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2016-04-06Use proper format specifier %X/%X for LSN, again.Fujii Masao
Commit cee31f5 fixed this problem, but commit 989be08 accidentally reverted the fix. Thomas Munro
2016-04-06Revert bf08f2292ffca14fd133aa0901d1563b6ecd6894Simon Riggs
Remove recent changes to logging XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS by request.
2016-04-06Generic Messages for Logical DecodingSimon Riggs
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional new callback to the logical decoding API. Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins. (Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash recovery of extensible objects.) Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
2016-04-06Support multiple synchronous standby servers.Fujii Masao
Previously synchronous replication offered only the ability to confirm that all changes made by a transaction had been transferred to at most one synchronous standby server. This commit extends synchronous replication so that it supports multiple synchronous standby servers. It enables users to consider one or more standby servers as synchronous, and increase the level of transaction durability by ensuring that transaction commits wait for replies from all of those synchronous standbys. Multiple synchronous standby servers are configured in synchronous_standby_names which is extended to support new syntax of 'num_sync ( standby_name [ , ... ] )', where num_sync specifies the number of synchronous standbys that transaction commits need to wait for replies from and standby_name is the name of a standby server. The syntax of 'standby_name [ , ... ]' which was used in 9.5 or before is also still supported. It's the same as new syntax with num_sync=1. This commit doesn't include "quorum commit" feature which was discussed in pgsql-hackers. Synchronous standbys are chosen based on their priorities. synchronous_standby_names determines the priority of each standby for being chosen as a synchronous standby. The standbys whose names appear earlier in the list are given higher priority and will be considered as synchronous. Other standby servers appearing later in this list represent potential synchronous standbys. The regression test for multiple synchronous standbys is not included in this commit. It should come later. Authors: Sawada Masahiko, Beena Emerson, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs, Amit Langote, Thomas Munro, Sameer Thakur, Suraj Kharage, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Rajeev Rastogi Many thanks to the various individuals who were involved in discussing and developing this feature.
2016-04-05Support ALTER THING .. DEPENDS ON EXTENSIONAlvaro Herrera
This introduces a new dependency type which marks an object as depending on an extension, such that if the extension is dropped, the object automatically goes away; and also, if the database is dumped, the object is included in the dump output. Currently the grammar supports this for indexes, triggers, materialized views and functions only, although the utility code is generic so adding support for more object types is a matter of touching the parser rules only. Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160115062649.GA5068@toroid.org
2016-04-05Fix parallel-safety code for parallel aggregation.Robert Haas
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for aggregates, which is no good. Fix that. There was no way to mark an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE. Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
2016-04-05Align all shared memory allocations to cache line boundaries.Robert Haas
Experimentation shows this only costs about 6kB, which seems well worth it given the major performance effects that can be caused by insufficient alignment, especially on larger systems. Discussion: 14166.1458924422@sss.pgh.pa.us
2016-04-05Fix PL/Python for recursion and interleaved set-returning functions.Tom Lane
PL/Python failed if a PL/Python function was invoked recursively via SPI, since arguments are passed to the function in its global dictionary (a horrible decision that's far too ancient to undo) and it would delete those dictionary entries on function exit, leaving the outer recursion level(s) without any arguments. Not deleting them would be little better, since the outer levels would then see the innermost level's arguments. Since PL/Python uses ValuePerCall mode for evaluating set-returning functions, it's possible for multiple executions of the same SRF to be interleaved within a query. PL/Python failed in such a case, because it stored only one iterator per function, directly in the function's PLyProcedure struct. Moreover, one interleaved instance of the SRF would see argument values that should belong to another. Hence, invent code for saving and restoring the argument entries. To fix the recursion case, we only need to save at recursive entry and restore at recursive exit, so the overhead in non-recursive cases is negligible. To fix the SRF case, we have to save when