[COMMITTERS] Logical decoding

2016-07-09 Thread Joshua Bay
Hi, I have a question about logical decoding of Postgres. where are the entry points to logical decoding? Specifically, we want to know whether logical decoding happens immediately after commit, or whether there is a polling thread that scans the Write Ahead Log and then dumps to the special t

[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces.

2016-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces. Change assorted places in our Perl code that did things like system("prog $path/file"); to do it more like system('prog', "$path/file"); which is safe against spaces and other special characters in the path variable. The la

[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces.

2016-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces. Change assorted places in our Perl code that did things like system("prog $path/file"); to do it more like system('prog', "$path/file"); which is safe against spaces and other special characters in the path variable. The la

[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces.

2016-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces. Change assorted places in our Perl code that did things like system("prog $path/file"); to do it more like system('prog', "$path/file"); which is safe against spaces and other special characters in the path variable. The la

Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add some temporary code to record stack usage at server process

2016-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > On 7/8/16 12:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Add some temporary code to record stack usage at server process exit. > In spite of the void cast, this is still warning > ipc.c:125: ignoring return value of ‘system’, declared with attribute > warn_unused_result [-Wunused-r

[COMMITTERS] pgsql: Improve recording of IA64 stack data.

2016-07-09 Thread Tom Lane
Improve recording of IA64 stack data. Examination of the results from anole and gharial suggests that we're only managing to track the size of one of the two stacks of IA64 machines. Some googling gave the answer: on HPUX11, the register stack is reported as a page type I don't see in pstat.h on m

Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add some temporary code to record stack usage at server process

2016-07-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 7/8/16 12:01 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Add some temporary code to record stack usage at server process exit. In spite of the void cast, this is still warning ipc.c:125: ignoring return value of ‘system’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: doc: mention dependency on collation libraries

2016-07-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 7/2/16 11:22 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: doc: mention dependency on collation libraries Document that index storage is dependent on the operating system's collation library ordering, and any change in that ordering can create invalid indexes. I think you're missing some punctuation between "No