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2006-03-03Add comment about localized month names for to_date and to_timestamp.Bruce Momjian
2006-03-02Repair oidvectorrecv and int2vectorrecv, which I broke while changingTom Lane
them to use array_recv :-(. Per report from Tim Kordas.
2006-03-01Attached is a patch that replaces a bunch of places where StringInfosNeil Conway
are unnecessarily allocated on the heap rather than the stack. If the StringInfo doesn't outlive the stack frame in which it is created, there is no need to allocate it on the heap via makeStringInfo() -- stack allocation is faster. While it's not a big deal unless the code is in a critical path, I don't see a reason not to save a few cycles -- using stack allocation is not less readable. I also cleaned up a bit of code along the way: moved variable declarations into a more tightly-enclosing scope where possible, fixed some pointless copying of strings in dblink, etc.
2006-02-28Allow the syntax CREATE TYPE foo, with no parameters, to permit explicitTom Lane
creation of a shell type. This allows a less hacky way of dealing with the mutual dependency between a datatype and its I/O functions: make a shell type, then make the functions, then define the datatype fully. We should fix pg_dump to handle things this way, but this commit just deals with the backend. Martijn van Oosterhout, with some corrections by Tom Lane.
2006-02-27Clean up CREATE FUNCTION syntax usage in contrib and elsewhere, inPeter Eisentraut
particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH () construct.
2006-02-27Add mention that tid perhaps someday should be output as a record.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-26Improve sorting speed by pre-extracting the first sort-key column ofTom Lane
each tuple, as per my proposal of several days ago. Also, clean up sort memory management by keeping all working data in a separate memory context, and refine the handling of low-memory conditions.
2006-02-26Implement the <> operator for the tid type. Original patch from MarkNeil Conway
Kirkwood, minor improvements by Neil Conway. The regression tests have been updated and the catversion has been bumped.
2006-02-26Fix typo in comment.Neil Conway
2006-02-24The Makefile was invoking perl scripts as ./script.pl. This fails whenPeter Eisentraut
the script is not executable as UCS_to_most.pl is in CVS. It also won't pick up any custom setting of the perl version/location to use. This patch calls perl scripts like $(PERL) $(srcdir)/script.pl. Kris Jurka
2006-02-19Update obsolete comment.Tom Lane
2006-02-19Modify logtape.c so that the initial LogicalTapeSetCreate call onlyTom Lane
allocates the control data. The per-tape buffers are allocated only on first use. This saves memory in situations where tuplesort.c overestimates the number of tapes needed (ie, there are fewer runs than tapes). Also, this makes legitimate the coding in inittapes() that includes tape buffer space in the maximum-memory calculation: when inittapes runs, we've already expended the whole allowed memory on tuple storage, and so we'd better not allocate all the tape buffers until we've flushed some tuples out of memory.
2006-02-19Improve tuplesort.c to support variable merge order. The original codingTom Lane
with fixed merge order (fixed number of "tapes") was based on obsolete assumptions, namely that tape drives are expensive. Since our "tapes" are really just a couple of buffers, we can have a lot of them given adequate workspace. This allows reduction of the number of merge passes with consequent savings of I/O during large sorts. Simon Riggs with some rework by Tom Lane
2006-02-18Add support for Windows codepages 1253, 1254, 1255, and 1257 and cleanPeter Eisentraut
up a bunch of the support utilities. In src/backend/utils/mb/Unicode remove nearly duplicate copies of the UCS_to_XXX perl script and replace with one version to handle all generic files. Update the Makefile so that it knows about all the map files. This produces a slight difference in some of the map files, using a uniform naming convention and not mapping the null character. In src/backend/utils/mb/conversion_procs create a master utf8<->win codepage function like the ISO 8859 versions instead of having a separate handler for each conversion. There is an externally visible change in the name of the win1258 to utf8 conversion. According to the documentation notes, it was named incorrectly and this changes it to a standard name. Running the Unicode mapping perl scripts has shown some additional mapping changes in koi8r and iso8859-7.
2006-02-14AllocSetStats should probably be using unsigned format to show space totals.Tom Lane
2006-02-12Revert because C locale uses "" for thousands_sep, meaning "n/a", whileBruce Momjian
French uses "" for "don't want". Seems we have to keep the existing behavior.
2006-02-12Fix bug that allowed any logged-in user to SET ROLE to any other database userTom Lane
id (CVE-2006-0553). Also fix related bug in SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION that allows unprivileged users to crash the server, if it has been compiled with Asserts enabled. The escalation-of-privilege risk exists only in 8.1.0-8.1.2. However, the Assert-crash risk exists in all releases back to 7.3. Thanks to Akio Ishida for reporting this problem.
2006-02-12Throw a warning rather than an error on invalid character from UTF8 toBruce Momjian
Latin1, like we do for other Latin encodings.
2006-02-12Support "" for thousands separator and plus sign in to_char(), perBruce Momjian
report from French Debian user. psql already handles "" fine.
2006-02-12Allow to_char() to print localized month and day names.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-02-11Fix incorrect addition, subtraction, and overflow checking in newTom Lane
inet operators.
