- Jan 05, 2018
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Peter Eisentraut authored
It seems we can't easily work around the lack of X509_get_signature_nid(), so revert the previous attempts and just disable the tls-server-end-point feature if we don't have it.
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- Jan 03, 2018
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Peter Eisentraut authored
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS. Even though it's not enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required by organizations' network policies. There seems to be no reason not to support it when available in the client library. Therefore, add support when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows. It can be configured with ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://... Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the pre-existing ldaptls=1. Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting ldaptls=1. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
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Bruce Momjian authored
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
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- Dec 13, 2017
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Andres Freund authored
It's not easy to get signed integer overflow checks correct and fast. Therefore abstract the necessary infrastructure into a common header providing addition, subtraction and multiplication for 16, 32, 64 bit signed integers. The new macros aren't yet used, but a followup commit will convert several open coded overflow checks. Author: Andres Freund, with some code stolen from Greg Stark Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024103954.ztmatprlglz3rwke@alap3.anarazel.de
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- Nov 23, 2017
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo"> to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE. The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files now. Renaming could be considered later. In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML is removed. Everything is build straight from the source files again. The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed. The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much simpler now. Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
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- Nov 14, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Our initial work with int128 neglected alignment considerations, an oversight that came back to bite us in bug #14897 from Vincent Lachenal. It is unsurprising that int128 might have a 16-byte alignment requirement; what's slightly more surprising is that even notoriously lax Intel chips sometimes enforce that. Raising MAXALIGN seems out of the question: the costs in wasted disk and memory space would be significant, and there would also be an on-disk compatibility break. Nor does it seem very practical to try to allow some data structures to have more-than-MAXALIGN alignment requirement, as we'd have to push knowledge of that throughout various code that copies data structures around. The only way out of the box is to make type int128 conform to the system's alignment assumptions. Fortunately, gcc supports that via its __attribute__(aligned()) pragma; and since we don't currently support int128 on non-gcc-workalike compilers, we shouldn't be losing any platform support this way. Although we could have just done pg_attribute_aligned(MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF) and called it a day, I did a little bit of extra work to make the code more portable than that: it will also support int128 on compilers without __attribute__(aligned()), if the native alignment of their 128-bit-int type is no more than that of int64. Add a regression test case that exercises the one known instance of the problem, in parallel aggregation over a bigint column. This will need to be back-patched, along with the preparatory commit 91aec93e. But let's see what the buildfarm makes of it first. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171110185747.31519.28038@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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- Nov 09, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Upon further review, our Bonjour code doesn't actually work with the Avahi not-too-compatible compatibility library. While you can get it to work on non-macOS platforms if you link to Apple's own mDNSResponder code, there don't seem to be many people who care about that. Leaving in the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call seems more likely to encourage people to build broken configurations than to do anything very useful. Hence, remove the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call and put in a warning comment instead. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2D8331C5-D64F-44C1-8717-63EDC6EAF7EB@brightforge.com
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- Nov 08, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
On macOS the relevant functions require no special library, but elsewhere we need to pull in libdns_sd. Back-patch to supported branches. No docs change since the docs do not suggest that this is a Mac-only feature. Luke Lonergan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2D8331C5-D64F-44C1-8717-63EDC6EAF7EB@brightforge.com
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- Nov 07, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
configure computed PG_VERSION_NUM incorrectly. (Coulda sworn I tested that logic back when, but it had an obvious thinko.) pg_upgrade had not been taught about the new dispensation with just one part in the major version number. Both things accidentally failed to fail with 10.0, but with 10.1 we got the wrong results. Per buildfarm.
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- Oct 13, 2017
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Andres Freund authored
Per buildfarm animal Hornet and followup manual testing by Noah Misch, it appears xlc miscompiles code using "restrict" in at least some cases. Allow disabling restrict usage with FORCE_DISABLE_RESTRICT=yes in template files, and do so for aix/xlc. Author: Andres Freund and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1820.1507918762@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund authored
Unfortunately using 'restrict' plainly causes problems with MSVC, which supports restrict only as '__restrict'. Defining 'restrict' to '__restrict' unfortunately causes a conflict with MSVC's usage of __declspec(restrict) in headers. Therefore define pg_restrict to the appropriate keyword instead, and replace existing usages. This replaces the temporary workaround introduced in 36b4b91b. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2656.1507830907@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- Oct 12, 2017
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Andres Freund authored
Will be used in later commits improving performance for a few key routines where information about aliasing allows for significantly better code generation. This allows to use the C99 'restrict' keyword without breaking C89, or for that matter C++, compilers. If not supported it's defined to be empty. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
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- Oct 10, 2017
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Andres Freund authored
The previous placement of the fallback implementation in libpgcommon was problematic, because libpqport functions need strnlen functionality. Move replacement into libpgport. Provide strnlen() under its posix name, instead of pg_strnlen(). Fix stupid configure bug, executing the test only when compiled with threading support. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1e1gR2-0005fB-SI@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Andres Freund authored
As the OS version is likely going to be more optimized, fall back to it if available, as detected by configure.
