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Robert Haas 062780ec35 Add overflow checks to int4 and int8 versions of generate_series().
The previous code went into an infinite loop after overflow.  In fact,
an overflow is not really an error; it just means that the current
value is the last one we need to return.  So, just arrange to stop
immediately when overflow is detected.

Back-patch all the way.
2011-06-17 14:28:45 -04:00
Tom Lane e1ccaff6ee Rework parsing of ConstraintAttributeSpec to improve NOT VALID handling.
The initial commit of the ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY NOT VALID feature
failed to support labeling such constraints as deferrable.  The best fix
for this seems to be to fold NOT VALID into ConstraintAttributeSpec.
That's a bit more general than the documented syntax, but it allows
better-targeted syntax error messages.

In addition, do some mostly-but-not-entirely-cosmetic code review for
the whole NOT VALID patch.
2011-06-15 19:06:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 10db3de66e Fix failure to account for memory used by tuplestore_putvalues().
This oversight could result in a tuplestore using much more than the
intended amount of memory.  It would only happen in a code path that loaded
a tuplestore via tuplestore_putvalues(), and many of those won't emit huge
amounts of data; but cases such as holdable cursors and plpgsql's RETURN
NEXT command could have the problem.  The fix ensures that the tuplestore
will switch to write-to-disk mode when it overruns work_mem.

The potential overrun was finite, because we would still count the space
used by the tuple pointer array, so the tuplestore code would eventually
flip into write-to-disk mode anyway.  When storing wide tuples we would
go far past the expected work_mem usage before that happened; but this
may account for the lack of prior reports.

Back-patch to 8.4, where tuplestore_putvalues was introduced.

Per bug #6061 from Yann Delorme.
2011-06-15 14:05:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a4bebdd926 Add C comment mentioning pg_stat_activity.procpid should have been
called 'pid'.
2011-06-11 10:00:28 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6560407c7d Pgindent run before 9.1 beta2. 2011-06-09 14:32:50 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 048417511a Fix pg_get_constraintdef to cope with NOT VALID constraints
This case was missed when NOT VALID constraints were first introduced in
commit 722bf7017b by Simon Riggs on
2011-02-08.  Among other things, it causes pg_dump to omit the NOT VALID
flag when dumping such constraints, which may cause them to fail to
load afterwards, if they contained values failing the constraint.

Per report from Thom Brown.
2011-06-03 16:05:34 -04:00
Tom Lane ea8e42f3a0 Fix failure to check whether a rowtype's component types are sortable.
The existence of a btree opclass accepting composite types caused us to
assume that every composite type is sortable.  This isn't true of course;
we need to check if the column types are all sortable.  There was logic
for this for the case of array comparison (ie, check that the element
type is sortable), but we missed the point for rowtypes.  Per Teodor's
report of an ANALYZE failure for an unsortable composite type.

Rather than just add some more ad-hoc logic for this, I moved knowledge of
the issue into typcache.c.  The typcache will now only report out array_eq,
record_cmp, and friends as usable operators if the array or composite type
will work with those functions.

Unfortunately we don't have enough info to do this for anonymous RECORD
types; in that case, just assume it will work, and take the runtime failure
as before if it doesn't.

This patch might be a candidate for back-patching at some point, but
given the lack of complaints from the field, I'd rather just test it in
HEAD for now.

Note: most of the places touched in this patch will need further work
when we get around to supporting hashing of record types.
2011-06-03 15:39:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 5e1365a965 Fix null-dereference crash in parse_xml_decl().
parse_xml_decl's header comment says you can pass NULL for any unwanted
output parameter, but it failed to honor this contract for the "standalone"
flag.  The only currently-affected caller is xml_recv, so the net effect is
that sending a binary XML value containing a standalone parameter in its
xml declaration would crash the backend.  Per bug #6044 from Christopher
Dillard.

In passing, remove useless initializations of parse_xml_decl's output
parameters in xml_parse.

Back-patch to 8.3, where this code was introduced.
2011-05-28 12:36:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 3987e9e620 Make decompilation of optimized CASE constructs more robust.
We had some hacks in ruleutils.c to cope with various odd transformations
that the optimizer could do on a CASE foo WHEN "CaseTestExpr = RHS" clause.
However, the fundamental impossibility of covering all cases was exposed
by Heikki, who pointed out that the "=" operator could get replaced by an
inlined SQL function, which could contain nearly anything at all.  So give
up on the hacks and just print the expression as-is if we fail to recognize
it as "CaseTestExpr = RHS".  (We must cover that case so that decompiled
rules print correctly; but we are not under any obligation to make EXPLAIN
output be 100% valid SQL in all cases, and already could not do so in some
other cases.)  This approach requires that we have some printable
representation of the CaseTestExpr node type; I used "CASE_TEST_EXPR".

Back-patch to all supported branches, since the problem case fails in all.
2011-05-26 19:25:19 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0711a8b2b3 Add C comment about why we don't spell out "month" in interval values. 2011-05-24 23:55:27 -04:00
Tom Lane b23aeb6519 Cleanup for pull-up-isReset patch.
Clear isReset before, not after, calling the context-specific alloc method,
so as to preserve the option to do a tail call in MemoryContextAlloc
(and also so this code isn't assuming that a failed alloc call won't have
changed the context's state before failing).  Fix missed direct invocation
of reset method.  Reformat a comment.
2011-05-24 17:57:32 -04:00
Tom Lane cc24fb418d Avoid uninitialized bits in the result of QTN2QT().
Found with additional valgrind testing.

Noah Misch
2011-05-24 14:20:08 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 34be83b7e1 Fix integer overflow in text_format function, reported by Dean Rasheed.
In the passing, clarify the comment on why text_format_nv wrapper is needed.
2011-05-23 22:24:44 +03:00
Robert Haas 7149b128dc Improve hash_array() logic for combining hash values.
The new logic is less vulnerable to transpositions.

This invalidates the contents of hash indexes built with the old
functions; hence, bump catversion.

Dean Rasheed
2011-05-23 15:17:18 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 30e98a7e6e Pull up isReset flag from AllocSetContext to MemoryContext struct. This
avoids the overhead of one function call when calling MemoryContextReset(),
and it seems like the isReset optimization would be applicable to any new
memory context we might invent in the future anyway.

This buys back the overhead I just added in previous patch to always call
MemoryContextReset() in ExecScan, even when there's no quals or projections.
2011-05-21 14:47:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bcf63a51e3 Message style improvements 2011-05-21 00:50:35 +03:00
Tom Lane e05b866447 Split PGC_S_DEFAULT into two values, for true boot_val vs computed default.
Failure to distinguish these cases is the real cause behind the recent
reports of Windows builds crashing on 'infinity'::timestamp, which was
directly due to failure to establish a value of timezone_abbreviations
in postmaster child processes.  The postmaster had the desired value,
but write_one_nondefault_variable() didn't transmit it to backends.

To fix that, invent a new value PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT, and be sure to use
that or PGC_S_ENV_VAR (as appropriate) for "default" settings that are
computed during initialization.  (We need both because there's at least
one variable that could receive a value from either source.)

This commit also fixes ProcessConfigFile's failure to restore the correct
default value for certain GUC variables if they are set in postgresql.conf
and then removed/commented out of the file.  We have to recompute and
reinstall the value for any GUC variable that could have received a value
from PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT or PGC_S_ENV_VAR sources, and there were a
number of oversights.  (That whole thing is a crock that needs to be
redesigned, but not today.)

However, I intentionally didn't make it work "exactly right" for the cases
of timezone and log_timezone.  The exactly right behavior would involve
running select_default_timezone, which we'd have to do independently in
each postgres process, causing the whole database to become entirely
unresponsive for as much as several seconds.  That didn't seem like a good
idea, especially since the variable's removal from postgresql.conf might be
just an accidental edit.  Instead the behavior is to adopt the previously
active setting as if it were default.

Note that this patch creates an ABI break for extensions that use any of
the PGC_S_XXX constants; they'll need to be recompiled.
2011-05-11 19:57:38 -04:00
Tom Lane 2e82d0b396 Prevent datebsearch() from crashing on base == NULL && nel == 0.
Normally nel == 0 works okay because the initial value of "last" will be
less than "base"; but if "base" is zero then the calculation wraps around
and we have a very large (unsigned) value for "last", so that the loop can
be entered and we get a SIGSEGV on a bogus pointer.

This is certainly the proximate cause of the recent reports of Windows
builds crashing on 'infinity'::timestamp --- evidently, they're either not
setting an active timezonetktbl, or setting an empty one.  It's not yet
clear to me why it's only happening on Windows and not happening on any
buildfarm member.  But even if that's due to some bug elsewhere, it seems
wise for this function to not choke on the powerup values of
timezonetktbl/sztimezonetktbl.

I also changed the copy of this code in ecpglib, although I am not sure
whether it's exposed to a similar hazard.

Per report and stack trace from Richard Broersma.
2011-05-10 20:37:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 1453cd8f82 Adjust documentation with respect to "unknown" timezone setting.
The recent cleanup of GUC assign hooks got rid of the kludge of using
"unknown" as a magic value for timezone and log_timezone.  But I forgot
to update the documentation to match, as noted by Martin Pitt.
2011-05-10 13:48:40 -04:00
Tom Lane 6755558b92 Improve aset.c's space management in contexts with small maxBlockSize.
The previous coding would allow requests up to half of maxBlockSize to be
treated as "chunks", but when that actually did happen, we'd waste nearly
half of the space in the malloc block containing the chunk, if no smaller
requests came along to fill it.  Avoid this scenario by limiting the
maximum size of a chunk to 1/8th maxBlockSize, so that we can waste no more
than 1/8th of the allocated space.  This will not change the behavior at
all for the default context size parameters (with large maxBlockSize),
but it will change the behavior when using ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE.

In particular, there's no longer a need for spell.c to be overly concerned
about the request size parameters it uses, so remove a rather unhelpful
comment about that.

Merlin Moncure, per an idea of Tom Lane's
2011-05-02 12:08:08 -04:00
Tom Lane 44e4bbf75d Remove special case for xmin == xmax in HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().
VACUUM was willing to remove a committed-dead tuple immediately if it was
deleted by the same transaction that inserted it.  The idea is that such a
tuple could never have been visible to any other transaction, so we don't
need to keep it around to satisfy MVCC snapshots.  However, there was
already an exception for tuples that are part of an update chain, and this
exception created a problem: we might remove TOAST tuples (which are never
part of an update chain) while their parent tuple stayed around (if it was
part of an update chain).  This didn't pose a problem for most things,
since the parent tuple is indeed dead: no snapshot will ever consider it
visible.  But MVCC-safe CLUSTER had a problem, since it will try to copy
RECENTLY_DEAD tuples to the new table.  It then has to copy their TOAST
data too, and would fail if VACUUM had already removed the toast tuples.

