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Author SHA1 Message Date
Heikki Linnakangas 54685338e3 Move log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to xlog.c.
log_newpage is used by many indexams, in addition to heap, but for
historical reasons it's always been part of the heapam rmgr. Starting with
9.3, we have another WAL record type for logging an image of a page,
XLOG_FPI. Simplify things by moving log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to
xlog.c, and switch to using the XLOG_FPI record type.

Bump the WAL version number because the code to replay the old HEAP_NEWPAGE
records is removed.
2014-07-31 16:48:55 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 346d7be184 Move view reloptions into their own varlena struct
Per discussion after a gripe from me in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140611194633.GH18688@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org

Jaime Casanova
2014-07-14 17:24:40 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas a87a7dc8b6 Don't allow foreign tables with OIDs.
The syntax doesn't let you specify "WITH OIDS" for foreign tables, but it
was still possible with default_with_oids=true. But the rest of the system,
including pg_dump, isn't prepared to handle foreign tables with OIDs
properly.

Backpatch down to 9.1, where foreign tables were introduced. It's possible
that there are databases out there that already have foreign tables with
OIDs. There isn't much we can do about that, but at least we can prevent
them from being created in the future.

Patch by Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Hadi Moshayedi.
2014-06-24 13:27:18 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 0a78320057 pgindent run for 9.4
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was
applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d00190495 Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].
Commit a730183926 created rather a mess by
putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common.
We really shouldn't do that.  To clean it up:

* Move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY back to its longtime home in
catalog/catalog.h.  We won't consider this symbol part of the FE/BE API.

* Push enum ForkNumber from relfilenode.h into relpath.h.  We'll consider
relpath.h as the source of truth for fork numbers, since relpath.c was
already partially serving that function, and anyway relfilenode.h was
kind of a random place for that enum.

* So, relfilenode.h now includes relpath.h rather than vice-versa.  This
direction of dependency is fine.  (That allows most, but not quite all,
of the existing explicit #includes of relpath.h to go away again.)

* Push forkname_to_number from catalog.c to relpath.c, just to centralize
fork number stuff a bit better.

* Push GetDatabasePath from catalog.c to relpath.c; it was rather odd
that the previous commit didn't keep this together with relpath().

* To avoid needing relfilenode.h in common/, redefine the underlying
function (now called GetRelationPath) as taking separate OID arguments,
and make the APIs using RelFileNode or RelFileNodeBackend into macro
wrappers.  (The macros have a potential multiple-eval risk, but none of
the existing call sites have an issue with that; one of them had such a
risk already anyway.)

* Fix failure to follow the directions when "init" fork type was added;
specifically, the errhint in forkname_to_number wasn't updated, and neither
was the SGML documentation for pg_relation_size().

* Fix tablespace-path-too-long check in CreateTableSpace() to account for
fork-name component of maximum-length pathnames.  This requires putting
FORKNAMECHARS into a header file, but it was rather useless (and
actually unreferenced) where it was.

The last couple of items are potentially back-patchable bug fixes,
if anyone is sufficiently excited about them; but personally I'm not.

Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't
self-contained.
2014-04-30 17:30:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost 842faa714c Make security barrier views automatically updatable
Views which are marked as security_barrier must have their quals
applied before any user-defined quals are called, to prevent
user-defined functions from being able to see rows which the
security barrier view is intended to prevent them from seeing.

Remove the restriction on security barrier views being automatically
updatable by adding a new securityQuals list to the RTE structure
which keeps track of the quals from security barrier views at each
level, independently of the user-supplied quals.  When RTEs are
later discovered which have securityQuals populated, they are turned
into subquery RTEs which are marked as security_barrier to prevent
any user-supplied quals being pushed down (modulo LEAKPROOF quals).

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Craig Ringer, Simon Riggs, KaiGai Kohei
2014-04-12 21:04:58 -04:00
Simon Riggs e5550d5fec Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmds
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

CLUSTER ON
SET WITHOUT CLUSTER

ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS
ALTER COLUMN SET ()
ALTER COLUMN RESET ()

All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock

Simon Riggs and Noah Misch

Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
2014-04-06 11:13:43 -04:00
Noah Misch 7cbe57c34d Offer triggers on foreign tables.
This covers all the SQL-standard trigger types supported for regular
tables; it does not cover constraint triggers.  The approach for
acquiring the old row mirrors that for view INSTEAD OF triggers.  For
AFTER ROW triggers, we spool the foreign tuples to a tuplestore.

This changes the FDW API contract; when deciding which columns to
populate in the slot returned from data modification callbacks, writable
FDWs will need to check for AFTER ROW triggers in addition to checking
for a RETURNING clause.

In support of the feature addition, refactor the TriggerFlags bits and
the assembly of old tuples in ModifyTable.

Ronan Dunklau, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei; some additional hacking by me.
2014-03-23 02:16:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5024044a20 C comments: improve description of relfilenode uniqueness
Report by Antonin Houska
2014-03-08 12:20:30 -05:00
Robert Haas cf6aa68bbd Update a few comments to mention materialized views.
Etsuro Fujita
2014-02-25 13:40:12 -05:00
Robert Haas 5f173040e3 Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.
If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent
activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table
than other parts.  At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be
used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a
different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege
escalation attack.

This changes the calling convention for DefineIndex, CreateTrigger,
transformIndexStmt, transformAlterTableStmt, CheckIndexCompatible
(in 9.2 and newer), and AlterTable (in 9.1 and older).  In addition,
CheckRelationOwnership is removed in 9.2 and newer and the calling
convention is changed in older branches.  A field has also been added
to the Constraint node (FkConstraint in 8.4).  Third-party code calling
these functions or using the Constraint node will require updating.

Report by Andres Freund.  Patch by Robert Haas and Andres Freund,
reviewed by Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2014-0062
2014-02-17 09:33:31 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera b152c6cd0d Make DROP IF EXISTS more consistently not fail
Some cases were still reporting errors and aborting, instead of a NOTICE
that the object was being skipped.  This makes it more difficult to
cleanly handle pg_dump --clean, so change that to instead skip missing
objects properly.

Per bug #7873 reported by Dave Rolsky; apparently this affects a large
number of users.

Authors: Pavel Stehule and Dean Rasheed.  Some tweaks by Álvaro Herrera
2014-01-23 14:40:29 -03:00
Stephen Frost 6f25c62d78 Allow SET TABLESPACE to database default
We've always allowed CREATE TABLE to create tables in the database's default
tablespace without checking for CREATE permissions on that tablespace.
Unfortunately, the original implementation of ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE
didn't pick up on that exception.

