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2007-09-21Removed superfluous ECPGfree() call.Michael Meskes
2007-09-21If we're gonna provide an --enable-profiling configure option, surelyTom Lane
it ought to know that you need -DLINUX_PROFILE on Linux.
2007-09-21Insert a hack in pl/tcl to disable Tcl's built-in Notifier subsystem, whichTom Lane
has a bad habit of launching multiple threads within the backend and thereby causing all kinds of havoc. Fortunately, we don't need it, and recent Tcl versions provide an easy way to disable it. Diagnosis and fix by Steve Marshall, Paul Bayer, and Doug Knight of WSI Corporation.
2007-09-20Solaris portability fix that was previously made in contrib/tsearch2Tom Lane
but got lost from the version committed to main tree. Per Greg Stark.
2007-09-20Revert ill-fated patch to release exclusive lock early after vacuumTom Lane
truncates a table. Introduces race condition, as shown by buildfarm failures.
2007-09-20Done:Bruce Momjian
> * -Consider shrinking expired tuples to just their headers > * -Allow heap reuse of UPDATEd rows if no indexed columns are changed, > and old and new versions are on the same heap page Not needed anymore: < * Reuse index tuples that point to heap tuples that are not visible to < anyone?
2007-09-20Cleanup items from csvlog changes, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.Andrew Dunstan
2007-09-20Fix msvc warnings, patch by Hannes Eder <Hannes@HannesEder.net>Teodor Sigaev
2007-09-20HOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexedTom Lane
columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer generate extra index entries for the new version. Instead, index searches follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version. In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space. VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however. Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.
2007-09-19Prevent corr() from returning the wrong results for negative correlationNeil Conway
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.
2007-09-19Remove tabs from SGML file.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-18Close previously open holes for invalidly encoded data to enter theAndrew Dunstan
database via builtin functions, as recently discussed on -hackers. chr() now returns a character in the database encoding. For UTF8 encoded databases the argument is treated as a Unicode code point. For other multi-byte encodings the argument must designate a strict ascii character, or an error is raised, as is also the case if the argument is 0. ascii() is adjusted so that it remains the inverse of chr(). The two argument form of convert() is gone, and the three argument form now takes a bytea first argument and returns a bytea. To cover this loss three new functions are introduced: . convert_from(bytea, name) returns text - converts the first argument from the named encoding to the database encoding . convert_to(text, name) returns bytea - converts the first argument from the database encoding to the named encoding . length(bytea, name) returns int - gives the length of the first argument in characters in the named encoding
2007-09-18Avoid possibly-unportable initializer, per buildfarm warningTeodor Sigaev
per notice by Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
2007-09-18Doc reminder that integer pg version also needs updating.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-17Remove extra tab in postgresql.confBruce Momjian
2007-09-16Remove Assert(BgWriterShmem != NULL), which is rather pointless sinceTom Lane
we'd dump core anyway immediately afterward if it were null; and it seems to confuse some versions of icc into generating bad code. Per report from Sergey Koposov. Patched in HEAD only, for the moment, since this is only likely to affect developers.
2007-09-16Fix overflow in extract(epoch from interval) for intervals exceeding 68 years.Tom Lane
Seems to have been introduced in 8.1 by careless SECS_PER_DAY search-and-replace.
2007-09-16Update release notes for last-minute fix.Tom Lane
2007-09-16Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating awayTom Lane
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.
2007-09-15Update Japanese FAQ.Bruce Momjian
Jun Kuwamura
2007-09-14Add:Bruce Momjian
> > o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid > advancement starvation > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-06/msg01645.php
2007-09-14Add:Bruce Momjian
> > * Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD > rules, such as for partitioning setups > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00577.php
2007-09-14Fix markup.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-14Update pronunciation FAQ item.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-14Update to mention alternate project name is "Postgres".Bruce Momjian
2007-09-14Remove GIN interface section, which is now documented in SGML.Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas
2007-09-14Fix markup that doesn't work in back branches.Tom Lane
2007-09-14Fix GSS API pointer checking.Bruce Momjian
Kris Jurka
2007-09-14Document atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.Bruce Momjian
Andrew Maclean
2007-09-14Minor editorialization on release notes.Tom Lane
2007-09-14Add some links for escape strings.Bruce Momjian
Brendan Jurd Fix markup in previous commit.
2007-09-14Add LDAP URL documentation.Bruce Momjian
Albe Laurenz
2007-09-14Update documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so weBruce Momjian
don't need to recommend nightly analyzes anymore unless autovacuum is off.
2007-09-14Clarify tar documentation about return error codes.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-09-14Update tsearch include location in example.Bruce Momjian
Oleg.
2007-09-14Add tsearch tab completion support:Bruce Momjian
* adds a few missing words to some commands (like adding GIN as a valid index type or OWNED BY for ALTER SEQUENCE,...) * support for ALTER TABLE foo ENABLE/DISABLE REPLICA TRIGGER/RULE * autocomplete CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE (mostly done to prevent conflicts with the TEMPLATE keyword for text search) * support for ALTER/CREATE/DROP TEXT SEARCH as well as COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH and the corresponding psql backslash commands. This proved a little more difficult than expected due to the fact that words_after_create[] is used for two purposes - one is to provide a list of words that follow immediatly after CREATE (or DROP) and the other purpose is to use it for autocompleting anywhere in the statement if the word in that struct is found with a query. Since TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION|DICTIONARY|TEMPLATE|PARSER results in 3 words instead of one (as all the other words in that list are) I added a flag to the struct to tell create_command_generator() to skip that entry for autocompleting immediatly after CREATE which feels like a dirty hack (but that holds true for a lot of code in tab-complete.c). Stefan Kaltenbrunner
2007-09-14This is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required asBruce Momjian
of PostgreSQL 8.2) and provides a link to compiling and linking section. Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2007-09-14Update GNU tar error code documentation.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2007-09-14Mentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because ofBruce Momjian
the problems non-root reading /etc/shadow.
2007-09-14Remove ill-considered (not to mention undocumented) attempt to makeTom Lane
contrib/intarray's GIN opclass override the built-in default. Per bug #3048 and other complaints.
2007-09-14Update documented error text.Bruce Momjian
Fujii Masao
2007-09-14Clarify age() 'months' calculation documentation.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-13Update documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather thanBruce Momjian
administrator-scheduled vacuums.
2007-09-13Fix typo in typecasting.Teodor Sigaev
patch from ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
2007-09-13Update Japanese FAQ, backpatch.Bruce Momjian
Jun Kuwamura
2007-09-12Fix a memory leak in the autovacuum launcher code. Noted by Darcy Buskermolen,Alvaro Herrera
who reported it privately to me.
2007-09-12Redefine the lp_flags field of item pointers as having four states, ratherTom Lane
than two independent bits (one of which was never used in heap pages anyway, or at least hadn't been in a very long time). This gives us flexibility to add the HOT notions of redirected and dead item pointers without requiring anything so klugy as magic values of lp_off and lp_len. The state values are chosen so that for the states currently in use (pre-HOT) there is no change in the physical representation.
2007-09-12Perform post-escaping encoding validity checks on SQL literals and COPY inputAndrew Dunstan
so that invalidly encoded data cannot enter the database by these means.
2007-09-12Whitespace improvement.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-12Revert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches. PerTom Lane
Jeremy Drake.