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16 years agoTypo fix from Brendan Jurd.
Bruce Momjian [Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:06:47 +0000 (18:06 +0000)]
Typo fix from Brendan Jurd.

16 years agoTemporarily modify tsearch regression tests to suppress notice that comes
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:58:58 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Temporarily modify tsearch regression tests to suppress notice that comes
out at erratic times, because it is creating a totally unacceptable level
of noise in our buildfarm results.  This patch can be reverted when and if
the code is fixed to not issue notices during cache reload events.

16 years agoFix cost estimates for EXISTS subqueries that are evaluated as initPlans
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:36:40 +0000 (21:36 +0000)]
Fix cost estimates for EXISTS subqueries that are evaluated as initPlans
(because they are uncorrelated with the immediate parent query).  We were
charging the full run cost to the parent node, disregarding the fact that
only one row need be fetched for EXISTS.  While this would only be a
cosmetic issue in most cases, it might possibly affect planning outcomes
if the parent query were itself a subquery to some upper query.
Per recent discussion with Steve Crawford.

16 years agoReplace calls to external dir program with perlish globs and File::Find
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:38:10 +0000 (20:38 +0000)]
Replace calls to external dir program with perlish globs and File::Find
calls. Fixes complaint fron Hannes Eder, whose environment found a different
dir program.

16 years agoDocument the translations from Postgres message severity levels to
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:10:44 +0000 (19:10 +0000)]
Document the translations from Postgres message severity levels to
syslog and eventlog severity levels, per suggestion from Josh Drake.
Also, some wordsmithing for the csvlog documentation.

16 years agoFix erroneous Assert() in syslogger process start in EXEC_BACKEND case,
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:19:18 +0000 (18:19 +0000)]
Fix erroneous Assert() in syslogger process start in EXEC_BACKEND case,
per ITAGAKI Takahiro.  Also, rewrite syslogger_forkexec() in hopes of
eliminating the confusion in the first place.

16 years agoFix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate().
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:35:42 +0000 (05:35 +0000)]
Fix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate().

16 years agoParenthesize macro arguments safely. I see no bug among the current
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:41:19 +0000 (04:41 +0000)]
Parenthesize macro arguments safely.  I see no bug among the current
uses of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_SLICE, but it's clearly trouble waiting to
happen.

16 years agoAlthough I'd misdiagnosed the reason for the recent failures on
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:40:03 +0000 (04:40 +0000)]
Although I'd misdiagnosed the reason for the recent failures on
buildfarm member grebe, I see no reason to revert the 1-byte-header-friendly
changes I made in varlena.c.  Instead, tweak the code a little bit to
get more advantage out of that.

16 years agoDoh --- what's really happening on buildfarm member grebe is that its
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:37:53 +0000 (04:37 +0000)]
Doh --- what's really happening on buildfarm member grebe is that its
malloc returns NULL for malloc(0).  Defend against that case.

16 years agoGo back to using a separate method for doing ILIKE for single byte
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:58:34 +0000 (03:58 +0000)]
Go back to using a separate method for doing ILIKE for single byte
character encodings that doesn't involve calling lower(). This should
cure the performance regression in this case complained of by Guillaume
Smet. It still leaves the horrid performance for multi-byte encodings
introduced in 8.2, but there's no obvious solution for that in sight.

16 years agoFix varlena.c routines to allow 1-byte-header text values. This is now
Tom Lane [Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:36:38 +0000 (00:36 +0000)]
Fix varlena.c routines to allow 1-byte-header text values.  This is now
demonstrably necessary for text_substring() since regexp_split functions
may pass it such a value; and we might as well convert the whole file
at once.  Per buildfarm results (though I wonder why most machines aren't
showing a failure).

16 years agoFix regex, LIKE, and some other second-rank text-manipulation functions
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:52:52 +0000 (22:52 +0000)]
Fix regex, LIKE, and some other second-rank text-manipulation functions
to not cause needless copying of text datums that have 1-byte headers.
Greg Stark, in response to performance gripe from Guillaume Smet and
ITAGAKI Takahiro.

