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* Fix some planner bugs exposed by reports from Arjen van der Meijden. TheseTom Lane2006-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | are all in new-in-8.2 logic associated with indexability of ScalarArrayOpExpr (IN-clauses) or amortization of indexscan costs across repeated indexscans on the inside of a nestloop. In particular: Fix some logic errors in the estimation for multiple scans induced by a ScalarArrayOpExpr indexqual. Include a small cost component in bitmap index scans to reflect the costs of manipulating the bitmap itself; this is mainly to prevent a bitmap scan from appearing to have the same cost as a plain indexscan for fetching a single tuple. Also add a per-index-scan-startup CPU cost component; while prior releases were clearly too pessimistic about the cost of repeated indexscans, the original 8.2 coding allowed the cost of an indexscan to effectively go to zero if repeated often enough, which is overly optimistic. Pay some attention to index correlation when estimating costs for a nestloop inner indexscan: this is significant when the plan fetches multiple heap tuples per iteration, since high correlation means those tuples are probably on the same or adjacent heap pages.
* Activate WIN32_STACK_RLIMIT override only on platforms where this isPeter Eisentraut2006-12-14
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* Put back yet another improperly-removed #include, per Mark Kirkwood.Tom Lane2006-12-13
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* Fix planner to do the right thing when a degenerate outer join (one whoseTom Lane2006-12-12
| | | | | | | joinclause doesn't use any outer-side vars) requires a "bushy" plan to be created. The normal heuristic to avoid joins with no joinclause has to be overridden in that case. Problem is new in 8.2; before that we forced the outer join order anyway. Per example from Teodor.
* Add a paramtypmod field to Param nodes. This is dead weight for ParamsTom Lane2006-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | representing externally-supplied values, since the APIs that carry such values only specify type not typmod. However, for PARAM_SUBLINK Params it is handy to carry the typmod of the sublink's output column. This is a much cleaner solution for the recently reported 'could not find pathkey item to sort' and 'failed to find unique expression in subplan tlist' bugs than my original 8.2-compatible patch. Besides, someday we might want to support typmods for external parameters ...
* Remove the logId/logSeg fields from pg_control, because they are not neededTom Lane2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | in normal operation, and we can avoid rewriting pg_control at every log segment switch if we don't insist that these values be valid. Reducing the number of pg_control updates is a good idea for both performance and reliability. It does make pg_resetxlog's life a bit harder, but that seems a good tradeoff; and anyway the change to pg_resetxlog amounts to automating something people formerly needed to do by hand, namely look at the existing pg_xlog files to make sure the new WAL start point was past them. In passing, change the wording of xlog.c's "database system was interrupted" messages: describe the pg_control timestamp as "last known up at" rather than implying it is the exact time of service interruption. With this change the timestamp will generally be the time of the last checkpoint, which could be many minutes before the failure; and we've already seen indications that people tend to misinterpret the old wording. initdb forced due to change in pg_control layout. Simon Riggs and Tom Lane
* Fix the build for when SHOW_MEMORY_STATS is defined. The reference toNeil Conway2006-12-08
| | | | the nonexistent ShowStats variable is simply removed, per Gavin Sherry.
* Avoid double free of _SPI_current->tuptable. AtEOSubXact_SPI() now tries toTom Lane2006-12-08
| | | | | | | release it in a subtransaction abort, but this neglects possibility that someone outside SPI already did. Fix is for spi.c to forget about a tuptable as soon as it's handed it back to the caller. Per bug #2817 from Michael Andreen.
* Repair incorrect placement of WHERE clauses when there are multiple,Tom Lane2006-12-07
| | | | | | | rearrangeable outer joins and the WHERE clause is non-strict and mentions only nullable-side relations. New bug in 8.2, caused by new logic to allow rearranging outer joins. Per bug #2807 from Ross Cohen; thanks to Jeff Davis for producing a usable test case.
