postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 961dd203a2 When using the OSSP UUID library, cache its uuid_t state object.
The original coding in contrib/uuid-ossp created and destroyed a uuid_t
object (or, in some cases, even two of them) each time it was called.
This is not the intended usage: you're supposed to keep the uuid_t object
around so that the library can cache its state across uses.  (Other UUID
libraries seem to keep equivalent state behind-the-scenes in static
variables, but OSSP chose differently.)  Aside from being quite inefficient,
creating a new uuid_t loses knowledge of the previously generated UUID,
which in theory could result in duplicate V1-style UUIDs being created
on sufficiently fast machines.

On at least some platforms, creating a new uuid_t also draws some entropy
from /dev/urandom, leaving less for the rest of the system.  This seems
sufficiently unpleasant to justify back-patching this change.
2014-05-29 13:51:05 -04:00
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adminpack Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
auth_delay Limit values of archive_timeout, post_auth_delay, auth_delay.milliseconds. 2012-11-18 17:15:06 -05:00
auto_explain Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
btree_gin Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
btree_gist Initialize padding bytes in btree_gist varbit support. 2014-05-13 15:27:14 +03:00
chkpass Prevent potential overruns of fixed-size buffers. 2014-02-17 11:20:24 -05:00
citext Reduce messages about implicit indexes and sequences to DEBUG1. 2012-07-04 20:35:29 -04:00
cube Revert "Fix bogus %name-prefix option syntax in all our Bison files." 2014-05-28 19:28:37 -04:00
dblink Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
dict_int Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
dummy_seclabel Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
earthdistance Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
file_fdw Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
hstore Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
intagg Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
intarray Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
isn Fix calculation of ISMN check digit. 2014-01-13 15:43:59 +02:00
lo Defend against bad trigger definitions in contrib/lo's lo_manage() trigger. 2013-11-23 22:46:03 -05:00
ltree Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
oid2name Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
pageinspect Remove pageinspect--1.0.sql 2013-05-24 08:11:44 -04:00
passwordcheck Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
pg_archivecleanup Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
pg_buffercache Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.h 2012-08-30 16:52:35 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql. 2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
pg_standby Properly check for readdir/closedir() failures 2014-03-21 13:45:11 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Avoid unportable usage of sscanf(UINT64_FORMAT). 2014-05-26 22:23:33 -04:00
pg_test_fsync pg_test_fsync: update output to show usecs/op clearer 2013-05-02 10:27:12 -04:00
pg_test_timing pgindent run for release 9.3 2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
pg_trgm Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
pg_upgrade Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
pg_upgrade_support Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
pg_xlogdump Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
pgbench Fix non-C89-compatible coding in pgbench. 2014-05-19 00:06:28 -04:00
pgcrypto Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
pgrowlocks pgindent run for release 9.3 2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
pgstattuple Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
postgres_fdw Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
seg Revert "Fix bogus %name-prefix option syntax in all our Bison files." 2014-05-28 19:28:37 -04:00
sepgsql Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
spi Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
sslinfo Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
start-scripts Remove dead URL mention in OSX startup script 2013-09-04 17:04:57 -04:00
tablefunc Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
tcn Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
test_parser Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
tsearch2 Update copyrights for 2013 2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
unaccent pgindent run for release 9.3 2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
uuid-ossp When using the OSSP UUID library, cache its uuid_t state object. 2014-05-29 13:51:05 -04:00
vacuumlo pgindent run for release 9.3 2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
worker_spi Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
xml2 Remove tabs after spaces in C comments 2014-05-06 11:26:28 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Makefile contrib/Makefile also needs updated 2013-02-22 18:56:42 -03:00
README Update contrib/README 2012-04-14 09:29:54 +03:00

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.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "gmake all" and "gmake
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.