16 years agoImprove handling of prune/no-prune decisions by storing a page's oldest
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:25:42 +0000 (21:25 +0000)]
Improve handling of prune/no-prune decisions by storing a page's oldest
unpruned XMAX in its header.  At the cost of 4 bytes per page, this keeps us
from performing heap_page_prune when there's no chance of pruning anything.
Seems to be necessary per Heikki's preliminary performance testing.

16 years agoChange tqual.c tests to use !TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId, rather than
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:24:28 +0000 (18:24 +0000)]
Change tqual.c tests to use !TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId, rather than
TransactionIdDidAbort, when handling the case that xmin is one of the current
transaction's XIDs and the tuple has been deleted.  xmax must also be one of
the current transaction's XIDs, since no one else can see it yet, and it's
cheaper to look at local state than shared state to find out if xmax aborted.
Per an idea of Heikki's.

16 years agoMake some simple performance improvements in TransactionIdIsInProgress().
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:36:53 +0000 (17:36 +0000)]
Make some simple performance improvements in TransactionIdIsInProgress().
For XIDs of our own transaction and subtransactions, it's cheaper to ask
TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() than to look in shared memory.
Also, the xids[] work array is always the same size within any given
process, so malloc it just once instead of doing a palloc/pfree on every
call; aside from being faster this lets us get rid of some goto's, since
we no longer have any end-of-function pfree to do.  Both ideas by Heikki.

16 years agoFix comments that misspelled TransactionIdIsInProgress, per Heikki.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:32:19 +0000 (16:32 +0000)]
Fix comments that misspelled TransactionIdIsInProgress, per Heikki.

16 years agoRemoved superfluous ECPGfree() call.
Michael Meskes [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:59:27 +0000 (10:59 +0000)]
Removed superfluous ECPGfree() call.

16 years agoIf we're gonna provide an --enable-profiling configure option, surely
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:33:46 +0000 (02:33 +0000)]
If we're gonna provide an --enable-profiling configure option, surely
it ought to know that you need -DLINUX_PROFILE on Linux.

16 years agoInsert a hack in pl/tcl to disable Tcl's built-in Notifier subsystem, which
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:30:49 +0000 (00:30 +0000)]
Insert a hack in pl/tcl to disable Tcl's built-in Notifier subsystem, which
has a bad habit of launching multiple threads within the backend and thereby
causing all kinds of havoc.  Fortunately, we don't need it, and recent Tcl
versions provide an easy way to disable it.  Diagnosis and fix by
Steve Marshall, Paul Bayer, and Doug Knight of WSI Corporation.

16 years agoSolaris portability fix that was previously made in contrib/tsearch2
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 23:27:11 +0000 (23:27 +0000)]
Solaris portability fix that was previously made in contrib/tsearch2
but got lost from the version committed to main tree.  Per Greg Stark.

16 years agoRevert ill-fated patch to release exclusive lock early after vacuum
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:43:27 +0000 (21:43 +0000)]
Revert ill-fated patch to release exclusive lock early after vacuum
truncates a table.  Introduces race condition, as shown by buildfarm
failures.

16 years agoDone:
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:54:19 +0000 (18:54 +0000)]
Done:

> * -Consider shrinking expired tuples to just their headers
> * -Allow heap reuse of UPDATEd rows if no indexed columns are changed,
>   and old and new versions are on the same heap page

Not needed anymore:

< * Reuse index tuples that point to heap tuples that are not visible to
<   anyone?

16 years agoCleanup items from csvlog changes, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.
Andrew Dunstan [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:19:08 +0000 (18:19 +0000)]
Cleanup items from csvlog changes, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.

16 years agoFix msvc warnings, patch by Hannes Eder <Hannes@HannesEder.net>
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:10:57 +0000 (18:10 +0000)]
Fix msvc warnings, patch by Hannes Eder <Hannes@HannesEder.net>

16 years agoHOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexed
Tom Lane [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:56:33 +0000 (17:56 +0000)]
HOT updates.  When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexed
columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer
generate extra index entries for the new version.  Instead, index searches
follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version.

