child tables --- all cases that will trip various sanity checks elsewhere
in the system, as well as cases that should not occur in the only intended
use of this feature, namely coping with ancient pg_dump representation
of views. Per bug report from Chris Pizzi.
really general fix might be difficult, I believe the only case where
AtCommit_Notify could see an uncommitted tuple is where the other guy
has just unlistened and not yet committed. The best solution seems to
be to just skip updating that tuple, on the assumption that the other
guy does not want to hear about the notification anyway. This is not
perfect --- if the other guy rolls back his unlisten instead of committing,
then he really should have gotten this notify. But to do that, we'd have
to wait to see if he commits or not, or make UNLISTEN hold exclusive lock
on pg_listener until commit. Either of these answers is deadlock-prone,
not to mention horrible for interactive performance. Do it this way
for now. (What happened to that project to do LISTEN/NOTIFY in memory
with no table, anyway?)
recent gripe, I discovered not one but two undocumented, undesirable
behaviors of glibc's mktime. So, stop using it entirely, and always
rely on inversion of localtime() to determine the local time zone.
It's not even very much slower, as it turns out that mktime (at least
in the glibc implementation) also does repeated reverse-conversions.
comments/examples in pg_hba.conf. This patch remedies that, adds a brief
explanation of the connection types, and adds a missing period in the
docs.
Jon Jensen
ps status as '[local]', not as 'localhost' as the code has been doing
recently. That's too easily confused with TCP loopback connections,
and there is no good reason to change the behavior anyway.
to create a TCP/IP socket from FATAL to LOG. This was unwise;
historically we have expected socket conflicts to abort postmaster
startup. Conflicts on port numbers with another postmaster can only
be detected reliably at the TCP socket level.
sequence every time it's called is bogus --- it interferes with user
control over the seed, and actually decreases randomness overall
(because a seed based on time(NULL) is pretty predictable). If you really
want a reproducible result from geqo, do 'set seed = 0' before planning
a query.
on either name or inode; otherwise load_external_function() won't do
anything. At least on Linux, it appears that recompiling a shlib leads
to a new file with a different inode, so the old code failed to detect
a match.
pghackers. This fixes the problem recently reported by Markus KrÌutner
(hash bucket split corrupts the state of scans being done concurrently),
and I believe it also fixes all the known problems with deadlocks in
hash index operations. Hash indexes are still not really ready for prime
time (since they aren't WAL-logged), but this is a step forward.
killed items; just skip to the next item immediately. Only check for
key equality when we reach a non-killed item or the end of the index
page. This saves key comparisons when there are lots of killed items,
as for example in a heavily-updated table that's not been vacuumed lately.
Seems to be a win for pgbench anyway.
config file if it exists. This was already discussed as being a good
idea, and now seems the cleanest way to deal with initdb-time failures
on machines with small SHMMAX. (The submitted patches instead modified
initdb.sh to pass the correct sizing parameters, but that would still
leave standalone backends prone to failure later. An admin who needs
to use a standalone backend has enough trouble already, he shouldn't
have to manually configure its shmem settings...)
layout; therefore, this change forces REINDEX of hash indexes (though
not a full initdb). Widen hashm_ntuples to double so that hash space
management doesn't get confused by more than 4G entries; enlarge the
allowed number of free-space-bitmap pages; replace the useless bshift
field with a useful bmshift field; eliminate 4 bytes of wasted space
in the per-page special area.
scheme. A pleasant side effect is that it is *much* faster when deleting
a large fraction of the indexed tuples, because of elimination of
redundant hash_step activity induced by hash_adjscans. Various other
continuing code cleanup.
libpq, talking to an old server, should assume SQL_ASCII as the default
client encoding, because that is what the server will actually use (not
the server encoding).
yet). Fix a couple of bugs that would only appear if multiple bitmap pages
are used, including a buffer reference leak and incorrect computation of bit
indexes. Get rid of 'overflow address' concept, which accomplished nothing
except obfuscating the code and creating a risk of failure due to limited
range of offset field. Rename some misleadingly-named fields and routines,
and improve documentation.
explanation of the remarkably confusing page addressing scheme.
The file also includes my planned-but-not-yet-implemented revision
of the hash index locking scheme.
SQLSTATE error codes required by SQL99 (invalid format, datetime field
overflow, interval field overflow, invalid time zone displacement value).
Also emit a HINT about DateStyle in cases where it seems appropriate.
Per recent gripes.
lumping them into ERRCODE_UNDEFINED_OBJECT/ERRCODE_DUPLICATE_OBJECT.
