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Bruce Momjian
5bddded69c Add:
> * Use UTF8 encoding for NLS messages so all server encodings can
>   read them properly
<         o %Add support for Unicode
<
< 	  To fix this, the data needs to be converted to/from UTF16/UTF8
<           so the Win32 wcscoll() can be used, and perhaps other functions
< 	  like towupper().  However, UTF8 already works with normal
< 	  locales but provides no ordering or character set classes.
2005-09-02 20:11:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3bea1a353f Update wording:
<   could only see committed rows from another transaction. However,
>   could only see rows from another completed transaction. However,
981c981
<   proper visibility of the row, for example, for cursors.
>   proper visibility of the row's cmin, for example, for cursors.
2005-09-02 19:51:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da08559e9b Add:
> 	o Allow COPY into an empty table to skip WAL logging
2005-09-02 19:39:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
35e9b1cc1e Clean up a couple of ad-hoc computations of the maximum number of tuples
on a page, as suggested by ITAGAKI Takahiro.  Also, change a few places
that were using some other estimates of max-items-per-page to consistently
use MaxOffsetNumber.  This is conservatively large --- we could have used
the new MaxHeapTuplesPerPage macro, or a similar one for index tuples ---
but those places are simply declaring a fixed-size buffer and assuming it
will work, rather than actively testing for overrun.  It seems safer to
size these buffers in a way that can't overflow even if the page is
corrupt.
2005-09-02 19:02:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
962a4bb69f In copy_file, use a palloc'd buffer instead of just a local char array;
a local array isn't guaranteed to have any particular alignment, and
so it could slow down the data transfer.
2005-09-02 18:55:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fad7e8edac Add text:
* Merge xmin/xmax/cmin/cmax back into three header fields

  Before subtransactions, there used to be only three fields needed to
  store these four values. This was possible because only the current
  transaction looks at the cmin/cmax values. If the current transaction
  created and expired the row the fields stored where xmin (same as
  xmax), cmin, cmax, and if the transaction was expiring a row from a
  another transaction, the fields stored were xmin (cmin was not
  needed), xmax, and cmax. Such a system worked because a transaction
  could only see committed rows from another transaction. However,
  subtransactions can see rows from outer transactions, and once the
  subtransaction completes, the outer transaction continues, requiring
  the storage of all four fields. With subtransactions, an outer
  transaction can create a row, a subtransaction expire it, and when the
  subtransaction completes, the outer transaction still has to have
  proper visibility of the row, for example, for cursors.

  One possible solution is to create a phantom cid which represents a
  cmin/cmax pair and is stored in local memory.
2005-09-02 15:22:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
6c0398a73f Add some notes about how pg_dump relates to the practices recommended
under 'Populating a Database'.
2005-09-02 03:19:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a412be5eb Update performance discussion for 8.1. Add a little more explanatory
material in the EXPLAIN section, update examples to match current reality,
show examples of bitmap indexscans as well as plain ones.
2005-09-02 00:57:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
55af2a4337 Duplicate:
< * Maintain a map of recently-expired rows
<
<   This allows vacuum to target specific pages for possible free space
<   without requiring a sequential scan.
<
Update entry:

>   One complexity is that index entries still have to be vacuumed, and
>   doing this without an index scan (by using the heap values to find the
>   index entry) might be slow and unreliable, especially for user-defined
>   index functions.
2005-09-02 00:49:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
ce128c01a6 Correct comment about why contrib/xml2 isn't built automatically. 2005-09-01 22:02:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
e32a2ec68e Update storage.sgml to reflect current reality. 2005-09-01 20:01:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
a635ab46be Short-circuit AllocSetReset if nothing has been palloc'd in the memory
context since the previous AllocSetReset.  Original patch by Atsushi Ogawa,
editorialized on a little bit by Tom Lane.
2005-09-01 18:15:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
91a21b532d 8.0.3 is now the most recent version. 2005-09-01 16:18:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fc9b6451a5 Update disk space computation because oids are now optional. 2005-09-01 16:18:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
14720f7c57 Fix unportable uses of <ctype.h> functions. Per Sergey Koposov. 2005-09-01 15:34:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bc0650660a Add:
> * Eventually enable escape_string_warning and standard_conforming_strings
2005-08-30 23:25:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
59b4cef1eb Add regression tests for disabling constraints.
Gavin Sherry
2005-08-30 18:57:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
571be6f381 Remove a couple of obsolete statements about how many buffers you can
fit into a 512K shared memory segment.
2005-08-30 15:48:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
b740be2520 Log send() failures when sending to statistics process (but only in
assert-enabled builds).  This is a temporary measure to see if we can
learn anything about those intermittent stats test failures in the
buildfarm.
2005-08-30 02:47:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
e038e89466 Improve table describing shared memory parameters. 2005-08-30 02:09:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
cc367951a9 Mention max_prepared_transactions in PREPARE TRANSACTION reference page,
per Bruce's suggestion.
2005-08-30 01:37:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
13065c7174 DropTableSpace forgot to remove dependency on tablespace's owner.
Per report from Jaime Casanova.
2005-08-30 01:08:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
139b1f61ce Fix misleading comment. 2005-08-30 01:07:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
78ef2d3feb Update documentation about shared memory sizing to reflect current
reality.
2005-08-30 00:58:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
037709e0b3 Reduce default value of max_prepared_transactions from 50 to 5. This
saves nearly 700kB in the default shared memory segment size, which seems
worthwhile, and it is a feature that many users won't use anyway.  Per
Heikki's argument, there is no point in a compromise value --- those who
are using 2PC at all will probably want it at least equal to max_connections.
But we can't set it to zero by default without breaking the prepared_xacts
regression test.
2005-08-29 21:38:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
8aec77fb9f Fix platform-specific test for path prefix-ness: move it into path.c where
it can be done right.  Allow explicit use of absolute DataDir path.
Per Dave Page.
2005-08-29 19:39:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
6b44d796c7 Fix misspelled error message. 2005-08-29 01:32:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1a6fe83011 Allow Win32 libpq will use it's minimal pthread implementation, and ecpg
will use pthreadGC2.