In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a
per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space.
VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however.

Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.

16 years agoPrevent corr() from returning the wrong results for negative correlation
Neil Conway [Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:31:48 +0000 (22:31 +0000)]
Prevent corr() from returning the wrong results for negative correlation
values. The previous coding essentially assumed that x = sqrt(x*x), which
does not hold for x < 0.

Thanks to Jie Zhang at Greenplum and Gavin Sherry for reporting this
issue.

16 years agoRemove tabs from SGML file.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:13:57 +0000 (03:13 +0000)]
Remove tabs from SGML file.

16 years agoClose previously open holes for invalidly encoded data to enter the
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:41:17 +0000 (17:41 +0000)]
Close previously open holes for invalidly encoded data to enter the
database via builtin functions, as recently discussed on -hackers.

chr() now returns a character in the database encoding. For UTF8 encoded databases
the argument is treated as a Unicode code point. For other multi-byte encodings
the argument must designate a strict ascii character, or an error is raised,
as is also the case if the argument is 0.

ascii() is adjusted so that it remains the inverse of chr().

The two argument form of convert() is gone, and the three argument form now
takes a bytea first argument and returns a bytea. To cover this loss three new
functions are introduced:
. convert_from(bytea, name) returns text - converts the first argument from the
  named encoding to the database encoding
. convert_to(text, name) returns bytea - converts the first argument from the
  database encoding to the named encoding
. length(bytea, name) returns int - gives the length of the first argument in
  characters in the named encoding

16 years agoAvoid possibly-unportable initializer, per buildfarm warning
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:03:23 +0000 (15:03 +0000)]
Avoid possibly-unportable initializer, per buildfarm warning

per notice by Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>

16 years agoDoc reminder that integer pg version also needs updating.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:52:39 +0000 (01:52 +0000)]
Doc reminder that integer pg version also needs updating.

16 years agoRemove extra tab in postgresql.conf
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:40:40 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
Remove extra tab in postgresql.conf

16 years agoRemove Assert(BgWriterShmem != NULL), which is rather pointless since
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:33:04 +0000 (16:33 +0000)]
Remove Assert(BgWriterShmem != NULL), which is rather pointless since
we'd dump core anyway immediately afterward if it were null; and it
seems to confuse some versions of icc into generating bad code.
Per report from Sergey Koposov.  Patched in HEAD only, for the moment,
since this is only likely to affect developers.

16 years agoFix overflow in extract(epoch from interval) for intervals exceeding 68 years.
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:56:20 +0000 (15:56 +0000)]
Fix overflow in extract(epoch from interval) for intervals exceeding 68 years.
Seems to have been introduced in 8.1 by careless SECS_PER_DAY
search-and-replace.

16 years agoUpdate release notes for last-minute fix.
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:03:00 +0000 (03:03 +0000)]
Update release notes for last-minute fix.

16 years agoFix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating away
Tom Lane [Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:37:46 +0000 (02:37 +0000)]
Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating away
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table.  We thought we could throw away
pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such
tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have
removed the index entries.  The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely
race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction
that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial
scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages.
But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that
hard to hit.  This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug
reports.

16 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:58:19 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ.

Jun Kuwamura

16 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:02:46 +0000 (19:02 +0000)]
Add:

>
>  o Prevent long-lived temporary tables from causing frozen-xid
>    advancement starvation
>
>    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-06/msg01645.php

16 years agoAdd:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:50:48 +0000 (18:50 +0000)]
Add:

>
> * Make it possible to use RETURNING together with conditional DO INSTEAD
>   rules, such as for partitioning setups
>
>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00577.php

16 years agoFix markup.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:39:58 +0000 (18:39 +0000)]
Fix markup.

16 years agoUpdate pronunciation FAQ item.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:38:44 +0000 (18:38 +0000)]
Update pronunciation FAQ item.

