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Tom Lane 1ad76112e7 Issue explicit error messages for attempts to use "shell" operators in
ordinary expressions.  This probably doesn't catch every single case
where you might get "cache lookup failed for function 0" for use of a
shell operator, but it will catch most.  Per bug #4120 from Pedro Gimeno.

This patch incidentally folds make_op_expr() into its sole remaining
caller --- the alternative was to give it yet more arguments, which
didn't seem an improvement.
2008-04-22 01:34:34 +00:00
Tom Lane ff673f558a Fix convert_IN_to_join to properly handle the case where the subselect's
output is not of the same type that's needed for the IN comparison (ie,
where the parser inserted an implicit coercion above the subselect result).
We should record the coerced expression, not just a raw Var referencing
the subselect output, as the quantity that needs to be unique-ified if
we choose to implement the IN as Unique followed by a plain join.

As of 8.3 this error was causing crashes, as seen in bug #4113 from Javier
Hernandez, because the executor was being told to hash or sort the raw
subselect output column using operators appropriate to the coerced type.

In prior versions there was no crash because the executor chose the
hash or sort operators for itself based on the column type it saw.
However, that's still not really right, because what's unique for one data
type might not be unique for another.  In corner cases we could get multiple
outputs of a row that should appear only once, as demonstrated by the
regression test case included in this commit.

However, this patch doesn't apply cleanly to 8.2 or before, and the code
involved has shifted enough over time that I'm hesitant to try to back-patch.
Given the lack of complaints from the field about such corner cases, I think
the bug may not be important enough to risk breaking other things with a
back-patch.
2008-04-21 20:54:15 +00:00
Tom Lane f593f62336 Fix a couple of places in execMain that erroneously assumed that SELECT FOR
UPDATE/SHARE couldn't occur as a subquery in a query with a non-SELECT
top-level operation.  Symptoms included outright failure (as in report from
Mark Mielke) and silently neglecting to take the requested row locks.

Back-patch to 8.3, because the visible failure in the INSERT ... SELECT case
is a regression from 8.2.  I'm a bit hesitant to back-patch further given the
lack of field complaints.
2008-04-21 03:49:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 8472bf7a73 Allow float8, int8, and related datatypes to be passed by value on machines
where Datum is 8 bytes wide.  Since this will break old-style C functions
(those still using version 0 calling convention) that have arguments or
results of these types, provide a configure option to disable it and retain
the old pass-by-reference behavior.  Likewise, provide a configure option
to disable the recently-committed float4 pass-by-value change.

Zoltan Boszormenyi, plus configurability stuff by me.
2008-04-21 00:26:47 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev be939544a6 Fix broken compare function for tsquery_ops. Per Tom's report.
I never understood why initial authors GiST in pgsql choose so
stgrange signature for 'same' method:
bool *sameFn(Datum a, Datum b, bool* result)
instead of simple, logical
bool sameFn(Datum a, Datum b)
This change will break any existing GiST extension, so we still live with
it and will live.
2008-04-20 09:17:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 7861d72ea2 Modify the float4 datatype to be pass-by-val. Along the way, remove the last
uses of the long-deprecated float32 in contrib/seg; the definitions themselves
are still there, but no longer used.  fmgr/README updated to match.

I added a CREATE FUNCTION to account for existing seg_center() code in seg.c
too, and some tests for it and the neighbor functions.  At the same time,
remove checks for NULL which are not needed (because the functions are declared
STRICT).

I had to do some adjustments to contrib's btree_gist too.  The choices for
representation there are not ideal for changing the underlying types :-(

Original patch by Zoltan Boszormenyi, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-18 18:43:09 +00:00
Tom Lane b8e5581d76 Fix rmtree() so that it keeps going after failure to remove any individual
file; the idea is that we should clean up as much as we can, even if there's
some problem removing one file.  Make the error messages a bit less misleading,
too.  In passing, const-ify function arguments.
2008-04-18 17:05:45 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9cb91f90c9 Fix two race conditions between the pending unlink mechanism that was put in
place to prevent reusing relation OIDs before next checkpoint, and DROP
DATABASE. First, if a database was dropped, bgwriter would still try to unlink
the files that the rmtree() call by the DROP DATABASE command has already
deleted, or is just about to delete. Second, if a database is dropped, and
another database is created with the same OID, bgwriter would in the worst
case delete a relation in the new database that happened to get the same OID
as a dropped relation in the old database.