suspending a SRF and restore when resuming it, which is potentially not negligible; but fortunately this is mostly a matter of manipulating Python object refcounts and should not involve much physical data copying. Also, store the Python iterator and saved argument values in a structure associated with the SRF call site rather than the function itself. This requires adding a memory context deletion callback to ensure that the SRF state is cleaned up if the calling query exits before running the SRF to completion. Without that we'd leak a refcount to the iterator object in such a case, resulting in session-lifespan memory leakage. (In the pre-existing code, there was no memory leak because there was only one iterator pointer, but what would happen is that the previous iterator would be resumed by the next query attempting to use the SRF. Hardly the semantics we want.) We can buy back some of whatever overhead we've added by getting rid of PLy_function_delete_args(), which seems a useless activity: there is no need to delete argument entries from the global dictionary on exit, since the next time anyone would see the global dict is on the next fresh call of the PL/Python function, at which time we'd overwrite those entries with new arg values anyway. Also clean up some really ugly coding in the SRF implementation, including such gems as returning directly out of a PG_TRY block. (The only reason that failed to crash hard was that all existing call sites immediately exited their own PG_TRY blocks, popping the dangling longjmp pointer before there was any chance of it being used.) In principle this is a bug fix; but it seems a bit too invasive relative to its value for a back-patch, and besides the fix depends on memory context callbacks so it could not go back further than 9.5 anyway. Alexey Grishchenko and Tom Lane
2016-04-05Add parallel query support functions for assorted aggregates.Robert Haas
This lets us use parallel aggregate for a variety of useful cases that didn't work before, like sum(int8), sum(numeric), several versions of avg(), and various other functions. Add some regression tests, as well, testing the general sanity of these and future catalog entries. David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, with a few further changes by me.
2016-04-05Implement backup API functions for non-exclusive backupsMagnus Hagander
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can maintain a persistent connection to the database. Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem with exclusive backups. The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed. Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate large rewrite, it's not included in this patch. Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
2016-04-05Fix typoMagnus Hagander
Etsuro Fujita
2016-04-04Fix error message from wal_level value renamingPeter Eisentraut
found by Ian Barwick
2016-04-04Disallow newlines in parameter values to be set in ALTER SYSTEM.Tom Lane
As noted by Julian Schauder in bug #14063, the configuration-file parser doesn't support embedded newlines in string literals. While there might someday be a good reason to remove that restriction, there doesn't seem to be one right now. However, ALTER SYSTEM SET could accept strings containing newlines, since many of the variable-specific value-checking routines would just see a newline as whitespace. This led to writing a postgresql.auto.conf file that was broken and had to be removed manually. Pending a reason to work harder, just throw an error if someone tries this. In passing, fix several places in the ALTER SYSTEM logic that failed to provide an errcode() for an ereport(), and thus would falsely log the failure as an internal XX000 error. Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
2016-04-04Display WAL pointer in rm_redo error callbackAlvaro Herrera
This makes it easier to identify the source of a recovery problem in case of a bug or data corruption.
2016-04-04Add a few comments about ANALYZE's strategy for collecting MCVs.Tom Lane
Alex Shulgin complained that the underlying strategy wasn't all that apparent, particularly not the fact that we intentionally have two code paths depending on whether we think the column has a limited set of possible values or not. Try to make it clearer.
2016-04-04Partially revert commit 3d3bf62f30200500637b24fdb7b992a99f9704c3.Tom Lane
On reflection, the pre-existing logic in ANALYZE is specifically meant to compare the frequency of a candidate MCV against the estimated frequency of a random distinct value across the whole table. The change to compare it against the average frequency of values actually seen in the sample doesn't seem very principled, and if anything it would make us less likely not more likely to consider a value an MCV. So revert that, but keep the aspect of considering only nonnull values, which definitely is correct. In passing, rename the local variables in these stanzas to "ndistinct_table", to avoid confusion with the "ndistinct" that appears at an outer scope in compute_scalar_stats.