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- Sep 30, 2017
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Andres Freund authored
Upcoming patches are going to address performance issues that involve slow system provided ntohs/htons etc. To address that expand pg_bswap.h to provide pg_ntoh{16,32,64}, pg_hton{16,32,64} and optimize their respective implementations by using compiler intrinsics for gcc compatible compilers and msvc. Fall back to manual implementations using shifts etc otherwise. Additionally remove multiple evaluation hazards from the existing BSWAP32/64 macros, by replacing them with inline functions when necessary. In the course of that the naming scheme is changed to pg_bswap16/32/64. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170927172019.gheidqy6xvlxb325@alap3.anarazel.de
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- Sep 25, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
On Linux, shared memory segments created with shm_open() are backed by swap files created in tmpfs. If the swap file needs to be extended, but there's no tmpfs space left, you get a very unfriendly SIGBUS trap. To avoid this, force allocation of the full request size when we create the segment. This adds a few cycles, but none that we wouldn't expend later anyway, assuming the request isn't hugely bigger than the actual need. Make this code #ifdef __linux__, because (a) there's not currently a reason to think the same problem exists on other platforms, and (b) applying posix_fallocate() to an FD created by shm_open() isn't very portable anyway. Back-patch to 9.4 where the DSM code came in. Thomas Munro, per a bug report from Amul Sul Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
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- Sep 22, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
These functions are required by SUS v2, which is our minimum baseline for Unix platforms, and are present on all interesting Windows versions as well. Even our oldest buildfarm members have them. Thus, we were not testing the "!USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER" code paths, which explains why the bug fixed in commit e6023ee7 escaped detection. Per discussion, there seems to be no more real-world value in maintaining this option. Hence, remove the configure-time tests for wcstombs() and towlower(), remove the USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER symbol, and remove all the !USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER code. There's not actually all that much of the latter, but simplifying the #if nests is a win in itself. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170921052928.GA188913@rfd.leadboat.com
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- Sep 20, 2017
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Andres Freund authored
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly, in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be written and synced to disk less frequently. But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting. This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now requires the current segment size to be configured. For that and similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize the current segment size. Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
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- Sep 01, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Instead of using a cast to force the constant to be the right width, assume we can plaster on an L, UL, LL, or ULL suffix as appropriate. The old approach to this is very hoary, dating from before we were willing to require compilers to have working int64 types. This fix makes the PG_INT64_MIN, PG_INT64_MAX, and PG_UINT64_MAX constants safe to use in preprocessor conditions, where a cast doesn't work. Other symbolic constants that might be defined using [U]INT64CONST are likewise safer than before. Also fix the SIZE_MAX macro to be similarly safe, if we are forced to provide a definition for that. The test added in commit 2e70d6b5 happens to do what we want even with the hack "(size_t) -1" definition, but we could easily get burnt on other tests in future. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commits. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15883.1504278595@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- Aug 15, 2017
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- Aug 11, 2017
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Various bugs can cause crashes, so don't use that function before ICU 53. It will fall back to the code path used for other encodings. Since we now tie the function availability to an ICU version, we don't need the configure test anymore. That also resolves the issue that the test result was previously hardcoded for Windows. researched by Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f1438ec6-22aa-4029-9a3b-26f79d330e72%40manitou-mail.org
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- Aug 07, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
The check for IPC::Run we added in commit c254970a is useful in simple cases, but there are real use-cases where "prove" is coming from a different Perl installation than the "perl" we want to use to build. In such cases asking whether "perl" knows about IPC::Run is irrelevant and can cause an unnecessary configure failure. Hence, if user has specified a value for PROVE, skip the IPC::Run check. Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dcE5n-0005Sk-UE@gemulon.postgresql.org
- Aug 05, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Without ICU's header files, "configure --with-icu" would succeed anyway, at least when using the non-pkgconfig-based setup. Then you got a bunch of ugly failures at build. Add an explicit header check to tighten that up.
