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2005-05-01Change CREATE TYPE to require datatype output and send functions to haveTom Lane
only one argument. (Per recent discussion, the option to accept multiple arguments is pretty useless for user-defined types, and would be a likely source of security holes if it was used.) Simplify call sites of output/send functions to not bother passing more than one argument.
2005-04-14Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane
indexes. Replace all heap_openr and index_openr calls by heap_open and index_open. Remove runtime lookups of catalog OID numbers in various places. Remove relcache's support for looking up system catalogs by name. Bulky but mostly very boring patch ...
2005-04-14First phase of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane
indexes. Extend the macros in include/catalog/*.h to carry the info about hand-assigned OIDs, and adjust the genbki script and bootstrap code to make the relations actually get those OIDs. Remove the small number of RelOid_pg_foo macros that we had in favor of a complete set named like the catname.h and indexing.h macros. Next phase will get rid of internal use of names for looking up catalogs and indexes; but this completes the changes forcing an initdb, so it looks like a good place to commit. Along the way, I made the shared relations (pg_database etc) not be 'bootstrap' relations any more, so as to reduce the number of hardwired entries and simplify changing those relations in future. I'm not sure whether they ever really needed to be handled as bootstrap relations, but it seems to work fine to not do so now.
2005-03-29Add proallargtypes and proargmodes columns to pg_proc, as per my earlierTom Lane
proposal for OUT parameter support. The columns don't actually *do* anything yet, they are just left NULLs. But I thought I'd commit this part separately as a fairly pure example of the tasks needed when adding a column to pg_proc or one of the other core system tables.
2005-03-29Convert oidvector and int2vector into variable-length arrays. ThisTom Lane
change saves a great deal of space in pg_proc and its primary index, and it eliminates the former requirement that INDEX_MAX_KEYS and FUNC_MAX_ARGS have the same value. INDEX_MAX_KEYS is still embedded in the on-disk representation (because it affects index tuple header size), but FUNC_MAX_ARGS is not. I believe it would now be possible to increase FUNC_MAX_ARGS at little cost, but haven't experimented yet. There are still a lot of vestigial references to FUNC_MAX_ARGS, which I will clean up in a separate pass. However, getting rid of it altogether would require changing the FunctionCallInfoData struct, and I'm not sure I want to buy into that.
2005-03-11Add fprintf() custom version to libpgport.Bruce Momjian
Document use of macros for pg_printf functions. Bump major versions of all interfaces to handle movement of get_progname from libpq to libpgport in 8.0, and probably other libpgport changes in 8.1.
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.
2005-01-14postgres -boot would print the wrong program name in event of aTom Lane
failure in SelectConfigFiles(). Cosmetic issue, but ...
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 ...
2004-11-14Remove GUC USERLIMIT variable category, making the affected variablesTom Lane
plain SUSET instead. Also delay processing of options received in client connection request until after we know if the user is a superuser, so that SUSET values can be set that way by legitimate superusers. Per recent discussion.
2004-10-10Cosmetic improvements/code cleanup:Neil Conway
- replace some function signatures of the form "some_type foo()" with "some_type foo(void)" - replace a few instances of a literal 0 being used as a NULL pointer; there are more instances of this in the code, but I just fixed a few - in src/backend/utils/mb/wstrncmp.c, replace K&R style function declarations with ANSI style, remove use of 'register' keyword - remove an "extern" modifier that was applied to a function definition (rather than a declaration)
2004-10-08Whack some sense into the configuration-file-location patch.Tom Lane
Refactor code into something reasonably understandable, cause use of the feature to not fail in standalone backends or in EXEC_BACKEND case, fix sloppy guc.c table entries, make the documentation minimally usable.
2004-08-31Fix unintended assignment of sequences to the containing schema'sTom Lane
default tablespace --- they should always go in the database's default tablespace. Adjust heap_create() API so that it is passed the relkind to make this easier; should simplify any further tweaking of the same sort.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-07-31For EXEC_BACKEND case, BootstrapMain needs to recompute paths, same asTom Lane
PostgresMain. Per Magnus Hagander.
2004-07-31Restructure error handling as recently discussed. It is now reallyTom Lane
possible to trap an error inside a function rather than letting it propagate out to PostgresMain. You still have to use AbortCurrentTransaction to clean up, but at least the error handling itself will cooperate.
2004-07-21Back out pg_autovacuum commit after cvs clean failure causes commit.Bruce Momjian
2004-07-21lease find enclosed a patch that matches the PL/Perl documentationBruce Momjian
(fairly closely, I hope) to the current PL/Perl implementation. David Fetter
2004-07-17Invent ResourceOwner mechanism as per my recent proposal, and use it toTom Lane
keep track of portal-related resources separately from transaction-related resources. This allows cursors to work in a somewhat sane fashion with nested transactions. For now, cursor behavior is non-subtransactional, that is a cursor's state does not roll back if you abort a subtransaction that fetched from the cursor. We might want to change that later.
