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Peter Eisentraut a378555501 CLUSTER VERBOSE and corresponding clusterdb --verbose option
Jim Cox and Peter Eisentraut
2008-11-24 08:46:04 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 822f26069e Fix a few more format argument warnings. 2008-11-21 20:14:27 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3396000684 Rethink the way FSM truncation works. Instead of WAL-logging FSM
truncations in FSM code, call FreeSpaceMapTruncateRel from smgr_redo. To
make that cleaner from modularity point of view, move the WAL-logging one
level up to RelationTruncate, and move RelationTruncate and all the
related WAL-logging to new src/backend/catalog/storage.c file. Introduce
new RelationCreateStorage and RelationDropStorage functions that are used
instead of calling smgrcreate/smgrscheduleunlink directly. Move the
pending rel deletion stuff from smgrcreate/smgrscheduleunlink to the new
functions. This leaves smgr.c as a thin wrapper around md.c; all the
transactional stuff is now in storage.c.

This will make it easier to add new forks with similar truncation logic,
like the visibility map.
2008-11-19 10:34:52 +00:00
Tom Lane cd35e9d746 Some infrastructure changes for the upcoming auto-explain contrib module:
* Refactor explain.c slightly to export a convenient-to-use subroutine
for printing EXPLAIN results.

* Provide hooks for plugins to get control at ExecutorStart and ExecutorEnd
as well as ExecutorRun.

* Add some minimal support for tracking the total runtime of ExecutorRun.
This code won't actually do anything unless a plugin prods it to.

* Change the API of the DefineCustomXXXVariable functions to allow nonzero
"flags" to be specified for a custom GUC variable.  While at it, also make
the "bootstrap" default value for custom GUCs be explicitly specified as a
parameter to these functions.  This is to eliminate confusion over where the
default comes from, as has been expressed in the past by some users of the
custom-variable facility.

* Refactor GUC code a bit to ensure that a custom variable gets initialized to
something valid (like its default value) even if the placeholder value was
invalid.
2008-11-19 01:10:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 9e0247aba5 In CREATE AGGREGATE, allow the transition datatype to be "internal", but only
if the user is superuser.  This makes available to extension modules the same
sort of trick being practiced by array_agg().  The reason for the superuser
restriction is that you could crash the system by connecting up an
incompatible pair of internal-using functions as an aggregate.  It shouldn't
interfere with any legitimate use, since you'd have to be superuser to create
the internal-using transition and final functions anyway.
2008-11-14 19:47:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 4f38b9a80a Make CREATE CONVERSION verify that a putative encoding conversion function
returns VOID.  This is the last of the easy fixes I recommended in
11870.1218838360@sss.pgh.pa.us --- the others got done awhile ago but
I forgot about this one.
2008-11-14 17:40:56 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 03e5248d0f Replace the usage of heap_addheader to create pg_attribute tuples with regular
heap_form_tuple.  Since this removes the last remaining caller of
heap_addheader, remove it.

Extracted from the column privileges patch from Stephen Frost, with further
code cleanups by me.
2008-11-14 01:57:42 +00:00
Tom Lane c5451c22e3 Make relhasrules and relhastriggers work like relhasindex, namely we let
VACUUM reset them to false rather than trying to clean 'em up during DROP.
2008-11-10 00:49:37 +00:00
Tom Lane e4718f2c9e Replace pg_class.reltriggers with relhastriggers, which is just a boolean hint
("there might be triggers") rather than an exact count.  This is necessary
catalog infrastructure for the upcoming patch to reduce the strength of
locking needed for trigger addition/removal.  Split out and committed
separately for ease of reviewing/testing.

In passing, also get rid of the unused pg_class columns relukeys, relfkeys,
and relrefs, which haven't been maintained in many years and now have no
chance of ever being maintained (because of wishing to avoid locking).

Simon Riggs
2008-11-09 21:24:33 +00:00
Tom Lane 6517f377d6 Implement ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE to move a whole database (or at least
as much of it as lives in its default tablespace) to a new tablespace.

Guillaume Lelarge, with some help from Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane
2008-11-07 18:25:07 +00:00
Tom Lane 85e2cedf98 Improve bulk-insert performance by keeping the current target buffer pinned
(but not locked, as that would risk deadlocks).  Also, make it work in a small
ring of buffers to avoid having bulk inserts trash the whole buffer arena.

Robert Haas, after an idea of Simon Riggs'.
2008-11-06 20:51:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 902d1cb35f Remove all uses of the deprecated functions heap_formtuple, heap_modifytuple,
and heap_deformtuple in favor of the newer functions heap_form_tuple et al
(which do the same things but use bool control flags instead of arbitrary
char values).  Eliminate the former duplicate coding of these functions,
reducing the deprecated functions to mere wrappers around the newer ones.
We can't get rid of them entirely because add-on modules probably still
contain many instances of the old coding style.

Kris Jurka
2008-11-02 01:45:28 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 19c8dc839b Unite ReadBufferWithFork, ReadBufferWithStrategy, and ZeroOrReadBuffer
functions into one ReadBufferExtended function, that takes the strategy
and mode as argument. There's three modes, RBM_NORMAL which is the default
used by plain ReadBuffer(), RBM_ZERO, which replaces ZeroOrReadBuffer, and
a new mode RBM_ZERO_ON_ERROR, which allows callers to read corrupt pages
without throwing an error. The FSM needs the new mode to recover from
corrupt pages, which could happend if we crash after extending an FSM file,
and the new page is "torn".

