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24092 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
d83235415b Add some notes about the basic mathematical laws that the system presumes
hold true for operators in a btree operator family.  This is mostly to
clarify my own thinking about what the planner can assume for optimization
purposes.  (blowing dust off an old abstract-algebra textbook...)
2007-01-12 17:04:54 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
fc568b9d8f Allow for arbitrary data types as content in XMLELEMENT. The original
coercion to type xml was a mistake.  Escape values so they are valid
XML character data.
2007-01-12 16:29:24 +00:00
Michael Meskes
1b1c6ed70a Missed two new files from Joachim's patch. 2007-01-12 11:31:33 +00:00
Michael Meskes
89dad03f8b also adjust MinGW expected file to new setup
create expected file with correct port number
2007-01-12 11:27:28 +00:00
Michael Meskes
b8f611cf4b Simplified regression handling
Added patch by Joachim to work around OpenBSD bug in regression suite.
2007-01-12 10:00:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
97903c3d94 Fix a performance problem in databases with large numbers of tables
(or other types of pg_class entry): the function pgstat_vacuum_tabstat,
invoked during VACUUM startup, had runtime proportional to the number of
stats table entries times the number of pg_class rows; in other words
O(N^2) if the stats collector's information is reasonably complete.
Replace list searching with a hash table to bring it back to O(N)
behavior.  Per report from kim at myemma.com.

Back-patch as far as 8.1; 8.0 and before use different coding here.
2007-01-11 23:06:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
87f6d64149 Update UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT ORDER BY error wording for
expressions/functions.
2007-01-11 20:04:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e2fe327013 Improve error wording of ORDER BY in UNION that uses new expressions in
ORDER BY.
2007-01-11 18:44:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
ad429fe314 Teach nodeMergejoin how to handle DESC and/or NULLS FIRST sort orders.
So far only tested by hacking the planner ...
2007-01-11 17:19:13 +00:00
Michael Meskes
5b88b85cad Applied Joachim's patch for a --regression option.
Made this option mark the .c files, so the environment variable is no longer needed.
Created a special MinGW file with the special error message.
Do not print port into log file when running regression tests.
2007-01-11 15:47:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c0c00ac3b7 Add URL item for psql -c changes:
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00291.php
2007-01-11 04:49:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7b35db0620 Add:
> 	o Fix transaction restriction checks for CREATE DATABASE and
> 	  other commands
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00133.php
2007-01-11 04:48:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f941a12426 Add URL for PQexec() for disallowing multiple queries:
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00184.php
2007-01-11 04:42:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
764160dc3d Add:
> 	o Extend timezone code to allow 64-bit values so we can
> 	  represent years beyond 2038
>
> 	  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-09/msg01363.php
>
2007-01-11 04:27:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
cce09d62a5 Add:
> * Move NAMEDATALEN from postgres_ext.h to pg_config_manual.h and
>   consider making it more configurable in future releases
2007-01-11 03:01:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a5ec2ec77a Allow Borland CC to compile libpq and psql.
Backpatch to 8.2.X.

L Bayuk
2007-01-11 02:42:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
945d0b4b09 Allow Borland CC to compile libpq and psql.
L Bayuk
2007-01-11 02:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7f1bc239c1 For pg_ctl -w, add reference to additional environment variables and pgpass. 2007-01-11 02:30:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ebdee66d5f Remove SGML makefile .SECONDARY tag so html rules will work properly;
Documentation/comment improvements.
2007-01-11 00:02:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c0e977c18f Use libxml's xmlwriter API for producing XML elements, instead of doing
our own printing dance.  This does a better job of quoting and escaping the
values.
2007-01-10 20:33:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f21d5b61ce Improve SGML build rules for non-HTML output, per Peter. 2007-01-10 19:06:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
c4e7e675d8 Make sure BYTE_ORDER gets defined in 64-bit builds on Solaris,
per Stefan Kaltenbrunner.
2007-01-10 18:22:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
a191a169d6 Change the planner-to-executor API so that the planner tells the executor
which comparison operators to use for plan nodes involving tuple comparison
(Agg, Group, Unique, SetOp).  Formerly the executor looked up the default
equality operator for the datatype, which was really pretty shaky, since it's
possible that the data being fed to the node is sorted according to some
nondefault operator class that could have an incompatible idea of equality.
The planner knows what it has sorted by and therefore can provide the right
equality operator to use.  Also, this change moves a couple of catalog lookups
out of the executor and into the planner, which should help startup time for
pre-planned queries by some small amount.  Modify the planner to remove some
other cavalier assumptions about always being able to use the default
operators.  Also add "nulls first/last" info to the Plan node for a mergejoin
--- neither the executor nor the planner can cope yet, but at least the API is
in place.
2007-01-10 18:06:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
5f6d735356 Attached patch fixes two problems:
1) gendef works from inside visual studio - use a tempfile instead of
redirection, because for some reason you can't redirect dumpbin from
inside (patch from Joachim Wieland)
2) gendef must process only *.obj, or you get weird errors in some build
scenarios when it tries to process a logfile

Magnus Hagander
2007-01-10 04:02:05 +00:00
Neil Conway
840df5156a This patch enables verbose output when building all projects. This is
the same output level that was used when building a single project
before, and really needed to get reasonable information about what
happens (non-verbose just says "starting build of foo" and "done
building foo", more or less).

