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2010-08-23Marginal code cleanup for streaming replication.Tom Lane
There is no reason that proc.c should have to get involved in this dirty hack for letting the postmaster know which children are walsenders. Revert that file to the way it was, and confine the kluge to pmsignal.c and postmaster.c.
2010-08-23Make pg_archivecleanup log messages more consistent.Tom Lane
Erik Rijkers
2010-08-23Make an editorial pass over the 9.0 release notes.Tom Lane
This is mostly about grammar, style, and presentation, though I did find a few small factual errors.
2010-08-22Document that autovacuum_freeze_max_age is used for pg_clog recycling.Bruce Momjian
We already mentioned xid wraparound.
2010-08-21Use a non-locale-dependent definition of isspace() in array_in/array_out.Tom Lane
array_in discards unquoted leading and trailing whitespace in array values, while array_out is careful to quote array elements that contain whitespace. This is problematic when the definition of "whitespace" varies between locales: array_in could drop characters that were meant to be part of the value. To avoid that, lock down "whitespace" to mean only the traditional six ASCII space characters. This change also works around a bug in OS X and some older BSD systems, in which isspace() could return true for character fragments in UTF8 locales. (There may be other places in PG where that bug could cause problems, but this is the only one complained of so far; see recent report from Steven Schlansker.) Back-patch to 9.0, but not further. Given the lack of previous reports of trouble, changing this behavior in stable branches seems to offer more risk of breaking applications than reward of avoiding problems.
2010-08-21Improve parallel restore's ability to cope with selective restore (-L option).Tom Lane
The original coding tended to break down in the face of modified restore orders, as shown in bug #5626 from Albert Ullrich, because it would flip over into parallel-restore operation too soon. That causes problems because we don't have sufficient dependency information in dump archives to allow safe parallel processing of SECTION_PRE_DATA items. Even if we did, it's probably undesirable to allow that to override the commanded restore order. To fix the problem of omitted items causing unexpected changes in restore order, tweak SortTocFromFile so that omitted items end up at the head of the list not the tail. This ensures that they'll be examined and their dependencies will be marked satisfied before we get to any interesting items. In HEAD and 9.0, we can easily change restore_toc_entries_parallel so that all SECTION_PRE_DATA items are guaranteed to be processed in the initial serial-restore loop, and hence in commanded order. Only DATA and POST_DATA items are candidates for parallel processing. For them there might be variations from the commanded order because of parallelism, but we should do it in a safe order thanks to dependencies. In 8.4 it's much harder to make such a guarantee. I settled for not letting the initial loop break out into parallel processing mode if it sees a DATA/POST_DATA item that's not to be restored; this at least prevents a non-restorable item from causing premature exit from the loop. This means that 8.4 will be more likely to fail given a badly-ordered -L list than 9.x, but we don't really promise any such thing will work anyway.
2010-08-19Bring some sanity to the trace_recovery_messages code and docs.Tom Lane
Per gripe from Fujii Masao, though this is not exactly his proposed patch. Categorize as DEVELOPER_OPTIONS and set context PGC_SIGHUP, as per Fujii, but set the default to LOG because higher values aren't really sensible (see the code for trace_recovery()). Fix the documentation to agree with the code and to try to explain what the variable actually does. Get rid of no-op calls trace_recovery(LOG), which accomplish nothing except to demonstrate that this option confuses even its author.
2010-08-19Allow USING and INTO clauses of plpgsql's EXECUTE to appear in either order.Tom Lane
Aside from being more forgiving, this prevents a rather surprising misbehavior when the "wrong" order was used: the old code didn't throw a syntax error, but absorbed the INTO clause into the last USING expression, which then did strange things downstream. Intentionally not changing the documentation; we'll continue to advertise only the "standard" clause order. Backpatch to 8.4, where the USING clause was added to EXECUTE.
2010-08-19Keep exec_simple_check_plan() from thinking "SELECT foo INTO bar" is simple.Tom Lane
It's not clear if this situation can occur in plpgsql other than via the EXECUTE USING case Heikki illustrated, which I will shortly close off. However, ignoring the intoClause if it's there is surely wrong, so let's patch it for safety. Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far back as this code has a PlannedStmt to deal with. There might be another way to make an equivalent test before that, but since this is just preventing hypothetical bugs, I'm not going to obsess about it.
