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2008-11-11Add support for input and output of interval values formatted per ISO 8601;Tom Lane
specifically, we can input either the "format with designators" or the "alternative format", and we can output the former when IntervalStyle is set to iso_8601. Ron Mayer
2008-11-09Add a new GUC variable called "IntervalStyle" that decouples interval outputTom Lane
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's restrictions). IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval input. Ron Mayer
2008-10-09Improve translatability of error messages for external modules by tweakingAlvaro Herrera
the ereport macro. Included in this commit are enough files for starting plpgsql, plpython, plperl and pltcl translations.
2008-04-23Prevent shutdown in normal mode if online backup is running, andMagnus Hagander
have pg_ctl warn about this. Cancel running online backups (by renaming the backup_label file, thus rendering the backup useless) when shutting down in fast mode. Laurenz Albe
2008-02-20Rename miscadmin.h's PG_VERSIONSTR macro to PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR toTom Lane
make it a bit clearer what it is, and get rid of duplicate definitions in initdb and pg_ctl.
2008-02-17Replace time_t with pg_time_t (same values, but always int64) in on-diskTom Lane
data structures and backend internal APIs. This solves problems we've seen recently with inconsistent layout of pg_control between machines that have 32-bit time_t and those that have already migrated to 64-bit time_t. Also, we can get out from under the problem that Windows' Unix-API emulation is not consistent about the width of time_t. There are a few remaining places where local time_t variables are used to hold the current or recent result of time(NULL). I didn't bother changing these since they do not affect any cross-module APIs and surely all platforms will have 64-bit time_t before overflow becomes an actual risk. time_t should be avoided for anything visible to extension modules, however.
2008-01-03Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,Tom Lane
and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER functions. The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a superuser account that is performing routine maintenance. While a function used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage. To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context. Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability. Security: CVE-2007-6600
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-08-02Move session_start out of MyProcPort stucture and make it a global called ↵Andrew Dunstan
MyStartTime, so that we will be able to create a cookie for all processes for CSVlogs. It is set wherever MyProcPid is set. Take the opportunity to remove the now unnecessary session-only restriction on the %s and %c escapes in log_line_prefix.
2007-07-25Rename DLLIMPORT macro to PGDLLIMPORT to avoid conflict withMagnus Hagander
third party includes (like tcl) that define DLLIMPORT.
2007-04-16Add a multi-worker capability to autovacuum. This allows multiple workerAlvaro Herrera
processes to be running simultaneously. Also, now autovacuum processes do not count towards the max_connections limit; they are counted separately from regular processes, and are limited by the new GUC variable autovacuum_max_workers. The launcher now has intelligence to launch workers on each database every autovacuum_naptime seconds, limited only on the max amount of worker slots available. Also, the global worker I/O utilization is limited by the vacuum cost-based delay feature. Workers are "balanced" so that the total I/O consumption does not exceed the established limit. This part of the patch was contributed by ITAGAKI Takahiro. Per discussion.
2007-03-01Fix date/time formats for XML Schema output.Peter Eisentraut
Pavel Stehule
2007-02-15Restructure autovacuum in two processes: a dummy process, which runsAlvaro Herrera
continuously, and requests vacuum runs of "autovacuum workers" to postmaster. The workers do the actual vacuum work. This allows for future improvements, like allowing multiple autovacuum jobs running in parallel. For now, the code keeps the original behavior of having a single autovac process at any time by sleeping until the previous worker has finished.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-10-19Clean up local redeclarations of variables with DLLIMPORT, per reportTom Lane
from Magnus that MSVC complains about this.
2006-09-04sslinfo contrib module - information about current SSL certificatePeter Eisentraut
Author: Victor Wagner <[email protected]>
2006-08-15Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasksTom Lane
such as debugging and performance measurement. This consists of two features: a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries" that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit cooperation from the client application. To make local_preload_libraries as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead, it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/. The existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to LOAD libraries stored in this directory. This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity. Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2006-08-08Add a feature for automatic initialization and finalization of dynamicallyTom Lane
loaded libraries: call functions _PG_init() and _PG_fini() if the library defines such symbols. Hence we no longer need to specify an initialization function in preload_libraries: we can assume that the library used the _PG_init() convention, instead. This removes one source of pilot error in use of preloaded libraries. Original patch by Ralf Engelschall, preload_libraries changes by me.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-01-05Make all command-line options of postmaster and postgres the same. SeePeter Eisentraut
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00151.php for the complete plan.
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-10-25Fix Windows setitimer() emulation to not depend on delivering an APCTom Lane
to the main thread. This allows removal of WaitForSingleObjectEx() calls from the main thread, thereby allowing us to re-enable Qingqing Zhou's CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS performance improvement. Qingqing, Magnus, et al.
2005-10-22Temporarily disable Qingqing's Windows signal processing patch, so thatTom Lane
WaitForSingleObjectEx is always called by CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. This should be reinstated but the setitimer() emulation will have to be redesigned first.
2005-10-21Improve performance of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() macro on Windows by not doingTom Lane
a kernel call unless there's some evidence of a pending signal. This should bring its performance on Windows into line with the Unix version. Problem diagnosis and patch by Qingqing Zhou. Minor stylistic tweaks by moi ... if it's broken, it's my fault.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-08-17Avoid an Assert failure if OuterUserId hasn't been set yet duringTom Lane
AbortTransaction. This can happen if a backend's InitPostgres transaction fails (eg, because the given username is invalid). Per Alvaro.
2005-07-25Add SET ROLE. This is a partial commit of Stephen Frost's recent patch;Tom Lane
I'm still working on the has_role function and information_schema changes.