2016-04-04Silence compiler warningAlvaro Herrera
Reported by Peter Eisentraut to occur on 32bit systems
2016-04-04Add a \gexec command to psql for evaluation of computed queries.Tom Lane
\gexec executes the just-entered query, like \g, but instead of printing the results it takes each field as a SQL command to send to the server. Computing a series of queries to be executed is a fairly common thing, but up to now you always had to resort to kluges like writing the queries to a file and then inputting the file. Now it can be done with no intermediate step. The implementation is fairly straightforward except for its interaction with FETCH_COUNT. ExecQueryUsingCursor isn't capable of being called recursively, and even if it were, its need to create a transaction block interferes unpleasantly with the desired behavior of \gexec after a failure of a generated query (i.e., that it can continue). Therefore, disable use of ExecQueryUsingCursor when doing the master \gexec query. We can still apply it to individual generated queries, however, and there might be some value in doing so. While testing this feature's interaction with single-step mode, I (tgl) was led to conclude that SendQuery needs to recognize SIGINT (cancel_pressed) as a negative response to the single-step prompt. Perhaps that's a back-patchable bug fix, but for now I just included it here. Corey Huinker, reviewed by Jim Nasby, Daniel Vérité, and myself
2016-04-04Introduce a LOG_SERVER_ONLY ereport level, which is never sent to client.Tom Lane
This elevel is useful for logging audit messages and similar information that should not be passed to the client. It's equivalent to LOG in terms of decisions about logging priority in the postmaster log, but messages with this elevel will never be sent to the client. In the current implementation, it's just an alias for the longstanding COMMERROR elevel (or more accurately, we've made COMMERROR an alias for this). At some point it might be interesting to allow a LOG_ONLY flag to be attached to any elevel, but that would be considerably more complicated, and it's not clear there's enough use-cases to justify the extra work. For now, let's just take the easy 90% solution. David Steele, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Petr Jelínek, and myself
2016-04-04Fix latent portability issue in pgwin32_dispatch_queued_signals().Tom Lane
The first iteration of the signal-checking loop would compute sigmask(0) which expands to 1<<(-1) which is undefined behavior according to the C standard. The lack of field reports of trouble suggest that it evaluates to 0 on all existing Windows compilers, but that's hardly something to rely on. Since signal 0 isn't a queueable signal anyway, we can just make the loop iterate from 1 instead, and save a few cycles as well as avoiding the undefined behavior. In passing, avoid evaluating the volatile expression UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE twice in a row; there's no reason to waste cycles like that. Noted by Aleksander Alekseev, though this isn't his proposed fix. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-04-04Improve estimate of distinct values in estimate_num_groups().Dean Rasheed
When adjusting the estimate for the number of distinct values from a rel in a grouped query to take into account the selectivity of the rel's restrictions, use a formula that is less likely to produce under-estimates. The old formula simply multiplied the number of distinct values in the rel by the restriction selectivity, which would be correct if the restrictions were fully correlated with the grouping expressions, but can produce significant under-estimates in cases where they are not well correlated. The new formula is based on the random selection probability, and so assumes that the restrictions are not correlated with the grouping expressions. This is guaranteed to produce larger estimates, and of course risks over-estimating in cases where the restrictions are correlated, but that has less severe consequences than under-estimating, which might lead to a HashAgg that consumes an excessive amount of memory. This could possibly be improved upon in the future by identifying correlated restrictions and using a hybrid of the old and new formulae. Author: Tomas Vondra, with some hacking be me Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger, Alexander Korotkov, Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56CD0381.5060502@2ndquadrant.com
2016-04-04Avoid archiving XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS on idle serverSimon Riggs
If archive_timeout > 0 we should avoid logging XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS if idle. Bug 13685 reported by Laurence Rowe, investigated in detail by Michael Paquier, though this is not his proposed fix. 20151016203031.3019.72930@wrigleys.postgresql.org Simple non-invasive patch to allow later backpatch to 9.4 and 9.5
2016-04-03Avoid pin scan for replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM in all casesSimon Riggs
Replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM during Hot Standby was previously thought to require complex interlocking that matched the requirements on the master. This required an O(N) operation that became a significant problem with large indexes, causing replication delays of seconds or in some cases minutes while the XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM was replayed. This commit skips the pin scan that was previously required, by observing in detail when and how it is safe to do so, with full documentation. The pin scan is skipped only in replay; the VACUUM code path on master is not touched here and WAL is identical. The current commit applies in all cases, effectively replacing commit 687f2cd7a0150647794efe432ae0397cb41b60ff.
