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* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Fix integer-overflow edge case detection in interval_mul and pgbench.Tom Lane2019-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adopts the overflow check logic introduced by commit cbdb8b4c0 into two more places. interval_mul() failed to notice if it computed a new microseconds value that was one more than INT64_MAX, and pgbench's double-to-int64 logic had the same sorts of edge-case problems that cbdb8b4c0 fixed in the core code. To make this easier to get right in future, put the guts of the checks into new macros in c.h, and add commentary about how to use the macros correctly. Back-patch to all supported branches, as we did with the previous fix. Yuya Watari Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ2pMkbkkFw2hb9Qb1Zj8d06EhWAQXFLy73St4qWv6aX=vqnjw@mail.gmail.com
* Add safeguards in LSN, numeric and float calculation for custom errorsMichael Paquier2019-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Those data types use parsing and/or calculation wrapper routines which can generate some generic error messages in the event of a failure. The caller of these routines can also pass a pointer variable settable by the routine to track if an error has happened, letting the caller decide what to do in the event of an error and what error message to generate. Those routines have been slacking the initialization of the tracking flag, which can be confusing when reading the code, so add some safeguards against calls of these parsing routines which could lead to a dubious result. The LSN parsing gains an assertion to make sure that the tracking flag is set, while numeric and float paths initialize the flag to a saner state. Author: Jeevan Ladhe Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOgcT0NOM9oR0Hag_3VpyW0uF3iCU=BDUFSPfk9JrWXRcWQHqw@mail.gmail.com
* Fix typos.Amit Kapila2019-05-26
| | | | | | | Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Author: Alexander Lakhin Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7208de98-add8-8537-91c0-f8b089e2928c@gmail.com
* Numeric error suppression in jsonpathAlexander Korotkov2019-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | Add support of numeric error suppression to jsonpath as it's required by standard. This commit doesn't use PG_TRY()/PG_CATCH() in order to implement that. Instead, it provides internal versions of numeric functions used, which support error suppression. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fcc6fc6a-b497-f39a-923d-aa34d0c588e8%402ndQuadrant.com Author: Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
* Add support for hyperbolic functions, as well as log10().Tom Lane2019-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SQL:2016 standard adds support for the hyperbolic functions sinh(), cosh(), and tanh(). POSIX has long required libm to provide those functions as well as their inverses asinh(), acosh(), atanh(). Hence, let's just expose the libm functions to the SQL level. As with the trig functions, we only implement versions for float8, not numeric. For the moment, we'll assume that all platforms actually do have these functions; if experience teaches otherwise, some autoconf effort may be needed. SQL:2016 also adds support for base-10 logarithm, but with the function name log10(), whereas the name we've long used is log(). Add aliases named log10() for the float8 and numeric versions. Lætitia Avrot Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB_COdguG22LO=rnxDQ2DW1uzv8aQoUzyDQNJjrR4k00XSgm5w@mail.gmail.com
* Change floating-point output format for improved performance.Andrew Gierth2019-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, floating-point output was done by rounding to a specific decimal precision; by default, to 6 or 15 decimal digits (losing information) or as requested using extra_float_digits. Drivers that wanted exact float values, and applications like pg_dump that must preserve values exactly, set extra_float_digits=3 (or sometimes 2 for historical reasons, though this isn't enough for float4). Unfortunately, decimal rounded output is slow enough to become a noticable bottleneck when dealing with large result sets or COPY of large tables when many floating-point values are involved. Floating-point output can be done much faster when the output is not rounded to a specific decimal length, but rather is chosen as the shortest decimal representation that is closer to the original float value than to any other value representable in the same precision. The recently published Ryu algorithm by Ulf Adams is both relatively simple and remarkably fast. Accordingly, change float4out/float8out to output shortest decimal representations if extra_float_digits is greater than 0, and make that the new default. Applications that need rounded output can set extra_float_digits back to 0 or below, and take the resulting performance hit. We make one concession to portability for systems with buggy floating-point input: we do not output decimal values that fall exactly halfway between adjacent representable binary values (which would rely on the reader doing round-to-nearest-even correctly). This is known to be a problem at least for VS2013 on Windows. Our version of the Ryu code originates from https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/ at commit c9c3fb1979, but with the following (significant) modifications: - Output format is changed to use fixed-point notation for small exponents, as printf would, and also to use lowercase 'e', a minimum of 2 exponent digits, and a mandatory sign on the exponent, to keep the formatting as close as possible to previous output. - The output of exact midpoint values is disabled as noted above. - The integer fast-path code is changed somewhat (since we have fixed-point