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Bruce Momjian c8e1ba736b Update copyright for 2023
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
Tom Lane a0ffa885e4 Allow granting SET and ALTER SYSTEM privileges on GUC parameters.
This patch allows "PGC_SUSET" parameters to be set by non-superusers
if they have been explicitly granted the privilege to do so.
The privilege to perform ALTER SYSTEM SET/RESET on a specific parameter
can also be granted.
Such privileges are cluster-wide, not per database.  They are tracked
in a new shared catalog, pg_parameter_acl.

Granting and revoking these new privileges works as one would expect.
One caveat is that PGC_USERSET GUCs are unaffected by the SET privilege
--- one could wish that those were handled by a revocable grant to
PUBLIC, but they are not, because we couldn't make it robust enough
for GUCs defined by extensions.

Mark Dilger, reviewed at various times by Andrew Dunstan, Robert Haas,
Joshua Brindle, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3D691E20-C1D5-4B80-8BA5-6BEB63AF3029@enterprisedb.com
2022-04-06 13:24:33 -04:00
Tom Lane 17f3bc0928 Move pg_attrdef manipulation code into new file catalog/pg_attrdef.c.
This is a pure refactoring commit: there isn't (I hope) any functional
change.

StoreAttrDefault and RemoveAttrDefault[ById] are moved from heap.c,
reducing the size of that overly-large file by about 300 lines.
I took the opportunity to trim unused #includes from heap.c, too.

Two new functions for translating between a pg_attrdef OID and the
relid/attnum of the owning column are created by extracting ad-hoc
code from objectaddress.c.  This already removes one copy of said
code, and a follow-on bug fix will create more callers.

The only other function directly manipulating pg_attrdef is
AttrDefaultFetch.  I judged it was better to leave that in relcache.c,
since it shares special concerns about recursion and error handling
with the rest of that module.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/651168.1647451676@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-03-21 14:38:23 -04:00
John Naylor b19a7e392a Correct Makefile dependencies for catalog scripts
At some point, Gen_fmgrtab.pl stopped needing the value of defined symbols
from access/transam.h, while genbki.pl starting doing so. The Makefiles
didn't get the memo, so update the relevant dependencies.
2022-02-14 09:07:09 +07:00
Bruce Momjian 27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Amit Kapila 5a2832465f Allow publishing the tables of schema.
A new option "FOR ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA" in Create/Alter Publication allows
one or more schemas to be specified, whose tables are selected by the
publisher for sending the data to the subscriber.

The new syntax allows specifying both the tables and schemas. For example:
CREATE PUBLICATION pub1 FOR TABLE t1,t2,t3, ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA s1,s2;
OR
ALTER PUBLICATION pub1 ADD TABLE t1,t2,t3, ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA s1,s2;

A new system table "pg_publication_namespace" has been added, to maintain
the schemas that the user wants to publish through the publication.
Modified the output plugin (pgoutput) to publish the changes if the
relation is part of schema publication.

Updates pg_dump to identify and dump schema publications. Updates the \d
family of commands to display schema publications and \dRp+ variant will
now display associated schemas if any.

Author: Vignesh C, Hou Zhijie, Amit Kapila
Syntax-Suggested-by: Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow, Masahiko Sawada, Hou Zhijie, Amit Kapila, Haiying Tang, Ajin Cherian, Rahila Syed, Bharath Rupireddy, Mark Dilger
Tested-by: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALDaNm0OANxuJ6RXqwZsM1MSY4s19nuH3734j4a72etDwvBETQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-10-27 07:44:52 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut 2ed532ee8c Improve error messages about mismatching relkind
Most error messages about a relkind that was not supported or
appropriate for the command was of the pattern

    "relation \"%s\" is not a table, foreign table, or materialized view"

This style can become verbose and tedious to maintain.  Moreover, it's
not very helpful: If I'm trying to create a comment on a TOAST table,
which is not supported, then the information that I could have created
a comment on a materialized view is pointless.

Instead, write the primary error message shorter and saying more
directly that what was attempted is not possible.  Then, in the detail
message, explain that the operation is not supported for the relkind
the object was.  To simplify that, add a new function
errdetail_relkind_not_supported() that does this.