2016-04-03Add psql \errverbose command to see last server error at full verbosity.Tom Lane
Often, upon getting an unexpected error in psql, one's first wish is that the verbosity setting had been higher; for example, to be able to see the schema-name field or the server code location info. Up to now the only way has been to adjust the VERBOSITY variable and repeat the failing query. That's a pain, and it doesn't work if the error isn't reproducible. This commit adds a psql feature that redisplays the most recent server error at full verbosity, without needing to make any variable changes or re-execute the failed command. We just need to hang onto the latest error PGresult in case the user executes \errverbose, and then apply libpq's new PQresultVerboseErrorMessage() function to it. This will consume some trivial amount of psql memory, but otherwise the cost when the feature isn't used should be negligible. Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, some improvements by me
2016-04-03Add libpq support for recreating an error message with different verbosity.Tom Lane
Often, upon getting an unexpected error in psql, one's first wish is that the verbosity setting had been higher; for example, to be able to see the schema-name field or the server code location info. Up to now the only way has been to adjust the VERBOSITY variable and repeat the failing query. That's a pain, and it doesn't work if the error isn't reproducible. This commit adds support in libpq for regenerating the error message for an existing error PGresult at any desired verbosity level. This is almost just a matter of refactoring the existing code into a subroutine, but there is one bit of possibly-needed information that was not getting put into PGresults: the text of the last query sent to the server. We must add that string to the contents of an error PGresult. But we only need to save it if it might be used, which with the existing error-formatting code only happens if there is a PG_DIAG_STATEMENT_POSITION error field, which is probably pretty rare for errors in production situations. So really the overhead when the feature isn't used should be negligible. Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, some improvements by me
2016-04-02Make all the declarations of WaitEventSetWaitBlock be marked "inline".Tom Lane
The inconsistency here triggered compiler warnings on some buildfarm members, and it's surely pretty pointless.
2016-04-02Suppress compiler warning.Tom Lane
Some buildfarm members are showing "comparison is always false due to limited range of data type" complaints on this test, so #ifdef it out on machines with 32-bit int.
2016-04-02Fix typo in pg_regress.cStephen Frost
s/afer/after Pointed out by Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
2016-04-01Refer to a TOKEN_USER payload as a "token user," not as a "user token".Noah Misch
This corrects messages for can't-happen errors. The corresponding "user token" appears in the HANDLE argument of GetTokenInformation().
2016-04-01Copyedit comments and documentation.Noah Misch
2016-04-01test_slot_timelines: Fix alternate expected outputAlvaro Herrera
2016-04-01Omit null rows when setting the threshold for what's a most-common value.Tom Lane
As with the previous patch, large numbers of null rows could skew this calculation unfavorably, causing us to discard values that have a legitimate claim to be MCVs, since our definition of MCV is that it's most common among the non-null population of the column. Hence, make the numerator of avgcount be the number of non-null sample values not the number of sample rows; likewise for maxmincount in the compute_scalar_stats variant. Also, make the denominator be the number of distinct values actually observed in the sample, rather than reversing it back out of the computed stadistinct. This avoids depending on the accuracy of the Haas-Stokes approximation, and really it's what we want anyway; the threshold should depend only on what we see in the sample, not on what we extrapolate about the contents of the whole column. Alex Shulgin, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and myself
2016-04-01pgbench: Remove unused parameterAlvaro Herrera
For some reason this parameter was introduced as unused in 3da0dfb4b146, and has never been used for anything. Remove it. Author: Fabien Coelho
2016-04-01Omit null rows when applying the Haas-Stokes estimator for ndistinct.Tom Lane
Previously, we included null rows in the values of n and N that went into the formula, which amounts to considering null as a value in its own right; but the d and f1 values do not include nulls. This is inconsistent, and it contributes to significant underestimation of ndistinct when the column is mostly nulls. In any case stadistinct is defined as the number of distinct non-null values, so we should exclude nulls when doing this computation. This is an aboriginal bug in our application of the Haas-Stokes formula, but we'll refrain from back-patching for fear of destabilizing plan choices in released branches. While at it, make the code a bit more readable by omitting unnecessary casts and intermediate variables. Observation and original patch by Tomas Vondra, adjusted to fix both uses of the formula by Alex Shulgin, cosmetic improvements by me
2016-04-01Fix logical_decoding_timelines test crashesAlvaro Herrera
In the test_slot_timelines test module, we were abusing passing NULL values which was received as zeroes in x86, but this breaks in ARM (buildfarm member hamster) by crashing instead. Fix the breakage by marking these functions as STRICT; the InvalidXid value that was previously implicit in NULL values (on x86 at least) can now be passed as 0. Failing to follow the fmgr protocol to check for NULLs beforehand was causing ARM to fail, as evidenced by segmentation faults in buildfarm member hamster. In order to use the new functionality in the test script, use COALESCE in the right spot to avoid forwarding NULL values. This was diagnosed from the hamster crash by Craig Ringer, who also proposed a different patch (checking for NULL values explicitely in the C function code, and keeping the non-strictness in the C functions). I decided to go with this approach instead.