This changes ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE to allow the database's default
tablespace without checking for CREATE rights on that tablespace, just as
CREATE TABLE works today.  Users could always do this through a series of
commands (CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT * FROM ...; DROP TABLE ...; etc), so
let's fix the oversight in SET TABLESPACE's original implementation.
2014-01-18 18:41:52 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7e04792a1c Update copyright for 2014
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back
branches.
2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
Robert Haas 66abc2608c Add a new reloption, user_catalog_table.
When this reloption is set and wal_level=logical is configured,
we'll record the CIDs stamped by inserts, updates, and deletes to
the table just as we would for an actual catalog table.  This will
allow logical decoding to use historical MVCC snapshots to access
such tables just as they access ordinary catalog tables.

Replication solutions built around the logical decoding machinery
will likely need to set this operation for their configuration
tables; it might also be needed by extensions which perform table
access in their output functions.

Andres Freund, reviewed by myself and others.
2013-12-10 19:17:34 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9e857436ef Don't include unused space in LOG_NEWPAGE records.
This is the same trick we use when taking a full page image of a buffer
passed to XLogInsert.
2013-12-04 00:10:47 +02:00
Robert Haas 8e18d04d4d Refine our definition of what constitutes a system relation.
Although user-defined relations can't be directly created in
pg_catalog, it's possible for them to end up there, because you can
create them in some other schema and then use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA
to move them there.  Previously, such relations couldn't afterwards
be manipulated, because IsSystemRelation()/IsSystemClass() rejected
all attempts to modify objects in the pg_catalog schema, regardless
of their origin.  With this patch, they now reject only those
objects in pg_catalog which were created at initdb-time, allowing
most operations on user-created tables in pg_catalog to proceed
normally.

This patch also adds new functions IsCatalogRelation() and
IsCatalogClass(), which is similar to IsSystemRelation() and
IsSystemClass() but with a slightly narrower definition: only TOAST
tables of system catalogs are included, rather than *all* TOAST tables.
This is currently used only for making decisions about when
invalidation messages need to be sent, but upcoming logical decoding
patches will find other uses for this information.

Andres Freund, with some modifications by me.
2013-11-28 20:57:20 -05:00
Tom Lane 784e762e88 Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)
as a single FROM-clause entry.  The result is the concatenation of the
first row from each function, followed by the second row from each
function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than
others.  This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what
Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list.

This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column
definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list
inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality
column as well.

Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning
UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)).

The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not
multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is
not what this patch does.  There may be something wrong with that reading
of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just
a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST().  After further review of
that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does,
but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile.

Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and
significantly revised by me
2013-11-21 19:37:20 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 001e114b8d Fix whitespace issues found by git diff --check, add gitattributes
Set per file type attributes in .gitattributes to fine-tune whitespace
checks.  With the associated cleanups, the tree is now clean for git
2013-11-10 14:48:29 -05:00
Robert Haas 07cacba983 Add the notion of REPLICA IDENTITY for a table.
Pending patches for logical replication will use this to determine
which columns of a tuple ought to be considered as its candidate key.

Andres Freund, with minor, mostly cosmetic adjustments by me
2013-11-08 12:30:43 -05:00
Robert Haas cab5dc5daf Allow only some columns of a view to be auto-updateable.
Previously, unless all columns were auto-updateable, we wouldn't
inserts, updates, or deletes, or at least not without a rule or trigger;
now, we'll allow inserts and updates that target only the auto-updateable
columns, and deletes even if there are no auto-updateable columns at
all provided the view definition is otherwise suitable.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Marko Tiikkaja
2013-10-18 10:35:36 -04:00
Robert Haas ba3d39c969 Don't allow system columns in CHECK constraints, except tableoid.
Previously, arbitray system columns could be mentioned in table
constraints, but they were not correctly checked at runtime, because
the values weren't actually set correctly in the tuple.  Since it
seems easy enough to initialize the table OID properly, do that,
and continue allowing that column, but disallow the rest unless and
until someone figures out a way to make them work properly.

No back-patch, because this doesn't seem important enough to take the
risk of destabilizing the back branches.  In fact, this will pose a
dump-and-reload hazard for those upgrading from previous versions:
constraints that were accepted before but were not correctly enforced
will now either be enforced correctly or not accepted at all.  Either
could result in restore failures, but in practice I think very few
users will notice the difference, since the use case is pretty
marginal anyway and few users will be relying on features that have
not historically worked.

Amit Kapila, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, with doc changes by me.
2013-09-23 13:31:22 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 3f78b1715c Don't allow ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW ADD UNIQUE.
Was accidentally allowed, but not documented and lacked support
for rename or drop once created.

Per report from Noah Misch.
2013-08-15 13:14:48 -05:00
Stephen Frost 4cbe3ac3e8 WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWs
For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows
the user to specify what level of checking should be done on records
being inserted or updated.  For 'LOCAL CHECK', new tuples are validated
against the conditionals of the view they are being inserted into, while
for 'CASCADED CHECK' the new tuples are validated against the
conditionals for all views involved (from the top down).

This option is part of the SQL specification.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-07-18 17:10:16 -04:00
Kevin Grittner cc1965a99b Add support for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.
This allows reads to continue without any blocking while a REFRESH
runs.  The new data appears atomically as part of transaction
commit.

Review questioned the Assert that a matview was not a system
relation.  This will be addressed separately.

Reviewed by Hitoshi Harada, Robert Haas, Andres Freund.
Merged after review with security patch f3ab5d4.
2013-07-16 12:55:44 -05:00
Noah Misch 02d2b694ee Update messages, comments and documentation for materialized views.
All instances of the verbiage lagging the code.  Back-patch to 9.3,
where materialized views were introduced.
2013-07-05 15:37:51 -04:00
Fujii Masao 2ef085d0e6 Get rid of pg_class.reltoastidxid.
Treat TOAST index just the same as normal one and get the OID
of TOAST index from pg_index but not pg_class.reltoastidxid.
This change allows us to handle multiple TOAST indexes, and
which is required infrastructure for upcoming
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY feature.

Patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by Andres Freund and me.
2013-07-04 03:24:09 +09:00
Robert Haas 568d4138c6 Use an MVCC snapshot, rather than SnapshotNow, for catalog scans.
SnapshotNow scans have the undesirable property that, in the face of
concurrent updates, the scan can fail to see either the old or the new
versions of the row.  In many cases, we work around this by requiring
DDL operations to hold AccessExclusiveLock on the object being
modified; in some cases, the existing locking is inadequate and random
failures occur as a result.  This commit doesn't change anything
related to locking, but will hopefully pave the way to allowing lock
strength reductions in the future.

