pg_notifies statement is eliminated, and callbacks defined by
pg_listen are instead invoked automatically from the Tcl idle loop
whenever a NOTIFY message is received.
I have done only cursory testing, so there may be problems still
lurking (particularly on non-Unix machines?). But it seems to
work.
Patch is against today's cvs sources. Note that this will not work
with the 6.3.2 release since it depends on the new libpq.
The diffs are a bit large so I've gzipped them. A patch to update
libpgtcl.sgml is included too.
regards, tom lane
1. Rewritten libpq to allow asynchronous clients.
2. Implemented client side of cancel protocol in library,
and patched psql.c to send a cancel request upon SIGINT. The
backend doesn't notice it yet :-(
3. Implemented 'Z' protocol message addition and renaming of
copy in/out start messages. These are implemented conditionally,
ie, the client protocol version is checked; so the code should
still work with 1.0 clients.
4. Revised protocol and libpq sgml documents (don't have an SGML
compiler, though, so there may be some markup glitches here).
What remains to be done:
1. Implement addition of atttypmod field to RowDescriptor messages.
The client-side code is there but ifdef'd out. I have no idea
what to change on the backend side. The field should be sent
only if protocol >= 2.0, of course.
2. Implement backend response to cancel requests received as OOB
messages. (This prolly need not be conditional on protocol
version; just do it if you get SIGURG.)
3. Update libpq.3. (I'm hoping this can be generated mechanically
from libpq.sgml... if not, will do it by hand.) Is there any
other doco to fix?
4. Update non-libpq interfaces as necessary. I patched libpgtcl
so that it would compile, but haven't tested it. Dunno what
needs to be done with the other interfaces.
Have at it!
Tom Lane
HP-UX (all versions) requires shared libraries to have execute
permission, and really needs them to be exactly mode 555 for
performance reasons. The standard configure/install procedure
installs libpq.sl as mode 644, which DOES NOT WORK.
The attached patch modifies the makefiles to distinguish
INSTL_LIB_OPTS (install mode for ordinary libraries) from
INSTL_SHLIB_OPTS (mode for shared libs), and adds a test
to configure to set INSTL_SHLIB_OPTS="-m 555" when on HP-UX.
Attached you'll find a (big) patch that fixes make dep and make
depend in all Makefiles where I found it to be appropriate.
It also removes the dependency in Makefile.global for NAMEDATALEN
and OIDNAMELEN by making backend/catalog/genbki.sh and bin/initdb/initdb.sh
a little smarter.
This no longer requires initdb.sh that is turned into initdb with
a sed script when installing Postgres, hence initdb.sh should be
renamed to initdb (after the patch has been applied :-) )
This patch is against the 6.3 sources, as it took a while to
complete.
Please review and apply,
Cheers,
Jeroen van Vianen
the configuration of v6.3.1. I have replaced the queries for
include/lib directories with --with configuration options. I have
also included a list of potential tcl/tk include directories directly
in the CPPFLAGS variable. As new versions are needed, these should
be added to the list in reverse numerical order (libraries are in
a separate list near the end). This greatly simplifies the later
checks if --with-tcl is set. I hope this solution works for
everyone.
I also added a check to disable the perl support if postgres was
not already installed (as per the instructions in the directory).
By the way, why must there be an installed pgsql to compile perl
support? This seems odd, at best.
Finally, I changed the Makefile in the libpgtcl interface to place
the shared libraries at the end of the list of files, not at the
beginning. With NetBSD at least, libraries are linked in order,
so the original sequence does not work.
Brook Milligan
was a 2000 character buffer allocated for results, and the files
you refer to produce a 2765 byte column called formsource. This
should not have worked with any version of libpgtcl.
Nevertheless, the limit is an artificial one, since there is no
need to use this intermediate buffer where it is being used and
abused.
Randy Kunkee <kunkee@pluto.ops.NeoSoft.com>
It is my hope that the following "patches" to libpgtcl get included
in the next release.
See the update to the README file to get a full description of the changes.
