> Hannu Krosing wrote:
 >
 >> It seems that my last mail on this did not get through to the list
 >> ;(
 >>
 >> Please consider renaming the new builtin function
 >> split(text,text,int)
 >>
 >> to something else, perhaps
 >>
 >> split_part(text,text,int)
 >>
 >> (like date_part)
 >>
 >> The reason for this request is that 3 most popular scripting
 >> languages (perl, python, php) all have also a function with similar
 >> signature, but returning an array instead of single element and the
 >> (optional) third argument is limit (maximum number of splits to
 >> perform)
 >>
 >> I think that it would be good to have similar function in (some
 >> future release of) postgres, but if we now let in a function with
 >> same name and arguments but returning a single string instead an
 >> array of them, then we will need to invent a new and not so easy to
 >> recognise name for the "real" split function.
 >>
 >
 > This is a good point, and I'm not opposed to changing the name, but
 > it is too bad your original email didn't get through before beta1 was
 >  rolled. The change would now require an initdb, which I know we were
 >  trying to avoid once beta started (although we could change it
 > without *requiring* an initdb I suppose).
 >
 > I guess if we do end up needing an initdb for other reasons, we
 > should make this change too. Any other opinions? Is split_part an
 > acceptable name?
 >
 > Also, if we add a todo to produce a "real" split function that
 > returns an array, similar to those languages, I'll take it for 7.4.

No one commented on the choice of name, so the attached patch changes
the name of split(text,text,int) to split_part(text,text,int) per
Hannu's recommendation above. This can be applied without an initdb if
current beta testers are advised to run:

   update pg_proc set proname = 'split_part' where proname = 'split';

in the case they want to use this function. Regression and doc fix is
also included in the patch.

Joe Conway

> be a useful function for many users.   However, I found the fact that
> if connectby_tree has the following data, connectby() tries to search the end
> of roots without knowing that the relations are infinite(-5-9-10-11-9-10-11-)
.
> I hope connectby() supports a check routine to find infinite relations.
>
>
> CREATE TABLE connectby_tree(keyid int, parent_keyid int);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(1,NULL);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(2,1);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(3,1);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(4,2);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(5,2);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(6,4);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(7,3);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(8,6);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(9,5);
>
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(10,9);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(11,10);
> INSERT INTO connectby_tree VALUES(9,11);    <-- infinite
>

The attached patch fixes the infinite recursion bug in
contrib/tablefunc/tablefunc.c:connectby found by Masaru Sugawara.

test=# SELECT * FROM connectby('connectby_tree', 'keyid',
'parent_keyid', '2', 4, '~') AS t(keyid int, parent_keyid int, level
int, branch text);
  keyid | parent_keyid | level |   branch
-------+--------------+-------+-------------
      2 |              |     0 | 2
      4 |            2 |     1 | 2~4
      6 |            4 |     2 | 2~4~6
      8 |            6 |     3 | 2~4~6~8
      5 |            2 |     1 | 2~5
      9 |            5 |     2 | 2~5~9
     10 |            9 |     3 | 2~5~9~10
     11 |           10 |     4 | 2~5~9~10~11
(8 rows)

test=# SELECT * FROM connectby('connectby_tree', 'keyid',
'parent_keyid', '2', 5, '~') AS t(keyid int, parent_keyid int, level
int, branch text);
ERROR:  infinite recursion detected

I implemented it by checking the branch string for repeated keys
(whether or not the branch is returned). The performance hit was pretty
minimal -- about 1% for a moderately complex test case (220000 record
table, 9 level tree with 3800 members).

Joe Conway

> where more than one schema is in use, because it doesn't trouble to
> schema-qualify table names.

Ok, the following patch should solve this concern.  It also tries to
connect as little times as possible (the previous one would connect one
time per table plus one per database; this one connects two times per
database).

Alvaro Herrera

for contrib/intarray.

The cause was that the library uses its own function to construct a new
array, new_intArrayType, and that function did not set the new array
struct attribute elemtype.

Joe Conway

"contrib/tablefunc/tablefunc-test.sql", and adds a standard regression
test suite to contrib/tablefunc.

Joe Conway

that are explicitly JOINed are not considered dependencies unless they
are actually used in the query: mere presence in the joinaliasvars
list of a JOIN RTE doesn't count as being used.  The patch touches
a number of files because I needed to generalize the API of
query_tree_walker to support an additional flag bit, but the changes
are otherwise quite small.

  - Properly drop tables in jdbc regression tests with cascade for 7.3
  - problem with Statement.execute() and executeUpdate() not clearing binds
  - problem with ResultSet not correctly handling default encoding
  - changes to correctly support show transaction isolation level in 7.3
  - changed DatabaseMetaDataTest to handle differences in FK names in 7.3
  - better fix for dynamically checking server NAME data length
  (With the fixes above the jdbc regression tests pass on jdbc2 and jdbc3
   against both a 7.2 and 7.3 server)
Patchs submitted by David Wall (d.wall@computer.org):
  - problem with getBlob when largeobject oid is null
  - improvements to BlobOutputStream
Patch submitted by Haris Peco (snpe@snpe.co.yu):
  - problem with callable statement not supporting prepared statement methods

 Modified Files:
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/Driver.java.in
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1Connection.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1DatabaseMetaData.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1Statement.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/AbstractJdbc2ResultSet.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/AbstractJdbc2Statement.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc2/Jdbc2ResultSet.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc3/Jdbc3ResultSet.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/largeobject/BlobOutputStream.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/largeobject/LargeObject.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/test/TestUtil.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/DatabaseMetaDataTest.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/UpdateableResultTest.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/optional/BaseDataSourceTest.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/optional/ConnectionPoolTest.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/test/jdbc2/optional/SimpleDataSourceTest.java

Bruno Wolff III

Fixed Statement to correctly DEALLOCATE any prepared statements

 Modified Files:
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/PGStatement.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1DatabaseMetaData.java
 	jdbc/org/postgresql/jdbc1/AbstractJdbc1Statement.java

NAMEDATALEN of 64.

Kris Jurka

< * Add documentation to lock shared memory into RAM for each OS, if possible

option down to pg_dump, where it's useless, and clarify the meaning of -c
in the documentation.

does not create members larger than allowed by the tar format.  Also, fix
the generation of the tar header to conform to POSIX.

never been the correct procedure for locking a relation, and the
recently-found ALTER TABLE bug with adding a constraint and a toast
table in the same command shows why it's a bad idea.

and IS [NOT] OF were not being parsed consistently with other IS forms.
Also, make the world a little safer for functions named LEFT, RIGHT, etc.

Cleanup up memory allocation for $HOME in related psql places.

Update mention of $HOME/.pgpass in the docs;  add mention in pg_dumpall.

> * -Add ~/.pgpass to store passwords with user/host/password combinations

it's GetUserNameFromId() now.