Easiest fix is to get rid of the special case for xmin == xmax.  This may
delay reclaiming dead space for a little bit in some cases, but it's by far
the most reliable way to fix the issue.

Per bug #5998 from Mark Reid.  Back-patch to 8.3, which is the oldest
version with MVCC-safe CLUSTER.
2011-04-29 16:29:42 -04:00
Tom Lane fd2e2d09aa Rewrite pg_size_pretty() to avoid compiler bug.
Convert it to use successive shifts right instead of increasing a divisor.
This is probably a tad more efficient than the original coding, and it's
nicer-looking than the previous patch because we don't need a special case
to avoid overflow in the last branch.  But the real reason to do it is to
avoid a Solaris compiler bug, as per results from buildfarm member moa.
2011-04-29 01:45:58 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan c02d5b7c27 Use a macro variable PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for the style used for checking printf type functions.
The style is set to "printf" for backwards compatibility everywhere except
on Windows, where it is set to "gnu_printf", which eliminates hundreds of
false error messages from modern versions of gcc arising from  %m and %ll{d,u}
formats.
2011-04-28 10:56:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 18c0b4eccd Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes.
Per recent discussion, it's important for all computed datums (not only the
results of input functions) to not contain any ill-defined (uninitialized)
bits.  Failing to ensure that can result in equal() reporting that
semantically indistinguishable Consts are not equal, which in turn leads to
bizarre and undesirable planner behavior, such as in a recent example from
David Johnston.  We might eventually try to fix this in a general manner by
allowing datatypes to define identity-testing functions, but for now the
path of least resistance is to expect datatypes to force all unused bits
into consistent states.

Per some testing by Noah Misch, array and path functions seem to be the
only ones presenting risks at the moment, so I looked through all the
functions in adt/array*.c and geo_ops.c and fixed them as necessary.  In
the array functions, the easiest/safest fix is to allocate result arrays
with palloc0 instead of palloc.  Possibly in future someone will want to
look into whether we can just zero the padding bytes, but that looks too
complex for a back-patchable fix.  In the path functions, we already had a
precedent in path_in for just zeroing the one known pad field, so duplicate
that code as needed.

Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-04-27 13:58:36 -04:00
Robert Haas be90032e0d Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.
Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can
be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role,
and revoked similarly.  GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer
supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW.  The set of
accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for
regular tables, and views.

Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
2011-04-25 16:39:18 -04:00
Tom Lane af0f20092c Fix pg_size_pretty() to avoid overflow for inputs close to INT64_MAX.
The expression that tried to round the value to the nearest TB could
overflow, leading to bogus output as reported in bug #5993 from Nicola
Cossu.  This isn't likely to ever happen in the intended usage of the
function (if it could, we'd be needing to use a wider datatype instead);
but it's not hard to give the expected output, so let's do so.
2011-04-25 16:22:12 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 860be17ec3 Assorted minor changes to silence Windows compiler warnings.
Mostly to do with macro redefinitions or object signedness.
2011-04-25 12:56:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 76dd09bbec Add postmaster/postgres undocumented -b option for binary upgrades.
This option turns off autovacuum, prevents non-super-user connections,
and enables oid setting hooks in the backend.  The code continues to use
the old autoavacuum disable settings for servers with earlier catalog
versions.

This includes a catalog version bump to identify servers that support
the -b option.
2011-04-25 12:00:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 2ab0796d7a Fix char2wchar/wchar2char to support collations properly.
These functions should take a pg_locale_t, not a collation OID, and should
call mbstowcs_l/wcstombs_l where available.  Where those functions are not
available, temporarily select the correct locale with uselocale().

This change removes the bogus assumption that all locales selectable in
a given database have the same wide-character conversion method; in
particular, the collate.linux.utf8 regression test now passes with
LC_CTYPE=C, so long as the database encoding is UTF8.

I decided to move the char2wchar/wchar2char functions out of mbutils.c and
into pg_locale.c, because they work on wchar_t not pg_wchar_t and thus
don't really belong with the mbutils.c functions.  Keeping them where they
were would have required importing pg_locale_t into pg_wchar.h somehow,
which did not seem like a good plan.
2011-04-23 12:35:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 9e9b9ac7d1 Make a code-cleanup pass over the collations patch.
This patch is almost entirely cosmetic --- mostly cleaning up a lot of
neglected comments, and fixing code layout problems in places where the
patch made lines too long and then pgindent did weird things with that.
I did find a bug-of-omission in equalTupleDescs().
2011-04-22 17:43:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 92647fc4b9 Avoid possible divide-by-zero in gincostestimate.
Per report from Jeff Janes.
2011-04-21 19:28:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 88dc6fa7a1 foreach() and list_delete() don't mix.
Fix crash when releasing duplicate entries in the encoding conversion cache
list, caused by releasing the current entry of the list being chased by
foreach().  We have a standard idiom for handling such cases, but this
loop wasn't using it.

This got broken in my recent rewrite of GUC assign hooks.  Not sure how
I missed this when testing the modified code, but I did.  Per report from
Peter.
2011-04-17 13:37:39 -04:00
Tom Lane d64713df7e Pass collations to functions in FunctionCallInfoData, not FmgrInfo.
Since collation is effectively an argument, not a property of the function,
FmgrInfo is really the wrong place for it; and this becomes critical in
cases where a cached FmgrInfo is used for varying purposes that might need
different collation settings.  Fix by passing it in FunctionCallInfoData
instead.  In particular this allows a clean fix for bug #5970 (record_cmp
not working).  This requires touching a bit more code than the original
method, but nobody ever thought that collations would not be an invasive
patch...
2011-04-12 19:19:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 3f5d2fe302 Be more wary of missing statistics in eqjoinsel_semi().
In particular, if we don't have real ndistinct estimates for both sides,
fall back to assuming that half of the left-hand rows have join partners.
This is what was done in 8.2 and 8.3 (cf nulltestsel() in those versions).
It's pretty stupid but it won't lead us to think that an antijoin produces
no rows out, as seen in recent example from Uwe Schroeder.
2011-04-12 01:59:34 -04:00
Tom Lane 921b993677 Fix RI_Initial_Check to use a COLLATE clause when needed in its query.
If the referencing and referenced columns have different collations,
the parser will be unable to resolve which collation to use unless it's
helped out in this way.  The effects are sometimes masked, if we end up
using a non-collation-sensitive plan; but if we do use a mergejoin
we'll see a failure, as recently noted by Robert Haas.

The SQL spec states that the referenced column's collation should be used
to resolve RI checks, so that's what we do.  Note however that we currently
don't append a COLLATE clause when writing a query that examines only the
referencing column.  If we ever support collations that have varying
notions of equality, that will have to be changed.  For the moment, though,
it's preferable to leave it off so that we can use a normal index on the
referencing column.
2011-04-11 21:32:53 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5caa3479c2 Clean up most -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings from gcc 4.6
This warning is new in gcc 4.6 and part of -Wall.  This patch cleans
up most of the noise, but there are some still warnings that are
trickier to remove.
2011-04-11 22:28:45 +03:00
Tom Lane 3c381a55b0 Teach pattern_fixed_prefix() about collations.
This is necessary, not optional, now that ILIKE and regexes are collation
aware --- else we might derive a wrong comparison constant for index
optimized pattern matches.
2011-04-11 12:28:28 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7c797e7194 Fix the size of predicate lock manager's shared memory hash tables at creation.
This way they don't compete with the regular lock manager for the slack shared
memory, making the behavior more predictable.
2011-04-11 13:43:31 +03:00
Tom Lane 1e16a8107d Teach regular expression operators to honor collations.
This involves getting the character classification and case-folding
functions in the regex library to use the collations infrastructure.
Most of this work had been done already in connection with the upper/lower
and LIKE logic, so it was a simple matter of transposition.

While at it, split out these functions into a separate source file
regc_pg_locale.c, so that they can be correctly labeled with the Postgres
project's license rather than the Scriptics license.  These functions are
100% Postgres-written code whereas what remains in regc_locale.c is still
mostly not ours, so lumping them both under the same copyright notice was
getting more and more misleading.
2011-04-10 18:03:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bf50caf105 pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1. 2011-04-10 11:42:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 11745364d0 Add collation support on Windows (MSVC build)
There is not yet support in initdb to populate the pg_collation
catalog, but if that is done manually, the rest should work.
2011-04-10 00:15:41 +03:00
Tom Lane 00f11f419c Fix ILIKE to honor collation when working in single-byte encodings.
The original collation patch only fixed the multi-byte code path.
This change also ensures that ILIKE's idea of the case-folding rules
is exactly the same as str_tolower's.
2011-04-09 17:12:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 466dac8656 Fix make_greater_string to not have an undocumented collation assumption.
The previous coding worked only if ltproc->fn_collation was always either
DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID or a C-compatible locale.  While that's true at the
moment, it wasn't documented (and in fact wasn't true when this code was
committed...).  But it only takes a couple more lines to make its internal
caching behavior locale-aware, so let's do that.
2011-04-08 17:40:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 2594cf0e8c Revise the API for GUC variable assign hooks.
The previous functions of assign hooks are now split between check hooks
and assign hooks, where the former can fail but the latter shouldn't.
Aside from being conceptually clearer, this approach exposes the
"canonicalized" form of the variable value to guc.c without having to do
an actual assignment.  And that lets us fix the problem recently noted by
Bernd Helmle that the auto-tune patch for wal_buffers resulted in bogus
log messages about "parameter "wal_buffers" cannot be changed without
restarting the server".  There may be some speed advantage too, because
this design lets hook functions avoid re-parsing variable values when
restoring a previous state after a rollback (they can store a pre-parsed
representation of the value instead).  This patch also resolves a
longstanding annoyance about custom error messages from variable assign
hooks: they should modify, not appear separately from, guc.c's own message
about "invalid parameter value".
2011-04-07 00:12:02 -04:00
Robert Haas f5e524d92b Add casts from int4 and int8 to numeric.
Joey Adams, per gripe from Ramanujam.  Review by myself and Tom Lane.
2011-04-05 09:35:43 -04:00
Simon Riggs 88f32b7ca2 Avoid assuming there will be only 3 states for synchronous_commit.
Also avoid hardcoding the current default state by giving it the name
"on" and replace with a meaningful name that reflects its behaviour.
Coding only, no change in behaviour.
2011-04-04 23:23:13 +01:00
Robert Haas 240067b3b0 Merge synchronous_replication setting into synchronous_commit.
This means one less thing to configure when setting up synchronous
replication, and also avoids some ambiguity around what the behavior
should be when the settings of these variables conflict.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me.
2011-04-04 16:25:52 -04:00
Robert Haas a0e50e698b Include pid in pg_lock_status() results even for SIREAD locks.
Dan Ports
2011-04-04 13:23:43 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 5735efee15 Avoid palloc before CurrentMemoryContext is set up on win32
Instead, write the unconverted output - it will be in the wrong
encoding, but at least we don't crash.

