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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
Magnus Hagander f5d4bdd3a5 Unify some tar functionality across different parts
Move some of the tar functionality that existed mostly duplicated
in both pg_dump and the walsender basebackup functionality into
port/tar.c instead, so it can be used from both. It will also be
used by pg_basebackup in the future, which would've caused a third
copy of it around.

Zoltan Boszormenyi and Magnus Hagander
2013-01-01 18:15:57 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 60df192aea Keep timeline history files restored from archive in pg_xlog.
The cascading standby patch in 9.2 changed the way WAL files are treated
when restored from the archive. Before, they were restored under a temporary
filename, and not kept in pg_xlog, but after the patch, they were copied
under pg_xlog. This is necessary for a cascading standby to find them, but
it also means that if the archive goes offline and a standby is restarted,
it can recover back to where it was using the files in pg_xlog. It also
means that if you take an offline backup from a standby server, it includes
all the required WAL files in pg_xlog.

However, the same change was not made to timeline history files, so if the
WAL segment containing the checkpoint record contains a timeline switch, you
will still get an error if you try to restart recovery without the archive,
or recover from an offline backup taken from the standby.

With this patch, timeline history files restored from archive are copied
into pg_xlog like WAL files are, so that pg_xlog contains all the files
required to recover. This is a corner-case pre-existing issue in 9.2, but
even more important in master where it's possible for a standby to follow a
timeline switch through streaming replication. To make that possible, the
timeline history files must be present in pg_xlog.
2012-12-30 14:29:45 +02:00
Robert Haas 82b1b213ca Adjust more backend functions to return OID rather than void.
This is again intended to support extensions to the event trigger
functionality.  This may go a bit further than we need for that
purpose, but there's some value in being consistent, and the OID
may be useful for other purposes also.

Dimitri Fontaine
2012-12-29 07:55:37 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 5ab3af46dd Remove obsolete XLogRecPtr macros
This gets rid of XLByteLT, XLByteLE, XLByteEQ and XLByteAdvance.
These were useful for brevity when XLogRecPtrs were split in
xlogid/xrecoff; but now that they are simple uint64's, they are just
clutter.  The only downside to making this change would be ease of
backporting patches, but that has been negated by other substantive
changes to the involved code anyway.  The clarity of simpler expressions
makes the change worthwhile.

Most of the changes are mechanical, but in a couple of places, the patch
author chose to invert the operator sense, making the code flow more
logical (and more in line with preceding comments).

Author: Andres Freund
Eyeballed by Dimitri Fontaine and Alvaro Herrera
2012-12-28 13:06:15 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera eaa1f7220a Remove unused NextLogPage macro
Commit 061e7efb1b did away with its last caller, but neglected to remove
the actual definition.

Author: Andres Freund
2012-12-27 18:23:23 -03:00
Simon Riggs c2b3218064 Update comments on rd_newRelfilenodeSubid.
Ensure comments accurately reflect state of code
given new understanding, and recent changes.
Include example code from Noah Misch to
illustrate how rd_newRelfilenodeSubid can be
reset deterministically. No code changes.
2012-12-24 17:07:06 +00:00
Simon Riggs 42fa810c14 Fix more weird compiler messages caused
by unmatched function prototypes.

Andres Freund
2012-12-24 16:25:26 +00:00
Simon Riggs 2dcb2ebee2 Add function prototype from previous commit. 2012-12-24 09:18:42 +00:00
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 31bc839724 Prevent failure when RowExpr or XmlExpr is parse-analyzed twice.
transformExpr() is required to cope with already-transformed expression
trees, for various ugly-but-not-quite-worth-cleaning-up reasons.  However,
some of its newer subroutines hadn't gotten the memo.  This accounts for
bug #7763 from Norbert Buchmuller: transformRowExpr() was overwriting the
previously determined type of a RowExpr during CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING
INDEXES.  Additional investigation showed that transformXmlExpr had the
same kind of problem, but all the other cases seem to be safe.

Andres Freund and Tom Lane
2012-12-23 14:07:24 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas d57a97343e Forgot to remove extern declaration of GetRecoveryTargetTLI()
Fujii Masao
2012-12-21 09:29:03 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas af275a12df Follow TLI of last replayed record, not recovery target TLI, in walsenders.
Most of the time, the last replayed record comes from the recovery target
timeline, but there is a corner case where it makes a difference. When
the startup process scans for a new timeline, and decides to change recovery
target timeline, there is a window where the recovery target TLI has already
been bumped, but there are no WAL segments from the new timeline in pg_xlog
yet. For example, if we have just replayed up to point 0/30002D8, on
timeline 1, there is a WAL file called 000000010000000000000003 in pg_xlog
that contains the WAL up to that point. When recovery switches recovery
target timeline to 2, a walsender can immediately try to read WAL from
0/30002D8, from timeline 2, so it will try to open WAL file
000000020000000000000003. However, that doesn't exist yet - the startup
process hasn't copied that file from the archive yet nor has the walreceiver
streamed it yet, so walsender fails with error "requested WAL segment
000000020000000000000003 has already been removed". That's harmless, in that
the standby will try to reconnect later and by that time the segment is
already created, but error messages that should be ignored are not good.

To fix that, have walsender track the TLI of the last replayed record,
instead of the recovery target timeline. That way walsender will not try to
read anything from timeline 2, until the WAL segment has been created and at
least one record has been replayed from it. The recovery target timeline is
now xlog.c's internal affair, it doesn't need to be exposed in shared memory
anymore.

This fixes the error reported by Thom Brown. depesz the same error message,
but I'm not sure if this fixes his scenario.
2012-12-20 14:39:04 +02:00
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
Andrew Dunstan 1c382655ad Provide Assert() for frontend code.
Per discussion on-hackers. psql is converted to use the new code.

Follows a suggestion from Heikki Linnakangas.
2012-12-14 18:03:07 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas abfd192b1b Allow a streaming replication standby to follow a timeline switch.
Before this patch, streaming replication would refuse to start replicating
if the timeline in the primary doesn't exactly match the standby. The
situation where it doesn't match is when you have a master, and two
standbys, and you promote one of the standbys to become new master.
Promoting bumps up the timeline ID, and after that bump, the other standby
would refuse to continue.

There's significantly more timeline related logic in streaming replication
now. First of all, when a standby connects to primary, it will ask the
primary for any timeline history files that are missing from the standby.
The missing files are sent using a new replication command TIMELINE_HISTORY,
and stored in standby's pg_xlog directory. Using the timeline history files,
the standby can follow the latest timeline present in the primary
(recovery_target_timeline='latest'), just as it can follow new timelines
appearing in an archive directory.

START_REPLICATION now takes a TIMELINE parameter, to specify exactly which
timeline to stream WAL from. This allows the standby to request the primary
to send over WAL that precedes the promotion. The replication protocol is
changed slightly (in a backwards-compatible way although there's little hope
of streaming replication working across major versions anyway), to allow
replication to stop when the end of timeline reached, putting the walsender
back into accepting a replication command.

Many thanks to Amit Kapila for testing and reviewing various versions of
this patch.
2012-12-13 19:17:32 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 527668717a Make xlog_internal.h includable in frontend context.
This makes unnecessary the ugly hack used to #include postgres.h in
pg_basebackup.

Based on Alvaro Herrera's patch
2012-12-13 14:59:13 +02:00
Kevin Grittner b19e4250b4 Fix performance problems with autovacuum truncation in busy workloads.
In situations where there are over 8MB of empty pages at the end of
a table, the truncation work for trailing empty pages takes longer
than deadlock_timeout, and there is frequent access to the table by
processes other than autovacuum, there was a problem with the
autovacuum worker process being canceled by the deadlock checking
code. The truncation work done by autovacuum up that point was
lost, and the attempt tried again by a later autovacuum worker. The
attempts could continue indefinitely without making progress,
consuming resources and blocking other processes for up to
deadlock_timeout each time.

This patch has the autovacuum worker checking whether it is
blocking any other thread at 20ms intervals. If such a condition
develops, the autovacuum worker will persist the work it has done
so far, release its lock on the table, and sleep in 50ms intervals
for up to 5 seconds, hoping to be able to re-acquire the lock and
try again. If it is unable to get the lock in that time, it moves
on and a worker will try to continue later from the point this one
left off.

While this patch doesn't change the rules about when and what to
truncate, it does cause the truncation to occur sooner, with less
blocking, and with the consumption of fewer resources when there is
contention for the table's lock.

The only user-visible change other than improved performance is
that the table size during truncation may change incrementally
instead of just once.

This problem exists in all supported versions but is infrequently
reported, although some reports of performance problems when
autovacuum runs might be caused by this. Initial commit is just the
master branch, but this should probably be backpatched once the
build farm and general developer usage confirm that there are no
surprising effects.

Jan Wieck
2012-12-11 14:33:08 -06:00
Tom Lane a99c42f291 Support automatically-updatable views.
This patch makes "simple" views automatically updatable, without the need
to create either INSTEAD OF triggers or INSTEAD rules.  "Simple" views
are those classified as updatable according to SQL-92 rules.  The rewriter
transforms INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE commands on such views directly into an
equivalent command on the underlying table, which will generally have
noticeably better performance than is possible with either triggers or
user-written rules.  A view that has INSTEAD OF triggers or INSTEAD rules
continues to operate the same as before.

For the moment, security_barrier views are not considered simple.
Also, we do not support WITH CHECK OPTION.  These features may be
added in future.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Amit Kapila
2012-12-08 18:26:21 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera da07a1e856 Background worker processes
Background workers are postmaster subprocesses that run arbitrary
user-specified code.  They can request shared memory access as well as
backend database connections; or they can just use plain libpq frontend
database connections.

Modules listed in shared_preload_libraries can register background
workers in their _PG_init() function; this is early enough that it's not
necessary to provide an extra GUC option, because the necessary extra
resources can be allocated early on.  Modules can install more than one
bgworker, if necessary.

Care is taken that these extra processes do not interfere with other
postmaster tasks: only one such process is started on each ServerLoop
iteration.  This means a large number of them could be waiting to be
started up and postmaster is still able to quickly service external
connection requests.  Also, shutdown sequence should not be impacted by
a worker process that's reasonably well behaved (i.e. promptly responds
to termination signals.)

The current implementation lets worker processes specify their start
time, i.e. at what point in the server startup process they are to be
started: right after postmaster start (in which case they mustn't ask
for shared memory access), when consistent state has been reached
(useful during recovery in a HOT standby server), or when recovery has
terminated (i.e. when normal backends are allowed).

In case of a bgworker crash, actions to take depend on registration
data: if shared memory was requested, then all other connections are
taken down (as well as other bgworkers), just like it were a regular
backend crashing.  The bgworker itself is restarted, too, within a
configurable timeframe (which can be configured to be never).

More features to add to this framework can be imagined without much
effort, and have been discussed, but this seems good enough as a useful
unit already.

An elementary sample module is supplied.

Author: Álvaro Herrera

This patch is loosely based on prior patches submitted by KaiGai Kohei,
and unsubmitted code by Simon Riggs.

Reviewed by: KaiGai Kohei, Markus Wanner, Andres Freund,
Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, Amit Kapila
2012-12-06 17:47:30 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 32f4de0adf Write exact xlog position of timeline switch in the timeline history file.
This allows us to do some more rigorous sanity checking for various
incorrect point-in-time recovery scenarios, and provides more information
for debugging purposes. It will also come handy in the upcoming patch to
allow timeline switches to be replicated by streaming replication.
2012-12-04 17:29:07 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5ce108bf32 Track the timeline associated with minRecoveryPoint, for more sanity checks.
This allows recovery to notice certain incorrect recovery scenarios.
If a server has recovered to point X on timeline 5, and you restart
recovery, it better be on timeline 5 when it reaches point X again, not on
some timeline with a higher ID. This can happen e.g if you a standby server
is shut down, a new timeline appears in the WAL archive, and the standby
server is restarted. It will try to follow the new timeline, which is wrong
because some WAL on the old timeline was already replayed before shutdown.

Requires an initdb (or at least pg_resetxlog), because this adds a field to
the control file.
2012-12-04 11:31:00 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut aa2fec0a18 Add support for LDAP URLs
Allow specifying LDAP authentication parameters as RFC 4516 LDAP URLs.
2012-12-03 23:31:02 -05:00
Simon Riggs f21bb9cfb5 Refactor inCommit flag into generic delayChkpt flag.
Rename PGXACT->inCommit flag into delayChkpt flag,
and generalise comments to allow use in other situations,
such as the forthcoming potential use in checksum patch.
Replace wait loop to look for VXIDs with delayChkpt set.
No user visible changes, not behaviour changes at present.

Simon Riggs, reviewed and rebased by Jeff Davis
2012-12-03 13:13:53 +00:00
Simon Riggs 5457a130d3 Reduce scope of changes for COPY FREEZE.
Allow support only for freezing tuples by explicit
command. Previous coding mistakenly extended
slightly beyond what was agreed as correct on -hackers.
So essentially a partial revoke of earlier work,
leaving just the COPY FREEZE command.
2012-12-02 20:52:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 3114cb60a1 Don't advance checkPoint.nextXid near the end of a checkpoint sequence.
This reverts commit c11130690d in favor of
actually fixing the problem: namely, that we should never have been
modifying the checkpoint record's nextXid at this point to begin with.
The nextXid should match the state as of the checkpoint's logical WAL
position (ie the redo point), not the state as of its physical position.
It's especially bogus to advance it in some wal_levels and not others.
In any case there is no need for the checkpoint record to carry the
same nextXid shown in the XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS record just emitted by
LogStandbySnapshot, as any replay operation will already have adopted
that value as current.

This fixes bug #7710 from Tarvi Pillessaar, and probably also explains bug
#6291 from Daniel Farina, in that if a checkpoint were in progress at the
instant of XID wraparound, the epoch bump would be lost as reported.
(And, of course, these days there's at least a 50-50 chance of a checkpoint
being in progress at any given instant.)

Diagnosed by me and independently by Andres Freund.  Back-patch to all
branches supporting hot standby.
2012-12-02 15:20:41 -05:00
Simon Riggs 5c11725867 Rearrange storage of data in xl_running_xacts.
Previously we stored all xids mixed together.
Now we store top-level xids first, followed
by all subxids. Also skip logging any subxids
if the snapshot is suboverflowed, since there
are potentially large numbers of them and they
are not useful in that case anyway. Has value
in the envisaged design for decoding of WAL.
No planned effect on Hot Standby.

Andres Freund, reviewed by me
2012-12-02 19:39:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 7b90469b71 Allow adding values to an enum type created in the current transaction.
Normally it is unsafe to allow ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE in a transaction block,
because instances of the value could be added to indexes later in the same
transaction, and then they would still be accessible even if the
transaction rolls back.  However, we can allow this if the enum type itself
was created in the current transaction, because then any such indexes would
have to go away entirely on rollback.

The reason for allowing this is to support pg_upgrade's new usage of
pg_restore --single-transaction: in --binary-upgrade mode, pg_dump emits
enum types as a succession of ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE commands so that it can
preserve the values' OIDs.  The support is a bit limited, so we'll leave
it undocumented.

Andres Freund
2012-12-01 14:27:30 -05:00
Simon Riggs 8de72b66a2 COPY FREEZE and mark committed on fresh tables.
When a relfilenode is created in this subtransaction or
a committed child transaction and it cannot otherwise
be seen by our own process, mark tuples committed ahead
of transaction commit for all COPY commands in same
transaction. If FREEZE specified on COPY
and pre-conditions met then rows will also be frozen.
Both options designed to avoid revisiting rows after commit,
increasing performance of subsequent commands after
data load and upgrade. pg_restore changes later.

Simon Riggs, review comments from Heikki Linnakangas, Noah Misch and design
input from Tom Lane, Robert Haas and Kevin Grittner
2012-12-01 12:54:20 +00:00
Tom Lane 4af446e7cd Produce a more useful error message for over-length Unix socket paths.
The length of a socket path name is constrained by the size of struct
sockaddr_un, and there's not a lot we can do about it since that is a
kernel API.  However, it would be a good thing if we produced an
intelligible error message when the user specifies a socket path that's too
long --- and getaddrinfo's standard API is too impoverished to do this in
the natural way.  So insert explicit tests at the places where we construct
a socket path name.  Now you'll get an error that makes sense and even
tells you what the limit is, rather than something generic like
"Non-recoverable failure in name resolution".

Per trouble report from Jeremy Drake and a fix idea from Andrew Dunstan.
2012-11-29 19:57:01 -05:00
Simon Riggs f1e57a4ec9 Cleanup VirtualXact at end of Hot Standby. 2012-11-29 21:59:11 +00:00
Robert Haas 7a2fe9bd03 Basic binary heap implementation.
There are probably other places where this can be used, but for now,
this just makes MergeAppend use it, so that this code will have test
coverage.  There is other work in the queue that will use this, as
well.

Abhijit Menon-Sen, reviewed by Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Álvaro
Herrera, Tom Lane, and others.
2012-11-29 11:16:59 -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
Alvaro Herrera 1577b46b7c Split out rmgr rm_desc functions into their own files
This is necessary (but not sufficient) to have them compilable outside
of a backend environment.
2012-11-28 13:01:15 -03:00
Tom Lane e78d288c89 Add explicit casts in ilist.h's inline functions.
Needed to silence C++ errors, per report from Peter Eisentraut.

Andres Freund
2012-11-27 10:58:37 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1f67078ea3 Add OpenTransientFile, with automatic cleanup at end-of-xact.
Files opened with BasicOpenFile or PathNameOpenFile are not automatically
cleaned up on error. That puts unnecessary burden on callers that only want
to keep the file open for a short time. There is AllocateFile, but that
returns a buffered FILE * stream, which in many cases is not the nicest API
to work with. So add function called OpenTransientFile, which returns a
unbuffered fd that's cleaned up like the FILE* returned by AllocateFile().

