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Bruce Momjian 89a624439e Create AVG() aggregates for int8 and NUMERIC which do not compute X^2,
as a performance enhancement.

Mark Kirkwood
2007-02-17 00:55:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 8249409bc1 Adjust the definition of is_pushed_down so that it's always true for INNER
JOIN quals, just like WHERE quals, even if they reference every one of the
join's relations.  Now that we can reorder outer and inner joins, it's
possible for such a qual to end up being assigned to an outer join plan node,
and we mustn't have it treated as a join qual rather than a filter qual for
the node.  (If it were, the join could produce null-extended rows that it
shouldn't.)  Per bug report from Pelle Johansson.
2007-02-16 20:57:19 +00:00
Tom Lane b6c9165ea0 Code review for SSLKEY patch. 2007-02-16 17:07:00 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 355e05ab41 Functions for mapping table data and table schemas to XML (a.k.a. XML export) 2007-02-16 07:46:55 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4ebb0cf9c3 Add two new format fields for use with to_char(), to_date() and
to_timestamp():
    - ID for day-of-week
    - IDDD for day-of-year

This makes it possible to convert ISO week dates to and from text
fully represented in either week ('IYYY-IW-ID') or day-of-year
('IYYY-IDDD') format.

I have also added an 'isoyear' field for use with extract / date_part.

Brendan Jurd
2007-02-16 03:39:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c7b08050d9 SSL improvements:
o read global SSL configuration file
	o add GUC "ssl_ciphers" to control allowed ciphers
	o add libpq environment variable PGSSLKEY to control SSL hardware keys

Victor B. Wagner
2007-02-16 02:59:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 6bef118b01 Restructure code that is responsible for ensuring that clauseless joins are
considered when it is necessary to do so because of a join-order restriction
(that is, an outer-join or IN-subselect construct).  The former coding was a
bit ad-hoc and inconsistent, and it missed some cases, as exposed by Mario
Weilguni's recent bug report.  His specific problem was that an IN could be
turned into a "clauseless" join due to constant-propagation removing the IN's
joinclause, and if the IN's subselect involved more than one relation and
there was more than one such IN linking to the same upper relation, then the
only valid join orders involve "bushy" plans but we would fail to consider the
specific paths needed to get there.  (See the example case added to the join
regression test.)  On examining the code I wonder if there weren't some other
problem cases too; in particular it seems that GEQO was defending against a
different set of corner cases than the main planner was.  There was also an
efficiency problem, in that when we did realize we needed a clauseless join
because of an IN, we'd consider clauseless joins against every other relation
whether this was sensible or not.  It seems a better design is to use the
outer-join and in-clause lists as a backup heuristic, just as the rule of
joining only where there are joinclauses is a heuristic: we'll join two
relations if they have a usable joinclause *or* this might be necessary to
satisfy an outer-join or IN-clause join order restriction.  I refactored the
code to have just one place considering this instead of three, and made sure
that it covered all the cases that any of them had been considering.

Backpatch as far as 8.1 (which has only the IN-clause form of the disease).
By rights 8.0 and 7.4 should have the bug too, but they accidentally fail
to fail, because the joininfo structure used in those releases preserves some
memory of there having once been a joinclause between the inner and outer
sides of an IN, and so it leads the code in the right direction anyway.
I'll be conservative and not touch them.
2007-02-16 00:14:01 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 1820650934 Restructure autovacuum in two processes: a dummy process, which runs
continuously, and requests vacuum runs of "autovacuum workers" to postmaster.
The workers do the actual vacuum work.  This allows for future improvements,
like allowing multiple autovacuum jobs running in parallel.

For now, the code keeps the original behavior of having a single autovac
process at any time by sleeping until the previous worker has finished.
2007-02-15 23:23:23 +00:00
Tom Lane bfe553fb49 Repair oversight in 8.2 change that improved the handling of "pseudoconstant"
WHERE clauses.  createplan.c is now willing to stick a gating Result node
almost anywhere in the plan tree, and in particular one can wind up directly
underneath a MergeJoin node.  This means it had better be willing to handle
Mark/Restore.  Fortunately, that's trivial in such cases, since we can just
pass off the call to the input node (which the planner has previously ensured
can handle Mark/Restore).  Per report from Phil Frost.
2007-02-15 03:07:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a9eb53969a Move fsync method macro defines into /include/access/xlogdefs.h so they
can be used by src/tools/fsync/test_fsync.c.
2007-02-14 05:00:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 7bddca3450 Fix up foreign-key mechanism so that there is a sound semantic basis for the
equality checks it applies, instead of a random dependence on whatever
operators might be named "=".  The equality operators will now be selected
from the opfamily of the unique index that the FK constraint depends on to
enforce uniqueness of the referenced columns; therefore they are certain to be
consistent with that index's notion of equality.  Among other things this
should fix the problem noted awhile back that pg_dump may fail for foreign-key
constraints on user-defined types when the required operators aren't in the
search path.  This also means that the former warning condition about "foreign
key constraint will require costly sequential scans" is gone: if the
comparison condition isn't indexable then we'll reject the constraint
entirely. All per past discussions.