2006-02-11Add INET/CIDR operators: and, or, not, plus int8, minus int8, and inetBruce Momjian
minus inet. Stephen R. van den Berg
2006-02-10Change search for default operator classes so that it examines all opclassesTom Lane
regardless of the current schema search path. Since CREATE OPERATOR CLASS only allows one default opclass per datatype regardless of schemas, this should have minimal impact, and it fixes problems with failure to find a desired opclass while restoring dump files. Per discussion at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00284.php. Remove now-redundant-or-unused code in typcache.c and namespace.c, and backpatch as far as 8.0.
2006-02-10Allow psql multi-line column values to align in the proper columnsBruce Momjian
If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear in the second display column, rather than the first column as it does now. Change libpq's PQdsplen() to return more useful values. > Note: this changes the PQdsplen function, it can now return zero or > minus one which was not possible before. It doesn't appear anyone is > actually using the functions other than psql but it is a change. The > functions are not actually documentated anywhere so it's not like we're > breaking a defined interface. The new semantics follow the Unicode > standard. BACKWARD COMPATIBLE CHANGE. The only user-visible change I saw in the regression tests is that a SELECT * on a table where all the columns have been dropped doesn't return a blank line like before. This seems like a step forward. Martijn van Oosterhout
2006-02-09Reject out-of-range dates in date_in().Tom Lane
Kris Jurka
2006-02-07Source code cleanup.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-07I think that NUMERIC datatype has a problem in the performance thatBruce Momjian
the format on Tuple(Numeric) and the format to calculate(NumericVar) are different. I understood that to reduce I/O. However, when many comparisons or calculations of NUMERIC are executed, the conversion of Numeric and NumericVar becomes a bottleneck. It is profile result when "create index on NUMERIC column" is executed: % cumulative self self total time seconds seconds calls s/call s/call name 17.61 10.27 10.27 34542006 0.00 0.00 cmp_numerics 11.90 17.21 6.94 34542006 0.00 0.00 comparetup_index 7.42 21.54 4.33 71102587 0.00 0.00 AllocSetAlloc 7.02 25.64 4.09 69084012 0.00 0.00 set_var_from_num 4.87 28.48 2.84 69084012 0.00 0.00 alloc_var 4.79 31.27 2.79 142205745 0.00 0.00 AllocSetFreeIndex 4.55 33.92 2.65 34542004 0.00 0.00 cmp_abs 4.07 36.30 2.38 71101189 0.00 0.00 AllocSetFree 3.83 38.53 2.23 69084012 0.00 0.00 free_var The create index command executes many comparisons of Numeric values. Functions other than comparetup_index spent a lot of cycles for conversion from Numeric to NumericVar. An attached patch enables the comparison of Numeric values without executing conversion to NumericVar. The execution time of that SQL becomes half. o Test SQL (index_test table has 1,000,000 tuples) create index index_test_idx on index_test(num_col); o Test results (executed the test five times) (1)PentiumIII original: 39.789s 36.823s 36.737s 37.752s 37.019s patched : 18.560s 19.103s 18.830s 18.408s 18.853s 4.07 36.30 2.38 71101189 0.00 0.00 AllocSetFree 3.83 38.53 2.23 69084012 0.00 0.00 free_var The create index command executes many comparisons of Numeric values. Functions other than comparetup_index spent a lot of cycles for conversion from Numeric to NumericVar. An attached patch enables the comparison of Numeric values without executing conversion to NumericVar. The execution time of that SQL becomes half. o Test SQL (index_test table has 1,000,000 tuples) create index index_test_idx on index_test(num_col); o Test results (executed the test five times) (1)PentiumIII original: 39.789s 36.823s 36.737s 37.752s 37.019s patched : 18.560s 19.103s 18.830s 18.408s 18.853s (2)Pentium4 original: 16.349s 14.997s 12.979s 13.169s 12.955s patched : 7.005s 6.594s 6.770s 6.740s 6.828s (3)Itanium2 original: 15.392s 15.447s 15.350s 15.370s 15.417s patched : 7.413s 7.330s 7.334s 7.339s 7.339s (4)Ultra Sparc original: 64.435s 59.336s 59.332s 58.455s 59.781s patched : 28.630s 28.666s 28.983s 28.744s 28.595s Atsushi Ogawa
2006-02-04Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value isPeter Eisentraut
modified and the server config files are reloaded
2006-02-03Update random() usage so ranges are inclusive/exclusive as required.Bruce Momjian
2006-01-26Suppress signed-vs-unsigned-char warning.Tom Lane
2006-01-26Fix display of whole-row Var appearing at the top level of a SELECT list.Tom Lane
While we normally prefer the notation "foo.*" for a whole-row Var, that does not work at SELECT top level, because in that context the parser will assume that what is wanted is to expand the "*" into a list of separate target columns, yielding behavior different from a whole-row Var. We have to emit just "foo" instead in that context. Per report from Sokolov Yura.