In passing, make use of RELKIND_HAS_STORAGE() where appropriate,
instead of listing out the relkinds individually.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dc35a398-37d0-75ce-07ea-1dd71d98f8ec@2ndquadrant.com
2021-07-08 09:44:51 +02:00
Tom Lane e809493725 Split function definitions out of system_views.sql into a new file.
Invent system_functions.sql to carry the function definitions that
were formerly in system_views.sql.  The function definitions were
already a quarter of the file and are about to be more, so it seems
appropriate to give them their own home.

In passing, fix an oversight in dfb75e478: it neglected to call
check_input() for system_constraints.sql.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3956760.1618529139@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-04-16 18:37:02 -04:00
Tomas Vondra a4d75c86bf Extended statistics on expressions
Allow defining extended statistics on expressions, not just just on
simple column references.  With this commit, expressions are supported
by all existing extended statistics kinds, improving the same types of
estimates. A simple example may look like this:

  CREATE TABLE t (a int);
  CREATE STATISTICS s ON mod(a,10), mod(a,20) FROM t;
  ANALYZE t;

The collected statistics are useful e.g. to estimate queries with those
expressions in WHERE or GROUP BY clauses:

  SELECT * FROM t WHERE mod(a,10) = 0 AND mod(a,20) = 0;

  SELECT 1 FROM t GROUP BY mod(a,10), mod(a,20);

This introduces new internal statistics kind 'e' (expressions) which is
built automatically when the statistics object definition includes any
expressions. This represents single-expression statistics, as if there
was an expression index (but without the index maintenance overhead).
The statistics is stored in pg_statistics_ext_data as an array of
composite types, which is possible thanks to 79f6a942bd.

CREATE STATISTICS allows building statistics on a single expression, in
which case in which case it's not possible to specify statistics kinds.

A new system view pg_stats_ext_exprs can be used to display expression
statistics, similarly to pg_stats and pg_stats_ext views.

ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... TYPE now treats indexes the same way it
treats indexes, i.e. it drops and recreates the statistics. This means
all statistics are reset, and we no longer try to preserve at least the
functional dependencies. This should not be a major issue in practice,
as the functional dependencies actually rely on per-column statistics,
which were always reset anyway.

Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Dean Rasheed, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad7891d2-e90c-b446-9fe2-7419143847d7%40enterprisedb.com
2021-03-27 00:01:11 +01:00
Tom Lane 62f34097c8 Build in some knowledge about foreign-key relationships in the catalogs.
This follows in the spirit of commit dfb75e478, which created primary
key and uniqueness constraints to improve the visibility of constraints
imposed on the system catalogs.  While our catalogs contain many
foreign-key-like relationships, they don't quite follow SQL semantics,
in that the convention for an omitted reference is to write zero not
NULL.  Plus, we have some cases in which there are arrays each of whose
elements is supposed to be an FK reference; SQL has no way to model that.
So we can't create actual foreign key constraints to describe the
situation.  Nonetheless, we can collect and use knowledge about these
relationships.

This patch therefore adds annotations to the catalog header files to
declare foreign-key relationships.  (The BKI_LOOKUP annotations cover
simple cases, but we weren't previously distinguishing which such
columns are allowed to contain zeroes; we also need new markings for
multi-column FK references.)  Then, Catalog.pm and genbki.pl are
taught to collect this information into a table in a new generated
header "system_fk_info.h".  The only user of that at the moment is
a new SQL function pg_get_catalog_foreign_keys(), which exposes the
table to SQL.  The oidjoins regression test is rewritten to use
pg_get_catalog_foreign_keys() to find out which columns to check.
Aside from removing the need for manual maintenance of that test
script, this allows it to cover numerous relationships that were not
checked by the old implementation based on findoidjoins.  (As of this
commit, 217 relationships are checked by the test, versus 181 before.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3240355.1612129197@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-02-02 17:11:55 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut dfb75e478c Add primary keys and unique constraints to system catalogs
For those system catalogs that have a unique indexes, make a primary
key and unique constraint, using ALTER TABLE ... PRIMARY KEY/UNIQUE
USING INDEX.

This can be helpful for GUI tools that look for a primary key, and it
might in the future allow declaring foreign keys, for making schema
diagrams.

