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* Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasksTom Lane2006-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | such as debugging and performance measurement. This consists of two features: a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries" that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit cooperation from the client application. To make local_preload_libraries as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead, it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/. The existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to LOAD libraries stored in this directory. This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity. Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.
* Fix oversight in initial implementation of PORTAL_ONE_RETURNING mode: weTom Lane2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | cannot assume that there's exactly one Query in the Portal, as we can for ONE_SELECT mode, because non-SELECT queries might have extra queries added during rule rewrites. Fix things up so that we'll use ONE_RETURNING mode when a Portal contains one primary (canSetTag) query and that query has a RETURNING list. This appears to be a second showstopper reason for running the Portal to completion before we start to hand anything back --- we want to be sure that the rule-added queries get run too.
* Remove hash_destroy calls in hash_create's failure paths. As noted byTom Lane2006-08-14
| | | | | | | a Coverity warning, these are risky since the hashtable isn't necessarily fully set up yet. They're unnecessary anyway: a deletable hashtable should be in a memory context that will be cleared following elog(ERROR). Per report from Martijn van Oosterhout.
* Revert (again) GUC patch to return commented fields to their defaultBruce Momjian2006-08-14
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* Fix recent guc comment-to-default patch for custom variables.Bruce Momjian2006-08-13
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* Recommit patch to allow commented GUC variables to return to theirBruce Momjian2006-08-13
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* Re-apply guc cleanup patch, with memory allocation bugs fixed.Bruce Momjian2006-08-13
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* Back out patch to reorganize guc processing. Was causing regressionBruce Momjian2006-08-12
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* Back out patch that allowed commented guc variables to return to theirBruce Momjian2006-08-12
| | | | default values. Was causing regression failures.
* Add INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING, with basic docs and regression tests.Tom Lane2006-08-12
| | | | | | | | plpgsql support to come later. Along the way, convert execMain's SELECT INTO support into a DestReceiver, in order to eliminate some ugly special cases. Jonah Harris and Tom Lane
* Allow commenting of variables in postgresql.conf to restore them toBruce Momjian2006-08-11
| | | | | | defaults. Zdenek Kotala
* Refactor GUC set_config_option function:Bruce Momjian2006-08-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The main reason for refactoring was that set_config_option() was too overloaded function and its behavior did not consistent. Old version of set_config_function hides some messages. For example if you type: tcp_port = 5432.1 then old implementation ignore this error without any message to log file in the signal context (configuration reload). Main problem was that semantic analysis of postgresql.conf is not perform in the ProcessConfigFile function, but in the set_config_options *after* context check. This skipped check for variables with PG_POSTMASTER context. There was request from Joachim Wieland to add more messages about ignored changes in the config file as well. Zdenek Kotala
* Add a feature for automatic initialization and finalization of dynamicallyTom Lane2006-08-08
| | | | | | | | | loaded libraries: call functions _PG_init() and _PG_fini() if the library defines such symbols. Hence we no longer need to specify an initialization function in preload_libraries: we can assume that the library used the _PG_init() convention, instead. This removes one source of pilot error in use of preloaded libraries. Original patch by Ralf Engelschall, preload_libraries changes by me.
* For protocol-level prepare/bind/execute:Bruce Momjian2006-08-08
| | | | | | | | o print user name for all o print portal name if defined for all o print query for all o reduce log_statement header to single keyword o print bind parameters as DETAIL if text mode
* Fix domain_in() bug exhibited by Darcy Buskermolen. The idea of an EStateTom Lane2006-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | that's shorter-lived than the expression state being evaluated in it really doesn't work :-( --- we end up with fn_extra caches getting deleted while still in use. Rather than abandon the notion of caching expression state across domain_in calls altogether, I chose to make domain_in a bit cozier with ExprContext. All we really need for evaluating variable-free expressions is an ExprContext, not an EState, so I invented the notion of a "standalone" ExprContext. domain_in can prevent resource leakages by doing a ReScanExprContext on this rather than having to free it entirely; so we can make the ExprContext have the same lifespan (and particularly the same per_query memory context) as the expression state structs.
