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Tom Lane 0bb51aa967 Improve parsetree representation of special functions such as CURRENT_DATE.
We implement a dozen or so parameterless functions that the SQL standard
defines special syntax for.  Up to now, that was done by converting them
into more or less ad-hoc constructs such as "'now'::text::date".  That's
messy for multiple reasons: it exposes what should be implementation
details to users, and performance is worse than it needs to be in several
cases.  To improve matters, invent a new expression node type
SQLValueFunction that can represent any of these parameterless functions.

Bump catversion because this changes stored parsetrees for rules.

Discussion: <30058.1463091294@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-16 20:33:01 -04:00
Tom Lane ed0097e4f9 Add SQL-accessible functions for inspecting index AM properties.
Per discussion, we should provide such functions to replace the lost
ability to discover AM properties by inspecting pg_am (cf commit
65c5fcd35).  The added functionality is also meant to displace any code
that was looking directly at pg_index.indoption, since we'd rather not
believe that the bit meanings in that field are part of any client API
contract.

As future-proofing, define the SQL API to not assume that properties that
are currently AM-wide or index-wide will remain so unless they logically
must be; instead, expose them only when inquiring about a specific index
or even specific index column.  Also provide the ability for an index
AM to override the behavior.

In passing, document pg_am.amtype, overlooked in commit 473b93287.

Andrew Gierth, with kibitzing by me and others

Discussion: <87mvl5on7n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
2016-08-13 18:31:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 95bee941be Fix misestimation of n_distinct for a nearly-unique column with many nulls.
If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the
column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries
are all distinct.  But what this value actually means is that the number
of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was
overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there
are.  This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example
in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh.  We should discount the
stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be.
(That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for
a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just
inconsistent.)

In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different
ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct()
forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique
index.  Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume
that the null fraction doesn't apply.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  Back-patching is a bit of a judgment
call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have
identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that
destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely.

Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed

Report: <VisenaEmail.26.df42f82acae38a58.156463942b8@tc7-visena>
Discussion: <16143.1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-07 18:52:02 -04:00
Tom Lane a3c7a993d5 Make INSERT-from-multiple-VALUES-rows handle targetlist indirection better.
Previously, if an INSERT with multiple rows of VALUES had indirection
(array subscripting or field selection) in its target-columns list, the
parser handled that by applying transformAssignedExpr() to each element
of each VALUES row independently.  This led to having ArrayRef assignment
nodes or FieldStore nodes in each row of the VALUES RTE.  That works for
simple cases, but in bug #14265 Nuri Boardman points out that it fails
if there are multiple assignments to elements/fields of the same target
column.  For such cases to work, rewriteTargetListIU() has to nest the
ArrayRefs or FieldStores together to produce a single expression to be
assigned to the column.  But it failed to find them in the top-level
targetlist and issued an error about "multiple assignments to same column".

We could possibly fix this by teaching the rewriter to apply
rewriteTargetListIU to each VALUES row separately, but that would be messy
(it would change the output rowtype of the VALUES RTE, for example) and
inefficient.  Instead, let's fix the parser so that the VALUES RTE outputs
are just the user-specified values, cast to the right type if necessary,
and then the ArrayRefs or FieldStores are applied in the top-level
targetlist to Vars representing the RTE's outputs.  This is the same
parsetree representation already used for similar cases with INSERT/SELECT
syntax, so it allows simplifications in ruleutils.c, which no longer needs
to treat INSERT-from-multiple-VALUES as its own special case.

This implementation works by applying transformAssignedExpr to the VALUES
entries as before, and then stripping off any ArrayRefs or FieldStores it
adds.  With lots of VALUES rows it would be noticeably more efficient to
not add those nodes in the first place.  But that's just an optimization
not a bug fix, and there doesn't seem to be any good way to do it without
significant refactoring.  (A non-invasive answer would be to apply
transformAssignedExpr + stripping to just the first VALUES row, and then
just forcibly cast remaining rows to the same data types exposed in the
first row.  But this way would lead to different, not-INSERT-specific
errors being reported in casting failure cases, so it doesn't seem very
nice.)  So leave that for later; this patch at least isn't making the
per-row parsing work worse, and it does make the finished parsetree
smaller, saving rewriter and planner work.

Catversion bump because stored rules containing such INSERTs would need
to change.  Because of that, no back-patch, even though this is a very
long-standing bug.

Report: <20160727005725.7438.26021@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
Discussion: <9578.1469645245@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-03 16:37:03 -04:00
Fujii Masao dd5eb805d5 Remove unused arguments from pg_replication_origin_xact_reset function.
The document specifies that pg_replication_origin_xact_reset function
doesn't have any argument variables. But previously it was actually
defined so as to have two argument variables, though they were not
used at all. That is, the pg_proc entry for that function was incorrect.
This patch fixes the pg_proc entry and removes those two arguments
from the function definition.

No back-patch because this change needs a catalog version bump
although the issue exists in 9.5 as well. Instead, a note about those
unused argument variables will be added to 9.5 document later.

Catalog version bumped due to the change of pg_proc.
2016-08-02 02:43:17 +09:00
Tom Lane 99dd8b05aa Advance PG_CONTROL_VERSION.
This should have been done in commit 73c986adde which added several
new fields to pg_control, and again in commit 5028f22f6e which
changed the CRC algorithm, but it wasn't.  It's far too late to fix it in
the 9.5 branch, but let's do so in 9.6, so that if a 9.6 postmaster is
started against a 9.4-era pg_control it will complain about a versioning
problem rather than a CRC failure.  We already forced initdb/pg_upgrade
for beta3, so there's no downside to doing this now.

Discussion: <7615.1468598094@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-16 12:49:14 -04:00
Fujii Masao 60d50769b7 Rename pg_stat_wal_receiver.conn_info to conninfo.
Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, conninfo is better as the column name
because it's more commonly used in PostgreSQL.

Catalog version bumped due to the change of pg_proc.

Author: Michael Paquier
2016-07-07 12:59:39 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 9ed551e0a4 Add conninfo to pg_stat_wal_receiver
Commit b1a9bad9e7 introduced a stats view to provide insight into the
running WAL receiver, but neglected to include the connection string in
it, as reported by Michaël Paquier.  This commit fixes that omission.
(Any security-sensitive information is not disclosed).

While at it, close the mild security hole that we were exposing the
password in the connection string in shared memory.  This isn't
user-accessible, but it still looks like a good idea to avoid having the
cleartext password in memory.

Author: Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Review by: Vik Fearing

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqStg4M561obo7ryZ5G+fUydG4v1Ajs1xZT1ujtu+woRag@mail.gmail.com
2016-06-29 16:57:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 19e972d558 Rethink node-level representation of partial-aggregation modes.
The original coding had three separate booleans representing partial
aggregation behavior, which was confusing, unreadable, and error-prone,
not least because the booleans weren't always listed in the same order.
It was also inadequate for the allegedly-desirable future extension to
support intermediate partial aggregation, because we'd need separate
markers for serialization and deserialization in such a case.

Merge these bools into an enum "AggSplit" to provide symbolic names for
the supported operating modes (and document what those are).  By assigning
the values of the enum constants carefully, we can treat AggSplit values
as options bitmasks so that tests of what to do aren't noticeably more
expensive than before.

While at it, get rid of Aggref.aggoutputtype.  That's not needed since
commit 59a3795c2 got rid of setrefs.c's special-purpose Aggref comparison
code, and it likewise seemed more confusing than helpful.

Assorted comment cleanup as well (there's still more that I want to do
in that line).

catversion bump for change in Aggref node contents.  Should be the last
one for partial-aggregation changes.

Discussion: <29309.1466699160@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-26 14:33:38 -04:00
Tom Lane f8ace5477e Fix type-safety problem with parallel aggregate serial/deserialization.
The original specification for this called for the deserialization function
to have signature "deserialize(serialtype) returns transtype", which is a
security violation if transtype is INTERNAL (which it always would be in
practice) and serialtype is not (which ditto).  The patch blithely overrode
the opr_sanity check for that, which was sloppy-enough work in itself,
but the indisputable reason this cannot be allowed to stand is that CREATE
FUNCTION will reject such a signature and thus it'd be impossible for
extensions to create parallelizable aggregates.

The minimum fix to make the signature type-safe is to add a second, dummy
argument of type INTERNAL.  But to lock it down a bit more and make misuse
of INTERNAL-accepting functions less likely, let's get rid of the ability
to specify a "serialtype" for an aggregate and just say that the only
useful serialtype is BYTEA --- which, in practice, is the only interesting
value anyway, due to the usefulness of the send/recv infrastructure for
this purpose.  That means we only have to allow "serialize(internal)
returns bytea" and "deserialize(bytea, internal) returns internal" as
the signatures for these support functions.

In passing fix bogus signature of int4_avg_combine, which I found thanks
to adding an opr_sanity check on combinefunc signatures.

catversion bump due to removing pg_aggregate.aggserialtype and adjusting
signatures of assorted built-in functions.

