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Tom Lane b0169bb124 Install a more robust solution for the problem of infinite error-processing
recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the
client's encoding.  We've been over this ground before, but as reported by
Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for
the conversion-failure message itself :-(.  Fix by installing a "circuit
breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into
recursion trouble.

Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them;
though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in
order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.
2008-10-27 19:37:22 +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
Tom Lane d5789018c7 Remove useless ps_OuterTupleSlot field from PlanState. I suppose this was
used long ago, but in the current code the ecxt_outertuple field of
ExprContext is doing all the work.  Spotted by Ran Tang.
2008-10-23 14:34:34 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 7356381ef5 * make pg_hba authoption be a set of 0 or more name=value pairs
* make LDAP use this instead of the hacky previous method to specify
  the DN to bind as
* make all auth options behave the same when they are not compiled
  into the server
* rename "ident maps" to "user name maps", and support them for all
  auth methods that provide an external username

This makes a backwards incompatible change in the format of pg_hba.conf
for the ident, PAM and LDAP authentication methods.
2008-10-23 13:31:10 +00:00
Tom Lane 31468d05d8 Dept of better ideas: refrain from creating the planner's placeholder_list
until vars are distributed to rels during query_planner() startup.  We don't
really need it before that, and not building it early has some advantages.
First, we don't need to put it through the various preprocessing steps, which
saves some cycles and eliminates the need for a number of routines to support
PlaceHolderInfo nodes at all.  Second, this means one less unused plan for any
sub-SELECT appearing in a placeholder's expression, since we don't build
placeholder_list until after sublink expansion is complete.
2008-10-22 20:17:52 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev b9856b67a7 Fix GiST's killing tuple: GISTScanOpaque->curpos wasn't
correctly set. As result, killtuple() marks as dead
wrong tuple on page. Bug was introduced by me while fixing
possible duplicates during GiST index scan.
2008-10-22 12:53:56 +00:00
Tom Lane e6ae3b5dbf Add a concept of "placeholder" variables to the planner. These are variables
that represent some expression that we desire to compute below the top level
of the plan, and then let that value "bubble up" as though it were a plain
Var (ie, a column value).

The immediate application is to allow sub-selects to be flattened even when
they are below an outer join and have non-nullable output expressions.
Formerly we couldn't flatten because such an expression wouldn't properly
go to NULL when evaluated above the outer join.  Now, we wrap it in a
PlaceHolderVar and arrange for the actual evaluation to occur below the outer
join.  When the resulting Var bubbles up through the join, it will be set to
NULL if necessary, yielding the correct results.  This fixes a planner
limitation that's existed since 7.1.

In future we might want to use this mechanism to re-introduce some form of
Hellerstein's "expensive functions" optimization, ie place the evaluation of
an expensive function at the most suitable point in the plan tree.
2008-10-21 20:42:53 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 06da3c570f Rework subtransaction commit protocol for hot standby.
This patch eliminates the marking of subtransactions as SUBCOMMITTED in pg_clog
during their commit; instead they remain in-progress until main transaction
commit.  At main transaction commit, the commit protocol is atomic-by-page
instead of one transaction at a time.  To avoid a race condition with some
subtransactions appearing committed before others in the case where they span
more than one pg_clog page, we conserve the logic that marks them subcommitted
before marking the parent committed.

Simon Riggs with minor help from me
2008-10-20 19:18:18 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 77db9d9ff2 Remove mark/restore support in GIN and GiST indexes.
Per Tom's comment.
Also revome useless GISTScanOpaque->flags field.
2008-10-20 13:39:44 +00:00
Tom Lane af59a0650b Remove useless mark/restore support in hash index AM, per discussion.
(I'm leaving GiST/GIN cleanup to Teodor.)
2008-10-17 23:50:57 +00:00
Tom Lane e4fb8ff06a Add a new column to pg_am to specify whether an index AM supports backward
scanning; GiST and GIN do not, and it seems like too much trouble to make
them do so.  By teaching ExecSupportsBackwardScan() about this restriction,
we ensure that the planner will protect a scroll cursor from the problem
by adding a Materialize node.

In passing, fix another longstanding bug in the same area: backwards scan of
a plan with set-returning functions in the targetlist did not work either,
since the TupFromTlist expansion code pays no attention to direction (and
has no way to run a SRF backwards anyway).  Again the fix is to make
ExecSupportsBackwardScan check this restriction.

Also adjust the index AM API specification to note that mark/restore support
is unnecessary if the AM can't produce ordered output.
2008-10-17 22:10:30 +00:00
Tom Lane ab16485031 Improve comments about RelOptInfo.reltargetlist. 2008-10-17 20:23:45 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 2a0083ede8 Improve headeline generation. Now headline can contain
several fragments a-la Google.

Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 18:05:19 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev beeb3562dd During repeated rescan of GiST index it's possible that scan key
is NULL but SK_SEARCHNULL is not set. Add checking IS NULL of keys
to set during key initialization. If key is NULL and SK_SEARCHNULL is not
set then nothnig can be satisfied.
With assert-enabled compilation that causes coredump.

Bug was introduced in 8.3 by support of IS NULL index scan.
2008-10-17 17:02:21 +00:00
Tom Lane a303e4dc43 Extend the date type to support infinity and -infinity, analogously to
the timestamp types.  Turns out this doesn't even reduce the available
range of dates, since the restriction to dates that work for Julian-date
arithmetic is much tighter than the int32 range anyway.  Per a longstanding
TODO item.
2008-10-14 17:12:33 +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
Tom Lane 56d5641299 Un-break non-NLS builds. 2008-10-09 22:23:46 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 7ecfaccf19 Fix two flaws in comments I just introduced, pointed out by Tom. 2008-10-09 22:22:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 76e6602417 Improve the recently-added code for inlining set-returning functions so that
it can handle functions returning setof record.  The case was left undone
originally, but it turns out to be simple to fix.
2008-10-09 19:27:40 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 2532c54d82 Improve translatability of error messages for external modules by tweaking
the ereport macro.  Included in this commit are enough files for starting
plpgsql, plpython, plperl and pltcl translations.
2008-10-09 17:24:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 3437286356 Modify the parser's error reporting to include a specific hint for the case
of referencing a WITH item that's not yet in scope according to the SQL
spec's semantics.  This seems to be an easy error to make, and the bare
"relation doesn't exist" message doesn't lead one's mind in the correct
direction to fix it.
2008-10-08 01:14:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 0d115dde82 Extend CTE patch to support recursive UNION (ie, without ALL). The
implementation uses an in-memory hash table, so it will poop out for very
large recursive results ... but the performance characteristics of a
sort-based implementation would be pretty unpleasant too.
2008-10-07 19:27:04 +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 bf461538e1 When expanding a whole-row Var into a RowExpr during ResolveNew(), attach
the column alias names of the RTE referenced by the Var to the RowExpr.
This is needed to allow ruleutils.c to correctly deparse FieldSelect nodes
referencing such a construct.  Per my recent bug report.