To fix these race conditions:
- make rmtree() ignore ENOENT errors. This fixes the 1st race condition.
- make ForgetDatabaseFsyncRequests forget unlink requests as well.
- force checkpoint on in dropdb on all platforms

Since ForgetDatabaseFsyncRequests() is asynchronous, the 2nd change isn't
enough on its own to fix the problem of dropping and creating a database with
same OID, but forcing a checkpoint on DROP DATABASE makes it sufficient.

Per Tom Lane's bug report and proposal. Backpatch to 8.3.
2008-04-18 06:48:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 87a2f050a9 Cause EXPLAIN's VERBOSE option to print the target list (output column list)
of each plan node, instead of its former behavior of dumping the internal
representation of the plan tree.  The latter display is still available for
those who really want it (see debug_print_plan), but uses for it are certainly
few and and far between.  Per discussion.

This patch also removes the explain_pretty_print GUC, which is obsoleted
by the change.
2008-04-18 01:42:17 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 2f0f7b4bce Clean up a few places where Datums were being treated as pointers (and vice
versa) without going through DatumGetPointer.

Gavin Sherry, with Feng Tian.
2008-04-17 21:37:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 25e46a504b Fix a couple of oversights associated with the "physical tlist" optimization:
we had several code paths where a physical tlist could be used for the input
to a Sort node, which is a dumb idea because any unneeded table columns will
increase the volume of data the sort has to push around.

(Unfortunately the easy-looking fix of calling disuse_physical_tlist during
make_sort_xxx doesn't work because in most cases we're already committed to
the current input tlist --- it's been marked with sort column numbers, or
we've built grouping column numbers using it, etc.  The tlist has to be
selected properly at the calling level before we start constructing sort-col
information.  This is easy enough to do, we were just failing to take the
point into consideration.)

Back-patch to 8.3.  I believe the problem probably exists clear back to 7.4
when the physical tlist optimization was added, but I'm afraid to back-patch
further than 8.3 without a great deal more study than I want to put into it.
The code in this area has drifted a lot over time.  The real-world importance
of these code paths is uncertain anyway --- I think in many cases we'd
probably prefer hash-based methods.
2008-04-17 21:22:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian c4fd93b3f3 Re-enable pg_terminate_backend() using SIGTERM. SIGTERM testing still
needed.
2008-04-17 20:56:41 +00:00
Tom Lane c5e4e91a96 Add some code to EXPLAIN to show the targetlist (ie, output columns)
of each plan node.  For the moment this is debug support only and is
not enabled unless EXPLAIN_PRINT_TLISTS is defined at build time.
Later I'll see about the idea of letting EXPLAIN VERBOSE do it.
2008-04-17 18:30:18 +00:00
Tom Lane d1cbd26ded Repair two places where SIGTERM exit could leave shared memory state
corrupted.  (Neither is very important if SIGTERM is used to shut down the
whole database cluster together, but there's a problem if someone tries to
SIGTERM individual backends.)  To do this, introduce new infrastructure
macros PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP/PG_END_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP that take care
of transiently pushing an on_shmem_exit cleanup hook.  Also use this method
for createdb cleanup --- that wasn't a shared-memory-corruption problem,
but SIGTERM abort of createdb could leave orphaned files lying around.

Backpatch as far as 8.2.  The shmem corruption cases don't exist in 8.1,
and the createdb usage doesn't seem important enough to risk backpatching
further.
2008-04-16 23:59:40 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 74be86847c Fix MinGW warnings re formats and unused variables. per ITAGAKI Takahiro 2008-04-16 22:16:00 +00:00
Tom Lane 0f45d1eb08 Fix LOAD_CRIT_INDEX() macro to take out AccessShareLock on the system index
it is trying to build a relcache entry for.  This is an oversight in my 8.2
patch that tried to ensure we always took a lock on a relation before trying
to build its relcache entry.  The implication is that if someone committed a
reindex of a critical system index at about the same time that some other
backend were starting up without a valid pg_internal.init file, the second one
might PANIC due to not seeing any valid version of the index's pg_class row.
Improbable case, but definitely not impossible.
2008-04-16 18:23:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 76365960d2 Revert addition of pg_terminate_backend() because of race conditions. 2008-04-15 20:28:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 18b286f3e3 Add pg_terminate_backend() to allow terminating only a single session. 2008-04-15 13:55:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 9b5c8d45f6 Push index operator lossiness determination down to GIST/GIN opclass
"consistent" functions, and remove pg_amop.opreqcheck, as per recent
discussion.  The main immediate benefit of this is that we no longer need
8.3's ugly hack of requiring @@@ rather than @@ to test weight-using tsquery
searches on GIN indexes.  In future it should be possible to optimize some
other queries better than is done now, by detecting at runtime whether the
index match is exact or not.

