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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
932a271956 Fix erroneous documentation of synchronous_commit = remote_write.
The docs claimed that this mode only waits for the standby to receive WAL
data, but actually it waits for the data to be written out to the standby's
OS; which is a pretty significant difference because it removes the risk of
crash of the walreceiver process.
2012-08-22 14:04:36 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
03af60c010 Fix typo. 2012-08-22 12:05:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
7dff5b8edd Document that pg_reload_conf() is also an easy way to reload the
configuration file.
2012-08-22 12:01:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
b748d8f280 Fix install-strip on Mac OS X
There was a hack put into install-sh to call strip with the correct
options on Mac OS X.  But that never worked, because configure
disabled stripping on that platform altogether.  So remove that dead
code, and while we're at it, update install-sh to the latest upstream
source (from Automake).

Instead, set up the right strip options in programs.m4, so this now
actually works the way it was originally intended.
2012-08-21 23:42:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
5c45d2f878 Mark DateTimeParseError() noreturn
This avoids a warning from clang 3.2 about an uninitialized variable
'dtype' in date_in().
2012-08-21 23:32:58 -04:00
Tom Lane
0830cc9fe0 Update 9.2 release notes to reflect commits to date.
I was unable to entirely resist the temptation to copy-edit related
entries, but will save most of that for a separate pass.
2012-08-21 22:56:45 -04:00
Tom Lane
10685ec082 Avoid somewhat-theoretical overflow risks in RecordIsValid().
This improves on commit 51fed14d73 by
eliminating the assumption that we can form <some pointer value> +
<some offset> without overflow.  The entire point of those tests is that
we don't trust the offset value, so coding them in a way that could wrap
around if the buffer happens to be near the top of memory doesn't seem
sound.  Instead, track the remaining space as a size_t variable and
compare offsets against that.

Also, improve comment about why we need the extra early check on
xl_tot_len.
2012-08-21 18:41:52 -04:00
Tom Lane
0f524ea0cf Fix dumping of security_barrier views with circular dependencies.
If a view has circular dependencies, pg_dump splits it into a CREATE TABLE
and a CREATE RULE command to break the dependency loop.  However, if the
view has reloptions, those options cannot be applied in the CREATE TABLE
command, because views and tables have different allowed reloptions so
CREATE TABLE would reject them.  Instead apply the reloptions after the
CREATE RULE, using ALTER VIEW SET.
2012-08-21 15:18:36 -04:00
Robert Haas
4b373e42d1 Improve C comments in GetSnapshotData.
Move discussion of why our algorithm for taking snapshots in recovery
to a more appropriate location in the function, and delete incorrect
mention of taking a lock.
2012-08-21 11:47:10 -04:00
Robert Haas
82ef3d3008 Add a note to the MVCC chapter that some things aren't transactional.
Craig Ringer, slightly edited by me.
2012-08-21 11:10:17 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
71450d7fd6 Teach compiler that ereport(>=ERROR) does not return
When elevel >= ERROR, we add an abort() call to the ereport() macro to
give the compiler a hint that the ereport() expansion will not return,
but the abort() isn't actually reached because the longjmp happens in
errfinish().

Because the effect of ereport() varies with the elevel, we cannot use
standard compiler attributes such as noreturn for this.
2012-08-21 00:03:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
ffdd5a0ee3 Remove external PID file on postmaster exit 2012-08-20 23:47:11 -04:00
Robert Haas
029722ac8e Improved tab completion for CLUSTER VERBOSE.
Jeff Janes
2012-08-20 16:45:44 -04:00
Robert Haas
68386fc15b Tab complete "TABLE whatever DROP CONSTRAINT" with a constraint name.
Jeff Janes
2012-08-20 16:30:08 -04:00
Tom Lane
b2a01b9ad1 Fix bugs in contrib/pg_trgm's LIKE pattern analysis code.
Extraction of trigrams did not process LIKE escape sequences properly,
leading to possible misidentification of trigrams near escapes, resulting
in incorrect index search results.

Fujii Masao
2012-08-20 13:25:42 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
51fed14d73 Don't get confused if a WAL partial record header has xl_tot_len == 0.
If a WAL record header was split across pages, but xl_tot_len was 0, we
would get confused and conclude that we had already read the whole record,
and proceed to CRC check it. That can lead to a crash in RecordIsValid(),
which isn't careful to not read beyond end-of-record, as defined by
xl_tot_len.