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- Aug 01, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Peter Eisentraut noted that commit 40b9f192 had broken a configure behavior that some people might rely on: AC_CHECK_PROGS(FOO,...) will allow the search to be overridden by specifying a value for FOO on configure's command line or in its environment, but AC_PATH_PROGS(FOO,...) accepts such an override only if it's an absolute path. We had worked around that behavior for some, but not all, of the pre-existing uses of AC_PATH_PROGS by just skipping the macro altogether when FOO is already set. Let's standardize on that workaround for all uses of AC_PATH_PROGS, new and pre-existing, by wrapping AC_PATH_PROGS in a new macro PGAC_PATH_PROGS. While at it, fix a deficiency of the old workaround code by making sure we report the setting to configure's log. Eventually I'd like to improve PGAC_PATH_PROGS so that it converts non-absolute override inputs to absolute form, eg "PYTHON=python3" becomes, say, PYTHON = /usr/bin/python3. But that will take some nontrivial coding so it doesn't seem like a thing to do in late beta. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90a92a7d-938e-507a-3bd7-ecd2b4004689@2ndquadrant.com
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- Jul 31, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Previously we had a mix of uses of AC_CHECK_PROG[S] and AC_PATH_PROG[S]. The only difference between those macros is that the latter emits the full path to the program it finds, eg "/usr/bin/prove", whereas the former emits just "prove". Let's standardize on always emitting the full path; this is better for documentation of the build, and it might prevent some types of failures if later build steps are done with a different PATH setting. I did not touch the AC_CHECK_PROG[S] calls in ax_pthread.m4 and ax_prog_perl_modules.m4. There seems no need to make those diverge from upstream, since we do not record the programs sought by the former, while the latter's call to AC_CHECK_PROG(PERL,...) will never be reached. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25937.1501433410@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- Jul 28, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
The Perl documentation is very clear that stuff calling libperl should be built with the compiler switches shown by Perl's $Config{ccflags}. We'd been ignoring that up to now, and mostly getting away with it, but recent Perl versions contain ABI compatibility cross-checks that fail on some builds because of this omission. In particular the sizeof(PerlInterpreter) can come out different due to some fields being added or removed; which means we have a live ABI hazard that we'd better fix rather than continuing to sweep it under the rug. However, it still seems like a bad idea to just absorb $Config{ccflags} verbatim. In some environments Perl was built with a different compiler that doesn't even use the same switch syntax. -D switch syntax is pretty universal though, and absorbing Perl's -D switches really ought to be enough to fix the problem. Furthermore, Perl likes to inject stuff like -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 into $Config{ccflags}, which affect libc ABIs on platforms where they're relevant. Adopting those seems dangerous too. It's unclear whether a build wherein Perl and Postgres have different ideas of sizeof(off_t) etc would work, or whether anyone would care about making it work. But it's dead certain that having different stdio ABIs in core Postgres and PL/Perl will not work; we've seen that movie before. Therefore, let's also ignore -D switches for symbols beginning with underscore. The symbols that we actually need to import should be the ones mentioned in perl.h's PL_bincompat_options stanza, and none of those start with underscore, so this seems likely to work. (If it turns out not to work everywhere, we could consider intersecting the symbols mentioned in PL_bincompat_options with the -D switches. But that will be much more complicated, so let's try this way first.) This will need to be back-patched, but first let's see what the buildfarm makes of it. Ashutosh Sharma, some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANFyU97OVQ3+Mzfmt3MhuUm5NwPU=-FtbNH5Eb7nZL9ua8=rcA@mail.gmail.com
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- Jul 10, 2017
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- Jun 15, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
The TAP tests mostly don't work without IPC::Run, and the reason for the failure is not immediately obvious from the error messages you get. So teach configure to reject --enable-tap-tests unless IPC::Run exists. Mostly this just involves adding ax_prog_perl_modules.m4 from the GNU autoconf archives. This was discussed last year, but we held off on the theory that we might be switching to CMake soon. That's evidently not happening for v10, so let's absorb this now. Eugene Kazakov and Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/56BDDC20.9020506@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRVKG_CR4Dy_AMfE6DXcr6F7ygy2goa2atJU4XkerDRUg@mail.gmail.com
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- May 15, 2017
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- Apr 25, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
This reverts commit 81069a9e. Buildfarm results suggest that some platforms have versions of pselect(2) that are not merely non-atomic, but flat out non-functional. Revert the use-pselect patch to confirm this diagnosis (and exclude the no-SA_RESTART patch as the source of trouble). If it's so, we should probably look into blacklisting specific platforms that have broken pselect. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9696.1493072081@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- Apr 24, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Traditionally we've unblocked signals, called select(2), and then blocked signals again. The code expects that the select() will be cancelled with EINTR if an interrupt occurs; but there's a race condition, which is that an already-pending signal will be delivered as soon as we unblock, and then when we reach select() there will be nothing preventing it from waiting. This can result in a long delay before we perform any action that ServerLoop was supposed to have taken in response to the signal. As with the somewhat-similar symptoms fixed by commit 89390208, the main practical problem is slow launching of parallel workers. The window for trouble is usually pretty short, corresponding to one iteration of ServerLoop; but it's not negligible. To fix, use pselect(2) in place of select(2) where available, as that's designed to solve exactly this problem. Where not available, we continue to use the old way, and are no worse off than before. pselect(2) has been required by POSIX since about 2001, so most modern platforms should have it. A bigger portability issue is that some implementations are said to be non-atomic, ie pselect() isn't really any different from unblock/select/reblock. Still, we're no worse off than before on such a platform. There is talk of rewriting the postmaster to use a WaitEventSet and not do signal response work in signal handlers, at which point this could be reverted, since we'd be using a self-pipe to solve the race condition. But that's not happening before v11 at the earliest. Back-patch to 9.6. The problem exists much further back, but the worst symptom arises only in connection with parallel query, so it does not seem worth taking any portability risks in older branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9205.1492833041@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund authored
poll.h is mandated by Single Unix Spec v2, the usual baseline for postgres on unix. None of the unixoid buildfarms animals has sys/poll.h but not poll.h. Therefore there's not much point to test for sys/poll.h's existence and include it optionally. Author: Andres Freund, per suggestion from Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20505.1492723662@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- Apr 07, 2017
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Peter Eisentraut authored
All documentation is now built using XSLT. Remove all references to Jade, DSSSL, also JadeTex and some other outdated tooling. For chunked HTML builds, this changes nothing, but removes the transitional "oldhtml" target. The single-page HTML build is ported over to XSLT. For PDF builds, this removes the JadeTex builds and moves the FOP builds in their place.
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- Apr 05, 2017
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Simon Riggs authored
Other part of Beena Emerson's patch to allow testing
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- Mar 29, 2017
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Peter Eisentraut authored
copyObject() is declared to return void *, which allows easily assigning the result independent of the input, but it loses all type checking. If the compiler supports typeof or something similar, cast the result to the input type. This creates a greater amount of type safety. In some cases, where the result is assigned to a generic type such as Node * or Expr *, new casts are now necessary, but in general casts are now unnecessary in the normal case and indicate that something unusual is happening. Reviewed-by:
Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
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- Mar 23, 2017
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Add a column collprovider to pg_collation that determines which library provides the collation data. The existing choices are default and libc, and this adds an icu choice, which uses the ICU4C library. The pg_locale_t type is changed to a union that contains the provider-specific locale handles. Users of locale information are changed to look into that struct for the appropriate handle to use. Also add a collversion column that records the version of the collation when it is created, and check at run time whether it is still the same. This detects potentially incompatible library upgrades that can corrupt indexes and other structures. This is currently only supported by ICU-provided collations. initdb initializes the default collation set as before from the `locale -a` output but also adds all available ICU locales with a "-x-icu" appended. Currently, ICU-provided collations can only be explicitly named collations. The global database locales are still always libc-provided. ICU support is enabled by configure --with-icu. Reviewed-by:
Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by:
Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
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- Mar 20, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
We'll need this for the upcoming patch to speed up expression evaluation. Might as well push it now to see if it behaves sanely in the buildfarm. Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170320062511.hp5qeurtxrwsvfxr@alap3.anarazel.de
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- Feb 26, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
We had some AC_CHECK_HEADER tests that were really wastes of cycles, because the code proceeded to #include those headers unconditionally anyway, in all or a large majority of cases. The lack of complaints shows that those headers are available on every platform of interest, so we might as well let configure run a bit faster by not probing those headers at all. I suspect that some of the tests I left alone are equally useless, but since all the existing #includes of the remaining headers are properly guarded, I didn't touch them.
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- Feb 23, 2017
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Tom Lane authored
Per discussion, the time has come to do this. The handwriting has been on the wall at least since 9.0 that this would happen someday, whenever it got to be too much of a burden to support the float-timestamp option. The triggering factor now is the discovery that there are multiple bugs in the code that attempts to implement use of integer timestamps in the replication protocol even when the server is built for float timestamps. The internal float timestamps leak into the protocol fields in places. While we could fix the identified bugs, there's a very high risk of introducing more. Trying to build a wall that would positively prevent mixing integer and float timestamps is more complexity than we want to undertake to maintain a long-deprecated option. The fact that these bugs weren't found through testing also indicates a lack of interest in float timestamps. This commit disables configure's --disable-integer-datetimes switch (it'll still accept --enable-integer-datetimes, though), removes direct references to USE_INTEGER_DATETIMES, and removes discussion of float timestamps from the user documentation. A considerable amount of code is rendered dead by this, but removing that will occur as separate mop-up. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26788.1487455319@sss.pgh.pa.us
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