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* Put a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call into the loops that try to find a unique newTom Lane2008-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | OID or new relfilenode. If the existing OIDs are sufficiently densely populated, this could take a long time (perhaps even be an infinite loop), so it seems wise to allow the system to respond to a cancel interrupt here. Per a gripe from Jacky Leng. Backpatch as far as 8.1. Older versions just fail on OID collision, instead of looping.
* Repair VACUUM FULL bug introduced by HOT patch: the original way ofTom Lane2008-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | calculating a page's initial free space was fine, and should not have been "improved" by letting PageGetHeapFreeSpace do it. VACUUM FULL is going to reclaim LP_DEAD line pointers later, so there is no need for a guard against the page being too full of line pointers, and having one risks rejecting pages that are perfectly good move destinations. This also exposed a second bug, which is that the empty_end_pages logic assumed that any page with no live tuples would get entered into the fraged_pages list automatically (by virtue of having more free space than the threshold in the do_frag calculation). This assumption certainly seems risky when a low fillfactor has been chosen, and even without tunable fillfactor I think it could conceivably fail on a page with many unused line pointers. So fix the code to force do_frag true when notup is true, and patch this part of the fix all the way back. Per report from Tomas Szepe.
* Some variants of ALTER OWNER tried to make the "object" field of theTom Lane2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | statement be a list of bare C strings, rather than String nodes, which is what they need to be for copyfuncs/equalfuncs to work. Fortunately these node types never go out to disk (if they did, we'd likely have noticed the problem sooner), so we can just fix it without creating a need for initdb. This bug has been there since 8.0, but 8.3 exposes it in a more common code path (Parse messages) than prior releases did. Per bug #3940 from Vladimir Kokovic.
* Fix WaitOnLock() to ensure that the process's "waiting" flag is reset afterTom Lane2008-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | erroring out of a wait. We can use a PG_TRY block for this, but add a comment explaining why it'd be a bad idea to use it for any other state cleanup. Back-patch to 8.2. Prior releases had the same issue, but only with respect to the process title, which is likely to get reset almost immediately anyway after the transaction aborts, so it seems not worth changing them. In 8.2 and HEAD, the pg_stat_activity "waiting" flag could remain set incorrectly for a long time. Per report from Gurjeet Singh.
* Add pid to the pgident event name on win32.Magnus Hagander2008-01-31
| | | | | | | | | Should fix a problem where two clusters are running under two different service accounts and get colliding names, causing only the first cluster to contain the pgident event description. Per report from Stephen Denne.
* Backpatch my fix of rev 1.48 to avoid a division-by-zero error in theAlvaro Herrera2008-01-17
| | | | cost-limit vacuum code. Per trouble report from Joshua Drake.
* Fix subselect.c to avoid assuming that a SubLink's testexpr references eachTom Lane2008-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | subquery output column exactly once left-to-right. Although this is the case in the original parser output, it might not be so after rewriting and constant-folding, as illustrated by bug #3882 from Jan Mate. Instead scan the subquery's target list to obtain needed per-column information; this is duplicative of what the parser did, but only a couple dozen lines need be copied, and we can clean up a couple of notational uglinesses. Bug was introduced in 8.2 as part of revision of SubLink representation.
* Fix logical errors in constraint exclusion: we cannot assume that a CHECKTom Lane2008-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | constraint yields TRUE for every row of its table, only that it does not yield FALSE (a NULL result isn't disallowed). This breaks a couple of implications that would be true in two-valued logic. I had put in one such mistake in an 8.2.5 patch: foo IS NULL doesn't refute a strict operator on foo. But there was another in the original 8.2 release: NOT foo doesn't refute an expression whose truth would imply the truth of foo. Per report from Rajesh Kumar Mallah. To preserve the ability to do constraint exclusion with one partition holding NULL values, extend relation_excluded_by_constraints() to check for attnotnull flags, and add col IS NOT NULL expressions to the set of constraints we hope to refute.
* Fix a conceptual error in my patch of 2007-10-26 that avoided consideringTom Lane2008-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | clauseless joins of relations that have unexploited join clauses. Rather than looking at every other base relation in the query, the correct thing is to examine the other relations in the "initial_rels" list of the current make_rel_from_joinlist() invocation, because those are what we actually have the ability to join against. This might be a subset of the whole query in cases where join_collapse_limit or from_collapse_limit or full joins have prevented merging the whole query into a single join problem. This is a bit untidy because we have to pass those rels down through a new PlannerInfo field, but it's necessary. Per bug #3865 from Oleg Kharin.
