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* Adjust pg_upgrade FATAL error messages to have consistent newlines.Bruce Momjian2011-05-06
| | | | Also adjust some error message capitalization for consistency.
* Fix typos in SECURITY LABEL documentation.Robert Haas2011-05-06
| | | | KaiGai Kohei
* Improve compiler string shown in version()Peter Eisentraut2011-05-06
| | | | | | | | | With some compilers such as Clang and ICC emulating GCC, using a version string of the form "GCC $version" can be quite misleading. Also, a great while ago, the version output from gcc --version started including the string "gcc", so it is redundant to repeat that. In order to support ancient GCC versions, we now prefix the result with "GCC " only if the version output does not start with a letter.
* Move RegisterPredicateLockingXid() call to a safer place.Tom Lane2011-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SSI patch inserted a call of RegisterPredicateLockingXid into GetNewTransactionId, which was a bad idea on a couple of grounds. First, it's not necessary to hold XidGenLock while manipulating that shared memory, and doing so is bad because XidGenLock is a high-contention lock that should be held for as short a time as possible. (Not to mention that it adds an entirely unnecessary deadlock hazard, since we must take SerializableXactHashLock as well.) Second, the specific place where it was put was between extending CLOG and advancing nextXid, which could result in unpleasant behavior in case of a failure there. Pull the call out to AssignTransactionId, which is much safer and arguably better from a modularity standpoint too. There is more work to do to clean up the failure-before-advancing-nextXid issue, but that is a separate change that will need to be back-patched. So for the moment I just want to make GetNewTransactionId look the same as it did in prior versions.
* Remove precedence labeling of keywords TRUE, FALSE, UNKNOWN, and ZONE.Tom Lane2011-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These were labeled with precedences just to avoid attaching explicit precedences to the productions in which they were the last terminal symbol. Since a terminal symbol precedence marking can affect many other things too, it seems like better practice to attach precedence labels to the productions, and not mark the terminal symbols. Ideally we'd also remove the precedence attached to NULL_P, but it turns out that we are actually depending on that having a precedence higher than POSTFIXOP, else we get a shift/reduce conflict for postfix operators in b_expr. (Which more or less proves my point about these markings having a high risk of unexpected consequences.) For the moment, move NULL_P into the set of keywords grouped with IDENT, so that at least it will act similarly to non-keywords; and document the interaction.
* Unbreak the regression tests from my previous commitMagnus Hagander2011-05-05
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* Improve pg_archivecleanup and pg_standby --help outputPeter Eisentraut2011-05-05
| | | | | | | | For consistency with other tools, put the options before further usage information. In pg_standby, remove the supposedly deprecated -l option from the given example invocation.
* Improve formatting of pg_upgrade --help outputPeter Eisentraut2011-05-05
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* Clarify error message when attempting to create index on foreign tableMagnus Hagander2011-05-05
| | | | | Instead of just saying "is not a table", specifically state that indexes aren't supported on *foreign* tables.
* Improve style of generate_history.pl Perl script.Bruce Momjian2011-05-05
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* Include unary plus in the Operator Precedence table.Tom Lane2011-05-04
| | | | | | | Per gripe from Grzegorz Szpetkowski. Also, change the subsection heading from "Lexical Precedence" (which is a contradiction in terms) to "Operator Precedence".
* Remove redundant port number checkPeter Eisentraut2011-05-04
| | | | | pg_basebackup doesn't need to police the format of port numbers. libpq already does that.
* Message style cleanupPeter Eisentraut2011-05-04
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* Fix alignment of --help outputPeter Eisentraut2011-05-04
| | | | Tabs replaced by spaces.
* Link some tables into the surrounding text by their idPeter Eisentraut2011-05-04
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* Update obsolete mention of Sequoia, now known as TungstenAlvaro Herrera2011-05-03
| | | | | | Per http://joomla.aws.continuent.com/community/lab-projects/sequoia Greg Smith
* Improve description of read/write traffic scalabilityAlvaro Herrera2011-05-03
| | | | Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
* Add ID attribute to some sect2's missing itAlvaro Herrera2011-05-02
| | | | David Fetter
* Fix pull_up_sublinks' failure to handle nested pull-up opportunities.Tom Lane2011-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | After finding an EXISTS or ANY sub-select that can be converted to a semi-join or anti-join, we should recurse into the body of the sub-select. This allows cases such as EXISTS-within-EXISTS to be optimized properly. The original coding would leave the lower sub-select as a SubLink, which is no better and often worse than what we can do with a join. Per example from Wayne Conrad. Back-patch to 8.4. There is a related issue in older versions' handling of pull_up_IN_clauses, but they're lame enough anyway about the whole area that it seems not worth the extra work to try to fix.
