per recent pghackers discussion: force a new WAL record at first nextval
after a checkpoint, and ensure that xlog is flushed to disk if a nextval
record is the only thing emitted by a transaction.

now has an RTE of its own, and references to its outputs now are Vars
referencing the JOIN RTE, rather than CASE-expressions.  This allows
reverse-listing in ruleutils.c to use the correct alias easily, rather
than painfully reverse-engineering the alias namespace as it used to do.
Also, nested FULL JOINs work correctly, because the result of the inner
joins are simple Vars that the planner can cope with.  This fixes a bug
reported a couple times now, notably by Tatsuo on 18-Nov-01.  The alias
Vars are expanded into COALESCE expressions where needed at the very end
of planning, rather than during parsing.
Also, beginnings of support for showing plan qualifier expressions in
EXPLAIN.  There are probably still cases that need work.
initdb forced due to change of stored-rule representation.

(char != unsigned char, Datum != uint32); make use of new hash code in
dynahash hash tables and hash joins.

per reports from Fernando Nasser.  Also, rearrange order of declarations
in parsenodes.h as suggested by Fernando.

PostgreSQL. This hash function replaces the one used by hash indexes and
the catalog cache. Hash joins use a different, relatively poor-quality
hash function, but I'll fix that later.

As suggested by Tom Lane, this patch also changes the size of the fixed
hash table used by the catalog cache to be a power-of-2 (instead of a
prime: I chose 256 instead of 257). This allows the catcache to lookup
hash buckets using a simple bitmask. This should improve the performance
of the catalog cache slightly, since the previous method (modulo a
prime) was slow.

In my tests, this improves the performance of hash indexes by between 4%
and 8%; the performance when using btree indexes or seqscans is
basically unchanged.

Neil Conway <neilconway@rogers.com>

- domain.patch -> source patch against pgsql in cvs
- drop_domain.sgml and create_domain.sgml -> New doc/src/sgml/ref docs

- dominfo.txt -> basic domain related queries I used for testing
[ ADDED TO /doc]

Enables domains of array elements -> CREATE DOMAIN dom int4[3][2];

Uses a typbasetype column to describe the origin of the domain.

Copies data to attnotnull rather than processing in execMain().

Some documentation differences from earlier.

If this is approved, I'll start working on pg_dump, and a \dD <domain>
option in psql, and regression tests.  I don't really feel like doing
those until the system table structure settles for pg_type.


CHECKS when added, will also be copied to to the table attributes.  FK
Constraints (if I ever figure out how) will be done similarly.  Both
will lbe handled by MergeDomainAttributes() which is called shortly
before MergeAttributes().

Rod Taylor

o  Change all current CVS messages of NOTICE to WARNING.  We were going
to do this just before 7.3 beta but it has to be done now, as you will
see below.

o Change current INFO messages that should be controlled by
client_min_messages to NOTICE.

o Force remaining INFO messages, like from EXPLAIN, VACUUM VERBOSE, etc.
to always go to the client.

o Remove INFO from the client_min_messages options and add NOTICE.

Seems we do need three non-ERROR elog levels to handle the various
behaviors we need for these messages.

Regression passed.

> > > > It was made to cope with encoding such as an Asian bloc in 7.2Beta2.
> > > >
> > > > Added ServerEncoding
> > > >         Korean (JOHAB), Thai (WIN874),
> > > >         Vietnamese (TCVN), Arabic (WIN1256)
> > > >
> > > > Added ClientEncoding
> > > >         Simplified Chinese (GBK), Korean (UHC)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> http://www.sankyo-unyu.co.jp/Pool/postgresql-7.2b2.newencoding.diff.tar.gz
> > > > (608K)
> > >
> > > Looks good.  I need some people to review this for me.
> >
> > For me they look good too. The only missing part is a
> > documentation. I will ask him to write it up. If he couldn't, I will
> > do it for him.
> > > The diff is 3mb
> > > but appears to address only additions to multibyte.  I have attached a
> > > list of files it modifies.  Also, look at the sizes of the mb/
> > > directory.  It is getting large:
> > >
> > >   4       ./CVS
> > >   6       ./Unicode/CVS
> > >   3433    ./Unicode
> > >   6197    .
> >
> > Yes. We definitely need the on-the-fly encoding addition capability:
> > i.e. CREATE CHRACTER SET in the future...
> > --
> > Tatsuo Ishii
> >
> >

Address chainge.

http://www.sankyo-unyu.co.jp/Pool/postgresql-7.2.newencoding.diff.gz

Add PsqlODBC and document ...etc patch.

