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| committer | David Fetter | 2011-02-28 07:41:58 +0000 |
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PostgreSQL Weekly News February 27, 2011
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Spanish language +to pwn@arpug.com.ar. +</p> + +<h2>Reviews</h2> +<h2>Applied Patches</h2> +<p> +Bruce Momjian pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Clarify documentation for libpq's PQescapeBytea to mention the new + hex format. Modify PQescapeStringConn() docs to be consisent with + other escaping functions. Add mention problems with pre-9.0 + versions of libpq using not understanding bytea hex format to the + 9.0 release notes. Backpatch to 9.0 docs. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5569ae52ae206b3e35411df435884cf848ae0494">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5569ae52ae206b3e35411df435884cf848ae0494</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Adjust pg_upgrade error message, array freeing, and add error check. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fe8f15d5d2f42ad1ce6a0114c12fd3da0f14dd4a">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fe8f15d5d2f42ad1ce6a0114c12fd3da0f14dd4a</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix bug in 9.1 pg_upgrade processing of old/new relations; adjust + debug output. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1cc19cc358c23e3c4e04f9f38776b625d5e13965">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1cc19cc358c23e3c4e04f9f38776b625d5e13965</a> +</p> + +<p> +- In pg_upgrade, no need to initialize global struct values; they are + always zeros. Also no need to free memory before we exit. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/497e65f822ff33ed964d1c891ee6de0d97d0b2a6">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/497e65f822ff33ed964d1c891ee6de0d97d0b2a6</a> +</p> + +<p> +- In documentation example, use concat_values() instead of concat() + because concat() is a built-in function. Erik Rijkers + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/732808c087a84feed4749ab1e8a63ceeefcf449f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/732808c087a84feed4749ab1e8a63ceeefcf449f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Document that plpgsql upsert example can fail if insert triggers + return unique exception, or if not used in read committed + transaction mode. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f87712d208f7dbe447cd27e92a99f49fd19afe94">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f87712d208f7dbe447cd27e92a99f49fd19afe94</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Remove doc mention about read committed in upsert example. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3472a2b0565ad0302e5ea47e49a95305c2b07f64">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3472a2b0565ad0302e5ea47e49a95305c2b07f64</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Typo fix. Erik Rijkers + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4f2cfc5bb4c404c24d589339d29c210321f4b4d7">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4f2cfc5bb4c404c24d589339d29c210321f4b4d7</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Document that text search comparisons happen after text search + configuration rules. Erik Rijkers + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5bba4948eb835413cc4a5ca1e2f7255ce4c78e69">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5bba4948eb835413cc4a5ca1e2f7255ce4c78e69</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Improve text search prefix doc addition. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4077980d67a2f27b88a6bc7531da31cae0ed0fb1">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4077980d67a2f27b88a6bc7531da31cae0ed0fb1</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Initialize variable to quiet compiler. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/964b46d00ec2222c1273bec3ead369f3e167d482">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/964b46d00ec2222c1273bec3ead369f3e167d482</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Document that an SQL-standard-compliant query that expects a unique + row from information_schema.referential_constraints might return + several in Postgres because we allow duplicate-named constraints in + the same schema. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e07ae21f7ec2260c17136a7afaa4dbca405d9c24">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e07ae21f7ec2260c17136a7afaa4dbca405d9c24</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Documentation update for UTF16 surrogate pairs in UTF8 encoding. + Marko Kreen + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8c0f1e2762a896e3af890b14babd3409fa49e641">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8c0f1e2762a896e3af890b14babd3409fa49e641</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Adjust documentation wording of window function ORDER BY to not + mention avg() because it was inaccurate. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d5813488a4ccc78ec3a4ad0d5da4e6e844af75e8">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d5813488a4ccc78ec3a4ad0d5da4e6e844af75e8</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Merge two documentation permission chapters into a single chapter. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/48d25bac9f024f36b43cbba58778adf9ad0207c6">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/48d25bac9f024f36b43cbba58778adf9ad0207c6</a> +</p> + +<p> +Tom Lane pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Change the naming convention for extension files to use double + dashes. This allows us to have an unambiguous rule for + deconstructing the names of script files and secondary control + files, without having to forbid extension and version names from + containing any dashes. We do have to forbid them from containing + double dashes or leading/trailing dashes, but neither restriction is + likely to bother anyone in practice. Per discussion, this seems + like a better solution overall than the original design. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/27d5d7ab10086d833e3df251951cf63c392b8bca">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/27d5d7ab10086d833e3df251951cf63c392b8bca</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Convert contrib modules to use the extension facility. This isn't + fully tested as yet, in particular I'm not sure that the + "foo--unpackaged--1.0.sql" scripts are OK. But it's time to get + some buildfarm cycles on it. sepgsql is not converted to an + extension, mainly because it seems to require a very nonstandard + installation process. Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/629b3af27d5c2bc9d6e16b22b943ad651d4ecb56">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/629b3af27d5c2bc9d6e16b22b943ad651d4ecb56</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Avoid use of CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION in extension installation + files. It was never terribly consistent to use OR REPLACE (because + of the lack of comparable functionality for data types, operators, + etc), and experimentation shows that it's now positively pernicious + in the extension world. We really want a failure to occur if there + are any conflicts, else it's unclear what the extension-ownership + state of the conflicted object ought to be. Most of the time, + CREATE EXTENSION will fail anyway because of conflicts on other + object types, but an extension defining only functions can succeed, + with bad results. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/029fac2264101919b65fb6319bb994f941969471">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/029fac2264101919b65fb6319bb994f941969471</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Assorted fixups for "unpackaged" conversion scripts. From first + pass of testing. Notably, there seems to be no need for + adminpack--unpackaged--1.0.sql because none of the objects that the + old module creates would ever be dumped by pg_dump anyway (they are + all in pg_catalog). + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3b61e57f3c352ab97c6514898d46480b5725ebb9">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3b61e57f3c352ab97c6514898d46480b5725ebb9</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Support replacing MODULE_PATHNAME during extension script file + execution. This avoids the need to find a way to make PGXS' + .sql.in-to-.sql rule insert the right thing. We'll just deprecate + use of that hack for extensions. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e693e97d754ed6812ea115170afeae4bf8797d3f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e693e97d754ed6812ea115170afeae4bf8797d3f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- More fixups for "unpackaged" conversion scripts. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/de06cfe834dfff283deddfe1eb2945ba8a4fde2a">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/de06cfe834dfff283deddfe1eb2945ba8a4fde2a</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Remove no-longer-needed special case hacks in MSVC build scripts. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2ee69ff65de6e8626784d4a263953158ef480ab4">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2ee69ff65de6e8626784d4a263953158ef480ab4</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix obsolete references to old-style contrib installation methods. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f1fb4b0e63a677cdc86de667c75142b88a4edb65">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f1fb4b0e63a677cdc86de667c75142b88a4edb65</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Small improvements to external-projects documentation. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cee103da14f470d29c47827b810da44cdab2a0d2">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/cee103da14f470d29c47827b810da44cdab2a0d2</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Rearrange extension-related views as per recent discussion. The + original design of pg_available_extensions did not consider the + possibility of version-specific control files. Split it into two + views: pg_available_extensions shows information that is generic + about an extension, while pg_available_extension_versions shows all + available versions together with information that could be + version-dependent. Also, add an SRF pg_extension_update_paths() to + assist in checking that a collection of update scripts provide sane + update path sequences. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/555353c0c59ada35ae59c8a76186e98d123fa8b3">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/555353c0c59ada35ae59c8a76186e98d123fa8b3</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix MSVC build scripts for recent extension-related changes. + Untested, but we'll soon see if the buildfarm likes this. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/01ff8dd7560f2647dccc3d70f713dd6b27bf843e">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/01ff8dd7560f2647dccc3d70f713dd6b27bf843e</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Rethink naming of contrib/intagg extension. Initially it was called + int_aggregate after the old SQL file, but since the documentation + just says "intagg" and that's also the directory name, let's conform + to that instead. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/74883d33730ecb69e6f4142deb8c5882af127b32">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/74883d33730ecb69e6f4142deb8c5882af127b32</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix obsolete comment. Comment about MaxAllocSize was not updated + when the TOAST-header macros were replaced in 8.3 "varvarlena" + changes. Per report from Frederik Ramm. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/887dd041a65006deeaf514f78e4a5012dc6f7f7c">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/887dd041a65006deeaf514f78e4a5012dc6f7f7c</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Bring hstore's comment into line with style of other contrib + comments. All the other ones that are primarily a new datatype say + "data type for <purpose>", so make this one similar. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f5fc1de501d03f6399670dd16989c5925b9191d2">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f5fc1de501d03f6399670dd16989c5925b9191d2</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add CheckTableNotInUse calls in DROP TABLE and DROP INDEX. Recent + releases had a check on rel->rd_refcnt in heap_drop_with_catalog, + but failed to cover the possibility of pending trigger events at + DROP time. (Before 8.4 we didn't even check the refcnt.) When the + trigger events were eventually fired, you'd get "could not open + relation with OID nnn" errors, as in recent report from strk. + Better to throw a suitable error when the DROP is attempted. Also + add a similar check in DROP INDEX. Back-patch to all supported + branches. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/eff027c43288d15307676b1bd4736ab11f34c407">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/eff027c43288d15307676b1bd4736ab11f34c407</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix corner case for binary upgrade: extension functions in + pg_catalog. Normally, pg_dump summarily excludes functions in + pg_catalog from consideration. However, some extensions may create + functions in pg_catalog (adminpack already does that, and extensions + for procedural languages will likely do it too). In binary-upgrade + mode, we have to dump such functions, or the extension will be + incomplete after upgrading. Per experimentation with adminpack. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/89c29c033154b717b16db2ee3c87bdec4393b0d4">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/89c29c033154b717b16db2ee3c87bdec4393b0d4</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add FOREACH IN ARRAY looping to plpgsql. (I'm not entirely sure + that we've finished bikeshedding the syntax details, but the + functionality seems OK.) Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Stephen Frost + and Tom Lane. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6e02755b22ea62775c906d29b87b55b38ab70bd2">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6e02755b22ea62775c906d29b87b55b38ab70bd2</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Make a no-op ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE give just a NOTICE, not ERROR. + This seems a bit more user-friendly. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/65076269ea54a8cd6e39f066a208c7d13aceac0a">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/65076269ea54a8cd6e39f066a208c7d13aceac0a</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add backwards-compatible declarations of some core GIN support + functions. These are needed to support reloading dumps of 9.0 + installations containing contrib/intarray or contrib/tsearch2. + Since not only regular dump/reload but binary upgrade would fail, it + seems worth the trouble to carry these stubs for awhile. Note that + the contrib opclasses referencing these functions will still work + fine, since GIN doesn't actually pay any attention to the declared + signature of a support function. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6595dd04d136d5c97ae05fc580572c8f00042143">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6595dd04d136d5c97ae05fc580572c8f00042143</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix bogus test for hypothetical indexes in + get_actual_variable_range(). That function was supposing that + indexoid == 0 for a hypothetical index, but that is not likely to be + true in any non-toy implementation of an index adviser, since + assigning a fake OID is the only way to know at EXPLAIN time which + hypothetical index got selected. Fix by adding a flag to + IndexOptInfo to mark hypothetical indexes. Back-patch to 9.0 where + get_actual_variable_range() was added. Gurjeet Singh + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a2095f7fb5a57ea1794f25d029756d9a140fd429">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a2095f7fb5a57ea1794f25d029756d9a140fd429</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix blatantly uninitialized variable in recent commit. Doesn't + anybody around here pay attention to compiler warnings? + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/93016983d1e8f3aeb508f1be8daf5ca5de5c5b61">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/93016983d1e8f3aeb508f1be8daf5ca5de5c5b61</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix contrib/pg_trgm to have smoother updates from 9.0. Take care of + some loose ends in the update-from-unpackaged script, and apply some + ugly hacks to ensure that it produces the same catalog state as the + fresh-install script. Per discussion, this seems like a safer plan + than having two different catalog states that both call themselves + "pg_trgm 1.0", even if it's not immediately clear that the subtle + differences would ever matter. Also, fix the stub function + gin_extract_trgm() so that it works instead of just bleating. + Needed because this function will get called during a regular dump + and reload, if there are any indexes using its opclass. The user + won't have an opportunity to update the extension till later, so + telling him to do so is unhelpful. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4eb49db7ae634fab9af7437b2e7b6388dfd83bd3">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4eb49db7ae634fab9af7437b2e7b6388dfd83bd3</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix upgrade of contrib/btree_gist from 9.0. The initial version of + the update-from-unpackaged script neglected to include the <> + operators that were added to the opclasses during 9.1. To make this + script produce the same final state as the regular install script, + use the same ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY trick as in pg_trgm. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ec65a79db2a423a156cda8e862d34052d7175a86">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ec65a79db2a423a156cda8e862d34052d7175a86</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix upgrade of contrib/intarray and contrib/unaccent from 9.0. Take + care of a couple of discrepancies between what you get from a fresh + install and what the first-draft update-from-unpackaged scripts + produced. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0024e348989254d48dc4afe9beab98a6994a791e">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0024e348989254d48dc4afe9beab98a6994a791e</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix upgrade of contrib/xml2 from 9.0. Update script was being + sloppy about two functions that have been changed since 9.0. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/de623f33353c96657651f9c3a6c8756616c610e4">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/de623f33353c96657651f9c3a6c8756616c610e4</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix tsmatchsel() to account properly for null rows. ts_typanalyze.c + computes MCE statistics as fractions of the non-null rows, which + seems fairly reasonable, and anyway changing it in released versions + wouldn't be a good idea. But then ts_selfuncs.c has to account for + that. Failure to do so results in overestimates in columns with a + significant fraction of null documents. Back-patch to 8.4 where + this stuff was introduced. Jesper Krogh + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/52b60530f257b1591d8b72264cd6c0dd9aabfd46">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/52b60530f257b1591d8b72264cd6c0dd9aabfd46</a> +</p> + +<p> +- One more hack to make contrib upgrades from 9.0 match fresh 9.1 + installs. intarray and tsearch2 both reference core support + functions in their GIN opclasses, and the signatures of those + functions changed for 9.1. We added backwards-compatible pg_proc + entries for the functions in order to allow 9.0 dump files to be + restored at all, but that hack leaves the opclasses pointing at + pg_proc entries different from what they'd point to if the contrib + modules were installed fresh in 9.1. To forestall any possibility + of future problems, fix the opclasses to match fresh installs via + the expedient of direct UPDATEs on pg_amproc in the + update-from-unpackaged scripts. (Yech ... but the alternatives are + worse, or require far more effort than seems justified right now.) + Note: updating pg_amproc is sufficient because there will be no + pg_depend entries corresponding to these dependencies, since the + referenced functions are all pinned. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/472f608e436a41865b795c999bda3369725fa097">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/472f608e436a41865b795c999bda3369725fa097</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix parallel pg_restore to handle comments on POST_DATA items + correctly. The previous coding would try to process all + SECTION_NONE items in the initial sequential-restore pass, which + failed if they were dependencies of not-yet-restored items. Fix by + postponing such items into the parallel processing pass once we have + skipped any non-PRE_DATA item. Back-patch into 9.0; the original + parallel-restore coding in 8.4 did not have this bug, so no need to + change it. Report and diagnosis by Arnd Hannemann. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4cff100d7378b65ded116c5a9960584c351e5fa9">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4cff100d7378b65ded116c5a9960584c351e5fa9</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Un-break building with BTREE_BUILD_STATS. This has been broken for + awhile, but not clear it's worth back-patching. Euler Taveira de + Oliveira + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/82220e883236c214d670c3f14d943690aa78bc17">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/82220e883236c214d670c3f14d943690aa78bc17</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Create the catalog infrastructure for foreign-data-wrapper handlers. + Add a fdwhandler column to pg_foreign_data_wrapper, plus HANDLER + options in the CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and ALTER FOREIGN DATA + WRAPPER commands, plus pg_dump support for same. Also invent a new + pseudotype fdw_handler with properties similar to language_handler. + This is split out of the "FDW API" patch for ease of review; it's + all stuff we will certainly need, regardless of any other details of + the FDW API. FDW handler functions will not actually get called + yet. In passing, fix some omissions and infelicities in + foreigncmds.c. Shigeru Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/327e0250716f12fe94b62669d25e572b40a8fba5">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/327e0250716f12fe94b62669d25e572b40a8fba5</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Implement an API to let foreign-data wrappers actually be + functional. This commit provides the core code and documentation + needed. A contrib module test case will follow shortly. Shigeru + Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bb742407947ad1cbf19355d24282380d576e7654">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bb742407947ad1cbf19355d24282380d576e7654</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files via + COPY. This is both very useful in its own right, and an important + test case for the core FDW support. This commit includes a small + refactoring of copy.c to expose its option checking code as a + separately callable function. The original patch submission + duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty + unmaintainable. Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and + Tom Lane + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7c5d0ae7078456bfeedb2103c45b9a32285c2631">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7c5d0ae7078456bfeedb2103c45b9a32285c2631</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Minor logic fix for new levenshtein implementation. Alexander + Korotkov + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/087bd179e63f199105dabc8be0c8aebd087a178e">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/087bd179e63f199105dabc8be0c8aebd087a178e</a> +</p> + +<p> +Simon Riggs pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Add version-sensitive SQL for psql when constraints NOT VALID. Bug + report and fix by Andres Freund. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f0b8a79c4bea7bfa89245ee03abf994b027da411">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f0b8a79c4bea7bfa89245ee03abf994b027da411</a> +</p> + +<p> +- PITR can stop at a named restore point when recovery target = time + though must not update the last transaction timestamp. Plus comment + and message cleanup for recent named restore point. Fujii Masao, + minor changes by me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5c588be729399af5cb8ec66901e3b578936823a3">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5c588be729399af5cb8ec66901e3b578936823a3</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Additional required docs for pg_constraint catalog entry. Noted by + Bernd Helmle + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0ff1b7350984b9e4055e9d3a37d3b875c0663ac4">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0ff1b7350984b9e4055e9d3a37d3b875c0663ac4</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Hot Standby feedback for avoidance of cleanup conflicts on standby. + Standby optionally sends back information about oldestXmin of + queries which is then checked and applied to the WALSender's + proc->xmin. GetOldestXmin() is modified slightly to agree with + GetSnapshotData(), so that all backends on primary include WALSender + within their snapshots. Note this does nothing to change the + snapshot xmin on either master or standby. Feedback piggybacks on + the standby reply message. vacuum_defer_cleanup_age is no longer + used on standby, though parameter still exists on primary, since + some use cases still exist. Simon Riggs, review comments from Fujii + Masao, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bca8b7f16a3e720794cb0afbdb3733be4f8d9c2c">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bca8b7f16a3e720794cb0afbdb3733be4f8d9c2c</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Separate messages for standby replies and hot standby feedback. + Allow messages to be sent at different times, and greatly reduce the + frequency of hot standby feedback. Refactor to allow additional + message types. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/06828c5febf3a8f9e94bce5bd84634ce990d299f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/06828c5febf3a8f9e94bce5bd84634ce990d299f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Make a hard state change from catchup to streaming mode. More + useful state change for monitoring purposes, plus a required change + for synchronous replication patch. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bc76695c4c44e21aed94ee2bea81c4cdcedf1390">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bc76695c4c44e21aed94ee2bea81c4cdcedf1390</a> +</p> + +<p> +Robert Haas pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Delete stray word from comment. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8e1124eeeb128ef87045debfeb8f24cd6dbab874">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8e1124eeeb128ef87045debfeb8f24cd6dbab874</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Avoid a few more SET DATA TYPE table rewrites. When the new type is + an unconstrained domain over the old type, we don't need to rewrite + the table. Noah Misch and Robert Haas + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0d90dc16f87bd991d7eb9f536ca46acef7586d95">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0d90dc16f87bd991d7eb9f536ca46acef7586d95</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Rename max_predicate_locks_per_transaction. The new name, + max_pred_locks_per_transaction, is shorter. Kevin Grittner, per + discussion. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6a77e9385eb46829ce80971bc655df9f3ef00d9a">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6a77e9385eb46829ce80971bc655df9f3ef00d9a</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Assorted corrections to the patch to add WAL receiver replies. Per + reports from Fujii Masao. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/883a9659faf6e49e314b264ca32ed7645068a409">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/883a9659faf6e49e314b264ca32ed7645068a409</a> +</p> + +<p> +- pg_ctl promote. Fujii Masao, reviewed by Robert Haas, Stephen + Frost, and Magnus Hagander. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4695da5ae97bbb58d274887fd68edbe88d03ebcb">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4695da5ae97bbb58d274887fd68edbe88d03ebcb</a> +</p> + +<p> +- WAL receiver shouldn't try to send a reply when dying. Per report + from, and discussion with, Fujii Masao. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3a087369c0ea858e56c8af5072de91778a644383">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3a087369c0ea858e56c8af5072de91778a644383</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Remove rule to build sepgsql-regtest.pp. Instead, document how to + build it manually. Per discussion. KaiGai Kohei, with some + wordsmithing by me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/24bc6b3db3579f4c480c6d0f81f7e50f1e6c0180">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/24bc6b3db3579f4c480c6d0f81f7e50f1e6c0180</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Typo fixes. Thom Brown + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9408783aefee9d58dd9daf53c8d6b24ab226f05b">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9408783aefee9d58dd9daf53c8d6b24ab226f05b</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add some words of caution to elog.c. Stephen Frost, somewhat + rewritten by me + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f196738534baa95badd9d8f1debb5822240ebc6b">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f196738534baa95badd9d8f1debb5822240ebc6b</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add client_hostname field to pg_stat_activity. Peter Eisentraut, + reviewed by Steve Singer, Alvaro Herrera, and me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4a25bc145ad5d05da6f01c00bae0f576e9e17115">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4a25bc145ad5d05da6f01c00bae0f576e9e17115</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Prevent possible compiler warnings. Simon Riggs reports that + rnode.dbNode and rnode.spcNode were generating unused variable + warnings on gcc 4.4.3 with CFLAGS=-O1 + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a3e8486dffc413506b14eae9dc5d423f6ae8324a">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a3e8486dffc413506b14eae9dc5d423f6ae8324a</a> +</p> + +<p> +Peter Eisentraut pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Allow make check in PL directories. Also add make check-world + target, and refactor pg_regress invocation code in makefiles a bit. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2fd77060a2db814146cf1f6cf77755a4b4fd9a80">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2fd77060a2db814146cf1f6cf77755a4b4fd9a80</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Better support for thread-support flag detection with clang. When + testing the stderr produced by various thread-support flags, also + run a compilation in addition to a link, because clang warns on + certain flags when compiling but not when linking. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f0053845326e9eba290c78162ef355558cd2fc46">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f0053845326e9eba290c78162ef355558cd2fc46</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Also process psqlrc when running psql -l. This was previously not + very useful, but with many people customizing the linestyle, it is + nice for a consistent appearance. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b15fabf997fb3cd5e0680a6ad7576377774aae07">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b15fabf997fb3cd5e0680a6ad7576377774aae07</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix for warnings-free compilation with Python 3.2. The first + argument of PyEval_EvalCode() was changed from PyCodeObject* to + PyObject* because of PEP 384. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/66d6b4cb54eb3b192c8f9087592e53c53c20cf06">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/66d6b4cb54eb3b192c8f9087592e53c53c20cf06</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Set psql client encoding from locale by default. Add a new libpq + connection option client_encoding (which includes the existing + PGCLIENTENCODING environment variable), which besides an encoding + name accepts a special value "auto" that tries to determine the + encoding from the locale in the client's environment, using the + mechanisms that have been in use in initdb. psql sets this new + connection option to "auto" when running from a terminal and not + overridden by setting PGCLIENTENCODING. original code by Heikki + Linnakangas, with subsequent contributions by Jaime Casanova, Peter + Eisentraut, Stephen Frost, Ibrar Ahmed + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/02e14562a806a96f38120c96421d39dfa7394192">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/02e14562a806a96f38120c96421d39dfa7394192</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Invalidate PL/Python functions with composite type argument when the + type changes. The invalidation will cause the type information to + be refetched, and everything will work. Jan Urbański, reviewed by + Alex Hunsaker + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b05186f8a403c7dcd1bd974948273f8c00edb127">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b05186f8a403c7dcd1bd974948273f8c00edb127</a> +</p> + +<p> +Alvaro Herrera pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Make pg_upgrade compile again + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8b2557553c6eeba97d9ebf6f048369cabd25c2b6">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8b2557553c6eeba97d9ebf6f048369cabd25c2b6</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Cleanup ClusterInfo initialization in pg_upgrade + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b4a7e5980b2919d4d2a849d046a8e3a77e06fdb7">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b4a7e5980b2919d4d2a849d046a8e3a77e06fdb7</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Use $INDENT rather than indent throughout the pgindent code. This + allows the user to change the path to be used more easily. Also, + change URL in README. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c4d124365b9b535e8c98e4568ade3e0c15b11810">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c4d124365b9b535e8c98e4568ade3e0c15b11810</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Convert Postgres arrays to Perl arrays on PL/perl input arguments. + More generally, arrays are turned in Perl array references, and row + and composite types are turned into Perl hash references. This is + done recursively, in a way that's natural to every Perl programmer. + To avoid a backwards compatibility hit, the string representation of + each structure is also available if the function requests it. + Authors: Alexey Klyukin and Alex Hunsaker. Some code cleanups by + me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/87bb2ade2ce646083f39d5ab3e3307490211ad04">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/87bb2ade2ce646083f39d5ab3e3307490211ad04</a> +</p> + +<p> +- pgindent run on plperl.c + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f7b51d175a02a3b6589f091ca732959618844232">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f7b51d175a02a3b6589f091ca732959618844232</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Use $INDENT instead of `which` to find the indent binary. Per + discussion after my commit o yesterday. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a5dfc94c9a2e6c0c7e0ed97d22ebff37cf7d9038">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a5dfc94c9a2e6c0c7e0ed97d22ebff37cf7d9038</a> +</p> + +<p> +ITAGAKI Takahiro pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Export the external file reader used in COPY FROM as APIs. They are + expected to be used by extension modules like file_fdw. There are + no user-visible changes. Itagaki Takahiro. Reviewed and tested by + Kevin Grittner and Noah Misch. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8ddc05fb01ee2c423bf5613426726351e860d4b4">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8ddc05fb01ee2c423bf5613426726351e860d4b4</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add transaction-level advisory locks. They share the same locking + namespace with the existing session-level advisory locks, but they + are automatically released at the end of the current transaction and + cannot be released explicitly via unlock functions. Marko Tiikkaja, + reviewed by me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/62c7bd31c8878dd45c9b9b2429ab7a12103f3590">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/62c7bd31c8878dd45c9b9b2429ab7a12103f3590</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix an uninitialized field in DR_copy. Shigeru HANADA + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5c63982af2a5d2da90259e878efb43f16ee13ce3">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5c63982af2a5d2da90259e878efb43f16ee13ce3</a> +</p> + +<p> +Magnus Hagander pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Properly initialize variables. Kevin Grittner + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/45a6d79b1764a78301ef008f4561b5e176352331">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/45a6d79b1764a78301ef008f4561b5e176352331</a> +</p> + +<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2> +<p> +No one was disappointed this week :-) +</p> + +<h2>Pending Patches</h2> +<p> +ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the patch to implement +MULTISET. +</p> + +<p> +Stephen Frost and Robert Haas traded revisions of the patch to allow +logging