This plugs a few rare fd leaks in error cases:

1. copy_file() - fixed by by using OpenTransientFile instead of BasicOpenFile
2. XLogFileInit() - fixed by adding close() calls to the error cases. Can't
   use OpenTransientFile here because the fd is supposed to persist over
   transaction boundaries.
3. lo_import/lo_export - fixed by using OpenTransientFile instead of
   PathNameOpenFile.

In addition to plugging those leaks, this replaces many BasicOpenFile() calls
with OpenTransientFile() that were not leaking, because the code meticulously
closed the file on error. That wasn't strictly necessary, but IMHO it's good
for robustness.

The same leaks exist in older versions, but given the rarity of the issues,
I'm not backpatching this. Not yet, anyway - it might be good to backpatch
later, after this mechanism has had some more testing in master branch.
2012-11-27 10:25:50 +02:00
Tom Lane 532994299e Revert patch for taking fewer snapshots.
This reverts commit d573e239f0, "Take fewer
snapshots".  While that seemed like a good idea at the time, it caused
execution to use a snapshot that had been acquired before locking any of
the tables mentioned in the query.  This created user-visible anomalies
that were not present in any prior release of Postgres, as reported by
Tomas Vondra.  While this whole area could do with a redesign (since there
are related cases that have anomalies anyway), it doesn't seem likely that
any future patch would be reasonably back-patchable; and we don't want 9.2
to exhibit a behavior that's subtly unlike either past or future releases.
Hence, revert to prior code while we rethink the problem.
2012-11-26 15:55:43 -05:00
Tom Lane d3237e04ca Fix SELECT DISTINCT with index-optimized MIN/MAX on inheritance trees.
In a query such as "SELECT DISTINCT min(x) FROM tab", the DISTINCT is
pretty useless (there being only one output row), but nonetheless it
shouldn't fail.  But it could fail if "tab" is an inheritance parent,
because planagg.c's code for fixing up equivalence classes after making the
index-optimized MIN/MAX transformation wasn't prepared to find child-table
versions of the aggregate expression.  The least ugly fix seems to be
to add an option to mutate_eclass_expressions() to skip child-table
equivalence class members, which aren't used anymore at this stage of
planning so it's not really necessary to fix them.  Since child members
are ignored in many cases already, it seems plausible for
mutate_eclass_expressions() to have an option to ignore them too.

Per bug #7703 from Maxim Boguk.

Back-patch to 9.1.  Although the same code exists before that, it cannot
encounter child-table aggregates AFAICS, because the index optimization
transformation cannot succeed on inheritance trees before 9.1 (for lack
of MergeAppend).
2012-11-26 12:57:58 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 644a0a6379 Fix archive_cleanup_command.
When I moved ExecuteRecoveryCommand() from xlog.c to xlogarchive.c, I didn't
realize that it's called from the checkpoint process, not the startup
process. I tried to use InRedo variable to decide whether or not to attempt
cleaning up the archive (must not do so before we have read the initial
checkpoint record), but that variable is only valid within the startup
process.

Instead, let ExecuteRecoveryCommand() always clean up the archive, and add
an explicit argument to RestoreArchivedFile() to say whether that's allowed
or not. The caller knows better.

Reported by Erik Rijkers, diagnosis by Fujii Masao. Only 9.3devel is
affected.
2012-11-19 10:14:20 +02:00
Tom Lane 3bbf668de9 Fix multiple problems in WAL replay.
Most of the replay functions for WAL record types that modify more than
one page failed to ensure that those pages were locked correctly to ensure
that concurrent queries could not see inconsistent page states.  This is
a hangover from coding decisions made long before Hot Standby was added,
when it was hardly necessary to acquire buffer locks during WAL replay
at all, let alone hold them for carefully-chosen periods.

The key problem was that RestoreBkpBlocks was written to hold lock on each
page restored from a full-page image for only as long as it took to update
that page.  This was guaranteed to break any WAL replay function in which
there was any update-ordering constraint between pages, because even if the
nominal order of the pages is the right one, any mixture of full-page and
non-full-page updates in the same record would result in out-of-order
updates.  Moreover, it wouldn't work for situations where there's a
requirement to maintain lock on one page while updating another.  Failure
to honor an update ordering constraint in this way is thought to be the
cause of bug #7648 from Daniel Farina: what seems to have happened there
is that a btree page being split was rewritten from a full-page image
before the new right sibling page was written, and because lock on the
original page was not maintained it was possible for hot standby queries to
try to traverse the page's right-link to the not-yet-existing sibling page.

To fix, get rid of RestoreBkpBlocks as such, and instead create a new
function RestoreBackupBlock that restores just one full-page image at a
time.  This function can be invoked by WAL replay functions at the points
where they would otherwise perform non-full-page updates; in this way, the
physical order of page updates remains the same no matter which pages are
replaced by full-page images.  We can then further adjust the logic in
individual replay functions if it is necessary to hold buffer locks
for overlapping periods.  A side benefit is that we can simplify the
handling of concurrency conflict resolution by moving that code into the
record-type-specfic functions; there's no more need to contort the code
layout to keep conflict resolution in front of the RestoreBkpBlocks call.

In connection with that, standardize on zero-based numbering rather than
one-based numbering for referencing the full-page images.  In HEAD, I
removed the macros XLR_BKP_BLOCK_1 through XLR_BKP_BLOCK_4.  They are
still there in the header files in previous branches, but are no longer
used by the code.

In addition, fix some other bugs identified in the course of making these
changes:

spgRedoAddNode could fail to update the parent downlink at all, if the
parent tuple is in the same page as either the old or new split tuple and
we're not doing a full-page image: it would get fooled by the LSN having
been advanced already.  This would result in permanent index corruption,
not just transient failure of concurrent queries.

Also, ginHeapTupleFastInsert's "merge lists" case failed to mark the old
tail page as a candidate for a full-page image; in the worst case this
could result in torn-page corruption.

heap_xlog_freeze() was inconsistent about using a cleanup lock or plain
exclusive lock: it did the former in the normal path but the latter for a
full-page image.  A plain exclusive lock seems sufficient, so change to
that.

Also, remove gistRedoPageDeleteRecord(), which has been dead code since
VACUUM FULL was rewritten.

Back-patch to 9.0, where hot standby was introduced.  Note however that 9.0
had a significantly different WAL-logging scheme for GIST index updates,
and it doesn't appear possible to make that scheme safe for concurrent hot
standby queries, because it can leave inconsistent states in the index even
between WAL records.  Given the lack of complaints from the field, we won't
work too hard on fixing that branch.
2012-11-12 22:05:53 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas dbdf9679d7 Use correct text domain for translating errcontext() messages.
errcontext() is typically used in an error context callback function, not
within an ereport() invocation like e.g errmsg and errdetail are. That means
that the message domain that the TEXTDOMAIN magic in ereport() determines
is not the right one for the errcontext() calls. The message domain needs to
be determined by the C file containing the errcontext() call, not the file
containing the ereport() call.

Fix by turning errcontext() into a macro that passes the TEXTDOMAIN to use
for the errcontext message. "errcontext" was used in a few places as a
variable or struct field name, I had to rename those out of the way, now
that errcontext is a macro.

We've had this problem all along, but this isn't doesn't seem worth
backporting. It's a fairly minor issue, and turning errcontext from a
function to a macro requires at least a recompile of any external code that
calls errcontext().
2012-11-12 17:07:29 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas c9d44a75d4 Silence "expression result unused" warnings in AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro
At least clang 3.1 generates those warnings. Prepend (void) to avoid them,
like we have in AssertMacro.
2012-11-12 15:02:40 +02:00
Tom Lane 3e7fdcffd6 Fix WaitLatch() to return promptly when the requested timeout expires.
If the sleep is interrupted by a signal, we must recompute the remaining
time to wait; otherwise, a steady stream of non-wait-terminating interrupts
could delay return from WaitLatch indefinitely.  This has been shown to be
a problem for the autovacuum launcher, and there may well be other places
now or in the future with similar issues.  So we'd better make the function
robust, even though this'll add at least one gettimeofday call per wait.

Back-patch to 9.2.  We might eventually need to fix 9.1 as well, but the
code is quite different there, and the usage of WaitLatch in 9.1 is so
limited that it's not clearly important to do so.

Reported and diagnosed by Jeff Janes, though I rewrote his patch rather
heavily.
2012-11-08 20:04:48 -05:00
Tom Lane dcc55dd21a Rename ResolveNew() to ReplaceVarsFromTargetList(), and tweak its API.
This function currently lacks the option to throw error if the provided
targetlist doesn't have any matching entry for a Var to be replaced.
Two of the four existing call sites would be better off with an error,
as would the usage in the pending auto-updatable-views patch, so it seems
past time to extend the API to support that.  To do so, replace the "event"
parameter (historically of type CmdType, though it was declared plain int)
with a special-purpose enum type.

It's unclear whether this function might be called by third-party code.
Since many C compilers wouldn't warn about a call site continuing to use
the old calling convention, rename the function to forcibly break any
such code that hasn't been updated.  The old name was none too well chosen
anyhow.
2012-11-08 16:52:49 -05:00
Bruce Momjian aa69670e42 Add URLs to document why DLLIMPORT is needed on Windows.
Per email from Craig Ringer
2012-11-07 15:01:25 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas add6c3179a Make the streaming replication protocol messages architecture-independent.
We used to send structs wrapped in CopyData messages, which works as long as
the client and server agree on things like endianess, timestamp format and
alignment. That's good enough for running a standby server, which has to run
on the same platform anyway, but it's useful for tools like pg_receivexlog
to work across platforms.

This breaks protocol compatibility of streaming replication, but we never
promised that to be compatible across versions, anyway.
2012-11-07 19:09:13 +02:00
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
Kevin Grittner 6868ed7491 Throw error if expiring tuple is again updated or deleted.
This prevents surprising behavior when a FOR EACH ROW trigger
BEFORE UPDATE or BEFORE DELETE directly or indirectly updates or
deletes the the old row.  Prior to this patch the requested action
on the row could be silently ignored while all triggered actions
based on the occurence of the requested action could be committed.
One example of how this could happen is if the BEFORE DELETE
trigger for a "parent" row deleted "children" which had trigger
functions to update summary or status data on the parent.

This also prevents similar surprising problems if the query has a
volatile function which updates a target row while it is already
being updated.

There are related issues present in FOR UPDATE cursors and READ
COMMITTED queries which are not handled by this patch.  These
issues need further evalution to determine what change, if any, is
needed.

Where the new error messages are generated, in most cases the best
fix will be to move code from the BEFORE trigger to an AFTER
trigger.  Where this is not feasible, the trigger can avoid the
error by re-issuing the triggering statement and returning NULL.

Documentation changes will be submitted in a separate patch.

Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane with input from Florian Pflug and
Robert Haas, based on problems encountered during conversion of
Wisconsin Circuit Court trigger logic to plpgsql triggers.
2012-10-26 14:55:36 -05:00
Tom Lane a4e8680a6c When converting a table to a view, remove its system columns.
Views should not have any pg_attribute entries for system columns.
However, we forgot to remove such entries when converting a table to a
view.  This could lead to crashes later on, if someone attempted to
reference such a column, as reported by Kohei KaiGai.

Patch in HEAD only.  This bug has been there forever, but in the back
branches we will have to defend against existing mis-converted views,
so it doesn't seem worthwhile to change the conversion code too.
2012-10-24 13:39:37 -04:00
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
Tom Lane dc5aeca168 Remove unnecessary "head" arguments from some dlist/slist functions.
dlist_delete, dlist_insert_after, dlist_insert_before, slist_insert_after
do not need access to the list header, and indeed insisting on that negates
one of the main advantages of a doubly-linked list.

In consequence, revert addition of "cache_bucket" field to CatCTup.
2012-10-18 19:04:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 8f8d746478 Code review for inline-list patch.
Make foreach macros less syntactically dangerous, and fix some typos in
evidently-never-tested ones.  Add missing slist_next_node and
slist_head_node functions.  Fix broken dlist_check code.  Assorted comment
improvements.
2012-10-18 16:47:07 -04:00
Tom Lane 72a4231f0c Fix planning of non-strict equivalence clauses above outer joins.
If a potential equivalence clause references a variable from the nullable
side of an outer join, the planner needs to take care that derived clauses
are not pushed to below the outer join; else they may use the wrong value
for the variable.  (The problem arises only with non-strict clauses, since
if an upper clause can be proven strict then the outer join will get
simplified to a plain join.)  The planner attempted to prevent this type
of error by checking that potential equivalence clauses aren't
outerjoin-delayed as a whole, but actually we have to check each side
separately, since the two sides of the clause will get moved around
separately if it's treated as an equivalence.  Bugs of this type can be
demonstrated as far back as 7.4, even though releases before 8.3 had only
a very ad-hoc notion of equivalence clauses.

In addition, we neglected to account for the possibility that such clauses
might have nonempty nullable_relids even when not outerjoin-delayed; so the
equivalence-class machinery lacked logic to compute correct nullable_relids
values for clauses it constructs.  This oversight was harmless before 9.2
because we were only using RestrictInfo.nullable_relids for OR clauses;
but as of 9.2 it could result in pushing constructed equivalence clauses
to incorrect places.  (This accounts for bug #7604 from Bill MacArthur.)

Fix the first problem by adding a new test check_equivalence_delay() in
distribute_qual_to_rels, and fix the second one by adding code in
equivclass.c and called functions to set correct nullable_relids for
generated clauses.  Although I believe the second part of this is not
currently necessary before 9.2, I chose to back-patch it anyway, partly to
keep the logic similar across branches and partly because it seems possible
we might find other reasons why we need valid values of nullable_relids in
the older branches.

Add regression tests illustrating these problems.  In 9.0 and up, also
add test cases checking that we can push constants through outer joins,
since we've broken that optimization before and I nearly broke it again
with an overly simplistic patch for this problem.
2012-10-18 12:30:10 -04:00
Tom Lane ff3f9c8de5 Close un-owned SMgrRelations at transaction end.
If an SMgrRelation is not "owned" by a relcache entry, don't allow it to
live past transaction end.  This design allows the same SMgrRelation to be
used for blind writes of multiple blocks during a transaction, but ensures
that we don't hold onto such an SMgrRelation indefinitely.  Because an
SMgrRelation typically corresponds to open file descriptors at the fd.c
level, leaving it open when there's no corresponding relcache entry can
mean that we prevent the kernel from reclaiming deleted disk space.
(While CacheInvalidateSmgr messages usually fix that, there are cases
where they're not issued, such as DROP DATABASE.  We might want to add
some more sinval messaging for that, but I'd be inclined to keep this
type of logic anyway, since allowing VFDs to accumulate indefinitely
for blind-written relations doesn't seem like a good idea.)

This code replaces a previous attempt towards the same goal that proved
to be unreliable.  Back-patch to 9.1 where the previous patch was added.
2012-10-17 12:38:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 9bacf0e373 Revert "Use "transient" files for blind writes, take 2".
This reverts commit fba105b109.
That approach had problems with the smgr-level state not tracking what
we really want to happen, and with the VFD-level state not tracking the
smgr-level state very well either.  In consequence, it was still possible
to hold kernel file descriptors open for long-gone tables (as in recent
report from Tore Halset), and yet there were also cases of FDs being closed
undesirably soon.  A replacement implementation will follow.
2012-10-17 12:37:08 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a66ee69add Embedded list interface
Provide a common implementation of embedded singly-linked and
doubly-linked lists.  "Embedded" in the sense that the nodes'
next/previous pointers exist within some larger struct; this design
choice reduces memory allocation overhead.

Most of the implementation uses inlineable functions (where supported),
for performance.

Some existing uses of both types of lists have been converted to the new
code, for demonstration purposes.  Other uses can (and probably will) be
converted in the future.  Since dllist.c is unused after this conversion,
it has been removed.

Author: Andres Freund
Some tweaks by me
Reviewed by Tom Lane, Peter Geoghegan
2012-10-17 11:31:20 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas ff6c78c480 Remove comment that is no longer true.
AddToDataDirLockFile() supports out-of-order updates of the lockfile
nowadays.
2012-10-15 11:03:39 +03:00
Tom Lane e81e8f9342 Split up process latch initialization for more-fail-soft behavior.
In the previous coding, new backend processes would attempt to create their
self-pipe during the OwnLatch call in InitProcess.  However, pipe creation
could fail if the kernel is short of resources; and the system does not
recover gracefully from a FATAL error right there, since we have armed the
dead-man switch for this process and not yet set up the on_shmem_exit
callback that would disarm it.  The postmaster then forces an unnecessary
database-wide crash and restart, as reported by Sean Chittenden.

There are various ways we could rearrange the code to fix this, but the
simplest and sanest seems to be to split out creation of the self-pipe into
a new function InitializeLatchSupport, which must be called from a place
where failure is allowed.  For most processes that gets called in
InitProcess or InitAuxiliaryProcess, but processes that don't call either
but still use latches need their own calls.

Back-patch to 9.1, which has only a part of the latch logic that 9.2 and
HEAD have, but nonetheless includes this bug.
2012-10-14 22:59:56 -04:00
Tom Lane a29f7ed554 Get rid of COERCE_DONTCARE.
We don't need this hack any more.
2012-10-12 13:35:00 -04:00
Tom Lane 71e58dcfb9 Make equal() ignore CoercionForm fields for better planning with casts.
This change ensures that the planner will see implicit and explicit casts
as equivalent for all purposes, except in the minority of cases where
there's actually a semantic difference (as reflected by having a 3-argument
cast function).  In particular, this fixes cases where the EquivalenceClass
machinery failed to consider two references to a varchar column as
equivalent if one was implicitly cast to text but the other was explicitly
cast to text, as seen in bug #7598 from Vaclav Juza.  We have had similar
bugs before in other parts of the planner, so I think it's time to fix this
problem at the core instead of continuing to band-aid around it.

Remove set_coercionform_dontcare(), which represents the band-aid
previously in use for allowing matching of index and constraint expressions
with inconsistent cast labeling.  (We can probably get rid of
COERCE_DONTCARE altogether, but I don't think removing that enum value in
back branches would be wise; it's possible there's third party code
referring to it.)