Rushabh Lathia
2011-04-01 19:59:44 +02:00
Robert Haas 50533a6dc5 Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.
This mostly involves making it work with the objectaddress.c framework,
which does most of the heavy lifting.  In that vein, change
GetForeignDataWrapperOidByName to get_foreign_data_wrapper_oid and
GetForeignServerOidByName to get_foreign_server_oid, to match the
pattern we use for other object types.

Robert Haas and Shigeru Hanada
2011-04-01 11:28:28 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 754baa21f7 Automatically terminate replication connections that are idle for more
than replication_timeout (a new GUC) milliseconds. The TCP timeout is often
too long, you want the master to notice a dead connection much sooner.
People complained about that in 9.0 too, but with synchronous replication
it's even more important to notice dead connections promptly.

Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-30 10:20:37 +03:00
Tom Lane 7208fae18f Clean up cruft around collation initialization for tupdescs and scankeys.
I found actual bugs in GiST and plpgsql; the rest of this is cosmetic
but meant to decrease the odds of future bugs of omission.
2011-03-26 18:28:40 -04:00
Tom Lane b23c9fa929 Clean up a few failures to set collation fields in expression nodes.
I'm not sure these have any non-cosmetic implications, but I'm not sure
they don't, either.  In particular, ensure the CaseTestExpr generated
by transformAssignmentIndirection to represent the base target column
carries the correct collation, because parse_collate.c won't fix that.
Tweak lsyscache.c API so that we can get the appropriate collation
without an extra syscache lookup.
2011-03-26 14:25:48 -04:00
Tom Lane bfa4440ca5 Pass collation to makeConst() instead of looking it up internally.
In nearly all cases, the caller already knows the correct collation, and
in a number of places, the value the caller has handy is more correct than
the default for the type would be.  (In particular, this patch makes it
significantly less likely that eval_const_expressions will result in
changing the exposed collation of an expression.)  So an internal lookup
is both expensive and wrong.
2011-03-25 20:10:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 3bba9ce945 Clean up handling of COLLATE clauses in index column definitions.
Ensure that COLLATE at the top level of an index expression is treated the
same as a grammatically separate COLLATE.  Fix bogus reverse-parsing logic
in pg_get_indexdef.
2011-03-24 15:29:52 -04:00
Tom Lane 6e197cb2e5 Improve reporting of run-time-detected indeterminate-collation errors.
pg_newlocale_from_collation does not have enough context to give an error
message that's even a little bit useful, so move the responsibility for
complaining up to its callers.  Also, reword ERRCODE_INDETERMINATE_COLLATION
error messages in a less jargony, more message-style-guide-compliant
fashion.
2011-03-22 16:55:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 1192ba8b67 Avoid potential deadlock in InitCatCachePhase2().
Opening a catcache's index could require reading from that cache's own
catalog, which of course would acquire AccessShareLock on the catalog.
So the original coding here risks locking index before heap, which could
deadlock against another backend trying to get exclusive locks in the
normal order.  Because InitCatCachePhase2 is only called when a backend
has to start up without a relcache init file, the deadlock was seldom seen
in the field.  (And by the same token, there's no need to worry about any
performance disadvantage; so not much point in trying to distinguish
exactly which catalogs have the risk.)

Bug report, diagnosis, and patch by Nikhil Sontakke.  Additional commentary
by me.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-03-22 13:00:48 -04:00
Tom Lane 176d5bae1d Fix up handling of C/POSIX collations.
Install just one instance of the "C" and "POSIX" collations into
pg_collation, rather than one per encoding.  Make these instances exist
and do something useful even in machines without locale_t support: to wit,
it's now possible to force comparisons and case-folding functions to use C
locale in an otherwise non-C database, whether or not the platform has
support for using any additional collations.

Fix up severely broken upper/lower/initcap functions, too: the C/POSIX
fastpath now does what it is supposed to, and non-default collations are
handled correctly in single-byte database encodings.

Merge the two separate collation hashtables that were being maintained in
pg_locale.c, and be more wary of the possibility that we fail partway
through filling a cache entry.
2011-03-20 12:44:13 -04:00
Tom Lane b310b6e31c Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation.
All expression nodes now have an explicit output-collation field, unless
they are known to only return a noncollatable data type (such as boolean
or record).  Also, nodes that can invoke collation-aware functions store
a separate field that is the collation value to pass to the function.
This avoids confusion that arises when a function has collatable inputs
and noncollatable output type, or vice versa.

Also, replace the parser's on-the-fly collation assignment method with
a post-pass over the completed expression tree.  This allows us to use
a more complex (and hopefully more nearly spec-compliant) assignment
rule without paying for it in extra storage in every expression node.

Fix assorted bugs in the planner's handling of collations by making
collation one of the defining properties of an EquivalenceClass and
by converting CollateExprs into discardable RelabelType nodes during
expression preprocessing.
2011-03-19 20:30:08 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 8c0a5eb78a Raise maximum value of several timeout parameters
The maximum value of deadlock_timeout, max_standby_archive_delay,
max_standby_streaming_delay, log_min_duration_statement, and
log_autovacuum_min_duration was INT_MAX/1000 milliseconds, which is
about 35min, which is too short for some practical uses.  Raise the
maximum value to INT_MAX; the code that uses the parameters already
supports that just fine.
2011-03-17 20:19:51 +02:00
Tom Lane 696d1f7f06 Make all comparisons done for/with statistics use the default collation.
While this will give wrong answers when estimating selectivity for a
comparison operator that's using a non-default collation, the estimation
error probably won't be large; and anyway the former approach created
estimation errors of its own by trying to use a histogram that might have
been computed with some other collation.  So we'll adopt this simplified
approach for now and perhaps improve it sometime in the future.

This patch incorporates changes from Andres Freund to make sure that
selfuncs.c passes a valid collation OID to any datatype-specific function
it calls, in case that function wants collation information.  Said OID will
now always be DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, but at least we won't get errors.
2011-03-12 16:30:36 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3a3f39fdc0 Use macros for time-based constants, rather than constants. 2011-03-12 09:35:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 2a26639a5d On further reflection, we'd better do the same in int.c.
We previously heard of the same problem in int24div(), so there's not a
good reason to suppose the problem is confined to cases involving int8.
2011-03-11 19:04:02 -05:00
Tom Lane 72330995a5 Put in some more safeguards against executing a division-by-zero.
Add dummy returns before every potential division-by-zero in int8.c,
because apparently further "improvements" in gcc's optimizer have
enabled it to break functions that weren't broken before.

Aurelien Jarno, via Martin Pitt
2011-03-11 18:18:55 -05:00
Tom Lane 8acdb8bf9c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types.
CollateClause is now used only in raw grammar output, and CollateExpr after
parse analysis.  This is for clarity and to avoid carrying collation names
in post-analysis parse trees: that's both wasteful and possibly misleading,
since the collation's name could be changed while the parsetree still
exists.

Also, clean up assorted infelicities and omissions in processing of the
node type.
2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
Tom Lane 7564654adf Revert addition of third argument to format_type().
Including collation in the behavior of that function promotes a world view
we do not want.  Moreover, it was producing the wrong behavior for pg_dump
anyway: what we want is to dump a COLLATE clause on attributes whose
attcollation is different from the underlying type, and likewise for
domains, and the function cannot do that for us.  Doing it the hard way
in pg_dump is a bit more tedious but produces more correct output.

In passing, fix initdb so that the initial entry in pg_collation is
properly pinned.  It was droppable before :-(
2011-03-10 17:30:46 -05:00
Robert Haas b8bb8dbf20 More synchronous replication tweaks.
SyncRepRequested() must check not only the value of the
synchronous_replication GUC but also whether max_wal_senders > 0.
Otherwise, we might end up waiting for sync rep even when there's no
possibility of a standby ever managing to connect.  There are some
existing cross-checks to prevent this, but they're not quite sufficient:
the user can start the server with max_wal_senders=0,
synchronous_standby_names='', and synchronous_replication=off and then
subsequent make synchronous_standby_names not empty using pg_ctl reload,
and then SET synchronous_standby=on, leading to an indefinite hang.

Along the way, rename the global variable for the synchronous_replication
GUC to match the name of the GUC itself, for clarity.

Report by Fujii Masao, though I didn't use his patch.
2011-03-10 15:43:37 -05:00
Tom Lane a051ef699c Remove collation information from TypeName, where it does not belong.
The initial collations patch treated a COLLATE spec as part of a TypeName,
following what can only be described as brain fade on the part of the SQL
committee.  It's a lot more reasonable to treat COLLATE as a syntactically
separate object, so that it can be added in only the productions where it
actually belongs, rather than needing to reject it in a boatload of places
where it doesn't belong (something the original patch mostly failed to do).
In addition this change lets us meet the spec's requirement to allow
COLLATE anywhere in the clauses of a ColumnDef, and it avoids unfriendly
behavior for constructs such as "foo::type COLLATE collation".

To do this, pull collation information out of TypeName and put it in
ColumnDef instead, thus reverting most of the collation-related changes in
parse_type.c's API.  I made one additional structural change, which was to
use a ColumnDef as an intermediate node in AT_AlterColumnType AlterTableCmd
nodes.  This provides enough room to get rid of the "transform" wart in
AlterTableCmd too, since the ColumnDef can carry the USING expression
easily enough.

Also fix some other minor bugs that have crept in in the same areas,
like failure to copy recently-added fields of ColumnDef in copyfuncs.c.

While at it, document the formerly secret ability to specify a collation
in ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN TYPE, ALTER TYPE ADD ATTRIBUTE, and
ALTER TYPE ALTER ATTRIBUTE TYPE; and correct some misstatements about
what the default collation selection will be when COLLATE is omitted.

