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2011-05-05Clarify error message when attempting to create index on foreign tableMagnus Hagander
Instead of just saying "is not a table", specifically state that indexes aren't supported on *foreign* tables.
2011-05-05Improve style of generate_history.pl Perl script.Bruce Momjian
2011-05-04Include unary plus in the Operator Precedence table.Tom Lane
Per gripe from Grzegorz Szpetkowski. Also, change the subsection heading from "Lexical Precedence" (which is a contradiction in terms) to "Operator Precedence".
2011-05-04Remove redundant port number checkPeter Eisentraut
pg_basebackup doesn't need to police the format of port numbers. libpq already does that.
2011-05-04Message style cleanupPeter Eisentraut
2011-05-04Fix alignment of --help outputPeter Eisentraut
Tabs replaced by spaces.
2011-05-04Link some tables into the surrounding text by their idPeter Eisentraut
2011-05-03Update obsolete mention of Sequoia, now known as TungstenAlvaro Herrera
Per http://joomla.aws.continuent.com/community/lab-projects/sequoia Greg Smith
2011-05-03Improve description of read/write traffic scalabilityAlvaro Herrera
Greg Smith, after a suggestion of James Bruce
2011-05-02Add ID attribute to some sect2's missing itAlvaro Herrera
David Fetter
2011-05-02Fix pull_up_sublinks' failure to handle nested pull-up opportunities.Tom Lane
After finding an EXISTS or ANY sub-select that can be converted to a semi-join or anti-join, we should recurse into the body of the sub-select. This allows cases such as EXISTS-within-EXISTS to be optimized properly. The original coding would leave the lower sub-select as a SubLink, which is no better and often worse than what we can do with a join. Per example from Wayne Conrad. Back-patch to 8.4. There is a related issue in older versions' handling of pull_up_IN_clauses, but they're lame enough anyway about the whole area that it seems not worth the extra work to try to fix.
2011-05-02Update some ALTER USER cross-references to ALTER ROLEAlvaro Herrera
Greg Smith
2011-05-02Small cleanup of spacing in verbatim DocBook elementsPeter Eisentraut
2011-05-02Improve aset.c's space management in contexts with small maxBlockSize.Tom Lane
The previous coding would allow requests up to half of maxBlockSize to be treated as "chunks", but when that actually did happen, we'd waste nearly half of the space in the malloc block containing the chunk, if no smaller requests came along to fill it. Avoid this scenario by limiting the maximum size of a chunk to 1/8th maxBlockSize, so that we can waste no more than 1/8th of the allocated space. This will not change the behavior at all for the default context size parameters (with large maxBlockSize), but it will change the behavior when using ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE. In particular, there's no longer a need for spell.c to be overly concerned about the request size parameters it uses, so remove a rather unhelpful comment about that. Merlin Moncure, per an idea of Tom Lane's
2011-05-02Catch errors in for loop in makefilePeter Eisentraut
Add "|| exit" so that the rule aborts when a command fails.
2011-05-02Rewrite installation makefile rules without for loopsPeter Eisentraut
install-sh can install multiple files at once, so for loops are not necessary. This was already changed for the rest of the code some time ago, but pgxs.mk was apparently forgotten, and the obsolete coding style has now been copied to the PLs as well. This also fixes the problem that the for loops in question did not catch errors.
2011-05-01Make CLUSTER lock the old table's toast table before copying data.Tom Lane
We must lock out autovacuuming of the old toast table before computing the OldestXmin horizon we will use. Otherwise, autovacuum could start on the toast table later, compute a later OldestXmin horizon, and remove as DEAD toast tuples that we still need (because we think their parent tuples are only RECENTLY_DEAD). Per further thought about bug #5998.
2011-04-29Lowercase status labels in pg_stat_replication view.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-29Remove special case for xmin == xmax in HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().Tom Lane
VACUUM was willing to remove a committed-dead tuple immediately if it was deleted by the same transaction that inserted it. The idea is that such a tuple could never have been visible to any other transaction, so we don't need to keep it around to satisfy MVCC snapshots. However, there was already an exception for tuples that are part of an update chain, and this exception created a problem: we might remove TOAST tuples (which are never part of an update chain) while their parent tuple stayed around (if it was part of an update chain). This didn't pose a problem for most things, since the parent tuple is indeed dead: no snapshot will ever consider it visible. But MVCC-safe CLUSTER had a problem, since it will try to copy RECENTLY_DEAD tuples to the new table. It then has to copy their TOAST data too, and would fail if VACUUM had already removed the toast tuples. Easiest fix is to get rid of the special case for xmin == xmax. This may delay reclaiming dead space for a little bit in some cases, but it's by far the most reliable way to fix the issue. Per bug #5998 from Mark Reid. Back-patch to 8.3, which is the oldest version with MVCC-safe CLUSTER.