David Rowley and Tom Lane

Discussion: <27247.1466185504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-22 16:52:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 915b703e16 Fix handling of argument and result datatypes for partial aggregation.
When doing partial aggregation, the args list of the upper (combining)
Aggref node is replaced by a Var representing the output of the partial
aggregation steps, which has either the aggregate's transition data type
or a serialized representation of that.  However, nodeAgg.c blindly
continued to use the args list as an indication of the user-level argument
types.  This broke resolution of polymorphic transition datatypes at
executor startup (though it accidentally failed to fail for the ANYARRAY
case, which is likely the only one anyone had tested).  Moreover, the
constructed FuncExpr passed to the finalfunc contained completely wrong
information, which would have led to bogus answers or crashes for any case
where the finalfunc examined that information (which is only likely to be
with polymorphic aggregates using a non-polymorphic transition type).

As an independent bug, apply_partialaggref_adjustment neglected to resolve
a polymorphic transition datatype before assigning it as the output type
of the lower-level Aggref node.  This again accidentally failed to fail
for ANYARRAY but would be unlikely to work in other cases.

To fix the first problem, record the user-level argument types in a
separate OID-list field of Aggref, and look to that rather than the args
list when asking what the argument types were.  (It turns out to be
convenient to include any "direct" arguments in this list too, although
those are not currently subject to being overwritten.)

Rather than adding yet another resolve_aggregate_transtype() call to fix
the second problem, add an aggtranstype field to Aggref, and store the
resolved transition type OID there when the planner first computes it.
(By doing this in the planner and not the parser, we can allow the
aggregate's transition type to change from time to time, although no DDL
support yet exists for that.)  This saves nothing of consequence for
simple non-polymorphic aggregates, but for polymorphic transition types
we save a catalog lookup during executor startup as well as several
planner lookups that are new in 9.6 due to parallel query planning.

In passing, fix an error that was introduced into count_agg_clauses_walker
some time ago: it was applying exprTypmod() to something that wasn't an
expression node at all, but a TargetEntry.  exprTypmod silently returned
-1 so that there was not an obvious failure, but this broke the intended
sensitivity of aggregate space consumption estimates to the typmod of
varchar and similar data types.  This part needs to be back-patched.

Catversion bump due to change of stored Aggref nodes.

Discussion: <8229.1466109074@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-17 21:44:37 -04:00
Robert Haas 71d05a2c7b pg_visibility: Add pg_truncate_visibility_map function.
This requires some core changes as well so that we can properly
WAL-log the truncation.  Specifically, it changes the format of the
XLOG_SMGR_TRUNCATE WAL record, so bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.

Patch by me, reviewed but not fully endorsed by Andres Freund.
2016-06-17 17:37:30 -04:00
Robert Haas c7a25c242f Mark some functions parallel-unsafe.
currtid() and currtid2() call GetLatestSnapshot(), which fails in
parallel mode.  pg_export_snapshot() calls ExportSnapshot() which
attempts to assign an XID for the current transaction if it does not
already have one; that, too, will fail in parallel mode.

Andreas Seltenreich
2016-06-15 11:40:07 -04:00
Tom Lane cae1c788b9 Improve the situation for parallel query versus temp relations.
Transmit the leader's temp-namespace state to workers.  This is important
because without it, the workers do not really have the same search path
as the leader.  For example, there is no good reason (and no extant code
either) to prevent a worker from executing a temp function that the
leader created previously; but as things stood it would fail to find the
temp function, and then either fail or execute the wrong function entirely.

We still prohibit a worker from creating a temp namespace on its own.
In effect, a worker can only see the session's temp namespace if the leader
had created it before starting the worker, which seems like the right
semantics.

Also, transmit the leader's BackendId to workers, and arrange for workers
to use that when determining the physical file path of a temp relation
belonging to their session.  While the original intent was to prevent such
accesses entirely, there were a number of holes in that, notably in places
like dbsize.c which assume they can safely access temp rels of other
sessions anyway.  We might as well get this right, as a small down payment
on someday allowing workers to access the leader's temp tables.  (With
this change, directly using "MyBackendId" as a relation or buffer backend
ID is deprecated; you should use BackendIdForTempRelations() instead.
I left a couple of such uses alone though, as they're not going to be
reachable in parallel workers until we do something about localbuf.c.)

Move the thou-shalt-not-access-thy-leader's-temp-tables prohibition down
into localbuf.c, which is where it actually matters, instead of having it
in relation_open().  This amounts to recognizing that access to temp
tables' catalog entries is perfectly safe in a worker, it's only the data
in local buffers that is problematic.

Having done all that, we can get rid of the test in has_parallel_hazard()
that says that use of a temp table's rowtype is unsafe in parallel workers.
That test was unduly expensive, and if we really did need such a
prohibition, that was not even close to being a bulletproof guard for it.
(For example, any user-defined function executed in a parallel worker
might have attempted such access.)
2016-06-09 20:16:11 -04:00
Robert Haas 4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 7feb60c1bb Clarify documentation of ceil/ceiling/floor functions.
Document these as "nearest integer >= argument" and "nearest integer <=
argument", which will hopefully be less confusing than the old formulation.
New wording is from Matlab via Dean Rasheed.

I changed the pg_description entries as well as the SGML docs.  In the
back branches, this will only affect installations initdb'd in the future,
but it should be harmless otherwise.

Discussion: <CAEZATCW3yzJo-NMSiQs5jXNFbTsCEftZS-Og8=FvFdiU+kYuSA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-09 11:58:00 -04:00
Tom Lane 16ea51a263 Pin the built-in index access methods.
This was overlooked in commit 473b93287, which introduced DROP ACCESS
METHOD.  Although that command is restricted to superusers, we don't want
even superusers dropping the built-in methods; "DROP ACCESS METHOD btree"
in particular is unrecoverable from.  Pin these objects in the same way
that other initdb-created objects are pinned.

I chose to bump catversion for this fix.  That's not absolutely necessary
perhaps, but it will ensure that no 9.6 production systems are missing
the pin entries.
2016-05-19 14:40:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 1a2c17f8e2 Fix pg_upgrade to not fail when new-cluster TOAST rules differ from old.
This patch essentially reverts commit 4c6780fd17, in favor of a much
simpler solution for the case where the new cluster would choose to create
a TOAST table but the old cluster doesn't have one: just don't create a
TOAST table.

The existing code failed in at least two different ways if the situation
arose: (1) ALTER TABLE RESET didn't grab an exclusive lock, so that the
lock sanity check in create_toast_table failed; (2) pg_upgrade did not
provide a pg_type OID for the new toast table, so that the crosscheck in
TypeCreate failed.  While both these problems were introduced by later
patches, they show that the hack being used to cause TOAST table creation
is overwhelmingly fragile (and untested).  I also note that before the
TypeCreate crosscheck was added, the code would have resulted in assigning
an indeterminate pg_type OID to the toast table, possibly causing a later
OID conflict in that catalog; so that it didn't really work even when
committed.

If we simply don't create a TOAST table, there will only be a problem if
the code tries to store a tuple that's wider than a page, and field
compression isn't sufficient to get it under a page.  Given that the TOAST
creation threshold is intended to be about a quarter of a page, it's very
hard to believe that cross-version differences in the do-we-need-a-toast-
table heuristic could result in an observable problem.  So let's just
follow the old version's conclusion about whether a TOAST table is needed.

(If we ever do change needs_toast_table() so much that this conclusion
doesn't apply, we can devise a solution at that time, and hopefully do
it in a less klugy way than 4c6780fd17 did.)

Back-patch to 9.3, like the previous patch.

Discussion: <8110.1462291671@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-06 22:05:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b9a234432 Rename tsvector delete() to ts_delete(), and filter() to ts_filter().
The similarity of the original names to SQL keywords seems like a bad
idea.  Rename them before we're stuck with 'em forever.

In passing, minor code and docs cleanup.

Discussion: <4875.1462210058@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-05 19:43:32 -04:00
Robert Haas 9888b34fdb Fix more things to be parallel-safe.
Conversion functions were previously marked as parallel-unsafe, since
that is the default, but in fact they are safe.  Parallel-safe
functions defined in pg_proc.h and redefined in system_views.sql were
ending up as parallel-unsafe because the redeclarations were not
marked PARALLEL SAFE.  While editing system_views.sql, mark ts_debug()
parallel safe also.

Andreas Karlsson
2016-05-03 14:36:38 -04:00
Robert Haas 37d0c2cb1a Fix parallel safety markings for pg_start_backup.
Commit 7117685461 made pg_start_backup
parallel-restricted rather than parallel-safe, because it now relies
on backend-private state that won't be synchronized with the parallel
worker.  However, it didn't update pg_proc.h.  Separately, Andreas
Karlsson observed that system_views.sql neglected to reiterate the
parallel-safety markings whe redefining various functions, including
this one; so add a PARALLEL RESTRICTED declaration there to match
the new value in pg_proc.h.
2016-05-02 10:42:34 -04:00
Stephen Frost 7a542700df Create default roles
This creates an initial set of default roles which administrators may
use to grant access to, historically, superuser-only functions.  Using
these roles instead of granting superuser access reduces the number of
superuser roles required for a system.  Documention for each of the
default roles has been added to user-manag.sgml.

