Both plannable queries and utility commands are now always executed
within Portals, which have been revamped so that they can handle the
load (they used to be good only for single SELECT queries).  Restructure
code to push command-completion-tag selection logic out of postgres.c,
so that it won't have to be duplicated between simple and extended queries.
initdb forced due to addition of a field to Query nodes.

CHANGES

Mar 28, 2003
    Added finctions index(ltree,ltree,offset), text2ltree(text),
                    ltree2text(text)

Teodor Sigaev

(materialization into a tuple store) discussed on pgsql-hackers earlier.
I've updated the documentation and the regression tests.

Notes on the implementation:

- I needed to change the tuple store API slightly -- it assumes that it
won't be used to hold data across transaction boundaries, so the temp
files that it uses for on-disk storage are automatically reclaimed at
end-of-transaction. I added a flag to tuplestore_begin_heap() to control
this behavior. Is changing the tuple store API in this fashion OK?

- in order to store executor results in a tuple store, I added a new
CommandDest. This works well for the most part, with one exception: the
current DestFunction API doesn't provide enough information to allow the
Executor to store results into an arbitrary tuple store (where the
particular tuple store to use is chosen by the call site of
ExecutorRun). To workaround this, I've temporarily hacked up a solution
that works, but is not ideal: since the receiveTuple DestFunction is
passed the portal name, we can use that to lookup the Portal data
structure for the cursor and then use that to get at the tuple store the
Portal is using. This unnecessarily ties the Portal code with the
tupleReceiver code, but it works...

The proper fix for this is probably to change the DestFunction API --
Tom suggested passing the full QueryDesc to the receiveTuple function.
In that case, callers of ExecutorRun could "subclass" QueryDesc to add
any additional fields that their particular CommandDest needed to get
access to. This approach would work, but I'd like to think about it for
a little bit longer before deciding which route to go. In the mean time,
the code works fine, so I don't think a fix is urgent.

- (semi-related) I added a NO SCROLL keyword to DECLARE CURSOR, and
adjusted the behavior of SCROLL in accordance with the discussion on
-hackers.

- (unrelated) Cleaned up some SGML markup in sql.sgml, copy.sgml

Neil Conway

btree_gist now supports int2 !
Thanks Janko Richter for contribution.

changed as per discussion on the patches list).

This version should be a good bit better.  It addresses all the issues
pointed out by Neil Conway. Vacuum and Analyze are now handled
separately.  It now monitors for xid wraparound.  The number of database
connections and queries has been significantly reduced compared the
previous version.  I have moved it from bin to contrib.  More detail on
the changes are in the TODO file.

I have not tested the xid wraparound code as I have to let my AthlonXP
1600 run select 1 in a tight loop for approx. two days in order to
perform the required 500,000,000 xacts.

Matthew T. O'Connor

version of crosstab. This fixes a major deficiency in real-world use of
the original version. Easiest to undestand with an illustration:

Data:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
select * from cth;
  id | rowid |        rowdt        |   attribute    |      val
----+-------+---------------------+----------------+---------------
   1 | test1 | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | temperature    | 42
   2 | test1 | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | test_result    | PASS
   3 | test1 | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | volts          | 2.6987
   4 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | temperature    | 53
   5 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | test_result    | FAIL
   6 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | test_startdate | 01 March 2003
   7 | test2 | 2003-03-02 00:00:00 | volts          | 3.1234
(7 rows)

Original crosstab:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SELECT * FROM crosstab(
   'SELECT rowid, attribute, val FROM cth ORDER BY 1,2',4)
AS c(rowid text, temperature text, test_result text, test_startdate
text, volts text);
  rowid | temperature | test_result | test_startdate | volts
-------+-------------+-------------+----------------+--------
  test1 | 42          | PASS        | 2.6987         |
  test2 | 53          | FAIL        | 01 March 2003  | 3.1234
(2 rows)

Hashed crosstab:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SELECT * FROM crosstab(
   'SELECT rowid, attribute, val FROM cth ORDER BY 1',
   'SELECT DISTINCT attribute FROM cth ORDER BY 1')
AS c(rowid text, temperature int4, test_result text, test_startdate
timestamp, volts float8);
  rowid | temperature | test_result |   test_startdate    | volts
-------+-------------+-------------+---------------------+--------
  test1 |          42 | PASS        |                     | 2.6987
  test2 |          53 | FAIL        | 2003-03-01 00:00:00 | 3.1234
(2 rows)

Notice that the original crosstab slides data over to the left in the
result tuple when it encounters missing data. In order to work around
this you have to be make your source sql do all sorts of contortions
(cartesian join of distinct rowid with distinct attribute; left join
that back to the real source data). The new version avoids this by
building a hash table using a second distinct attribute query.

The new version also allows for "extra" columns (see the README) and
allows the result columns to be coerced into differing datatypes if they
are suitable (as shown above).