Tom Lane, after an idea of Heikki's, and with some help from Teodor.
2008-04-14 17:05:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 226837e57e Since createplan.c no longer cares whether index operators are lossy, it has
no particular need to do get_op_opfamily_properties() while building an
indexscan plan.  Postpone that lookup until executor start.  This simplifies
createplan.c a lot more than it complicates nodeIndexscan.c, and makes things
more uniform since we already had to do it that way for RowCompare
expressions.  Should be a bit faster too, at least for plans that aren't
re-used many times, since we avoid palloc'ing and perhaps copying the
intermediate list data structure.
2008-04-13 20:51:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 24558da14a Phase 2 of project to make index operator lossiness be determined at runtime
instead of plan time.  Extend the amgettuple API so that the index AM returns
a boolean indicating whether the indexquals need to be rechecked, and make
that rechecking happen in nodeIndexscan.c (currently the only place where
it's expected to be needed; other callers of index_getnext are just erroring
out for now).  For the moment, GIN and GIST have stub logic that just always
sets the recheck flag to TRUE --- I'm hoping to get Teodor to handle pushing
that control down to the opclass consistent() functions.  The planner no
longer pays any attention to amopreqcheck, and that catalog column will go
away in due course.
2008-04-13 19:18:14 +00:00
Tom Lane ba1c463096 Clean up a few places where Datums were being treated as pointers without
going through DatumGetPointer or some other "official" conversion macro.
Not actually a bug, since Datum the same size as pointer is the only
supported case at the moment, but good cleanup for the future.

Gavin Sherry
2008-04-12 23:21:04 +00:00
Tom Lane ec498cdcbb Create new routines systable_beginscan_ordered, systable_getnext_ordered,
systable_endscan_ordered that have API similar to systable_beginscan etc
(in particular, the passed-in scankeys have heap not index attnums),
but guarantee ordered output, unlike the existing functions.  For the moment
these are just very thin wrappers around index_beginscan/index_getnext/etc.
Someday they might need to get smarter; but for now this is just a code
refactoring exercise to reduce the number of direct callers of index_getnext,
in preparation for changing that function's API.

In passing, remove index_getnext_indexitem, which has been dead code for
quite some time, and will have even less use than that in the presence
of run-time-lossy indexes.
2008-04-12 23:14:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 65c3d05e18 Add some debug support code to try to catch future mistakes in the area of
input functions that include garbage bytes in their results.  Provide a
compile-time option RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY to make palloc fill returned
blocks with variable contents.  This option also makes the parser perform
conversions of literal constants twice and compare the results, emitting a
WARNING if they don't match.  (This is the code I used to catch the input
function bugs fixed in the previous commit.)  For the moment, I've set it
to be activated automatically by --enable-cassert.
2008-04-11 22:54:23 +00:00
Tom Lane c846f7ca8a Fix several datatype input functions that were allowing unused bytes in their
results to contain uninitialized, unpredictable values.  While this was okay
as far as the datatypes themselves were concerned, it's a problem for the
parser because occurrences of the "same" literal might not be recognized as
equal by datumIsEqual (and hence not by equal()).  It seems sufficient to fix
this in the input functions since the only critical use of equal() is in the
parser's comparisons of ORDER BY and DISTINCT expressions.
Per a trouble report from Marc Cousin.

Patch all the way back.  Interestingly, array_in did not have the bug before
8.2, which may explain why the issue went unnoticed for so long.
2008-04-11 22:52:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 4e82a95476 Replace "amgetmulti" AM functions with "amgetbitmap", in which the whole
indexscan always occurs in one call, and the results are returned in a
TIDBitmap instead of a limited-size array of TIDs.  This should improve
speed a little by reducing AM entry/exit overhead, and it is necessary
infrastructure if we are ever to support bitmap indexes.

In an only slightly related change, add support for TIDBitmaps to preserve
(somewhat lossily) the knowledge that particular TIDs reported by an index
need to have their quals rechecked when the heap is visited.  This facility
is not really used yet; we'll need to extend the forced-recheck feature to
plain indexscans before it's useful, and that hasn't been coded yet.
The intent is to use it to clean up 8.3's horrid @@@ kluge for text search
with weighted queries.  There might be other uses in future, but that one
alone is sufficient reason.