Add fork number to some error messages in bufmgr.c, that still lacked it.
2008-10-31 15:05:00 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 092bc49653 Add support for user-defined I/O conversion casts. 2008-10-31 08:39:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 05bba3d176 Be more tense about not creating tuplestores with randomAccess = true unless
backwards scan could actually happen.  In particular, pass a flag to
materialize-mode SRFs that tells them whether they need to require random
access.  In passing, also suppress unneeded backward-scan overhead for a
Portal's holdStore tuplestore.  Per my proposal about reducing I/O costs for
tuplestores.
2008-10-29 00:00:39 +00:00
Tom Lane 312b1a983f Reduce the memory footprint of large pending-trigger-event lists, as per my
recent proposal.  In typical cases, we now need 12 bytes per insert or delete
event and 16 bytes per update event; previously we needed 40 bytes per
event on 32-bit hardware and 80 bytes per event on 64-bit hardware.  Even
in the worst case usage pattern with a large number of distinct triggers being
fired in one query, usage is at most 32 bytes per event.  It seems to be a
bit faster than the old code as well, due to reduction of palloc overhead.

This commit doesn't address the TODO item of allowing the event list to spill
to disk; rather it's trying to stave off the need for that.  However, it
probably makes that task a bit easier by reducing the data structure's
dependency on pointers.  It would now be practical to dump an event list to
disk by "chunks" instead of individual events.
2008-10-24 23:42:35 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut d1b02e7648 Use format_type_be() instead of TypeNameToString() for some more user-facing
error messages where the type existence is established.
2008-10-21 10:38:51 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera c5eabafb6a Ensure that CLUSTER leaves the toast table and index with consistent names,
by renaming the new copies after the catalog games.
2008-10-14 17:19:50 +00:00
Tom Lane e3b0117459 Implement comparison of generic records (composite types), and invent a
pseudo-type record[] to represent arrays of possibly-anonymous composite
types.  Since composite datums carry their own type identification, no
extra knowledge is needed at the array level.

The main reason for doing this right now is that it is necessary to support
the general case of detection of cycles in recursive queries: if you need to
compare more than one column to detect a cycle, you need to compare a ROW()
to an array built from ROW()s, at least if you want to do it as the spec
suggests.  Add some documentation and regression tests concerning the cycle
detection issue.
2008-10-13 16:25:20 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas db31addaae Force a checkpoint in CREATE DATABASE before starting to copy the files,
to process any pending unlinks for the source database.

Before, if you dropped a relation in the template database just before
CREATE DATABASE, and a checkpoint happened during copydir(), the checkpoint
might delete a file that we're just about to copy, causing lstat() in
copydir() to fail with ENOENT.

Backpatch to 8.3, where the pending unlinks were introduced.

Per report by Matthew Wakeling and analysis by Tom Lane.
2008-10-09 10:34:06 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas fa3938fcb1 When a relation is moved to another tablespace, we can't assume that we can
use the old relfilenode in the new tablespace. There might be another relation
in the new tablespace with the same relfilenode, so we must generate a fresh
relfilenode in the new tablespace.

The 8.3 patch to let deleted relation files linger as zero-length files until
the next checkpoint made this more obvious: moving a relation from one table
space another, and then back again, caused a collision with the lingering
file.

Back-patch to 8.1. The issue is present in 8.0 as well, but it doesn't seem
worth fixing there, because we didn't have protection from OID collisions
after OID wraparound before 8.1.

Report by Guillaume Lelarge.
2008-10-07 11:15:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 742fd06d98 Fix up ruleutils.c for CTE features. The main problem was that
get_name_for_var_field didn't have enough context to interpret a reference to
a CTE query's output.  Fixing this requires separate hacks for the regular
deparse case (pg_get_ruledef) and for the EXPLAIN case, since the available
context information is quite different.  It's pretty nearly parallel to the
existing code for SUBQUERY RTEs, though.  Also, add code to make sure we
qualify a relation name that matches a CTE name; else the CTE will mistakenly
capture the reference when reloading the rule.

In passing, fix a pre-existing problem with get_name_for_var_field not working
on variables in targetlists of SubqueryScan plan nodes.  Although latent all
along, this wasn't a problem until we made EXPLAIN VERBOSE try to print
targetlists.  To do this, refactor the deparse_context_for_plan API so that
the special case for SubqueryScan is all on ruleutils.c's side.
2008-10-06 20:29:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 44d5be0e53 Implement SQL-standard WITH clauses, including WITH RECURSIVE.
There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL
(should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses.
These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a
pretty useful feature.

There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles,
which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly.  But let's land
the patch now so we can get on with other development.

Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
2008-10-04 21:56:55 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 15c121b3ed Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, the
free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each
relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM).

This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any
trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation.

Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also
introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in
contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and
a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
2008-09-30 10:52:14 +00:00
Tom Lane e8e746de34 Establish the rule that array types should have the same typdelim as their
element types.  Since the backend doesn't actually pay attention to the array
type's delimiter, this has no functional effect, but it seems better for the
catalog entries to be consistent.  Per gripe from Greg Mullane and subsequent
discussion.
2008-09-25 03:28:56 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas c2d4526495 Tighten the check in initdb and CREATE DATABASE that the chosen encoding
matches the encoding of the locale. LC_COLLATE is now checked in addition
to LC_CTYPE.
2008-09-23 10:58:03 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 61d9674988 Make LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE database-level settings. Collation and
ctype are now more like encoding, stored in new datcollate and datctype
columns in pg_database.

This is a stripped-down version of Radek Strnad's patch, with further
changes by me.
2008-09-23 09:20:39 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera d53a56687f Initialize the minimum frozen Xid in vac_update_datfrozenxid using
GetOldestXmin() instead of RecentGlobalXmin; this is safer because we do not
depend on the latter being correctly set elsewhere, and while it is more
expensive, this code path is not performance-critical.  This is a real
risk for autovacuum, because it can execute whole cycles without doing
a single vacuum, which would mean that RecentGlobalXmin would stay at its
initialization value, FirstNormalTransactionId, causing a bogus value to be
inserted in pg_database.  This bug could explain some recent reports of
failure to truncate pg_clog.

At the same time, change the initialization of RecentGlobalXmin to
InvalidTransactionId, and ensure that it's set to something else whenever
it's going to be used.  Using it as FirstNormalTransactionId in HOT page
pruning could incur in data loss.  InitPostgres takes care of setting it
to a valid value, but the extra checks are there to prevent "special"
backends from behaving in unusual ways.

Per Tom Lane's detailed problem dissection in 29544.1221061979@sss.pgh.pa.us
2008-09-11 14:01:10 +00:00
Tom Lane a0b76dc662 Create a separate grantable privilege for TRUNCATE, rather than having it be
always owner-only.  The TRUNCATE privilege works identically to the DELETE
privilege so far as interactions with the rest of the system go.

Robert Haas
2008-09-08 00:47:41 +00:00
Tom Lane b153c09209 Add a bunch of new error location reports to parse-analysis error messages.
There are still some weak spots around JOIN USING and relation alias lists,
but most errors reported within backend/parser/ now have locations.
2008-09-01 20:42:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 449a00fbbd Fix the raw-parsetree representation of star (as in SELECT * FROM or
SELECT foo.*) so that it cannot be confused with a quoted identifier "*".
Instead create a separate node type A_Star to represent this notation.
Per pgsql-hackers discussion of 2007-Sep-27.
2008-08-30 01:39:14 +00:00
Tom Lane a2794623d2 Extend the parser location infrastructure to include a location field in
most node types used in expression trees (both before and after parse
analysis).  This allows us to place an error cursor in many situations
where we formerly could not, because the information wasn't available
beyond the very first level of parse analysis.  There's a fair amount
of work still to be done to persuade individual ereport() calls to actually
include an error location, but this gets the initdb-forcing part of the
work out of the way; and the situation is already markedly better than
before for complaints about unimplementable implicit casts, such as
CASE and UNION constructs with incompatible alternative data types.
Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2008-08-28 23:09:48 +00:00
Tom Lane e5536e77a5 Move exprType(), exprTypmod(), expression_tree_walker(), and related routines
into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside
the backend.  There's probably more that should be done along this line,
but this is a start anyway.
2008-08-25 22:42:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 9650830bc8 Cause the output from debug_print_parse, debug_print_rewritten, and
debug_print_plan to appear at LOG message level, not DEBUG1 as historically.
Make debug_pretty_print default to on.  Also, cause plans generated via
EXPLAIN to be subject to debug_print_plan.  This is all to make
debug_print_plan a reasonably comfortable substitute for the former behavior
of EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
2008-08-19 18:30:04 +00:00
Tom Lane d4af2a6481 Clean up the loose ends in selectivity estimation left by my patch for semi
and anti joins.  To do this, pass the SpecialJoinInfo struct for the current
join as an additional optional argument to operator join selectivity
estimation functions.  This allows the estimator to tell not only what kind
of join is being formed, but which variable is on which side of the join;
a requirement long recognized but not dealt with till now.  This also leaves
the door open for future improvements in the estimators, such as accounting
for the null-insertion effects of lower outer joins.  I didn't do anything
about that in the current patch but the information is in principle deducible
from what's passed.

The patch also clarifies the definition of join selectivity for semi/anti
joins: it's the fraction of the left input that has (at least one) match
in the right input.  This allows getting rid of some very fuzzy thinking
that I had committed in the original 7.4-era IN-optimization patch.
There's probably room to estimate this better than the present patch does,
but at least we know what to estimate.

Since I had to touch CREATE OPERATOR anyway to allow a variant signature
for join estimator functions, I took the opportunity to add a couple of
additional checks that were missing, per my recent message to -hackers:
* Check that estimator functions return float8;
* Require execute permission at the time of CREATE OPERATOR on the
operator's function as well as the estimator functions;
* Require ownership of any pre-existing operator that's modified by
the command.
I also moved the lookup of the functions out of OperatorCreate() and
into operatorcmds.c, since that seemed more consistent with most of
the other catalog object creation processes, eg CREATE TYPE.
2008-08-16 00:01:38 +00:00
Tom Lane e006a24ad1 Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replace
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.)  Teach the planner
to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti
joins respectively.  Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL
filters are recognized as being anti joins.  Unify the InClauseInfo and
OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo".  With that change,
it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt,
which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation.  That needs to be
taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the
API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a
separate patch.  So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and
especially anti joins are quite bogus.
2008-08-14 18:48:00 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 3ccde312ec Have autovacuum consider processing TOAST tables separately from their
main tables.