Along the way, make the RI triggers look into pg_constraint for their
information, instead of using pg_trigger.tgargs; and get rid of the always
error-prone fixed-size string buffers in ri_triggers.c in favor of building up
the RI queries in StringInfo buffers.

initdb forced due to columns added to pg_constraint and pg_trigger.
2007-02-14 01:58:58 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut eb19144894 Add support for optionally escaping periods when converting SQL identifiers
to XML names, which will be required for supporting XML export.
2007-02-11 22:18:16 +00:00
Tom Lane f44271176e Call pgstat_drop_database during DROP DATABASE, so that any stats file
entries for the victim database go away sooner rather than later.  We already
did the equivalent thing at the per-relation level, not sure why it's not
been done for whole databases.  With this change, pgstat_vacuum_tabstat
should usually not find anything to do; though we still need it as a backstop
in case DROPDB or TABPURGE messages get lost under load.
2007-02-09 16:12:19 +00:00
Tom Lane c398300330 Combine cmin and cmax fields of HeapTupleHeaders into a single field, by
keeping private state in each backend that has inserted and deleted the same
tuple during its current top-level transaction.  This is sufficient since
there is no need to be able to determine the cmin/cmax from any other
transaction.  This gets us back down to 23-byte headers, removing a penalty
paid in 8.0 to support subtransactions.  Patch by Heikki Linnakangas, with
minor revisions by moi, following a design hashed out awhile back on the
pghackers list.
2007-02-09 03:35:35 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b79575ce45 Reduce WAL activity for page splits:
> Currently, an index split writes all the data on the split page to
> WAL. That's a lot of WAL traffic. The tuples that are copied to the
> right page need to be WAL logged, but the tuples that stay on the
> original page don't.

Heikki Linnakangas
2007-02-08 05:05:53 +00:00
Tom Lane aec4cf1c8c Add a function pg_stat_clear_snapshot() that discards any statistics snapshot
already collected in the current transaction; this allows plpgsql functions to
watch for stats updates even though they are confined to a single transaction.
Use this instead of the previous kluge involving pg_stat_file() to wait for
the stats collector to update in the stats regression test.  Internally,
decouple storage of stats snapshots from transaction boundaries; they'll
now stick around until someone calls pgstat_clear_snapshot --- which xact.c
still does at transaction end, to maintain the previous behavior.  This makes
the logic a lot cleaner, at the price of a couple dozen cycles per transaction
exit.
2007-02-07 23:11:30 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 4f64a07bee Add strlcat() from OpenBSD, to be used for replacing strncat and other
strange coding practices.
2007-02-07 00:28:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 037f8413fa Move NAMEDATALEN definition from postgres_ext.h to pg_config_manual.h. It
used to be part of libpq's exported interface many releases ago, but now
it's no longer necessary to make it accessible to clients.
2007-02-06 09:16:08 +00:00
Tom Lane ab05eedecc Add support for cross-type hashing in hashed subplans (hashed IN/NOT IN cases
that aren't turned into true joins).  Since this is the last missing bit of
infrastructure, go ahead and fill out the hash integer_ops and float_ops
opfamilies with cross-type operators.  The operator family project is now
DONE ... er, except for documentation ...
2007-02-06 02:59:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 23c4978e6c Rename MaxTupleSize to MaxHeapTupleSize to clarify that it's not meant to
describe the maximum size of index tuples (which is typically AM-dependent
anyway); and consequently remove the bogus deduction for "special space"
that was built into it.

Adjust TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD and TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE to avoid wasting two
bytes per toast chunk, and to ensure that the calculation correctly tracks any
future changes in page header size.  The computation had been inaccurate in a
way that didn't cause any harm except space wastage, but future changes could
have broken it more drastically.