Heikki Linnakangas, with some adjustments by me.
2008-04-10 22:25:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 91509e6a87 Small wording improvements for source code READMEs. 2008-04-09 01:00:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4d048b7b8b Revert README cleanups. 2008-04-09 00:59:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 8cb3ad9f52 Revert sentence removal from nickname in FAQ. 2008-04-09 00:55:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 635aaab278 Fix tsvector_update_trigger() to be domain-friendly: it needs to allow all
the columns it works with to be domains over the expected type, not just
exactly the expected type.  In passing, fix ts_stat() the same way.
Per report from Markus Wollny.
2008-04-08 18:20:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 46e76373ec Implement a few changes to how shared libraries and dynamically loadable
modules are built.  Foremost, it creates a solid distinction between these two
types of targets based on what had already been implemented and duplicated in
ad hoc ways before.  Specifically,

- Dynamically loadable modules no longer get a soname.  The numbers previously
set in the makefiles were dummy numbers anyway, and the presence of a soname
upset a few packaging tools, so it is nicer not to have one.

- The cumbersome detour taken on installation (build a libfoo.so.0.0.0 and
then override the rule to install foo.so instead) is removed.

- Lots of duplicated code simplified.
2008-04-07 14:15:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 2604359251 Improve hash_any() to use word-wide fetches when hashing suitably aligned
data.  This makes for a significant speedup at the cost that the results
now vary between little-endian and big-endian machines; which forces us
to add explicit ORDER BYs in a couple of regression tests to preserve
machine-independent comparison results.  Also, force initdb by bumping
catversion, since the contents of hash indexes will change (at least on
big-endian machines).

Kenneth Marshall and Tom Lane, based on work from Bob Jenkins.  This commit
does not adopt Bob's new faster mix() algorithm, however, since we still need
to convince ourselves that that doesn't degrade the quality of the hashing.
2008-04-06 16:54:49 +00:00
Tom Lane ceb5db69d4 Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannot
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing
join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide.  Perhaps this should be
improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not
sure the problem is worth much effort.  Per bug #4070 from Marcello
Ceschia.

The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have
(different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but
back-patch all the way anyway.
2008-04-05 01:58:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 2a1cf97c22 Have pg_stop_backup() wait for all archive files to be sent, rather than
returing right away.  This guarantees that when pg_stop_backup()
returns, you have a valid backup.

Simon Riggs
2008-04-05 01:34:06 +00:00
Tom Lane a0fad9762a Re-implement division for numeric values using the traditional "schoolbook"
algorithm.  This is a good deal slower than our old roundoff-error-prone
code for long inputs, so we keep the old code for use in the transcendental
functions, where everything is approximate anyway.  Also create a
user-accessible function div(numeric, numeric) to provide access to the
exact result of trunc(x/y) --- since the regular numeric / operator will
round off its result, simply computing that expression in SQL doesn't
reliably give the desired answer.  This fixes bug #3387 and various related
corner cases, and improves the usefulness of PG for high-precision integer
arithmetic.
2008-04-04 18:45:36 +00:00
Tom Lane a051ab0a80 Remove no-longer-used function assign_backslash_quote() 2008-04-04 17:25:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f96928fde9 Implement current_query(), that shows the currently executing query.
At the same time remove dblink/dblink_current_query() as it is no longer
necessary
*BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUE* for dblink

Tomas Doran
2008-04-04 16:57:21 +00:00
Magnus Hagander cfaf8b6b67 Oops, change should go in scan.l to survive a clean checkout and not just
a make clean...
2008-04-04 12:44:36 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 2288d646a6 Convert backslash_quote guc to use enum. 2008-04-04 11:47:19 +00:00
Magnus Hagander d672ea6ffa Turn xmlbinary and xmloption GUC variables into enumsTurn xmlbinary and
xmloption GUC variables into enums..
2008-04-04 08:33:15 +00:00
Tom Lane b03271590e Remove heap_release_fetch, which is no longer used anywhere; this simplifies
heap_fetch a little.
2008-04-03 17:12:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 51e1445f10 Teach ANALYZE to distinguish dead and in-doubt tuples, which it formerly
classed all as "dead"; also get it to count DEAD item pointers as dead rows,
instead of ignoring them as before.  Also improve matters so that tuples
previously inserted or deleted by our own transaction are handled nicely:
the stats collector's live-tuple and dead-tuple counts will end up correct
after our transaction ends, regardless of whether we end in commit or abort.

While there's more work that could be done to improve the counting of in-doubt
tuples in both VACUUM and ANALYZE, this commit is enough to alleviate some
known bad behaviors in 8.3; and the other stuff that's been discussed seems
like research projects anyway.