This requires vacuum() to accept processing a toast table standalone, so
there's a user-visible change in that it's now possible (for a superuser) to
execute "VACUUM pg_toast.pg_toast_XXX".
2008-08-13 00:07:50 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3f0e808c4a Introduce the concept of relation forks. An smgr relation can now consist
of multiple forks, and each fork can be created and grown separately.

The bulk of this patch is about changing the smgr API to include an extra
ForkNumber argument in every smgr function. Also, smgrscheduleunlink and
smgrdounlink no longer implicitly call smgrclose, because other forks might
still exist after unlinking one. The callers of those functions have been
modified to call smgrclose instead.

This patch in itself doesn't have any user-visible effect, but provides the
infrastructure needed for upcoming patches. The additional forks envisioned
are a rewritten FSM implementation that doesn't rely on a fixed-size shared
memory block, and a visibility map to allow skipping portions of a table in
VACUUM that have no dead tuples.
2008-08-11 11:05:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 368df30427 Support hashing for duplicate-elimination in INTERSECT and EXCEPT queries.
This completes my project of improving usage of hashing for duplicate
elimination (aggregate functions with DISTINCT remain undone, but that's
for some other day).

As with the previous patches, this means we can INTERSECT/EXCEPT on datatypes
that can hash but not sort, and it means that INTERSECT/EXCEPT without ORDER
BY are no longer certain to produce sorted output.
2008-08-07 03:04:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 4abd7b49f1 Improve CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE so that when failing because the source
or target database is being accessed by other users, it tells you whether
the "other users" are live sessions or uncommitted prepared transactions.
(Indeed, it tells you exactly how many of each, but that's mostly just
because it was easy to do so.)  This should help forestall the gotcha of
not realizing that a prepared transaction is what's blocking the command.
Per discussion.
2008-08-04 18:03:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 9511304752 Rearrange the querytree representation of ORDER BY/GROUP BY/DISTINCT items
as per my recent proposal:

1. Fold SortClause and GroupClause into a single node type SortGroupClause.
We were already relying on them to be struct-equivalent, so using two node
tags wasn't accomplishing much except to get in the way of comparing items
with equal().

2. Add an "eqop" field to SortGroupClause to carry the associated equality
operator.  This is cheap for the parser to get at the same time it's looking
up the sort operator, and storing it eliminates the need for repeated
not-so-cheap lookups during planning.  In future this will also let us
represent GROUP/DISTINCT operations on datatypes that have hash opclasses
but no btree opclasses (ie, they have equality but no natural sort order).
The previous representation simply didn't work for that, since its only
indicator of comparison semantics was a sort operator.

3. Add a hasDistinctOn boolean to struct Query to explicitly record whether
the distinctClause came from DISTINCT or DISTINCT ON.  This allows removing
some complicated and not 100% bulletproof code that attempted to figure
that out from the distinctClause alone.

This patch doesn't in itself create any new capability, but it's necessary
infrastructure for future attempts to use hash-based grouping for DISTINCT
and UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
2008-08-02 21:32:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 7bd7b2002b Require superuser privilege to create base types (but not composites, enums,
or domains).  This was already effectively required because you had to own
the I/O functions, and the I/O functions pretty much have to be written in
C since we don't let PL functions take or return cstring.  But given the
possible security consequences of a malicious type definition, it seems
prudent to enforce superuser requirement directly.  Per recent discussion.
2008-07-31 16:27:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 7df49cef72 Flip the default typispreferred setting from true to false. This affects
only type categories in which the previous coding made *every* type
preferred; so there is no change in effective behavior, because the function
resolution rules only do something different when faced with a choice
between preferred and non-preferred types in the same category.  It just
seems safer and less surprising to have CREATE TYPE default to non-preferred
status ...
2008-07-30 19:35:13 +00:00
Tom Lane bac3e83622 Replace the hard-wired type knowledge in TypeCategory() and IsPreferredType()
with system catalog lookups, as was foreseen to be necessary almost since
their creation.  Instead put the information into two new pg_type columns,
typcategory and typispreferred.  Add support for setting these when
creating a user-defined base type.

The category column is just a "char" (i.e. a poor man's enum), allowing
a crude form of user extensibility of the category list: just use an
otherwise-unused character.  This seems sufficient for foreseen uses,
but we could upgrade to having an actual category catalog someday, if
there proves to be a huge demand for custom type categories.

