Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 23:07:20 +0000 (23:07 +0000)]
Resolve a number of oddities in the Java build. First, remove the weird
redirections between the build files, which didn't work completely. Now
you just go to the directory of your choice and run make. Clean up the
build files to have a logical order, fix the unnecessary rebuilds, prevent
the deleting targets from removing files they're not responsible for. Ant
1.3 does not have a bug. It deletes directories just fine if you follow
the documentation.
Tom Lane [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:04:26 +0000 (21:04 +0000)]
Implement LockBufferForCleanup(), which will allow concurrent VACUUM
to wait until it's safe to remove tuples and compact free space in a
shared buffer page. Miscellaneous small code cleanups in bufmgr, too.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 19:04:23 +0000 (19:04 +0000)]
Use CONNECTION_OK to determine whether startup phase is complete.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:23:10 +0000 (18:23 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 18:01:22 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
Terminate message doesn't have a trailing zero byte.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:58:53 +0000 (17:58 +0000)]
Repair libpq to follow protocol by not sending Terminate messages before
the startup exchange is complete. Also make sure that packets defined as
single bytes aren't sent with a trailing '\0'.
Jan Wieck [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 13:40:47 +0000 (13:40 +0000)]
Fire rule actions ON INSERT after original statement (if not INSTEAD).
Jan
Hiroshi Inoue [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:41:36 +0000 (09:41 +0000)]
Fix my old fault(returns auto variable reference).
Tatsuo Ishii [Fri, 6 Jul 2001 02:01:35 +0000 (02:01 +0000)]
Fix typo. createdb -t --> createdb -T
Tom Lane [Thu, 5 Jul 2001 19:33:35 +0000 (19:33 +0000)]
Don't assume that max offset number stays fixed on a page when we're
not holding a pin on the page. Use double instead of long to count
rows in relation, so that code still works for > LONG_MAX rows in rel.
Jan Wieck [Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:19:40 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
Added GUC configuration options to control access statistics.
Jan
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 21:22:55 +0000 (21:22 +0000)]
Check for jakarta-ant before ant, in case 'ant' is the screen saver program.
Then, run a small reality test with $ANT to see whether it works.
Tom Lane [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:36:54 +0000 (17:36 +0000)]
Prohibit a column from appearing twice in a PRIMARY KEY or UNIQUE
constraint. This case (a) is useless, (b) violates SQL92, and
(c) is certain to cause a failure downstream when we try to create
an index with duplicated column names. So give an appropriate error
message instead of letting the index failure occur. Per report from
Colin Strickland. NOTE: currently, CREATE INDEX fooi ON foo(f1,f1)
still fails with 'cannot insert duplicate key' error. Should we
change that too? What about functional indexes?
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:57:25 +0000 (15:57 +0000)]
Remove ConnectionHook.java. No longer used, bad code.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:09:54 +0000 (15:09 +0000)]
The attached patch removes some old and dead code (and some related
misleading comments) from the PG_Stream class.
Anders Bengtsson
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:08:32 +0000 (15:08 +0000)]
This patch moves the setting of the timezone on the SimpleDateFormat
object inside the initialization section instead of doing it everytime
the setTimestamp method is called. Thanks to Dave Harkness for this
suggestion.
Barry Lind
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:07:54 +0000 (15:07 +0000)]
Attached is a patch to remove the ConnectionHook functionality and thus
the JDK 1.3 dependency. For a further explanation see my posting to the
JDBC list on Friday, explaining why this is being done.
Barry Lind
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 4 Jul 2001 14:59:07 +0000 (14:59 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 3 Jul 2001 20:21:50 +0000 (20:21 +0000)]
More message munging and localization for pg_dump, especially the
--verbose messages, which had not been considered so far. Output to the
terminal should okay now; comments written into the dump are still English
only, which may or may not be the desirable thing.
Tom Lane [Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:52:48 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
Add a little more error checking and reporting to readDatum().
Tom Lane [Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:52:12 +0000 (16:52 +0000)]
Start the stats collector at a less randomly chosen time. Bad idea
to start it before we have acquired the data directory lock; also a
bad idea to start it before we have set up to catch SIGCHLD signals.
Tom Lane [Tue, 3 Jul 2001 16:49:48 +0000 (16:49 +0000)]
Don't go into infinite loop if /home/postgres/testversion/data directory is not writable.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 3 Jul 2001 02:42:18 +0000 (02:42 +0000)]
Correct substring() example, found by Thomas T. Thai.
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Jul 2001 20:50:46 +0000 (20:50 +0000)]
First non-stub implementation of shared free space map. It's not super
useful as yet, since its primary source of information is (full) VACUUM,
which makes a concerted effort to get rid of free space before telling
the map about it ... next stop is concurrent VACUUM ...