* Fix a bug in 8.2.x that was exposed while investigating Kevin Grittner'sTom Lane2008-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | report of poor planning in 8.3: it's unsafe to push a constant across an outer join when the outer-join condition is delayed by lower outer joins, unless we recheck the outer-join condition at the upper outer join. 8.2.x doesn't really have the ability to tell whether this is the case or not, but fortunately it doesn't matter --- it seems most desirable to keep the join condition whether it's entirely redundant or not. However, it's usually mostly redundant, so force its selectivity to 1.0. It might be a good idea to back-patch this into 8.1 as well, but I'll refrain until/unless there's evidence that 8.1 actually fails on any cases that this would fix.
* A long time ago, Peter pointed out that ruleutils.c didn't dump simpleTom Lane2008-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | constant ORDER/GROUP BY entries properly: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-04/msg00457.php The original solution to that was in fact no good, as demonstrated by today's report from Martin Pitt: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00027.php We can't use the column-number-reference format for a constant that is a resjunk targetlist entry, a case that was unfortunately not thought of in the original discussion. What we can do instead (which did not work at the time, but does work in 7.3 and up) is to emit the constant with explicit ::typename decoration, even if it otherwise wouldn't need it. This is sufficient to keep the parser from thinking it's a column number reference, and indeed is probably what the user must have done to get such a thing into the querytree in the first place.
* Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,Tom Lane2008-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER functions. The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a superuser account that is performing routine maintenance. While a function used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage. To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context. Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability. Security: CVE-2007-6600
* Fix assorted security-grade bugs in the regex engine. All of these problemsTom Lane2008-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | are shared with Tcl, since it's their code to begin with, and the patches have been copied from Tcl 8.5.0. Problems: CVE-2007-4769: Inadequate check on the range of backref numbers allows crash due to out-of-bounds read. CVE-2007-4772: Infinite loop in regex optimizer for pattern '($|^)*'. CVE-2007-6067: Very slow optimizer cleanup for regex with a large NFA representation, as well as crash if we encounter an out-of-memory condition during NFA construction. Part of the response to CVE-2007-6067 is to put a limit on the number of states in the NFA representation of a regex. This seems needed even though the within-the-code problems have been corrected, since otherwise the code could try to use very large amounts of memory for a suitably-crafted regex, leading to potential DOS by driving the system into swap, activating a kernel OOM killer, etc. Although there are certainly plenty of ways to drive the system into effective DOS with poorly-written SQL queries, these problems seem worth treating as security issues because many applications might accept regex search patterns from untrustworthy sources. Thanks to Will Drewry of Google for reporting these problems. Patches by Will Drewry and Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067
* Improve a number of elog messages for not-supposed-to-happen cases in btrees,Tom Lane2007-12-31
| | | | | | | | | since these seem to happen after all in corrupted indexes. Make sure we supply the index name in all cases, and provide relevant block numbers where available. Also consistently identify the index name as such. Back-patch to 8.2, in hopes that this might help Mason Hale figure out his problem.
* Make path_recv() and poly_recv() reject paths/polygons containing no points.Tom Lane2007-12-18
| | | | | | | | The zero-point case is sensible so far as the data structure is concerned, so maybe we ought to allow it sometime; but right now the textual input routines for these types don't allow it, and it seems that not all the functions for the types are prepared to cope. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure.
* Second pass at improving LIKE/regex estimation in non-C locales. It turnsTom Lane2007-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | out that it's actually quite likely that a string that is an extension of the given prefix will sort as larger than the "greater" string our previous code created. To provide some defense against that, do the comparisons against a modified string instead of just the bare prefix. We tack on "Z", "z", "y", or "9", whichever is seen as largest in the current locale. Testing suggests that this is sufficient at least for cases involving ASCII data.
* If an index depends on no columns of its table, give it a dependency on theTom Lane2007-11-08
| | | | | | | | | whole table instead, to ensure that it goes away when the table is dropped. Per bug #3723 from Sam Mason. Backpatch as far as 7.4; AFAICT 7.3 does not have the issue, because it doesn't have general-purpose expression indexes and so there must be at least one column referenced by an index.