The major issue has held us back from making this change in the past
is that taking an MVCC snapshot is significantly more expensive than
using a static special snapshot such as SnapshotNow.  However, testing
of various worst-case scenarios reveals that this problem is not
severe except under fairly extreme workloads.  To mitigate those
problems, we avoid retaking the MVCC snapshot for each new scan;
instead, we take a new snapshot only when invalidation messages have
been processed.  The catcache machinery already requires that
invalidation messages be sent before releasing the related heavyweight
lock; else other backends might rely on locally-cached data rather
than scanning the catalog at all.  Thus, making snapshot reuse
dependent on the same guarantees shouldn't break anything that wasn't
already subtly broken.

Patch by me.  Review by Michael Paquier and Andres Freund.
2013-07-02 09:47:01 -04:00
Simon Riggs f177cbfe67 ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKs
Allow constraint attributes to be altered,
so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE
can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back.

Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-29 00:27:30 +01:00
Simon Riggs 2f74e4ec50 Assert that ALTER TABLE subcommands have pass set 2013-06-29 00:26:46 +01:00
Simon Riggs 4f14c86d74 Reverting previous commit, pending investigation
of sporadic seg faults from various build farm members.
2013-06-24 21:21:18 +01:00
Simon Riggs b577a57d41 ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKs
Allow constraint attributes to be altered,
so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE
can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back.

Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-24 20:07:41 +01:00
Stephen Frost 551938ae22 Post-pgindent cleanup
Make slightly better decisions about indentation than what pgindent
is capable of.  Mostly breaking out long function calls into one
line per argument, with a few other minor adjustments.

No functional changes- all whitespace.
pgindent ran cleanly (didn't change anything) after.
Passes all regressions.
2013-06-01 09:38:15 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9af4159fce pgindent run for release 9.3
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script.  Also update
pgindent instructions.
2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
Tom Lane b142068622 Allow CREATE FOREIGN TABLE to include SERIAL columns.
The behavior is that the required sequence is created locally, which is
appropriate because the default expression will be evaluated locally.
Per gripe from Brad Nicholson that this case was refused with a confusing
error message.  We could have improved the error message but it seems
better to just allow the case.

Also, remove ALTER TABLE's arbitrary prohibition against being applied to
foreign tables, which was pretty inconsistent considering we allow it for
views, sequences, and other relation types that aren't even called tables.
This is needed to avoid breaking pg_dump, which sometimes emits column
defaults using separate ALTER TABLE commands.  (I think this can happen
even when the default is not associated with a sequence, so that was a
pre-existing bug once we allowed column defaults for foreign tables.)
2013-05-15 19:03:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b33790421 Clean up the mess around EXPLAIN and materialized views.
Revert the matview-related changes in explain.c's API, as per recent
complaint from Robert Haas.  The reason for these appears to have been
principally some ill-considered choices around having intorel_startup do
what ought to be parse-time checking, plus a poor arrangement for passing
it the view parsetree it needs to store into pg_rewrite when creating a
materialized view.  Do the latter by having parse analysis stick a copy
into the IntoClause, instead of doing it at runtime.  (On the whole,
I seriously question the choice to represent CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW as a
variant of SELECT INTO/CREATE TABLE AS, because that means injecting even
more complexity into what was already a horrid legacy kluge.  However,
I didn't go so far as to rethink that choice ... yet.)

I also moved several error checks into matview parse analysis, and
made the check for external Params in a matview more accurate.

In passing, clean things up a bit more around interpretOidsOption(),
and fix things so that we can use that to force no-oids for views,
sequences, etc, thereby eliminating the need to cons up "oids = false"
options when creating them.

catversion bump due to change in IntoClause.  (I wonder though if we
really need readfuncs/outfuncs support for IntoClause anymore.)
2013-04-12 19:25:31 -04:00
Simon Riggs cf8dc9e10c Fix checksums for CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL etc.
In CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL and ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE
I erroneously set checksum before log_newpage, which
sets the LSN and invalidates the checksum. So set
checksum immediately *after* log_newpage.

Bug report Fujii Masao, Fix and patch by Jeff Davis
2013-04-07 22:16:51 +01:00
Kevin Grittner 549dae0352 Fix problems with incomplete attempt to prohibit OIDS with MVs.
Problem with assertion failure in restoring from pg_dump output
reported by Joachim Wieland.

Review and suggestions by Tom Lane and Robert Haas.
2013-03-22 13:27:34 -05:00
Simon Riggs 96ef3b8ff1 Allow I/O reliability checks using 16-bit checksums
Checksums are set immediately prior to flush out of shared buffers
and checked when pages are read in again. Hint bit setting will
require full page write when block is dirtied, which causes various
infrastructure changes. Extensive comments, docs and README.

WARNING message thrown if checksum fails on non-all zeroes page;
ERROR thrown but can be disabled with ignore_checksum_failure = on.

Feature enabled by an initdb option, since transition from option off
to option on is long and complex and has not yet been implemented.
Default is not to use checksums.

Checksum used is WAL CRC-32 truncated to 16-bits.

Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis, Greg Smith
Wide input and assistance from many community members. Thank you.
2013-03-22 13:54:07 +00:00
Robert Haas 05f3f9c7b2 Extend object-access hook machinery to support post-alter events.
This also slightly widens the scope of what we support in terms of
post-create events.

KaiGai Kohei, with a few changes, mostly to the comments, by me
2013-03-17 22:57:26 -04:00
Tom Lane a0c6dfeecf Allow default expressions to be attached to columns of foreign tables.
There's still some discussion about exactly how postgres_fdw ought to
handle this case, but there seems no debate that we want to allow defaults
to be used for inserts into foreign tables.  So remove the core-code
restrictions that prevented it.

While at it, get rid of the special grammar productions for CREATE FOREIGN
TABLE, and instead add explicit FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error checks for the
disallowed cases.  This makes the grammar a shade smaller, and more
importantly results in much more intelligible error messages for
unsupported cases.  It's also one less thing to fix if we ever start
supporting constraints on foreign tables.
2013-03-12 17:37:07 -04:00
Robert Haas f90cc26982 Code beautification for object-access hook machinery.
KaiGai Kohei
2013-03-06 20:53:25 -05:00
Kevin Grittner 3bf3ab8c56 Add a materialized view relations.
A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and
other physical properties like a table.  The rule is only used to
populate the table, references in queries refer to the
materialized data.

This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in
many cases.  Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements.
It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates
with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining
what is "fresh" data will be developed.  At some point it may even
be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of
references to underlying tables, but that requires the other
above-mentioned features to be working first.

Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas.
Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja
Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to
implement sepgsql still pending.
2013-03-03 18:23:31 -06:00
Tom Lane 991f3e5ab3 Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.
This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to
extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages,
if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION
failure.  It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which
can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint
associated with the error.  (Since the protocol spec has always instructed
clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any
compatibility problem.)

Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set
of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation"
SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with
additional hacking by Tom Lane.
2013-01-29 17:08:26 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas c9d7dbacd3 Skip truncating ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS temp tables, if the transaction hasn't
touched any temporary tables.

We could try harder, and keep track of whether we've inserted to any temp
tables, rather than accessed them, and which temp tables have been inserted
to. But this is dead simple, and already covers many interesting scenarios.
2013-01-29 10:43:33 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 0ac5ad5134 Improve concurrency of foreign key locking
This patch introduces two additional lock modes for tuples: "SELECT FOR
KEY SHARE" and "SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE".  These don't block each
other, in contrast with already existing "SELECT FOR SHARE" and "SELECT
FOR UPDATE".  UPDATE commands that do not modify the values stored in
the columns that are part of the key of the tuple now grab a SELECT FOR
NO KEY UPDATE lock on the tuple, allowing them to proceed concurrently
with tuple locks of the FOR KEY SHARE variety.

Foreign key triggers now use FOR KEY SHARE instead of FOR SHARE; this
means the concurrency improvement applies to them, which is the whole
point of this patch.

The added tuple lock semantics require some rejiggering of the multixact
module, so that the locking level that each transaction is holding can
be stored alongside its Xid.  Also, multixacts now need to persist
across server restarts and crashes, because they can now represent not
only tuple locks, but also tuple updates.  This means we need more
careful tracking of lifetime of pg_multixact SLRU files; since they now
persist longer, we require more infrastructure to figure out when they
can be removed.  pg_upgrade also needs to be careful to copy
pg_multixact files over from the old server to the new, or at least part
of multixact.c state, depending on the versions of the old and new
servers.

Tuple time qualification rules (HeapTupleSatisfies routines) need to be
careful not to consider tuples with the "is multi" infomask bit set as
being only locked; they might need to look up MultiXact values (i.e.
possibly do pg_multixact I/O) to find out the Xid that updated a tuple,
whereas they previously were assured to only use information readily
available from the tuple header.  This is considered acceptable, because
the extra I/O would involve cases that would previously cause some
commands to block waiting for concurrent transactions to finish.

Another important change is the fact that locking tuples that have
previously been updated causes the future versions to be marked as
locked, too; this is essential for correctness of foreign key checks.
This causes additional WAL-logging, also (there was previously a single
WAL record for a locked tuple; now there are as many as updated copies
of the tuple there exist.)

With all this in place, contention related to tuples being checked by
foreign key rules should be much reduced.

As a bonus, the old behavior that a subtransaction grabbing a stronger
tuple lock than the parent (sub)transaction held on a given tuple and
later aborting caused the weaker lock to be lost, has been fixed.

Many new spec files were added for isolation tester framework, to ensure
overall behavior is sane.  There's probably room for several more tests.

There were several reviewers of this patch; in particular, Noah Misch
and Andres Freund spent considerable time in it.  Original idea for the
patch came from Simon Riggs, after a problem report by Joel Jacobson.
Most code is from me, with contributions from Marti Raudsepp, Alexander
Shulgin, Noah Misch and Andres Freund.

This patch was discussed in several pgsql-hackers threads; the most
important start at the following message-ids:
	AANLkTimo9XVcEzfiBR-ut3KVNDkjm2Vxh+t8kAmWjPuv@mail.gmail.com
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2013-01-23 12:04:59 -03:00
Bruce Momjian bd61a623ac Update copyrights for 2013
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and
legal.sgml files.
2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
Robert Haas c504513f83 Adjust many backend functions to return OID rather than void.
Extracted from a larger patch by Dimitri Fontaine.  It is hoped that
this will provide infrastructure for enriching the new event trigger
functionality, but it seems possibly useful for other purposes as
well.
2012-12-23 18:37:58 -05:00
Tom Lane 6919b7e329 Fix failure to ignore leftover temp tables after a server crash.
During crash recovery, we remove disk files belonging to temporary tables,
but the system catalog entries for such tables are intentionally not
cleaned up right away.  Instead, the first backend that uses a temp schema
is expected to clean out any leftover objects therein.  This approach
requires that we be careful to ignore leftover temp tables (since any
actual access attempt would fail), *even if their BackendId matches our
session*, if we have not yet established use of the session's corresponding
temp schema.  That worked fine in the past, but was broken by commit
debcec7dc3 which incorrectly removed the
rd_islocaltemp relcache flag.  Put it back, and undo various changes
that substituted tests like "rel->rd_backend == MyBackendId" for use
of a state-aware flag.  Per trouble report from Heikki Linnakangas.

Back-patch to 9.1 where the erroneous change was made.  In the back
branches, be careful to add rd_islocaltemp in a spot in the struct that
was alignment padding before, so as not to break existing add-on code.
2012-12-17 20:15:32 -05:00
Tom Lane 3c84046490 Fix assorted bugs in CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
Commit 8cb53654db, which introduced DROP
INDEX CONCURRENTLY, managed to break CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY via a poor
choice of catalog state representation.  The pg_index state for an index
that's reached the final pre-drop stage was the same as the state for an
index just created by CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.  This meant that the
(necessary) change to make RelationGetIndexList ignore about-to-die indexes
also made it ignore freshly-created indexes; which is catastrophic because
the latter do need to be considered in HOT-safety decisions.  Failure to
do so leads to incorrect index entries and subsequently wrong results from
queries depending on the concurrently-created index.

To fix, add an additional boolean column "indislive" to pg_index, so that
the freshly-created and about-to-die states can be distinguished.  (This
change obviously is only possible in HEAD.  This patch will need to be
back-patched, but in 9.2 we'll use a kluge consisting of overloading the
formerly-impossible state of indisvalid = true and indisready = false.)

In addition, change CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY so that the pg_index
flag changes they make without exclusive lock on the index are made via
heap_inplace_update() rather than a normal transactional update.  The
latter is not very safe because moving the pg_index tuple could result in
concurrent SnapshotNow scans finding it twice or not at all, thus possibly
resulting in index corruption.  This is a pre-existing bug in CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY, which was copied into the DROP code.

In addition, fix various places in the code that ought to check to make
sure that the indexes they are manipulating are valid and/or ready as
appropriate.  These represent bugs that have existed since 8.2, since
a failed CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY could leave a corrupt or invalid
index behind, and we ought not try to do anything that might fail with
such an index.

Also fix RelationReloadIndexInfo to ensure it copies all the pg_index
columns that are allowed to change after initial creation.  Previously we
could have been left with stale values of some fields in an index relcache
entry.  It's not clear whether this actually had any user-visible
consequences, but it's at least a bug waiting to happen.

