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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane b7fe5f70d3 Fix CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES to not cause unwanted
tablespace permissions failures when copying an index that is in the
database's default tablespace.  A side-effect of the change is that explicitly
specifying the default tablespace no longer triggers a permissions check;
this is not how it was done in pre-8.3 releases but is argued to be more
consistent.  Per bug #3921 from Andrew Gilligan.  (Note: I argued in the
subsequent discussion that maybe LIKE shouldn't copy index tablespaces
at all, but since no one indicated agreement with that idea, I've refrained
from doing it.)
2008-02-07 17:09:51 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 26351d1c74 Fix msvc install script to properly install NLS files when built with
gettext.
2008-02-07 13:49:00 +00:00
Michael Meskes fa0dc92fd8 - Fixed segfault in ecpg when using an array element.
- Free all memory in auto-prepare mode.
2008-02-07 11:09:13 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 8d363727f4 Fix very broken clean.bat for msvc install. The way we used subroutines
in .bat simply did not work, and it called them in the wrong order,
some several times, and some not at all. So this unrolls all subroutine
calls.

This should fix the issues with clean deleting the wrong files reported
by Dave Page.

While at it, add the "clean dist" option to act like "make distclean",
and no longer remove the flex/bison output files by default. This shuold
fix the problem reported by Pavel Golub in bug #3909.
2008-02-06 15:13:25 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 03e4dc9ef2 Handle libraries in directories with spaces in them.
Gevik Babakhani
2008-02-05 14:17:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 701cd5af45 Fix mistaken duplicate reference to max_fsm_pages, per bug #3926.
Also make links clickable.
2008-02-03 16:24:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 09bcb24806 Minor wordsmithing in release notes' description of asynchronous commit. 2008-02-02 23:30:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 19c40492f0 Move example of turning off synchronous_commit to a more logical place,
to wit in the description of that variable rather than some other one.
2008-02-02 23:29:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f906905b1 Fix WaitOnLock() to ensure that the process's "waiting" flag is reset after
erroring out of a wait.  We can use a PG_TRY block for this, but add a comment
explaining why it'd be a bad idea to use it for any other state cleanup.

Back-patch to 8.2.  Prior releases had the same issue, but only with respect
to the process title, which is likely to get reset almost immediately anyway
after the transaction aborts, so it seems not worth changing them.  In 8.2
and HEAD, the pg_stat_activity "waiting" flag could remain set incorrectly
for a long time.

Per report from Gurjeet Singh.
2008-02-02 22:26:17 +00:00
Marc G. Fournier 9e647a1387 configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59 2008-02-01 04:16:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian aad140b7ff Stamp 8.3 in CVS. _No_ update of configure/configure.in. 2008-02-01 02:59:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1ac09940db Update FAQ for most recent release as 8.3. 2008-02-01 02:55:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ea3db8f79d Update item:
< * Improve deadlock detection when deleting items from shared buffers
> * Improve deadlock detection when a page cleaning lock conflicts
>   with a shared buffer that is pinned
2008-02-01 02:41:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b07e548590 Fix spelling typo in comment. 2008-01-31 23:31:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 694403d30e Add comment about possible URL changes for www7.hp.com:
<!-- If this URL chnages replace it with a URL to www.archive.org. -->
2008-01-31 23:30:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 162dc31428 Update spoofing /tmp symlink instructions to be more specific about the
name of the needed symlink file.
2008-01-31 23:03:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 06462f51e3 Mention synchronize_seqscans GUC variable in release notes.
Update expected release date.
2008-01-31 21:31:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 73d9544e27 Remove the old table of "supported platforms" in favor of a link to the
buildfarm plus a narrative description of the CPU types and operating systems
on which Postgres is likely to work.  Now that we've almost completely
decoupled CPU and OS considerations, the former tabular style isn't all that
enlightening anyway.  Perhaps more importantly, no one seems particularly
interested in maintaining the table by hand when we have the buildfarm.
2008-01-31 20:29:30 +00:00
Tom Lane cf82aee7ea Fix pg_GSS_error to use conn->errorMessage more sanely, ie, actually
work with the PQExpBuffer code instead of fighting it.  This avoids an
unnecessary limit on message length and fixes the latent bug that
errorMessage.len wasn't getting set.
2008-01-31 18:58:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 7c15b10a9a Improve pg_autovacuum documentation to clarify that the enabled field cannot
prevent anti-wraparound vacuuming, and to caution against setting unreasonably
small values of freeze_max_age.  Also put in a notice that this catalog is
likely to disappear entirely in some future release.  Per discussion of
bug #3898 from Steven Flatt.
2008-01-31 18:40:02 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3c9ae7300d Translation updates 2008-01-31 18:04:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8e9c7fe982 Document the idea of creating a symbolic link in /tmp to prevent server
spoofing when the socket file has been moved.
2008-01-31 17:22:43 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 7ae43187ee Remove 3 hex digit limit on symbol number in recent fix. 2008-01-31 16:30:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 55986a5eb8 Add:
> * Improve deadlock detection when deleting items from shared buffers
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00138.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00873.php
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2008-01/msg00365.php
2008-01-31 15:05:09 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 0ace923ce8 Add pid to the pgident event name on win32.
Should fix a problem where two clusters are running under
two different service accounts and get colliding names,
causing only the first cluster to contain the pgident
event description.