BTW, the three-parameter form of format_type() should go away too,
since it just contributes to the confusion in this area; but I'll do
that in a separate patch.
2011-03-09 22:39:20 -05:00
Simon Riggs a8a8a3e096 Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.
If a standby is broadcasting reply messages and we have named
one or more standbys in synchronous_standby_names then allow
users who set synchronous_replication to wait for commit, which
then provides strict data integrity guarantees. Design avoids
sending and receiving transaction state information so minimises
bookkeeping overheads. We synchronize with the highest priority
standby that is connected and ready to synchronize. Other standbys
can be defined to takeover in case of standby failure.

This version has very strict behaviour; more relaxed options
may be added at a later date.

Simon Riggs and Fujii Masao, with reviews by Yeb Havinga, Jaime
Casanova, Heikki Linnakangas and Robert Haas, plus the assistance
of many other design reviewers.
2011-03-06 22:49:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 6252c4f9e2 Run a portal's cleanup hook immediately when pushing it to DONE state.
This works around the problem noted by Yamamoto Takashi in bug #5906,
that there were code paths whereby we could reach AtCleanup_Portals
with a portal's cleanup hook still unexecuted.  The changes I made
a few days ago were intended to prevent that from happening, and
I think that on balance it's still a good thing to avoid, so I don't
want to remove the Assert in AtCleanup_Portals.  Hence do this instead.
2011-03-03 13:04:06 -05:00
Tom Lane c0b0076036 Rearrange snapshot handling to make rule expansion more consistent.
With this patch, portals, SQL functions, and SPI all agree that there
should be only a CommandCounterIncrement between the queries that are
generated from a single SQL command by rule expansion.  Fetching a whole
new snapshot now happens only between original queries.  This is equivalent
to the existing behavior of EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and it was judged to be the
best choice since it eliminates one source of concurrency hazards for
rules.  The patch should also make things marginally faster by reducing the
number of snapshot push/pop operations.

The patch removes pg_parse_and_rewrite(), which is no longer used anywhere.
There was considerable discussion about more aggressive refactoring of the
query-processing functions exported by postgres.c, but for the moment
nothing more has been done there.

I also took the opportunity to refactor snapmgr.c's API slightly: the
former PushUpdatedSnapshot() has been split into two functions.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Steve Singer and Tom Lane
2011-02-28 23:28:06 -05:00
Tom Lane a874fe7b4c Refactor the executor's API to support data-modifying CTEs better.
The originally committed patch for modifying CTEs didn't interact well
with EXPLAIN, as noted by myself, and also had corner-case problems with
triggers, as noted by Dean Rasheed.  Those problems show it is really not
practical for ExecutorEnd to call any user-defined code; so split the
cleanup duties out into a new function ExecutorFinish, which must be called
between the last ExecutorRun call and ExecutorEnd.  Some Asserts have been
added to these functions to help verify correct usage.

It is no longer necessary for callers of the executor to call
AfterTriggerBeginQuery/AfterTriggerEndQuery for themselves, as this is now
done by ExecutorStart/ExecutorFinish respectively.  If you really need to
suppress that and do it for yourself, pass EXEC_FLAG_SKIP_TRIGGERS to
ExecutorStart.

Also, refactor portal commit processing to allow for the possibility that
PortalDrop will invoke user-defined code.  I think this is not actually
necessary just yet, since the portal-execution-strategy logic forces any
non-pure-SELECT query to be run to completion before we will consider
committing.  But it seems like good future-proofing.
2011-02-27 13:44:12 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas be6668d6ef Increase the default for wal_sender_delay from 200ms to 1s. Now that WAL
sender is immediately woken up by transaction commit, there's no need to
wake up so aggressively.
2011-02-26 23:38:25 +02:00
Tom Lane 389af95155 Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH.
This patch implements data-modifying WITH queries according to the
semantics that the updates all happen with the same command counter value,
and in an unspecified order.  Therefore one WITH clause can't see the
effects of another, nor can the outer query see the effects other than
through the RETURNING values.  And attempts to do conflicting updates will
have unpredictable results.  We'll need to document all that.

This commit just fixes the code; documentation updates are waiting on
author.

Marko Tiikkaja and Hitoshi Harada
2011-02-25 18:58:02 -05:00
Tom Lane bdca82f44d Add a relkind field to RangeTblEntry to avoid some syscache lookups.
The recent additions for FDW support required checking foreign-table-ness
in several places in the parse/plan chain.  While it's not clear whether
that would really result in a noticeable slowdown, it seems best to avoid
any performance risk by keeping a copy of the relation's relkind in
RangeTblEntry.  That might have some other uses later, anyway.
Per discussion.
2011-02-22 19:24:40 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 1c51c7d5ff Add PL/Python functions for quoting strings
Add functions plpy.quote_ident, plpy.quote_literal,
plpy.quote_nullable, which wrap the equivalent SQL functions.

To be able to propagate char * constness properly, make the argument
of quote_literal_cstr() const char *.  This also makes it more
consistent with quote_identifier().

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada, some refinements by Peter
Eisentraut
2011-02-22 23:41:23 +02:00
Tom Lane 1ab9b012bd Allow binary I/O of type "void".
void_send is useful for the same reason that void_out doesn't throw error,
namely that someone might do "select void_returning_func(...)"  from a
client that prefers to operate in binary mode.  The void_recv function may
or may not have any practical use, but we provide it for symmetry.

Radosław Smogura
2011-02-22 13:08:22 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro ca9cf85d54 Fix pg_server_to_client, that was broken in the previous commit. 2011-02-21 16:27:57 +09:00
Itagaki Takahiro 3cba8240a1 Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM and file_fdw.
File encodings can be specified separately from client encoding.
If not specified, client encoding is used for backward compatibility.

Cases when the encoding doesn't match client encoding are slower
than matched cases because we don't have conversion procs for other
encodings. Performance improvement would be be a future work.

Original patch by Hitoshi Harada, and modified by me.
2011-02-21 14:32:40 +09:00
Tom Lane bb74240794 Implement an API to let foreign-data wrappers actually be functional.
This commit provides the core code and documentation needed.  A contrib
module test case will follow shortly.

Shigeru Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas
2011-02-20 00:18:14 -05:00
Tom Lane 327e025071 Create the catalog infrastructure for foreign-data-wrapper handlers.
Add a fdwhandler column to pg_foreign_data_wrapper, plus HANDLER options
in the CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER commands,
plus pg_dump support for same.  Also invent a new pseudotype fdw_handler
with properties similar to language_handler.

This is split out of the "FDW API" patch for ease of review; it's all stuff
we will certainly need, regardless of any other details of the FDW API.
FDW handler functions will not actually get called yet.

In passing, fix some omissions and infelicities in foreigncmds.c.

Shigeru Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas
2011-02-19 00:07:15 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 62c7bd31c8 Add transaction-level advisory locks.
They share the same locking namespace with the existing session-level
advisory locks, but they are automatically released at the end of the
current transaction and cannot be released explicitly via unlock
functions.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by me.
2011-02-18 14:05:12 +09:00
Robert Haas 4a25bc145a Add client_hostname field to pg_stat_activity.
Peter Eisentraut, reviewed by Steve Singer, Alvaro Herrera, and me.
2011-02-17 16:03:28 -05:00
Robert Haas a3e8486dff Prevent possible compiler warnings.
Simon Riggs reports that rnode.dbNode and rnode.spcNode were
generating unused variable warnings on gcc 4.4.3 with CFLAGS=-O1
2011-02-17 16:01:46 -05:00
Robert Haas f196738534 Add some words of caution to elog.c.
Stephen Frost, somewhat rewritten by me
2011-02-17 10:29:42 -05:00
Tom Lane a2095f7fb5 Fix bogus test for hypothetical indexes in get_actual_variable_range().
That function was supposing that indexoid == 0 for a hypothetical index,
but that is not likely to be true in any non-toy implementation of an index
adviser, since assigning a fake OID is the only way to know at EXPLAIN time
which hypothetical index got selected.  Fix by adding a flag to
IndexOptInfo to mark hypothetical indexes.  Back-patch to 9.0 where
get_actual_variable_range() was added.

Gurjeet Singh
2011-02-16 19:24:45 -05:00
Tom Lane 6595dd04d1 Add backwards-compatible declarations of some core GIN support functions.
These are needed to support reloading dumps of 9.0 installations containing
contrib/intarray or contrib/tsearch2.  Since not only regular dump/reload
but binary upgrade would fail, it seems worth the trouble to carry these
stubs for awhile.  Note that the contrib opclasses referencing these
functions will still work fine, since GIN doesn't actually pay any
attention to the declared signature of a support function.
2011-02-16 17:24:46 -05:00
Simon Riggs bca8b7f16a Hot Standby feedback for avoidance of cleanup conflicts on standby.
Standby optionally sends back information about oldestXmin of queries
which is then checked and applied to the WALSender's proc->xmin.
GetOldestXmin() is modified slightly to agree with GetSnapshotData(),
so that all backends on primary include WALSender within their snapshots.
Note this does nothing to change the snapshot xmin on either master or
standby. Feedback piggybacks on the standby reply message.
vacuum_defer_cleanup_age is no longer used on standby, though parameter
still exists on primary, since some use cases still exist.

Simon Riggs, review comments from Fujii Masao, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas
2011-02-16 19:29:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e02755b22 Add FOREACH IN ARRAY looping to plpgsql.
(I'm not entirely sure that we've finished bikeshedding the syntax details,
but the functionality seems OK.)

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Stephen Frost and Tom Lane
2011-02-16 01:53:03 -05:00
Robert Haas 6a77e9385e Rename max_predicate_locks_per_transaction.
The new name, max_pred_locks_per_transaction, is shorter.

Kevin Grittner, per discussion.
2011-02-15 08:04:55 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 0de0cc150a Properly handle Win32 paths of 'E:abc', which can be either absolute or
relative, by creating a function path_is_relative_and_below_cwd() to
check for specific requirements.  It is unclear if this fixes a security
problem or not but the new code is more robust.
2011-02-12 09:47:51 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas b186523fd9 Send status updates back from standby server to master, indicating how far
the standby has written, flushed, and applied the WAL. At the moment, this
is for informational purposes only, the values are only shown in
pg_stat_replication system view, but in the future they will also be needed
for synchronous replication.