2004-07-11Allow configuration files to be placed outside the data directory.Bruce Momjian
Add new postgresql.conf variables to point to data, pg_hba.conf, and pg_ident.conf files. Needs more documentation.
2004-06-24Replace direct fprintf(stderr) calls by write_stderr(), and cause thisTom Lane
routine to do something appropriate on Win32. Also, add a security check on Win32 that parallels the can't-run-as-root check on Unix. Magnus Hagander
2004-06-18Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.Tom Lane
There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules need work, and so does the documentation. Also someone should think about COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE. Also initlocation is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
2004-06-09Fix slightly-wrong syntax error messages from bootstrap parser, as perTom Lane
report from Tom Cook.
2004-06-06Infrastructure for I/O of composite types: arrange for the I/O routinesTom Lane
of a composite type to get that type's OID as their second parameter, in place of typelem which is useless. The actual changes are mostly centralized in getTypeInputInfo and siblings, but I had to fix a few places that were fetching pg_type.typelem for themselves instead of using the lsyscache.c routines. Also, I renamed all the related variables from 'typelem' to 'typioparam' to discourage people from assuming that they necessarily contain array element types.
2004-06-03Adjust our timezone library to use pg_time_t (typedef'd as int64) inTom Lane
place of time_t, as per prior discussion. The behavior does not change on machines without a 64-bit-int type, but on machines with one, which is most, we are rid of the bizarre boundary behavior at the edges of the 32-bit-time_t range (1901 and 2038). The system will now treat times over the full supported timestamp range as being in your local time zone. It may seem a little bizarre to consider that times in 4000 BC are PST or EST, but this is surely at least as reasonable as propagating Gregorian calendar rules back that far. I did not modify the format of the zic timezone database files, which means that for the moment the system will not know about daylight-savings periods outside the range 1901-2038. Given the way the files are set up, it's not a simple decision like 'widen to 64 bits'; we have to actually think about the range of years that need to be supported. We should probably inquire what the plans of the upstream zic people are before making any decisions of our own.
2004-05-29Separate out bgwriter code into a logically separate module, ratherTom Lane
than being random pieces of other files. Give bgwriter responsibility for all checkpoint activity (other than a post-recovery checkpoint); so this child process absorbs the functionality of the former transient checkpoint and shutdown subprocesses. While at it, create an actual include file for postmaster.c, which for some reason never had its own file before.
2004-05-28Code review for EXEC_BACKEND changes. Reduce the number of #ifdefs byTom Lane
about a third, make it work on non-Windows platforms again. (But perhaps I broke the WIN32 code, since I have no way to test that.) Fold all the paths that fork postmaster child processes to go through the single routine SubPostmasterMain, which takes care of resurrecting the state that would normally be inherited from the postmaster (including GUC variables). Clean up some places where there's no particularly good reason for the EXEC and non-EXEC cases to work differently. Take care of one or two FIXMEs that remained in the code.
2004-05-27Get rid of the former rather baroque mechanism for propagating the valuesTom Lane
of ThisStartUpID and RedoRecPtr into new backends. It's a lot easier just to make them all grab the values out of shared memory during startup. This helps to decouple the postmaster from checkpoint execution, which I need since I'm intending to let the bgwriter do it instead, and it also fixes a bug in the Win32 port: ThisStartUpID wasn't getting propagated at all AFAICS. (Doesn't give me a lot of faith in the amount of testing that port has gotten.)
2004-05-26Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway
In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
2004-05-21Integrate src/timezone library for all platforms. There is more we canTom Lane
and should do now that we control our own destiny for timezone handling, but this commit gets the bulk of the picayune diffs in place. Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane.
2004-05-05ALTER TABLE rewrite. New cool stuff:Tom Lane
* ALTER ... ADD COLUMN with defaults and NOT NULL constraints works per SQL spec. A default is implemented by rewriting the table with the new value stored in each row. * ALTER COLUMN TYPE. You can change a column's datatype to anything you want, so long as you can specify how to convert the old value. Rewrites the table. (Possible future improvement: optimize no-op conversions such as varchar(N) to varchar(N+1).) * Multiple ALTER actions in a single ALTER TABLE command. You can perform any number of column additions, type changes, and constraint additions with only one pass over the table contents. Basic documentation provided in ALTER TABLE ref page, but some more docs work is needed. Original patch from Rod Taylor, additional work from Tom Lane.
