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* Update comment description of geo routines and move comment to moreBruce Momjian2006-06-26
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* Tweak dynahash.c to avoid wasting memory space in non-shared hash tables.Tom Lane2006-06-25
| | | | | | | | palloc() will normally round allocation requests up to the next power of 2, so make dynahash choose allocation sizes that are as close to a power of 2 as possible. Back-patch to 8.1 --- the problem exists further back, but a much larger patch would be needed and it doesn't seem worth taking any risks.
* Standalone backends need pgstat_bestart() too, per Qingqing Zhou.Tom Lane2006-06-22
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* Remove redundant gettimeofday() calls to the extent practical withoutTom Lane2006-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | changing semantics too much. statement_timestamp is now set immediately upon receipt of a client command message, and the various places that used to do their own gettimeofday() calls to mark command startup are referenced to that instead. I have also made stats_command_string use that same value for pg_stat_activity.query_start for both the command itself and its eventual replacement by <IDLE> or <idle in transaction>. There was some debate about that, but no argument that seemed convincing enough to justify an extra gettimeofday() call.
* Split definitions for md5.c out of crypt.h and into their own headerTom Lane2006-06-20
| | | | | | | | | libpq/md5.h, so that there's a clear separation between backend-only definitions and shared frontend/backend definitions. (Turns out this is reversing a bad decision from some years ago...) Fix up references to crypt.h as needed. I looked into moving the code into src/port, but the headers in src/include/libpq are sufficiently intertwined that it seems more work than it's worth to do that.
* Take the statistics collector out of the loop for monitoring backends'Tom Lane2006-06-19
| | | | | | | current commands; instead, store current-status information in shared memory. This substantially reduces the overhead of stats_command_string and also ensures that pg_stat_activity is fully up to date at all times. Per my recent proposal.
* Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane2006-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
* Remove the limit on the number of entries allowed in catcaches, andTom Lane2006-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | remove the infrastructure needed to enforce the limit, ie, the global LRU list of cache entries. On small-to-middling databases this wins because maintaining the LRU list is a waste of time. On large databases this wins because it's better to keep more cache entries (we assume such users can afford to use some more per-backend memory than was contemplated in the Berkeley-era catcache design). This provides a noticeable improvement in the speed of psql \d on a 10000-table database, though it doesn't make it instantaneous. While at it, use per-catcache settings for the number of hash buckets per catcache, rather than the former one-size-fits-all value. It's a bit silly to be using the same number of hash buckets for, eg, pg_am and pg_attribute. The specific values I used might need some tuning, but they seem to be in the right ballpark based on CATCACHE_STATS results from the standard regression tests.
* Avoid use of C commment inside C comment from recent Win32 int overflow patch.Bruce Momjian2006-06-12
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* Win32 can't catch the exception thrown by INT_MIN / -1 or INT_MIN * -1,Bruce Momjian2006-06-12
| | | | | | | so on that platform we test for those before the computation and throw an "out of range" error. Backpatch to 8.1.X.
* Minor code cleanup: make the WIN32 case less gratuitously different fromTom Lane2006-06-12
| | | | the other platform-specific cases in ps_status.
* Allow timezone names in SQL strings,Bruce Momjian2006-06-07
| | | | | | '2006-05-24 21:11 Americas/New_York'::timestamptz Joachim Wieland
* Prepare code to be built by MSVC:Bruce Momjian2006-06-07
| | | | | | | | | | o remove many WIN32_CLIENT_ONLY defines o add WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER define o add 3rd argument to open() for portability o add include/port/win32_msvc directory for system includes Magnus Hagander
* Make the planner estimate costs for nestloop inner indexscans on the basisTom Lane2006-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | that the Mackert-Lohmann formula applies across all the repetitions of the nestloop, not just each scan independently. We use the M-L formula to estimate the number of pages fetched from the index as well as from the table; that isn't what it was designed for, but it seems reasonably applicable anyway. This makes large numbers of repetitions look much cheaper than before, which accords with many reports we've received of overestimation of the cost of a nestloop. Also, change the index access cost model to charge random_page_cost per index leaf page touched, while explicitly not counting anything for access to metapage or upper tree pages. This may all need tweaking after we get some field experience, but in simple tests it seems to be giving saner results than before. The main thing is to get the infrastructure in place to let cost_index() and amcostestimate functions take repeated scans into account at all. Per my recent proposal. Note: this patch changes pg_proc.h, but I did not force initdb because the changes are basically cosmetic --- the system does not look into pg_proc to decide how to call an index amcostestimate function, and there's no way to call such a function from SQL at all.