Extracted from Simon riggs' synchronous replication patch by Robert Haas, with
some tweaking by me.
2011-02-10 21:04:02 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 4c468b37a2 Track last time for statistics reset on databases and bgwriter
Tracks one counter for each database, which is reset whenever
the statistics for any individual object inside the database is
reset, and one counter for the background writer.

Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Greg Smith
2011-02-10 15:14:04 +01:00
Tom Lane d9572c4e3b Core support for "extensions", which are packages of SQL objects.
This patch adds the server infrastructure to support extensions.
There is still one significant loose end, namely how to make it play nice
with pg_upgrade, so I am not yet committing the changes that would make
all the contrib modules depend on this feature.

In passing, fix a disturbingly large amount of breakage in
AlterObjectNamespace() and callers.

Dimitri Fontaine, reviewed by Anssi Kääriäinen,
Itagaki Takahiro, Tom Lane, and numerous others
2011-02-08 16:13:22 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 414c5a2ea6 Per-column collation support
This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause
to override it per expression, and B-tree index support.

Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00
Simon Riggs 722bf7017b Extend ALTER TABLE to allow Foreign Keys to be added without initial validation.
FK constraints that are marked NOT VALID may later be VALIDATED, which uses an
ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on constraint table and RowShareLock on referenced
table. Significantly reduces lock strength and duration when adding FKs.
New state visible from psql.

Simon Riggs, with reviews from Marko Tiikkaja and Robert Haas
2011-02-08 12:23:20 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas dafaa3efb7 Implement genuine serializable isolation level.
Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot
Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any
serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a
method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by
Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable
Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation,
but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and
aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method
produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even
though there is no anomaly.

To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c.
Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared
memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a
page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a
single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching
tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index
scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not
there are any matching keys at the moment.

A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another
predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock
manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions
participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for
for other transactions.

Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until
all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that
we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a
lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions.
If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU
pool.

We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode.
That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies
that wouldn't otherwise occur.

Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level.
Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have
always had.

Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and
Anssi Kääriäinen
2011-02-08 00:09:08 +02:00
Robert Haas 356f2cbbb4 Make handling of errcodes.h more consistent with other generated headers.
This fixes make distprep, and seems more robust in other ways as well.
Some special handling is required because errcodes.txt is needed by
some stuff in src/port, but just by src/backend as is the case for the
other generated headers.

While I'm at it, fix a few other things that were overlooked in the
original patch.
2011-02-04 09:29:10 -05:00
Robert Haas dde9684d65 Unbreak the VPATH build.
My commit ddfe26f644 of 2010-02-03 broke it.

Per buildfarm.
2011-02-04 00:07:08 -05:00
Robert Haas b8a0467e10 Preserve copyright notice from old errcodes.h file. 2011-02-03 22:38:02 -05:00
Robert Haas ddfe26f644 Avoid maintaining three separate copies of the error codes list.
src/pl/plpgsql/src/plerrcodes.h, src/include/utils/errcodes.h, and a
big chunk of errcodes.sgml are now automatically generated from a single
file, src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Tom Lane.
2011-02-03 22:32:49 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 426227850b Rename function to first_path_var_separator() to clarify it works with
path variables, not directory paths.
2011-02-02 22:49:54 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 0c707aa458 Fix wrong error reports in 'number of array dimensions exceeds the
maximum allowed' messages, that have reported one-less dimensions.

Alexey Klyukin
2011-02-01 15:21:32 +09:00
Robert Haas 6f59777c65 Code cleanup for assign_transaction_read_only.
As in commit fb4c5d2798 on 2011-01-21,
this avoids spurious debug messages and allows idempotent changes at
any time.  Along the way, make assign_XactIsoLevel allow idempotent
changes even when not within a subtransaction, to be consistent with
the new coding of assign_transaction_read_only and because there's
no compelling reason to do otherwise.

Kevin Grittner, with some adjustments.
2011-01-22 20:55:50 -05:00
Tom Lane 0f73aae13d Allow the wal_buffers setting to be auto-tuned to a reasonable value.
If wal_buffers is initially set to -1 (which is now the default), it's
replaced by 1/32nd of shared_buffers, with a minimum of 8 (the old default)
and a maximum of the XLOG segment size.  The allowed range for manual
settings is still from 4 up to whatever will fit in shared memory.

Greg Smith, with implementation correction by me.
2011-01-22 20:31:24 -05:00
Robert Haas fb4c5d2798 Code cleanup for assign_XactIsoLevel.
The new coding avoids a spurious debug message when a transaction
that has changed the isolation level has been rolled back.  It also
allows the property to be freely changed to the current value within
a subtransaction.

Kevin Grittner, with one small change by me.
2011-01-21 21:49:19 -05:00
Tom Lane 1b393f4e5d Avoid detoast in texteq/textne/byteaeq/byteane for unequal-length strings.
We can get the length of a compressed or out-of-line datum without actually
detoasting it.  If the lengths of two strings are unequal, we can then
conclude they are unequal without detoasting.  That saves considerable work
in an admittedly less-common case, without costing anything much when the
optimization doesn't apply.

Noah Misch
2011-01-18 14:11:54 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 6e1726d082 Log replication connections only when log_connections is on
Previously we'd always log replication connections, with no
way to turn them off.
2011-01-18 20:02:25 +01:00
Tom Lane bdd8ed973d Fix miscalculation of itemsafter in array_set_slice().
If the slice to be assigned to was before the existing array lower bound
(requiring at least one null element to spring into existence to fill the
gap), the code miscalculated how many entries needed to be copied from
the old array's null bitmap.  This could result in trashing the array's
data area (as seen in bug #5840 from Karsten Loesing), or worse.

This has been broken since we first allowed the behavior of assigning to
non-adjacent slices, in 8.2.  Back-patch to all affected versions.
2011-01-17 12:38:52 -05:00
Tom Lane 52948169bc Code review for postmaster.pid contents changes.
Fix broken test for pre-existing postmaster, caused by wrong code for
appending lines to the lockfile; don't write a failed listen_address
setting into the lockfile; don't arbitrarily change the location of the
data directory in the lockfile compared to previous releases; provide more
consistent and useful definitions of the socket path and listen_address
entries; avoid assuming that pg_ctl has the same DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR as
the postmaster; assorted code style improvements.
2011-01-13 19:01:28 -05:00
Robert Haas 7a32ff9732 Revert patch adding support for logging the current role.
This reverts commit a8a8867912, committed
by me earlier today (2011-01-12).  This isn't safe inside an aborted
transaction.

Noted by Tom Lane.
2011-01-12 11:59:21 -05:00
Robert Haas a8a8867912 Add support for logging the current role.
Stephen Frost, with some editorialization by me.
2011-01-12 11:34:53 -05:00
Tom Lane 52fd2d65a3 Fix up core tsquery GIN support for new extractQuery API.
No need for the empty-prefix-match kluge to force a full scan anymore.
2011-01-09 14:34:50 -05:00
Tom Lane 304845075c Use array_contains_nulls instead of ARR_HASNULL on user-supplied arrays.
This applies the fix for bug #5784 to remaining places where we wish
to reject nulls in user-supplied arrays.  In all these places, there's
no reason not to allow a null bitmap to be present, so long as none of
the current elements are actually null.

I did not change some other places where we are looking at system catalog
entries or aggregate transition values, as the presence of a null bitmap
in such an array would be suspicious.
2011-01-09 13:09:07 -05:00
Tom Lane adf328c0e1 Add array_contains_nulls() function in arrayfuncs.c.
This will support fixing contrib/intarray (and probably other places)
so that they don't have to fail on arrays that contain a null bitmap
but no live null entries.
2011-01-08 20:26:14 -05:00
Tom Lane 4d1b76e49e Fix up gincostestimate for new extractQuery API.
The only reason this wasn't crashing while testing the core anyarray
operators was that it was disabled for those cases because of passing the
wrong type information to get_opfamily_proc :-(.  So fix that too, and make
it insist on finding the support proc --- in hindsight, silently doing
nothing is not as sane a coping mechanism as all that.
2011-01-08 20:26:13 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 40d9e94bd7 Add views and functions to monitor hot standby query conflicts
Add the view pg_stat_database_conflicts and a column to pg_stat_database,
and the underlying functions to provide the information.
2011-01-03 12:46:03 +01:00
Robert Haas 0d692a0dc9 Basic foreign table support.
Foreign tables are a core component of SQL/MED.  This commit does
not provide a working SQL/MED infrastructure, because foreign tables
cannot yet be queried.  Support for foreign table scans will need to
be added in a future patch.  However, this patch creates the necessary
system catalog structure, syntax support, and support for ancillary
operations such as COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL.

Shigeru Hanada, heavily revised by Robert Haas
2011-01-01 23:48:11 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 5d950e3b0c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 30aeda4394 Include the first valid listen address in pg_ctl to improve server start
"wait" detection and add postmaster start time to help determine if the
postmaster is actually using the specified data directory.
2010-12-31 17:25:02 -05:00
Robert Haas 53dbc27c62 Support unlogged tables.
The contents of an unlogged table are WAL-logged; thus, they are not
available on standby servers and are truncated whenever the database
system enters recovery.  Indexes on unlogged tables are also unlogged.
Unlogged GiST indexes are not currently supported.
2010-12-29 06:48:53 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 9b8aff8c19 Add REPLICATION privilege for ROLEs
This privilege is required to do Streaming Replication, instead of
superuser, making it possible to set up a SR slave that doesn't
have write permissions on the master.

Superuser privileges do NOT override this check, so in order to
use the default superuser account for replication it must be
explicitly granted the REPLICATION permissions. This is backwards
incompatible change, in the interest of higher default security.
2010-12-29 11:05:03 +01:00
Tom Lane f2ba1e994c Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.
The "date" type supports a wider range of dates than int64 timestamps do.
However, there is pre-int64-timestamp code in the planner that assumes that
all date values can be converted to timestamp with impunity.  Fortunately,
what we really need out of the conversion is always a double (float8)
value; so even when the date is out of timestamp's range it's possible to
produce a sane answer.  All we need is a code path that doesn't try to
force the result into int64.  Per trouble report from David Rericha.