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Jul 2001 19:31:52 +0000 (19:31 +0000)]
Update abstime expected results to match post-30-June-2001 reality.
Probably the right fix is to remove 'current' special value entirely,
but I don't want to see regression test failures until that happens.
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Jul 2001 18:47:18 +0000 (18:47 +0000)]
Make the found-a-buffer-when-we-were-expecting-to-extend-the-rel path
actually work. It had been throwing an Assert as of my recent changes
to bufmgr.c, but was not really right even before that AFAICT.
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:06:23 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
Under new theory of operation wherein postmaster forks children
immediately, we will fork a child even if the database state does not
permit connections to be accepted (eg, we are in recovery mode).
The child process will correctly reject the connection and exit as
soon as it's finished collecting the connection request message.
However, this means that reaper() must be prepared to see child
process exit signals even while it's waiting for startup or shutdown
process to finish. As was, a connection request arriving during a
database recovery or shutdown would cause postmaster abort.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:03:26 +0000 (22:03 +0000)]
Allow default transaction isolation level (a.k.a. set session
characteristics) to be set through GUC.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:01:17 +0000 (22:01 +0000)]
fix markup
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:58:06 +0000 (21:58 +0000)]
Add missing dependency and fix thinko.
D'Arcy J.M. Cain [Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:15:57 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
The System V resources discussed here apply to NetBSD as well. In fact
I just finished changing the GENERIC files and the options(4) man page
on NetBSD to make this clearer.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 30 Jun 2001 19:01:27 +0000 (19:01 +0000)]
portability enhancements
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:26:12 +0000 (17:26 +0000)]
NLS for the psql \d family of commands. (E.g., the column headers will
have localized strings.) Also, modernize the system catalog queries where
appropriate, e.g., with outer joins.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:03:02 +0000 (23:03 +0000)]
gcc did not like new pg_stat macros, for good and sufficient reason.
Add 'do { ... } while (0)' decoration to eliminate compiler warnings.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:28:16 +0000 (21:28 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:08:25 +0000 (21:08 +0000)]
Further work on connecting the free space map (which is still just a
stub) into the rest of the system. Adopt a cleaner approach to preventing
deadlock in concurrent heap_updates: allow RelationGetBufferForTuple to
select any page of the rel, and put the onus on it to lock both buffers
in a consistent order. Remove no-longer-needed isExtend hack from
API of ReleaseAndReadBuffer.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:14:27 +0000 (20:14 +0000)]
Fix VACUUM so that it can use pages as move targets even if they do not
have any newly-dead tuples on them. This is a longstanding deficiency
that prevents VACUUM from compacting a file as much as one would expect.
Change requires fixing repair_frag to not assume that fraged_pages is
a subset of vacuum_pages.
Also make some further cleanups of places that assumed page numbers fit
in int and tuple counts fit in uint32.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:10:12 +0000 (20:10 +0000)]
Add replication email.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 20:07:23 +0000 (20:07 +0000)]
Add info on MATCH PARTIAL.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:23:33 +0000 (17:23 +0000)]
SimpleDateFormat performance improvement, thread-safe.
Barry Lind
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:34:30 +0000 (16:34 +0000)]
Fix longstanding error in VACUUM: sometimes would examine a buffer page
after writing/unpinning it. An actual failure is unlikely, unless the
system is tremendously short of buffers ... but a bug is a bug.
Jan Wieck [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:29:37 +0000 (16:29 +0000)]
Turned high-frequently called pgstat functions into macros
for speed.
Jan
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jun 2001 16:05:57 +0000 (16:05 +0000)]
Fix erroneous GUC variable references from commandline-GUC patch.
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:00:07 +0000 (16:00 +0000)]
Repair logic error for multi-key indexes. From Oleg Bartunov.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:19:11 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
Add to thread item.
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 23:31:40 +0000 (23:31 +0000)]
Install infrastructure for shared-memory free space map. Doesn't actually
do anything yet, but it has the necessary connections to initialization
and so forth. Make some gestures towards allowing number of blocks in
a relation to be BlockNumber, ie, unsigned int, rather than signed int.
(I doubt I got all the places that are sloppy about it, yet.) On the
way, replace the hardwired NLOCKS_PER_XACT fudge factor with a GUC
variable.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:21:37 +0000 (21:21 +0000)]
National language support for pg_dump and pg_restore. Combined with big
message clean up.
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:02:48 +0000 (19:02 +0000)]
Remove another unused include file with obsolete, useless,
confusing definitions in it.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:07:11 +0000 (18:07 +0000)]
Add jdbc item.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:06:49 +0000 (18:06 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:05:37 +0000 (18:05 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:27:40 +0000 (17:27 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:24:17 +0000 (16:24 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Hiroshi Inoue [Wed, 27 Jun 2001 07:38:07 +0000 (07:38 +0000)]
Handle Procedure calls.