Bump catversion to 201604082, as we had a commit that bumped it to
201604081 and another that set it back to 201604071...

Reviews by José Luis Tallón and Robert Haas
2016-04-08 16:56:27 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 8b99edefca Revert CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING ...
It's not ready yet, revert two commits
690c543550 - unstable test output
386e3d7609 - patch itself
2016-04-08 21:52:13 +03:00
Robert Haas af025eed53 Add combine functions for various floating-point aggregates.
This allows parallel aggregation to use them.  It may seem surprising
that we use float8_combine for both float4_accum and float8_accum
transition functions, but that's because those functions differ only
in the type of the non-transition-state argument.

Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by David Rowley and Tomas Vondra
2016-04-08 13:47:06 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 386e3d7609 CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING (column[, ...])
Now indexes (but only B-tree for now) can contain "extra" column(s) which
doesn't participate in index structure, they are just stored in leaf
tuples. It allows to use index only scan by using single index instead
of two or more indexes.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with minor editorializing by me
Reviewers: David Rowley, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Janes
2016-04-08 19:45:59 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev bb140506df Phrase full text search.
Patch introduces new text search operator (<-> or <DISTANCE>) into tsquery.
On-disk and binary in/out format of tsquery are backward compatible.
It has two side effect:
- change order for tsquery, so, users, who has a btree index over tsquery,
  should reindex it
- less number of parenthesis in tsquery output, and tsquery becomes more
  readable

Authors: Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Dmitry Ivanov
Reviewers: Alexander Korotkov, Artur Zakirov
2016-04-07 18:44:18 +03:00
Stephen Frost 29dd1504a1 Bump catversion for pg_dump dump catalog ACL patches
Pointed out by Tom.
2016-04-06 23:04:48 -04:00
Stephen Frost 23f34fa4ba In pg_dump, include pg_catalog and extension ACLs, if changed
Now that all of the infrastructure exists, add in the ability to
dump out the ACLs of the objects inside of pg_catalog or the ACLs
for objects which are members of extensions, but only if they have
been changed from their original values.

The original values are tracked in pg_init_privs.  When pg_dump'ing
9.6-and-above databases, we will dump out the ACLs for all objects
in pg_catalog and the ACLs for all extension members, where the ACL
has been changed from the original value which was set during either
initdb or CREATE EXTENSION.

This should not change dumps against pre-9.6 databases.

Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
2016-04-06 21:45:32 -04:00
Stephen Frost 6c268df127 Add new catalog called pg_init_privs
This new catalog holds the privileges which the system was
initialized with at initdb time, along with any permissions set
by extensions at CREATE EXTENSION time.  This allows pg_dump
(and any other similar use-cases) to detect when the privileges
set on initdb-created or extension-created objects have been
changed from what they were set to at initdb/extension-creation
time and handle those changes appropriately.

Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
2016-04-06 21:45:32 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 0b62fd036e Add jsonb_insert
It inserts a new value into an jsonb array at arbitrary position or
a new key to jsonb object.

Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Vitaly Burovoy, Andrew Dunstan
2016-04-06 19:25:00 +03:00
Simon Riggs 3fe3511d05 Generic Messages for Logical Decoding
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are
intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional
new callback to the logical decoding API.

Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and
are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins.

(Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash
recovery of extensible objects.)

Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund
Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
2016-04-06 10:05:41 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera f2fcad27d5 Support ALTER THING .. DEPENDS ON EXTENSION
This introduces a new dependency type which marks an object as depending
on an extension, such that if the extension is dropped, the object
automatically goes away; and also, if the database is dumped, the object
is included in the dump output.  Currently the grammar supports this for
indexes, triggers, materialized views and functions only, although the
utility code is generic so adding support for more object types is a
matter of touching the parser rules only.

Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160115062649.GA5068@toroid.org
2016-04-05 18:38:54 -03:00
Robert Haas 41ea0c2376 Fix parallel-safety code for parallel aggregation.
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for
aggregates, which is no good.  Fix that.  There was no way to mark
an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a
PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE.

Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
2016-04-05 16:06:15 -04:00
Robert Haas 11c8669c0c Add parallel query support functions for assorted aggregates.
This lets us use parallel aggregate for a variety of useful cases
that didn't work before, like sum(int8), sum(numeric), several
versions of avg(), and various other functions.

Add some regression tests, as well, testing the general sanity of
these and future catalog entries.

David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, with a few further changes
by me.
2016-04-05 14:32:53 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 7117685461 Implement backup API functions for non-exclusive backups
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol
and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using
pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can
maintain a persistent connection to the database.

Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from
pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes
the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem
with exclusive backups.

The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the
new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed.

Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs
to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate
large rewrite, it's not included in this patch.

Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
2016-04-05 20:03:49 +02:00
Teodor Sigaev 2d02a856e8 Bump catalog version, forget in acdf2a8b37 2016-03-30 18:56:21 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev acdf2a8b37 Introduce SP-GiST operator class over box.
Patch implements quad-tree over boxes, naive approach of 2D quad tree will not
work for any non-point objects because splitting space on node is not
efficient. The idea of pathc is treating 2D boxes as 4D points, so,
object will not overlap (in 4D space).

The performance tests reveal that this technique especially beneficial
with too much overlapping objects, so called "spaghetti data".

Author: Alexander Lebedev with editorization by Emre Hasegeli and me
2016-03-30 18:42:36 +03:00
Tom Lane e511d878f3 Allow to_timestamp(float8) to convert float infinity to timestamp infinity.
With the original SQL-function implementation, such cases failed because
we don't support infinite intervals.  Converting the function to C lets
us bypass the interval representation, which should be a bit faster as
well as more flexible.

Vitaly Burovoy, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova
2016-03-29 17:09:29 -04:00
Robert Haas 5fe5a2cee9 Allow aggregate transition states to be serialized and deserialized.
This is necessary infrastructure for supporting parallel aggregation
for aggregates whose transition type is "internal".  Such values
can't be passed between cooperating processes, because they are
just pointers.

David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra and by me.
2016-03-29 15:04:05 -04:00
Tom Lane c94959d411 Fix DROP OPERATOR to reset oprcom/oprnegate links to the dropped operator.
This avoids leaving dangling links in pg_operator; which while fairly
harmless are also unsightly.

While we're at it, simplify OperatorUpd, which went through
heap_modify_tuple for no very good reason considering it had already made
a tuple copy it could just scribble on.

Roma Sokolov, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, additional hacking by Robert Haas
and myself.
2016-03-25 12:33:16 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 473b932870 Support CREATE ACCESS METHOD
This enables external code to create access methods.  This is useful so
that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally
tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly.  Also, having
explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly.

Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to
be added in the future.

Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek
Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby
Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-23 23:01:35 -03:00
Robert Haas e06a38965b Support parallel aggregation.
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the
transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial
results to produce the final answer.

David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi.  Reviewed by
Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
2016-03-21 09:30:18 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b555ed8102 Merge wal_level "archive" and "hot_standby" into new name "replica"
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because
at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about
stability.  This is now a long time ago.  We would like to move forward
with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is
in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a
standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the
appropriate level.

Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it
covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses.  The old values
are still accepted but are converted internally.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2016-03-18 23:56:03 +01:00
Teodor Sigaev 3187d6de0e Introduce parse_ident()
SQL-layer function to split qualified identifier into array parts.

Author: Pavel Stehule with minor editorization by me and Jim Nasby
2016-03-18 18:16:14 +03:00
Robert Haas c16dc1aca5 Add simple VACUUM progress reporting.
There's a lot more that could be done here yet - in particular, this
reports only very coarse-grained information about the index vacuuming
phase - but even as it stands, the new pg_stat_progress_vacuum can
tell you quite a bit about what a long-running vacuum is actually
doing.

Amit Langote and Robert Haas, based on earlier work by Vinayak Pokale
and Rahila Syed.
2016-03-15 13:32:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 2da7549987 pg_stat_get_progress_info() should be marked STRICT.
I didn't bother with a catversion bump.

Report and patch by Thomas Munro
2016-03-14 12:51:55 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev a9eb6c83ef Bump catalog version missed in 6943a946c7 2016-03-11 19:31:04 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev 6943a946c7 Tsvector editing functions
Adds several tsvector editting function: convert tsvector to/from text array,
set weight for given lexemes, delete lexeme(s), unnest, filter lexemes
with given weights

Author: Stas Kelvich with some editorization by me
Reviewers: Tomas Vondram, Teodor Sigaev
2016-03-11 19:22:36 +03:00
Robert Haas 53be0b1add Provide much better wait information in pg_stat_activity.
When a process is waiting for a heavyweight lock, we will now indicate
the type of heavyweight lock for which it is waiting.  Also, you can
now see when a process is waiting for a lightweight lock - in which
case we will indicate the individual lock name or the tranche, as
appropriate - or for a buffer pin.

