postgresql/contrib
Alvaro Herrera 8396447cdb Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it
libpgcommon is a new static library to allow sharing code among the
various frontend programs and backend; this lets us eliminate duplicate
implementations of common routines.  We avoid libpgport, because that's
intended as a place for porting issues; per discussion, it seems better
to keep them separate.

The first use case, and the only implemented by this patch, is pg_malloc
and friends, which many frontend programs were already using.

At the same time, we can use this to provide palloc emulation functions
for the frontend; this way, some palloc-using files in the backend can
also be used by the frontend cleanly.  To do this, we change palloc() in
the backend to be a function instead of a macro on top of
MemoryContextAlloc().  This was previously believed to cause loss of
performance, but this implementation has been tweaked by Tom and Andres
so that on modern compilers it provides a slight improvement over the
previous one.

This lets us clean up some places that were already with
localized hacks.

Most of the pg_malloc/palloc changes in this patch were authored by
Andres Freund. Zoltán Böszörményi also independently provided a form of
that.  libpgcommon infrastructure was authored by Álvaro.
2013-02-12 11:21:05 -03:00
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adminpack Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
auth_delay Limit values of archive_timeout, post_auth_delay, auth_delay.milliseconds. 2012-11-18 17:15:06 -05:00
auto_explain Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
btree_gin Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
btree_gist Make contrib/btree_gist's GiST penalty function a bit saner. 2013-02-07 19:13:59 -05:00
chkpass Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
citext Reduce messages about implicit indexes and sequences to DEBUG1. 2012-07-04 20:35:29 -04:00
cube Add noreturn attributes to some error reporting functions 2013-02-12 07:13:22 -05:00
dblink Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
dict_int Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
dummy_seclabel Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
earthdistance Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
file_fdw Improve error message wording 2013-02-06 00:19:53 -03:00
fuzzystrmatch Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
hstore Provide some static-assertion functionality on all compilers. 2012-09-30 22:46:29 -04:00
intagg Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
intarray Remove unreachable code 2012-07-16 22:15:03 +03:00
isn Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
lo Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
ltree Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.h 2012-08-30 16:52:35 -04:00
oid2name Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it 2013-02-12 11:21:05 -03:00
pageinspect Improve concurrency of foreign key locking 2013-01-23 12:04:59 -03:00
passwordcheck Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
pg_archivecleanup In our source code, make a copy of getopt's 'optarg' string arguments, 2012-10-12 13:35:43 -04:00
pg_buffercache Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.h 2012-08-30 16:52:35 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
pg_standby In our source code, make a copy of getopt's 'optarg' string arguments, 2012-10-12 13:35:43 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
pg_test_fsync Move long_options structures to the top of main() functions, for 2012-11-30 14:49:55 -05:00
pg_test_timing Move long_options structures to the top of main() functions, for 2012-11-30 14:49:55 -05:00
pg_trgm Fix bugs in contrib/pg_trgm's LIKE pattern analysis code. 2012-08-20 13:25:42 -04:00
pg_upgrade Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it 2013-02-12 11:21:05 -03:00
pg_upgrade_support Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
pgbench Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it 2013-02-12 11:21:05 -03:00
pgcrypto Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3 2012-06-10 15:20:04 -04:00
pgrowlocks pgrowlocks: fix bogus lock strength output 2013-01-31 19:15:35 -03:00
pgstattuple Add pgstatginindex() function to get the size of the GIN pending list. 2012-12-05 09:58:03 +02:00
seg Add noreturn attributes to some error reporting functions 2013-02-12 07:13:22 -05:00
sepgsql Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
spi Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3 2012-06-10 15:20:04 -04:00
sslinfo Lots of doc corrections. 2012-04-23 22:43:09 -04:00
start-scripts Support Linux's oom_score_adj API as well as the older oom_adj API. 2012-06-13 15:35:52 -04:00
tablefunc Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
tcn Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
test_parser Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
tsearch2 Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
unaccent Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
uuid-ossp Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
vacuumlo Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
worker_spi Background worker processes 2012-12-06 17:47:30 -03:00
xml2 Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.h 2012-08-30 16:52:35 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Makefile Background worker processes 2012-12-06 17:47:30 -03:00
README Update contrib/README 2012-04-14 09:29:54 +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.

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 "gmake all" and "gmake
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.