Per report from Stephen Denne.
2008-01-31 09:21:17 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 0a4ef62bf8 Fix test that wrongly excluded some dumpbin symbols.
Keep the intermediate symbol file rather then blowing it away, for easier debugging.
2008-01-31 03:26:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 0688d84041 Add checks to TRUNCATE, CLUSTER, and REINDEX to prevent performing these
operations when the current transaction has any open references to the
target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation).
The need for this was previously recognized in connection with ALTER TABLE,
but anything that summarily eliminates tuples or moves them around would
confuse an active scan.

While this patch does not in itself fix bug #3883 (the deadlock would happen
before the new check fires), it will discourage people from attempting the
sequence of operations that creates a deadlock risk, so it's at least a
partial response to that problem.

In passing, add a previously-missing check to REINDEX to prevent trying to
reindex another backend's temp table.  This isn't a security problem since
only a superuser would get past the schema permission checks, but if we are
testing for this in other utility commands then surely REINDEX should too.
2008-01-30 19:46:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 47df4f6688 Add a GUC variable "synchronize_seqscans" to allow clients to disable the new
synchronized-scanning behavior, and make pg_dump disable sync scans so that
it will reliably preserve row ordering.  Per recent discussions.
2008-01-30 18:35:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6dfa40d69f Translation updates 2008-01-30 11:05:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut f73f18f92c Improve table reference 2008-01-30 10:49:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut c7640c3298 Update key words table for 8.3 2008-01-30 10:37:36 +00:00
Tom Lane b58d8c9a53 Don't putenv() a string that is allocated in a context that will go away
soon.  I suspect this explains bug #3902, though I'm still not able to
reproduce that.
2008-01-30 04:11:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 65b39ec347 Update wording:
< * Add anonymous transactions
> * Add autonomous transactions
2008-01-29 16:13:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1567133511 Add item:
> * Add anonymous transactions
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00893.php
>
2008-01-29 16:11:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 522f362975 Remove duplicat item:
< 	  o Allow the PITR process to be debugged and data examined
2008-01-29 16:09:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a38fae6c75 markup correct
from Gevik Babakhani
2008-01-29 13:03:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 5037ed834d Fix up closePGconn() so that PQreset() will work on GSSAPI/SSPI connections;
the patch for those features put its cleanup code into freePGconn() which is
really the wrong place.  Remove redundant code from freePGconn() and add
comments in hopes of preventing similar mistakes in future.
Noticed while trying (futilely) to reproduce bug #3902.
2008-01-29 02:06:30 +00:00
Tom Lane fad2b99523 Arrange to ignore SIGPIPE during SSL_read() and SSL_shutdown(), as these
are known to write on the socket sometimes and thus we are vulnerable to
being killed by the signal if the server happens to go away unexpectedly.
Noticed while trying (futilely) to reproduce bug #3902.