2005-07-04Arrange for the postmaster (and standalone backends, initdb, etc) toTom Lane
chdir into PGDATA and subsequently use relative paths instead of absolute paths to access all files under PGDATA. This seems to give a small performance improvement, and it should make the system more robust against naive DBAs doing things like moving a database directory that has a live postmaster in it. Per recent discussion.
2005-06-28Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authidTom Lane
and pg_auth_members. There are still many loose ends to finish in this patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for instance). But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can make some progress on shared dependencies. The catalog changes should be pretty much done.
2005-02-26Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hackTom Lane
in favor of looking at the flat file copy of pg_database during backend startup. This should finally eliminate the various corner cases in which backend startup fails unexpectedly because it isn't able to distinguish live and dead tuples in pg_database. Simplify locking on pg_database to be similar to the rules used with pg_shadow and pg_group, and eliminate FlushRelationBuffers operations that were used only to reduce the odds of failure of GetRawDatabaseInfo. initdb forced due to addition of a trigger to pg_database.
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-11-14Remove GUC USERLIMIT variable category, making the affected variablesTom Lane
plain SUSET instead. Also delay processing of options received in client connection request until after we know if the user is a superuser, so that SUSET values can be set that way by legitimate superusers. Per recent discussion.
2004-10-22Fix tsearch build problems.Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander
2004-10-18Remove use of "miscadmin.h" in port C files and remove test for frontendBruce Momjian
in miscadmin.h.
2004-10-18The attached patch fixes psql's win32 frontend-only build, by usingBruce Momjian
pg_strcasecmp in variables.c, and #ifdef'ing out PostmasterPid in miscadmin.h. Dave Page
2004-10-09Adjust configuration-files GUC behavior as per my recent proposal.Tom Lane
The vars are renamed to data_directory, config_file, hba_file, and ident_file, and are guaranteed to be set to accurate absolute paths during postmaster startup. This commit does not yet do anything about hiding path values from non-superusers.
2004-09-06Fix error in Windows version of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS macro.Tom Lane
This prevented statement_timeout from working. Magnus Hagander
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-06Rename vacuum_cost_naptime to vacuum_cost_delay, with agreement from Jan.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-01Some mop-up work for savepoints (nested transactions). Store a smallTom Lane
number of active subtransaction XIDs in each backend's PGPROC entry, and use this to avoid expensive probes into pg_subtrans during TransactionIdIsInProgress. Extend EOXactCallback API to allow add-on modules to get control at subxact start/end. (This is deliberately not compatible with the former API, since any uses of that API probably need manual review anyway.) Add basic reference documentation for SAVEPOINT and related commands. Minor other cleanups to check off some of the open issues for subtransactions. Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
2004-06-18Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.Tom Lane
There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules need work, and so does the documentation. Also someone should think about COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE. Also initlocation is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
2004-05-29Separate out bgwriter code into a logically separate module, ratherTom Lane
than being random pieces of other files. Give bgwriter responsibility for all checkpoint activity (other than a post-recovery checkpoint); so this child process absorbs the functionality of the former transient checkpoint and shutdown subprocesses. While at it, create an actual include file for postmaster.c, which for some reason never had its own file before.
2004-05-28Code review for EXEC_BACKEND changes. Reduce the number of #ifdefs byTom Lane
about a third, make it work on non-Windows platforms again. (But perhaps I broke the WIN32 code, since I have no way to test that.) Fold all the paths that fork postmaster child processes to go through the single routine SubPostmasterMain, which takes care of resurrecting the state that would normally be inherited from the postmaster (including GUC variables). Clean up some places where there's no particularly good reason for the EXEC and non-EXEC cases to work differently. Take care of one or two FIXMEs that remained in the code.
2004-05-18Clean up some relative path install issues with Claudio's help.Bruce Momjian
2004-05-17Reorganize code to allow path-relative installs.Bruce Momjian
Create new get_* functions to access compiled-in paths and adjust if relative installs are to be used. Clean up substitute_libpath_macro() code.
2004-05-13Reorganize backend code to more cleanly manage executable names andBruce Momjian
backend startup.
2004-05-11As part of the work for making relocatable installs, I have re-factoredBruce Momjian
all the code that looks for other binaries. I move FindExec into port/exec.c (and renamed it to find_my_binary()). I also added find_other_binary that looks for another binary in the same directory as the calling program, and checks the version string. The only behavior change was that initdb and pg_dump would look in the hard-coded bindir directory if it can't find the requested binary in the same directory as the caller. The new code throws an error. The old behavior seemed too error prone for version mismatches.
2004-04-12Here's an attempt at new socket and signal code for win32.Bruce Momjian
It works on the principle of turning sockets into non-blocking, and then emulate blocking behaviour on top of that, while allowing signals to run. Signals are now implemented using an event instead of APCs, thus getting rid of the issue of APCs not being compatible with "old style" sockets functions. It also moves the win32 specific code away from pqsignal.h/c into port/win32, and also removes the "thread style workaround" of the APC issue previously in place. In order to make things work, a few things are also changed in pgstat.c: 1) There is now a separate pipe to the collector and the bufferer. This is required because the pipe will otherwise only be signalled in one of the processes when the postmaster goes down. The MS winsock code for select() must have some kind of workaround for this behaviour, but I have found no stable way of doing that. You really are not supposed to use the same socket from more than one process (unless you use WSADuplicateSocket(), in which case the docs specifically say that only one will be flagged). 2) The check for "postmaster death" is moved into a separate select() call after the main loop. The previous behaviour select():ed on the postmaster pipe, while later explicitly saying "we do NOT check for postmaster exit inside the loop". The issue was that the code relies on the same select() call seeing both the postmaster pipe *and* the pgstat pipe go away. This does not always happen, and it appears that useing WSAEventSelect() makes it even more common that it does not. Since it's only called when the process exits, I don't think using a separate select() call will have any significant impact on how the stats collector works. Magnus Hagander