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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Lane
c14f2ba7a4 Use just NULL not NULL::TEXT --- the latter coding is unnecessary and
not schema-safe.  Per report from Jochem van Dieten.
2005-06-07 14:04:48 +00:00
Neil Conway
657c098e41 Add a function lastval(), which returns the value returned by the
last nextval() or setval() performed by the current session. Update the
docs, add regression tests, and bump the catalog version. Patch from
Dennis Björklund, various improvements by Neil Conway.
2005-06-07 07:08:35 +00:00
Neil Conway
c59887f916 Add support for an optional INTO clause to PL/PgSQL's EXECUTE command.
This allows the result of executing a SELECT to be assigned to a row
variable, record variable, or list of scalars. Docs and regression tests
updated. Per Pavel Stehule, improvements and cleanup by Neil Conway.
2005-06-07 02:47:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0f011f6daa Update text for RESET CONNECTION:
<   all temporary tables, removal of any NOTIFYs, cursors, prepared
<   queries(?), currval()s, etc.  This could be used for connection pooling.
<   We could also change RESET ALL to have this functionality.
>   temporary tables, removing any NOTIFYs, cursors, open transactions,
>   prepared queries, currval()s, etc.  This could be used  for connection
>   pooling.  We could also change RESET ALL to have this functionality.
>   The difficult of this features is allowing RESET ALL to not affect
>   changes made by the interface driver for its internal use.  One idea is
>   for this to be a protocol-only feature.  Another approach is to notify
>   the protocol when a RESET CONNECTION command is used.
2005-06-07 01:59:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1b000116fb Ipcrm -> ipcclean in error message:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

While playing around, I got the following error message:

--
FATAL:  pre-existing shared memory block (key 5432001, ID 90898435) is
still in use
HINT:  If you're sure there are no old server processes still running,
remove the shared memory block with the command "ipcrm", or just delete
the file "/home/hlinnaka/pgsql/data/postmaster.pid".
---

Thats normal because I used "kill -9 postmaster" to shut down.

The hint advises me to use "ipcrm", but there's the "ipcclean" script in
bin for just this purpose. The hint should probably advise to use
ipcclean.

The attached patch replaces all occurances of "ipcrm" with "ipcclean" in
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c and all the translations in
src/backend/po.

While reviewing the patch, I noticed a likely typo in hr.po. While I
don't
speak Croatian, the translation seems to advise to use the "icpm(1)"
command. I changed that to "ipcclean" too.

Heikki Linnakangas
2005-06-07 01:36:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d714560658 Add rtee box index discussion. 2005-06-06 22:12:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
5859215015 Add:
> * Fix incorrect rtree results due to wrong assumptions about "over"
>   operator semantics [rtree]
2005-06-06 22:03:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
ee7ac7b11e Modify XLogInsert API to make callers specify whether pages to be backed
up have the standard layout with unused space between pd_lower and pd_upper.
When this is set, XLogInsert will omit the unused space without bothering
to scan it to see if it's zero.  That saves time in XLogInsert, and also
allows reversion of my earlier patch to make PageRepairFragmentation et al
explicitly re-zero freed space.  Per suggestion by Heikki Linnakangas.
2005-06-06 20:22:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
4c8495a1f2 Remove the mostly-stubbed-out-anyway support routines for WAL UNDO.
That code is never going to be used in the foreseeable future, and
where it's more than a stub it's making the redo routines harder to
read.
2005-06-06 17:01:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
928b06a6cc Update Hungarian FAQ and add an HTML version.
Laszlo Hornyak
2005-06-06 16:30:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
128c25b52f Trivial markup improvement. 2005-06-06 16:29:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a586fe0c5 Nab some low-hanging fruit: replace the planner's base_rel_list and
other_rel_list with a single array indexed by rangetable index.
This reduces find_base_rel from O(N) to O(1) without any real penalty.
While find_base_rel isn't one of the major bottlenecks in any profile
I've seen so far, it was starting to creep up on the radar screen
for complex queries --- so might as well fix it.
2005-06-06 04:13:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
9ab4d98168 Remove planner's private fields from Query struct, and put them into
a new PlannerInfo struct, which is passed around instead of the bare
Query in all the planning code.  This commit is essentially just a
code-beautification exercise, but it does open the door to making
larger changes to the planner data structures without having to muck
with the widely-known Query struct.
2005-06-05 22:32:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
22dbd54047 Add description for backend termination:
<   cleaned up properly.  A new signal is needed for safe termination.
>   cleaned up properly.  A new signal is needed for safe termination
>   because backends must first do a query cancel, then exit once they
>   have run the query cancel cleanup routine.
2005-06-05 03:39:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bebe7c5600 Here's a patch to do the following:
1. Rename spi_return_next to return_next.
2. Add a new test for return_next.
3. Update the expected output.
4. Update the documentation.