Back-patch to 9.2.  We could go back further, and might want to once this
has been tested more; but for the moment I won't risk destabilizing plan
choices in long-since-stable branches.
2012-10-12 12:11:22 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6f60fdd701 Improve replication connection timeouts.
Rename replication_timeout to wal_sender_timeout, and add a new setting
called wal_receiver_timeout that does the same at the walreceiver side.
There was previously no timeout in walreceiver, so if the network went down,
for example, the walreceiver could take a long time to notice that the
connection was lost. Now with the two settings, both sides of a replication
connection will detect a broken connection similarly.

It is no longer necessary to manually set wal_receiver_status_interval to
a value smaller than the timeout. Both wal sender and receiver now
automatically send a "ping" message if more than 1/2 of the configured
timeout has elapsed, and it hasn't received any messages from the other end.

Amit Kapila, heavily edited by me.
2012-10-11 17:48:08 +03:00
Tom Lane a80889a735 Set procost to 10 for each of the pg_foo_is_visible() functions.
The idea here is to make sure the planner will evaluate these functions
last not first among the filter conditions in psql pattern search and
tab-completion queries.  We've discussed this several times, and there
was consensus to do it back in August, but we didn't want to do it just
before a release.  Now seems like a safer time.

No catversion bump, since this catalog change doesn't create a backend
incompatibility nor any regression test result changes.
2012-10-10 12:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 7e0cce0265 Remove unnecessary overhead in backend's large-object operations.
Do read/write permissions checks at most once per large object descriptor,
not once per lo_read or lo_write call as before.  The repeated tests were
quite useless in the read case since the snapshot-based tests were
guaranteed to produce the same answer every time.  In the write case,
the extra tests could in principle detect revocation of write privileges
after a series of writes has started --- but there's a race condition there
anyway, since we'd check privileges before performing and certainly before
committing the write.  So there's no real advantage to checking every
single time, and we might as well redefine it as "only check the first
time".

On the same reasoning, remove the LargeObjectExists checks in inv_write
and inv_truncate.  We already checked existence when the descriptor was
opened, and checking again doesn't provide any real increment of safety
that would justify the cost.
2012-10-09 16:38:00 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f46baf601d Rename USE_INLINE to PG_USE_INLINE
The former name was too likely to conflict with symbols from external
headers; and, as seen in recent buildfarm failures in member spoonbill,
it has now happened at least in plpython.
2012-10-09 11:17:33 -03:00
Tom Lane 26fe56481c Code review for 64-bit-large-object patch.
Fix broken-on-bigendian-machines byte-swapping functions, add missed update
of alternate regression expected file, improve error reporting, remove some
unnecessary code, sync testlo64.c with current testlo.c (it seems to have
been cloned from a very old copy of that), assorted cosmetic improvements.
2012-10-08 18:24:32 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 976fa10d20 Add support for easily declaring static inline functions
We already had those, but they forced modules to spell out the function
bodies twice.  Eliminate some duplicates we had already grown.

Extracted from a somewhat larger patch from Andres Freund.
2012-10-08 16:28:01 -03:00
Robert Haas 08c8058ce9 Add #define for UUIDOID.
Phil Sorber and Thom Brown. Reviewed by Albe Laurenz.
2012-10-08 10:15:15 -04:00
Tom Lane 95d035e66d Autoconfiscate selection of 64-bit int type for 64-bit large object API.
Get rid of the fundamentally indefensible assumption that "long long int"
exists and is exactly 64 bits wide on every platform Postgres runs on.
Instead let the configure script select the type to use for "pg_int64".

This is a bit of a pain in the rear since we do not want to pollute client
namespace with all the random symbols that pg_config.h defines; instead
we have to create a separate generated header file, "pg_config_ext.h".
But now that the infrastructure is there, we might have the ability to
add some other stuff that's long been wanting in this area.
2012-10-07 21:52:43 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii 7e2f8ed2b0 Fix compiling errors on Windows platform. Fix wrong usage of
INT64CONST macro. Fix lo_hton64 and lo_ntoh64 not to use int32_t and
uint32_t.
2012-10-07 23:30:31 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii b51a65f5bf Bump up catalog vesion due to 64-bit large object API functions
addition.
2012-10-07 09:36:20 +09:00
Tatsuo Ishii 461ef73f09 Add API for 64-bit large object access. Now users can access up to
4TB large objects (standard 8KB BLCKSZ case).  For this purpose new
libpq API lo_lseek64, lo_tell64 and lo_truncate64 are added.  Also
corresponding new backend functions lo_lseek64, lo_tell64 and
lo_truncate64 are added. inv_api.c is changed to handle 64-bit
offsets.

Patch contributed by Nozomi Anzai (backend side) and Yugo Nagata
(frontend side, docs, regression tests and example program). Reviewed
by Kohei Kaigai. Committed by Tatsuo Ishii with minor editings.
2012-10-07 08:36:48 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas fd5942c18f Use the regular main processing loop also in walsenders.
The regular backend's main loop handles signal handling and error recovery
better than the current WAL sender command loop does. For example, if the
client hangs and a SIGTERM is received before starting streaming, the
walsender will now terminate immediately, rather than hang until the
connection times out.
2012-10-05 17:21:12 +03:00
Tom Lane fb34e94d21 Support CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS.
Per discussion, schema-element subcommands are not allowed together with
this option, since it's not very obvious what should happen to the element
objects.

Fabrízio de Royes Mello
2012-10-03 19:47:11 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 994c36e01d refactor ALTER some-obj SET OWNER implementation
Remove duplicate implementation of catalog munging and miscellaneous
privilege and consistency checks.  Instead rely on already existing data
in objectaddress.c to do the work.

Author: KaiGai Kohei
Tweaked by me
Reviewed by Robert Haas
2012-10-03 18:07:46 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 2164f9a125 Refactor "ALTER some-obj SET SCHEMA" implementation
Instead of having each object type implement the catalog munging
independently, centralize knowledge about how to do it and expand the
existing table in objectaddress.c with enough data about each object
type to support this operation.

Author: KaiGai Kohei
Tweaks by me
Reviewed by Robert Haas
2012-10-02 18:13:54 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas d5497b95f3 Split off functions related to timeline history files and XLOG archiving.
This is just refactoring, to make the functions accessible outside xlog.c.
A followup patch will make use of that, to allow fetching timeline history
files over streaming replication.
2012-10-02 13:37:19 +03:00
Tom Lane 0d0aa5d291 Provide some static-assertion functionality on all compilers.
On reflection (especially after noticing how many buildfarm critters have
__builtin_types_compatible_p but not _Static_assert), it seems like we
ought to try a bit harder to make these macros do something everywhere.
The initial cut at it would have been no help to code that is compiled only
on platforms without _Static_assert, for instance; and in any case not all
our contributors do their initial coding on the latest gcc version.

Some googling about static assertions turns up quite a bit of prior art
for making it work in compilers that lack _Static_assert.  The method
that seems closest to our needs involves defining a struct with a bit-field
that has negative width if the assertion condition fails.  There seems no
reliable way to get the error message string to be output, but throwing a
compile error with a confusing message is better than missing the problem
altogether.

In the same spirit, if we don't have __builtin_types_compatible_p we can at
least insist that the variable have the same width as the type.  This won't
catch errors such as "wrong pointer type", but it's far better than
nothing.

In addition to changing the macro definitions, adjust a
compile-time-constant Assert in contrib/hstore to use StaticAssertStmt,
so we can get some buildfarm coverage on whether that macro behaves sanely
or not.  There's surely more places that could be converted, but this is
the first one I came across.
2012-09-30 22:46:29 -04:00
Tom Lane ea473fb2de Add infrastructure for compile-time assertions about variable types.
Currently, the macros only work with fairly recent gcc versions, but there
is room to expand them to other compilers that have comparable features.

Heavily revised and autoconfiscated version of a patch by Andres Freund.
2012-09-30 14:38:31 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 6e9876dc32 Remove checks for now long outdated compilers. 2012-09-28 19:43:50 -04:00
Tom Lane 70bc583319 Fix btmarkpos/btrestrpos to handle array keys.
This fixes another error in commit 9e8da0f757.
I neglected to make the mark/restore functionality save and restore the
current set of array key values, which led to strange behavior if an
IndexScan with ScalarArrayOpExpr quals was used as the inner side of a
mergejoin.  Per bug #7570 from Melese Tesfaye.
2012-09-27 17:01:02 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2a0c81a12c Add support for include_dir in config file.
This allows easily splitting configuration into many files, deployed in a
directory.

Magnus Hagander, Greg Smith, Selena Deckelmann, reviewed by Noah Misch.
2012-09-24 18:07:53 +03:00
Tom Lane 31510194cc Minor corrections for ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE IF NOT EXISTS patch.
Produce a NOTICE when the label already exists, for consistency with other
CREATE IF NOT EXISTS commands.  Also, fix the code so it produces something
more user-friendly than an index violation when the label already exists.
This not incidentally enables making a regression test that the previous
patch didn't make for fear of exposing an unpredictable OID in the results.
Also some wordsmithing on the documentation.
2012-09-22 18:35:22 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 6d12b68cd7 Allow IF NOT EXISTS when add a new enum label.
If the label is already in the enum the statement becomes a no-op.
This will reduce the pain that comes from our not allowing this
operation inside a transaction block.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Tom Lane and Magnus Hagander.
2012-09-22 12:53:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 11e131854f Improve ruleutils.c's heuristics for dealing with rangetable aliases.
The previous scheme had bugs in some corner cases involving tables that had
been renamed since a view was made.  This could result in dumped views that
failed to reload or reloaded incorrectly, as seen in bug #7553 from Lloyd
Albin, as well as in some pgsql-hackers discussion back in January.  Also,
its behavior for printing EXPLAIN plans was sometimes confusing because of
willingness to use the same alias for multiple RTEs (it was Ashutosh
Bapat's complaint about that aspect that started the January thread).

To fix, ensure that each RTE in the query has a unique unqualified alias,
by modifying the alias if necessary (we add "_" and digits as needed to
create a non-conflicting name).  Then we can just print its variables with
that alias, avoiding the confusing and bug-prone scheme of sometimes
schema-qualifying variable names.  In EXPLAIN, it proves to be expedient to
take the further step of only assigning such aliases to RTEs that are
actually referenced in the query, since the planner has a habit of
generating extra RTEs with the same alias in situations such as
inheritance-tree expansion.

Although this fixes a bug of very long standing, I'm hesitant to back-patch
such a noticeable behavioral change.  My experiments while creating a
regression test convinced me that actually incorrect output (as opposed to
confusing output) occurs only in very narrow cases, which is backed up by
the lack of previous complaints from the field.  So we may be better off
living with it in released branches; and in any case it'd be smart to let
this ripen awhile in HEAD before we consider back-patching it.
2012-09-21 19:03:10 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7c45e3a3c6 Parse pg_ident.conf when it's loaded, keeping it in memory in parsed format.
Similar changes were done to pg_hba.conf earlier already, this commit makes
pg_ident.conf to behave the same as pg_hba.conf.

This has two user-visible effects. First, if pg_ident.conf contains multiple
errors, the whole file is parsed at postmaster startup time and all the
errors are immediately reported. Before this patch, the file was parsed and
the errors were reported only when someone tries to connect using an
authentication method that uses the file, and the parsing stopped on first
error. Second, if you SIGHUP to reload the config files, and the new
pg_ident.conf file contains an error, the error is logged but the old file
stays in effect.

Also, regular expressions in pg_ident.conf are now compiled only once when
the file is loaded, rather than every time the a user is authenticated. That
should speed up authentication if you have a lot of regexps in the file.

Amit Kapila
2012-09-21 17:54:39 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 22c734fcdb Remove execdesc.h inclusion from tcopprot.h 2012-09-20 11:07:59 -03:00
Tom Lane 9a93e71008 Fix a couple other leftover uses of 'conisonly' terminology. 2012-09-12 15:12:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 46c508fbcf Fix PARAM_EXEC assignment mechanism to be safe in the presence of WITH.
The planner previously assumed that parameter Vars having the same absolute
query level, varno, and varattno could safely be assigned the same runtime
PARAM_EXEC slot, even though they might be different Vars appearing in
different subqueries.  This was (probably) safe before the introduction of
CTEs, but the lazy-evalution mechanism used for CTEs means that a CTE can
be executed during execution of some other subquery, causing the lifespan
of Params at the same syntactic nesting level as the CTE to overlap with
use of the same slots inside the CTE.  In 9.1 we created additional hazards
by using the same parameter-assignment technology for nestloop inner scan
parameters, but it was broken before that, as illustrated by the added
regression test.

To fix, restructure the planner's management of PlannerParamItems so that
items having different semantic lifespans are kept rigorously separated.
This will probably result in complex queries using more runtime PARAM_EXEC
slots than before, but the slots are cheap enough that this hardly matters.
Also, stop generating PlannerParamItems containing Params for subquery
outputs: all we really need to do is reserve the PARAM_EXEC slot number,
and that now only takes incrementing a counter.  The planning code is
simpler and probably faster than before, as well as being more correct.

Per report from Vik Reykja.

These changes will mostly also need to be made in the back branches, but
I'm going to hold off on that until after 9.2.0 wraps.
2012-09-05 12:55:01 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera e20a90e188 Trim spgist_private.h inclusion
It doesn't really need rel.h; relcache.h is enough.
2012-09-05 11:06:51 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas c4c227477b Fix bugs in cascading replication with recovery_target_timeline='latest'
The cascading replication code assumed that the current RecoveryTargetTLI
never changes, but that's not true with recovery_target_timeline='latest'.
The obvious upshot of that is that RecoveryTargetTLI in shared memory needs
to be protected by a lock. A less obvious consequence is that when a
cascading standby is connected, and the standby switches to a new target
timeline after scanning the archive, it will continue to stream WAL to the
cascading standby, but from a wrong file, ie. the file of the previous
timeline. For example, if the standby is currently streaming from the middle
of file 000000010000000000000005, and the timeline changes, the standby
will continue to stream from that file. However, the WAL on the new
timeline is in file 000000020000000000000005, so the standby sends garbage
from 000000010000000000000005 to the cascading standby, instead of the
correct WAL from file 000000020000000000000005.

This also fixes a related bug where a partial WAL segment is restored from
the archive and streamed to a cascading standby. The code assumed that when
a WAL segment is copied from the archive, it can immediately be fully
streamed to a cascading standby. However, if the segment is only partially
filled, ie. has the right size, but only N first bytes contain valid WAL,
that's not safe. That can happen if a partial WAL segment is manually copied
to the archive, or if a partial WAL segment is archived because a server is
started up on a new timeline within that segment. The cascading standby will
get confused if the WAL it received is not valid, and will get stuck until
it's restarted. This patch fixes that problem by not allowing WAL restored
from the archive to be streamed to a cascading standby until it's been
replayed, and thus validated.
2012-09-04 19:33:21 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 015722fb36 Fix to_date() and to_timestamp() to allow specification of the day of
the week via ISO or Gregorian designations.  The fix is to store the
day-of-week consistently as 1-7, Sunday = 1.

Fixes bug reported by Marc Munro
2012-09-03 22:52:44 -04:00
Tom Lane 6d2c8c0e2a Drop cheap-startup-cost paths during add_path() if we don't need them.
We can detect whether the planner top level is going to care at all about
cheap startup cost (it will only do so if query_planner's tuple_fraction
argument is greater than zero).  If it isn't, we might as well discard
paths immediately whose only advantage over others is cheap startup cost.
This turns out to get rid of quite a lot of paths in complex queries ---
I saw planner runtime reduction of more than a third on one large query.

Since add_path isn't currently passed the PlannerInfo "root", the easiest
way to tell it whether to do this was to add a bool flag to RelOptInfo.
That's a bit redundant, since all relations in a given query level will
have the same setting.  But in the future it's possible that we'd refine
the control decision to work on a per-relation basis, so this seems like
a good arrangement anyway.

Per my suggestion of a few months ago.
2012-09-01 18:16:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 58a031f920 Make configure probe for mbstowcs_l as well as wcstombs_l.
We previously supposed that any given platform would supply both or neither
of these functions, so that one configure test would be sufficient.  It now
appears that at least on AIX this is not the case ... which is likely an
AIX bug, but nonetheless we need to cope with it.  So use separate tests.
Per bug #6758; thanks to Andrew Hastie for doing the followup testing
needed to confirm what was happening.

Backpatch to 9.1, where we began using these functions.
2012-08-31 14:17:56 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera c219d9b0a5 Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.h
This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which
is very widely included by many files.

I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well,
because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h.  In
itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h
throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's
something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h
change now while I'm busy with it.
2012-08-30 16:52:35 -04:00
Tom Lane 77387f0ac8 Suppress creation of backwardly-indexed paths for LATERAL join clauses.
Given a query such as

SELECT * FROM foo JOIN LATERAL (SELECT foo.var1) ss(x) ON ss.x = foo.var2

the existence of the join clause "ss.x = foo.var2" encourages indxpath.c to
build a parameterized path for foo using any index available for foo.var2.
This is completely useless activity, though, since foo has got to be on the
outside not the inside of any nestloop join with ss.  It's reasonably
inexpensive to add tests that prevent creation of such paths, so let's do
that.
2012-08-30 14:33:00 -04:00
Tom Lane e83bb10d6d Adjust definition of cheapest_total_path to work better with LATERAL.
In the initial cut at LATERAL, I kept the rule that cheapest_total_path
was always unparameterized, which meant it had to be NULL if the relation
has no unparameterized paths.  It turns out to work much more nicely if
we always have *some* path nominated as cheapest-total for each relation.
In particular, let's still say it's the cheapest unparameterized path if
there is one; if not, take the cheapest-total-cost path among those of
the minimum available parameterization.  (The first rule is actually
a special case of the second.)

This allows reversion of some temporary lobotomizations I'd put in place.
In particular, the planner can now consider hash and merge joins for
joins below a parameter-supplying nestloop, even if there aren't any
unparameterized paths available.  This should bring planning of
LATERAL-containing queries to the same level as queries not using that
feature.