2010-08-19Be a bit less cavalier with both the code and the comment for UNKNOWN fix.Tom Lane
2010-08-19Revert patch to coerce 'unknown' type parameters in the backend. As TomHeikki Linnakangas
pointed out, it would need a 2nd pass after the whole query is processed to correctly check that an unknown Param is coerced to the same target type everywhere. Adding the 2nd pass would add a lot more code, which doesn't seem worth the risk given that there isn't much of a use case for passing unknown Params in the first place. The code would work without that check, but it might be confusing and the behavior would be different from the varparams case. Instead, just coerce all unknown params in a PL/pgSQL USING clause to text. That's simple, and is usually what users expect. Revert the patch in CVS HEAD and master, and backpatch the new solution to 8.4. Unlike the previous solution, this applies easily to 8.4 too.
2010-08-19Allocate local buffers in a context of their own, rather than dumping themTom Lane
into TopMemoryContext. This makes no functional difference, but makes it easier to see what the space is being used for in MemoryContextStats dumps. Per a recent example in which I was surprised by the size of TopMemoryContext.
2010-08-19Fix possible corruption of AfterTriggerEventLists in subtransaction rollback.Tom Lane
afterTriggerInvokeEvents failed to adjust events->tailfree when truncating the last chunk of an event list. This could result in the data being "de-truncated" by afterTriggerRestoreEventList during a subsequent subtransaction abort. Even that wouldn't kill us, because the re-added data would just be events marked DONE --- unless the data had been partially overwritten by new events. Then we might crash, or in any case misbehave (perhaps fire triggers twice, or fire triggers with the wrong event data). Per bug #5622 from Thue Janus Kristensen. Back-patch to 8.4 where the current trigger list representation was introduced.
2010-08-18Reset the per-output-tuple exprcontext each time through the main loop inTom Lane
ExecModifyTable(). This avoids memory leakage when trigger functions leave junk behind in that context (as they more or less must). Problem and solution identified by Dean Rasheed. I'm a bit concerned about the longevity of this solution --- once a plan can have multiple ModifyTable nodes, we are very possibly going to have to do something different. But it should hold up for 9.0.
2010-08-18Fix failure of "ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c serial" when done by non-owner.Tom Lane
The implicitly created sequence was created as owned by the current user, who could be different from the table owner, eg if current user is a superuser or some member of the table's owning role. This caused sanity checks in the SEQUENCE OWNED BY code to spit up. Although possibly we don't need those sanity checks, the safest fix seems to be to make sure the implicit sequence is assigned the same owner role as the table has. (We still do all permissions checks as the current user, however.) Per report from Josh Berkus. Back-patch to 9.0. The bug goes back to the invention of SEQUENCE OWNED BY in 8.2, but the fix requires an API change for DefineRelation(), which seems to have potential for breaking third-party code if done in a minor release. Given the lack of prior complaints, it's probably not worth fixing in the stable branches.
2010-08-18Add missing handling of PlannedStmt.transientPlan in copyfuncs/outfuncs.Tom Lane
_outPlannedStmt is only debug support, so the omission there was not very serious, but the omission in _copyPlannedStmt is a real bug. The consequence would be that a copied plan tree would never be marked as a transient plan, so that we would forget we ought to replan it after some not-yet-ready index becomes ready for use. This might explain some past complaints about indexes created with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY not being used right away. Problem spotted by Yeb Havinga. Back-patch to 8.3, where the field was added.
2010-08-18Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the fixed-paramsHeikki Linnakangas
parse_analyze() function. That case occurs e.g with PL/pgSQL EXECUTE ... USING 'stringconstant'. The coercion with a CoerceViaIO node. The result is similar to the coercion via input function performed for unknown constants in coerce_type(), except that this happens at runtime. Backpatch to 9.0. The issue is present in 8.4 as well, but the coerce param hook infrastructure this patch relies on was introduced in 9.0. Given the lack of user reports and harmlessness of the bug, it's not worth attempting a different fix just for 8.4.
2010-08-17Applied Zoltan's patch to fix a few memleaks in ecpg's pgtypeslib.Michael Meskes
2010-08-17Revert: looks like Binary Large OBject[sic] wasn't a misspellingPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-17Spell and markup checkingPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-16Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and theTom Lane
socket lockfile) when writing them. The lack of an fsync here may well explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents, which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a new server from starting if the old one crashes. Per suggestion from Alvaro. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-08-16Fix psql's copy of utf2ucs() to match the backend's copy exactly;Tom Lane
in particular, propagate a fix in the test to see whether a UTF8 character has length 4 bytes. This is likely of little real-world consequence because 5-or-more-byte UTF8 sequences are not supported by Postgres nor seen anywhere in the wild, but still we may as well get it right. Problem found by Joseph Adams. Bug is aboriginal, so back-patch all the way.
