(harmless, actually, but let's be tidy).

optional arguments as text input functions, ie, typioparam OID and
atttypmod.  Make all the datatypes that use typmod enforce it the same
way in typreceive as they do in typinput.  This fixes a problem with
failure to enforce length restrictions during COPY FROM BINARY.

>
> I think this is because we don't have -lz in SHLIB_LINK.
> Following patch fixes it.

Marko Kreen

Add missing plperl include.

that don't have pg_malloc.

Marko Kreen

return arays nicely without having to make the plperl programmer aware
of anything. The attached patch allows plperl to return an arrayref
where the function returns an array type. It silently calls a perl
function to stringify the array before passing it to the pg array
parser. Non-array returns are handled as before (i.e. passed through
this process) so it is backwards compatible. I will presently submit
regression tests and docs.

example:

andrew=# create or replace function blah() returns text[][] language
plperl as $$ return [['a"b','c,d'],['e\\f','g']]; $$;
CREATE FUNCTION
andrew=# select blah();
            blah
-----------------------------
 {{"a\"b","c,d"},{"e\\f",g}}


This would complete half of the TODO item:

  . Pass arrays natively instead of as text between plperl and postgres

(The other half is translating pg array arguments to perl arrays - that
will have to wait for 8.1).

Some of this patch is adapted from a previously submitted patch from
Sergej Sergeev. Both he and Abhijit Menon-Sen have looked it over
briefly and tentatively said it looks ok.

Andrew Dunstan

for PL/Perl, to avoid loading the entire result set into memory as the
existing spi_exec_query() function does.

Here's how one might use the new functions:

    $x = spi_query("select ...");
    while (defined ($y = spi_fetchrow($x))) {
        ...
        return_next(...);
    }

The changes do not affect the spi_exec_query() interface in any way.

Abhijit Menon-Sen

The Problem:  Occassionally a DBA needs to dump a database to a new
encoding.   In instances where the current encoding, (or lack of an
encoding, like SQL_ASCII) is poorly supported on the target  database
server, it can be useful to dump into a particular  encoding.  But,
currently the only way to set the encoding of  a pg_dump file is to
change  client_encoding in postgresql.conf and restart postmaster.
This is more  than a little awkward for production systems.

Magnus Hagander

into pg_catalog rather than public, and supports dumping languages whose
handlers are found there. This will make it easier to drop the public
schema if desired.

Unlike the previous patch, the comments have been updated and I have
reformatted some code to meet Alvarro's request to stick to 80 cols. (I
actually aghree with this - it makes printing the code much nicer).

I think I did the right thing w.r.t versions earlier than 7.3, but I
have no real way of checking, so that should be checked by someone with
more/older knowledge than me ;-)

Andrew Dunstan

OpenSSL 0.9.6x.  The DES functions use the older 'des_'
API, but the newer 3DES functions use the 0.9.7x-only
'DES_' API.

I think I just used /usr/include/openssl/des.h for reference
when implementing them, and had upgraded OpenSSL in the
meantime.

Following patch converts DES also to newer API and provides
compatibility functions for OpenSSL < 0.9.7.

I chose this route because:

- openssl.c uses few DES functions.
- compatibility for old 'des_' API is going away at some point
  of time from OpenSSL.
- as seen from macros, new API is saner
- Thus pgcrypto supports any OpenSSL version from 0.9.5 to 1.0

Tested with OpenSSL 0.9.6c and 0.9.7e.

Marko Kreen

< 	  computations should adjust based on the time zone rules, e.g.
< 	  adding 24 hours to a timestamp would yield a different result from
< 	  adding one day.
<
> 	  computations should adjust based on the time zone rules.

when a plpython function returns unicode" thread:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-06/msg00105.php

In several places PL/Python was calling PyObject_Str() and then
PyString_AsString() without checking if the former had returned
NULL to indicate an error.  PyString_AsString() doesn't expect a
NULL argument, so passing one causes a segmentation fault.  This
patch adds checks for NULL and raises errors via PLy_elog(), which
prints details of the underlying Python exception.  The patch also
adds regression tests for these checks.  All tests pass on my
Solaris 9 box running HEAD and Python 2.4.1.

In one place the patch doesn't call PLy_elog() because that could
cause infinite recursion; see the comment I added.  I'm not sure
how to test that particular case or whether it's even possible to
get an error there: the value that the code should check is the
Python exception type, so I wonder if a NULL value "shouldn't
happen."  This patch converts NULL to "Unknown Exception" but I
wonder if an Assert() would be appropriate.

The patch is against HEAD but the same changes should be applied
to earlier versions because they have the same problem.  The patch
might not apply cleanly against earlier versions -- will the committer
take care of little differences or should I submit different versions
of the patch?

Michael Fuhr

The specification of this function is as follows.

regexp_replace(source text, pattern text, replacement text, [flags
text])
returns text

Replace string that matches to regular expression in source text to
replacement text.

 - pattern is regular expression pattern.
 - replacement is replace string that can use '\1'-'\9', and '\&'.
    '\1'-'\9': back reference to the n'th subexpression.
    '\&'     : entire matched string.
 - flags can use the following values:
    g: global (replace all)
    i: ignore case
    When the flags is not specified, case sensitive, replace the first
    instance only.

Atsushi Ogawa

of password-based encryption from RFC2440 (OpenPGP).

The goal of this code is to be more featureful encryption solution
than current encrypt(), which only functionality is running cipher
over data.