The constraint creation statements are automatically created by
genbki.pl from DECLARE_UNIQUE_INDEX directives.  To specify which one
of the available unique indexes is the primary key, use the new
directive DECLARE_UNIQUE_INDEX_PKEY instead.  By convention, we
usually make a catalog's OID column its primary key, if it has one.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dc5f44d9-5ec1-a596-0251-dadadcdede98@2ndquadrant.com
2021-01-30 19:44:29 +01:00
Bruce Momjian ca3b37487b Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut bdc4edbea6 Move catalog index declarations
Move the system catalog index declarations from catalog/indexing.h to
the respective parent tables' catalog/pg_*.h files.  The original
reason for having it split was that the old genbki system produced the
output in the order of the catalog files it read, so all the indexing
stuff needed to come separately.  But this is no longer the case, and
keeping it together makes more sense.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c7cc82d6-f976-75d6-2e3e-b03d2cab26bb@2ndquadrant.com
2020-11-07 12:26:24 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut b4c9695e79 Move catalog toast table declarations
Move the system catalog toast table declarations from
catalog/toasting.h to the respective parent tables' catalog/pg_*.h
files.  The original reason for having it split was that the old
genbki system produced the output in the order of the catalog files it
read, so all the toasting stuff needed to come separately.  But this
is no longer the case, and keeping it together makes more sense.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c7cc82d6-f976-75d6-2e3e-b03d2cab26bb@2ndquadrant.com
2020-11-07 12:26:24 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 25244b8972 Rename configure.in to configure.ac
The new name has been preferred by Autoconf for a long time.  Future
versions of Autoconf will warn about the old name.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e796c185-5ece-8569-248f-dd3799701be1%402ndquadrant.com
2020-07-24 10:42:08 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 40b3e2c201
Split out CreateCast into src/backend/catalog/pg_cast.c
This catalog-handling code was previously together with the rest of
CastCreate() in src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c.  A future patch
will need a way to add casts internally, so this will be useful to have
separate.

Also, move the nearby get_cast_oid() function from functioncmds.c to
lsyscache.c, which seems a more natural place for it.

Author: Paul Jungwirth, minor edits by Álvaro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200309210003.GA19992@alvherre.pgsql
2020-03-10 11:28:23 -03:00
Tom Lane 50fc694e43 Invent "trusted" extensions, and remove the pg_pltemplate catalog.
This patch creates a new extension property, "trusted".  An extension
that's marked that way in its control file can be installed by a
non-superuser who has the CREATE privilege on the current database,
even if the extension contains objects that normally would have to be
created by a superuser.  The objects within the extension will (by
default) be owned by the bootstrap superuser, but the extension itself
will be owned by the calling user.  This allows replicating the old
behavior around trusted procedural languages, without all the
special-case logic in CREATE LANGUAGE.  We have, however, chosen to
loosen the rules slightly: formerly, only a database owner could take
advantage of the special case that allowed installation of a trusted
language, but now anyone who has CREATE privilege can do so.

Having done that, we can delete the pg_pltemplate catalog, moving the
knowledge it contained into the extension script files for the various
PLs.  This ends up being no change at all for the in-core PLs, but it is
a large step forward for external PLs: they can now have the same ease
of installation as core PLs do.  The old "trusted PL" behavior was only
available to PLs that had entries in pg_pltemplate, but now any
extension can be marked trusted if appropriate.

This also removes one of the stumbling blocks for our Python 2 -> 3
migration, since the association of "plpythonu" with Python 2 is no
longer hard-wired into pg_pltemplate's initial contents.  Exactly where
we go from here on that front remains to be settled, but one problem
is fixed.

Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut, Stephen Frost, and others.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5889.1566415762@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-29 18:42:43 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7aaefadaac Remove separate files for the initial contents of pg_(sh)description
This data was only in separate files because it was the most convenient
way to handle it with a shell script. Now that we use a general-purpose
programming language, it's easy to assemble the data into the same format
as the rest of the catalogs and output it into postgres.bki. This allows
removal of some special-purpose code from initdb.c.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACPNZCtVFtjHre6hg9dput0qRPp39pzuyA2A6BT8wdgrRy%2BQdA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: John Naylor
2020-01-19 13:54:58 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 7559d8ebfa Update copyrights for 2020
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Andres Freund 01368e5d9d Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style.
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.

By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one
object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to
resolve when they still occur.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-11-05 14:41:07 -08:00
Tomas Vondra 6cbfb784c3 Rework the pg_statistic_ext catalog
Since extended statistic got introduced in PostgreSQL 10, there was a
single catalog pg_statistic_ext storing both the definitions and built
statistic.  That's however problematic when a user is supposed to have
access only to the definitions, but not to user data.