output and the upstream did not). - Our project style has been largely applied to the code with the exception of C99 declaration-after-statement, which has been retained as an exception to our present policy. - Most of upstream's debugging and conditionals are removed, and we use our own configure tests to determine things like uint128 availability. Changing the float output format obviously affects a number of regression tests. This patch uses an explicit setting of extra_float_digits=0 for test output that is not expected to be exactly reproducible (e.g. due to numerical instability or differing algorithms for transcendental functions). Conversions from floats to numeric are unchanged by this patch. These may appear in index expressions and it is not yet clear whether any change should be made, so that can be left for another day. This patch assumes that the only supported floating point format is now IEEE format, and the documentation is updated to reflect that. Code by me, adapting the work of Ulf Adams and other contributors. References: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369 Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Donald Dong Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87r2el1bx6.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Use strtof() and not strtod() for float4 input.Andrew Gierth2019-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using strtod() creates a double-rounding problem; the input decimal value is first rounded to the nearest double; rounding that to the nearest float may then give an incorrect result. An example is that 7.038531e-26 when input via strtod and then rounded to float4 gives 0xAE43FEp-107 instead of the correct 0xAE43FDp-107. Values output by earlier PG versions with extra_float_digits=3 should all be read in with the same values as previously. However, values supplied by other software using shortest representations could be mis-read. On platforms that lack a strtof() entirely, we fall back to the old incorrect rounding behavior. (As strtof() is required by C99, such platforms are considered of primarily historical interest.) On VS2013, some workarounds are used to get correct error handling. The regression tests now test for the correct input values, so platforms that lack strtof() will need resultmap entries. An entry for HP-UX 10 is included (more may be needed). Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871s5emitx.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87d0owlqpv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Remove configure switch --disable-strong-randomMichael Paquier2019-01-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes a portion of infrastructure introduced by fe0a0b5 to allow compilation of Postgres in environments where no strong random source is available, meaning that there is no linking to OpenSSL and no /dev/urandom (Windows having its own CryptoAPI). No systems shipped this century lack /dev/urandom, and the buildfarm is actually not testing this switch at all, so just remove it. This simplifies particularly some backend code which included a fallback implementation using shared memory, and removes a set of alternate regression output files from pgcrypto. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181230063219.GG608@paquier.xyz
* Use a separate random seed for SQL random()/setseed() functions.Tom Lane2018-12-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, the SQL random() function depended on libc's random(3), and setseed() invoked srandom(3). This results in interference between these functions and backend-internal uses of random(3). We'd never paid too much mind to that, but in the wake of commit 88bdbd3f7 which added log_statement_sample_rate, the interference arguably has a security consequence: if log_statement_sample_rate is active then an unprivileged user could probably control which if any of his SQL commands get logged, by issuing setseed() at the right times. That seems bad. To fix this reliably, we need random() and setseed() to use their own private random state variable. Standard random(3) isn't amenable to such usage, so let's switch to pg_erand48(). It's hard to say whether that's more or less "random" than any particular platform's version of random(3), but it does have a wider seed value and a longer period than are required by POSIX, so we can hope that this isn't a big downgrade. Also, we should now have uniform behavior of random() across platforms, which is worth something. While at it, upgrade the per-process seed initialization method to use pg_strong_random() if available, greatly reducing the predictability of the initial seed value. (I'll separately do something similar for the internal uses of random().) In addition to forestalling the possible security problem, this has a benefit in the other direction, which is that we can now document setseed() as guaranteeing a reproducible sequence of random() values. Previously, because of the possibility of internal calls of random(3), we could not promise any such thing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3859.1545849900@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix float-to-integer coercions to handle edge cases correctly.Tom Lane2018-11-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ftoi4 and its sibling coercion functions did their overflow checks in a way that looked superficially plausible, but actually depended on an assumption that the MIN and MAX comparison constants can be represented exactly in the float4 or float8 domain. That fails in ftoi4, ftoi8, and dtoi8, resulting in a possibility that values near the MAX limit will be wrongly converted (to negative values) when they need to be rejected. Also, because we compared before rounding off the fractional part, the other three functions threw errors for values that really ought to get rounded to the min or max integer value. Fix by doing rint() first (requiring an assumption that it handles NaN and Inf correctly; but dtoi8 and ftoi8 were assuming that already), and by comparing to values that should coerce to float exactly, namely INTxx_MIN and -INTxx_MIN. Also remove some random cosmetic discrepancies between these six functions. Per bug #15519 from Victor Petrovykh. This should get back-patched, but first let's see what the buildfarm thinks of it --- I'm not too sure about portability of some of the regression test cases. Patch by me; thanks to Andrew Gierth for analysis and discussion. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15519-4fc785b483201ff1@postgresql.org