Compared to encrypt(), pgp_encrypt() does following:

* It uses the equvialent of random Inital Vector to get cipher
  into random state before it processes user data
* Stores SHA-1 of the data into result so any modification
  will be detected.
* Remembers if data was text or binary - thus it can decrypt
  to/from text data.  This was a major nuisance for encrypt().
* Stores info about used algorithms with result, so user needs
  not remember them - more user friendly!
* Uses String2Key algorithms (similar to crypt()) with random salt
  to generate full-length binary key to be used for encrypting.
* Uses standard format for data - you can feed it to GnuPG, if needed.

Optional features (off by default):

* Can use separate session key - user data will be encrypted
  with totally random key, which will be encrypted with S2K
  generated key and attached to result.
* Data compression with zlib.
* Can convert between CRLF<->LF line-endings - to get fully
  RFC2440-compliant behaviour.  This is off by default as
  pgcrypto does not know the line-endings of user data.

Interface is simple:


    pgp_encrypt(data text, key text) returns bytea
    pgp_decrypt(data text, key text) returns text
    pgp_encrypt_bytea(data bytea, key text) returns bytea
    pgp_decrypt_bytea(data bytea, key text) returns bytea

To change parameters (cipher, compression, mdc):

    pgp_encrypt(data text, key text, parms text) returns bytea
    pgp_decrypt(data text, key text, parms text) returns text
    pgp_encrypt_bytea(data bytea, key text, parms text) returns bytea
    pgp_decrypt_bytea(data bytea, key text, parms text) returns bytea

Parameter names I lifted from gpg:

   pgp_encrypt('message', 'key', 'compress-algo=1,cipher-algo=aes256')

For text data, pgp_encrypt simply encrypts the PostgreSQL internal data.

This maps to RFC2440 data type 't' - 'extenally specified encoding'.
But this may cause problems if data is dumped and reloaded into database
which as different internal encoding.  My next goal is to implement data
type 'u' - which means data is in UTF-8 encoding by converting internal
encoding to UTF-8 and back.  And there wont be any compatibility
problems with current code, I think its ok to submit this without UTF-8
encoding by converting internal encoding to UTF-8 and back.  And there
wont be any compatibility problems with current code, I think its ok to
submit this without UTF-8 support.


Here is v4 of PGP encrypt.  This depends on previously sent
Fortuna-patch, as it uses the px_add_entropy function.

- New function: pgp_key_id() for finding key id's.
- Add SHA1 of user data and key into RNG pools.  We need to get
  randomness from somewhere, and it is in user best interests
  to contribute.
- Regenerate pgp-armor test for SQL_ASCII database.
- Cleanup the key handling so that the pubkey support is less
  hackish.

Marko Kreen

- Move openssl random provider to openssl.c and builtin provider
  to internal.c
- Make px_random_bytes use Fortuna, instead of giving error.
- Retarget random.c to aquiring system randomness, for initial seeding
  of Fortuna.  There is ATM 2 functions for Windows,
  reader from /dev/urandom and the regular time()/getpid() silliness.

Marko Kreen

New hashes: SHA256, SHA384, SHA512.

Marko Kreen

100.000,0.

Eugen Nedelcu

is a ReturnSetInfo unless you've tested it with IsA.

that has no terminating newline.  Per report from maps.on at gmx.net.

inspection of shared catalogs.  This allows pg_dumpall to continue to
work with pre-8.1 servers that likely won't have a database named postgres.
Also, suppress output of SYSID options for users and groups, since server
no longer does anything with these except emit a rude message.
There is much more to be done to update pg_dumpall for the roles feature,
but this at least makes it usable again.  Per gripe from Chris K-L.

Also, back-patch fix into back branches.

testing activitymail

functions as STRICT, and all functions except gen_salt() as IMMUTABLE.
gen_salt() is VOLATILE.

Although the functions are now STRICT, I left their PG_ARGISNULL()
checks in place as a protective measure for users who install the
new code but use old (non-STRICT) catalog entries (e.g., restored
from a dump).  Per recent discussion in pgsql-hackers.

Patch from Michael Fuhr.

XLOG_DBASE_DROP_OLD WAL records -- these records are no longer created in
current sources. Adjust numbering of XLOG_DBASE_CREATE and XLOG_DBASE_DROP
and bump the catversion. Patch from Gavin Sherry, adjusted by Neil Conway.

a minimum requirement is that it not completely break the system
meanwhile.  Put the test in the right place.

> * -Prevent dropping user that still owns objects, or auto-drop the objects

have adequate mechanisms for tracking the contents of databases and
tablespaces).  This solves the longstanding problem that you can drop a
user who still owns objects and/or has access permissions.
Alvaro Herrera, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.

< 	   writer.
> 	   writer.  It might cause problems for applying WAL on recovery
> 	   into a partially-written page, but later the full page will be
> 	   replaced from WAL.

>
> 	o  -Add ability to turn off full page writes
> 	o  When off, write CRC to WAL and check file system blocks
> 	   on recovery
> 	o  Write full pages during file system write and not when
> 	   the page is modified in the buffer cache
>
> 	   This allows most full page writes to happen in the background
> 	   writer.

Andrew Dunstan

Mark Kirkwood

plperl - the attached small patch remedies that omission, and adds a
small regression test for error and warning output - the new regression
input and expected output are in separate attached files.

Andrew Dunstan

plperl - the attached small patch remedies that omission.

Andrew Dunstan

problems:

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Support cross compilation by compiling "zic" with a native compiler.
This relies on the output of zic being platform independent, but that is
currently the case.