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* Rethink the locking mechanisms used for CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE.Tom Lane2006-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The former approach used ExclusiveLock on pg_database, which being a cluster-wide lock meant only one of these operations could proceed at a time; worse, it also blocked all incoming connections in ReverifyMyDatabase. Now that we have LockSharedObject(), we can use locks of different types applied to databases considered as objects. This allows much more flexible management of the interlocking: two CREATE DATABASEs need not block each other, and need not block connections except to the template database being used. Similarly DROP DATABASE doesn't block unrelated operations. The locking used in flatfiles.c is also much narrower in scope than before. Per recent proposal.
* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Autovacuum loose end mop-up. Provide autovacuum-specific vacuum costTom Lane2005-08-11
| | | | | | | delay and limit, both as global GUCs and as table-specific entries in pg_autovacuum. stats_reset_on_server_start is now OFF by default, but a reset is forced if we did WAL replay. XID-wrap vacuums do not ANALYZE, but do FREEZE if it's a template database. Alvaro Herrera
* Make use of new list primitives list_append_unique and list_concat_uniqueTom Lane2005-07-28
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* Arrange for the postmaster (and standalone backends, initdb, etc) toTom Lane2005-07-04
| | | | | | | | chdir into PGDATA and subsequently use relative paths instead of absolute paths to access all files under PGDATA. This seems to give a small performance improvement, and it should make the system more robust against naive DBAs doing things like moving a database directory that has a live postmaster in it. Per recent discussion.
* More cleanup on roles patch. Allow admin option to be inherited throughTom Lane2005-06-29
| | | | | | role memberships; make superuser/createrole distinction do something useful; fix some locking and CommandCounterIncrement issues; prevent creation of loops in the membership graph.
* Fix up problems in write_auth_file and parsing of the auth file.Tom Lane2005-06-28
| | | | | In particular, make hba.c cope with zero-length tokens, which it never did properly before. Also, enforce rolcanlogin.
* Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authidTom Lane2005-06-28
| | | | | | | | and pg_auth_members. There are still many loose ends to finish in this patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for instance). But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can make some progress on shared dependencies. The catalog changes should be pretty much done.
* Two-phase commit. Original patch by Heikki Linnakangas, with additionalTom Lane2005-06-17
| | | | hacking by Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
* Remove the mostly-stubbed-out-anyway support routines for WAL UNDO.Tom Lane2005-06-06
| | | | | | That code is never going to be used in the foreseeable future, and where it's more than a stub it's making the redo routines harder to read.
* Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane2005-04-14
| | | | | | | indexes. Replace all heap_openr and index_openr calls by heap_open and index_open. Remove runtime lookups of catalog OID numbers in various places. Remove relcache's support for looking up system catalogs by name. Bulky but mostly very boring patch ...
* First phase of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane2005-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | indexes. Extend the macros in include/catalog/*.h to carry the info about hand-assigned OIDs, and adjust the genbki script and bootstrap code to make the relations actually get those OIDs. Remove the small number of RelOid_pg_foo macros that we had in favor of a complete set named like the catname.h and indexing.h macros. Next phase will get rid of internal use of names for looking up catalogs and indexes; but this completes the changes forcing an initdb, so it looks like a good place to commit. Along the way, I made the shared relations (pg_database etc) not be 'bootstrap' relations any more, so as to reduce the number of hardwired entries and simplify changing those relations in future. I'm not sure whether they ever really needed to be handled as bootstrap relations, but it seems to work fine to not do so now.
* Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hackTom Lane2005-02-26
| | | | | | | | | | | in favor of looking at the flat file copy of pg_database during backend startup. This should finally eliminate the various corner cases in which backend startup fails unexpectedly because it isn't able to distinguish live and dead tuples in pg_database. Simplify locking on pg_database to be similar to the rules used with pg_shadow and pg_group, and eliminate FlushRelationBuffers operations that were used only to reduce the odds of failure of GetRawDatabaseInfo. initdb forced due to addition of a trigger to pg_database.
* Use SnapshotNow instead of SnapshotSelf for reading the catalogsTom Lane2005-02-20
| | | | | | | | during flat-file writing. The only difference is that SnapshotSelf would consider tuples of the 'current command' within the current transaction as valid, where SnapshotNow wouldn't. We can eliminate the need for this with one extra CommandCounterIncrement call before we start reading the catalogs.
* Flat file cleanup phase 2: make it work for pg_group. The flat groupTom Lane2005-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | file now identifies group members by usesysid not name; this avoids needing to depend on SearchSysCache which we can't use during startup. (The old representation was entirely broken anyway, since we did not regenerate the file following RENAME USER.) It's only a 95% solution because if the group membership list is big enough to be toasted out of line, we cannot read it during startup. I think this will do for the moment, until we have time to implement the planned pg_role replacement for pg_group.
* Add code to prevent transaction ID wraparound by enforcing a safe limitTom Lane2005-02-20
in GetNewTransactionId(). Since the limit value has to be computed before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid. This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are not properly updated during WAL recovery. The code I've added to startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing the XID wraparound limit value. This will eventually allow us to get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add a trigger to pg_database.