to create a function for it.
Procedural languages now have an additional entry point, namely a function
to execute an inline code block. This seemed a better design than trying
to hide the transient-ness of the code from the PL. As of this patch, only
plpgsql has an inline handler, but probably people will soon write handlers
for the other standard PLs.
In passing, remove the long-dead LANCOMPILER option of CREATE LANGUAGE.
Petr Jelinek
Update install-sh to that from Autoconf 2.63, plus our Darwin-specific
changes (which I simplified a bit). install-sh is now able to install
multiple files in one run, so we could simplify our makefiles sometime.
install-sh also now has a -d option to create directories, so we don't need
mkinstalldirs anymore.
Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in configure.in, so we can use mkdir -p when available
instead of install-sh -d. For consistency with the rest of the world,
the corresponding make variable has been renamed from $(mkinstalldirs) to
$(MKDIR_P).
are using our own ports of getopt or getopt_long, those will define
the variable for themselves; and if not, we don't need these, because
we never touch the variable anyway.
kwlist.h, to avoid having to link the backend object file into other programs
like pg_dump. We can now simply symlink a single source file from the backend
(kwlookup.c, containing the shared routine ScanKeywordLookup) and compile it
locally, which is a lot cleaner.
different locales. This is just syntactical sweetener over --lc-collate and
--lc-ctype. Per discussion.
While at it, properly document --lc-ctype and --lc-collate in SGML docs,
which apparently were forgotten (or purposefully ommited?) when they were
created.
ctype are now more like encoding, stored in new datcollate and datctype
columns in pg_database.
This is a stripped-down version of Radek Strnad's patch, with further
changes by me.
Provides for better code readability, but mainly this is infrastructure changes
to allow further changes such as arbitrary footers on printed tables. Also,
the translation status of each element in the table is more easily customized.
Brendan Jurd, with some editorialization by me.
psql's \d commands and other uses of printQuery(). Previously we would pass
these strings through gettext() and then send them to the server as literals
in the SQL query. But the code was not set up to handle doubling of quotes in
the strings, causing failure if a translation attempted to use the wrong kind
of quote marks, as indeed is now the case for (at least) the French
translation of \dFp. Another hazard was that gettext() would translate to
whatever encoding was implied by the client's LC_CTYPE setting, which might be
different from the client_encoding setting, which would probably cause the
server to reject the query as mis-encoded. The new arrangement is to send the
untranslated ASCII strings to the server, and do the translations inside
printQuery() after the query results come back. Per report from Guillaume
Lelarge and subsequent discussion.
PQconnectionNeedsPassword function that tells the right thing for whether to
prompt for a password, and improve PQconnectionUsedPassword so that it checks
whether the password used by the connection was actually supplied as a
connection argument, instead of coming from environment or a password file.
Per bug report from Mark Cave-Ayland and subsequent discussion.
renumbering of encoding IDs done between 8.2 and 8.3 turns out to break 8.2
initdb and psql if they are run with an 8.3beta1 libpq.so. For the moment
we can rearrange the order of enum pg_enc to keep the same number for
everything except PG_JOHAB, which isn't a problem since there are no direct
references to it in the 8.2 programs anyway. (This does force initdb
unfortunately.)
Going forward, we want to fix things so that encoding IDs can be changed
without an ABI break, and this commit includes the changes needed to allow
libpq's encoding IDs to be treated as fully independent of the backend's.
The main issue is that libpq clients should not include pg_wchar.h or
otherwise assume they know the specific values of libpq's encoding IDs,
since they might encounter version skew between pg_wchar.h and the libpq.so
they are using. To fix, have libpq officially export functions needed for
encoding name<=>ID conversion and validity checking; it was doing this
anyway unofficially.
It's still the case that we can't renumber backend encoding IDs until the
next bump in libpq's major version number, since doing so will break the
8.2-era client programs. However the code is now prepared to avoid this
type of problem in future.
Note that initdb is no longer a libpq client: we just pull in the two
source files we need directly. The patch also fixes a few places that
were being sloppy about checking for an unrecognized encoding name.
duplicative -DFRONTEND flags from many Makefiles. We still need Makefile
control of the symbol in a few places that compile frontend-or-backend
src/port/ files, but it's a lot cleaner than before.
Hiroshi Saito
error message, by using PQconnectionUsedPassword() instead. Someday
we might be able to localize that error message, but not until this
coding technique has disappeared everywhere.
(Possibly release notes material, lest users be confused.)
The --quiet option is now obsolete and without effect in createdb,
createuser, dropdb, dropuser; kept for compatibility but marked for
removal in 8.4.
Progress messages when acting on all databases now go to stdout instead
of stderr, since they are not in fact errors.
Ordered options in reindexdb reference page alphabetically, like in
other programs' pages.
Peter Eisentraut