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This commit breaks any code that assumes that the mere act of forming a tuple (without writing it to disk) does not "toast" any fields. While all available regression tests pass, I'm not totally sure that we've fixed every nook and cranny, especially in contrib. Greg Stark with some help from Tom Lane |
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/* * dblink * * Functions returning results from a remote database * * Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> * And contributors: * Darko Prenosil <Darko.Prenosil@finteh.hr> * Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> * Kai Londenberg (K.Londenberg@librics.de) * * Copyright (c) 2001-2007, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its * documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement * is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this * paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies. * * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR DISTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR * DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING * LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND ITS * DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR OR DISTRIBUTORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. * * THE AUTHOR AND DISTRIBUTORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES, * INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY * AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE SOFTWARE PROVIDED HEREUNDER IS * ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE AUTHOR AND DISTRIBUTORS HAS NO OBLIGATIONS TO * PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, OR MODIFICATIONS. * */ Release Notes: 27 August 2006 - Added async query capability. Original patch by Kai Londenberg (K.Londenberg@librics.de), modified by Joe Conway Version 0.7 (as of 25 Feb, 2004) - Added new version of dblink, dblink_exec, dblink_open, dblink_close, and, dblink_fetch -- allows ERROR on remote side of connection to throw NOTICE locally instead of ERROR Version 0.6 - functions deprecated in 0.5 have been removed - added ability to create "named" persistent connections Version 0.5 - dblink now supports use directly as a table function; this is the new preferred usage going forward - Use of dblink_tok is now deprecated; original form of dblink is also deprecated. They _will_ be removed in the next version. - dblink_last_oid is also deprecated; use dblink_exec() which returns the command status as a single row, single column result. - Original dblink, dblink_tok, and dblink_last_oid are commented out in dblink.sql; remove the comments to use the deprecated functions. - dblink_strtok() and dblink_replace() functions were removed. Use split() and replace() respectively (new backend functions in PostgreSQL 7.3) instead. - New functions: dblink_exec() for non-SELECT queries; dblink_connect() opens connection that persists for duration of a backend; dblink_disconnect() closes a persistent connection; dblink_open() opens a cursor; dblink_fetch() fetches results from an open cursor. dblink_close() closes a cursor. - New test suite: dblink_check.sh, dblink.test.sql, dblink.test.expected.out. Execute dblink_check.sh from the same directory as the other two files. Output is dblink.test.out and dblink.test.diff. Note that dblink.test.sql is a good source of example usage. Version 0.4 - removed cursor wrap around input sql to allow for remote execution of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE - dblink now returns a resource id instead of a real pointer - added several utility functions -- see below Version 0.3 - fixed dblink invalid pointer causing corrupt elog message - fixed dblink_tok improper handling of null results - fixed examples in README.dblink Version 0.2 - initial release Installation: Place these files in a directory called 'dblink' under 'contrib' in the PostgreSQL source tree. Then run: make make install You can use dblink.sql to create the functions in your database of choice, e.g. psql template1 < dblink.sql installs dblink functions into database template1 Documentation: Note: Parameters representing relation names must include double quotes if the names are mixed-case or contain special characters. They must also be appropriately qualified with schema name if applicable. See the following files: doc/connection doc/cursor doc/query doc/execute doc/misc ================================================================== -- Joe Conway