Along the way, simplify management of parameterized paths in add_path()
and friends.  In the original coding for parameterized paths in 9.2,
I tried to minimize the logic changes in add_path(), so it just treated
parameterization as yet another dimension of comparison for paths.
We later made it ignore pathkeys (sort ordering) of parameterized paths,
on the grounds that ordering isn't a useful property for the path on the
inside of a nestloop, so we might as well get rid of useless parameterized
paths as quickly as possible.  But we didn't take that reasoning as far as
we should have.  Startup cost isn't a useful property inside a nestloop
either, so add_path() ought to discount startup cost of parameterized paths
as well.  Having done that, the secondary sorting I'd implemented (in
add_parameterized_path) is no longer needed --- any parameterized path that
survives add_path() at all is worth considering at higher levels.  So this
should be a bit faster as well as simpler.
2012-08-29 22:06:07 -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
Alvaro Herrera fda0594fc2 remove catcache.h from syscache.h
Instead, place a forward struct declaration for struct catclist in
syscache.h.  This reduces header proliferation somewhat.
2012-08-28 18:36:39 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 45326c5a11 Split resowner.h
This lets files that are mere users of ResourceOwner not automatically
include the headers for stuff that is managed by the resowner mechanism.
2012-08-28 18:02:07 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 095e6c5a7d syncrep.h must include xlogdefs.h 2012-08-28 09:46:08 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 918eee0c49 Collect and use histograms of lower and upper bounds for range types.
This enables selectivity estimation of the <<, >>, &<, &> and && operators,
as well as the normal inequality operators: <, <=, >=, >. "range @> element"
is also supported, but the range-variant @> and <@ operators are not,
because they cannot be sensibly estimated with lower and upper bound
histograms alone. We would need to make some assumption about the lengths of
the ranges for that. Alexander's patch included a separate histogram of
lengths for that, but I left that out of the patch for simplicity. Hopefully
that will be added as a followup patch.

The fraction of empty ranges is also calculated and used in estimation.

Alexander Korotkov, heavily modified by me.
2012-08-27 15:58:46 +03:00
Tom Lane 9ff79b9d4e Fix up planner infrastructure to support LATERAL properly.
This patch takes care of a number of problems having to do with failure
to choose valid join orders and incorrect handling of lateral references
pulled up from subqueries.  Notable changes:

* Add a LateralJoinInfo data structure similar to SpecialJoinInfo, to
represent join ordering constraints created by lateral references.
(I first considered extending the SpecialJoinInfo structure, but the
semantics are different enough that a separate data structure seems
better.)  Extend join_is_legal() and related functions to prevent trying
to form unworkable joins, and to ensure that we will consider joins that
satisfy lateral references even if the joins would be clauseless.

* Fill in the infrastructure needed for the last few types of relation scan
paths to support parameterization.  We'd have wanted this eventually
anyway, but it is necessary now because a relation that gets pulled up out
of a UNION ALL subquery may acquire a reltargetlist containing lateral
references, meaning that its paths *have* to be parameterized whether or
not we have any code that can push join quals down into the scan.

* Compute data about lateral references early in query_planner(), and save
in RelOptInfo nodes, to avoid repetitive calculations later.

* Assorted corner-case bug fixes.

There's probably still some bugs left, but this is a lot closer to being
real than it was before.
2012-08-26 22:50:23 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5c45d2f878 Mark DateTimeParseError() noreturn
This avoids a warning from clang 3.2 about an uninitialized variable
'dtype' in date_in().
2012-08-21 23:32:58 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 71450d7fd6 Teach compiler that ereport(>=ERROR) does not return
When elevel >= ERROR, we add an abort() call to the ereport() macro to
give the compiler a hint that the ereport() expansion will not return,
but the abort() isn't actually reached because the longjmp happens in
errfinish().

Because the effect of ereport() varies with the elevel, we cannot use
standard compiler attributes such as noreturn for this.
2012-08-21 00:03:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 092d7ded29 Allow OLD and NEW in multi-row VALUES within rules.
Now that we have LATERAL, it's fairly painless to allow this case, which
was left as a TODO in the original multi-row VALUES implementation.
2012-08-19 14:12:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 470d0b9789 Check LIBXML_VERSION instead of testing in configure script.
We had put a test for libxml2's xmlStructuredErrorContext variable in
configure, but of course that doesn't work on Windows builds.  The next
best alternative seems to be to test the LIBXML_VERSION symbol provided
by xmlversion.h.

Per report from Talha Bin Rizwan, though this fixes it in a different way
than his proposed patch.
2012-08-17 00:05:26 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 317dd55a9c Add SP-GiST support for range types.
The implementation is a quad-tree, largely copied from the quad-tree
implementation for points. The lower and upper bound of ranges are the 2d
coordinates, with some extra code to handle empty ranges.

I left out the support for adjacent operator, -|-, from the original patch.
Not because there was necessarily anything wrong with it, but it was more
complicated than the other operators, and I only have limited time for
reviewing. That will follow as a separate patch.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Jeff Davis and me.
2012-08-16 14:30:45 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 89911b3ab8 Fix GiST buffering build bug, which caused "failed to re-find parent" errors.
We use a hash table to track the parents of inner pages, but when inserting
to a leaf page, the caller of gistbufferinginserttuples() must pass a
correct block number of the leaf's parent page. Before gistProcessItup()
descends to a child page, it checks if the downlink needs to be adjusted to
accommodate the new tuple, and updates the downlink if necessary. However,
updating the downlink might require splitting the page, which might move the
downlink to a page to the right. gistProcessItup() doesn't realize that, so
when it descends to the leaf page, it might pass an out-of-date parent block
number as a result. Fix that by returning the block a tuple was inserted to
from gistbufferinginserttuples().

This fixes the bug reported by Zdeněk Jílovec.
2012-08-16 12:56:24 +03:00
Tom Lane c1774d2c81 More fixes for planner's handling of LATERAL.
Re-allow subquery pullup for LATERAL subqueries, except when the subquery
is below an outer join and contains lateral references to relations outside
that outer join.  If we pull up in such a case, we risk introducing lateral
cross-references into outer joins' ON quals, which is something the code is
entirely unprepared to cope with right now; and I'm not sure it'll ever be
worth coping with.

Support lateral refs in VALUES (this seems to be the only additional path
type that needs such support as a consequence of re-allowing subquery
pullup).

Put in a slightly hacky fix for joinpath.c's refusal to consider
parameterized join paths even when there cannot be any unparameterized
ones.  This was causing "could not devise a query plan for the given query"
failures in queries involving more than two FROM items.

Put in an even more hacky fix for distribute_qual_to_rels() being unhappy
with join quals that contain references to rels outside their syntactic
scope; which is to say, disable that test altogether.  Need to think about
how to preserve some sort of debugging cross-check here, while not
expending more cycles than befits a debugging cross-check.
2012-08-12 16:01:26 -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 c9b0cbe98b Support having multiple Unix-domain sockets per postmaster.
Replace unix_socket_directory with unix_socket_directories, which is a list
of socket directories, and adjust postmaster's code to allow zero or more
Unix-domain sockets to be created.

This is mostly a straightforward change, but since the Unix sockets ought
to be created after the TCP/IP sockets for safety reasons (better chance
of detecting a port number conflict), AddToDataDirLockFile needs to be
fixed to support out-of-order updates of data directory lockfile lines.
That's a change that had been foreseen to be necessary someday anyway.

Honza Horak, reviewed and revised by Tom Lane
2012-08-10 17:27:15 -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
Simon Riggs da4efa13d8 Turn off WalSender keepalives by default, users can enable if desired 2012-08-09 17:07:03 +01:00
Simon Riggs 87d8bd7c9f Ensure all replication message info is available and correct via WalRcv 2012-08-09 17:03:59 +01:00
Tom Lane f630157496 Merge parser's p_relnamespace and p_varnamespace lists into a single list.
Now that we are storing structs in these lists, the distinction between
the two lists can be represented with a couple of extra flags while using
only a single list.  This simplifies the code and should save a little
bit of palloc traffic, since the majority of RTEs are represented in both
lists anyway.
2012-08-08 16:41:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 5ebaaa4944 Implement SQL-standard LATERAL subqueries.
This patch implements the standard syntax of LATERAL attached to a
sub-SELECT in FROM, and also allows LATERAL attached to a function in FROM,
since set-returning function calls are expected to be one of the principal
use-cases.

The main change here is a rewrite of the mechanism for keeping track of
which relations are visible for column references while the FROM clause is
being scanned.  The parser "namespace" lists are no longer lists of bare
RTEs, but are lists of ParseNamespaceItem structs, which carry an RTE
pointer as well as some visibility-controlling flags.  Aside from
supporting LATERAL correctly, this lets us get rid of the ancient hacks
that required rechecking subqueries and JOIN/ON and function-in-FROM
expressions for invalid references after they were initially parsed.
Invalid column references are now always correctly detected on sight.

In passing, remove assorted parser error checks that are now dead code by
virtue of our having gotten rid of add_missing_from, as well as some
comments that are obsolete for the same reason.  (It was mainly
add_missing_from that caused so much fudging here in the first place.)

The planner support for this feature is very minimal, and will be improved
in future patches.  It works well enough for testing purposes, though.

catversion bump forced due to new field in RangeTblEntry.
2012-08-07 19:02:54 -04:00
Tom Lane 962e0cc71e Fix race conditions associated with SPGiST redirection tuples.
The correct test for whether a redirection tuple is removable is whether
tuple's xid < RecentGlobalXmin, not OldestXmin; the previous coding
failed to protect index searches being done in concurrent transactions that
have no XID.  This mirrors the recent fix in btree's page recycling logic
made in commit d3abbbebe5.

Also, WAL-log the newest XID of any removed redirection tuple on an index
page, and apply ResolveRecoveryConflictWithSnapshot during InHotStandby WAL
replay.  This protects against concurrent Hot Standby transactions possibly
needing to see the redirection tuple(s).

Per my query of 2012-03-12 and subsequent discussion.
2012-08-02 15:34:14 -04:00
Tom Lane f6ce81f55a Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT).
Parse analysis neglected to cover the case of a WITH clause attached to an
intermediate-level set operation; it only handled WITH at the top level
or WITH attached to a leaf-level SELECT.  Per report from Adam Mackler.

In HEAD, I rearranged the order of SelectStmt's fields to put withClause
with the other fields that can appear on non-leaf SelectStmts.  In back
branches, leave it alone to avoid a possible ABI break for third-party
code.

Back-patch to 8.4 where WITH support was added.
2012-07-31 17:56:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 31c7c642b6 Account for SRFs in targetlists in planner rowcount estimates.
We made use of the ROWS estimate for set-returning functions used in FROM,
but not for those used in SELECT targetlists; which is a bit of an
oversight considering there are common usages that require the latter
approach.  Improve that.  (I had initially thought it might be worth
folding this into cost_qual_eval, but after investigation concluded that
that wouldn't be very helpful, so just do it separately.)  Per complaint
from David Johnston.

Back-patch to 9.2, but not further, for fear of destabilizing plan choices
in existing releases.
2012-07-21 17:45:07 -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 8e617e29aa Fix whole-row Var evaluation to cope with resjunk columns (again).
When a whole-row Var is reading the result of a subquery, we need it to
ignore any "resjunk" columns that the subquery might have evaluated for
GROUP BY or ORDER BY purposes.  We've hacked this area before, in commit
68e40998d0, but that fix only covered
whole-row Vars of named composite types, not those of RECORD type; and it
was mighty klugy anyway, since it just assumed without checking that any
extra columns in the result must be resjunk.  A proper fix requires getting
hold of the subquery's targetlist so we can actually see which columns are
resjunk (whereupon we can use a JunkFilter to get rid of them).  So bite
the bullet and add some infrastructure to make that possible.

Per report from Andrew Dunstan and additional testing by Merlin Moncure.
Back-patch to all supported branches.  In 8.3, also back-patch commit
292176a118, which for some reason I had
not done at the time, but it's a prerequisite for this change.
2012-07-20 13:10:58 -04:00
Robert Haas 3a0e4d36eb Make new event trigger facility actually do something.
Commit 3855968f32 added syntax, pg_dump,
psql support, and documentation, but the triggers didn't actually fire.
With this commit, they now do.  This is still a pretty basic facility
overall because event triggers do not get a whole lot of information
about what the user is trying to do unless you write them in C; and
there's still no option to fire them anywhere except at the very
beginning of the execution sequence, but it's better than nothing,
and a good building block for future work.

Along the way, add a regression test for ALTER LARGE OBJECT, since
testing of event triggers reveals that we haven't got one.

Dimitri Fontaine and Robert Haas
2012-07-20 11:39:01 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas a7a4add6c4 Refactor the way code is shared between some range type functions.
Functions like range_eq, range_before etc. are exposed at the SQL-level, but
they're also used internally by the GiST consistent support function. The
code sharing was done by a hack, TrickFunctionCall2, which relied on the
knowledge that all the functions used fn_extra the same way. This commit
splits the functions into internal versions that take a TypeCacheEntry as
argument, and thin wrappers to expose the functions at the SQL-level. The
internal versions can then be called directly and in a less hacky way from
the GiST consistent function.

This is just cosmetic, but backpatch to 9.2 anyway, to avoid having a
different version of this code in the 9.2 branch. That would make
backpatching fixes in this area more difficult.

Alexander Korotkov
2012-07-18 23:14:56 +03:00
Tom Lane 4a9c30a8a1 Fix management of pendingOpsTable in auxiliary processes.
mdinit() was misusing IsBootstrapProcessingMode() to decide whether to
create an fsync pending-operations table in the current process.  This led
to creating a table not only in the startup and checkpointer processes as
intended, but also in the bgwriter process, not to mention other auxiliary
processes such as walwriter and walreceiver.  Creation of the table in the
bgwriter is fatal, because it absorbs fsync requests that should have gone
to the checkpointer; instead they just sit in bgwriter local memory and are
never acted on.  So writes performed by the bgwriter were not being fsync'd
which could result in data loss after an OS crash.  I think there is no
live bug with respect to walwriter and walreceiver because those never
perform any writes of shared buffers; but the potential is there for
future breakage in those processes too.

To fix, make AuxiliaryProcessMain() export the current process's
AuxProcType as a global variable, and then make mdinit() test directly for
the types of aux process that should have a pendingOpsTable.  Having done
that, we might as well also get rid of the random bool flags such as
am_walreceiver that some of the aux processes had grown.  (Note that we
could not have fixed the bug by examining those variables in mdinit(),
because it's called from BaseInit() which is run by AuxiliaryProcessMain()
before entering any of the process-type-specific code.)

Back-patch to 9.2, where the problem was introduced by the split-up of
bgwriter and checkpointer processes.  The bogus pendingOpsTable exists
in walwriter and walreceiver processes in earlier branches, but absent
any evidence that it causes actual problems there, I'll leave the older
branches alone.
2012-07-18 15:28:10 -04:00
Robert Haas 3855968f32 Syntax support and documentation for event triggers.
They don't actually do anything yet; that will get fixed in a
follow-on commit.  But this gets the basic infrastructure in place,
including CREATE/ALTER/DROP EVENT TRIGGER; support for COMMENT,
SECURITY LABEL, and ALTER EXTENSION .. ADD/DROP EVENT TRIGGER;
pg_dump and psql support; and documentation for the anticipated
initial feature set.

Dimitri Fontaine, with review and a bunch of additional hacking by me.
Thom Brown extensively reviewed earlier versions of this patch set,
but there's not a whole lot of that code left in this commit, as it
turns out.
2012-07-18 10:16:16 -04:00
Tom Lane 73b796a52c Improve coding around the fsync request queue.
In all branches back to 8.3, this patch fixes a questionable assumption in
CompactCheckpointerRequestQueue/CompactBgwriterRequestQueue that there are
no uninitialized pad bytes in the request queue structs.  This would only
cause trouble if (a) there were such pad bytes, which could happen in 8.4
and up if the compiler makes enum ForkNumber narrower than 32 bits, but
otherwise would require not-currently-planned changes in the widths of
other typedefs; and (b) the kernel has not uniformly initialized the
contents of shared memory to zeroes.  Still, it seems a tad risky, and we
can easily remove any risk by pre-zeroing the request array for ourselves.
In addition to that, we need to establish a coding rule that struct
RelFileNode can't contain any padding bytes, since such structs are copied
into the request array verbatim.  (There are other places that are assuming
this anyway, it turns out.)

In 9.1 and up, the risk was a bit larger because we were also effectively
assuming that struct RelFileNodeBackend contained no pad bytes, and with
fields of different types in there, that would be much easier to break.
However, there is no good reason to ever transmit fsync or delete requests
for temp files to the bgwriter/checkpointer, so we can revert the request
structs to plain RelFileNode, getting rid of the padding risk and saving
some marginal number of bytes and cycles in fsync queue manipulation while
we are at it.  The savings might be more than marginal during deletion of
a temp relation, because the old code transmitted an entirely useless but
nonetheless expensive-to-process ForgetRelationFsync request to the
background process, and also had the background process perform the file
deletion even though that can safely be done immediately.

In addition, make some cleanup of nearby comments and small improvements to
the code in CompactCheckpointerRequestQueue/CompactBgwriterRequestQueue.
2012-07-17 16:56:54 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f34c68f096 Introduce timeout handling framework
Management of timeouts was getting a little cumbersome; what we
originally had was more than enough back when we were only concerned
about deadlocks and query cancel; however, when we added timeouts for
standby processes, the code got considerably messier.  Since there are
plans to add more complex timeouts, this seems a good time to introduce
a central timeout handling module.

External modules register their timeout handlers during process
initialization, and later enable and disable them as they see fit using
a simple API; timeout.c is in charge of keeping track of which timeouts
are in effect at any time, installing a common SIGALRM signal handler,
and calling setitimer() as appropriate to ensure timely firing of
external handlers.

timeout.c additionally supports pluggable modules to add their own
timeouts, though this capability isn't exercised anywhere yet.

Additionally, as of this commit, walsender processes are aware of
timeouts; we had a preexisting bug there that made those ignore SIGALRM,
thus being subject to unhandled deadlocks, particularly during the
authentication phase.  This has already been fixed in back branches in
commit 0bf8eb2a, which see for more details.