Adding a field to RowExpr forces initdb (because of stored rules changes)
so this solution is not back-patchable; which is unfortunate because 8.2
and 8.3 have this issue.  But it only affects EXPLAIN for some pretty odd
corner cases, so we can probably live without a solution for the back
branches.
2008-10-06 17:39:26 +00:00
Tom Lane e64bb65aff Fix GetCTEForRTE() to deal with the possibility that the RTE it's given came
from a query level above the current ParseState.
2008-10-06 15:15:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5f853c6556 Use fork names instead of numbers in the file names for additional
relation forks. While the file names are not visible to users, for those
that do peek into the data directory, it's nice to have more descriptive
names. Per Greg Stark's suggestion.
2008-10-06 14:13:17 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 3bea93b3b0 Add columns boot_val and reset_val to the pg_settings view, to expose
the value a parameter has at server start and will have after RESET,
respectively.

Greg Smith, with some modifications by me.
2008-10-06 13:05:40 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 89f373bf5b Index FSMs needs to be vacuumed as well. Report by Jeff Davis. 2008-10-06 08:04:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 0ff384f0bc Fix the implicit-RTE code to be able to handle implicit RTEs for CTEs, as
well as regular tables.  Per discussion, this seems necessary to meet the
principle of least astonishment.

In passing, simplify the error messages in warnAutoRange().  Now that we
have parser error position info for these errors, it doesn't seem very
useful to word the error message differently depending on whether we are
inside a sub-select or not.
2008-10-06 02:12:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 2cf8afe5d1 Remove obsolete internal functions istrue, isfalse, isnottrue, isnotfalse,
nullvalue, nonvalue.  A long time ago, these were used to implement the SQL
constructs IS TRUE, etc.
2008-10-05 17:33:17 +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 706a308806 Add relation fork support to pg_relation_size() function. You can now pass
name of a fork ('main' or 'fsm', at the moment) to pg_relation_size() to
get the size of a specific fork. Defaults to 'main', if none given.

While we're at it, modify pg_relation_size to take a regclass as argument,
instead of separate variants taking oid and name. This change is
transparent to typical use where the table name is passed as a string
literal, like pg_relation_size('table'), but will break queries like
pg_relation_size(namecol), where namecol is of type name. text-type input
still works, and using a non-schema-qualified table name is not very
reliable anyway, so this is unlikely to break anyone's queries in practice.
2008-10-03 07:33:10 +00:00
Tom Lane dad4cb6258 Improve tuplestore.c to support multiple concurrent read positions.
This facility replaces the former mark/restore support but is otherwise
upward-compatible with previous uses.  It's expected to be needed for
single evaluation of CTEs and also for window functions, so I'm committing
it separately instead of waiting for either one of those patches to be
finished.  Per discussion with Greg Stark and Hitoshi Harada.

Note: I removed nodeFunctionscan's mark/restore support, instead of bothering
to update it for this change, because it was dead code anyway.
2008-10-01 19:51:50 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4e6ac2e19b Forgot to bump catalog version in the commit of FSM rewrite. 2008-09-30 11:11:28 +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 7b7df9f0b1 Add hooks to let plugins override the planner's lookups in pg_statistic.
Simon Riggs, with some editorialization by me.
2008-09-28 19:51:40 +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 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
Tom Lane 4e57668da4 Create a selectivity estimation function for the text search @@ operator.
Jan Urbanski
2008-09-19 19:03:41 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 7626f2a936 Mark SessionReplicationRole as PGDLLIMPORT so it
can be used from Slony functions.

Per report from Hiroshi Saito.
2008-09-19 14:43:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 35c2a3c3cf Allow ShowBufferUsage() to report the number of reads/writes that have
occurred to temporary files.  This replaces the unused
NDirectFileRead/NDirectFileWrite counters.

Itagaki Takahiro
2008-09-17 13:15:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 30df79a70b Widen the nLocks counts in local lock tables from int to int64. This
forestalls potential overflow when the same table (or other object, but
usually tables) is accessed by very many successive queries within a single
transaction.  Per report from Michael Milligan.

Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as the patch conveniently applies.
There have been no reports of overflow in pre-8.3 releases, but clearly the
risk existed all along.  (Michael's report suggests that 8.3 may consume lock
counts faster than prior releases, but with no test case to look at it's hard
to be sure about that.  Widening the counts seems a good future-proofing
measure in any event.)
2008-09-16 01:56:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 1cd935609f Fix caching of foreign-key-checking queries so that when a replan is needed,
we regenerate the SQL query text not merely the plan derived from it.  This
is needed to handle contingencies such as renaming of a table or column
used in an FK.  Pre-8.3, such cases worked despite the lack of replanning
(because the cached plan needn't actually change), so this is a regression.
Per bug #4417 from Benjamin Bihler.
2008-09-15 23:37:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 4adc2f72a4 Change hash indexes to store only the hash code rather than the whole indexed
value.  This means that hash index lookups are always lossy and have to be
rechecked when the heap is visited; however, the gain in index compactness
outweighs this when the indexed values are wide.  Also, we only need to
perform datatype comparisons when the hash codes match exactly, rather than
for every entry in the hash bucket; so it could also win for datatypes that
have expensive comparison functions.  A small additional win is gained by
keeping hash index pages sorted by hash code and using binary search to reduce
the number of index tuples we have to look at.

Xiao Meng

This commit also incorporates Zdenek Kotala's patch to isolate hash metapages
and hash bitmaps a bit better from the page header datastructures.
2008-09-15 18:43:41 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 9872381090 Parse pg_hba.conf in postmaster, instead of once in each backend for
each connection. This makes it possible to catch errors in the pg_hba
file when it's being reloaded, instead of silently reloading a broken
file and failing only when a user tries to connect.