* Improve the performance of LIKE/regex estimation in non-C locales, by makingTom Lane2007-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | make_greater_string() try harder to generate a string that's actually greater than its input string. Before we just assumed that making a string that was memcmp-greater was enough, but it is easy to generate examples where this is not so when the locale is not C. Instead, loop until the relevant comparison function agrees that the generated string is greater than the input. Unfortunately this is probably not enough to guarantee that the generated string is greater than all extensions of the input, so we cannot relax the restriction to C locale for the LIKE/regex index optimization. But it should at least improve the odds of getting a useful selectivity estimate in prefix_selectivity(). Per example from Guillaume Smet. Backpatch to 8.1, mainly because that's what the complainant is using...
* Fix patternsel() and callers to do the right thing for NOT LIKE and the otherTom Lane2007-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | negated-match operators. patternsel had been using the supplied operator as though it were a positive-match operator, and thus obtaining a wrong result, which was even more wrong after the caller subtracted it from 1. Seems cleanest to give patternsel an explicit "negate" argument so that it knows what's going on. Also install the same factorization scheme for pattern join selectivity estimators; even though they are just stubs at the moment, this may keep someone from making the same type of mistake when they get filled out. Per report from Greg Mullane. Backpatch to 8.2 --- previous releases do not show the problem because patternsel() doesn't actually use the operator directly.
* - Add check of already changed page while replay WAL. This touches onlyTeodor Sigaev2007-10-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | ginRedoInsert(), because other ginRedo* functions rewrite whole page or make changes which could be applied several times without consistent's loss - Remove check of identifying of corresponding split record: it's possible that replaying of WAL starts after actual page split, but before removing of that split from incomplete splits list. In this case, that check cause FATAL error. Per stress test which reproduces bug reported by Craig McElroy <craig.mcelroy@contegix.com>
* Fix coredump during replay WAL after crash. Change entrySplitPage() to preventTeodor Sigaev2007-10-29
| | | | | | | | usage of any information from system catalog, because it could be called during replay of WAL. Per bug report from Craig McElroy <craig.mcelroy@contegix.com>. Patch doesn't change on-disk storage.
* Change have_join_order_restriction() so that we do not force a clauseless joinTom Lane2007-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | if either of the input relations can legally be joined to any other rels using join clauses. This avoids uselessly (and expensively) considering a lot of really stupid join paths when there is a join restriction with a large footprint, that is, lots of relations inside its LHS or RHS. My patch of 15-Feb-2007 had been causing the code to consider joining *every* combination of rels inside such a group, which is exponentially bad :-(. With this behavior, clauseless bushy joins will be done if necessary, but they'll be put off as long as possible. Per report from Jakub Ouhrabka. Backpatch to 8.2. We might someday want to backpatch to 8.1 as well, but 8.1 does not have the problem for OUTER JOIN nests, only for IN-clauses, so it's not clear anyone's very likely to hit it in practice; and the current patch doesn't apply cleanly to 8.1.
* Ugly patch to make ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY not affect the currval() stateTom Lane2007-10-25
| | | | | | | | of the sequence. Since OWNED BY never existed before 8.2, this seems unlikely to create any compatibility issues. Other forms of ALTER SEQUENCE continue to do what they did before, namely update currval to match the sequence's actual last_val. That seems wrong on consideration, but we'll not change it in a minor release --- 8.3 will make that fix.
* Fix an error in make_outerjoininfo introduced by my patch of 30-Aug: the codeTom Lane2007-10-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | neglected to test whether an outer join's join-condition actually refers to the lower outer join it is looking at. (The comment correctly described what was supposed to happen, but the code didn't do it...) This often resulted in adding an unnecessary constraint on the join order of the two outer joins, which was bad enough. However, it also seems to expose a performance problem in an older patch (from 15-Feb): once we've decided that there is a join ordering constraint, we will start trying clauseless joins between every combination of rels within the constraint, which pointlessly eats up lots of time and space if there are numerous rels below the outer join. That probably needs to be revisited :-(. Per gripe from Jakub Ouhrabka.
* Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE to preserve the tablespace and reloptions of indexesTom Lane2007-10-13
| | | | | | | | | | it affects. The original coding neglected tablespace entirely (causing the indexes to move to the database's default tablespace) and for an index belonging to a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint, it would actually try to assign the parent table's reloptions to the index :-(. Per bug #3672 and subsequent investigation. 8.0 and 8.1 did not have reloptions, but the tablespace bug is present.