Back-patch to all supported versions.  Although this is surely a corner
case, there's not much point in advertising a date range wider than
timestamp's if we will choke on such values in unexpected places.
2010-12-28 22:49:57 -05:00
Bruce Momjian b4d3792daa Another fix for larger postmaster.pid files. 2010-12-28 09:34:46 -05:00
Bruce Momjian bada44a2a2 Fix code to properly pull out shared memory key now that the
postmaster.pid file is larger than in previous major versions.
This is a bug introduced when I added lines to the file recently.
2010-12-27 23:11:33 -05:00
Tom Lane 84fc571395 Rename the C functions bitand(), bitor() to bit_and(), bit_or().
This is to avoid use of the C++ keywords "bitand" and "bitor" in
the header file utils/varbit.h.  Note the functions' SQL-level
names are not changed, only their C-level names.

In passing, make some comments in varbit.c conform to project-standard
layout.
2010-12-27 14:57:41 -05:00
Tom Lane 275411912d Fix ill-chosen use of "private" as an argument and struct field name.
"private" is a keyword in C++, so this breaks the poorly-enforced policy
that header files should be include-able in C++ code.  Per report from
Craig Ringer and some investigation with cpluspluscheck.
2010-12-27 11:26:19 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 075354ad1b Improve "pg_ctl -w start" server detection by writing the postmaster
port and socket directory into postmaster.pid, and have pg_ctl read from
that file, for use by PQping().
2010-12-24 09:45:52 -05:00
Robert Haas 32ba2b5160 Use memcmp() rather than strncmp() when shorter string length is known.
It appears that this will be faster for all but the shortest strings;
at least one some platforms, memcmp() can use word-at-a-time comparisons.

Noah Misch, somewhat pared down.
2010-12-21 22:11:40 -05:00
Tom Lane 1b19e2c0ba Fix up handling of simple-form CASE with constant test expression.
eval_const_expressions() can replace CaseTestExprs with constants when
the surrounding CASE's test expression is a constant.  This confuses
ruleutils.c's heuristic for deparsing simple-form CASEs, leading to
Assert failures or "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" errors.  I had put in
a hack solution for that years ago (see commit
514ce7a331 of 2006-10-01), but bug #5794
from Peter Speck shows that that solution failed to cover all cases.

Fortunately, there's a much better way, which came to me upon reflecting
that Peter's "CASE TRUE WHEN" seemed pretty redundant: we can "simplify"
the simple-form CASE to the general form of CASE, by simply omitting the
constant test expression from the rebuilt CASE construct.  This is
intuitively valid because there is no need for the executor to evaluate
the test expression at runtime; it will never be referenced, because any
CaseTestExprs that would have referenced it are now replaced by constants.
This won't save a whole lot of cycles, since evaluating a Const is pretty
cheap, but a cycle saved is a cycle earned.  In any case it beats kluging
ruleutils.c still further.  So this patch improves const-simplification
and reverts the previous change in ruleutils.c.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  The bug exists in 8.1 too, but it's
out of warranty.
2010-12-19 15:30:44 -05:00
Tom Lane abc1026269 Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery input "... & !(subexpression) | ..."
After parsing a parenthesized subexpression, we must pop all pending
ANDs and NOTs off the stack, just like the case for a simple operand.
Per bug #5793.

Also fix clones of this routine in contrib/intarray and contrib/ltree,
where input of types query_int and ltxtquery had the same problem.

Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-12-19 12:48:34 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 4754dbf4c3 Make GUC variables for syslog and SSL always visible
Make the variables visible (but not used) even when
support is not compiled in.
2010-12-18 16:53:59 +01:00
Robert Haas 290f1603b4 Some copy editing of pg_read_binary_file() patch. 2010-12-15 21:02:31 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 03db44eae3 Add pg_read_binary_file() and whole-file-at-once versions of pg_read_file().
One of the usages of the binary version is to read files in a different
encoding from the server encoding.

Dimitri Fontaine and Itagaki Takahiro.
2010-12-16 06:56:28 +09:00
Robert Haas d368e1a2a7 Allow plugins to suppress inlining and hook function entry/exit/abort.
This is intended as infrastructure to allow an eventual SE-Linux plugin to
support trusted procedures.

KaiGai Kohei
2010-12-13 19:15:53 -05:00
Robert Haas 5f7b58fad8 Generalize concept of temporary relations to "relation persistence".
This commit replaces pg_class.relistemp with pg_class.relpersistence;
and also modifies the RangeVar node type to carry relpersistence rather
than istemp.  It also removes removes rd_istemp from RelationData and
instead performs the correct computation based on relpersistence.

For clarity, we add three new macros: RelationNeedsWAL(),
RelationUsesLocalBuffers(), and RelationUsesTempNamespace(), so that we
can clarify the purpose of each check that previous depended on
rd_istemp.

This is intended as infrastructure for the upcoming unlogged tables
patch, as well as for future possible work on global temporary tables.
2010-12-13 12:34:26 -05:00
Tom Lane 244407a710 Fix efficiency problems in tuplestore_trim().
The original coding in tuplestore_trim() was only meant to work efficiently
in cases where each trim call deleted most of the tuples in the store.
Which, in fact, was the pattern of the original usage with a Material node
supporting mark/restore operations underneath a MergeJoin.  However,
WindowAgg now uses tuplestores and it has considerably less friendly
trimming behavior.  In particular it can attempt to trim one tuple at a
time off a large tuplestore.  tuplestore_trim() had O(N^2) runtime in this
situation because of repeatedly shifting its tuple pointer array.  Fix by
avoiding shifting the array until a reasonably large number of tuples have
been deleted.  This can waste some pointer space, but we do still reclaim
the tuples themselves, so the percentage wastage should be pretty small.

Per Jie Li's report of slow percent_rank() evaluation.  cume_dist() and
ntile() would certainly be affected as well, along with any other window
function that has a moving frame start and requires reading substantially
ahead of the current row.

Back-patch to 8.4, where window functions were introduced.  There's no
need to tweak it before that.
2010-12-10 11:33:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 576477e73c Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to
believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas
formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux.  open_datasync is a bad
choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact
the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing
failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option).
This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp.
More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much
change as we want to back-patch.

Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the
fsync_writethrough option.  Those changes shouldn't result in any actual
behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the
branches looking similar in this area.

In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability
documentation section.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used
on modern Linux versions.
2010-12-08 20:01:09 -05:00
Simon Riggs e620ee35b2 Optimize commit_siblings in two ways to improve group commit.
First, avoid scanning the whole ProcArray once we know there
are at least commit_siblings active; second, skip the check
altogether if commit_siblings = 0.

Greg Smith
2010-12-08 18:48:03 +00:00
Robert Haas 970a18687f Use GUC lexer for recovery.conf parsing.
This eliminates some crufty, special-purpose code and, as a non-trivial
side benefit, allows recovery.conf parameters to be unquoted.

Dimitri Fontaine, with review and cleanup by Alvaro Herrera, Itagaki
Takahiro, and me.
2010-12-03 08:56:44 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro fd223c7407 Remove unnecessary string null-termination in pg_convert.
We can directly verify the unterminated input with pg_verify_mbstr_len.
2010-12-03 12:00:27 +09:00
Tom Lane d583f10b7e Create core infrastructure for KNNGIST.
This is a heavily revised version of builtin_knngist_core-0.9.  The
ordering operators are no longer mixed in with actual quals, which would
have confused not only humans but significant parts of the planner.
Instead, ordering operators are carried separately throughout planning and
execution.

Since the API for ambeginscan and amrescan functions had to be changed
anyway, this commit takes the opportunity to rationalize that a bit.
RelationGetIndexScan no longer forces a premature index_rescan call;
instead, callers of index_beginscan must call index_rescan too.  Aside from
making the AM-side initialization logic a bit less peculiar, this has the
advantage that we do not make a useless extra am_rescan call when there are
runtime key values.  AMs formerly could not assume that the key values
passed to amrescan were actually valid; now they can.

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2010-12-02 20:51:37 -05:00
Tom Lane c0b5fac701 Simplify and speed up mapping of index opfamilies to pathkeys.
Formerly we looked up the operators associated with each index (caching
them in relcache) and then the planner looked up the btree opfamily
containing such operators in order to build the btree-centric pathkey
representation that describes the index's sort order.  This is quite
pointless for btree indexes: we might as well just use the index's opfamily
information directly.  That saves syscache lookup cycles during planning,
and furthermore allows us to eliminate the relcache's caching of operators
altogether, which may help in reducing backend startup time.

I added code to plancat.c to perform the same type of double lookup
on-the-fly if it's ever faced with a non-btree amcanorder index AM.
If such a thing actually becomes interesting for production, we should
replace that logic with some more-direct method for identifying the
corresponding btree opfamily; but it's not worth spending effort on now.

There is considerably more to do pursuant to my recent proposal to get rid
of sort-operator-based representations of sort orderings, but this patch
grabs some of the low-hanging fruit.  I'll look at the remainder of that
work after the current commitfest.
2010-11-29 12:30:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 1d9a0abec1 Remove bogus use of PGDLLIMPORT.
That macro should be attached to extern declarations, not actual
definitions of variables.
2010-11-26 17:05:29 -05:00
Robert Haas cc1ed40d57 Object access hook framework, with post-creation hook.
After a SQL object is created, we provide an opportunity for security
or logging plugins to get control; for example, a security label provider
could use this to assign an initial security label to newly created
objects.  The basic infrastructure is (hopefully) reusable for other types
of events that might require similar treatment.

KaiGai Kohei, with minor adjustments.
2010-11-25 11:50:13 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ba11258ccb When reporting the server as not responding, if the hostname was
supplied, also print the IP address.  This allows IPv4 and IPv6 failures
to be distinguished.  Also useful when a hostname resolves to multiple
IP addresses.

Also, remove use of inet_ntoa() and use our own inet_net_ntop() in all
places, including in libpq, because it is thread-safe.
2010-11-24 17:04:19 -05:00
Tom Lane 725d52d0c2 Create the system catalog infrastructure needed for KNNGIST.
This commit adds columns amoppurpose and amopsortfamily to pg_amop, and
column amcanorderbyop to pg_am.  For the moment all the entries in
amcanorderbyop are "false", since the underlying support isn't there yet.

Also, extend the CREATE OPERATOR CLASS/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands with
[ FOR SEARCH | FOR ORDER BY sort_operator_family ] clauses to allow the new
columns of pg_amop to be populated, and create pg_dump support for dumping
that information.

I also added some documentation, although it's perhaps a bit premature
given that the feature doesn't do anything useful yet.