2006-01-26Clean up the INET-vs-CIDR situation. Get rid of the internal is_cidr flagTom Lane
and rely exclusively on the SQL type system to tell the difference between the types. Prevent creation of invalid CIDR values via casting from INET or set_masklen() --- both of these operations now silently zero any bits to the right of the netmask. Remove duplicate CIDR comparison operators, letting the type rely on the INET operators instead.
2006-01-25Allow row comparisons to be used as indexscan qualifications.Tom Lane
This completes the project to upgrade our handling of row comparisons.
2006-01-25Update regression error message for NUMERIC range overflow. Display "1"Bruce Momjian
instead of 10^0.
2006-01-25Improve error message when NUMERIC precision is exceeded.Bruce Momjian
2006-01-23Prototype fix for typo.Bruce Momjian
2006-01-23Use is_cidr in INET/CIDR structure, rather than the generic 'type'.Bruce Momjian
2006-01-21Add GRANT ON SEQUENCE syntax to support sequence-only permissions.Bruce Momjian
Continue to support GRANT ON [TABLE] for sequences for backward compatibility; issue warning for invalid sequence permissions. [Backward compatibility warning message.] Add USAGE permission for sequences that allows only currval() and nextval(), not setval(). Mention object name in grant/revoke warnings because of possible multi-object operations.
2006-01-19Add some test scaffolding to allow cache-flush stress testing (and I doTom Lane
mean stress ... system is orders of magnitude slower with this enabled).
2006-01-19Avoid crashing if relcache flush occurs while trying to load data into anTom Lane
index's support-function cache (in index_getprocinfo). Since none of that data can change for an index that's in active use, it seems sufficient to treat all open indexes the same way we were treating "nailed" system indexes --- that is, just re-read the pg_class row and leave the rest of the relcache entry strictly alone. The pg_class re-read might not be strictly necessary either, but since the reltablespace and relfilenode can change in normal operation it seems safest to do it. (We don't support changing any of the other info about an index at all, at the moment.) Back-patch as far as 8.0. It might be possible to adapt the patch to 7.4, but it would take more work than I care to expend for such a low-probability problem. 7.3 is out of luck for sure.
2006-01-19Fix a tiny memory leak (one List header) in RelationCacheInvalidate().Tom Lane
This is utterly insignificant in normal operation, but it becomes a problem during cache inval stress testing. The original coding in fact had no leak --- the 8.0 List rewrite created the issue. I wonder whether list_concat should pfree the discarded header?
2006-01-18Add a new system view, pg_cursors, that displays the currently availableNeil Conway
cursors. Patch from Joachim Wieland, review and ediorialization by Neil Conway. The view lists cursors defined by DECLARE CURSOR, using SPI, or via the Bind message of the frontend/backend protocol. This means the view does not list the unnamed portal or the portal created to implement EXECUTE. Because we do list SPI portals, there might be more rows in this view than you might expect if you are using SPI implicitly (e.g. via a procedural language). Per recent discussion on -hackers, the query string included in the view for cursors defined by DECLARE CURSOR is based on debug_query_string. That means it is not accurate if multiple queries separated by semicolons are submitted as one query string. However, there doesn't seem a trivial fix for that: debug_query_string is better than nothing. I also changed SPI_cursor_open() to include the source text for the portal it creates: AFAICS there is no reason not to do this. Update the documentation and regression tests, bump the catversion.
2006-01-14Add selectivity-calculation code for RowCompareExpr nodes. Simplistic,Tom Lane
but a lot better than nothing at all ...
2006-01-12mbutils was previously doing some allocations, including invokingNeil Conway
fmgr_info(), in the TopMemoryContext. I couldn't see that the code actually leaked, but in general I think it's fragile to assume that pfree'ing an FmgrInfo along with its fn_extra field is enough to reclaim all the resources allocated by fmgr_info(). I changed the code to do its allocations in a new child context of TopMemoryContext, MbProcContext. When we want to release the allocations we can just reset the context, which is cleaner.
2006-01-11Create a standard function pg_sleep() to sleep for a specified amount of time.Tom Lane
Replace the former ad-hoc implementation used in the regression tests. Joachim Wieland
2006-01-11Cosmetic code cleanup: fix a bunch of places that used "return (expr);"Neil Conway
rather than "return expr;" -- the latter style is used in most of the tree. I kept the parentheses when they were necessary or useful because the return expression was complex.
2006-01-11Remove a confusing pair of parentheses.Neil Conway
2006-01-10Improve patternsel() by applying the operator itself to each valueTom Lane
listed in the column's most-common-values statistics entry. This gives us an exact selectivity result for the portion of the column population represented by the MCV list, which can be a big leg up in accuracy if that's a large fraction of the population. The heuristics involving pattern contents and prefix are applied only to the part of the population not included in the MCV list.
2006-01-09Change allow_system_table_mods to PGC_POSTMASTER, restoring previousPeter Eisentraut
behavior.
2006-01-08Fix the assert_enabled issue properly. This eliminates the former ABITom Lane
difference between USE_ASSERT_CHECKING and not: the assert_enabled variable is always there.