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* Edit the SSL and Kerberos parts of the release notes a bit, and addMagnus Hagander2009-05-11
| | | | a note about the certificates chains patch just applied.
* Support SSL certificate chains in the server certificate file.Magnus Hagander2009-05-11
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* Make a marginal performance improvement in predicate_implied_by andTom Lane2009-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | predicate_refuted_by: if either top-level input is a single-element list, reduce it to its lone member before proceeding. This avoids a useless level of AND-recursion within the recursive proof routines. It's worth doing because, for example, if the clause is a 100-element list and the predicate is a 1-element list then we'd otherwise strip the predicate's list structure 100 times as we iterate through the clause. It's only needed at top level because there won't be any trivial ANDs below that --- this situation is an artifact of the decision to represent even single-item conditions as Lists in the "implicit AND" format, and that format is only used at the top level of any predicate or restriction condition.
* Adjust pg_dumpall so that it emits ENCODING, LC_COLLATE, and LC_CTYPE optionsTom Lane2009-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | in its CREATE DATABASE commands only for databases that have settings different from the installation defaults. This is a low-tech method of avoiding unnecessary platform dependencies in dump files. Eventually we ought to have a platform-independent way of specifying LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE, but that's not going to happen for 8.4, and this patch at least avoids the issue for people who aren't setting up per-database locales. ENCODING doesn't have the platform dependency problem, but it seems consistent to make it act the same as the locale settings.
* Fix cost_nestloop and cost_hashjoin to model the behavior of semi and antiTom Lane2009-05-09
| | | | | | joins a bit better, ie, understand the differing cost functions for matched and unmatched outer tuples. There is more that could be done in cost_hashjoin but this already helps a great deal. Per discussions with Robert Haas.
* Add alternative expected output files for cs_CZ locale for btree_gist andHeikki Linnakangas2009-05-08
| | | | | tsearch2 tests. This should make 'comet_moth' buildfarm member pass contrib check. Zdenek Kotala.
* Add missing third argument to open().Bruce Momjian2009-05-08
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* 'PGDLLIMPORT' ShmemVariableCache, needed for pg_migrator.so functionBruce Momjian2009-05-08
| | | | | | linkage on Win32. Tested by Hiroshi Saito
* Add an option to AlterTableCreateToastTable() to allow its caller to forceTom Lane2009-05-07
| | | | | | | | a toast table to be built, even if the sum-of-column-widths calculation indicates one isn't needed. This is needed by pg_migrator because if the old table has a toast table, we have to migrate over the toast table since it might contain some live data, even though subsequent column drops could mean that no recently-added rows could require toasting.
* Change pgbench to use the table names pgbench_accounts, pgbench_branches,Tom Lane2009-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | pgbench_history, and pgbench_tellers, rather than just accounts, branches, history, and tellers. This is to prevent accidental conflicts with real application tables, as has been reported to happen at least once. Also remove the automatic "SET search_path = public" that it did at startup, as this seems to restrict testing flexibility without actually buying much. Per proposal by Joshua Drake and ensuing discussion. Joshua Drake and Tom Lane
* Ooops ... make_outerjoininfo wasn't actually enforcing the join orderTom Lane2009-05-07
| | | | | | restrictions specified for semijoins in optimizer/README, to wit that you can't reassociate outer joins into or out of the RHS of a semijoin. Per report from Heikki.
* Request XLOG switch before writing checkpoint in pg_start_backup(). OtherwiseHeikki Linnakangas2009-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | you can end up with an unrecoverable backup if you start a new base backup right after finishing archive recovery. In that scenario, the redo pointer of the checkpoint that pg_start_backup() writes points to the XLOG segment where the timeline-changing end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint is. The beginning of that segment contains pages with the old timeline ID, and we don't accept that in recovery unless we find a history file covering the old timeline ID. If you omit pg_xlog from the base backup and clear the archive directory before starting the backup, there will be no such history file available. The bug is present in all versions since PITR was introduced in 8.0, but I'm back-patching only back to 8.2. Earlier versions didn't have XLOG switch records, making this fix unfeasible. Given the lack of reports until now, it doesn't seem worthwhile to spend more effort to fix 8.0 and 8.1. Per report and suggestion by Mikael Krantz
* Tweak distribute_qual_to_rels so that when we decide a pseudoconstant qualTom Lane2009-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | can be pushed to the top of the join tree, we update both the relids and qualscope variables to keep them in sync. This prevents a possible later failure of an Assert clause, and affects nothing else since qualscope isn't used later except for that Assert. At the moment the Assert shouldn't be reachable when we've pushed the qual up; but this is cheap insurance, and it's more sensible anyway in terms of the overall logic of the routine. Per analysis of a bug report from Stefan Huehner. I'm not back-patching this since it's just future-proofing; but if anyone gets tempted to change check_outerjoin_delay again in the back branches, this might be needed.