Teodor Sigaev, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
2010-11-24 14:22:17 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut fc946c39ae Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 5272d79875 Remove GucContext parameter from ParseConfigFile 2010-11-22 19:00:31 -03:00
Robert Haas 7504870778 Add new SQL function, format(text).
Currently, three conversion format specifiers are supported: %s for a
string, %L for an SQL literal, and %I for an SQL identifier.  The latter
two are deliberately designed not to overlap with what sprintf() already
supports, in case we want to add more of sprintf()'s functionality here
later.

Patch by Pavel Stehule, heavily revised by me.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes
and, in earlier versions, by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane.
2010-11-20 22:33:27 -05:00
Tom Lane d1d8462d99 Assorted further cleanup for integer-conversion patch.
Avoid depending on LL notation, which is likely to not work in pre-C99
compilers; don't pointlessly use INT32_MIN/INT64_MIN in code that has
the numerical value hard-wired into it anyway; remove some gratuitous
style inconsistencies between pg_ltoa and pg_lltoa; fix int2 test case
so it actually tests int2.
2010-11-20 12:09:36 -05:00
Robert Haas 4343c0e546 Expose quote_literal_cstr() from core.
This eliminates the need for inefficient implementions of this
functionality in both contrib/dblink and contrib/tablefunc, so remove
them.  The upcoming patch implementing an in-core format() function
will also require this functionality.

In passing, add some regression tests.
2010-11-20 10:04:48 -05:00
Robert Haas 815810ed31 Attempt to fix breakage caused by signed integer conversion patch.
Use INT_MIN rather than INT32_MIN as we do elsewhere in the code, and
try to work around nonexistence of INT64_MIN if necessary.  Adjust the
new regression tests to something hopefully saner, per observation by
Tom Lane.
2010-11-20 01:09:26 -05:00
Robert Haas 4fc115b2e9 Speed up conversion of signed integers to C strings.
A hand-coded implementation turns out to be much faster than calling
printf().  In passing, add a few more regresion tests.

Andres Freund, with assorted, mostly cosmetic changes.
2010-11-19 22:13:11 -05:00
Tom Lane 511e902b51 Make TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY restart sequences transactionally.
In the previous coding, we simply issued ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART commands,
which do not roll back on error.  This meant that an error between
truncating and committing left the sequences out of sync with the table
contents, with potentially bad consequences as were noted in a Warning on
the TRUNCATE man page.

To fix, create a new storage file (relfilenode) for a sequence that is to
be reset due to RESTART IDENTITY.  If the transaction aborts, we'll
automatically revert to the old storage file.  This acts just like a
rewriting ALTER TABLE operation.  A penalty is that we have to take
exclusive lock on the sequence, but since we've already got exclusive lock
on its owning table, that seems unlikely to be much of a problem.

The interaction of this with usual nontransactional behaviors of sequence
operations is a bit weird, but it's hard to see what would be completely
consistent.  Our choice is to discard cached-but-unissued sequence values
both when the RESTART is executed, and at rollback if any; but to not touch
the currval() state either time.

In passing, move the sequence reset operations to happen before not after
any AFTER TRUNCATE triggers are fired.  The previous ordering was not
logically sensible, but was forced by the need to minimize inconsistency
if the triggers caused an error.  Transactional rollback is a much better
solution to that.

Patch by Steve Singer, rather heavily adjusted by me.
2010-11-17 16:42:18 -05:00
Robert Haas 3134d8863e Add new buffers_backend_fsync field to pg_stat_bgwriter.
This new field counts the number of times that a backend which writes a
buffer out to the OS must also fsync() it.  This happens when the
bgwriter fsync request queue is full, and is generally detrimental to
performance, so it's good to know when it's happening.  Along the way,
log a new message at level DEBUG1 whenever we fail to hand off an fsync,
so that the problem can also be seen in examination of log files
(if the logging level is cranked up high enough).

Greg Smith, with minor tweaks by me.
2010-11-15 12:42:59 -05:00
Robert Haas 5ccbc3d802 Correct poor grammar in comment. 2010-11-14 23:10:45 -05:00
Robert Haas 5aa446c961 Cleanup various comparisons with the constant "true".
Itagaki Takahiro, with slight modifications.
2010-11-14 21:03:48 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 19e231bbda Improved parallel make support
Replace for loops in makefiles with proper dependencies.  Parallel
make can now span across directories.  Also, make -k and make -q work
properly.

GNU make 3.80 or newer is now required.
2010-11-12 22:15:16 +02:00
Tom Lane b0f2d681bd Fix line_construct_pm() for the case of "infinite" (DBL_MAX) slope.
This code was just plain wrong: what you got was not a line through the
given point but a line almost indistinguishable from the Y-axis, although
not truly vertical.  The only caller that tries to use this function with
m == DBL_MAX is dist_ps_internal for the case where the lseg is horizontal;
it would end up producing the distance from the given point to the place
where the lseg's line crosses the Y-axis.  That function is used by other
operators too, so there are several operators that could compute wrong
distances from a line segment to something else.  Per bug #5745 from
jindiax.

Back-patch to all supported branches.
2010-11-10 16:52:24 -05:00
Tom Lane dd1c781903 Make get_stack_depth_rlimit() handle RLIM_INFINITY more sanely.
Rather than considering this result as meaning "unknown", report LONG_MAX.
This won't change what superusers can set max_stack_depth to, but it will
cause InitializeGUCOptions() to set the built-in default to 2MB not 100kB.
The latter seems like a fairly unreasonable interpretation of "infinity".
Per my investigation of odd buildfarm results as well as an old complaint
from Heikki.

Since this should persuade all the buildfarm animals to use a reasonable
stack depth setting during "make check", revert previous patch that dumbed
down a recursive regression test to only 5 levels.
2010-11-06 16:50:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 09211659d9 Use appendStringInfoString() where appropriate in elog.c.
The nominally equivalent call appendStringInfo(buf, "%s", str) can be
significantly slower when str is large.  In particular, the former usage in
EVALUATE_MESSAGE led to O(N^2) behavior when collecting a large number of
context lines, as I found out while testing recursive functions.  The other
changes are just neatnik-ism and seem unlikely to save anything meaningful,
but a cycle shaved is a cycle earned.
2010-11-04 15:28:35 -04:00
Tom Lane 9f376e146b Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table.
We failed to record any dependency on the underlying table for an index
declared like "create index i on t (foo(t.*))".  This would create trouble
if the table were dropped without previously dropping the index.  To fix,
simplify some overly-cute code in index_create(), accepting the possibility
that sometimes the whole-table dependency will be redundant.  Also document
this hazard in dependency.c.  Per report from Kevin Grittner.

In passing, prevent a core dump in pg_get_indexdef() if the index's table
can't be found.  I came across this while experimenting with Kevin's
example.  Not sure it's a real issue when the catalogs aren't corrupt, but
might as well be cautious.

Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-11-02 17:15:07 -04:00
Tom Lane 186cbbda8f Provide hashing support for arrays.
The core of this patch is hash_array() and associated typcache
infrastructure, which works just about exactly like the existing support
for array comparison.

In addition I did some work to ensure that the planner won't think that an
array type is hashable unless its element type is hashable, and similarly
for sorting.  This includes adding a datatype parameter to op_hashjoinable
and op_mergejoinable, and adding an explicit "hashable" flag to
SortGroupClause.  The lack of a cross-check on the element type was a
pre-existing bug in mergejoin support --- but it didn't matter so much
before, because if you couldn't sort the element type there wasn't any good
alternative to failing anyhow.  Now that we have the alternative of hashing
the array type, there are cases where we can avoid a failure by being picky
at the planner stage, so it's time to be picky.

The issue of exactly how to combine the per-element hash values to produce
an array hash is still open for discussion, but the rest of this is pretty
solid, so I'll commit it as-is.
2010-10-30 21:56:11 -04:00
Tom Lane bfd3f37be3 Fix comparisons of pointers with zero to compare with NULL instead.
Per C standard, these are semantically the same thing; but saying NULL
when you mean NULL is good for readability.

Marti Raudsepp, per results of INRIA's Coccinelle.
2010-10-29 15:51:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 35670340f5 Refactor typenameTypeId()
Split the old typenameTypeId() into two functions: A new typenameTypeId() that
returns only a type OID, and typenameTypeIdAndMod() that returns type OID and
typmod.  This isolates call sites better that actually care about the typmod.
2010-10-25 21:44:49 +03:00
Tom Lane c6873eac4c Fix overly-enthusiastic Assert in printing of Param reference expressions.
A NestLoopParam's value can only be a Var or Aggref, but this isn't the
case in general for SubPlan parameters, so print_parameter_expr had better
be prepared to cope.  Brain fade in my recent patch to print the referenced
expression instead of just printing $N for PARAM_EXEC Params.  Per report
from Pavel Stehule.
2010-10-25 14:25:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 84c123be1d Allow new values to be added to an existing enum type.
After much expenditure of effort, we've got this to the point where the
performance penalty is pretty minimal in typical cases.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Brendan Jurd, Dean Rasheed, and Tom Lane
2010-10-24 23:05:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 529cb267a6 Improve handling of domains over arrays.
This patch eliminates various bizarre behaviors caused by sloppy thinking
about the difference between a domain type and its underlying array type.
In particular, the operation of updating one element of such an array
has to be considered as yielding a value of the underlying array type,
*not* a value of the domain, because there's no assurance that the
domain's CHECK constraints are still satisfied.  If we're intending to
store the result back into a domain column, we have to re-cast to the
domain type so that constraints are re-checked.

For similar reasons, such a domain can't be blindly matched to an ANYARRAY
polymorphic parameter, because the polymorphic function is likely to apply
array-ish operations that could invalidate the domain constraints.  For the
moment, we just forbid such matching.  We might later wish to insert an
automatic downcast to the underlying array type, but such a change should
also change matching of domains to ANYELEMENT for consistency.

To ensure that all such logic is rechecked, this patch removes the original
hack of setting a domain's pg_type.typelem field to match its base type;
the typelem will always be zero instead.  In those places where it's really
okay to look through the domain type with no other logic changes, use the
newly added get_base_element_type function in place of get_element_type.
catversion bumped due to change in pg_type contents.

Per bug #5717 from Richard Huxton and subsequent discussion.
2010-10-21 16:07:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 48c7d9f6ff Improve GIN indexscan cost estimation.
The better estimate requires more statistics than we previously stored:
in particular, counts of "entry" versus "data" pages within the index,
as well as knowledge of the number of distinct key values.  We collect
this information during initial index build and update it during VACUUM,
storing the info in new fields on the index metapage.  No initdb is
required because these fields will read as zeroes in a pre-existing
index, and the new gincostestimate code is coded to behave (reasonably)
sanely if they are zeroes.

