pgsql: Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo()

From: tgl(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org (Tom Lane)
To: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo()
Date: 2005-02-26 18:43:34
Message-ID: 20050226184334.CB6D956675@svr1.postgresql.org
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Log Message:
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Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hack
in favor of looking at the flat file copy of pg_database during backend
startup. This should finally eliminate the various corner cases in which
backend startup fails unexpectedly because it isn't able to distinguish
live and dead tuples in pg_database. Simplify locking on pg_database
to be similar to the rules used with pg_shadow and pg_group, and eliminate
FlushRelationBuffers operations that were used only to reduce the odds
of failure of GetRawDatabaseInfo.
initdb forced due to addition of a trigger to pg_database.

Modified Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/commands:
dbcommands.c (r1.150 -> r1.151)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c.diff?r1=1.150&r2=1.151)
vacuum.c (r1.301 -> r1.302)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/commands/vacuum.c.diff?r1=1.301&r2=1.302)
pgsql/src/backend/libpq:
hba.c (r1.139 -> r1.140)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/libpq/hba.c.diff?r1=1.139&r2=1.140)
pgsql/src/backend/utils/init:
flatfiles.c (r1.3 -> r1.4)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c.diff?r1=1.3&r2=1.4)
postinit.c (r1.140 -> r1.141)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c.diff?r1=1.140&r2=1.141)
pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc:
Makefile (r1.22 -> r1.23)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/Makefile.diff?r1=1.22&r2=1.23)
pgsql/src/bin/initdb:
initdb.c (r1.75 -> r1.76)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c.diff?r1=1.75&r2=1.76)
pgsql/src/include/catalog:
catversion.h (r1.254 -> r1.255)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h.diff?r1=1.254&r2=1.255)
pg_proc.h (r1.349 -> r1.350)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h.diff?r1=1.349&r2=1.350)
pgsql/src/include/libpq:
hba.h (r1.35 -> r1.36)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/libpq/hba.h.diff?r1=1.35&r2=1.36)
pgsql/src/include:
miscadmin.h (r1.174 -> r1.175)
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/miscadmin.h.diff?r1=1.174&r2=1.175)

Removed Files:
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pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc:
database.c
(http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/database.c)

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