In this patch I have attempted to hew exactly to the behavior of the
previous hardwired logic, except for introducing new type categories for
arrays, composites, and enums.  In particular the default preferred state
for user-defined types remains TRUE.  That seems worth revisiting, but it
should be done as a separate patch from introducing the infrastructure.
Likewise, any adjustment of the standard set of categories should be done
separately.
2008-07-30 17:05:05 +00:00
Tom Lane b351eba20a Add comment about the two different query strings that ExecuteQuery()
has to deal with.
2008-07-21 15:26:55 +00:00
Tom Lane a1c692358b Adjust things so that the query_string of a cached plan and the sourceText of
a portal are never NULL, but reliably provide the source text of the query.
It turns out that there was only one place that was really taking a short-cut,
which was the 'EXECUTE' utility statement.  That doesn't seem like a
sufficiently critical performance hotspot to justify not offering a guarantee
of validity of the portal source text.  Fix it to copy the source text over
from the cached plan.  Add Asserts in the places that set up cached plans and
portals to reject null source strings, and simplify a bunch of places that
formerly needed to guard against nulls.

There may be a few places that cons up statements for execution without
having any source text at all; I found one such in ConvertTriggerToFK().
It seems sufficient to inject a phony source string in such a case,
for instance
        ProcessUtility((Node *) atstmt,
                       "(generated ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY command)",
                       NULL, false, None_Receiver, NULL);

We should take a second look at the usage of debug_query_string,
particularly the recently added current_query() SQL function.

ITAGAKI Takahiro and Tom Lane
2008-07-18 20:26:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 69a785b8bf Implement SQL-spec RETURNS TABLE syntax for functions.
(Unlike the original submission, this patch treats TABLE output parameters
as being entirely equivalent to OUT parameters -- tgl)

Pavel Stehule
2008-07-18 03:32:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 5ef5abe372 Fix previous patch so that it actually works --- consider TRUNCATE foo, public.foo 2008-07-16 19:33:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 6563e9e2e8 Add a "provariadic" column to pg_proc to eliminate the remarkably expensive
need to deconstruct proargmodes for each pg_proc entry inspected by
FuncnameGetCandidates().  Fixes function lookup performance regression
caused by yesterday's variadic-functions patch.

In passing, make pg_proc.probin be NULL, rather than a dummy value '-',
in cases where it is not actually used for the particular type of function.
This should buy back some of the space cost of the extra column.
2008-07-16 16:55:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 895a4bccb6 Allow TRUNCATE foo, foo to succeed, per report from Nikhils. 2008-07-16 16:54:08 +00:00
Tom Lane d89737d31c Support "variadic" functions, which can accept a variable number of arguments
so long as all the trailing arguments are of the same (non-array) type.
The function receives them as a single array argument (which is why they
have to all be the same type).

It might be useful to extend this facility to aggregates, but this patch
doesn't do that.

This patch imposes a noticeable slowdown on function lookup --- a follow-on
patch will fix that by adding a redundant column to pg_proc.

Pavel Stehule
2008-07-16 01:30:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 9d035f4254 Clean up the use of some page-header-access macros: principally, use
SizeOfPageHeaderData instead of sizeof(PageHeaderData) in places where that
makes the code clearer, and avoid casting between Page and PageHeader where
possible.  Zdenek Kotala, with some additional cleanup by Heikki Linnakangas.

I did not apply the parts of the proposed patch that would have resulted in
slightly changing the on-disk format of hash indexes; it seems to me that's
not a win as long as there's any chance of having in-place upgrade for 8.4.
2008-07-13 20:45:47 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 96193aa803 More replacements of binary compatible to binary coercible. 2008-07-12 10:44:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e3afbb3504 Allow binary-coercible types for cast function arguments and return types.
Document return type of cast functions.

Also change documentation to prefer the term "binary coercible" in its
present sense instead of the previous term "binary compatible".
2008-07-11 07:02:43 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3ccb2c590c Extend VacAttrStats to allow typanalyze functions to store statistic values
of different types than the underlying column. The capability isn't yet
used for anything, but will be required by upcoming patch to analyze
tsvector columns.

Jan Urbanski
2008-07-01 10:33:09 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera a3540b0f65 Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from the
corresponding struct definitions.  This allows other headers to avoid including
certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just
relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less
unnecessary dependencies.
2008-06-19 00:46:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 906f27dd73 Make DROP INDEX lock the parent table before locking the index. This behavior
is necessary to avoid deadlock against ordinary queries, but we'd broken it
with recent changes that made the DROP machinery lock the index before
arriving at index_drop.  Per intermittent buildfarm failures.
2008-06-15 16:29:05 +00:00
Tom Lane a0b012a1ab Rearrange ALTER TABLE syntax processing as per my recent proposal: the
grammar allows ALTER TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW interchangeably for all
subforms of those commands, and then we sort out what's really legal
at execution time.  This allows the ALTER SEQUENCE/VIEW reference pages
to fully document all the ALTER forms available for sequences and views
respectively, and eliminates a longstanding cause of confusion for users.

The net effect is that the following forms are allowed that weren't before:
	ALTER SEQUENCE OWNER TO
	ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT
	ALTER VIEW OWNER TO
	ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA
(There's no actual functionality gain here, but formerly you had to say
ALTER TABLE instead.)

Interestingly, the grammar tables actually get smaller, probably because
there are fewer special cases to keep track of.

I did not disallow using ALTER TABLE for these operations.  Perhaps we
should, but there's a backwards-compatibility issue if we do; in fact
it would break existing pg_dump scripts.  I did however tighten up
ALTER SEQUENCE and ALTER VIEW to reject non-sequences and non-views
in the new cases as well as a couple of cases where they didn't before.

