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Tom Lane 395249ecbe Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory during
AbortTransaction, which would lead to recursion and eventual PANIC exit
as illustrated in recent report from Jeff Davis.  First, in xact.c create
a special dedicated memory context for AbortTransaction to run in.  This
solves the problem as long as AbortTransaction doesn't need more than 32K
(or whatever other size we create the context with).  But in corner cases
it might.  Second, in trigger.c arrange to keep pending after-trigger event
records in separate contexts that can be freed near the beginning of
AbortTransaction, rather than having them persist until CleanupTransaction
as before.  Third, in portalmem.c arrange to free executor state data
earlier as well.  These two changes should result in backing off the
out-of-memory condition before AbortTransaction needs any significant
amount of memory, at least in typical cases such as memory overrun due
to too many trigger events or too big an executor hash table.  And all
the same for subtransaction abort too, of course.
2006-11-23 01:14:59 +00:00
config Code the unknown options check without using m4 diversions. Otherwise this 2006-10-30 22:15:04 +00:00
contrib Avoid infinity calculations in rank_cd 2006-11-22 15:55:05 +00:00
doc More HA wording improvements. 2006-11-22 18:15:34 +00:00
src Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory during 2006-11-23 01:14:59 +00:00
aclocal.m4 Add new auto-detection of thread flags. 2004-04-23 18:15:55 +00:00
configure Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ... 2006-11-07 17:59:05 +00:00
configure.in Tag as Beta3 ... two outstanding *known* bugs before RC1 ... 2006-11-07 17:59:05 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts. 2006-03-05 15:59:11 +00:00
GNUmakefile.in Add installcheck-parallel target to top level makefiles. 2006-08-18 19:58:05 +00:00
Makefile Add installcheck-parallel target to top level makefiles. 2006-08-18 19:58:05 +00:00
README Fix spectacular misspellings of procedural language names 2006-07-24 16:55:59 +00:00
README.CVS Some further editorializing on README.CVS. 2004-03-28 06:09:08 +00:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================
  
This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more
common listed below:

C++ - http://thaiopensource.org/development/libpqxx/
JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org
ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org
Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/
PHP - http://www.php.net
Python - http://www.initd.org/
Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/

Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing
parties.

PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available,
a short but not complete list is below:

PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp
PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution
PL/Java - http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php
PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install
PostgreSQL.  That file also lists supported operating systems and
hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other
software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL
system.  Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the
file HISTORY.  Copyright and license information can be found in the
file COPYRIGHT.  A comprehensive documentation set is included in this
distribution; it can be read as described in the installation
instructions.

The latest version of this software may be obtained at
http://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.