comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib
directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names
in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for
indenting).
Backpatch to 8.1.X.
pg_strcasecmp and pg_strncasecmp ... but I see some of the former have
crept back in.
Eternal vigilance is the price of locale independence, apparently.
unlike template0 and template1 does not have any special status in
terms of backend functionality. However, all external utilities such
as createuser and createdb now connect to "postgres" instead of
template1, and the documentation is changed to encourage people to use
"postgres" instead of template1 as a play area. This should fix some
longstanding gotchas involving unexpected propagation of database
objects by createdb (when you used template1 without understanding
the implications), as well as ameliorating the problem that CREATE
DATABASE is unhappy if anyone else is connected to template1.
Patch by Dave Page, minor editing by Tom Lane. All per recent
pghackers discussions.
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
owned by postgres, doing "pg_ctl start" as root could allow a privilege
escalation attack, as pointed out by iDEFENSE. Of course the postmaster would
fail, but we ought to fail a little sooner to protect sysadmins unfamiliar
with Postgres. The chosen fix is to disable root use of pg_ctl in all cases,
just to be confident there are no other holes.
C:\msys\1.0\home\y-asaba>pg_ctl -D data restart
waiting for postmaster to shut down...LOG: received smart shutdown
request.
LOG: shutting down
LOG: database system is shut down
done
postmaster stopped
postmaster starting
C:\msys\1.0\home\y-asaba>postmaster.exe: invalid argument: "'-D'"
Try "postmaster.exe --help" for more information.
Yoshiyuki Asaba
- refactor a bunch of code to call a separate function print_msg() which
checks whether "silent mode" is enabled before printing an error
message.
- rename "silence_mode" to "silent_mode", which IMHO makes more sense
- make the error messages we emit in "waiting" mode more consistent; I
believe this fixes a recent error message regression
- replace some function signatures of the form "some_type foo()" with
"some_type foo(void)"
- replace a few instances of a literal 0 being used as a NULL pointer;
there are more instances of this in the code, but I just fixed a few
- in src/backend/utils/mb/wstrncmp.c, replace K&R style function
declarations with ANSI style, remove use of 'register' keyword
- remove an "extern" modifier that was applied to a function definition
(rather than a declaration)
some possible causes of the stale postmaster.pid problem that some users
have reported.
- The service did not properly report that it accepts
SERVICE_CONTROL_SHUTDOWN events, thus it's possible the SCM simply
killed the postmaster on shutdown.
- 'WaitHints' are now given to the SCM to prevent it timing out if
pg_ctl doesn't respond to a control event quickly enough.
- During shutdown, the service checkpoint counter is incremented every
five seconds for up to a minute to prevent the SCM timing out and
assuming the service is not responding.
Dave Page
> > "pg_ctl register -w ...." the "-w" parameter was not put in
> the registry "ImagePath"
> > value for the Postgres service. (I added it manually to test.) So I
> > suspect that "pg_ctl register" will need to be enhanced to add the
> > "-w" parameter to the registry settings.
Dave Page
> ---skiped---
> -P user name of account to register PostgreSQL server
> -U password of account to register PostgreSQL server
> ---skiped---
>
> I think that isn't right ;)
Claudio Natoli