Consider for example pg_dump on a database with RLS enabled - if the
pg_statistic_ext catalog respects RLS (which it should, if it contains
user data), pg_dump would not see any records and the result would not
define any extended statistics.  That would be a surprising behavior.

Until now this was not a pressing issue, because the existing types of
extended statistic (functional dependencies and ndistinct coefficients)
do not include any user data directly.  This changed with introduction
of MCV lists, which do include most common combinations of values.

The easiest way to fix this is to split the pg_statistic_ext catalog
into two - one for definitions, one for the built statistic values.
The new catalog is called pg_statistic_ext_data, and we're maintaining
a 1:1 relationship with the old catalog - either there are matching
records in both catalogs, or neither of them.

Bumped CATVERSION due to changing system catalog definitions.

Author: Dean Rasheed, with improvements by me
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUhT9rt7Ui%3DVdx4N%3D%3DVV5XOK5dsXfnGgVOz_JhAicB%3DZA%40mail.gmail.com
2019-06-16 01:20:31 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera fe33a196de Use Getopt::Long for catalog scripts
Replace hand-rolled option parsing with the Getopt module. This is
shorter and easier to read. In passing, make some cosmetic adjustments
for consistency.

Author: John Naylor
Reviewed-by: David Fetter
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCvRjepXh5b2N50njN+rO_2Nzcf=jhMkKX7=79XWUKJyKA@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-12 12:22:08 -03:00
Tom Lane d33faa285b Move the built-in conversions into the initial catalog data.
Instead of running a SQL script to create the standard conversion
functions and pg_conversion entries, put those entries into the
initial data in postgres.bki.

This shaves a few percent off the runtime of initdb, and also allows
accurate comments to be attached to the conversion functions; the
previous script labeled them with machine-generated comments that
were not quite right for multi-purpose conversion functions.
Also, we can get rid of the duplicative Makefile and MSVC perl
implementations of the generation code for that SQL script.

A functional change is that these pg_proc and pg_conversion entries
are now "pinned" by initdb.  Leaving them unpinned was perhaps a
good thing back while the conversions feature was under development,
but there seems no valid reason for it now.

Also, the conversion functions are now marked as immutable, where
before they were volatile by virtue of lacking any explicit
specification.  That seems like it was just an oversight.

To avoid using magic constants in pg_conversion.dat, extend
genbki.pl to allow encoding names to be converted, much as it
does for language, access method, etc names.

John Naylor

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWtUqxpfAaxS88vEGvi+jKzWZb2EStu5io-UPc4p9rSJg@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-03 19:47:53 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 97c39498e5 Update copyright for 2019
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
Andres Freund 09568ec3d3 Create a separate oid range for oids assigned by genbki.pl.
The changes I made in 578b229718 assigned oids below
FirstBootstrapObjectId to objects in include/catalog/*.dat files that
did not have an oid assigned, starting at the max oid explicitly
assigned.  Tom criticized that for mainly two reasons:
1) It's not clear which values are manually and which explicitly
   assigned.
2) The space below FirstBootstrapObjectId gets pretty crowded, and
   some PostgreSQL forks have used oids >= 9000 for their own objects,
   to avoid conflicting.

Thus create a new range for objects not assigned explicit oids, but
assigned by genbki.pl. For now 1-9999 is for explicitly assigned oids,
FirstGenbkiObjectId (10000) to FirstBootstrapObjectId (1200) -1 is for
genbki.pl assigned oids, and < FirstNormalObjectId (16384) is for oids
assigned during bootstrap.  It's possible that we'll have to adjust
these boundaries, but there's some headroom for now.

Add a note suggesting that oids in forks should be assigned in the
9000-9999 range.

Catversion bump for obvious reasons.

Per complaint from Tom Lane.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16845.1544393682@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-12-13 14:50:57 -08:00
Tom Lane 9bf28f96c7 Rearrange makefile rules for running Gen_fmgrtab.pl.
Make these rules look more like the ones associated with genbki.pl,
to wit:

* Use a stamp file to record when we last ran the script, instead of
relying on the timestamps of the individual output files.

* Take the knowledge out of backend/Makefile and put it in utils/Makefile
where it belongs.  I moved down the handling of errcodes.h and probes.h
too, although those continue to be built by separate processes.