This seems reasonable since 'object' was meant to refer to 'object in the
database' and a file is outside the database. Per request from Dave
Cramer.
max_connections at initdb time. Get rid of DEF_NBUFFERS and DEF_MAXBACKENDS
macros, which aren't doing anything useful anymore, and put more likely
defaults into postgresql.conf.sample.
perform a timestamp-to-date coercion. Instead both routines share a
subroutine that delivers the parsing result as a struct tm. This avoids
problems with timezone dependency of to_date's result, and should be
at least marginally faster too.
handling many-way scans: instead of re-evaluating all prior indexscan
quals to see if a tuple has been fetched more than once, use a hash table
indexed by tuple CTID. But fall back to the old way if the hash table
grows to exceed SortMem.
as well as the hash function (formerly the comparison function was hardwired
as memcmp()). This makes it possible to eliminate the special-purpose
hashtable management code in execGrouping.c in favor of using dynahash to
manage tuple hashtables; which is a win because dynahash knows how to expand
a hashtable when the original size estimate was too small, whereas the
special-purpose code was too stupid to do that. (See recent gripe from
Stephan Szabo about poor performance when hash table size estimate is way
off.) Free side benefit: when using string_hash, the default comparison
function is now strncmp() instead of memcmp(). This should eliminate some
part of the overhead associated with larger NAMEDATALEN values.
be anything yielding an array of the proper kind, not only sub-ARRAY[]
constructs; do subscript checking at runtime not parse time. Also,
adjust array_cat to make array || array comply with the SQL99 spec.
Joe Conway
datatype by array_eq and array_cmp; use this to solve problems with memory
leaks in array indexing support. The parser's equality_oper and ordering_oper
routines also use the cache. Change the operator search algorithms to look
for appropriate btree or hash index opclasses, instead of assuming operators
named '<' or '=' have the right semantics. (ORDER BY ASC/DESC now also look
at opclasses, instead of assuming '<' and '>' are the right things.) Add
several more index opclasses so that there is no regression in functionality
for base datatypes. initdb forced due to catalog additions.
"syslog" option.)
By the way: The "virtual_host" parameter is a bad name for that
particular option, I think. "Virtual host" signals that PostgreSQL will
behave differently according to which IP address it's contacted (like
Apache's virtual host support which makes the web-server serve different
sites according to different criteria). A better word for the options
would be "tcpip_listen_addr" or something like that.
Troels Arvin
via extended query protocol, because it sends Sync right after Execute
without realizing that the command to be executed is COPY. There seems
to be no reasonable way for it to realize that, either, so the best fix
seems to be to make the backend ignore Sync during copy-in mode. Bit of
a wart on the protocol, but little alternative. Also, libpq must send
another Sync after terminating the COPY, if the command was issued via
Execute.
just before CommitTransactionCommand(). This is a more sensible place
to put it since commit discards a lot of contexts, and we'd not find
out about stomps affecting only transaction-local contexts.
target columns in INSERT and UPDATE targetlists. Don't rely on resname
to be accurate in ruleutils, either. This fixes bug reported by
Donald Fraser, in which renaming a column referenced in a rule did not
work very well.
yet, though). Avoid using nth() to fetch tlist entries; provide a
common routine get_tle_by_resno() to search a tlist for a particular
resno. This replaces a couple uses of nth() and a dozen hand-coded
search loops. Also, replace a few uses of nth(length-1, list) with
llast().
index pages: when _bt_getbuf asks the FSM for a free index page, it is
possible (and, in some cases, even moderately likely) that the answer
will be the same page that _bt_split is trying to split. _bt_getbuf
already knew that the returned page might not be free, but it wasn't
prepared for the possibility that even trying to lock the page could
be problematic. Fix by doing a conditional rather than unconditional
grab of the page lock.
encountered; per bug report from Christian van der Leeden 8/7/03.
Also, adjust larger/smaller routines (MAX/MIN) to share code with
comparisons for timestamp, interval, timetz.
subplan it starts with, as they may be needed at upper join levels.
See comments added to code for the non-obvious reason why. Per bug report
from Robert Creager.
writing one more value into return arrays than will fit. This is
potentially a stack smash, though I do not think it is a problem in
current uses of the routine, since a failure return causes elog anyway.
in HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP cases, including two potential stack smashes
when more than six fractional digits were supplied. Per bug report
from Philipp Reisner.
and send() very well at all; and in any case we can't use retval==0
for EOF due to race conditions. Make the same fixes in the backend as
are required in libpq.
that OS=hpux is the same as CPU=hppa. First steps at doing this.
With these patches, we still work on hppa with either gcc or HP's cc.
We might work on hpux/itanium with gcc, but I can't test it. Definitely
will not work on hpux/itanium with non-gcc compiler, for lack of spinlock
code.
float8smaller, float8larger (and thereby the MIN/MAX aggregates on these
datatypes) to agree with the datatypes' comparison operations as
regards NaN handling. In all these datatypes, NaN is arbitrarily
considered larger than any normal value ... but MIN/MAX had not gotten
the word. Per recent discussion on pgsql-sql.
error, if any input element is NULL. This is not what we ultimately want,
but until arrays can have NULL elements, it will have to do. Patch from
Joe Conway.
bottom. Otherwise we fail to moveright when the root page was split while
we were "in flight" to it. This is not a significant problem when the root
is above the leaf level, but if the root was also a leaf (ie, a single-page
index just got split) we may return the wrong leaf page to the caller,
resulting in failure to find a key that is in fact present. Bug has existed
at least since 7.1, probably forever.