Pavan Deolasee and Tom Lane
2008-04-03 16:27:25 +00:00
Magnus Hagander f1e0d5a8ca Oops, add proper #ifdef for systems without support for syslog.
Per buildfarm member mastodon.
2008-04-03 13:25:02 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 409e386be0 Convert syslog_facility guc to enum type. 2008-04-03 09:21:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 1591fcbec7 Revert my bad decision of about a year ago to make PortalDefineQuery
responsible for copying the query string into the new Portal.  Such copying
is unnecessary in the common code path through exec_simple_query, and in
this case it can be enormously expensive because the string might contain
a large number of individual commands; we were copying the entire, long
string for each command, resulting in O(N^2) behavior for N commands.
(This is the cause of bug #4079.)  A second problem with it is that
PortalDefineQuery really can't risk error, because if it elog's before
having set up the Portal, we will leak the plancache refcount that the
caller is trying to hand off to the portal.  So go back to the design in
which the caller is responsible for making sure everything is copied into
the portal if necessary.
2008-04-02 18:31:50 +00:00
Magnus Hagander ad6bf716ba Convert three more guc settings to enum type:
default_transaction_isolation, session_replication_role and regex_flavor.
2008-04-02 14:42:56 +00:00
Tom Lane d5466e38f0 Add SPI-level support for executing SQL commands with one-time-use plans,
that is commands that have out-of-line parameters but the plan is prepared
assuming that the parameter values are constants.  This is needed for the
plpgsql EXECUTE USING patch, but will probably have use elsewhere.

This commit includes the SPI functions and documentation, but no callers
nor regression tests.  The upcoming EXECUTE USING patch will provide
regression-test coverage.  I thought committing this separately made
sense since it's logically a distinct feature.
2008-04-01 03:09:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 6b73d7e567 Fix an oversight I made in a cleanup patch over a year ago:
eval_const_expressions needs to be passed the PlannerInfo ("root") structure,
because in some cases we want it to substitute values for Param nodes.
(So "constant" is not so constant as all that ...)  This mistake partially
disabled optimization of unnamed extended-Query statements in 8.3: in
particular the LIKE-to-indexscan optimization would never be applied if the
LIKE pattern was passed as a parameter, and constraint exclusion depending
on a parameter value didn't work either.
2008-04-01 00:48:33 +00:00
Tom Lane d344115519 Apply my original fix for Taiki Yamaguchi's bug report about DISTINCT MAX().
Add some regression tests for plausible failures in this area.
2008-03-31 16:59:26 +00:00
Tom Lane e86237ff31 Fix my brain fade in TRUNCATE triggers patch: can't release relcache refcounts
while EState still contains pointers to those relations.  Exposed by the
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS tests that buildfarm member jaguar is running (I knew
those cycles would pay off...)
2008-03-31 03:34:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 3405f2b925 Use error message wordings for permissions checks on .pgpass and SSL private
key files that are similar to the one for the postmaster's data directory
permissions check.  (I chose to standardize on that one since it's the most
heavily used and presumably best-wordsmithed by now.)  Also eliminate explicit
tests on file ownership in these places, since the ensuing read attempt must
fail anyway if it's wrong, and there seems no value in issuing the same error
message for distinct problems.  (But I left in the explicit ownership test in
postmaster.c, since it had its own error message anyway.)  Also be more
specific in the documentation's descriptions of these checks.  Per a gripe
from Kevin Hunter.
2008-03-31 02:43:14 +00:00
Tom Lane c5f11f9d19 Fix a number of places that were making file-type tests infelicitously.
The places that did, eg,
	(statbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR
were correct, but there is no good reason not to use S_ISDIR() instead,
especially when that's what the other 90% of our code does.  The places
that did, eg,
	(statbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR)
were flat out *wrong* and would fail in various platform-specific ways,
eg a symlink could be mistaken for a regular file on most Unixen.

The actual impact of this is probably small, since the problem cases
seem to always involve symlinks or sockets, which are unlikely to be
found in the directories that PG code might be scanning.  But it's
clearly trouble waiting to happen, so patch all the way back anyway.
(There seem to be no occurrences of the mistake in 7.4.)
2008-03-31 01:31:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 6fc9d4272c Revert my erroneous fix for Taiki Yamaguchi's DISTINCT MAX() bug.
Whatever we do about that, this isn't the path to the solution.
2008-03-29 00:15:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 2e4094dad8 Department of second thoughts: the rule that ORDER BY and DISTINCT are
useless for an ungrouped-aggregate query holds regardless of whether
optimize_minmax_aggregates succeeds.  So we might as well apply the
optimization in any case.

