Tag: pg93

Waiting for 9.3 – Support indexing of regular-expression searches in contrib/pg_trgm.

On 9th of April, Tom Lane committed patch:

Support indexing of regular-expression searches in contrib/pg_trgm.
 
This works by extracting trigrams from the given regular expression,
in generally the same spirit as the previously-existing support for
LIKE searches, though of course the details are far more complicated.
 
Currently, only GIN indexes are supported.  We might be able to make
it work with GiST indexes later.
 
The implementation includes adding API functions to backend/regex/
to provide a view of the search NFA created from a regular expression.
These functions are meant to be generic enough to be supportable in
a standalone version of the regex library, should that ever happen.
 
Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane

One day later Tom Lane added support for the same operations using GiST indexes (original patch was working only with GIN).

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Waiting for 9.3 – Add \watch [SEC] command to psql.

On 4th of April, Tom Lane committed patch:

Add \watch [SEC] command to psql.
 
This allows convenient re-execution of commands.
 
Will Leinweber, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Farina, and Tom Lane

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Waiting for 9.3 – Add new JSON processing functions and parser API.

On 29th of March, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:

Add new JSON processing functions and parser API.
 
The JSON parser is converted into a recursive descent parser, and
exposed for use by other modules such as extensions. The API provides
hooks for all the significant parser event such as the beginning and end
of objects and arrays, and providing functions to handle these hooks
allows for fairly simple construction of a wide variety of JSON
processing functions. A set of new basic processing functions and
operators is also added, which use this API, including operations to
extract array elements, object fields, get the length of arrays and the
set of keys of a field, deconstruct an object into a set of key/value
pairs, and create records from JSON objects and arrays of objects.
 
Catalog version bumped.
 
Andrew Dunstan, with some documentation assistance from Merlin Moncure.

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Waiting for 9.3 – Add parallel pg_dump option.

On 24th of March, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:

Add parallel pg_dump option.
 
New infrastructure is added which creates a set number of workers
(threads on Windows, forked processes on Unix). Jobs are then
handed out to these workers by the master process as needed.
pg_restore is adjusted to use this new infrastructure in place of the
old setup which created a new worker for each step on the fly. Parallel
dumps acquire a snapshot clone in order to stay consistent, if
available.
 
The parallel option is selected by the -j / --jobs command line
parameter of pg_dump.
 
Joachim Wieland, lightly editorialized by Andrew Dunstan.

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Waiting for 9.3 – Support writable foreign tables.

On 10th of March, Tom Lane committed patch:

Support writable foreign tables.
 
This patch adds the core-system infrastructure needed to support updates
on foreign tables, and extends contrib/postgres_fdw to allow updates
against remote Postgres servers.  There's still a great deal of room for
improvement in optimization of remote updates, but at least there's basic
functionality there now.
 
KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov and Laurenz Albe, and rather
heavily revised by Tom Lane.

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Waiting for 9.3 – Report pg_hba line number and contents when users fail to log in

On 10th of March, Magnus Hagander committed patch:

Report pg_hba line number and contents when users fail to log in
 
Instead of just reporting which user failed to log in, log both the
line number in the active pg_hba.conf file (which may not match reality
in case the file has been edited and not reloaded) and the contents of
the matching line (which will always be correct), to make it easier
to debug incorrect pg_hba.conf files.
 
The message to the client remains unchanged and does not include this
information, to prevent leaking security sensitive information.
 
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Dean Rasheed

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Waiting for 9.3 – JSON generation improvements.

On 10th of March, Andrew Dunstan committed patch:

JSON generation improvements.
 
This adds the following:
 
    json_agg(anyrecord) -> json
    to_json(any) -> json
    hstore_to_json(hstore) -> json (also used as a cast)
    hstore_to_json_loose(hstore) -> json
 
The last provides heuristic treatment of numbers and booleans.
 
Also, in json generation, if any non-builtin type has a cast to json,
that function is used instead of the type's output function.
 
Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Steve Singer.
 
Catalog version bumped.

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Waiting for 9.3 – Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.

Yet another missed thing for “Waiting for 9.3". Sorry about that.

On 29th of January, Tom Lane committed patch:

Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.
 
This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to
extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages,
if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION
failure.  It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which
can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint
associated with the error.  (Since the protocol spec has always instructed
clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any
compatibility problem.)
 
Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set
of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation"
SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future.
 
Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with
additional hacking by Tom Lane.

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Waiting for 9.3 – Add a materialized view relations.

On 4th of March, Kevin Grittner committed patch:

Add a materialized view relations.
 
A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and
other physical properties like a table.  The rule is only used to
populate the table, references in queries refer to the
materialized data.
 
This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in
many cases.  Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements.
It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates
with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining
what is "fresh" data will be developed.  At some point it may even
be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of
references to underlying tables, but that requires the other
above-mentioned features to be working first.
 
Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas.
Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja
Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to
implement sepgsql still pending.

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Waiting for 9.3 – Add CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW syntax

On 1st of February, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

Add CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW syntax
 
This is specified in the SQL standard.  The CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW
specification is transformed into a normal CREATE VIEW statement with a
WITH RECURSIVE clause.
 
reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen and Stephen Frost

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