This patch also makes the "sameuser" argument to ident authentication
optional.
2008-09-15 12:32:57 +00:00
Tom Lane f867339c01 Make our parsing of INTERVAL literals spec-compliant (or at least a heck of
a lot closer than it was before).  To do this, tweak coerce_type() to pass
through the typmod information when invoking interval_in() on an UNKNOWN
constant; then fix DecodeInterval to pay attention to the typmod when deciding
how to interpret a units-less integer value.  I changed one or two other
details as well.  I believe the code now reacts as expected by spec for all
the literal syntaxes that are specifically enumerated in the spec.  There
are corner cases involving strings that don't exactly match the set of fields
called out by the typmod, for which we might want to tweak the behavior some
more; but I think this is an area of user friendliness rather than spec
compliance.  There remain some non-compliant details about the SQL syntax
(as opposed to what's inside the literal string); but at least we'll throw
error rather than silently doing the wrong thing in those cases.
2008-09-10 18:29:41 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 3b9ec4682c Add "source file" and "source line" information to each GUC variable.
initdb forced due to changes in the pg_settings view.

Magnus Hagander and Alvaro Herrera.
2008-09-10 18:09:20 +00:00
Tom Lane ee33b95d9c Improve the plan cache invalidation mechanism to make it invalidate plans
when user-defined functions used in a plan are modified.  Also invalidate
plans when schemas, operators, or operator classes are modified; but for these
cases we just invalidate everything rather than tracking exact dependencies,
since these types of objects seldom change in a production database.

Tom Lane; loosely based on a patch by Martin Pihlak.
2008-09-09 18:58:09 +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 2c863ca818 Implement a psql command "\ef" to edit the definition of a function.
In support of that, create a backend function pg_get_functiondef().
The psql command is functional but maybe a bit rough around the edges...

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-09-06 00:01:25 +00:00
Tom Lane ba9f37f066 If a loadable module has wrong values in its magic block, spell out
exactly what they are in the complaint message.  Marko Kreen,
some editorialization by me.
2008-09-03 22:34:50 +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 6253f9de67 In GCC-based builds, use a better newNode() macro that relies on GCC-specific
syntax to avoid a useless store into a global variable.  Per experimentation,
this works better than my original thought of trying to push the code into
an out-of-line subroutine.
2008-08-29 22:49:07 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7c31742a07 Remove all traces that suggest that a non-Bison yacc might be supported, and
change build system to use only Bison.  Simplify build rules, make file names
uniform.  Don't build the token table header file where it is not needed.
2008-08-29 13:02:33 +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 d320101b5b Get rid of the last remaining uses of var_is_rel(), to wit some debugging
checks in ExecIndexBuildScanKeys() that were inadequate anyway: it's better
to verify the correct varno on an expected index key, not just reject OUTER
and INNER.

This makes the entire current contents of nodeFuncs.c dead code.  I'll be
replacing it with some other stuff later, as per recent proposal.
2008-08-25 20:20:30 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 8c032adec4 Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use OUT parameters, making
it possible to call them without specifying a column list.

Jaime Casanova
2008-08-25 11:18:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 31ad4e5396 Add missing descriptions for aggregates, functions and conversions.
Bernd Helmle
2008-08-23 20:31:37 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev 1dcf6fdf1b Fix possible duplicate tuples while GiST scan. Now page is processed
at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory.

Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another
page - it could produce unaceptable overhead.

Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.
2008-08-23 10:37:24 +00:00
Tom Lane bd3daddaf2 Arrange to convert EXISTS subqueries that are equivalent to hashable IN
subqueries into the same thing you'd have gotten from IN (except always with
unknownEqFalse = true, so as to get the proper semantics for an EXISTS).
I believe this fixes the last case within CVS HEAD in which an EXISTS could
give worse performance than an equivalent IN subquery.

The tricky part of this is that if the upper query probes the EXISTS for only
a few rows, the hashing implementation can actually be worse than the default,
and therefore we need to make a cost-based decision about which way to use.
But at the time when the planner generates plans for subqueries, it doesn't
really know how many times the subquery will be executed.  The least invasive
solution seems to be to generate both plans and postpone the choice until
execution.  Therefore, in a query that has been optimized this way, EXPLAIN
will show two subplans for the EXISTS, of which only one will actually get
executed.

There is a lot more that could be done based on this infrastructure: in
particular it's interesting to consider switching to the hash plan if we start
out using the non-hashed plan but find a lot more upper rows going by than we
expected.  I have therefore left some minor inefficiencies in place, such as
initializing both subplans even though we will currently only use one.
2008-08-22 00:16:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 19e34b6239 Improve sublink pullup code to handle ANY/EXISTS sublinks that are at top
level of a JOIN/ON clause, not only at top level of WHERE.  (However, we
can't do this in an outer join's ON clause, unless the ANY/EXISTS refers
only to the nullable side of the outer join, so that it can effectively
be pushed down into the nullable side.)  Per request from Kevin Grittner.

In passing, fix a bug in the initial implementation of EXISTS pullup:
it would Assert if the EXIST's WHERE clause used a join alias variable.
Since we haven't yet flattened join aliases when this transformation
happens, it's necessary to include join relids in the computed set of
RHS relids.
2008-08-17 01:20:00 +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
Magnus Hagander 5b8eb2b4b9 Make the temporary directory for pgstat files configurable by the GUC
variable stats_temp_directory, instead of requiring the admin to
mount/symlink the pg_stat_tmp directory manually.

For now the config variable is PGC_POSTMASTER. Room for further improvment
that would allow it to be changed on-the-fly.
2008-08-15 08:37:41 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas f24f233f6a Fix pull_up_simple_union_all to copy all rtable entries from child subquery to
parent, not only those with RangeTblRefs. We need them in ExecCheckRTPerms.

Report by Brendan O'Shea. Back-patch to 8.2, where pull_up_simple_union_all
was introduced.
2008-08-14 20:31:29 +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 a879443e48 Relation forks patch requires a catversion bump due to changes in the format
of some WAL records, and two-phase state files, which I forgot.
2008-08-11 13:58:46 +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 af95d7aa63 Improve INTERSECT/EXCEPT hashing by realizing that we don't need to make any
hashtable entries for tuples that are found only in the second input: they
can never contribute to the output.  Furthermore, this implies that the
planner should endeavor to put first the smaller (in number of groups) input
relation for an INTERSECT.  Implement that, and upgrade prepunion's estimation
of the number of rows returned by setops so that there's some amount of sanity
in the estimate of which one is smaller.
2008-08-07 19:35:02 +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 2d1d96b1ce Teach the system how to use hashing for UNION. (INTERSECT/EXCEPT will follow,
but seem like a separate patch since most of the remaining work is on the
executor side.)  I took the opportunity to push selection of the grouping
operators for set operations into the parser where it belongs.  Otherwise this
is just a small exercise in making prepunion.c consider both alternatives.

