postgres/contrib
Tom Lane 82eed4dba2 Arrange to put TOAST tables belonging to temporary tables into special schemas
named pg_toast_temp_nnn, alongside the pg_temp_nnn schemas used for the temp
tables themselves.  This allows low-level code such as the relcache to
recognize that these tables are indeed temporary, which enables various
optimizations such as not WAL-logging changes and using local rather than
shared buffers for access.  Aside from obvious performance benefits, this
provides a solution to bug #3483, in which other backends unexpectedly held
open file references to temporary tables.  The scheme preserves the property
that TOAST tables are not in any schema that's normally in the search path,
so they don't conflict with user table names.

initdb forced because of changes in system view definitions.
2007-07-25 22:16:18 +00:00
..
adminpack Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
btree_gist Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
chkpass Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
cube Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
dblink Restrict non-superusers to password authenticated connections 2007-07-08 17:12:38 +00:00
earthdistance Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
fuzzystrmatch Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
hstore Fix compile warning on Solaris, per buildfarm. (Why have we got 2007-07-15 22:40:28 +00:00
intagg Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
intarray Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
isn Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
lo Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
ltree Fix compile warning on Solaris, per buildfarm. (Why have we got 2007-07-15 22:40:28 +00:00
oid2name Arrange to put TOAST tables belonging to temporary tables into special schemas 2007-07-25 22:16:18 +00:00
pageinspect Fix CHECK_RELATION_BLOCK_RANGE macro, which was not merely producing 2007-07-15 23:46:20 +00:00
pg_buffercache Fix pg_buffercache to release buffer partition locks in reverse order, 2007-07-16 21:20:36 +00:00
pg_freespacemap Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
pg_standby Quote pathnames so pg_standby works with paths that have 2007-07-16 08:40:52 +00:00
pg_trgm Simplify overly-cute array coding to avoid an apparent gcc bug, which 2007-07-12 23:10:57 +00:00
pgbench Fix possible portability problem, per buildfarm warnings. 2007-07-15 22:34:26 +00:00
pgcrypto Get rid of overly cute, unportable, probably not very efficient substitute 2007-07-15 23:57:13 +00:00
pgrowlocks Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
pgstattuple Fix CHECK_RELATION_BLOCK_RANGE macro, which was not merely producing 2007-07-15 23:46:20 +00:00
seg Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
spi Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
sslinfo Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
start-scripts Add standard error redirection for OS/X & darwin startup script. 2007-05-30 19:58:34 +00:00
tablefunc Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
tsearch2 Avoid possibly-unportable initializer, per buildfarm warning. 2007-07-15 22:57:48 +00:00
uuid-ossp Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
vacuumlo Fix PGXS conventions so that extensions can be built against Postgres 2007-06-26 22:05:04 +00:00
xml2 Fix a passel of signed vs unsigned char warnings. 2007-07-15 23:30:19 +00:00
Makefile Make CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE wait a little bit to see if other backends 2007-06-01 19:38:07 +00:00
README Add database page inspection /contrib module. 2007-05-17 19:11:25 +00:00
contrib-global.mk Some marginal tweaks to make 'make installcheck' mostly work when 2005-09-27 17:43:31 +00:00

README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly because
they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be part of
the main source tree.  This does not preclude their usefulness.

Each subdirectory contains a README file with information about the
module.  Most items can be built with `gmake all' and installed with
`gmake install' in the usual fashion, after you have run the `configure'
script in the top-level directory.  Some directories supply new
user-defined functions, operators, or types.  In these cases, after you have
installed the files you need to register the new entities in the database
system by running the commands in the supplied .sql file.  For example,

	$ psql -d dbname -f module.sql

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.


Index:
------

adminpack -
	File and log manipulation routines, used by pgAdmin
	by Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>

btree_gist -
      Support for emulating BTREE indexing in GiST
      by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

chkpass -
	An auto-encrypted password datatype
	by D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>

cube -
	Multidimensional-cube datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

dblink -
	Allows remote query execution
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

earthdistance -
	Operator for computing earth distance for two points
	by Hal Snyder <hal@vailsys.com>

fuzzystrmatch -
	Levenshtein, metaphone, and soundex fuzzy string matching
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>, Joel Burton <jburton@scw.org>

hstore -
	Hstore - module for storing (key,value) pairs
    by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

intagg -
	Integer aggregator
	by mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com>

intarray -
	Index support for arrays of int4, using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

isn -
	PostgreSQL type extensions for ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, EAN13 product numbers
	by Germ<72>n M<>ndez Bravo (Kronuz) <kronuz@hotmail.com>

lo -
	Large Object maintenance
	by Peter Mount <peter@retep.org.uk> 

ltree -
	Tree-like data structures
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>

oid2name - 
	Maps numeric files to table names
	by B Palmer <bpalmer@crimelabs.net>

pageinspect -
	Allows inspection of database pages
	Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>

pg_buffercache -
	Real time queries on the shared buffer cache
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_freespacemap -
	Displays the contents of the free space map (FSM)
	by Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

pg_trgm -
	Functions for determining the similarity of text based on trigram
	matching.
	by Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> and Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>

pgbench -
	TPC-B like benchmarking tool
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgcrypto -
	Cryptographic functions
	by Marko Kreen <marko@l-t.ee>

pgrowlocks -
	A function to return row locking information
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

pgstattuple -
	A function to return statistics about "dead" tuples and free
	space within a table
	by Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>

seg -
	Confidence-interval datatype (GiST indexing example)
	by Gene Selkov, Jr. <selkovjr@mcs.anl.gov>

spi -
	Various trigger functions, examples for using SPI.

sslinfo -
	Functions to get information about SSL certificates
	by Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>

start-scripts - 
	Scripts for starting the server at boot time.

tablefunc -
	Examples of functions returning tables
	by Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>

tsearch2 -
	Full-text-index support using GiST
	by Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru> and Oleg Bartunov
	<oleg@sai.msu.su>.

uuid-ossp -
	UUID generation functions
	by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

vacuumlo -
	Remove orphaned large objects
	by Peter T Mount <peter@retep.org.uk>

xml2 -
	Storing XML in PostgreSQL
	by John Gray <jgray@azuli.co.uk>