In addition, do some code and docs review for DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY;
some cosmetic code cleanup but mostly addition and revision of comments.

This will need to be back-patched, but in a noticeably different form,
so I'm committing it to HEAD before working on the back-patch.

Problem reported by Amit Kapila, diagnosis by Pavan Deolassee,
fix by Tom Lane and Andres Freund.
2012-11-28 21:26:01 -05:00
Tom Lane 5ed6546cf7 Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE.
This case got broken in 8.4 by the addition of an error check that
complains if ALTER TABLE ONLY is used on a table that has children.
We do use ONLY for this situation, but it's okay because the necessary
recursion occurs at a higher level.  So we need to have a separate
flag to suppress recursion without making the error check.

Reported and patched by Pavan Deolasee, with some editorial adjustments by
me.  Back-patch to 8.4, since this is a regression of functionality that
worked in earlier branches.
2012-11-05 13:36:16 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 04f28bdb84 Fix ALTER EXTENSION / SET SCHEMA
In its original conception, it was leaving some objects into the old
schema, but without their proper pg_depend entries; this meant that the
old schema could be dropped, causing future pg_dump calls to fail on the
affected database.  This was originally reported by Jeff Frost as #6704;
there have been other complaints elsewhere that can probably be traced
to this bug.

To fix, be more consistent about altering a table's subsidiary objects
along the table itself; this requires some restructuring in how tables
are relocated when altering an extension -- hence the new
AlterTableNamespaceInternal routine which encapsulates it for both the
ALTER TABLE and the ALTER EXTENSION cases.

There was another bug lurking here, which was unmasked after fixing the
previous one: certain objects would be reached twice via the dependency
graph, and the second attempt to move them would cause the entire
operation to fail.  Per discussion, it seems the best fix for this is to
do more careful tracking of objects already moved: we now maintain a
list of moved objects, to avoid attempting to do it twice for the same
object.

Authors: Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Fontaine
Reviewed by Tom Lane
2012-10-31 10:52:55 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera f4c4335a4a Add context info to OAT_POST_CREATE security hook
... and have sepgsql use it to determine whether to check permissions
during certain operations.  Indexes that are being created as a result
of REINDEX, for instance, do not need to have their permissions checked;
they were already checked when the index was created.

Author: KaiGai Kohei, slightly revised by me
2012-10-23 18:24:24 -03:00
Robert Haas e1a6375d8f Comment fixes.
Jeff Davis, somewhat edited by me
2012-08-30 10:42:28 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 21c09e99dc Split heapam_xlog.h from heapam.h
The heapam XLog functions are used by other modules, not all of which
are interested in the rest of the heapam API.  With this, we let them
get just the XLog stuff in which they are interested and not pollute
them with unrelated includes.

Also, since heapam.h no longer requires xlog.h, many files that do
include heapam.h no longer get xlog.h automatically, including a few
headers.  This is useful because heapam.h is getting pulled in by
execnodes.h, which is in turn included by a lot of files.
2012-08-28 19:02:00 -04:00
Tom Lane b53800355f Fix dependencies generated during ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX.
This command generated new pg_depend entries linking the index to the
constraint and the constraint to the table, which match the entries made
when a unique or primary key constraint is built de novo.  However, it did
not bother to get rid of the entries linking the index directly to the
table.  We had considered the issue when the ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX
patch was written, and concluded that we didn't need to get rid of the
extra entries.  But this is wrong: ALTER COLUMN TYPE wasn't expecting such
redundant dependencies to exist, as reported by Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski.
On reflection it seems rather likely to break other things as well, since
there are many bits of code that crawl pg_depend for one purpose or
another, and most of them are pretty naive about what relationships they're
expecting to find.  Fortunately it's not that hard to get rid of the extra
dependency entries, so let's do that.

Back-patch to 9.1, where ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX was added.
2012-08-11 12:51:24 -04:00
Tom Lane eaccfded98 Centralize the logic for detecting misplaced aggregates, window funcs, etc.
Formerly we relied on checking after-the-fact to see if an expression
contained aggregates, window functions, or sub-selects when it shouldn't.
This is grotty, easily forgotten (indeed, we had forgotten to teach
DefineIndex about rejecting window functions), and none too efficient
since it requires extra traversals of the parse tree.  To improve matters,
define an enum type that classifies all SQL sub-expressions, store it in
ParseState to show what kind of expression we are currently parsing, and
make transformAggregateCall, transformWindowFuncCall, and transformSubLink
check the expression type and throw error if the type indicates the
construct is disallowed.  This allows removal of a large number of ad-hoc
checks scattered around the code base.  The enum type is sufficiently
fine-grained that we can still produce error messages of at least the
same specificity as before.

Bringing these error checks together revealed that we'd been none too
consistent about phrasing of the error messages, so standardize the wording
a bit.

Also, rewrite checking of aggregate arguments so that it requires only one
traversal of the arguments, rather than up to three as before.

In passing, clean up some more comments left over from add_missing_from
support, and annotate some tests that I think are dead code now that that's
gone.  (I didn't risk actually removing said dead code, though.)
2012-08-10 11:36:15 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 92ec0370eb Fix typo in comment 2012-08-08 17:42:38 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f5bcd398ad connoinherit may be true only for CHECK constraints
The code was setting it true for other constraints, which is
bogus.  Doing so caused bogus catalog entries for such constraints, and
in particular caused an error to be raised when trying to drop a
constraint of types other than CHECK from a table that has children,
such as reported in bug #6712.

In 9.2, additionally ignore connoinherit=true for other constraint
types, to avoid having to force initdb; existing databases might already
contain bogus catalog entries.

Includes a catversion bump (in HEAD only).

Bug report from Miroslav Šulc
Analysis from Amit Kapila and Noah Misch; Amit also contributed the patch.
2012-07-20 14:08:07 -04:00
Tom Lane c92be3c059 Avoid pre-determining index names during CREATE TABLE LIKE parsing.
Formerly, when trying to copy both indexes and comments, CREATE TABLE LIKE
had to pre-assign names to indexes that had comments, because it made up an
explicit CommentStmt command to apply the comment and so it had to know the
name for the index.  This creates bad interactions with other indexes, as
shown in bug #6734 from Daniele Varrazzo: the preassignment logic couldn't
take any other indexes into account so it could choose a conflicting name.

To fix, add a field to IndexStmt that allows it to carry a comment to be
assigned to the new index.  (This isn't a user-exposed feature of CREATE
INDEX, only an internal option.)  Now we don't need preassignment of index
names in any situation.

I also took the opportunity to refactor DefineIndex to accept the IndexStmt
as such, rather than passing all its fields individually in a mile-long
parameter list.

Back-patch to 9.2, but no further, because it seems too dangerous to change
IndexStmt or DefineIndex's API in released branches.  The bug exists back
to 9.0 where CREATE TABLE LIKE grew the ability to copy comments, but given
the lack of prior complaints we'll just let it go unfixed before 9.2.
2012-07-16 13:25:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 541ffa65c3 Prevent CREATE TABLE LIKE/INHERITS from (mis) copying whole-row Vars.
If a CHECK constraint or index definition contained a whole-row Var (that
is, "table.*"), an attempt to copy that definition via CREATE TABLE LIKE or
table inheritance produced incorrect results: the copied Var still claimed
to have the rowtype of the source table, rather than the created table.

For the LIKE case, it seems reasonable to just throw error for this
situation, since the point of LIKE is that the new table is not permanently
coupled to the old, so there's no reason to assume its rowtype will stay
compatible.  In the inheritance case, we should ideally allow such
constraints, but doing so will require nontrivial refactoring of CREATE
TABLE processing (because we'd need to know the OID of the new table's
rowtype before we adjust inherited CHECK constraints).  In view of the lack
of previous complaints, that doesn't seem worth the risk in a back-patched
bug fix, so just make it throw error for the inheritance case as well.

Along the way, replace change_varattnos_of_a_node() with a more robust
function map_variable_attnos(), which is capable of being extended to
handle insertion of ConvertRowtypeExpr whenever we get around to fixing
the inheritance case nicely, and in the meantime it returns a failure
indication to the caller so that a helpful message with some context can be
thrown.  Also, this code will do the right thing with subselects (if we
ever allow them in CHECK or indexes), and it range-checks varattnos before
using them to index into the map array.

Per report from Sergey Konoplev.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-06-30 16:45:14 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 15b1918e7d Improve reporting of permission errors for array types
Because permissions are assigned to element types, not array types,
complaining about permission denied on an array type would be
misleading to users.  So adjust the reporting to refer to the element
type instead.

In order not to duplicate the required logic in two dozen places,
refactor the permission denied reporting for types a bit.

pointed out by Yeb Havinga during the review of the type privilege
feature
2012-06-15 22:55:03 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 927d61eeff Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3
commit-fest.
2012-06-10 15:20:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 488c6dd170 Improve error message for ALTER COLUMN TYPE coercion failure.
Per recent discussion, the error message for this was actually a trifle
inaccurate, since it said "cannot be cast" which might be incorrect.
Adjust that wording, and add a HINT suggesting that a USING clause might
be needed.
2012-05-16 07:28:25 -04:00
Robert Haas 1331cc6c1a Prevent loss of init fork when truncating an unlogged table.
Fixes bug #6635, reported by Akira Kurosawa.
2012-05-11 09:48:56 -04:00
Robert Haas 5d4b60f2f2 Lots of doc corrections.
Josh Kupershmidt
2012-04-23 22:43:09 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 09ff76fcdb Recast "ONLY" column CHECK constraints as NO INHERIT
The original syntax wasn't universally loved, and it didn't allow its
usage in CREATE TABLE, only ALTER TABLE.  It now works everywhere, and
it also allows using ALTER TABLE ONLY to add an uninherited CHECK
constraint, per discussion.

The pg_constraint column has accordingly been renamed connoinherit.

This commit partly reverts some of the changes in
61d81bd28d, particularly some pg_dump and
psql bits, because now pg_get_constraintdef includes the necessary NO
INHERIT within the constraint definition.

Author: Nikhil Sontakke
Some tweaks by me
2012-04-20 23:56:57 -03:00
Tom Lane 263d9de66b Allow statistics to be collected for foreign tables.
ANALYZE now accepts foreign tables and allows the table's FDW to control
how the sample rows are collected.  (But only manual ANALYZEs will touch
foreign tables, for the moment, since among other things it's not very
clear how to handle remote permissions checks in an auto-analyze.)

contrib/file_fdw is extended to support this.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada, some further tweaking by me.
2012-04-06 15:02:35 -04:00
Simon Riggs 8cb53654db Add DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY [IF EXISTS], uses ShareUpdateExclusiveLock 2012-04-06 10:21:40 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 38b9693fd9 Add support for renaming domain constraints 2012-04-03 08:11:51 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 39d74e346c Add support for renaming constraints
reviewed by Josh Berkus and Dimitri Fontaine
2012-03-10 20:19:13 +02:00
Robert Haas 07d1edb954 Extend object access hook framework to support arguments, and DROP.
This allows loadable modules to get control at drop time, perhaps for the
purpose of performing additional security checks or to log the event.
The initial purpose of this code is to support sepgsql, but other
applications should be possible as well.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by me.
2012-03-09 14:34:56 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera cb3a7c2b95 ALTER TABLE: skip FK validation when it's safe to do so
We already skip rewriting the table in these cases, but we still force a
whole table scan to validate the data.  This can be skipped, and thus
we can make the whole ALTER TABLE operation just do some catalog touches
instead of scanning the table, when these two conditions hold:

(a) Old and new pg_constraint.conpfeqop match exactly.  This is actually
stronger than needed; we could loosen things by way of operator
families, but it'd require a lot more effort.

(b) The functions, if any, implementing a cast from the foreign type to
the primary opcintype are the same.  For this purpose, we can consider a
binary coercion equivalent to an exact type match.  When the opcintype
is polymorphic, require that the old and new foreign types match
exactly.  (Since ri_triggers.c does use the executor, the stronger check
for polymorphic types is no mere future-proofing.  However, no core type
exercises its necessity.)

Author: Noah Misch

Committer's note: catalog version bumped due to change of the Constraint
node.  I can't actually find any way to have such a node in a stored
rule, but given that we have "out" support for them, better be safe.
2012-02-27 19:10:24 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 9cfd800aab Add some enumeration commas, for consistency 2012-02-24 11:04:45 +02:00
Robert Haas 2d1371d3ee Be more clear when a new column name collides with a system column name.
We now use the same error message for ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN or
ALTER TABLE .. RENAME COLUMN that we do for CREATE TABLE.  The old
message was accurate, but might be confusing to users not aware of our
system columns.

Vik Reykja, with some changes by me, and further proofreading by Tom Lane
2012-01-26 12:44:30 -05:00
Robert Haas 0e549697d1 Classify DROP operations by whether or not they are user-initiated.
This doesn't do anything useful just yet, but is intended as supporting
infrastructure for allowing sepgsql to sensibly check DROP permissions.

KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas
2012-01-26 09:30:27 -05:00
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
Alvaro Herrera 3b11247aad Disallow merging ONLY constraints in children tables
When creating a child table, or when attaching an existing table as
child of another, we must not allow inheritable constraints to be
merged with non-inheritable ones, because then grandchildren would not
properly get the constraint.  This would violate the grandparent's
expectations.

Bugs noted by Robert Haas.

Author: Nikhil Sontakke
2012-01-16 19:27:05 -03:00
Robert Haas 1575fbcb79 Prevent adding relations to a concurrently dropped schema.
In the previous coding, it was possible for a relation to be created
via CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW, CREATE SEQUENCE, CREATE FOREIGN TABLE,
etc.  in a schema while that schema was meanwhile being concurrently
dropped.  This led to a pg_class entry with an invalid relnamespace
value.  The same problem could occur if a relation was moved using
ALTER .. SET SCHEMA while the target schema was being concurrently
dropped.  This patch prevents both of those scenarios by locking the
schema to which the relation is being added using AccessShareLock,
which conflicts with the AccessExclusiveLock taken by DROP.

As a desirable side effect, this also prevents the use of CREATE OR
REPLACE VIEW to queue for an AccessExclusiveLock on a relation on which
you have no rights: that will now fail immediately with a permissions
error, before trying to obtain a lock.

We need similar protection for all other object types, but as everything
other than relations uses a slightly different set of code paths, I'm
leaving that for a separate commit.

Original complaint (as far as I could find) about CREATE by Nikhil
Sontakke; risk for ALTER .. SET SCHEMA pointed out by Tom Lane;
further details by Dan Farina; patch by me; review by Hitoshi Harada.
2012-01-16 09:49:34 -05:00
Robert Haas df970a0ac8 Fix backwards logic in previous commit.
I wrote this code before committing it, but managed not to include it in
the actual commit.
2012-01-06 22:54:43 -05:00
Robert Haas 1489e2f26a Improve behavior of concurrent ALTER TABLE, and do some refactoring.
ALTER TABLE (and ALTER VIEW, ALTER SEQUENCE, etc.) now use a
RangeVarGetRelid callback to check permissions before acquiring a table
lock.  We also now use the same callback for all forms of ALTER TABLE,
rather than having separate, almost-identical callbacks for ALTER TABLE
.. SET SCHEMA and ALTER TABLE .. RENAME, and no callback at all for
everything else.

I went ahead and changed the code so that no form of ALTER TABLE works
on foreign tables; you must use ALTER FOREIGN TABLE instead.  In 9.1,
it was possible to use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA or ALTER TABLE ..
RENAME on a foreign table, but not any other form of ALTER TABLE, which
did not seem terribly useful or consistent.

Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
2012-01-06 22:42:26 -05:00
Bruce Momjian e126958c2e Update copyright notices for year 2012. 2012-01-01 18:01:58 -05:00
Robert Haas 0e4611c023 Add a security_barrier option for views.
When a view is marked as a security barrier, it will not be pulled up
into the containing query, and no quals will be pushed down into it,
so that no function or operator chosen by the user can be applied to
rows not exposed by the view.  Views not configured with this
option cannot provide robust row-level security, but will perform far
better.

Patch by KaiGai Kohei; original problem report by Heikki Linnakangas
(in October 2009!).  Review (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch and
others.  Design advice by Tom Lane and myself.  Further review and
cleanup by me.
2011-12-22 16:16:31 -05:00
Tom Lane c31224e257 Update per-column ACLs, not only per-table ACL, when changing table owner.
We forgot to modify column ACLs, so privileges were still shown as having
been granted by the old owner.  This meant that neither the new owner nor
a superuser could revoke the now-untraceable-to-table-owner permissions.
Per bug #6350 from Marc Balmer.

This has been wrong since column ACLs were added, so back-patch to 8.4.
2011-12-21 18:23:11 -05:00
Robert Haas cbe24a6dd8 Improve behavior of concurrent CLUSTER.
In the previous coding, a user could queue up for an AccessExclusiveLock
on a table they did not have permission to cluster, thus potentially
interfering with access by authorized users who got stuck waiting behind
the AccessExclusiveLock.  This approach avoids that.  cluster() has the
same permissions-checking requirements as REINDEX TABLE, so this commit
moves the now-shared callback to tablecmds.c and renames it, per
discussion with Noah Misch.
2011-12-21 15:17:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 729205571e Add support for privileges on types
This adds support for the more or less SQL-conforming USAGE privilege
on types and domains.  The intent is to be able restrict which users
can create dependencies on types, which restricts the way in which
owners can alter types.

reviewed by Yeb Havinga
2011-12-20 00:05:19 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 61d81bd28d Allow CHECK constraints to be declared ONLY
This makes them enforceable only on the parent table, not on children
tables.  This is useful in various situations, per discussion involving
people bitten by the restrictive behavior introduced in 8.4.

Message-Id:
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Authors: Nikhil Sontakke, Alex Hunsaker
Reviewed by Robert Haas and myself
2011-12-19 17:30:23 -03:00
Robert Haas 1da5c11959 Improve behavior of concurrent ALTER <relation> .. SET SCHEMA.
If the referrent of a name changes while we're waiting for the lock,
we must recheck permissons.  We also now check the relkind before
locking, since it's easy to do that long the way.

Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
2011-12-15 19:02:58 -05:00
Robert Haas 74a1d4fe7c Improve behavior of concurrent rename statements.
Previously, renaming a table, sequence, view, index, foreign table,
column, or trigger checked permissions before locking the object, which
meant that if permissions were revoked during the lock wait, we would
still allow the operation.  Similarly, if the original object is dropped
and a new one with the same name is created, the operation will be allowed
if we had permissions on the old object; the permissions on the new
object don't matter.  All this is now fixed.

Along the way, attempting to rename a trigger on a foreign table now gives
the same error message as trying to create one there in the first place
(i.e. that it's not a table or view) rather than simply stating that no
trigger by that name exists.

Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
2011-12-15 19:02:38 -05:00
Robert Haas d2a662182e Typo fixes for commit 2ad36c4e44.
Noted during post-commit review by by Noah Misch.
2011-12-06 15:50:02 -05:00
Robert Haas 2ad36c4e44 Improve table locking behavior in the face of current DDL.
In the previous coding, callers were faced with an awkward choice:
look up the name, do permissions checks, and then lock the table; or
look up the name, lock the table, and then do permissions checks.
The first choice was wrong because the results of the name lookup
and permissions checks might be out-of-date by the time the table
lock was acquired, while the second allowed a user with no privileges
to interfere with access to a table by users who do have privileges
(e.g. if a malicious backend queues up for an AccessExclusiveLock on
a table on which AccessShareLock is already held, further attempts
to access the table will be blocked until the AccessExclusiveLock
is obtained and the malicious backend's transaction rolls back).

