postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 4a14f13a0a Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.
Previously, if you wanted anything besides C-string hash keys, you had to
specify a custom hashing function to hash_create().  Nearly all such
callers were specifying tag_hash or oid_hash; which is tedious, and rather
error-prone, since a caller could easily miss the opportunity to optimize
by using hash_uint32 when appropriate.  Replace this with a design whereby
callers using simple binary-data keys just specify HASH_BLOBS and don't
need to mess with specific support functions.  hash_create() itself will
take care of optimizing when the key size is four bytes.

This nets out saving a few hundred bytes of code space, and offers
a measurable performance improvement in tidbitmap.c (which was not
exploiting the opportunity to use hash_uint32 for its 4-byte keys).
There might be some wins elsewhere too, I didn't analyze closely.

In future we could look into offering a similar optimized hashing function
for 8-byte keys.  Under this design that could be done in a centralized
and machine-independent fashion, whereas getting it right for keys of
platform-dependent sizes would've been notationally painful before.

For the moment, the old way still works fine, so as not to break source
code compatibility for loadable modules.  Eventually we might want to
remove tag_hash and friends from the exported API altogether, since there's
no real need for them to be explicitly referenced from outside dynahash.c.

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2014-12-18 13:36:36 -05:00
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adminpack Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
auth_delay Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
auto_explain Print planning time only in EXPLAIN ANALYZE, not plain EXPLAIN. 2014-10-15 18:50:13 -04:00
btree_gin Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
btree_gist Support timezone abbreviations that sometimes change. 2014-10-16 15:22:10 -04:00
chkpass Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions. 2014-11-05 11:34:11 -05:00
citext Fix citext upgrade script for disallowance of oidvector element assignment. 2014-08-28 18:21:05 -04:00
cube Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
dblink Fix SHLIB_PREREQS use in contrib, allowing PGXS builds 2014-12-04 07:58:12 -05:00
dict_int Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
dict_xsyn Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
earthdistance Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
file_fdw Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign tables. 2014-12-17 17:00:53 -05:00
fuzzystrmatch Move the guts of our Levenshtein implementation into core. 2014-11-13 12:33:26 -05:00
hstore Fix hstore_to_json_loose's detection of valid JSON number values. 2014-12-01 11:28:45 -05:00
intagg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
intarray Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
isn Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
lo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
ltree Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions. 2014-11-05 11:34:11 -05:00
oid2name Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pageinspect pageinspect/BRIN: minor tweaks 2014-12-02 12:20:50 -03:00
passwordcheck Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_archivecleanup Replace a few strncmp() calls with strlcpy(). 2014-08-18 22:59:31 -04:00
pg_buffercache Make backend local tracking of buffer pins memory efficient. 2014-08-30 14:03:21 +02:00
pg_freespacemap Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_prewarm Add interrupt checks to contrib/pg_prewarm. 2014-11-12 18:52:49 +01:00
pg_standby Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_test_fsync Avoid file descriptor leak in pg_test_fsync. 2014-11-19 12:06:24 -05:00
pg_test_timing Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pg_trgm Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions. 2014-12-18 13:36:36 -05:00
pg_upgrade Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows. 2014-12-17 22:48:40 -05:00
pg_upgrade_support pg_upgrade: prevent automatic oid assignment 2014-08-25 22:19:05 -04:00
pg_xlogdump pg_xlogdump/.gitignore: add committsdesc.c 2014-12-09 09:54:14 -03:00
pgbench Suppress bogus statistics when pgbench failed to complete any transactions. 2014-12-16 14:53:55 -05:00
pgcrypto Loop when necessary in contrib/pgcrypto's pktreader_pull(). 2014-11-11 17:22:15 -05:00
pgrowlocks Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pgstattuple Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
postgres_fdw Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions. 2014-12-18 13:36:36 -05:00
seg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
sepgsql Add bms_next_member(), and use it where appropriate. 2014-11-28 13:37:25 -05:00
spi Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
sslinfo Make Port->ssl_in_use available, even when built with !USE_SSL 2014-11-25 09:46:11 +02:00
start-scripts doc: Reflect renaming of Mac OS X to OS X 2014-09-09 13:56:29 -04:00
tablefunc Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
tcn Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
test_decoding Don't skip SQL backends in logical decoding for visibility computation. 2014-12-02 23:47:08 +01:00
tsearch2 Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
unaccent Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
uuid-ossp Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
vacuumlo Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
xml2 Free libxml2/libxslt resources in a safer order. 2014-11-27 11:13:29 -05:00
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Move test modules from contrib to src/test/modules 2014-11-29 23:55:00 -03:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.