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2005-06-09Free buffer allocated via malloc (process is short-lived, but fix it anyway).Bruce Momjian
2005-06-08Change WAL-logging scheme for multixacts to be more like regularTom Lane
transaction IDs, rather than like subtrans; in particular, the information now survives a database restart. Per previous discussion, this is essential for PITR log shipping and for 2PC.
2005-06-06Modify XLogInsert API to make callers specify whether pages to be backedTom Lane
up have the standard layout with unused space between pd_lower and pd_upper. When this is set, XLogInsert will omit the unused space without bothering to scan it to see if it's zero. That saves time in XLogInsert, and also allows reversion of my earlier patch to make PageRepairFragmentation et al explicitly re-zero freed space. Per suggestion by Heikki Linnakangas.
2005-06-06Remove the mostly-stubbed-out-anyway support routines for WAL UNDO.Tom Lane
That code is never going to be used in the foreseeable future, and where it's more than a stub it's making the redo routines harder to read.
2005-06-02Change CRCs in WAL records from 64bit to 32bit for performance reasons.Tom Lane
Instead of a separate CRC on each backup block, include backup blocks in their parent WAL record's CRC; this is important to ensure that the backup block really goes with the WAL record, ie there was not a page tear right at the start of the backup block. Implement a simple form of compression of backup blocks: drop any run of zeroes starting at pd_lower, so as not to store the unused 'hole' that commonly exists in PG heap and index pages. Tweak PageRepairFragmentation and related routines to ensure they keep the unused space zeroed, so that the above compression method remains effective. All per recent discussions.
2005-05-31Add test to WAL replay to verify that xl_prev points back to the previousTom Lane
WAL record; this is necessary to be sure we recognize stale WAL records when a WAL page was only partially written during a system crash.
2005-05-29Modify hash_search() API to prevent future occurrences of the errorTom Lane
spotted by Qingqing Zhou. The HASH_ENTER action now automatically fails with elog(ERROR) on out-of-memory --- which incidentally lets us eliminate duplicate error checks in quite a bunch of places. If you really need the old return-NULL-on-out-of-memory behavior, you can ask for HASH_ENTER_NULL. But there is now an Assert in that path checking that you aren't hoping to get that behavior in a palloc-based hash table. Along the way, remove the old HASH_FIND_SAVE/HASH_REMOVE_SAVED actions, which were not being used anywhere anymore, and were surely too ugly and unsafe to want to see revived again.
2005-05-20Add support for wal_fsync_writethrough for Darwin, and restructure theBruce Momjian
code to better handle writethrough. Chris Campbell
2005-05-19Make a comment pgindent-proof, per suggestion from Alvaro.Tom Lane
2005-05-19Split the shared-memory array of PGPROC pointers out of the sinvalTom Lane
communication structure, and make it its own module with its own lock. This should reduce contention at least a little, and it definitely makes the code seem cleaner. Per my recent proposal.
2005-05-17Cleanup GiST header files. Since GiST extensions are often written asNeil Conway
external projects, we should be careful about what parts of the GiST API are considered implementation details, and which are part of the public API. Therefore, I've moved internal-only declarations into gist_private.h -- future backward-incompatible changes to gist.h should be made with care, to avoid needlessly breaking external GiST extensions. Also did some related header cleanup: remove some unnecessary #includes from gist.h, and remove some unused definitions: isAttByVal(), _gistdump(), and GISTNStrategies.
2005-05-10Back out check for unreferenced files.Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas
2005-05-07Fix case in which a debug printout would print already-pfreed data.Tom Lane
2005-05-03Clean up MultiXactIdExpand's API by separating out the case where weTom Lane
are creating a new MultiXactId from two regular XIDs. The original coding was unnecessarily complicated and didn't save any code anyway.
2005-05-02Check the file system on postmaster startup and report any unreferencedBruce Momjian
files in the server log. Heikki Linnakangas
2005-04-28Implement sharable row-level locks, and use them for foreign key referencesTom Lane
to eliminate unnecessary deadlocks. This commit adds SELECT ... FOR SHARE paralleling SELECT ... FOR UPDATE. The implementation uses a new SLRU data structure (managed much like pg_subtrans) to represent multiple- transaction-ID sets. When more than one transaction is holding a shared lock on a particular row, we create a MultiXactId representing that set of transactions and store its ID in the row's XMAX. This scheme allows an effectively unlimited number of row locks, just as we did before, while not costing any extra overhead except when a shared lock actually has to be shared. Still TODO: use the regular lock manager to control the grant order when multiple backends are waiting for a row lock. Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
2005-04-23Add comment about checkpoint panic behavior during shutdown, perTom Lane
suggestion from Qingqing Zhou.