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2005-06-05 03:16:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
27bdb0c40d Code for SET/SHOW TIME ZONE with a fixed-interval timezone was not
prepared for HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP.  Per report from Guillaume Beaudoin.
2005-06-05 01:48:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
82468b428b Add 2phase TODO.detail. 2005-06-05 00:46:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ec480a5277 Add TODO.detail for 2phase commit:
> * Add two-phase commit [2phase]
2005-06-05 00:45:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
a4996a8953 Replace the parser's namespace tree (which formerly had the same
representation as the jointree) with two lists of RTEs, one showing
the RTEs accessible by qualified names, and the other showing the RTEs
accessible by unqualified names.  I think this is conceptually simpler
than what we did before, and it's sure a whole lot easier to search.
This seems to eliminate the parse-time bottleneck for deeply nested
JOIN structures that was exhibited by phil@vodafone.
2005-06-05 00:38:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
efe0d0808b Add TODO.detail.
<   logs
>   logs [pitr]
130c130
< * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries
> * Allow a warm standby system to also allow read-only queries [pitr]
2005-06-05 00:28:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
8805c835c8 Remove duplicate emails. 2005-06-05 00:22:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3a272cf032 Add TODO.detail for timezone:
<   information, either zone name or offset from UTC
>   information, either zone name or offset from UTC [timezone]
2005-06-05 00:20:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32f4ae568c Add TODO.detail of standard timezone data type. 2005-06-05 00:18:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f54f142a61 Add pg_upgrade TODO.detail. 2005-06-04 23:33:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
581a8c9f6d Add TODO.detail:
> * Allow major upgrades without dump/reload, perhaps using pg_upgrade
>   [pg_upgrade]
2005-06-04 23:32:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d95fad64d4 Add pg_dump TODO.detail for multiple -t / -n flags. 2005-06-04 23:07:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
249880ffae Add pg_dump to TODO.detail. 2005-06-04 23:06:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
24af7d4b68 Back out patch:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> a_ogawa <a_ogawa@hi-ho.ne.jp> writes:
> > It is a reasonable idea. However, the majority part of MemSet was not
> > able to be avoided by this idea. Because the per-tuple contexts are used
> > at the early stage of executor.
>
> Drat.  Well, what about changing that?  We could introduce additional
> contexts or change the startup behavior so that the ones that are
> frequently reset don't have any data in them unless you are working
> with pass-by-ref values inside the inner loop.

That might be possible. However, I think that we should change only
aset.c about this article.
I thought further: We can check whether context was used from the last
reset even when blocks list is not empty. Please see attached patch.
2005-06-04 22:57:22 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
954108f92d Add comment for multi-byte computation. 2005-06-04 20:56:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
72c53ac3a7 Allow kerberos name and username case sensitivity to be specified from
postgresql.conf.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Here's an updated version of the patch, with the following changes:

1) No longer uses "service name" as "application version". It's instead
hardcoded as "postgres". It could be argued that this part should be
backpatched to 8.0, but it doesn't make a big difference until you can
start changing it with GUC / connection parameters. This change only
affects kerberos 5, not 4.