This bug has been there all along, but since the situation is usually
only of interest to developers, I chose not to back-patch the changes.
2008-01-29 02:03:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian cf9990c66e Add "Communication Method" row to HA feature matrix documentation. 2008-01-28 18:43:55 +00:00
Tom Lane b5518c8e88 Minor editorial improvements in documentation of session_replication_role;
in particular correct the obsolete claim that it can't be changed once
any plans have been cached.
2008-01-27 19:12:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 6322e84430 Change StatementCancelHandler() to check the DoingCommandRead flag to decide
whether to execute an immediate interrupt, rather than testing whether
LockWaitCancel() cancelled a lock wait.  The old way misclassified the case
where we were blocked in ProcWaitForSignal(), and arguably would misclassify
any other future additions of new ImmediateInterruptOK states too.  This
allows reverting the old kluge that gave LockWaitCancel() a return value,
since no callers care anymore.  Improve comments in the various
implementations of PGSemaphoreLock() to explain that on some platforms, the
assumption that semop() exits after a signal is wrong, and so we must ensure
that the signal handler itself throws elog if we want cancel or die interrupts
to be effective.  Per testing related to bug #3883, though this patch doesn't
solve those problems fully.

Perhaps this change should be back-patched, but since pre-8.3 branches aren't
really relying on autovacuum to respond to SIGINT, it doesn't seem critical
for them.
2008-01-26 19:55:08 +00:00
Tom Lane ace1b29b04 Fix two different copy-and-paste-os in CSV log rotation logic; one that led to
a double-pfree crash and another that effectively disabled size-based rotation
for CSV logs.  Also suppress a memory leak and make some trivial cosmetic
improvements.  Per bug #3901 from Chris Hoover and additional code-reading.
2008-01-25 20:42:10 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan a794b99a31 Fix example of de-escaping bytea argument, per Florian Weimer. Also fix example
of escaping bytea return value. Both cases did not handle backslash values properly.
2008-01-25 15:28:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 353a1cca9f Release any detoasted copies of arrays that are made temporarily in
ri_FetchConstraintInfo, to avoid a query-duration memory leak when that
routine is called by RI_FKey_keyequal_upd_fk (which isn't executed in a
short-lived context).  This problem was latent when the routine was added
in February, but it didn't become serious until the varvarlena patch made
it quite likely that the fields being examined would be "toasted" (ie, have
short headers).  Per report from Stephen Denne.
2008-01-25 04:46:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 79a323ab49 Change /contrib to contrib for consistency. 2008-01-24 06:23:33 +00:00
Tom Lane b9ff7443e6 Prevent integer overflow within the integer-datetimes version of
TimestampTzPlusMilliseconds.  An integer argument of more than INT_MAX/1000
milliseconds (ie, about 35 minutes) would provoke a wrong result, resulting
in incorrect enforcement of statement_timestamp values larger than that.
Bug was introduced in my rewrite of 2006-06-20, which fixed some other
overflow risks, but missed this one :-(  Per report from Elein.
2008-01-23 21:26:13 +00:00
Tom Lane 1570d0467a Provide a concrete example of parameter expansion in archive_command.
Per discussion of bug #3877.  Simon Riggs, some fixes by moi.
2008-01-23 20:21:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 216e63bbce Avoid mathematical inconsistency in example about avoiding division by
zero with a CASE expression.  Per gripe from Russell Smith.
2008-01-23 19:51:29 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 8984c8bbe2 Improve lock level choices in pg_shdepend.c. Noticed by Tom Lane. 2008-01-23 15:36:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 6a7a63d3a3 Reference pgAdmin as a typical client-side tool, rather than the
no-longer-maintained PgAccess.  Per Erik Rijkers.
2008-01-23 02:04:47 +00:00