16 years agoUpdate to mention alternate project name is "Postgres".
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:29:59 +0000 (18:29 +0000)]
Update to mention alternate project name is "Postgres".

16 years agoRemove GIN interface section, which is now documented in SGML.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:28:17 +0000 (16:28 +0000)]
Remove GIN interface section, which is now documented in SGML.

Heikki Linnakangas

16 years agoFix markup that doesn't work in back branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:15:35 +0000 (16:15 +0000)]
Fix markup that doesn't work in back branches.

16 years agoFix GSS API pointer checking.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:58:02 +0000 (15:58 +0000)]
Fix GSS API pointer checking.

Kris Jurka

16 years agoDocument atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:53:48 +0000 (15:53 +0000)]
Document atan2() as y/x, rather than x/y, to conform to general usage.

Andrew Maclean

16 years agoMinor editorialization on release notes.
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:50:51 +0000 (15:50 +0000)]
Minor editorialization on release notes.

16 years agoAdd some links for escape strings.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:54:25 +0000 (14:54 +0000)]
Add some links for escape strings.

Brendan Jurd

Fix markup in previous commit.

16 years agoAdd LDAP URL documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:31:22 +0000 (14:31 +0000)]
Add LDAP URL documentation.

Albe Laurenz

16 years agoUpdate documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:43:03 +0000 (13:43 +0000)]
Update documentation to mention that autovacuum also does analyze so we
don't need to recommend nightly analyzes anymore unless autovacuum is off.

16 years agoClarify tar documentation about return error codes.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:26:22 +0000 (13:26 +0000)]
Clarify tar documentation about return error codes.

Backpatch to 8.2.X.

16 years agoUpdate tsearch include location in example.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:21:30 +0000 (13:21 +0000)]
Update tsearch include location in example.

Oleg.

16 years agoAdd tsearch tab completion support:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:25:24 +0000 (04:25 +0000)]
Add tsearch tab completion support:

* adds a few missing words to some commands (like adding GIN as a valid
index type or OWNED BY for ALTER SEQUENCE,...)

* support for ALTER TABLE foo ENABLE/DISABLE REPLICA TRIGGER/RULE

* autocomplete CREATE DATABASE foo TEMPLATE (mostly done to prevent
conflicts with the TEMPLATE keyword for text search)

* support for ALTER/CREATE/DROP TEXT SEARCH as well as COMMENT ON TEXT
SEARCH and the corresponding psql backslash commands.
This proved a little more difficult than expected due to the fact that
words_after_create[] is used for two purposes - one is to provide a list
of words that follow immediatly after CREATE (or DROP) and the other
purpose is to use it for autocompleting anywhere in the statement if the
word in that struct is found with a query.
Since TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION|DICTIONARY|TEMPLATE|PARSER results in 3
words instead of one (as all the other words in that list are) I added a
flag to the struct to tell create_command_generator() to skip that entry
 for autocompleting immediatly after CREATE which feels like a dirty
hack (but that holds true for a lot of code in tab-complete.c).

Stefan Kaltenbrunner

16 years agoThis is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required as
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:18:27 +0000 (04:18 +0000)]
This is small patch fixes a spi example (PG_MODULE_MAGIC is required as
of PostgreSQL 8.2) and provides a link to compiling and linking section.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira

16 years agoUpdate GNU tar error code documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:15:50 +0000 (04:15 +0000)]
Update GNU tar error code documentation.

Backpatch to 8.2.X.

16 years agoMentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:53:54 +0000 (03:53 +0000)]
Mentino that PAM doesn't work for Unix system authentication because of
the problems non-root reading /etc/shadow.

16 years agoRemove ill-considered (not to mention undocumented) attempt to make
Tom Lane [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:25:31 +0000 (03:25 +0000)]
Remove ill-considered (not to mention undocumented) attempt to make
contrib/intarray's GIN opclass override the built-in default.  Per bug #3048
and other complaints.

16 years agoUpdate documented error text.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:43:18 +0000 (02:43 +0000)]
Update documented error text.