Amit Kapila, Ildus Kurbangaliev, reviewed by me.  Lots of helpful
discussion and suggestions by many others, including Alexander
Korotkov, Vladimir Borodin, and many others.
2016-03-10 12:44:09 -05:00
Robert Haas b6fb6471f6 Add a generic command progress reporting facility.
Using this facility, any utility command can report the target relation
upon which it is operating, if there is one, and up to 10 64-bit
counters; the intent of this is that users should be able to figure out
what a utility command is doing without having to resort to ugly hacks
like attaching strace to a backend.

As a demonstration, this adds very crude reporting to lazy vacuum; we
just report the target relation and nothing else.  A forthcoming patch
will make VACUUM report a bunch of additional data that will make this
much more interesting.  But this gets the basic framework in place.

Vinayak Pokale, Rahila Syed, Amit Langote, Robert Haas, reviewed by
Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jim Nasby, Thom Brown, Masahiko Sawada, Fujii Masao,
and Masanori Oyama.
2016-03-09 12:08:58 -05:00
Joe Conway dc7d70ea05 Expose control file data via SQL accessible functions.
Add four new SQL accessible functions: pg_control_system(),
pg_control_checkpoint(), pg_control_recovery(), and pg_control_init()
which expose a subset of the control file data.

Along the way move the code to read and validate the control file to
src/common, where it can be shared by the new backend functions
and the original pg_controldata frontend program.

Patch by me, significant input, testing, and review by Michael Paquier.
2016-03-05 11:10:19 -08:00
Tom Lane eb43e851d6 Create stub functions to support pg_upgrade of old contrib/tsearch2.
Commits 9ff60273e3 and dbe2328959 adjusted the declarations
of some core functions referenced by contrib/tsearch2's install script,
forgetting that in a pg_upgrade situation, we'll be trying to restore
operator class definitions that reference the old signatures.  We've
hit this problem before; solve it in the same way as before, namely by
installing stub functions that have the expected signature and just
invoke the correct function.  Per report from Jeff Janes.

(Someday we ought to stop supporting contrib/tsearch2, but I'm not
sure today is that day.)
2016-03-02 17:37:54 -05:00
Robert Haas a892234f83 Change the format of the VM fork to add a second bit per page.
The new bit indicates whether every tuple on the page is already frozen.
It is cleared only when the all-visible bit is cleared, and it can be
set only when we vacuum a page and find that every tuple on that page is
both visible to every transaction and in no need of any future
vacuuming.

A future commit will use this new bit to optimize away full-table scans
that would otherwise be triggered by XID wraparound considerations.  A
page which is merely all-visible must still be scanned in that case, but
a page which is all-frozen need not be.  This commit does not attempt
that optimization, although that optimization is the goal here.  It
seems better to get the basic infrastructure in place first.

Per discussion, it's very desirable for pg_upgrade to automatically
migrate existing VM forks from the old format to the new format.  That,
too, will be handled in a follow-on patch.

Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao, Amit
Kapila, Simon Riggs, Andres Freund, and others, and substantially
revised by me.
2016-03-01 21:49:41 -05:00
Tom Lane 52f5d578d6 Create a function to reliably identify which sessions block which others.
This patch introduces "pg_blocking_pids(int) returns int[]", which returns
the PIDs of any sessions that are blocking the session with the given PID.
Historically people have obtained such information using a self-join on
the pg_locks view, but it's unreasonably tedious to do it that way with any
modicum of correctness, and the addition of parallel queries has pretty
much broken that approach altogether.  (Given some more columns in the view
than there are today, you could imagine handling parallel-query cases with
a 4-way join; but ugh.)

The new function has the following behaviors that are painful or impossible
to get right via pg_locks:

1. Correctly understands which lock modes block which other ones.

2. In soft-block situations (two processes both waiting for conflicting lock
modes), only the one that's in front in the wait queue is reported to
block the other.

3. In parallel-query cases, reports all sessions blocking any member of
the given PID's lock group, and reports a session by naming its leader
process's PID, which will be the pg_backend_pid() value visible to
clients.

The motivation for doing this right now is mostly to fix the isolation
tests.  Commit 38f8bdcac4 lobotomized
isolationtester's is-it-waiting query by removing its ability to recognize
nonconflicting lock modes, as a crude workaround for the inability to
handle soft-block situations properly.  But even without the lock mode
tests, the old query was excessively slow, particularly in
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS builds; some of our buildfarm animals fail the new
deadlock-hard test because the deadlock timeout elapses before they can
probe the waiting status of all eight sessions.  Replacing the pg_locks
self-join with use of pg_blocking_pids() is not only much more correct, but
a lot faster: I measure it at about 9X faster in a typical dev build with
Asserts, and 3X faster in CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS builds.  That should provide
enough headroom for the slower CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS animals to pass the
test, without having to lengthen deadlock_timeout yet more and thus slow
down the test for everyone else.
2016-02-22 14:31:43 -05:00
Dean Rasheed 53874c5228 Add pg_size_bytes() to parse human-readable size strings.
This will parse strings in the format produced by pg_size_pretty() and
return sizes in bytes. This allows queries to be written with clauses
like "pg_total_relation_size(oid) > pg_size_bytes('10 GB')".

Author: Pavel Stehule with various improvements by Vitaly Burovoy
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFj8pRD-tGoDKnxdYgECzA4On01_uRqPrwF-8LdkSE-6bDHp0w@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Burovoy, Oleksandr Shulgin, Kyotaro Horiguchi,
    Michael Paquier and Robert Haas
2016-02-20 09:57:27 +00:00
Joe Conway a5c43b8869 Add new system view, pg_config
Move and refactor the underlying code for the pg_config client
application to src/common in support of sharing it with a new
system information SRF called pg_config() which makes the same
information available via SQL. Additionally wrap the SRF with a
new system view, as called pg_config.

Patch by me with extensive input and review by Michael Paquier
and additional review by Alvaro Herrera.
2016-02-17 09:12:06 -08:00
Joe Conway 851636bfda Move DATA entry to correct position
In commit 7b4bfc87 the DATA and DESCR entries for the new
row_security_active() function were inadvertantly put after
the PROVOLATILE defines, rather than before as they should
have been placed. Move them up where they belong.

Backpatch to 9.5 where the new entries were introduced.
2016-02-15 16:38:47 -08:00
Tom Lane d4c3a156cb Remove GROUP BY columns that are functionally dependent on other columns.
If a GROUP BY clause includes all columns of a non-deferred primary key,
as well as other columns of the same relation, those other columns are
redundant and can be dropped from the grouping; the pkey is enough to
ensure that each row of the table corresponds to a separate group.
Getting rid of the excess columns will reduce the cost of the sorting or
hashing needed to implement GROUP BY, and can indeed remove the need for
a sort step altogether.

This seems worth testing for since many query authors are not aware of
the GROUP-BY-primary-key exception to the rule about queries not being
allowed to reference non-grouped-by columns in their targetlists or
HAVING clauses.  Thus, redundant GROUP BY items are not uncommon.  Also,
we can make the test pretty cheap in most queries where it won't help
by not looking up a rel's primary key until we've found that at least
two of its columns are in GROUP BY.

David Rowley, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud
2016-02-11 17:34:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 72eee410d4 Move pg_constraint.h function declarations to new file pg_constraint_fn.h.
A pending patch requires exporting a function returning Bitmapset from
catalog/pg_constraint.c.  As things stand, that would mean including
nodes/bitmapset.h in pg_constraint.h, which might be hazardous for the
client-side includability of that header.  It's not entirely clear whether
any client-side code needs to include pg_constraint.h, but it seems prudent
to assume that there is some such code somewhere.  Therefore, split off the
function definitions into a new file pg_constraint_fn.h, similarly to what
we've done for some other catalog header files.
2016-02-11 15:51:28 -05:00
Robert Haas d89f06f048 Fix parallel-safety markings for pg_upgrade functions.
These establish backend-local state which will not be copied to
parallel workers, so they must be marked parallel-restricted, not
parallel-safe.
2016-02-07 11:45:21 -05:00
Tom Lane 6819514fca Add num_nulls() and num_nonnulls() to count NULL arguments.
An example use-case is "CHECK(num_nonnulls(a,b,c) = 1)" to assert that
exactly one of a,b,c isn't NULL.  The functions are variadic, so they
can also be pressed into service to count the number of null or nonnull
elements in an array.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2016-02-04 23:03:37 -05:00
Robert Haas b47b4dbf68 Extend sortsupport for text to more opclasses.
Have varlena.c expose an interface that allows the char(n), bytea, and
bpchar types to piggyback on a now-generalized SortSupport for text.
This pushes a little more knowledge of the bpchar/char(n) type into
varlena.c than might be preferred, but that seems like the approach
that creates least friction.  Also speed things up for index builds
that use text_pattern_ops or varchar_pattern_ops.