* Update some ALTER USER cross-references to ALTER ROLEAlvaro Herrera2011-05-02
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* Small cleanup of spacing in verbatim DocBook elementsPeter Eisentraut2011-05-02
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* Improve aset.c's space management in contexts with small maxBlockSize.Tom Lane2011-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding would allow requests up to half of maxBlockSize to be treated as "chunks", but when that actually did happen, we'd waste nearly half of the space in the malloc block containing the chunk, if no smaller requests came along to fill it. Avoid this scenario by limiting the maximum size of a chunk to 1/8th maxBlockSize, so that we can waste no more than 1/8th of the allocated space. This will not change the behavior at all for the default context size parameters (with large maxBlockSize), but it will change the behavior when using ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE. In particular, there's no longer a need for spell.c to be overly concerned about the request size parameters it uses, so remove a rather unhelpful comment about that. Merlin Moncure, per an idea of Tom Lane's
* Catch errors in for loop in makefilePeter Eisentraut2011-05-02
| | | | Add "|| exit" so that the rule aborts when a command fails.
* Rewrite installation makefile rules without for loopsPeter Eisentraut2011-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | install-sh can install multiple files at once, so for loops are not necessary. This was already changed for the rest of the code some time ago, but pgxs.mk was apparently forgotten, and the obsolete coding style has now been copied to the PLs as well. This also fixes the problem that the for loops in question did not catch errors.
* Make CLUSTER lock the old table's toast table before copying data.Tom Lane2011-05-01
| | | | | | | | We must lock out autovacuuming of the old toast table before computing the OldestXmin horizon we will use. Otherwise, autovacuum could start on the toast table later, compute a later OldestXmin horizon, and remove as DEAD toast tuples that we still need (because we think their parent tuples are only RECENTLY_DEAD). Per further thought about bug #5998.
* Lowercase status labels in pg_stat_replication view.Bruce Momjian2011-04-29
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* Remove special case for xmin == xmax in HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().Tom Lane2011-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VACUUM was willing to remove a committed-dead tuple immediately if it was deleted by the same transaction that inserted it. The idea is that such a tuple could never have been visible to any other transaction, so we don't need to keep it around to satisfy MVCC snapshots. However, there was already an exception for tuples that are part of an update chain, and this exception created a problem: we might remove TOAST tuples (which are never part of an update chain) while their parent tuple stayed around (if it was part of an update chain). This didn't pose a problem for most things, since the parent tuple is indeed dead: no snapshot will ever consider it visible. But MVCC-safe CLUSTER had a problem, since it will try to copy RECENTLY_DEAD tuples to the new table. It then has to copy their TOAST data too, and would fail if VACUUM had already removed the toast tuples. Easiest fix is to get rid of the special case for xmin == xmax. This may delay reclaiming dead space for a little bit in some cases, but it's by far the most reliable way to fix the issue. Per bug #5998 from Mark Reid. Back-patch to 8.3, which is the oldest version with MVCC-safe CLUSTER.
* Rewrite pg_size_pretty() to avoid compiler bug.Tom Lane2011-04-29
| | | | | | | | Convert it to use successive shifts right instead of increasing a divisor. This is probably a tad more efficient than the original coding, and it's nicer-looking than the previous patch because we don't need a special case to avoid overflow in the last branch. But the real reason to do it is to avoid a Solaris compiler bug, as per results from buildfarm member moa.
* Use non-literal format for possibly non-standard strftime formats.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-28
| | | | | | Per recent -hackers discussion. The formats in question are %G and %V, and cause warnings on MinGW at least. We assume the ecpg application knows what it's doing if it passes these formats to the library.
* Add some casts to try to silence most of the remaining format warnings on ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-04-28
| | | | MinGW-W64.
* Use a macro variable PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for the style used for checking ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-04-28
| | | | | | | | | printf type functions. The style is set to "printf" for backwards compatibility everywhere except on Windows, where it is set to "gnu_printf", which eliminates hundreds of false error messages from modern versions of gcc arising from %m and %ll{d,u} formats.
* The arguments to pg_ctl kill are not optional - remove brackets in the docs.Heikki Linnakangas2011-04-28
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Tag 9.1beta1.REL9_1_BETA1Tom Lane2011-04-27
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* Make a quick copy-editing pass over the 9.1 release notes.Tom Lane2011-04-27
| | | | | | | Also remove the material about this being an alpha release. The notes still need a lot of work, but they're more or less presentable as a beta version now.