Fujii Masao

16 years agoClarify age() 'months' calculation documentation.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:52:45 +0000 (00:52 +0000)]
Clarify age() 'months' calculation documentation.

16 years agoUpdate documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather than
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:43:35 +0000 (23:43 +0000)]
Update documentation to emphasize autovacuum rather than
administrator-scheduled vacuums.

16 years agoFix typo in typecasting.
Teodor Sigaev [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:54:35 +0000 (06:54 +0000)]
Fix typo in typecasting.
patch from  ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>

16 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ, backpatch.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:34:11 +0000 (03:34 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ, backpatch.

Jun Kuwamura

16 years agoFix a memory leak in the autovacuum launcher code. Noted by Darcy Buskermolen,
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:14:59 +0000 (22:14 +0000)]
Fix a memory leak in the autovacuum launcher code.  Noted by Darcy Buskermolen,
who reported it privately to me.

16 years agoRedefine the lp_flags field of item pointers as having four states, rather
Tom Lane [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:10:26 +0000 (22:10 +0000)]
Redefine the lp_flags field of item pointers as having four states, rather
than two independent bits (one of which was never used in heap pages anyway,
or at least hadn't been in a very long time).  This gives us flexibility to
add the HOT notions of redirected and dead item pointers without requiring
anything so klugy as magic values of lp_off and lp_len.  The state values
are chosen so that for the states currently in use (pre-HOT) there is no
change in the physical representation.

16 years agoPerform post-escaping encoding validity checks on SQL literals and COPY input
Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:49:27 +0000 (20:49 +0000)]
Perform post-escaping encoding validity checks on SQL literals and COPY input
so that invalidly encoded data cannot enter the database by these means.

16 years agoWhitespace improvement.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:27:16 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
Whitespace improvement.

16 years agoRevert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches. Per
Tom Lane [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:28:55 +0000 (14:28 +0000)]
Revert ill-starred change to ICC anti-aliasing switches.  Per
Jeremy Drake.

16 years agoInstall dictionary sample files.
Magnus Hagander [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:58:23 +0000 (13:58 +0000)]
Install dictionary sample files.
Per buildfarm and Teodor.

16 years agoDocument an efficient way to create documentation for back branches.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:21:20 +0000 (03:21 +0000)]
Document an efficient way to create documentation for back branches.

16 years agoUpdate Japanese FAQ to current release number.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:11:42 +0000 (03:11 +0000)]
Update Japanese FAQ to current release number.

16 years agoAdd a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay point
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 12 Sep 2007 02:05:48 +0000 (02:05 +0000)]
Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay point
was removed.

16 years agoGive ICC its preferred, documented form of the no-strict-aliasing
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:50:25 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
Give ICC its preferred, documented form of the no-strict-aliasing
switch, viz '-fno-alias'.  Since we have a separate code path here
anyway, it's just as easy to cooperate.

16 years agoSync timezone data with 2007g zic release.
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:43:27 +0000 (17:43 +0000)]
Sync timezone data with 2007g zic release.

16 years agoUpcoming most recent release will be 8.2.5.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:34:12 +0000 (17:34 +0000)]
Upcoming most recent release will be 8.2.5.

16 years agoStamp
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:19:49 +0000 (17:19 +0000)]
Stamp

16 years agoMake sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries to
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:15:33 +0000 (17:15 +0000)]
Make sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries to
recover from elog(ERROR).  Problem was created by introduction of hash seq
search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter;
in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too.  (Not sure
that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might
someday.)  Per report from Sergey Koposov.

16 years agoInclude hash table name in all the internal-error elog messages in
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:17:46 +0000 (16:17 +0000)]
Include hash table name in all the internal-error elog messages in
dynahash.c.  Sergey Koposov's current open problem shows the possible
usefulness of this, and it doesn't add much code.

16 years agoRemove QueryOperand->istrue flag, it was used only in cover ranking
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:01:40 +0000 (16:01 +0000)]
Remove QueryOperand->istrue flag, it was used only in cover ranking
(ts_rank_cd). Use palloc'ed array in ranking instead of flag.