2011-04-29Rewrite pg_size_pretty() to avoid compiler bug.Tom Lane
Convert it to use successive shifts right instead of increasing a divisor. This is probably a tad more efficient than the original coding, and it's nicer-looking than the previous patch because we don't need a special case to avoid overflow in the last branch. But the real reason to do it is to avoid a Solaris compiler bug, as per results from buildfarm member moa.
2011-04-28Use non-literal format for possibly non-standard strftime formats.Andrew Dunstan
Per recent -hackers discussion. The formats in question are %G and %V, and cause warnings on MinGW at least. We assume the ecpg application knows what it's doing if it passes these formats to the library.
2011-04-28Add some casts to try to silence most of the remaining format warnings on ↵Andrew Dunstan
MinGW-W64.
2011-04-28Use a macro variable PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for the style used for checking ↵Andrew Dunstan
printf type functions. The style is set to "printf" for backwards compatibility everywhere except on Windows, where it is set to "gnu_printf", which eliminates hundreds of false error messages from modern versions of gcc arising from %m and %ll{d,u} formats.
2011-04-28The arguments to pg_ctl kill are not optional - remove brackets in the docs.Heikki Linnakangas
Fujii Masao
2011-04-27Tag 9.1beta1.REL9_1_BETA1Tom Lane
2011-04-27Make a quick copy-editing pass over the 9.1 release notes.Tom Lane
Also remove the material about this being an alpha release. The notes still need a lot of work, but they're more or less presentable as a beta version now.
2011-04-27Fix binary upgrade of altered typed tablesPeter Eisentraut
Instead of dumping them as CREATE TABLE ... OF, dump them as normal tables with the usual special processing for dropped columns, and then attach them to the type afterward, using ALTER TABLE ... OF. This is analogous to the existing handling of inherited tables.
2011-04-27Revert "Force use of "%I64d" format for 64 bit ints on MinGW."Andrew Dunstan
This reverts commit 52d01c2f52c462d29ae0fdfa44c3cae129148a6d. the UINT64_FORMAT bit broke the b uildfarm, so I'm reverting the whole thing pending further investigation.
2011-04-27timeline is not needed in BaseBackup()Magnus Hagander
This code was accidentally part of the patch, it's only needed for the code that's for 9.2. Not needing the timeline also removes the need to call IDENTIFY_SYSTEM. Noted by Peter E.
2011-04-27Add comments about the need to avoid uninitialized bits in datatype values.Tom Lane
There was already one recommendation in the documentation about writing C functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes, but make it stronger. Also fix an example that was still using direct assignment to a varlena length word, which no longer works since the varvarlena changes.
2011-04-27Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes.Tom Lane
Per recent discussion, it's important for all computed datums (not only the results of input functions) to not contain any ill-defined (uninitialized) bits. Failing to ensure that can result in equal() reporting that semantically indistinguishable Consts are not equal, which in turn leads to bizarre and undesirable planner behavior, such as in a recent example from David Johnston. We might eventually try to fix this in a general manner by allowing datatypes to define identity-testing functions, but for now the path of least resistance is to expect datatypes to force all unused bits into consistent states. Per some testing by Noah Misch, array and path functions seem to be the only ones presenting risks at the moment, so I looked through all the functions in adt/array*.c and geo_ops.c and fixed them as necessary. In the array functions, the easiest/safest fix is to allocate result arrays with palloc0 instead of palloc. Possibly in future someone will want to look into whether we can just zero the padding bytes, but that looks too complex for a back-patchable fix. In the path functions, we already had a precedent in path_in for just zeroing the one known pad field, so duplicate that code as needed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-04-27Revert "Remove hard coded formats for INT64 and use configured settings ↵Andrew Dunstan
instead." This reverts commit 9b1508af8971c1627cda5bb65f5e9eddb9a1a55e. As requested by Tom.
2011-04-27Remove hard coded formats for INT64 and use configured settings instead.Andrew Dunstan
2011-04-27Force use of "%I64d" format for 64 bit ints on MinGW.Andrew Dunstan
Both this and "%lld" work, but the compiler's format checking doesn't like "%lld", so we get all sorts of spurious warnings.
