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2007-06-04On win32, don't use SO_REUSEADDR for TCP sockets.Magnus Hagander
Per failure on buildfarm member baiji and subsequent discussion.
2007-06-04Remove gratuitous response messages from utility programs.Peter Eisentraut
(Possibly release notes material, lest users be confused.) The --quiet option is now obsolete and without effect in createdb, createuser, dropdb, dropuser; kept for compatibility but marked for removal in 8.4. Progress messages when acting on all databases now go to stdout instead of stderr, since they are not in fact errors. Ordered options in reindexdb reference page alphabetically, like in other programs' pages.
2007-06-04Update expected files for textual changesPeter Eisentraut
2007-06-03Clarify some error messages about duplicate things.Peter Eisentraut
2007-06-03Create a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of theTom Lane
tablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files. This is a list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created). Temp files are not stored in per-database pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace directories. Jaime Casanova and Albert Cervera, with review by Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane.
2007-06-02Minimal message corrections found by spell checker.Peter Eisentraut
2007-06-02Fix erroneous error reporting for overlength input in text_date(),Tom Lane
text_time(), and text_timetz(). 7.4-vintage bug found by Greg Stark.
2007-06-02Improve efficiency of LIKE/ILIKE code, especially for multi-byte charsets,Andrew Dunstan
and most especially for UTF8. Remove unnecessary special cases for bytea processing and single-byte charset ILIKE. a ILIKE b is now processed as lower(a) LIKE lower(b) in all cases. The code is now considerably simpler. All comparisons are now performed byte-wise, and the text and pattern are also advanced byte-wise where it is safe to do so - essentially where a wildcard is not being matched. Andrew Dunstan, from an original patch by ITAGAKI Takahiro, with ideas from Tom Lane and Mark Mielke.
2007-06-01Fix aboriginal bug in BufFileDumpBuffer that would cause it to write theTom Lane
wrong data when dumping a bufferload that crosses a component-file boundary. This probably has not been seen in the wild because (a) component files are normally 1GB apiece and (b) non-block-aligned buffer usage is relatively rare. But it's fairly easy to reproduce a problem if one reduces RELSEG_SIZE in a test build. Kudos to Kurt Harriman for spotting the bug.
2007-06-01Allow leading and trailing whitespace in the input to the booleanNeil Conway
type. Also, add explicit casts between boolean and text/varchar. Both of these changes are for conformance with SQL:2003. Update the regression tests, bump the catversion.
2007-06-01Make CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE wait a little bit to see if other backendsTom Lane
will exit before failing because of conflicting DB usage. Per discussion, this seems a good idea to help mask the fact that backend exit takes nonzero time. Remove a couple of thereby-obsoleted sleeps in contrib and PL regression test sequences.
2007-06-01Buy back some of the cycles spent in more-expensive hash functions byTom Lane
selecting power-of-2, rather than prime, numbers of buckets in hash joins. If the hash functions are doing their jobs properly by making all hash bits equally random, this is good enough, and it saves expensive integer division and modulus operations.
2007-06-01Fix several hash functions that were taking chintzy shortcuts instead ofTom Lane
delivering a well-randomized hash value. I got religion on this after observing that performance of multi-batch hash join degrades terribly if the higher-order bits of hash values aren't random, as indeed was true for say hashes of small integer values. It's now expected and documented that hash functions should use hash_any or some comparable method to ensure that all bits of their output are about equally random. initdb forced because this change invalidates existing hash indexes. For the same reason, this isn't back-patchable; the hash join performance problem will get a band-aid fix in the back branches.
2007-05-31The shortcut exit that I recently added to ExecInitIndexScan() forTom Lane
EXPLAIN-only operation was a little too short; it skipped initializing the node's result tuple type, which may be needed depending on what's above the indexscan node. Call ExecAssignResultTypeFromTL before exiting. (For good luck I moved up the ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo call as well, so that everything except indexscan-specific initialization will still be done.) Per example from Grant Finnemore.
