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* Make documentation of --help and --version options more consistentPeter Eisentraut2012-06-18
| | | | | | Before, some places didn't document the short options (-? and -V), some documented both, some documented nothing, and they were listed in various orders. Now this is hopefully more consistent and complete.
* Fix stats collector to recover nicely when system clock goes backwards.Tom Lane2012-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, if the system clock went backwards, the stats collector would fail to update the stats file any more until the clock reading again exceeds whatever timestamp was last written into the stats file. Such glitches in the clock's behavior are not terribly unlikely on machines not using NTP. Such a scenario has been observed to cause regression test failures in the buildfarm, and it could have bad effects on the behavior of autovacuum, so it seems prudent to install some defenses. We could directly detect the clock going backwards by adding GetCurrentTimestamp calls in the stats collector's main loop, but that would hurt performance on platforms where GetCurrentTimestamp is expensive. To minimize the performance hit in normal cases, adopt a more complicated scheme wherein backends check for clock skew when reading the stats file, and if they see it, signal the stats collector by sending an extra stats inquiry message. The stats collector does an extra GetCurrentTimestamp only when it receives an inquiry with an apparently out-of-order timestamp. To avoid unnecessary GetCurrentTimestamp calls, expand the inquiry messages to carry the backend's current clock reading as well as its stats cutoff time. The latter, being intentionally slightly in-the-past, would trigger more clock rechecks than we need if it were used for this purpose. We might want to backpatch this change at some point, but let's let it shake out in the buildfarm for awhile first.
* Reorder basebackup options, to list pg_basebackup firstMagnus Hagander2012-06-17
| | | | | | | Since this is the easy way of doing it, it should be listed first. All the old information is retained for those who want the more advanced way. Also adds a subheading for compressing logs, that seems to have been missing
* Remove 'for' loop perltidy argument, and move args to perltidyrc file.Bruce Momjian2012-06-16
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.2. Per suggestion from Noah Misch
* In pgindent, suppress reading the perltidy RC file using --noprofile.Bruce Momjian2012-06-15
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* Update pgindent Perl indentation instructions based on feedback fromBruce Momjian2012-06-15
| | | | | | Àlvaro and Noah Misch. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Improve pg_upgrade wording for pg_ctl start failure; could beBruce Momjian2012-06-15
| | | | | | | | connection failure. Backpatch to 9.2. Per report from Evan D. Hoffman
* Improve reporting of permission errors for array typesPeter Eisentraut2012-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Because permissions are assigned to element types, not array types, complaining about permission denied on an array type would be misleading to users. So adjust the reporting to refer to the element type instead. In order not to duplicate the required logic in two dozen places, refactor the permission denied reporting for types a bit. pointed out by Yeb Havinga during the review of the type privilege feature
* Add more message pluralizationPeter Eisentraut2012-06-15
| | | | | Even though we can't do much about the case with multiple plurals in one sentence, we can fix the other cases.
* Improve readability and error messages in pg_backup_start_time.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | Gurjeet Singh, with corrections by me.
* Doc corrections for pg_is_in_backup patch.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | Fujii Masao
* New SQL functons pg_backup_in_progress() and pg_backup_start_time()Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | Darold Gilles, reviewed by Gabriele Bartolini and others, rebased by Marco Nenciarini. Stylistic cleanup and OID fixes by me.
* During transaction cleanup, release locks before deleting files.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | There's no need to hold onto the locks until the files are needed, and by doing it this way, we reduce the impact on other backends who may be awaiting locks we hold. Noah Misch
* Add new function log_newpage_buffer.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | When I implemented the ginbuildempty() function as part of implementing unlogged tables, I falsified the note in the header comment for log_newpage. Although we could fix that up by changing the comment, it seems cleaner to add a new function which is specifically intended to handle this case. So do that.