Eiji Tokuya

(current as of a few hours ago.)

This patch:

1. Adds PG_GETARG_xxx_P_SLICE() macros and associated support routines.

2. Adds routines in src/backend/access/tuptoaster.c for fetching only
necessary chunks of a toasted value. (Modelled on latest changes to
assume chunks are returned in order).

3. Amends text_substr and bytea_substr to use new methods. It now
handles multibyte cases -and should still lead to a performance
improvement in the multibyte case where the substring is near the
beginning of the string.

4. Added new command: ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER COLUMN colname SET
STORAGE {PLAIN | EXTERNAL | EXTENDED | MAIN} to parser and documented in
alter-table.sgml. (NB I used ColId as the item type for the storage
mode string, rather than a new production - I hope this makes sense!).
All this does is sets attstorage for the specified column.

4. AlterTableAlterColumnStatistics is now AlterTableAlterColumnFlags and
handles both statistics and storage (it uses the subtype code to
distinguish). The previous version of my patch also re-arranged other
code in backend/commands/command.c but I have dropped that from this
patch.(I plan to return to it separately).

5. Documented new macros (and also the PG_GETARG_xxx_P_COPY macros) in
xfunc.sgml. ref/alter_table.sgml also contains documentation for ALTER
COLUMN SET STORAGE.

John Gray

Everyone using libpq and bytea is probably having to invent this wheel..

Patrick Welche

when to send what to which, prevent recursion by introducing new COMMERROR
elog level for client-communication problems, get rid of direct writes
to stderr in backend/libpq files, prevent non-error elogs from going to
client during the authentication cycle.

speed up repetitive failed searches; per pghackers discussion in late
January.  inval.c logic substantially simplified, since we can now treat
inserts and deletes alike as far as inval events are concerned.  Some
repair work needed in heap_create_with_catalog, which turns out to have
been doing CommandCounterIncrement at a point where the new relation has
non-self-consistent catalog entries.  With the new inval code, that
resulted in assert failures during a relcache entry rebuild.

now just below FATAL in server_min_messages.  Added more text to
highlight ordering difference between it and client_min_messages.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

REALLYFATAL => PANIC
STOP => PANIC
New INFO level the prints to client by default
New LOG level the prints to server log by default
Cause VACUUM information to print only to the client
NOTICE => INFO where purely information messages are sent
DEBUG => LOG for purely server status messages
DEBUG removed, kept as backward compatible
DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1 added
DebugLvl removed in favor of new DEBUG[1-5] symbols
New server_min_messages GUC parameter with values:
        DEBUG[5-1], INFO, NOTICE, ERROR, LOG, FATAL, PANIC
New client_min_messages GUC parameter with values:
        DEBUG[5-1], LOG, INFO, NOTICE, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC
Server startup now logged with LOG instead of DEBUG
Remove debug_level GUC parameter
elog() numbers now start at 10
Add test to print error message if older elog() values are passed to elog()
Bootstrap mode now has a -d that requires an argument, like postmaster

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

in RestrictInfo nodes, instead of recomputing on every use.

both input streams to the end.  If one variable's range is much less
than the other, an indexscan-based merge can win by not scanning all
of the other table.  Per example from Reinhard Max.

are now both invoked once per received SQL command (raw parsetree) from
pg_exec_query_string.  BeginCommand is actually just an empty routine
at the moment --- all its former operations have been pushed into tuple
receiver setup routines in printtup.c.  This makes for a clean distinction
between BeginCommand/EndCommand (once per command) and the tuple receiver
setup/teardown routines (once per ExecutorRun call), whereas the old code
was quite ad hoc.  Along the way, clean up the calling conventions for
ExecutorRun a little bit.

report for each received SQL command, regardless of rewriting activity.
Also ensure that this report comes from the 'original' command, not the
last command generated by rewrite; this fixes 7.2 breakage for INSERT
commands that have actions added by rules.  Fernando Nasser and Tom Lane.

hashname() and reduce the penalty incured when NAMEDATALEN is increased.
I posted this to -hackers a couple days ago, and there haven't been any
major complaints. It passes the regression tests. See -hackers for more
discussion, as well as the suggestion from Tom Lane on which this patch
is based.