2007-05-31Change build_index_pathkeys() so that the expressions it builds to representTom Lane
index key columns always have the type expected by the index's associated operators, ie, we add RelabelType nodes when dealing with binary-compatible index opclasses. This is needed to get varchar indexes to play nicely with the new EquivalenceClass machinery, as per recent gripe from Josh Berkus that CVS HEAD was failing to match a varchar index column to a constant restriction in the query. It seems likely that this change will allow removal of a lot of ugly ad-hoc RelabelType-stripping that the planner has traditionally done while matching expressions to other expressions, but I'll worry about that some other day.
2007-05-31Make some messages more consistentPeter Eisentraut
2007-05-31Replace ReadBuffer to ReadBufferWithStrategy in all vacuum-involved placesTeodor Sigaev
to implement limited-size "ring" of buffers for VACUUM for GIN & GIST
2007-05-31Downgrade some low-level startup messages to DEBUG1.Peter Eisentraut
2007-05-30Fix overly-strict sanity check in BeginInternalSubTransaction that made itTom Lane
fail when used in a deferred trigger. Bug goes back to 8.0; no doubt the reason it hadn't been noticed is that we've been discouraging use of user-defined constraint triggers. Per report from Frank van Vugt.
2007-05-30Make large sequential scans and VACUUMs work in a limited-size "ring" ofTom Lane
buffers, rather than blowing out the whole shared-buffer arena. Aside from avoiding cache spoliation, this fixes the problem that VACUUM formerly tended to cause a WAL flush for every page it modified, because we had it hacked to use only a single buffer. Those flushes will now occur only once per ring-ful. The exact ring size, and the threshold for seqscans to switch into the ring usage pattern, remain under debate; but the infrastructure seems done. The key bit of infrastructure is a new optional BufferAccessStrategy object that can be passed to ReadBuffer operations; this replaces the former StrategyHintVacuum API. This patch also changes the buffer usage-count methodology a bit: we now advance usage_count when first pinning a buffer, rather than when last unpinning it. To preserve the behavior that a buffer's lifetime starts to decrease when it's released, the clock sweep code is modified to not decrement usage_count of pinned buffers. Work not done in this commit: teach GiST and GIN indexes to use the vacuum BufferAccessStrategy for vacuum-driven fetches. Original patch by Simon, reworked by Heikki and again by Tom.
2007-05-30Tweak: use memcpy() in text_time(), rather than manually copying bytesNeil Conway
in a loop.
2007-05-30Fix trivial misspelling in comment.Tom Lane
2007-05-29Fix a bug in input processing for the "interval" type. Previously,Neil Conway
"microsecond" and "millisecond" units were not considered valid input by themselves, which caused inputs like "1 millisecond" to be rejected erroneously. Update the docs, add regression tests, and backport to 8.2 and 8.1
2007-05-29mmgr README tweak: "either" is no longer correct. The previous wordingNeil Conway
compared PortalContext with QueryContext, but the latter no longer exists.
2007-05-29Stop a few regression tests from needlessly disabling GEQO. This wasNeil Conway
necessary in 1997, when geqo_threshold did not exist, but it is no longer needed.
2007-05-28Tweak the code in a couple of places to try to deliver more user-friendlyTom Lane
error messages when a single COPY line is too long for us to handle. Per example from Johann Spies.
2007-05-28Applied patch send by Joachim Wieland to fix INTEGER_DATETIMES under MSVC.Michael Meskes
2007-05-27Code cleanup: use "bool" for Boolean variables, rather than "int".Neil Conway
2007-05-27Ooops, I was too busy worrying about getting the transactional infrastructureTom Lane
right to think carefully about how insert and delete counts map to n_live_tuples. Of course a deletion should reduce n_live_tuples.
2007-05-27Sorry guys, I committed the file from my development snapshot instead the ↵Michael Meskes
one from HEAD. Fixing it now.
