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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Munro 7815e7efdb Add reusable routine for making arrays unique.
Introduce qunique() and qunique_arg(), which can be used after qsort()
and qsort_arg() respectively to remove duplicate values.  Use it where
appropriate.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane (in an earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D2vmFTNpAmwbGGD2WaryM6T3hSDVKQPfUwjdD_5XY6vAA%40mail.gmail.com
2019-11-07 17:00:48 +13:00
Andres Freund 01368e5d9d Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style.
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.

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

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-11-05 14:41:07 -08:00
Alexander Korotkov 7e04160390 Fix handling of non-key columns get_index_column_opclass()
f2e40380 introduces support of non-key attributes in GiST indexes.  Then if
get_index_column_opclass() is asked by gistproperty() to get an opclass of
non-key column, it returns garbage past oidvector value.  This commit fixes
that by making get_index_column_opclass() return InvalidOid in this case.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190902231948.GA5343%40alvherre.pgsql
Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 12
2019-09-09 13:50:12 +03:00
Robert Haas 8b94dab066 Split tuptoaster.c into three separate files.
detoast.c/h contain functions required to detoast a datum, partially
or completely, plus a few other utility functions for examining the
size of toasted datums.

toast_internals.c/h contain functions that are used internally to the
TOAST subsystem but which (mostly) do not need to be accessed from
outside.

heaptoast.c/h contains code that is intrinsically specific to the
heap AM, either because it operates on HeapTuples or is based on the
layout of a heap page.

detoast.c and toast_internals.c are placed in
src/backend/access/common rather than src/backend/access/heap.  At
present, both files still have dependencies on the heap, but that will
be improved in a future commit.

Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-09-05 13:15:10 -04:00
Thomas Munro 720b59b55b Avoid catalog lookups in RelationAllowsEarlyPruning().
RelationAllowsEarlyPruning() performed a catalog scan, but is used
in two contexts where that was a bad idea:

1.  In heap_page_prune_opt(), which runs very frequently in some large
    scans.  This caused major performance problems in a field report
    that was easy to reproduce.

2.  In TestForOldSnapshot(), which runs while we hold a buffer content
    lock.  It's not clear if this was guaranteed to be free of buffer
    deadlock risk.

The check was introduced in commit 2cc41acd8 and defended against a
real problem: 9.6's hash indexes have no page LSN and so we can't
allow early pruning (ie the snapshot-too-old feature).  We can remove
the check from all later releases though: hash indexes are now logged,
and there is no way to create UNLOGGED indexes on regular logged
tables.

If a future release allows such a combination, it might need to put
a similar check in place, but it'll need some more thought.

Back-patch to 10.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, who spotted the second problem
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKT8oTkp5jw_U4p0S-7UG9zsvtw_M47Y285bER6a2gD%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2BWy%2BN4eE5zPm765h68LrkWc3Biu_8rzzi%2BOYX4j%2BiHRw%40mail.gmail.com
2019-08-28 16:18:29 +12:00
Tom Lane fe9b7b2fe5 Fix plpgsql to re-look-up composite type names at need.
Commit 4b93f5799 rearranged things in plpgsql to make it cope better with
composite types changing underneath it intra-session.  However, I failed to
consider the case of a composite type being dropped and recreated entirely.
In my defense, the previous coding didn't consider that possibility at all
either --- but it would accidentally work so long as you didn't change the
type's field list, because the built-at-compile-time list of component
variables would then still match the type's new definition.  The new
coding, however, occasionally tries to re-look-up the type by OID, and
then fails to find the dropped type.

To fix this, we need to save the TypeName struct, and then redo the type
OID lookup from that.  Of course that's expensive, so we don't want to do
it every time we need the type OID.  This can be fixed in the same way that
4b93f5799 dealt with changes to composite types' definitions: keep an eye
on the type's typcache entry to see if its tupledesc has been invalidated.
(Perhaps, at some point, this mechanism should be generalized so it can
work for non-composite types too; but for now, plpgsql only tries to
cope with intra-session redefinitions of composites.)

I'm slightly hesitant to back-patch this into v11, because it changes
the contents of struct PLpgSQL_type as well as the signature of
plpgsql_build_datatype(), so in principle it could break code that is
poking into the innards of plpgsql.  However, the only popular extension
of that ilk is pldebugger, and it doesn't seem to be affected.  Since
this is a regression for people who were relying on the old behavior,
it seems worth taking the small risk of causing compatibility issues.

Per bug #15913 from Daniel Fiori.  Back-patch to v11 where 4b93f5799
came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15913-a7e112e16dedcffc@postgresql.org
2019-08-15 15:21:47 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas a29834beb1 Allow table AM's to use rd_amcache, too.
The rd_amcache allows an index AM to cache arbitrary information in a
relcache entry. This commit moves the cleanup of rd_amcache so that it
can also be used by table AMs. Nothing takes advantage of that yet, but
I'm sure it'll come handy for anyone writing new table AMs.

Backpatch to v12, where table AM interface was introduced.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud
2019-07-30 21:43:27 +03:00
Tom Lane 2f5b8eb5a2 Clean up some ad-hoc code for sorting and de-duplicating Lists.
heap.c and relcache.c contained nearly identical copies of logic
to insert OIDs into an OID list while preserving the list's OID
ordering (and rejecting duplicates, in one case but not the other).

The comments argue that this is faster than qsort for small numbers
of OIDs, which is at best unproven, and seems even less likely to be
true now that lappend_cell_oid has to move data around.  In any case
it's ugly and hard-to-follow code, and if we do have a lot of OIDs
to consider, it's O(N^2).

Hence, replace with simply lappend'ing OIDs to a List, then list_sort
the completed List, then remove adjacent duplicates if necessary.
This is demonstrably O(N log N) and it's much simpler for the
callers.  It's possible that this would be somewhat inefficient
if there were a very large number of duplicates, but that seems
unlikely in the existing usage.

This adds list_deduplicate_oid and list_oid_cmp infrastructure
to list.c.  I didn't bother with equivalent functionality for
integer or pointer Lists, but such could always be added later
if we find a use for it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26193.1563228600@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-07-16 12:04:06 -04:00
Tom Lane 1cff1b95ab Represent Lists as expansible arrays, not chains of cons-cells.
Originally, Postgres Lists were a more or less exact reimplementation of
Lisp lists, which consist of chains of separately-allocated cons cells,
each having a value and a next-cell link.  We'd hacked that once before
(commit d0b4399d8) to add a separate List header, but the data was still
in cons cells.  That makes some operations -- notably list_nth() -- O(N),
and it's bulky because of the next-cell pointers and per-cell palloc
overhead, and it's very cache-unfriendly if the cons cells end up
scattered around rather than being adjacent.

In this rewrite, we still have List headers, but the data is in a
resizable array of values, with no next-cell links.  Now we need at
most two palloc's per List, and often only one, since we can allocate
some values in the same palloc call as the List header.  (Of course,
extending an existing List may require repalloc's to enlarge the array.
But this involves just O(log N) allocations not O(N).)

Of course this is not without downsides.  The key difficulty is that
addition or deletion of a list entry may now cause other entries to
move, which it did not before.

For example, that breaks foreach() and sister macros, which historically
used a pointer to the current cons-cell as loop state.  We can repair
those macros transparently by making their actual loop state be an
integer list index; the exposed "ListCell *" pointer is no longer state
carried across loop iterations, but is just a derived value.  (In
practice, modern compilers can optimize things back to having just one
loop state value, at least for simple cases with inline loop bodies.)
In principle, this is a semantics change for cases where the loop body
inserts or deletes list entries ahead of the current loop index; but
I found no such cases in the Postgres code.

The change is not at all transparent for code that doesn't use foreach()
but chases lists "by hand" using lnext().  The largest share of such
code in the backend is in loops that were maintaining "prev" and "next"
variables in addition to the current-cell pointer, in order to delete
list cells efficiently using list_delete_cell().  However, we no longer
need a previous-cell pointer to delete a list cell efficiently.  Keeping
a next-cell pointer doesn't work, as explained above, but we can improve
matters by changing such code to use a regular foreach() loop and then
using the new macro foreach_delete_current() to delete the current cell.
(This macro knows how to update the associated foreach loop's state so
that no cells will be missed in the traversal.)

There remains a nontrivial risk of code assuming that a ListCell *
pointer will remain good over an operation that could now move the list
contents.  To help catch such errors, list.c can be compiled with a new
define symbol DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE that forcibly moves list contents
whenever that could possibly happen.  This makes list operations
significantly more expensive so it's not normally turned on (though it
is on by default if USE_VALGRIND is on).

There are two notable API differences from the previous code:

* lnext() now requires the List's header pointer in addition to the
current cell's address.

* list_delete_cell() no longer requires a previous-cell argument.

These changes are somewhat unfortunate, but on the other hand code using
either function needs inspection to see if it is assuming anything
it shouldn't, so it's not all bad.

Programmers should be aware of these significant performance changes:

* list_nth() and related functions are now O(1); so there's no
major access-speed difference between a list and an array.

* Inserting or deleting a list element now takes time proportional to
the distance to the end of the list, due to moving the array elements.
(However, it typically *doesn't* require palloc or pfree, so except in
long lists it's probably still faster than before.)  Notably, lcons()
used to be about the same cost as lappend(), but that's no longer true
if the list is long.  Code that uses lcons() and list_delete_first()
to maintain a stack might usefully be rewritten to push and pop at the
end of the list rather than the beginning.

* There are now list_insert_nth...() and list_delete_nth...() functions
that add or remove a list cell identified by index.  These have the
data-movement penalty explained above, but there's no search penalty.

* list_concat() and variants now copy the second list's data into
storage belonging to the first list, so there is no longer any
sharing of cells between the input lists.  The second argument is
now declared "const List *" to reflect that it isn't changed.

This patch just does the minimum needed to get the new implementation
in place and fix bugs exposed by the regression tests.  As suggested
by the foregoing, there's a fair amount of followup work remaining to
do.

Also, the ENABLE_LIST_COMPAT macros are finally removed in this
commit.  Code using those should have been gone a dozen years ago.

Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley, Jesper Pedersen, and others
for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-07-15 13:41:58 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 7e9a4c5c3d Use consistent style for checking return from system calls
Use

    if (something() != 0)
        error ...

instead of just

    if (something)
        error ...

The latter is not incorrect, but it's a bit confusing and not the
common style.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5de61b6b-8be9-7771-0048-860328efe027%402ndquadrant.com
2019-07-07 15:28:49 +02:00
Tom Lane 9e1c9f9594 pgindent run prior to branching v12.
pgperltidy and reformat-dat-files too, though the latter didn't
find anything to change.
2019-07-01 12:37:52 -04:00
Michael Paquier c74d49d41c Fix many typos and inconsistencies
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/af27d1b3-a128-9d62-46e0-88f424397f44@gmail.com
2019-07-01 10:00:23 +09:00
Tomas Vondra 6cbfb784c3 Rework the pg_statistic_ext catalog
Since extended statistic got introduced in PostgreSQL 10, there was a
single catalog pg_statistic_ext storing both the definitions and built
statistic.  That's however problematic when a user is supposed to have
access only to the definitions, but not to user data.

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

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

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

Bumped CATVERSION due to changing system catalog definitions.

Author: Dean Rasheed, with improvements by me
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUhT9rt7Ui%3DVdx4N%3D%3DVV5XOK5dsXfnGgVOz_JhAicB%3DZA%40mail.gmail.com
2019-06-16 01:20:31 +02:00
Michael Paquier f43608bda2 Fix typos and inconsistencies in code comments
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dec6aae8-2d63-639f-4d50-20e229fb83e3@gmail.com
2019-06-14 09:34:34 +09:00
Andres Freund fff2a7d7bd Don't access catalogs to validate GUCs when not connected to a DB.
Vignesh found this bug in the check function for
default_table_access_method's check hook, but that was just copied
from older GUCs. Investigation by Michael and me then found the bug in
further places.

When not connected to a database (e.g. in a walsender connection), we
cannot perform (most) GUC checks that need database access. Even when
only shared tables are needed, unless they're
nailed (c.f. RelationCacheInitializePhase2()), they cannot be accessed
without pg_class etc. being present.

Fix by extending the existing IsTransactionState() checks to also
check for MyDatabaseOid.

Reported-By: Vignesh C, Michael Paquier, Andres Freund
Author: Vignesh C, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1KXK9gbZfY-p_peRFm_XrBh1OwQO1Kk6Gig0c0fVZ2uw%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.4-
2019-06-10 23:34:50 -07:00
Tom Lane 8255c7a5ee Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent.  This formats
multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with
additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match
where the first line's left parenthesis is.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
Tom Lane be76af171c Initial pgindent run for v12.
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-22 12:55:34 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d7d946cd3 Clean up the behavior and API of catalog.c's is-catalog-relation tests.
The right way for IsCatalogRelation/Class to behave is to return true
for OIDs less than FirstBootstrapObjectId (not FirstNormalObjectId),
without any of the ad-hoc fooling around with schema membership.

The previous code was wrong because (1) it claimed that
information_schema tables were not catalog relations but their toast
tables were, which is silly; and (2) if you dropped and recreated
information_schema, which is a supported operation, the behavior
changed.  That's even sillier.  With this definition, "catalog
relations" are exactly the ones traceable to the postgres.bki data,
which seems like what we want.

With this simplification, we don't actually need access to the pg_class
tuple to identify a catalog relation; we only need its OID.  Hence,
replace IsCatalogClass with "IsCatalogRelationOid(oid)".  But keep
IsCatalogRelation as a convenience function.

This allows fixing some arguably-wrong semantics in contrib/sepgsql and
ReindexRelationConcurrently, which were using an IsSystemNamespace test
where what they really should be using is IsCatalogRelationOid.  The
previous coding failed to protect toast tables of system catalogs, and
also was not on board with the general principle that user-created tables
do not become catalogs just by virtue of being renamed into pg_catalog.
We can also get rid of a messy hack in ReindexMultipleTables.

While we're at it, also rename IsSystemNamespace to IsCatalogNamespace,
because the previous name invited confusion with the more expansive
semantics used by IsSystemRelation/Class.

Also improve the comments in catalog.c.

There are a few remaining places in replication-related code that are
special-casing OIDs below FirstNormalObjectId.  I'm inclined to think
those are wrong too, and if there should be any special case it should
just extend to FirstBootstrapObjectId.  But first we need to debate
whether a FOR ALL TABLES publication should include information_schema.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21697.1557092753@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15150.1557257111@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-08 23:27:38 -04:00
Tom Lane f884dca495 Remove RelationSetIndexList().
In the wake of commit f912d7dec, RelationSetIndexList isn't used any
more.  It was always a horrid wart, so getting rid of it is very nice.
We can also convert rd_indexvalid back to a plain boolean.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28926.1556664156@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-03 10:26:14 -04:00
Tom Lane f912d7dec2 Fix reindexing of pg_class indexes some more.
Commits 3dbb317d3 et al failed under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS testing.
Investigation showed that to reindex pg_class_oid_index, we must
suppress accesses to the index (via SetReindexProcessing) before we call
RelationSetNewRelfilenode, or at least before we do CommandCounterIncrement
therein; otherwise, relcache reloads happening within the CCI may try to
fetch pg_class rows using the index's new relfilenode value, which is as
yet an empty file.

Of course, the point of 3dbb317d3 was that that ordering didn't work
either, because then RelationSetNewRelfilenode's own update of the index's
pg_class row cannot access the index, should it need to.

There are various ways we might have got around that, but Andres Freund
came up with a brilliant solution: for a mapped index, we can really just
skip the pg_class update altogether.  The only fields it was actually
changing were relpages etc, but it was just setting them to zeroes which
is useless make-work.  (Correct new values will be installed at the end
of index build.)  All pg_class indexes are mapped and probably always will
be, so this eliminates the problem by removing work rather than adding it,
always a pleasant outcome.  Having taught RelationSetNewRelfilenode to do
it that way, we can revert the code reordering in reindex_index.  (But
I left the moved setup code where it was; there seems no reason why it
has to run without use of the old index.  If you're trying to fix a
busted pg_class index, you'll have had to disable system index use
altogether to get this far.)

Moreover, this means we don't need RelationSetIndexList at all, because
reindex_relation's hacking to make "REINDEX TABLE pg_class" work is
likewise now unnecessary.  We'll leave that code in place in the back
branches, but a follow-on patch will remove it in HEAD.

In passing, do some minor cleanup for commit 5c1560606 (in HEAD only),
notably removing a duplicate newrnode assignment.

Patch by me, using a core idea due to Andres Freund.  Back-patch to all
supported branches, as 3dbb317d3 was.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28926.1556664156@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-02 19:11:28 -04:00
Andres Freund 5c1560606d Fix several recently introduced issues around handling new relation forks.
Most of these stem from d25f519107 "tableam: relation creation, VACUUM
FULL/CLUSTER, SET TABLESPACE.".

1) To pass data to the relation_set_new_filenode()
   RelationSetNewRelfilenode() was made to update RelationData.rd_rel
   directly. That's not OK however, as it makes the relcache entries
   temporarily inconsistent. Which among other scenarios is a problem
   if a REINDEX targets an index on pg_class - the
   CatalogTupleUpdate() in RelationSetNewRelfilenode().  Presumably
   that was introduced because other places in the code do so - while
   those aren't "good practice" they don't appear to be actively
   buggy (e.g. because system tables may not be targeted).

   I (Andres) should have caught this while reviewing and signficantly
   evolving the code in that commit, mea culpa.

   Fix that by instead passing in the new RelFileNode as separate
   argument to relation_set_new_filenode() and rely on the relcache to
   update the catalog entry. Also revert that the
   RelationMapUpdateMap() call was changed to immediate, and undo some
   other more unnecessary changes.

2) Document that the relation_set_new_filenode cannot rely on the
   whole relcache entry to be valid. It might be worthwhile to
   refactor the code to never have to rely on that, but given the way
   heap_create() is currently coded, that'd be a large change.

3) ATExecSetTableSpace() shouldn't do FlushRelationBuffers() itself. A
   table AM might not use shared buffers at all. Move to
   index_copy_data() and heapam_relation_copy_data().

4) heapam_relation_set_new_filenode() previously sometimes accessed
   rel->rd_rel->relpersistence rather than the `persistence`
   argument. Code movement mistake.

5) Previously heapam_relation_set_new_filenode() re-opened the smgr
   relation to create the init for, if necesary. Instead have
   RelationCreateStorage() return the SMgrRelation and use it to
   create the init fork.

6) Add a note about the danger of modifying the relcache directly to
   ATExecSetTableSpace() - it's currently not a bug because there's a
   check ERRORing for catalog tables.

Regression tests and assertion improvements that together trigger the
bug described in 1) will be added in a later commit, as there is a
related bug on all branches.

Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Diagnosed-By: Tom Lane and Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190418011430.GA19133@paquier.xyz
2019-04-29 19:28:05 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut bb385c4fb0 Fix handling of temp and unlogged tables in FOR ALL TABLES publications
If a FOR ALL TABLES publication exists, temporary and unlogged tables
are ignored for publishing changes.  But CheckCmdReplicaIdentity()
would still check in that case that such a table has a replica
identity set before accepting updates.  To fix, have
GetRelationPublicationActions() return that such a table publishes no
actions.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f3f151f7-c4dd-1646-b998-f60bd6217dd3@2ndquadrant.com
2019-04-18 08:55:55 +02:00
Tom Lane 5f1433ac5e Prevent memory leaks associated with relcache rd_partcheck structures.
The original coding of generate_partition_qual() just copied the list
of predicate expressions into the global CacheMemoryContext, making it
effectively impossible to clean up when the owning relcache entry is
destroyed --- the relevant code in RelationDestroyRelation() only managed
to free the topmost List header :-(.  This resulted in a session-lifespan
memory leak whenever a table partition's relcache entry is rebuilt.
Fortunately, that's not normally a large data structure, and rebuilds
shouldn't occur all that often in production situations; but this is
still a bug worth fixing back to v10 where the code was introduced.

To fix, put the cached expression tree into its own small memory context,
as we do with other complicated substructures of relcache entries.
Also, deal more honestly with the case that a partition has an empty
partcheck list; while that probably isn't a case that's very interesting
for production use, it's legal.

In passing, clarify comments about how partitioning-related relcache
data structures are managed, and add some Asserts that we're not leaking
old copies when we overwrite these data fields.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7961.1552498252@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-04-13 13:22:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut edda32ee25 Fix compiler warning
Rewrite get_attgenerated() to avoid compiler warning if the compiler
does not recognize that elog(ERROR) does not return.

Reported-by: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
2019-04-05 09:23:07 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut fc22b6623b Generated columns
This is an SQL-standard feature that allows creating columns that are
computed from expressions rather than assigned, similar to a view or
materialized view but on a column basis.

This implements one kind of generated column: stored (computed on
write).  Another kind, virtual (computed on read), is planned for the
future, and some room is left for it.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b151f851-4019-bdb1-699e-ebab07d2f40a@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-30 08:15:57 +01:00
Andres Freund d25f519107 tableam: relation creation, VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER, SET TABLESPACE.
This moves the responsibility for:
- creating the storage necessary for a relation, including creating a
  new relfilenode for a relation with existing storage
- non-transactional truncation of a relation
- VACUUM FULL / CLUSTER's rewrite of a table
below tableam.

This is fairly straight forward, with a bit of complexity smattered in
to move the computation of xid / multixid horizons below the AM, as
they don't make sense for every table AM.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-03-28 20:01:43 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 5e1963fb76 Collations with nondeterministic comparison
This adds a flag "deterministic" to collations.  If that is false,
such a collation disables various optimizations that assume that
strings are equal only if they are byte-wise equal.  That then allows
use cases such as case-insensitive or accent-insensitive comparisons
or handling of strings with different Unicode normal forms.

This functionality is only supported with the ICU provider.  At least
glibc doesn't appear to have any locales that work in a
nondeterministic way, so it's not worth supporting this for the libc
provider.

The term "deterministic comparison" in this context is from Unicode
Technical Standard #10
(https://unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Deterministic_Comparison).

This patch makes changes in three areas:

- CREATE COLLATION DDL changes and system catalog changes to support
  this new flag.

- Many executor nodes and auxiliary code are extended to track
  collations.  Previously, this code would just throw away collation
  information, because the eventually-called user-defined functions
  didn't use it since they only cared about equality, which didn't
  need collation information.

- String data type functions that do equality comparisons and hashing
  are changed to take the (non-)deterministic flag into account.  For
  comparison, this just means skipping various shortcuts and tie
  breakers that use byte-wise comparison.  For hashing, we first need
  to convert the input string to a canonical "sort key" using the ICU
  analogue of strxfrm().

Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1ccc668f-4cbc-0bef-af67-450b47cdfee7@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-22 12:12:43 +01:00
Tom Lane d3f48dfae4 Further reduce memory footprint of CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS testing.
Some buildfarm members using CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS have been having OOM
problems of late.  Commit 2455ab488 addressed this problem by recovering
space transiently used within RelationBuildPartitionDesc, but it turns
out that leaves quite a lot on the table, because other subroutines of
RelationBuildDesc also leak memory like mad.  Let's move the temp-context
management into RelationBuildDesc so that leakage from the other
subroutines is also recovered.

I examined this issue by arranging for postgres.c to dump the size of
MessageContext just before resetting it in each command cycle, and
then running the update.sql regression test (which is one of the two
that are seeing buildfarm OOMs) with and without CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.
Before 2455ab488, the peak space usage with CCA was as much as 250MB.
That patch got it down to ~80MB, but with this patch it's about 0.5MB,
and indeed the space usage now seems nearly indistinguishable from a
non-CCA build.

