[PATCHES] GSS warnings

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Jurka
The attached patch fixes the following warnings in src/backend/libpq auth.c:496: warning: passing argument 2 of 'gss_release_cred' from incompatible pointer type pqcomm.c:182: warning: passing argument 2 of 'gss_delete_sec_context' from incompatible pointer type pqcomm.c:185: warning: passing

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Florian G. Pflug wrote: 1) 2PC was broken in V3. I added code that skips LOCKTYPE_VIRTUALTRANSACTION locks when writing the locks to the 2PC state file, but I didn't add the same exception to the code that reassigns the locks to a dummy PGROC afterwards. So the locks weren't released at

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is an updated patch, following the discussion. The patch can be found at: http://soc.phlo.org/lazyxidassign.v4.patch I've been working through this, and found a couple items that seem like judgment calls: * Is there a good

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Florian G. Pflug wrote: 1) 2PC was broken in V3. I added code that skips LOCKTYPE_VIRTUALTRANSACTION locks when writing the locks to the 2PC state file, but I didn't add the same exception to the code that reassigns the locks to a dummy PGROC afterwards. So the locks

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
I wrote: I have a few more things in mind I'm planning to look into: - I'm not convinced that there's enough sanity checking in the input functions. I think you can send queries into the server using the binary protocol that you couldn't produce otherwise. For example, queries with multiple

Re: [PATCHES] GSS warnings

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Parts of the GSS API want the object while others want pointers to the object and it looks like this code got it backwards. I haven't tested these changes, but they look right to me. Wouldn't the code fail entirely if it was wrong in that way?

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Heikki, I see some strange changes in your patch, not related to tsearch at all: contrib/pageinspect/pageinspect.sql.in contrib/pageinspect/rawpage.c The usage of the QueryItem struct was very confusing. It was used for both operators and operands. For operators, val was a single character

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Teodor Sigaev
I fixed this by making the left-field a uint32. There's no reason to arbitrarily limit it to 16-bits, and it won't increase the disk/memory footprint either now that QueryOperator and QueryOperand are separate structs. ... I added check_stack_depth() call to all recursive functions I found.

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Teodor Sigaev wrote: Heikki, I see some strange changes in your patch, not related to tsearch at all: contrib/pageinspect/pageinspect.sql.in contrib/pageinspect/rawpage.c Oh, sorry about that. Just ignore them, they are some quickdirty debugging functions I had in the same source tree. The

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Ok. Probably easiest to do that by changing the palloc to palloc0 in parse_tsquery. and change sizeof to sizeof(QueryItem) -- Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.sigaev.ru/

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Teodor Sigaev wrote: Ok. Probably easiest to do that by changing the palloc to palloc0 in parse_tsquery. and change sizeof to sizeof(QueryItem) Do you mean the sizeofs in the memcpys in parse_tsquery? You can't change them. The source structs are allocated in pushOperand/pushOperator, using

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, none of these are very strong reasons - certainly weaker than doing what ensures to cause the least confusion. I'm therefore starting to think that we should remove transaction, and keep the name virtualtransaction for the VXID. That will

Re: [PATCHES] GSS warnings

2007-09-05 Thread Kris Jurka
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Parts of the GSS API want the object while others want pointers to the object and it looks like this code got it backwards. I haven't tested these changes, but they look right to me. Wouldn't the code fail entirely

Re: [PATCHES] tsearch refactorings

2007-09-05 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Teodor Sigaev wrote: Ok. Probably easiest to do that by changing the palloc to palloc0 in parse_tsquery. and change sizeof to sizeof(QueryItem) Do you mean the sizeofs in the memcpys in parse_tsquery? You can't Oops, I meant pallocs in push* function. palloc0 in

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Pavan Deolasee wrote: together. In the SELECT path, we conditionally try for exclusive lock. If the exclusive lock is also cleanup lock, we prune and defrag the page. As the patch stands, during index fetch we try to prune only the chain originating at that tuple. I am wondering if we should

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is an updated patch, following the discussion. The patch can be found at: http://soc.phlo.org/lazyxidassign.v4.patch (I seems I still can't get attachments through to this list) Applied with revisions --- mostly cosmetic, but there were a couple

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is an updated patch, following the discussion. The patch can be found at: http://soc.phlo.org/lazyxidassign.v4.patch (I seems I still can't get attachments through to this list) Applied with revisions --- mostly cosmetic, but

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Florian G. Pflug) writes: Chris Browne wrote: Similarly, does it seem likely that Slony-I users would need to worry about this? No.. it should have zero negative effects for Slony-I. In fact, it will be an advantage in some cases I think. I remember something about

Re: [PATCHES] [HACKERS] pg_regress config

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Magnus Hagander wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: I would like to add an argument to pg_regress that allows us to set some config options for the temp install. Specifically right now I am interested in setting the following: log_line_prefix = '[%c] ' log_statement = 'all' log_connections =

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am thinking we are best just doing the index chain we already have to read. If you are modifying the table (like with UPDATE) it makes sense to be more aggressive and do the whole page because you know there are probably other table modifications,

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:56, Tom Lane wrote: Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, none of these are very strong reasons - certainly weaker than doing what ensures to cause the least confusion. I'm therefore starting to think that we should remove transaction, and

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ISTM that by removing the transaction column, there is no way to see the XID for relations thats have been updated (which by definition will have locks on them). Am I mis-reading the docs, or have we lost that functionality? Huh? What do you mean

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 12:56, Tom Lane wrote: Florian G. Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, none of these are very strong reasons - certainly weaker than doing what ensures to cause the least confusion. I'm therefore starting to think that we should remove

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Florian G. Pflug wrote: So, in essence, you get the old pg_locks format back by doing select l1.*, l2.transactionid as transaction from pg_locks l1, pg_locks l2 where l1.vxid = l2.vxid and l2.locktype = 'transaction' and l2.mode='exclusive' and l2.granted=true. Hm.. Maybe we should put

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am thinking we are best just doing the index chain we already have to read. If you are modifying the table (like with UPDATE) it makes sense to be more aggressive and do the whole page because you know there are probably

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Florian G. Pflug wrote: So, in essence, you get the old pg_locks format back by doing select l1.*, l2.transactionid as transaction from pg_locks l1, pg_locks l2 where l1.vxid = l2.vxid and l2.locktype = 'transaction' and l2.mode='exclusive' and l2.granted=true.

Re: [PATCHES] Lazy xid assignment V4

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Florian G. Pflug wrote: So, in essence, you get the old pg_locks format back by doing select l1.*, l2.transactionid as transaction from pg_locks l1, pg_locks l2 where l1.vxid = l2.vxid and l2.locktype = 'transaction' and l2.mode='exclusive' and

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Uh, why would any of this code at all execute during a pure lookup? No idea. It seems an index lookup tries to prune a heap chain, and he was asking if it should look at other chains on the page; I said not. Whether the index lookup

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Gregory Stark
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am thinking we are best just doing the index chain we already have to read. If you are modifying the table (like with UPDATE) it makes sense to be more aggressive and do the whole page

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Uh, why would any of this code at all execute during a pure lookup? No idea. It seems an index lookup tries to prune a heap chain, and he was asking if it should look at other chains on the page; I

Re: [PATCHES] HOT patch - version 15

2007-09-05 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On 9/6/07, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ISTM the only time we should be doing HOT cleanup work is when we are trying to insert a new tuple on that page --- and maybe even only when we try and it doesn't fit straight off. Otherwise you're