2007-05-27The source code changed, so the expected file changed too.Michael Meskes
2007-05-27Applied Joachim's patch for ecpg_config.h creation on Vista.Michael Meskes
Changed variable test to not run into infinite loops on backend errors.
2007-05-27pgstat's on-proc-exit hook has to execute after the last transaction commitTom Lane
or abort within a backend; rearrange InitPostgres processing to make it so. Revealed by just-added Asserts along with ECPG regression tests (hm, I wonder why the core regression tests didn't expose it?). This possibly is another reason for missing stats updates ...
2007-05-27Fix up pgstats counting of live and dead tuples to recognize that committedTom Lane
and aborted transactions have different effects; also teach it not to assume that prepared transactions are always committed. Along the way, simplify the pgstats API by tying counting directly to Relations; I cannot detect any redeeming social value in having stats pointers in HeapScanDesc and IndexScanDesc structures. And fix a few corner cases in which counts might be missed because the relation's pgstat_info pointer hadn't been set.
2007-05-26Repair two constraint-exclusion corner cases triggered by proving that anTom Lane
inheritance child of an UPDATE/DELETE target relation can be excluded by constraints. I had rearranged some code in set_append_rel_pathlist() to avoid "useless" work when a child is excluded, but overdid it and left the child with no cheapest_path entry, causing possible failure later if the appendrel was involved in a join. Also, it seems that the dummy plan generated by inheritance_planner() when all branches are excluded has to be a bit less dummy now than was required in 8.2. Per report from Jan Wieck. Add his test case to the regression tests.
2007-05-25Create hooks to let a loadable plugin monitor (or even replace) the plannerTom Lane
and/or create plans for hypothetical situations; in particular, investigate plans that would be generated using hypothetical indexes. This is a heavily-rewritten version of the hooks proposed by Gurjeet Singh for his Index Advisor project. In this formulation, the index advisor can be entirely a loadable module instead of requiring a significant part to be in the core backend, and plans can be generated for hypothetical indexes without requiring the creation and rolling-back of system catalog entries. The index advisor patch as-submitted is not compatible with these hooks, but it needs significant work anyway due to other 8.2-to-8.3 planner changes. With these hooks in the core backend, development of the advisor can proceed as a pgfoundry project.
2007-05-24Remove ruleutils.c's use of varnoold/varoattno as a shortcut for determiningTom Lane
what a Var node refers to. This is no longer necessary because the new flat-range-table representation of plan trees makes it relatively easy to dig down through child plan levels to find the original reference; and to keep doing it that way, we'd have to store joinaliasvars lists in flattened RTEs, as demonstrated by bug report from Leszek Trenkner. This change makes varnoold/varoattno truly just debug aids, which wasn't quite the case before. Perhaps we should drop them, or only have them in assert-enabled builds?
2007-05-22Repair planner bug introduced in 8.2 by ability to rearrange outer joins:Tom Lane
in cases where a sub-SELECT inserts a WHERE clause between two outer joins, that clause may prevent us from re-ordering the two outer joins. The code was considering only the joins' own ON-conditions in determining reordering safety, which is not good enough. Add a "delay_upper_joins" flag to OuterJoinInfo to flag that we have detected such a clause and higher-level outer joins shouldn't be permitted to commute with this one. (This might seem overly coarse, but given the current rules for OJ reordering, it's sufficient AFAICT.) The failure case is actually pretty narrow: it needs a WHERE clause within the RHS of a left join that checks the RHS of a lower left join, but is not strict for that RHS (else we'd have simplified the lower join to a plain join). Even then no failure will be manifest unless the planner chooses to rearrange the join order. Per bug report from Adam Terrey.
2007-05-22Fix best_inner_indexscan to return both the cheapest-total-cost andTom Lane
cheapest-startup-cost innerjoin indexscans, and make joinpath.c consider both of these (when different) as the inside of a nestloop join. The original design was based on the assumption that indexscan paths always have negligible startup cost, and so total cost is the only important figure of merit; an assumption that's obviously broken by bitmap indexscans. This oversight could lead to choosing poor plans in cases where fast-start behavior is more important than total cost, such as LIMIT and IN queries. 8.1-vintage brain fade exposed by an example from Chuck D.
