The problem was that the query was updating every row whether it needed
it or not. This turns out to be a really bad thing to do on Postgres,
because it then triggers a long expensive vacuum, which lock the context
table for a long time a really bad thing to do.
Includes:
* constants refactoring
* reworked db table init
* support for $CFG->debug = -1
* functional DB tests
* fixed $DB->get_indexes() to not throw exceptions when table does not exist
* fix handling of user passwords in test db
* add debug info to exception messages
* removed unnecessary PHP debug errors from mathslib
* fixed @error suppression in get_string
* fixed PHPUnit error handler setup
* added timezone info to default install
Classes with magic properties such as context do not pass through json_encode().
The solution is to implement iterator in such classes and convert what we
feed to json_encode to array using 'foreach' before we pass it to json_encode():
- class context implements IteratorAggregate
- added function convert_to_array() that converts anything to array
- before calling json_encode we convert the argument to array
The switched order may create problems in older PHP versions or opt caches. In any case it is more logical to define the classes in this order. Sorry for the trouble.
Refactoring and improvements of the accesslib.php library including prevention of access for not-logged-in users when forcelogin enabled, improved context caching, OOP refactoring of contexts, fixed context loading, deduplication of role definitions in user sessions, installation improvements, decoupling of enrolment checking from capability loading, added detection of deleted and non-existent users in has_capability(), new function accesslib test, auth and enrol upgrade notes.
More details are available in tracker subtasks.
Frontpage role selection now allows only guest and frontpage roles. Default forntpage role is selected duuring install. Unused nodefaultuserrolelists option was removed completely. Coding style improvements.
As part of this patch I also introduced a new method in accesslib can_access_course that can be used
to check a users access to a course.
I also fixed a minor issue with guest access flag caching in require_login
