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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Eisentraut
3aa42c25c3 Put Debian package list back in alphabetical order 2012-02-24 20:40:29 +02:00
Tom Lane
b2ce60703a Last-minute release note updates.
Security: CVE-2012-0866, CVE-2012-0867, CVE-2012-0868
2012-02-23 17:47:52 -05:00
Tom Lane
891e6e7bfd Require execute permission on the trigger function for CREATE TRIGGER.
This check was overlooked when we added function execute permissions to the
system years ago.  For an ordinary trigger function it's not a big deal,
since trigger functions execute with the permissions of the table owner,
so they couldn't do anything the user issuing the CREATE TRIGGER couldn't
have done anyway.  However, if a trigger function is SECURITY DEFINER,
that is not the case.  The lack of checking would allow another user to
install it on his own table and then invoke it with, essentially, forged
input data; which the trigger function is unlikely to realize, so it might
do something undesirable, for instance insert false entries in an audit log
table.

Reported by Dinesh Kumar, patch by Robert Haas

Security: CVE-2012-0866
2012-02-23 15:38:56 -05:00
Robert Haas
2254367435 Make EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) track blocks dirtied, as well as those written.
Also expose the new counters through pg_stat_statements.

Patch by me.  Review by Fujii Masao and Greg Smith.
2012-02-22 20:33:05 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
4e6092a227 Improve wording of pg_upgrade logfile option:
-l, --logfile=FILENAME        log internal activity to file\n\
2012-02-22 18:40:32 -05:00
Tom Lane
dd2954963b Draft release notes for 9.1.3, 9.0.7, 8.4.11, 8.3.18. 2012-02-22 18:12:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
a445cb92ef Add parameters for controlling locations of server-side SSL files
This allows changing the location of the files that were previously
hard-coded to server.crt, server.key, root.crt, root.crl.

server.crt and server.key continue to be the default settings and are
thus required to be present by default if SSL is enabled.  But the
settings for the server-side CA and CRL are now empty by default, and
if they are set, the files are required to be present.  This replaces
the previous behavior of ignoring the functionality if the files were
not found.
2012-02-22 23:40:46 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan
2f582f76b1 Improve pretty printing of viewdefs.
Some line feeds are added to target lists and from lists to make
them more readable. By default they wrap at 80 columns if possible,
but the wrap column is also selectable - if 0 it wraps after every
item.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada.
2012-02-19 11:43:46 -05:00
Robert Haas
73a4b994a6 Make CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION support NOT LEAKPROOF.
Because it isn't good to be able to turn things on, and not off again.
2012-02-15 10:45:08 -05:00
Robert Haas
d845fd684a sepgsql: Reword and fix typo in docs on DML permissions.
Per report from Christoph Berg.
2012-02-15 09:57:56 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
58d746213d Improve fsync documentation by stating that -W _0_ turns of write
caching.
2012-02-14 17:42:06 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
c1d9df4fa2 Document random page cost is only 4x seqeuntial, and not 40x. 2012-02-14 16:54:54 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
ef7a7c81d9 Document that the pg_test_fsync defaults allow the program to complete
in about 30 seconds.
2012-02-14 11:14:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
0a8396e35e Change contrib/pg_test_fsync to control tests in terms of seconds per
test, rather than a number of test cycles.  Changes -o/cycles option to
-s/seconds.
2012-02-14 11:10:03 -05:00
Robert Haas
cd30728fb2 Allow LEAKPROOF functions for better performance of security views.
We don't normally allow quals to be pushed down into a view created
with the security_barrier option, but functions without side effects
are an exception: they're OK.  This allows much better performance in
common cases, such as when using an equality operator (that might
even be indexable).

There is an outstanding issue here with the CREATE FUNCTION / ALTER
FUNCTION syntax: there's no way to use ALTER FUNCTION to unset the
leakproof flag.  But I'm committing this as-is so that it doesn't
have to be rebased again; we can fix up the grammar in a future
commit.

KaiGai Kohei, with some wordsmithing by me.
2012-02-13 22:21:14 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
169c8a9112 psql: Support zero byte field and record separators
Add new psql settings and command-line options to support setting the
field and record separators for unaligned output to a zero byte, for
easier interfacing with other shell tools.

