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* git_topo_order script, to match up commits across branches.Robert Haas2010-09-21
| | | | | | | This script is intended to substitute for cvs2cl in generating release notes and scrutinizing what got back-patched to which branches. Script by me. Support for --since by Alex Hunsaker.
* Rename README.CVS to README.git and change references in it.Magnus Hagander2010-09-21
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* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Update HOT README about when single-page vacuums happen.Bruce Momjian2010-09-19
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* Replace last remaining $Id$ with $PostgreSQL$.Tom Lane2010-09-19
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* Fix several broken $PostgreSQL$ keywords. Noted while experimentingTom Lane2010-09-19
| | | | with Magnus's script to remove these.
* Make sure we wait for protocol-level EOF when ending binary COPY IN.Tom Lane2010-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding just terminated the COPY immediately after seeing the EOF marker (-1 where a row field count is expected). The expected CopyDone or CopyFail message just got thrown away later, since we weren't in COPY mode anymore. This behavior complicated matters for the JDBC driver, and arguably was the wrong thing in any case since a CopyFail message after the marker wouldn't be honored. Note that there is a behavioral change here: extra data after the EOF marker was silently ignored before, but now it will cause an error. Hence not back-patching, although this is arguably a bug. Per report and patch by Kris Jurka.
* Give a suitable HINT when an INSERT's data source is a RowExpr containingTom Lane2010-09-18
| | | | | | | | the same number of columns expected by the insert. This suggests that there were extra parentheses that converted the intended column list into a row expression. Original patch by Marko Tiikkaja, rather heavily editorialized by me.
* Move pg_db_role_setting docs to correct place in alphabetical order.Robert Haas2010-09-17
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* Remove duplicated code left behind by my recent refactoring of comment.cRobert Haas2010-09-17
| | | | | These checks are also present in objectaddress.c, so there's no need to recheck here.
* Add some documentation about how we WAL-log filesystem actions.Tom Lane2010-09-17
| | | | Per a question from Robert Haas.
* Treat exit code 128 (ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN) as non-fatal on Win32,Magnus Hagander2010-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | since it can happen when a process fails to start when the system is under high load. Per several bug reports and many peoples investigation. Back-patch to 8.4, which is as far back as the "deadman-switch" for shared memory access exists.
* Stamp 9.0 release notes with expected release date; also some last-minuteTom Lane2010-09-16
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* Fix bad grammar.Tom Lane2010-09-16
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* Fix two new-in-9.0 bugs in hstore.Tom Lane2010-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was an incorrect Assert in hstoreValidOldFormat(), which would cause immediate core dumps when attempting to work with pre-9.0 hstore data, but of course only in an assert-enabled build. Also, ghstore_decompress() incorrectly applied DatumGetHStoreP() to a datum that wasn't actually an hstore, but rather a ghstore (ie, a gist signature bitstring). That used to be harmless, but could now result in misbehavior if the hstore format conversion code happened to trigger. In reality, since ghstore is not marked toastable (and doesn't need to be), this function is useless anyway; we can lobotomize it down to returning the passed-in pointer. Both bugs found by Andrew Gierth, though this isn't exactly his proposed patch.
* Add a compatibility note about plpgsql's treatment of SELECT INTO rec.fldTom Lane2010-09-15
| | | | | when fld is of composite type. Per discussion of bug #5644 from Valentine Gogichashvili.
* Fix two typos in comments, spotted by Fujii Masao and Thom BrownHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
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* Use a latch to make startup process wake up and replay immediately whenHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | new WAL arrives via streaming replication. This reduces the latency, and also allows us to use a longer polling interval, which is good for energy efficiency. We still need to poll to check for the appearance of a trigger file, but the interval is now 5 seconds (instead of 100ms), like when waiting for a new WAL segment to appear in WAL archive.
* Simplify Windows implementation of latches. There's no need to keep aHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
| | | | | | | | dynamic pool of event handles, we can permanently assign one for each shared latch. Thanks to that, we no longer need a separate shared memory block for latches, and we don't need to know in advance how many shared latches there is, so you no longer need to remember to update NumSharedLatches when you introduce a new latch to the system.
* Don't call OwnLatch while holding a spinlock. OwnLatch can elog() underHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
| | | | | some "can't happen" scenarios, and spinlocks should only be held for a few instructions anyway. As pointed out by Fujii Masao.
* Fix join-removal logic for pseudoconstant and outerjoin-delayed quals.Tom Lane2010-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In these cases a qual can get marked with the removable rel in its required_relids, but this is just to schedule its evaluation correctly, not because it really depends on the rel. We were assuming that, in effect, we could throw away *all* quals so marked, which is nonsense. Tighten up the logic to be a little more paranoid about which quals belong to the outer join being considered for removal, and arrange for all quals that don't belong to be updated so they will still get evaluated correctly. Also fix another problem that happened to be exposed by this test case, which was that make_join_rel() was failing to notice some cases where a constant-false qual could be used to prove a join relation empty. If it's a pushed-down constant false, then the relation is empty even if it's an outer join, because the qual applies after the outer join expansion. Per report from Nathan Grange. Back-patch into 9.0.
* Oops, the timeout argument to WaitLatchOrSocket is in microseconds, notHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-14
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* Don't warn about an in-progress online backup, when we're recovering fromHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | an online backup instead of performing one. pg_ctl can detect that by checking if recovery.conf exists. Backup label file is renamed away early in recovery, so the window where backup label exists during recovery is normally very small, but you can run into it e.g if restore_command is set incorrectly and the startup process never finds even the first WAL segment containing the checkpoint record to start recovery from. Fujii Masao with comments by me.
* Add a comment noting that the owner_pid test in OwnLatch is just a sanityHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-13
| | | | check, per request by Jeff Davis.
