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2006-11-29Spelling fixPeter Eisentraut
2006-11-28Fix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent doesPeter Eisentraut
not destroy them. Maybe we can adjust pgindent sometime.
2006-11-28Add workaround for localizing May and abbreviated May differently. IdeaPeter Eisentraut
of Dennis Björklund.
2006-11-27Fix gratuitous message spelling differencesPeter Eisentraut
2006-11-24Revert (too late in beta):Bruce Momjian
Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES. Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-11-24Change pg_stat_all_tables and sister views to put the recently-addedTom Lane
vacuum/analyze timestamp columns at the end, rather than at a random spot in the middle as in the original patch. This was deemed more usable as well as less likely to break existing application code. initdb forced accordingly. In passing, remove former kluge for initializing pg_stat_file()'s pg_proc entry --- bootstrap mode was fixed recently so that this can be done without any hacks, but I overlooked this usage.
2006-11-24Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-11-23Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory duringTom Lane
AbortTransaction, which would lead to recursion and eventual PANIC exit as illustrated in recent report from Jeff Davis. First, in xact.c create a special dedicated memory context for AbortTransaction to run in. This solves the problem as long as AbortTransaction doesn't need more than 32K (or whatever other size we create the context with). But in corner cases it might. Second, in trigger.c arrange to keep pending after-trigger event records in separate contexts that can be freed near the beginning of AbortTransaction, rather than having them persist until CleanupTransaction as before. Third, in portalmem.c arrange to free executor state data earlier as well. These two changes should result in backing off the out-of-memory condition before AbortTransaction needs any significant amount of memory, at least in typical cases such as memory overrun due to too many trigger events or too big an executor hash table. And all the same for subtransaction abort too, of course.
2006-11-21Suppress timezone (%Z) part of timestamp display when running on Windows,Tom Lane
because on that platform strftime produces localized zone names in varying encodings. Even though it's only in a comment, this can cause encoding errors when reloading the dump script. Per suggestion from Andreas Seltenreich. Also, suppress %Z on Windows in the %s escape of log_line_prefix ... not sure why this one is different from the other two, but it shouldn't be.
2006-11-21On systems that have setsid(2) (which should be just about everything exceptTom Lane
Windows), arrange for each postmaster child process to be its own process group leader, and deliver signals SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to the whole process group not only the direct child process. This provides saner behavior for archive and recovery scripts; in particular, it's possible to shut down a warm-standby recovery server using "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", since delivery of SIGQUIT to the startup subprocess will result in killing the waiting recovery_command. Also, this makes Query Cancel and statement_timeout apply to scripts being run from backends via system(). (There is no support in the core backend for that, but it's widely done using untrusted PLs.) Per gripe from Stephen Harris and subsequent discussion.
2006-11-21Change the default setting for log_min_error_statement to ERROR. PerTom Lane
recent discussion in which majority opinion was that this is a more widely useful setting than the previous default of PANIC.
2006-11-21Adjust elog.c so that elog(FATAL) exits (including cases where ERROR isTom Lane
promoted to FATAL) end in exit(1) not exit(0). Then change the postmaster to allow exit(1) without a system-wide panic, but not for the startup subprocess or the bgwriter. There were a couple of places that were using exit(1) to deliberately force a system-wide panic; adjust these to be exit(2) instead. This fixes the problem noted back in July that if the startup process exits with elog(ERROR), the postmaster would think everything is hunky-dory and proceed to start up. Alternative solutions such as trying to run the entire startup process as a critical section seem less clean, primarily because of the fact that a fair amount of startup code is shared by all postmaster children in the EXEC_BACKEND case. We'd need an ugly special case somewhere near the head of main.c to make it work if it's the child process's responsibility to determine what happens; and what's the point when the postmaster already treats different children differently?
2006-11-17Repair two related errors in heap_lock_tuple: it was failing to recognizeTom Lane
cases where we already hold the desired lock "indirectly", either via membership in a MultiXact or because the lock was originally taken by a different subtransaction of the current transaction. These cases must be accounted for to avoid needless deadlocks and/or inappropriate replacement of an exclusive lock with a shared lock. Per report from Clarence Gardner and subsequent investigation.
2006-11-11Suppress a few 'uninitialized variable' warnings that gcc emits only atTom Lane
-O3 or higher (presumably because it inlines more things). Per gripe from Mark Mielke.
2006-11-10Fix pg_get_serial_sequence(), which could incorrectly return the nameTom Lane
of an index on a serial column, rather than the name of the associated sequence. Fallout from recent changes in dependency setup for serials. Per bug #2732 from Basil Evseenko.
2006-11-08Modify aset.c to track the next intended block allocation size explicitly.Tom Lane
The former coding relied on the actual allocated size of the last block, which made it behave strangely if the first allocation in a context was larger than ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT: subsequent allocations would be referenced to that and not to the intended series of block sizes. Noted while studying a memory wastage gripe from Tatsuo.
2006-11-08Tweak accumArrayResult() to double the size of its working arrays whenTom Lane
more space is needed, instead of incrementing by a fixed amount; the old method wastes lots of space and time when the ultimate size is large. Per gripe from Tatsuo.