* Ensure that the result of evaluating a function during constant-expressionTom Lane2007-10-11
| | | | | | | simplification gets detoasted before it is incorporated into a Const node. Otherwise, if an immutable function were to return a TOAST pointer (an unlikely case, but it can be made to happen), we would end up with a plan that depends on the continued existence of the out-of-line toast datum.
* Keep the planner from failing on "WHERE false AND something IN (SELECT ...)".Tom Lane2007-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | eval_const_expressions simplifies this to just "WHERE false", but we have already done pull_up_IN_clauses so the IN join will be done, or at least planned, anyway. The trouble case comes when the sub-SELECT is itself a join and we decide to implement the IN by unique-ifying the sub-SELECT outputs: with no remaining reference to the output Vars in WHERE, we won't have propagated the Vars up to the upper join point, leading to "variable not found in subplan target lists" error. Fix by adding an extra scan of in_info_list and forcing all Vars mentioned therein to be propagated up to the IN join point. Per bug report from Miroslav Sulc.
* Disallow CLUSTER using an invalid index (that is, one left over from a failedTom Lane2007-09-29
| | | | | | CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY). Such an index might not have entries for every heap row and thus clustering with it would result in silent data loss. The scenario requires a pretty foolish DBA, but still ...
* Make archive recovery always start a new timeline, rather than only when aTom Lane2007-09-29
| | | | | | | recovery stop time was used. This avoids a corner-case risk of trying to overwrite an existing archived copy of the last WAL segment, and seems simpler and cleaner all around than the original definition. Per example from Jon Colverson and subsequent analysis by Simon.
* Fix Assert failure in ExpandColumnRefStar --- what I thought was a can'tTom Lane2007-09-27
| | | | | | | | | happen condition can happen given incorrect input. The real problem is that gram.y should try harder to distinguish * from "*" --- the latter is a legal column name per spec, and someday we ought to treat it that way. However fixing that is too invasive for a back-patch, and it's too late for the 8.3 cycle too. So just reduce the Assert to a plain elog for now. Per report from NikhilS.
* Reduce the size of memory allocations by lazy vacuum when processing a smallAlvaro Herrera2007-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | table, by allocating just enough for a hardcoded number of dead tuples per page. The current estimate is 200 dead tuples per page. Per reports from Jeff Amiel, Erik Jones and Marko Kreen, and subsequent discussion. CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: commands/vacuumlazy.c CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Fix erroneous Assert() in syslogger process start in EXEC_BACKEND case,Tom Lane2007-09-22
| | | | | per ITAGAKI Takahiro. Also, rewrite syslogger_forkexec() in hopes of eliminating the confusion in the first place.
* Fix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate().Tom Lane2007-09-22
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* Prevent corr() from returning the wrong results for negative correlationNeil Conway2007-09-19
| | | | | | | | values. The previous coding essentially assumed that x = sqrt(x*x), which does not hold for x < 0. Thanks to Jie Zhang at Greenplum and Gavin Sherry for reporting this issue.
* Fix overflow in extract(epoch from interval) for intervals exceeding 68 years.Tom Lane2007-09-16
| | | | | Seems to have been introduced in 8.1 by careless SECS_PER_DAY search-and-replace.
* Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating awayTom Lane2007-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages. But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug reports.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2007-09-13
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* Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay pointAlvaro Herrera2007-09-12
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* Make sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries toTom Lane2007-09-11
| | | | | | | | recover from elog(ERROR). Problem was created by introduction of hash seq search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter; in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too. (Not sure that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might someday.) Per report from Sergey Koposov.
* Make CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in theirAlvaro Herrera2007-09-10
| | | | | | database-wide editions. Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.
* Remove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we holdAlvaro Herrera2007-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon as possible. This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the empty pages at the end of the table. An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our cost delay settings). This case could be considered in the balancing code, but it is simpler this way.
* Improve page split in rtree emulation. Now if splitted result hasTeodor Sigaev2007-09-07
| | | | | | | | | big misalignement, then it tries to split page basing on distribution of boxe's centers. Per report from Dolafi, Tom <dolafit@janelia.hhmi.org> Backpatch is needed, changes doesn't affect on-disk storage.
