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* Widen amount-to-flush arguments of FileWriteback and callers.Tom Lane2016-04-13
| | | | | | It's silly to define these counts as narrower than they might someday need to be. Also, I believe that the BLCKSZ * nflush calculation in mdwriteback was capable of overflowing an int.
* Fix assorted portability issues with using msync() for data flushing.Tom Lane2016-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 428b1d6b29ca599c5700d4bc4f4ce4c5880369bf introduced the use of msync() for flushing dirty data from the kernel's file buffers. Several portability issues were overlooked, though: * Not all implementations of mmap() think that nbytes == 0 means "map the whole file". To fix, use lseek() to find out the true length. Fix callers of pg_flush_data to be aware that nbytes == 0 may result in trashing the file's seek position. * Not all implementations of mmap() will accept partial-page mmap requests. To fix, round down the length request to whatever sysconf() says the page size is. (I think this is OK from a portability standpoint, because sysconf() is required by SUS v2, and we aren't trying to compile this part on Windows anyway. Buildfarm should let us know if not.) * On 32-bit machines, the file size might exceed the available free address space, or even exceed what will fit in size_t. Check for the latter explicitly to avoid passing a false request size to mmap(). If mmap fails, silently fall through to the next implementation method, rather than bleating to the postmaster log and giving up. * mmap'ing directories fails on some platforms, and even if it works, msync'ing the directory is quite unlikely to help, as for that matter are the other flush implementations. In pre_sync_fname(), just skip flush attempts on directories. In passing, copy-edit the comments a bit. Stas Kelvich and myself
* Include portability/mem.h into fd.c for MAP_FAILED.Andres Freund2016-03-12
| | | | | | Buildfarm members gaur and pademelon are old enough not to know about MAP_FAILED; which is used in 428b1d6. Include portability/mem.h to fix; as already done in a bunch of other places.
* Allow to trigger kernel writeback after a configurable number of writes.Andres Freund2016-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently writes to the main data files of postgres all go through the OS page cache. This means that some operating systems can end up collecting a large number of dirty buffers in their respective page caches. When these dirty buffers are flushed to storage rapidly, be it because of fsync(), timeouts, or dirty ratios, latency for other reads and writes can increase massively. This is the primary reason for regular massive stalls observed in real world scenarios and artificial benchmarks; on rotating disks stalls on the order of hundreds of seconds have been observed. On linux it is possible to control this by reducing the global dirty limits significantly, reducing the above problem. But global configuration is rather problematic because it'll affect other applications; also PostgreSQL itself doesn't always generally want this behavior, e.g. for temporary files it's undesirable. Several operating systems allow some control over the kernel page cache. Linux has sync_file_range(2), several posix systems have msync(2) and posix_fadvise(2). sync_file_range(2) is preferable because it requires no special setup, whereas msync() requires the to-be-flushed range to be mmap'ed. For the purpose of flushing dirty data posix_fadvise(2) is the worst alternative, as flushing dirty data is just a side-effect of POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, which also removes the pages from the page cache. Thus the feature is enabled by default only on linux, but can be enabled on all systems that have any of the above APIs. While desirable and likely possible this patch does not contain an implementation for windows. With the infrastructure added, writes made via checkpointer, bgwriter and normal user backends can be flushed after a configurable number of writes. Each of these sources of writes controlled by a separate GUC, checkpointer_flush_after, bgwriter_flush_after and backend_flush_after respectively; they're separate because the number of flushes that are good are separate, and because the performance considerations of controlled flushing for each of these are different. A later patch will add checkpoint sorting - after that flushes from the ckeckpoint will almost always be desirable. Bgwriter flushes are most of the time going to be random, which are slow on lots of storage hardware. Flushing in backends works well if the storage and bgwriter can keep up, but if not it can have negative consequences. This patch is likely to have negative performance consequences without checkpoint sorting, but unfortunately so has sorting without flush control. Discussion: alpine.DEB.2.10.1506011320000.28433@sto Author: Fabien Coelho and Andres Freund
* Introduce durable_rename() and durable_link_or_rename().Andres Freund2016-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face of crashes; especially on filesystems like xfs and ext4 when mounted with data=writeback. To be certain that a rename() atomically replaces the previous file contents in the face of crashes and different filesystems, one has to fsync the old filename, rename the file, fsync the new filename, fsync the containing directory. This sequence is not generally adhered to currently; which exposes us to data loss risks. To avoid having to repeat this arduous sequence, introduce durable_rename(), which wraps all that. Also add durable_link_or_rename(). Several places use link() (with a fallback to rename()) to rename a file, trying to avoid replacing the target file out of paranoia. Some of those rename sequences need to be durable as well. There seems little reason extend several copies of the same logic, so centralize the link() callers. This commit does not yet make use of the new functions; they're used in a followup commit. Author: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: All supported branches
* Add some functions to fd.c for the convenience of extensions.Robert Haas2016-03-08
| | | | | | | | For example, if you want to perform an ioctl() on a file descriptor opened through the fd.c routines, there's no way to do that without being able to get at the underlying fd. KaiGai Kohei
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Remove special cases for ETXTBSY from new fsync'ing logic.Tom Lane2015-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | The argument that this is a sufficiently-expected case to be silently ignored seems pretty thin. Andres had brought it up back when we were still considering that most fsync failures should be hard errors, and it probably would be legit not to fail hard for ETXTBSY --- but the same is true for EROFS and other cases, which is why we gave up on hard failures. ETXTBSY is surely not a normal case, so logging the failure seems fine from here.
