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Author SHA1 Message Date
Robert Haas 73a4b994a6 Make CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION support NOT LEAKPROOF.
Because it isn't good to be able to turn things on, and not off again.
2012-02-15 10:45:08 -05:00
Robert Haas d845fd684a sepgsql: Reword and fix typo in docs on DML permissions.
Per report from Christoph Berg.
2012-02-15 09:57:56 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 58d746213d Improve fsync documentation by stating that -W _0_ turns of write
caching.
2012-02-14 17:42:06 -05:00
Bruce Momjian c1d9df4fa2 Document random page cost is only 4x seqeuntial, and not 40x. 2012-02-14 16:54:54 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ef7a7c81d9 Document that the pg_test_fsync defaults allow the program to complete
in about 30 seconds.
2012-02-14 11:14:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 0a8396e35e Change contrib/pg_test_fsync to control tests in terms of seconds per
test, rather than a number of test cycles.  Changes -o/cycles option to
-s/seconds.
2012-02-14 11:10:03 -05:00
Robert Haas cd30728fb2 Allow LEAKPROOF functions for better performance of security views.
We don't normally allow quals to be pushed down into a view created
with the security_barrier option, but functions without side effects
are an exception: they're OK.  This allows much better performance in
common cases, such as when using an equality operator (that might
even be indexable).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phil Sorber
2012-01-19 13:06:30 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f6b46c9c0 PL/Python: Update example
Change the usesavedplan() example to use a more modern Python style
using the .setdefault() function.
2012-01-18 21:02:09 +02:00
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
Magnus Hagander 0495aaad8b Allow a user to kill his own queries using pg_cancel_backend()
Allows a user to use pg_cancel_queries() to cancel queries in
other backends if they are running under the same role.
pg_terminate_backend() still requires superuser permissoins.

Short patch, many authors working on the bikeshed: Magnus Hagander,
Josh Kupershmidt, Edward Muller, Greg Smith.
2012-01-15 15:34:40 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 00c5f55061 Make superuser imply replication privilege. The idea of a privilege that
superuser doesn't have doesn't make much sense, as a superuser can do
whatever he wants through other means, anyway. So instead of granting
replication privilege to superusers in CREATE USER time by default, allow
replication connection from superusers whether or not they have the
replication privilege.

Patch by Noah Misch, per discussion on bug report #6264
2012-01-14 18:22:16 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut a9f2e31cf6 Support CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) with foreign tables and views
Composite types are not yet supported, because parserOpenTable()
rejects them.
2012-01-10 21:46:29 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 743ed082ac Add compatibility note about grant options on GRANT reference page
Point out in the compatibility section that granting grant options to
PUBLIC is not supported by PostgreSQL.  This is already mentioned
earlier, but since it concerns the information schema, it might be
worth pointing out explicitly as a compatibility issue.
2012-01-09 21:10:50 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut db49517c62 Rename the internal structures of the CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) facility
The original implementation of this interpreted it as a kind of
"inheritance" facility and named all the internal structures
accordingly.  This turned out to be very confusing, because it has
nothing to do with the INHERITS feature.  So rename all the internal
parser infrastructure, update the comments, adjust the error messages,
and split up the regression tests.
2012-01-07 23:02:33 +02:00
Tom Lane 7a72efda72 Fix typo, pg_types_date.h => pgtypes_date.h.
Spotted by Koizumi Satoru.
2012-01-06 13:31:37 -05:00