the current role. +</p> + +<p> +Marti Raudsepp sent in another revision of the patch which makes it so +a key lock is only acquired for columns that can be referenced. +</p> + +<p> +Heikki Linnakangas sent in another revision of the patch to add a FDW +API for SQL/MED. +</p> + +<p> +Thom Brown sent in a patch to make array_cat consistent with the || +operator for arrays with respect to NULLs. +</p> + +<p> +ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the patch to implement +transaction-scope advisory locks. +</p> + +<p> +Kevin Grittner sent in two revisions of a patch to fix an issue with +uninitialized structures from the SSI patch. +</p> + +<p> +ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the COPY ENCODING patch. +</p> + +<p> +Per feedback from Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs sent in a patch to +add a server_name parameter, plus mechanism to send info from +standby to master. This will help with synchronous replication. +</p> + +<p> +YAMAMOTO Takashi sent in a patch to fix an issue with SSI. +</p> + +<p> +Tom Lane sent in two versions of a patch to fix pg_tgrm's +update-from-unpackaged script. +</p> + +<p> +Mark Kirkwood sent in a WIP patch to allow the backend to constrain +temporary file space. +</p> + +<p> +Tom Lane sent in a WIP patch to update KNN-GiST. +</p> + +<p> +Magnus Hagander sent in another revision of the patch to include +pg_basebackup. +</p> + +<p> +Robert Haas sent in a patch to fix an issue with an assertion failure +on UNLOGGED VIEWs. +</p> + +<p> +Simon Riggs sent in a patch to add server_name for synchronous +replication. +</p> + +<p> +Simon Riggs sent in anothre revision of the patch to allow for +synchronous replication. +</p> + +<p> +Radoslaw Smogura sent in a patch to add void_send and void_receive, +used in COPY ... BINARY. + +</p> + diff --git a/portal/template/en/community/weeklynews/pwn20110227.html b/portal/template/en/community/weeklynews/pwn20110227.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2d75d125 --- /dev/null +++ b/portal/template/en/community/weeklynews/pwn20110227.html @@ -0,0 +1,449 @@ +<!-- BEGIN page_title_block --> +Weekly News - February 27 2011 +<!-- END page_title_block --> + +<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - February 27 2011</h1> + +<p> +Gabriele Bartolini of ITPUG will present a talk on PostgreSQL 9.0 at Codemotion +in Rome on Saturday, March 5th, 2011 at 4:10PM. More information: +<a href="http://www.codemotion.it/en/">http://www.codemotion.it/en/</a> +</p> + +<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2> +<p> +pgpool-II 3.0.3, a connection pooler and more, released. +<a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/</a> +</p> + +<p> +pgwatch 1.0beta1, a monitoring tool for PostgreSQL, released. +<a href="http://www.cybertec.at/en/pgwatch/">http://www.cybertec.at/en/pgwatch/</a> +</p> + +<p> +psycopg2 2.4, a Python connector for PostgreSQL, released. +<a href="http://initd.org/psycopg/articles/2011/02/27/psycopg-24-released/">http://initd.org/psycopg/articles/2011/02/27/psycopg-24-released/</a> +</p> + +<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for February</h2> +<p> +<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2011-02/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2011-02/threads.php</a> +</p> + +<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2> +<p> +PostgreSQL Conference East 2011: NYC March 22nd - 25th +<a href="http://www.postgresqlconference.org">http://www.postgresqlconference.org</a> +</p> + +<p> +Open Database Camp will be on May 7-9, 2011 in Sardinia, Italy +<a href="http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-open-database-camp-sardinia.html">http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-open-database-camp-sardinia.html</a> +</p> + +<p> +PGCon will be May 19-20, 2011 at the University of Ottawa, preceded by +two days of tutorials on May 17-18. +<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2011/">http://www.pgcon.org/2011/</a> +</p> + +<h2>PostgreSQL in the News</h2> +<p> +Planet PostgreSQL: <a href="http://planet.postgresql.org/">http://planet.postgresql.org/</a> +</p> + +<p> +PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter +</p> + +<p> +Submit news and announcements by Sunday at 3:00pm Pacific time. +Please send English language ones to david@fetter.org, German language +to pwn@pgug.de, Italian language to pwn@itpug.org. Spanish language +to pwn@arpug.com.ar. +</p> + +<h2>Reviews</h2> +<h2>Applied Patches</h2> +<p> +ITAGAKI Takahiro pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM and file_fdw. File encodings + can be specified separately from client encoding. If not specified, + client encoding is used for backward compatibility. Cases when the + encoding doesn't match client encoding are slower than matched cases + because we don't have conversion procs for other encodings. + Performance improvement would be be a future work. Original patch + by Hitoshi Harada, and modified by me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3cba8240a195c4f323e3f934bfeab308434a9973">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3cba8240a195c4f323e3f934bfeab308434a9973</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix pg_server_to_client, that was broken in the previous commit. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ca9cf85d54ec08f37edb37341ad8ee1f20211458">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ca9cf85d54ec08f37edb37341ad8ee1f20211458</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Make the second words lowercase in psql's \d titles for unlogged + tables. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5a922f13eff66b3e437e823419d48d509d59a6be">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5a922f13eff66b3e437e823419d48d509d59a6be</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add tab-completion for CREATE UNLOGGED TABLE in psql, and fix + unexpected completion for DROP TEMP and UNIQUE. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4191e16cbeafb9184dff37c3cbfe94b11a29d5f4">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4191e16cbeafb9184dff37c3cbfe94b11a29d5f4</a> +</p> + +<p> +- More psql tab-completion for new commands: ALTER FOREIGN DATA + WRAPPER with HANDLER, ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT, ALTER TYPE + ADD VALUE, COPY with ENCODING and FORCE NOT NULL, CREATE FOREIGN + DATA WRAPPER with HANDLER, CREATE TRIGGER ... INSTEAD OF + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6079375431d5e55f2456b47521bb16e6e263d8a6">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6079375431d5e55f2456b47521bb16e6e263d8a6</a> +</p> + +<p> +Bruce Momjian pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Update docs about new role privileges reference, per Alvaro Herrera. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ede45e90dd1992bfd3e1e61ce87bad494b81f54d">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ede45e90dd1992bfd3e1e61ce87bad494b81f54d</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Move information_schema duplicate constraint note to the top of the + information schema documentation because it affects several tables. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fee7802770669398359c369aee83277dcc58edd1">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/fee7802770669398359c369aee83277dcc58edd1</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Reword information_schema duplicate constraint warning text. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/edb382179d49105a236b54678a5a4020276df071">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/edb382179d49105a236b54678a5a4020276df071</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Update wording about information schema and name which views + potentially can have duplicates, per request from Tom Lane. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2c72d7042bc09bd8a1f2dc8ab288fec449760ba8">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2c72d7042bc09bd8a1f2dc8ab288fec449760ba8</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Document pg_options_to_table() (not previously documented) + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/772dcfe7c0b3c678c8aef11de2bf8a52150a56f1">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/772dcfe7c0b3c678c8aef11de2bf8a52150a56f1</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix doc patch --- pg_options_to_table() returns "setof record". + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/86434afb11093ba4e2893b717858d8ce790f3e2e">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/86434afb11093ba4e2893b717858d8ce790f3e2e</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Document that pg_options_to_table() also works for + pg_attribute.attoptions. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/58838a7a52a913c66084158f98f1f62349ee6335">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/58838a7a52a913c66084158f98f1f62349ee6335</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix markup for pg_options_to_table() to report the return column + names, per suggestion from Andrew Dunstan. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/721ea41f1413bee70839c957a08eca62799e274f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/721ea41f1413bee70839c957a08eca62799e274f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Be less detailed about reporting shared memory failure by avoiding + the output of actual Postgres parameter _values_ related to shared + memory, and suggesting that these are only possible parameters to + reduce. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/67a5e727c8655496013b007d2fb6137fcc244b18">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/67a5e727c8655496013b007d2fb6137fcc244b18</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Document that last vacuum statistics and counts are for non-FULL + vacuums. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c11f1f714b6983e011cc4639cf669151d587e8c2">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c11f1f714b6983e011cc4639cf669151d587e8c2</a> +</p> + +<p> +Tom Lane pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Fix dangling-pointer problem in before-row update trigger + processing. ExecUpdate checked for whether ExecBRUpdateTriggers had + returned a new tuple value by seeing if the returned tuple was + pointer-equal to the old one. But the "old one" was in + estate->es_junkFilter's result slot, which would be scribbled on if + we had done an EvalPlanQual update in response to a concurrent + update of the target tuple; therefore we were comparing a dangling + pointer to a live one. Given the right set of circumstances we + could get a false match, resulting in not forcing the tuple to be + stored in the slot we thought it was stored in. In the case + reported by Maxim Boguk in bug #5798, this led to "cannot extract + system attribute from virtual tuple" failures when trying to do + "RETURNING ctid". I believe there is a very-low-probability chance + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries + based on the original rather than the trigger-modified version of + the row. In HEAD, change all of ExecBRInsertTriggers, + ExecIRInsertTriggers, ExecBRUpdateTriggers, and ExecIRUpdateTriggers + so that they continue to have similar APIs. In the back branches I + just changed ExecBRUpdateTriggers, since there is no bug in the + ExecBRInsertTriggers case. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a210be772047575331fb6b0ab7b72043f81452ba">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a210be772047575331fb6b0ab7b72043f81452ba</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Remove ExecRemoveJunk(), which is no longer used anywhere. This was + a leftover from the pre-8.1 design of junkfilters. It doesn't seem + to have any reason to live, since it's merely a combination of two + easy function calls, and not a well-designed combination at that (it + encourages callers to leak the result tuple). + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2e852e541c84af85aa918762fc838fa44a399310">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2e852e541c84af85aa918762fc838fa44a399310</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Allow binary I/O of type "void". void_send is useful for the same + reason that void_out doesn't throw error, namely that someone might + do "select void_returning_func(...)" from a client that prefers to + operate in binary mode. The void_recv function may or may not have + any practical use, but we provide it for symmetry. Radosław Smogura + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1ab9b012bdf1f106792fc523e21b9ca8299bb8ed">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1ab9b012bdf1f106792fc523e21b9ca8299bb8ed</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add a relkind field to RangeTblEntry to avoid some syscache lookups. + The recent additions for FDW support required checking + foreign-table-ness in several places in the parse/plan chain. While + it's not clear whether that would really result in a noticeable + slowdown, it seems best to avoid any performance risk by keeping a + copy of the relation's relkind in RangeTblEntry. That might have + some other uses later, anyway. Per discussion. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bdca82f44d0e0168dece56cbd53b54ba142f328f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bdca82f44d0e0168dece56cbd53b54ba142f328f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH. + This patch implements data-modifying WITH queries according to the + semantics that the updates all happen with the same command counter + value, and in an unspecified order. Therefore one WITH clause can't + see the effects of another, nor can the outer query see the effects + other than through the RETURNING values. And attempts to do + conflicting updates will have unpredictable results. We'll need to + document all that. This commit just fixes the code; documentation + updates are waiting on author. Marko Tiikkaja and Hitoshi Harada + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/389af951552ff2209eae3e62fa147fef12329d4f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/389af951552ff2209eae3e62fa147fef12329d4f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Fix order of shutdown processing when CTEs contain inter-references. + We need ExecutorEnd to run the ModifyTable nodes to completion in + reverse order of initialization, not forward order. Easily done by + constructing the list back-to-front. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/000128bc7f591025d0c1ce539bb53c6ad00ab69c">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/000128bc7f591025d0c1ce539bb53c6ad00ab69c</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Refactor the executor's API to support data-modifying CTEs better. + The originally committed patch for modifying CTEs didn't interact + well with EXPLAIN, as noted by myself, and also had corner-case + problems with triggers, as noted by Dean Rasheed. Those problems + show it is really not practical for ExecutorEnd to call any + user-defined code; so split the cleanup duties out into a new + function ExecutorFinish, which must be called between the last + ExecutorRun call and ExecutorEnd. Some Asserts have been added to + these functions to help verify correct usage. It is no longer + necessary for callers of the executor to call + AfterTriggerBeginQuery/AfterTriggerEndQuery for themselves, as this + is now done by ExecutorStart/ExecutorFinish respectively. If you + really need to suppress that and do it for yourself, pass + EXEC_FLAG_SKIP_TRIGGERS to ExecutorStart. Also, refactor portal + commit processing to allow for the possibility that PortalDrop will + invoke user-defined code. I think this is not actually necessary + just yet, since the portal-execution-strategy logic forces any + non-pure-SELECT query to be run to completion before we will + consider committing. But it seems like good future-proofing. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a874fe7b4c890d1fe3455215a83ca777867beadd">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a874fe7b4c890d1fe3455215a83ca777867beadd</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Add documentation for data-modifying statements in WITH clauses. + Marko Tiikkaja, somewhat reworked by Tom Lane. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0ef0b302040284a087c1bc90df5b115f0dea7764">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0ef0b302040284a087c1bc90df5b115f0dea7764</a> +</p> + +<p> +Robert Haas pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Fix a couple of unlogged tables goofs. "SELECT ... INTO UNLOGGED + tabname" works, but wasn't documented; CREATE UNLOGGED SEQUENCE and + CREATE UNLOGGED VIEW failed an assertion, instead of throwing a + sensible error. Latter issue reported by Itagaki Takahiro; patch + review by Tom Lane. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3e6b305d9e2a4616bf69e31b0b21ebbb844ba50e">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3e6b305d9e2a4616bf69e31b0b21ebbb844ba50e</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Named restore point improvements. Emit a log message when creating + a named restore point, and improve documentation for + pg_create_restore_point(). Euler Taveira de Oliveira, per + suggestions from Thom Brown, with some additional wordsmithing by + me. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/79ad8fc5f857ed38057f482fc022bf157175c4d8">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/79ad8fc5f857ed38057f482fc022bf157175c4d8</a> +</p> + +<p> +Peter Eisentraut pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Add PL/Python functions for quoting strings. Add functions + plpy.quote_ident, plpy.quote_literal, plpy.quote_nullable, which + wrap the equivalent SQL functions. To be able to propagate char * + constness properly, make the argument of quote_literal_cstr() const + char *. This also makes it more consistent with quote_identifier(). + Jan Urbański, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada, some refinements by Peter + Eisentraut + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1c51c7d5ffd407426f314b2cd317ef77f14efb1f">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1c51c7d5ffd407426f314b2cd317ef77f14efb1f</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Table function support for PL/Python. This allows functions with + multiple OUT parameters returning both one or multiple records + (RECORD or SETOF RECORD). Jan Urbański, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bc411f25c14f65b459de5dbc96ac79e7741ef9ee">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/bc411f25c14f65b459de5dbc96ac79e7741ef9ee</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Remove remaining expected file for Python 2.2. We don't have + complete expected coverage for Python 2.2 anyway, so it doesn't seem + worth keeping this one around that no one appears to be updating + anyway. Visual inspection of the differences ought to be good + enough for those few who care about this obsolete Python version. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/438cdf6e4893311df4e94dc55b961a691908a530">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/438cdf6e4893311df4e94dc55b961a691908a530</a> +</p> + +<p> +- PL/Python explicit subtransactions. Adds a context manager, + obtainable by plpy.subtransaction(), to run a group of statements in + a subtransaction. Jan Urbański, reviewed by Steve Singer, + additional scribbling by me + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/22690719ea5a89ccbcd04deb58c83d8d5f138df8">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/22690719ea5a89ccbcd04deb58c83d8d5f138df8</a> +</p> + +<p> +Alvaro Herrera pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Fix pageinspect's heap_page_item to return infomasks as 32 bit + values. HeapTupleHeader's t_infomask and t_infomask2 are defined as + 16-bit unsigned integers, so when the 16th bit was set, + heap_page_item was returning them as negative values, which was + ugly. The change to pageinspect--unpackaged--1.0.sql allows a + module upgraded from 9.0 to be cleanly updated from the previous + definition. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a338d654614f897ccb58eaa8a6171abdb7dc8dff">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a338d654614f897ccb58eaa8a6171abdb7dc8dff</a> +</p> + +<p> +- Update pageinspect--1.0.sql to match the upgrade script. Per + comment from Tom Lane + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0056066d06067d2d7fc84b31937933b5724347d0">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0056066d06067d2d7fc84b31937933b5724347d0</a> +</p> + +<p> +Andrew Dunstan pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Add a configure check for Python.h if building with python. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/42e5223648e7e56f8041bed329929dbd5529ea92">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/42e5223648e7e56f8041bed329929dbd5529ea92</a> +</p> + +<p> +Heikki Linnakangas pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Increase the default for wal_sender_delay from 200ms to 1s. Now + that WAL sender is immediately woken up by transaction commit, + there's no need to wake up so aggressively. + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/be6668d6eff6a03455b48fa8ce1a397ff5bae788">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/be6668d6eff6a03455b48fa8ce1a397ff5bae788</a> +</p> + +<p> +Magnus Hagander pushed: +</p> + +<p> +- Fix verbose display of REPLICATION role attribute. Josh Kupershmidt + <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b04137a2948a24dfa3b87222f07073eb9939b264">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b04137a2948a24dfa3b87222f07073eb9939b264</a> +</p> + +<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2> +<p> +No one was disappointed this week :-) +</p> + +<h2>Pending Patches</h2> +<p> +Hans-Juergen Schoenig sent in a WIP patch to track cross-column +correllation. +</p> + +<p> +Kevin Grittner sent in two revisions of a patch to track changes with +triggers. +</p> + +<p> +Radoslaw Smogura sent in three revisions of a patch to add a binary +in/out for aclitem. +</p> + +<p> +Alexander Korotkov sent in a WIP patch to collect statistics for array +columns. +</p> + +<p> +Shigeru HANADA sent in another revision of the postgresql_fdw patch. +</p> + +<p> +Gurjeet Singh sent in a patch to allow the use of paths relative to +that of the current file in psql. +</p> + +<p> +Andrew Tipton sent in a patch to add GiST support for BOX @> POINT +queries. +</p> + +<p> +Magnus Hagander sent in another revision of the patch to allow +streaming a base backup. +</p> + +<p> +Fujii Masao sent in another revision of the patch to add replication +server timeout. +</p> + +<p> +Rumko (rumcic AT gmail DOT com) sent in a patch to allow PostgreSQL to +compile on Dragonfly BSD. +</p> + +<p> +Jaime Casanova sent in another revision of the patch to allow for +synchronous replication. + +</p> + |