* Fix fsync-at-startup code to not treat errors as fatal.Tom Lane2015-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 2ce439f3379aed857517c8ce207485655000fc8e introduced a rather serious regression, namely that if its scan of the data directory came across any un-fsync-able files, it would fail and thereby prevent database startup. Worse yet, symlinks to such files also caused the problem, which meant that crash restart was guaranteed to fail on certain common installations such as older Debian. After discussion, we agreed that (1) failure to start is worse than any consequence of not fsync'ing is likely to be, therefore treat all errors in this code as nonfatal; (2) we should not chase symlinks other than those that are expected to exist, namely pg_xlog/ and tablespace links under pg_tblspc/. The latter restriction avoids possibly fsync'ing a much larger part of the filesystem than intended, if the user has left random symlinks hanging about in the data directory. This commit takes care of that and also does some code beautification, mainly moving the relevant code into fd.c, which seems a much better place for it than xlog.c, and making sure that the conditional compilation for the pre_sync_fname pass has something to do with whether pg_flush_data works. I also relocated the call site in xlog.c down a few lines; it seems a bit silly to be doing this before ValidateXLOGDirectoryStructure(). The similar logic in initdb.c ought to be made to match this, but that change is noncritical and will be dealt with separately. Back-patch to all active branches, like the prior commit. Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
* Fix assorted inconsistencies in our calls of readlink().Tom Lane2015-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure that we null-terminate the result string (one place in pg_rewind). Be paranoid about out-of-range results from readlink() (should not happen, but there is no good reason for some call sites to be careful about it and others not). Consistently use the whole buffer, not sometimes one byte less. Ensure we emit an appropriate errcode() in all cases. Spell the error messages the same way. The only serious bug here is the missing null-termination in pg_rewind, which is new code, so no need for a back-patch. Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
* pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian2015-05-23
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* Fix error message in pre_sync_fname.Robert Haas2015-05-18
| | | | | | | The old one didn't include %m anywhere, and required extra translation. Report by Peter Eisentraut. Fix by me. Review by Tom Lane.
* Fix some problems with patch to fsync the data directory.Robert Haas2015-05-05
| | | | | | | | pg_win32_is_junction() was a typo for pgwin32_is_junction(). open() was used not only in a two-argument form, which breaks on Windows, but also where BasicOpenFile() should have been used. Per reports from Andrew Dunstan and David Rowley.
* Recursively fsync() the data directory after a crash.Robert Haas2015-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise, if there's another crash, some writes from after the first crash might make it to disk while writes from before the crash fail to make it to disk. This could lead to data corruption. Back-patch to all supported versions. Abhijit Menon-Sen, reviewed by Andres Freund and slightly revised by me.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* Sync unlogged relations to disk after they have been reset.Andres Freund2014-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unlogged relations are only reset when performing a unclean restart. That means they have to be synced to disk during clean shutdowns. During normal processing that's achieved by registering a buffer's file to be fsynced at the next checkpoint when flushed. But ResetUnloggedRelations() doesn't go through the buffer manager, so nothing will force reset relations to disk before the next shutdown checkpoint. So just make ResetUnloggedRelations() fsync the newly created main forks to disk. Discussion: 20140912112246.GA4984@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch to 9.1 where unlogged tables were introduced. Abhijit Menon-Sen and Andres Freund
* Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.Heikki Linnakangas2014-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c. Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places. Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
* 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.
* Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].Tom Lane2014-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a73018392636ce832b09b5c31f6ad1f18a4643ea created rather a mess by putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common. We really shouldn't do that. To clean it up: * Move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY back to its longtime home in catalog/catalog.h. We won't consider this symbol part of the FE/BE API. * Push enum ForkNumber from relfilenode.h into relpath.h. We'll consider relpath.h as the source of truth for fork numbers, since relpath.c was already partially serving that function, and anyway relfilenode.h was kind of a random place for that enum. * So, relfilenode.h now includes relpath.h rather than vice-versa. This direction of dependency is fine. (That allows most, but not quite all, of the existing explicit #includes of relpath.h to go away again.) * Push forkname_to_number from catalog.c to relpath.c, just to centralize fork number stuff a bit better. * Push GetDatabasePath from catalog.c to relpath.c; it was rather odd that the previous commit didn't keep this together with relpath(). * To avoid needing relfilenode.h in common/, redefine the underlying function (now called GetRelationPath) as taking separate OID arguments, and make the APIs using RelFileNode or RelFileNodeBackend into macro wrappers. (The macros have a potential multiple-eval risk, but none of the existing call sites have an issue with that; one of them had such a risk already anyway.) * Fix failure to follow the directions when "init" fork type was added; specifically, the errhint in forkname_to_number wasn't updated, and neither was the SGML documentation for pg_relation_size(). * Fix tablespace-path-too-long check in CreateTableSpace() to account for fork-name component of maximum-length pathnames. This requires putting FORKNAMECHARS into a header file, but it was rather useless (and actually unreferenced) where it was. The last couple of items are potentially back-patchable bug fixes, if anyone is sufficiently excited about them; but personally I'm not. Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't self-contained.
* Remove MinGW readdir/errno bug workaround fixed on 2003-10-10Bruce Momjian2014-03-21
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* Properly check for readdir/closedir() failuresBruce Momjian2014-03-21
| | | | | | | Clear errno before calling readdir() and handle old MinGW errno bug while adding full test coverage for readdir/closedir failures. Backpatch through 8.4.
* C comments: remove odd blank lines after #ifdef WIN32 linesBruce Momjian2014-03-13
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* Allow use of "z" flag in our printf calls, and use it where appropriate.Tom Lane2014-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since C99, it's been standard for printf and friends to accept a "z" size modifier, meaning "whatever size size_t has". Up to now we've generally dealt with printing size_t values by explicitly casting them to unsigned long and using the "l" modifier; but this is really the wrong thing on platforms where pointers are wider than longs (such as Win64). So let's start using "z" instead. To ensure we can do that on all platforms, teach src/port/snprintf.c to understand "z", and add a configure test to force use of that implementation when the platform's version doesn't handle "z". Having done that, modify a bunch of places that were using the unsigned-long hack to use "z" instead. This patch doesn't pretend to have gotten everyplace that could benefit, but it catches many of them. I made an effort in particular to ensure that all uses of the same error message text were updated together, so as not to increase the number of translatable strings. It's possible that this change will result in format-string warnings from pre-C99 compilers. We might have to reconsider if there are any popular compilers that will warn about this; but let's start by seeing what the buildfarm thinks. Andres Freund, with a little additional work by me
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Ensure all files created for a single BufFile have the same resource owner.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | Callers expect that they only have to set the right resource owner when creating a BufFile, not during subsequent operations on it. While we could insist this be fixed at the caller level, it seems more sensible for the BufFile to take care of it. Without this, some temp files belonging to a BufFile can go away too soon, eg at the end of a subtransaction, leading to errors or crashes. Reported and fixed by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all active branches.