2011-04-27Use an explicit format string to keep the compiler happy.Andrew Dunstan
2011-04-27Doc wording improvement for NUMERIC limit paragraph.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-26Reword documentation for NUMERIC with no specified precision.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-26Rephrase some not-supported error messages in pg_hba.conf processing.Tom Lane
In a couple of places we said "not supported on this platform" for cases that aren't really platform-specific, but could depend on configuration options such as --with-openssl. Use "not supported by this build" instead, as that doesn't convey the impression that you can't fix it without moving to another OS; that's also more consistent with the wording used for an identical error case in guc.c. No back-patch, as the clarity gain is small enough to not be worth burdening translators with back-branch changes.
2011-04-26Complain if pg_hba.conf contains "hostssl" but SSL is disabled.Tom Lane
Most commenters agreed that this is more friendly than silently failing to match the line during actual connection attempts. Also, this will prevent corner cases that might arise when trying to handle such a line when the SSL code isn't turned on. An example is that specifying clientcert=1 in such a line would formerly result in a completely misleading complaint that root.crt wasn't present, as seen in a recent report from Marc-Andre Laverdiere. While we could have instead fixed that specific behavior, it seems likely that we'd have a continuing stream of such bizarre behaviors if we keep on allowing hostssl lines when SSL is disabled. Back-patch to 8.4, where clientcert was introduced. Earlier versions don't have this specific issue, and the code is enough different to make this patch not applicable without more work than it seems worth.
2011-04-26Clarify that a non-specified precision NUMERIC has a very high range.Bruce Momjian
2011-04-26Now that pg_upgrade uses -w in pg_ctl, remove loop that retried testingBruce Momjian
the connection; also restructure the libpq connection code. This patch also removes the unused variable postmasterPID and fixes a libpq structure leak that was in the testing loop.
2011-04-25In pg_upgrade, avoid one start/stop of the postmaster; use the -wBruce Momjian
(wait) flag for pg_ctl start/stop; remove the unused "quiet" flag in the functions for starting/stopping the postmaster.
2011-04-25Remove incorrect HINT for use of ALTER FOREIGN TABLE on the wrong relkind.Tom Lane
Per discussion, removing the hint seems better than correcting it because the adjacent analogous cases in RenameRelation don't have any hints, and nobody seems to have missed 'em. Shigeru Hanada
2011-04-25Refactor broken CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS support.Robert Haas
Per bug #5988, reported by Marko Tiikkaja, and further analyzed by Tom Lane, the previous coding was broken in several respects: even if the target table already existed, a subsequent CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS might try to add additional constraints or sequences-for-serial specified in the new CREATE TABLE statement. In passing, this also fixes a minor information leak: it's no longer possible to figure out whether a schema to which you don't have CREATE access contains a sequence named like "x_y_seq" by attempting to create a table in that schema called "x" with a serial column called "y". Some more refactoring of this code in the future might be warranted, but that will need to wait for a later major release.
2011-04-25Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.Robert Haas
Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role, and revoked similarly. GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW. The set of accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for regular tables, and views. Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
2011-04-25Fix pg_size_pretty() to avoid overflow for inputs close to INT64_MAX.Tom Lane
The expression that tried to round the value to the nearest TB could overflow, leading to bogus output as reported in bug #5993 from Nicola Cossu. This isn't likely to ever happen in the intended usage of the function (if it could, we'd be needing to use a wider datatype instead); but it's not hard to give the expected output, so let's do so.
2011-04-25Support "make check" in contribPeter Eisentraut
Added a new option --extra-install to pg_regress to arrange installing the respective contrib directory into the temporary installation. This is currently not yet supported for Windows MSVC builds. Updated the .gitignore files for contrib modules to ignore the leftovers of a temp-install check run. Changed the exit status of "make check" in a pgxs build (which still does nothing) to 0 from 1. Added "make check" in contrib to top-level "make check-world".
2011-04-25Use terse mode to avoid variable order dependency output in foreign data ↵Andrew Dunstan
regression check. Per Tom Lane's suggestion about my gripe about occasional errors noticed on the buildfarm.
2011-04-25Assorted minor changes to silence Windows compiler warnings.Andrew Dunstan
Mostly to do with macro redefinitions or object signedness.
2011-04-25Prevent perl header overriding our *snprintf macros, and give it a usable ↵Andrew Dunstan
PERL_UNUSED_DECL value. This quiets compiler warnings about redefined macros and unused Perl__unused variables. The redefinition of snprintf and vsnprintf is something we want to avoid anyway, if we've gone to the bother of setting up the macros to point to our implementation.