* Increase the default value of cpu_index_tuple_cost from 0.001 to 0.005.Tom Lane2006-06-05
| | | | | | This shouldn't affect simple indexscans much, while for bitmap scans that are touching a lot of index rows, this seems to bring the estimates more in line with reality. Per recent discussion.
* Add a GUC parameter seq_page_cost, and use that everywhere we formerlyTom Lane2006-06-05
| | | | | | | | assumed that a sequential page fetch has cost 1.0. This patch doesn't in itself change the system's behavior at all, but it opens the door to people adopting other units of measurement for EXPLAIN costs. Also, if we ever decide it's worth inventing per-tablespace access cost settings, this change provides a workable intellectual framework for that.
* Don't choke during startup if the environment offers an invalid valueTom Lane2006-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | for LC_MESSAGES; instead, just press forward, leaving the effective setting at 'C'. There is not any very good reason to complain when we are going to replace the value soon with whatever postgresql.conf says. This change should solve the occasionally-reported problem of initdb failing with 'failed to initialize lc_messages'; the current theory is that that is a reflection of either wrong LANG/LC_MESSAGES or completely broken locale support.
* Make PG_MODULE_MAGIC required in shared libraries that are loaded intoTom Lane2006-05-31
| | | | | the server. Per discussion, there seems no point in a waiting period before making this required.
* Magic blocks don't do us any good unless we use 'em ... so install oneTom Lane2006-05-30
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* Code review for magic-block patch. Remove separate header file pgmagic.h,Tom Lane2006-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | as this seems only likely to create headaches for module developers. Put the macro in the pre-existing fmgr.h file instead. Avoid being too cute about how many fields we can cram into a word, and avoid trying to fetch from a library we've already unlinked. Along the way, it occurred to me that the magic block really ought to be 'const' so it can be stored in the program text area. Do the same for the existing data blocks for PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 functions.
* Add pgmagic header block to store compile-time constants:Bruce Momjian2006-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It now only checks four things: Major version number (7.4 or 8.1 for example) NAMEDATALEN FUNC_MAX_ARGS INDEX_MAX_KEYS The three constants were chosen because: 1. We document them in the config page in the docs 2. We mark them as changable in pg_config_manual.h 3. Changing any of these will break some of the more popular modules: FUNC_MAX_ARGS changes fmgr interface, every module uses this NAMEDATALEN changes syscache interface, every PL as well as tsearch uses this INDEX_MAX_KEYS breaks tsearch and anything using GiST. Martijn van Oosterhout
* Fix ancient misdescription of namegt/namege in comment. Greg StarkTom Lane2006-05-30
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* Fix up pg_dump to do string escaping fully correctly for client encodingTom Lane2006-05-28
| | | | | | | | | and standard_conforming_strings; likewise for the other client programs that need it. As per previous discussion, a pg_dump dump now conforms to the standard_conforming_strings setting of the source database. We don't use E'' syntax in the dump, thereby improving portability of the SQL. I added a SET escape_strings_warning = off command to keep the dumps from getting a lot of back-chatter from that.
* Use E'' strings internally only when standard_conforming_strings =Bruce Momjian2006-05-26
| | | | | | | | | 'off'. This allows pg_dump output with standard_conforming_strings = 'on' to generate proper strings that can be loaded into other databases without the backslash doubling we typically do. I have added the dumping of the standard_conforming_strings value to pg_dump. I also added standard backslash handling for plpgsql.