Fix the calculation of BTMaxItemSize, which was formerly computed as 1 byte
more than it could safely be.  This didn't cause any harm in practice because
it's only compared against maxalign'd lengths, but future changes in the size
of page headers or btree special space could have exposed the problem.

initdb forced because of change in TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE, which alters the
storage of toast tables.
2007-02-05 04:22:18 +00:00
Tom Lane a2e092e1c7 Don't MAXALIGN in the checks to decide whether a tuple is over TOAST's
threshold for tuple length.  On 4-byte-MAXALIGN machines, the toast code
creates tuples that have t_len exactly TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD ... but this
number is not itself maxaligned, so if heap_insert maxaligns t_len before
comparing to TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD, it'll uselessly recurse back to
tuptoaster.c, wasting cycles.  (It turns out that this does not happen on
8-byte-MAXALIGN machines, because for them the outer MAXALIGN in the
TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE macro reduces TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE so that toast tuples
will be less than TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD in size.  That MAXALIGN is really
incorrect, but we can't remove it now, see below.)  There isn't any particular
value in maxaligning before comparing to the thresholds, so just don't do
that, which saves a small number of cycles in itself.

These numbers should be rejiggered to minimize wasted space on toast-relation
pages, but we can't do that in the back branches because changing
TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE would force an initdb (by changing the contents of toast
tables).  We can move the toast decision thresholds a bit, though, which is
what this patch effectively does.

Thanks to Pavan Deolasee for discovering the unintended recursion.

Back-patch into 8.2, but not further, pending more testing.  (HEAD is about
to get a further patch modifying the thresholds, so it won't help much
for testing this form of the patch.)
2007-02-04 20:00:37 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ec020e1ceb Implement XMLSERIALIZE for real. Analogously, make the xml to text cast
observe the xmloption.

Reorganize the representation of the XML option in the parse tree and the
API to make it easier to manage and understand.

Add regression tests for parsing back XML expressions.
2007-02-03 14:06:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 5413eef8dc Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previously
made query plan.  Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached
query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different
type than it now has.  Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars
at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor.  Since
at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the
column type will not change underneath us later in the query.  However,
since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a
hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE
while a query is in progress in the current backend.  Seal that hole by
rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in
the current backend.

This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the
backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is
possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory,
which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able
to see.  Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report.

Security: CVE-2007-0556
2007-02-02 00:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8b4ff8b6a1 Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:

        may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."

        can - ability, "I can lift that log."

        might - possibility, "It might rain today."

Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice.  Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-02-01 19:10:30 +00:00
Neil Conway 05ce7d6a41 Rewrite uuid input and output routines to avoid dependency on the
nonportable "hh" sprintf(3) length modifier. Instead, do the parsing
and output by hand. The code to do this isn't ideal, but this is
an interim measure anyway: the uuid type should probably use the
in-memory struct layout specified by RFC 4122. For now, this patch
should hopefully rectify the buildfarm failures for the uuid test.

Along the way, re-add pg_cast entries for uuid <-> varchar, which
I mistakenly removed earlier, and bump the catversion.
2007-01-31 19:33:54 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev d4c6da1527 Allow GIN's extractQuery method to signal that nothing can satisfy the query.
In this case extractQuery should returns -1 as nentries. This changes
prototype of extractQuery method to use int32* instead of uint32* for
nentries argument.
Based on that gincostestimate may see two corner cases: nothing will be found
or seqscan should be used.

Per proposal at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01581.php

PS tsearch_core patch should be sightly modified to support changes, but I'm
waiting a verdict about reviewing of tsearch_core patch.
2007-01-31 15:09:45 +00:00
Tom Lane a635c08fa1 Add support for cross-type hashing in hash index searches and hash joins.
Hashing for aggregation purposes still needs work, so it's not time to
mark any cross-type operators as hashable for general use, but these cases
work if the operators are so marked by hand in the system catalogs.
2007-01-30 01:33:36 +00:00
Tom Lane b39e91501c Improve hash join to discard input tuples immediately if they can't
match because they contain a null join key (and the join operator is
known strict).  Improves performance significantly when the inner
relation contains a lot of nulls, as per bug #2930.
2007-01-28 23:21:26 +00:00
Neil Conway 74a1a2b8b1 Rename the uuid_t type to pg_uuid_t, to avoid a conflict with any
definitions of uuid_t that may be provided by the system headers. This
should hopefully fix the Win32 build problems reported by Magnus.
2007-01-28 20:25:38 +00:00
Neil Conway a534068e0e Add a new builtin type, "uuid". This implements a UUID type, similar to
that defined in RFC 4122. This patch includes the basic implementation,
plus regression tests. Documentation and perhaps some additional
functionality will come later. Catversion bumped.

Patch from Gevik Babakhani; review from Peter, Tom, and myself.
2007-01-28 16:16:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 91ed399517 Use autoconf build-in sys_siglist macro AC_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST, rather than
create our own.
2007-01-28 03:50:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 82480fc254 Use sys_siglist[] to print out signal names for signal exits, rather
than just numbers.
2007-01-28 01:12:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 4355d214c2 On Windows, use pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket() instead of select() to wait for
input in the stats collector.  Our select() emulation is apparently buggy
for UDP sockets :-(.  This should resolve problems with stats collection
(and hence autovacuum) failing under more than minimal load.  Diagnosis
and patch by Magnus Hagander.