2006-11-08Fix performance issues in replace_text(), replace_text_regexp(), andTom Lane
text_to_array(): they all had O(N^2) behavior on long input strings in multibyte encodings, because of repeated rescanning of the input text to identify substrings whose positions/lengths were computed in characters instead of bytes. Fix by tracking the current source position as a char pointer as well as a character-count. Also avoid some unnecessary palloc operations. text_to_array() also leaked memory intracall due to failure to pfree temporary strings. Per gripe from Tatsuo Ishii.
2006-11-06Get rid of some unnecessary dependencies on DataDir: wherever possible,Tom Lane
the backend should rely on its working-directory setting instead. Also do some message-style police work in contrib/adminpack.
2006-11-05Fix recently-identified PITR recovery hazard: the base backup could containTom Lane
stale relcache init files (pg_internal.init), and there is no mechanism for updating them during WAL replay. Easiest solution is just to delete the init files at conclusion of startup, and let the first backend started in each database take care of rebuilding the init file. Simon Riggs and Tom Lane. Back-patched to 8.1. Arguably this should be fixed in 8.0 too, but it would require significantly more code since 8.0 has no handy startup-time scan of pg_database to piggyback on. Manual solution of the problem is possible in 8.0 (just delete the pg_internal.init files before starting WAL replay), so that may be a sufficient answer.
2006-11-05Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularlyTom Lane
in PITR scenarios. We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to PITR slave databases. Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId. Add new GUC variables and pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work done. Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather than per-database. initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database, and pg_autovacuum catalogs. Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-10-19Clean up local redeclarations of variables with DLLIMPORT, per reportTom Lane
from Magnus that MSVC complains about this.
2006-10-18Fix up timetz input so that a date is required only when the specifiedTom Lane
timezone actually has a daylight-savings rule. This avoids breaking cases that used to work because they went through the DecodePosixTimezone code path. Per contrib regression failures (mea culpa for not running those yesterday...). Also document the already-applied change to allow GMT offsets up to 14 hours.
2006-10-17Fix up some problems in handling of zic-style time zone names in datetimeTom Lane
input routines. Remove the former "DecodePosixTimezone" function in favor of letting the zic code handle POSIX-style zone specs (see tzparse()). In particular this means that "PST+3" now means the same as "-03", whereas it used to mean "-11" --- the zone abbreviation is effectively just a noise word in this syntax. Make sure that all named and POSIX-style zone names will be parsed as a single token. Fix long-standing bogosities in printing and input of fractional-hour timezone offsets (since the tzparse() code will accept these, we'd better make 'em work). Also correct an error in the original coding of the zic-zone-name patch: in "timestamp without time zone" input, zone names are supposed to be allowed but ignored, but the coding was such that the zone changed the interpretation anyway.
2006-10-07On platforms that have getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK), use it to ensure thatTom Lane
max_stack_depth is not set to an unsafe value. This commit also provides configure-time checking for <sys/resource.h>, and cleans up some perhaps-unportable code associated with use of that include file and getrlimit().
2006-10-07Fix string_to_array() to correctly handle the case where there areTom Lane
overlapping possible matches for the separator string, such as string_to_array('123xx456xxx789', 'xx'). Also, revise the logic of replace(), split_part(), and string_to_array() to avoid O(N^2) work from redundant searches and conversions to pg_wchar format when there are N matches to the separator string. Backpatched the full patch as far as 8.0. 7.4 also has the bug, but the code has diverged a lot, so I just went for a quick-and-dirty fix of the bug itself in that branch.
2006-10-06Fix SysCacheGetAttr() to handle the case where the specified syscache has notTom Lane
been initialized yet. This can happen because there are code paths that call SysCacheGetAttr() on a tuple originally fetched from a different syscache (hopefully on the same catalog) than the one specified in the call. It doesn't seem useful or robust to try to prevent that from happening, so just improve the function to cope instead. Per bug#2678 from Jeff Trout. The specific example shown by Jeff is new in 8.1, but to be on the safe side I'm backpatching 8.0 as well. We could patch 7.x similarly but I think that's probably overkill, given the lack of evidence of old bugs of this ilk.
2006-10-06Message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut
2006-10-05Cleanup for pglz_compress code: remove dead code, const-ify API ofTom Lane
remaining functions, simplify pglz_compress's API to not require a useless data copy when compression fails. Also add a check in pglz_decompress that the expected amount of data was decompressed.
2006-10-05Work around buggy strtod on (some versions of?) IRIX. Combination ofTom Lane
proposed patches from John Jorgensen and Steve Singer.
2006-10-04Fix comment to agree with presentation.Tom Lane
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-03Switch over to using our own qsort() all the time, as has been proposedTom Lane
repeatedly. Now that we don't have to worry about memory leaks from glibc's qsort, we can safely put CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into the tuplesort comparators, as was requested a couple months ago. Also, get rid of non-reentrancy and an extra level of function call in tuplesort.c by providing a variant qsort_arg() API that passes an extra void * argument through to the comparison routine. (We might want to use that in other places too, I didn't look yet.)
