errors. VACUUM normally compacts the table back-to-front, and stops
as soon as it gets to a page that it has moved some tuples onto.
(This logic doesn't make for a complete packing of the table, but it
should be pretty close.) But the way it was checking whether it had
got to a page with some moved-in tuples was to look at whether the
current page was the same as the last page of the list of pages that
have enough free space to be move-in targets. And there was other
code that would remove pages from that list once they got full.
There was a kluge that prevented the last list entry from being
removed, but it didn't get the job done. Fixed by keeping a separate
variable that contains the largest block number into which a tuple
has been moved. There's no longer any need to protect the last element
of the fraged_pages list.
Also, fix NOTICE messages to describe elapsed user/system CPU time
correctly.
Instead of hard-wiring one result file per platform, there is a map file
'resultmap' that says which one to use --- a lot like template/.similar.
I have only created entries in resultmap for my own platform (HPUX) so
far; feel free to add lines for other platforms.
which is broken in some weird way that I don't understand. I think it
may be exposing a bug in the new psql --- for one thing, I get different
results when I run psql by hand than the regress script gets. What
the heck???
quote_postgres(...) in ecpglib.c.
The code in CVS reads:
quote_postgres(char *arg, int lineno)
{
char *res = (char *) ecpg_alloc(2 * strlen(arg) + 3, lineno);
int i,
ri = 0;
if (!res)
return (res);
res[ri++] = '\'';
for (i = 0, ri=0; arg[i]; i++, ri++)
{
switch (arg[i])
{
case '\'':
res[ri++] = '\'';
break;
case '\\':
res[ri++] = '\\';
break;
default:
;
}
The problem here is that ri is reset to 0, thus overwriting the initial
quote.
Stephen Birch
if presented an uninitialized (all zeroes) page. The system no longer
crashes hard if an all-zeroes page is present in a relation. There seem
to be some boundary conditions where a page will be appended to a relation
and zeroed, but its page header is never initialized; until we can track
down and fix all of those, robustness seems like a good idea.
Also, clean up some obsolete and downright wrong comments.
1) datetime_pl_span() added the seconds field before adding the months
field. This lead to erroneous results for e.g.
select datetime '1999-11-30' + timespan '1 mon - 1 sec';
Reverse the order of operations to add months first.
2) tm2timespan() did all intermediate math as integer, converting to double
at the very end. This resulted in hidden overflows when given very large
integer days, hours, etc. For example,
select '74565 days'::timespan;
produced the wrong result. Change code to ensure that doubles are used
for intermediate calculations.
Thanks to Olivier PRENANT <ohp@pyrenet.fr> and
Tulassay Zsolt <zsolt@tek.bke.hu> for problem reports and to Tom Lane for
accurate analyses.
during InitProcessingMode and the CurrentTransactionState was neither
TRANS_DEFAULT nor TRANS_DISABLED. Unfortunately, after someone's recent
change to start the transaction manager earlier in startup than it used
to be started, that caused an abort() and consequent database system
reset on quite harmless errors (such as rejecting an invalid user name!).
As far as I can see, the test on CurrentTransactionState was completely
useless anyway, so I've removed it.