This patch does quite a bit of renaming, but it seems likely to be
worth it, so as to avoid future confusion about the fact that this code
is now more generally used than the old names might have suggested.

Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Álvaro Herrera and Andreas Karlsson,
with small tweaks by me.
2016-02-03 14:29:53 -05:00
Tom Lane 2ad83fff22 Remove unnecessary "implementation of FOO operator" DESCR() entries.
Apparently at least one committer hasn't gotten the word that these do not
need to be maintained by hand, since initdb will create them automatically.
Noted while fixing bug #13905.

No catversion bump since the post-initdb state is exactly the same either
way.  I don't see a need for back-patch, either.
2016-02-02 11:52:27 -05:00
Tom Lane a4627e8fd4 Fix pg_description entries for jsonb_to_record() and jsonb_to_recordset().
All the other jsonb function descriptions refer to the arguments as being
"jsonb", but these two said "json".  Make it consistent.  Per bug #13905
from Petru Florin Mihancea.

No catversion bump --- we can't force one in the back branches, and this
isn't very critical anyway.
2016-02-02 11:39:50 -05:00
Fujii Masao 7f46eaf035 Add gin_clean_pending_list function to clean up GIN pending list
This function cleans up the pending list of the GIN index by
moving entries in it to the main GIN data structure in bulk.
It returns the number of pages cleaned up from the pending list.

This function is useful, for example, when the pending list
needs to be cleaned up *quickly* to improve the performance of
the search using GIN index. VACUUM can do the same thing, too,
but it may take days to run on a large table.

Jeff Janes,
reviewed by Julien Rouhaud, Jaime Casanova, Alvaro Herrera and me.

Discussion: CAMkU=1x8zFkpfnozXyt40zmR3Ub_kHu58LtRmwHUKRgQss7=iQ@mail.gmail.com
2016-01-28 12:57:52 +09:00
Fujii Masao e09507a272 Fix volatility marking of pg_size_pretty function
pg_size_pretty function should be marked immutable rather than volatile
because it always returns the same result given the same argument.

Pavel Stehule
2016-01-27 11:13:31 +09:00
Tom Lane e1bd684a34 Add trigonometric functions that work in degrees.
The implementations go to some lengths to deliver exact results for values
where an exact result can be expected, such as sind(30) = 0.5 exactly.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Michael Paquier
2016-01-22 15:46:22 -05:00
Robert Haas a7de3dc5c3 Support multi-stage aggregation.
Aggregate nodes now have two new modes: a "partial" mode where they
output the unfinalized transition state, and a "finalize" mode where
they accept unfinalized transition states rather than individual
values as input.

These new modes are not used anywhere yet, but they will be necessary
for parallel aggregation.  The infrastructure also figures to be
useful for cases where we want to aggregate local data and remote
data via the FDW interface, and want to bring back partial aggregates
from the remote side that can then be combined with locally generated
partial aggregates to produce the final value.  It may also be useful
even when neither FDWs nor parallelism are in play, as explained in
the comments in nodeAgg.c.

David Rowley and Simon Riggs, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei, Heikki
Linnakangas, Haribabu Kommi, and me.
2016-01-20 13:46:50 -05:00
Tom Lane dbe2328959 Fix assorted inconsistencies in GIN opclass support function declarations.
GIN had some minor issues too, mostly using "internal" where something
else would be more appropriate.  I went with the same approach as in
9ff60273e3, namely preferring the opclass' indexed datatype for
arguments that receive an operator RHS value, even if that's not
necessarily what they really are.

Again, this is with an eye to having a uniform rule for ginvalidate()
to check support function signatures.
2016-01-19 22:32:22 -05:00
Tom Lane 9ff60273e3 Fix assorted inconsistencies in GiST opclass support function declarations.
The conventions specified by the GiST SGML documentation were widely
ignored.  For example, the strategy-number argument for "consistent" and
"distance" functions is specified to be a smallint, but most of the
built-in support functions declared it as an integer, and for that matter
the core code passed it using Int32GetDatum not Int16GetDatum.  None of
that makes any real difference at runtime, but it's quite confusing for
newcomers to the code, and it makes it very hard to write an amvalidate()
function that checks support function signatures.  So let's try to instill
some consistency here.

Another similar issue is that the "query" argument is not of a single
well-defined type, but could have different types depending on the strategy
(corresponding to search operators with different righthand-side argument
types).  Some of the functions threw up their hands and declared the query
argument as being of "internal" type, which surely isn't right ("any" would
have been more appropriate); but the majority position seemed to be to
declare it as being of the indexed data type, corresponding to a search
operator with both input types the same.  So I've specified a convention
that that's what to do always.

Also, the result of the "union" support function actually must be of the
index's storage type, but the documentation suggested declaring it to
return "internal", and some of the functions followed that.  Standardize
on telling the truth, instead.

Similarly, standardize on declaring the "same" function's inputs as
being of the storage type, not "internal".

Also, somebody had forgotten to add the "recheck" argument to both
the documentation of the "distance" support function and all of their
SQL declarations, even though the C code was happily using that argument.
Clean that up too.

Fix up some other omissions in the docs too, such as documenting that
union's second input argument is vestigial.

So far as the errors in core function declarations go, we can just fix
pg_proc.h and bump catversion.  Adjusting the erroneous declarations in
contrib modules is more debatable: in principle any change in those
scripts should involve an extension version bump, which is a pain.
However, since these changes are purely cosmetic and make no functional
difference, I think we can get away without doing that.
2016-01-19 12:04:36 -05:00
Tom Lane 65c5fcd353 Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.
This patch reduces pg_am to just two columns, a name and a handler
function.  All the data formerly obtained from pg_am is now provided
in a C struct returned by the handler function.  This is similar to
the designs we've adopted for FDWs and tablesample methods.  There
are multiple advantages.  For one, the index AM's support functions
are now simple C functions, making them faster to call and much less
error-prone, since the C compiler can now check function signatures.
For another, this will make it far more practical to define index access
methods in installable extensions.

A disadvantage is that SQL-level code can no longer see attributes
of index AMs; in particular, some of the crosschecks in the opr_sanity
regression test are no longer possible from SQL.  We've addressed that
by adding a facility for the index AM to perform such checks instead.
(Much more could be done in that line, but for now we're content if the
amvalidate functions more or less replace what opr_sanity used to do.)
We might also want to expose some sort of reporting functionality, but
this patch doesn't do that.

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, and rather heavily
editorialized on by me.
2016-01-17 19:36:59 -05:00
Simon Riggs e63bb4549a Add new user fn pg_current_xlog_flush_location()
Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Amit Kapila
Minor edits by me
2016-01-12 07:54:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 26d538dc93 Clean up some lack-of-STRICT issues in the core code, too.
A scan for missed proisstrict markings in the core code turned up
these functions:

brin_summarize_new_values
pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters
pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters
pg_create_logical_replication_slot
pg_create_physical_replication_slot
pg_drop_replication_slot

The first three of these take OID, so a null argument will normally look
like a zero to them, resulting in "ERROR: could not open relation with OID
0" for brin_summarize_new_values, and no action for the pg_stat_reset_XXX
functions.  The other three will dump core on a null argument, though this
is mitigated by the fact that they won't do so until after checking that
the caller is superuser or has rolreplication privilege.

In addition, the pg_logical_slot_get/peek[_binary]_changes family was
intentionally marked nonstrict, but failed to make nullness checks on all
the arguments; so again a null-pointer-dereference crash is possible but
only for superusers and rolreplication users.

Add the missing ARGISNULL checks to the latter functions, and mark the
former functions as strict in pg_proc.  Make that change in the back
branches too, even though we can't force initdb there, just so that
installations initdb'd in future won't have the issue.  Since none of these
bugs rise to the level of security issues (and indeed the pg_stat_reset_XXX
functions hardly misbehave at all), it seems sufficient to do this.

In addition, fix some order-of-operations oddities in the slot_get_changes
family, mostly cosmetic, but not the part that moves the function's last
few operations into the PG_TRY block.  As it stood, there was significant
risk for an error to exit without clearing historical information from
the system caches.

The slot_get_changes bugs go back to 9.4 where that code was introduced.
Back-patch appropriate subsets of the pg_proc changes into all active
branches, as well.
2016-01-09 16:58:32 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera b1a9bad9e7 pgstat: add WAL receiver status view & SRF
This new view provides insight into the state of a running WAL receiver
in a HOT standby node.
The information returned includes the PID of the WAL receiver process,
its status (stopped, starting, streaming, etc), start LSN and TLI, last
received LSN and TLI, timestamp of last message send and receipt, latest
end-of-WAL LSN and time, and the name of the slot (if any).