RelationBuildDesc's traditional behavior of not worrying about leaking
transient data is of many years' standing, so I'm pretty hesitant to
change that without more evidence that it'd be useful in a normal build.
(So far as I can see, non-CCA memory consumption is about the same with
or without this change, whuch if anything suggests that it isn't useful.)
Hence, configure the patch so that we recover space only when
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS or CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY is defined.  However,
that choice can be overridden at compile time, in case somebody would
like to do some performance testing and try to develop evidence for
changing that decision.

It's possible that we ought to back-patch this change, but in the
absence of back-branch OOM problems in the buildfarm, I'm not in
a hurry to do that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY3bRmGB6-DUnoVy5fJoreiBJ43rwMrQRCdPXuKt4Ykaw@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-15 13:46:26 -04:00
Amit Kapila a6e48da088 Fix typos in commit 8586bf7ed8.
Author: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KNv1Mg2krf4E9ssWFnE=8A9mZ1VbVywXBZTFSzb+wP2g@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-11 09:58:46 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera af38498d4c Move hash_any prototype from access/hash.h to utils/hashutils.h
... as well as its implementation from backend/access/hash/hashfunc.c to
backend/utils/hash/hashfn.c.

access/hash is the place for the hash index AM, not really appropriate
for generic facilities, which is what hash_any is; having things the old
way meant that anything using hash_any had to include the AM's include
file, pointlessly polluting its namespace with unrelated, unnecessary
cruft.

Also move the HTEqual strategy number to access/stratnum.h from
access/hash.h.

To avoid breaking third-party extension code, add an #include
"utils/hashutils.h" to access/hash.h.  (An easily removed line by
committers who enjoy their asbestos suits to protect them from angry
extension authors.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201901251935.ser5e4h6djt2@alvherre.pgsql
2019-03-11 13:17:50 -03:00
Michael Paquier 82a5649fb9 Tighten use of OpenTransientFile and CloseTransientFile
This fixes two sets of issues related to the use of transient files in
the backend:
1) OpenTransientFile() has been used in some code paths with read-write
flags while read-only is sufficient, so switch those calls to be
read-only where necessary.  These have been reported by Joe Conway.
2) When opening transient files, it is up to the caller to close the
file descriptors opened.  In error code paths, CloseTransientFile() gets
called to clean up things before issuing an error.  However in normal
exit paths, a lot of callers of CloseTransientFile() never actually
reported errors, which could leave a file descriptor open without
knowing about it.  This is an issue I complained about a couple of
times, but never had the courage to write and submit a patch, so here we
go.

Note that one frontend code path is impacted by this commit so as an
error is issued when fetching control file data, making backend and
frontend to be treated consistently.

Reported-by: Joe Conway, Michael Paquier
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Georgios Kokolatos, Joe Conway
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190301023338.GD1348@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c49b69ec-e2f7-ff33-4f17-0eaa4f2cef27@joeconway.com
2019-03-09 08:50:55 +09:00
Robert Haas 898e5e3290 Allow ATTACH PARTITION with only ShareUpdateExclusiveLock.
We still require AccessExclusiveLock on the partition itself, because
otherwise an insert that violates the newly-imposed partition
constraint could be in progress at the same time that we're changing
that constraint; only the lock level on the parent relation is
weakened.

To make this safe, we have to cope with (at least) three separate
problems. First, relevant DDL might commit while we're in the process
of building a PartitionDesc.  If so, find_inheritance_children() might
see a new partition while the RELOID system cache still has the old
partition bound cached, and even before invalidation messages have
been queued.  To fix that, if we see that the pg_class tuple seems to
be missing or to have a null relpartbound, refetch the value directly
from the table. We can't get the wrong value, because DETACH PARTITION
still requires AccessExclusiveLock throughout; if we ever want to
change that, this will need more thought. In testing, I found it quite
difficult to hit even the null-relpartbound case; the race condition
is extremely tight, but the theoretical risk is there.

Second, successive calls to RelationGetPartitionDesc might not return
the same answer.  The query planner will get confused if lookup up the
PartitionDesc for a particular relation does not return a consistent
answer for the entire duration of query planning.  Likewise, query
execution will get confused if the same relation seems to have a
different PartitionDesc at different times.  Invent a new
PartitionDirectory concept and use it to ensure consistency.  This
ensures that a single invocation of either the planner or the executor
sees the same view of the PartitionDesc from beginning to end, but it
does not guarantee that the planner and the executor see the same
view.  Since this allows pointers to old PartitionDesc entries to
survive even after a relcache rebuild, also postpone removing the old
PartitionDesc entry until we're certain no one is using it.

For the most part, it seems to be OK for the planner and executor to
have different views of the PartitionDesc, because the executor will
just ignore any concurrently added partitions which were unknown at
plan time; those partitions won't be part of the inheritance
expansion, but invalidation messages will trigger replanning at some
point.  Normally, this happens by the time the very next command is
executed, but if the next command acquires no locks and executes a
prepared query, it can manage not to notice until a new transaction is
started.  We might want to tighten that up, but it's material for a
separate patch.  There would still be a small window where a query
that started just after an ATTACH PARTITION command committed might
fail to notice its results -- but only if the command starts before
the commit has been acknowledged to the user. All in all, the warts
here around serializability seem small enough to be worth accepting
for the considerable advantage of being able to add partitions without
a full table lock.

Although in general the consequences of new partitions showing up
between planning and execution are limited to the query not noticing
the new partitions, run-time partition pruning will get confused in
that case, so that's the third problem that this patch fixes.
Run-time partition pruning assumes that indexes into the PartitionDesc
are stable between planning and execution.  So, add code so that if
new partitions are added between plan time and execution time, the
indexes stored in the subplan_map[] and subpart_map[] arrays within
the plan's PartitionedRelPruneInfo get adjusted accordingly.  There
does not seem to be a simple way to generalize this scheme to cope
with partitions that are removed, mostly because they could then get
added back again with different bounds, but it works OK for added
partitions.

This code does not try to ensure that every backend participating in
a parallel query sees the same view of the PartitionDesc.  That
currently doesn't matter, because we never pass PartitionDesc
indexes between backends.  Each backend will ignore the concurrently
added partitions which it notices, and it doesn't matter if different
backends are ignoring different sets of concurrently added partitions.
If in the future that matters, for example because we allow writes in
parallel query and want all participants to do tuple routing to the same
set of partitions, the PartitionDirectory concept could be improved to
share PartitionDescs across backends.  There is a draft patch to
serialize and restore PartitionDescs on the thread where this patch
was discussed, which may be a useful place to start.

Patch by me.  Thanks to Alvaro Herrera, David Rowley, Simon Riggs,
Amit Langote, and Michael Paquier for discussion, and to Alvaro
Herrera for some review.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobt2upbSocvvDej3yzokd7AkiT+PvgFH+a9-5VV1oJNSQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZE0r9-cyA-aY6f8WFEROaDLLL7Vf81kZ8MtFCkxpeQSw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY13KQZF-=HNTrt9UYWYx3_oYOQpu9ioNT49jGgiDpUEA@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-07 11:13:12 -05:00
Andres Freund 8586bf7ed8 tableam: introduce table AM infrastructure.
This introduces the concept of table access methods, i.e. CREATE
  ACCESS METHOD ... TYPE TABLE and
  CREATE TABLE ... USING (storage-engine).
No table access functionality is delegated to table AMs as of this
commit, that'll be done in following commits.

Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access
functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change
is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done
incrementally.

Docs will be updated at the end, as adding them incrementally would
likely make them less coherent, and definitely is a lot more work,
without a lot of benefit.

Table access methods are specified similar to index access methods,
i.e. pg_am.amhandler returns, as INTERNAL, a pointer to a struct with
callbacks. In contrast to index AMs that struct needs to live as long
as a backend, typically that's achieved by just returning a pointer to
a constant struct.

Psql's \d+ now displays a table's access method. That can be disabled
with HIDE_TABLEAM=true, which is mainly useful so regression tests can
be run against different AMs.  It's quite possible that this behaviour
still needs to be fine tuned.

For now it's not allowed to set a table AM for a partitioned table, as
we've not resolved how partitions would inherit that. Disallowing
allows us to introduce, if we decide that's the way forward, such a
behaviour without a compatibility break.

Catversion bumped, to add the heap table AM and references to it.

Author: Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Golgov and others
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql
    https://postgr.es/m/20190107235616.6lur25ph22u5u5av@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20190304234700.w5tmhducs5wxgzls@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-03-06 09:54:38 -08:00
Robert Haas 1bb5e78218 Move code for managing PartitionDescs into a new file, partdesc.c
This is similar in spirit to the existing partbounds.c file in the
same directory, except that there's a lot less code in the new file
created by this commit.  Pending work in this area proposes to add a
bunch more code related to PartitionDescs, though, and this will give
us a good place to put it.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZUwPf_uanjF==gTGBMJrn8uCq52XYvAEorNkLrUdoawg@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-21 11:45:02 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 90cfa49003 Use varargs macro for CACHEDEBUG
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2019-02-19 11:42:39 +01:00
Tom Lane a391ff3c3d Build out the planner support function infrastructure.
Add support function requests for estimating the selectivity, cost,
and number of result rows (if a SRF) of the target function.

The lack of a way to estimate selectivity of a boolean-returning
function in WHERE has been a recognized deficiency of the planner
since Berkeley days.  This commit finally fixes it.

In addition, non-constant estimates of cost and number of output
rows are now possible.  We still fall back to looking at procost
and prorows if the support function doesn't service the request,
of course.

To make concrete use of the possibility of estimating output rowcount
for SRFs, this commit adds support functions for array_unnest(anyarray)
and the integer variants of generate_series; the lack of plausible
rowcount estimates for those, even when it's obvious to a human,
has been a repeated subject of complaints.  Obviously, much more
could now be done in this line, but I'm mostly just trying to get
the infrastructure in place.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-09 18:32:23 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut dfa774ff9a Fix a crash in logical replication
The bug was that determining which columns are part of the replica
identity index using RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() would run
eval_const_expressions() on index expressions and predicates across
all indexes of the table, which in turn might require a snapshot, but
there wasn't one set, so it crashes.  There were actually two separate
bugs, one on the publisher and one on the subscriber.

To trigger the bug, a table that is part of a publication or
subscription needs to have an index with a predicate or expression
that lends itself to constant expressions simplification.

The fix is to avoid the constant expressions simplification in
RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap(), so that it becomes safe to call in these
contexts.  The constant expressions simplification comes from the
calls to RelationGetIndexExpressions()/RelationGetIndexPredicate() via
BuildIndexInfo().  But RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() calling
BuildIndexInfo() is overkill.  The latter just takes pg_index catalog
information, packs it into the IndexInfo structure, which former then
just unpacks again and throws away.  We can just do this directly with
less overhead and skip the troublesome calls to
eval_const_expressions().  This also removes the awkward
cross-dependency between relcache.c and index.c.

Bug: #15114
Reported-by: Петър Славов <pet.slavov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/152110589574.1223.17983600132321618383@wrigleys.postgresql.org/
2019-01-30 08:49:54 +01:00
Tom Lane f09346a9c6 Refactor planner's header files.
Create a new header optimizer/optimizer.h, which exposes just the
planner functions that can be used "at arm's length", without need
to access Paths or the other planner-internal data structures defined
in nodes/relation.h.  This is intended to provide the whole planner
API seen by most of the rest of the system; although FDWs still need
to use additional stuff, and more thought is also needed about just
what selfuncs.c should rely on.

The main point of doing this now is to limit the amount of new
#include baggage that will be needed by "planner support functions",
which I expect to introduce later, and which will be in relevant
datatype modules rather than anywhere near the planner.

This commit just moves relevant declarations into optimizer.h from
other header files (a couple of which go away because everything
got moved), and adjusts #include lists to match.  There's further
cleanup that could be done if we want to decide that some stuff
being exposed by optimizer.h doesn't belong in the planner at all,
but I'll leave that for another day.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-29 15:48:51 -05:00
Tom Lane a1b8c41e99 Make some small planner API cleanups.
Move a few very simple node-creation and node-type-testing functions
from the planner's clauses.c to nodes/makefuncs and nodes/nodeFuncs.
There's nothing planner-specific about them, as evidenced by the
number of other places that were using them.

While at it, rename and_clause() etc to is_andclause() etc, to clarify
that they are node-type-testing functions not node-creation functions.
And use "static inline" implementations for the shortest ones.

Also, modify flatten_join_alias_vars() and some subsidiary functions
to take a Query not a PlannerInfo to define the join structure that
Vars should be translated according to.  They were only using the
"parse" field of the PlannerInfo anyway, so this just requires removing
one level of indirection.  The advantage is that now parse_agg.c can
use flatten_join_alias_vars() without the horrid kluge of creating an
incomplete PlannerInfo, which will allow that file to be decoupled from
relation.h in a subsequent patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-29 15:26:44 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 95931133a9 Fix misc typos in comments.
Spotted mostly by Fabien Coelho.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.DEB.2.21.1901230947050.16643@lancre
2019-01-23 13:39:00 +02:00
Andres Freund 346ed70b0a Rename RelationData.rd_amroutine to rd_indam.
The upcoming table AM support makes rd_amroutine to generic, as its
only about index AMs. The new name makes that clear, and is shorter to
boot.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21 17:36:55 -08:00
Andres Freund ebcc7bf949 Rephrase references to "time qualification".
Now that the relevant code has, for other reasons, moved out of
tqual.[ch], it seems time to refer to visiblity rather than time
qualification.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21 17:07:10 -08:00
Andres Freund c91560defc Move remaining code from tqual.[ch] to heapam.h / heapam_visibility.c.
Given these routines are heap specific, and that there will be more
generic visibility support in via table AM, it makes sense to move the
prototypes to heapam.h (routines like HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum will
not be exposed in a generic fashion, because they are too storage
specific).

Similarly, the code in tqual.c is specific to heap, so moving it into
access/heap/ makes sense.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21 17:07:10 -08:00
Tom Lane 8f9e934ab7 Remove useless bms_copy step in RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap.
Seems to be from a bad case of copy-and-paste-itis in commit 665d1fad9.
It wouldn't be quite so annoying if it didn't contradict the comment
half a dozen lines above.

David Rowley

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f95Dyf8Qkdz4W+PbCmT-HTb54tkqUCC8isa2RVgSJ_pXQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-21 18:33:41 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 1755440935 Flush relcache entries when their FKs are meddled with
Back in commit 100340e2dc, we made relcache entries keep lists of the
foreign keys applying to the relation -- but we forgot to update
CacheInvalidateHeapTuple to flush those entries when new FKs got created
or existing ones updated/deleted.  No bugs appear to have been reported
that would be explained by this ommission, but I noticed the problem
while working on an unrelated bugfix which clearly showed it.  Fix by
adding relcache flush on relevant foreign key changes.

Backpatch to 9.6, like the aforementioned commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201901211927.7mmhschxlejh@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
2019-01-21 19:34:11 -03:00
Andres Freund e7cc78ad43 Remove superfluous tqual.h includes.
Most of these had been obsoleted by 568d4138c / the SnapshotNow
removal.

This is is preparation for moving most of tqual.[ch] into either
snapmgr.h or heapam.h, which in turn is in preparation for pluggable
table AMs.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21 12:15:02 -08:00
Andres Freund e0c4ec0728 Replace uses of heap_open et al with the corresponding table_* function.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21 10:51:37 -08:00
Andres Freund 111944c5ee Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable.
A lot of files only included heapam.h for relation_open, heap_open etc
- replace the heapam.h include in those files with the narrower
header.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21 10:51:37 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 0080396dad Refactor duplicate code into DeconstructFkConstraintRow
My commit 3de241dba8 introduced some code (in tablecmds.c) to obtain
data from a pg_constraint row for a foreign key, that already existed in
ri_triggers.c.  Split it out into its own routine in pg_constraint.c,
where it naturally belongs.

No functional code changes, only code movement.

Backpatch to pg11, because a future bugfix is simpler after this.
2019-01-18 14:59:44 -03:00
Tom Lane 1c53c4dec3 Finish reverting "recheck_on_update" patch.
This reverts commit c203d6cf8 and some follow-on fixes, completing the
task begun in commit 5d28c9bd7.  If that feature is ever resurrected,
the code will look quite a bit different from this, so it seems best
to start from a clean slate.

The v11 branch is not touched; in that branch, the recheck_on_update
storage option remains present, but nonfunctional and undocumented.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190114223409.3tcvejfhlvbucrv5@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-15 12:07:10 -05:00
Andres Freund 4c850ecec6 Don't include heapam.h from others headers.
heapam.h previously was included in a number of widely used
headers (e.g. execnodes.h, indirectly in executor.h, ...). That's
problematic on its own, as heapam.h contains a lot of low-level
details that don't need to be exposed that widely, but becomes more
problematic with the upcoming introduction of pluggable table storage
- it seems inappropriate for heapam.h to be included that widely
afterwards.

heapam.h was largely only included in other headers to get the
HeapScanDesc typedef (which was defined in heapam.h, even though
HeapScanDescData is defined in relscan.h). The better solution here
seems to be to just use the underlying struct (forward declared where
necessary). Similar for BulkInsertState.

Another problem was that LockTupleMode was used in executor.h - parts
of the file tried to cope without heapam.h, but due to the fact that
it indirectly included it, several subsequent violations of that goal
were not not noticed. We could just reuse the approach of declaring
parameters as int, but it seems nicer to move LockTupleMode to
lockoptions.h - that's not a perfect location, but also doesn't seem
bad.

As a number of files relied on implicitly included heapam.h, a
significant number of files grew an explicit include. It's quite
probably that a few external projects will need to do the same.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190114000701.y4ttcb74jpskkcfb@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-14 16:24:41 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 807ae415c5 Don't create relfilenode for relations without storage
Some relation kinds had relfilenode set to some non-zero value, but
apparently the actual files did not really exist because creation was
prevented elsewhere.  Get rid of the phony pg_class.relfilenode values.

Catversion bumped, but only because the sanity_test check will fail if
run in a system initdb'd with the previous version.

Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181206215552.fm2ypuxq6nhpwjuc@alvherre.pgsql
2019-01-04 14:51:17 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 97c39498e5 Update copyright for 2019
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut ae4472c619 Remove obsolete IndexIs* macros
Remove IndexIsValid(), IndexIsReady(), IndexIsLive() in favor of
accessing the index structure directly.  These macros haven't been
used consistently, and the original reason of maintaining source
compatibility with PostgreSQL 9.2 is gone.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d419147c-09d4-6196-5d9d-0234b230880a%402ndquadrant.com
2018-12-27 10:07:46 +01:00
Tom Lane 6b0faf7236 Make collation-aware system catalog columns use "C" collation.
Up to now we allowed text columns in system catalogs to use collation
"default", but that isn't really safe because it might mean something
different in template0 than it means in a database cloned from template0.
In particular, this could mean that cloned pg_statistic entries for such
columns weren't entirely valid, possibly leading to bogus planner
estimates, though (probably) not any outright failures.

In the wake of commit 5e0928005, a better solution is available: if we
label such columns with "C" collation, then their pg_statistic entries
will also use that collation and hence will be valid independently of
the database collation.

This also provides a cleaner solution for indexes on such columns than
the hack added by commit 0b28ea79c: the indexes will naturally inherit
"C" collation and don't have to be forced to use text_pattern_ops.

Also, with the planned improvement of type "name" to be collation-aware,
this policy will apply cleanly to both text and name columns.

Because of the pg_statistic angle, we should also apply this policy
to the tables in information_schema.  This patch does that by adjusting
information_schema's textual domain types to specify "C" collation.
That has the user-visible effect that order-sensitive comparisons to
textual information_schema view columns will now use "C" collation
by default.  The SQL standard says that the collation of those view
columns is implementation-defined, so I think this is legal per spec.
At some point this might allow for translation of such comparisons
into indexable conditions on the underlying "name" columns, although
additional work will be needed before that can happen.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19346.1544895309@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-12-18 12:48:15 -05:00
Tom Lane 5e09280057 Make pg_statistic and related code account more honestly for collations.
When we first put in collations support, we basically punted on teaching
pg_statistic, ANALYZE, and the planner selectivity functions about that.
They've just used DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID independently of the actual
collation of the data.  It's time to improve that, so:

* Add columns to pg_statistic that record the specific collation associated
with each statistics slot.

* Teach ANALYZE to use the column's actual collation when comparing values
for statistical purposes, and record this in the appropriate slot.  (Note
that type-specific typanalyze functions are now expected to fill
stats->stacoll with the appropriate collation, too.)

* Teach assorted selectivity functions to use the actual collation of
the stats they are looking at, instead of just assuming it's
DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID.

This should give noticeably better results in selectivity estimates for
columns with nondefault collations, at least for query clauses that use
that same collation (which would be the default behavior in most cases).
It's still true that comparisons with explicit COLLATE clauses different
from the stored data's collation won't be well-estimated, but that's no
worse than before.  Also, this patch does make the first step towards
doing better with that, which is that it's now theoretically possible to
collect stats for a collation other than the column's own collation.

Patch by me; thanks to Peter Eisentraut for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14706.1544630227@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-12-14 12:52:49 -05:00
Tom Lane 04fe805a17 Drop no-op CoerceToDomain nodes from expressions at planning time.
If a domain has no constraints, then CoerceToDomain doesn't really do
anything and can be simplified to a RelabelType.  This not only
eliminates cycles at execution, but allows the planner to optimize better
(for instance, match the coerced expression to an index on the underlying
column).  However, we do have to support invalidating the plan later if
a constraint gets added to the domain.  That's comparable to the case of
a change to a SQL function that had been inlined into a plan, so all the
necessary logic already exists for plans depending on functions.  We
need only duplicate or share that logic for domains.

ALTER DOMAIN ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT need to be taught to send out sinval
messages for the domain's pg_type entry, since those operations don't
update that row.  (ALTER DOMAIN SET/DROP NOT NULL do update that row,
so no code change is needed for them.)

Testing this revealed what's really a pre-existing bug in plpgsql:
it caches the SQL-expression-tree expansion of type coercions and
had no provision for invalidating entries in that cache.  Up to now
that was only a problem if such an expression had inlined a SQL
function that got changed, which is unlikely though not impossible.
But failing to track changes of domain constraints breaks an existing
regression test case and would likely cause practical problems too.

We could fix that locally in plpgsql, but what seems like a better
idea is to build some generic infrastructure in plancache.c to store
standalone expressions and track invalidation events for them.
(It's tempting to wonder whether plpgsql's "simple expression" stuff
could use this code with lower overhead than its current use of the
heavyweight plancache APIs.  But I've left that idea for later.)

Other stuff fixed in passing:

* Allow estimate_expression_value() to drop CoerceToDomain
unconditionally, effectively assuming that the coercion will succeed.
This will improve planner selectivity estimates for cases involving
estimatable expressions that are coerced to domains.  We could have
done this independently of everything else here, but there wasn't
previously any need for eval_const_expressions_mutator to know about
CoerceToDomain at all.

* Use a dlist for plancache.c's list of cached plans, rather than a
manually threaded singly-linked list.  That eliminates a potential
performance problem in DropCachedPlan.

* Fix a couple of inconsistencies in typecmds.c about whether
operations on domains drop RowExclusiveLock on pg_type.  Our common
practice is that DDL operations do drop catalog locks, so standardize
on that choice.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19958.1544122124@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-12-13 13:24:43 -05:00
Andres Freund 578b229718 Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction
of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column,
but as part of the tuple header.

This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd,
as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important
parts of a row.  Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the
oid column by default.

The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a
significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That
already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make
table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating
that "specialness" significantly.

WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0).
Remove it.

Removing includes:
- CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be
  WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out)
- pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will
  issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column).
- restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when
  restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column)
- COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids.
- pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH
  OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first.
- Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like
  plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed.

The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false)
for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of
support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that
do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them.

The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This
commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally
declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the
newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column
naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such.  This obviously
requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via
HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column.

The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in
genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest
oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above
FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the
special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed.

Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all
backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For
the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for
the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog
tables).

The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns
means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded
by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid,
previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid
column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either
have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the
line.

While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the
scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this
now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit
after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other
patches.

Catversion bump, for obvious reasons.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
Robert Haas 7ee5f88e65 Reduce unnecessary list construction in RelationBuildPartitionDesc.
The 'partoids' list which was constructed by the previous version
of this code was necessarily identical to 'inhoids'.  There's no
point to duplicating the list, so avoid that.  Instead, construct
the array representation directly from the original 'inhoids' list.

Also, use an array rather than a list for 'boundspecs'.  We know
exactly how many items we need to store, so there's really no
reason to use a list.  Using an array instead reduces the number
of memory allocations we perform.

Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Amit Langote, the
latter of whom also helped with rebasing.
2018-11-19 12:10:41 -05:00
Thomas Munro 9ccdd7f66e PANIC on fsync() failure.
On some operating systems, it doesn't make sense to retry fsync(),
because dirty data cached by the kernel may have been dropped on
write-back failure.  In that case the only remaining copy of the
data is in the WAL.  A subsequent fsync() could appear to succeed,
but not have flushed the data.  That means that a future checkpoint
could apparently complete successfully but have lost data.

Therefore, violently prevent any future checkpoint attempts by
panicking on the first fsync() failure.  Note that we already
did the same for WAL data; this change extends that behavior to
non-temporary data files.

Provide a GUC data_sync_retry to control this new behavior, for
users of operating systems that don't eject dirty data, and possibly
forensic/testing uses.  If it is set to on and the write-back error
was transient, a later checkpoint might genuinely succeed (on a
system that does not throw away buffers on failure); if the error is
permanent, later checkpoints will continue to fail.  The GUC defaults
to off, meaning that we panic.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

There is still a narrow window for error-loss on some operating
systems: if the file is closed and later reopened and a write-back
error occurs in the intervening time, but the inode has the bad
luck to be evicted due to memory pressure before we reopen, we could
miss the error.  A later patch will address that with a scheme
for keeping files with dirty data open at all times, but we judge
that to be too complicated to back-patch.

Author: Craig Ringer, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-19 17:41:26 +13:00
Alvaro Herrera 3f2393edef Redesign initialization of partition routing structures
This speeds up write operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, COPY, as well
as the future MERGE) on partitioned tables.

This changes the setup for tuple routing so that it does far less work
during the initial setup and pushes more work out to when partitions
receive tuples.  PartitionDispatchData structs for sub-partitioned
tables are only created when a tuple gets routed through it.  The
possibly large arrays in the PartitionTupleRouting struct have largely
been removed.  The partitions[] array remains but now never contains any
NULL gaps.  Previously the NULLs had to be skipped during
ExecCleanupTupleRouting(), which could add a large overhead to the
cleanup when the number of partitions was large.  The partitions[] array
is allocated small to start with and only enlarged when we route tuples
to enough partitions that it runs out of space. This allows us to keep
simple single-row partition INSERTs running quickly.  Redesign

The arrays in PartitionTupleRouting which stored the tuple translation maps
have now been removed.  These have been moved out into a
PartitionRoutingInfo struct which is an additional field in ResultRelInfo.

The find_all_inheritors() call still remains by far the slowest part of
ExecSetupPartitionTupleRouting(). This commit just removes the other slow
parts.

In passing also rename the tuple translation maps from being ParentToChild
and ChildToParent to being RootToPartition and PartitionToRoot. The old
names mislead you into thinking that a partition of some sub-partitioned
table would translate to the rowtype of the sub-partitioned table rather
than the root partitioned table.

Authors: David Rowley and Amit Langote, heavily revised by Álvaro Herrera
Testing help from Jesper Pedersen and Kato Sho.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_1RJyFquuCKRFHTdcXqoPX-PYqAd7nz=GVBwvGh4a6xA@mail.gmail.com
2018-11-16 15:01:05 -03:00
Michael Paquier b52b7dc250 Refactor code creating PartitionBoundInfo
The code building PartitionBoundInfo based on the constituent partition
data read from catalogs has been located in partcache.c, with a specific
set of routines dedicated to bound types, like sorting or bound data
creation.  All this logic is moved to partbounds.c and relocates all the
bound-specific logistic into it, with partition_bounds_create() as
principal entry point.

Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3f289da8-6d10-75fe-814a-635e8b191d43@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-11-14 10:01:49 +09:00
Tom Lane 5d28c9bd73 Disable recheck_on_update optimization to avoid crashes.
The code added by commit c203d6cf8 causes a crash in at least one case,
where a potentially-optimizable expression index has a storage type
different from the input data type.  A cursory code review turned up
numerous other problems that seem impractical to fix on short notice.

Andres argued for revert of that patch some time ago, and if additional
senior committers had been paying attention, that's likely what would
have happened, but we were not :-(

At this point we can't just revert, at least not in v11, because that would
mean an ABI break for code touching relcache entries.  And we should not
remove the (also buggy) support for the recheck_on_update index reloption,
since it might already be used in some databases in the field.  So this
patch just does the as-little-invasive-as-possible measure of disabling
the feature as though recheck_on_update were forced off for all indexes.
I also removed the related regression tests (which would otherwise fail)
and the user-facing documentation of the reloption.

We should undertake a more thorough code cleanup if the patch can't be
fixed, but not under the extreme time pressure of being already overdue
for 11.1 release.

Per report from Ondřej Bouda and subsequent private discussion among
pgsql-release.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181106185255.776mstcyehnc63ty@alvherre.pgsql
2018-11-06 18:33:28 -05:00
Magnus Hagander fbec7459aa Fix spelling errors and typos in comments
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-11-02 13:56:52 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 5d7c703a44 Remove get_attidentity()
All existing uses can get this information more easily from the
relation descriptor, so the detour through the syscache is not
necessary.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-10-23 14:47:14 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut c903bb7b1c Remove get_atttypmod()
This has been unused since 2004.  get_atttypetypmodcoll() is often a
better alternative.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-10-23 14:47:14 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera c7d43c4d8a Correct attach/detach logic for FKs in partitions
There was no code to handle foreign key constraints on partitioned
tables in the case of ALTER TABLE DETACH; and if you happened to ATTACH
a partition that already had an equivalent constraint, that one was
ignored and a new constraint was created.  Adding this to the fact that
foreign key cloning reuses the constraint name on the partition instead
of generating a new name (as it probably should, to cater to SQL
standard rules about constraint naming within schemas), the result was a
pretty poor user experience -- the most visible failure was that just
detaching a partition and re-attaching it failed with an error such as

  ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_constraint_conrelid_contypid_conname_index"
  DETAIL:  Key (conrelid, contypid, conname)=(26702, 0, test_result_asset_id_fkey) already exists.

because it would try to create an identically-named constraint in the
partition.  To make matters worse, if you tried to drop the constraint
in the now-independent partition, that would fail because the constraint
was still seen as dependent on the constraint in its former parent
partitioned table:
  ERROR:  cannot drop inherited constraint "test_result_asset_id_fkey" of relation "test_result_cbsystem_0001_0050_monthly_2018_09"

This fix attacks the problem from two angles: first, when the partition
is detached, the constraint is also marked as independent, so the drop
now works.  Second, when the partition is re-attached, we scan existing
constraints searching for one matching the FK in the parent, and if one
exists, we link that one to the parent constraint.  So we don't end up
with a duplicate -- and better yet, we don't need to scan the referenced
table to verify that the constraint holds.

To implement this I made a small change to previously planner-only
struct ForeignKeyCacheInfo to contain the constraint OID; also relcache
now maintains the list of FKs for partitioned tables too.

Backpatch to 11.

Reported-by: Michael Vitale (bug #15425)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15425-2dbc9d2aa999f816@postgresql.org
2018-10-12 12:37:37 -03:00
Tom Lane 6e35939feb Change rewriter/planner/executor/plancache to depend on RTE rellockmode.
Instead of recomputing the required lock levels in all these places,
just use what commit fdba460a2 made the parser store in the RTE fields.
This already simplifies the code measurably in these places, and
follow-on changes will remove a bunch of no-longer-needed infrastructure.

In a few cases, this change causes us to acquire a higher lock level
than we did before.  This is OK primarily because said higher lock level
should've been acquired already at query parse time; thus, we're saving
a useless extra trip through the shared lock manager to acquire a lesser
lock alongside the original lock.  The only known exception to this is
that re-execution of a previously planned SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE query,
for a table that uses ROW_MARK_REFERENCE or ROW_MARK_COPY methods, might
have gotten only AccessShareLock before.  Now it will get RowShareLock
like the first execution did, which seems fine.

While there's more to do, push it in this state anyway, to let the
buildfarm help verify that nothing bad happened.

Amit Langote, reviewed by David Rowley and Jesper Pedersen,
and whacked around a bit more by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/468c85d9-540e-66a2-1dde-fec2b741e688@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-10-02 14:43:09 -04:00
Tom Lane fdba460a26 Create an RTE field to record the query's lock mode for each relation.
Add RangeTblEntry.rellockmode, which records the appropriate lock mode for
each RTE_RELATION rangetable entry (either AccessShareLock, RowShareLock,
or RowExclusiveLock depending on the RTE's role in the query).

This patch creates the field and makes all creators of RTE nodes fill it
in reasonably, but for the moment nothing much is done with it.  The plan
is to replace assorted post-parser logic that re-determines the right
lockmode to use with simple uses of rte->rellockmode.  For now, just add
Asserts in each of those places that the rellockmode matches what they are
computing today.  (In some cases the match isn't perfect, so the Asserts
are weaker than you might expect; but this seems OK, as per discussion.)

This passes check-world for me, but it seems worth pushing in this state
to see if the buildfarm finds any problems in cases I failed to test.

catversion bump due to change of stored rules.

Amit Langote, reviewed by David Rowley and Jesper Pedersen,
and whacked around a bit more by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/468c85d9-540e-66a2-1dde-fec2b741e688@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-09-30 13:55:51 -04:00
Tom Lane aaf10f32a3 Fix assorted bugs in pg_get_partition_constraintdef().
It failed if passed a nonexistent relation OID, or one that was a non-heap
relation, because of blindly applying heap_open to a user-supplied OID.
This is not OK behavior for a SQL-exposed function; we have a project
policy that we should return NULL in such cases.  Moreover, since
pg_get_partition_constraintdef ought now to work on indexes, restricting
it to heaps is flat wrong anyway.

The underlying function generate_partition_qual() wasn't on board with
indexes having partition quals either, nor for that matter with rels
having relispartition set but yet null relpartbound.  (One wonders
whether the person who wrote the function comment blocks claiming that
these functions allow a missing relpartbound had ever tested it.)

Fix by testing relispartition before opening the rel, and by using
relation_open not heap_open.  (If any other relkinds ever grow the
ability to have relispartition set, the code will work with them
automatically.)  Also, don't reject null relpartbound in
generate_partition_qual.

Back-patch to v11, and all but the null-relpartbound change to v10.
(It's not really necessary to change generate_partition_qual at all
in v10, but I thought s/heap_open/relation_open/ would be a good
idea anyway just to keep the code in sync with later branches.)

Per report from Justin Pryzby.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180927200020.GJ776@telsasoft.com
2018-09-27 18:15:17 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov 2a6368343f Add support for nearest-neighbor (KNN) searches to SP-GiST
Currently, KNN searches were supported only by GiST.  SP-GiST also capable to
support them.  This commit implements that support.  SP-GiST scan stack is
replaced with queue, which serves as stack if no ordering is specified.  KNN
support is provided for three SP-GIST opclasses: quad_point_ops, kd_point_ops
and poly_ops (catversion is bumped).  Some common parts between GiST and SP-GiST
KNNs are extracted into separate functions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/570825e8-47d0-4732-2bf6-88d67d2d51c8%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov based on GSoC work by Vlad Sterzhanov
Review: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov
2018-09-19 01:54:10 +03:00
Tom Lane f510412df3 Limit depth of forced recursion for CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY.
It's somewhat surprising that we got away with this before.  (Actually,
since nobody tests this routinely AFAIK, it might've been broken for
awhile.  But it's definitely broken in the wake of commit f868a8143.)
It seems sufficient to limit the forced recursion to a small number
of levels.

Back-patch to all supported branches, like the preceding patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12259.1532117714@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-07 18:13:29 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 2fbdf1b38b Simplify partitioned table creation vs. relcache
In the original code, we were storing the pg_inherits row for a
partitioned table too early: enough that we had a hack for relcache to
avoid falling flat on its face while reading such a partial entry.  If
we finish the pg_class creation first and *then* store the pg_inherits
entry, we don't need that hack.

Also recognize that pg_class.relpartbound is not marked NOT NULL and
therefore it's entirely possible to read null values, so having only
Assert() protection isn't enough.  Change those to if/elog tests
instead.  This qualifies as a robustness fix, so backpatch to pg11.

In passing, remove one access that wasn't actually needed, and reword
one message to be like all the others that check for the same thing.

Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180903213916.hh6wasnrdg6xv2ud@alvherre.pgsql
2018-09-05 14:36:13 -03:00
Tom Lane 17b7c302b5 Fully enforce uniqueness of constraint names.
It's been true for a long time that we expect names of table and domain
constraints to be unique among the constraints of that table or domain.
However, the enforcement of that has been pretty haphazard, and it missed
some corner cases such as creating a CHECK constraint and then an index
constraint of the same name (as per recent report from André Hänsel).
Also, due to the lack of an actual unique index enforcing this, duplicates
could be created through race conditions.

Moreover, the code that searches pg_constraint has been quite inconsistent
about how to handle duplicate names if one did occur: some places checked
and threw errors if there was more than one match, while others just
processed the first match they came to.

To fix, create a unique index on (conrelid, contypid, conname).  Since
either conrelid or contypid is zero, this will separately enforce
uniqueness of constraint names among constraints of any one table and any
one domain.  (If we ever implement SQL assertions, and put them into this
catalog, more thought might be needed.  But it'd be at least as reasonable
to put them into a new catalog; having overloaded this one catalog with
two kinds of constraints was a mistake already IMO.)  This index can replace
the existing non-unique index on conrelid, though we need to keep the one
on contypid for query performance reasons.

Having done that, we can simplify the logic in various places that either
coped with duplicates or neglected to, as well as potentially improve
lookup performance when searching for a constraint by name.

Also, as per our usual practice, install a preliminary check so that you
get something more friendly than a unique-index violation report in the
case complained of by André.  And teach ChooseIndexName to avoid choosing
autogenerated names that would draw such a failure.

While it's not possible to make such a change in the back branches,
it doesn't seem quite too late to put this into v11, so do so.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0c1001d4428f$0942b430$1bc81c90$@webkr.de
2018-09-04 13:45:35 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan 4974d7f87e Handle parallel index builds on mapped relations.
Commit 9da0cc3528, which introduced parallel CREATE INDEX, failed to
propagate relmapper.c backend local cache state to parallel worker
processes.  This could result in parallel index builds against mapped
catalog relations where the leader process (participating as a worker)
scans the new, pristine relfilenode, while worker processes scan the
obsolescent relfilenode.  When this happened, the final index structure
was typically not consistent with the owning table's structure.  The
final index structure could contain entries formed from both heap
relfilenodes.  Only rebuilds on mapped catalog relations that occur as
part of a VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER could become corrupt in practice, since
their mapped relation relfilenode swap is what allows the inconsistency
to arise.

On master, fix the problem by propagating the required relmapper.c
backend state as part of standard parallel initialization (Cf. commit
29d58fd3).  On v11, simply disallow builds against mapped catalog
relations by deeming them parallel unsafe.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reported-By: "death lock"
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane, Amit Kapila
Bug: #15309
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153329671686.1405.18298309097348420351@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch: 11-, where parallel CREATE INDEX was introduced.
2018-08-10 13:01:34 -07:00
Michael Paquier e41d0a1090 Add proper errcodes to new error messages for read() failures
Those would use the default ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR, but for foreseeable
failures an errcode ought to be set, ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED making the
most sense here.

While on the way, fix one errcode_for_file_access missing in origin.c
since the code has been created, and remove one assignment of errno to 0
before calling read(), as this was around to fit with what was present
before 811b6e36 where errno would not be set when not enough bytes are
read.  I have noticed the first one, and Tom has pinged me about the
second one.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27265.1531925836@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-07-23 09:37:36 +09:00
Michael Paquier 811b6e36a9 Rework error messages around file handling
Some error messages related to file handling are using the code path
context to define their state.  For example, 2PC-related errors are
referring to "two-phase status files", or "relation mapping file" is
used for catalog-to-filenode mapping, however those prove to be
difficult to translate, and are not more helpful than just referring to
the path of the file being worked on.  So simplify all those error
messages by just referring to files with their path used.  In some
cases, like the manipulation of WAL segments, the context is actually
helpful so those are kept.

Calls to the system function read() have also been rather inconsistent
with their error handling sometimes not reporting the number of bytes
read, and some other code paths trying to use an errno which has not
been set.  The in-core functions are using a more consistent pattern
with this patch, which checks for both errno if set or if an
inconsistent read is happening.

So as to care about pluralization when reading an unexpected number of
byte(s), "could not read: read %d of %zu" is used as error message, with
%d field being the output result of read() and %zu the expected size.
This simplifies the work of translators with less variations of the same
message.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180520000522.GB1603@paquier.xyz
2018-07-18 08:01:23 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut f7cb2842bf Add plan_cache_mode setting
This allows overriding the choice of custom or generic plan.

Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRAGLaiEm8ur5DWEBo7qHRWTk9HxkuUAz00CZZtJj-LkCA%40mail.gmail.com
2018-07-16 13:35:41 +02:00
Alexander Korotkov edf59c40dd Fix more wrong paths in header comments
It appears that there are more files, whose header comment paths are
wrong.  So, fix those paths.  No backpatching per proposal of Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsJyYbOj59MOQL%2B4XxdcomLSLfLqBtAvwR%2BpsCqj3ELdQ%40mail.gmail.com
2018-07-11 17:57:04 +03:00
Amit Kapila 8121ab88e7 Cosmetic improvements for faster column addition.
Changed the name of few structure members for the sake of clarity and
removed spurious whitespace.

Reported-by: Amit Kapila
Author: Amit Kapila, based on suggestion by Andrew Dunstan
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1K2znsFpC+NQ9A4vxT4uDxADN4RmvHX0L6Y=aHVo9gB4Q@mail.gmail.com
2018-06-27 08:16:13 +05:30
Tom Lane 19832753f1 Fix some ill-chosen names for globally-visible partition support functions.
"compute_hash_value" is particularly gratuitously generic, but IMO
all of these ought to have names clearly related to partitioning.
2018-06-13 13:18:02 -04:00
Tom Lane e23bae82cf Fix up run-time partition pruning's use of relcache's partition data.
The previous coding saved pointers into the partitioned table's relcache
entry, but then closed the relcache entry, causing those pointers to
nominally become dangling.  Actual trouble would be seen in the field
only if a relcache flush occurred mid-query, but that's hardly out of
the question.

While we could fix this by copying all the data in question at query
start, it seems better to just hold the relcache entry open for the
whole query.

While at it, improve the handling of support-function lookups: do that
once per query not once per pruning test.  There's still something to be
desired here, in that we fail to exploit the possibility of caching data
across queries in the fn_extra fields of the relcache's FmgrInfo structs,
which could happen if we just used those structs in-place rather than
copying them.  However, combining that with the possibility of per-query
lookups of cross-type comparison functions seems to require changes in the
APIs of a lot of the pruning support functions, so it's too invasive to
consider as part of this patch.  A win would ensue only for complex
partition key data types (e.g. arrays), so it may not be worth the
trouble.

David Rowley and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17850.1528755844@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-06-13 12:03:26 -04:00
Andres Freund a54e1f1587 Fix bugs in vacuum of shared rels, by keeping their relcache entries current.
When vacuum processes a relation it uses the corresponding relcache
entry's relfrozenxid / relminmxid as a cutoff for when to remove
tuples etc. Unfortunately for nailed relations (i.e. critical system
catalogs) bugs could frequently lead to the corresponding relcache
entry being stale.

This set of bugs could cause actual data corruption as vacuum would
potentially not remove the correct row versions, potentially reviving
them at a later point.  After 699bf7d05c some corruptions in this vein
were prevented, but the additional error checks could also trigger
spuriously. Examples of such errors are:
  ERROR: found xmin ... from before relfrozenxid ...
and
  ERROR: found multixact ... from before relminmxid ...
To be caused by this bug the errors have to occur on system catalog
tables.

The two bugs are:

1) Invalidations for nailed relations were ignored, based on the
   theory that the relcache entry for such tables doesn't
   change. Which is largely true, except for fields like relfrozenxid
   etc.  This means that changes to relations vacuumed in other
   sessions weren't picked up by already existing sessions.  Luckily
   autovacuum doesn't have particularly longrunning sessions.

2) For shared *and* nailed relations, the shared relcache init file
   was never invalidated while running.  That means that for such
   tables (e.g. pg_authid, pg_database) it's not just already existing
   sessions that are affected, but even new connections are as well.
   That explains why the reports usually were about pg_authid et. al.

To fix 1), revalidate the rd_rel portion of a relcache entry when
invalid. This implies a bit of extra complexity to deal with
bootstrapping, but it's not too bad.  The fix for 2) is simpler,
simply always remove both the shared and local init files.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20180525203736.crkbg36muzxrjj5e@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/CAMa1XUhKSJd98JW4o9StWPrfS=11bPgG+_GDMxe25TvUY4Sugg@mail.gmail.com
    https://postgr.es/m/CAKMFJucqbuoDRfxPDX39WhA3vJyxweRg_zDVXzncr6+5wOguWA@mail.gmail.com
    https://postgr.es/m/CAGewt-ujGpMLQ09gXcUFMZaZsGJC98VXHEFbF-tpPB0fB13K+A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.3-
2018-06-12 11:13:21 -07:00
Tom Lane bdf46af748 Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 2d625176c0 Plural of modulus is moduli 2018-04-19 12:39:13 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera da6f3e45dd Reorganize partitioning code
There's been a massive addition of partitioning code in PostgreSQL 11,
with little oversight on its placement, resulting in a
catalog/partition.c with poorly defined boundaries and responsibilities.
This commit tries to set a couple of distinct modules to separate things
a little bit.  There are no code changes here, only code movement.

There are three new files:
  src/backend/utils/cache/partcache.c
  src/include/partitioning/partdefs.h
  src/include/utils/partcache.h

The previous arrangement of #including catalog/partition.h almost
everywhere is no more.

Authors: Amit Langote and Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/98e8d509-790a-128c-be7f-e48a5b2d8d97@lab.ntt.co.jp
	https://postgr.es/m/11aa0c50-316b-18bb-722d-c23814f39059@lab.ntt.co.jp
	https://postgr.es/m/143ed9a4-6038-76d4-9a55-502035815e68@lab.ntt.co.jp
	https://postgr.es/m/20180413193503.nynq7bnmgh6vs5vm@alvherre.pgsql
2018-04-14 21:12:14 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera a4d56f583e Use the right memory context for partkey's FmgrInfo
We were using CurrentMemoryContext to put the partsupfunc fmgr_info
into, which isn't right, because we want the PartitionKey as a whole to
be in the isolated Relation->rd_partkeycxt context.  This can cause a
crash with user-defined support functions in the operator classes used
by partitioning keys.  (Maybe this can cause problems with core-supplied
opclasses too, not sure.)

This is demonstrably broken in Postgres 10, too, but the initial
proposed fix runs afoul of a problem discussed back when 8a0596cb65
("Get rid of copy_partition_key") reorganized that code: namely that it
is possible to jump out of RelationBuildPartitionKey because of some
error and leave a dangling memory context child of CacheMemoryContext.
Also, while reviewing this I noticed that the removed-in-pg11
copy_partition_key was doing something wrong, unfixed in pg10, namely
doing memcpy() on the FmgrInfo, which is bogus (should be doing
fmgr_info_copy).  Therefore, in branch pg10, the sane fix seems to be to
backpatch both the aforementioned 8a0596cb65 and its followup
be2343221f ("Protect against hypothetical memory leaks in
RelationGetPartitionKey"), so do that, then apply the fmgr_info memcxt
bugfix on top.

Add a test case exercising btree-based custom operator classes, which
causes a crash prior to this fix.  This is not a security problem,
because in order to create an operator class you need superuser
privileges anyway.

Authors: Álvaro Herrera and Amit Langote
Reported and diagnosed by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3041e853-b1dd-a0c6-ff21-7cc5633bffd0@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-04-12 15:08:10 -03:00
Teodor Sigaev c266ed31a8 Cleanup covering infrastructure
- Explicitly forbids opclass, collation and indoptions (like DESC/ASC etc) for
  including columns. Throw an error if user points that.
- Truncated storage arrays for such attributes to store only key atrributes,
  added assertion checks.
- Do not check opfamily and collation for including columns in
  CompareIndexInfo()

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5ee72852-3c4e-ee35-e2ed-c1d053d45c08@sigaev.ru
2018-04-12 16:37:22 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev c9c875a28f Rename IndexInfo.ii_KeyAttrNumbers array
Rename ii_KeyAttrNumbers to ii_IndexAttrNumbers to prevent confusion with
ii_NumIndexAttrs/ii_NumIndexKeyAttrs. ii_IndexAttrNumbers contains
all attributes including "including" columns, not only key attribute.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/13123421-1d52-d0e4-c95c-6d69011e0595%40sigaev.ru
2018-04-12 13:02:45 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 8224de4f42 Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-tree
This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition.  This clause
specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in
the index.  The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to
benefit from index-only scans.  Also, such columns don't need to have
appropriate operator classes.  Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE
columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans.

Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag
in IndexAmRoutine.  For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause.

In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples
(tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys).  Therefore, B-tree indexes
now might have variable number of attributes.  This patch also provides
generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their
attributes in t_tid.ip_posid.  Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating
that.  This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation.
The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special
handling of B-tree indexes for that.

Bump catalog version

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me
Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes,
			 David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
2018-04-07 23:00:39 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 039eb6e92f Logical replication support for TRUNCATE
Update the built-in logical replication system to make use of the
previously added logical decoding for TRUNCATE support.  Add the
required truncate callback to pgoutput and a new logical replication
protocol message.

Publications get a new attribute to determine whether to replicate
truncate actions.  When updating a publication via pg_dump from an older
version, this is not set, thus preserving the previous behavior.

Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-04-07 11:34:11 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bbca77623f Rename MemoryContextCopySetIdentifier() for clarity
MemoryContextCopySetIdentifier -> MemoryContextCopyAndSetIdentifier

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6421.1522194949@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-06 12:37:54 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 20b4323bd1 C comments: "a" <--> "an" corrections
Reported-by: Michael Paquier, Abhijit Menon-Sen

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180305045854.GB2266@paquier.xyz

Author: Michael Paquier, Abhijit Menon-Sen, me
2018-03-29 15:18:53 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 669820a3d9 Fix typo in comment
Arthur Zakirov, confirmed by Thomas Munro
2018-03-29 11:42:32 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 16828d5c02 Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL default
Currently adding a column to a table with a non-NULL default results in
a rewrite of the table. For large tables this can be both expensive and
disruptive. This patch removes the need for the rewrite as long as the
default value is not volatile. The default expression is evaluated at
the time of the ALTER TABLE and the result stored in a new column
(attmissingval) in pg_attribute, and a new column (atthasmissing) is set
to true. Any existing row when fetched will be supplied with the
attmissingval. New rows will have the supplied value or the default and
so will never need the attmissingval.

Any time the table is rewritten all the atthasmissing and attmissingval
settings for the attributes are cleared, as they are no longer needed.

The most visible code change from this is in heap_attisnull, which
acquires a third TupleDesc argument, allowing it to detect a missing
value if there is one. In many cases where it is known that there will
not be any (e.g.  catalog relations) NULL can be passed for this
argument.

Andrew Dunstan, heavily modified from an original patch from Serge
Rielau.
Reviewed by Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra and David Rowley.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31e2e921-7002-4c27-59f5-51f08404c858@2ndQuadrant.com
2018-03-28 10:43:52 +10:30
Tom Lane 442accc3fe Allow memory contexts to have both fixed and variable ident strings.
Originally, we treated memory context names as potentially variable in
all cases, and therefore always copied them into the context header.
Commit 9fa6f00b1 rethought this a little bit and invented a distinction
between fixed and variable names, skipping the copy step for the former.
But we can make things both simpler and more useful by instead allowing
there to be two parts to a context's identification, a fixed "name" and
an optional, variable "ident".  The name supplied in the context create
call is now required to be a compile-time-constant string in all cases,
as it is never copied but just pointed to.  The "ident" string, if
wanted, is supplied later.  This is needed because typically we want
the ident to be stored inside the context so that it's cleaned up
automatically on context deletion; that means it has to be copied into
the context before we can set the pointer.

The cost of this approach is basically just an additional pointer field
in struct MemoryContextData, which isn't much overhead, and is bought
back entirely in the AllocSet case by not needing a headerSize field
anymore, since we no longer have to cope with variable header length.
In addition, we can simplify the internal interfaces for memory context
creation still further, saving a few cycles there.  And it's no longer
true that a custom identifier disqualifies a context from participating
in aset.c's freelist scheme, so possibly there's some win on that end.

All the places that were using non-compile-time-constant context names
are adjusted to put the variable info into the "ident" instead.  This
allows more effective identification of those contexts in many cases;
for example, subsidary contexts of relcache entries are now identified
by both type (e.g. "index info") and relname, where before you got only
one or the other.  Contexts associated with PL function cache entries
are now identified more fully and uniformly, too.

I also arranged for plancache contexts to use the query source string
as their identifier.  This is basically free for CachedPlanSources, as
they contained a copy of that string already.  We pay an extra pstrdup
to do it for CachedPlans.  That could perhaps be avoided, but it would
make things more fragile (since the CachedPlanSource is sometimes
destroyed first).  I suspect future improvements in error reporting will
require CachedPlans to have a copy of that string anyway, so it's not
clear that it's worth moving mountains to avoid it now.

This also changes the APIs for context statistics routines so that the
context-specific routines no longer assume that output goes straight
to stderr, nor do they know all details of the output format.  This
is useful immediately to reduce code duplication, and it also allows
for external code to do something with stats output that's different
from printing to stderr.

The reason for pushing this now rather than waiting for v12 is that
it rethinks some of the API changes made by commit 9fa6f00b1.  Seems
better for extension authors to endure just one round of API changes
not two.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-FdtmFZ9y9REHD7VsSrnCkiBhsA4mdsLKSPauwXtQBeNA@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-27 16:46:51 -04:00
Simon Riggs c203d6cf81 Allow HOT updates for some expression indexes
If the value of an index expression is unchanged after UPDATE,
allow HOT updates where previously we disallowed them, giving
a significant performance boost in those cases.

Particularly useful for indexes such as JSON->>field where the
JSON value changes but the indexed value does not.

Submitted as "surjective indexes" patch, now enabled by use
of new "recheck_on_update" parameter.

Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewer: Simon Riggs, with much wordsmithing and some cleanup
2018-03-27 19:57:02 +01:00
Tom Lane 4a4e2442a7 Fix improper uses of canonicalize_qual().
One of the things canonicalize_qual() does is to remove constant-NULL
subexpressions of top-level AND/OR clauses.  It does that on the assumption
that what it's given is a top-level WHERE clause, so that NULL can be
treated like FALSE.  Although this is documented down inside a subroutine
of canonicalize_qual(), it wasn't mentioned in the documentation of that
function itself, and some callers hadn't gotten that memo.

Notably, commit d007a9505 caused get_relation_constraints() to apply
canonicalize_qual() to CHECK constraints.  That allowed constraint
exclusion to misoptimize situations in which a CHECK constraint had a
provably-NULL subclause, as seen in the regression test case added here,
in which a child table that should be scanned is not.  (Although this
thinko is ancient, the test case doesn't fail before 9.2, for reasons
I've not bothered to track down in detail.  There may be related cases
that do fail before that.)

More recently, commit f0e44751d added an independent bug by applying
canonicalize_qual() to index expressions, which is even sillier since
those might not even be boolean.  If they are, though, I think this
could lead to making incorrect index entries for affected index
expressions in v10.  I haven't attempted to prove that though.

To fix, add an "is_check" parameter to canonicalize_qual() to specify
whether it should assume WHERE or CHECK semantics, and make it perform
NULL-elimination accordingly.  Adjust the callers to apply the right
semantics, or remove the call entirely in cases where it's not known
that the expression has one or the other semantics.  I also removed
the call in some cases involving partition expressions, where it should
be a no-op because such expressions should be canonical already ...
and was a no-op, independently of whether it could in principle have
done something, because it was being handed the qual in implicit-AND
format which isn't what it expects.  In HEAD, add an Assert to catch
that type of mistake in future.

This represents an API break for external callers of canonicalize_qual().
While that's intentional in HEAD to make such callers think about which
case applies to them, it seems like something we probably wouldn't be
thanked for in released branches.  Hence, in released branches, the
extra parameter is added to a new function canonicalize_qual_ext(),
and canonicalize_qual() is a wrapper that retains its old behavior.

Patch by me with suggestions from Dean Rasheed.  Back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24475.1520635069@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-11 18:10:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fd1a421fe6 Add prokind column, replacing proisagg and proiswindow
The new column distinguishes normal functions, procedures, aggregates,
and window functions.  This replaces the existing columns proisagg and
proiswindow, and replaces the convention that procedures are indicated
by prorettype == 0.  Also change prorettype to be VOIDOID for procedures.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-02 13:48:33 -05:00
Tom Lane 6452b098c0 Remove out-of-date comment about formrdesc().
formrdesc's comment listed the specific catalogs it is called for,
but the list was out of date.  Rather than jumping back onto that
maintenance treadmill, let's just remove the list.  It tells the
reader nothing that can't be learned quickly and more reliably by
searching relcache.c for callers of formrdesc().

Oversight noted by Kyotaro Horiguchi.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180214.105314.138966434.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-03-01 12:03:29 -05:00
Tom Lane 4b93f57999 Make plpgsql use its DTYPE_REC code paths for composite-type variables.
Formerly, DTYPE_REC was used only for variables declared as "record";
variables of named composite types used DTYPE_ROW, which is faster for
some purposes but much less flexible.  In particular, the ROW code paths
are entirely incapable of dealing with DDL-caused changes to the number
or data types of the columns of a row variable, once a particular plpgsql
function has been parsed for the first time in a session.  And, since the
stored representation of a ROW isn't a tuple, there wasn't any easy way
to deal with variables of domain-over-composite types, since the domain
constraint checking code would expect the value to be checked to be a
tuple.  A lesser, but still real, annoyance is that ROW format cannot
represent a true NULL composite value, only a row of per-field NULL
values, which is not exactly the same thing.

Hence, switch to using DTYPE_REC for all composite-typed variables,
whether "record", named composite type, or domain over named composite
type.  DTYPE_ROW remains but is used only for its native purpose, to
represent a fixed-at-compile-time list of variables, for instance the
targets of an INTO clause.

To accomplish this without taking significant performance losses, introduce
infrastructure that allows storing composite-type variables as "expanded
objects", similar to the "expanded array" infrastructure introduced in
commit 1dc5ebc90.  A composite variable's value is thereby kept (most of
the time) in the form of separate Datums, so that field accesses and
updates are not much more expensive than they were in the ROW format.
This holds the line, more or less, on performance of variables of named
composite types in field-access-intensive microbenchmarks, and makes
variables declared "record" perform much better than before in similar
tests.  In addition, the logic involved with enforcing composite-domain
constraints against updates of individual fields is in the expanded
record infrastructure not plpgsql proper, so that it might be reusable
for other purposes.

In further support of this, introduce a typcache feature for assigning a
unique-within-process identifier to each distinct tuple descriptor of
interest; in particular, DDL alterations on composite types result in a new
identifier for that type.  This allows very cheap detection of the need to
refresh tupdesc-dependent data.  This improves on the "tupDescSeqNo" idea
I had in commit 687f096ea: that assigned identifying sequence numbers to
successive versions of individual composite types, but the numbers were not
unique across different types, nor was there support for assigning numbers
to registered record types.

In passing, allow plpgsql functions to accept as well as return type
"record".  There was no good reason for the old restriction, and it
was out of step with most of the other PLs.

Tom Lane, reviewed by Pavel Stehule

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8962.1514399547@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-02-13 18:52:21 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 8237f27b50 get_relid_attribute_name is dead, long live get_attname
The modern way is to use a missing_ok argument instead of two separate
almost-identical routines, so do that.

Author: Michaël Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180201063212.GE6398@paquier.xyz
2018-02-12 19:33:15 -03:00
Tom Lane 3492a0af0b Fix RelationBuildPartitionKey's processing of partition key expressions.
Failure to advance the list pointer while reading partition expressions
from a list results in invoking an input function with inappropriate data,
possibly leading to crashes or, with carefully crafted input, disclosure
of arbitrary backend memory.

Bug discovered independently by Álvaro Herrera and David Rowley.
This patch is by Álvaro but owes something to David's proposed fix.
Back-patch to v10 where the issue was introduced.

Security: CVE-2018-1052
2018-02-05 10:37:30 -05:00
Tom Lane 97d4445a03 Save a few bytes by removing useless last argument to SearchCatCacheList.
There's never any value in giving a fully specified cache key to
SearchCatCacheList: you might as well call SearchCatCache instead,
since there could be only one match.  So the maximum useful number of
key arguments is one less than the supported number of key columns.
We might as well remove the useless extra argument and save some few
bytes per call site, as well as a cycle or so per call.

I believe the reason it was coded like this is that originally, callers
had to write out all the dummy arguments in each call, and so it seemed
less confusing if SearchCatCache and SearchCatCacheList took the same
number of key arguments.  But since commit e26c539e9, callers only write
their live arguments explicitly, making that a non-factor; and there's
surely been enough time for third-party modules to adapt to that coding
style.  So this is only an ABI break not an API break for callers.

Per discussion with Oliver Ford, this might also make it less confusing
how to use SearchCatCacheList correctly.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27788.1517069693@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-01-29 15:13:17 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 8b08f7d482 Local partitioned indexes
When CREATE INDEX is run on a partitioned table, create catalog entries
for an index on the partitioned table (which is just a placeholder since
the table proper has no data of its own), and recurse to create actual
indexes on the existing partitions; create them in future partitions
also.

As a convenience gadget, if the new index definition matches some
existing index in partitions, these are picked up and used instead of
creating new ones.  Whichever way these indexes come about, they become
attached to the index on the parent table and are dropped alongside it,
and cannot be dropped on isolation unless they are detached first.

To support pg_dump'ing these indexes, add commands
    CREATE INDEX ON ONLY <table>
(which creates the index on the parent partitioned table, without
recursing) and
    ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION
(which is used after the indexes have been created individually on each
partition, to attach them to the parent index).  These reconstruct prior
database state exactly.

Reviewed-by: (in alphabetical order) Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Amit
	Langote, Jesper Pedersen, Simon Riggs, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171113170646.gzweigyrgg6pwsg4@alvherre.pgsql
2018-01-19 11:49:22 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 9e945f8626 Fix Latin spelling
"c.f." should be "cf.".
2018-01-11 08:32:01 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera bab2969867 Fix typo
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d8jefpk4jtd.fsf@dalvik.ping.uio.no
2018-01-03 19:12:06 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 9d4649ca49 Update copyright for 2018
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera be2343221f Protect against hypothetical memory leaks in RelationGetPartitionKey
Also, fix a comment that commit 8a0596cb65 made obsolete.

Reported-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYbpuUUUp2GhYNwWm0qkah39spiU7uOiNXLz20ASfKYoA@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-27 18:06:14 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 8a0596cb65 Get rid of copy_partition_key
That function currently exists to avoid leaking memory in
CacheMemoryContext in case of trouble while the partition key is being
built, but there's a better way: allocate everything in a memcxt that
goes away if the current (sub)transaction fails, and once the partition
key is built and no further errors can occur, make the memcxt permanent
by making it a child of CacheMemoryContext.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171027172730.eh2domlkpn4ja62m@alvherre.pgsql
2017-12-21 14:21:39 -03:00
Tom Lane 9fa6f00b13 Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance.
This patch makes a number of interrelated changes to reduce the overhead
involved in creating/deleting memory contexts.  The key ideas are:

* Include the AllocSetContext header of an aset.c context in its first
malloc request, rather than allocating it separately in TopMemoryContext.
This means that we now always create an initial or "keeper" block in an
aset, even if it never receives any allocation requests.

* Create freelists in which we can save and recycle recently-destroyed
asets (this idea is due to Robert Haas).

* In the common case where the name of a context is a constant string,
just store a pointer to it in the context header, rather than copying
the string.

The first change eliminates a palloc/pfree cycle per context, and
also avoids bloat in TopMemoryContext, at the price that creating
a context now involves a malloc/free cycle even if the context never
receives any allocations.  That would be a loser for some common
usage patterns, but recycling short-lived contexts via the freelist
eliminates that pain.

Avoiding copying constant strings not only saves strlen() and strcpy()
overhead, but is an essential part of the freelist optimization because
it makes the context header size constant.  Currently we make no
attempt to use the freelist for contexts with non-constant names.
(Perhaps someday we'll need to think harder about that, but in current
usage, most contexts with custom names are long-lived anyway.)

The freelist management in this initial commit is pretty simplistic,
and we might want to refine it later --- but in common workloads that
will never matter because the freelists will never get full anyway.

To create a context with a non-constant name, one is now required to
call AllocSetContextCreateExtended and specify the MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME
option.  AllocSetContextCreate becomes a wrapper macro, and it includes
a test that will complain about non-string-literal context name
parameters on gcc and similar compilers.

An unfortunate side effect of making AllocSetContextCreate a macro is
that one is now *required* to use the size parameter abstraction macros
(ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES and friends) with it; the pre-9.6 habit of
writing out individual size parameters no longer works unless you
switch to AllocSetContextCreateExtended.

Internally to the memory-context-related modules, the context creation
APIs are simplified, removing the rather baroque original design whereby
a context-type module called mcxt.c which then called back into the
context-type module.  That saved a bit of code duplication, but not much,
and it prevented context-type modules from exercising control over the
allocation of context headers.

In passing, I converted the test-and-elog validation of aset size
parameters into Asserts to save a few more cycles.  The original thought
was that callers might compute size parameters on the fly, but in practice
nobody does that, so it's useless to expend cycles on checking those
numbers in production builds.

Also, mark the memory context method-pointer structs "const",
just for cleanliness.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2264.1512870796@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-12-13 13:55:16 -05:00
Tom Lane 2069e6faa0 Clean up assorted messiness around AllocateDir() usage.
This patch fixes a couple of low-probability bugs that could lead to
reporting an irrelevant errno value (and hence possibly a wrong SQLSTATE)
concerning directory-open or file-open failures.  It also fixes places
where we took shortcuts in reporting such errors, either by using elog
instead of ereport or by using ereport but forgetting to specify an
errcode.  And it eliminates a lot of just plain redundant error-handling
code.

In service of all this, export fd.c's formerly-static function
ReadDirExtended, so that external callers can make use of the coding
pattern

	dir = AllocateDir(path);
	while ((de = ReadDirExtended(dir, path, LOG)) != NULL)

if they'd like to treat directory-open failures as mere LOG conditions
rather than errors.  Also fix FreeDir to be a no-op if we reach it
with dir == NULL, as such a coding pattern would cause.

Then, remove code at many call sites that was throwing an error or log
message for AllocateDir failure, as ReadDir or ReadDirExtended can handle
that job just fine.  Aside from being a net code savings, this gets rid of
a lot of not-quite-up-to-snuff reports, as mentioned above.  (In some
places these changes result in replacing a custom error message such as
"could not open tablespace directory" with more generic wording "could not
open directory", but it was agreed that the custom wording buys little as
long as we report the directory name.)  In some other call sites where we
can't just remove code, change the error reports to be fully
project-style-compliant.

Also reorder code in restoreTwoPhaseData that was acquiring a lock
between AllocateDir and ReadDir; in the unlikely but surely not
impossible case that LWLockAcquire changes errno, AllocateDir failures
would be misreported.  There is no great value in opening the directory
before acquiring TwoPhaseStateLock, so just do it in the other order.

Also fix CheckXLogRemoved to guarantee that it preserves errno,
as quite a number of call sites are implicitly assuming.  (Again,
it's unlikely but I think not impossible that errno could change
during a SpinLockAcquire.  If so, this function was broken for its
own purposes as well as breaking callers.)

And change a few places that were using not-per-project-style messages,
such as "could not read directory" when "could not open directory" is
more correct.

Back-patch the exporting of ReadDirExtended, in case we have occasion
to back-patch some fix that makes use of it; it's not needed right now
but surely making it global is pretty harmless.  Also back-patch the
restoreTwoPhaseData and CheckXLogRemoved fixes.  The rest of this is
essentially cosmetic and need not get back-patched.

Michael Paquier, with a bit of additional work by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRpOCxjiirHmebEFhXVTK7V5Jvw4bz82p7Oimtsm3TyZA@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-04 17:02:56 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut e4128ee767 SQL procedures
This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function
but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement
instead of SELECT or similar.  This implementation is aligned with the
SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations.

This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well
as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a
procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL).  There is
also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT
and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql.  Support for defining
procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core
distribution.

While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality,
future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object
type.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-11-30 11:03:20 -05:00
Tom Lane 687f096ea9 Make PL/Python handle domain-type conversions correctly.
Fix PL/Python so that it can handle domains over composite, and so that
it enforces domain constraints correctly in other cases that were not
always done properly before.  Notably, it didn't do arrays of domains
right (oversight in commit c12d570fa), and it failed to enforce domain
constraints when returning a composite type containing a domain field,
and if a transform function is being used for a domain's base type then
it failed to enforce domain constraints on the result.  Also, in many
places it missed checking domain constraints on null values, because
the plpy_typeio code simply wasn't called for Py_None.

Rather than try to band-aid these problems, I made a significant
refactoring of the plpy_typeio logic.  The existing design of recursing
for array and composite members is extended to also treat domains as
containers requiring recursion, and the APIs for the module are cleaned
up and simplified.

The patch also modifies plpy_typeio to rely on the typcache more than
it did before (which was pretty much not at all).  This reduces the
need for repetitive lookups, and lets us get rid of an ad-hoc scheme
for detecting changes in composite types.  I added a couple of small
features to typcache to help with that.

Although some of this is fixing bugs that long predate v11, I don't
think we should risk a back-patch: it's a significant amount of code
churn, and there've been no complaints from the field about the bugs.

Tom Lane, reviewed by Anthony Bykov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24449.1509393613@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-11-16 16:23:04 -05:00
Robert Haas 1aba8e651a Add hash partitioning.
Hash partitioning is useful when you want to partition a growing data
set evenly.  This can be useful to keep table sizes reasonable, which
makes maintenance operations such as VACUUM faster, or to enable
partition-wise join.

At present, we still depend on constraint exclusion for partitioning
pruning, and the shape of the partition constraints for hash
partitioning is such that that doesn't work.  Work is underway to fix
that, which should both improve performance and make partitioning
pruning work with hash partitioning.

Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by Dilip Kumar, Ashutosh Bapat, Yugo
Nagata, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Jesper Pedersen, and by me.  A few
final tweaks also by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b96fhpJAP=ALbETmeLk1Uni_GFZD938zgenhF49qgDTjaQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-09 18:07:44 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 2eb4a831e5 Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most
parts of the PostgreSQL sources.  The upper case spellings are only used
in some files/modules.  So standardize on the standard spellings.

The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so
those are left as is when using those APIs.

In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and
keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
Simon Riggs 98267ee83e Exclude pg_internal.init from BASE_BACKUP
Add docs to explain this for other backup mechanisms

Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndQuadrant.com> et al
2017-11-07 12:28:35 -05:00
Tom Lane 37a795a60b Support domains over composite types.
This is the last major omission in our domains feature: you can now
make a domain over anything that's not a pseudotype.

The major complication from an implementation standpoint is that places
that might be creating tuples of a domain type now need to be prepared
to apply domain_check().  It seems better that unprepared code fail
with an error like "<type> is not composite" than that it silently fail
to apply domain constraints.  Therefore, relevant infrastructure like
get_func_result_type() and lookup_rowtype_tupdesc() has been adjusted
to treat domain-over-composite as a distinct case that unprepared code
won't recognize, rather than just transparently treating it the same
as plain composite.  This isn't a 100% solution to the possibility of
overlooked domain checks, but it catches most places.

In passing, improve typcache.c's support for domains (it can now cache
the identity of a domain's base type), and rewrite the argument handling
logic in jsonfuncs.c's populate_record[set]_worker to reduce duplicative
per-call lookups.

I believe this is code-complete so far as the core and contrib code go.
The PLs need varying amounts of work, which will be tackled in followup
patches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4206.1499798337@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-26 13:47:45 -04:00
Tom Lane 36ea99c84d Fix typcache's failure to treat ranges as container types.
Like the similar logic for arrays and records, it's necessary to examine
the range's subtype to decide whether the range type can support hashing.
We can omit checking the subtype for btree-defined operations, though,
since range subtypes are required to have those operations.  (Possibly
that simplification for btree cases led us to overlook that it does
not apply for hash cases.)

This is only an issue if the subtype lacks hash support, which is not
true of any built-in range type, but it's easy to demonstrate a problem
with a range type over, eg, money: you can get a "could not identify
a hash function" failure when the planner is misled into thinking that
hash join or aggregation would work.

This was born broken, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2017-10-20 17:12:27 -04:00
Tom Lane a8f1efc8ac Fix misimplementation of typcache logic for extended hashing.
The previous coding would report that an array type supports extended
hashing if its element type supports regular hashing.  This bug is
only latent at the moment, since AFAICS there is not yet any code
that depends on checking presence of extended-hashing support to make
any decisions.  (And in any case it wouldn't matter unless the element
type has only regular hashing, which isn't true of any core data type.)
But that doesn't make it less broken.  Extend the
cache_array_element_properties infrastructure to check this properly.
2017-10-20 16:08:17 -04:00
Andres Freund 141fd1b66c Improve sys/catcache performance.
The following are the individual improvements:
1) Avoidance of FunctionCallInfo based function calls, replaced by
   more efficient functions with a native C argument interface.
2) Don't extract columns from a cache entry's tuple whenever matching
   entries - instead store them as a Datum array. This also allows to
   get rid of having to build dummy tuples for negative & list
   entries, and of a hack for dealing with cstring vs. text weirdness.
3) Reorder members of catcache.h struct, so imortant entries are more
   likely to be on one cacheline.
4) Allowing the compiler to specialize critical SearchCatCache for a
   specific number of attributes allows to unroll loops and avoid
   other nkeys dependant initialization.
5) Only initializing the ScanKey when necessary, i.e. catcache misses,
   greatly reduces cache unnecessary cpu cache misses.
6) Split of the cache-miss case from the hash lookup, reducing stack
   allocations etc in the common case.
7) CatCTup and their corresponding heaptuple are allocated in one
   piece.

This results in making cache lookups themselves roughly three times as
fast - full-system benchmarks obviously improve less than that.

I've also evaluated further techniques:
- replace open coded hash with simplehash - the list walk right now
  shows up in profiles. Unfortunately it's not easy to do so safely as
  an entry's memory location can change at various times, which
  doesn't work well with the refcounting and cache invalidation.
- Cacheline-aligning CatCTup entries - helps some with performance,
  but the win isn't big and the code for it is ugly, because the
  tuples have to be freed as well.
- add more proper functions, rather than macros for
  SearchSysCacheCopyN etc., but right now they don't show up in
  profiles.

The reason the macro wrapper for syscache.c/h have to be changed,
rather than just catcache, is that doing otherwise would require
exposing the SysCache array to the outside.  That might be a good idea
anyway, but it's for another day.

Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914061207.zxotvyopetm7lrrp@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-13 14:22:41 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 0c5803b450 Refactor new file permission handling
The file handling functions from fd.c were called with a diverse mix of
notations for the file permissions when they were opening new files.
Almost all files created by the server should have the same permissions
set.  So change the API so that e.g. OpenTransientFile() automatically
uses the standard permissions set, and OpenTransientFilePerm() is a new
function that takes an explicit permissions set for the few cases where
it is needed.  This also saves an unnecessary argument for call sites
that are just opening an existing file.

While we're reviewing these APIs, get rid of the FileName typedef and
use the standard const char * for the file name and mode_t for the file
mode.  This makes these functions match other file handling functions
and removes an unnecessary layer of mysteriousness.  We can also get rid
of a few casts that way.

Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2017-09-23 10:16:18 -04:00
Tom Lane cad22075bc Fix bogus size calculation introduced by commit cc5f81366.
The elements of RecordCacheArray are TupleDesc, not TupleDesc *.
Those are actually the same size, so that this error is harmless,
but it's still wrong --- and it might bite us someday, if TupleDesc
ever became a struct, say.

Per Coverity.
2017-09-17 11:35:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 71aa4801a8 Get rid of shared_record_typmod_registry_worker_detach; it doesn't work.
This code is unsafe, as proven by buildfarm failures, because it tries
to access shared memory that might already be gone.  It's also unnecessary,
because we're about to exit the process anyway and so the record type cache
should never be accessed again.  The idea was to lay some foundations for
someday recycling workers --- which would require attaching to a different
shared tupdesc registry --- but that will require considerably more
thought.  In the meantime let's save some bytes by just removing the
nonfunctional code.

Problem identification, and proposal to fix by removing functionality
from the detach function, by Thomas Munro.  I went a bit further by
removing the function altogether.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dsguX-00056N-9x@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-09-15 10:52:30 -04:00
Tom Lane eaa4070543 Don't use anonymous unions.
Commit cc5f81366c introduced a language
feature that is not acceptable to strict C89 compilers.

Thomas Munro

Per buildfarm.
2017-09-15 00:57:38 -04:00
Andres Freund cc5f81366c Add support for coordinating record typmods among parallel workers.
Tuples can have type RECORDOID and a typmod number that identifies a blessed
TupleDesc in a backend-private cache.  To support the sharing of such tuples
through shared memory and temporary files, provide a typmod registry in
shared memory.

To achieve that, introduce per-session DSM segments, created on demand when a
backend first runs a parallel query.  The per-session DSM segment has a
table-of-contents just like the per-query DSM segment, and initially the
contents are a shared record typmod registry and a DSA area to provide the
space it needs to grow.

State relating to the current session is accessed via a Session object
reached through global variable CurrentSession that may require significant
redesign further down the road as we figure out what else needs to be shared
or remodelled.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-14 19:59:21 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 1356f78ea9 Reduce excessive dereferencing of function pointers
It is equivalent in ANSI C to write (*funcptr) () and funcptr().  These
two styles have been applied inconsistently.  After discussion, we'll
use the more verbose style for plain function pointer variables, to make
it clear that it's a variable, and the shorter style when the function
pointer is in a struct (s.func() or s->func()), because then it's clear
that it's not a plain function name, and otherwise the excessive
punctuation makes some of those invocations hard to read.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f52c16db-14ed-757d-4b48-7ef360b1631d@2ndquadrant.com
2017-09-07 13:56:09 -04:00
Simon Riggs 5b6d13eec7 Allow SET STATISTICS on expression indexes
Index columns are referenced by ordinal number rather than name, e.g.
CREATE INDEX coord_idx ON measured (x, y, (z + t));
ALTER INDEX coord_idx ALTER COLUMN 3 SET STATISTICS 1000;

Incompatibility note for release notes:
\d+ for indexes now also displays Stats Target

Authors: Alexander Korotkov, with contribution by Adrien NAYRAT
Review: Adrien NAYRAT, Simon Riggs
Wordsmith: Simon Riggs
2017-09-06 13:46:01 -07:00
Robert Haas 81c5e46c49 Introduce 64-bit hash functions with a 64-bit seed.
This will be useful for hash partitioning, which needs a way to seed
the hash functions to avoid problems such as a hash index on a hash
partitioned table clumping all values into a small portion of the
bucket space; it's also useful for anything that wants a 64-bit hash
value rather than a 32-bit hash value.

Just in case somebody wants a 64-bit hash value that is compatible
with the existing 32-bit hash values, make the low 32-bits of the
64-bit hash value match the 32-bit hash value when the seed is 0.

Robert Haas and Amul Sul

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoafx2yoJuhCQQOL5CocEi-w_uG4S2xT0EtgiJnPGcHW3g@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-31 22:21:21 -04:00
Andres Freund 35ea75632a Refactor typcache.c's record typmod hash table.
Previously, tuple descriptors were stored in chains keyed by a fixed size
array of OIDs.  That meant there were effectively two levels of collision
chain -- one inside and one outside the hash table.  Instead, let dynahash.c
look after conflicts for us by supplying a proper hash and equal function
pair.

This is a nice cleanup on its own, but also simplifies followup
changes allowing blessed TupleDescs to be shared between backends
participating in parallel query.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D34GVhOL%2BarUx56yx7OPk7%3DqpGsv3CpO54feqjAwQKm5g%40mail.gmail.com
2017-08-22 16:11:54 -07:00
Andres Freund 2cd7084524 Change tupledesc->attrs[n] to TupleDescAttr(tupledesc, n).
This is a mechanical change in preparation for a later commit that
will change the layout of TupleDesc.  Introducing a macro to abstract
the details of where attributes are stored will allow us to change
that in separate step and revise it in future.

Author: Thomas Munro, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-20 11:19:07 -07:00
Robert Haas e139f1953f Assorted preparatory refactoring for partition-wise join.
Instead of duplicating the logic to search for a matching
ParamPathInfo in multiple places, factor it out into a separate
function.

Pass only the relevant bits of the PartitionKey to
partition_bounds_equal instead of the whole thing, because
partition-wise join will want to call this without having a
PartitionKey available.

Adjust allow_star_schema_join and calc_nestloop_required_outer
to take relevant Relids rather than the entire Path, because
partition-wise join will want to call it with the top-parent
relids to determine whether a child join is allowable.

Ashutosh Bapat.  Review and testing of the larger patch set of which
this is a part by Amit Langote, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Rafia Sabih,
Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, and me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobQK80vtXjAsPZWWXd7c8u13G86gmuLupN+uUJjA+i4nA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-15 12:30:38 -04:00
Tom Lane 004a9702e0 Remove AtEOXact_CatCache().
The sole useful effect of this function, to check that no catcache
entries have positive refcounts at transaction end, has really been
obsolete since we introduced ResourceOwners in PG 8.1.  We reduced the
checks to assertions years ago, so that the function was a complete
no-op in production builds.  There have been previous discussions about
removing it entirely, but consensus up to now was that it had some small
value as a cross-check for bugs in the ResourceOwner logic.

However, it now emerges that it's possible to trigger these assertions
if you hit an assert-enabled backend with SIGTERM during a call to
SearchCatCacheList, because that function temporarily increases the
refcounts of entries it's intending to add to a catcache list construct.
In a normal ERROR scenario, the extra refcounts are cleaned up by
SearchCatCacheList's PG_CATCH block; but in a FATAL exit we do a
transaction abort and exit without ever executing PG_CATCH handlers.

There's a case to be made that this is a generic hazard and we should
consider restructuring elog(FATAL) handling so that pending PG_CATCH
handlers do get run.  That's pretty scary though: it could easily create
more problems than it solves.  Preliminary stress testing by Andreas
Seltenreich suggests that there are not many live problems of this ilk,
so we rejected that idea.

There are more-localized ways to fix the problem; the most principled
one would be to use PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP instead of plain PG_TRY.
But adding cycles to SearchCatCacheList isn't very appealing.  We could
also weaken the assertions in AtEOXact_CatCache in some more or less
ad-hoc way, but that just makes its raison d'etre even less compelling.
In the end, the most reasonable solution seems to be to just remove
AtEOXact_CatCache altogether, on the grounds that it's not worth trying
to fix it.  It hasn't found any bugs for us in many years.

Per report from Jeevan Chalke.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=VEE30YtRQCZX7_sCFsEpoUkFBV1gZazL70fqLn8rcvBA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-13 16:15:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 278cb43411 Be more consistent about errors for opfamily member lookup failures.
Add error checks in some places that were calling get_opfamily_member
or get_opfamily_proc and just assuming that the call could never fail.
Also, standardize the wording for such errors in some other places.

None of these errors are expected in normal use, hence they're just
elog not ereport.  But they may be handy for diagnosing omissions in
custom opclasses.

Rushabh Lathia found the oversight in RelationBuildPartitionKey();
I found the others by grepping for all callers of these functions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf2R9Nk8htpv0FFi+FP776EwMyGuORpc9zYkZKC8sFQE3g@mail.gmail.com
2017-07-24 11:23:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis.  However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent.  That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.

This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b8998ebb Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.

Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code.  The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there.  BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs.  So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before.  This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.

Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane e3860ffa4d Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:

* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
  sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
  well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
  with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
  than the expected column 33.

On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list.  This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.

There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses.  I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:39:04 -04:00
Robert Haas 3106829513 Use NIL rather than NULL to represent an empty list.
Just to be tidy.

Amit Langote

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/9297f80f-e4ab-7dda-33d4-8580bab6d634@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-06-06 11:21:22 -04:00
Magnus Hagander acbd8375e9 Fix copy/paste mistake in comment
Amit Langote
2017-06-02 11:18:24 +02:00
Tom Lane 54e839fe29 Sort syscache identifiers into alphabetical order.
Not much point in having a convention about this if we don't enforce it.

Mark Dilger

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7F67FBEF-C3B3-404E-8EC6-E02ACB15D894@gmail.com
2017-05-30 18:47:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a6fd7b7a5f Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent run
perltidy run not included.
2017-05-17 16:31:56 -04:00
Tom Lane f04c9a6146 Standardize terminology for pg_statistic_ext entries.
Consistently refer to such an entry as a "statistics object", not just
"statistics" or "extended statistics".  Previously we had a mismash of
terms, accompanied by utter confusion as to whether the term was
singular or plural.  That's not only grating (at least to the ear of
a native English speaker) but could be outright misleading, eg in error
messages that seemed to be referring to multiple objects where only one
could be meant.

This commit fixes the code and a lot of comments (though I may have
missed a few).  I also renamed two new SQL functions,
pg_get_statisticsextdef -> pg_get_statisticsobjdef
pg_statistic_ext_is_visible -> pg_statistics_obj_is_visible
to conform better with this terminology.

I have not touched the SGML docs other than fixing those function
names; the docs certainly need work but it seems like a separable task.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-14 10:55:01 -04:00
Tom Lane 9aab83fc50 Redesign get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot() for more safety and speed.
The mess cleaned up in commit da0759600 is clear evidence that it's a
bug hazard to expect the caller of get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot()
to provide the correct type OID for the array elements in the slot.
Moreover, we weren't even getting any performance benefit from that,
since get_attstatsslot() was extracting the real type OID from the array
anyway.  So we ought to get rid of that requirement; indeed, it would
make more sense for get_attstatsslot() to pass back the type OID it found,
in case the caller isn't sure what to expect, which is likely in binary-
compatible-operator cases.

Another problem with the current implementation is that if the stats array
element type is pass-by-reference, we incur a palloc/memcpy/pfree cycle
for each element.  That seemed acceptable when the code was written because
we were targeting O(10) array sizes --- but these days, stats arrays are
almost always bigger than that, sometimes much bigger.  We can save a
significant number of cycles by doing one palloc/memcpy/pfree of the whole
array.  Indeed, in the now-probably-common case where the array is toasted,
that happens anyway so this method is basically free.  (Note: although the
catcache code will inline any out-of-line toasted values, it doesn't
decompress them.  At the other end of the size range, it doesn't expand
short-header datums either.  In either case, DatumGetArrayTypeP would have
to make a copy.  We do end up using an extra array copy step if the element
type is pass-by-value and the array length is neither small enough for a
short header nor large enough to have suffered compression.  But that
seems like a very acceptable price for winning in pass-by-ref cases.)

Hence, redesign to take these insights into account.  While at it,
convert to an API in which we fill a struct rather than passing a bunch
of pointers to individual output arguments.  That will make it less
painful if we ever want further expansion of what get_attstatsslot can
pass back.

It's certainly arguable that this is new development and not something to
push post-feature-freeze.  However, I view it as primarily bug-proofing
and therefore something that's better to have sooner not later.  Since
we aren't quite at beta phase yet, let's put it in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16364.1494520862@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-13 15:14:39 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera d99d58cdc8 Complete tab completion for DROP STATISTICS
Tab-completing DROP STATISTICS would only work if you started writing
the schema name containing the statistics object, because the visibility
clause was missing.  To add it, we need to add SQL-callable support for
testing visibility of a statistics object, like all other object types
already have.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-13 01:05:48 -03:00
Tom Lane 2df5d46555 Avoid searching for callback functions in CallSyscacheCallbacks().
We have now grown enough registerable syscache-invalidation callback
functions that the original assumption that there would be few of them
is causing performance problems.  In particular, let's fix things so that
CallSyscacheCallbacks doesn't have to search the whole array to find
which callback(s) to invoke for a given cache ID.  Preserve the original
behavior that callbacks are called in order of registration, just in
case there's someplace that depends on that (which I doubt).

In support of this, export the number of syscaches from syscache.h.
People could have found that out anyway from the enum, but adding a
#define makes that much safer.

This provides a useful additional speedup in Mathieu Fenniak's
logical-decoding test case, although we're reaching the point of
diminishing returns there.  I think any further improvement will have
to come from reducing the number of cache invalidations that are
triggered in the first place.  Still, we can hope that this change
gives some incremental benefit for all invalidation scenarios.

Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12 19:05:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 8085a4f751 Reduce initial size of RelfilenodeMapHash.
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that hash_seq_search'ing
this hashtable can consume a very significant amount of overhead during
logical decoding, which triggers frequent cache invalidation.  Testing
suggests that the actual population of the hashtable is often no more
than a few dozen entries, so we can cut the overhead just by dropping
the initial number of buckets down from 1024 --- I chose to cut it to 64.
(In situations where we do have a significant number of entries, we
shouldn't get any real penalty from doing this, as the dynahash.c code
will resize the hashtable automatically.)

This gives a further factor-of-two savings in Mathieu's test case.
That may be overly optimistic for real-world benefit, as real cases
may have larger average table populations, but it's hard to see it
turning into a net negative for any workload.

Back-patch to 9.4 where relfilenodemap.c was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12 18:30:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 50ee1c7462 Avoid searching for the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate.
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that the initial search for
the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate consumes a very significant
amount of overhead in cases where cache invalidation is triggered but has
little useful work to do.  There is no good reason for that search to exist
at all, as the index array maintained by syscache.c allows direct lookup of
the catcache from its ID.  We just need a frontend function in syscache.c,
matching the division of labor for most other cache-accessing operations.

While there's more that can be done in this area, this patch alone reduces
the runtime of Mathieu's example by 2X.  We can hope that it offers some
useful benefit in other cases too, although usually cache invalidation
overhead is not such a striking fraction of the total runtime.

Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.  It might be
worth going further back, but presently the only case we know of where
cache invalidation is really a significant burden is in logical decoding.
Also, older branches have fewer catcaches, reducing the possible benefit.

(Note: although this nominally changes catcache's API, we have always
documented CatalogCacheIdInvalidate as a private function, so I would
have little sympathy for an external module calling it directly.  So
backpatching should be fine.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12 18:17:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 596a7c8df7 Increase MAX_SYSCACHE_CALLBACKS to provide more room for extensions.
Increase from the historical value of 32 to 64.  We are up to 31 callers
of CacheRegisterSyscacheCallback() in HEAD, so if they were all to be
exercised in one process that would leave only one slot for add-on modules.
It's probably not possible for that to happen, but still we clearly need
more daylight here.  (At some point it might be worth making the array
dynamically resizable; but since we've never heard a complaint of "out of
syscache_callback_list slots" happening in the field, I doubt it's worth
it yet.)

Back-patch as far as 9.4, which is where we increased the companion limit
MAX_RELCACHE_CALLBACKS (cf commit f01d1ae3a).  It's not as urgent in
released branches, which have only a couple dozen call sites in core, but
it still seems that somebody might hit the limit before these branches die.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12184.1494450131@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-11 14:51:21 -04:00
Robert Haas 622c82279d Avoid theoretical infinite loop loading relcache partition key.
Amit Langote, per report from 甄明洋

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/57bd1e1.1886.15bd7b79cee.Coremail.18612389267@yeah.net
2017-05-09 23:53:35 -04:00
Tom Lane da07596006 Further patch rangetypes_selfuncs.c's statistics slot management.
Values in a STATISTIC_KIND_RANGE_LENGTH_HISTOGRAM slot are float8,
not of the type of the column the statistics are for.

This bug is at least partly the fault of sloppy specification comments
for get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot(): the type OID they want is that
of the stavalues entries, not of the underlying column.  (I double-checked
other callers and they seem to get this right.)  Adjust the comments to be
more correct.

Per buildfarm.

Security: CVE-2017-7484
2017-05-08 15:03:14 -04:00
Robert Haas 5e1ccd4844 In load_relcache_init_file, initialize rd_pdcxt.
Oversight noted by Gao Zeng Qi.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFmBtr1N3-SbepJbnGpaYp=jw-FvWMnYY7-bTtRgvjvbyB8YJA@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-28 14:05:13 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ee6922112e Rename columns in new pg_statistic_ext catalog
The new catalog reused a column prefix "sta" from pg_statistic, but this
is undesirable, so change the catalog to use prefix "stx" instead.
Also, rename the column that lists enabled statistic kinds as "stxkind"
rather than "enabled".

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_2t5jhSN7huYRFH3w3rrHfG2QU7hiUHsu-Vdjd1rYT3w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-17 18:34:29 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6275f5d28a Fix new warnings from GCC 7
This addresses the new warning types -Wformat-truncation
-Wformat-overflow that are part of -Wall, via -Wformat, in GCC 7.
2017-04-17 13:59:46 -04:00
Simon Riggs 2c2ecddcff Mention pg_index changes also cause relcache invalidation
Amit Langote, additional line by me
2017-04-13 10:07:21 +01:00
Tom Lane 8f0530f580 Improve castNode notation by introducing list-extraction-specific variants.
This extends the castNode() notation introduced by commit 5bcab1114 to
provide, in one step, extraction of a list cell's pointer and coercion to
a concrete node type.  For example, "lfirst_node(Foo, lc)" is the same
as "castNode(Foo, lfirst(lc))".  Almost half of the uses of castNode
that have appeared so far include a list extraction call, so this is
pretty widely useful, and it saves a few more keystrokes compared to the
old way.

As with the previous patch, back-patch the addition of these macros to
pg_list.h, so that the notation will be available when back-patching.

Patch by me, after an idea of Andrew Gierth's.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14197.1491841216@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-04-10 13:51:53 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera b1fc51a36e Comment fixes for extended statistics
Clean up some code comments in new extended statistics code, from
7b504eb282.
2017-04-06 12:28:50 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 3217327053 Identity columns
This is the SQL standard-conforming variant of PostgreSQL's serial
columns.  It fixes a few usability issues that serial columns have:

- CREATE TABLE / LIKE copies default but refers to same sequence
- cannot add/drop serialness with ALTER TABLE
- dropping default does not drop sequence
- need to grant separate privileges to sequence
- other slight weirdnesses because serial is some kind of special macro

Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy <vitaly.burovoy@gmail.com>
2017-04-06 08:41:37 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 41bd155dd6 Fix two undocumented parameters to functions from ENR patch.
On ProcessUtility document the parameter, to match others.

On CreateCachedPlan drop the queryEnv parameter.  It was not
referenced within the function, and had been added on the
assumption that with some unknown future usage of QueryEnvironment
it might be useful to do something there.  We have avoided other
"just in case" implementation of unused paramters, so drop it here.

Per gripe from Tom Lane
2017-04-01 15:21:05 -05:00
Kevin Grittner 18ce3a4ab2 Add infrastructure to support EphemeralNamedRelation references.
A QueryEnvironment concept is added, which allows new types of
objects to be passed into queries from parsing on through
execution.  At this point, the only thing implemented is a
collection of EphemeralNamedRelation objects -- relations which
can be referenced by name in queries, but do not exist in the
catalogs.  The only type of ENR implemented is NamedTuplestore, but
provision is made to add more types fairly easily.

An ENR can carry its own TupleDesc or reference a relation in the
catalogs by relid.

Although these features can be used without SPI, convenience
functions are added to SPI so that ENRs can easily be used by code
run through SPI.

The initial use of all this is going to be transition tables in
AFTER triggers, but that will be added to each PL as a separate
commit.

An incidental effect of this patch is to produce a more informative
error message if an attempt is made to modify the contents of a CTE
from a referencing DML statement.  No tests previously covered that
possibility, so one is added.

Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas, David Fetter, and Thomas Munro
with valuable comments and suggestions from many others
2017-03-31 23:17:18 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 4cb824699e Cast result of copyObject() to correct type
copyObject() is declared to return void *, which allows easily assigning
the result independent of the input, but it loses all type checking.

If the compiler supports typeof or something similar, cast the result to
the input type.  This creates a greater amount of type safety.  In some
cases, where the result is assigned to a generic type such as Node * or
Expr *, new casts are now necessary, but in general casts are now
unnecessary in the normal case and indicate that something unusual is
happening.

Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
2017-03-28 21:59:23 -04:00
Tom Lane 244dd95ce9 Update some obsolete comments.
Fix a few stray references to expression eval functions that don't
exist anymore or don't take the same input representation they used to.
2017-03-26 11:36:46 -04:00
Andres Freund b8d7f053c5 Faster expression evaluation and targetlist projection.
This replaces the old, recursive tree-walk based evaluation, with
non-recursive, opcode dispatch based, expression evaluation.
Projection is now implemented as part of expression evaluation.

This both leads to significant performance improvements, and makes
future just-in-time compilation of expressions easier.

The speed gains primarily come from:
- non-recursive implementation reduces stack usage / overhead
- simple sub-expressions are implemented with a single jump, without
  function calls
- sharing some state between different sub-expressions
- reduced amount of indirect/hard to predict memory accesses by laying
  out operation metadata sequentially; including the avoidance of
  nearly all of the previously used linked lists
- more code has been moved to expression initialization, avoiding
  constant re-checks at evaluation time

Future just-in-time compilation (JIT) has become easier, as
demonstrated by released patches intended to be merged in a later
release, for primarily two reasons: Firstly, due to a stricter split
between expression initialization and evaluation, less code has to be
handled by the JIT. Secondly, due to the non-recursive nature of the
generated "instructions", less performance-critical code-paths can
easily be shared between interpreted and compiled evaluation.

The new framework allows for significant future optimizations. E.g.:
- basic infrastructure for to later reduce the per executor-startup
  overhead of expression evaluation, by caching state in prepared
  statements.  That'd be helpful in OLTPish scenarios where
  initialization overhead is measurable.
- optimizing the generated "code". A number of proposals for potential
  work has already been made.
- optimizing the interpreter. Similarly a number of proposals have
  been made here too.

The move of logic into the expression initialization step leads to some
backward-incompatible changes:
- Function permission checks are now done during expression
  initialization, whereas previously they were done during
  execution. In edge cases this can lead to errors being raised that
  previously wouldn't have been, e.g. a NULL array being coerced to a
  different array type previously didn't perform checks.
- The set of domain constraints to be checked, is now evaluated once
  during expression initialization, previously it was re-built
  every time a domain check was evaluated. For normal queries this
  doesn't change much, but e.g. for plpgsql functions, which caches
  ExprStates, the old set could stick around longer.  The behavior
  around might still change.

Author: Andres Freund, with significant changes by Tom Lane,
	changes by Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161206034955.bh33paeralxbtluv@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-03-25 14:52:06 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera 7b504eb282 Implement multivariate n-distinct coefficients
Add support for explicitly declared statistic objects (CREATE
STATISTICS), allowing collection of statistics on more complex
combinations that individual table columns.  Companion commands DROP
STATISTICS and ALTER STATISTICS ... OWNER TO / SET SCHEMA / RENAME are
added too.  All this DDL has been designed so that more statistic types
can be added later on, such as multivariate most-common-values and
multivariate histograms between columns of a single table, leaving room
for permitting columns on multiple tables, too, as well as expressions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
2017-03-23 08:55:37 -04:00
Robert Haas d3cc37f1d8 Don't scan partitioned tables.
Partitioned tables do not contain any data; only their unpartitioned
descendents need to be scanned.  However, the partitioned tables still
need to be locked, even though they're not scanned.  To make that
work, Append and MergeAppend relations now need to carry a list of
(unscanned) partitioned relations that must be locked, and InitPlan
must lock all partitioned result relations.

Aside from the obvious advantage of avoiding some work at execution
time, this has two other advantages.  First, it may improve the
planner's decision-making in some cases since the empty relation
might throw things off.  Second, it paves the way to getting rid of
the storage for partitioned tables altogether.

Amit Langote, reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/6837c359-45c4-8044-34d1-736756335a15@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-21 09:48:04 -04:00
Robert Haas 249cf070e3 Create and use wait events for read, write, and fsync operations.
Previous commits, notably 53be0b1add and
6f3bd98ebf, made it possible to see from
pg_stat_activity when a backend was stuck waiting for another backend,
but it's also fairly common for a backend to be stuck waiting for an
I/O.  Add wait events for those operations, too.

Rushabh Lathia, with further hacking by me.  Reviewed and tested by
Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, and Rahila Syed.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf0LsYHXREPAZqYGVkDqHSyjf=KsD=k0GTVPAuzyThh-VQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-18 07:43:01 -04:00
Robert Haas c11453ce0a hash: Add write-ahead logging support.
The warning about hash indexes not being write-ahead logged and their
use being discouraged has been removed.  "snapshot too old" is now
supported for tables with hash indexes.  Most importantly, barring
bugs, hash indexes will now be crash-safe and usable on standbys.

This commit doesn't yet add WAL consistency checking for hash
indexes, as we now have for other index types; a separate patch has
been submitted to cure that lack.

Amit Kapila, reviewed and slightly modified by me.  The larger patch
series of which this is a part has been reviewed and tested by Álvaro
Herrera, Ashutosh Sharma, Mark Kirkwood, Jeff Janes, and Jesper
Pedersen.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JOBX=YU33631Qh-XivYXtPSALh514+jR8XeD7v+K3r_Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-14 13:27:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f97a028d8e Spelling fixes in code comments
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-14 12:58:39 -04:00
Simon Riggs 21d4e2e206 Reduce lock levels for table storage params related to planning
The following parameters are now updateable with ShareUpdateExclusiveLock
effective_io_concurrency
parallel_workers
seq_page_cost
random_page_cost
n_distinct
n_distinct_inherited

Simon Riggs and Fabrízio Mello
2017-03-06 16:04:31 +05:30
Robert Haas fa42b2005f Update comments overlooked by 2f5c9d9c9c.
Tomas Vondra
2017-03-02 17:03:50 +05:30
Tom Lane c29aff959d Consistently declare timestamp variables as TimestampTz.
Twiddle the replication-related code so that its timestamp variables
are declared TimestampTz, rather than the uninformative "int64" that
was previously used for meant-to-be-always-integer timestamps.
This resolves the int64-vs-TimestampTz declaration inconsistencies
introduced by commit 7c030783a, though in the opposite direction to
what was originally suggested.

This required including datatype/timestamp.h in a couple more places
than before.  I decided it would be a good idea to slim down that
header by not having it pull in <float.h> etc, as those headers are
no longer at all relevant to its purpose.  Unsurprisingly, a small number
of .c files turn out to have been depending on those inclusions, so add
them back in the .c files as needed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26788.1487455319@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27694.1487456324@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-23 15:57:08 -05:00
Tom Lane 2aaec65464 Avoid returning stale attribute bitmaps in RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap().
The problem with the original coding here is that we might receive (and
clear) a relcache invalidation signal for the target relation down inside
one of the index_open calls we're doing.  Since the target is open, we
would not drop the relcache entry, just reset its rd_indexvalid and
rd_indexlist fields.  But RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() kept going, and
would eventually cache and return potentially-obsolete attribute bitmaps.

The case where this matters is where the inval signal was from a CREATE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY telling us about a new index on a formerly-unindexed
column.  (In all other cases, the lock we hold on the target rel should
prevent any concurrent change in index state.)  Even just returning the
stale attribute bitmap is not such a problem, because it shouldn't matter
during the transaction in which we receive the signal.  What hurts is
caching the stale data, because it can survive into later transactions,
breaking CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY's expectation that later transactions
will not create new broken HOT chains.  The upshot is that there's a window
for building corrupted indexes during CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.

This patch fixes the problem by rechecking that the set of index OIDs
is still the same at the end of RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() as it was
at the start.  If not, we loop back and try again.  That's a little
more than is strictly necessary to fix the bug --- in principle, we
could return the stale data but not cache it --- but it seems like a
bad idea on general principles for relcache to return data it knows
is stale.

There might be more hazards of the same ilk, or there might be a better
way to fix this one, but this patch definitely improves matters and seems
unlikely to make anything worse.  So let's push it into today's releases
even as we continue to study the problem.

Pavan Deolasee and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdM2MUq9cyZJi1KyLmmkCereyGp5JQ4fuwKoyKEde_mzkQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-06 13:20:19 -05:00
Tom Lane a59318346e Update comment in relcache.c.
Commit 665d1fad9 introduced rd_pkindex, and made RelationGetIndexList
responsible for updating it, but didn't bother to fix
RelationGetIndexList's header comment to say so.
2017-02-06 11:31:23 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 181bdb90ba Fix typos in comments.
Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching
of future fixes go more smoothly.

Josh Soref

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-06 11:33:58 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 2f5c9d9c9c Tweak catalog indexing abstraction for upcoming WARM
Split the existing CatalogUpdateIndexes into two different routines,
CatalogTupleInsert and CatalogTupleUpdate, which do both the heap
insert/update plus the index update.  This removes over 300 lines of
boilerplate code all over src/backend/catalog/ and src/backend/commands.
The resulting code is much more pleasing to the eye.

Also, by encapsulating what happens in detail during an UPDATE, this
facilitates the upcoming WARM patch, which is going to add a few more
lines to the update case making the boilerplate even more boring.

The original CatalogUpdateIndexes is removed; there was only one use
left, and since it's just three lines, we can as well expand it in place
there.  We could keep it, but WARM is going to break all the UPDATE
out-of-core callsites anyway, so there seems to be no benefit in doing
so.

Author: Pavan Deolasee
Discussion: https://www.postgr.es/m/CABOikdOcFYSZ4vA2gYfs=M2cdXzXX4qGHeEiW3fu9PCfkHLa2A@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-31 18:42:24 -03:00
Tom Lane 7afd56c3c6 Use castNode() in a bunch of statement-list-related code.
When I wrote commit ab1f0c822, I really missed the castNode() macro that
Peter E. had proposed shortly before.  This back-fills the uses I would
have put it to.  It's probably not all that significant, but there are
more assertions here than there were before, and conceivably they will
help catch any bugs associated with those representation changes.

I left behind a number of usages like "(Query *) copyObject(query_var)".
Those could have been converted as well, but Peter has proposed another
notational improvement that would handle copyObject cases automatically,
so I let that be for now.
2017-01-26 22:09:34 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 5a366b4ff4 Fix typo: pg_statistics -> pg_statistic 2017-01-25 14:38:33 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut f21a563d25 Move some things from builtins.h to new header files
This avoids that builtins.h has to include additional header files.
2017-01-20 20:29:53 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 665d1fad99 Logical replication
- Add PUBLICATION catalogs and DDL
- Add SUBSCRIPTION catalog and DDL
- Define logical replication protocol and output plugin
- Add logical replication workers

From: Petr Jelinek <petr@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-01-20 09:04:49 -05:00
Tom Lane ab1f0c8225 Change representation of statement lists, and add statement location info.
This patch makes several changes that improve the consistency of
representation of lists of statements.  It's always been the case
that the output of parse analysis is a list of Query nodes, whatever
the types of the individual statements in the list.  This patch brings
similar consistency to the outputs of raw parsing and planning steps:

* The output of raw parsing is now always a list of RawStmt nodes;
the statement-type-dependent nodes are one level down from that.

* The output of pg_plan_queries() is now always a list of PlannedStmt
nodes, even for utility statements.  In the case of a utility statement,
"planning" just consists of wrapping a CMD_UTILITY PlannedStmt around
the utility node.  This list representation is now used in Portal and
CachedPlan plan lists, replacing the former convention of intermixing
PlannedStmts with bare utility-statement nodes.

Now, every list of statements has a consistent head-node type depending
on how far along it is in processing.  This allows changing many places
that formerly used generic "Node *" pointers to use a more specific
pointer type, thus reducing the number of IsA() tests and casts needed,
as well as improving code clarity.

Also, the post-parse-analysis representation of DECLARE CURSOR is changed
so that it looks more like EXPLAIN, PREPARE, etc.  That is, the contained
SELECT remains a child of the DeclareCursorStmt rather than getting flipped
around to be the other way.  It's now true for both Query and PlannedStmt
that utilityStmt is non-null if and only if commandType is CMD_UTILITY.
That allows simplifying a lot of places that were testing both fields.
(I think some of those were just defensive programming, but in many places,
it was actually necessary to avoid confusing DECLARE CURSOR with SELECT.)

Because PlannedStmt carries a canSetTag field, we're also able to get rid
of some ad-hoc rules about how to reconstruct canSetTag for a bare utility
statement; specifically, the assumption that a utility is canSetTag if and
only if it's the only one in its list.  While I see no near-term need for
relaxing that restriction, it's nice to get rid of the ad-hocery.

The API of ProcessUtility() is changed so that what it's passed is the
wrapper PlannedStmt not just the bare utility statement.  This will affect
all users of ProcessUtility_hook, but the changes are pretty trivial; see
the affected contrib modules for examples of the minimum change needed.
(Most compilers should give pointer-type-mismatch warnings for uncorrected
code.)

There's also a change in the API of ExplainOneQuery_hook, to pass through
cursorOptions instead of expecting hook functions to know what to pick.
This is needed because of the DECLARE CURSOR changes, but really should
have been done in 9.6; it's unlikely that any extant hook functions
know about using CURSOR_OPT_PARALLEL_OK.

Finally, teach gram.y to save statement boundary locations in RawStmt
nodes, and pass those through to Query and PlannedStmt nodes.  This allows
more intelligent handling of cases where a source query string contains
multiple statements.  This patch doesn't actually do anything with the
information, but a follow-on patch will.  (Passing this information through
cleanly is the true motivation for these changes; while I think this is all
good cleanup, it's unlikely we'd have bothered without this end goal.)

catversion bump because addition of location fields to struct Query
affects stored rules.

This patch is by me, but it owes a good deal to Fabien Coelho who did
a lot of preliminary work on the problem, and also reviewed the patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1612200926310.29821@lancre
2017-01-14 16:02:35 -05:00
Tom Lane c52d37c8b3 Invalidate cached plans on FDW option changes.
This fixes problems where a plan must change but fails to do so,
as seen in a bug report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.

For ALTER FOREIGN TABLE OPTIONS, do this through the standard method of
forcing a relcache flush on the table.  For ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
and ALTER SERVER, just flush the whole plan cache on any change in
pg_foreign_data_wrapper or pg_foreign_server.  That matches the way
we handle some other low-probability cases such as opclass changes, and
it's unclear that the case arises often enough to be worth working harder.
Besides, that gives a patch that is simple enough to back-patch with
confidence.

Back-patch to 9.3.  In principle we could apply the code change to 9.2 as
well, but (a) we lack postgres_fdw to test it with, (b) it's doubtful that
anyone is doing anything exciting enough with FDWs that far back to need
this desperately, and (c) the patch doesn't apply cleanly.

Patch originally by Amit Langote, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita and Ashutosh
Bapat, who each contributed substantial changes as well.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6m5cA6rRPTKkqVdJ-R=KKDfe35Q_ZuUqxDSV_4hwga=og@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-06 14:12:52 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 1d25779284 Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 1753b1b027 Add pg_sequence system catalog
Move sequence metadata (start, increment, etc.) into a proper system
catalog instead of storing it in the sequence heap object.  This
separates the metadata from the sequence data.  Sequence metadata is now
operated on transactionally by DDL commands, whereas previously
rollbacks of sequence-related DDL commands would be ignored.

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

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

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

Amit Langote, reviewed and tested by Robert Haas, Ashutosh Bapat,
Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Corey Huinker, Jaime Casanova,
Rushabh Lathia, Erik Rijkers, among others.  Minor revisions by me.
2016-12-07 13:17:55 -05:00
Stephen Frost d97b14ddab Silence compiler warnings
Rearrange a bit of code to ensure that 'mode' in LWLockRelease is
obviously always set, which seems a bit cleaner and avoids a compiler
warning (thanks to Robert for the suggestion!).

In GetCachedPlan(), initialize 'plan' to silence a compiler warning, but
also add an Assert() to make sure we don't ever actually fall through
with 'plan' still being set to NULL, since we are about to dereference
it.

Neither of these appear to be live bugs but at least gcc
5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4 doesn't quite have the smarts to realize that.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20161129152102.GR13284%40tamriel.snowman.net
2016-12-06 23:02:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 1833f1a1c3 Simplify code by getting rid of SPI_push, SPI_pop, SPI_restore_connection.
The idea behind SPI_push was to allow transitioning back into an
"unconnected" state when a SPI-using procedure calls unrelated code that
might or might not invoke SPI.  That sounds good, but in practice the only
thing it does for us is to catch cases where a called SPI-using function
forgets to call SPI_connect --- which is a highly improbable failure mode,
since it would be exposed immediately by direct testing of said function.
As against that, we've had multiple bugs induced by forgetting to call
SPI_push/SPI_pop around code that might invoke SPI-using functions; these
are much harder to catch and indeed have gone undetected for years in some
cases.  And we've had to band-aid around some problems of this ilk by
introducing conditional push/pop pairs in some places, which really kind
of defeats the purpose altogether; if we can't draw bright lines between
connected and unconnected code, what's the point?

Hence, get rid of SPI_push[_conditional], SPI_pop[_conditional], and the
underlying state variable _SPI_curid.  It turns out SPI_restore_connection
can go away too, which is a nice side benefit since it was never more than
a kluge.  Provide no-op macros for the deleted functions so as to avoid an
API break for external modules.

A side effect of this removal is that SPI_palloc and allied functions no
longer permit being called when unconnected; they'll throw an error
instead.  The apparent usefulness of the previous behavior was a mirage
as well, because it was depended on by only a few places (which I fixed in
preceding commits), and it posed a risk of allocations being unexpectedly
long-lived if someone forgot a SPI_push call.

Discussion: <20808.1478481403@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-08 17:39:57 -05:00
Tom Lane 5c80642aa8 Remove unnecessary int2vector-specific hash function and equality operator.
These functions were originally added in commit d8cedf67a to support
use of int2vector columns as catcache lookup keys.  However, there are
no catcaches that use such columns.  (Indeed I now think it must always
have been dead code: a catcache with such a key column would need an
underlying unique index on the column, but we've never had an int2vector
btree opclass.)

Getting rid of the int2vector-specific operator and function does not
lose any functionality, because operations on int2vectors will now fall
back to the generic anyarray support.  This avoids a wart that a btree
index on an int2vector column (made using anyarray_ops) would fail to
match equality searches, because int2vectoreq wasn't a member of the
opclass.  We don't really care much about that, since int2vector is not
meant as a type for users to use, but it's silly to have extra code and
less functionality.

If we ever do want a catcache to be indexed by an int2vector column,
we'd need to put back full btree and hash opclasses for int2vector,
comparable to the support for oidvector.  (The anyarray code can't be
used at such a low level, because it needs to do catcache lookups.)
But we'll deal with that if/when the need arises.

Also worth noting is that removal of the hash int2vector_ops opclass will
break any user-created hash indexes on int2vector columns.  While hash
anyarray_ops would serve the same purpose, it would probably not compute
the same hash values and thus wouldn't be on-disk-compatible.  Given that
int2vector isn't a user-facing type and we're planning other incompatible
changes in hash indexes for v10 anyway, this doesn't seem like something
to worry about, but it's probably worth mentioning here.

Amit Langote

Discussion: <d9bb74f8-b194-7307-9ebd-90645d377e45@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-10-12 14:54:08 -04:00
Tom Lane 967a7b0fc9 Avoid reporting "cache lookup failed" for some user-reachable cases.
We have a not-terribly-thoroughly-enforced-yet project policy that internal
errors with SQLSTATE XX000 (ie, plain elog) should not be triggerable from
SQL.  record_in, domain_in, and PL validator functions all failed to meet
this standard, because they threw plain elog("cache lookup failed for XXX")
errors on bad OIDs, and those are all invokable from SQL.

For record_in, the best fix is to upgrade typcache.c (lookup_type_cache)
to throw a user-facing error for this case.  That seems consistent because
it was more than halfway there already, having user-facing errors for shell
types and non-composite types.  Having done that, tweak domain_in to rely
on the typcache to throw an appropriate error.  (This costs little because
InitDomainConstraintRef would fetch the typcache entry anyway.)

For the PL validator functions, we already have a single choke point at
CheckFunctionValidatorAccess, so just fix its error to be user-facing.

Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Haribabu Kommi

Discussion: <87wpxfygg9.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-09-09 09:20:34 -04:00
Tom Lane ea268cdc9a Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer.
I found that half a dozen (nearly 5%) of our AllocSetContextCreate calls
had typos in the context-sizing parameters.  While none of these led to
especially significant problems, they did create minor inefficiencies,
and it's now clear that expecting people to copy-and-paste those calls
accurately is not a great idea.  Let's reduce the risk of future errors
by introducing single macros that encapsulate the common use-cases.
Three such macros are enough to cover all but two special-purpose contexts;
those two calls can be left as-is, I think.

While this patch doesn't in itself improve matters for third-party
extensions, it doesn't break anything for them either, and they can
gradually adopt the simplified notation over time.

In passing, change TopMemoryContext to use the default allocation
parameters.  Formerly it could only be extended 8K at a time.  That was
probably reasonable when this code was written; but nowadays we create
many more contexts than we did then, so that it's not unusual to have a
couple hundred K in TopMemoryContext, even without considering various
dubious code that sticks other things there.  There seems no good reason
not to let it use growing blocks like most other contexts.

Back-patch to 9.6, mostly because that's still close enough to HEAD that
it's easy to do so, and keeping the branches in sync can be expected to
avoid some future back-patching pain.  The bugs fixed by these changes
don't seem to be significant enough to justify fixing them further back.

Discussion: <21072.1472321324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-27 17:50:38 -04:00
Tom Lane 45639a0525 Avoid invalidating all foreign-join cached plans when user mappings change.
We must not push down a foreign join when the foreign tables involved
should be accessed under different user mappings.  Previously we tried
to enforce that rule literally during planning, but that meant that the
resulting plans were dependent on the current contents of the
pg_user_mapping catalog, and we had to blow away all cached plans
containing any remote join when anything at all changed in pg_user_mapping.
This could have been improved somewhat, but the fact that a syscache inval
callback has very limited info about what changed made it hard to do better
within that design.  Instead, let's change the planner to not consider user
mappings per se, but to allow a foreign join if both RTEs have the same
checkAsUser value.  If they do, then they necessarily will use the same
user mapping at runtime, and we don't need to know specifically which one
that is.  Post-plan-time changes in pg_user_mapping no longer require any
plan invalidation.

This rule does give up some optimization ability, to wit where two foreign
table references come from views with different owners or one's from a view
and one's directly in the query, but nonetheless the same user mapping
would have applied.  We'll sacrifice the first case, but to not regress
more than we have to in the second case, allow a foreign join involving
both zero and nonzero checkAsUser values if the nonzero one is the same as
the prevailing effective userID.  In that case, mark the plan as only
runnable by that userID.

The plancache code already had a notion of plans being userID-specific,
in order to support RLS.  It was a little confused though, in particular
lacking clarity of thought as to whether it was the rewritten query or just
the finished plan that's dependent on the userID.  Rearrange that code so
that it's clearer what depends on which, and so that the same logic applies
to both RLS-injected role dependency and foreign-join-injected role
dependency.

Note that this patch doesn't remove the other issue mentioned in the
original complaint, which is that while we'll reliably stop using a foreign
join if it's disallowed in a new context, we might fail to start using a
foreign join if it's now allowed, but we previously created a generic
cached plan that didn't use one.  It was agreed that the chance of winning
that way was not high enough to justify the much larger number of plan
invalidations that would have to occur if we tried to cause it to happen.

In passing, clean up randomly-varying spelling of EXPLAIN commands in
postgres_fdw.sql, and fix a COSTS ON example that had been allowed to
leak into the committed tests.

This reverts most of commits fbe5a3fb7 and 5d4171d1c, which were the
previous attempt at ensuring we wouldn't push down foreign joins that
span permissions contexts.

Etsuro Fujita and Tom Lane

Discussion: <d49c1e5b-f059-20f4-c132-e9752ee0113e@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-07-15 17:23:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 100340e2dc Restore foreign-key-aware estimation of join relation sizes.
This patch provides a new implementation of the logic added by commit
137805f89 and later removed by 77ba61080.  It differs from the original
primarily in expending much less effort per joinrel in large queries,
which it accomplishes by doing most of the matching work once per query not
once per joinrel.  Hopefully, it's also less buggy and better commented.
The never-documented enable_fkey_estimates GUC remains gone.

There remains work to be done to make the selectivity estimates account
for nulls in FK referencing columns; but that was true of the original
patch as well.  We may be able to address this point later in beta.
In the meantime, any error should be in the direction of overestimating
rather than underestimating joinrel sizes, which seems like the direction
we want to err in.

Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane

Discussion: <31041.1465069446@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-18 15:22:34 -04:00
Tom Lane 2f153ddfdd Refactor to reduce code duplication for function property checking.
As noted by Andres Freund, we'd accumulated quite a few similar functions
in clauses.c that examine all functions in an expression tree to see if
they satisfy some boolean test.  Reduce the duplication by inventing a
function check_functions_in_node() that applies a simple callback function
to each SQL function OID appearing in a given expression node.  This also
fixes some arguable oversights; for example, contain_mutable_functions()
did not check aggregate or window functions for mutability.  I doubt that
that represents a live bug at the moment, because we don't really consider
mutability for aggregates; but it might someday be one.

I chose to put check_functions_in_node() in nodeFuncs.c because it seemed
like other modules might wish to use it in future.  That in turn forced
moving set_opfuncid() et al into nodeFuncs.c, as the alternative was for
nodeFuncs.c to depend on optimizer/setrefs.c which didn't seem very clean.

In passing, teach contain_leaked_vars_walker() about a few more expression
node types it can safely look through, and improve the rather messy and
undercommented code in has_parallel_hazard_walker().

Discussion: <20160527185853.ziol2os2zskahl7v@alap3.anarazel.de>
2016-06-10 16:03:46 -04:00
Tom Lane cae1c788b9 Improve the situation for parallel query versus temp relations.
Transmit the leader's temp-namespace state to workers.  This is important
because without it, the workers do not really have the same search path
as the leader.  For example, there is no good reason (and no extant code
either) to prevent a worker from executing a temp function that the
leader created previously; but as things stood it would fail to find the
temp function, and then either fail or execute the wrong function entirely.

We still prohibit a worker from creating a temp namespace on its own.
In effect, a worker can only see the session's temp namespace if the leader
had created it before starting the worker, which seems like the right
semantics.

Also, transmit the leader's BackendId to workers, and arrange for workers
to use that when determining the physical file path of a temp relation
belonging to their session.  While the original intent was to prevent such
accesses entirely, there were a number of holes in that, notably in places
like dbsize.c which assume they can safely access temp rels of other
sessions anyway.  We might as well get this right, as a small down payment
on someday allowing workers to access the leader's temp tables.  (With
this change, directly using "MyBackendId" as a relation or buffer backend
ID is deprecated; you should use BackendIdForTempRelations() instead.
I left a couple of such uses alone though, as they're not going to be
reachable in parallel workers until we do something about localbuf.c.)

Move the thou-shalt-not-access-thy-leader's-temp-tables prohibition down
into localbuf.c, which is where it actually matters, instead of having it
in relation_open().  This amounts to recognizing that access to temp
tables' catalog entries is perfectly safe in a worker, it's only the data
in local buffers that is problematic.

Having done all that, we can get rid of the test in has_parallel_hazard()
that says that use of a temp table's rowtype is unsafe in parallel workers.
That test was unduly expensive, and if we really did need such a
prohibition, that was not even close to being a bulletproof guard for it.
(For example, any user-defined function executed in a parallel worker
might have attempted such access.)
2016-06-09 20:16:11 -04:00
Robert Haas 4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 77ba610805 Revert "Use Foreign Key relationships to infer multi-column join selectivity".
This commit reverts 137805f89 as well as the associated commits 015e88942,
5306df283, and 68d704edb.  We found multiple bugs in this feature, and
there was concern about possible planner slowdown (though to be fair,
exhibiting a very large slowdown proved difficult).  The way forward
requires a considerable rewrite, which may or may not be possible to
accomplish in time for beta2.  In my judgment reviewing the rewrite will
be easier to accomplish starting from a clean slate, so let's temporarily
revert what's there now.  This also leaves us in a safe state if it turns
out to be necessary to postpone the rewrite to the next development cycle.

Discussion: <20160429102531.GA13701@huehner.biz>
2016-06-07 17:21:17 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 2cc41acd8f Fix hash index vs "snapshot too old" problemms
Hash indexes are not WAL-logged, and so do not maintain the LSN of
index pages.  Since the "snapshot too old" feature counts on
detecting error conditions using the LSN of a table and all indexes
on it, this makes it impossible to safely do early vacuuming on any
table with a hash index, so add this to the tests for whether the
xid used to vacuum a table can be adjusted based on
old_snapshot_threshold.

While at it, add a paragraph to the docs for old_snapshot_threshold
which specifically mentions this and other aspects of the feature
which may otherwise surprise users.

Problem reported and patch reviewed by Amit Kapila
2016-05-06 07:47:12 -05:00
Andres Freund c6ff84b06a Emit invalidations to standby for transactions without xid.
So far, when a transaction with pending invalidations, but without an
assigned xid, committed, we simply ignored those invalidation
messages. That's problematic, because those are actually sent for a
reason.

Known symptoms of this include that existing sessions on a hot-standby
replica sometimes fail to notice new concurrently built indexes and
visibility map updates.

The solution is to WAL log such invalidations in transactions without an
xid. We considered to alternatively force-assign an xid, but that'd be
problematic for vacuum, which might be run in systems with few xids.

Important: This adds a new WAL record, but as the patch has to be
back-patched, we can't bump the WAL page magic. This means that standbys
have to be updated before primaries; otherwise
"PANIC: standby_redo: unknown op code 32" errors can be encountered.

XXX:

Reported-By: Васильев Дмитрий, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion:
    CAB-SwXY6oH=9twBkXJtgR4UC1NqT-vpYAtxCseME62ADwyK5OA@mail.gmail.com
    CAD21AoDpZ6Xjg=gFrGPnSn4oTRRcwK1EBrWCq9OqOHuAcMMC=w@mail.gmail.com
2016-04-26 20:21:54 -07:00
Teodor Sigaev 8b99edefca Revert CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING ...
It's not ready yet, revert two commits
690c543550 - unstable test output
386e3d7609 - patch itself
2016-04-08 21:52:13 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 386e3d7609 CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING (column[, ...])
Now indexes (but only B-tree for now) can contain "extra" column(s) which
doesn't participate in index structure, they are just stored in leaf
tuples. It allows to use index only scan by using single index instead
of two or more indexes.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with minor editorializing by me
Reviewers: David Rowley, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Janes
2016-04-08 19:45:59 +03:00
Simon Riggs 015e88942a Load FK defs into relcache for use by planner
Fastpath ignores this if no triggers defined.

Author: Tomas Vondra, with fastpath and comments added by me
Reviewers: David Rowley, Simon Riggs
2016-04-07 12:08:33 +01:00
Stephen Frost 86ebf30fd6 Reset plan->row_security_env and planUserId
In the plancache, we check if the environment we planned the query under
has changed in a way which requires us to re-plan, such as when the user
for whom the plan was prepared changes and RLS is being used (and,
therefore, there may be different policies to apply).

Unfortunately, while those values were set and checked, they were not
being reset when the query was re-planned and therefore, in cases where
we change role, re-plan, and then change role again, we weren't
re-planning again.  This leads to potentially incorrect policies being
applied in cases where role-specific policies are used and a given query
is planned under one role and then executed under other roles, which
could happen under security definer functions or when a common user and
query is planned initially and then re-used across multiple SET ROLEs.

Further, extensions which made use of CopyCachedPlan() may suffer from
similar issues as the RLS-related fields were not properly copied as
part of the plan and therefore RevalidateCachedQuery() would copy in the
current settings without invalidating the query.

Fix by using the same approach used for 'search_path', where we set the
correct values in CompleteCachedPlan(), check them early on in
RevalidateCachedQuery() and then properly reset them if re-planning.
Also, copy through the values during CopyCachedPlan().

Pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat.  Reviewed by Michael Paquier.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.

Security: CVE-2016-2193
2016-03-28 09:03:20 -04:00
Robert Haas fbe5a3fb73 Only try to push down foreign joins if the user mapping OIDs match.
Previously, the foreign join pushdown infrastructure left the question
of security entirely up to individual FDWs, but it would be easy for
a foreign data wrapper to inadvertently open up subtle security holes
that way.  So, make it the core code's job to determine which user
mapping OID is relevant, and don't attempt join pushdown unless it's
the same for all relevant relations.

Per a suggestion from Tom Lane.  Shigeru Hanada and Ashutosh Bapat,
reviewed by Etsuro Fujita and KaiGai Kohei, with some further
changes by me.
2016-01-28 14:05:36 -05:00
Tom Lane be44ed27b8 Improve index AMs' opclass validation procedures.
The amvalidate functions added in commit 65c5fcd353 were on the
crude side.  Improve them in a few ways:

* Perform signature checking for operators and support functions.

* Apply more thorough checks for missing operators and functions,
where possible.

* Instead of reporting problems as ERRORs, report most problems as INFO
messages and make the amvalidate function return FALSE.  This allows
more than one problem to be discovered per run.

* Report object names rather than OIDs, and work a bit harder on making
the messages understandable.

Also, remove a few more opr_sanity regression test queries that are
now superseded by the amvalidate checks.
2016-01-21 19:47:15 -05:00
Tom Lane 65c5fcd353 Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.
This patch reduces pg_am to just two columns, a name and a handler
function.  All the data formerly obtained from pg_am is now provided
in a C struct returned by the handler function.  This is similar to
the designs we've adopted for FDWs and tablesample methods.  There
are multiple advantages.  For one, the index AM's support functions
are now simple C functions, making them faster to call and much less
error-prone, since the C compiler can now check function signatures.
For another, this will make it far more practical to define index access
methods in installable extensions.

A disadvantage is that SQL-level code can no longer see attributes
of index AMs; in particular, some of the crosschecks in the opr_sanity
regression test are no longer possible from SQL.  We've addressed that
by adding a facility for the index AM to perform such checks instead.
(Much more could be done in that line, but for now we're content if the
amvalidate functions more or less replace what opr_sanity used to do.)
We might also want to expose some sort of reporting functionality, but
this patch doesn't do that.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, and rather heavily
editorialized on by me.
2016-01-17 19:36:59 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera efa318bcfa Make pg_shseclabel available in early backend startup
While the in-core authentication mechanism doesn't need to access
pg_shseclabel at all, it's reasonable to think that an authentication
hook will want to look at the label for the role logging in, or for rows
in other catalogs used during the authentication phase of startup.

Catalog version bumped, because this changes the "is nailed" status for
pg_shseclabel.

Author: Adam Brightwell
2016-01-05 14:50:53 -03:00
Bruce Momjian ee94300446 Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Tom Lane ec7eef6b11 Avoid caching expression state trees for domain constraints across queries.
In commit 8abb3cda0d I attempted to cache
the expression state trees constructed for domain CHECK constraints for
the life of the backend (assuming the domain's constraints don't get
redefined).  However, this turns out not to work very well, because
execQual.c will run those state trees with ecxt_per_query_memory pointing
to a query-lifespan context, and in some situations we'll end up with
pointers into that context getting stored into the state trees.  This
happens in particular with SQL-language functions, as reported by
Emre Hasegeli, but there are many other cases.

To fix, keep only the expression plan trees for domain CHECK constraints
in the typcache's data structure, and revert to performing ExecInitExpr
(at least) once per query to set up expression state trees in the query's
context.

Eventually it'd be nice to undo this, but that will require some careful
thought about memory management for expression state trees, and it seems
far too late for any such redesign in 9.5.  This way is still much more
efficient than what happened before 8abb3cda0.
2015-11-29 18:18:42 -05:00
Tom Lane da3751c8ea Be more noisy about "wrong number of nailed relations" initfile problems.
In commit 5d1ff6bd55 I added some logic to
relcache.c to try to ensure that the regression tests would fail if we
made a mistake about which relations belong in the relcache init files.
I'm quite sure I tested that, but I must have done so only for the
non-shared-catalog case, because a report from Adam Brightwell showed that
the regression tests still pass just fine if we bollix the shared-catalog
init file in the way this code was supposed to catch.  The reason is that
that file gets loaded before we do client authentication, so the WARNING
is not sent to the client, only to the postmaster log, where it's far too
easily missed.

The least Rube Goldbergian answer to this is to put an Assert(false)
after the elog(WARNING).  That will certainly get developers' attention,
while not breaking production builds' ability to recover from corner
cases with similar symptoms.

Since this is only of interest to developers, there seems no need for
a back-patch, even though the previous commit went into all branches.
2015-11-11 13:39:21 -05:00
Robert Haas 80558c1f5a Generate parallel sequential scan plans in simple cases.
Add a new flag, consider_parallel, to each RelOptInfo, indicating
whether a plan for that relation could conceivably be run inside of
a parallel worker.  Right now, we're pretty conservative: for example,
it might be possible to defer applying a parallel-restricted qual
in a worker, and later do it in the leader, but right now we just
don't try to parallelize access to that relation.  That's probably
the right decision in most cases, anyway.

Using the new flag, generate parallel sequential scan plans for plain
baserels, meaning that we now have parallel sequential scan in
PostgreSQL.  The logic here is pretty unsophisticated right now: the
costing model probably isn't right in detail, and we can't push joins
beneath Gather nodes, so the number of plans that can actually benefit
from this is pretty limited right now.  Lots more work is needed.
Nevertheless, it seems time to enable this functionality so that all
this code can actually be tested easily by users and developers.

Note that, if you wish to test this functionality, it will be
necessary to set max_parallel_degree to a value greater than the
default of 0.  Once a few more loose ends have been tidied up here, we
might want to consider changing the default value of this GUC, but
I'm leaving it alone for now.

Along the way, fix a bug in cost_gather: the previous coding thought
that a Gather node's transfer overhead should be costed on the basis of
the relation size rather than the number of tuples that actually need
to be passed off to the leader.

Patch by me, reviewed in earlier versions by Amit Kapila.
2015-11-11 09:02:52 -05:00
Noah Misch 7f11724bd6 Remove the SECURITY_ROW_LEVEL_DISABLED security context bit.
This commit's parent made superfluous the bit's sole usage.  Referential
integrity checks have long run as the subject table's owner, and that
now implies RLS bypass.  Safe use of the bit was tricky, requiring
strict control over the SQL expressions evaluating therein.  Back-patch
to 9.5, where the bit was introduced.

Based on a patch by Stephen Frost.
2015-09-20 20:47:17 -04:00
Robert Haas 7aea8e4f2d Determine whether it's safe to attempt a parallel plan for a query.
Commit 924bcf4f16 introduced a framework
for parallel computation in PostgreSQL that makes most but not all
built-in functions safe to execute in parallel mode.  In order to have
parallel query, we'll need to be able to determine whether that query
contains functions (either built-in or user-defined) that cannot be
safely executed in parallel mode.  This requires those functions to be
labeled, so this patch introduces an infrastructure for that.  Some
functions currently labeled as safe may need to be revised depending on
how pending issues related to heavyweight locking under paralllelism
are resolved.

Parallel plans can't be used except for the case where the query will
run to completion.  If portal execution were suspended, the parallel
mode restrictions would need to remain in effect during that time, but
that might make other queries fail.  Therefore, this patch introduces
a framework that enables consideration of parallel plans only when it
is known that the plan will be run to completion.  This probably needs
some refinement; for example, at bind time, we do not know whether a
query run via the extended protocol will be execution to completion or
run with a limited fetch count.  Having the client indicate its
intentions at bind time would constitute a wire protocol break.  Some
contexts in which parallel mode would be safe are not adjusted by this
patch; the default is not to try parallel plans except from call sites
that have been updated to say that such plans are OK.

This commit doesn't introduce any parallel paths or plans; it just
provides a way to determine whether they could potentially be used.
I'm committing it on the theory that the remaining parallel sequential
scan patches will also get committed to this release, hopefully in the
not-too-distant future.

Robert Haas and Amit Kapila.  Reviewed (in earlier versions) by Noah
Misch.
2015-09-16 15:38:47 -04:00
Stephen Frost 22eaf35c1d RLS refactoring
This refactors rewrite/rowsecurity.c to simplify the handling of the
default deny case (reducing the number of places where we check for and
add the default deny policy from three to one) by splitting up the
retrival of the policies from the application of them.

This also allowed us to do away with the policy_id field.  A policy_name
field was added for WithCheckOption policies and is used in error
reporting, when available.

Patch by Dean Rasheed, with various mostly cosmetic changes by me.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced to avoid unnecessary
differences, since we're still in alpha, per discussion with Robert.
2015-09-15 15:49:31 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 1aba62ec63 Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency
Per discussion, nowadays it is possible to have tablespaces that have
wildly different I/O characteristics from others.  Setting different
effective_io_concurrency parameters for those has been measured to
improve performance.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed by: Andres Freund
2015-09-08 12:51:42 -03:00
Tom Lane c5454f99c4 Fix subtransaction cleanup after an outer-subtransaction portal fails.
Formerly, we treated only portals created in the current subtransaction as
having failed during subtransaction abort.  However, if the error occurred
while running a portal created in an outer subtransaction (ie, a cursor
declared before the last savepoint), that has to be considered broken too.

To allow reliable detection of which ones those are, add a bookkeeping
field to struct Portal that tracks the innermost subtransaction in which
each portal has actually been executed.  (Without this, we'd end up
failing portals containing functions that had called the subtransaction,
thereby breaking plpgsql exception blocks completely.)

In addition, when we fail an outer-subtransaction Portal, transfer its
resources into the subtransaction's resource owner, so that they're
released early in cleanup of the subxact.  This fixes a problem reported by
Jim Nasby in which a function executed in an outer-subtransaction cursor
could cause an Assert failure or crash by referencing a relation created
within the inner subtransaction.

The proximate cause of the Assert failure is that AtEOSubXact_RelationCache
assumed it could blow away a relcache entry without first checking that the
entry had zero refcount.  That was a bad idea on its own terms, so add such
a check there, and to the similar coding in AtEOXact_RelationCache.  This
provides an independent safety measure in case there are still ways to
provoke the situation despite the Portal-level changes.

This has been broken since subtransactions were invented, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
2015-09-04 13:37:14 -04:00
Joe Conway 7b4bfc87d5 Plug RLS related information leak in pg_stats view.
The pg_stats view is supposed to be restricted to only show rows
about tables the user can read. However, it sometimes can leak
information which could not otherwise be seen when row level security
is enabled. Fix that by not showing pg_stats rows to users that would
be subject to RLS on the table the row is related to. This is done
by creating/using the newly introduced SQL visible function,
row_security_active().

Along the way, clean up three call sites of check_enable_rls(). The second
argument of that function should only be specified as other than
InvalidOid when we are checking as a different user than the current one,
as in when querying through a view. These sites were passing GetUserId()
instead of InvalidOid, which can cause the function to return incorrect
results if the current user has the BYPASSRLS privilege and row_security
has been set to OFF.

Additionally fix a bug causing RI Trigger error messages to unintentionally
leak information when RLS is enabled, and other minor cleanup and
improvements. Also add WITH (security_barrier) to the definition of pg_stats.

Bumped CATVERSION due to new SQL functions and pg_stats view definition.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced. Reported by Yaroslav.
Patch by Joe Conway and Dean Rasheed with review and input by
Michael Paquier and Stephen Frost.
2015-07-28 13:21:22 -07:00
Tom Lane dd7a8f66ed Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method
API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without
specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can
implement a TSM.  (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable
thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will
pg_upgrade behave sanely.)  Instead adopt an API more like procedural
language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level
support object needed is a single handler function identified by having
a special return type.  This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog
altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature.

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

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

Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API
in production.
2015-07-25 14:39:00 -04:00
Tom Lane 5d1ff6bd55 Fix the logic for putting relations into the relcache init file.
Commit f3b5565dd4 was a couple of bricks shy
of a load; specifically, it missed putting pg_trigger_tgrelid_tgname_index
into the relcache init file, because that index is not used by any
syscache.  However, we have historically nailed that index into cache for
performance reasons.  The upshot was that load_relcache_init_file always
decided that the init file was busted and silently ignored it, resulting
in a significant hit to backend startup speed.

To fix, reinstantiate RelationIdIsInInitFile() as a wrapper around
RelationSupportsSysCache(), which can know about additional relations
that should be in the init file despite being unknown to syscache.c.

Also install some guards against future mistakes of this type: make
write_relcache_init_file Assert that all nailed relations get written to
the init file, and make load_relcache_init_file emit a WARNING if it takes
the "wrong number of nailed relations" exit path.  Now that we remove the
init files during postmaster startup, that case should never occur in the
field, even if we are starting a minor-version update that added or removed
rels from the nailed set.  So the warning shouldn't ever be seen by end
users, but it will show up in the regression tests if somebody breaks this
logic.

Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commit.
2015-06-25 14:39:05 -04:00
Tom Lane f3b5565dd4 Use a safer method for determining whether relcache init file is stale.
When we invalidate the relcache entry for a system catalog or index, we
must also delete the relcache "init file" if the init file contains a copy
of that rel's entry.  The old way of doing this relied on a specially
maintained list of the OIDs of relations present in the init file: we made
the list either when reading the file in, or when writing the file out.
The problem is that when writing the file out, we included only rels
present in our local relcache, which might have already suffered some
deletions due to relcache inval events.  In such cases we correctly decided
not to overwrite the real init file with incomplete data --- but we still
used the incomplete initFileRelationIds list for the rest of the current
session.  This could result in wrong decisions about whether the session's
own actions require deletion of the init file, potentially allowing an init
file created by some other concurrent session to be left around even though
it's been made stale.

Since we don't support changing the schema of a system catalog at runtime,
the only likely scenario in which this would cause a problem in the field
involves a "vacuum full" on a catalog concurrently with other activity, and
even then it's far from easy to provoke.  Remarkably, this has been broken
since 2002 (in commit 7863404417), but we had
never seen a reproducible test case until recently.  If it did happen in
the field, the symptoms would probably involve unexpected "cache lookup
failed" errors to begin with, then "could not open file" failures after the
next checkpoint, as all accesses to the affected catalog stopped working.
Recovery would require manually removing the stale "pg_internal.init" file.

To fix, get rid of the initFileRelationIds list, and instead consult
syscache.c's list of relations used in catalog caches to decide whether a
relation is included in the init file.  This should be a tad more efficient
anyway, since we're replacing linear search of a list with ~100 entries
with a binary search.  It's a bit ugly that the init file contents are now
so directly tied to the catalog caches, but in practice that won't make
much difference.

Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-06-07 15:32:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 807b9e0dff pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4fc72cc7bb Collection of typo fixes.
Use "a" and "an" correctly, mostly in comments. Two error messages were
also fixed (they were just elogs, so no translation work required). Two
function comments in pg_proc.h were also fixed. Etsuro Fujita reported one
of these, but I found a lot more with grep.

Also fix a few other typos spotted while grepping for the a/an typos.
For example, "consists out of ..." -> "consists of ...". Plus a "though"/
"through" mixup reported by Euler Taveira.

Many of these typos were in old code, which would be nice to backpatch to
make future backpatching easier. But much of the code was new, and I didn't
feel like crafting separate patches for each branch. So no backpatching.
2015-05-20 16:56:22 +03:00
Simon Riggs f6d208d6e5 TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible
Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows
user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level
SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible
sampling functions to be written, using a standard API.
Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable
concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later
commits.

Petr Jelinek

Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
2015-05-15 14:37:10 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan cb9fa802b3 Add new OID alias type regnamespace
Catalog version bumped

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
2015-05-09 13:36:52 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 0c90f6769d Add new OID alias type regrole
The new type has the scope of whole the database cluster so it doesn't
behave the same as the existing OID alias types which have database
scope,
concerning object dependency. To avoid confusion constants of the new
type are prohibited from appearing where dependencies are made involving
it.

Also, add a note to the docs about possible MVCC violation and
optimization issues, which are general over the all reg* types.

Kyotaro Horiguchi
2015-05-09 13:06:49 -04:00
Andres Freund 5aa2350426 Introduce replication progress tracking infrastructure.
When implementing a replication solution ontop of logical decoding, two
related problems exist:
* How to safely keep track of replication progress
* How to change replication behavior, based on the origin of a row;
  e.g. to avoid loops in bi-directional replication setups

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

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

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

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

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

Bumps both catversion and wal page magic.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions from Petr Jelinek and Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Petr Jelinek, Robert Haas, Steve Singer
Discussion: 20150216002155.GI15326@awork2.anarazel.de,
    20140923182422.GA15776@alap3.anarazel.de,
    20131114172632.GE7522@alap2.anarazel.de
2015-04-29 19:30:53 +02:00
Andres Freund 6aab1f45ac Fix various typos and grammar errors in comments.
Author: Dmitriy Olshevskiy
Discussion: 553D00A6.4090205@bk.ru
2015-04-26 18:42:31 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut cac7658205 Add transforms feature
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages.  As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.

reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
2015-04-26 10:33:14 -04:00
Stephen Frost ab6d1cd26e Fix typo in relcache's equalPolicy()
The USING policies were not being checked for differences as the same
policy was being passed in to both sides of the equal().  This could
result in backends not realizing that a policy had been changed, if
none of the other attributes had been changed.

Fix by passing to equal() the policy1 and policy2 using quals for
comparison.

No need to back-patch as this is not yet released.  Noticed while
testing changes to RLS proposed by Dean Rasheed.
2015-04-17 16:37:11 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4f700bcd20 Reorganize our CRC source files again.
Now that we use CRC-32C in WAL and the control file, the "traditional" and
"legacy" CRC-32 variants are not used in any frontend programs anymore.
Move the code for those back from src/common to src/backend/utils/hash.

Also move the slicing-by-8 implementation (back) to src/port. This is in
preparation for next patch that will add another implementation that uses
Intel SSE 4.2 instructions to calculate CRC-32C, where available.
2015-04-14 17:03:42 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera e9a077cad3 pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: add is_temp column
It now also reports temporary objects dropped that are local to the
backend.  Previously we weren't reporting any temp objects because it
was deemed unnecessary; but as it turns out, it is necessary if we want
to keep close track of DDL command execution inside one session.  Temp
objects are reported as living in schema pg_temp, which works because
such a schema-qualification always refers to the temp objects of the
current session.
2015-04-06 11:40:55 -03:00
Tom Lane e5f455f59f Apply table and domain CHECK constraints in name order.
Previously, CHECK constraints of the same scope were checked in whatever
order they happened to be read from pg_constraint.  (Usually, but not
reliably, this would be creation order for domain constraints and reverse
creation order for table constraints, because of differing implementation
details.)  Nondeterministic results of this sort are problematic at least
for testing purposes, and in discussion it was agreed to be a violation of
the principle of least astonishment.  Therefore, borrow the principle
already established for triggers, and apply such checks in name order
(using strcmp() sort rules).  This lets users control the check order
if they have a mind to.

Domain CHECK constraints still follow the rule of checking lower nested
domains' constraints first; the name sort only applies to multiple
constraints attached to the same domain.

In passing, I failed to resist the temptation to wordsmith a bit in
create_domain.sgml.

Apply to HEAD only, since this could result in a behavioral change in
existing applications, and the potential regression test failures have
not actually been observed in our buildfarm.
2015-03-23 16:59:35 -04:00
Tom Lane 8abb3cda0d Use the typcache to cache constraints for domain types.
Previously, we cached domain constraints for the life of a query, or
really for the life of the FmgrInfo struct that was used to invoke
domain_in() or domain_check().  But plpgsql (and probably other places)
are set up to cache such FmgrInfos for the whole lifespan of a session,
which meant they could be enforcing really stale sets of constraints.
On the other hand, searching pg_constraint once per query gets kind of
expensive too: testing says that as much as half the runtime of a
trivial query such as "SELECT 0::domaintype" went into that.

To fix this, delegate the responsibility for tracking a domain's
constraints to the typcache, which has the infrastructure needed to
detect syscache invalidation events that signal possible changes.
This not only removes unnecessary repeat reads of pg_constraint,
but ensures that we never apply stale constraint data: whatever we
use is the current data according to syscache rules.

Unfortunately, the current configuration of the system catalogs means
we have to flush cached domain-constraint data whenever either pg_type
or pg_constraint changes, which happens rather a lot (eg, creation or
deletion of a temp table will do it).  It might be worth rearranging
things to split pg_constraint into two catalogs, of which the domain
constraint one would probably be very low-traffic.  That's a job for
another patch though, and in any case this patch should improve matters
materially even with that handicap.

This patch makes use of the recently-added memory context reset callback
feature to manage the lifespan of domain constraint caches, so that we
don't risk deleting a cache that might be in the midst of evaluation.

Although this is a bug fix as well as a performance improvement, no
back-patch.  There haven't been many if any field complaints about
stale domain constraint checks, so it doesn't seem worth taking the
risk of modifying data structures as basic as MemoryContexts in back
branches.
2015-03-01 14:06:55 -05:00
Tom Lane 33a3b03d63 Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in some more places.
Fix a batch of structs that are only visible within individual .c files.

Michael Paquier
2015-02-20 17:32:01 -05:00
Tom Lane 09d8d110a6 Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in a bunch more places.
Replace some bogus "x[1]" declarations with "x[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]".
Aside from being more self-documenting, this should help prevent bogus
warnings from static code analyzers and perhaps compiler misoptimizations.

This patch is just a down payment on eliminating the whole problem, but
it gets rid of a lot of easy-to-fix cases.

Note that the main problem with doing this is that one must no longer rely
on computing sizeof(the containing struct), since the result would be
compiler-dependent.  Instead use offsetof(struct, lastfield).  Autoconf
also warns against spelling that offsetof(struct, lastfield[0]).

Michael Paquier, review and additional fixes by me.
2015-02-20 00:11:42 -05:00
Stephen Frost 804b6b6db4 Fix column-privilege leak in error-message paths
While building error messages to return to the user,
BuildIndexValueDescription, ExecBuildSlotValueDescription and
ri_ReportViolation would happily include the entire key or entire row in
the result returned to the user, even if the user didn't have access to
view all of the columns being included.

Instead, include only those columns which the user is providing or which
the user has select rights on.  If the user does not have any rights
to view the table or any of the columns involved then no detail is
provided and a NULL value is returned from BuildIndexValueDescription
and ExecBuildSlotValueDescription.  Note that, for key cases, the user
must have access to all of the columns for the key to be shown; a
partial key will not be returned.

Further, in master only, do not return any data for cases where row
security is enabled on the relation and row security should be applied
for the user.  This required a bit of refactoring and moving of things
around related to RLS- note the addition of utils/misc/rls.c.

Back-patch all the way, as column-level privileges are now in all
supported versions.

This has been assigned CVE-2014-8161, but since the issue and the patch
have already been publicized on pgsql-hackers, there's no point in trying
to hide this commit.
2015-01-28 12:31:30 -05:00
Tom Lane fd496129d1 Clean up some mess in row-security patches.
Fix unsafe coding around PG_TRY in RelationBuildRowSecurity: can't change
a variable inside PG_TRY and then use it in PG_CATCH without marking it
"volatile".  In this case though it seems saner to avoid that by doing
a single assignment before entering the TRY block.

I started out just intending to fix that, but the more I looked at the
row-security code the more distressed I got.  This patch also fixes
incorrect construction of the RowSecurityPolicy cache entries (there was
not sufficient care taken to copy pass-by-ref data into the cache memory
context) and a whole bunch of sloppiness around the definition and use of
pg_policy.polcmd.  You can't use nulls in that column because initdb will
mark it NOT NULL --- and I see no particular reason why a null entry would
be a good idea anyway, so changing initdb's behavior is not the right
answer.  The internal value of '\0' wouldn't be suitable in a "char" column
either, so after a bit of thought I settled on using '*' to represent ALL.
Chasing those changes down also revealed that somebody wasn't paying
attention to what the underlying values of ACL_UPDATE_CHR etc really were,
and there was a great deal of lackadaiscalness in the catalogs.sgml
documentation for pg_policy and pg_policies too.

This doesn't pretend to be a complete code review for the row-security
stuff, it just fixes the things that were in my face while dealing with
the bugs in RelationBuildRowSecurity.
2015-01-24 16:16:22 -05:00
Andres Freund 3fabed0705 Correctly handle relcache invalidation corner case during logical decoding.
When using a historic snapshot for logical decoding it can validly
happen that a relation that's in the relcache isn't visible to that
historic snapshot.  E.g. if a newly created relation is referenced in
the query that uses the SQL interface for logical decoding and a
sinval reset occurs.

The earlier commit that fixed the error handling for that corner case
already improves the situation as a ERROR is better than hitting an
assertion... But it's obviously not good enough.  So additionally
allow that case without an error if a historic snapshot is set up -
that won't allow an invalid entry to stay in the cache because it's a)
already marked invalid and will thus be rebuilt during the next access
b) the syscaches will be reset at the end of decoding.

There might be prettier solutions to handle this case, but all that we
could think of so far end up being much more complex than this quite
simple fix.

This fixes the assertion failures reported by the buildfarm (markhor,
tick, leech) after the introduction of new regression tests in
89fd41b390. The failure there weren't actually directly caused by
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS but the extraordinary long runtimes due to it
lead to sinval resets triggering the behaviour.

Discussion: 22459.1418656530@sss.pgh.pa.us

Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.
2015-01-07 00:19:37 +01:00
Andres Freund 31912d01d8 Improve relcache invalidation handling of currently invisible relations.
The corner case where a relcache invalidation tried to rebuild the
entry for a referenced relation but couldn't find it in the catalog
wasn't correct.

The code tried to RelationCacheDelete/RelationDestroyRelation the
entry. That didn't work when assertions are enabled because the latter
contains an assertion ensuring the refcount is zero. It's also more
generally a bad idea, because by virtue of being referenced somebody
might actually look at the entry, which is possible if the error is
trapped and handled via a subtransaction abort.

Instead just error out, without deleting the entry. As the entry is
marked invalid, the worst that can happen is that the invalid (and at
some point unused) entry lingers in the relcache.

Discussion: 22459.1418656530@sss.pgh.pa.us

There should be no way to hit this case < 9.4 where logical decoding
introduced a bug that can hit this. But since the code for handling
the corner case is there it should do something halfway sane, so
backpatch all the the way back.  The logical decoding bug will be
handled in a separate commit.
2015-01-07 00:18:00 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 4baaf863ec Update copyright for 2015
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
Tom Lane 4a14f13a0a Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.
Previously, if you wanted anything besides C-string hash keys, you had to
specify a custom hashing function to hash_create().  Nearly all such
callers were specifying tag_hash or oid_hash; which is tedious, and rather
error-prone, since a caller could easily miss the opportunity to optimize
by using hash_uint32 when appropriate.  Replace this with a design whereby
callers using simple binary-data keys just specify HASH_BLOBS and don't
need to mess with specific support functions.  hash_create() itself will
take care of optimizing when the key size is four bytes.

This nets out saving a few hundred bytes of code space, and offers
a measurable performance improvement in tidbitmap.c (which was not
exploiting the opportunity to use hash_uint32 for its 4-byte keys).
There might be some wins elsewhere too, I didn't analyze closely.

In future we could look into offering a similar optimized hashing function
for 8-byte keys.  Under this design that could be done in a centralized
and machine-independent fashion, whereas getting it right for keys of
platform-dependent sizes would've been notationally painful before.

For the moment, the old way still works fine, so as not to break source
code compatibility for loadable modules.  Eventually we might want to
remove tag_hash and friends from the exported API altogether, since there's
no real need for them to be explicitly referenced from outside dynahash.c.

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2014-12-18 13:36:36 -05:00
Simon Riggs 618c9430a8 Event Trigger for table_rewrite
Generate a table_rewrite event when ALTER TABLE
attempts to rewrite a table. Provide helper
functions to identify table and reason.

Intended use case is to help assess or to react
to schema changes that might hold exclusive locks
for long periods.

Dimitri Fontaine, triggering an edit by Simon Riggs

Reviewed in detail by Michael Paquier
2014-12-08 00:55:28 +09:00
Tom Lane e384ed6cde Improve typcache: cache negative lookup results, add invalidation logic.
Previously, if the typcache had for example tried and failed to find a hash
opclass for a given data type, it would nonetheless repeat the unsuccessful
catalog lookup each time it was asked again.  This can lead to a
significant amount of useless bufmgr traffic, as in a recent report from
Scott Marlowe.  Like the catalog caches, typcache should be able to cache
negative results.  This patch arranges that by making use of separate flag
bits to remember whether a particular item has been looked up, rather than
treating a zero OID as an indicator that no lookup has been done.

Also, install a credible invalidation mechanism, namely watching for inval
events in pg_opclass.  The sole advantage of the lack of negative caching
was that the code would cope if operators or opclasses got added for a type
mid-session; to preserve that behavior we have to be able to invalidate
stale lookup results.  Updates in pg_opclass should be pretty rare in
production systems, so it seems sufficient to just invalidate all the
dependent data whenever one happens.

Adding proper invalidation also means that this code will now react sanely
if an opclass is dropped mid-session.  Arguably, that's a back-patchable
bug fix, but in view of the lack of complaints from the field I'll refrain
from back-patching.  (Probably, in most cases where an opclass is dropped,
the data type itself is dropped soon after, so that this misfeasance has
no bad consequences.)
2014-11-28 12:19:14 -05:00
Stephen Frost 143b39c185 Rename pg_rowsecurity -> pg_policy and other fixes
As pointed out by Robert, we should really have named pg_rowsecurity
pg_policy, as the objects stored in that catalog are policies.  This
patch fixes that and updates the column names to start with 'pol' to
match the new catalog name.

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

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

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

Happy Thanksgiving!
2014-11-27 01:15:57 -05:00
Tom Lane bac27394a1 Support arrays as input to array_agg() and ARRAY(SELECT ...).
These cases formerly failed with errors about "could not find array type
for data type".  Now they yield arrays of the same element type and one
higher dimension.

The implementation involves creating functions with API similar to the
existing accumArrayResult() family.  I (tgl) also extended the base family
by adding an initArrayResult() function, which allows callers to avoid
special-casing the zero-inputs case if they just want an empty array as
result.  (Not all do, so the previous calling convention remains valid.)
This allowed simplifying some existing code in xml.c and plperl.c.

Ali Akbar, reviewed by Pavel Stehule, significantly modified by me
2014-11-25 12:21:28 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2c03216d83 Revamp the WAL record format.
Each WAL record now carries information about the modified relation and
block(s) in a standardized format. That makes it easier to write tools that
need that information, like pg_rewind, prefetching the blocks to speed up
recovery, etc.

There's a whole new API for building WAL records, replacing the XLogRecData
chains used previously. The new API consists of XLogRegister* functions,
which are called for each buffer and chunk of data that is added to the
record. The new API also gives more control over when a full-page image is
written, by passing flags to the XLogRegisterBuffer function.

This also simplifies the XLogReadBufferForRedo() calls. The function can dig
the relation and block number from the WAL record, so they no longer need to
be passed as arguments.

For the convenience of redo routines, XLogReader now disects each WAL record
after reading it, copying the main data part and the per-block data into
MAXALIGNed buffers. The data chunks are not aligned within the WAL record,
but the redo routines can assume that the pointers returned by XLogRecGet*
functions are. Redo routines are now passed the XLogReaderState, which
contains the record in the already-disected format, instead of the plain
XLogRecord.

The new record format also makes the fixed size XLogRecord header smaller,
by removing the xl_len field. The length of the "main data" portion is now
stored at the end of the WAL record, and there's a separate header after
XLogRecord for it. The alignment padding at the end of XLogRecord is also
removed. This compansates for the fact that the new format would otherwise
be more bulky than the old format.

Reviewed by Andres Freund, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera,
Fujii Masao.
2014-11-20 18:46:41 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 0f9692b40d Fix relpersistence setting in reindex_index
Buildfarm members with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS advised us that commit
85b506bbfc was mistaken in setting the relpersistence value of the
index directly in the relcache entry, within reindex_index.  The reason
for the failure is that an invalidation message that comes after mucking
with the relcache entry directly, but before writing it to the catalogs,
would cause the entry to become rebuilt in place from catalogs with the
old contents, losing the update.

Fix by passing the correct persistence value to
RelationSetNewRelfilenode instead; this routine also writes the updated
tuple to pg_class, avoiding the problem.  Suggested by Tom Lane.
2014-11-17 11:23:35 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 85b506bbfc Get rid of SET LOGGED indexes persistence kludge
This removes ATChangeIndexesPersistence() introduced by f41872d0c1
which was too ugly to live for long.  Instead, the correct persistence
marking is passed all the way down to reindex_index, so that the
transient relation built to contain the index relfilenode can
get marked correctly right from the start.

Author: Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Review and editorialization by Michael Paquier
                                     and Álvaro Herrera
2014-11-15 01:19:49 -03:00
Stephen Frost 80eacaa3cd Clean up includes from RLS patch
The initial patch for RLS mistakenly included headers associated with
the executor and planner bits in rewrite/rowsecurity.h.  Per policy and
general good sense, executor headers should not be included in planner
headers or vice versa.

The include of execnodes.h was a mistaken holdover from previous
versions, while the include of relation.h was used for Relation's
definition, which should have been coming from utils/relcache.h.  This
patch cleans these issues up, adds comments to the RowSecurityPolicy
struct and the RowSecurityConfigType enum, and changes Relation->rsdesc
to Relation->rd_rsdesc to follow Relation field naming convention.

Additionally, utils/rel.h was including rewrite/rowsecurity.h, which
wasn't a great idea since that was pulling in things not really needed
in utils/rel.h (which gets included in quite a few places).  Instead,
use 'struct RowSecurityDesc' for the rd_rsdesc field and add comments
explaining why.

Lastly, add an include into access/nbtree/nbtsort.c for
utils/sortsupport.h, which was evidently missed due to the above mess.

Pointed out by Tom in 16970.1415838651@sss.pgh.pa.us; note that the
concerns regarding a similar situation in the custom-path commit still
need to be addressed.
2014-11-14 17:05:17 -05:00
Tom Lane 677708032c Explicitly support the case that a plancache's raw_parse_tree is NULL.
This only happens if a client issues a Parse message with an empty query
string, which is a bit odd; but since it is explicitly called out as legal
by our FE/BE protocol spec, we'd probably better continue to allow it.

Fix by adding tests everywhere that the raw_parse_tree field is passed to
functions that don't or shouldn't accept NULL.  Also make it clear in the
relevant comments that NULL is an expected case.

This reverts commits a73c9dbab0 and
2e9650cbcf, which fixed specific crash
symptoms by hacking things at what now seems to be the wrong end, ie the
callee functions.  Making the callees allow NULL is superficially more
robust, but it's not always true that there is a defensible thing for the
callee to do in such cases.  The caller has more context and is better
able to decide what the empty-query case ought to do.

Per followup discussion of bug #11335.  Back-patch to 9.2.  The code
before that is sufficiently different that it would require development
of a separate patch, which doesn't seem worthwhile for what is believed
to be an essentially cosmetic change.
2014-11-12 15:59:01 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2076db2aea Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.
xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions
related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the
lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c.

Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This
causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and
redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
2014-11-06 13:55:36 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5028f22f6e Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.
The old algorithm was found to not be the usual CRC-32 algorithm, used by
Ethernet et al. We were using a non-reflected lookup table with code meant
for a reflected lookup table. That's a strange combination that AFAICS does
not correspond to any bit-wise CRC calculation, which makes it difficult to
reason about its properties. Although it has worked well in practice, seems
safer to use a well-known algorithm.

Since we're changing the algorithm anyway, we might as well choose a
different polynomial. The Castagnoli polynomial has better error-correcting
properties than the traditional CRC-32 polynomial, even if we had
implemented it correctly. Another reason for picking that is that some new
CPUs have hardware support for calculating CRC-32C, but not CRC-32, let
alone our strange variant of it. This patch doesn't add any support for such
hardware, but a future patch could now do that.

The old algorithm is kept around for tsquery and pg_trgm, which use the
values in indexes that need to remain compatible so that pg_upgrade works.
While we're at it, share the old lookup table for CRC-32 calculation
between hstore, ltree and core. They all use the same table, so might as
well.
2014-11-04 11:39:48 +02:00