Now the version is 7.01.0006.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:43:11 +0000 (19:43 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:07:59 +0000 (15:07 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 26 Jun 2001 04:04:49 +0000 (04:04 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 26 Jun 2001 04:03:25 +0000 (04:03 +0000)]
Update TODO list.
Tom Lane [Mon, 25 Jun 2001 23:03:03 +0000 (23:03 +0000)]
Fix a couple remaining places where GUC variables were assigned to
directly, rather than through SetConfigOption().
Tom Lane [Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:56:05 +0000 (22:56 +0000)]
Fix a couple remaining places where GUC variables were assigned to
directly, rather than through SetConfigOption().
Tom Lane [Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:11:45 +0000 (21:11 +0000)]
Optimizer can now estimate selectivity of IS NULL, IS NOT NULL,
IS TRUE, etc, with some degree of verisimilitude. Split out
selectivity support functions from builtins.h into a new header
file selfuncs.h, so as to reduce the number of header files builtins.h
must depend on. Fix a few missing inclusions exposed thereby.
From Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
Tom Lane [Mon, 25 Jun 2001 20:20:02 +0000 (20:20 +0000)]
Suppress gcc warning.
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 25 Jun 2001 01:53:59 +0000 (01:53 +0000)]
High memory usage
Here is a patch which inspired by Michael Stephens that should work
Dave Cramer
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 24 Jun 2001 02:41:21 +0000 (02:41 +0000)]
Back out BYTEA binary compatibility changes.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:29:48 +0000 (23:29 +0000)]
Don't use a temp file. It was created insecurely and was easy to do without.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:26:17 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
Since a missing pg_pwd file is a valid situation, don't print an error
message in that case.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 23 Jun 2001 22:23:49 +0000 (22:23 +0000)]
> Marko Kreen <
[email protected]> writes:
> > secure_ctx changes too. it will be PGC_BACKEND after '-p'.
>
> Oh, okay, I missed that part. Could we see the total state of the
> patch --- ie, a diff against current CVS, not a bunch of deltas?
> I've gotten confused about what's in and what's out.
Ok, here it is. Cleared the ctx comment too - after -p
it will be PGC_BACKEND in any case.
Marko Kreen
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 23 Jun 2001 02:56:23 +0000 (02:56 +0000)]
Here the latest version and first working release of Ora2Pg a tool to export
Oracle database to PostgreSQL.
It currently dump the database schema (tables, views, sequences,
indexes, grants), with primary, unique and foreign keys into PostgreSQL
syntax without editing the SQL code generated. You can dump only a
particular schema from the Oracle database.
Functions, procedures and triggers with SQL or PLSQL code generated must
be reviewed to match the PostgreSQL syntax. Some usefull recommandation
on porting Oracle to PostgreSQL can be found at
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/
under the "Converting from other Databases to PostgreSQL" Oracle part. I
just
notice one thing more is that the trunc() function in Oracle is the same for
number
or date so be carefull when porting to PostgreSQL to use trunc() for number
and
date_trunc() for date.
I will add more precision in type NUMBER conversion based on length to match
as closest as possible all rich PostgreSQL numerics type. But it seems not to be
urgent as it seems that Oracle DBAs only create number with length 22 (default)
Space seems not to be their problem...
Gilles DAROLD
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 23 Jun 2001 00:07:34 +0000 (00:07 +0000)]
Add TEMPORARY sequences and have SERIAL on a temp table have a temporary
sequence.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 23 Jun 2001 00:03:10 +0000 (00:03 +0000)]
fix markup
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:27:48 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
updates for new startup sequence, some reformatting
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:37:14 +0000 (21:37 +0000)]
Attached is documentation describing plperlu differences from plperl.
Alex Pilosov
Jan Wieck [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:18:36 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
The new files for statistical system views.
Jan
Jan Wieck [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:16:24 +0000 (19:16 +0000)]
Statistical system views (yet without the config stuff, but
it's hard to keep such massive changes in sync with the tree
so I need to get it in and work from there now).
Jan
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:53:36 +0000 (18:53 +0000)]
Mention that EXPLAIN results on small tables shouldn't be extrapolated
to large tables. Recommend ANALYZE or VACUUM ANALYZE after populating
a table.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:48:39 +0000 (17:48 +0000)]
Include catalog/pg_type.h instead of manually extracting the interesting
oid values.
