== PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 14 2010 == - Mailing list pgsql-announce
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== PostgreSQL Weekly News - November 14 2010 == The Commitfest for November 15 through December 15 is beginning. Start reviewing those patches! https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=8 Think reviewing patches is too complex? Think again! You can help! http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch The PostgreSQLFr Call for Projects has begun. Projects must target PostgreSQL and the French-speaking community. Mail appel-projets-2010 AT postgresql DOT fr. HTSQL, a high-level database query language for relational databases with support for PostgreSQL, released. http://htsql.org/ New Survey: Which PostgreSQL Event are you most likely to go to in the next 6 months? http://www.postgresql.org/community/ Robert Treat is looking for PostgreSQL users and users-to-be in the New Orleans area. Contact him at rob AT xzilla DOT net. PGCon will be May 19-20, 2011 at the University of Ottawa, preceded by two days of tutorials on May 17-18. http://www.pgcon.org/2011/ Early bird registration for PGDay.IT, December 10, 2010 in Rome, Italy, is open and the schedule is online. http://2010.pgday.it/ == PostgreSQL Product News == The open-source Dubsar Dictionary Project, which uses PostgreSQL, has begun. http://dubsar-dictionary.com/ psycopg2 2.3.0 beta 1, a Python connector for PostgreSQL, released. http://initd.org/psycopg/ PostgreSQL 9.0 RPMs for RHEL 6 and Fedora 14 released. http://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/48-What-is-new-in-PostgreSQL-9.0-RPMs.html Skytools 2.1.12, a Python-based replication system, released. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/skytools/ The Skytools source code repository is now at: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=skytools.git;a=summary == PostgreSQL Jobs for November == http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-11/threads.php == PostgreSQL Local == The German PostgreSQL User Group is running a booth at OpenRheinRuhr 2010 on november 13rd and 14th in Oberhausen, Germany. Andreas Scherbaum is giving a talk about new features in PostgreSQL 9.0. http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/744-PostgreSQL-OpenRheinRuhr-2010.html The German PostgreSQL User Group is present with a booth, a talk and a workshop at Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2010 in Potsdam, Germany on November 6th. http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/746-PostgreSQL-Brandenburger-Linux-Infotag-2010.html Registration for PGDay.EU 2010 held on December 6-8 in Stuttgart, Germany is open. http://2010.pgday.eu/register Early bird registration for PGDay.IT, December 10, 2010 in Rome, Italy, is open and the schedule is online. http://2010.pgday.it/ FOSDEM is one of the biggest Free and Open Source event held annually in Brussels, Belgium, on February 5-6, 2011, and attended by around 4000 people. Send in your proposal to fosdem AT postgresql DOT eu. http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/749-PostgreSQLFOSDEM-2011-Call-for-talks.html PGDay is scheduled at this year's Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE) held in the LAX Hilton Hotel in the city of Los Angeles, California, on Friday February 25th, 2011. Post your talk submission to pgday-submissions AT googlegroups DOT com. == PostgreSQL in the News == Planet PostgreSQL: http://planet.postgresql.org/ PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter 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. == Reviews == == Applied Patches == Tom Lane pushed: - Use appendrel planning logic for top-level UNION ALL structures. Formerly, we could convert a UNION ALL structure inside a subquery-in-FROM into an appendrel, as a side effect of pulling up the subquery into its parent; but top-level UNION ALL always caused use of plan_set_operations(). That didn't matter too much because you got an Append-based plan either way. However, now that the appendrel code can do things with MergeAppend, it's worthwhile to hack up the top-level case so it also uses appendrels. This is a bit of a stopgap; but going much further than this will require a major rewrite of the planner's set-operations support, which I'm not prepared to undertake now. For the moment let's grab the low-hanging fruit. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=947d0c862c895618a874344322e7b07c9df05cb2 - Fix error handling in temp-file deletion with log_temp_files active. The original coding in FileClose() reset the file-is-temp flag before unlinking the file, so that if control came back through due to an error, it wouldn't try to unlink the file twice. This was correct when written, but when the log_temp_files feature was added, the logging action was put in between those two steps. An error occurring during the logging action --- such as a query cancel --- would result in the unlink not getting done at all, as in recent report from Michael Glaesemann. To fix this, make sure that we do both the stat and the unlink before doing anything that could conceivably CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. There is a judgment call here, which is which log message to emit first: if you can see only one, which should it be? I chose to log unlink failure at the risk of losing the log_temp_files log message --- after all, if the unlink does fail, the temp file is still there for you to see. Back-patch to all versions that have log_temp_files. The code was OK before that. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=54428dbe90cf11d17439acad9b8dcf375a14819d - Repair memory leakage while ANALYZE-ing complex index expressions. The general design of memory management in Postgres is that intermediate results computed by an expression are not freed until the end of the tuple cycle. For expression indexes, ANALYZE has to re-evaluate each expression for each of its sample rows, and it wasn't bothering to free intermediate results until the end of processing of that index. This could lead to very substantial leakage if the intermediate results were large, as in a recent example from Jakub Ouhrabka. Fix by doing ResetExprContext for each sample row. This necessitates adding a datumCopy step to ensure that the final expression value isn't recycled too. Some quick testing suggests that this change adds at worst about 10% to the time needed to analyze a table with an expression index; which is annoying, but seems a tolerable price to pay to avoid unexpected out-of-memory problems. Back-patch to all supported branches. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=80fb2c1f4037d10cc259aee95558bca4a5fe4c30 - Improve pg_ctl's man page. Explicitly document that the -o options of pg_ctl init mode are meant for initdb, not postgres (Euler Taveira de Oliveira). Assorted other copy-editing (Tom). http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=0de92fd13cc436c76fbbd4759c94e2d3623a6bf1 - Fix line_construct_pm() for the case of "infinite" (DBL_MAX) slope. This code was just plain wrong: what you got was not a line through the given point but a line almost indistinguishable from the Y-axis, although not truly vertical. The only caller that tries to use this function with m == DBL_MAX is dist_ps_internal for the case where the lseg is horizontal; it would end up producing the distance from the given point to the place where the lseg's line crosses the Y-axis. That function is used by other operators too, so there are several operators that could compute wrong distances from a line segment to something else. Per bug #5745 from jindiax. Back-patch to all supported branches. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b0f2d681bdfd6a5b3e90d092f9d924f943b4fc5f - Fix old oversight in const-simplification of COALESCE() expressions. Once we have found a non-null constant argument, there is no need to examine additional arguments of the COALESCE. The previous coding got it right only if the constant was in the first argument position; otherwise it tried to simplify following arguments too, leading to unexpected behavior like this: regression=# select coalesce(f1, 42, 1/0) from int4_tbl; ERROR: division by zero It's a minor corner case, but a bug is a bug, so back-patch all the way. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d7304244e26b92d533f7e44f0afbcf1ff2f46286 - Add missing outfuncs.c support for struct InhRelation. This is needed to support debug_print_parse, per report from Jon Nelson. Cursory testing via the regression tests suggests we aren't missing anything else. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=2138c701a397885d4f360c90bf8b95d0d98aecd0 - Work around make 3.80 bug with long expansions of $(eval). 3.80 breaks if the expansion of $(eval) is long enough to require expansion of its internal variable_buffer. For the purposes of $(recurse) that means it'll work so long as no single evaluation of _create_recursive_target produces more than 195 bytes. We can manage that by looping over subdirectories outside the call instead of complicating the generated rule. This coding is simpler and more readable anyway. Or at least, this works for me. We'll see if the buildfarm likes it. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1bd201214965b3eba23bee2c4ce4c14accde170f - Fix canAcceptConnections() bugs introduced by replication-related patches. We must not return any "okay to proceed" result code without having checked for too many children, else we might fail later on when trying to add the new child to one of the per-child state arrays. It's not clear whether this oversight explains Stefan Kaltenbrunner's recent report, but it could certainly produce a similar symptom. Back-patch to 8.4; the logic was not broken before that. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3892a2d8619ee5623fc3ebee775538fdea1f529e - Adjust comments about what's needed to avoid make 3.80 bug. ... based on further tracing through that code. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=357edc9a9952582c510cff1b08ebc5fd8df81a3b Alvaro Herrera pushed: - Fix permanent memory leak in autovacuum launcher. get_database_list was uselessly allocating its output data, along some created along the way, in a permanent memory context. This didn't matter when autovacuum was a single, short-lived process, but now that the launcher is permanent, it shows up as a permanent leak. To fix, make get_database list allocate its output data in the caller's context, which is in charge of freeing it when appropriate; and the memory leaked by heap_beginscan et al is allocated in a throwaway transaction context. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=854ae8c3a6bab2053f8bdbc453787be878ce8c81 - plpython has plpy.Error instead of plpy.ERROR. Author: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=73bc5218df0330a4beb737f497fa8d7b337c9f90 - Merge docs for CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER and CREATE TRIGGER http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b47953f9c69d48a9261bd643e3170017b93f6337 Heikki Linnakangas pushed: - In rewriteheap.c (used by VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER), calculate the tuple length stored in the line pointer the same way it's calculated in the normal heap_insert() codepath. As noted by Jeff Davis, the length stored by raw_heap_insert() included padding but the one stored by the normal codepath did not. While the mismatch seems to be harmless, inconsistency isn't good, and the normal codepath has received a lot more testing over the years. Backpatch to 8.3 where the heap rewrite code was introduced. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=000efc3dfdf425136ef9564e86d1800cbe584e75 - Fix bug introduced by the recent patch to check that the checkpoint redo location read from backup label file can be found: wasShutdown was set incorrectly when a backup label file was found. Jeff Davis, with a little tweaking by me. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=542bdb2146327972545630d0a428e1c9367266cb - Add missing support for removing foreign data wrapper / server privileges belonging to a user at DROP OWNED BY. Foreign data wrappers and servers don't do anything useful yet, which is why no-one has noticed, but since we have them, seems prudent to fix this. Per report from Chetan Suttraway. Backpatch to 9.0, 8.4 has the same problem but this patch didn't apply there so I'm not going to bother. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e356743f3ed45c36dcc4d0dbf6c1e8751b3d70b5 ITAGAKI Takahiro pushed: - Don't use __declspec (dllimport) for PGDLLEXPORT to reduce warnings by gcc version 4 on mingw and cygwin. We don't use dllexport here because dllexport and dllwrap don't work well together. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=844ed5dc97d4374a4056f0f1cc3b0b78347c74c5 Robert Haas pushed: - Add monitoring function pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp. Fujii Masao, with a little wordsmithing by me. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=7ba6e4f0e08bd7bdf4d12974ac1e37fb0459c97c - Move copydir() prototype into its own header file. Having this in src/include/port.h makes no sense, now that copydir.c lives in src/backend/strorage rather than src/port. Along the way, remove an obsolete comment from contrib/pg_upgrade that makes reference to the old location. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=11e482c350c431fb2f51c6ceb847e5e31ea38911 - Cleanup various comparisons with the constant "true". Itagaki Takahiro, with slight modifications. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=5aa446c961a6fdf15ff9c398751efd6ecff0c64a - Fix bug in cube picksplit algorithm. Alexander Korotkov. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4fa0a23c70cc346011a3dd8ea902f8d1668644b0 - Correct poor grammar in comment. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ccbc3d802d1690b78f887b2310d2a7258eaae94 Bruce Momjian pushed: - Mention that pg_upgrade requires compatible 32/64-bit binaries. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f742d1cdab987ba4624ad0c6aa008ced15cd87c Peter Eisentraut pushed: - Improved parallel make support Replace for loops in makefiles with proper dependencies. Parallel make can now span across directories. Also, make -k and make -q work properly. GNU make 3.80 or newer is now required. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=19e231bbdaef792dce22100012b504e2fb72f971 - docs -> documentation http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d6754f67b08ad6a05640fc5d9d97c6f225512ea0 Andrew Dunstan pushed: - Attempt to fix MSVC builds broken by parallel make changes. http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=52e2c12288cdcdcaa46a18937cc051d3322bbc99 == Rejected Patches (for now) == No one was disappointed this week :-) == Pending Patches == Shigeru HANADA sent in two more revisions of the patch for SQL/MED. Heikki Linnakangas sent in two WIP patches to fix some misbehavior in the interaction between GIN and GiST index splits, and checkpoints. KaiGai Kohei sent in two revisions of a patch to add security hooks on object creation. Peter Eisentraut sent in a patch to add [RESTRICT|CASCADE] to ALTER TYPE ... ADD/ALTER/DROP/RENAME ATTRIBUTE, so that recurses to typed tables. Bruce Momjian sent in a patch to fix an issue where PostgreSQL appears stopped when it is actually running. Bruce Momjian sent in a patch to correct some error messages for connections to PostgreSQL over ipv6 in libpq. KaiGai Kohei sent in a patch to allow the security label provider to switch security label of the client during execution of certain functions. Robert Haas sent in a set of three patches intended to be infrastructure for unlogged tables. Jan Urbanski sent in a patch to fix a bug in plpython's Python Generators. Greg Smith sent in a rebased and corrected version of the MERGE patch. Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in another revision of the patch to add writeable CTEs, this time using single-snapshot isolation per discussion. Greg Smith sent in a patch which adds some logging for each individual fsync call made during a checkpoint, along with a summary at the end. Greg Smith sent in a patch which adds a new field to pg_stat_bgwriter, counting the number of times backends execute their own fsync calls. Greg Smith and Simon Riggs wrote and Greg Smith sent in a patch which spreads out the individual checkpoint fsync calls over time. ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in a WIP patch to add support for MULTISET functions. Joachim Wieland sent in a patch to add a new "directory" format to pg_dump, which is in part infrastructure for parallel pg_dump. Joachim Wieland sent in a patch based on the above patch which allows for parallel pg_dump and pg_restore. Peter Eisentraut sent in another patch to implement per-column collation. Gregory Stark sent in another revision of the patch to add getrusage resource tracking to EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
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