* Fix binary upgrade of altered typed tablesPeter Eisentraut2011-04-27
| | | | | | | Instead of dumping them as CREATE TABLE ... OF, dump them as normal tables with the usual special processing for dropped columns, and then attach them to the type afterward, using ALTER TABLE ... OF. This is analogous to the existing handling of inherited tables.
* Revert "Force use of "%I64d" format for 64 bit ints on MinGW."Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
| | | | | | This reverts commit 52d01c2f52c462d29ae0fdfa44c3cae129148a6d. the UINT64_FORMAT bit broke the b uildfarm, so I'm reverting the whole thing pending further investigation.
* timeline is not needed in BaseBackup()Magnus Hagander2011-04-27
| | | | | | | | This code was accidentally part of the patch, it's only needed for the code that's for 9.2. Not needing the timeline also removes the need to call IDENTIFY_SYSTEM. Noted by Peter E.
* Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datatype values.Tom Lane2011-04-27
| | | | | | | | There was already one recommendation in the documentation about writing C functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes, but make it stronger. Also fix an example that was still using direct assignment to a varlena length word, which no longer works since the varvarlena changes.
* Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes.Tom Lane2011-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per recent discussion, it's important for all computed datums (not only the results of input functions) to not contain any ill-defined (uninitialized) bits. Failing to ensure that can result in equal() reporting that semantically indistinguishable Consts are not equal, which in turn leads to bizarre and undesirable planner behavior, such as in a recent example from David Johnston. We might eventually try to fix this in a general manner by allowing datatypes to define identity-testing functions, but for now the path of least resistance is to expect datatypes to force all unused bits into consistent states. Per some testing by Noah Misch, array and path functions seem to be the only ones presenting risks at the moment, so I looked through all the functions in adt/array*.c and geo_ops.c and fixed them as necessary. In the array functions, the easiest/safest fix is to allocate result arrays with palloc0 instead of palloc. Possibly in future someone will want to look into whether we can just zero the padding bytes, but that looks too complex for a back-patchable fix. In the path functions, we already had a precedent in path_in for just zeroing the one known pad field, so duplicate that code as needed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Revert "Remove hard coded formats for INT64 and use configured settings ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
| | | | | | | | instead." This reverts commit 9b1508af8971c1627cda5bb65f5e9eddb9a1a55e. As requested by Tom.
* Remove hard coded formats for INT64 and use configured settings instead.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
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* Force use of "%I64d" format for 64 bit ints on MinGW.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
| | | | | Both this and "%lld" work, but the compiler's format checking doesn't like "%lld", so we get all sorts of spurious warnings.
* Use an explicit format string to keep the compiler happy.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
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* Doc wording improvement for NUMERIC limit paragraph.Bruce Momjian2011-04-27
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* Reword documentation for NUMERIC with no specified precision.Bruce Momjian2011-04-26
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* Rephrase some not-supported error messages in pg_hba.conf processing.Tom Lane2011-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | In a couple of places we said "not supported on this platform" for cases that aren't really platform-specific, but could depend on configuration options such as --with-openssl. Use "not supported by this build" instead, as that doesn't convey the impression that you can't fix it without moving to another OS; that's also more consistent with the wording used for an identical error case in guc.c. No back-patch, as the clarity gain is small enough to not be worth burdening translators with back-branch changes.
* Complain if pg_hba.conf contains "hostssl" but SSL is disabled.Tom Lane2011-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most commenters agreed that this is more friendly than silently failing to match the line during actual connection attempts. Also, this will prevent corner cases that might arise when trying to handle such a line when the SSL code isn't turned on. An example is that specifying clientcert=1 in such a line would formerly result in a completely misleading complaint that root.crt wasn't present, as seen in a recent report from Marc-Andre Laverdiere. While we could have instead fixed that specific behavior, it seems likely that we'd have a continuing stream of such bizarre behaviors if we keep on allowing hostssl lines when SSL is disabled. Back-patch to 8.4, where clientcert was introduced. Earlier versions don't have this specific issue, and the code is enough different to make this patch not applicable without more work than it seems worth.
* Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range.Bruce Momjian2011-04-26
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* Now that pg_upgrade uses -w in pg_ctl, remove loop that retried testingBruce Momjian2011-04-26
| | | | | | | the connection; also restructure the libpq connection code. This patch also removes the unused variable postmasterPID and fixes a libpq structure leak that was in the testing loop.
* In pg_upgrade, avoid one start/stop of the postmaster; use the -wBruce Momjian2011-04-25
| | | | | (wait) flag for pg_ctl start/stop; remove the unused "quiet" flag in the functions for starting/stopping the postmaster.