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Tom Lane 9ad45c18b6 Fix race condition in enum value comparisons.
When (re) loading the typcache comparison cache for an enum type's values,
use an up-to-date MVCC snapshot, not the transaction's existing snapshot.
This avoids problems if we encounter an enum OID that was created since our
transaction started.  Per report from Andres Freund and diagnosis by Robert
Haas.

To ensure this is safe even if enum comparison manages to get invoked
before we've set a transaction snapshot, tweak GetLatestSnapshot to
redirect to GetTransactionSnapshot instead of throwing error when
FirstSnapshotSet is false.  The existing uses of GetLatestSnapshot (in
ri_triggers.c) don't care since they couldn't be invoked except in a
transaction that's already done some work --- but it seems just conceivable
that this might not be true of enums, especially if we ever choose to use
enums in system catalogs.

Note that the comparable coding in enum_endpoint and enum_range_internal
remains GetTransactionSnapshot; this is perhaps debatable, but if we
changed it those functions would have to be marked volatile, which doesn't
seem attractive.

Back-patch to 9.1 where ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE was added.
2012-07-01 17:12:49 -04:00
config Put back AC_REQUIRE([AC_STRUCT_TM]). 2012-05-14 23:06:48 -04:00
contrib Make the pg_upgrade log files contain actual commands 2012-06-29 11:39:11 -04:00
doc Update release notes for pg_terminate_backend changes. 2012-06-27 08:44:50 -04:00
src Fix race condition in enum value comparisons. 2012-07-01 17:12:49 -04:00
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COPYRIGHT Update copyright notices for year 2012. 2012-01-01 18:01:58 -05:00
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Makefile Allow make check in PL directories 2011-02-15 06:52:12 +02:00
README Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
README.git Trivial typo fix. 2010-09-21 14:16:00 -04:00

PostgreSQL Database Management System
=====================================

This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL
database management system.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.  This distribution also contains C language bindings.

PostgreSQL has many language interfaces, many of which are listed here:

	http://www.postgresql.org/download

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