The patch doesn't change pg_dump to use the new syntaxes, either.
2008-06-15 01:25:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 0cefb50f3c Refactor the handling of the various DropStmt variants so that when multiple
objects are specified, we drop them all in a single performMultipleDeletions
call.  This makes the RESTRICT/CASCADE checks more relaxed: it's not counted
as a cascade if one of the later objects has a dependency on an earlier one.
NOTICE messages about such cases go away, too.

In passing, fix the permissions check for DROP CONVERSION, which for some
reason was never made role-aware, and omitted the namespace-owner exemption
too.

Alex Hunsaker, with further fiddling by me.
2008-06-14 18:04:34 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas a213f1ee6c Refactor XLogOpenRelation() and XLogReadBuffer() in preparation for relation
forks. XLogOpenRelation() and the associated light-weight relation cache in
xlogutils.c is gone, and XLogReadBuffer() now takes a RelFileNode as argument,
instead of Relation.

For functions that still need a Relation struct during WAL replay, there's a
new function called CreateFakeRelcacheEntry() that returns a fake entry like
XLogOpenRelation() used to.
2008-06-12 09:12:31 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera cc87402d6e Move BufferGetPageSize and BufferGetPage from bufpage.h to bufmgr.h. It is
more logical that way, and also it reduces the amount of unnecessary includes
in bufpage.h, which is widely used.

Zdenek Kotala.

My previous patch to bufpage.h should also have credited him as author, but I
forgot (sorry about that).
2008-06-08 22:00:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 395f8b91db ALTER AGGREGATE OWNER seems to have been missed by the last couple of
patches that dealt with object ownership.  It wasn't updating pg_shdepend
nor adjusting the aggregate's ACL.  In 8.2 and up, fix this permanently
by making it use AlterFunctionOwner_oid.  In 8.1, the function code wasn't
factored that way, so just copy and paste.
2008-06-08 21:09:48 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 9319fd89e1 Modify vacuum() to accept a single relation OID instead of a list (which we
always pass as a single element anyway.)  In passing, fix an outdated comment.
2008-06-05 15:47:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 63e98b55f0 Coercion sanity check in ri_HashCompareOp failed to allow for enums, as per
example from Rod Taylor.  On reflection the correct test here is for any
polymorphic type, not specifically ANYARRAY as in the original coding.
2008-05-19 04:14:24 +00:00
Tom Lane caede71b44 Allow ALTER SEQUENCE START WITH to change the recorded start_value of a
sequence.  This seems an obvious extension to the recent patch, and it
makes the code noticeably cleaner and more orthogonal.
2008-05-17 01:20:39 +00:00
Tom Lane 10a3471bed Add a RESTART (without parameter) option to ALTER SEQUENCE, allowing a
sequence to be reset to its original starting value.  This requires adding the
original start value to the set of parameters (columns) of a sequence object,
which is a user-visible change with potential compatibility implications;
it also forces initdb.

Also add hopefully-SQL-compatible RESTART/CONTINUE IDENTITY options to
TRUNCATE TABLE.  RESTART IDENTITY executes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART for all
sequences "owned by" any of the truncated relations.  CONTINUE IDENTITY is
a no-op option.

Zoltan Boszormenyi
2008-05-16 23:36:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 93c701edc6 Add support for tracking call counts and elapsed runtime for user-defined
functions.

Note that because this patch changes FmgrInfo, any external C functions
you might be testing with 8.4 will need to be recompiled.

Patch by Martin Pihlak, some editorialization by me (principally, removing
tracking of getrusage() numbers)
2008-05-15 00:17:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 3bc25384d7 Move the "instr_time" typedef and associated macros into a new header
file portability/instr_time.h, and add a couple more macros to eliminate
some abstraction leakage we formerly had.  Also update psql to use this
header instead of its own copy of nearly the same code.

This commit in itself is just code cleanup and shouldn't change anything.
It lays some groundwork for the upcoming function-stats patch, though.
2008-05-14 19:10:29 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 5da9da71c4 Improve snapshot manager by keeping explicit track of snapshots.
There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which
is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack",
which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time.
This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory
allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot
assignment.  This is all done automatically now.

As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no
more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that
long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
2008-05-12 20:02:02 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 9084399782 Put back bufmgr.h in bufpage.h -- it is needed by some macros.
Remove #include bufmgr.h from (most?) source files which already include
bufpage.h.
2008-05-12 16:06:10 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera f8c4d7db60 Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing some
unnecessary #include lines in it.  Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and
macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c
files.

For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created,
initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage.

While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more
consistent with our header style.
2008-05-12 00:00:54 +00:00
Tom Lane cd902b331d Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the same
as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child
table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent.
This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent
will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some
longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether
check constraints were really inherited or not.

The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to
pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute)
and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for
columns.

Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom Lane
2008-05-09 23:32:05 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 77d3b98c37 Fix REASSIGN OWNED so that it works on procedural languages too.
The capability for changing language owners is new in 8.3, so that's how
far back this needs to be backpatched.

Per bug #4132 by Kirill Simonov.
2008-04-29 19:37:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 5c068038ff Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ... PRIMARY KEY so that the new column is correctly
checked to see if it's been initialized to all non-nulls.  The implicit NOT
NULL constraint was not being checked during the ALTER (in fact, not even if
there was an explicit NOT NULL too), because ATExecAddColumn neglected to
set the flag needed to make the test happen.  This has been broken since
the capability was first added, in 8.0.