* Improve snprintf.c's handling of NaN, Infinity, and minus zero.Tom Lane2018-10-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, float4out/float8out handled NaN and Infinity cases explicitly, and invoked psprintf only for ordinary float values. This was done because platform implementations of snprintf produce varying representations of these special cases. But now that we use snprintf.c always, it's better to give it the responsibility to produce a uniform representation of these cases, so that we have uniformity across the board not only in float4out/float8out. Hence, move that work into fmtfloat(). Also, teach fmtfloat() to recognize IEEE minus zero and handle it correctly. The previous coding worked only accidentally, and would fail for e.g. "%+f" format (it'd print "+-0.00000"). Now that we're using snprintf.c everywhere, it's not acceptable for it to do weird things in corner cases. (This incidentally avoids a portability problem we've seen on some really ancient platforms, that native sprintf does the wrong thing with minus zero.) Also, introduce a new entry point in snprintf.c to allow float[48]out to bypass the work of interpreting a well-known format spec, as well as bypassing the overhead of the psprintf layer. I modeled this API loosely on strfromd(). In my testing, this brings float[48]out back to approximately the same speed they had when using native snprintf, fixing one of the main performance issues caused by using snprintf.c. (There is some talk of more aggressive work to improve the speed of floating-point output conversion, but these changes seem to provide a better starting point for such work anyway.) Getting rid of the previous ad-hoc hack for Infinity/NaN in fmtfloat() allows removing <ctype.h> from snprintf.c's #includes. I also removed a few other #includes that I think are historical, though the buildfarm may expose that as wrong. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13178.1538794717@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Improve the accuracy of floating point statistical aggregates.Dean Rasheed2018-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When computing statistical aggregates like variance, the common schoolbook algorithm which computes the sum of the squares of the values and subtracts the square of the mean can lead to a large loss of precision when using floating point arithmetic, because the difference between the two terms is often very small relative to the terms themselves. To avoid this, re-work these aggregates to use the Youngs-Cramer algorithm, which is a proven, numerically stable algorithm that directly aggregates the sum of the squares of the differences of the values from the mean in a single pass over the data. While at it, improve the test coverage to test the aggregate combine functions used during parallel aggregation. Per report and suggested algorithm from Erich Schubert. Patch by me, reviewed by Madeleine Thompson. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153313051300.1397.9594490737341194671@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Provide separate header file for built-in float typesTomas Vondra2018-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some data types under adt/ have separate header files, but most simple ones do not, and their public functions are defined in builtins.h. As the patches improving geometric types will require making additional functions public, this seems like a good opportunity to create a header for floats types. Commit 1acf757255 made _cmp functions public to solve NaN issues locally for GiST indexes. This patch reworks it in favour of a more widely applicable API. The API uses inline functions, as they are easier to use compared to macros, and avoid double-evaluation hazards. Author: Emre Hasegeli Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAE2gYzxF7-5djV6-cEvqQu-fNsnt%3DEqbOURx7ZDg%2BVv6ZMTWbg%40mail.gmail.com
* Make new error code name match SQL standard more closelyPeter Eisentraut2018-06-11
| | | | Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/dff3d555-bea4-ac24-29b2-29521b9d08e8%402ndquadrant.com
* Put in_range_float4_float8's work in-line.Tom Lane2018-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 8b29e88cd, I'd dithered about whether to make in_range_float4_float8 be a standalone copy of the float in-range logic or have it punt to in_range_float8_float8. I went with the latter, which saves code space though at the cost of performance and readability. However, it emerges that this tickles a compiler or hardware bug on buildfarm member opossum. Test results from commit 55e0e4581 show conclusively that widening a float4 NaN to float8 produces Inf, not NaN, on that machine; which accounts perfectly for the window RANGE test failures it's been showing. We can dodge this problem by making in_range_float4_float8 be an independent function, so that it checks for NaN inputs before widening them. Ordinarily I'd not be very excited about working around such obviously broken functionality; but given that this was a judgment call to begin with, I don't mind reversing it.
* Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on more platforms.Tom Lane2018-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Buildfarm results show that the modern POSIX rule that 1 ^ NaN = 1 is not honored on *BSD until relatively recently, and really old platforms don't believe that NaN ^ 0 = 1 either. (This is unsurprising, perhaps, since SUSv2 doesn't require either behavior.) In hopes of getting to platform independent behavior, let's deal with all the NaN-input cases explicitly in dpow(). Note that numeric_power() doesn't know either of these special cases. But since that behavior is platform-independent, I think it should be addressed separately, and probably not back-patched. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75DB81BEEA95B445AE6D576A0A5C9E936A73E741@BPXM05GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
* Avoid wrong results for power() with NaN input on some platforms.Tom Lane2018-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per spec, the result of power() should be NaN if either input is NaN. It appears that on some versions of Windows, the libc function does return NaN, but it also sets errno = EDOM, confusing our code that attempts to work around shortcomings of other platforms. Hence, add guard tests to avoid substituting a wrong result for the right one. It's been like this for a long time (and the odd behavior only appears in older MSVC releases, too) so back-patch to all supported branches. Dang Minh Huong, reviewed by David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75DB81BEEA95B445AE6D576A0A5C9E936A73E741@BPXM05GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
* Fix more format truncation issuesPeter Eisentraut2018-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the warnings created by the compiler warning options -Wformat-overflow=2 -Wformat-truncation=2, supported since GCC 7. This is a more aggressive variant of the fixes in 6275f5d28a1577563f53f2171689d4f890a46881, which GCC 7 warned about by default. The issues are all harmless, but some dubious coding patterns are cleaned up. One issue that is of external interest is that BGW_MAXLEN is increased from 64 to 96. Apparently, the old value would cause the bgw_name of logical replication workers to be truncated in some circumstances. But this doesn't actually add those warning options. It appears that the warnings depend a bit on compilation and optimization options, so it would be annoying to have to keep up with that. This is more of a once-in-a-while cleanup. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
* Fix thinko in in_range_float4_float8.Tom Lane2018-02-24
| | | | | I forgot the coding rule for correct use of Float8GetDatumFast. Per buildfarm.
* Add window RANGE support for float4, float8, numeric.Tom Lane2018-02-24
| | | | | | | | Commit 0a459cec9 left this for later, but since time's running out, I went ahead and took care of it. There are more data types that somebody might someday want RANGE support for, but this is enough to satisfy all expectations of the SQL standard, which just says that "numeric, datetime, and interval" types should have RANGE support.