Access to the detailed data is only granted to superusers; others only
get the PID.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewer: Haribabu Kommi
2016-01-07 16:21:19 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera abb1733922 Add scale(numeric)
Author: Marko Tiikkaja
2016-01-05 19:02:13 -03:00
Tom Lane ea0d494dae Make the to_reg*() functions accept text not cstring.
Using cstring as the input type was a poor decision, because that's not
really a full-fledged type.  In particular, it lacks implicit coercions
from text or varchar, meaning that usages like to_regproc('foo'||'bar')
wouldn't work; basically the only case that did work without explicit
casting was a simple literal constant argument.

The lack of field complaints about this suggests that hardly anyone
is using these functions, so hopefully fixing it won't cause much of
a compatibility problem.  They've only been there since 9.4, anyway.

Petr Korobeinikov
2016-01-05 13:02:43 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera efa318bcfa Make pg_shseclabel available in early backend startup
While the in-core authentication mechanism doesn't need to access
pg_shseclabel at all, it's reasonable to think that an authentication
hook will want to look at the label for the role logging in, or for rows
in other catalogs used during the authentication phase of startup.

Catalog version bumped, because this changes the "is nailed" status for
pg_shseclabel.

Author: Adam Brightwell
2016-01-05 14:50:53 -03:00
Bruce Momjian ee94300446 Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Tom Lane 0dab5ef39b Fix ALTER OPERATOR to update dependencies properly.
Fix an oversight in commit 321eed5f0f7563a0: replacing an operator's
selectivity functions needs to result in a corresponding update in
pg_depend.  We have a function that can handle that, but it was not
called by AlterOperator().

To fix this without enlarging pg_operator.h's #include list beyond
what clients can safely include, split off the function definitions
into a new file pg_operator_fn.h, similarly to what we've done for
some other catalog header files.  It's not entirely clear whether
any client-side code needs to include pg_operator.h, but it seems
prudent to assume that there is some such code somewhere.
2015-12-31 17:37:31 -05:00
Joe Conway 241448b23a Rename (new|old)estCommitTs to (new|old)estCommitTsXid
The variables newestCommitTs and oldestCommitTs sound as if they are
timestamps, but in fact they are the transaction Ids that correspond
to the newest and oldest timestamps rather than the actual timestamps.
Rename these variables to reflect that they are actually xids: to wit
newestCommitTsXid and oldestCommitTsXid respectively. Also modify
related code in a similar fashion, particularly the user facing output
emitted by pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog.

Complaint and patch by me, review by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera.
Backpatch to 9.5 where these variables were first introduced.
2015-12-28 12:34:11 -08:00
Tom Lane 074c5cfbfb Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).
The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate
"ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance
hierarchy.  However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check
constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in
bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra.  What we should do instead is to do
a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that
has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries
for inherited instances of the constraint.

Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf,
but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint
field values correctly.

As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to
always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup
to the protections installed by commit 5f173040.

In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused.
(I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that
seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some
other use.)  It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in
place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it.

In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to
pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain
what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was
equally useless).  Again, that change doesn't seem like material for
back-patching.

I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well.

Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-20 14:55:47 -05:00
Robert Haas bc4996e61b Make ALTER .. SET SCHEMA do nothing, instead of throwing an ERROR.
This was already true for CREATE EXTENSION, but historically has not
been true for other object types.  Therefore, this is a backward
incompatibility.  Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, everyone seems to
agree that the new behavior is better.

Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by Haribabu Kommi and myself
2015-11-19 10:49:25 -05:00
Tom Lane c5e86ea932 Add "xid <> xid" and "xid <> int4" operators.
The corresponding "=" operators have been there a long time, and not
having their negators is a bit of a nuisance.

Michael Paquier
2015-11-07 16:40:15 -05:00
Robert Haas a76ef15d9f Add sort support routine for the UUID data type.
This introduces a simple encoding scheme to produce abbreviated keys:
pack as many bytes of each UUID as will fit into a Datum.  On
little-endian machines, a byteswap is also performed; the abbreviated
comparator can therefore just consist of a simple 3-way unsigned integer
comparison.

The purpose of this change is to speed up sorting data on a column
of type UUID.

Peter Geoghegan
2015-11-06 12:14:35 -05:00
Robert Haas 816e336f12 Mark more functions parallel-restricted or parallel-unsafe.
Commit 7aea8e4f2d was overoptimistic
about the degree of safety associated with running various functions
in parallel mode.  Functions that take a table name or OID as an
argument are at least parallel-restricted, because the table might be
temporary, and we currently don't allow parallel workers to touch
temporary tables.  Functions that take a query as an argument are
outright unsafe, because the query could be anything, including a
parallel-unsafe query.

Also, the queue of pending notifications is backend-private, so adding
to it from a worker doesn't behave correctly.  We could fix this by
transferring the worker's queue of pending notifications to the master
during worker cleanup, but that seems like more trouble than it's
worth for now.  In addition to adjusting the pg_proc.h markings, also
add an explicit check for this in async.c.
2015-10-16 11:49:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b852dc4cbd docs: clarify JSONB operator descriptions
No catalog bump as the catalog changes are for SQL operator comments.

Backpatch through 9.5
2015-10-07 09:06:49 -04:00
Stephen Frost 4158cc3793 Do not write out WCOs in Query
The WithCheckOptions list in Query are only populated during rewrite and
do not need to be written out or read in as part of a Query structure.

Further, move WithCheckOptions to the bottom and add comments to clarify
that it is only populated during rewrite.

Back-patch to 9.5 with a catversion bump, as we are still in alpha.
2015-10-05 07:38:58 -04:00
Stephen Frost 088c83363a ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY
To allow users to force RLS to always be applied, even for table owners,
add ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY.

row_security=off overrides FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY, to ensure pg_dump
output is complete (by default).

Also add SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS context to avoid data corruption when
ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW SECURITY is being used. The
SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS security context is used only during referential
integrity checks and is only considered in check_enable_rls() after we
have already checked that the current user is the owner of the relation
(which should always be the case during referential integrity checks).

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
2015-10-04 21:05:08 -04:00
Noah Misch 3cb0a7e75a Make BYPASSRLS behave like superuser RLS bypass.
Specifically, make its effect independent from the row_security GUC, and
make it affect permission checks pertinent to views the BYPASSRLS role
owns.  The row_security GUC thereby ceases to change successful-query
behavior; it can only make a query fail with an error.  Back-patch to
9.5, where BYPASSRLS was introduced.
2015-10-03 20:19:57 -04:00
Robert Haas 7aea8e4f2d Determine whether it's safe to attempt a parallel plan for a query.
Commit 924bcf4f16 introduced a framework
for parallel computation in PostgreSQL that makes most but not all
built-in functions safe to execute in parallel mode.  In order to have
parallel query, we'll need to be able to determine whether that query
contains functions (either built-in or user-defined) that cannot be
safely executed in parallel mode.  This requires those functions to be
labeled, so this patch introduces an infrastructure for that.  Some
functions currently labeled as safe may need to be revised depending on
how pending issues related to heavyweight locking under paralllelism
are resolved.

Parallel plans can't be used except for the case where the query will
run to completion.  If portal execution were suspended, the parallel
mode restrictions would need to remain in effect during that time, but
that might make other queries fail.  Therefore, this patch introduces
a framework that enables consideration of parallel plans only when it
is known that the plan will be run to completion.  This probably needs
some refinement; for example, at bind time, we do not know whether a
query run via the extended protocol will be execution to completion or
run with a limited fetch count.  Having the client indicate its
intentions at bind time would constitute a wire protocol break.  Some
contexts in which parallel mode would be safe are not adjusted by this
patch; the default is not to try parallel plans except from call sites
that have been updated to say that such plans are OK.

This commit doesn't introduce any parallel paths or plans; it just
provides a way to determine whether they could potentially be used.
I'm committing it on the theory that the remaining parallel sequential
scan patches will also get committed to this release, hopefully in the
not-too-distant future.

Robert Haas and Amit Kapila.  Reviewed (in earlier versions) by Noah
Misch.
2015-09-16 15:38:47 -04:00
Andres Freund 6fcd88511f Allow pg_create_physical_replication_slot() to reserve WAL.
When creating a physical slot it's often useful to immediately reserve
the current WAL position instead of only doing after the first feedback
message arrives. That e.g. allows slots to guarantee that all the WAL
for a base backup will be available afterwards.

Logical slots already have to reserve WAL during creation, so generalize
that logic into being usable for both physical and logical slots.

Catversion bump because of the new parameter.