To fix, allow callers of RangeVarGetRelid() to pass a callback which
gets executed after performing the name lookup but before acquiring
the relation lock.  If the name lookup is retried (because
invalidation messages are received), the callback will be re-executed
as well, so we get the best of both worlds.  RangeVarGetRelid() is
renamed to RangeVarGetRelidExtended(); callers not wishing to supply
a callback can continue to invoke it as RangeVarGetRelid(), which is
now a macro.  Since the only one caller that uses nowait = true now
passes a callback anyway, the RangeVarGetRelid() macro defaults nowait
as well.  The callback can also be used for supplemental locking - for
example, REINDEX INDEX needs to acquire the table lock before the index
lock to reduce deadlock possibilities.

There's a lot more work to be done here to fix all the cases where this
can be a problem, but this commit provides the general infrastructure
and fixes the following specific cases: REINDEX INDEX, REINDEX TABLE,
LOCK TABLE, and and DROP TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW/FOREIGN TABLE.

Per discussion with Noah Misch and Alvaro Herrera.
2011-11-30 10:27:00 -05:00
Tom Lane 1e3b21dd5e Change FK trigger naming convention to fix self-referential FKs.
Use names like "RI_ConstraintTrigger_a_NNNN" for FK action triggers and
"RI_ConstraintTrigger_c_NNNN" for FK check triggers.  This ensures the
action trigger fires first in self-referential cases where the very same
row update fires both an action and a check trigger.  This change provides
a non-probabilistic solution for bug #6268, at the risk that it could break
client code that is making assumptions about the exact names assigned to
auto-generated FK triggers.  Hence, change this in HEAD only.  No need for
forced initdb since old triggers continue to work fine.
2011-10-26 13:19:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 58958726ff Change FK trigger creation order to better support self-referential FKs.
When a foreign-key constraint references another column of the same table,
row updates will queue both the PK's ON UPDATE action and the FK's CHECK
action in the same event.  The ON UPDATE action must execute first, else
the CHECK will check a non-final state of the row and possibly throw an
inappropriate error, as seen in bug #6268 from Roman Lytovchenko.

Now, the firing order of multiple triggers for the same event is determined
by the sort order of their pg_trigger.tgnames, and the auto-generated names
we use for FK triggers are "RI_ConstraintTrigger_NNNN" where NNNN is the
trigger OID.  So most of the time the firing order is the same as creation
order, and so rearranging the creation order fixes it.

This patch will fail to fix the problem if the OID counter wraps around or
adds a decimal digit (eg, from 99999 to 100000) while we are creating the
triggers for an FK constraint.  Given the small odds of that, and the low
usage of self-referential FKs, we'll live with that solution in the back
branches.  A better fix is to change the auto-generated names for FK
triggers, but it seems unwise to do that in stable branches because there
may be client code that depends on the naming convention.  We'll fix it
that way in HEAD in a separate patch.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since this bug has existed for a long
time.
2011-10-26 13:02:28 -04:00
Robert Haas c0f03aae04 Fix ALTER TABLE ONLY .. DROP CONSTRAINT.
When I consolidated two copies of the HOT-chain search logic in commit
4da99ea423, I introduced a behavior
change: the old code wouldn't necessarily traverse the entire chain,
if the most recently returned tuple were updated while the HOT chain
traversal is in progress.  The new behavior seems more correct, but
unfortunately, the code here relies on a scan with SnapshotNow failing
to see its own updates.  That seems pretty shaky even with the old HOT
chain traversal behavior, since there's no guarantee that these
updates will always be HOT, but it's trivial to broke a failure with
the new HOT search logic.  Fix by updating just the first matching
pg_constraint tuple, rather than all of them, since there should be
only one anyway.  But since nobody has reproduced this failure on older
versions, no back-patch for now.

Report and test case by Alex Hunsaker; tablecmds.c changes by me.
2011-10-09 23:39:52 -04:00
Tom Lane 5b562644fe Teach ANALYZE to clear pg_class.relhassubclass when appropriate.
In the past, relhassubclass always remained true if a relation had ever had
child relations, even if the last subclass was long gone.  While this had
only marginal performance implications in most cases, it was annoying, and
I'm now considering some planner changes that would raise the cost of a
false positive.  It was previously impractical to fix this because of race
condition concerns.  However, given the recent change that made tablecmds.c
take ShareExclusiveLock on relations that are gaining a child (commit
fbcf4b92aa), we can now allow ANALYZE to
clear the flag when it's no longer relevant.  There is no additional
locking cost to do so, since ANALYZE takes ShareExclusiveLock anyway.
2011-09-02 14:29:31 -04:00
Robert Haas c4096c7639 Allow per-column foreign data wrapper options.
Shigeru Hanada, with fairly minor editing by me.
2011-08-05 13:24:03 -04:00
Robert Haas 367bc426a1 Avoid index rebuild for no-rewrite ALTER TABLE .. ALTER TYPE.
Noah Misch.  Review and minor cosmetic changes by me.
2011-07-18 11:04:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 4240e429d0 Try to acquire relation locks in RangeVarGetRelid.
In the previous coding, we would look up a relation in RangeVarGetRelid,
lock the resulting OID, and then AcceptInvalidationMessages().  While
this was sufficient to ensure that we noticed any changes to the
relation definition before building the relcache entry, it didn't
handle the possibility that the name we looked up no longer referenced
the same OID.  This was particularly problematic in the case where a
table had been dropped and recreated: we'd latch on to the entry for
the old relation and fail later on.  Now, we acquire the relation lock
inside RangeVarGetRelid, and retry the name lookup if we notice that
invalidation messages have been processed meanwhile.  Many operations
that would previously have failed with an error in the presence of
concurrent DDL will now succeed.

There is a good deal of work remaining to be done here: many callers
of RangeVarGetRelid still pass NoLock for one reason or another.  In
addition, nothing in this patch guards against the possibility that
the meaning of an unqualified name might change due to the creation
of a relation in a schema earlier in the user's search path than the
one where it was previously found.  Furthermore, there's nothing at
all here to guard against similar race conditions for non-relations.
For all that, it's a start.

Noah Misch and Robert Haas
2011-07-08 22:19:30 -04:00
Tom Lane a195e3c34f Finish disabling reduced-lock-levels-for-DDL feature.
Previous patch only covered the ALTER TABLE changes, not changes in other
commands; and it neglected to revert the documentation changes.
2011-07-07 13:15:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 27af66162b Message style tweaks 2011-07-05 00:01:35 +03:00