still has some bugs. The functionality is there though, it's just a matter of fixing the bugs now.
Cleaned up error handling in preprocessor.
only because 14627 still contained the same node that BitWithoutLength had
just produced. Make it more transparent. Also adjust ConstCharacter
to be coded the same way for consistency.
- Variables that are out of scope, were not removed all the time.
- Make a varchar NULL set everything to 0 when not using indicators.
- Synced parser.
specified in just one place and adhered to exactly, rather than just more
or less. A side effect is to increase PGSTAT_ACTIVITY_SIZE (maximum
reported query length) from 256 to nearly 1000.
