postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane c941aed96b When using the OSSP UUID library, cache its uuid_t state object.
The original coding in contrib/uuid-ossp created and destroyed a uuid_t
object (or, in some cases, even two of them) each time it was called.
This is not the intended usage: you're supposed to keep the uuid_t object
around so that the library can cache its state across uses.  (Other UUID
libraries seem to keep equivalent state behind-the-scenes in static
variables, but OSSP chose differently.)  Aside from being quite inefficient,
creating a new uuid_t loses knowledge of the previously generated UUID,
which in theory could result in duplicate V1-style UUIDs being created
on sufficiently fast machines.

On at least some platforms, creating a new uuid_t also draws some entropy
from /dev/urandom, leaving less for the rest of the system.  This seems
sufficiently unpleasant to justify back-patching this change.
2014-05-29 13:51:02 -04:00
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adminpack Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
auth_delay Limit values of archive_timeout, post_auth_delay, auth_delay.milliseconds. 2012-11-18 17:15:06 -05:00
auto_explain pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
btree_gin Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
btree_gist Suppress some more valgrind whining about btree_gist. 2014-05-16 15:29:02 -04:00
chkpass Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
citext Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
cube Revert "Fix bogus %name-prefix option syntax in all our Bison files." 2014-05-28 19:21:01 -04:00
dblink pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
dict_int Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
dict_xsyn Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
dummy_seclabel Update copyright for 2014 2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
earthdistance pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
file_fdw pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
hstore Avoid some pnstrdup()s when constructing jsonb 2014-05-09 12:46:21 +03:00
intagg Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
intarray pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
isn Fix calculation of ISMN check digit. 2014-01-13 15:43:29 +02:00
lo Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
ltree pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
oid2name pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pageinspect pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2014 2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
pg_archivecleanup pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pg_buffercache Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
pg_prewarm pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pg_standby Remove MinGW readdir/errno bug workaround fixed on 2003-10-10 2014-03-21 13:47:37 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Avoid unportable usage of sscanf(UINT64_FORMAT). 2014-05-26 22:23:29 -04:00
pg_test_fsync pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pg_test_timing Remove undocumented -h (help) option 2013-07-01 12:40:33 -04:00
pg_trgm pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pg_upgrade Fix whitespace 2014-05-15 13:23:31 -04:00
pg_upgrade_support Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
pg_xlogdump pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pgbench Allow total number of transactions in pgbench to exceed INT_MAX. 2014-05-25 16:33:29 -04:00
pgcrypto pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pgrowlocks Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
pgstattuple pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
postgres_fdw pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
seg Revert "Fix bogus %name-prefix option syntax in all our Bison files." 2014-05-28 19:21:01 -04:00
sepgsql pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
spi pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
sslinfo pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
start-scripts Remove dead URL mention in OSX startup script 2013-09-04 17:04:33 -04:00
tablefunc Update copyright for 2014 2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
tcn pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
test_decoding Add test case for logical decoding of prepared transactions. 2014-05-16 11:34:50 +03:00
test_parser Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
test_shm_mq pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
tsearch2 Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
unaccent Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
uuid-ossp When using the OSSP UUID library, cache its uuid_t state object. 2014-05-29 13:51:02 -04:00
vacuumlo Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h. 2014-02-15 14:31:30 -05:00
worker_spi worker_spi: Initialize bgw_notify_pid in all cases. 2014-05-26 22:56:28 -04:00
xml2 pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Makefile Support BSD and e2fsprogs UUID libraries alongside OSSP UUID library. 2014-05-27 19:42:08 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00

README

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.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.