16 years agoFix header's size of structs defines in ispell.
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:57:05 +0000 (12:57 +0000)]
Fix header's size of structs defines in ispell.
Backpatch is needed for contrib version.

16 years agoAdd regression tests for ispell, synonym and thesaurus dictionaries.
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:54:42 +0000 (11:54 +0000)]
Add regression tests for ispell, synonym and thesaurus dictionaries.
Rename synonym.syn.sample and thesaurs.ths.sample to
synonym_sample.syn and thesaurs_sample.ths accordingly to be able to use they
in regression test.

Ispell dictionary uses synthetic simple dictionary files.

16 years agoFix ts_debug function to prevent unneeded calls of ts_lexize().
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:51:22 +0000 (08:51 +0000)]
Fix ts_debug function to prevent unneeded calls of ts_lexize().
It will be mush better to reimplement ts_debug in C (instead of SQL as now),
but it's planned for the future.

16 years agoRefactor from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:46:29 +0000 (08:46 +0000)]
Refactor from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:

* Defined new struct WordEntryPosVector that holds a uint16 length and a
variable size array of WordEntries. This replaces the previous
convention of a variable size uint16 array, with the first element
implying the length. WordEntryPosVector has the same layout in memory,
but is more readable in source code. The POSDATAPTR and POSDATALEN
macros are still used, though it would now be more readable to access
the fields in WordEntryPosVector directly.

* Removed needfree field from DocRepresentation. It was always set to false.

* Miscellaneous other commenting and refactoring

16 years agoRename recently-added pg_stat_activity column from txn_start to xact_start,
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:28:05 +0000 (03:28 +0000)]
Rename recently-added pg_stat_activity column from txn_start to xact_start,
for consistency with other column names such as in pg_stat_database.

16 years agoArrange for SET LOCAL's effects to persist until the end of the current top
Tom Lane [Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:06:42 +0000 (00:06 +0000)]
Arrange for SET LOCAL's effects to persist until the end of the current top
transaction, unless rolled back or overridden by a SET clause for the same
variable attached to a surrounding function call.  Per discussion, these
seem the best semantics.  Note that this is an INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: in 8.0
through 8.2, SET LOCAL's effects disappeared at subtransaction commit
(leading to behavior that made little sense at the SQL level).

I took advantage of the opportunity to rewrite and simplify the GUC variable
save/restore logic a little bit.  The old idea of a "tentative" value is gone;
it was a hangover from before we had a stack.  Also, we no longer need a stack
entry for every nesting level, but only for those in which a variable's value
actually changed.

16 years agoMake CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in their
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:59:37 +0000 (21:59 +0000)]
Make CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in their
database-wide editions.

Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.

16 years agoRelease the exclusive lock on the table early after truncating it in lazy
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:40:03 +0000 (21:40 +0000)]
Release the exclusive lock on the table early after truncating it in lazy
vacuum, instead of waiting till commit.

16 years agoHeikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:37:36 +0000 (20:37 +0000)]
Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:

Add tsearch subdirectory is added to Makefile to allow
compile  custom tsearch dictionary as an external module.

16 years agoFix recently introduced bugs about parsing ispell/hunspell files.
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:27:12 +0000 (20:27 +0000)]
Fix recently introduced bugs about parsing ispell/hunspell files.
In most cases it cause because of unneeded lowercasing of flags.

Per experiment with regression checks with ispell dictionary.

16 years agoRemove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we hold
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:58:45 +0000 (17:58 +0000)]
Remove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we hold
an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon
as possible.  This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the
empty pages at the end of the table.

An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before
starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum
due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our
cost delay settings).  This case could be considered in the balancing code, but
it is simpler this way.

16 years agoChange void* opaque argument to Datum type, add argument's
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:36:41 +0000 (12:36 +0000)]
Change void* opaque argument to Datum type, add argument's
name to PushFunction type definition.

