postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 5bd06e619c Back-patch contrib/vacuumlo's new -l (limit) option into 9.0 and 9.1.
Since 9.0, removing lots of large objects in a single transaction risks
exceeding max_locks_per_transaction, because we merged large object removal
into the generic object-drop mechanism, which takes out an exclusive lock
on each object to be dropped.  This creates a hazard for contrib/vacuumlo,
which has historically tried to drop all unreferenced large objects in one
transaction.  There doesn't seem to be any correctness requirement to do it
that way, though; we only need to drop enough large objects per transaction
to amortize the commit costs.

To prevent a regression from pre-9.0 releases wherein vacuumlo worked just
fine, back-patch commits b69f2e3640 and
64c604898e, which break vacuumlo's deletions
into multiple transactions with a user-controllable upper limit on the
number of objects dropped per transaction.

Tim Lewis, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
2012-03-21 13:04:55 -04:00
..
adminpack Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
auth_delay pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1. 2011-04-10 11:42:00 -04:00
auto_explain Fix auto-explain JSON output to be valid JSON. 2012-02-13 08:22:54 -05:00
btree_gin Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
btree_gist Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
chkpass Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
citext Fix citext upgrade script to update derived copies of pg_type.typcollation. 2011-11-21 11:25:05 -05:00
cube Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
dblink Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
dict_int Fix bogus code in contrib/ tsearch dictionary examples. 2011-11-03 19:17:52 -04:00
dict_xsyn Fix bogus code in contrib/ tsearch dictionary examples. 2011-11-03 19:17:52 -04:00
dummy_seclabel pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1. 2011-04-10 11:42:00 -04:00
earthdistance Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
file_fdw Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
hstore Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
intagg Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
intarray Fix longstanding error in contrib/intarray's int[] & int[] operator. 2012-02-16 20:00:17 -05:00
isn Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
lo Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
ltree Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
oid2name Use consistent spacing for PGAPPICON Makefile option. 2011-01-24 20:46:30 -05:00
pageinspect Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
passwordcheck Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
pg_archivecleanup Message style improvements 2011-08-14 21:03:40 +03:00
pg_buffercache Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
pg_standby Message style improvements 2011-08-14 21:03:40 +03:00
pg_stat_statements Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
pg_test_fsync Put pg_test_fsync --help and --version output in line with conventions 2011-05-10 21:34:26 +03:00
pg_trgm Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
pg_upgrade In pg_upgrade, remove dependency on pg_config, as that might not be in 2012-03-19 09:31:50 -04:00
pg_upgrade_support pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1. 2011-04-10 11:42:00 -04:00
pgbench Put options help in alphabetical order 2011-05-10 21:48:07 +03:00
pgcrypto Fix error detection in contrib/pgcrypto's encrypt_iv() and decrypt_iv(). 2012-01-27 23:09:33 -05:00
pgrowlocks Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
pgstattuple Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
seg Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
sepgsql Take sepgsql regression tests out of the regular regression test mechanism. 2011-09-27 20:15:54 -04:00
spi Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
sslinfo Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
start-scripts Fix overly-aggressive and inconsistent quoting in OS X start script. 2011-11-26 13:01:22 -05:00
tablefunc Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
test_parser Fix one-byte buffer overrun in contrib/test_parser. 2012-01-09 19:57:21 -05:00
tsearch2 Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
unaccent Fix assorted bugs in contrib/unaccent's configuration file parsing. 2011-11-07 11:49:06 -05:00
uuid-ossp Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
vacuumlo Back-patch contrib/vacuumlo's new -l (limit) option into 9.0 and 9.1. 2012-03-21 13:04:55 -04:00
xml2 Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:36 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Makefile Make distprep and *clean build targets recurse into all subdirectories. 2011-07-03 13:55:27 -04:00
README Recode non-ASCII characters in source to UTF-8 2011-05-31 23:11:46 +03:00

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>

auth_delay
	Add a short delay after a failed authentication attempt, to make
	brute-force attacks on database passwords a bit harder.
	by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>

auto_explain -
	Log EXPLAIN output for long-running queries
	by Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

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

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>

file_fdw
	Foreign-data wrapper for server-side CSV/TEXT files
	by Shigeru Hanada <hanada@metrosystems.co.jp>

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 Germán Méndez 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>

passwordcheck -
	Simple password strength checker
	Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>

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_stat_statements -
	Track statement execution times across a whole database cluster
	by Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

pg_test_fsync -
	Test different wal_sync_method settings
	by Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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>

pg_upgrade -
	Support for in-place upgrade between major releases of PostgreSQL
	Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> and others

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>

sepgsql -
	External security provider using SELinux
	by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>

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>.

unaccent -
	Unaccent dictionary for text search
	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>