Add an explicit sanity check for xl_tot_len <= SizeOfXlogRecord. Also,
make RecordIsValid() more robust by checking in each step that it doesn't
try to access memory beyond end of record, even if a length field in the
record's or a backup block's header is bogus.

Per report and analysis by Tom Lane.
2012-08-20 19:58:21 +03:00
Tom Lane
9b2a237cee Fix typo in comment. 2012-08-19 22:56:17 -04:00
Tom Lane
a91f885f11 Remove obsolete comment. 2012-08-19 15:25:43 -04:00
Tom Lane
092d7ded29 Allow OLD and NEW in multi-row VALUES within rules.
Now that we have LATERAL, it's fairly painless to allow this case, which
was left as a TODO in the original multi-row VALUES implementation.
2012-08-19 14:12:16 -04:00
Tom Lane
c246eb5aaf Make use of LATERAL in information_schema.sequences view.
It said "XXX: The following could be improved if we had LATERAL" ...
so let's do that.

No catversion bump since either version of the view works fine.
2012-08-18 16:14:57 -04:00
Tom Lane
084a29c94f Another round of planner fixes for LATERAL.
Formerly, subquery pullup had no need to examine other entries in the range
table, since they could not contain any references to the subquery being
pulled up.  That's no longer true with LATERAL, so now we need to be able
to visit rangetable subexpressions to replace Vars referencing the
pulled-up subquery.  Also, this means that extract_lateral_references must
be unsurprised at encountering lateral PlaceHolderVars, since such might be
created when pulling up a subquery that's underneath an outer join with
respect to the lateral reference.
2012-08-18 14:10:17 -04:00
Tom Lane
18226849ea Copy-editing for recent window-functions documentation rewrite.
Fix grammar, put back some removed information, rearrange for clarity.
2012-08-17 15:40:35 -04:00
Tom Lane
470d0b9789 Check LIBXML_VERSION instead of testing in configure script.
We had put a test for libxml2's xmlStructuredErrorContext variable in
configure, but of course that doesn't work on Windows builds.  The next
best alternative seems to be to test the LIBXML_VERSION symbol provided
by xmlversion.h.

Per report from Talha Bin Rizwan, though this fixes it in a different way
than his proposed patch.
2012-08-17 00:05:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
305557984d Update 'int' protocol documentation mention to be "signed", per request
from Dmitriy Igrishin
2012-08-16 22:07:14 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
3325957656 Delete inaccurate C comment about FSM and adding pages, per Robert Haas. 2012-08-16 19:02:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
86d0d16f8a Add URL for include file visualization tool. 2012-08-16 18:52:08 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
1037f2f646 Document that tab completation can interfere with some SQL commands. 2012-08-16 18:41:38 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
c99016f1d0 Add warning about pg_ctl restart and the use of relative paths on the command-line. 2012-08-16 18:15:58 -04:00
Tom Lane
f5983923d8 Allow create_index_paths() to consider multiple join bitmapscan paths.
In the initial cut at the "parameterized paths" feature, I'd simplified
create_index_paths() to the point where it would only generate a single
parameterized bitmap path per relation.  Experimentation with an example
supplied by Josh Berkus convinces me that that's not good enough: we really
need to consider a bitmap path for each possible outer relation.  Otherwise
we have regressions relative to pre-9.2 versions, in which the planner
picks a plain indexscan where it should have used a bitmap scan in queries
involving three or more tables.  Indeed, after fixing this, several queries
in the regression tests show improved plans as a result of using bitmap not
plain indexscans.
2012-08-16 13:03:54 -04:00
Tom Lane
56ba337e6f Suppress possibly-uninitialized-variable warning. 2012-08-16 12:04:07 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
c04b9c1f3d Add possible alternate tool for pgrminclude, from Peter Geoghegan 2012-08-16 11:56:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
c6ce4c1322 In docs, clarify that, without ORDER BY, the window frame is all rows in
the partition.
2012-08-16 11:32:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
5c1b2f5daa Revert: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to
"unimportant".

