materialized.

New items have been added to GucContext and GucSource enums, but of
course they were not added to the corresponding GucContextName[] and
GucSourceName[] arrays in the patch. Here's a new patch to fix the
resulting bugs.

Joe Conway

>>ISTM that "source" is worth knowing.
>
> Hm, possibly.  Any other opinions?

This version has the seven fields I proposed, including "source". Here's
an example that shows why I think it's valuable:

regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name    | enable_seqscan
setting | on
context | user
vartype | bool
source  | default
min_val |
max_val |

regression=# update pg_settings set setting = 'off' where name =
'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]---
set_config | off

regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name    | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source  | session
min_val |
max_val |

regression=# alter user postgres set enable_seqscan to 'off';
ALTER USER

(log out and then back in again)

regression=# \x
Expanded display is on.
regression=# select * from pg_settings where name = 'enable_seqscan';
-[ RECORD 1 ]-----------
name    | enable_seqscan
setting | off
context | user
vartype | bool
source  | user
min_val |
max_val |

In the first case, enable_seqscan is set to its default value. After
setting it to off, it is obvious that the value has been changed for the
session only. In the third case, you can see that the value has been set
specifically for the user.

Joe Conway

Aizaz Ahmed

or increased only by super-users.

This fixes problems caused by making certain variables SUSET for
security reasons.

Christopher Kings-Lynne

DestReceiver pointers instead of just CommandDest values.  The DestReceiver
is made at the point where the destination is selected, rather than
deep inside the executor.  This cleans up the original kluge implementation
of tstoreReceiver.c, and makes it easy to support retrieving results
from utility statements inside portals.  Thus, you can now do fun things
like Bind and Execute a FETCH or EXPLAIN command, and it'll all work
as expected (e.g., you can Describe the portal, or use Execute's count
parameter to suspend the output partway through).  Implementation involves
stuffing the utility command's output into a Tuplestore, which would be
kind of annoying for huge output sets, but should be quite acceptable
for typical uses of utility commands.

Dump/read non-default GUC values for use by exec'ed backend, for Win32.

initial values and runtime changes in selected parameters.  This gets
rid of the need for an initial 'select pg_client_encoding()' query in
libpq, bringing us back to one message transmitted in each direction
for a standard connection startup.  To allow server version to be sent
using the same GUC mechanism that handles other parameters, invent the
concept of a never-settable GUC parameter: you can 'show server_version'
but it's not settable by any GUC input source.  Create 'lc_collate' and
'lc_ctype' never-settable parameters so that people can find out these
settings without need for pg_controldata.  (These side ideas were all
discussed some time ago in pgsql-hackers, but not yet implemented.)

! #show_parser_stats = false
! #show_planner_stats = false
! #show_executor_stats = false
! #show_statement_stats = false

TO:

! #log_parser_stats = false
! #log_planner_stats = false
! #log_executor_stats = false
! #log_statement_stats = false

of log_ settings.

is an error, warning, etc.

Gavin Sherry

Rename debug_print_query to log_statement and rename show_query_stats to
show_statement_stats.

changes mentioned above, and also adds a new function to the tablefunc
API. The tablefunc API change adds the following function:

* Oid foidGetTypeId(Oid foid) - Get a function's typeid given the
* function Oid. Use this together with TypeGetTupleDesc() to get a
* TupleDesc which is derived from the function's declared return type.

In the next post I'll send the contrib/tablefunc patch, which
illustrates the usage of this new function. Also attached is a doc patch
for this change. The doc patch also adds a function that I failed to
document previously.

Joe Conway

new SHOW output format.

>    submitted on July 9:
>
>    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2002-07/msg00056.php
>
>    Please disregard that one *if* this one is applied. If this one is
>    rejected please go ahead with the July 9th patch.

The July 9th Table Function API patch mentioned above is now in CVS, so
here is an updated version of the guc patch which should apply cleanly
against CVS tip.

Joe Conway

GUC support.  It's now possible to set datestyle, timezone, and
client_encoding from postgresql.conf and per-database or per-user
settings.  Also, implement rollback of SET commands that occur in a
transaction that later fails.  Create a SET LOCAL var = value syntax
that sets the variable only for the duration of the current transaction.
All per previous discussions in pghackers.

Also, fix debug logging of parse/plan trees so that the messages actually
go through elog(), not directly to stdout.

variables.  New commands ALTER DATABASE ... SET and ALTER USER ... SET.

any order without affecting results.

initdb/regression tests pass.

spacing.  Also adds space for one-line comments.

tests pass.

from the config file, so that these changes will propagate to backends
started later.  Already-started backends continue to ignore changes
in these variables.

functions to clear date cache.  Allow regression tests to pass when
timezone set.

datatypes, not only strings.  parse_hook is useless for bool, I suppose,
but it seems possibly useful for int and double to apply variable-specific
constraints that are more complex than simple range limits.  assign_hook
is definitely useful for all datatypes --- we need it right now for bool
to support date cache reset when changing Australian timezone rule setting.
Also, clean up some residual problems with the reset all/show all patch,
including memory leaks and mistaken reset of PostPortNumber.  It seems
best that RESET ALL not touch variables that don't have SUSET or
USERSET context.

on RESET ALL those are restored.

show all: GUC + non-GUC.

SHOW ALL, RESET ALL

Marko Kreen

are now separate files "postgres.h" and "postgres_fe.h", which are meant
to be the primary include files for backend .c files and frontend .c files
respectively.  By default, only include files meant for frontend use are
installed into the installation include directory.  There is a new make
target 'make install-all-headers' that adds the whole content of the
src/include tree to the installed fileset, for use by people who want to
develop server-side code without keeping the complete source tree on hand.
Cleaned up a whole lot of crufty and inconsistent header inclusions.

for today's snapshot

Andreas

parsing to not clobber the optarg string -- so that we can bring
SetOptsFile() up to speed.

option settings. Sort out SIGHUP vs BACKEND -- there is no total ordering
here, so make explicit checks. Add comments explaining all of this.
Removed permissions check on SHOW command.

Add examine_subclass to the game, rename to SQL_inheritance to fit the
official data model better. Adjust documentation.

Standalone backend needs to reset all options before it starts. To
facilitate that, have IsUnderPostmaster be set by the postmaster itself,
don't wait for the magic -p switch.

Also make sure that all environment variables and argv's survive
init_ps_display(). Use strdup where necessary.

Have initdb make configuration files (postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf) mode
0600 -- having configuration files is no fun if you can't edit them.

That means you can now set your options in either or all of $PGDATA/configuration,
some postmaster option (--enable-fsync=off), or set a SET command. The list of
options is in backend/utils/misc/guc.c, documentation will be written post haste.

pg_options is gone, so is that pq_geqo config file. Also removed were backend -K,
-Q, and -T options (no longer applicable, although -d0 does the same as -Q).

Added to configure an --enable-syslog option.

changed all callers from TPRINTF to elog(DEBUG)