Main author: Zoltán Böszörményi
Some review and cleanup by Álvaro Herrera
Extensive reworking by Tom Lane
2012-07-16 22:55:33 -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 b966dd6c42 Add fsync capability to initdb, and use sync_file_range() if available.
Historically we have not worried about fsync'ing anything during initdb
(in fact, initdb intentionally passes -F to each backend launch to prevent
it from fsync'ing).  But with filesystems getting more aggressive about
caching data, that's not such a good plan anymore.  Make initdb do a pass
over the finished data directory tree to fsync everything.  For testing
purposes, the -N/--nosync flag can be used to restore the old behavior.

Also, testing shows that on Linux, sync_file_range() is much faster than
posix_fadvise() for hinting to the kernel that an fsync is coming,
apparently because the latter blocks on a rather small request queue while
the former doesn't.  So use this function if available in initdb, and also
in the backend's pg_flush_data() (where it currently will affect only the
speed of CREATE DATABASE's cloning step).

We will later make pg_regress invoke initdb with the --nosync flag
to avoid slowing down cases such as "make check" in contrib.  But
let's not do so until we've shaken out any portability issues in this
patch.

Jeff Davis, reviewed by Andres Freund
2012-07-13 17:16:58 -04:00
Tom Lane 84a42560c8 Add array_remove() and array_replace() functions.
These functions support removing or replacing array element value(s)
matching a given search value.  Although intended mainly to support a
future array-foreign-key feature, they seem useful in their own right.

Marco Nenciarini and Gabriele Bartolini, reviewed by Alex Hunsaker
2012-07-11 13:59:35 -04:00
Tom Lane 01215d61a7 Fix bogus macro definition.
Per buildfarm complaints.
2012-07-10 22:36:11 -04:00
Tatsuo Ishii 1c7a7faa5b Add comments about additional mule-internal charsets from emacs's
source code(lisp/international/mule-conf.el).  These charsets have not
been supported up to now anyway, so this is just for adding
commentary.  Also add mention that we follow emacs's implementation,
not xemacs's.
2012-07-11 08:10:50 +09:00
Tom Lane 628cbb50ba Re-implement extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions.
To generate btree-indexable conditions from regex WHERE conditions (such as
WHERE indexed_col ~ '^foo'), we need to be able to identify any fixed
prefix that a regex might have; that is, find any string that must be a
prefix of all strings satisfying the regex.  We used to do that with
entirely ad-hoc code that looked at the source text of the regex.  It
didn't know very much about regex syntax, which mostly meant that it would
fail to identify some optimizable cases; but Viktor Rosenfeld reported that
it would produce actively wrong answers for quantified parenthesized
subexpressions, such as '^(foo)?bar'.  Rather than trying to extend the
ad-hoc code to cover this, let's get rid of it altogether in favor of
identifying prefixes by examining the compiled form of a regex.

To do this, I've added a new entry point "pg_regprefix" to the regex library;
hopefully it is defined in a sufficiently general fashion that it can remain
in the library when/if that code gets split out as a standalone project.

Since this bug has been there for a very long time, this fix needs to get
back-patched.  However it depends on some other recent commits (particularly
the addition of wchar-to-database-encoding conversion), so I'll commit this
separately and then go to work on back-porting the necessary fixes.
2012-07-10 14:54:37 -04:00
Tom Lane 00dac6000d Refactor pattern_fixed_prefix() to avoid dealing in incomplete patterns.
Previously, pattern_fixed_prefix() was defined to return whatever fixed
prefix it could extract from the pattern, plus the "rest" of the pattern.
That definition was sensible for LIKE patterns, but not so much for
regexes, where reconstituting a valid pattern minus the prefix could be
quite tricky (certainly the existing code wasn't doing that correctly).
Since the only thing that callers ever did with the "rest" of the pattern
was to pass it to like_selectivity() or regex_selectivity(), let's cut out
the middle-man and just have pattern_fixed_prefix's subroutines do this
directly.  Then pattern_fixed_prefix can return a simple selectivity
number, and the question of how to cope with partial patterns is removed
from its API specification.

While at it, adjust the API spec so that callers who don't actually care
about the pattern's selectivity (which is a lot of them) can pass NULL for
the selectivity pointer to skip doing the work of computing a selectivity
estimate.

This patch is only an API refactoring that doesn't actually change any
processing, other than allowing a little bit of useless work to be skipped.
However, it's necessary infrastructure for my upcoming fix to regex prefix
extraction, because after that change there won't be any simple way to
identify the "rest" of the regex, not even to the low level of fidelity
needed by regex_selectivity.  We can cope with that if regex_fixed_prefix
and regex_selectivity communicate directly, but not if we have to work
within the old API.  Hence, back-patch to all active branches.
2012-07-09 23:22:55 -04:00
Tom Lane e7ef6d7e24 Fix planner to pass correct collation to operator selectivity estimators.
We can do this without creating an API break for estimation functions
by passing the collation using the existing fmgr functionality for
passing an input collation as a hidden parameter.

The need for this was foreseen at the outset, but we didn't get around to
making it happen in 9.1 because of the decision to sort all pg_statistic
histograms according to the database's default collation.  That meant that
selectivity estimators generally need to use the default collation too,
even if they're estimating for an operator that will do something
different.  The reason it's suddenly become more interesting is that
regexp interpretation also uses a collation (for its LC_TYPE not LC_COLLATE
property), and we no longer want to use the wrong collation when examining
regexps during planning.  It's not that the selectivity estimate is likely
to change much from this; rather that we are thinking of caching compiled
regexps during planner estimation, and we won't get the intended benefit
if we cache them with a different collation than the executor will use.

Back-patch to 9.1, both because the regexp change is likely to get
back-patched and because we might as well get this right in all
collation-supporting branches, in case any third-party code wants to
rely on getting the collation.  The patch turns out to be minuscule
now that I've done it ...
2012-07-08 23:51:08 -04:00
Tom Lane c6aae3042b Simplify and document regex library's compact-NFA representation.
The previous coding abused the first element of a cNFA state's arcs list
to hold a per-state flag bit, which was confusing, undocumented, and not
even particularly efficient.  Get rid of that in favor of a separate
"stflags" vector.  Since there's only one bit in use, I chose to allocate a
char per state; we could possibly replace this with a bitmap at some point,
but that would make accesses a little slower.  It's already about 8X
smaller than before, so let's not get overly tense.

Also document the representation better than it was before, which is to say
not at all.

This patch is a byproduct of investigations towards extracting a "fixed
prefix" string from the compact-NFA representation of regex patterns.
Might need to back-patch it if we decide to back-patch that fix, but for
now it's just code cleanup so I'll just put it in HEAD.
2012-07-07 17:39:50 -04:00
Tom Lane fc548b2296 Remove support for using wait3() in place of waitpid().
All Unix-oid platforms that we currently support should have waitpid(),
since it's in V2 of the Single Unix Spec.  Our git history shows that
the wait3 code was added to support NextStep, which we officially dropped
support for as of 9.2.  So get rid of the configure test, and simplify the
macro spaghetti in reaper().  Per suggestion from Fujii Masao.
2012-07-05 14:00:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 72dd6291f2 Add wchar -> mb conversion routines.
This is infrastructure for Alexander Korotkov's work on indexing regular
expression searches.

Alexander Korotkov, with a bit of further hackery on the MULE conversion
by me
2012-07-04 17:10:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 09022de1f5 Improve documentation about MULE encoding.
This commit improves the comments in pg_wchar.h and creates #define symbols
for some formerly hard-coded values.  No substantive code changes.

Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
2012-07-04 00:29:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 0c7b9dc7d0 Have REASSIGN OWNED work on extensions, too
Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role has created
an extension.  Even though the user related to the extension is not
nominally the owner, its OID appears on pg_shdepend and thus causes
problems when the user is to be dropped.

This commit adds code to change the "ownership" of the extension itself,
not of the contained objects.  This is fine because it's currently only
called from REASSIGN OWNED, which would also modify the ownership of the
contained objects.  However, this is not sufficient for a working ALTER
OWNER implementation extension.

Back-patch to 9.1, where extensions were introduced.

Bug #6593 reported by Emiliano Leporati.
2012-07-03 15:09:59 -04:00
Robert Haas f83b59997d Make walsender more responsive.
Per testing by Andres Freund, this improves replication performance
and reduces replication latency and latency jitter.  I was a bit
concerned about moving more work into XLogInsert, but testing seems
to show that it's not a problem in practice.

Along the way, improve comments for WaitLatchOrSocket.

Andres Freund.  Review and stylistic cleanup by me.
2012-07-02 09:41:01 -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
Robert Haas b79ab00144 When LWLOCK_STATS is defined, count spindelays.
When LWLOCK_STATS is *not* defined, the only change is that
SpinLockAcquire now returns the number of delays.

Patch by me, review by Jeff Janes.
2012-06-26 16:06:07 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 77ed0c6950 Tighten up includes in sinvaladt.h, twophase.h, proc.h
Remove proc.h from sinvaladt.h and twophase.h; also replace xlog.h in
proc.h with xlogdefs.h.
2012-06-25 18:40:40 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut eeece9e609 Unify calling conventions for postgres/postmaster sub-main functions
There was a wild mix of calling conventions: Some were declared to
return void and didn't return, some returned an int exit code, some
claimed to return an exit code, which the callers checked, but
actually never returned, and so on.

Now all of these functions are declared to return void and decorated
with attribute noreturn and don't return.  That's easiest, and most
code already worked that way.
2012-06-25 21:30:12 +03:00
Robert Haas 2dfa87bcb6 Remove sanity test in XRecOffIsValid.
Commit 061e7efb1b changed the rules
for splitting xlog records across pages, but neglected to update this
test.  It's possible that there's some better action here than just
removing the test completely, but this at least appears to get some
of the things that are currently broken (like initdb on MacOS X)
working again.
2012-06-25 12:14:43 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b8b2e3b2de Replace int2/int4 in C code with int16/int32
The latter was already the dominant use, and it's preferable because
in C the convention is that intXX means XX bits.  Therefore, allowing
mixed use of int2, int4, int8, int16, int32 is obviously confusing.

Remove the typedefs for int2 and int4 for now.  They don't seem to be
widely used outside of the PostgreSQL source tree, and the few uses
can probably be cleaned up by the time this ships.
2012-06-25 01:51:46 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0687a26002 Use UINT64CONST for 64-bit integer constants.
Peter Eisentraut advised me that UINT64CONST is the proper way to do that,
not LL suffix.
2012-06-24 21:56:45 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 96ff85e2dd Use LL suffix for 64-bit constants.
Per warning from buildfarm member 'locust'. At least I think this what's
making it upset.
2012-06-24 20:01:55 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0ab9d1c4b3 Replace XLogRecPtr struct with a 64-bit integer.
This simplifies code that needs to do arithmetic on XLogRecPtrs.

To avoid changing on-disk format of data pages, the LSN on data pages is
still stored in the old format. That should keep pg_upgrade happy. However,
we have XLogRecPtrs embedded in the control file, and in the structs that
are sent over the replication protocol, so this changes breaks compatibility
of pg_basebackup and server. I didn't do anything about this in this patch,
per discussion on -hackers, the right thing to do would to be to change the
replication protocol to be architecture-independent, so that you could use
a newer version of pg_receivexlog, for example, against an older server
version.
2012-06-24 19:19:45 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 061e7efb1b Allow WAL record header to be split across pages.
This saves a few bytes of WAL space, but the real motivation is to make it
predictable how much WAL space a record requires, as it no longer depends
on whether we need to waste the last few bytes at end of WAL page because
the header doesn't fit.

The total length field of WAL record, xl_tot_len, is moved to the beginning
of the WAL record header, so that it is still always found on the first page
where a WAL record begins.

Bump WAL version number again as this is an incompatible change.
2012-06-24 18:35:56 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 20ba5ca64c Move WAL continuation record information to WAL page header.
The continuation record only contained one field, xl_rem_len, so it makes
things simpler to just include it in the WAL page header. This wastes four
bytes on pages that don't begin with a continuation from previos page, plus
four bytes on every page, because of padding.

The motivation of this is to make it easier to calculate how much space a
WAL record needs. Before this patch, it depended on how many page boundaries
the record crosses. The motivation of that, in turn, is to separate the
allocation of space in the WAL from the copying of the record data to the
allocated space. Keeping the calculation of space required simple helps to
keep the critical section of allocating the space from WAL short. But that's
not included in this patch yet.

Bump WAL version number again, as this is an incompatible change.
2012-06-24 18:35:30 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas dfda6ebaec Don't waste the last segment of each 4GB logical log file.
The comments claimed that wasting the last segment made it easier to do
calculations with XLogRecPtrs, because you don't have problems representing
last-byte-position-plus-1 that way. In my experience, however, it only made
things more complicated, because the there was two ways to represent the
boundary at the beginning of a logical log file: logid = n+1 and xrecoff = 0,
or as xlogid = n and xrecoff = 4GB - XLOG_SEG_SIZE. Some functions were
picky about which representation was used.

Also, use a 64-bit segment number instead of the log/seg combination, to
point to a certain WAL segment. We assume that all platforms have a working
64-bit integer type nowadays.

This is an incompatible change in WAL format, so bumping WAL version number.
2012-06-24 18:35:29 +03:00
Tom Lane d14241c2cf Fix memory leak in ARRAY(SELECT ...) subqueries.
Repeated execution of an uncorrelated ARRAY_SUBLINK sub-select (which
I think can only happen if the sub-select is embedded in a larger,
correlated subquery) would leak memory for the duration of the query,
due to not reclaiming the array generated in the previous execution.
Per bug #6698 from Armando Miraglia.  Diagnosis and fix idea by Heikki,
patch itself by me.

This has been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported versions.
2012-06-21 17:27:19 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas eeb6f37d89 Add a small cache of locks owned by a resource owner in ResourceOwner.
This speeds up reassigning locks to the parent owner, when the transaction
holds a lot of locks, but only a few of them belong to the current resource
owner. This is particularly helps pg_dump when dumping a large number of
objects.

The cache can hold up to 15 locks in each resource owner. After that, the
cache is marked as overflowed, and we fall back to the old method of
scanning the whole local lock table. The tradeoff here is that the cache has
to be scanned whenever a lock is released, so if the cache is too large,
lock release becomes more expensive. 15 seems enough to cover pg_dump, and
doesn't have much impact on lock release.

Jeff Janes, reviewed by Amit Kapila and Heikki Linnakangas.
2012-06-21 15:30:26 +03:00
Tom Lane cfa0f4255b Improve tests for whether we can skip queueing RI enforcement triggers.
During an update of a PK row, we can skip firing the RI trigger if any old
key value is NULL, because then the row could not have had any matching
rows in the FK table.  Conversely, during an update of an FK row, the
outcome is determined if any new key value is NULL.  In either case it
becomes unnecessary to compare individual key values.

This patch was inspired by discussion of Vik Reykja's patch to use IS NOT
DISTINCT semantics for the key comparisons.  In the event there is no need
for that and so this patch looks nothing like his, but he should still get
credit for having re-opened consideration of the trigger skip logic.
2012-06-19 20:07:33 -04:00
Tom Lane f5297bdfe4 Refer to the default foreign key match style as MATCH SIMPLE internally.
Previously we followed the SQL92 wording, "MATCH <unspecified>", but since
SQL99 there's been a less awkward way to refer to the default style.

In addition to the code changes, pg_constraint.confmatchtype now stores
this match style as 's' (SIMPLE) rather than 'u' (UNSPECIFIED).  This
doesn't affect pg_dump or psql because they use pg_get_constraintdef()
to reconstruct foreign key definitions.  But other client-side code might
examine that column directly, so this change will have to be marked as
an incompatibility in the 9.3 release notes.
2012-06-17 20:16:44 -04:00
Tom Lane 9e18eacbdf Fix stats collector to recover nicely when system clock goes backwards.
Formerly, if the system clock went backwards, the stats collector would
fail to update the stats file any more until the clock reading again
exceeds whatever timestamp was last written into the stats file.  Such
glitches in the clock's behavior are not terribly unlikely on machines
not using NTP.  Such a scenario has been observed to cause regression test
failures in the buildfarm, and it could have bad effects on the behavior
of autovacuum, so it seems prudent to install some defenses.

We could directly detect the clock going backwards by adding
GetCurrentTimestamp calls in the stats collector's main loop, but that
would hurt performance on platforms where GetCurrentTimestamp is expensive.
To minimize the performance hit in normal cases, adopt a more complicated
scheme wherein backends check for clock skew when reading the stats file,
and if they see it, signal the stats collector by sending an extra stats
inquiry message.  The stats collector does an extra GetCurrentTimestamp
only when it receives an inquiry with an apparently out-of-order
timestamp.

To avoid unnecessary GetCurrentTimestamp calls, expand the inquiry messages
to carry the backend's current clock reading as well as its stats cutoff
time.  The latter, being intentionally slightly in-the-past, would trigger
more clock rechecks than we need if it were used for this purpose.

We might want to backpatch this change at some point, but let's let it
shake out in the buildfarm for awhile first.
2012-06-17 17:11:49 -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
Robert Haas 68de499bda New SQL functons pg_backup_in_progress() and pg_backup_start_time()
Darold Gilles, reviewed by Gabriele Bartolini and others, rebased by
Marco Nenciarini.  Stylistic cleanup and OID fixes by me.
2012-06-14 13:25:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 6cd015bea3 Add new function log_newpage_buffer.
When I implemented the ginbuildempty() function as part of
implementing unlogged tables, I falsified the note in the header
comment for log_newpage.  Although we could fix that up by changing
the comment, it seems cleaner to add a new function which is
specifically intended to handle this case.  So do that.
2012-06-14 10:11:16 -04:00
Robert Haas a475c60367 Remove misplaced sanity check from heap_create().
Even when allow_system_table_mods is not set, we allow creation of any
type of SQL object in pg_catalog, except for relations.  And you can
get relations into pg_catalog, too, by initially creating them in some
other schema and then moving them with ALTER .. SET SCHEMA.  So this
restriction, which prevents relations (only) from being created in
pg_catalog directly, is fairly pointless.  If we need a safety mechanism
for this, it should be placed further upstream, so that it affects all
SQL objects uniformly, and picks up both CREATE and SET SCHEMA.