* Fix planning of SubLinks to ensure that Vars generated from transformation ofTom Lane2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | a sublink's test expression have the correct vartypmod, rather than defaulting to -1. There's at least one place where this is important because we're expecting these Vars to be exactly equal() to those appearing in the subplan itself. This is a pretty klugy solution --- it would likely be cleaner to change Param nodes to include a typmod field --- but we can't do that in the already-released 8.2 branch. Per bug report from Hubert Fongarnand.
* Add a txn_start column to pg_stat_activity. This makes it easier toNeil Conway2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | identify long-running transactions. Since we already need to record the transaction-start time (e.g. for now()), we don't need any additional system calls to report this information. Catversion bumped, initdb required.
* Various improvements to the GUC description strings. Punctuate andNeil Conway2006-12-06
| | | | | | capitalize the strings like sentences. Remove unnecessarily specific descriptions of the units used by GUC variables, since we now allow any reasonable unit to be specified.
* Patch of Win32 Encoding problem for server messages usingBruce Momjian2006-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FormatMessage() (This should have been in 8.2.0, patched to 8.2.X and HEAD): I think this problem to be complex.... http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg00042.php FormatMessage of windows cannot consider the encoding of the database. However, I should try the solution now. It is necessary to clear the problem. Multi character-code exists together in message and log. It doesn't consider the data base encoding that the user intended.... The user in multi-byte country can try this. http://inet.winpg.jp/~saito/pg_bug/MessageCheck.c That is, it is likely to become it in this manner.(Japanese) http://inet.winpg.jp/~saito/pg_bug/FormatMessage998.png Hiroshi Saito
* Refactor ExecGetJunkAttribute to avoid searching for junk attributesTom Lane2006-12-04
| | | | | | by name on each and every row processed. Profiling suggests this may buy a percent or two for simple UPDATE scenarios, which isn't huge, but when it's so easy to get ...
* Fix LIMIT/OFFSET for null limit values. This worked before 8.2 but was brokenTom Lane2006-12-03
| | | | | | by the change to make limit values int8 instead of int4. (Specifically, you can do DatumGetInt32 safely on a null value, but not DatumGetInt64.) Per bug #2803 from Greg Johnson.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2006-12-02
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* Make the bgwriter's error recovery path do smgrcloseall(). On Windows thisTom Lane2006-12-01
| | | | | | should allow delete-pending files to actually go away, and thereby work around the various complaints we've seen about 'permission denied' errors in such cases. Should be reasonably harmless in any case...
* Minor adjustments to make failures in startup/shutdown behave more cleanly.Tom Lane2006-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | StartupXLOG and ShutdownXLOG no longer need to be critical sections, because in all contexts where they are invoked, elog(ERROR) would be translated to elog(FATAL) anyway. (One change in bgwriter.c is needed to make this true: set ExitOnAnyError before trying to exit. This is a good fix anyway since the existing code would have gone into an infinite loop on elog(ERROR) during shutdown.) That avoids a misleading report of PANIC during semi-orderly failures. Modify the postmaster to include the startup process in the set of processes that get SIGTERM when a fast shutdown is requested, and also fix it to not try to restart the bgwriter if the bgwriter fails while trying to write the shutdown checkpoint. Net result is that "pg_ctl stop -m fast" does something reasonable for a system in warm standby mode, and so should Unix system shutdown (ie, universal SIGTERM). Per gripe from Stephen Harris and some corner-case testing of my own.
* Fix bug with page deletion. If inner page is removed and it tries toTeodor Sigaev2006-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | remove page on next level linked from next inner page, ginScanToDelete() wrongly sets parent page. Bug reveals when many item pointers from index was deleted ( several hundred thousands). Bug is discovered by hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@gmail.com> Suppose, we need rc2 before release...
* Spelling fixPeter Eisentraut2006-11-29
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* Fix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent doesPeter Eisentraut2006-11-28
| | | | not destroy them. Maybe we can adjust pgindent sometime.
* Add workaround for localizing May and abbreviated May differently. IdeaPeter Eisentraut2006-11-28
| | | | of Dennis Björklund.