As with the recent DISTINCT patch, this means we can UNION on datatypes that
can hash but not sort, and it means that UNION without ORDER BY is no longer
certain to produce sorted output.
2008-08-07 01:11:52 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 70d756970b Move pgstat.tmp into a temporary directory under $PGDATA named pg_stat_tmp.
This allows the use of a ramdrive (either through mount or symlink) for
the temporary file that's written every half second, which should
reduce I/O.

On server shutdown/startup, the file is written to the old location in
the global directory, to preserve data across restarts.

Bump catversion since the $PGDATA directory layout changed.
2008-08-05 12:09:30 +00:00
Tom Lane be3b265c94 Improve SELECT DISTINCT to consider hash aggregation, as well as sort/uniq,
as methods for implementing the DISTINCT step.  This eliminates the former
performance gap between DISTINCT and GROUP BY, and also makes it possible
to do SELECT DISTINCT on datatypes that only support hashing not sorting.

SELECT DISTINCT ON is still always implemented by sorting; it would take
executor changes to support hashing that, and it's not clear it's worth
the trouble.

This is a release-note-worthy incompatibility from previous PG versions,
since SELECT DISTINCT can no longer be counted on to deliver sorted output
without explicitly saying ORDER BY.  (Anyone who can't cope with that
can consider turning off enable_hashagg.)

Several regression test queries needed to have ORDER BY added to preserve
stable output order.  I fixed the ones that manifested here, but there
might be some other cases that show up on other platforms.
2008-08-05 02:43:18 +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
Magnus Hagander c30c1b8786 Move ident authentication code into auth.c along with the other authenciation
routines, leaving hba.c to deal only with processing the HBA specific files.
2008-08-01 09:09:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 63247bec28 Fix parser so that we don't modify the user-written ORDER BY list in order
to represent DISTINCT or DISTINCT ON.  This gets rid of a longstanding
annoyance that a view or rule using SELECT DISTINCT will be dumped out
with an overspecified ORDER BY list, and is one small step along the way
to decoupling DISTINCT and ORDER BY enough so that hash-based implementation
of DISTINCT will be possible.  In passing, improve transformDistinctClause
so that it doesn't reject duplicate DISTINCT ON items, as was reported by
Steve Midgley a couple weeks ago.
2008-07-31 22:47:56 +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 a77eaa6a95 As noted by Andrew Gierth, there's really no need any more to force a junk
filter to be used when INSERT or SELECT INTO has a plan that returns raw
disk tuples.  The virtual-tuple-slot optimizations that were put in place
awhile ago mean that ExecInsert has to do ExecMaterializeSlot, and that
already copies the tuple if it's raw (and does so more efficiently than
a junk filter, too).  So get rid of that logic.  This in turn means that
we can throw away ExecMayReturnRawTuples, which wasn't used for any other
purpose, and was always a kluge anyway.

In passing, move a couple of SELECT-INTO-specific fields out of EState
and into the private state of the SELECT INTO DestReceiver, as was foreseen
in an old comment there.  Also make intorel_receive use ExecMaterializeSlot
not ExecCopySlotTuple, for consistency with ExecInsert and to possibly save
a tuple copy step in some cases.
2008-07-26 19:15:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 11c794f224 Use guc.c's parse_int() instead of pg_atoi() to parse fillfactor in
default_reloptions().  The previous coding was really a bug because pg_atoi()
will always throw elog on bad input data, whereas default_reloptions is not
supposed to complain about bad input unless its validate parameter is true.
Right now you could only expose the problem by hand-modifying
pg_class.reloptions into an invalid state, so it doesn't seem worth
back-patching; but we should get it right in HEAD because there might be other
situations in future.  Noted while studying GIN fast-update patch.
2008-07-23 17:29:53 +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 6cc88f0af5 Provide a function hook to let plug-ins get control around ExecutorRun.
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2008-07-18 18:23:47 +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 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
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
Bruce Momjian 2c773296f8 Add array_fill() to create arrays initialized with a value.
Pavel Stehule
2008-07-16 00:48:54 +00:00
Tom Lane d92c370c72 Clean up buildfarm failures arising from the seemingly straightforward page
macros patch :-(.  Results from both baiji and mastodon imply that MSVC
fails to perceive offsetof(PageHeaderData, pd_linp[0]) as a constant
expression in some contexts where offsetof(PageHeaderData, pd_linp) works
fine.  Sloth, thy name is Micro.
2008-07-14 03:22:32 +00:00
Tom Lane 6f6d863258 Create a type-specific typanalyze routine for tsvector, which collects stats
on the most common individual lexemes in place of the mostly-useless default
behavior of counting duplicate tsvectors.  Future work: create selectivity
estimation functions that actually do something with these stats.

(Some other things we ought to look at doing: using the Lossy Counting
algorithm in compute_minimal_stats, and using the element-counting idea for
stats on regular arrays.)