Patch probably needs to be back-ported to 8.1 and 8.0, but first let's
see if it makes the buildfarm happy...
2007-01-26 20:06:52 +00:00
Neil Conway 8ff2bccee3 Squelch some VC++ compiler warnings. Mark float literals with the "f"
suffix, to distinguish them from doubles. Make some function declarations
and definitions use the "const" qualifier for arguments consistently.
Ignore warning 4102 ("unreferenced label"), because such warnings
are always emitted by bison-generated code. Patch from Magnus Hagander.
2007-01-26 17:45:42 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 70268b50dd Update Win32 exception comment. 2007-01-25 21:50:49 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 22bd156ff0 Various fixes in the logic of XML functions:
- Add new SQL command SET XML OPTION (also available via regular GUC) to
  control the DOCUMENT vs. CONTENT option in implicit parsing and
  serialization operations.

- Subtle corrections in the handling of the standalone property in
  xmlroot().

- Allow xmlroot() to work on content fragments.

- Subtle corrections in the handling of the version property in
  xmlconcat().

- Code refactoring for producing XML declarations.
2007-01-25 11:53:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 148ea5cbea Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for temporary
objects.

Jaime Casanova
2007-01-25 04:35:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6441288ec9 Add 'output file' option for pg_dumpall, especially useful for Win32,
where output redirection of child processes (pg_dump) doesn't work.

Dave Page
2007-01-25 03:30:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ef65f6f7a4 Prevent WAL logging when COPY is done in the same transation that
created it.

Simon Riggs
2007-01-25 02:17:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 867c133599 Add comment about exception lists in both winnt.h and ntstatus.h. 2007-01-23 16:21:17 +00:00
Tom Lane a33cf1041f Add CREATE/ALTER/DROP OPERATOR FAMILY commands, also COMMENT ON OPERATOR
FAMILY; and add FAMILY option to CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to allow adding a
class to a pre-existing family.  Per previous discussion.  Man, what a
tedious lot of cutting and pasting ...
2007-01-23 05:07:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 882b9948d7 Back out use of FormatMessage(), does error values, not exception
values.  Point to /include/ntstatus.h for an exception list, rather than
a URL.
2007-01-23 03:28:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 610f60a092 Print meaningfull error text for abonormal process exit on Win32, rather
than hex codes, using FormatMessage().
2007-01-23 01:45:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 4f06c688c7 Put back planner's ability to cache the results of mergejoinscansel(),
which I had removed in the first cut of the EquivalenceClass rewrite to
simplify that patch a little.  But it's still important --- in a four-way
join problem mergejoinscansel() was eating about 40% of the planning time
according to gprof.  Also, improve the EquivalenceClass code to re-use
join RestrictInfos rather than generating fresh ones for each join
considered.  This saves some memory space but more importantly improves
the effectiveness of caching planning info in RestrictInfos.
2007-01-22 20:00:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d26a5f1fea Uppercase hex value. 2007-01-22 18:32:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 208ae0c290 When system() fails in Win32, report it as an exception, print the
exception value in hex, and give a URL where the value can be looked-up.
2007-01-22 18:31:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 5a7471c307 Add COST and ROWS options to CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION, plus underlying pg_proc
columns procost and prorows, to allow simple user adjustment of the estimated
cost of a function call, as well as control of the estimated number of rows
returned by a set-returning function.  We might eventually wish to extend this
to allow function-specific estimation routines, but there seems to be
consensus that we should try a simple constant estimate first.  In particular
this provides a relatively simple way to control the order in which different
WHERE clauses are applied in a plan node, which is a Good Thing in view of the
fact that the recent EquivalenceClass planner rewrite made that much less
predictable than before.
2007-01-22 01:35:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 066926dfbb Refactor some lsyscache routines to eliminate duplicate code and save
a couple of syscache lookups in make_pathkey_from_sortinfo().
2007-01-21 00:57:15 +00:00
Tom Lane fcf4b146c6 Simplify pg_am representation of ordering-capable access methods:
provide just a boolean 'amcanorder', instead of fields that specify the
sort operator strategy numbers.  We have decided to require ordering-capable
AMs to use btree-compatible strategy numbers, so the old fields are
overkill (and indeed misleading about what's allowed).
2007-01-20 23:13:01 +00:00
Neil Conway aef0f53b62 Make setseed() return void, rather than an int4 without any use. Per
pgsql-patches discussion of September 20, 2006. Bump the catversion.
2007-01-20 21:47:10 +00:00