In itself, this is just much-needed cleanup with little practical effect.
However, by decoupling these makefile rules from the timestamps of the
generated header files, we open the door to not advancing those timestamps
unnecessarily, which will be taken advantage of by the next commit.

msvc/Solution.pm should be taught to do things similarly, but I'll leave
that for another commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16925.1525376229@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-05-03 17:54:18 -04:00
Tom Lane a0854f1072 Avoid parsing catalog data twice during BKI file construction.
In the wake of commit 5602265f7, we were doing duplicate-OID detection
quite inefficiently, by invoking duplicate_oids which does all the same
parsing of catalog headers and .dat files as genbki.pl does.  That adds
under half a second on modern machines, but quite a bit more on slow
buildfarm critters, so it seems worth avoiding.  Let's just extend
genbki.pl a little so it can also detect duplicate OIDs, and remove
the duplicate_oids call from the build process.

(This also means that duplicate OID detection will happen during
Windows builds, which AFAICS it didn't before.)

This makes the use-case for duplicate_oids a bit dubious, but it's
possible that people will still want to run that check without doing
a whole build run, so let's keep that script.

In passing, move down genbki.pl's creation of its temp output files
so that it doesn't happen until after we've done parsing and validation
of the input.  This avoids leaving a lot of clutter around after a
failure.

John Naylor and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/37D774E4-FE1F-437E-B3D2-593F314B7505@postgrespro.ru
2018-04-26 13:22:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 372728b0d4 Replace our traditional initial-catalog-data format with a better design.
Historically, the initial catalog data to be installed during bootstrap
has been written in DATA() lines in the catalog header files.  This had
lots of disadvantages: the format was badly underdocumented, it was
very difficult to edit the data in any mechanized way, and due to the
lack of any abstraction the data was verbose, hard to read/understand,
and easy to get wrong.

Hence, move this data into separate ".dat" files and represent it in a way
that can easily be read and rewritten by Perl scripts.  The new format is
essentially "key => value" for each column; while it's a bit repetitive,
explicit labeling of each value makes the data far more readable and less
error-prone.  Provide a way to abbreviate entries by omitting field values
that match a specified default value for their column.  This allows removal
of a large amount of repetitive boilerplate and also lowers the barrier to
adding new columns.

Also teach genbki.pl how to translate symbolic OID references into
numeric OIDs for more cases than just "regproc"-like pg_proc references.
It can now do that for regprocedure-like references (thus solving the
problem that regproc is ambiguous for overloaded functions), operators,
types, opfamilies, opclasses, and access methods.  Use this to turn
nearly all OID cross-references in the initial data into symbolic form.
This represents a very large step forward in readability and error
resistance of the initial catalog data.  It should also reduce the
difficulty of renumbering OID assignments in uncommitted patches.

Also, solve the longstanding problem that frontend code that would like to
use OID macros and other information from the catalog headers often had
difficulty with backend-only code in the headers.  To do this, arrange for
all generated macros, plus such other declarations as we deem fit, to be
placed in "derived" header files that are safe for frontend inclusion.
(Once clients migrate to using these pg_*_d.h headers, it will be possible
to get rid of the pg_*_fn.h headers, which only exist to quarantine code
away from clients.  That is left for follow-on patches, however.)

The now-automatically-generated macros include the Anum_xxx and Natts_xxx
constants that we used to have to update by hand when adding or removing
catalog columns.

Replace the former manual method of generating OID macros for pg_type
entries with an automatic method, ensuring that all built-in types have
OID macros.  (But note that this patch does not change the way that
OID macros for pg_proc entries are built and used.  It's not clear that
making that match the other catalogs would be worth extra code churn.)

Add SGML documentation explaining what the new data format is and how to
work with it.

Despite being a very large change in the catalog headers, there is no
catversion bump here, because postgres.bki and related output files
haven't changed at all.

John Naylor, based on ideas from various people; review and minor
additional coding by me; previous review by Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWO48JbbwXkJz_yBFyGYW-M9YWxnPdxJBUosDC9ou_F0Q@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-08 13:17:27 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 9373baa0f7 Minor edits to catalog files and scripts
This fixes a few typos and small mistakes; it also cleans a few
minor stylistic issues.  The biggest functional change is that
Gen_fmgrtab.pl no longer knows the OID of language 'internal'.