Hiroshi Inoue [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:59:43 +0000 (05:59 +0000)]
Change SQLPrimaryKeys() so that it detects the primary key
other than tablename_pkey.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:04:59 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
Add support to lock manager for conditionally locking a lock (ie,
return without waiting if we can't get the lock immediately).
Not used yet, but will be needed for concurrent VACUUM.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:01:36 +0000 (21:01 +0000)]
Remove unused include file for long-dead flavors of locking.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:45:45 +0000 (19:45 +0000)]
Tweak error message.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 21 Jun 2001 18:25:54 +0000 (18:25 +0000)]
Fix strangely formatted comment.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:43:24 +0000 (16:43 +0000)]
A bit of code beautification/cleanup of obsolete comments. Rethink
ordering of startup operations in one or two places.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:25:11 +0000 (20:25 +0000)]
Shared libraries should not be linked explicitly against -lc on FreeBSD
(see http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool/2000-July/001824.html). But
apparently it should still be present with -Bsymbolic.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:15:45 +0000 (20:15 +0000)]
-Bsymbolic requires -lc on NetBSD. Also add rpath for non-ELF.
from Johnny C. Lam <
[email protected]> via D'Arcy
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:39:14 +0000 (18:39 +0000)]
Re-add explicit declaration of filename_completion_function(), which seems
to be missing in some header files (on OpenBSD 2.8?).
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:33:31 +0000 (18:33 +0000)]
There is no RTLD_GLOBAL on OpenBSD, says Alex Pilosov <
[email protected]>.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:25:26 +0000 (18:25 +0000)]
Swedish translation for psql (my interpretation of Swedish, surely)
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:07:56 +0000 (18:07 +0000)]
Handle reading of startup packet and authentication exchange after forking
a new postmaster child process. This should eliminate problems with
authentication blocking (e.g., ident, SSL init) and also reduce problems
with the accept queue filling up under heavy load.
The option to send elog output to a different file per backend (postgres -o)
has been disabled for now because the initialization would have to happen
in a different order and it's not clear we want to keep this anyway.
D'Arcy J.M. Cain [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:20:34 +0000 (11:20 +0000)]
Make sure that everything says version 3.2.
D'Arcy J.M. Cain [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:19:56 +0000 (11:19 +0000)]
Add NUMERICOID to this script. This script can be run occasionally to
make sure that we are using the right #defines in pgmodule.c but the
OIDs are never actually expected to change.
Hiroshi Inoue [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 07:06:40 +0000 (07:06 +0000)]
Change the driver so that large error messages are returned
by multiple SQLError calls.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:26:06 +0000 (00:26 +0000)]
Apparently, on some systems, ExtUtils::Embed and MakeMaker are slightly
broken, and its impossible to make a shared library when compiling with
both CCDLFLAGS and LDDLFAGS, you have to pick one or the other.
Alex Pilosov
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:04:44 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
Attached is a patch to deal with the ones that I missed the first time
around. I tested this patch under Cygwin and Linux.
Note that I only changed dblink's Makefile in the most minimal way
to fix the link problem under Cygwin (i.e., use the link rule from
Makefile.shlib instead). dblink's Makefile should probably be further
patched to be consistent with the other PostgreSQL Makefiles.
Jason Tishler
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:40:10 +0000 (23:40 +0000)]
Back out SET ALL patch because it is breaking things.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:39:12 +0000 (22:39 +0000)]
Add IS UNKNOWN, IS NOT UNKNOWN boolean tests, fix the existing boolean
tests to return the correct results per SQL9x when given NULL inputs.
Reimplement these tests as well as IS [NOT] NULL to have their own
expression node types, instead of depending on special functions.
From Joe Conway, with a little help from Tom Lane.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:28:41 +0000 (21:28 +0000)]
Fix badly broken RelationGetRelationName().
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:42:16 +0000 (19:42 +0000)]
Clean up some longstanding problems in shared-cache invalidation.
SI messages now include the relevant database OID, so that operations
in one database do not cause useless cache flushes in backends attached
to other databases. Declare SI messages properly using a union, to
eliminate the former assumption that Oid is the same size as int or Index.
Rewrite the nearly-unreadable code in inval.c, and document it better.
Arrange for catcache flushes at end of command/transaction to happen before
relcache flushes do --- this avoids loading a new tuple into the catcache
while setting up new relcache entry, only to have it be flushed again
immediately.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:03:41 +0000 (12:03 +0000)]
Move temprel name define from temprel.h to rel.h.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 05:11:50 +0000 (05:11 +0000)]
Bring RelationGetRelationName into sync with new temp rel names.
Quick hack -- need to decide which header should include the other.
Hiroshi Inoue [Tue, 19 Jun 2001 03:17:12 +0000 (03:17 +0000)]
Corrected the check for *message truncated* for the future use.