Magnus Hagander
2007-01-10 03:54:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
25d64529b8 Update copyright script to allow spaces around dash. 2007-01-10 02:41:28 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
125d516a7a In SGML Makefile, set proper targets for recursive calls. 2007-01-10 01:57:15 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii
a733d281c0 Update copyright year 2007-01-10 01:18:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ff0d8159fe Add:
>
> * Improve merge join performance by allowing mark/restore of
>   tuple sources
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg00096.php
>
2007-01-09 22:43:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5b7be582e2 Update the UTF-8 RFC reference. RFC 2044 was obsoleted by RFC 2279,
which was obsoleted by RFC 3629.

Michael Fuhr
2007-01-09 22:22:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f3a7068a54 Build SGML documention output several times if necessary to have proper
indexes;  add 'draft' option to disable it.
2007-01-09 22:19:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0764f41306 Have log_temp_files be in kilobytes, remove trace call. 2007-01-09 22:16:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d64995aa89 Remove trace macro call from new log_temp_files, until it gets more
research.
2007-01-09 22:03:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40f797be03 Enable another five tuple status bits by using the high bits of the
nattr field, and rename the field.

Heikki Linnakangas
2007-01-09 22:01:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ca9213e8fa Done:
> * -Add ability to monitor the use of temporary sort files
2007-01-09 21:33:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
be8a431881 Add GUC log_temp_files to log the use of temporary files.
Bill Moran
2007-01-09 21:31:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
1e0bf9041e Marginal tweaks in the documentation for ORDER BY; in particular point
out the common error that ORDER BY x, y DESC does not mean the same as
ORDER BY x DESC, y DESC.
2007-01-09 16:59:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
69db009163 Add a citation to Seltzer and Yigit's Usenix '91 paper about hash table
management.  The paper clearly describes many of the ideas embodied in
our current hashing code, but as far as I could find out there is not
a direct code heritage.  (Mike Olsen recalls discussion of this paper
at Postgres meetings but believes it "informed the Postgres implementation
probably just at the design level".  Margo herself says she wasn't
involved with Postgres' hash code.)  Credit where credit is due 'n all
that, even if fifteen years after the fact.
2007-01-09 07:30:49 +00:00
Tom Lane
352871c357 Fix vcbuild to allow building without OpenSSL and/or zlib. Magnus 2007-01-09 06:00:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
7d5d06f860 vcbuild documentation from Magnus and Dave. 2007-01-09 05:56:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b0452cd87d Done:
< * Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending
> * -Allow the creation of indexes with mixed ascending/descending
<
<   This is possible now by creating an operator class with reversed sort
<   operators.  One complexity is that NULLs would then appear at the start
<   of the result set, and this might affect certain sort types, like
<   merge join.
<
2007-01-09 03:43:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
833f9cb7b8 pltcl regression test needs to actually create an opclass, not just one operator. 2007-01-09 03:13:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
4431758229 Support ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST/LAST, and add ASC/DESC/NULLS FIRST/NULLS LAST
per-column options for btree indexes.  The planner's support for this is still
pretty rudimentary; it does not yet know how to plan mergejoins with
nondefault ordering options.  The documentation is pretty rudimentary, too.
I'll work on improving that stuff later.

Note incompatible change from prior behavior: ORDER BY ... USING will now be
rejected if the operator is not a less-than or greater-than member of some
btree opclass.  This prevents less-than-sane behavior if an operator that
doesn't actually define a proper sort ordering is selected.
2007-01-09 02:14:16 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
3a32ba2f3f Prevent duplicate attribute names in XMLELEMENT. 2007-01-08 23:41:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
19f9376bf4 Tweak joinlist creation to avoid generating useless one-element subproblems
when collapsing of JOIN trees is stopped by join_collapse_limit.  For instance
a list of 11 LEFT JOINs with limit 8 now produces something like
	((1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) 9 10 11 12)
instead of
	(((1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8) (9)) 10 11 12)
The latter structure is really only required for a FULL JOIN.
Noted while studying an example from Shane Ambler.
2007-01-08 16:47:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a9a143a98 Remove cost_hashjoin's very ancient hack to discourage (once, entirely forbid)
hash joins with the estimated-larger relation on the inside.  There are
several cases where doing that makes perfect sense, and in cases where it
doesn't, the regular cost computation really ought to be able to figure that
out.  Make some marginal tweaks in said computation to try to get results
approximating reality a bit better.  Per an example from Shane Ambler.

Also, fix an oversight in the original patch to add seq_page_cost: the costs
of spilling a hash join to disk should be scaled by seq_page_cost.
2007-01-08 16:09:22 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
d807c7ef3f Some fine-tuning of xmlpi in corner cases:
- correct error codes
- do syntax checks in correct order
- strip leading spaces of argument
2007-01-07 22:49:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
de9aa5a7b4 Check and document minimum required version of libxml. 2007-01-07 21:10:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
fe733968ea Indent comments in makefiles better so they don't appear in the output. 2007-01-07 08:49:31 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
53a11befc8 Allow XML fragment to contain a XML declaration. For that, we need a small
hand-crafted parser for the XML declaration, because libxml doesn't seem
to allow this.
2007-01-07 00:13:55 +00:00