* Move 'ddl' right after 'none' in postgresql.conf. It used to be betweenBruce Momjian2006-08-02
| | | | | 'mod' and 'all', which is not the right order. SGML documentation order was correct. Report from Chander Ganesan.
* Add support for multi-row VALUES clauses as part of INSERT statementsJoe Conway2006-08-02
| | | | | | (e.g. "INSERT ... VALUES (...), (...), ...") and elsewhere as allowed by the spec. (e.g. similar to a FROM clause subselect). initdb required. Joe Conway and Tom Lane.
* Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relationTom Lane2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | (table or index) before trying to open its relcache entry. This fixes race conditions in which someone else commits a change to the relation's catalog entries while we are in process of doing relcache load. Problems of that ilk have been reported sporadically for years, but it was not really practical to fix until recently --- for instance, the recent addition of WAL-log support for in-place updates helped. Along the way, remove pg_am.amconcurrent: all AMs are now expected to support concurrent update.
* Adjust initialization sequence for timezone_abbreviations so thatTom Lane2006-07-29
| | | | | | | | | it's handled just about like timezone; in particular, don't try to read anything during InitializeGUCOptions. Should solve current startup failure on Windows, and avoid wasted cycles if a nondefault setting is specified in postgresql.conf too. Possibly we need to think about a more general solution for handling 'expensive to set' GUC options.
* SQL2003-standard statistical aggregates, by Sergey Koposov. I've added onlyTom Lane2006-07-28
| | | | | | | the float8 versions of the aggregates, which is all that the standard requires. Sergey's original patch also provided versions using numeric arithmetic, but given the size and slowness of the code, I doubt we ought to include those in core.
* Aggregate functions now support multiple input arguments. I also tookTom Lane2006-07-27
| | | | | | | | the opportunity to treat COUNT(*) as a zero-argument aggregate instead of the old hack that equated it to COUNT(1); this is materially cleaner (no more weird ANYOID cases) and ought to be at least a tiny bit faster. Original patch by Sergey Koposov; review, documentation, simple regression tests, pg_dump and psql support by moi.
* Allow units to be specified with configuration settings.Peter Eisentraut2006-07-27
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* Work around bug in strxfmt() but in MS VS2005.Bruce Momjian2006-07-26
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* When a GUC string variable is not set, print the empty string (in SHOW etc.),Peter Eisentraut2006-07-26
| | | | | | not "unset". An "unset" state doesn't really exist; all variables behave like an empty string value if the string being pointed to has not been initialized.
* Convert effective_cache_size to an integer, for better integration withPeter Eisentraut2006-07-26
| | | | upcoming units feature.
* Remove hard-wired lists of timezone abbreviations in favor of providingTom Lane2006-07-25
| | | | | | | | | configuration files that can be altered by a DBA. The australian_timezones GUC setting disappears, replaced by a timezone_abbreviations setting (set this to 'Australia' to get the effect of australian_timezones). The list of zone names defined by default has undergone a bit of cleanup, too. Documentation still needs some work --- in particular, should we fix Table B-4, or just get rid of it? Joachim Wieland, with some editorializing by moi.
* DTrace support, with a small initial set of probesPeter Eisentraut2006-07-24
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* Mark postgresql.conf entries that require server restart; some minorPeter Eisentraut2006-07-24
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* Add a fudge factor to genericcostestimate() to prevent the planner fromTom Lane2006-07-24
| | | | | | | thinking that indexes of different sizes are equally attractive. Per gripe from Jim Nasby. (I remain unconvinced that there's such a problem in existing releases, but CVS HEAD definitely has got a problem because of its new count-only-leaf-pages approach to indexscan costing.)
* Convert the lock manager to use the new dynahash.c support for partitionedTom Lane2006-07-23
| | | | | hash tables, instead of the previous kluge involving multiple hash tables. This partially undoes my patch of last December.