* Elaborate on what gets stored in pg_authid.rolpasswd.Robert Haas2010-09-13
| | | | | | | Also, add cross-reference from pg_shadow.passwd to pg_authid.rolpasswd and fix a bit of markup I muffed in my previous commit. Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
* Remove prototype for non-existent function from walreceiver.h. Tidy up byHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-13
| | | | | separating prototypes for functions in walreceiver.c and walreceiverfuncs.c with comments.
* Process options from the startup packed in walsender. Only few optionsHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-13
| | | | | | | | make sense for walsender, but for example application_name and client_encoding do. We still don't apply per-role settings from pg_db_role_setting, because that would require connecting to a database to read the table. Fujii Masao
* Don't try aligning comments for new archive_command Win32 doc example;Bruce Momjian2010-09-13
| | | | | | it doesn't work. Backpatch to 9.0.X.
* Link from pg_shadow docs to pg_authid docs.Robert Haas2010-09-13
| | | | Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
* Re-add documentation for Win32 copy syntax for archive_command.Bruce Momjian2010-09-12
| | | | Backpatch to 9.0.X.
* SERIALIZABLE transactions are actually implemented beneath the covers withJoe Conway2010-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | transaction snapshots, i.e. a snapshot registered at the beginning of a transaction. Change variable naming and comments to reflect this reality in preparation for a future, truly serializable mode, e.g. Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). For the moment transaction snapshots are still used to implement SERIALIZABLE, but hopefully not for too much longer. Patch by Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports with review and some minor wording changes by me.
* Add missing #includes, needed on some platforms. This should makeHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-11
| | | | the unixware buildfarm animals happy again.
* Introduce latches. A latch is a boolean variable, with the capability toHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wait until it is set. Latches can be used to reliably wait until a signal arrives, which is hard otherwise because signals don't interrupt select() on some platforms, and even when they do, there's race conditions. On Unix, latches use the so called self-pipe trick under the covers to implement the sleep until the latch is set, without race conditions. On Windows, Windows events are used. Use the new latch abstraction to sleep in walsender, so that as soon as a transaction finishes, walsender is woken up to immediately send the WAL to the standby. This reduces the latency between master and standby, which is good. Preliminary work by Fujii Masao. The latch implementation is by me, with helpful comments from many people.
* Cursor names in the backend are not case-sensitve. This change makes sure thatMichael Meskes2010-09-10
| | | | | | ecpg also does not regard cursor names as case-sensitive. Thanks to Zoltan Boszormenyi for the patch.
* Remove obsolete claim that gzip is needed while installing PG's documentation.Tom Lane2010-09-09
| | | | | | | It isn't, now that we ship the docs as loose files rather than a sub-tarball. Also adjust the wording in a couple of places to make the lists of required software read more consistently.
* Doc fixes:Bruce Momjian2010-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - remove excessive table cells - moving function parameters into function tags rather than having them being considered separate - add return type column on XML2 contrib module functions list and removing return types from function - add table header to XML2 contrib parameter table Thom Brown Backpatch to 9.0.X.
* Add tip about building plpython 2 and 3. Fix link to Python docs.Peter Eisentraut2010-09-08
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* Clarify that surrogate pairs are not encoded in UTF-8 directlyPeter Eisentraut2010-09-07
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* Modify pg_upgrade to set/restore all environment variables related toBruce Momjian2010-09-07
| | | | | | | collation/encoding to match English when reading controldata. This now matches the English variable setting used by pg_regress.c. Backpatch to 9.0.X.
* GROUP BY can only infer functional dependency from non-deferrable primary keys.Tom Lane2010-09-05
| | | | | Peter's original patch had this right, but I dropped the check while revising the code to search pg_constraint instead of pg_index. Spotted by Dean Rasheed.
* Pad the ps_status display with nulls, not blanks, on Darwin.Tom Lane2010-09-04
| | | | | | A long time ago, this didn't work nicely, but it seems to work on all recent versions of OS X. The blank-pad method is less desirable since it results in lots of extra space in ps' output. Per Alexey Klyukin.
* Install a data-type-based solution for protecting pg_get_expr().REL9_1_ALPHA1Tom Lane2010-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | Since the code underlying pg_get_expr() is not secure against malformed input, and can't practically be made so, we need to prevent miscreants from feeding arbitrary data to it. We can do this securely by declaring pg_get_expr() to take a new datatype "pg_node_tree" and declaring the system catalog columns that hold nodeToString output to be of that type. There is no way at SQL level to create a non-null value of type pg_node_tree. Since the backend-internal operations that fill those catalog columns operate below the SQL level, they are oblivious to the datatype relabeling and don't need any changes.
* In HEAD only, revert kluge solution for preventing misuse of pg_get_expr().Tom Lane2010-09-03
| | | | | A data-type-based solution, which is much cleaner and more bulletproof, will follow shortly. It seemed best to make this a separate commit though.
* 9.1alpha1 release notes.Tom Lane2010-09-02
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* Clean up description of ecpg's dtcvfmtasc function.Tom Lane2010-09-02
| | | | Per KOIZUMI Satoru.
* Clean up some bad grammar and punctuation in description of ecpg's decimalTom Lane2010-09-02
| | | | type. Per KOIZUMI Satoru.
* Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly byTom Lane2010-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache. In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry. This caused problems at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model. The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good thing anyway from a structural perspective. The cost is that we have to search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed. There are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries in typical operation. Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area. The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
* Fix typo. Pointed out by Kevin Grittner.Robert Haas2010-09-02
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* Clarify documentation of handling of null arguments for aggregates.Tom Lane2010-09-01
| | | | Per discussion.
* Improve release notes' description of Teodor's fixes for polygon overlapsTom Lane2010-09-01
| | | | and contains operators.