Go to file
Tom Lane d33faa285b Move the built-in conversions into the initial catalog data.
Instead of running a SQL script to create the standard conversion
functions and pg_conversion entries, put those entries into the
initial data in postgres.bki.

This shaves a few percent off the runtime of initdb, and also allows
accurate comments to be attached to the conversion functions; the
previous script labeled them with machine-generated comments that
were not quite right for multi-purpose conversion functions.
Also, we can get rid of the duplicative Makefile and MSVC perl
implementations of the generation code for that SQL script.

A functional change is that these pg_proc and pg_conversion entries
are now "pinned" by initdb.  Leaving them unpinned was perhaps a
good thing back while the conversions feature was under development,
but there seems no valid reason for it now.

Also, the conversion functions are now marked as immutable, where
before they were volatile by virtue of lacking any explicit
specification.  That seems like it was just an oversight.

To avoid using magic constants in pg_conversion.dat, extend
genbki.pl to allow encoding names to be converted, much as it
does for language, access method, etc names.

John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWtUqxpfAaxS88vEGvi+jKzWZb2EStu5io-UPc4p9rSJg@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-03 19:47:53 -05:00
config Update config/ax_pthread.m4 to latest upstream version. 2018-11-19 15:05:33 -05:00
contrib Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
doc Move the built-in conversions into the initial catalog data. 2019-01-03 19:47:53 -05:00
src Move the built-in conversions into the initial catalog data. 2019-01-03 19:47:53 -05:00
.dir-locals.el Update documentation editor setup instructions 2018-07-13 21:23:41 +02:00
.gitattributes Remove contrib/tsearch2. 2017-02-13 11:06:11 -05:00
.gitignore Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider. 2018-03-22 11:05:22 -07:00
COPYRIGHT Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
GNUmakefile.in Process EXTRA_INSTALL serially, during the first temp-install. 2018-12-31 13:54:38 -08:00
HISTORY Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http: 2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00
Makefile Fix non-GNU makefiles for AIX make. 2017-11-30 00:57:22 -08:00
README Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http: 2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00
README.git Change documentation references to PG website to use https: not http: 2017-05-20 21:50:47 -04:00
aclocal.m4 Fix configure's AC_CHECK_DECLS tests to work correctly with clang. 2018-11-19 12:01:47 -05:00
configure Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
configure.in Update copyright for 2019 2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00

README

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, many of which are listed here:

	https://www.postgresql.org/download

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.  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
https://www.postgresql.org/download/.  For more information look at our
web site located at https://www.postgresql.org/.