Brendan Jurd, per a report from Kaloyan Iliev.
2008-04-24 20:17:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 8472bf7a73 Allow float8, int8, and related datatypes to be passed by value on machines
where Datum is 8 bytes wide.  Since this will break old-style C functions
(those still using version 0 calling convention) that have arguments or
results of these types, provide a configure option to disable it and retain
the old pass-by-reference behavior.  Likewise, provide a configure option
to disable the recently-committed float4 pass-by-value change.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, plus configurability stuff by me.
2008-04-21 00:26:47 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 7861d72ea2 Modify the float4 datatype to be pass-by-val. Along the way, remove the last
uses of the long-deprecated float32 in contrib/seg; the definitions themselves
are still there, but no longer used.  fmgr/README updated to match.

I added a CREATE FUNCTION to account for existing seg_center() code in seg.c
too, and some tests for it and the neighbor functions.  At the same time,
remove checks for NULL which are not needed (because the functions are declared
STRICT).

I had to do some adjustments to contrib's btree_gist too.  The choices for
representation there are not ideal for changing the underlying types :-(

Original patch by Zoltan Boszormenyi, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-18 18:43:09 +00:00
Tom Lane b8e5581d76 Fix rmtree() so that it keeps going after failure to remove any individual
file; the idea is that we should clean up as much as we can, even if there's
some problem removing one file.  Make the error messages a bit less misleading,
too.  In passing, const-ify function arguments.
2008-04-18 17:05:45 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9cb91f90c9 Fix two race conditions between the pending unlink mechanism that was put in
place to prevent reusing relation OIDs before next checkpoint, and DROP
DATABASE. First, if a database was dropped, bgwriter would still try to unlink
the files that the rmtree() call by the DROP DATABASE command has already
deleted, or is just about to delete. Second, if a database is dropped, and
another database is created with the same OID, bgwriter would in the worst
case delete a relation in the new database that happened to get the same OID
as a dropped relation in the old database.

To fix these race conditions:
- make rmtree() ignore ENOENT errors. This fixes the 1st race condition.
- make ForgetDatabaseFsyncRequests forget unlink requests as well.
- force checkpoint on in dropdb on all platforms

Since ForgetDatabaseFsyncRequests() is asynchronous, the 2nd change isn't
enough on its own to fix the problem of dropping and creating a database with
same OID, but forcing a checkpoint on DROP DATABASE makes it sufficient.

Per Tom Lane's bug report and proposal. Backpatch to 8.3.
2008-04-18 06:48:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 87a2f050a9 Cause EXPLAIN's VERBOSE option to print the target list (output column list)
of each plan node, instead of its former behavior of dumping the internal
representation of the plan tree.  The latter display is still available for
those who really want it (see debug_print_plan), but uses for it are certainly
few and and far between.  Per discussion.

This patch also removes the explain_pretty_print GUC, which is obsoleted
by the change.
2008-04-18 01:42:17 +00:00
Tom Lane c5e4e91a96 Add some code to EXPLAIN to show the targetlist (ie, output columns)
of each plan node.  For the moment this is debug support only and is
not enabled unless EXPLAIN_PRINT_TLISTS is defined at build time.
Later I'll see about the idea of letting EXPLAIN VERBOSE do it.
2008-04-17 18:30:18 +00:00
Tom Lane d1cbd26ded Repair two places where SIGTERM exit could leave shared memory state
corrupted.  (Neither is very important if SIGTERM is used to shut down the
whole database cluster together, but there's a problem if someone tries to
SIGTERM individual backends.)  To do this, introduce new infrastructure
macros PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP/PG_END_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP that take care
of transiently pushing an on_shmem_exit cleanup hook.  Also use this method
for createdb cleanup --- that wasn't a shared-memory-corruption problem,
but SIGTERM abort of createdb could leave orphaned files lying around.

Backpatch as far as 8.2.  The shmem corruption cases don't exist in 8.1,
and the createdb usage doesn't seem important enough to risk backpatching
further.
2008-04-16 23:59:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 9b5c8d45f6 Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion.  The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes.  In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.

Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 24558da14a Phase 2 of project to make index operator lossiness be determined at runtime
instead of plan time.  Extend the amgettuple API so that the index AM returns
a boolean indicating whether the indexquals need to be rechecked, and make
that rechecking happen in nodeIndexscan.c (currently the only place where
it's expected to be needed; other callers of index_getnext are just erroring
out for now).  For the moment, GIN and GIST have stub logic that just always
sets the recheck flag to TRUE --- I'm hoping to get Teodor to handle pushing
that control down to the opclass consistent() functions.  The planner no
longer pays any attention to amopreqcheck, and that catalog column will go
away in due course.
2008-04-13 19:18:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 51e1445f10 Teach ANALYZE to distinguish dead and in-doubt tuples, which it formerly
classed all as "dead"; also get it to count DEAD item pointers as dead rows,
instead of ignoring them as before.  Also improve matters so that tuples
previously inserted or deleted by our own transaction are handled nicely:
the stats collector's live-tuple and dead-tuple counts will end up correct
after our transaction ends, regardless of whether we end in commit or abort.