Author: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGXAkwbk-A9QHHHf00N905kKisyQbaYwKqaRpze_gPXGfg@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-21 19:07:32 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 7b504eb282 Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients
Add support for explicitly declared statistic objects (CREATE
STATISTICS), allowing collection of statistics on more complex
combinations that individual table columns.  Companion commands DROP
STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS ... OWNER TO / SET SCHEMA / RENAME are
added too.  All this DDL has been designed so that more statistic types
can be added later on, such as multivariate most-common-values and
multivariate histograms between columns of a single table, leaving room
for permitting columns on multiple tables, too, as well as expressions.

This commit only adds support for collection of n-distinct coefficient
on user-specified sets of columns in a single table.  This is useful to
estimate number of distinct groups in GROUP BY and DISTINCT clauses;
estimation errors there can cause over-allocation of memory in hashed
aggregates, for instance, so it's a worthwhile problem to solve.  A new
special pseudo-type pg_ndistinct is used.

(num-distinct estimation was deemed sufficiently useful by itself that
this is worthwhile even if no further statistic types are added
immediately; so much so that another version of essentially the same
functionality was submitted by Kyotaro Horiguchi:
https://postgr.es/m/20150828.173334.114731693.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
though this commit does not use that code.)

Author: Tomas Vondra.  Some code rework by Álvaro.
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jeff Janes,
    Ideriha Takeshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/543AFA15.4080608@fuzzy.cz
    https://postgr.es/m/20170320190220.ixlaueanxegqd5gr@alvherre.pgsql
2017-03-24 14:06:10 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 7c4f52409a Logical replication support for initial data copy
Add functionality for a new subscription to copy the initial data in the
tables and then sync with the ongoing apply process.

For the copying, add a new internal COPY option to have the COPY source
data provided by a callback function.  The initial data copy works on
the subscriber by receiving COPY data from the publisher and then
providing it locally into a COPY that writes to the destination table.

A WAL receiver can now execute full SQL commands.  This is used here to
obtain information about tables and publications.

Several new options were added to CREATE and ALTER SUBSCRIPTION to
control whether and when initial table syncing happens.

Change pg_dump option --no-create-subscription-slots to
--no-subscription-connect and use the new CREATE SUBSCRIPTION
... NOCONNECT option for that.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-03-23 08:55:37 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 665d1fad99 Logical replication
- Add PUBLICATION catalogs and DDL
- Add SUBSCRIPTION catalog and DDL
- Define logical replication protocol and output plugin
- Add logical replication workers

From: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-01-20 09:04:49 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 1753b1b027 Add pg_sequence system catalog
Move sequence metadata (start, increment, etc.) into a proper system
catalog instead of storing it in the sequence heap object.  This
separates the metadata from the sequence data.  Sequence metadata is now
operated on transactionally by DDL commands, whereas previously
rollbacks of sequence-related DDL commands would be ignored.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-12-20 08:28:18 -05:00
Robert Haas f0e44751d7 Implement table partitioning.
Table partitioning is like table inheritance and reuses much of the
existing infrastructure, but there are some important differences.
The parent is called a partitioned table and is always empty; it may
not have indexes or non-inherited constraints, since those make no
sense for a relation with no data of its own.  The children are called
partitions and contain all of the actual data.  Each partition has an
implicit partitioning constraint.  Multiple inheritance is not
allowed, and partitioning and inheritance can't be mixed.  Partitions
can't have extra columns and may not allow nulls unless the parent
does.  Tuples inserted into the parent are automatically routed to the
correct partition, so tuple-routing ON INSERT triggers are not needed.
Tuple routing isn't yet supported for partitions which are foreign
tables, and it doesn't handle updates that cross partition boundaries.

Currently, tables can be range-partitioned or list-partitioned.  List
partitioning is limited to a single column, but range partitioning can
involve multiple columns.  A partitioning "column" can be an
expression.

Because table partitioning is less general than table inheritance, it
is hoped that it will be easier to reason about properties of
partitions, and therefore that this will serve as a better foundation
for a variety of possible optimizations, including query planner
optimizations.  The tuple routing based which this patch does based on
the implicit partitioning constraints is an example of this, but it
seems likely that many other useful optimizations are also possible.

