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* pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian2010-02-26
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* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Allow read only connections during recovery, known as Hot Standby.Simon Riggs2009-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record. New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far. This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required. Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit. Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
* Fix snapshot management, take two.Alvaro Herrera2009-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Partially revert the previous patch I installed and replace it with a more general fix: any time a snapshot is pushed as Active, we need to ensure that it will not be modified in the future. This means that if the same snapshot is used as CurrentSnapshot, it needs to be copied separately. This affects serializable transactions only, because CurrentSnapshot has already been copied by RegisterSnapshot and so PushActiveSnapshot does not think it needs another copy. However, CommandCounterIncrement would modify CurrentSnapshot, whereas ActiveSnapshots must not have their command counters incremented. I say "partially" because the regression test I added for the previous bug has been kept. (This restores 8.3 behavior, because before snapmgr.c existed, any snapshot set as Active was copied.) Per bug report from Stuart Bishop in 6bc73d4c0910042358k3d1adff3qa36f8df75198ecea@mail.gmail.com
* Ensure that a cursor has an immutable snapshot throughout its lifespan.Alvaro Herrera2009-10-02
| | | | | | | | | The old coding was using a regular snapshot, referenced elsewhere, that was subject to having its command counter updated. Fix by creating a private copy of the snapshot exclusively for the cursor. Backpatch to 8.4, which is when the bug was introduced during the snapshot management rewrite.
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
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* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Fix a couple of snapshot management bugs in the new ResourceOwner world:Alvaro Herrera2008-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | non-writable large objects need to have their snapshots registered on the transaction resowner, not the current portal's, because it must persist until the large object is closed (which the portal does not). Also, ensure that the serializable snapshot is recorded by the transaction resource owner too, even when a subtransaction has changed the current resource owner before serializable is taken. Per bug reports from Pavan Deolasee.
* Use ResourceOwners in the snapshot manager, instead of attempting to track themAlvaro Herrera2008-11-25
| | | | | | | | by hand. As an added bonus, the new code is smaller and more understandable, and the ugly loops are gone. This had been discussed all along but never implemented. It became clear that it really needed to be fixed after a bug report by Pavan Deolasee.
* Downgrade can't-happen error reports to elog().Alvaro Herrera2008-10-27
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* Initialize the minimum frozen Xid in vac_update_datfrozenxid usingAlvaro Herrera2008-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GetOldestXmin() instead of RecentGlobalXmin; this is safer because we do not depend on the latter being correctly set elsewhere, and while it is more expensive, this code path is not performance-critical. This is a real risk for autovacuum, because it can execute whole cycles without doing a single vacuum, which would mean that RecentGlobalXmin would stay at its initialization value, FirstNormalTransactionId, causing a bogus value to be inserted in pg_database. This bug could explain some recent reports of failure to truncate pg_clog. At the same time, change the initialization of RecentGlobalXmin to InvalidTransactionId, and ensure that it's set to something else whenever it's going to be used. Using it as FirstNormalTransactionId in HOT page pruning could incur in data loss. InitPostgres takes care of setting it to a valid value, but the extra checks are there to prevent "special" backends from behaving in unusual ways. Per Tom Lane's detailed problem dissection in 29544.1221061979@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make sure we only try to free snapshots that have been passed throughAlvaro Herrera2008-07-11
| | | | | | | CopySnapshot, per Neil Conway. Also add a comment about the assumption in GetSnapshotData that the argument is statically allocated. Also, fix some more typos in comments in snapmgr.c.
* Fix a few typos in comments in snapmgr.c, and sort header inclusionsNeil Conway2008-07-11
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* Improve snapshot manager by keeping explicit track of snapshots.Alvaro Herrera2008-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack", which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time. This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot assignment. This is all done automatically now. As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
* Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.Alvaro Herrera2008-03-26
Per complaint from Tom Lane.