* Expose fsync_fname as a public API.Robert Haas2013-09-04
| | | | Andres Freund
* Remove fixed limit on the number of concurrent AllocateFile() requests.Tom Lane2013-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AllocateFile(), AllocateDir(), and some sister routines share a small array for remembering requests, so that the files can be closed on transaction failure. Previously that array had a fixed size, MAX_ALLOCATED_DESCS (32). While historically that had seemed sufficient, Steve Toutant pointed out that this meant you couldn't scan more than 32 file_fdw foreign tables in one query, because file_fdw depends on the COPY code which uses AllocateFile(). There are probably other cases, or will be in the future, where this nonconfigurable limit impedes users. We can't completely remove any such limit, at least not without a lot of work, since each such request requires a kernel file descriptor and most platforms limit the number we can have. (In principle we could "virtualize" these descriptors, as fd.c already does for the main VFD pool, but not without an additional layer of overhead and a lot of notational impact on the calling code.) But we can at least let the array size be configurable. Hence, change the code to allow up to max_safe_fds/2 allocated file requests. On modern platforms this should allow several hundred concurrent file_fdw scans, or more if one increases the value of max_files_per_process. To go much further than that, we'd need to do some more work on the data structure, since the current code for closing requests has potentially O(N^2) runtime; but it should still be all right for request counts in this range. Back-patch to 9.1 where contrib/file_fdw was introduced.
* Fix fd.c to preserve errno where needed.Tom Lane2013-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PathNameOpenFile failed to ensure that the correct value of errno was returned to its caller after a failure (because it incorrectly supposed that free() can never change errno). In some cases this would result in a user-visible failure because an expected ENOENT errno was replaced with something else. Bogus EINVAL failures have been observed on OS X, for example. There were also a couple of places that could mangle an important value of errno if FDDEBUG was defined. While the usefulness of that debug support is highly debatable, we might as well make it safe to use, so add errno save/restore logic to the DO_DB macro. Per bug #8167 from Nelson Minar, diagnosed by RhodiumToad. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Add support for piping COPY to/from an external program.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This includes backend "COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM '...'" syntax, and corresponding psql \copy syntax. Like with reading/writing files, the backend version is superuser-only, and in the psql version, the program is run in the client. In the passing, the psql \copy STDIN/STDOUT syntax is subtly changed: if you the stdin/stdout is quoted, it's now interpreted as a filename. For example, "\copy foo from 'stdin'" now reads from a file called 'stdin', not from standard input. Before this, there was no way to specify a filename called stdin, stdout, pstdin or pstdout. This creates a new function in pgport, wait_result_to_str(), which can be used to convert the exit status of a process, as returned by wait(3), to a human-readable string. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
* Move relpath() to libpgcommonAlvaro Herrera2013-02-21
| | | | | | | This enables non-backend code, such as pg_xlogdump, to use it easily. The previous location, in src/backend/catalog/catalog.c, made that essentially impossible because that file depends on many backend-only facilities; so this needs to live separately.
* Fix yet another typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas2013-02-20
| | | | Etsuro Fujita
* Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to itAlvaro Herrera2013-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | libpgcommon is a new static library to allow sharing code among the various frontend programs and backend; this lets us eliminate duplicate implementations of common routines. We avoid libpgport, because that's intended as a place for porting issues; per discussion, it seems better to keep them separate. The first use case, and the only implemented by this patch, is pg_malloc and friends, which many frontend programs were already using. At the same time, we can use this to provide palloc emulation functions for the frontend; this way, some palloc-using files in the backend can also be used by the frontend cleanly. To do this, we change palloc() in the backend to be a function instead of a macro on top of MemoryContextAlloc(). This was previously believed to cause loss of performance, but this implementation has been tweaked by Tom and Andres so that on modern compilers it provides a slight improvement over the previous one. This lets us clean up some places that were already with localized hacks. Most of the pg_malloc/palloc changes in this patch were authored by Andres Freund. Zoltán Böszörményi also independently provided a form of that. libpgcommon infrastructure was authored by Álvaro.
* Fix another typo in a commentMagnus Hagander2013-02-08
| | | | Noted by Thom Brown
* Fix typo in commentMagnus Hagander2013-02-08
| | | | Etsuro Fujita
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Add OpenTransientFile, with automatic cleanup at end-of-xact.Heikki Linnakangas2012-11-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Files opened with BasicOpenFile or PathNameOpenFile are not automatically cleaned up on error. That puts unnecessary burden on callers that only want to keep the file open for a short time. There is AllocateFile, but that returns a buffered FILE * stream, which in many cases is not the nicest API to work with. So add function called OpenTransientFile, which returns a unbuffered fd that's cleaned up like the FILE* returned by AllocateFile(). This plugs a few rare fd leaks in error cases: 1. copy_file() - fixed by by using OpenTransientFile instead of BasicOpenFile 2. XLogFileInit() - fixed by adding close() calls to the error cases. Can't use OpenTransientFile here because the fd is supposed to persist over transaction boundaries. 3. lo_import/lo_export - fixed by using OpenTransientFile instead of PathNameOpenFile. In addition to plugging those leaks, this replaces many BasicOpenFile() calls with OpenTransientFile() that were not leaking, because the code meticulously closed the file on error. That wasn't strictly necessary, but IMHO it's good for robustness. The same leaks exist in older versions, but given the rarity of the issues, I'm not backpatching this. Not yet, anyway - it might be good to backpatch later, after this mechanism has had some more testing in master branch.