For now, just rip it out, per discussion with Tom Lane.
2012-06-14 09:58:53 -04:00
Robert Haas d2c86a1ccd Remove RELKIND_UNCATALOGED.
This may have been important at some point in the past, but it no
longer does anything useful.

Review by Tom Lane.
2012-06-14 09:47:30 -04:00
Tom Lane bed88fceac Stamp HEAD as 9.3devel.
Let the hacking begin ...
2012-06-13 20:03:02 -04:00
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
Peter Eisentraut 8570114dc1 Make include files work without having to include other ones first 2012-06-10 12:46:14 +03:00
Tom Lane ece01aae47 Scan the buffer pool just once, not once per fork, during relation drop.
This provides a speedup of about 4X when NBuffers is large enough.
There is also a useful reduction in sinval traffic, since we
only do CacheInvalidateSmgr() once not once per fork.

Simon Riggs, reviewed and somewhat revised by Tom Lane
2012-06-07 17:43:11 -04:00
Simon Riggs 055c352abb After any checkpoint, close all smgr files handles in bgwriter 2012-06-01 09:24:53 +01:00
Tom Lane 4bec93ac0f Stamp 9.2beta2. 2012-05-31 19:16:55 -04:00
Tom Lane ad0009e7be Force PL and range-type support functions to be owned by a superuser.
We allow non-superusers to create procedural languages (with restrictions)
and range datatypes.  Previously, the automatically-created support
functions for these objects ended up owned by the creating user.  This
represents a rather considerable security hazard, because the owning user
might be able to alter a support function's definition in such a way as to
crash the server, inject trojan-horse SQL code, or even execute arbitrary
C code directly.  It appears that right now the only actually exploitable
problem is the infinite-recursion bug fixed in the previous patch for
CVE-2012-2655.  However, it's not hard to imagine that future additions of
more ALTER FUNCTION capability might unintentionally open up new hazards.
To forestall future problems, cause these support functions to be owned by
the bootstrap superuser, not the user creating the parent object.
2012-05-30 23:47:57 -04:00
Tom Lane cd0ff9c0f4 Expand the allowed range of timezone offsets to +/-15:59:59 from Greenwich.
We used to only allow offsets less than +/-13 hours, then it was +/14,
then it was +/-15.  That's still not good enough though, as per today's bug
report from Patric Bechtel.  This time I actually looked through the Olson
timezone database to find the largest offsets used anywhere.  The winners
are Asia/Manila, at -15:56:00 until 1844, and America/Metlakatla, at
+15:13:42 until 1867.  So we'd better allow offsets less than +/-16 hours.

Given the history, we are way overdue to have some greppable #define
symbols controlling this, so make some ... and also remove an obsolete
comment that didn't get fixed the last time.

Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-05-30 19:58:35 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas d1996ed5e8 Change the way parent pages are tracked during buffered GiST build.
We used to mimic the way a stack is constructed when descending the tree
during normal GiST inserts, but that was quite complicated during a buffered
build. It was also wrong: in GiST, the left-to-right relationships on
different levels might not match each other, so that when you know the
parent of a child page, you won't necessarily find the parent of the page to
the right of the child page by following the rightlinks at the parent level.
This sometimes led to "could not re-find parent" errors while building a
GiST index.

We now use a simple hash table to track the parent of every internal page.
Whenever a page is split, and downlinks are moved from one page to another,
we update the hash table accordingly. This is also better for performance
than the old method, as we never need to move right to re-find the parent
page, which could take a significant amount of time for buffers that were
created much earlier in the index build.
2012-05-30 12:05:57 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1d27dcf578 Fix bug in gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit().
When we create a temporary copy of the old node buffer, in stack, we mustn't
leak that into any of the long-lived data structures. Before this patch,
when we called gistPopItupFromNodeBuffer(), it got added to the array of
"loaded buffers". After gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit() exits, the
pointer added to the loaded buffers array points to garbage. Often that goes
unnotied, because when we go through the array of loaded buffers to unload
them, buffers with a NULL pageBuffer are ignored, which can often happen by
accident even if the pointer points to garbage.

This patch fixes that by marking the temporary copy in stack explicitly as
temporary, and refrain from adding buffers marked as temporary to the array
of loaded buffers.

While we're at it, initialize nodeBuffer->pageBlocknum to InvalidBlockNumber
and improve comments a bit. This isn't strictly necessary, but makes
debugging easier.
2012-05-18 19:38:32 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut be6d1c88a4 Change COLLATION keyword category
It was changed from unreserved to reserved as part of the COLLATION
FOR syntax, but it turns out that type_func_name_keyword is
sufficient.
2012-05-16 20:19:44 +03:00
Tom Lane f667747b6d Put back AC_REQUIRE([AC_STRUCT_TM]).
The BSD-ish members of the buildfarm all seem to think removing this
was a bad idea.  It looks to me like it resulted in omitting the system
header inclusion necessary to detect the fields of struct tm correctly.
2012-05-14 23:06:48 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut ff4628f37a Remove unused AC_DEFINE symbols
ENABLE_DTRACE            unused as of a7b7b07af3
HAVE_ERR_SET_MARK        unused as of 4ed4b6c54e
HAVE_FCVT                unused as of 4553e1d80f
HAVE_STRUCT_SOCKADDR_UN  unused as of b4cea00a1f
HAVE_SYSCONF             unused as of f83356c7f5
TM_IN_SYS_TIME           never used, obsolescent per Autoconf documentation
2012-05-14 22:51:21 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9e4637bf89 Update comments that became out-of-date with the PGXACT struct.
When the "hot" members of PGPROC were split off to separate PGXACT structs,
many PGPROC fields referred to in comments were moved to PGXACT, but the
comments were neglected in the commit. Mostly this is just a search/replace
of PGPROC with PGXACT, but the way the dummy PGPROC entries are created for
prepared transactions changed more, making some of the comments totally
bogus.

Noah Misch
2012-05-14 10:28:55 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 64f09ca386 Remove leftovers of BeOS port
These should have been removed when the BeOS port was removed in
44f9021223.
2012-05-14 04:50:39 +03:00
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
Simon Riggs b06679e012 Ensure age() returns a stable value rather than the latest value 2012-05-11 14:36:24 +01:00
Bruce Momjian ee24de4001 Revert catalog bump; was post-beta1, and unnecessary. 2012-05-10 18:44:47 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d2fe836cd2 Update comment for 'name' data type to say 63 "bytes".
Catalog version bump so everyone has the same comment for beta1.
2012-05-10 18:40:40 -04:00
Tom Lane f70fa835e0 Stamp 9.2beta1. 2012-05-10 18:35:09 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 60a3dffb72 Fix outdated comment.
Multi-insert records observe XLOG_HEAP_INIT_PAGE flag too, as Andres Freund
pointed out.
2012-05-10 09:55:48 +03:00
Tom Lane 6308ba05a7 Improve control logic for bgwriter hibernation mode.
Commit 6d90eaaa89 added a hibernation mode
to the bgwriter to reduce the server's idle-power consumption.  However,
its interaction with the detailed behavior of BgBufferSync's feedback
control loop wasn't very well thought out.  That control loop depends
primarily on the rate of buffer allocation, not the rate of buffer
dirtying, so the hibernation mode has to be designed to operate only when
no new buffer allocations are happening.  Also, the check for whether the
system is effectively idle was not quite right and would fail to detect
a constant low level of activity, thus allowing the bgwriter to go into
hibernation mode in a way that would let the cycle time vary quite a bit,
possibly further confusing the feedback loop.  To fix, move the wakeup
support from MarkBufferDirty and SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave into
StrategyGetBuffer, and prevent the bgwriter from entering hibernation mode
unless no buffer allocations have happened recently.

In addition, fix the delaying logic to remove the problem of possibly not
responding to signals promptly, which was basically caused by trying to use
the process latch's is_set flag for multiple purposes.  I can't prove it
but I'm suspicious that that hack was responsible for the intermittent
"postmaster does not shut down" failures we've been seeing in the buildfarm
lately.  In any case it did nothing to improve the readability or
robustness of the code.

In passing, express the hibernation sleep time as a multiplier on
BgWriterDelay, not a constant.  I'm not sure whether there's any value in
exposing the longer sleep time as an independently configurable setting,
but we can at least make it act like this for little extra code.
2012-05-09 23:37:10 -04:00
Simon Riggs 8f28789bff Rename BgWriterShmem/Request to CheckpointerShmem/Request 2012-05-09 14:23:45 +01:00
Simon Riggs bbd3ec9dce Rename BgWriterCommLock to CheckpointerCommLock 2012-05-09 14:11:48 +01:00
Tom Lane acd4c7d58b Fix an issue in recent walwriter hibernation patch.
Users of asynchronous-commit mode expect there to be a guaranteed maximum
delay before an async commit's WAL records get flushed to disk.  The
original version of the walwriter hibernation patch broke that.  Add an
extra shared-memory flag to allow async commits to kick the walwriter out
of hibernation mode, without adding any noticeable overhead in cases where
no action is needed.
2012-05-08 23:06:40 -04:00
Tom Lane 5461564a9d Reduce idle power consumption of walwriter and checkpointer processes.
This patch modifies the walwriter process so that, when it has not found
anything useful to do for many consecutive wakeup cycles, it extends its
sleep time to reduce the server's idle power consumption.  It reverts to
normal as soon as it's done any successful flushes.  It's still true that
during any async commit, backends check for completed, unflushed pages of
WAL and signal the walwriter if there are any; so that in practice the
walwriter can get awakened and returned to normal operation sooner than the
sleep time might suggest.

Also, improve the checkpointer so that it uses a latch and a computed delay
time to not wake up at all except when it has something to do, replacing a
previous hardcoded 0.5 sec wakeup cycle.  This also is primarily useful for
reducing the server's power consumption when idle.

In passing, get rid of the dedicated latch for signaling the walwriter in
favor of using its procLatch, since that comports better with possible
generic signal handlers using that latch.  Also, fix a pre-existing bug
with failure to save/restore errno in walwriter's signal handlers.

Peter Geoghegan, somewhat simplified by Tom
2012-05-08 20:03:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3284e03d5d Remove strdup, strtol, strtoul from libpgport
These should not be needed anymore, at least after the recent port
removals.  So let's see whether we can do without them.
2012-05-07 23:10:28 +03:00
Tom Lane 71b9549d05 Overdue code review for transaction-level advisory locks patch.
Commit 62c7bd31c8 had assorted problems, most
visibly that it broke PREPARE TRANSACTION in the presence of session-level
advisory locks (which should be ignored by PREPARE), as per a recent
complaint from Stephen Rees.  More abstractly, the patch made the
LockMethodData.transactional flag not merely useless but outright
dangerous, because in point of fact that flag no longer tells you anything
at all about whether a lock is held transactionally.  This fix therefore
removes that flag altogether.  We now rely entirely on the convention
already in use in lock.c that transactional lock holds must be owned by
some ResourceOwner, while session holds are never so owned.  Setting the
locallock struct's owner link to NULL thus denotes a session hold, and
there is no redundant marker for that.

PREPARE TRANSACTION now works again when there are session-level advisory
locks, and it is also able to transfer transactional advisory locks to the
prepared transaction, but for implementation reasons it throws an error if
we hold both types of lock on a single lockable object.  Perhaps it will be
worth improving that someday.

Assorted other minor cleanup and documentation editing, as well.

Back-patch to 9.1, except that in the 9.1 branch I did not remove the
LockMethodData.transactional flag for fear of causing an ABI break for
any external code that might be examining those structs.
2012-05-04 17:44:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ebcaa5fcde Remove BSD/OS (BSDi) port. There are no known users upgrading to
Postgres 9.2, and perhaps no existing users either.
2012-05-03 10:58:44 -04:00
Robert Haas 8e0c5195df Add missing parenthesis in comment. 2012-05-02 14:30:58 -04:00
Robert Haas 0038110421 Avoid repeated CLOG access from heap_hot_search_buffer.
At the time we check whether the tuple is dead to all running
transactions, we've already verified that it isn't visible to our
scan, setting hint bits if appropriate.  So there's no need to
recheck CLOG for the all-dead test we do just a moment later.
So, add HeapTupleIsSurelyDead() to test the appropriate condition
under the assumption that all relevant hit bits are already set.

Review by Tom Lane.
2012-05-02 12:40:07 -04:00
Robert Haas e01e66f808 More duplicate word removal. 2012-05-02 09:28:16 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas f291ccd43e Remove duplicate words in comments.
Found these with grep -r "for for ".
2012-05-02 10:20:27 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut f2f9439fbf Remove dead ports
Remove the following ports:

- dgux
- nextstep
- sunos4
- svr4
- ultrix4
- univel

These are obsolete and not worth rescuing.  In most cases, there is
circumstantial evidence that they wouldn't work anymore anyway.
2012-05-01 22:11:12 +03:00
Tom Lane 809e7e21af Converge all SQL-level statistics timing values to float8 milliseconds.
This patch adjusts the core statistics views to match the decision already
taken for pg_stat_statements, that values representing elapsed time should
be represented as float8 and measured in milliseconds.  By using float8,
we are no longer tied to a specific maximum precision of timing data.
(Internally, it's still microseconds, but we could now change that without
needing changes at the SQL level.)

The columns affected are
pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_write_time
pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_sync_time
pg_stat_database.blk_read_time
pg_stat_database.blk_write_time
pg_stat_user_functions.total_time
pg_stat_user_functions.self_time
pg_stat_xact_user_functions.total_time
pg_stat_xact_user_functions.self_time

The first four of these are new in 9.2, so there is no compatibility issue
from changing them.  The others require a release note comment that they
are now double precision (and can show a fractional part) rather than
bigint as before; also their underlying statistics functions now match
the column definitions, instead of returning bigint microseconds.
2012-04-30 14:03:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 26471a51fc Mark ReThrowError() with attribute noreturn
All related functions were already so marked.
2012-04-30 20:23:41 +03:00
Tom Lane 1dd89eadcd Rename I/O timing statistics columns to blk_read_time and blk_write_time.
This seems more consistent with the pre-existing choices for names of
other statistics columns.  Rename assorted internal identifiers to match.
2012-04-29 18:13:33 -04:00
Tom Lane 309c64745e Rename track_iotiming GUC to track_io_timing.
This spelling seems significantly more readable to me.
2012-04-29 16:23:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 81107282a5 Change return type of ExceptionalCondition to void and mark it noreturn
In ancient times, it was thought that this wouldn't work because of
TrapMacro/AssertMacro, but changing those to use a comma operator
appears to work without compiler warnings.
2012-04-29 21:20:14 +03:00
Robert Haas 3424bff90f Prevent index-only scans from returning wrong answers under Hot Standby.
The alternative of disallowing index-only scans in HS operation was
discussed, but the consensus was that it was better to treat marking
a page all-visible as a recovery conflict for snapshots that could still
fail to see XIDs on that page.  We may in the future try to soften this,
so that we simply force index scans to do heap fetches in cases where
this may be an issue, rather than throwing a hard conflict.
2012-04-26 20:00:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 9fa82c9809 Fix planner's handling of RETURNING lists in writable CTEs.
setrefs.c failed to do "rtoffset" adjustment of Vars in RETURNING lists,
which meant they were left with the wrong varnos when the RETURNING list
was in a subquery.  That was never possible before writable CTEs, of
course, but now it's broken.  The executor fails to notice any problem
because ExecEvalVar just references the ecxt_scantuple for any normal
varno; but EXPLAIN breaks when the varno is wrong, as illustrated in a
recent complaint from Bartosz Dmytrak.

Since the eventual rtoffset of the subquery is not known at the time
we are preparing its plan node, the previous scheme of executing
set_returning_clause_references() at that time cannot handle this
adjustment.  Fortunately, it turns out that we don't really need to do it
that way, because all the needed information is available during normal
setrefs.c execution; we just have to dig it out of the ModifyTable node.
So, do that, and get rid of the kluge of early setrefs processing of
RETURNING lists.  (This is a little bit of a cheat in the case of inherited
UPDATE/DELETE, because we are not passing a "root" struct that corresponds
exactly to what the subplan was built with.  But that doesn't matter, and
anyway this is less ugly than early setrefs processing was.)

Back-patch to 9.1, where the problem became possible to hit.
2012-04-25 20:20:33 -04:00
Robert Haas ca1e1a8da1 Remove prototype for nonexistent function. 2012-04-25 15:32:15 -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 5b7b5518d0 Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues.
This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths
with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the
same relation will have the same rowcount estimate.  We cache the rowcount
estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too.
Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without
a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different
parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to
true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized
path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply.

In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates
along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that
don't actually have an advantage.  This fixes some issues I'd found with
add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more
expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer
rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered.

To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any
parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from
the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for
indexing.  This is required at both base scans and joins.  It's a good
thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the
lowest practical level in the join tree.  Hence, discard the original
rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build
a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved.
The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about
which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right
requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
2012-04-19 15:53:47 -04:00
Robert Haas 4a6fab03f2 Finish rename of FastPathStrongLocks to FastPathStrongRelationLocks.
Commit 8e5ac74c12 tried to do this renaming,
but I relied on gcc to tell me where I needed to make changes, instead of
grep.

Noted by Jeff Davis.
2012-04-18 11:29:34 -04:00
Robert Haas 53c5b869b4 Tighten up error recovery for fast-path locking.
The previous code could cause a backend crash after BEGIN; SAVEPOINT a;
LOCK TABLE foo (interrupted by ^C or statement timeout); ROLLBACK TO
SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo, and might have leaked strong-lock counts
in other situations.

Report by Zoltán Böszörményi; patch review by Jeff Davis.
2012-04-18 11:17:30 -04:00
Robert Haas 4a2d7ad76f pg_size_pretty(numeric)
The output of the new pg_xlog_location_diff function is of type numeric,
since it could theoretically overflow an int8 due to signedness; this
provides a convenient way to format such values.