* Tweak writetup_heap/readtup_heap to avoid storing the tuple identityTom Lane2006-05-23
| | | | | | | | and transaction visibility fields of tuples being sorted. These are always uninteresting in a tuple being sorted (if the fields were actually selected, they'd have been pulled out into user columns beforehand). This saves about 24 bytes per row being sorted, which is a useful savings for any but the widest of sort rows. Per recent discussion.
* Add a new GUC parameter backslash_quote, which determines whether the SQLTom Lane2006-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | parser will allow "\'" to be used to represent a literal quote mark. The "\'" representation has been deprecated for some time in favor of the SQL-standard representation "''" (two single quote marks), but it has been used often enough that just disallowing it immediately won't do. Hence backslash_quote allows the settings "on", "off", and "safe_encoding", the last meaning to allow "\'" only if client_encoding is a valid server encoding. That is now the default, and the reason is that in encodings such as SJIS that allow 0x5c (ASCII backslash) to be the last byte of a multibyte character, accepting "\'" allows SQL-injection attacks as per CVE-2006-2314 (further details will be published after release). The "on" setting is available for backward compatibility, but it must not be used with clients that are exposed to untrusted input. Thanks to Akio Ishida and Yasuo Ohgaki for identifying this security issue.
* Change the backend to reject strings containing invalidly-encoded multibyteTom Lane2006-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | characters in all cases. Formerly we mostly just threw warnings for invalid input, and failed to detect it at all if no encoding conversion was required. The tighter check is needed to defend against SQL-injection attacks as per CVE-2006-2313 (further details will be published after release). Embedded zero (null) bytes will be rejected as well. The checks are applied during input to the backend (receipt from client or COPY IN), so it no longer seems necessary to check in textin() and related routines; any string arriving at those functions will already have been validated. Conversion failure reporting (for characters with no equivalent in the destination encoding) has been cleaned up and made consistent while at it. Also, fix a few longstanding errors in little-used encoding conversion routines: win1251_to_iso, win866_to_iso, euc_tw_to_big5, euc_tw_to_mic, mic_to_euc_tw were all broken to varying extents. Patches by Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane. Thanks to Akio Ishida and Yasuo Ohgaki for identifying the security issues.
* Add last-vacuum/analyze-time columns to the stats collector, both manual andAlvaro Herrera2006-05-19
| | | | | | | | | issued by autovacuum. Add accessor functions to them, and use those in the pg_stat_*_tables system views. Catalog version bumped due to changes in the pgstat views and the pgstat file. Patch from Larry Rosenman, minor improvements by me.
* Have autovacuum report its activities to the stat collector.Alvaro Herrera2006-05-19
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* Code review for standard_conforming_strings patch. Fix it so it does notTom Lane2006-05-11
| | | | | | | throw warnings for 100%-SQL-standard constructs, clean up some minor infelicities, try to un-break ecpg to the best of my ability. (It's not clear how ecpg is going to find out the setting of standard_conforming_strings, though.) I think pg_dump still needs work, too.
* Further minor simplification of relcache startup: don't need a staticTom Lane2006-05-06
| | | | needNewCacheFile flag anymore, it can just be local in RelationCacheInitializePhase2.
* Simplify relcache startup sequence. With the new design of InitPostgresTom Lane2006-05-04
| | | | | | | it's not necessary to have three separate calls anymore. This patch also fixes things so we don't try to read pg_internal.init until after we've obtained lock on the target database; which was fairly harmless, but it's certainly cleaner this way.
* Rethink the locking mechanisms used for CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE.Tom Lane2006-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The former approach used ExclusiveLock on pg_database, which being a cluster-wide lock meant only one of these operations could proceed at a time; worse, it also blocked all incoming connections in ReverifyMyDatabase. Now that we have LockSharedObject(), we can use locks of different types applied to databases considered as objects. This allows much more flexible management of the interlocking: two CREATE DATABASEs need not block each other, and need not block connections except to the template database being used. Similarly DROP DATABASE doesn't block unrelated operations. The locking used in flatfiles.c is also much narrower in scope than before. Per recent proposal.