I'll leave 8.3 as it was, since this version is a tad more invasive
than my earlier patch.
2008-03-28 02:00:11 +00:00
Tom Lane 7692d8d5b7 Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon Riggs 2008-03-28 00:21:56 +00:00
Tom Lane ff72280c9e When we have successfully optimized a MIN or MAX aggregate into an indexscan,
the query result must be exactly one row (since we don't do this when there's
any GROUP BY).  Therefore any ORDER BY or DISTINCT attached to the query is
useless and can be dropped.  Aside from saving useless cycles, this protects
us against problems with matching the hacked-up tlist entries to sort clauses,
as seen in a bug report from Taiki Yamaguchi.  We might need to work harder
if we ever try to optimize grouped queries with this approach, but this
solution will do for now.
2008-03-27 19:06:14 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 39627b1ae6 Remove ipcclean utility command --- didn't work on all Unixes and on
Windows.  Users should use their operating system tools instead.
2008-03-27 17:24:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 039dfbfd5d Reduce the need for frontend programs to include "postgres.h" by refactoring
inclusions in src/include/catalog/*.h files.  The main idea here is to push
function declarations for src/backend/catalog/*.c files into separate headers,
rather than sticking them into the corresponding catalog definition file as
has been done in the past.  This commit only carries out that idea fully for
pg_proc, pg_type and pg_conversion, but that's enough for the moment ---
if pg_list.h ever becomes unsafe for frontend code to include, we'll need
to work a bit more.

Zdenek Kotala
2008-03-27 03:57:34 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 73b0300b2a Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid including
tqual.h into heapam.h.  This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit.

I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
2008-03-26 21:10:39 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 78f02ca1f5 Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
2008-03-26 18:48:59 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera d43b085d57 Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create a
snapmgmt.c file for the former.  The header files have also been reorganized
in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file
snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c.
tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum.

This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a
transaction; there is no functionality change.

Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and
subsequent discussion.
2008-03-26 16:20:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 220db7ccd8 Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C
strings.  This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text,
cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and
two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString.  A number of
existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed.

Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one
function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used
to be needed.  There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin,
and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via
memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though).

This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory
leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach
text_to_cstring.  We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few
places where it was easy, but much more could be done.

Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
Neil Conway 1d812a98b4 Add a new tuplestore API function, tuplestore_putvalues(). This is
identical to tuplestore_puttuple(), except it operates on arrays of
Datums + nulls rather than a fully-formed HeapTuple. In several places
that use the tuplestore API, this means we can avoid creating a
HeapTuple altogether, saving a copy.
2008-03-25 19:26:54 +00:00
Tom Lane fd791e7b5a When a relation has been proven empty by constraint exclusion, propagate that
knowledge up through any joins it participates in.  We were doing that already
in some special cases but not in the general case.  Also, defend against zero
row estimates for the input relations in cost_mergejoin --- this fix may have
eliminated the only scenario in which that can happen, but be safe.  Per
report from Alex Solovey.
2008-03-24 21:53:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 2a346725ba Use new errdetail_log() mechanism to provide a less klugy way of reporting
large numbers of dependencies on a role that couldn't be dropped.
Per a comment from Alvaro.
2008-03-24 19:47:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 32b58d0220 Fix various infelicities that have snuck into usage of errdetail() and
friends.  Avoid double translation of some messages, ensure other messages
are exposed for translation (and make them follow the style guidelines),
avoid unsafe passing of an unpredictable message text as a format string.
2008-03-24 19:12:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 9b8e1eb375 Adjust the recent patch for reporting of deadlocked queries so that we report
query texts only to the server log.  This eliminates the issue of possible
leaking of security-sensitive data in other sessions' queries.  Since the
log is presumed secure, we can now log the queries of all sessions involved
in the deadlock, whether or not they belong to the same user as the one
reporting the failure.
2008-03-24 18:22:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 05fc744b96 Add a new ereport auxiliary function errdetail_log(), which works the same as
errdetail except the string goes only to the server log, replacing the normal
errdetail there.  This provides a reasonably clean way of dealing with error
details that are too security-sensitive or too bulky to send to the client.

