postgresql/contrib
Heikki Linnakangas 15c121b3ed Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, the
free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each
relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM).

This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any
trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation.

Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also
introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in
contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and
a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
2008-09-30 10:52:14 +00:00
..
adminpack Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C 2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
btree_gist Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from the 2008-06-19 00:46:06 +00:00
chkpass Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C 2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
citext Add some additional casts and regression tests for the citext data type. 2008-09-05 18:25:17 +00:00
cube Prevent memory leaks in our various bison parsers when an error occurs 2008-09-02 20:37:55 +00:00
dblink Fix dblink_connect() so that it verifies that a password is supplied in the 2008-09-22 13:55:14 +00:00
dict_int Fix some missed copyright updates. 2008-01-01 20:31:21 +00:00
dict_xsyn Improve error reporting for problems in text search configuration files 2008-06-18 20:55:42 +00:00
earthdistance Make earthdistance use version-0 calling convention if not USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL, 2008-04-21 01:11:43 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Add a variant of the Levenshtein string-distance function that lets the user 2008-04-03 21:13:07 +00:00
hstore Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them. 2008-05-17 01:28:26 +00:00
intagg Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing some 2008-05-12 00:00:54 +00:00
intarray Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them. 2008-05-17 01:28:26 +00:00
isn Update copyrights in source tree to 2008. 2008-01-01 19:46:01 +00:00
lo Add CVS version labels to all install/uninstall scripts. 2007-11-13 04:24:29 +00:00
ltree ltree support for multibyte encodings. Patch was made by 2008-06-30 18:30:48 +00:00
oid2name Remove the -P options of oid2name and pgbench, as they are security 2007-12-11 02:31:49 +00:00
pageinspect Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, the 2008-09-30 10:52:14 +00:00
pg_buffercache pg_buffercache needs to be taught about relation forks, as Greg Stark 2008-08-14 12:56:41 +00:00
pg_freespacemap Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, the 2008-09-30 10:52:14 +00:00
pg_standby Fix WAL file cutoff point calculation in pg_standby. 2008-07-08 15:11:58 +00:00
pg_trgm Add caching of query to GIN/GiST consistent function. 2008-07-11 11:56:48 +00:00
pgbench Add a duration option to pgbench, so that test length can be specified in seconds 2008-09-11 23:52:48 +00:00
pgcrypto Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them. 2008-05-17 01:28:26 +00:00
pgrowlocks Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from the 2008-06-19 00:46:06 +00:00
pgstattuple Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from the 2008-06-19 00:46:06 +00:00
seg Prevent memory leaks in our various bison parsers when an error occurs 2008-09-02 20:37:55 +00:00
spi Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them. 2008-05-17 01:28:26 +00:00
sslinfo Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C 2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
start-scripts Remove inappropriate cd commands, per David Wheeler. Also make 2008-01-16 21:00:25 +00:00
tablefunc Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them. 2008-05-17 01:28:26 +00:00
test_parser Update contrib for tsearch changes. 2008-05-16 17:26:07 +00:00
tsearch2 Update contrib for tsearch changes. 2008-05-16 17:26:07 +00:00
uuid-ossp Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C 2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
vacuumlo Update copyrights in source tree to 2008. 2008-01-01 19:46:01 +00:00
xml2 Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them. 2008-05-17 01:28:26 +00:00
contrib-global.mk Some marginal tweaks to make 'make installcheck' mostly work when 2005-09-27 17:43:31 +00:00
Makefile Add a new, improved version of citext as a contrib module. 2008-07-29 18:31:20 +00:00
README Add a new, improved version of citext as a contrib module. 2008-07-29 18:31:20 +00:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
the main source tree.  This does not preclude their usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML documentation.

Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with
`gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure'
script in the top-level directory.  Some directories supply new
user-defined functions, operators, or types.  In these cases, after you have
installed the files you need to register the new entities in the database
system by running the commands in the supplied .sql file.  For example,

	$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.


Index:
------

adminpack -
	File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin
	by Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>

btree_gist -
	Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

chkpass -
	An auto-encrypted password datatype
	by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

citext -
	A case-insensitive character string datatype
	by David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

cube -
	Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

dblink -
	Allows remote query execution
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

dict_int -
	Text search dictionary template for integers
	by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>

dict_xsyn -
	Text search dictionary template for extended synonym processing
	by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>

earthdistance -
	Functions for computing distances between two points on Earth
        by Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> and Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>

fuzzystrmatch -
	Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> and Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

hstore -
	Module for storing (key, value) pairs
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

intagg -
	Integer aggregator
	by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

intarray -
	Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

isn -
	PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers
	by Germ<72>n M<>ndez Bravo (Kronuz) <kronuz@hotmail.com>

lo -
	Large Object maintenance
	by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> 

ltree -
	Tree-like data structures
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

oid2name - 
	Maps numeric files to table names
	by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>

pageinspect -
	Allows inspection of database pages
	Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

pg_buffercache -
	Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_freespacemap -
	Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM)
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_standby -
	Sample archive_command for warm standby operation
	by Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

pg_trgm -
	Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
	matching.
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

pgbench -
	TPC-B like benchmarking tool
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgcrypto -
	Cryptographic functions
	by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

pgrowlocks -
	A function to return row locking information
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgstattuple -
	Functions to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
	space within a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

seg -
	Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

spi -
	Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.

sslinfo -
	Functions to get information about SSL certificates
	by Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>

start-scripts - 
	Scripts for starting the server at boot time on various platforms.

tablefunc -
	Examples of functions returning tables
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

test_parser -
	Sample text search parser
	by Sergey Karpov <karpov@sao.ru>

tsearch2 -
	Compatibility package for the pre-8.3 implementation of text search.
	Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, based on code originally by
	Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>.

uuid-ossp -
	UUID generation functions
	by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

vacuumlo -
	Remove orphaned large objects
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

xml2 -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>