Author: Gurjeet Singh
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: CABwTF4Wh_dBCzTU=49pFXR6coR4NW1ynb+vBqT+Po=7fuq5iCw@mail.gmail.com
2015-08-11 12:34:31 +02:00
Andres Freund 3f811c2d6f Add confirmed_flush column to pg_replication_slots.
There's no reason not to expose both restart_lsn and confirmed_flush
since they have rather distinct meanings. The former is the oldest WAL
still required and valid for both physical and logical slots, whereas
the latter is the location up to which a logical slot's consumer has
confirmed receiving data. Most of the time a slot will require older
WAL (i.e. restart_lsn) than the confirmed
position (i.e. confirmed_flush_lsn).

Author: Marko Tiikkaja, editorialized by me
Discussion: 559D110B.1020109@joh.to
2015-08-10 13:28:18 +02:00
Andres Freund 4eda0a6470 Don't include low level locking code from frontend code.
Some frontend code like e.g. pg_xlogdump or pg_resetxlog, has to use
backend headers. Unfortunately until now that code includes most of the
locking code. It's generally not nice to expose such low level details,
but de6fd1c898 made that a hard problem. We fall back to defining
'inline' away if the compiler doesn't support it - that can cause linker
errors like on buildfarm animal pademelon if a inline function
references backend only code.

To fix that problem separate definitions from lock.h that are required
from frontend code into lockdefs.h and use it in the relevant
places. I've only removed the minimal amount of necessary definitions
for now - it might turn out that we want more for other reasons.

To avoid such details being exposed again put some checks against being
included from frontend code into atomics.h, lock.h, lwlock.h and
s_lock.h. It's otherwise fairly easy to indirectly include these
headers.

Discussion: 20150806070902.GE12214@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-08-07 15:10:56 +02:00
Noah Misch b8fe12a836 Reconcile nodes/*funcs.c with recent work.
A few of the discrepancies had semantic significance, but I did not
track down the resulting user-visible bugs, if any.  Back-patch to 9.5,
where all but one discrepancy appeared.  The _equalCreateEventTrigStmt()
situation dates to 9.3 but does not affect semantics.

catversion bump due to readfuncs.c field order changes.
2015-08-05 20:44:27 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 2834855cb9 Fix BRIN to use SnapshotAny during summarization
For correctness of summarization results, it is critical that the
snapshot used during the summarization scan is able to see all tuples
that are live to all transactions -- including tuples inserted or
deleted by in-progress transactions.  Otherwise, it would be possible
for a transaction to insert a tuple, then idle for a long time while a
concurrent transaction executes summarization of the range: this would
result in the inserted value not being considered in the summary.
Previously we were trying to use a MVCC snapshot in conjunction with
adding a "placeholder" tuple in the index: the snapshot would see all
committed tuples, and the placeholder tuple would catch insertions by
any new inserters.  The hole is that prior insertions by transactions
that are still in progress by the time the MVCC snapshot was taken were
ignored.

Kevin Grittner reported this as a bogus error message during vacuum with
default transaction isolation mode set to repeatable read (because the
error report mentioned a function name not being invoked during), but
the problem is larger than that.

To fix, tweak IndexBuildHeapRangeScan to have a new mode that behaves
the way we need using SnapshotAny visibility rules.  This change
simplifies the BRIN code a bit, mainly by removing large comments that
were mistaken.  Instead, rely on the SnapshotAny semantics to provide
what it needs.  (The business about a placeholder tuple needs to remain:
that covers the case that a transaction inserts a a tuple in a page that
summarization already scanned.)

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150731175700.GX2441@postgresql.org

In passing, remove a couple of unused declarations from brin.h and
reword a comment to be proper English.  This part submitted by Kevin
Grittner.

Backpatch to 9.5, where BRIN was introduced.
2015-08-05 16:20:50 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera e8e86fbc8b Fix volatility marking of commit timestamp functions
They are marked stable, but since they act on instantaneous state and it
is possible to consult state of transactions as they commit, the results
could change mid-query.  They need to be marked volatile, and this
commit does so.

There would normally be a catversion bump here, but this is so much a
niche feature and I don't believe there's real damage from the incorrect
marking, that I refrained.

Backpatch to 9.5, where commit timestamps where introduced.

Per note from Fujii Masao.
2015-07-30 15:19:49 -03:00
Joe Conway f781a0f1d8 Create a pg_shdepend entry for each role in TO clause of policies.
CreatePolicy() and AlterPolicy() omit to create a pg_shdepend entry for
each role in the TO clause. Fix this by creating a new shared dependency
type called SHARED_DEPENDENCY_POLICY and assigning it to each role.

Reported by Noah Misch. Patch by me, reviewed by Alvaro Herrera.
Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
2015-07-28 16:01:53 -07:00
Joe Conway 1e2bd43b31 Bump catversion so that HEAD is beyond 9.5
As pointed out by Tom, since HEAD has progressed beyond 9.5 in terms of
its catalog, we need to be sure catversion of HEAD is advanced beyond
that of 9.5. Corrects my mistake in the pg_stats view commit cfa928ff.
2015-07-28 13:59:23 -07:00
Joe Conway 7b4bfc87d5 Plug RLS related information leak in pg_stats view.
The pg_stats view is supposed to be restricted to only show rows
about tables the user can read. However, it sometimes can leak
information which could not otherwise be seen when row level security
is enabled. Fix that by not showing pg_stats rows to users that would
be subject to RLS on the table the row is related to. This is done
by creating/using the newly introduced SQL visible function,
row_security_active().

Along the way, clean up three call sites of check_enable_rls(). The second
argument of that function should only be specified as other than
InvalidOid when we are checking as a different user than the current one,
as in when querying through a view. These sites were passing GetUserId()
instead of InvalidOid, which can cause the function to return incorrect
results if the current user has the BYPASSRLS privilege and row_security
has been set to OFF.

Additionally fix a bug causing RI Trigger error messages to unintentionally
leak information when RLS is enabled, and other minor cleanup and
improvements. Also add WITH (security_barrier) to the definition of pg_stats.

Bumped CATVERSION due to new SQL functions and pg_stats view definition.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced. Reported by Yaroslav.
Patch by Joe Conway and Dean Rasheed with review and input by
Michael Paquier and Stephen Frost.
2015-07-28 13:21:22 -07:00
Tom Lane dd7a8f66ed Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method
API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without
specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can
implement a TSM.  (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable
thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will
pg_upgrade behave sanely.)  Instead adopt an API more like procedural
language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level
support object needed is a single handler function identified by having
a special return type.  This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog
altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature.

Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments
(the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at
ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright
unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples.
Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable
within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more
honestly with methods that can't support that requirement.

Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix
assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as
failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering).
Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too.

Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API
in production.
2015-07-25 14:39:00 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 149b1dd840 Fix omission of OCLASS_TRANSFORM in object_classes[]
This was forgotten in cac7658205 (and its fixup ad89a5d115).  Since it
seems way too easy to miss this, this commit also introduces a mechanism
to enforce that the array is consistent with the enum.

Problem reported independently by Robert Haas and Jaimin Pan.
Patches proposed by Jaimin Pan, Jim Nasby, Michael Paquier and myself,
though I didn't use any of these and instead went with a cleaner
approach suggested by Tom Lane.

Backpatch to 9.5.

Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+Tgmoa6SgDaxW_n_7SEhwBAc=mniYga+obUj5fmw4rU9_mLvA@mail.gmail.com
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/29788.1437411581@sss.pgh.pa.us
2015-07-21 13:20:53 +02:00
Robert Haas a04bb65f70 Add new function pg_notification_queue_usage.
This tells you what fraction of NOTIFY's queue is currently filled.

Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Merlin Moncure and Gurjeet Singh.  A few
further tweaks by me.
2015-07-17 09:12:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 10fb48d66d Add an optional missing_ok argument to SQL function current_setting().
This allows convenient checking for existence of a GUC from SQL, which is
particularly useful when dealing with custom variables.

David Christensen, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke
2015-07-02 16:41:07 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7931622d1d Fix name of argument to pg_stat_file.
It's called "missing_ok" in the docs and in the C code.

I refrained from doing a catversion bump for this, because the name of an
input argument is just documentation, it has no effect on any callers.

Michael Paquier
2015-07-02 12:15:13 +03:00
Tom Lane 62d16c7fc5 Improve design and implementation of pg_file_settings view.
As first committed, this view reported on the file contents as they were
at the last SIGHUP event.  That's not as useful as reporting on the current
contents, and what's more, it didn't work right on Windows unless the
current session had serviced at least one SIGHUP.  Therefore, arrange to
re-read the files when pg_show_all_settings() is called.  This requires
only minor refactoring so that we can pass changeVal = false to
set_config_option() so that it won't actually apply any changes locally.

In addition, add error reporting so that errors that would prevent the
configuration files from being loaded, or would prevent individual settings
from being applied, are visible directly in the view.  This makes the view
usable for pre-testing whether edits made in the config files will have the
desired effect, before one actually issues a SIGHUP.

I also added an "applied" column so that it's easy to identify entries that
are superseded by later entries; this was the main use-case for the original
design, but it seemed unnecessarily hard to use for that.