This version of libpgtcl is completely interpreter-safe, implements the
database connection handle as a channel (no events yet, but will make it
a lot easier to do fileevents on it in the future), and supports the SQL
"copy table to stdout" and "copy table from stdin" commands, with the
I/O being from and to the connection handle. The connection and result
handles are formatted in a way to make access to the tables more efficient.
Apart from this Makefile hack, all I've done is to make dynamically
loaded code modules fail properly (as was already done for __mips__,
although I think this is too loose: I believe NetBSD for the pmax can
do dynamic linking), and to add test-and-set lock handling. As Bruce
suggested, this is done in a maximally efficient inlined way: I was
not aware that this code was so important, speed-wise.
The attached patches will allow postgreSQL to compile successfully on SCO
UNIXWARE 2.1.x. The patches fix the following problems:
1. Configure did not properly recognize the UNIXWARE system as needing the
univel port. It used the sys4 port.
2. Configure did not properly process the CC flag in the template file.
3. There was no working test and set locking implementation for the native
UNIXWARE compiler.
4. The test and set locking used for Intel X86 that was selected by defining
NEED_I386_TAS_ASM could fail in a multi-processor environment.
5. The makefiles for libpq and libpgtcl did not make a shared library for
the univel port.
Subject: [HACKERS] Small patch to pgtclCmds.c
Hi I have made the following small change to the extensions I made to
pgtclCmds.c quite a while ago.
At the moment there is a -assignbyidx option to pg_result assigning the
returned tuples to an array by using the 1st field of the select statement
as the key to the array.
eg "select name,age from vitalstatistics" will result in an array with
myarray(peter) = 32
myarray(paul) = 45
Often I need to have a pseudo-multi dimentional
array eg. "select name,age from vitalstatistics where occupation='plummer'
I would like to be able to generate an array
newarray(peter,overpaid) = 32
So to add a arbitrary string to the key value I have extended
pg_result $res -assignbyidx $arrayname
to have an optional argument
pg_result $res -assignbyidx $arrayname $appendstr
So that that string is appended to the key value.
Subject: [HACKERS] locale patches !
Hi there,
here are little patches to get Postgres 6.1 works with locale stuff.
This is a patch against 970402.tar.gz, there are no problem to apply them
by hand to 6.0 release. Collate stuff tested about 1-2 months in real
working database but I'm sure there must be no problem. US hackers
could vote against locale implementation ( locale for sure will affect to
speed of postgres ), so I introduce variable USE_LOCALE which
controls locale stuff. Non-US users now could use ~* operator
for searching and <order by> for strings with nation alphabet.
Please, don't forget, as I did first time, to set environment variable
LC_CTYPE and LC_COLLATE because backend get locale information from them.
I start postmaster from a little script, assuming that shell is Bash shell
it looks like:
#!/bin/sh
export LC_CTYPE=koi8-r
export LC_COLLATE=koi8-r
postmaster -B 1024 -S -D/usr/local/pgsql/data/ -o '-Fe'
At least the first two should be fixed before the final release of 6.0.
1) There is a mismatch between the type declared in the catalog for
the input/output attributes of pg_type and the actual type of
values stored in the table. The type of typinput, typoutput,
typsend and typreceive are declared oid (26) while the values are
regproc (24). The error was there also in previous versions but
nobody noticed it until an Assert has been added in ExecEvalVar.
The effect is that it is now impossible to replace the typoutput
of existing data types with new procs.
2) The identd hba fails after the first time because the data read
from the identd socket is not zero-terminated and strlen reports
an incorrect length if the stack contains garbage, which usually
happens after the first connection has been made.
3) The new initdb wants to create itself the data directory. This
implies that the parent directory must be writable by postgres and
this may not always be desirable. A better solution would be to
allow the directory to be created by root and then filled by initdb.
It would also nice to have some reasonable default for PGLIB and
PGDATA like the previous version did. This applies also to the
postmaster executable.
these routines try to use the old pointer casting stuff to get
the connection id, second the notification hash table should
be part of the cliendData. Otherwise, one interpreter might
eat up the notifies for another one.
Please apply the patch below to the current 6.0 tree.
Submitted by: wieck@sapserv.debis.de