* Remove misplaced sanity check from heap_create().Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Even when allow_system_table_mods is not set, we allow creation of any type of SQL object in pg_catalog, except for relations. And you can get relations into pg_catalog, too, by initially creating them in some other schema and then moving them with ALTER .. SET SCHEMA. So this restriction, which prevents relations (only) from being created in pg_catalog directly, is fairly pointless. If we need a safety mechanism for this, it should be placed further upstream, so that it affects all SQL objects uniformly, and picks up both CREATE and SET SCHEMA. For now, just rip it out, per discussion with Tom Lane.
* Remove RELKIND_UNCATALOGED.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | This may have been important at some point in the past, but it no longer does anything useful. Review by Tom Lane.
* Make \conninfo print SSL information.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | Alastair Turner, per suggestion from Bruce Momjian.
* Add 9.2 branch to git_changelog's list.Tom Lane2012-06-13
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* Flesh out RELEASE_CHANGES instructions for branching in git.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | We have this info in the wiki, but it should be here too.
* Stamp library minor versions for 9.3.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | This includes fixing the MSVC copy of ecpg/preproc's version info, which seems to have been overlooked repeatedly. Can't we fix that so there are not two copies??
* Stamp HEAD as 9.3devel.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | Let the hacking begin ...
* Revisit error message details for JSON input parsing.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | Instead of identifying error locations only by line number (which could be entirely unhelpful with long input lines), provide a fragment of the input text too, placing this info in a new CONTEXT entry. Make the error detail messages conform more closely to style guidelines, fix failure to expose some of them for translation, ensure compiler can check formats against supplied parameters.
* Remove release note entry for reverted patch.Tom Lane2012-06-13
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* Revert "Reduce checkpoints and WAL traffic on low activity database server"Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 18fb9d8d21a28caddb72c7ffbdd7b96d52ff9724. Per discussion, it does not seem like a good idea to allow committed changes to go un-checkpointed indefinitely, as could happen in a low-traffic server; that makes us entirely reliant on the WAL stream with no redundancy that might aid data recovery in case of disk failure. This re-introduces the original problem of hot-standby setups generating a small continuing stream of WAL traffic even when idle, but there are other ways to address that without compromising crash recovery, so we'll revisit that issue in a future release cycle.
* Fix description of SQL-standard meaning of CREATE LOCAL TEMP TABLE.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | I had this slightly wrong, as noted by Noah Misch.
* Deprecate use of GLOBAL and LOCAL in temp table creation.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Aside from adjusting the documentation to say that these are deprecated, we now report a warning (not an error) for use of GLOBAL, since it seems fairly likely that we might change that to request SQL-spec-compliant temp table behavior in the foreseeable future. Although our handling of LOCAL is equally nonstandard, there is no evident interest in ever implementing SQL modules, and furthermore some other products interpret LOCAL as behaving the same way we do. So no expectation of change and no warning for LOCAL; but it still seems a good idea to deprecate writing it. Noah Misch
* Support Linux's oom_score_adj API as well as the older oom_adj API.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | The simplest way to handle this is just to copy-and-paste the relevant code block in fork_process.c, so that's what I did. (It's possible that something more complicated would be useful to packagers who want to work with either the old or the new API; but at this point the number of such people is rapidly approaching zero, so let's just get the minimal thing done.) Update relevant documentation as well.
* In pg_upgrade, verify that the install user has the same oid on bothBruce Momjian2012-06-13
| | | | | | clusters, and make sure the new cluster has no additional users. Backpatch to 9.1.
* Improve documentation of postgres -C optionPeter Eisentraut2012-06-13
| | | | | | Clarify help (s/return/print/), and explain that this option is for use by other programs, not for user-facing use (it does not print units).
* Minor code review for json.c.Tom Lane2012-06-12
| | | | | Improve commenting, conform to project style for use of ++ etc. No functional changes.
* Mark JSON error detail messages for translation.Robert Haas2012-06-12
| | | | Per gripe from Tom Lane.