2016-04-01Type names should not be quotedAlvaro Herrera
Our actual convention, contrary to what I said in 59a2111b23f, is not to quote type names, as evidenced by unquoted use of format_type_be() result value in error messages. Remove quotes from recently tweaked messages accordingly. Per note from Tom Lane
2016-04-01Get rid of minus zero in box regression test.Tom Lane
Commit acdf2a8b added a test case involving minus zero as a box endpoint. This is not very portable, as evidenced by the several older buildfarm members that are failing on the test because they print minus zero as just "0". If there were any significant reason to test this behavior, we could consider carrying a separate expected-file; but it doesn't look to me like there's adequate justification to accept such a maintenance burden. Just change the test to use plain zero, instead.
2016-04-01Fix oversight in getParamDescriptions(), and improve comments.Tom Lane
When getParamDescriptions was changed to handle out-of-memory better by cribbing error recovery logic from getRowDescriptions/getAnotherTuple, somebody omitted to copy the stanza about checking for excess data in the message. But you need to do that, since continue'ing out of the switch in pqParseInput3 means no such check gets applied there anymore. Noted while looking at Michael Paquier's patch that made yet another copy of this advance_and_error logic. (This whole business desperately needs refactoring, because I sure don't want to see a dozen copies of this code, but that's where we seem to be headed. What's more, the "suspend parsing on EOF return" convention is a holdover from protocol 2 and shouldn't exist at all in protocol 3, because we don't process partial messages anymore. But for now, just fix the obvious bug.) Also, fix some wrong/missing comments about what the API spec is for these three functions. This doesn't seem worthy of back-patching, even though it's a bug; the case shouldn't ever arise in the field.
2016-04-01Add Generic WAL interfaceTeodor Sigaev
This interface is designed to give an access to WAL for extensions which could implement new access method, for example. Previously it was impossible because restoring from custom WAL would need to access system catalog to find a redo custom function. This patch suggests generic way to describe changes on page with standart layout. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because of new record type. Author: Alexander Korotkov with a help of Petr Jelinek, Markus Nullmeier and minor editorization by my Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Alvaro Herrera, Teodor Sigaev, Jim Nasby, Michael Paquier
2016-03-31Another zic portability fix.Tom Lane
I should have remembered that we can't use INT64_MODIFIER with sscanf(): configure chooses that to work with snprintf(), but it might be for our src/port/snprintf.c implementation and so not compatible with the platform's sscanf(). This appears to be the explanation for buildfarm member frogmouth's continuing unhappiness with the tzcode update. Fortunately, in all of the places where zic is attempting to read into an int64 variable, it's reading a year which certainly will fit just fine into an int. So make it read into an int with %d, and then cast or copy as necessary.