2007-05-21Teach tuplestore.c to throw away data before the "mark" point when the callerTom Lane
is using mark/restore but not rewind or backward-scan capability. Insert a materialize plan node between a mergejoin and its inner child if the inner child is a sort that is expected to spill to disk. The materialize shields the sort from the need to do mark/restore and thereby allows it to perform its final merge pass on-the-fly; while the materialize itself is normally cheap since it won't spill to disk unless the number of tuples with equal key values exceeds work_mem. Greg Stark, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2007-05-21XPath fixes:Peter Eisentraut
- Function renamed to "xpath". - Function is now strict, per discussion. - Return empty array in case when XPath expression detects nothing (previously, NULL was returned in such case), per discussion. - (bugfix) Work with fragments with prologue: select xpath('/a', '<?xml version="1.0"?><a /><b />'); // now XML datum is always wrapped with dummy <x>...</x>, XML prologue simply goes away (if any). - Some cleanup. Nikolay Samokhvalov Some code cleanup and documentation work by myself.
2007-05-21Also removed the function not just the call, sorry.Michael Meskes
2007-05-21Do not try to find local timezone in DecodeDateTime() because theMichael Meskes
result is not used anyway. This also fixes Vista's build problems.
2007-05-20To support external compression of archived WAL data, add a flag bit toTom Lane
WAL records that shows whether it is safe to remove full-page images (ie, whether or not an on-line backup was in progress when the WAL entry was made). Also make provision for an XLOG_NOOP record type that can be used to fill in the extra space when decompressing the data for restore. This is the portion of Koichi Suzuki's "full page writes" patch that has to go into the core database. The remainder of that work is two external compression and decompression programs, which for the time being will undergo separate development on pgfoundry. Per discussion. Also, twiddle the handling of BTREE_SPLIT records to ensure it'll be possible to compress them (the previous coding caused essential info to be omitted). The other commonly-used record types seem OK already, with the possible exception of GIN and GIST WAL records, which I don't understand well enough to opine on.
2007-05-20tackling Vista problem - another tryMichael Meskes
2007-05-19Fix dumb compile error in the last patch.Alvaro Herrera
2007-05-18Have CLUSTER advance the table's relfrozenxid. The new frozen point is theAlvaro Herrera
FreezeXid introduced in a recent commit, so there isn't any data loss in this approach. Doing it causes ALTER TABLE (or rather, the forms of it that cause a full table rewrite) to be affected as well. In this case, the frozen point is RecentXmin, because after the rewrite all the tuples are relabeled with the rewriting transaction's Xid. TOAST tables are fixed automatically as well, as fallout of the way they were already being handled in the respective code paths. With this patch, there is no longer need to VACUUM tables for Xid wraparound purposes that have been cleaned up via TRUNCATE or CLUSTER.
2007-05-18Remove redundant logging of send failures when SSL is in use. While pqcomm.cTom Lane
had been taught not to do that ages ago, the SSL code was helpfully bleating anyway. Resolves some recent reports such as bug #3266; however the underlying cause of the related bug #2829 is still unclear.
2007-05-17Temporary fix for the problem that pg_stat_activity, inet_client_addr(),Tom Lane
and inet_server_addr() fail if the client connected over a "scoped" IPv6 address. In this case getnameinfo() will return a string ending with a poorly-standardized "%something" zone specifier, which these functions try to feed to network_in(), which won't take it. So that we don't lose functionality altogether, suppress the zone specifier before giving the string to network_in(). Per report from Brian Hirt. TODO: probably someday the inet type should support scoped IPv6 addresses, and then this patch should be reverted. Backpatch to 8.2 ... is it worth going further?
2007-05-17Removed mktime() call to hopefully get rid of some compatibility problems.Michael Meskes