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Use new overflow aware integer operations.Andres Freund2017-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A previous commit added inline functions that provide fast(er) and correct overflow checks for signed integer math. Use them in a significant portion of backend code. There's more to touch in both backend and frontend code, but these were the easily identifiable cases. The old overflow checks are noticeable in integer heavy workloads. A secondary benefit is that getting rid of overflow checks that rely on signed integer overflow wrapping around, will allow us to get rid of -fwrapv in the future. Which in turn slows down other code. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024103954.ztmatprlglz3rwke@alap3.anarazel.de
* Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make messages mentioning type names more uniformAlvaro Herrera2017-01-18
| | | | | | | | | This avoids additional translatable strings for each distinct type, as well as making our quoting style around type names more consistent (namely, that we don't quote type names). This continues what started as f402b9950120. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160401170642.GA57509@alvherre.pgsql
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Fix GiST index build for NaN values in geometric types.Tom Lane2016-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GiST index build could go into an infinite loop when presented with boxes (or points, circles or polygons) containing NaN component values. This happened essentially because the code assumed that x == x is true for any "double" value x; but it's not true for NaNs. The looping behavior was not the only problem though: we also attempted to sort the items using simple double comparisons. Since NaNs violate the trichotomy law, qsort could (in principle at least) get arbitrarily confused and mess up the sorting of ordinary values as well as NaNs. And we based splitting choices on box size calculations that could produce NaNs, again resulting in undesirable behavior. To fix, replace all comparisons of doubles in this logic with float8_cmp_internal, which is NaN-aware and is careful to sort NaNs consistently, higher than any non-NaN. Also rearrange the box size calculation to not produce NaNs; instead it should produce an infinity for a box with NaN on one side and not-NaN on the other. I don't by any means claim that this solves all problems with NaNs in geometric values, but it should at least make GiST index insertion work reliably with such data. It's likely that the index search side of things still needs some work, and probably regular geometric operations too. But with this patch we're laying down a convention for how such cases ought to behave. Per bug #14238 from Guang-Dih Lei. Back-patch to 9.2; the code used before commit 7f3bd86843e5aad8 is quite different and doesn't lock up on my simple test case, nor on the submitter's dataset. Report: <20160708151747.1426.60150@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <28685.1468246504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Yet more portability hacking for degree-based trig functions.Tom Lane2016-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The true explanation for Peter Eisentraut's report of inexact asind results seems to be that (a) he's compiling into x87 instruction set, which uses wider-than-double float registers, plus (b) the library function asin() on his platform returns a result that is wider than double and is not rounded to double width. To fix, we have to force the function's result to be rounded comparably to what happened to the scaling constant asin_0_5. Experimentation suggests that storing it into a volatile local variable is the least ugly way of making that happen. Although only asin() is known to exhibit an observable inexact result, we'd better do this in all the places where we're hoping to get an exact result by scaling.
* New method for preventing compile-time calculation of degree constants.Tom Lane2016-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 65abaab547a5758b tried to prevent the scaling constants used in the degree-based trig functions from being precomputed at compile time, because some compilers do that with functions that don't yield results identical-to-the-last-bit to what you get at runtime. A report from Peter Eisentraut suggests that some recent compilers are smart enough to see through that trick, though. Instead, let's put the inputs to these calculations into non-const global variables, which should be a more reliable way of convincing the compiler that it can't assume that they are compile-time constants. (If we really get desperate, we could mark these variables "volatile", but I do not believe we should have to.)
* Add combine functions for various floating-point aggregates.Robert Haas2016-04-08
| | | | | | | | | This allows parallel aggregation to use them. It may seem surprising that we use float8_combine for both float4_accum and float8_accum transition functions, but that's because those functions differ only in the type of the non-transition-state argument. Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by David Rowley and Tomas Vondra
* Improve portability of I/O behavior for the geometric types.Tom Lane2016-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, the geometric I/O routines such as box_in and point_out relied directly on strtod() and sprintf() for conversion of the float8 component values of their data types. However, the behavior of those functions is pretty platform-dependent, especially for edge-case values such as infinities and NaNs. This was exposed by commit acdf2a8b372aec1d, which added test cases involving boxes with infinity endpoints, and immediately failed on Windows and AIX buildfarm members. We solved these problems years ago in the main float8in and float8out functions, so let's fix it by making the geometric types use that code instead of depending directly on the platform-supplied functions. To do this, refactor the float8in code so that it can be used to parse just part of a string, and as a convenience make the guts of float8out usable without going through DirectFunctionCall. While at it, get rid of geo_ops.c's fairly shaky assumptions about the maximum output string length for a double, by having it build results in StringInfo buffers instead of fixed-length strings. In passing, convert all the "invalid input syntax for type foo" messages in this area of the code into "invalid input syntax for type %s" to reduce the number of distinct translatable strings, per recent discussion. We would have needed a fair number of the latter anyway for code-sharing reasons, so we might as well just go whole hog. Note: this patch is by no means intended to guarantee that the geometric types uniformly behave sanely for infinity or NaN component values. But any bugs we have in that line were there all along, they were just harder to reach in a platform-independent way.
