how this ought to behave for multi-dimensional arrays. Per discussion,
not having it at all seems better than having it with what might prove
to be the wrong behavior. We can always add it later when we have consensus
on the correct behavior.
by my patch of 2007-01-28 to use per-subtransaction ExprContexts/EStates:
since we re-prepared any expression tree when the current subtransaction ID
changed, we'd accumulate more and more leaked expression state trees in the
outermost subtransaction if the same function was executed at multiple levels
of subtransaction nesting. To fix, go back to the previous scheme where
there was only one EState per transaction for simple plpgsql expressions.
We really only need an ExprContext per subtransaction, not a whole EState,
so it's possible to keep prepared expression state trees in the one EState
throughout the transaction. This should be more efficient as well as not
leaking memory for cases involving lots of subtransactions.
The added regression test is the case that inspired the 2007-01-28 patch in
the first place, just to make sure we didn't go backwards. The current
memory leak complaint is unfortunately hard to test for in the regression
test framework, though manual testing shows it's fixed.
Although this is a pre-existing bug, I'm not back-patching because I'd like to
see this method get some field testing first. Consider back-patching if it
gets through 8.4beta unscathed.
cstring from the output of \df. Now that the default behavior is to
exclude all system functions, the de-cluttering rationale for this behavior
seems pretty weak; and it was always quite confusing/unhelpful if you were
actually looking for I/O functions. (Not to mention if you were looking
for encoding converters or other cases that might take or return cstring.)
already did that on Windows, but it's needed on other platforms too when
LC_CTYPE=C. With other locales, we enforce (or trust) that the codeset of
the locale matches the server encoding so we don't need to bind it
explicitly. It should do no harm in that case either, but I don't have
full faith in the PG encoding -> OS codeset mapping table yet. Per recent
discussion on pgsql-hackers.
the checkpoint in immediate or lazy mode. This is to address complaints
that pg_start_backup() takes a long time even when there's no need to minimize
its I/O consumption.
alias for array_length(v,1). The efficiency gain here is doubtless
negligible --- what I'm interested in is making sure that if we have
second thoughts about the definition, we will not have to force a
post-beta initdb to change the implementation.
of discovery, rather than reverse order. This doesn't matter functionally
(I suppose the previous coding dates from the time when lcons was markedly
cheaper than lappend). However now that EXPLAIN is labeling subplans with
IDs that are based on order of creation, this may help produce a slightly
less surprising printout.
are individually labeled, rather than just grouped under an "InitPlan"
or "SubPlan" heading. This in turn makes it possible for decompilation of
a subplan reference to usefully identify which subplan it's referencing.
I also made InitPlans identify which parameter symbol(s) they compute,
so that references to those parameters elsewhere in the plan tree can
be connected to the initplan that will be executed. Per a gripe from
Robert Haas about EXPLAIN output of a WITH query being inadequate,
plus some longstanding pet peeves of my own.
are using our own ports of getopt or getopt_long, those will define
the variable for themselves; and if not, we don't need these, because
we never touch the variable anyway.
provides optreset. Current mastodon results prove that in fact it
does not; it was only because getopt.c defined the variable anyway
that things failed to fall over.