In testing a "real-world" data set (69 distinct rowid's, 27 distinct
categories/attributes, multiple missing data points) I saw about a
5-fold improvement in execution time (from about 2200 ms old, to 440 ms
new).

I left the original version intact because: 1) BC, 2) it is probably
slightly faster if you know that you have no missing attributes.

README and regression test adjustments included. If there are no
objections, please apply.

Joe Conway

. replace CREATE OR REPLACE AGGREGATE with a separate DROP and CREATE
. add DROP for all CREATE OPERATORs
. use IMMUTABLE and STRICT instead of WITH (isStrict)
. add IMMUTABLE and STRICT to int_array_aggregate's accumulator function

Gregory Stark

when running it with older(Pre 7.3.x) versions of Postgresql.

Backpatched to 7.3.X.

Steven Singer

PostgreSQL source code.

Neil Conway

entire contents of the subplan into the tuplestore before we can return
any tuples.  Instead, the tuplestore holds what we've already read, and
we fetch additional rows from the subplan as needed.  Random access to
the previously-read rows works with the tuplestore, and doesn't affect
the state of the partially-read subplan.  This is a step towards fixing
the problems with cursors over complex queries --- we don't want to
stick in Materialize nodes if they'll prevent quick startup for a cursor.

ltree_73.patch.gz - for 7.3 :
        Fix ~ operation bug: eg '1.1.1' ~ '*.1'

ltree_74.patch.gz - for current CVS
    Fix ~ operation bug: eg '1.1.1' ~ '*.1'
    Add ? operation
    Optimize index storage

Last change needs drop/create all ltree indexes, so only for 7.4

Teodor Sigaev

(7.3 and current CVS) with support of int8, float4, float8
in addition to int4. Thanks Janko Richter for contribution.

Oleg Bartunov

in one of the earth functions so that latitude and longitude to
cartesian coordinates conversion will be more accurrate. (Previously
a text string was built to provide as input which limited the accuracy
to the number of digits printed.)

The new functions were included in a recent patch to contrib/cube that has not
as yet been accepted as of yet.

I also added check constraints to the domain 'earth' since they are now
working in 7.4.

Bruno Wolff III

directly from float8 values. (As opposed to converting the values to
strings
and then parsing the strings.)
The functions are:
cube(float8) returns cube
cube(float8,float8) returns cube
cube(cube,float8) returns cube
cube(cube,float8,float8) returns cube

Bruno Wolff III

bison 1.875 and later as we did from earlier bison releases.  Eventually
we will probably want to adopt the newer message spelling ... but not yet.
Per recent discussion on pgpatches.
Note: I didn't change the build rules for bootstrap, ecpg, or plpgsql
grammars, since these do not affect regression test results.

contrib/fulltextindex/README.fti

Backpatched to 7.3.X too.

Neil Conway

7.3 and current CVS

Oleg Bartunov

execution state trees, and ExecEvalExpr takes an expression state tree
not an expression plan tree.  The plan tree is now read-only as far as
the executor is concerned.  Next step is to begin actually exploiting
this property.

(contrib/tsearch/makedict/makedict.pl)

[ Backpatched to 7.3.]

Teodor Sigaev

temporary table.

Kenji Sugita

in the year. This version has only the two files required by the Darwin
startup bundle design. Plus the sh script now uses Darwin-standard
functions to start up PostgreSQL, and it checks for the presence of a
variable in /etc/hostconfig, as do other Darwin startup scripts.

I suggest that a new directory be created,
contrib/start-scripts/darwin, and that these two files be put into it.
Folks who want to use the script can read the comments inside it to
figure out how to use it.

David Wheeler

exists if and only if locale of postmaster
was a different from C (or ru_RU.KOI8-R).

Please, apply patch for current CVS & 7.3.1

Magnus Naeslund(f) wrote:
> Ok, I nailed the bug, but i'm not sure what the correct fix is.
> Attached tsearch_morph.diff that remedies this problem by avoiding it.
> Also there's a debug aid patch if someone would like to know how i
> finally found it out :)
>
> There problem in the lemmatize() function is that GETDICT(...) returned
> a value not handled (BYLOCALE).
> The value (-1) and later used as an index into the dicts[] array.
> After that everything went berserk stack went crazy somehow so trapping
> the fault sent me to the wrong place, and every time i read the value it
> was positive ;)
>
> So now i just return the initial word passed to the lemmatize function,
> because i don't know what to do with it.

Magnus Naeslund

tested a patch to contrib/xml where the existing code was causing
postgres to crash when it encountered & entities in the XML. I've
enclosed a patch that John came up with to correct this problem. It
patches against 7.3 and will apply on 7.2x if the elog WARNING calls
are changed to elog NOTICE.

Michael Richards

"SET search_path"  commands were added to the beginning of the script.

The attatched patch should fix the problem. It probably should be
applied  against the 7.3 and 7.4 branches.

Steven Singer

matching create cast command. The attached diff adds a create cast as
assignment to cube.sql.in .

Bruno Wolff III