2010-08-15Assorted improvements to backup/restore documentation, per Thom Brown.Tom Lane
2010-08-15Clarify bit numbering in get_bit/set_bit etc. Per gripe fromTom Lane
Boszormenyi Zoltan.
2010-08-15Improve pgarchivecleanup documentation, per comments from Satoshi Nagayasu.Tom Lane
2010-08-15Add link and additional index reference to pgcrypto.Robert Haas
Kevin Grittner, with markup adjustments.
2010-08-14Fix planner to make a reasonable assumption about the amount of memory spaceTom Lane
used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use "internal" as their transition datatype. The previous coding thought this took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these aggregates typically consume a great deal of space. Per bug #5608 from Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada. Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.
2010-08-13Fix Assert failure in PushOverrideSearchPath when trying to restore a searchTom Lane
path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the current session. (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.) For existing callers it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema. So far as I can tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful. Per bug report from Heikki. Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.
2010-08-13Make RecordTransactionCommit() respect wal_level.Robert Haas
Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby. Back-patch to 9.0. Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.
2010-08-13Fix pg_restore to complain if any arguments remain after parsing the switchesTom Lane
and input file name, per bug #5617 from Leo Shklovskii. Rearrange the corresponding code in pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that all three programs handle this in a consistent, straightforward fashion. Back-patch to 9.0, but no further. Although this is certainly a bug, it's possible that people have scripts that will be broken by the added error check, so it seems better not to change the behavior in stable branches.
2010-08-13Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity.Robert Haas
Thom Brown
2010-08-12Correct sundry errors in Hot Standby-related comments.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao
2010-08-12Back out syntax case changes --- seems they were intentional.Bruce Momjian
2010-08-11Properly lowercase identifiers, uppercase keywords, in doc examplesBruce Momjian
2010-08-11The sanity check added to array_recv() wa a bit too tight; we mustHeikki Linnakangas
continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send() can output such arrays. Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.
2010-08-11Fix one more incorrect errno definition in the ECPG manual.Robert Haas
Again, back-patch all the way to 7.4.
2010-08-11Fix incorrect errno definitions in ECPG manual.Robert Haas
ecpgerrno.h hasn't materially changed since PostgreSQL 7.4, so this has been wrong for a very long time. Back-patch all the way. Satoshi Nagayasu
2010-08-10Add some links to tablesPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-10<example> is a floating element, so it's use is inappropriate when thePeter Eisentraut
surrounding text refers to the example inline.
2010-08-10Use double quotes rather than double quotes for libpq target anchors.Robert Haas
Per observation from Tom Lane that the previous patch to these files was not consistent with what is done elsewhere in the docs.
2010-08-09Add EXPLAIN documentation example.Bruce Momjian
gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com> Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-08-09Fix incorrect logic in plpgsql for cleanup after evaluation of non-simpleTom Lane
expressions. We need to deal with this when handling subscripts in an array assignment, and also when catching an exception. In an Assert-enabled build these omissions led to Assert failures, but I think in a normal build the only consequence would be short-term memory leakage; which may explain why this wasn't reported from the field long ago. Back-patch to all supported versions. 7.4 doesn't have exceptions, but otherwise these bugs go all the way back. Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
2010-08-09Provide stable target anchors for libpq functions.Robert Haas
Daniele Varrazzo
2010-08-06Fix indexterm spellingPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-06Let's put that </link> in a sane place ...Tom Lane
2010-08-06Fix inaccurate description of deferrable unique constraints, per Dean Rasheed.Tom Lane
2010-08-06Rearrange "big features" section of the release notes.Robert Haas
Josh Berkus
2010-08-05Add a very specific hint for the case that we're unable to locate a functionTom Lane
matching a call like f(x, ORDER BY y,z). It could be that what the user really wants is f(x,z ORDER BY y). We now have pretty conclusive evidence that many people won't understand this problem without concrete guidance, so give it to them. Per further discussion of the string_agg() problem.
2010-08-05Document which Python environment variables affect PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-05Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much inTom Lane
functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at least two people have already gotten seriously confused by. Also, add an opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different numbers of parameters. Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown.