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Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian 12ff9fa771 Have pg_ctl return an exit status of 3 if the server is not running, to
match the Linux Standard Base Core Specification 3.1.

Aaron W. Swenson
2011-10-13 13:02:36 -04:00
Tom Lane de1bf53a25 Fix typo in dummy_seclabel documentation.
dummy_label -> dummy_seclabel

Thom Brown
2011-10-13 12:16:07 -04:00
Bruce Momjian cf72528e87 Document who can drop a table (owner and user with permissions). 2011-10-13 10:05:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4c32f81766 Remove tab in sgml file. 2011-10-13 09:33:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 7b96519fe2 Don't mark auto-generated types as extension members.
Relation rowtypes and automatically-generated array types do not need to
have their own extension membership dependency entries.  If we create such
then it becomes more difficult to remove items from an extension, and it's
also harder for an extension upgrade script to make sure it duplicates the
dependencies created by the extension's regular installation script.

I changed the code in such a way that this happened in commit
988cccc620, I think because of worries about
the shell-type-replacement case; but that cure was worse than the disease.
It would only matter if one extension created a shell type that was
replaced with an auto-generated type in another extension, which seems
pretty far-fetched.  Better to make this work unsurprisingly in normal
cases.

Report and patch by Robert Haas, comment adjustments by me.
2011-10-12 18:41:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e0b268fb82 Document how to accent Alvaro Herrera in the release notes. 2011-10-12 17:20:05 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f2b36d8e10 Clarify wording of foreign key documentation to mention null entries as
not matching the primary key.

Report from Marek.Balgar@seznam.cz
2011-10-12 16:58:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 484af9b376 Modify RelationGetBufferForTuple() to use a typedef, rather than a
struct, to help pgindent.
2011-10-12 16:53:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6e22ba03a9 Modify pgindent to use a renamed pg_bsd_indent binary. New features
include the ability to supply a typedef file, rather than list them on
the command line.  Also improve the README.
2011-10-12 15:51:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 458857cc9d Throw a useful error message if an extension script file is fed to psql.
We have seen one too many reports of people trying to use 9.1 extension
files in the old-fashioned way of sourcing them in psql.  Not only does
that usually not work (due to failure to substitute for MODULE_PATHNAME
and/or @extschema@), but if it did work they'd get a collection of loose
objects not an extension.  To prevent this, insert an \echo ... \quit
line that prints a suitable error message into each extension script file,
and teach commands/extension.c to ignore lines starting with \echo.
That should not only prevent any adverse consequences of loading a script
file the wrong way, but make it crystal clear to users that they need to
do it differently now.

Tom Lane, following an idea of Andrew Dunstan's.  Back-patch into 9.1
... there is not going to be much value in this if we wait till 9.2.
2011-10-12 15:45:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e0d273500a Modify up/home macro to match standard parameter list; fixes doc build. 2011-10-12 14:05:37 -04:00
Tom Lane 80c6409c2b Improve documentation of psql's \q command.
The documentation neglected to explain its behavior in a script file
(it only ends execution of the script, not psql as a whole), and failed
to mention the long form \quit either.
2011-10-12 13:59:30 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b8691d838b Add Up/Home link to the top of the HTML doc output.
Backpatch to 9.0.X and 9.1.X.
2011-10-12 11:24:51 -04:00
Tom Lane 8c8ba6d11b Add comment on why pulling data from a "name" index column can't crash.
It's been bothering me for several days that pretending that the cstring
data stored in a btree name_ops column is really a "name" Datum could lead
to reading past the end of memory.  However, given the current memory
layout used for index-only scans in the btree code, a crash is in fact not
possible.  Document that so we don't break it.  I have not thought of any
other solutions that aren't fairly ugly too, and most of them lose the
functionality of index-only scans on name columns altogether, so this seems
like the way to go.
2011-10-11 18:40:53 -04:00
Tom Lane cb6771fb32 Generate index-only scan tuple descriptor from the plan node's indextlist.
Dept. of second thoughts: as long as we've got that tlist hanging around
anyway, we can apply ExecTypeFromTL to it to get a suitable descriptor for
the ScanTupleSlot.  This is a nicer solution than the previous one because
it eliminates some hard-wired knowledge about btree name_ops, and because
it avoids the somewhat shaky assumption that we needn't set up the scan
tuple descriptor in EXPLAIN_ONLY mode.  It doesn't change what actually
happens at run-time though, and I'm still a bit nervous about that.
2011-10-11 18:12:57 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e991930e8a Improve entab's Makefile install entry.
Andrew Dunstan
2011-10-11 18:03:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 47cacfc0f1 Document that not backing up postmaster.pid and postmaster.opts might
help prevent pg_ctl from getting confused.

Backpatch to 9.1.
2011-10-11 17:33:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 600d3206d1 Consider index-only scans even when there is no matching qual or ORDER BY.
By popular demand.
2011-10-11 15:00:30 -04:00
Tom Lane a0185461dd Rearrange the implementation of index-only scans.
This commit changes index-only scans so that data is read directly from the
index tuple without first generating a faux heap tuple.  The only immediate
benefit is that indexes on system columns (such as OID) can be used in
index-only scans, but this is necessary infrastructure if we are ever to
support index-only scans on expression indexes.  The executor is now ready
for that, though the planner still needs substantial work to recognize
the possibility.

To do this, Vars in index-only plan nodes have to refer to index columns
not heap columns.  I introduced a new special varno, INDEX_VAR, to mark
such Vars to avoid confusion.  (In passing, this commit renames the two
existing special varnos to OUTER_VAR and INNER_VAR.)  This allows
ruleutils.c to handle them with logic similar to what we use for subplan
reference Vars.

Since index-only scans are now fundamentally different from regular
indexscans so far as their expression subtrees are concerned, I also chose
to change them to have their own plan node type (and hence, their own
executor source file).
2011-10-11 14:21:30 -04:00
Robert Haas fa351d5a0d Replace hardcoded switch in object_exists() with a lookup table.
There's no particular advantage to this change on its face; indeed,
it's possible that this might be slightly slower than the old way.
But it makes this information more easily accessible to other
functions, and therefore paves the way for future code consolidation.
Performance isn't critical here, so there's no need to be smart about
how we do the search.

This is a heavily cut-down version of a patch from KaiGai Kohei,
with several fixes by me.  Additional review from Dimitri Fontaine.
2011-10-11 09:14:30 -04:00
Robert Haas e76bcaba9c Repair breakage in VirtualXactLock.
I broke this in commit 84e3712677.  Report and
fix by Fujii Masao.
2011-10-11 07:39:09 -04:00
Robert Haas 5b9102cef2 Make the reference to "CREATE USER" in the CREATE ROLE page a link.
This might help to avoid confusion between the CREATE USER command,
and the deprecated CREATEUSER option to CREATE ROLE, as per a recent
complaint from Ron Adams.  At any rate, having a cross-link here
seems like a good idea; two commands that are so similar should
reference each other.
2011-10-10 13:38:32 -04:00
Robert Haas e8bb5f7245 Improve documentation of how to fiddle with SCSI drives on FreeBSD.
Per suggestions from Achilleas Mantzios and Greg Smith.
2011-10-10 13:21:35 -04:00
Robert Haas 322019ed2e Fix typo in docs for libpq keepalives_count option.
Shigehiro Honda
2011-10-10 13:10:47 -04:00
Robert Haas 48a62278ed Add doc index entry for pg_resetxlog.
Fujii Masao
2011-10-10 13:05:25 -04:00
Robert Haas 61dd737c29 Document DELETE/UPDATE command tag behavior when triggers are involved.
Marti Raudsepp
2011-10-10 12:53:04 -04:00
Robert Haas 0ff7ea5d3c Some minor wordsmithing for the cascading replication documentation.
Per report from Thom Brown.
2011-10-10 10:16:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian e26d5fcd94 Mark GUC external_pid_file's default as '' in postgresql.conf, rather
than '(none)'.
2011-10-10 08:17:10 -04:00
Robert Haas 3e9a2672d2 Attempt to reduce local dependencies in regression tests.
This appears to be another case where the relative sort order of letters
vs. numbers can throw things off.

Pavel Stehule
2011-10-10 08:01:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0dc3f57ba0 In pg_upgrade, add -o/-O options to pass parameters to the servers, and
document its use for config-only directory installs.
2011-10-10 07:44:11 -04:00
Robert Haas c0f03aae04 Fix ALTER TABLE ONLY .. DROP CONSTRAINT.
When I consolidated two copies of the HOT-chain search logic in commit
4da99ea423, I introduced a behavior
change: the old code wouldn't necessarily traverse the entire chain,
if the most recently returned tuple were updated while the HOT chain
traversal is in progress.  The new behavior seems more correct, but
unfortunately, the code here relies on a scan with SnapshotNow failing
to see its own updates.  That seems pretty shaky even with the old HOT
chain traversal behavior, since there's no guarantee that these
updates will always be HOT, but it's trivial to broke a failure with
the new HOT search logic.  Fix by updating just the first matching
pg_constraint tuple, rather than all of them, since there should be
only one anyway.  But since nobody has reproduced this failure on older
versions, no back-patch for now.

Report and test case by Alex Hunsaker; tablecmds.c changes by me.
2011-10-09 23:39:52 -04:00
Robert Haas c980426c69 Revert accidental change to pg_config_manual.h.
This was broken in commit 53dbc27c62, which
introduced unlogged tables.  Fortunately, as debugging tools go, this one
is pretty cheap, which is probably why it took nine months for someone to
notice, but it's not intended to be enabled by default, so revert.

Noted by Fujii Masao.
2011-10-09 22:20:44 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas d50e125194 Clean up a couple of box gist helper functions.
The original idea of this patch was to make box picksplit run faster, by
eliminating unnecessary palloc() overhead, but that was obsoleted by the new
double-sorting split algorithm that doesn't call these functions so heavily
anymore. Nevertheless, the code looks better this way.

Original patch by me, reviewed and tidied up after the double-sorting patch
by Kevin Grittner.
2011-10-09 18:59:34 +03:00
Tom Lane cbfa92c23c Improve index-only scans to avoid repeated access to the index page.
We copy all the matched tuples off the page during _bt_readpage, instead of
expensively re-locking the page during each subsequent tuple fetch.  This
costs a bit more local storage, but not more than 2*BLCKSZ worth, and the
reduction in LWLock traffic is certainly worth that.  What's more, this
lets us get rid of the API wart in the original patch that said an index AM
could randomly decline to supply an index tuple despite having asserted
pg_am.amcanreturn.  That will be important for future improvements in the
index-only-scan feature, since the executor will now be able to rely on
having the index data available.
2011-10-09 00:21:08 -04:00
Tom Lane 45401c1c25 Prevent index-only scans in stats regression test.
This bollixes the test because it's expecting to see the idx_tup_fetch
counter increase, which won't happen if heap fetches were avoided by use
of an index-only scan.  Per buildfarm results.

While at it, let's just make sure that enable_seqscan and enable_indexscan
are ON for this test ...
2011-10-08 23:45:58 -04:00
Tom Lane c78d8cd146 Note that index-only scans can affect idx_tup_fetch.
An index-only scan that avoids heap fetches will increment idx_tup_read
but not idx_tup_fetch.
2011-10-08 11:09:18 -04:00
Tom Lane b324384f6b Fix brain fade in cost estimation for index-only scans.
visibility_fraction should not be applied to regular indexscans.
Noted by Cédric Villemain.
2011-10-08 10:41:17 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1ef60dab70 Don't let transform_null_equals=on affect CASE foo WHEN NULL ... constructs.
transform_null_equals is only supposed to affect "foo = NULL" expressions
given directly by the user, not the internal "foo = NULL" expression
generated from CASE-WHEN.

This fixes bug #6242, reported by Sergey. Backpatch to all supported
branches.
2011-10-08 11:17:40 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 041dceb259 Fix typo. 2011-10-08 11:04:07 +03:00
Robert Haas 13168ae4eb Add missing space.
Dickson S. Guedes
2011-10-07 23:48:38 -04:00
Robert Haas 6a6082c27c Try to fix memory barriers on x86_64.
%esp is no good; must use %rsp there.
2011-10-07 23:42:57 -04:00
Tom Lane a2822fb933 Support index-only scans using the visibility map to avoid heap fetches.
When a btree index contains all columns required by the query, and the
visibility map shows that all tuples on a target heap page are
visible-to-all, we don't need to fetch that heap page.  This patch depends
on the previous patches that made the visibility map reliable.

There's a fair amount left to do here, notably trying to figure out a less
chintzy way of estimating the cost of an index-only scan, but the core
functionality seems ready to commit.

Robert Haas and Ibrar Ahmed, with some previous work by Heikki Linnakangas.
2011-10-07 20:14:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian caa1054df8 In pg_upgrade, use the new postmaster -C option to get the real data
directory, for config-only directory installs.  Only works for PG 9.2+
servers.
2011-10-07 14:40:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a3996754cc In pg_upgrade, improve popen() failure detection by checking for fgets()
failures.
2011-10-06 19:37:29 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 981e5acd24 Move pg_upgrade doc mention of the port numbers to the same place. 2011-10-06 19:31:20 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 7aeff9f4a4 Ensure walsenders can be SIGTERMed while in non-walsender code
In oder to exit on SIGTERM when in non-walsender code,
such as do_pg_stop_backup(), we need to set the interrupt
variables that are used there, and not just the walsender
local ones.
2011-10-06 21:43:14 +02:00
Robert Haas 1cb018dd09 Make pgstatindex respond to cancel interrupts.
A similar problem for pgstattuple() was fixed in April of 2010 by commit
33065ef8bc, but pgstatindex() seems to have
been overlooked.

Back-patch all the way, as with that commit, though not to 7.4 through
8.1, since those are now EOL.
2011-10-06 12:09:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 416e82ce9f Simplify new pg_ctl newline termination code. 2011-10-06 10:59:50 -04:00
Bruce Momjian aaa6e1def2 Add postmaster -C option to query configuration parameters, and have
pg_ctl use that to query the data directory for config-only installs.
This fixes awkward or impossible pg_ctl operation for config-only
installs.
2011-10-06 09:38:39 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7f3bd86843 Replace the "New Linear" GiST split algorithm for boxes and points with a
new double-sorting algorithm. The new algorithm produces better quality
trees, making searches faster.

Alexander Korotkov
2011-10-06 10:03:46 +03:00