2004-04-01Replace TupleTableSlot convention for whole-row variables and functionTom Lane
results with tuples as ordinary varlena Datums. This commit does not in itself do much for us, except eliminate the horrid memory leak associated with evaluation of whole-row variables. However, it lays the groundwork for allowing composite types as table columns, and perhaps some other useful features as well. Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2004-03-23Upgrade ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN so that it can drop an OID column, andTom Lane
remove separate implementation of ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS in favor of doing a regular DROP. Also, cause CREATE TABLE to account completely correctly for the inheritance status of the OID column. This fixes problems with dropping OID columns that have dependencies, as noted by Christopher Kings-Lynne, as well as making sure that you can't drop an OID column that was inherited from a parent.
2004-02-25For application to HEAD, following community review.Bruce Momjian
* Changes incorrect CYGWIN defines to __CYGWIN__ * Some localtime returns NULL checks (when unchecked cause SEGVs under Win32 regression tests) * Rationalized CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores and AttachSharedMemoryAndSemaphores (Bruce, I finally remembered to do it); requires attention. Claudio Natoli
2004-02-24Add %option nodefault to all our flex lexers. Fix a couple of rule gapsTom Lane
exposed thereby. AFAICT these would not lead to any worse problems than junk emitted on the backend's stdout, but we should have the option to catch possible worse errors in future.
2004-02-10Restructure smgr API as per recent proposal. smgr no longer depends onTom Lane
the relcache, and so the notion of 'blind write' is gone. This should improve efficiency in bgwriter and background checkpoint processes. Internal restructuring in md.c to remove the not-very-useful array of MdfdVec objects --- might as well just use pointers. Also remove the long-dead 'persistent main memory' storage manager (mm.c), since it seems quite unlikely to ever get resurrected.
2004-01-07More janitorial work: remove the explicit casting of NULL literals to aNeil Conway
pointer type when it is not necessary to do so. For future reference, casting NULL to a pointer type is only necessary when (a) invoking a function AND either (b) the function has no prototype OR (c) the function is a varargs function.
2004-01-06Apply the core parts of Dennis Bjorklund's patch to allow functionTom Lane
parameters to be declared with names. pg_proc has a column to store names, and CREATE FUNCTION can insert data into it, but that's all as yet. I need to do more work on the pg_dump and plpgsql portions of the patch before committing those, but I thought I'd get the bulky changes in before the tree drifts under me. initdb forced due to pg_proc change.
2004-01-06Final rearrangement of main postgresql child process (ie.Bruce Momjian
BackendFork/SSDataBase/pgstat) startup, to allow fork/exec calls to closely mimic (the soon to be provided) Win32 CreateProcess equivalent calls. Claudio Natoli
2003-12-25Continued rearrangement to permit pgstat + BootstrapMain processes to beBruce Momjian
fork/exec'd, in the same mode as the previous patch for backends. Claudio Natoli
2003-12-20This patch is the next step towards (re)allowing fork/exec.Bruce Momjian
Claudio Natoli
2003-12-12This patch properly sets the prototype for the on_shmem_exit andPeter Eisentraut
on_proc_exit functions, and adjust all other related code to use the proper types too. by Kurt Roeckx
2003-12-01Avoid assuming that type key_t is 32 bits, since it reportedly isn'tTom Lane
on 64-bit Solaris. Use a non-system-dependent datatype for UsedShmemSegID, namely unsigned long (which we were already assuming could hold a shmem key anyway, cf RecordSharedMemoryInLockFile).
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-11-19Background writer processJan Wieck
This first part of the background writer does no syncing at all. It's only purpose is to keep the LRU heads clean so that regular backends seldom to never have to call write(). Jan
2003-11-14Add CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to bootstrap command loop, so that control-CTom Lane
can terminate the bootstrap run.
2003-11-09Add operator strategy and comparison-value datatype fields to ScanKey.Tom Lane
Remove the 'strategy map' code, which was a large amount of mechanism that no longer had any use except reverse-mapping from procedure OID to strategy number. Passing the strategy number to the index AM in the first place is simpler and faster. This is a preliminary step in planned support for cross-datatype index operations. I'm committing it now since the ScanKeyEntryInitialize() API change touches quite a lot of files, and I want to commit those changes before the tree drifts under me.
2003-09-02Cause standalone backend (including bootstrap case) to read the GUCTom Lane
config file if it exists. This was already discussed as being a good idea, and now seems the cleanest way to deal with initdb-time failures on machines with small SHMMAX. (The submitted patches instead modified initdb.sh to pass the correct sizing parameters, but that would still leave standalone backends prone to failure later. An admin who needs to use a standalone backend has enough trouble already, he shouldn't have to manually configure its shmem settings...)
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian