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Bruce Momjian 2a49282477 Update release notes from community comments. 2005-08-23 11:32:33 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f9989dae88 Update release notes for 8.1. 2005-08-23 02:57:07 +00:00
Tom Lane 5f8b22c20d Fix wrong dependency on owner created by ALTER OPCLASS OWNER.
Per Alvaro.
2005-08-23 01:41:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2c57528487 Fix SGML sect1-3 alignment in the 8.0.X series. 2005-08-23 01:22:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 9052537325 Rewrite gather-write patch into something less obviously bolted on
after the fact.  Fix bug with incorrect test for whether we are at end
of logfile segment.  Arrange for writes triggered by XLogInsert's
is-cache-more-than-half-full test to synchronize with the cache boundaries,
so that in long transactions we tend to write alternating halves of the
cache rather than randomly chosen portions of it; this saves one more
write syscall per cache load.
2005-08-22 23:59:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ae94f10397 Update documentation that non-super users can now do ALTER OWNER. 2005-08-22 21:32:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9bddb5c8c7 Back out incorrect use of E'' escape addition. 2005-08-22 20:25:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 83357da684 Cause ALTER INDEX OWNER to generate a warning and do nothing, rather than
erroring out as it has done for the last couple weeks.  Document that this
form is now ignored because indexes can't usefully have different owners
from their parent tables.  Fix pg_dump to not generate ALTER OWNER commands
for indexes.
2005-08-22 19:40:37 +00:00
Tom Lane bf1e33d24a Fix unwanted denial of ALTER OWNER rights to superusers. There was some
discussion of getting around this by relaxing the checks made for regular
users, but I'm disinclined to toy with the security model right now,
so just special-case it for superusers where needed.
2005-08-22 17:38:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a7f49252d2 enable_constraint_exclusion => constraint_exclusion
Also improve wording.
2005-08-22 17:35:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8ad3965a11 Improve xid wraparound message (the server isn't really shut down, just
not accepting queries).

         errmsg("database is not accepting queries to avoid
	 wraparound data loss in database \"%s\"",
         errhint("Stop the postmaster and use a standalone
	 backend to VACUUM database \"%s\".",
2005-08-22 16:59:47 +00:00
Tom Lane f88e8070b7 Use an initdb-time test to see if the local version of getaddrinfo()
chokes on IPv6 addresses, and comment out the IPv6 entry in the default
pg_hba.conf if so.  Per Andrew Dunstan.
2005-08-22 16:27:36 +00:00
Tom Lane d0096a41fa Fix some inconsistent choices of datatypes in xlog.c. Make buffer
indexes all be int, rather than variously int, uint16 and uint32;
add some casts where necessary to support large buffer arrays.
2005-08-22 00:41:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 6fcaaf29da Minor GUC cleanups: document krb_server_hostname and custom_variable_classes
in postgresql.conf.sample, mark custom_variable_classes as SIGHUP not
POSTMASTER to agree with the documentation (I can't see a reason it has
to be POSTMASTER so I think the docs are right).
2005-08-21 03:39:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e22443f405 Add:
> * Fix problems with wrong runtime encoding conversion for NLS message files
2005-08-21 01:04:45 +00:00
Tom Lane f39f6b500f Seems that the childXids list would be better based on Oid lists than
integer lists.
2005-08-20 23:45:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 0007490e09 Convert the arithmetic for shared memory size calculation from 'int'
to 'Size' (that is, size_t), and install overflow detection checks in it.
This allows us to remove the former arbitrary restrictions on NBuffers
etc.  It won't make any difference in a 32-bit machine, but in a 64-bit
machine you could theoretically have terabytes of shared buffers.
(How efficiently we could manage 'em remains to be seen.)  Similarly,
num_temp_buffers, work_mem, and maintenance_work_mem can be set above
2Gb on a 64-bit machine.  Original patch from Koichi Suzuki, additional
work by moi.
2005-08-20 23:26:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 2299ceab1c Invoke mksafefunc and mkunsafefunc with :: decoration. This seems a good
idea on consistency grounds, whether or not it really fixes bug #1831.
Michael Fuhr
2005-08-20 19:19:21 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii ba2fc7eb4b Make GetMultiXactIdMembers() a public function. 2005-08-20 01:29:27 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii bc3991c185 Add BackendXidGetPid(). 2005-08-20 01:26:36 +00:00
Tom Lane f57e3f4cf3 Repair problems with VACUUM destroying t_ctid chains too soon, and with
insufficient paranoia in code that follows t_ctid links.  (We must do both
because even with VACUUM doing it properly, the intermediate state with
a dangling t_ctid link is visible concurrently during lazy VACUUM, and
could be seen afterwards if either type of VACUUM crashes partway through.)
Also try to improve documentation about what's going on.  Patch is a bit
bulky because passing the XMAX information around required changing the
APIs of some low-level heapam.c routines, but it's not conceptually very
complicated.  Per trouble report from Teodor and subsequent analysis.
This needs to be back-patched, but I'll do that after 8.1 beta is out.
2005-08-20 00:40:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 97bb6e89be Fix LRU/ALL description mismatch for GUC parameter. 2005-08-19 18:58:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0c7786bdfc Consistently align comments in postgresql.conf, move some slightly to
the right to stand out.