* Apply a band-aid fix for the problem that 8.2 and up completely misestimateTom Lane2007-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the number of rows likely to be produced by a query such as SELECT * FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 USING (key) WHERE t2.key IS NULL; What this is doing is selecting for t1 rows with no match in t2, and thus it may produce a significant number of rows even if the t2.key table column contains no nulls at all. 8.2 thinks the table column's null fraction is relevant and thus may estimate no rows out, which results in terrible plans if there are more joins above this one. A proper fix for this will involve passing much more information about the context of a clause to the selectivity estimator functions than we ever have. There's no time left to write such a patch for 8.3, and it wouldn't be back-patchable into 8.2 anyway. Instead, put in an ad-hoc test to defeat the normal table-stats-based estimation when an IS NULL test is evaluated at an outer join, and just use a constant estimate instead --- I went with 0.5 for lack of a better idea. This won't catch every case but it will catch the typical ways of writing such queries, and it seems unlikely to make things worse for other queries.
* Extend whole-row Var evaluation to cope with the case that the sub-planTom Lane2007-08-31
| | | | | | | | generating the tuples has resjunk output columns. This is not possible for simple table scans but can happen when evaluating a whole-row Var for a view. Per example from Patryk Kordylewski. The problem exists back to 8.0 but I'm not going to risk back-patching further than 8.2 because of the many changes in this area.
* Rewrite make_outerjoininfo's construction of min_lefthand and min_righthandTom Lane2007-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sets for outer joins, in the light of bug #3588 and additional thought and experimentation. The original methodology was fatally flawed for nests of more than two outer joins: it got the relationships between adjacent joins right, but didn't always come to the right conclusions about whether a join could be interchanged with one two or more levels below it. This was largely caused by a mistaken idea that we should use the min_lefthand + min_righthand sets of a sub-join as the minimum left or right input set of an upper join when we conclude that the sub-join can't commute with the upper one. If there's a still-lower join that the sub-join *can* commute with, this method led us to think that that one could commute with the topmost join; which it can't. Another problem (not directly connected to bug #3588) was that make_outerjoininfo's processing-order-dependent method for enforcing outer join identity #3 didn't work right: if we decided that join A could safely commute with lower join B, we dropped all information about sub-joins under B that join A could perhaps not safely commute with, because we removed B's entire min_righthand from A's. To fix, make an explicit computation of all inner join combinations that occur below an outer join, and add to that the full syntactic relsets of any lower outer joins that we determine it can't commute with. This method gives much more direct enforcement of the outer join rearrangement identities, and it turns out not to cost a lot of additional bookkeeping. Thanks to Richard Harris for the bug report and test case.
* Fix brain fade in DefineIndex(): it was continuing to access the table'sTom Lane2007-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | relcache entry after having heap_close'd it. This could lead to misbehavior if a relcache flush wiped out the cache entry meanwhile. In 8.2 there is a very real risk of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY using the wrong relid for locking and waiting purposes. I think the bug is only cosmetic in 8.0 and 8.1, because their transgression is limited to using RelationGetRelationName(rel) in an ereport message immediately after heap_close, and there's no way (except with special debugging options) for a cache flush to occur in that interval. Not quite sure that it's cosmetic in 7.4, but seems best to patch anyway. Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled. Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow, but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.
* Fix potential access-off-the-end-of-memory in varbit_out(): it fetched theTom Lane2007-08-21
| | | | | | byte after the last full byte of the bit array, regardless of whether that byte was part of the valid data or not. Found by buildfarm testing. Thanks to Stefan Kaltenbrunner for nailing down the cause.
* Repair problems occurring when multiple RI updates have to be done to the sameTom Lane2007-08-15
| | | | | | | | | row within one query: we were firing check triggers before all the updates were done, leading to bogus failures. Fix by making the triggers queued by an RI update go at the end of the outer query's trigger event list, thereby effectively making the processing "breadth-first". This was indeed how it worked pre-8.0, so the bug does not occur in the 7.x branches. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
* Fix a gradual memory leak in ExecReScanAgg(). Because the aggregationNeil Conway2007-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | hash table is allocated in a child context of the agg node's memory context, MemoryContextReset() will reset but *not* delete the child context. Since ExecReScanAgg() proceeds to build a new hash table from scratch (in a new sub-context), this results in leaking the header for the previous memory context. Therefore, use MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren() instead. Credit: My colleague Sailesh Krishnamurthy at Truviso for isolating the cause of the leak.
* Suppress time zone name (%Z) when logging timestamps in xlog.c startupTom Lane2007-08-04
| | | | | | | on Windows. This is yet another manifestation of the problem that Windows returns time zone names that may be in a different encoding than we are using. I've put a better solution in HEAD, but the back branches need a simple patch. Per report from Hiroshi Saito.