Fujii Masao, with some beautification by me.
2012-04-14 08:07:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c0cc526e8b Rename bytea_agg to string_agg and add delimiter argument
Per mailing list discussion, we would like to keep the bytea functions
parallel to the text functions, so rename bytea_agg to string_agg,
which already exists for text.

Also, to satisfy the rule that we don't want aggregate functions of
the same name with a different number of arguments, add a delimiter
argument, just like string_agg for text already has.
2012-04-13 21:36:59 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas ef3883d130 Do stack-depth checking in all postmaster children.
We used to only initialize the stack base pointer when starting up a regular
backend, not in other processes. In particular, autovacuum workers can run
arbitrary user code, and without stack-depth checking, infinite recursion
in e.g an index expression will bring down the whole cluster.

The comment about PL/Java using set_stack_base() is not yet true. As the
code stands, PL/java still modifies the stack_base_ptr variable directly.
However, it's been discussed in the PL/Java mailing list that it should be
changed to use the function, because PL/Java is currently oblivious to the
register stack used on Itanium. There's another issues with PL/Java, namely
that the stack base pointer it sets is not really the base of the stack, it
could be something close to the bottom of the stack. That's a separate issue
that might need some further changes to this code, but that's a different
story.

Backpatch to all supported releases.
2012-04-08 19:07:55 +03:00
Tom Lane cea49fe82f Dept of second thoughts: improve the API for AnalyzeForeignTable.
If we make the initially-called function return the table physical-size
estimate, acquire_inherited_sample_rows will be able to use that to
allocate numbers of samples among child tables, when the day comes that
we want to support foreign tables in inheritance trees.
2012-04-06 16:04:10 -04:00
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
Robert Haas 21cc529698 checkopint -> checkpoint
Report by Guillaume Lelarge.
2012-04-05 21:37:33 -04:00
Robert Haas b736aef2ec Publish checkpoint timing information to pg_stat_bgwriter.
Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan, and Robert Haas
2012-04-05 14:04:37 -04:00
Robert Haas 644828908f Expose track_iotiming data via the statistics collector.
Ants Aasma's original patch to add timing information for buffer I/O
requests exposed this data at the relation level, which was judged too
costly.  I've here exposed it at the database level instead.
2012-04-05 11:40:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 38b9693fd9 Add support for renaming domain constraints 2012-04-03 08:11:51 +03:00
Tom Lane 5e83854d71 Add PGDLLIMPORT to ScanKeywords and NumScanKeywords.
Per buildfarm, this is now needed by contrib/pg_stat_statements.
2012-03-31 10:56:21 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5762a4d909 Inherit max_safe_fds to child processes in EXEC_BACKEND mode.
Postmaster sets max_safe_fds by testing how many open file descriptors it
can open, and that is normally inherited by all child processes at fork().
Not so on EXEC_BACKEND, ie. Windows, however. Because of that, we
effectively ignored max_files_per_process on Windows, and always assumed
a conservative default of 32 simultaneous open files. That could have an
impact on performance, if you need to access a lot of different files
in a query. After this patch, the value is passed to child processes by
save/restore_backend_variables() among many other global variables.

It has been like this forever, but given the lack of complaints about it,
I'm not backpatching this.
2012-03-29 08:19:11 +03:00
Andrew Dunstan d2c1740dc2 Remove now redundant pgpipe code. 2012-03-28 23:24:07 -04:00
Tom Lane a40fa613b5 Add some infrastructure for contrib/pg_stat_statements.
Add a queryId field to Query and PlannedStmt.  This is not used by the
core backend, except for being copied around at appropriate times.
It's meant to allow plug-ins to track a particular query forward from
parse analysis to execution.

The queryId is intentionally not dumped into stored rules (and hence this
commit doesn't bump catversion).  You could argue that choice either way,
but it seems better that stored rule strings not have any dependency
on plug-ins that might or might not be present.

Also, add a post_parse_analyze_hook that gets invoked at the end of
parse analysis (but only for top-level analysis of complete queries,
not cases such as analyzing a domain's default-value expression).
This is mainly meant to be used to compute and assign a queryId,
but it could have other applications.

Peter Geoghegan
2012-03-27 15:17:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 40b9b95769 New GUC, track_iotiming, to track I/O timings.
Currently, the only way to see the numbers this gathers is via
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), but the plan is to add visibility through
the stats collector and pg_stat_statements in subsequent patches.

Ants Aasma, reviewed by Greg Smith, with some further changes by me.
2012-03-27 14:55:02 -04:00
Robert Haas 7386089d23 Code cleanup for heap_freeze_tuple.
It used to be case that lazy vacuum could call this function with only
a shared lock on the buffer, but neither lazy vacuum nor any other
code path does that any more.  Simplify the code accordingly and clean
up some related, obsolete comments.
2012-03-26 11:03:06 -04:00
Tom Lane c7cea267de Replace empty locale name with implied value in CREATE DATABASE and initdb.
setlocale() accepts locale name "" as meaning "the locale specified by the
process's environment variables".  Historically we've accepted that for
Postgres' locale settings, too.  However, it's fairly unsafe to store an
empty string in a new database's pg_database.datcollate or datctype fields,
because then the interpretation could vary across postmaster restarts,
possibly resulting in index corruption and other unpleasantness.

Instead, we should expand "" to whatever it means at the moment of calling
CREATE DATABASE, which we can do by saving the value returned by
setlocale().

For consistency, make initdb set up the initial lc_xxx parameter values the
same way.  initdb was already doing the right thing for empty locale names,
but it did not replace non-empty names with setlocale results.  On a
platform where setlocale chooses to canonicalize the spellings of locale
names, this would result in annoying inconsistency.  (It seems that popular
implementations of setlocale don't do such canonicalization, which is a
pity, but the POSIX spec certainly allows it to be done.)  The same risk
of inconsistency leads me to not venture back-patching this, although it
could certainly be seen as a longstanding bug.

Per report from Jeff Davis, though this is not his proposed patch.
2012-03-25 21:47:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 8279eb4191 Fix planner's handling of outer PlaceHolderVars within subqueries.
For some reason, in the original coding of the PlaceHolderVar mechanism
I had supposed that PlaceHolderVars couldn't propagate into subqueries.
That is of course entirely possible.  When it happens, we need to treat
an outer-level PlaceHolderVar much like an outer Var or Aggref, that is
SS_replace_correlation_vars() needs to replace the PlaceHolderVar with
a Param, and then when building the finished SubPlan we have to provide
the PlaceHolderVar expression as an actual parameter for the SubPlan.
The handling of the contained expression is a bit delicate but it can be
treated exactly like an Aggref's expression.

In addition to the missing logic in subselect.c, prepjointree.c was failing
to search subqueries for PlaceHolderVars that need their relids adjusted
during subquery pullup.  It looks like everyplace else that touches
PlaceHolderVars got it right, though.

Per report from Mark Murawski.  In 9.1 and HEAD, queries affected by this
oversight would fail with "ERROR: Upper-level PlaceHolderVar found where
not expected".  But in 9.0 and 8.4, you'd silently get possibly-wrong
answers, since the value transmitted into the subquery wouldn't go to null
when it should.
2012-03-24 16:21:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 0339047bc9 Code review for protransform patches.
Fix loss of previous expression-simplification work when a transform
function fires: we must not simply revert to untransformed input tree.
Instead build a dummy FuncExpr node to pass to the transform function.
This has the additional advantage of providing a simpler, more uniform
API for transform functions.

Move documentation to a somewhat less buried spot, relocate some
poorly-placed code, be more wary of null constants and invalid typmod
values, add an opr_sanity check on protransform function signatures,
and some other minor cosmetic adjustments.

Note: although this patch touches pg_proc.h, no need for catversion
bump, because the changes are cosmetic and don't actually change the
intended catalog contents.
2012-03-23 17:29:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0e85abd658 Clean up compiler warnings from unused variables with asserts disabled
For those variables only used when asserts are enabled, use a new
macro PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY, which expands to
__attribute__((unused)) when asserts are not enabled.
2012-03-21 23:33:10 +02:00
Tom Lane 9dbf2b7d75 Restructure SELECT INTO's parsetree representation into CreateTableAsStmt.
Making this operation look like a utility statement seems generally a good
idea, and particularly so in light of the desire to provide command
triggers for utility statements.  The original choice of representing it as
SELECT with an IntoClause appendage had metastasized into rather a lot of
places, unfortunately, so that this patch is a great deal more complicated
than one might at first expect.

In particular, keeping EXPLAIN working for SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS
subcommands required restructuring some EXPLAIN-related APIs.  Add-on code
that calls ExplainOnePlan or ExplainOneUtility, or uses
ExplainOneQuery_hook, will need adjustment.

Also, the cases PREPARE ... SELECT INTO and CREATE RULE ... SELECT INTO,
which formerly were accepted though undocumented, are no longer accepted.
The PREPARE case can be replaced with use of CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE.
The CREATE RULE case doesn't seem to have much real-world use (since the
rule would work only once before failing with "table already exists"),
so we'll not bother with that one.

Both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS still return a command tag of
"SELECT nnnn".  There was some discussion of returning "CREATE TABLE nnnn",
but for the moment backwards compatibility wins the day.

Andres Freund and Tom Lane
2012-03-19 21:38:12 -04:00
Tom Lane dd4134ea56 Revisit handling of UNION ALL subqueries with non-Var output columns.
In commit 57664ed25e I tried to fix a bug
reported by Teodor Sigaev by making non-simple-Var output columns distinct
(by wrapping their expressions with dummy PlaceHolderVar nodes).  This did
not work too well.  Commit b28ffd0fcc fixed
some ensuing problems with matching to child indexes, but per a recent
report from Claus Stadler, constraint exclusion of UNION ALL subqueries was
still broken, because constant-simplification didn't handle the injected
PlaceHolderVars well either.  On reflection, the original patch was quite
misguided: there is no reason to expect that EquivalenceClass child members
will be distinct.  So instead of trying to make them so, we should ensure
that we can cope with the situation when they're not.

Accordingly, this patch reverts the code changes in the above-mentioned
commits (though the regression test cases they added stay).  Instead, I've
added assorted defenses to make sure that duplicate EC child members don't
cause any problems.  Teodor's original problem ("MergeAppend child's
targetlist doesn't match MergeAppend") is addressed more directly by
revising prepare_sort_from_pathkeys to let the parent MergeAppend's sort
list guide creation of each child's sort list.

In passing, get rid of add_sort_column; as far as I can tell, testing for
duplicate sort keys at this stage is dead code.  Certainly it doesn't
trigger often enough to be worth expending cycles on in ordinary queries.
And keeping the test would've greatly complicated the new logic in
prepare_sort_from_pathkeys, because comparing pathkey list entries against
a previous output array requires that we not skip any entries in the list.

Back-patch to 9.1, like the previous patches.  The only known issue in
this area that wasn't caused by the ill-advised previous patches was the
MergeAppend planning failure, which of course is not relevant before 9.1.
It's possible that we need some of the new defenses against duplicate child
EC entries in older branches, but until there's some clear evidence of that
I'm going to refrain from back-patching further.
2012-03-16 13:11:55 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas aef5fe7efe Add comments explaining why our Itanium spinlock implementation is safe. 2012-03-16 10:14:45 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut eb990a2b9e Add const qualifier to tzn returned by timestamp2tm()
The tzn value might come from tm->tm_zone, which libc declares as
const, so it's prudent that the upper layers know about this as well.
2012-03-15 21:17:19 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut ad4fb0d0d2 Improve EncodeDateTime and EncodeTimeOnly APIs
Use an explicit argument to tell whether to include the time zone in
the output, rather than using some undocumented pointer magic.
2012-03-14 23:03:34 +02:00
Tom Lane c6a11b89e4 Teach SPGiST to store nulls and do whole-index scans.
This patch fixes the other major compatibility-breaking limitation of
SPGiST, that it didn't store anything for null values of the indexed
column, and so could not support whole-index scans or "x IS NULL"
tests.  The approach is to create a wholly separate search tree for
the null entries, and use fixed "allTheSame" insertion and search
rules when processing this tree, instead of calling the index opclass
methods.  This way the opclass methods do not need to worry about
dealing with nulls.

Catversion bump is for pg_am updates as well as the change in on-disk
format of SPGiST indexes; there are some tweaks in SPGiST WAL records
as well.

Heavily rewritten version of a patch by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev.
(The original also stored nulls separately, but it reused GIN code to do
so; which required undesirable compromises in the on-disk format, and
would likely lead to bugs due to the GIN code being required to work in
two very different contexts.)
2012-03-11 16:29:59 -04:00
Tom Lane 03e56f798e Restructure SPGiST opclass interface API to support whole-index scans.
The original API definition was incapable of supporting whole-index scans
because there was no way to invoke leaf-value reconstruction without
checking any qual conditions.  Also, it was inefficient for
multiple-qual-condition scans because value reconstruction got done over
again for each qual condition, and because other internal work in the
consistent functions likewise had to be done for each qual.  To fix these
issues, pass the whole scankey array to the opclass consistent functions,
instead of only letting them see one item at a time.  (Essentially, the
loop over scankey entries is now inside the consistent functions not
outside them.  This makes the consistent functions a bit more complicated,
but not unreasonably so.)

In itself this commit does nothing except save a few cycles in
multiple-qual-condition index scans, since we can't support whole-index
scans on SPGiST indexes until nulls are included in the index.  However,
I consider this a must-fix for 9.2 because once we release it will get
very much harder to change the opclass API definition.
2012-03-10 18:36:49 -05:00
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
Tom Lane b14953932d Revise FDW planning API, again.
Further reflection shows that a single callback isn't very workable if we
desire to let FDWs generate multiple Paths, because that forces the FDW to
do all work necessary to generate a valid Plan node for each Path.  Instead
split the former PlanForeignScan API into three steps: GetForeignRelSize,
GetForeignPaths, GetForeignPlan.  We had already bit the bullet of breaking
the 9.1 FDW API for 9.2, so this shouldn't cause very much additional pain,
and it's substantially more flexible for complex FDWs.

Add an fdw_private field to RelOptInfo so that the new functions can save
state there rather than possibly having to recalculate information two or
three times.

In addition, we'd not thought through what would be needed to allow an FDW
to set up subexpressions of its choice for runtime execution.  We could
treat ForeignScan.fdw_private as an executable expression but that seems
likely to break existing FDWs unnecessarily (in particular, it would
restrict the set of node types allowable in fdw_private to those supported
by expression_tree_walker).  Instead, invent a separate field fdw_exprs
which will receive the postprocessing appropriate for expression trees.
(One field is enough since it can be a list of expressions; also, we assume
the corresponding expression state tree(s) will be held within fdw_state,
so we don't need to add anything to ForeignScanState.)

Per review of Hanada Shigeru's pgsql_fdw patch.  We may need to tweak this
further as we continue to work on that patch, but to me it feels a lot
closer to being right now.
2012-03-09 12:49:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 08dd23cec7 Fix some issues with temp/transient tables in extension scripts.
Phil Sorber reported that a rewriting ALTER TABLE within an extension
update script failed, because it creates and then drops a placeholder
table; the drop was being disallowed because the table was marked as an
extension member.  We could hack that specific case but it seems likely
that there might be related cases now or in the future, so the most
practical solution seems to be to create an exception to the general rule
that extension member objects can only be dropped by dropping the owning
extension.  To wit: if the DROP is issued within the extension's own
creation or update scripts, we'll allow it, implicitly performing an
"ALTER EXTENSION DROP object" first.  This will simplify cases such as
extension downgrade scripts anyway.

No docs change since we don't seem to have documented the idea that you
would need ALTER EXTENSION DROP for such an action to begin with.

Also, arrange for explicitly temporary tables to not get linked as
extension members in the first place, and the same for the magic
pg_temp_nnn schemas that are created to hold them.  This prevents assorted
unpleasant results if an extension script creates a temp table: the forced
drop at session end would either fail or remove the entire extension, and
neither of those outcomes is desirable.  Note that this doesn't fix the
ALTER TABLE scenario, since the placeholder table is not temp (unless the
table being rewritten is).

Back-patch to 9.1.
2012-03-08 15:53:09 -05:00
Tom Lane 9088d1b965 Add GetForeignColumnOptions() to foreign.c, and add some documentation.
GetForeignColumnOptions provides some abstraction for accessing
column-specific FDW options, on a par with the access functions that were
already provided here for other FDW-related information.

Adjust file_fdw.c to use GetForeignColumnOptions instead of equivalent
hand-rolled code.

In addition, add some SGML documentation for the functions exported by
foreign.c that are meant for use by FDW authors.

(This is the fdw_helper portion of the proposed pgsql_fdw patch.)

Hanada Shigeru, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
2012-03-07 18:20:58 -05:00
Tom Lane d4bf3c9c94 Expose an API for calculating catcache hash values.
Now that cache invalidation callbacks get only a hash value, and not a
tuple TID (per commits 632ae6829f and
b5282aa893), the only way they can restrict
what they invalidate is to know what the hash values mean.  setrefs.c was
doing this via a hard-wired assumption but that seems pretty grotty, and
it'll only get worse as more cases come up.  So let's expose a calculation
function that takes the same parameters as SearchSysCache.  Per complaint
from Marko Kreen.
2012-03-07 14:51:13 -05:00
Tom Lane 19dbc34631 Add a hook for processing messages due to be sent to the server log.
Use-cases for this include custom log filtering rules and custom log
message transmission mechanisms (for instance, lossy log message
collection, which has been discussed several times recently).

As is our common practice for hooks, there's no regression test nor
user-facing documentation for this, though the author did exhibit a
sample module using the hook.

Martin Pihlak, reviewed by Marti Raudsepp
2012-03-06 15:35:41 -05:00
Tom Lane 6b289942bf Redesign PlanForeignScan API to allow multiple paths for a foreign table.
The original API specification only allowed an FDW to create a single
access path, which doesn't seem like a terribly good idea in hindsight.
Instead, move the responsibility for building the Path node and calling
add_path() into the FDW's PlanForeignScan function.  Now, it can do that
more than once if appropriate.  There is no longer any need for the
transient FdwPlan struct, so get rid of that.

