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* Clean up a few places where Datums were being treated as pointers withoutTom Lane2008-04-12
| | | | | | | | going through DatumGetPointer or some other "official" conversion macro. Not actually a bug, since Datum the same size as pointer is the only supported case at the moment, but good cleanup for the future. Gavin Sherry
* Create new routines systable_beginscan_ordered, systable_getnext_ordered,Tom Lane2008-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | systable_endscan_ordered that have API similar to systable_beginscan etc (in particular, the passed-in scankeys have heap not index attnums), but guarantee ordered output, unlike the existing functions. For the moment these are just very thin wrappers around index_beginscan/index_getnext/etc. Someday they might need to get smarter; but for now this is just a code refactoring exercise to reduce the number of direct callers of index_getnext, in preparation for changing that function's API. In passing, remove index_getnext_indexitem, which has been dead code for quite some time, and will have even less use than that in the presence of run-time-lossy indexes.
* Add some debug support code to try to catch future mistakes in the area ofTom Lane2008-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | input functions that include garbage bytes in their results. Provide a compile-time option RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY to make palloc fill returned blocks with variable contents. This option also makes the parser perform conversions of literal constants twice and compare the results, emitting a WARNING if they don't match. (This is the code I used to catch the input function bugs fixed in the previous commit.) For the moment, I've set it to be activated automatically by --enable-cassert.
* Fix several datatype input functions that were allowing unused bytes in theirTom Lane2008-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | results to contain uninitialized, unpredictable values. While this was okay as far as the datatypes themselves were concerned, it's a problem for the parser because occurrences of the "same" literal might not be recognized as equal by datumIsEqual (and hence not by equal()). It seems sufficient to fix this in the input functions since the only critical use of equal() is in the parser's comparisons of ORDER BY and DISTINCT expressions. Per a trouble report from Marc Cousin. Patch all the way back. Interestingly, array_in did not have the bug before 8.2, which may explain why the issue went unnoticed for so long.
* Small wording improvements for source code READMEs.Bruce Momjian2008-04-09
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* Revert README cleanups.Bruce Momjian2008-04-09
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* Revert sentence removal from nickname in FAQ.Bruce Momjian2008-04-09
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* Fix tsvector_update_trigger() to be domain-friendly: it needs to allow allTom Lane2008-04-08
| | | | | | the columns it works with to be domains over the expected type, not just exactly the expected type. In passing, fix ts_stat() the same way. Per report from Markus Wollny.
* Implement a few changes to how shared libraries and dynamically loadablePeter Eisentraut2008-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | modules are built. Foremost, it creates a solid distinction between these two types of targets based on what had already been implemented and duplicated in ad hoc ways before. Specifically, - Dynamically loadable modules no longer get a soname. The numbers previously set in the makefiles were dummy numbers anyway, and the presence of a soname upset a few packaging tools, so it is nicer not to have one. - The cumbersome detour taken on installation (build a libfoo.so.0.0.0 and then override the rule to install foo.so instead) is removed. - Lots of duplicated code simplified.
* Re-implement division for numeric values using the traditional "schoolbook"Tom Lane2008-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | algorithm. This is a good deal slower than our old roundoff-error-prone code for long inputs, so we keep the old code for use in the transcendental functions, where everything is approximate anyway. Also create a user-accessible function div(numeric, numeric) to provide access to the exact result of trunc(x/y) --- since the regular numeric / operator will round off its result, simply computing that expression in SQL doesn't reliably give the desired answer. This fixes bug #3387 and various related corner cases, and improves the usefulness of PG for high-precision integer arithmetic.
* Remove no-longer-used function assign_backslash_quote()Tom Lane2008-04-04
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* Implement current_query(), that shows the currently executing query.Bruce Momjian2008-04-04
| | | | | | | | At the same time remove dblink/dblink_current_query() as it is no longer necessary *BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUE* for dblink Tomas Doran
* Convert backslash_quote guc to use enum.Magnus Hagander2008-04-04
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* Turn xmlbinary and xmloption GUC variables into enumsTurn xmlbinary andMagnus Hagander2008-04-04
| | | | xmloption GUC variables into enums..
* Oops, add proper #ifdef for systems without support for syslog.Magnus Hagander2008-04-03
| | | | Per buildfarm member mastodon.
* Convert syslog_facility guc to enum type.Magnus Hagander2008-04-03
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* Revert my bad decision of about a year ago to make PortalDefineQueryTom Lane2008-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | responsible for copying the query string into the new Portal. Such copying is unnecessary in the common code path through exec_simple_query, and in this case it can be enormously expensive because the string might contain a large number of individual commands; we were copying the entire, long string for each command, resulting in O(N^2) behavior for N commands. (This is the cause of bug #4079.) A second problem with it is that PortalDefineQuery really can't risk error, because if it elog's before having set up the Portal, we will leak the plancache refcount that the caller is trying to hand off to the portal. So go back to the design in which the caller is responsible for making sure everything is copied into the portal if necessary.