Teodor Sigaev, reviewed by Jan Urbanski, Tom Lane, and Itagaki Takahiro.
2010-10-17 20:52:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 07f1264dda Allow WITH clauses to be attached to INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE statements.
This is not the hoped-for facility of using INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE inside
a WITH, but rather the other way around.  It seems useful in its own
right anyway.

Note: catversion bumped because, although the contents of stored rules
might look compatible, there's actually a subtle semantic change.
A single Query containing a WITH and INSERT...VALUES now represents
writing the WITH before the INSERT, not before the VALUES.  While it's
not clear that that matters to anyone, it seems like a good idea to
have it cited in the git history for catversion.h.

Original patch by Marko Tiikkaja, with updating and cleanup by
Hitoshi Harada.
2010-10-15 19:55:25 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3cde44374a Change references to SQL/XML:2003 to :2008 and renumber sections accordingly 2010-10-15 22:56:18 +03:00
Tom Lane 11cad29c91 Support MergeAppend plans, to allow sorted output from append relations.
This patch eliminates the former need to sort the output of an Append scan
when an ordered scan of an inheritance tree is wanted.  This should be
particularly useful for fast-start cases such as queries with LIMIT.

Original patch by Greg Stark, with further hacking by Hans-Jurgen Schonig,
Robert Haas, and Tom Lane.
2010-10-14 16:57:57 -04:00
Itagaki Takahiro d0f876ca8c Accept 'public' as a pseudo-role name in has_table_privilege() and friends
to see if a particular privilege has been granted to PUBLIC.

The issue was reported by Jim Nasby.
Patch by Alvaro Herrera, and reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2010-10-13 14:37:23 +09:00
Tom Lane 2ec993a7cb Support triggers on views.
This patch adds the SQL-standard concept of an INSTEAD OF trigger, which
is fired instead of performing a physical insert/update/delete.  The
trigger function is passed the entire old and/or new rows of the view,
and must figure out what to do to the underlying tables to implement
the update.  So this feature can be used to implement updatable views
using trigger programming style rather than rule hacking.

In passing, this patch corrects the names of some columns in the
information_schema.triggers view.  It seems the SQL committee renamed
them somewhere between SQL:99 and SQL:2003.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Bernd Helmle; some additional hacking by me.
2010-10-10 13:45:07 -04:00
Bruce Momjian f7dbddac69 Single-word clarification in postgresql.conf log_truncate_on_rotation
comment.
2010-10-08 19:10:21 +00:00
Tom Lane caaf2e8469 Fix sloppy usage of TRIGGER_FIRED_BEFORE/TRIGGER_FIRED_AFTER.
Various places were testing TRIGGER_FIRED_BEFORE() where what they really
meant was !TRIGGER_FIRED_AFTER(), or vice versa.  This needs to be cleaned
up because there are about to be more than two possible states.

We might want to note this in the 9.1 release notes as something for
trigger authors to double-check.

For consistency's sake I also changed some places that assumed that
TRIGGER_FIRED_FOR_ROW and TRIGGER_FIRED_FOR_STATEMENT are necessarily
mutually exclusive; that's not in immediate danger of breaking, but
it's still sloppier than it should be.

Extracted from Dean Rasheed's patch for triggers on views.  I'm committing
this separately since it's an identifiable separate issue, and is the
only reason for the patch to touch most of these particular files.
2010-10-08 13:27:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 26a7b48e10 Eliminate some repetitive coding in tuplesort.c.
Use a macro LogicalTapeReadExact() to encapsulate the error check when
we want to read an exact number of bytes from a "tape".  Per a suggestion
of Takahiro Itagaki.
2010-10-07 20:32:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 3ba11d3df2 Teach CLUSTER to use seqscan-and-sort when it's faster than indexscan.
... or at least, when the planner's cost estimates say it will be faster.

Leonardo Francalanci, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane
2010-10-07 20:00:28 -04:00
Robert Haas 2ce003973d Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf parameters.
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
2010-09-27 09:14:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 9aae81527f Re-allow input of Julian dates prior to 0001-01-01 AD.
This was unintentionally broken in 8.4 while tightening up checking of
ordinary non-Julian date inputs to forbid references to "year zero".
Per bug #5672 from Benjamin Gigot.
2010-09-22 23:48:07 -04:00
Magnus Hagander fe9b36fd59 Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:04 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 9f2e211386 Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Tom Lane f679cfe97b Replace last remaining $Id$ with $PostgreSQL$. 2010-09-19 16:27:17 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 418039d3af Process options from the startup packed in walsender. Only few options
make sense for walsender, but for example application_name and client_encoding
do. We still don't apply per-role settings from pg_db_role_setting, because
that would require connecting to a database to read the table.

Fujii Masao
2010-09-13 09:00:30 +00:00
Joe Conway 5eb15c9942 SERIALIZABLE transactions are actually implemented beneath the covers with
transaction snapshots, i.e. a snapshot registered at the beginning of
a transaction. Change variable naming and comments to reflect this reality
in preparation for a future, truly serializable mode, e.g.
Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI).

For the moment transaction snapshots are still used to implement
SERIALIZABLE, but hopefully not for too much longer. Patch by Kevin
Grittner and Dan Ports with review and some minor wording changes by me.
2010-09-11 18:38:58 +00:00
Tom Lane 8d8d5cb612 Pad the ps_status display with nulls, not blanks, on Darwin.
A long time ago, this didn't work nicely, but it seems to work on all recent
versions of OS X.  The blank-pad method is less desirable since it results
in lots of extra space in ps' output.  Per Alexey Klyukin.
2010-09-04 17:45:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 303696c3b4 Install a data-type-based solution for protecting pg_get_expr().
Since the code underlying pg_get_expr() is not secure against malformed
input, and can't practically be made so, we need to prevent miscreants
from feeding arbitrary data to it.  We can do this securely by declaring
pg_get_expr() to take a new datatype "pg_node_tree" and declaring the
system catalog columns that hold nodeToString output to be of that type.
There is no way at SQL level to create a non-null value of type pg_node_tree.
Since the backend-internal operations that fill those catalog columns
operate below the SQL level, they are oblivious to the datatype relabeling
and don't need any changes.
2010-09-03 01:34:55 +00:00
Tom Lane 9513918c6c Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly by
SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache.

In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry
whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry.  This caused problems
at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report
from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of
unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model.

The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good
thing anyway from a structural perspective.  The cost is that we have to
search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed.  There
are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear
it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries
in typical operation.

Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area.
The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given
that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in
the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
2010-09-02 03:16:46 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro 49b27ab551 Add string functions: concat(), concat_ws(), left(), right(), and reverse().
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by me.
2010-08-24 06:30:44 +00:00
Tom Lane 95cacd1345 Use a non-locale-dependent definition of isspace() in array_in/array_out.
array_in discards unquoted leading and trailing whitespace in array values,
while array_out is careful to quote array elements that contain whitespace.
This is problematic when the definition of "whitespace" varies between
locales: array_in could drop characters that were meant to be part of the
value.  To avoid that, lock down "whitespace" to mean only the traditional
six ASCII space characters.

This change also works around a bug in OS X and some older BSD systems, in
which isspace() could return true for character fragments in UTF8 locales.
(There may be other places in PG where that bug could cause problems, but
this is the only one complained of so far; see recent report from Steven
Schlansker.)

Back-patch to 9.0, but not further.  Given the lack of previous reports
of trouble, changing this behavior in stable branches seems to offer
more risk of breaking applications than reward of avoiding problems.
2010-08-21 16:55:51 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 946045f04d Add vacuum and analyze counters to pg_stat_*_tables views. 2010-08-21 10:59:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 79dc97a401 Bring some sanity to the trace_recovery_messages code and docs.
Per gripe from Fujii Masao, though this is not exactly his proposed patch.
Categorize as DEVELOPER_OPTIONS and set context PGC_SIGHUP, as per Fujii,
but set the default to LOG because higher values aren't really sensible
(see the code for trace_recovery()).  Fix the documentation to agree with
the code and to try to explain what the variable actually does.  Get rid
of no-op calls trace_recovery(LOG), which accomplish nothing except to
demonstrate that this option confuses even its author.
2010-08-19 22:55:01 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 3f11971916 Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines
at end of files.
2010-08-19 05:57:36 +00:00
Tom Lane 2d8314bd43 Rename utf2ucs() to utf8_to_unicode(), and export it so it can be used
elsewhere.

Similarly rename the version in mbprint.c, not because this affects anything
but just to keep the two copies in exact sync.  There was some discussion of
having only one copy in src/port/ instead, but this function is so small
and unlikely to change that that seems like overkill.

Slightly editorialized version of a patch by Joseph Adams.  (The bug-fix
aspect of his patch was applied separately, and back-patched.)
2010-08-18 19:54:01 +00:00
Tom Lane ee0e525bfc Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and the
socket lockfile) when writing them.  The lack of an fsync here may well
explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents,
which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a
new server from starting if the old one crashes.  Per suggestion from
Alvaro.

Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-08-16 17:32:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 41b810fe32 Fix \ef and \sf to not fail on functions with nonnull probin.
Update comment about them in pg_get_functiondef.
2010-08-14 14:20:35 +00:00
Robert Haas 27f145a40e Further dtrace adjustments for the backend-IDs-in-relpath patch.
Update the documentation, and back out a few ill-considered changes
whose folly I failed to realize for failure to read the documentation.
2010-08-14 02:22:10 +00:00
Robert Haas 105d4c5ffe Fix assorted dtrace breakage caused by patch to include backend IDs
in temp relpaths.

Per buildfarm.
2010-08-13 22:54:17 +00:00
Robert Haas debcec7dc3 Include the backend ID in the relpath of temporary relations.
This allows us to reliably remove all leftover temporary relation
files on cluster startup without reference to system catalogs or WAL;
therefore, we no longer include temporary relations in XLOG_XACT_COMMIT
and XLOG_XACT_ABORT WAL records.

Since these changes require including a backend ID in each
SharedInvalSmgrMsg, the size of the SharedInvalidationMessage.id
field has been reduced from two bytes to one, and the maximum number
of connections has been reduced from INT_MAX / 4 to 2^23-1.  It would
be possible to remove these restrictions by increasing the size of
SharedInvalidationMessage by 4 bytes, but right now that doesn't seem
like a good trade-off.

Review by Jaime Casanova and Tom Lane.
2010-08-13 20:10:54 +00:00