2005-08-19 01:55:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 77b4bd3b43 Update some obsolete comments --- code is using t_self now, not t_ctid. 2005-08-18 21:34:20 +00:00
Tom Lane dfdf07aab1 Fix up LIMIT/OFFSET planning so that we cope with non-constant LIMIT
or OFFSET clauses by using estimate_expression_value().  The main advantage
of this is that if the expression is a Param and we have a value for the
Param, we'll use that value rather than defaulting.  Also, fix some
thinkos in the logic for combining LIMIT/OFFSET with an externally
supplied tuple fraction (this covers cases like EXISTS(...LIMIT...)).
And make sure the results of all this are shown by EXPLAIN.  Per a
gripe from Merlin Moncure.
2005-08-18 17:51:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 96f63aebc8 Add:
> 	o Remove unnecessary abstractions in pg_dump source code
2005-08-18 14:14:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 7be1b3ba74 Add hint for to_char(interval) invalid format specifications. 2005-08-18 13:43:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a11fe54507 Done:
> * -Prevent to_char() on interval from returning meaningless values
2005-08-18 04:42:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e20261128d Fix to_char(interval) to return proper year and century values.
Fix to_char(interval) to return large year/month/day/hour values that
are larger than possible timestamp values.
Prevent to_char(interval) format specifications that make no sense, like
Month.
Clean up formatting.c code to more logically handle return lengths.
2005-08-18 04:37:08 +00:00
Tom Lane f8d0a82bf9 Avoid an Assert failure if OuterUserId hasn't been set yet during
AbortTransaction.  This can happen if a backend's InitPostgres transaction
fails (eg, because the given username is invalid).  Per Alvaro.
2005-08-17 22:14:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 63f850cd4d More formatting.c cleanups. 2005-08-17 22:06:53 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9cd3fb172d Small cleanup. 2005-08-17 21:54:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 420fc28ac5 Adjust to_char/from_char code to use boolean "is_to_char" rather than
integer with flags.
2005-08-17 21:47:55 +00:00
Tom Lane cb6a08c9b3 Remove unnecessary configure test for inet_ntop(), per Andrew Dunstan. 2005-08-17 20:20:10 +00:00
Tom Lane ff15b3dac5 Fix declaration of dumpacl, per Alvaro. 2005-08-17 19:45:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 28d0515d18 Fix FSM warning to mention increasing max_fsm_pages. Was incorrectly
max_fsm_relations.
2005-08-17 03:50:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 26b9dcb640 Minor cleanup. 2005-08-17 01:45:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e19e382804 Update comments. 2005-08-16 19:29:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian e7fb5563af Improve comment. 2005-08-16 19:23:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f2ad4cadbf Update pgcvslog comment on how to find branch start time.
Run autoconf/autoheader in case someone forgot in the past.
2005-08-16 17:46:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 6629bc79f1 Reject operator names >= NAMEDATALEN characters. These will not work
anyway, and in assert-enabled builds you are likely to get an assertion
failure.  Backpatch as far as 7.3; 7.2 seems not to have the problem.
2005-08-16 00:48:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 070a3ad76b Rename pg_stat_file columns to be more consistent. Split apart change
and creation columns to behave for Unix or Win32.
2005-08-15 23:00:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 24bd9447ac Clean up recent patch for PL handler functions in pg_catalog: the patch
caused PL languages and handlers to be dumped ALWAYS, even in the face
of contrary --schema or --table switches.  Adopt a slightly saner
definition.
2005-08-15 21:50:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 9a9328003d Make createlang and droplang proof against weird search_path settings
by forcing search_path to be just pg_catalog.
2005-08-15 21:02:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 866ffc2fe3 array_in() and array_recv() need to be more paranoid about validating
their OID parameter.  It was possible to crash the backend with
select array_in('{123}',0,0); because that would bypass the needed step
of initializing the workspace.  These seem to be the only two places
with a problem, though (record_in and record_recv don't have the issue,
and the other array functions aren't depending on user-supplied input).
Back-patch as far as 7.4; 7.3 does not have the bug.
2005-08-15 19:40:20 +00:00
Tom Lane e6a30121be int_array_enum function should be using fcinfo->flinfo->fn_extra for
working state, not fcinfo->context.  Silly oversight on my part in last
go-round of fixes.
2005-08-15 19:05:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 87808aef05 Allow the pgstat views to show toast tables as well as regular tables
(the stats system has always collected this info, but the views were
filtering it out).  Modify autovacuum so that over-threshold activity
in a toast table can trigger a VACUUM of the parent table, even if the
parent didn't appear to need vacuuming itself.  Per discussion a month
or so back about "short, wide tables".
2005-08-15 16:25:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 2498d8296e Clean up some stray remaining references to pg_shadow, pg_user, pg_group. 2005-08-15 02:40:36 +00:00
Tom Lane f590ed12f6 Change pg_dump to use pg_roles instead of pg_user on 8.1 and up,
so that it will correctly dump owners of objects owned by non-login roles.
2005-08-15 02:36:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 840b7f5205 Update administrator's guide chapters for ROLEs patch. 2005-08-14 23:35:38 +00:00