2016-03-31Fix recovery_min_apply_delay testAlvaro Herrera
Previously this test was relying too much on WAL replay to occur in the exact configured interval, which was unreliable on slow or overly busy servers. Use a custom loop instead of poll_query_until, which is hopefully more reliable. Per continued failures on buildfarm member hamster (which is probably the only one running this test suite) Author: Michaël Paquier
2016-03-31Support using index-only scans with partial indexes in more cases.Tom Lane
Previously, the planner would reject an index-only scan if any restriction clause for its table used a column not available from the index, even if that restriction clause would later be dropped from the plan entirely because it's implied by the index's predicate. This is a fairly common situation for partial indexes because predicates using columns not included in the index are often the most useful kind of predicate, and we have to duplicate (or at least imply) the predicate in the WHERE clause in order to get the index to be considered at all. So index-only scans were essentially unavailable with such partial indexes. To fix, we have to do detection of implied-by-predicate clauses much earlier in the planner. This patch puts it in check_index_predicates (nee check_partial_indexes), meaning it gets done for every partial index, whereas we previously only considered this issue at createplan time, so that the work was only done for an index actually selected for use. That could result in a noticeable planning slowdown for queries against tables with many partial indexes. However, testing suggested that there isn't really a significant cost, especially not with reasonable numbers of partial indexes. We do get a small additional benefit, which is that cost_index is more accurate since it correctly discounts the evaluation cost of clauses that will be removed. We can also avoid considering such clauses as potential indexquals, which saves useless matching cycles in the case where the predicate columns aren't in the index, and prevents generating bogus plans that double-count the clause's selectivity when the columns are in the index. Tomas Vondra and Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Kevin Grittner and Konstantin Knizhnik, and whacked around a little by me
2016-03-30Fix broken variable declarationAlvaro Herrera
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
2016-03-30Blind attempt at fixing Win32 issue on 24c5f1a103cAlvaro Herrera
As best as I can tell, MyReplicationSlot needs to be PGDLLIMPORT in order for the new test_slot_timelines test module to compile. Per buildfarm
2016-03-31Use proper format specifier %X/%X for LSN.Fujii Masao
2016-03-30I forgot the alternate expected file in previous commitAlvaro Herrera
Without this, the test_slot_timelines modules fails "make installcheck" because the required feature is not enabled in a stock server. Per buildfarm
2016-03-30Enable logical slots to follow timeline switchesAlvaro Herrera
When decoding from a logical slot, it's necessary for xlog reading to be able to read xlog from historical (i.e. not current) timelines; otherwise, decoding fails after failover, because the archives are in the historical timeline. This is required to make "failover logical slots" possible; it currently has no other use, although theoretically it could be used by an extension that creates a slot on a standby and continues to replay from the slot when the standby is promoted. This commit includes a module in src/test/modules with functions to manipulate the slots (which is not otherwise possible in SQL code) in order to enable testing, and a new test in src/test/recovery to ensure that the behavior is as expected. Author: Craig Ringer Reviewed-By: Oleksii Kliukin, Andres Freund, Petr Jelínek
2016-03-30XLogReader general code cleanupAlvaro Herrera
Some minor tweaks and comment additions, for cleanliness sake and to avoid having the upcoming timeline-following patch be polluted with unrelated cleanup. Extracted from a larger patch by Craig Ringer, reviewed by Andres Freund, with some additions by myself.
2016-03-30Improve portability of I/O behavior for the geometric types.Tom Lane
Formerly, the geometric I/O routines such as box_in and point_out relied directly on strtod() and sprintf() for conversion of the float8 component values of their data types. However, the behavior of those functions is pretty platform-dependent, especially for edge-case values such as infinities and NaNs. This was exposed by commit acdf2a8b372aec1d, which added test cases involving boxes with infinity endpoints, and immediately failed on Windows and AIX buildfarm members. We solved these problems years ago in the main float8in and float8out functions, so let's fix it by making the geometric types use that code instead of depending directly on the platform-supplied functions. To do this, refactor the float8in code so that it can be used to parse just part of a string, and as a convenience make the guts of float8out usable without going through DirectFunctionCall. While at it, get rid of geo_ops.c's fairly shaky assumptions about the maximum output string length for a double, by having it build results in StringInfo buffers instead of fixed-length strings. In passing, convert all the "invalid input syntax for type foo" messages in this area of the code into "invalid input syntax for type %s" to reduce the number of distinct translatable strings, per recent discussion. We would have needed a fair number of the latter anyway for code-sharing reasons, so we might as well just go whole hog. Note: this patch is by no means intended to guarantee that the geometric types uniformly behave sanely for infinity or NaN component values. But any bugs we have in that line were there all along, they were just harder to reach in a platform-independent way.
2016-03-30Suppress uninitialized-variable warnings.Tom Lane
My compiler doesn't like the lack of initialization of "flag", and I think it's right: if there were zero keys we'd have an undefined result. The AND of zero items is TRUE, so initialize to TRUE.