2006-10-03Improve numeric overflow error message.Bruce Momjian
David Fetter
2006-10-03The attached patch changes units of the some default values inBruce Momjian
postgresql.conf. - shared_buffers = 32000kB => 32MB - temp_buffers = 8000kB => 8MB - wal_buffers = 8 => 64kB The code of initdb was a bit modified to write MB-unit values. Values greater than 8000kB are rounded out to MB. GUC_UNIT_XBLOCKS is added for wal_buffers. It is like GUC_UNIT_BLOCKS, but uses XLOG_BLCKSZ instead of BLCKSZ. Also, I cleaned up the test of GUC_UNIT_* flags in preparation to add more unit flags in less bits. ITAGAKI Takahiro
2006-10-03Mention in postgresql.conf that autovacuum also needsBruce Momjian
stats_start_collector and stats_row_level to also be on David Wheeler
2006-10-01Do a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS after emitting a message of less than ERRORTom Lane
severity. This is to ensure the user can cancel a query that's spitting out lots of notice/warning messages, even if they're coming from a loop that doesn't otherwise contain a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. Per gripe from Stephen Frost.
2006-10-01Fix overly enthusiastic Assert introduced in 8.1: it's expecting aTom Lane
CaseTestExpr, but forgot that the optimizer is sometimes able to replace CaseTestExpr by Const.
2006-09-29Allow assignment to array elements not contiguous with those alreadyTom Lane
present; intervening positions are filled with nulls. This behavior is required by SQL99 but was not implementable before 8.2 due to lack of support for nulls in arrays. I have only made it work for the one-dimensional case, which is all that SQL99 requires. It seems quite complex to get it right in higher dimensions, and since we never allowed extension at all in higher dimensions, I think that must count as a future feature addition not a bug fix.
2006-09-28Fix IS NULL and IS NOT NULL tests on row-valued expressions to conform toTom Lane
the SQL spec, viz IS NULL is true if all the row's fields are null, IS NOT NULL is true if all the row's fields are not null. The former coding got this right for a limited number of cases with IS NULL (ie, those where it could disassemble a ROW constructor at parse time), but was entirely wrong for IS NOT NULL. Per report from Teodor. I desisted from changing the behavior for arrays, since on closer inspection it's not clear that there's any support for that in the SQL spec. This probably needs more consideration.
2006-09-27Replace strncpy with strlcpy in selected places that seem possibly relevantTom Lane
to performance. (A wholesale effort to get rid of strncpy should be undertaken sometime, but not during beta.) This commit also fixes dynahash.c to correctly truncate overlength string keys for hashtables, so that its callers don't have to anymore.
2006-09-25Increase default value of effective_cache_size to 128MB, per discussion.Tom Lane
2006-09-22Fix pg_locks view to call advisory locks advisory locks, while preservingTom Lane
backward compatibility for anyone using the old userlock code that's now on pgfoundry --- locks from that code still show as 'userlock'.
2006-09-22Fix bugs in plpgsql and ecpg caused by assuming that isspace() would onlyTom Lane
return true for exactly the characters treated as whitespace by their flex scanners. Per report from Victor Snezhko and subsequent investigation. Also fix a passel of unsafe usages of <ctype.h> functions, that is, ye olde char-vs-unsigned-char issue. I won't miss <ctype.h> when we are finally able to stop using it.
2006-09-22Add units to the default postgresql.conf. For the most part, this shouldPeter Eisentraut
match what SHOW displays as default value, to make the user experience uniform.
2006-09-20Change patternsel (LIKE/regex selectivity estimation) so that if thereTom Lane
is a large enough histogram, it will use the number of matches in the histogram to derive a selectivity estimate, rather than the admittedly pretty bogus heuristics involving examining the pattern contents. I set 'large enough' at 100, but perhaps we should change that later. Also apply the same technique in contrib/ltree's <@ and @> estimator. Per discussion with Stefan Kaltenbrunner and Matteo Beccati.
2006-09-19Improve usage of effective_cache_size parameter by assuming that all theTom Lane
tables in the query compete for cache space, not just the one we are currently costing an indexscan for. This seems more realistic, and it definitely will help in examples recently exhibited by Stefan Kaltenbrunner. To get the total size of all the tables involved, we must tweak the handling of 'append relations' a bit --- formerly we looked up information about the child tables on-the-fly during set_append_rel_pathlist, but it needs to be done before we start doing any cost estimation, so push it into the add_base_rels_to_query scan.
2006-09-18Add built-in userlock manipulation functions to replace the formerTom Lane
contrib functionality. Along the way, remove the USER_LOCKS configuration symbol, since it no longer makes any sense to try to compile that out. No user documentation yet ... mmoncure has promised to write some. Thanks to Abhijit Menon-Sen for creating a first draft to work from.
2006-09-16Rename the recently-added pg_timezonenames view to pg_timezone_abbrevs,Tom Lane
and create a new view pg_timezone_names that provides information about the zones known in the 'zic' database. Magnus Hagander, with some additional work by Tom Lane.
2006-09-15Improve confusing comment for HeapTupleSatisfiesNow, per gripe from Greg Stark.Tom Lane