This commit just adds the infrastructure --- actual uses to follow.
2008-03-24 18:08:47 +00:00
Tom Lane 598b97dc9b Avoid a useless tuple copy within nodeMaterial. Neil Conway 2008-03-23 00:54:04 +00:00
Tom Lane 7de81124d5 Create a function quote_nullable(), which works the same as quote_literal()
except that it returns the string 'NULL', rather than a SQL null, when called
with a null argument.  This is often a much more useful behavior for
constructing dynamic queries.  Add more discussion to the documentation
about how to use these functions.

Brendan Jurd
2008-03-23 00:24:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 19595835c3 Refactor to_char/to_date formatting code; primarily, replace DCH_processor
with two new functions DCH_to_char and DCH_from_char that have less confusing
APIs.  Brendan Jurd
2008-03-22 22:32:19 +00:00
Tatsuo Ishii 325c0a39e4 Add server side lo_import(filename, oid) function. 2008-03-22 01:55:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 58a8285542 Remove TypeName struct's timezone flag, which has been write-only storage
for a very long time --- in current usage it's entirely redundant with the
name field.
2008-03-21 22:41:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 20e82a7c0b Give an explicit error for serial[], rather than silently ignoring
the array decoration as the code had been doing.
2008-03-21 22:10:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 4b7ae4afae Report the current queries of all backends involved in a deadlock
(if they'd be visible to the current user in pg_stat_activity).

This might look like it's subject to race conditions, but it's actually
pretty safe because at the time DeadLockReport() is constructing the
report, we haven't yet aborted our transaction and so we can expect that
everyone else involved in the deadlock is still blocked on some lock.
(There are corner cases where that might not be true, such as a statement
timeout triggering in another backend before we finish reporting; but at
worst we'd report a misleading activity string, so it seems acceptable
considering the usefulness of reporting the queries.)

Original patch by Itagaki Takahiro, heavily modified by me.
2008-03-21 21:08:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fca9fff41b More README src cleanups. 2008-03-21 13:23:29 +00:00
Tom Lane 2d0583a166 Get rid of a bunch of #ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP conditionals by inventing
a new typedef TimeOffset to represent an intermediate time value.  It's
either int64 or double as appropriate, and in most usages will be measured
in microseconds or seconds the same as Timestamp.  We don't call it
Timestamp, though, since the value doesn't necessarily represent an absolute
time instant.

Warren Turkal
2008-03-21 01:31:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 6b0706ac33 Arrange for an explicit cast applied to an ARRAY[] constructor to be applied
directly to all the member expressions, instead of the previous implementation
where the ARRAY[] constructor would infer a common element type and then we'd
coerce the finished array after the fact.  This has a number of benefits,
one being that we can allow an empty ARRAY[] construct so long as its
element type is specified by such a cast.

Brendan Jurd, minor fixes by me.
2008-03-20 21:42:48 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 8759b79d0f Add a couple of missing FreeQueryDesc calls. Noticed while testing a
framework to keep track of snapshots in use.
2008-03-20 20:05:56 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 4e228447aa Make source code READMEs more consistent. Add CVS tags to all README files. 2008-03-20 17:55:15 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas f4b7624eb0 Add the missing cyrillic "Yo" characters ('e' and 'E' with two dots) to the
ISO_8859-5 <-> MULE_INTERNAL conversion tables.

This was discovered when trying to convert a string containing those characters
from ISO_8859-5 to Windows-1251, because we use MULE_INTERNAL/KOI8R as an
intermediate encoding between those two.

While the missing "Yo" was just an omission in the conversion tables, there are
a few other characters like the "Numero" sign ("No" as a single character) that
exists in all the other cyrillic encodings (win1251, ISO_8859-5 and cp866), but
not in KOI8R. Added comments about that.

Patch by Sergey Burladyan. Back-patch to 7.4.
2008-03-20 10:30:04 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 470c6c12a1 Remove another useless snapshot creation. 2008-03-19 21:14:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 5507b22dfc Support ALTER TYPE RENAME. Petr Jelinek 2008-03-19 18:38:30 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera a9686591d7 We no longer need a snapshot set after opening the finishing transaction: this
is redundant because autovacuum now always analyzes a single table per
transaction.
2008-03-19 14:18:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 965a2a191a Fix regexp substring matching (substring(string from pattern)) for the corner
case where there is a match to the pattern overall but the user has specified
a parenthesized subexpression and that subexpression hasn't got a match.
An example is substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?').  This should return NULL,
since (bar) isn't matched, but it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern
match instead (ie, 'foo').  Per bug #4044 from Rui Martins.