* Create a syscache for pg_database-indexed-by-oid, and make use of itTom Lane2006-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | in various places that were previously doing ad hoc pg_database searches. This may speed up database-related privilege checks a little bit, but the main motivation is to eliminate the performance reason for having ReverifyMyDatabase do such a lot of stuff (viz, avoiding repeat scans of pg_database during backend startup). The locking reason for having that routine is about to go away, and it'd be good to have the option to break it up.
* GIN: Generalized Inverted iNdex.Teodor Sigaev2006-05-02
| | | | text[], int4[], Tsearch2 support for GIN.
* Avoid assuming that statistics for a parent relation reflect the properties ofTom Lane2006-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | the union of its child relations as well. This might have been a good idea when it was originally coded, but it's a fatally bad idea when inheritance is being used for partitioning. It's better to have no stats at all than completely misleading stats. Per report from Mark Liberman. The bug arguably exists all the way back, but I've only patched HEAD and 8.1 because we weren't particularly trying to support partitioning before 8.1. Eventually we ought to look at deriving union statistics instead of just punting, but for now the drop kick looks good.
* Provide a namespace.c function for lookup of an operator with exactTom Lane2006-05-01
| | | | | | | | input datatypes given, and use this before trying OpernameGetCandidates. This is faster than the old method when there's an exact match, and it does not seem materially slower when there's not. And it definitely makes some of the callers cleaner, because they didn't really want to know about a list of candidates anyway. Per discussion with Atsushi Ogawa.
* Code review for GRANT CONNECT patch. Spell the privilege as CONNECT notTom Lane2006-04-30
| | | | | CONNECTION, fix a number of places that were missed (eg pg_dump support), avoid executing an extra search of pg_database during startup.
* Improve the representation of FOR UPDATE/FOR SHARE so that we canTom Lane2006-04-30
| | | | | | support both FOR UPDATE and FOR SHARE in one command, as well as both NOWAIT and normal WAIT behavior. The more general code is actually simpler and cleaner.
* Add GRANT CONNECTION ON DATABASE, to be used in addition to pg_hba.conf.Bruce Momjian2006-04-30
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* Generalize mcv_selectivity() to support both VAR OP CONST and CONST OP VARTom Lane2006-04-27
| | | | | | cases. This was not needed in the existing uses within selfuncs.c, but if we're gonna export it for general use, the extra generality seems helpful. Motivated by looking at ltree example.
* If we're going to expose VariableStatData for contrib modules to use,Tom Lane2006-04-27
| | | | then we should export a reasonable set of the supporting routines too.
* Move ltree parentsel() selectivity function into /contrib/ltree.Bruce Momjian2006-04-26
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* Enhanced containment selectivity function for /contrib/ltreeBruce Momjian2006-04-26
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* Arrange to cache btree metapage data in the relcache entry for the index,Tom Lane2006-04-25
| | | | | | | thereby saving a visit to the metapage in most index searches/updates. This wouldn't actually save any I/O (since in the old regime the metapage generally stayed in cache anyway), but it does provide a useful decrease in bufmgr traffic in high-contention scenarios. Per my recent proposal.
* Back out RESET CONNECTION until there is more discussion.Bruce Momjian2006-04-25
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* Add RESET CONNECTION, to reset all aspects of a session.Bruce Momjian2006-04-25
| | | | Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig
* Add statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp(), andBruce Momjian2006-04-25
| | | | | | | | | transaction_timestamp() (just like now()). Also update statement_timeout() to mention it is statement arrival time that is measured. Catalog version updated.
* Improve our private implementation of cbrt() to give results of theTom Lane2006-04-24
| | | | | accuracy expected by the regression tests. Per suggestion from Martijn van Oosterhout.
* Remove compiler warning by casting SNPRINTF() call to void.Bruce Momjian2006-04-24
| | | | Report from Gevik Babakhani.
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