* Convert three more guc settings to enum type:Magnus Hagander2008-04-02
| | | | default_transaction_isolation, session_replication_role and regex_flavor.
* Fix an oversight I made in a cleanup patch over a year ago:Tom Lane2008-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | eval_const_expressions needs to be passed the PlannerInfo ("root") structure, because in some cases we want it to substitute values for Param nodes. (So "constant" is not so constant as all that ...) This mistake partially disabled optimization of unnamed extended-Query statements in 8.3: in particular the LIKE-to-indexscan optimization would never be applied if the LIKE pattern was passed as a parameter, and constraint exclusion depending on a parameter value didn't work either.
* Fix a number of places that were making file-type tests infelicitously.Tom Lane2008-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The places that did, eg, (statbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR were correct, but there is no good reason not to use S_ISDIR() instead, especially when that's what the other 90% of our code does. The places that did, eg, (statbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR) were flat out *wrong* and would fail in various platform-specific ways, eg a symlink could be mistaken for a regular file on most Unixen. The actual impact of this is probably small, since the problem cases seem to always involve symlinks or sockets, which are unlikely to be found in the directories that PG code might be scanning. But it's clearly trouble waiting to happen, so patch all the way back anyway. (There seem to be no occurrences of the mistake in 7.4.)
* Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon RiggsTom Lane2008-03-28
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* Remove ipcclean utility command --- didn't work on all Unixes and onBruce Momjian2008-03-27
| | | | Windows. Users should use their operating system tools instead.
* Reduce the need for frontend programs to include "postgres.h" by refactoringTom Lane2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | inclusions in src/include/catalog/*.h files. The main idea here is to push function declarations for src/backend/catalog/*.c files into separate headers, rather than sticking them into the corresponding catalog definition file as has been done in the past. This commit only carries out that idea fully for pg_proc, pg_type and pg_conversion, but that's enough for the moment --- if pg_list.h ever becomes unsafe for frontend code to include, we'll need to work a bit more. Zdenek Kotala
* Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid includingAlvaro Herrera2008-03-26
| | | | | | tqual.h into heapam.h. This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit. I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
* Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.Alvaro Herrera2008-03-26
| | | | Per complaint from Tom Lane.
* Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create aAlvaro Herrera2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | snapmgmt.c file for the former. The header files have also been reorganized in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c. tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum. This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a transaction; there is no functionality change. Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and subsequent discussion.
* Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary CTom Lane2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | strings. This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text, cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString. A number of existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed. Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used to be needed. There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin, and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though). This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach text_to_cstring. We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few places where it was easy, but much more could be done. Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
* Add a new tuplestore API function, tuplestore_putvalues(). This isNeil Conway2008-03-25
| | | | | | | identical to tuplestore_puttuple(), except it operates on arrays of Datums + nulls rather than a fully-formed HeapTuple. In several places that use the tuplestore API, this means we can avoid creating a HeapTuple altogether, saving a copy.
* Fix various infelicities that have snuck into usage of errdetail() andTom Lane2008-03-24
| | | | | | friends. Avoid double translation of some messages, ensure other messages are exposed for translation (and make them follow the style guidelines), avoid unsafe passing of an unpredictable message text as a format string.
* Add a new ereport auxiliary function errdetail_log(), which works the same asTom Lane2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | errdetail except the string goes only to the server log, replacing the normal errdetail there. This provides a reasonably clean way of dealing with error details that are too security-sensitive or too bulky to send to the client. This commit just adds the infrastructure --- actual uses to follow.
* Create a function quote_nullable(), which works the same as quote_literal()Tom Lane2008-03-23
| | | | | | | | | except that it returns the string 'NULL', rather than a SQL null, when called with a null argument. This is often a much more useful behavior for constructing dynamic queries. Add more discussion to the documentation about how to use these functions. Brendan Jurd
* Refactor to_char/to_date formatting code; primarily, replace DCH_processorTom Lane2008-03-22
| | | | | with two new functions DCH_to_char and DCH_from_char that have less confusing APIs. Brendan Jurd
* More README src cleanups.Bruce Momjian2008-03-21
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* Get rid of a bunch of #ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP conditionals by inventingTom Lane2008-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | a new typedef TimeOffset to represent an intermediate time value. It's either int64 or double as appropriate, and in most usages will be measured in microseconds or seconds the same as Timestamp. We don't call it Timestamp, though, since the value doesn't necessarily represent an absolute time instant. Warren Turkal
* Make source code READMEs more consistent. Add CVS tags to all README files.Bruce Momjian2008-03-20
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* Add the missing cyrillic "Yo" characters ('e' and 'E' with two dots) to theHeikki Linnakangas2008-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ISO_8859-5 <-> MULE_INTERNAL conversion tables. This was discovered when trying to convert a string containing those characters from ISO_8859-5 to Windows-1251, because we use MULE_INTERNAL/KOI8R as an intermediate encoding between those two. While the missing "Yo" was just an omission in the conversion tables, there are a few other characters like the "Numero" sign ("No" as a single character) that exists in all the other cyrillic encodings (win1251, ISO_8859-5 and cp866), but not in KOI8R. Added comments about that. Patch by Sergey Burladyan. Back-patch to 7.4.