This has been broken since the beginning; patch in all supported versions.
The old behavior was sufficiently inconsistent that it's impossible to believe
anyone is depending on it.
2008-03-19 02:40:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 0d49838df6 Arrange to "inline" SQL functions that appear in a query's FROM clause,
are declared to return set, and consist of just a single SELECT.  We
can replace the FROM-item with a sub-SELECT and then optimize much as
if we were dealing with a view.  Patch from Richard Rowell, cleaned up
by me.
2008-03-18 22:04:14 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 8c87cc370f Catch all errors in for and while loops in makefiles. Don't ignore any
errors in any commands, including in various clean targets that have so far
been handled inconsistently.  make -i is available to ignore all errors in
a consistent and official way.
2008-03-18 16:24:50 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera d54bb24cdd Move elog(DEBUG4) call outside the locked area, per suggestion from Tom Lane. 2008-03-18 12:36:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 8e850b9159 Advance multiple array keys rightmost-first instead of leftmost-first
during a bitmap index scan.  This cannot affect the query results
(since we're just dumping the TIDs into a bitmap) but it might offer
some advantage in locality of access to the index.  Per Greg Stark.
2008-03-18 03:54:52 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut a7b7b07af3 Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that will
support DTrace in the future.

Switch from using DTRACE_PROBEn macros to the dynamically generated macros.
Use "dtrace -h" to create a header file that contains the dynamically
generated macros to be used in the source code instead of the DTRACE_PROBEn
macros.  A dummy header file is generated for builds without DTrace support.

Author: Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@sun.com>
2008-03-17 19:44:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e7115a224a We need to rebuild objfiles.txt when one of the subdirectories' objfiles.txt
changed in case a new file got added.
2008-03-17 18:24:56 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 7cbfa7565e Fix postgres --describe-config for guc enums, breakage noted by Alvaro.
While at it, rename option lookup functions to make names clearer, per
discussion with Tom.
2008-03-17 17:45:09 +00:00
Tom Lane 164899db1c Revert thinko introduced into prefix_selectivity() by my recent patch:
make_greater_string needs the < procedure not the >= one.  Spotted by
Peter.
2008-03-17 17:13:54 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 23057f51f5 Move ProcState definition into sinvaladt.c from sinvaladt.h, since it's not
needed anywhere after my previous patch.  Noticed by Tom Lane.

Also, remove #include <signal.h> from sinval.c.
2008-03-17 11:50:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 0c5962c054 Grab some low-hanging fruit in the new hash index build code.
oprofile shows that a nontrivial amount of time is being spent in
repeated calls to index_getprocinfo, which really only needs to be
called once.  So do that, and inline _hash_datum2hashkey to make it
work.
2008-03-17 03:45:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 32846f8152 Fix TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() to use binary search instead of
linear search when checking child-transaction XIDs.  This makes for an
important speedup in transactions that have large numbers of children,
as in a recent example from Craig Ringer.  We can also get rid of an
ugly kluge that represented lists of TransactionIds as lists of OIDs.

Heikki Linnakangas
2008-03-17 02:18:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 787eba734b When creating a large hash index, pre-sort the index entries by estimated
bucket number, so as to ensure locality of access to the index during the
insertion step.  Without this, building an index significantly larger than
available RAM takes a very long time because of thrashing.  On the other
hand, sorting is just useless overhead when the index does fit in RAM.
We choose to sort when the initial index size exceeds effective_cache_size.

This is a revised version of work by Tom Raney and Shreya Bhargava.
2008-03-16 23:15:08 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera ec6550c6c0 Modify interactions between sinval.c and sinvaladt.c. The code that actually
deals with the queue, including locking etc, is all in sinvaladt.c.  This means
that the struct definition of the queue, and the queue pointer, are now
internal "implementation details" inside sinvaladt.c.

Per my proposal dated 25-Jun-2007 and followup discussion.
2008-03-16 19:47:34 +00:00
Magnus Hagander a3f66eac01 Some cleanups of enum-guc code, per comments from Tom. 2008-03-16 16:42:44 +00:00
Tom Lane c9a1cc694a Change hash index creation so that rather than always establishing exactly
two buckets at the start, we create a number of buckets appropriate for the
estimated size of the table.  This avoids a lot of expensive bucket-split
actions during initial index build on an already-populated table.

This is one of the two core ideas of Tom Raney and Shreya Bhargava's patch
to reduce hash index build time.  I'm committing it separately to make it
easier for people to test the effects of this separately from the effects
of their other core idea (pre-sorting the index entries by bucket number).
2008-03-15 20:46:31 +00:00