Jan Urbanski
2008-07-14 00:51:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 6816577a78 Change the PageGetContents() macro to guarantee its result is maxalign'd,
thereby forestalling any problems with alignment of the data structure placed
there.  Since SizeOfPageHeaderData is maxalign'd anyway in 8.3 and HEAD, this
does not actually change anything right now, but it is foreseeable that the
header size will change again someday.  I had to fix a couple of places that
were assuming that the content offset is just SizeOfPageHeaderData rather than
MAXALIGN(SizeOfPageHeaderData).  Per discussion of Zdenek's page-macros patch.
2008-07-13 21:50:04 +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
Tom Lane c96439b5a0 Don't make --enable-cassert turn on RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY automatically;
it's just too dang expensive.  Per recent discussion, but I just got my
nose rubbed in it again while doing some performance checking.
2008-07-12 02:28:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 960af47efd Const-ify the arguments of str_tolower() and friends to suppress compile
warnings.  Clean up various unneeded cruft that was left behind after
creating those routines.  Introduce some convenience functions str_tolower_z
etc to eliminate tedious and error-prone double arguments in formatting.c.
(Currently there seems no need to export the latter, but maybe reconsider
this later.)
2008-07-12 00:44:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 27cb66fdfe Multi-column GIN indexes. Teodor Sigaev 2008-07-11 21:06:29 +00:00
Tom Lane eaf1b5d348 Tighten up SS_finalize_plan's computation of valid_params to exclude Params of
the current query level that aren't in fact output parameters of the current
initPlans.  (This means, for example, output parameters of regular subplans.)
To make this work correctly for output parameters coming from sibling
initplans requires rejiggering the API of SS_finalize_plan just a bit:
we need the siblings to be visible to it, rather than hidden as
SS_make_initplan_from_plan had been doing.  This is really part of my response
to bug #4290, but I concluded this part probably shouldn't be back-patched,
since all that it's doing is to make a debugging cross-check tighter.
2008-07-10 02:14:03 +00:00
Tom Lane c63147d6f0 Add a function pg_get_keywords() to let clients find out the set of keywords
known to the SQL parser.  Dave Page
2008-07-03 20:58:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2c2aff6acd Update source code comment about when to use gettext_noop(). 2008-07-03 02:49:54 +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
Tom Lane 5b965bf08b Teach autovacuum how to determine whether a temp table belongs to a crashed
backend.  If so, send a LOG message to the postmaster log, and if the table
is beyond the vacuum-for-wraparound horizon, forcibly drop it.  Per recent
discussions.  Perhaps we ought to back-patch this, but it probably needs
to age a bit in HEAD first.
2008-07-01 02:09:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6b797c852b Fix recovery.conf boolean variables to take the same range of string
values as postgresql.conf.
2008-06-30 22:10:43 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 995fb74202 Turn PGBE_ACTIVITY_SIZE into a GUC variable, track_activity_query_size.
As the buffer could now be a lot larger than before, and copying it could
thus be a lot more expensive than before, use strcpy instead of memcpy to
copy the query string, as was already suggested in comments. Also, only copy
the PgBackendStatus struct and string if the slot is in use.

Patch by Thomas Lee, with some changes by me.
2008-06-30 10:58:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 4a8d573cda If pnstrdup is going to be promoted to a generally available function,
it ought to conform to the rest of palloc.h in using Size for sizes.
2008-06-28 16:45:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 5f6f840e93 Reduce the alignment requirement of type "name" from int to char, and arrange
to suppress zero-padding of "name" entries in indexes.

The alignment change is unlikely to save any space, but it is really needed
anyway to make the world safe for our widespread practice of passing plain
old C strings to functions that are declared as taking Name.  In the previous
coding, the C compiler was entitled to assume that a Name pointer was
word-aligned; but we were failing to guarantee that.  I think the reason
we'd not seen failures is that usually the only thing that gets done with
such a pointer is strcmp(), which is hard to optimize in a way that exploits
word-alignment.  Still, some enterprising compiler guy will probably think
of a way eventually, or we might change our code in a way that exposes
more-obvious optimization opportunities.

The padding change is accomplished in one-liner fashion by declaring the
"name" index opclasses to use storage type "cstring" in pg_opclass.h.
Normally btree and hash don't allow a nondefault storage type, because they
don't have any provisions for converting the input datum to another type.
However, because name and cstring are effectively the same thing except for
padding, no conversion is needed --- we only need index_form_tuple() to treat
the datum as being cstring not name, and this is sufficient.  This seems to
make for about a one-third reduction in the typical sizes of system catalog
indexes that involve "name" columns, of which we have many.

These two changes are only weakly related, but the alignment change makes
me feel safer that the padding change won't introduce problems, so I'm
committing them together.
2008-06-24 17:58:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f6ec7430f9 Merge duplicate upper/lower/initcap() routines in oracle_compat.c and
formatting.c to use common code;  remove duplicate functions and support
routines that are no longer needed.
2008-06-23 19:27:19 +00:00
Tom Lane fad153ec45 Rewrite the sinval messaging mechanism to reduce contention and avoid
unnecessary cache resets.  The major changes are:

* When the queue overflows, we only issue a cache reset to the specific
backend or backends that still haven't read the oldest message, rather
than resetting everyone as in the original coding.

* When we observe backend(s) falling well behind, we signal SIGUSR1
to only one backend, the one that is furthest behind and doesn't already
have a signal outstanding for it.  When it finishes catching up, it will
in turn signal SIGUSR1 to the next-furthest-back guy, if there is one that
is far enough behind to justify a signal.  The PMSIGNAL_WAKEN_CHILDREN
mechanism is removed.

* We don't attempt to clean out dead messages after every message-receipt
operation; rather, we do it on the insertion side, and only when the queue
fullness passes certain thresholds.

* Split SInvalLock into SInvalReadLock and SInvalWriteLock so that readers
don't block writers nor vice versa (except during the infrequent queue
cleanout operations).

* Transfer multiple sinval messages for each acquisition of a read or
write lock.
2008-06-19 21:32:56 +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 fbeb9da22b Improve error reporting for problems in text search configuration files
by installing an error context subroutine that will provide the file name
and line number for all errors detected while reading a config file.
Some of the reader routines were already doing that in an ad-hoc way for
errors detected directly in the reader, but it didn't help for problems
detected in subroutines, such as encoding violations.

Back-patch to 8.3 because 8.3 is where people will be trying to debug
configuration files.
2008-06-18 20:55:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9de09c087d Move wchar2char() and char2wchar() from tsearch into /mb to be easier to
use for other modules;  also move pnstrdup().

Clean up code slightly.
2008-06-18 18:42:54 +00:00
Tom Lane b163baa89c Clean up some problems with redundant cross-type arithmetic operators. Add
int2-and-int8 implementations of the basic arithmetic operators +, -, *, /.
This doesn't really add any new functionality, but it avoids "operator is not
unique" failures that formerly occurred in these cases because the parser
couldn't decide whether to promote the int2 to int4 or int8.  We could
alternatively have removed the existing cross-type operators, but
experimentation shows that the cost of an additional type coercion expression
node is noticeable compared to such cheap operators; so let's not give up any
performance here.  On the other hand, I removed the int2-and-int4 modulo (%)
operators since they didn't seem as important from a performance standpoint.
Per a complaint last January from ykhuang.
2008-06-17 19:10:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian dc69c0362f Move USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER define to c.h, and remove TS_USE_WIDE and use
USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER instead.
2008-06-17 16:09:06 +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
Heikki Linnakangas 0f5c606f41 Comment fix, should say TSQuery instead of TSVector.
Per Jan Urbanski.
2008-06-10 08:55:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 281a724d5c Rewrite DROP's dependency traversal algorithm into an honest two-pass
algorithm, replacing the original intention of a one-pass search, which
had been hacked up over time to be partially two-pass in hopes of handling
various corner cases better.  It still wasn't quite there, especially as
regards emitting unwanted NOTICE messages.  More importantly, this approach
lets us fix a number of open bugs concerning concurrent DROP scenarios,
because we can take locks during the first pass and avoid traversing to
dependent objects that were just deleted by someone else.