* Fix gratuitous message spelling differencesPeter Eisentraut2006-11-27
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* Revert (too late in beta):Bruce Momjian2006-11-24
| | | | | | Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES. Euler Taveira de Oliveira
* Change pg_stat_all_tables and sister views to put the recently-addedTom Lane2006-11-24
| | | | | | | | | vacuum/analyze timestamp columns at the end, rather than at a random spot in the middle as in the original patch. This was deemed more usable as well as less likely to break existing application code. initdb forced accordingly. In passing, remove former kluge for initializing pg_stat_file()'s pg_proc entry --- bootstrap mode was fixed recently so that this can be done without any hacks, but I overlooked this usage.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2006-11-24
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* Fix to_char() locale handling to honor LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.Bruce Momjian2006-11-24
| | | | Euler Taveira de Oliveira
* KB -> kBPeter Eisentraut2006-11-24
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* Add a comment noting that heap_copytuple_with_tuple() results in aNeil Conway2006-11-23
| | | | | | HeapTuple that is no longer allocated as a single palloc() block; if used carelessly, this might result in a subsequent memory leak after heap_freetuple().
* Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory duringTom Lane2006-11-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AbortTransaction, which would lead to recursion and eventual PANIC exit as illustrated in recent report from Jeff Davis. First, in xact.c create a special dedicated memory context for AbortTransaction to run in. This solves the problem as long as AbortTransaction doesn't need more than 32K (or whatever other size we create the context with). But in corner cases it might. Second, in trigger.c arrange to keep pending after-trigger event records in separate contexts that can be freed near the beginning of AbortTransaction, rather than having them persist until CleanupTransaction as before. Third, in portalmem.c arrange to free executor state data earlier as well. These two changes should result in backing off the out-of-memory condition before AbortTransaction needs any significant amount of memory, at least in typical cases such as memory overrun due to too many trigger events or too big an executor hash table. And all the same for subtransaction abort too, of course.
* Prevent intratransaction memory leak when a subtransaction is abortedTom Lane2006-11-21
| | | | | | in the middle of executing a SPI query. This doesn't entirely fix the problem of memory leakage in plpgsql exception handling, but it should get rid of the lion's share of leakage.
* Suppress timezone (%Z) part of timestamp display when running on Windows,Tom Lane2006-11-21
| | | | | | | | | because on that platform strftime produces localized zone names in varying encodings. Even though it's only in a comment, this can cause encoding errors when reloading the dump script. Per suggestion from Andreas Seltenreich. Also, suppress %Z on Windows in the %s escape of log_line_prefix ... not sure why this one is different from the other two, but it shouldn't be.
* On systems that have setsid(2) (which should be just about everything exceptTom Lane2006-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows), arrange for each postmaster child process to be its own process group leader, and deliver signals SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to the whole process group not only the direct child process. This provides saner behavior for archive and recovery scripts; in particular, it's possible to shut down a warm-standby recovery server using "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", since delivery of SIGQUIT to the startup subprocess will result in killing the waiting recovery_command. Also, this makes Query Cancel and statement_timeout apply to scripts being run from backends via system(). (There is no support in the core backend for that, but it's widely done using untrusted PLs.) Per gripe from Stephen Harris and subsequent discussion.
* Change the default setting for log_min_error_statement to ERROR. PerTom Lane2006-11-21
| | | | | recent discussion in which majority opinion was that this is a more widely useful setting than the previous default of PANIC.
* Adjust elog.c so that elog(FATAL) exits (including cases where ERROR isTom Lane2006-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | promoted to FATAL) end in exit(1) not exit(0). Then change the postmaster to allow exit(1) without a system-wide panic, but not for the startup subprocess or the bgwriter. There were a couple of places that were using exit(1) to deliberately force a system-wide panic; adjust these to be exit(2) instead. This fixes the problem noted back in July that if the startup process exits with elog(ERROR), the postmaster would think everything is hunky-dory and proceed to start up. Alternative solutions such as trying to run the entire startup process as a critical section seem less clean, primarily because of the fact that a fair amount of startup code is shared by all postmaster children in the EXEC_BACKEND case. We'd need an ugly special case somewhere near the head of main.c to make it work if it's the child process's responsibility to determine what happens; and what's the point when the postmaster already treats different children differently?