Per suggestion by Tome Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

16 years agoFixes from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:
Teodor Sigaev [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:39:56 +0000 (10:39 +0000)]
Fixes from Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>:

Apparently it's a bug I introduced when I refactored spell.c to use the
readline function for reading and recoding the input file. I didn't
notice that some calls to STRNCMP used the non-lowercased version of the
input line.

16 years agoRevert temporary patch that made synchronous_commit default to OFF.
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:01:19 +0000 (02:01 +0000)]
Revert temporary patch that made synchronous_commit default to OFF.

16 years agoSet the correct context (PGC_SIGHUP) for log_autovacuum, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:39:19 +0000 (01:39 +0000)]
Set the correct context (PGC_SIGHUP) for log_autovacuum, per ITAGAKI Takahiro.
Fix grammatical errors in its description.

16 years agoCode review for GUC revert-values-if-removed-from-postgresql.conf patch;
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:57:22 +0000 (00:57 +0000)]
Code review for GUC revert-values-if-removed-from-postgresql.conf patch;
and in passing, fix some bogosities dating from the custom_variable_classes
patch.  Fix guc-file.l to correctly check changes in custom_variable_classes
that are attempted concurrently with additions/removals of custom variables,
and don't allow the new setting to be applied in advance of checking it.
Clean up messy and undocumented situation for string variables with NULL
boot_val.  Fix DefineCustomVariable functions to initialize boot_val
correctly.  Prevent find_option from inserting bogus placeholders for custom
variables that are simply inquired about rather than being set.

16 years agofix typo in regression Makefile.
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 9 Sep 2007 22:53:33 +0000 (22:53 +0000)]
fix typo in regression Makefile.

16 years agoProvide for a file specifying non-standard config options for temp install
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:40:54 +0000 (20:40 +0000)]
Provide for a file specifying non-standard config options for temp install
for pg_regress, via --temp-config option. Pick this up in the make file
via TEMP_CONFIG setting.

16 years agoReplace the former method of determining snapshot xmax --- to wit, calling
Tom Lane [Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:31:15 +0000 (20:31 +0000)]
Replace the former method of determining snapshot xmax --- to wit, calling
ReadNewTransactionId from GetSnapshotData --- with a "latestCompletedXid"
variable that is updated during transaction commit or abort.  Since
latestCompletedXid is written only in places that had to lock ProcArrayLock
exclusively anyway, and is read only in places that had to lock ProcArrayLock
shared anyway, it adds no new locking requirements to the system despite being
cluster-wide.  Moreover, removing ReadNewTransactionId from snapshot
acquisition eliminates the need to take both XidGenLock and ProcArrayLock at
the same time.  Since XidGenLock is sometimes held across I/O this can be a
significant win.  Some preliminary benchmarking suggested that this patch has
no effect on average throughput but can significantly improve the worst-case
transaction times seen in pgbench.  Concept by Florian Pflug, implementation
by Tom Lane.

16 years agoDon't take ProcArrayLock while exiting a transaction that has no XID; there is
Tom Lane [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:59:26 +0000 (20:59 +0000)]
Don't take ProcArrayLock while exiting a transaction that has no XID; there is
no need for serialization against snapshot-taking because the xact doesn't
affect anyone else's snapshot anyway.  Per discussion.  Also, move various
info about the interlocking of transactions and snapshots out of code comments
and into a hopefully-more-cohesive discussion in access/transam/README.

Also, remove a couple of now-obsolete comments about having to force some WAL
to be written to persuade RecordTransactionCommit to do its thing.

16 years agoAdd Hash thread URL:
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 19:07:58 +0000 (19:07 +0000)]
Add Hash thread URL:

>   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-09/msg00051.php

16 years agoImprove page split in rtree emulation. Now if splitted result has
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:04:26 +0000 (17:04 +0000)]
Improve page split in rtree emulation. Now if splitted result has
big misalignement, then it tries to split page basing on distribution
of boxe's centers.

Per report from  Dolafi, Tom <dolafit@janelia.hhmi.org>

 Backpatch is needed, change doesn't affect on-disk storage.