Amit Langote, reviewed and tested by Robert Haas, Ashutosh Bapat,
Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Corey Huinker, Jaime Casanova,
Rushabh Lathia, Erik Rijkers, among others.  Minor revisions by me.
2016-12-07 13:17:55 -05:00
Stephen Frost 6c268df127 Add new catalog called pg_init_privs
This new catalog holds the privileges which the system was
initialized with at initdb time, along with any permissions set
by extensions at CREATE EXTENSION time.  This allows pg_dump
(and any other similar use-cases) to detect when the privileges
set on initdb-created or extension-created objects have been
changed from what they were set to at initdb/extension-creation
time and handle those changes appropriately.

Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
2016-04-06 21:45:32 -04:00
Tom Lane dd7a8f66ed Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method
API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without
specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can
implement a TSM.  (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable
thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will
pg_upgrade behave sanely.)  Instead adopt an API more like procedural
language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level
support object needed is a single handler function identified by having
a special return type.  This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog
altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature.

Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments
(the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at
ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright
unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples.
Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable
within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more
honestly with methods that can't support that requirement.

Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix
assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as
failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering).
Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too.

Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API
in production.
2015-07-25 14:39:00 -04:00
Simon Riggs f6d208d6e5 TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible
Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows
user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level
SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible
sampling functions to be written, using a standard API.
Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable
concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later
commits.

Petr Jelinek

Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
2015-05-15 14:37:10 -04:00
Andres Freund 5aa2350426 Introduce replication progress tracking infrastructure.
When implementing a replication solution ontop of logical decoding, two
related problems exist:
* How to safely keep track of replication progress
* How to change replication behavior, based on the origin of a row;
  e.g. to avoid loops in bi-directional replication setups

The solution to these problems, as implemented here, consist out of
three parts:

1) 'replication origins', which identify nodes in a replication setup.
2) 'replication progress tracking', which remembers, for each
   replication origin, how far replay has progressed in a efficient and
   crash safe manner.
3) The ability to filter out changes performed on the behest of a
   replication origin during logical decoding; this allows complex
   replication topologies. E.g. by filtering all replayed changes out.

Most of this could also be implemented in "userspace", e.g. by inserting
additional rows contain origin information, but that ends up being much
less efficient and more complicated.  We don't want to require various
replication solutions to reimplement logic for this independently. The
infrastructure is intended to be generic enough to be reusable.

This infrastructure also replaces the 'nodeid' infrastructure of commit
timestamps. It is intended to provide all the former capabilities,
except that there's only 2^16 different origins; but now they integrate
with logical decoding. Additionally more functionality is accessible via
SQL.  Since the commit timestamp infrastructure has also been introduced
in 9.5 (commit 73c986add) changing the API is not a problem.

For now the number of origins for which the replication progress can be
tracked simultaneously is determined by the max_replication_slots
GUC. That GUC is not a perfect match to configure this, but there
doesn't seem to be sufficient reason to introduce a separate new one.

Bumps both catversion and wal page magic.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions from Petr Jelinek and Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Petr Jelinek, Robert Haas, Steve Singer
Discussion: 20150216002155.GI15326@awork2.anarazel.de,
    20140923182422.GA15776@alap3.anarazel.de,
    20131114172632.GE7522@alap2.anarazel.de
2015-04-29 19:30:53 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut cac7658205 Add transforms feature
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages.  As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.

reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
2015-04-26 10:33:14 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a609d96778 Revert "Use a bitmask to represent role attributes"
This reverts commit 1826987a46.

The overall design was deemed unacceptable, in discussion following the
previous commit message; we might find some parts of it still
salvageable, but I don't want to be on the hook for fixing it, so let's
wait until we have a new patch.
2014-12-23 15:35:49 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 1826987a46 Use a bitmask to represent role attributes
The previous representation using a boolean column for each attribute
would not scale as well as we want to add further attributes.

Extra auxilliary functions are added to go along with this change, to
make up for the lost convenience of access of the old representation.

Catalog version bumped due to change in catalogs and the new functions.

Author: Adam Brightwell, minor tweaks by Álvaro
Reviewed by: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera
2014-12-23 10:22:09 -03:00
Stephen Frost 143b39c185 Rename pg_rowsecurity -> pg_policy and other fixes
As pointed out by Robert, we should really have named pg_rowsecurity
pg_policy, as the objects stored in that catalog are policies.  This
patch fixes that and updates the column names to start with 'pol' to
match the new catalog name.