* When truncating a relation in-place (eg during VACUUM), do not try to unlinkTom Lane2006-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | any no-longer-needed segments; just truncate them to zero bytes and leave the files in place for possible future re-use. This avoids problems when the segments are re-used due to relation growth shortly after truncation. Before, the bgwriter, and possibly other backends, could still be holding open file references to the old segment files, and would write dirty blocks into those files where they'd disappear from the view of other processes. Back-patch as far as 8.0. I believe the 7.x branches are not vulnerable, because they had no bgwriter, and "blind" writes by other backends would always be done via freshly-opened file references.
* Repair problems with hash indexes that span multiple segments: the hash code'sTom Lane2006-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737. The fix is to ensure that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch of pages when creating a new splitpoint. The patch is a bit ugly because it avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a backpatchable beta-period fix. After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread(). Backpatch as far as 7.4. The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch doesn't even begin to apply. Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.
* Repair two related errors in heap_lock_tuple: it was failing to recognizeTom Lane2006-11-17
| | | | | | | | | cases where we already hold the desired lock "indirectly", either via membership in a MultiXact or because the lock was originally taken by a different subtransaction of the current transaction. These cases must be accounted for to avoid needless deadlocks and/or inappropriate replacement of an exclusive lock with a shared lock. Per report from Clarence Gardner and subsequent investigation.
* Small message equalization fixPeter Eisentraut2006-11-17
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* Message fixPeter Eisentraut2006-11-16
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* String fixPeter Eisentraut2006-11-16
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* Fix some typos in comments.Neil Conway2006-11-12
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* Suppress a few 'uninitialized variable' warnings that gcc emits only atTom Lane2006-11-11
| | | | | -O3 or higher (presumably because it inlines more things). Per gripe from Mark Mielke.
* Fix pg_get_serial_sequence(), which could incorrectly return the nameTom Lane2006-11-10
| | | | | | of an index on a serial column, rather than the name of the associated sequence. Fallout from recent changes in dependency setup for serials. Per bug #2732 from Basil Evseenko.
* Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon.Tom Lane2006-11-10
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* Fix errors in key_column_usage.position_in_unique_constraint column recentlyTom Lane2006-11-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | added to information_schema (per a SQL2003 addition). The original coding failed if a referenced column participated in more than one pg_constraint entry. Also, it did not work if an FK relied directly on a unique index without any constraint syntactic sugar --- this case is outside the SQL spec, but PG has always supported it, so it's reasonable for our information_schema to handle it too. Per bug#2750 from Stephen Haberman. Although this patch changes the initial catalog contents, I didn't force initdb. Any beta3 testers who need the fix can install it via CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW, so forcing them to initdb seems an unnecessary imposition.
* Fix set_joinrel_size_estimates() to estimate outer-join sizes moreTom Lane2006-11-10
| | | | | | | accurately: we have to distinguish the effects of the join's own ON clauses from the effects of pushed-down clauses. Failing to do so was a quick hack long ago, but it's time to be smarter. Per example from Thomas H.
* Change Windows rename and unlink substitutes so that they time out afterTom Lane2006-11-08
| | | | | | | | 30 seconds instead of retrying forever. Also modify xlog.c so that if it fails to rename an old xlog segment up to a future slot, it will unlink the segment instead. Per discussion of bug #2712, in which it became apparent that Windows can handle unlinking a file that's being held open, but not renaming it.
* Modify aset.c to track the next intended block allocation size explicitly.Tom Lane2006-11-08
| | | | | | | | The former coding relied on the actual allocated size of the last block, which made it behave strangely if the first allocation in a context was larger than ALLOC_CHUNK_LIMIT: subsequent allocations would be referenced to that and not to the intended series of block sizes. Noted while studying a memory wastage gripe from Tatsuo.
* Tweak accumArrayResult() to double the size of its working arrays whenTom Lane2006-11-08
| | | | | | more space is needed, instead of incrementing by a fixed amount; the old method wastes lots of space and time when the ultimate size is large. Per gripe from Tatsuo.