days. It seems to be a FAQ, and I think I know why. When creating a 'c'
language function, CREATE FUNCTION is fed the shared object filename,
and seems to succeed. Only when trying to use the function is an error
thrown, by which time the coder thinks something's wrong with executing
the code, not with loading it.
I think I once saw it proposed to load shared objects at function creation
time, but that idea was shot down on the grounds of resident memory bloat,
ISTR. Here's a patch for a compromise: all it does is stat() the file,
just like the loader code does, so that the errors caused by non existent
files, and no directory 'x' permissions (the most common ones, it seems),
get caught while the developer is still thinking about code loading. It
doesn't catch all errors (like the code not being readable by the postgres
user) but seems to catch the most common, without actually opening the file.
What do you think?
Ross
indexes, apparently, nor on functional indexes with more than one input
column (force of natts = 1 was in the wrong branch of IF statement).
Coredumped if source relation contained any uncommitted tuples, due to
failure to test for success return from heap_fetch. Fetched tuple
was passed directly to heap_insert, which clobbers the TID and commit
status in the tuple header it's given, which meant that the source
relation's tuples all got trashed as the copy proceeded. Abort partway
through, and you're left with a lot of missing tuples.
I wonder what else is lurking here ...
under FreeBSD ... basically, if setproctitle() exists, use it ...
the draw back right now is the PS_SET_STATUS stuff doesn't work, but am looking
into that one right now ... at lesat now you can see who is connecting where
and from where ...
mappings. In fact, it had them backward because it was using the 6.5.*
code. Copied them from parser/gram.y, so it is fixed now. Looks like
our first 7.0.1 fix. Oops, seems Tom has beat me to it as I was typing
this.
Rearrange handling of VACUUMs so that they are certain to be executed
as superuser not some random user; also, do not forget to vacuum
template1 itself.
pg_char_to_encoding() in multibyte disbaled case so that it does not
throw an error, rather return HARD CODED default value (currently SQL_ASCII).
This would solve the "non-mb backend vs. mb-enabled frontend" problem.
cleanup, ie, as soon as we have caught the longjmp. This ensures that
current context will be a valid context throughout error cleanup. Before
it was possible that current context was pointing at a context that would
get deleted during cleanup, leaving any subsequent pallocs in deep
trouble. I was able to provoke an Assert failure when compiled with
asserts + -DCLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY, if I did something that would cause
an error to be reported by the backend large-object code, because indeed
that code operates in a context that gets deleted partway through xact
abort --- and CurrentMemoryContext was still pointing at it! Boo hiss.
cases where joinclauses were present but some joins have to be made
by cartesian-product join anyway. An example is
SELECT * FROM a,b,c WHERE (a.f1 + b.f2 + c.f3) = 0;
Even though all the rels have joinclauses, we must join two of them
in cartesian style before we can use the join clause...
than BIND_DEFERRED. That way, if the loaded library has unresolved
references, shl_load fails cleanly. As we had it, shl_load would
succeed and then the dynlinker would call abort() when we try to call
into the loaded library. abort()ing a backend is uncool.