2) Now downcases kerberos usernames when the client is running on win32.

3) Adds guc option for "krb_caseins_users" to make the server ignore
case mismatch which is required by some KDCs such as Active Directory.
Off by default, per discussion with Tom. This change only affects
kerberos 5, not 4.

4) Updated so it doesn't conflict with the rendevouz/bonjour patch
already in ;-)

Magnus Hagander
2005-06-04 20:42:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d995014fac At 2005-05-21 20:18:50 +0530, ams@oryx.com wrote:
>
> > The second issue is where plperl returns a large result set.

I have attached the following seven patches to address this problem:

1. Trivial. Replaces some errant spaces with tabs.

2. Trivial. Fixes the spelling of Jan's name, and gets rid of many
   inane, useless, annoying, and often misleading comments. Here's
   a sample: "plperl_init_all() - Initialize all".

   (I have tried to add some useful comments here and there, and will
   continue to do so now and again.)

3. Trivial. Splits up some long lines.

4. Converts SRFs in PL/Perl to use a Tuplestore and SFRM_Materialize
   to return the result set, based on the PL/PgSQL model.

   There are two major consequences: result sets will spill to disk when
   they can no longer fit in work_mem; and "select foo_srf()" no longer
   works. (I didn't lose sleep over the latter, since that form is not
   valid in PL/PgSQL, and it's not documented in PL/Perl.)

5. Trivial, but important. Fixes use of "undef" instead of undef. This
   would cause empty functions to fail in bizarre ways. I suspect that
   there's still another (old) bug here. I'll investigate further.

6. Moves the majority of (4) out into a new plperl_return_next()
   function, to make it possible to expose the functionality to
   Perl; cleans up some of the code besides.

7. Add an spi_return_next function for use in Perl code.

If you want to apply the patches and try them out, 8-composite.diff is
what you should use. (Note: my patches depend upon Andrew's use-strict
and %_SHARED patches being applied.)

Here's something to try:

    create or replace function foo() returns setof record as $$
    $i = 0;
    for ("World", "PostgreSQL", "PL/Perl") {
        spi_return_next({f1=>++$i, f2=>'Hello', f3=>$_});
    }
    return;
    $$ language plperl;
    select * from foo() as (f1 integer, f2 text, f3 text);

(Many thanks to Andrews Dunstan and Supernews for their help.)

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2005-06-04 20:33:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3cf1fd3263 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> a_ogawa <a_ogawa@hi-ho.ne.jp> writes:
> > It is a reasonable idea. However, the majority part of MemSet was not
> > able to be avoided by this idea. Because the per-tuple contexts are used
> > at the early stage of executor.
>
> Drat.  Well, what about changing that?  We could introduce additional
> contexts or change the startup behavior so that the ones that are
> frequently reset don't have any data in them unless you are working
> with pass-by-ref values inside the inner loop.

That might be possible. However, I think that we should change only
aset.c about this article.
I thought further: We can check whether context was used from the last
reset even when blocks list is not empty. Please see attached patch.

The effect of the patch that I measured is as follows:

o Execution time that executed the SQL ten times.
(1)Linux(CPU: Pentium III, Compiler option: -O2)
 - original: 24.960s
 - patched : 23.114s

(2)Linux(CPU: Pentium 4, Compiler option: -O2)
 - original: 8.730s
 - patched : 7.962s

(3)Solaris(CPU: Ultra SPARC III, Compiler option: -O2)
 - original: 37.0s
 - patched : 33.7s

