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2006-06-16Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane
by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
2006-06-16Test for POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED to use posix_fadvise().Bruce Momjian
2006-06-15Use posix_fadvise() to avoid kernel caching of WAL contents on WAL fileBruce Momjian
close. ITAGAKI Takahiro
2006-06-15Add STRICT to PL/pgSQL SELECT INTO, so exceptions are thrown if more orBruce Momjian
less than one row is returned by the SELECT, for Oracle PL/SQL compatibility. Improve SELECT INTO documentation. Matt Miller
2006-06-15Remove the limit on the number of entries allowed in catcaches, andTom Lane
remove the infrastructure needed to enforce the limit, ie, the global LRU list of cache entries. On small-to-middling databases this wins because maintaining the LRU list is a waste of time. On large databases this wins because it's better to keep more cache entries (we assume such users can afford to use some more per-backend memory than was contemplated in the Berkeley-era catcache design). This provides a noticeable improvement in the speed of psql \d on a 10000-table database, though it doesn't make it instantaneous. While at it, use per-catcache settings for the number of hash buckets per catcache, rather than the former one-size-fits-all value. It's a bit silly to be using the same number of hash buckets for, eg, pg_am and pg_attribute. The specific values I used might need some tuning, but they seem to be in the right ballpark based on CATCACHE_STATS results from the standard regression tests.
2006-06-14Further thoughts about lo_export/lo_import error handling: if one ofTom Lane
the lower-level large object functions fails, it will have already set a suitable error message --- probably something from the backend --- and it is not useful to overwrite that with a generic 'error while reading large object' message. So remove redundant messages.
2006-06-14Clean up psql's control-C handling to avoid longjmp'ing out of randomTom Lane
places --- that risks corrupting data structures, losing sync with the backend, etc. We now longjmp only from calls to readline, fgets, and fread, which we assume are coded to protect themselves against interrupts at undesirable times. This requires adding explicit tests for cancel_pressed in long-running loops, but on the whole it's far cleaner. Martijn van Oosterhout and Tom Lane.
2006-06-14Improve error detection and recovery in lo_import()/lo_export().Tom Lane
Problems noted while experimenting with new control-C code for psql.
2006-06-14Do a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS immediately before terminating a fastpathTom Lane
function call. Previously, there may have been no CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS at all in the fastpath code path, making it impossible to cancel an operation such as \lo_import externally. This addition doesn't ensure you can cancel, since your SIGINT may arrive while the backend is idle waiting for the client, but it gives the largest window we can easily provide. Noted while experimenting with new control-C code for psql.
2006-06-12Add BY clause to PL/PgSQL FOR loop, to control the iteration increment.Bruce Momjian
Jaime Casanova
2006-06-12Avoid use of C commment inside C comment from recent Win32 int overflow patch.Bruce Momjian
2006-06-12Prevent Win32 from displaying a popup box on backend crash. Instead letBruce Momjian
the postmaster deal with it. Magnus Hagander
2006-06-12Win32 can't catch the exception thrown by INT_MIN / -1 or INT_MIN * -1,Bruce Momjian
so on that platform we test for those before the computation and throw an "out of range" error. Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2006-06-12Minor code cleanup: make the WIN32 case less gratuitously different fromTom Lane
the other platform-specific cases in ps_status.
2006-06-11Code review for psql multiline history patch(es). Fix memory leak,Tom Lane
failure to enter commands in history if canceled by control-C, other infelicities.
2006-06-11Fix Assert failure when a fastpath function call is attempted inside anTom Lane
already-aborted transaction block. GetSnapshotData throws an Assert if not in a valid transaction; hence we mustn't attempt to set a snapshot for the function until after checking for aborted transaction. This is harmless AFAICT if Asserts aren't enabled (GetSnapshotData will compute a bogus snapshot, but it doesn't matter since HandleFunctionRequest will throw an error shortly anywy). Hence, not a major bug. Along the way, add some ability to log fastpath calls when statement logging is turned on. This could probably stand to be improved further, but not logging anything is clearly undesirable. Backpatched as far as 8.0; bug doesn't exist before that.