* Yet further adjust degree-based trig functions for more portability.Tom Lane2016-01-24
| | | | | | | Buildfarm member cockatiel is still saying that cosd(60) isn't 0.5. What seems likely is that the subexpression (1.0 - cos(x)) isn't being rounded to double width before more arithmetic is done on it, so force that by storing it into a variable.
* Still further adjust degree-based trig functions for more portability.Tom Lane2016-01-23
| | | | | Indeed, the non-static declaration foreseen in my previous commit message is necessary. Per Noah Misch.
* Further adjust degree-based trig functions for more portability.Tom Lane2016-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The last round didn't do it. Per Noah Misch, the problem on at least some machines is that the compiler pre-evaluates trig functions having constant arguments using code slightly different from what will be used at runtime. Therefore, we must prevent the compiler from seeing constant arguments to any of the libm trig functions used in this code. The method used here might still fail if init_degree_constants() gets inlined into the call sites. That probably won't happen given the large number of call sites; but if it does, we could probably fix it by making init_degree_constants() non-static. I'll avoid that till proven necessary, though.
* Adjust degree-based trig functions for more portability.Tom Lane2016-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The buildfarm isn't very happy with the results of commit e1bd684a34c11139. To try to get the expected exact results everywhere: * Replace M_PI / 180 subexpressions with a precomputed constant, so that the compiler can't decide to rearrange that division with an adjacent operation. Hopefully this will fix failures to get exactly 0.5 from sind(30) and cosd(60). * Add scaling to ensure that tand(45) and cotd(45) give exactly 1; there was nothing particularly guaranteeing that before. * Replace minus zero by zero when tand() or cotd() would output that; many machines did so for tand(180) and cotd(270), but not all. We could alternatively deem both results valid, but that doesn't seem likely to be what users will want.
* Add trigonometric functions that work in degrees.Tom Lane2016-01-22
| | | | | | | The implementations go to some lengths to deliver exact results for values where an exact result can be expected, such as sind(30) = 0.5 exactly. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Michael Paquier
* Improve cross-platform consistency of Inf/NaN handling in trig functions.Tom Lane2016-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure that the trig functions return NaN for NaN input regardless of what the underlying C library functions might do. Also ensure that an error is thrown for Inf (or otherwise out-of-range) input, except for atan/atan2 which should accept it. All these behaviors should now conform to the POSIX spec; previously, all our popular platforms deviated from that in one case or another. The main remaining platform dependency here is whether the C library might choose to throw a domain error for sin/cos/tan inputs that are large but less than infinity. (Doing so is not unreasonable, since once a single unit-in-the-last-place exceeds PI, there can be no significance at all in the result; however there doesn't seem to be any suggestion in POSIX that such an error is allowed.) We will report such errors if they are reported via "errno", but not if they are reported via "fetestexcept" which is the other mechanism sanctioned by POSIX. Some preliminary experiments with fetestexcept indicated that it might also report errors we could do without, such as complaining about underflow at an unreasonably large threshold. So let's skip that complexity for now. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Michael Paquier
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Enable building with Visual Studion 2013.Andrew Dunstan2014-01-26
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.3. Brar Piening.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Remove IRIX port.Robert Haas2013-10-18
| | | | | | | Development of IRIX has been discontinued, and support is scheduled to end in December of 2013. Therefore, there will be no supported versions of this operating system by the time PostgreSQL 9.4 is released. Furthermore, we have no maintainer for this platform.
* Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".Tom Lane2013-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings (case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity", "-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just "infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings to work. Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be.
* Clean up references to SQL92Peter Eisentraut2013-04-20
| | | | | | In most cases, these were just references to the SQL standard in general. In a few cases, a contrast was made between SQL92 and later standards -- those have been kept unchanged.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Add some enumeration commas, for consistencyPeter Eisentraut2012-02-24
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