While there's more work that could be done to improve the counting of in-doubt
tuples in both VACUUM and ANALYZE, this commit is enough to alleviate some
known bad behaviors in 8.3; and the other stuff that's been discussed seems
like research projects anyway.

Pavan Deolasee and Tom Lane
2008-04-03 16:27:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 1591fcbec7 Revert my bad decision of about a year ago to make PortalDefineQuery
responsible for copying the query string into the new Portal.  Such copying
is unnecessary in the common code path through exec_simple_query, and in
this case it can be enormously expensive because the string might contain
a large number of individual commands; we were copying the entire, long
string for each command, resulting in O(N^2) behavior for N commands.
(This is the cause of bug #4079.)  A second problem with it is that
PortalDefineQuery really can't risk error, because if it elog's before
having set up the Portal, we will leak the plancache refcount that the
caller is trying to hand off to the portal.  So go back to the design in
which the caller is responsible for making sure everything is copied into
the portal if necessary.
2008-04-02 18:31:50 +00:00
Tom Lane e86237ff31 Fix my brain fade in TRUNCATE triggers patch: can't release relcache refcounts
while EState still contains pointers to those relations.  Exposed by the
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS tests that buildfarm member jaguar is running (I knew
those cycles would pay off...)
2008-03-31 03:34:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 7692d8d5b7 Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon Riggs 2008-03-28 00:21:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 039dfbfd5d Reduce the need for frontend programs to include "postgres.h" by refactoring
inclusions in src/include/catalog/*.h files.  The main idea here is to push
function declarations for src/backend/catalog/*.c files into separate headers,
rather than sticking them into the corresponding catalog definition file as
has been done in the past.  This commit only carries out that idea fully for
pg_proc, pg_type and pg_conversion, but that's enough for the moment ---
if pg_list.h ever becomes unsafe for frontend code to include, we'll need
to work a bit more.

Zdenek Kotala
2008-03-27 03:57:34 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 73b0300b2a Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid including
tqual.h into heapam.h.  This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit.

I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
2008-03-26 21:10:39 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 78f02ca1f5 Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
2008-03-26 18:48:59 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera d43b085d57 Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create a
snapmgmt.c file for the former.  The header files have also been reorganized
in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file
snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c.
tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum.

This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a
transaction; there is no functionality change.

Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and
subsequent discussion.
2008-03-26 16:20:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 220db7ccd8 Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C
strings.  This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text,
cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and
two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString.  A number of
existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed.

Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one
function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used
to be needed.  There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin,
and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via
memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though).

This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory
leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach
text_to_cstring.  We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few
places where it was easy, but much more could be done.

Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
Neil Conway 1d812a98b4 Add a new tuplestore API function, tuplestore_putvalues(). This is
identical to tuplestore_puttuple(), except it operates on arrays of
Datums + nulls rather than a fully-formed HeapTuple. In several places
that use the tuplestore API, this means we can avoid creating a
HeapTuple altogether, saving a copy.
2008-03-25 19:26:54 +00:00
Tom Lane 2a346725ba Use new errdetail_log() mechanism to provide a less klugy way of reporting
large numbers of dependencies on a role that couldn't be dropped.
Per a comment from Alvaro.
2008-03-24 19:47:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 32b58d0220 Fix various infelicities that have snuck into usage of errdetail() and
friends.  Avoid double translation of some messages, ensure other messages
are exposed for translation (and make them follow the style guidelines),
avoid unsafe passing of an unpredictable message text as a format string.
2008-03-24 19:12:49 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 8759b79d0f Add a couple of missing FreeQueryDesc calls. Noticed while testing a
framework to keep track of snapshots in use.
2008-03-20 20:05:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 5507b22dfc Support ALTER TYPE RENAME. Petr Jelinek 2008-03-19 18:38:30 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera a9686591d7 We no longer need a snapshot set after opening the finishing transaction: this
is redundant because autovacuum now always analyzes a single table per
transaction.
2008-03-19 14:18:21 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera adc4e1e635 Fix vacuum so that autovacuum is really not cancelled when doing an emergency
job (i.e. to prevent Xid wraparound problems.)  Bug reported by ITAGAKI
Takahiro in 20080314103837.63D3.52131E4D@oss.ntt.co.jp, though I didn't use his
patch.
2008-03-14 17:25:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 033eb1581b Fix LISTEN/NOTIFY race condition reported by Laurent Birtz, by postponing
pg_listener modifications commanded by LISTEN and UNLISTEN until the end
of the current transaction.  This allows us to hold the ExclusiveLock on
pg_listener until after commit, with no greater risk of deadlock than there
was before.  Aside from fixing the race condition, this gets rid of a
truly ugly kludge that was there before, namely having to ignore
HeapTupleBeingUpdated failures during NOTIFY.  There is a small potential
incompatibility, which is that if a transaction issues LISTEN or UNLISTEN
and then looks into pg_listener before committing, it won't see any resulting
row insertion or deletion, where before it would have.  It seems unlikely
that anyone would be depending on that, though.

This patch also disallows LISTEN and UNLISTEN inside a prepared transaction.
That case had some pretty undesirable properties already, such as possibly
allowing pg_listener entries to be made for PIDs no longer present, so
disallowing it seems like a better idea than trying to maintain the behavior.
2008-03-12 20:11:46 +00:00