* Revert "Use "transient" files for blind writes, take 2".Tom Lane2012-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit fba105b1099f4f5fa7283bb17cba6fed2baa8d0c. That approach had problems with the smgr-level state not tracking what we really want to happen, and with the VFD-level state not tracking the smgr-level state very well either. In consequence, it was still possible to hold kernel file descriptors open for long-gone tables (as in recent report from Tore Halset), and yet there were also cases of FDs being closed undesirably soon. A replacement implementation will follow.
* Comment fixes.Robert Haas2012-08-30
| | | | Jeff Davis, somewhat edited by me
* Split resowner.hAlvaro Herrera2012-08-28
| | | | | This lets files that are mere users of ResourceOwner not automatically include the headers for stuff that is managed by the resowner mechanism.
* Improve copydir() code for the case that fsync is off.Tom Lane2012-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | We should avoid calling sync_file_range or posix_fadvise in this case, since (a) we don't really care if the data gets synced, and might as well save the kernel calls; (b) at least on Linux we know that the kernel might block us until it's scheduled the write. Also, avoid making a useless second traversal of the directory tree if we're not actually going to call fsync(2) after all.
* Add fsync capability to initdb, and use sync_file_range() if available.Tom Lane2012-07-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically we have not worried about fsync'ing anything during initdb (in fact, initdb intentionally passes -F to each backend launch to prevent it from fsync'ing). But with filesystems getting more aggressive about caching data, that's not such a good plan anymore. Make initdb do a pass over the finished data directory tree to fsync everything. For testing purposes, the -N/--nosync flag can be used to restore the old behavior. Also, testing shows that on Linux, sync_file_range() is much faster than posix_fadvise() for hinting to the kernel that an fsync is coming, apparently because the latter blocks on a rather small request queue while the former doesn't. So use this function if available in initdb, and also in the backend's pg_flush_data() (where it currently will affect only the speed of CREATE DATABASE's cloning step). We will later make pg_regress invoke initdb with the --nosync flag to avoid slowing down cases such as "make check" in contrib. But let's not do so until we've shaken out any portability issues in this patch. Jeff Davis, reviewed by Andres Freund
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Lots of doc corrections.Robert Haas2012-04-23
| | | | Josh Kupershmidt
* Inherit max_safe_fds to child processes in EXEC_BACKEND mode.Heikki Linnakangas2012-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Postmaster sets max_safe_fds by testing how many open file descriptors it can open, and that is normally inherited by all child processes at fork(). Not so on EXEC_BACKEND, ie. Windows, however. Because of that, we effectively ignored max_files_per_process on Windows, and always assumed a conservative default of 32 simultaneous open files. That could have an impact on performance, if you need to access a lot of different files in a query. After this patch, the value is passed to child processes by save/restore_backend_variables() among many other global variables. It has been like this forever, but given the lack of complaints about it, I'm not backpatching this.
* Clean up compiler warnings from unused variables with asserts disabledPeter Eisentraut2012-03-21
| | | | | | For those variables only used when asserts are enabled, use a new macro PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY, which expands to __attribute__((unused)) when asserts are not enabled.
* Prevent logging "failed to stat file: success" for temp filesMagnus Hagander2012-01-28
| | | | | | | This was broken in commit bc3347484a7bf9eddb98e4352d84599cae9a31c6, the addition of statistics counters for temp files. Reported by Thom Brown
* Add missing #include, to suppress compiler warning.Robert Haas2012-01-26
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* Track temporary file count and size in pg_stat_databaseMagnus Hagander2012-01-26
| | | | | | | | Add counters for number and size of temporary files used for spill-to-disk queries for each database to the pg_stat_database view. Tomas Vondra, review by Magnus Hagander
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Change debug message from ereport to elogPeter Eisentraut2011-07-19
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