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-02-09 20:20:15 +02:00
Bruce Momjian
a870c7fdbc Add opensp as a requirement for building the docs on Debian --- tested
on Debian Squeeze.
2012-02-07 20:30:11 -05:00
Robert Haas
af7914c662 Add TIMING option to EXPLAIN, to allow eliminating of timing overhead.
Sometimes it may be useful to get actual row counts out of EXPLAIN
(ANALYZE) without paying the cost of timing every node entry/exit.
With this patch, you can say EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF) to get that.

Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Eric Theise, with minor doc changes by me.
2012-02-07 11:23:04 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
a347f96b99 createuser: Disable prompting by default
Do not prompt when options were not specified.  Assume --no-createdb,
--no-createrole, --no-superuser by default.

Also disable prompting for user name in dropdb, unless --interactive
was specified.

reviewed by Josh Kupershmidt
2012-02-07 14:55:34 +02:00
Tom Lane
9bff0780cf Allow SQL-language functions to reference parameters by name.
Matthew Draper, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada
2012-02-04 19:23:49 -05:00
Bruce Momjian
072ba77bff Remove tabs in SGML file. 2012-02-04 07:11:44 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan
39909d1d39 Add array_to_json and row_to_json functions.
Also move the escape_json function from explain.c to json.c where it
seems to belong.

Andrew Dunstan, Reviewd by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
2012-02-03 12:11:16 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
8a02339e9b initdb: Add options --auth-local and --auth-host
reviewed by Robert Haas and Pavel Stehule
2012-02-01 21:18:55 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera
b2e431a4db Implement dry-run mode for pg_archivecleanup
In dry-run mode, just the name of the file to be removed is printed to
stdout; this is so the user can easily plug it into another program
through a pipe.  If debug mode is also specified, a more verbose message
is printed to stderr.

Author: Gabriele Bartolini
Reviewer: Josh Kupershmidt
2012-02-01 14:18:12 -03:00
Robert Haas
5384a73f98 Built-in JSON data type.
Like the XML data type, we simply store JSON data as text, after checking
that it is valid.  More complex operations such as canonicalization and
comparison may come later, but this is enough for not.

There are a few open issues here, such as whether we should attempt to
detect UTF-8 surrogate pairs represented as \uXXXX\uYYYY, but this gets
the basic framework in place.
2012-01-31 11:48:23 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
82e83f46a2 Add sequence USAGE privileges to information schema
The sequence USAGE privilege is sufficiently similar to the SQL
standard that it seems reasonable to show in the information schema.
Also add some compatibility notes about it on the GRANT reference
page.
2012-01-30 21:45:42 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
ee7fa66b19 PL/Python: Add result metadata functions
Add result object functions .colnames, .coltypes, .coltypmods to
obtain information about the result column names and types, which was
previously not possible in the PL/Python SPI interface.

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-01-30 21:38:52 +02:00
Tom Lane
ed6e0545f5 Add caution about multiple unique indexes breaking plpgsql upsert example.
Per Phil Sorber, though I didn't use his wording exactly.
2012-01-28 21:06:41 -05:00
Tom Lane
17d3233e1b Update statement about sorting of character-string data.
The sort order is no longer fixed at database creation time, but can be
controlled via COLLATE.  Noted by Thomas Kellerer.
2012-01-28 20:54:56 -05:00
Tom Lane
e2fa76d80b Use parameterized paths to generate inner indexscans more flexibly.
This patch fixes the planner so that it can generate nestloop-with-
inner-indexscan plans even with one or more levels of joining between
the indexscan and the nestloop join that is supplying the parameter.
The executor was fixed to handle such cases some time ago, but the
planner was not ready.  This should improve our plans in many situations
where join ordering restrictions formerly forced complete table scans.

There is probably a fair amount of tuning work yet to be done, because
of various heuristics that have been added to limit the number of
parameterized paths considered.  However, we are not going to find out
what needs to be adjusted until the code gets some real-world use, so
it's time to get it in there where it can be tested easily.