* Modify CREATE DATABASE to enforce that the source database's encoding settingTom Lane2009-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | must be used for the new database, except when copying from template0. This is the same rule that we now enforce for locale settings, and it has the same motivation: databases other than template0 might contain data that would be invalid according to a different setting. This represents another step in a continuing process of locking down ways in which encoding violations could occur inside the backend. Per discussion of a few days ago. In passing, fix pre-existing breakage of mbregress.sh, and fix up a couple of ereport() calls in dbcommands.c that failed to specify sqlstate codes.
* Fix ecpg tests for change that disallowed Unicode literals unlessTom Lane2009-05-06
| | | | standard_conforming_strings is on.
* Tweak a comment to agree a bit better with the new dispensation thatTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | locales are database-wide, not server-wide.
* Minor improvement: avoid assuming that GetLastError value cannot beTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | affected by CloseHandle() or Sleep().
* Make new complaint about unsafe Unicode literals include an error location.Tom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | Every other ereport in scan.l has one, this should too.
* Install an atexit(2) callback that ensures that proc_exit's cleanup processingTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | will still be performed if something in a backend process calls exit() directly, instead of going through proc_exit() as we prefer. This is a second response to the issue that we might load third-party code that doesn't know it should not call exit(). Such a call will now cause a reasonably graceful backend shutdown, if possible. (Of course, if the reason for the exit() call is out-of-memory or some such, we might not be able to recover, but at least we will try.)
* Install a "dead man switch" to allow the postmaster to detect cases whereTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a backend has done exit(0) or exit(1) without having disengaged itself from shared memory. We are at risk for this whenever third-party code is loaded into a backend, since such code might not know it's supposed to go through proc_exit() instead. Also, it is reported that under Windows there are ways to externally kill a process that cause the status code returned to the postmaster to be indistinguishable from a voluntary exit (thank you, Microsoft). If this does happen then the system is probably hosed --- for instance, the dead session might still be holding locks. So the best recovery method is to treat this like a backend crash. The dead man switch is armed for a particular child process when it acquires a regular PGPROC, and disarmed when the PGPROC is released; these should be the first and last touches of shared memory resources in a backend, or close enough anyway. This choice means there is no coverage for auxiliary processes, but I doubt we need that, since they shouldn't be executing any user-provided code anyway. This patch also improves the management of the EXEC_BACKEND ShmemBackendArray array a bit, by reducing search costs. Although this problem is of long standing, the lack of field complaints seems to mean it's not critical enough to risk back-patching; at least not till we get some more testing of this mechanism.
* Insert CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls into btree and hash index scans at theTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | points where we step right or left to the next page. This should ensure reasonable response time to a query cancel request during an unsuccessful index scan, as seen in recent gripe from Marc Cousin. It's a bit trickier than it might seem at first glance, because CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() is a no-op if executed while holding a buffer lock. So we have to do it just at the point where we've dropped one page lock and not yet acquired the next. Remove CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls at the top level of btgetbitmap and hashgetbitmap, since they're pointless given the added checks. I think that GIST is okay already --- at least, there's a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS at a plausible-looking place in gistnext(). I don't claim to know GIN well enough to try to poke it for this, if indeed it has a problem at all. This is a pre-existing issue, but in view of the lack of prior complaints I'm not going to risk back-patching.
* Update comment for _bt_relandgetbuf.Tom Lane2009-05-05
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* Disable the use of Unicode escapes in string constants (U&'') whenPeter Eisentraut2009-05-05
| | | | standard_conforming_strings is not on, for security reasons.
* Avoid integer overflow in the loop that extracts histogram entries fromTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | | | ANALYZE's total sample. The original coding is at risk of overflow for statistics targets exceeding about 2675; this was not a problem before 8.4 but it is now. Per bug #4793 from Dennis Noordsij.
* Make the win32 shared memory code try 10 times instead of one ifMagnus Hagander2009-05-05
| | | | | | | it fails because the shared memory segment already exists. This means it can take up to 10 seconds before it reports the error if it *does* exist, but hopefully it will make the system capable of restarting even when the server is under high load.
* Code review for \df rewrite: fix assorted bugs, make type andTom Lane2009-05-05
| | | | volatility columns localizable.
* Fix the query used for \d against 8.2 and 8.3 servers.Heikki Linnakangas2009-05-04
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* Update no longer current comments in header.Magnus Hagander2009-05-04
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* Call SetLastError(0) before calling the file mapping functionsMagnus Hagander2009-05-04
| | | | | | | to make sure that the error code is reset, as a precaution in case the API doesn't properly reset it on success. This could be necessary, since we check the error value even if the function doesn't fail for specific success cases.
* Replace a couple of references to files that no longer exist in the sourcePeter Eisentraut2009-05-04
| | | | | | tree with references to the appropriate URLs. Robert Haas
* Fix missed usage of DLNewElem()Tom Lane2009-05-04
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* Avoid a memory allocation in the backend startup code, to avoid having to checkAlvaro Herrera2009-05-04
| | | | | whether it failed. Modelled after catcache.c's usage of DlList, per suggestion from Tom.