* Add support to dynahash.c for partitioning shared hashtables accordingTom Lane2006-07-22
| | | | | | to the low-order bits of the entry hash value. Also make some incidental cleanups in the dynahash API, such as not exporting the hash header structs to the world.
* Add the full set of comparison functions for type TID, including a btreeTom Lane2006-07-21
| | | | | | | | opclass. This is not so much because anyone's likely to create an index on TID, as that sorting TIDs can be useful. Also added max and min aggregates while at it, so that one can investigate the clusteredness of a table with queries like SELECT min(ctid), max(ctid) FROM tab WHERE ... Greg Stark and Tom Lane
* Fix some makefiles that fail to yield good results from 'make -qp'.Tom Lane2006-07-15
| | | | | This doesn't really matter for ordinary building of Postgres, but it's useful for automated checks, such as my just-committed pgcheckdefines.
* Fix another passel of include-file breakage. Kris Jurka, Tom LaneTom Lane2006-07-14
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* Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian2006-07-14
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* Fix a passel of recently-committed violations of the rule 'thou shaltTom Lane2006-07-14
| | | | | have no other gods before c.h'. Also remove some demonstrably redundant #include lines, mostly of <errno.h> which was added to c.h years ago.
* More include file adjustments.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
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* Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
| | | | | | | Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "S"-"Z".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "N" - "S".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "G" - "M".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Sort reference of include files, "A" - "F".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Improve vacuum code to track minimum Xids per table instead of per database.Alvaro Herrera2006-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To this end, add a couple of columns to pg_class, relminxid and relvacuumxid, based on which we calculate the pg_database columns after each vacuum. We now force all databases to be vacuumed, even template ones. A backend noticing too old a database (meaning pg_database.datminxid is in danger of falling behind Xid wraparound) will signal the postmaster, which in turn will start an autovacuum iteration to process the offending database. In principle this is only there to cope with frozen (non-connectable) databases without forcing users to set them to connectable, but it could force regular user database to go through a database-wide vacuum at any time. Maybe we should warn users about this somehow. Of course the real solution will be to use autovacuum all the time ;-) There are some additional improvements we could have in this area: for example the vacuum code could be smarter about not updating pg_database for each table when called by autovacuum, and do it only once the whole autovacuum iteration is done. I updated the system catalogs documentation, but I didn't modify the maintenance section. Also having some regression tests for this would be nice but it's not really a very straightforward thing to do. Catalog version bumped due to system catalog changes.
* Fix typos in comments.Neil Conway2006-07-04
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* Code review for FILLFACTOR patch. Change WITH grammar as per earlierTom Lane2006-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | discussion (including making def_arg allow reserved words), add missed opt_definition for UNIQUE case. Put the reloptions support code in a less random place (I chose to make a new file access/common/reloptions.c). Eliminate header inclusion creep. Make the index options functions safely user-callable (seems like client apps might like to be able to test validity of options before trying to make an index). Reduce overhead for normal case with no options by allowing rd_options to be NULL. Fix some unmaintainably klugy code, including getting rid of Natts_pg_class_fixed at long last. Some stylistic cleanup too, and pay attention to keeping comments in sync with code. Documentation still needs work, though I did fix the omissions in catalogs.sgml and indexam.sgml.
* Add FILLFACTOR to CREATE INDEX.Bruce Momjian2006-07-02
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* Fix oversight in planning for multiple indexscans driven byTom Lane2006-07-01
| | | | | | | | ScalarArrayOpExpr index quals: we were estimating the right total number of rows returned, but treating the index-access part of the cost as if a single scan were fetching that many consecutive index tuples. Actually we should treat it as a multiple indexscan, and if there are enough of 'em the Mackert-Lohman discount should kick in.
* Fix typo in comment.Neil Conway2006-06-28
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* Remove embedded newline in string literal --- seems to make newer gccTom Lane2006-06-27
| | | | versions very unhappy, and shouldn't be there anyway.
* Add GUC update_process_title to control whether 'ps' display is updatedBruce Momjian2006-06-27
| | | | for every command, default to on.