Note API change for index AM amcostestimate functions.  I'm not aware of
any non-core index AMs, but if there are any, they will need minor
adjustments.
2012-01-27 19:26:38 -05:00
Robert Haas
eb6af016fc Document that COUNT(*) might not need a seq scan any more.
Noted by Josh Kupershmidt.
2012-01-27 12:40:37 -05:00
Robert Haas
db6de5b71e Document that analyzing an empty table doesn't update the statistics.
Per a suggestion from Sergey Konoplev
2012-01-27 12:14:23 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
59c67ecdd3 Fix copy-paste error in docs.
Dean Rasheed
2012-01-27 12:48:42 +02:00
Magnus Hagander
c9f14bb4ac Fix wording, per Peter Geoghegan 2012-01-27 10:36:27 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas
2e92b5872f Mention in the docs that bgwriter now sleeps longer when it has no work to do. 2012-01-27 09:17:37 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
d4bad4e1e1 Fix sentence in docs: checkpoints are not done by bgwriter anymore. 2012-01-26 19:08:20 +02:00
Magnus Hagander
61cb8c5abb Add deadlock counter to pg_stat_database
Adds a counter that tracks number of deadlocks that occurred in
each database to pg_stat_database.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Jaime Casanova
2012-01-26 15:58:19 +01:00
Magnus Hagander
bc3347484a Track temporary file count and size in pg_stat_database
Add counters for number and size of temporary files used
for spill-to-disk queries for each database to the
pg_stat_database view.

Tomas Vondra, review by Magnus Hagander
2012-01-26 14:41:19 +01:00
Simon Riggs
8366c7803e Allow pg_basebackup from standby node with safety checking.
Base backup follows recommended procedure, plus goes to great
lengths to ensure that partial page writes are avoided.

Jun Ishizuka and Fujii Masao, with minor modifications
2012-01-25 18:02:04 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
74ab96a45e Add pg_trigger_depth() function
This reports the depth level of triggers currently in execution, or zero
if not called from inside a trigger.

No catversion bump in this patch, but you have to initdb if you want
access to the new function.

Author: Kevin Grittner
2012-01-25 13:22:54 -03:00
Simon Riggs
443b4821f1 Add new replication mode synchronous_commit = 'write'.
Replication occurs only to memory on standby, not to disk,
so provides additional performance if user wishes to
reduce durability level slightly. Adds concept of multiple
independent sync rep queues.

Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
2012-01-24 20:22:37 +00:00
Simon Riggs
b8a91d9d1c ALTER <thing> [IF EXISTS] ... allows silent DDL if required,
e.g. ALTER FOREIGN TABLE IF EXISTS foo RENAME TO bar

Pavel Stehule
2012-01-23 23:25:04 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
4993a49b7c Typo fix
Guillaume Lelarge
2012-01-22 22:34:28 +01:00
Magnus Hagander
356fddfa0f Get rid of itemizedlist inside table
This renders badly on the website, and in this particular case also
doesn't actually add anything to the readability...
2012-01-20 12:30:19 +01:00
Magnus Hagander
a65023e7de Further doc cleanups from the pg_stat_activity changes
Fujii Masao
2012-01-20 12:23:26 +01:00
Robert Haas
6e3323d41d Triggered change notifications.
Kevin Grittner, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Álvaro Herrera
2012-01-19 23:15:15 -05:00
Robert Haas
c8397bd6d9 Clarify that bgwriter no longer handles checkpoints.
Text by Peter Geoghegan.
2012-01-19 21:53:46 -05:00
Robert Haas
cc53a1e7cc Add bitwise AND, OR, and NOT operators for macaddr data type.
Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Fujii Masao
2012-01-19 15:25:14 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
4f42b546fd Separate state from query string in pg_stat_activity
This separates the state (running/idle/idleintransaction etc) into
it's own field ("state"), and leaves the query field containing just
query text.

The query text will now mean "current query" when a query is running
and "last query" in other states. Accordingly,the field has been
renamed from current_query to query.

Since backwards compatibility was broken anyway to make that, the procpid
field has also been renamed to pid - along with the same field in
pg_stat_replication for consistency.

Scott Mead and Magnus Hagander, review work from Greg Smith
2012-01-19 14:19:20 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas
fa352d662e Make pg_relation_size() and friends return NULL if the object doesn't exist.
That avoids errors when the functions are used in queries like "SELECT
pg_relation_size(oid) FROM pg_class", and a table is dropped concurrently.

Phil Sorber
2012-01-19 13:06:30 +02:00