points where we step right or left to the next page. This should ensure
reasonable response time to a query cancel request during an unsuccessful
index scan, as seen in recent gripe from Marc Cousin. It's a bit trickier
than it might seem at first glance, because CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() is a no-op
if executed while holding a buffer lock. So we have to do it just at the
point where we've dropped one page lock and not yet acquired the next.
Remove CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls at the top level of btgetbitmap and
hashgetbitmap, since they're pointless given the added checks.
I think that GIST is okay already --- at least, there's a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS
at a plausible-looking place in gistnext(). I don't claim to know GIN well
enough to try to poke it for this, if indeed it has a problem at all.
This is a pre-existing issue, but in view of the lack of prior complaints
I'm not going to risk back-patching.
ANALYZE's total sample. The original coding is at risk of overflow for
statistics targets exceeding about 2675; this was not a problem before
8.4 but it is now. Per bug #4793 from Dennis Noordsij.
it fails because the shared memory segment already exists. This
means it can take up to 10 seconds before it reports the error
if it *does* exist, but hopefully it will make the system capable
of restarting even when the server is under high load.
to make sure that the error code is reset, as a precaution in
case the API doesn't properly reset it on success. This could
be necessary, since we check the error value even if the function
doesn't fail for specific success cases.
error message if the installation directory layout is messed up (or at least,
something more useful than the behavior exhibited in bug #4787). During
postmaster startup, check that get_pkglib_path resolves as a readable
directory; and if ParseTzFile() fails to open the expected timezone
abbreviation file, check the possibility that the directory is missing rather
than just the specified file. In case of either failure, issue a hint
suggesting that the installation is broken. These two checks cover the lib/
and share/ trees of a full installation, which should take care of most
scenarios where a sysadmin decides to get cute.
as per my recent proposal. release.sgml itself is now just a stub that should
change rarely; ideally, only once per major release to add a new include line.
Most editing work will occur in the release-N.N.sgml files. To update a back
branch for a minor release, just copy the appropriate release-N.N.sgml
file(s) into the back branch.
This commit doesn't change the end-product documentation at all, only the
source layout. However, it makes it easy to start omitting ancient information
from newer branches' documentation, should we ever decide to do that.
never a BEGIN block. This is required for Oracle compatibility and is
also plainly stated to be the behavior by our original documentation
(up until 8.1, in which the docs were adjusted to match the code's behavior;
but actually the old docs said the correct thing and the code was wrong).
Not back-patched because this introduces an incompatibility that could
break working applications. Requires release note.
failed to consider the possibility that it would get T_SCALAR, T_RECORD,
or T_ROW instead because the word happens to match a plpgsql variable name.
In particular, give "duplicate declaration" rather than generic "syntax error"
if the same identifier is declared twice in the same block, as per my recent
complaint. Also behave more sanely when decl_aliasitem or proc_condition or
opt_lblname is coincidentally not T_WORD. Refactor the related productions a
bit to reduce duplication.
This is a longstanding bug, but it doesn't seem critical enough to
back-patch.
part that rounds up to exactly 1.0 second. The previous coding rejected input
like "00:12:57.9999999999999999999999999999", with the exact number of nines
needed to cause failure varying depending on float-timestamp option and
possibly on platform. Obviously this should round up to the next integral
second, if we don't have enough precision to distinguish the value from that.
Per bug #4789 from Robert Kruus.
In passing, fix a missed check for fractional seconds in one copy of the
"is it greater than 24:00:00" code.
Broken all the way back, so patch all the way back.
keyword lists in gram.y and kwlist.h. It checks that all lists are in
alphabetical order, and that all keywords present in gram.y are listed
in kwlist.h in the right category, and that all keywords in kwlist.h are
also in gram.y. What's still missing is to check that all keywords
defined with "%token <keyword>" in gram.y are present in one of the
keyword lists in gram.y.
PlaceHolderVar nodes in join quals appearing in or below the lowest
outer join that could null the subquery being pulled up. This improves
the planner's ability to recognize constant join quals, and probably
helps with detection of common sort keys (equivalence classes) as well.
than having some whitespace discrepancy. Although whitespace is supposed
to be ignored in our regression tests, for some reason buildfarm member
spoonbill doesn't like it.
aggregate function. By definition, such a sub-SELECT cannot reference any
variables of query levels between itself and the aggregate's semantic level
(else the aggregate would've been assigned to that lower level instead).
So the correct, most efficient implementation is to treat the sub-SELECT as
being a sub-select of that outer query level, not the level the aggregate
syntactically appears in. Not doing so also confuses the heck out of our
parameter-passing logic, as illustrated in bug report from Daniel Grace.
Fortunately, we were already copying the whole Aggref expression up to the
outer query level, so all that's needed is to delay SS_process_sublinks
processing of the sub-SELECT until control returns to the outer level.
This has been broken since we introduced spec-compliant treatment of
outer aggregates in 7.4; so patch all the way back.
"verify-ca" and "verify-full".
Since "prefer" remains the default, this will make certificate validation
off by default, which should lead to less upgrade issues.
Explain how vacuum_freeze_table_age should be tuned, and how it relates
to the other settings. Mention that vacuum_freeze_table_age also affects
when autovacuum scans the whole table.
any negative or positive number, not just -1 or 1. Fix comment on
varstr_cmp and citext test case accordingly.
As pointed out by Zdenek Kotala, and buildfarm member gothic moth.
documentation warnings against setting it nonzero unless active use of
prepared transactions is intended and a suitable transaction manager has been
installed. This should help to prevent the type of scenario we've seen
several times now where a prepared transaction is forgotten and eventually
causes severe maintenance problems (or even anti-wraparound shutdown).
The only real reason we had the default be nonzero in the first place was to
support regression testing of the feature. To still be able to do that,
tweak pg_regress to force a nonzero value during "make check". Since we
cannot force a nonzero value in "make installcheck", add a variant regression
test "expected" file that shows the results that will be obtained when
max_prepared_transactions is zero.
Also, extend the HINT messages for transaction wraparound warnings to mention
the possibility that old prepared transactions are causing the problem.
All per today's discussion.