* Fix pg_resetxlog to remove archive status files along with WAL segment files.Tom Lane2009-05-03
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Fix mis-description of XML Schema functions, per discussion.Tom Lane2009-05-03
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* Fix unintelligible description created by removing only part ofTom Lane2009-05-03
| | | | a parenthetical remark.
* Fix assign_pgstat_temp_directory() to ensure the directory path isTom Lane2009-05-03
| | | | canonicalized. Avoid the need to elog(FATAL) on out-of-memory.
* Fix already-obsolete hint message ... sslverify parameter is no more.Tom Lane2009-05-03
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* Update UTF-8 <--> EUC_KR, JOHAB, UHC mappings.Tatsuo Ishii2009-05-03
| | | | Patch contributed by Chuck McDevitt
* Install some simple defenses in postmaster startup to help ensure a usefulTom Lane2009-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | error message if the installation directory layout is messed up (or at least, something more useful than the behavior exhibited in bug #4787). During postmaster startup, check that get_pkglib_path resolves as a readable directory; and if ParseTzFile() fails to open the expected timezone abbreviation file, check the possibility that the directory is missing rather than just the specified file. In case of either failure, issue a hint suggesting that the installation is broken. These two checks cover the lib/ and share/ trees of a full installation, which should take care of most scenarios where a sysadmin decides to get cute.
* We don't need major_release_split any more.Tom Lane2009-05-02
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* Split the release notes into a separate file for each (active) major branch,Tom Lane2009-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | as per my recent proposal. release.sgml itself is now just a stub that should change rarely; ideally, only once per major release to add a new include line. Most editing work will occur in the release-N.N.sgml files. To update a back branch for a minor release, just copy the appropriate release-N.N.sgml file(s) into the back branch. This commit doesn't change the end-product documentation at all, only the source layout. However, it makes it easy to start omitting ancient information from newer branches' documentation, should we ever decide to do that.
* Fix plpgsql's EXIT so that an EXIT without a label only matches a loop,Tom Lane2009-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | never a BEGIN block. This is required for Oracle compatibility and is also plainly stated to be the behavior by our original documentation (up until 8.1, in which the docs were adjusted to match the code's behavior; but actually the old docs said the correct thing and the code was wrong). Not back-patched because this introduces an incompatibility that could break working applications. Requires release note.
* Fix a couple of cases where the plpgsql grammar looked for T_WORD andTom Lane2009-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | failed to consider the possibility that it would get T_SCALAR, T_RECORD, or T_ROW instead because the word happens to match a plpgsql variable name. In particular, give "duplicate declaration" rather than generic "syntax error" if the same identifier is declared twice in the same block, as per my recent complaint. Also behave more sanely when decl_aliasitem or proc_condition or opt_lblname is coincidentally not T_WORD. Refactor the related productions a bit to reduce duplication. This is a longstanding bug, but it doesn't seem critical enough to back-patch.
* When checking for datetime field overflow, we should allow a fractional-secondTom Lane2009-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | part that rounds up to exactly 1.0 second. The previous coding rejected input like "00:12:57.9999999999999999999999999999", with the exact number of nines needed to cause failure varying depending on float-timestamp option and possibly on platform. Obviously this should round up to the next integral second, if we don't have enough precision to distinguish the value from that. Per bug #4789 from Robert Kruus. In passing, fix a missed check for fractional seconds in one copy of the "is it greater than 24:00:00" code. Broken all the way back, so patch all the way back.
* Clean up check_keywords.pl script, making it 'strict' and removing a fewHeikki Linnakangas2009-04-30
| | | | | | leftover unused variables. Laurent Laborde
* Add check_keyword.pl script to perform some basic sanity checks to theHeikki Linnakangas2009-04-29
| | | | | | | | | keyword lists in gram.y and kwlist.h. It checks that all lists are in alphabetical order, and that all keywords present in gram.y are listed in kwlist.h in the right category, and that all keywords in kwlist.h are also in gram.y. What's still missing is to check that all keywords defined with "%token <keyword>" in gram.y are present in one of the keyword lists in gram.y.
* Improve pull_up_subqueries logic so that it doesn't insert unnecessaryTom Lane2009-04-28
| | | | | | | PlaceHolderVar nodes in join quals appearing in or below the lowest outer join that could null the subquery being pulled up. This improves the planner's ability to recognize constant join quals, and probably helps with detection of common sort keys (equivalence classes) as well.
* Blank line Makefile cleanups.Bruce Momjian2009-04-28
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* Move SERVER to the right place in the alphabetically sorted keyword list.Heikki Linnakangas2009-04-28
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* In VACUUM, FREEZE must be before ANALYZE; fix this in vacuumdb. DocsBruce Momjian2009-04-28
| | | | are already correct.