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* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Fix typos in commentsMagnus Hagander2015-05-17
| | | | Dmitriy Olshevskiy
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* Don't allow to disable backend assertions via the debug_assertions GUC.Andres Freund2014-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existance of the assert_enabled variable (backing the debug_assertions GUC) reduced the amount of knowledge some static code checkers (like coverity and various compilers) could infer from the existance of the assertion. That could have been solved by optionally removing the assertion_enabled variable from the Assert() et al macros at compile time when some special macro is defined, but the resulting complication doesn't seem to be worth the gain from having debug_assertions. Recompiling is fast enough. The debug_assertions GUC is still available, but readonly, as it's useful when diagnosing problems. The commandline/client startup option -A, which previously also allowed to enable/disable assertions, has been removed as it doesn't serve a purpose anymore. While at it, reduce code duplication in bufmgr.c and localbuf.c assertions checking for spurious buffer pins. That code had to be reindented anyway to cope with the assert_enabled removal.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Zero padding byte at end of GIN posting list.Heikki Linnakangas2014-04-07
| | | | This isn't strictly necessary, but helps debugging.
* Rewrite the way GIN posting lists are packed on a page, to reduce WAL volume.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Inserting (in retail) into the new 9.4 format GIN posting tree created much larger WAL records than in 9.3. The previous strategy to WAL logging was basically to log the whole page on each change, with the exception of completely unmodified segments up to the first modified one. That was not too bad when appending to the end of the page, as only the last segment had to be WAL-logged, but per Fujii Masao's testing, even that produced 2x the WAL volume that 9.3 did. The new strategy is to keep track of changes to the posting lists in a more fine-grained fashion, and also make the repacking" code smarter to avoid decoding and re-encoding segments unnecessarily.
* Change ginMergeItemPointers to return a palloc'd array.Heikki Linnakangas2014-03-24
| | | | | That seems nicer than making it the caller's responsibility to pass a suitable-sized array. All the callers were just palloc'ing an array anyway.
* Compress GIN posting lists, for smaller index size.Heikki Linnakangas2014-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GIN posting lists are now encoded using varbyte-encoding, which allows them to fit in much smaller space than the straight ItemPointer array format used before. The new encoding is used for both the lists stored in-line in entry tree items, and in posting tree leaf pages. To maintain backwards-compatibility and keep pg_upgrade working, the code can still read old-style pages and tuples. Posting tree leaf pages in the new format are flagged with GIN_COMPRESSED flag, to distinguish old and new format pages. Likewise, entry tree tuples in the new format have a GIN_ITUP_COMPRESSED flag set in a bit that was previously unused. This patch bumps GIN_CURRENT_VERSION from 1 to 2. New indexes created with version 9.4 will therefore have version number 2 in the metapage, while old pg_upgraded indexes will have version 1. The code treats them the same, but it might be come handy in the future, if we want to drop support for the uncompressed format. Alexander Korotkov and me. Reviewed by Tomas Vondra and Amit Langote.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Misc GIN refactoring.Heikki Linnakangas2013-11-06
Merge the isEnoughSpace and placeToPage functions in the b-tree interface into one function that tries to put a tuple on page, and returns false if it doesn't fit. Move createPostingTree function to gindatapage.c, and change its contract so that it can be passed more items than fit on the root page. It's in a better position than the callers to know how many items fit. Move ginMergeItemPointers out of gindatapage.c, into a separate file. These changes make no difference now, but reduce the footprint of Alexander Korotkov's upcoming patch to pack item pointers more tightly.