2005-04-17Fix comment typo.Bruce Momjian
2005-04-15Reduce PANIC to ERROR in several xlog routines that are used in bothTom Lane
critical and noncritical contexts (an example of noncritical being post-checkpoint removal of dead xlog segments). In the critical cases the CRIT_SECTION mechanism will cause ERROR to be promoted to PANIC anyway, and in the noncritical cases we shouldn't let an error take down the entire database. Arguably there should be *no* explicit PANIC errors in this module, only more START/END_CRIT_SECTION calls, but I didn't go that far. (Yet.)
2005-04-15Modify MoveOfflineLogs/InstallXLogFileSegment to avoid O(N^2) behaviorTom Lane
when recycling a large number of xlog segments during checkpoint. The former behavior searched from the same start point each time, requiring O(checkpoint_segments^2) stat() calls to relocate all the segments. Instead keep track of where we stopped last time through.
2005-04-13Simplify initdb-time assignment of OIDs as I proposed yesterday, andTom Lane
avoid encroaching on the 'user' range of OIDs by allowing automatic OID assignment to use values below 16k until we reach normal operation. initdb not forced since this doesn't make any incompatible change; however a lot of stuff will have different OIDs after your next initdb.
2005-04-11Fix interaction between materializing holdable cursors and firingTom Lane
deferred triggers: either one can create more work for the other, so we have to loop till it's all gone. Per example from andrew@supernews. Add a regression test to help spot trouble in this area in future.
2005-03-29Officially decouple FUNC_MAX_ARGS from INDEX_MAX_KEYS, and set theTom Lane
former to 100 by default. Clean up some of the less necessary dependencies on FUNC_MAX_ARGS; however, the biggie (FunctionCallInfoData) remains.
2005-03-28Remove dead push/pop rollback code. Vadim once planned to implementTom Lane
transaction rollback via UNDO but I think that's highly unlikely to happen, so we may as well remove the stubs. (Someday we ought to rip out the stub xxx_undo routines, too.) Per Alvaro.
2005-03-24Change Win32 O_SYNC method to O_DSYNC because that is what the methodBruce Momjian
currently does. This is now the default Win32 wal sync method because we perfer o_datasync to fsync. Also, change Win32 fsync to a new wal sync method called fsync_writethrough because that is the behavior of _commit, which is what is used for fsync on Win32. Backpatch to 8.0.X.
2005-02-20Remove some no-longer-needed kluges for bootstrapping, in particularTom Lane
the AMI_OVERRIDE flag. The fact that TransactionLogFetch treats BootstrapTransactionId as always committed is sufficient to make bootstrap work, and getting rid of extra tests in heavily used code paths seems like a win. The files produced by initdb are demonstrably the same after this change.
2005-02-20Add code to prevent transaction ID wraparound by enforcing a safe limitTom Lane
in GetNewTransactionId(). Since the limit value has to be computed before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid. This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are not properly updated during WAL recovery. The code I've added to startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing the XID wraparound limit value. This will eventually allow us to get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add a trigger to pg_database.
2005-02-12Move plpgsql DEBUG from DEBUG2 to DEBUG1 because it is a user-requestedBruce Momjian
DEBUG. Fix a few places where DEBUG1 crept in that should have been DEBUG2.
2005-01-10Phase 1 of fix for 'SMgrRelation hashtable corrupted' problem. ThisTom Lane
is the minimum required fix. I want to look next at taking advantage of it by simplifying the message semantics in the shared inval message queue, but that part can be held over for 8.1 if it turns out too ugly.
2005-01-01Update copyrights that were missed.Bruce Momjian
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-12-22Awhile back I added some code to StartupCLOG() to forcibly zero outTom Lane
the remainder of the current clog page during system startup. While this was a good idea, it turns out the code fails if nextXid is exactly at a page boundary, because we won't have created the "current" clog page yet in that case. Since the page will be correctly zeroed when we execute the first transaction on it, the solution is just to do nothing when exactly at a page boundary. Per trouble report from Dave Hartwig.
2004-12-17Fix is-it-time-for-a-checkpoint logic so that checkpoint_segments canTom Lane
usefully be larger than 255. Per gripe from Simon Riggs.
2004-11-17Minor adjustment of message style.Tom Lane
2004-11-17Don't allow pg_start_backup() to be invoked if archive_command has notNeil Conway
been defined. Patch from Gavin Sherry, editorializing by Neil Conway.