Unless anyone sees any problems, please apply for 7.3.

Cheers,

Neil Conway

on behalf of unprivileged users.  Also, make '=' optional in CREATE
DATABASE syntax.  From Gavin Sherry, with kibitzing and docs by Tom Lane.

any order without affecting results.

In the mailing lists I found no informations.
See note for further informations.

Add missing AuthBlockSig.

regards Heiko

Improve 'pg_internal.init' relcache entry preload mechanism so that it is
safe to use for all system catalogs, and arrange to preload a realistic
set of system-catalog entries instead of only the three nailed-in-cache
indexes that were formerly loaded this way.  Fix mechanism for deleting
out-of-date pg_internal.init files: this must be synchronized with transaction
commit, not just done at random times within transactions.  Drive it off
relcache invalidation mechanism so that no special-case tests are needed.

Cache additional information in relcache entries for indexes (their pg_index
tuples and index-operator OIDs) to eliminate repeated lookups.  Also cache
index opclass info at the per-opclass level to avoid repeated lookups during
relcache load.

Generalize 'systable scan' utilities originally developed by Hiroshi,
move them into genam.c, use in a number of places where there was formerly
ugly code for choosing either heap or index scan.  In particular this allows
simplification of the logic that prevents infinite recursion between syscache
and relcache during startup: we can easily switch to heapscans in relcache.c
when and where needed to avoid recursion, so IndexScanOK becomes simpler and
does not need any expensive initialization.

Eliminate useless opening of a heapscan data structure while doing an indexscan
(this saves an mdnblocks call and thus at least one kernel call).

originally created with, so that the set of visible tuples does not
change as a result of other activity.  This essentially makes PG cursors
INSENSITIVE per the SQL92 definition.  See bug report of 13-Feb-02.

inline routines do.

compile in client apps that use the standard installed header set.
To allow removing that include, move DLLIMPORT definitions out of c.h
and into the appropriate port-specific header files.

mess up after an aborted VACUUM FULL, per today's pghackers discussion.
Add a suitable HeapTupleSatisfiesToast routine.  Remove useless special-
case test in HeapTupleSatisfiesVisibility macro for xmax =
BootstrapTransactionId; perhaps that was needed at one time, but it's
a waste of cycles now, not to mention actively wrong for SnapshotAny.
Along the way, add some much-needed comments to tqual.c, and simplify
toast_fetch_datum, which no longer needs to assume it may see chunks
out-of-order.

to prevent spreading of corruption when page header pointers are bad.
Merge PageZero into PageInit, since it was never used separately, and
remove separate memset calls used at most other PageInit call points.
Remove IndexPageCleanup, which wasn't used at all.

fixes.

 Thanks to Bruce for spotting it and Tom Lane for diagnosing it.
Since horology test output is changing anyway, add some date/time input
 tests to horology.sql. Some of these should move to the tests for the
 individual data types, and we perhaps should add an entire new test
 for "timezone" to allow manipulating the current time zone without
 risking damage to the results of other tests.

macros, but only at explicit CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls.  Not clear
whether overenthusiastic acceptance of interrupts accounts for any real
bugs, but it definitely seems risky and unnecessary.

 token. Seems to be isolated to datetime.c and datetime.h.

 cases which should have worked but did not.
Now supports julian day (J2452271), ISO time labels (T040506) and various
 combinations of spaces and run-togethers of dates, times, and time zones.
All regression tests pass, and I have more tests to add after the 7.2
 release (don't want to require changes to the ancillary horology result
 files until after then).

object.  This should prevent the compiler from reordering loads and stores
into or out of a critical section.