The security consideration for COPY with row level security, also
pointed out by Robert, has also been addressed by remembering and
re-checking the OID of the relation initially referenced during COPY
processing, to make sure it hasn't changed under us by the time we
finish planning out the query which has been built.

Robert and Alvaro also commented on missing OCLASS and OBJECT entries
for POLICY (formerly ROWSECURITY or POLICY, depending) in various
places.  This patch fixes that too, which also happens to add the
ability to COMMENT on policies.

In passing, attempt to improve the consistency of messages, comments,
and documentation as well.  This removes various incarnations of
'row-security', 'row-level security', 'Row-security', etc, in favor
of 'policy', 'row level security' or 'row_security' as appropriate.

Happy Thanksgiving!
2014-11-27 01:15:57 -05:00
Stephen Frost 491c029dbc Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)
Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the
ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows
which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added
to a table.  Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are
added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions
defined to check records being added to a table are added to the
with-check options of the query.

New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are
controlled by the table owner.  Row Security is able to be enabled
and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using
ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY.

Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and
must be enabled for policies on the table to be used.  If no
policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny
policy is used and no records will be visible.

By default, row security is applied at all times except for the
table owner and the superuser.  A new GUC, row_security, is added
which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE.  When set to FORCE, row
security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers.
When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an
error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row
security.

Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure
that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will
error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security.
A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to
ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled.

A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the
superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row
security using row_security = OFF.

Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the
design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback.

Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean
Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me.

Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith,
Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
2014-09-19 11:18:35 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ada01014d4 Use $(PERL) to invoke duplicate_oids
Per buildfarm failure reported by smilodon
2013-10-10 23:45:38 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 5dd41f3574 Remove maintainer-check target, fold into normal build
make maintainer-check was obscure and rarely called in practice, and
many breakages were missed.  Fold everything that make maintainer-check
used to do into the normal build.  Specifically:

- Call duplicate_oids when genbki.pl is called.

- Check for tabs in SGML files when the documentation is built.

- Run msgfmt with the -c option during the regular build.  Add an
  additional configure check to see whether we are using the GNU
  version.  (make maintainer-check probably used to fail with non-GNU
  msgfmt.)

Keep maintainer-check as around as phony target for the time being in
case anyone is calling it.  But it won't do anything anymore.
2013-10-10 20:11:56 -04:00
Robert Haas f90cc26982 Code beautification for object-access hook machinery.
KaiGai Kohei
2013-03-06 20:53:25 -05:00
Robert Haas 3855968f32 Syntax support and documentation for event triggers.
They don't actually do anything yet; that will get fixed in a
follow-on commit.  But this gets the basic infrastructure in place,
including CREATE/ALTER/DROP EVENT TRIGGER; support for COMMENT,
SECURITY LABEL, and ALTER EXTENSION .. ADD/DROP EVENT TRIGGER;
pg_dump and psql support; and documentation for the anticipated
initial feature set.

Dimitri Fontaine, with review and a bunch of additional hacking by me.
Thom Brown extensively reviewed earlier versions of this patch set,
but there's not a whole lot of that code left in this commit, as it
turns out.
2012-07-18 10:16:16 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5d39807a00 Add make dependency so that postgres.bki is rebuilt in major version change
Every time since the current rule for postgres.bki was put in place
when we change the major version, people complain that their tests
fail in strange ways.  This is because the version number in
postgres.bki is not updated, because it has no dependency for that.
And you can't even force the rebuild manually if you don't happen to
know which file has the problem.  Fix that now before it will happen
again.

The only remaining problem with switching major versions, as far as
the regression tests are concerned, is that contrib needs to be
rebuilt.  But that's easily invoked, and in any case the failure modes
are more friendly if you forget that.
2012-05-09 20:45:56 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4429f6a9e3 Support range data types.
Selectivity estimation functions are missing for some range type operators,
which is a TODO.

Jeff Davis
2011-11-03 13:42:15 +02:00
Robert Haas 463f2625a5 Support SECURITY LABEL on databases, tablespaces, and roles.
This requires a new shared catalog, pg_shseclabel.

Along the way, fix the security_label regression tests so that they
don't monkey with the labels of any pre-existing objects.  This is
unlikely to matter in practice, since only the label for the "dummy"
provider was being manipulated.  But this way still seems cleaner.

KaiGai Kohei, with fairly extensive hacking by me.
2011-07-20 13:18:24 -04:00