* Copy-editing of release notes.Robert Haas2012-06-12
| | | | | | | Remove a couple of items that were actually back-patched bug fixes. Add additional details to a couple of items which lacked a description. Improve attributions for a couple of items I was involved with. A few other miscellaneous corrections.
* Ensure pg_ctl behaves sanely when data directory is not specified.Tom Lane2012-06-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit aaa6e1def292cdacb6b27088898793b1b879fedf introduced multiple hazards in the case where pg_ctl is executed with neither a -D switch nor any PGDATA environment variable. It would dump core on machines which are unforgiving about printf("%s", NULL), or failing that possibly give a rather unhelpful complaint about being unable to execute "postgres -C", rather than the logically prior complaint about not being told where the data directory is. Edmund Horner's report suggests that there is another, Windows-specific hazard here, but I'm not the person to fix that; it would in any case only be significant when trying to use a config-only PGDATA pointer.
* Fix pg_dump output to a named tar-file archive.Tom Lane2012-06-11
| | | | | | | | "pg_dump -Ft -f filename ..." got broken by my recent commit 4317e0246c645f60c39e6572644cff1cb03b4c65, which I fear I only tested in the output-to-stdout variant. Report and fix by Muhammad Asif Naeem.
* pg_receivexlog: Rename option --dir to --directoryPeter Eisentraut2012-06-12
| | | | | | | | getopt_long() allows abbreviating long options, so we might as well give the option the full name, and users can abbreviate it how they like. Do some general polishing of the --help output at the same time.
* Prevent non-streaming replication connections from being selected sync slaveMagnus Hagander2012-06-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | This prevents a pg_basebackup backup session that just does a base backup (no xlog involved at all) from becoming the synchronous slave and thus blocking all access while it runs. Also fixes the problem when a higher priority slave shows up it would become the sync standby before it has reached the STREAMING state, by making sure we can only switch to a walsender that's actually STREAMING. Fujii Masao
* Revert behaviour of -x/--xlog to 9.1 semanticsMagnus Hagander2012-06-11
| | | | | | | | To replace it, add -X/--xlog-method that allows the specification of fetch or stream. Do this to avoid unnecessary backwards-incompatiblity. Spotted and suggested by Peter Eisentraut.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Update pgindent install instructions and update typedef list.Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Fix pg_basebackup/pg_receivexlog for floating point timestampsMagnus Hagander2012-06-10
| | | | | | | Since the replication protocol deals with TimestampTz, we need to care for the floating point case as well in the frontend tools. Fujii Masao, with changes from Magnus Hagander
* Error message capitalization fixMagnus Hagander2012-06-10
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* Make include files work without having to include other ones firstPeter Eisentraut2012-06-10
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* Revert error message on GLOBAL/LOCAL pending further discussionSimon Riggs2012-06-10
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* Add ERROR msg for GLOBAL/LOCAL TEMP is not yet implementedSimon Riggs2012-06-09
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* Fix bug in early startup of Hot Standby with subtransactions.Simon Riggs2012-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | When HS startup is deferred because of overflowed subtransactions, ensure that we re-initialize KnownAssignedXids for when both existing and incoming snapshots have non-zero qualifying xids. Fixes bug #6661 reported by Valentine Gogichashvili. Analysis and fix by Andres Freund
* When using libpq URI syntax, error out on invalid parameter names.Robert Haas2012-06-08
| | | | Dan Farina
* Documentation style improvementsPeter Eisentraut2012-06-08
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* Scan the buffer pool just once, not once per fork, during relation drop.Tom Lane2012-06-07
| | | | | | | | This provides a speedup of about 4X when NBuffers is large enough. There is also a useful reduction in sinval traffic, since we only do CacheInvalidateSmgr() once not once per fork. Simon Riggs, reviewed and somewhat revised by Tom Lane
* Documentation spell and markup checkingPeter Eisentraut2012-06-08
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* Message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut2012-06-07
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