Dave Page
2005-08-29 00:47:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
2d03390945 Sigh, looks like you need '.set mips2' before you can access MIPS
SYNC instruction.
2005-08-29 00:41:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
46a0eee300 Tweak nodeBitmapAnd to stop evaluating sub-plan scans if it finds it's
got an empty bitmap after any step; the remaining subplans can no longer
affect the result.  Per a suggestion from Ilia Kantor.
2005-08-28 22:47:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75e90bbf69 Fix initdb quoting for Win32 paths in final examples, per Dave Page. 2005-08-28 22:21:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3b85fc3a52 Update pthread_self() on Win32 to return DWORD. 2005-08-28 21:42:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a78a530829 Add:
> * Add function to return the thread safety status of libpq and ecpg
2005-08-28 18:52:37 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8046c1c7e6 Use GetCurrentThreadId, per Magnus. 2005-08-28 18:49:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
7319ab9a59 Add a SYNC instruction to the S_UNLOCK sequence for MIPS. 2005-08-28 18:26:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0c172b215a Add comment about pthread_self() cast. 2005-08-28 16:37:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
0845538f3a dumpUserConfig failed (in a pretty harmless way, but failed nonetheless)
to cope with a group name when dumping from a pre-8.1 installation.
Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.
2005-08-28 16:31:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
974e3cf30a cost_agg really ought to charge something per output tuple; else there
are cases where it appears to have zero run cost.
2005-08-27 22:37:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
4e5fbb34b3 Change the division of labor between grouping_planner and query_planner
so that the latter estimates the number of groups that grouping will
produce.  This is needed because it is primarily query_planner that
makes the decision between fast-start and fast-finish plans, and in the
original coding it was unable to make more than a crude rule-of-thumb
choice when the query involved grouping.  This revision helps us make
saner choices for queries like SELECT ... GROUP BY ... LIMIT, as in a
recent example from Mark Kirkwood.  Also move the responsibility for
canonicalizing sort_pathkeys and group_pathkeys into query_planner;
this information has to be available anyway to support the first change,
and doing it this way lets us get rid of compare_noncanonical_pathkeys
entirely.
2005-08-27 22:13:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
9e56c5a4cf Windows needs WSAStartup() before getaddrinfo() will work. Andrew Dunstan 2005-08-27 18:44:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
5a7d36973a Fix two separate bugs in setrefs.c. set_subqueryscan_references needs
to copy the whole plan tree before invoking adjust_plan_varnos(); else
if there is any multiply-linked substructure, the latter might increment
some Var's varno twice.  Previously there were some retail copyObject
calls inside adjust_plan_varnos, but it seems a lot safer to just dup the
whole tree first.  Also, set_inner_join_references was trying to avoid
work by not recursing if a BitmapHeapScan's bitmapqualorig contained no
outer references; which was OK at the time the code was written, I think,
but now that create_bitmap_scan_plan removes duplicate clauses from
bitmapqualorig it is possible for that field to be NULL while outer
references still remain in the qpqual and/or contained indexscan nodes.
For safety, always recurse even if the BitmapHeapScan looks to be outer
reference free.  Per reports from Michael Fuhr and Oleg Bartunov.
2005-08-27 18:04:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
5824d02155 Get the MIPS assembler syntax right. Also add a separate sync command;
the reference I consulted yesterday said SC does a SYNC, but apparently
this is not true on newer MIPS processors, so be safe.
2005-08-27 16:22:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
338e28e234 Fix typo:
sql_information_info -> sql_implementation_info

Robert Treat
2005-08-27 14:13:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a1a19bb8fb Add:
> * Allow user-defined types to specify a type modifier at table creation
>   time
2005-08-27 13:52:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
542faa8244 Update:
>
>   Another issue is whether underlying table changes should be reflected
>   in the view, e.g. should SELECT * show additional columns if they
>   are added after the view is created.
2005-08-27 13:38:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
846319db3f Another try at the inlined MIPS spinlock code. Can't test this myself,
but for sure it's not any more broken than the prior version.
2005-08-26 22:04:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f9244df78f Add:
> 	o Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value
> 	  is modified  and the server config files are reloaded
> 	o Mark change-on-restart-only values in postgresql.conf
205a209
> 	o Fix SELECT '0.01 years'::interval, '0.01 months'::interval
2005-08-26 20:38:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
acba287aec Add description and item:
>
> 	  Currently, while \e saves a single query as one entry, interactive
> 	  queries are saved one line at a time.  Ideally all queries
> 	  whould be saved like \e does.
>
> 	o Allow multi-line column values to align in the proper columns
>
> 	  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.
2005-08-26 19:41:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cad7f831e1 Update based on user comments:
<   in PL/PgSQL is to use EXECUTE.
>   in PL/PgSQL is to use EXECUTE.  One complexity is that a function
>   might itself drop and recreate dependent tables, causing it to
>   invalidate its own query plan.
2005-08-26 19:32:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bdfa8e5e71 Update constraint_exclusion items:
<   inheritance, and allow it to work for UPDATE and DELETE queries
>   inheritance, allow it to work for UPDATE and DELETE queries, and allow
>   it to be used for all queries with little performance impact
< * Allow constraint_elimination to be automatically performed
<
<   This requires additional code to reduce the performance loss caused by
<   constraint elimination.
2005-08-26 19:10:48 +00:00