Per request from Heikki
2012-08-16 11:26:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
d5816d11af Rewrite window function reference section to more clearly explain
keywords and concepts, based on suggestions by Florian Pflug.
2012-08-16 10:42:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
7c97f6a0cb In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant". 2012-08-16 10:36:43 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
317dd55a9c Add SP-GiST support for range types.
The implementation is a quad-tree, largely copied from the quad-tree
implementation for points. The lower and upper bound of ranges are the 2d
coordinates, with some extra code to handle empty ranges.

I left out the support for adjacent operator, -|-, from the original patch.
Not because there was necessarily anything wrong with it, but it was more
complicated than the other operators, and I only have limited time for
reviewing. That will follow as a separate patch.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Jeff Davis and me.
2012-08-16 14:30:45 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas
89911b3ab8 Fix GiST buffering build bug, which caused "failed to re-find parent" errors.
We use a hash table to track the parents of inner pages, but when inserting
to a leaf page, the caller of gistbufferinginserttuples() must pass a
correct block number of the leaf's parent page. Before gistProcessItup()
descends to a child page, it checks if the downlink needs to be adjusted to
accommodate the new tuple, and updates the downlink if necessary. However,
updating the downlink might require splitting the page, which might move the
downlink to a page to the right. gistProcessItup() doesn't realize that, so
when it descends to the leaf page, it might pass an out-of-date parent block
number as a result. Fix that by returning the block a tuple was inserted to
from gistbufferinginserttuples().

This fixes the bug reported by Zdeněk Jílovec.
2012-08-16 12:56:24 +03:00
Bruce Momjian
de3773d951 Fix SGML markup; missing tag. 2012-08-15 23:57:19 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
077908aed7 Document that PGDATA has to point to the configuration files, rather
than the actual data storage directory.

Per suggestion from Thom Brown
2012-08-15 22:59:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
6ff55ebe3d Document that pg_ctl -w allows for the entry of an SSL passphase on
startup.

Per report from Thom Brown
2012-08-15 20:52:12 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
16d508ccbc Add CREATE FOREIGN TABLE doc reference to CREATE SERVER.
Per suggestion from Ray Stell
2012-08-15 20:38:01 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
0729271adf Properly document that NEW is unassigned in plpgsql for DELETE (not
NULL), and OLD is unassigned for INSERT, and NEW/OLD are unassigned (not
NULL) for statement-level triggers.

Per report from Pavel Stehule
2012-08-15 20:29:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
d55f1b852d Add C comment about new \c parameter requirement for crashed connections. 2012-08-15 19:17:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
41fa3dfb0a Update C comment to NOTICE to reflect previous commit changing the error
level, per report from Tom.
2012-08-15 19:09:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
fe21fcaf8d In psql, if the is no connection object, e.g. due to a server crash,
require all parameters for \c, rather than using the defaults, which
might be wrong.
2012-08-15 19:05:05 -04:00
Tom Lane
4c5316931f Fix rescan logic in nodeCtescan.
The previous coding essentially assumed that nodes would be rescanned in
the same order they were initialized in; or at least that the "leader" of
a group of CTEscans would be rescanned before any others were required to
execute.  Unfortunately, that isn't even a little bit true.  It's possible
to devise queries in which the leader isn't rescanned until other CTEscans
on the same CTE have run to completion, or even in which the leader never
gets a rescan call at all.

The fix makes the leader specially responsible only for initial creation
and final destruction of the tuplestore; rescan resets are now a
symmetrically shared responsibility.  This means that we might reset the
tuplestore multiple times when restarting a plan subtree containing
multiple CTEscans; but resetting an already-empty tuplestore is cheap
enough that that doesn't seem like a problem.

Per report from Adam Mackler; the new regression test cases are based on
his example query.

Back-patch to 8.4 where CTE scans were introduced.
2012-08-15 19:02:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
083b9133aa On second thought, explain why date_trunc("week") on interval values is
not supported in the error message, rather than the docs.
2012-08-15 16:48:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
74f4881d7c Document why you can't use date_trunc("week") on intervals. 2012-08-15 16:03:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
1d9a6ae855 Add C comment that '=' is not documented for plpgsql assignment. 2012-08-15 12:00:56 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
fc5f20057f Document that foreign "version" and "type" values are only useful to
certain foreign data wrappers.
2012-08-15 11:47:02 -04:00