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2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-11-06Improve bulk-insert performance by keeping the current target buffer pinnedTom Lane
(but not locked, as that would risk deadlocks). Also, make it work in a small ring of buffers to avoid having bulk inserts trash the whole buffer arena. Robert Haas, after an idea of Simon Riggs'.
2008-08-11Introduce the concept of relation forks. An smgr relation can now consistHeikki Linnakangas
of multiple forks, and each fork can be created and grown separately. The bulk of this patch is about changing the smgr API to include an extra ForkNumber argument in every smgr function. Also, smgrscheduleunlink and smgrdounlink no longer implicitly call smgrclose, because other forks might still exist after unlinking one. The callers of those functions have been modified to call smgrclose instead. This patch in itself doesn't have any user-visible effect, but provides the infrastructure needed for upcoming patches. The additional forks envisioned are a rewritten FSM implementation that doesn't rely on a fixed-size shared memory block, and a visibility map to allow skipping portions of a table in VACUUM that have no dead tuples.
2008-06-19Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from theAlvaro Herrera
corresponding struct definitions. This allows other headers to avoid including certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less unnecessary dependencies.
2008-06-08Move BufferGetPageSize and BufferGetPage from bufpage.h to bufmgr.h. It isAlvaro Herrera
more logical that way, and also it reduces the amount of unnecessary includes in bufpage.h, which is widely used. Zdenek Kotala. My previous patch to bufpage.h should also have credited him as author, but I forgot (sorry about that).
2008-05-12Put back bufmgr.h in bufpage.h -- it is needed by some macros.Alvaro Herrera
Remove #include bufmgr.h from (most?) source files which already include bufpage.h.
2008-05-12Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing someAlvaro Herrera
unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c files. For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created, initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage. While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more consistent with our header style.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-15Re-run pgindent with updated list of typedefs. (Updated README shouldBruce Momjian
avoid this problem in the future.)
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
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.
2007-09-12Redefine 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.
2007-05-17Move the tuple freezing point in CLUSTER to a point further back in the past,Alvaro Herrera
to avoid losing useful Xid information in not-so-old tuples. This makes CLUSTER behave the same as VACUUM as far a tuple-freezing behavior goes (though CLUSTER does not yet advance the table's relfrozenxid). While at it, move the actual freezing operation in rewriteheap.c to a more appropriate place, and document it thoroughly. This part of the patch from Tom Lane.
2007-05-16Have the rewriteheap code freeze old tuples. This is safe because it is onlyAlvaro Herrera
applied to live tuples older than a recent Xmin, not to tuples that may be part of an update chain. Those still keep their original markings. This patch makes it possible for CLUSTER to advance relfrozenxid, thus avoiding the need of vacuuming the table for Xid wraparound purposes. That will be patched separately. Patch from Heikki Linnakangas.
2007-04-17Fix condition for whether end_heap_rewrite must fsync, per Heikki.Tom Lane
2007-04-17Don't assume rd_smgr stays open across all of a rewriteheap operation;Tom Lane
doing so can result in crash if an sinval reset occurs meanwhile. I believe this explains intermittent buildfarm failures in cluster test.
2007-04-08Make CLUSTER MVCC-safe. Heikki LinnakangasTom Lane