2006-06-09Repair remarkably-inefficient query for dumping large object comments: itTom Lane
was invoking obj_description() for each large object chunk, instead of once per large object. This code is new as of 8.1, which may explain why the problem hadn't been noticed already.
2006-06-09Revert sampling patch for EXPLAIN ANALYZE; it turns out to be too unreliableTom Lane
because node timing is much less predictable than the patch expects. I kept the API change for InstrStopNode, however.
2006-06-08Fix bootstrap.c so that database startup process and bgwriter properly releaseTom Lane
LWLocks during a panic exit. This avoids the possible self-deadlock pointed out by Qingqing Zhou. Also, I noted that an error during LoadFreeSpaceMap() or BuildFlatFiles() would result in exit(0) which would leave the postmaster thinking all is well. Added a critical section to ensure such errors don't allow startup to proceed. Backpatched to 8.1. The 8.0 code is a bit different and I'm not sure if the problem exists there; given we've not seen this reported from the field, I'm going to be conservative about backpatching any further.
2006-06-08Remove Win32 file, moved to /port.Bruce Momjian
Magnus Hagander
2006-06-08Remove obsolete comment about VACUUM FULL: it takes buffer content locksTom Lane
now, and must do so to ensure bgwriter doesn't write a page that is in process of being compacted.
2006-06-07Allow timezone names in SQL strings,Bruce Momjian
'2006-05-24 21:11 Americas/New_York'::timestamptz Joachim Wieland
2006-06-07Prepare code to be built by MSVC:Bruce Momjian
o remove many WIN32_CLIENT_ONLY defines o add WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER define o add 3rd argument to open() for portability o add include/port/win32_msvc directory for system includes Magnus Hagander
2006-06-07Per previous analysis, the most correct notion of SampleOverhead is thatTom Lane
it is just the total time to do INSTR_TIME_SET_CURRENT(), and not any of the other code involved in InstrStartNode/InstrStopNode. Even though I fear we may end up reverting this patch altogether, we may as well have the most correct version in our CVS archive.
2006-06-07Have REINDEX use NOTICE, so it can be suppressed.Bruce Momjian
2006-06-07Remove "fuzzy comparison" logic in qsort comparison function forTom Lane
choose_bitmap_and(). It was way too fuzzy --- per comment, it was meant to be 1% relative difference, but was actually coded as 0.01 absolute difference, thus causing selectivities of say 0.001 and 0.000000000001 to be treated as equal. I believe this thinko explains Maxim Boguk's recent complaint. While we could change it to a relative test coded like compare_fuzzy_path_costs(), there's a bigger problem here, which is that any fuzziness at all renders the comparison function non-transitive, which could confuse qsort() to the point of delivering completely wrong results. So forget the whole thing and just do an exact comparison.
2006-06-07For psql multi-line history, save backslash commands right away, ratherBruce Momjian
than only if there is already history.
2006-06-07Use INFO-level for reindex messages, rather than NOTICE.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-06-06Update comment.Bruce Momjian
2006-06-06On Win32, return original patch if GetShortPathName() fails (no shortBruce Momjian
name, path does not exist), rather than returning nothing. Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2006-06-06Make the planner estimate costs for nestloop inner indexscans on the basisTom Lane
that the Mackert-Lohmann formula applies across all the repetitions of the nestloop, not just each scan independently. We use the M-L formula to estimate the number of pages fetched from the index as well as from the table; that isn't what it was designed for, but it seems reasonably applicable anyway. This makes large numbers of repetitions look much cheaper than before, which accords with many reports we've received of overestimation of the cost of a nestloop. Also, change the index access cost model to charge random_page_cost per index leaf page touched, while explicitly not counting anything for access to metapage or upper tree pages. This may all need tweaking after we get some field experience, but in simple tests it seems to be giving saner results than before. The main thing is to get the infrastructure in place to let cost_index() and amcostestimate functions take repeated scans into account at all. Per my recent proposal. Note: this patch changes pg_proc.h, but I did not force initdb because the changes are basically cosmetic --- the system does not look into pg_proc to decide how to call an index amcostestimate function, and there's no way to call such a function from SQL at all.