* Fix regexp substring matching (substring(string from pattern)) for the cornerTom Lane2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | case where there is a match to the pattern overall but the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?'). This should return NULL, since (bar) isn't matched, but it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie, 'foo'). Per bug #4044 from Rui Martins. This has been broken since the beginning; patch in all supported versions. The old behavior was sufficiently inconsistent that it's impossible to believe anyone is depending on it.
* Catch all errors in for and while loops in makefiles. Don't ignore anyPeter Eisentraut2008-03-18
| | | | | | errors in any commands, including in various clean targets that have so far been handled inconsistently. make -i is available to ignore all errors in a consistent and official way.
* Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that willPeter Eisentraut2008-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | support DTrace in the future. Switch from using DTRACE_PROBEn macros to the dynamically generated macros. Use "dtrace -h" to create a header file that contains the dynamically generated macros to be used in the source code instead of the DTRACE_PROBEn macros. A dummy header file is generated for builds without DTrace support. Author: Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@sun.com>
* Fix postgres --describe-config for guc enums, breakage noted by Alvaro.Magnus Hagander2008-03-17
| | | | | While at it, rename option lookup functions to make names clearer, per discussion with Tom.
* Revert thinko introduced into prefix_selectivity() by my recent patch:Tom Lane2008-03-17
| | | | | make_greater_string needs the < procedure not the >= one. Spotted by Peter.
* Grab some low-hanging fruit in the new hash index build code.Tom Lane2008-03-17
| | | | | | | oprofile shows that a nontrivial amount of time is being spent in repeated calls to index_getprocinfo, which really only needs to be called once. So do that, and inline _hash_datum2hashkey to make it work.
* When creating a large hash index, pre-sort the index entries by estimatedTom Lane2008-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | bucket number, so as to ensure locality of access to the index during the insertion step. Without this, building an index significantly larger than available RAM takes a very long time because of thrashing. On the other hand, sorting is just useless overhead when the index does fit in RAM. We choose to sort when the initial index size exceeds effective_cache_size. This is a revised version of work by Tom Raney and Shreya Bhargava.
* Modify interactions between sinval.c and sinvaladt.c. The code that actuallyAlvaro Herrera2008-03-16
| | | | | | | | deals with the queue, including locking etc, is all in sinvaladt.c. This means that the struct definition of the queue, and the queue pointer, are now internal "implementation details" inside sinvaladt.c. Per my proposal dated 25-Jun-2007 and followup discussion.
* Some cleanups of enum-guc code, per comments from Tom.Magnus Hagander2008-03-16
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* Fix varstr_cmp's special case for UTF8 encoding on Windows so that stringsTom Lane2008-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | that are reported as "equal" by wcscoll() are checked to see if they really are bitwise equal, and are sorted per strcmp() if not. We made this happen a couple of years ago in the regular code path, but it unaccountably got left out of the Windows/UTF8 case (probably brain fade on my part at the time). As in the prior set of changes, affected users may need to reindex indexes on textual columns. Backpatch as far as 8.2, which is the oldest release we are still supporting on Windows.
* Fix heap_page_prune's problem with failing to send cache invalidationTom Lane2008-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | messages if the calling transaction aborts later on. Collapsing out line pointer redirects is a done deal as soon as we complete the page update, so syscache *must* be notified even if the VACUUM FULL as a whole doesn't complete. To fix, add some functionality to inval.c to allow the pending inval messages to be sent immediately while heap_page_prune is still running. The implementation is a bit chintzy: it will only work in the context of VACUUM FULL. But that's all we need now, and it can always be extended later if needed. Per my trouble report of a week ago.
* Provide a build-time option to store large relations as single files, ratherTom Lane2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | than dividing them into 1GB segments as has been our longtime practice. This requires working support for large files in the operating system; at least for the time being, it won't be the default. Zdenek Kotala
* Fix unportable coding of new error message, per Kris Jurka.Tom Lane2008-03-10
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* Implement enum type for guc parameters, and convert a couple of existingMagnus Hagander2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | | variables to it. More need to be converted, but I wanted to get this in before it conflicts with too much... Other than just centralising the text-to-int conversion for parameters, this allows the pg_settings view to contain a list of available options and allows an error hint to show what values are allowed.