There is more that can be done here, but I'll go ahead and commit the
base patch before working on the options.
2008-06-08 22:41:04 +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
Alvaro Herrera e4ca6cac43 Change xlog.h to xlogdefs.h in bufpage.h, and fix fallout. 2008-06-06 22:35:22 +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 d11e301a15 Improve the documentation comment for replace(). Robert Treat 2008-05-29 22:48:07 +00:00
Magnus Hagander d88cd7db63 Add a field to guc enums to allow hiding of values from display while
still accepting them as input, used to allow alternate syntax for the
same setting.

Alex Hunsaker
2008-05-28 09:04:06 +00:00
Tom Lane 7b8a63c3e9 Alter the xxx_pattern_ops opclasses to use the regular equality operator of
the associated datatype as their equality member.  This means that these
opclasses can now support plain equality comparisons along with LIKE tests,
thus avoiding the need for an extra index in some applications.  This
optimization was not possible when the pattern opclasses were first introduced,
because we didn't insist that text equality meant bitwise equality; but we
do now, so there is no semantic difference between regular and pattern
equality operators.

I removed the name_pattern_ops opclass altogether, since it's really useless:
name's regular comparisons are just strcmp() and are unlikely to become
something different.  Instead teach indxpath.c that btree name_ops can be
used for LIKE whether or not the locale is C.  This might lead to a useful
speedup in LIKE queries on the system catalogs in non-C locales.

The ~=~ and ~<>~ operators are gone altogether.  (It would have been nice to
keep them for backward compatibility's sake, but since the pg_amop structure
doesn't allow multiple equality operators per opclass, there's no way.)

A not-immediately-obvious incompatibility is that the sort order within
bpchar_pattern_ops indexes changes --- it had been identical to plain
strcmp, but is now trailing-blank-insensitive.  This will impact
in-place upgrades, if those ever happen.

Per discussions a couple months ago.
2008-05-27 00:13:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 07a5606735 Make to_char()'s localized month/day names depend on LC_TIME, not LC_MESSAGES.
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2008-05-19 18:08:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 1a604b4e31 Fix a subtle bug exposed by recent wal_sync_method rearrangements.
Formerly, the default value of wal_sync_method was determined inside xlog.c,
but now it is determined inside guc.c.  guc.c was reading xlogdefs.h
without having read <fcntl.h>, leading to wrong determination of
DEFAULT_SYNC_METHOD.  Obviously xlogdefs.h needs to include <fcntl.h>
for itself to ensure stable results.
2008-05-17 17:24:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 55f6f8f2aa Remove DEFAULT_SYNC_FLAGBIT ... not used anymore. 2008-05-17 16:49:23 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 53972b460c Add $PostgreSQL$ markers to a lot of files that were missing them.
This particular batch was just for *.c and *.h file.

The changes were made with the following 2 commands:

find . \( \( -name 'libstemmer' -o -name 'expected' -o -name 'ppport.h' \) -prune \) -o  \( -name '*.[ch]'  \) \( -exec grep -q '\$PostgreSQL' {} \; -o -print \) | while read file ; do head -n 1 < $file | grep -q '^/\*' && echo $file; done | xargs -l sed -i -e '1s/^\// /' -e '1i/*\n * $PostgreSQL:$ \n *'

find . \( \( -name 'libstemmer' -o -name 'expected' -o -name 'ppport.h' \) -prune \) -o  \( -name '*.[ch]'  \) \( -exec grep -q '\$PostgreSQL' {} \; -o -print \) | xargs -l sed -i -e '1i/*\n * $PostgreSQL:$ \n */'
2008-05-17 01:28:26 +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 e6dbcb72fa Extend GIN to support partial-match searches, and extend tsquery to support
prefix matching using this facility.

Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
2008-05-16 16:31:02 +00:00
Tom Lane b62f246fb0 Support SQL/PSM-compatible CASE statement in plpgsql.
Pavel Stehule
2008-05-15 22:39:49 +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
Magnus Hagander f99760c19f Convert wal_sync_method to guc enum. 2008-05-12 08:35:05 +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
Magnus Hagander a6d6a9c9a8 Make the new pg_stat_get_activity use OUT parameters, so you don't have to
specify the column names and types. Also simplifies the view.

Per comments from Tom.
2008-05-08 08:58:59 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 0423de4d30 Make the pg_stat_activity view call a SRF (pg_stat_get_activity())
instead of calling a bunch of individual functions.

This function can also be called directly, taking a PID as an argument, to
return only the data for a single PID.
2008-05-07 14:41:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 4136e1d06a Convert the list of syscache names from a series of #define's into an enum,
to avoid the pain of manually renumbering them anytime we insert another
name in alphabetical order.  An excellent idea from Alex Hunsaker and
NikhilS' inherited-constraints patch --- whether or not the rest of that
gets in, this should.  Dunno why we never thought of it before.
2008-05-07 01:04:49 +00:00
Tom Lane b6d15590f7 Add timestamp and timestamptz versions of generate_series().
Hitoshi Harada
2008-05-04 23:19:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 600da67fbe Add pg_conf_load_time() function to report when the Postgres configuration
files were last loaded.

George Gensure
2008-05-04 21:13:36 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan d61eecb5a1 Provide for MSVC config equivalents of recently added configure options. Remove
any hardcoding of those options. Along the way, reorder the expression used to
calculate RELSEG_SIZE to make it slightly clearer. For now wal_segsize is only
allowed to have a value of 1 on Windows - we can relax that when we get full
large file support in the backend.
2008-05-03 00:24:06 +00:00
Tom Lane db147b3483 Allow the planner's estimate of the fraction of a cursor's rows that will be
retrieved to be controlled through a GUC variable.

Robert Hell
2008-05-02 21:26:10 +00:00
Tom Lane cf9f6c8d8e Extend yesterday's patch making BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE configurable to also
let XLOG_BLCKSZ and XLOG_SEG_SIZE be set via configure.  Per a proposal by
Mark Wong, though I thought it better to call the switches after "wal" rather
than "xlog".
2008-05-02 19:52:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 170e331c63 Sigh ... pg_config.h.win32 needs to define BLCKSZ and RELSEG_SIZE now. 2008-05-02 03:41:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 3c6248a828 Remove the recently added USE_SEGMENTED_FILES option, and indeed remove all
support for a nonsegmented mode from md.c.  Per recent discussions, there
doesn't seem to be much value in a "never segment" option as opposed to
segmenting with a suitably large segment size.  So instead provide a
configure-time switch to set the desired segment size in units of gigabytes.
While at it, expose a configure switch for BLCKSZ as well.