CREATE TABLE (or ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT), rather than postponing it to
the time that the default is inserted into an INSERT command by the
rewriter. This reverses an old decision that was intended to make the
world safe for writing
f1 timestamp default 'now'
but in fact merely made the failure modes subtle rather than obvious.
Per recent trouble report and followup discussion.
initdb forced since there is a chance that stored default expressions
will change.
heuristic determination of day vs month in date/time input. Add the
ability to specify that input is interpreted as yy-mm-dd order (which
formerly worked, but only for yy greater than 31). DateStyle's input
component now has the preferred spellings DMY, MDY, or YMD; the older
keywords European and US are now aliases for the first two of these.
Per recent discussions on pgsql-general.
materialized.
New items have been added to GucContext and GucSource enums, but of
course they were not added to the corresponding GucContextName[] and
GucSourceName[] arrays in the patch. Here's a new patch to fix the
resulting bugs.
Joe Conway
I'd have to disagree with regards to the memory leaks not being worth
a mention - any such leak can cause problems when the PostgreSQL
installation is either unattended, long-living andor has very high
connection levels. Half a kilobyte on start-up isn't negligible in
this light.
Regards, Lee.
Tom Lane writes:
> Lee Kindness <lkindness@csl.co.uk> writes:
> > Guys, attached is a patch to fix two memory leaks on start-up.
>
> I do not like the changes to miscinit.c. In the first place, it is not
> a "memory leak" to do a one-time allocation of state for a proc_exit
> function. A bigger complaint is that your proposed change introduces
> fragile coupling between CreateLockFile and its callers, in order to
> save no resources worth mentioning. More, it introduces an assumption
> that the globals directoryLockFile and socketLockFile don't change while
> the postmaster is running. UnlinkLockFile should unlink the file that
> it was originally told to unlink, regardless of what happens to those
> globals.
>
> If you are intent on spending code to free stuff just before the
> postmaster exits, a better fix would be for UnlinkLockFile to free its
> string argument after using it.
Lee Kindness
>>ISTM that "source" is worth knowing.
>
> Hm, possibly. Any other opinions?
This version has the seven fields I proposed, including "source". Here's
an example that shows why I think it's valuable:
regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name | enable_seqscan
setting | on
context | user
vartype | bool
source | default
min_val |
max_val |
regression=# update pg_settings set setting = 'off' where name =
'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]---
set_config | off
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source | session
min_val |
max_val |
regression=# alter user postgres set enable_seqscan to 'off';
ALTER USER
(log out and then back in again)
regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source | user
min_val |
max_val |
In the first case, enable_seqscan is set to its default value. After
setting it to off, it is obvious that the value has been changed for the
session only. In the third case, you can see that the value has been set
specifically for the user.
Joe Conway
modes (and replace the requiressl boolean). The four options were first
spelled out by Magnus Hagander <mha@sollentuna.net> on 2000-08-23 in email
to pgsql-hackers, archived here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2000-08/msg00639.php
My original less-flexible patch and the ensuing thread are archived at:
http://dbforums.com/t623845.html
Attached is a new patch, including documentation.
To sum up, there's a new client parameter "sslmode" and environment
variable "PGSSLMODE", with these options:
sslmode description
------- -----------
disable Unencrypted non-SSL only
allow Negotiate, prefer non-SSL
prefer Negotiate, prefer SSL (default)
require Require SSL
The only change to the server is a new pg_hba.conf line type,
"hostnossl", for specifying connections that are not allowed to use SSL
(for example, to prevent servers on a local network from accidentally
using SSL and wasting cycles). Thus the 3 pg_hba.conf line types are:
pg_hba.conf line types
----------------------
host applies to either SSL or regular connections
hostssl applies only to SSL connections
hostnossl applies only to regular connections
These client and server options, the postgresql.conf ssl = false option,
and finally the possibility of compiling with no SSL support at all,
make quite a range of combinations to test. I threw together a test
script to try many of them out. It's in a separate tarball with its
config files, a patch to psql so it'll announce SSL connections even in
absence of a tty, and the test output. The test is especially informative
when run on the same tty the postmaster was started on, so the FATAL:
errors during negotiation are interleaved with the psql client output.
I saw Tom write that new submissions for 7.4 have to be in before midnight
local time, and since I'm on the east coast in the US, this just makes it
in before the bell. :)
Jon Jensen
was modified for IPv6. Use a robust definition of struct sockaddr_storage,
do a proper configure test to see if ss_len exists, don't assume that
getnameinfo() will handle AF_UNIX sockets, don't trust getaddrinfo to
return the protocol we ask for, etc. This incorporates several outstanding
patches from Kurt Roeckx, but I'm to blame for anything that doesn't
work ...