Etsuro Fujita, Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane
2012-03-05 16:15:59 -05:00
Magnus Hagander bc5ac36865 Add function pg_xlog_location_diff to help comparisons
Comparing two xlog locations are useful for example when calculating
replication lag.

Euler Taveira de Oliveira, reviewed by Fujii Masao, and some cleanups
from me
2012-03-04 12:22:38 +01:00
Tom Lane 0e5e167aae Collect and use element-frequency statistics for arrays.
This patch improves selectivity estimation for the array <@, &&, and @>
(containment and overlaps) operators.  It enables collection of statistics
about individual array element values by ANALYZE, and introduces
operator-specific estimators that use these stats.  In addition,
ScalarArrayOpExpr constructs of the forms "const = ANY/ALL (array_column)"
and "const <> ANY/ALL (array_column)" are estimated by treating them as
variants of the containment operators.

Since we still collect scalar-style stats about the array values as a
whole, the pg_stats view is expanded to show both these stats and the
array-style stats in separate columns.  This creates an incompatible change
in how stats for tsvector columns are displayed in pg_stats: the stats
about lexemes are now displayed in the array-related columns instead of the
original scalar-related columns.

There are a few loose ends here, notably that it'd be nice to be able to
suppress either the scalar-style stats or the array-element stats for
columns for which they're not useful.  But the patch is in good enough
shape to commit for wider testing.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Noah Misch and Nathan Boley
2012-03-03 20:20:57 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 6688d2878e Add COLLATION FOR expression
reviewed by Jaime Casanova
2012-03-02 21:12:16 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 3433c6ba00 Remove TOAST table from pg_database
The only toastable column now is datacl, but we don't really support
long ACLs anyway.  The TOAST table should have been removed when the
pg_db_role_setting catalog was introduced in commit
2eda8dfb52, but I forgot to do that.

Per -hackers discussion on March 2011.
2012-03-01 12:50:52 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 58e9f974dc Fix typo in comment
Haifeng Liu
2012-02-28 23:52:52 -03:00
Tom Lane 5c02a00d44 Move CRC tables to libpgport, and provide them in a separate include file.
This makes it much more convenient to build tools for Postgres that are
separately compiled and require a matching CRC implementation.

To prevent multiple copies of the CRC polynomial tables being introduced
into the postgres binaries, they are now included in the static library
libpgport that is mainly meant for replacement system functions.  That
seems like a bit of a kludge, but there's no better place.

This cleans up building of the tools pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog,
which previously had to build their own copies of pg_crc.o.

In the future, external programs that need access to the CRC tables can
include the tables directly from the new header file pg_crc_tables.h.

Daniel Farina, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
2012-02-28 19:53:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 973e9fb294 Add const qualifiers where they are accidentally cast away
This only produces warnings under -Wcast-qual, but it's more correct
and consistent in any case.
2012-02-28 12:42:08 +02:00
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 66f0cf7da8 Remove useless const qualifier
Claiming that the typevar argument to DefineCompositeType() is const
was a plain lie.  A similar case in DefineVirtualRelation() was
already changed in passing in commit 1575fbcb.  Also clean up the now
unnecessary casts that used to cast away the const.
2012-02-26 15:22:27 +02:00
Tom Lane 587359479a Avoid repeated creation/freeing of per-subre DFAs during regex search.
In nested sub-regex trees, lower-level nodes created DFAs and then
destroyed them again before exiting, which is a bit dumb considering that
the recursive search is likely to call those nodes again later.  Instead
cache each created DFA until the end of pg_regexec().  This is basically a
space for time tradeoff, in that it might increase the maximum memory
usage.  However, in most regex patterns there are not all that many subre
nodes, so not that many DFAs --- and in any case, the peak usage occurs
when reaching the bottom recursion level, and except for alternation cases
that's going to be the same anyway.
2012-02-24 18:40:30 -05:00
Tom Lane 3cbfe485e4 Remove useless "retry memory" logic within regex engine.
Apparently some primordial version of Spencer's engine needed cdissect()
and child functions to be able to continue matching from a previous
position when re-called.  That is dead code, though, since trivial
inspection shows that cdissect can never be entered without having
previously done zapmem which resets the relevant retry counter.  I have
also verified experimentally that no case in the Tcl regression tests
reaches cdissect with a nonzero retry value.  Accordingly, remove that
logic.  This doesn't really save any noticeable number of cycles in itself,
but it is one step towards making dissect() and cdissect() equivalent,
which will allow removing hundreds of lines of near-duplicated code.

Since struct subre's "retry" field is no longer particularly related to
any kind of retry, rename it to "id".  As of this commit it's only used
for identifying a subre node in debug printouts, so you might think we
should get rid of the field entirely; but I have a plan for another use.
2012-02-24 18:40:28 -05:00
Tom Lane 173e29aa5d Fix the general case of quantified regex back-references.
Cases where a back-reference is part of a larger subexpression that
is quantified have never worked in Spencer's regex engine, because
he used a compile-time transformation that neglected the need to
check the back-reference match in iterations before the last one.
(That was okay for capturing parens, and we still do it if the
regex has *only* capturing parens ... but it's not okay for backrefs.)

To make this work properly, we have to add an "iteration" node type
to the regex engine's vocabulary of sub-regex nodes.  Since this is a
moderately large change with a fair risk of introducing new bugs of its
own, apply to HEAD only, even though it's a fix for a longstanding bug.
2012-02-24 01:41:03 -05:00
Tom Lane 077711c2e3 Remove arbitrary limitation on length of common name in SSL certificates.
Both libpq and the backend would truncate a common name extracted from a
certificate at 32 bytes.  Replace that fixed-size buffer with dynamically
allocated string so that there is no hard limit.  While at it, remove the
code for extracting peer_dn, which we weren't using for anything; and
don't bother to store peer_cn longer than we need it in libpq.

This limit was not so terribly unreasonable when the code was written,
because we weren't using the result for anything critical, just logging it.
But now that there are options for checking the common name against the
server host name (in libpq) or using it as the user's name (in the server),
this could result in undesirable failures.  In the worst case it even seems
possible to spoof a server name or user name, if the correct name is
exactly 32 bytes and the attacker can persuade a trusted CA to issue a
certificate in which that string is a prefix of the certificate's common
name.  (To exploit this for a server name, he'd also have to send the
connection astray via phony DNS data or some such.)  The case that this is
a realistic security threat is a bit thin, but nonetheless we'll treat it
as one.

Back-patch to 8.4.  Older releases contain the faulty code, but it's not
a security problem because the common name wasn't used for anything
interesting.

Reported and patched by Heikki Linnakangas

Security: CVE-2012-0867
2012-02-23 15:48:04 -05:00
Tom Lane 74e29162a4 Allow MinGW builds to use standardly-named OpenSSL libraries.
In the Fedora variant of MinGW, the openssl libraries have their normal
names, not libeay32 and libssleay32.  Adjust configure probes to allow
that, per bug #6486.

Tomasz Ostrowski
2012-02-23 15:05:08 -05:00
Robert Haas 2254367435 Make EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) track blocks dirtied, as well as those written.
Also expose the new counters through pg_stat_statements.

Patch by me.  Review by Fujii Masao and Greg Smith.
2012-02-22 20:33:05 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a445cb92ef Add parameters for controlling locations of server-side SSL files
This allows changing the location of the files that were previously
hard-coded to server.crt, server.key, root.crt, root.crl.

server.crt and server.key continue to be the default settings and are
thus required to be present by default if SSL is enabled.  But the
settings for the server-side CA and CRL are now empty by default, and
if they are set, the files are required to be present.  This replaces
the previous behavior of ignoring the functionality if the files were
not found.
2012-02-22 23:40:46 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera a417f85e1d REASSIGN OWNED: Support foreign data wrappers and servers
This was overlooked when implementing those kinds of objects, in commit
cae565e503.

Per report from Pawel Casperek.
2012-02-22 17:33:12 -03:00
Tom Lane 9789c99d01 Cosmetic cleanup for commit a760893dbd.
Mostly, fixing overlooked comments.
2012-02-21 14:14:16 -05:00
Tom Lane 27af91438b Create the beginnings of internals documentation for the regex code.
Create src/backend/regex/README to hold an implementation overview of
the regex package, and fill it in with some preliminary notes about
the code's DFA/NFA processing and colormap management.  Much more to
do there of course.

Also, improve some code comments around the colormap and cvec code.
No functional changes except to add one missing assert.
2012-02-19 18:58:23 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 2f582f76b1 Improve pretty printing of viewdefs.
Some line feeds are added to target lists and from lists to make
them more readable. By default they wrap at 80 columns if possible,
but the wrap column is also selectable - if 0 it wraps after every
item.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada.
2012-02-19 11:43:46 -05:00
Tom Lane 4767bc8ff2 Improve statistics estimation to make some use of DISTINCT in sub-queries.
Formerly, we just punted when trying to estimate stats for variables coming
out of sub-queries using DISTINCT, on the grounds that whatever stats we
might have for underlying table columns would be inapplicable.  But if the
sub-query has only one DISTINCT column, we can consider its output variable
as being unique, which is useful information all by itself.  The scope of
this improvement is pretty narrow, but it costs nearly nothing, so we might
as well do it.  Per discussion with Andres Freund.

This patch differs from the draft I submitted yesterday in updating various
comments about vardata.isunique (to reflect its extended meaning) and in
tweaking the interaction with security_barrier views.  There does not seem
to be a reason why we can't use this sort of knowledge even when the
sub-query is such a view.
2012-02-16 17:34:00 -05:00
Tom Lane 4bfe68dfab Run a portal's cleanup hook immediately when pushing it to FAILED state.
This extends the changes of commit 6252c4f9e2
so that we run the cleanup hook earlier for failure cases as well as
success cases.  As before, the point is to avoid an assertion failure from
an Assert I added in commit a874fe7b4c, which
was meant to check that no user-written code can be called during portal
cleanup.  This fixes a case reported by Pavan Deolasee in which the Assert
could be triggered during backend exit (see the new regression test case),
and also prevents the possibility that the cleanup hook is run after
portions of the portal's state have already been recycled.  That doesn't
really matter in current usage, but it foreseeably could matter in the
future.

Back-patch to 9.1 where the Assert in question was added.
2012-02-15 16:19:01 -05:00
Tom Lane 398f70ec07 Preserve column names in the execution-time tupledesc for a RowExpr.
The hstore and json datatypes both have record-conversion functions that
pay attention to column names in the composite values they're handed.
We used to not worry about inserting correct field names into tuple
descriptors generated at runtime, but given these examples it seems
useful to do so.  Observe the nicer-looking results in the regression
tests whose results changed.

catversion bump because there is a subtle change in requirements for stored
rule parsetrees: RowExprs from ROW() constructs now have to include field
names.

Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane
2012-02-14 17:34:56 -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
Tom Lane cbba55d6d7 Support min/max index optimizations on boolean columns.
Since bool_and() is equivalent to min(), and bool_or() to max(), we might
as well let them be index-optimized in the same way.  The practical value
of this is debatable at best, but it seems nearly cost-free to enable it.
Code-wise, we need only adjust the entries in pg_aggregate.  There is a
measurable planning speed penalty for a query involving one of these
aggregates, but it is only a few percent in simple cases, so that seems
acceptable.

Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-02-08 12:41:48 -05:00
Tom Lane 3db6524fe6 Mark some more I/O-conversion-invoking functions as stable not volatile.
When written, textanycat, anytextcat, quote_literal, and quote_nullable
were marked volatile, because they could invoke arbitrary type-specific
output functions as part of casting their anyelement arguments to text.
Since then, we have defined a project policy that I/O functions must not
be volatile, as per commit aab353a60b.
So these functions can safely be downgraded to stable.  Most of the time
this makes no difference since they'll get inlined anyway, but as noted
by Andrew Dunstan, there are cases where the volatile marking prevents
optimizations that the planner does before function inlining.  (I think
I might have overlooked these functions in the earlier commit on the
grounds that inlining would make it moot, but not so --- tgl)

This change results in a change in the expected output of the json
regression tests, because the planner can now flatten a sub-select
that it failed to before.  The old output is preferable, but getting
that back will require some as-yet-unfinished work on RowExpr handling.

Marti Raudsepp
2012-02-08 11:29:29 -05:00
Robert Haas c13897983a Add transform functions for various temporal typmod coercisions.
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds in some cases.

Noah Misch, with trivial changes by me.
2012-02-08 09:33:37 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 1a01560cbb Rename LWLockWaitUntilFree to LWLockAcquireOrWait.
LWLockAcquireOrWait makes it more clear that the lock is acquired if it's
free.
2012-02-08 09:17:13 +02:00
Robert Haas 4f658dc851 Support fls().
The immediate impetus for this is that Noah Misch's patch to elide
unnecessary table and index rebuilds when changing typmod for temporal
types uses it; and this is extracted from that patch, with some
further commentary by me.  But it seems logically separate from the
remainder of the patch, so I'm committing it separately; this is not
the first time someone has wanted fls() in the backend and probably
won't be the last.

If we end up using this in more performance-critical spots it may be
worthwhile to add some architecture-specific optimizations to our
src/port version of fls() - e.g. any x86 platform can implement this
using the assembly instruction BSRL.  But performance won't matter
a bit for assessing typmod changes, so I'm not worried about that
right now.
2012-02-07 13:45:46 -05:00
Robert Haas f7d7dade8a Add a transform function for varbit typmod coercisions.
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds when the
new type is unconstraint varbit, or when the allowable number of bits
is not decreasing.

Noah Misch, with review and a fix for an OID collision by me.
2012-02-07 12:42:50 -05:00
Robert Haas 3cc0800829 Add a transform function for numeric typmod coercisions.
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds when a column
is changed to an unconstrained numeric, or when the scale is unchanged
and the precision does not decrease.

Noah Misch, with a few stylistic changes and a fix for an OID
collision by me.
2012-02-07 12:08:26 -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
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
Robert Haas 0ed7445d73 Allow spgist's text_ops to handle pattern-matching operators.
This was presumably intended to work this way all along, but a few key
bits of indxpath.c didn't get the memo.

Robert Haas and Tom Lane
2012-02-02 13:10:56 -05:00
Robert Haas c327108140 Catversion bump for JSON patch.
Sigh.
2012-01-31 11:51:51 -05:00
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
Heikki Linnakangas 9b38d46d9f Make group commit more effective.
When a backend needs to flush the WAL, and someone else is already flushing
the WAL, wait until it releases the WALInsertLock and check if we still need
to do the flush or if the other backend already did the work for us, before
acquiring WALInsertLock. This helps group commit, because when the WAL flush
finishes, all the backends that were waiting for it can be woken up in one
go, and the can all concurrently observe that they're done, rather than
waking them up one by one in a cascading fashion.

This is based on a new LWLock function, LWLockWaitUntilFree(), which has
peculiar semantics. If the lock is immediately free, it grabs the lock and
returns true. If it's not free, it waits until it is released, but then
returns false without grabbing the lock. This is used in XLogFlush(), so
that when the lock is acquired, the backend flushes the WAL, but if it's
not, the backend first checks the current flush location before retrying.

Original patch and benchmarking by Peter Geoghegan and Simon Riggs, although
this patch as committed ended up being very different from that.
2012-01-30 16:53:48 +02:00
Simon Riggs 73f617f13f Various minor comments changes from bgwriter to checkpointer. 2012-01-30 14:34:25 +00:00
Tom Lane ad10853b30 Assorted comment fixes, mostly just typos, but some obsolete statements.
YAMAMOTO Takashi
2012-01-29 19:23:56 -05:00
Tom Lane dd243b3e40 Fix typo in comment.
Peter Geoghegan
2012-01-29 18:56:35 -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
Peter Eisentraut b376ec6fa5 Show default privileges in information schema
Hitherto, the information schema only showed explicitly granted
privileges that were visible in the *acl catalog columns.  If no
privileges had been granted, the implicit privileges were not shown.

To fix that, add an SQL-accessible version of the acldefault()
function, and use that inside the aclexplode() calls to substitute the
catalog-specific default privilege set for null values.

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2012-01-27 21:58:51 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 2787458362 Disallow ALTER DOMAIN on non-domain type everywhere
This has been the behavior already in most cases, but through
omission, ALTER DOMAIN / OWNER TO and ALTER DOMAIN / SET SCHEMA would
silently work on non-domain types as well.
2012-01-27 21:20:34 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 8137f2c323 Hide most variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structs
Those fields only appear in the structs so that genbki.pl can create
the BKI bootstrap files for the catalogs.  But they are not actually
usable from C.  So hiding them can prevent coding mistakes, saves
stack space, and can help the compiler.

In certain catalogs, the first variable-length field has been kept
visible after manual inspection.  These exceptions are noted in C
comments.

reviewed by Tom Lane
2012-01-27 20:16:17 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6d90eaaa89 Make bgwriter sleep longer when it has no work to do, to save electricity.
To make it wake up promptly when activity starts again, backends nudge it
by setting a latch in MarkBufferDirty(). The latch is kept set while
bgwriter is active, so there is very little overhead from that when the
system is busy. It is only armed before going into longer sleep.

Peter Geoghegan, with some changes by me.
2012-01-26 18:39:13 +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
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
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
Robert Haas 9f9135d129 Instrument index-only scans to count heap fetches performed.
Patch by me; review by Tom Lane, Jeff Davis, and Peter Geoghegan.
2012-01-25 20:41:52 -05:00
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 c172b7b02e Resolve timing issue with logging locks for Hot Standby.
We log AccessExclusiveLocks for replay onto standby nodes,
but because of timing issues on ProcArray it is possible to
log a lock that is still held by a just committed transaction
that is very soon to be removed. To avoid any timing issue we
avoid applying locks made by transactions with InvalidXid.

Simon Riggs, bug report Tom Lane, diagnosis Pavan Deolasee
2012-01-23 23:37:32 +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