Zdenek Kotala
2008-05-02 01:08:27 +00:00
Tom Lane c0cf5c37cd Some minor further cleanup around A_Const. Don't attach a typecast in
makeFloatConst, and avoid "manual" construction of A_Const nodes in grammar
productions, in favor of using makeXXXConst subroutines.
2008-04-29 20:44:49 +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
Alvaro Herrera 6fff5c3b82 Remove typename from A_Const.
Brendan Jurd, minor editorialization by me.
2008-04-29 14:59:17 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 339570fd8e Fix volatility marking for the generate_series and generate_subscripts families
of functions.
2008-04-29 13:00:22 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera bc577c7fad Bump the catversion for the previous patch. 2008-04-28 14:57:35 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 1fcb977a13 Add generate_subscripts, a series-generation function which generates an
array's subscripts.

Pavel Stehule, some editorialization by me.
2008-04-28 14:48:58 +00:00
Tom Lane ea0382e370 Code review for recent patch to terminate online backup during shutdown:
do CancelBackup at a sane place, fix some oversights in the state transitions,
allow only superusers to connect while we are waiting for backup mode to end.
2008-04-26 22:47:40 +00:00
Magnus Hagander c979a1fefa Prevent shutdown in normal mode if online backup is running, and
have pg_ctl warn about this.

Cancel running online backups (by renaming the backup_label file,
thus rendering the backup useless) when shutting down in fast mode.

Laurenz Albe
2008-04-23 13:44:59 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev cf23b75b4d Fix using too many LWLocks bug, reported by Craig Ringer
<craig@postnewspapers.com.au>.
It was my mistake, I missed limitation of number of held locks, now GIN doesn't
use continiuous locks, but still hold buffers pinned to prevent interference
with vacuum's deletion algorithm.

Backpatch is needed.
2008-04-22 17:52:43 +00:00
Tom Lane ff673f558a Fix convert_IN_to_join to properly handle the case where the subselect's
output is not of the same type that's needed for the IN comparison (ie,
where the parser inserted an implicit coercion above the subselect result).
We should record the coerced expression, not just a raw Var referencing
the subselect output, as the quantity that needs to be unique-ified if
we choose to implement the IN as Unique followed by a plain join.

As of 8.3 this error was causing crashes, as seen in bug #4113 from Javier
Hernandez, because the executor was being told to hash or sort the raw
subselect output column using operators appropriate to the coerced type.

In prior versions there was no crash because the executor chose the
hash or sort operators for itself based on the column type it saw.
However, that's still not really right, because what's unique for one data
type might not be unique for another.  In corner cases we could get multiple
outputs of a row that should appear only once, as demonstrated by the
regression test case included in this commit.

However, this patch doesn't apply cleanly to 8.2 or before, and the code
involved has shifted enough over time that I'm hesitant to try to back-patch.
Given the lack of complaints from the field about such corner cases, I think
the bug may not be important enough to risk breaking other things with a
back-patch.
2008-04-21 20:54:15 +00:00
Magnus Hagander a31b03ba27 Clean up float4byval and float8byval handling by dealing with them completely
from inside the build script.
2008-04-21 18:37:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 819b49a6e1 Add FLOAT4PASSBYVAL/FLOAT8PASSBYVAL to pg_config.h.win32, as a stopgap
measure to get the Windows buildfarm members working again.  I don't
know if it's worth exposing these as configurables, or exactly how to
do it in the MSVC build system ...
2008-04-21 02:04:09 +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
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 25e46a504b Fix a couple of oversights associated with the "physical tlist" optimization:
we had several code paths where a physical tlist could be used for the input
to a Sort node, which is a dumb idea because any unneeded table columns will
increase the volume of data the sort has to push around.

(Unfortunately the easy-looking fix of calling disuse_physical_tlist during
make_sort_xxx doesn't work because in most cases we're already committed to
the current input tlist --- it's been marked with sort column numbers, or
we've built grouping column numbers using it, etc.  The tlist has to be
selected properly at the calling level before we start constructing sort-col
information.  This is easy enough to do, we were just failing to take the
point into consideration.)

Back-patch to 8.3.  I believe the problem probably exists clear back to 7.4
when the physical tlist optimization was added, but I'm afraid to back-patch
further than 8.3 without a great deal more study than I want to put into it.
The code in this area has drifted a lot over time.  The real-world importance
of these code paths is uncertain anyway --- I think in many cases we'd
probably prefer hash-based methods.
2008-04-17 21:22:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c4fd93b3f3 Re-enable pg_terminate_backend() using SIGTERM. SIGTERM testing still
needed.
2008-04-17 20:56:41 +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
Andrew Dunstan e8d11ade56 Avoid using unnecessary pgwin32_safestat in libpq. 2008-04-16 14:19:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 76365960d2 Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions. 2008-04-15 20:28:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18b286f3e3 Add pg_terminate_backend() to allow terminating only a single session. 2008-04-15 13:55:12 +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 226837e57e Since createplan.c no longer cares whether index operators are lossy, it has
no particular need to do get_op_opfamily_properties() while building an
indexscan plan.  Postpone that lookup until executor start.  This simplifies
createplan.c a lot more than it complicates nodeIndexscan.c, and makes things
more uniform since we already had to do it that way for RowCompare
expressions.  Should be a bit faster too, at least for plans that aren't
re-used many times, since we avoid palloc'ing and perhaps copying the
intermediate list data structure.
2008-04-13 20:51:21 +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 ec498cdcbb Create new routines systable_beginscan_ordered, systable_getnext_ordered,
systable_endscan_ordered that have API similar to systable_beginscan etc
(in particular, the passed-in scankeys have heap not index attnums),
but guarantee ordered output, unlike the existing functions.  For the moment
these are just very thin wrappers around index_beginscan/index_getnext/etc.
Someday they might need to get smarter; but for now this is just a code
refactoring exercise to reduce the number of direct callers of index_getnext,
in preparation for changing that function's API.