Atsushi Ogawa (a_ogawa)
2005-06-04 20:14:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
e18e8f8735 Change expandRTE() and ResolveNew() back to taking just the single
RTE of interest, rather than the whole rangetable list.  This makes
the API more understandable and avoids duplicate RTE lookups.  This
patch reverts no-longer-needed portions of my patch of 2004-08-19.
2005-06-04 19:19:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fb91a83e0e Back out make_mkid change. 2005-06-04 18:20:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
00750f3f30 Improve readability of config location params by adding newline. 2005-06-04 18:13:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
3360bc1351 Add:
> * Allow pg_ctl to work properly with configuration files located outside
>   the PGDATA directory
>
>   pg_ctl can not read the pid file because it isn't located in the
>   config directory but in the PGDATA directory.  The solution is to
>   allow pg_ctl to read and understand postgresql.conf to find the
>   data_directory value.
>
2005-06-04 18:12:38 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
487990e1f1 Add description:
>
>   O_DIRECT doesn't have the same media write guarantees as fsync, so it
>   is in addition to the fsync method, not in place of it.
>
2005-06-04 16:53:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1bc9235224 Fix NUMERIC modulus to properly truncate division in computation.
Division rounding was causing incorrect results.  Test case:

	test=> SELECT 12345678901234567890 % 123;
	 ?column?
	----------
	       78
	(1 row)

Was returning -45.
2005-06-04 14:12:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a76606454c Update Chinese FAQ to fix XHTML format.
Weiping (Laser)
2005-06-04 03:28:57 +00:00
Neil Conway
5788cca558 Remove unused 'printCost' field from ExplainState, and simplify the code
accordingly (this field was always initialized to true). Patch from
Alvaro Herrera.
2005-06-04 02:07:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
ba42002461 Revise handling of dropped columns in JOIN alias lists to avoid a
performance problem pointed out by phil@vodafone: to wit, we were
spending O(N^2) time to check dropped-ness in an N-deep join tree,
even in the case where the tree was freshly constructed and couldn't
possibly mention any dropped columns.  Instead of recursing in
get_rte_attribute_is_dropped(), change the data structure definition:
the joinaliasvars list of a JOIN RTE must have a NULL Const instead
of a Var at any position that references a now-dropped column.  This
costs nothing during normal parse-rewrite-plan path, and instead we
have a linear-time update to make when loading a stored rule that
might contain now-dropped columns.  While at it, move the responsibility
for acquring locks on relations referenced by rules into this separate
function (which I therefore chose to call AcquireRewriteLocks).
This saves effort --- namely, duplicated lock grabs in parser and rewriter
--- in the normal path at a cost of one extra non-locked heap_open()
in the stored-rule path; seems a good tradeoff.  A fringe benefit is
that it is now *much* clearer that we acquire lock on relations referenced
in rules before we make any rewriter decisions based on their properties.
(I don't know of any bug of that ilk, but it wasn't exactly clear before.)
2005-06-03 23:05:30 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7e209f6ce3 Put back WAL TODO.detail entries. 2005-06-03 21:46:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bace84cca1 Remove because it is partly done and we might not want to go farther:
< * -Compress WAL entries [wal]
2005-06-03 21:42:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
3531383224 Just noticed that you can't Query-Cancel a long planner run, because
no part of the planner did CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS().  Add one in a
suitably strategic spot.
2005-06-03 19:00:12 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1bdec3424b Update Russian FAQ.
Viktor Vislobokov
2005-06-03 18:17:07 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
97e455c9b9 Trim TODO.detail for wal completed items. 2005-06-03 17:14:17 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2a61c090a9 Done:
> * -Compress WAL entries [wal]
2005-06-03 16:38:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a14fb14f7f Done:
> * -Change WAL to use 32-bit CRC, for performance reasons
2005-06-03 16:36:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
b5ebef7c41 Push enable/disable of notify and catchup interrupts all the way down
to just around the bare recv() call that gets a command from the client.
The former placement in PostgresMain was unsafe because the intermediate
processing layers (especially SSL) use facilities such as malloc that are
not necessarily re-entrant.  Per report from counterstorm.com.
2005-06-02 21:03:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
8dfb616606 The no-lexer-backup speedup hadn't been there a week before somebody
broke it.  Maybe we do need an automated check ...
2005-06-02 17:45:19 +00:00