2006-06-06Remove ancient AIX structure workaround.Bruce Momjian
2006-06-06Have BCC echo output "" using "", rather than \"\" as earlier reported.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2006-06-06Fixed two more memory leaks in ecpglib.Michael Meskes
Synced parser.
2006-06-05Remove extremely old, incomplete, broken example code.Tom Lane
Per my proposal a few days ago.
2006-06-05While making the seq_page_cost changes, I was struck by the fact thatTom Lane
cost_nonsequential_access() is really totally inappropriate for its only remaining use, namely estimating I/O costs in cost_sort(). The routine was designed on the assumption that disk caching might eliminate the need for some re-reads on a random basis, but there's nothing very random in that sense about sort's access pattern --- it'll always be picking up the oldest outputs. If we had a good fix on the effective cache size we might consider charging zero for I/O unless the sort temp file size exceeds it, but that's probably putting much too much faith in the parameter. Instead just drop the logic in favor of a fixed compromise between seq_page_cost and random_page_cost per page of sort I/O.
2006-06-05Avoid longjump/vfork warning about line_saved_in_history variable byBruce Momjian
making it volatile.
2006-06-05Have psql history save \e editor contents to history before query isBruce Momjian
executed, like it did for 8.1.X.
2006-06-05Increase the default value of cpu_index_tuple_cost from 0.001 to 0.005.Tom Lane
This shouldn't affect simple indexscans much, while for bitmap scans that are touching a lot of index rows, this seems to bring the estimates more in line with reality. Per recent discussion.
2006-06-05Add a GUC parameter seq_page_cost, and use that everywhere we formerlyTom Lane
assumed that a sequential page fetch has cost 1.0. This patch doesn't in itself change the system's behavior at all, but it opens the door to people adopting other units of measurement for EXPLAIN costs. Also, if we ever decide it's worth inventing per-tablespace access cost settings, this change provides a workable intellectual framework for that.
2006-06-04Fix psql so \r is separate in the history, rather than at the end ofBruce Momjian
the query.
2006-06-03Don't choke during startup if the environment offers an invalid valueTom Lane
for LC_MESSAGES; instead, just press forward, leaving the effective setting at 'C'. There is not any very good reason to complain when we are going to replace the value soon with whatever postgresql.conf says. This change should solve the occasionally-reported problem of initdb failing with 'failed to initialize lc_messages'; the current theory is that that is a reflection of either wrong LANG/LC_MESSAGES or completely broken locale support.
2006-06-03Fix copy-and-pasteo in Russian translation: message complaining aboutTom Lane
HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP was mentioning PG_CONTROL_VERSION instead. Victor Snezhko
2006-06-03Remove pg_resetxlog -r flag, feature has problems referenced here:Bruce Momjian
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-05/msg00002.php
2006-06-01Respond to Jeremy Drake's original gripe that \copy needs to recognizeTom Lane
E'...' syntax for strings in order to track the backend.
2006-06-01Fix up hack to suppress escape_string_warning so that it actually worksTom Lane
and there's only one place that's a kluge, ie, appendStringLiteralConn. Note that pg_dump itself doesn't use appendStringLiteralConn, so its behavior is not affected; only the other utility programs care.
2006-05-31Fix seriously broken patch for psql '' ... per its comment, emit() isTom Lane
NOT the thing to use here.
2006-05-31Make PG_MODULE_MAGIC required in shared libraries that are loaded intoTom Lane
the server. Per discussion, there seems no point in a waiting period before making this required.
2006-05-31Support '' for literal ' in psql single-quote strings, documentation update.Bruce Momjian
2006-05-31Escape processing patch:Bruce Momjian
o turns off escape_string_warning in pg_dumpall.c o optionally use E'' for \password (undocumented option?) o honor standard_conforming-strings for \copy (but not support literal E'' strings) o optionally use E'' for \d commands o turn off escape_string_warning for createdb, createuser, droplang