In passing, remove index_getnext_indexitem, which has been dead code for
quite some time, and will have even less use than that in the presence
of run-time-lossy indexes.
2008-04-12 23:14:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 00832809a0 A quick try at un-breaking the Cygwin build. Whether it needs the
pgwin32_safestat remains to be determined, but in any case the current
code is not tolerable.
2008-04-11 23:53:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 65c3d05e18 Add some debug support code to try to catch future mistakes in the area of
input functions that include garbage bytes in their results.  Provide a
compile-time option RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY to make palloc fill returned
blocks with variable contents.  This option also makes the parser perform
conversions of literal constants twice and compare the results, emitting a
WARNING if they don't match.  (This is the code I used to catch the input
function bugs fixed in the previous commit.)  For the moment, I've set it
to be activated automatically by --enable-cassert.
2008-04-11 22:54:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 4e82a95476 Replace "amgetmulti" AM functions with "amgetbitmap", in which the whole
indexscan always occurs in one call, and the results are returned in a
TIDBitmap instead of a limited-size array of TIDs.  This should improve
speed a little by reducing AM entry/exit overhead, and it is necessary
infrastructure if we are ever to support bitmap indexes.

In an only slightly related change, add support for TIDBitmaps to preserve
(somewhat lossily) the knowledge that particular TIDs reported by an index
need to have their quals rechecked when the heap is visited.  This facility
is not really used yet; we'll need to extend the forced-recheck feature to
plain indexscans before it's useful, and that hasn't been coded yet.
The intent is to use it to clean up 8.3's horrid @@@ kluge for text search
with weighted queries.  There might be other uses in future, but that one
alone is sufficient reason.

Heikki Linnakangas, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-10 22:25:26 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 47a19a495d Create wrapper pgwin32_safestat() and redefine stat() to it
on win32, because the stat() function in the runtime cannot
be trusted to always update the st_size field.

Per report and research by Sergey Zubkovsky.
2008-04-10 16:58:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 2604359251 Improve hash_any() to use word-wide fetches when hashing suitably aligned
data.  This makes for a significant speedup at the cost that the results
now vary between little-endian and big-endian machines; which forces us
to add explicit ORDER BYs in a couple of regression tests to preserve
machine-independent comparison results.  Also, force initdb by bumping
catversion, since the contents of hash indexes will change (at least on
big-endian machines).

Kenneth Marshall and Tom Lane, based on work from Bob Jenkins.  This commit
does not adopt Bob's new faster mix() algorithm, however, since we still need
to convince ourselves that that doesn't degrade the quality of the hashing.
2008-04-06 16:54:49 +00:00
Tom Lane ceb5db69d4 Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannot
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing
join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide.  Perhaps this should be
improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not
sure the problem is worth much effort.  Per bug #4070 from Marcello
Ceschia.

The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have
(different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but
back-patch all the way anyway.
2008-04-05 01:58:20 +00:00
Tom Lane a0fad9762a Re-implement division for numeric values using the traditional "schoolbook"
algorithm.  This is a good deal slower than our old roundoff-error-prone
code for long inputs, so we keep the old code for use in the transcendental
functions, where everything is approximate anyway.  Also create a
user-accessible function div(numeric, numeric) to provide access to the
exact result of trunc(x/y) --- since the regular numeric / operator will
round off its result, simply computing that expression in SQL doesn't
reliably give the desired answer.  This fixes bug #3387 and various related
corner cases, and improves the usefulness of PG for high-precision integer
arithmetic.
2008-04-04 18:45:36 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f96928fde9 Implement current_query(), that shows the currently executing query.
At the same time remove dblink/dblink_current_query() as it is no longer
necessary
*BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUE* for dblink

Tomas Doran
2008-04-04 16:57:21 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 2288d646a6 Convert backslash_quote guc to use enum. 2008-04-04 11:47:19 +00:00
Magnus Hagander d672ea6ffa Turn xmlbinary and xmloption GUC variables into enumsTurn xmlbinary and
xmloption GUC variables into enums..
2008-04-04 08:33:15 +00:00
Tom Lane b03271590e Remove heap_release_fetch, which is no longer used anywhere; this simplifies
heap_fetch a little.
2008-04-03 17:12:27 +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
Magnus Hagander ad6bf716ba Convert three more guc settings to enum type:
default_transaction_isolation, session_replication_role and regex_flavor.
2008-04-02 14:42:56 +00:00
Tom Lane d5466e38f0 Add SPI-level support for executing SQL commands with one-time-use plans,
that is commands that have out-of-line parameters but the plan is prepared
assuming that the parameter values are constants.  This is needed for the
plpgsql EXECUTE USING patch, but will probably have use elsewhere.

This commit includes the SPI functions and documentation, but no callers
nor regression tests.  The upcoming EXECUTE USING patch will provide
regression-test coverage.  I thought committing this separately made
sense since it's logically a distinct feature.
2008-04-01 03:09:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 6b73d7e567 Fix an oversight I made in a cleanup patch over a year ago:
eval_const_expressions needs to be passed the PlannerInfo ("root") structure,
because in some cases we want it to substitute values for Param nodes.
(So "constant" is not so constant as all that ...)  This mistake partially
disabled optimization of unnamed extended-Query statements in 8.3: in
particular the LIKE-to-indexscan optimization would never be applied if the
LIKE pattern was passed as a parameter, and constraint exclusion depending
on a parameter value didn't work either.
2008-04-01 00:48:33 +00:00
Tom Lane d344115519 Apply my original fix for Taiki Yamaguchi's bug report about DISTINCT MAX().
Add some regression tests for plausible failures in this area.
2008-03-31 16:59:26 +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 fd791e7b5a When a relation has been proven empty by constraint exclusion, propagate that
knowledge up through any joins it participates in.  We were doing that already
in some special cases but not in the general case.  Also, defend against zero
row estimates for the input relations in cost_mergejoin --- this fix may have
eliminated the only scenario in which that can happen, but be safe.  Per
report from Alex Solovey.
2008-03-24 21:53:04 +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 9b8e1eb375 Adjust the recent patch for reporting of deadlocked queries so that we report
query texts only to the server log.  This eliminates the issue of possible
leaking of security-sensitive data in other sessions' queries.  Since the
log is presumed secure, we can now log the queries of all sessions involved
in the deadlock, whether or not they belong to the same user as the one
reporting the failure.
2008-03-24 18:22:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 05fc744b96 Add a new ereport auxiliary function errdetail_log(), which works the same as
errdetail except the string goes only to the server log, replacing the normal
errdetail there.  This provides a reasonably clean way of dealing with error
details that are too security-sensitive or too bulky to send to the client.

This commit just adds the infrastructure --- actual uses to follow.
2008-03-24 18:08:47 +00:00