2004-11-05Small message clarificationsPeter Eisentraut
2004-10-30Change COMMIT back to the old behavior of emitting command tag COMMIT,Tom Lane
not ROLLBACK, for the case of COMMIT outside a transaction block. Alvaro Herrera
2004-10-29Rearrange order of pre-commit operations: must close cursors before doingTom Lane
ON COMMIT actions. Per bug report from Michael Guerin.
2004-10-29Add DEBUG1-level logging of checkpoint start and end. Also, reduce theTom Lane
'recycled log files' and 'removed log files' messages from DEBUG1 to DEBUG2, replacing them with a count of files added/removed/recycled in the checkpoint end message, as per suggestion from Simon Riggs.
2004-10-16Give the ResourceOwner mechanism full responsibility for releasing bufferTom Lane
pins at end of transaction, and reduce AtEOXact_Buffers to an Assert cross-check that this was done correctly. When not USE_ASSERT_CHECKING, AtEOXact_Buffers is a complete no-op. This gets rid of an O(NBuffers) bottleneck during transaction commit/abort, which recent testing has shown becomes significant above a few tens of thousands of shared buffers.
2004-10-14Add 'int' cast for getpid() because some Solaris releases return longBruce Momjian
for getpid().
2004-10-12Message style revisionsPeter Eisentraut
2004-10-09Make getpid() use %d consistently for printing.Bruce Momjian
2004-10-07Adjust comments previously moved to column 1 by pgident.Bruce Momjian
2004-10-04PortalRun must guard against the possibility that the portal it'sTom Lane
running contains VACUUM or a similar command that will internally start and commit transactions. In such a case, the original caller values of CurrentMemoryContext and CurrentResourceOwner will point to objects that will be destroyed by the internal commit. We must restore these pointers to point to the newly-manufactured transaction context and resource owner, rather than possibly pointing to deleted memory. Also tweak xact.c so that AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction forcibly restore a sane value for CurrentResourceOwner, much as they have always done for CurrentMemoryContext. I'm not certain this is necessary but I'm feeling paranoid today. Responds to Sean Chittenden's bug report of 4-Oct.
2004-09-16Add some marginal tweaks to eliminate memory leakages associated withTom Lane
subtransactions. Trivial subxacts (such as a plpgsql exception block containing no database access) now demonstrably leak zero bytes.
2004-09-16RecentXmin is too recent to use as the cutoff point for accessingTom Lane
pg_subtrans --- what we need is the oldest xmin of any snapshot in use in the current top transaction. Introduce a new variable TransactionXmin to play this role. Fixes intermittent regression failure reported by Neil Conway.
2004-09-16Restructure subtransaction handling to reduce resource consumption,Tom Lane
as per recent discussions. Invent SubTransactionIds that are managed like CommandIds (ie, counter is reset at start of each top transaction), and use these instead of TransactionIds to keep track of subtransaction status in those modules that need it. This means that a subtransaction does not need an XID unless it actually inserts/modifies rows in the database. Accordingly, don't assign it an XID nor take a lock on the XID until it tries to do that. This saves a lot of overhead for subtransactions that are only used for error recovery (eg plpgsql exceptions). Also, arrange to release a subtransaction's XID lock as soon as the subtransaction exits, in both the commit and abort cases. This avoids holding many unique locks after a long series of subtransactions. The price is some additional overhead in XactLockTableWait, but that seems acceptable. Finally, restructure the state machine in xact.c to have a more orthogonal set of states for subtransactions.
2004-09-13Redesign query-snapshot timing so that volatile functions in READ COMMITTEDTom Lane
mode see a fresh snapshot for each command in the function, rather than using the latest interactive command's snapshot. Also, suppress fresh snapshots as well as CommandCounterIncrement inside STABLE and IMMUTABLE functions, instead using the snapshot taken for the most closely nested regular query. (This behavior is only sane for read-only functions, so the patch also enforces that such functions contain only SELECT commands.) As per my proposal of 6-Sep-2004; I note that I floated essentially the same proposal on 19-Jun-2002, but that discussion tailed off without any action. Since 8.0 seems like the right place to be taking possibly nontrivial backwards compatibility hits, let's get it done now.
2004-09-10Fire non-deferred AFTER triggers immediately upon query completion,Tom Lane
rather than when returning to the idle loop. This makes no particular difference for interactively-issued queries, but it makes a big difference for queries issued within functions: trigger execution now occurs before the calling function is allowed to proceed. This responds to numerous complaints about nonintuitive behavior of foreign key checking, such as http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-09/msg00020.php, and appears to be required by the SQL99 spec. Also take the opportunity to simplify the data structures used for the pending-trigger list, rename them for more clarity, and squeeze out a bit of space.