Also fix a 9.4.1 regression that allowed multiple entries for a
PGC_POSTMASTER variable to cause bogus complaints in the postmaster log.
(The issue here was that commit bf007a27ac unintentionally reverted
3e3f65973a, which suppressed any duplicate entries within
ParseConfigFp.  However, since the original coding of the pg_file_settings
view depended on such suppression *not* happening, we couldn't have fixed
this issue now without first doing something with pg_file_settings.
Now we suppress duplicates by marking them "ignored" within
ProcessConfigFileInternal, which doesn't hide them in the view.)

Lesser changes include:

Drive the view directly off the ConfigVariable list, instead of making a
basically-equivalent second copy of the data.  There's no longer any need
to hang onto the data permanently, anyway.

Convert show_all_file_settings() to do its work in one call and return a
tuplestore; this avoids risks associated with assuming that the GUC state
will hold still over the course of query execution.  (I think there were
probably latent bugs here, though you might need something like a cursor
on the view to expose them.)

Arrange to run SIGHUP processing in a short-lived memory context, to
forestall process-lifespan memory leaks.  (There is one known leak in this
code, in ProcessConfigDirectory; it seems minor enough to not be worth
back-patching a specific fix for.)

Remove mistaken assignment to ConfigFileLineno that caused line counting
after an include_dir directive to be completely wrong.

Add missed failure check in AlterSystemSetConfigFile().  We don't really
expect ParseConfigFp() to fail, but that's not an excuse for not checking.
2015-06-28 18:06:14 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas cb2acb1081 Add missing_ok option to the SQL functions for reading files.
This makes it possible to use the functions without getting errors, if there
is a chance that the file might be removed or renamed concurrently.
pg_rewind needs to do just that, although this could be useful for other
purposes too. (The changes to pg_rewind to use these functions will come in
a separate commit.)

The read_binary_file() function isn't very well-suited for extensions.c's
purposes anymore, if it ever was. So bite the bullet and make a copy of it
in extension.c, tailored for that use case. This seems better than the
accidental code reuse, even if it's a some more lines of code.

Michael Paquier, with plenty of kibitzing by me.
2015-06-28 21:35:46 +03:00
Andrew Dunstan 908e234733 Rename jsonb - text[] operator to #- to avoid ambiguity.
Following recent discussion  on -hackers. The underlying function is
also renamed to jsonb_delete_path. The regression tests now don't need
ugly type casts to avoid the ambiguity, so they are also removed.

Catalog version bumped.
2015-06-11 10:06:58 -04:00
Fujii Masao ea9c4c1e4a Fix typo in comment.
David Rowley
2015-06-10 15:26:02 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 37def42245 Rename jsonb_replace to jsonb_set and allow it to add new values
The function is given a fourth parameter, which defaults to true. When
this parameter is true, if the last element of the path is missing
in the original json, jsonb_set creates it in the result and assigns it
the new value. If it is false then the function does nothing unless all
elements of the path are present, including the last.

Based on some original code from Dmitry Dolgov, heavily modified by me.

Catalog version bumped.
2015-05-31 20:34:10 -04:00
Tom Lane 1c8c656b3c Check that all aliases of a built-in function have same leakproof property.
opr_sanity.sql has a test checking that relevant properties of built-in
functions match when the same C function is referenced by multiple pg_proc
entries.  The test neglected to check proleakproof, though, and when
I added that condition it exposed that xideqint4 hadn't been updated to
match xideq.  So fix that as well, and in consequence bump catversion.

This isn't very critical, so no need to worry about fixing back branches.
2015-05-29 13:26:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 807b9e0dff pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
Andres Freund 631d749007 Remove the new UPSERT command tag and use INSERT instead.
Previously, INSERT with ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE specified used a new
command tag -- UPSERT.  It was introduced out of concern that INSERT as
a command tag would be a misrepresentation for ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, as
some affected rows may actually have been updated.

Alvaro Herrera noticed that the implementation of that new command tag
was incomplete; in subsequent discussion we concluded that having it
doesn't provide benefits that are in line with the compatibility breaks
it requires.

Catversion bump due to the removal of PlannedStmt->isUpsert.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: 20150520215816.GI5885@postgresql.org
2015-05-23 00:58:45 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4fc72cc7bb Collection of typo fixes.
Use "a" and "an" correctly, mostly in comments. Two error messages were
also fixed (they were just elogs, so no translation work required). Two
function comments in pg_proc.h were also fixed. Etsuro Fujita reported one
of these, but I found a lot more with grep.

Also fix a few other typos spotted while grepping for the a/an typos.
For example, "consists out of ..." -> "consists of ...". Plus a "though"/
"through" mixup reported by Euler Taveira.

Many of these typos were in old code, which would be nice to backpatch to
make future backpatching easier. But much of the code was new, and I didn't
feel like crafting separate patches for each branch. So no backpatching.
2015-05-20 16:56:22 +03:00
Tom Lane 0b28ea79c0 Avoid collation dependence in indexes of system catalogs.
No index in template0 should have collation-dependent ordering, especially
not indexes on shared catalogs.  For most textual columns we avoid this
issue by using type "name" (which sorts per strcmp()).  However there are a
few indexed columns that we'd prefer to use "text" for, and for that, the
default opclass text_ops is unsafe.  Fortunately, text_pattern_ops is safe
(it sorts per memcmp()), and it has no real functional disadvantage for our
purposes.  So change the indexes on pg_seclabel.provider and
pg_shseclabel.provider to use text_pattern_ops.

In passing, also mark pg_replication_origin.roname as using
text_pattern_ops --- for some reason it was labeled varchar_pattern_ops
which is just wrong, even though it accidentally worked.

Add regression test queries to catch future errors of these kinds.

We still can't do anything about the misdeclared pg_seclabel and
pg_shseclabel indexes in back branches :-(
2015-05-19 11:47:42 -04:00
Tom Lane afee04352b Revert "Change pg_seclabel.provider and pg_shseclabel.provider to type "name"."
This reverts commit b82a7be603.  There
is a better (less invasive) way to fix it, which I will commit next.
2015-05-19 10:40:04 -04:00
Tom Lane b82a7be603 Change pg_seclabel.provider and pg_shseclabel.provider to type "name".
These were "text", but that's a bad idea because it has collation-dependent
ordering.  No index in template0 should have collation-dependent ordering,
especially not indexes on shared catalogs.  There was general agreement
that provider names don't need to be longer than other identifiers, so we
can fix this at a small waste of table space by changing from text to name.

There's no way to fix the problem in the back branches, but we can hope
that security labels don't yet have widespread-enough usage to make it
urgent to fix.

There needs to be a regression sanity test to prevent us from making this
same mistake again; but before putting that in, we'll need to get rid of
similar brain fade in the recently-added pg_replication_origin catalog.

Note: for lack of a suitable testing environment, I've not really exercised
this change.  I trust the buildfarm will show up any mistakes.
2015-05-18 20:07:53 -04:00
Andres Freund f3d3118532 Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.
This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different
GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns
grouped by in other sets set to NULL.

This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate
query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise,
grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over
the underlying data.

The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting
for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one
pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort &
aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by
the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data.

The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using
hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting
was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of
implementation.

Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the
chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor
nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node
itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle
having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying
nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit
memory usage.  The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each
phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional
data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way
to describe aggregation and sorting.  The first (and possibly only) sort
step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains
similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple,
avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to
avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means.

A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar
ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions
named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the
cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a
reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY
cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function
cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might
be, the function name has to be quoted.

Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change.

Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas
    Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule
Discussion: CAOeZVidmVRe2jU6aMk_5qkxnB7dfmPROzM7Ur8JPW5j8Y5X-Lw@mail.gmail.com
2015-05-16 03:46:31 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera b0b7be6133 Add BRIN infrastructure for "inclusion" opclasses
This lets BRIN be used with R-Tree-like indexing strategies.

Also provided are operator classes for range types, box and inet/cidr.
The infrastructure provided here should be sufficient to create operator
classes for similar datatypes; for instance, opclasses for PostGIS
geometries should be doable, though we didn't try to implement one.

(A box/point opclass was also submitted, but we ripped it out before
commit because the handling of floating point comparisons in existing
code is inconsistent and would generate corrupt indexes.)

Author: Emre Hasegeli.  Cosmetic changes by me
Review: Andreas Karlsson
2015-05-15 18:05:22 -03:00
Simon Riggs f6d208d6e5 TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible
Add a TABLESAMPLE clause to SELECT statements that allows
user to specify random BERNOULLI sampling or block level
SYSTEM sampling. Implementation allows for extensible
sampling functions to be written, using a standard API.
Basic version follows SQLStandard exactly. Usable
concrete use cases for the sampling API follow in later
commits.

Petr Jelinek

Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs
2015-05-15 14:37:10 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 35fcb1b3d0 Allow GiST distance function to return merely a lower-bound.
The distance function can now set *recheck = false, like index quals. The
executor will then re-check the ORDER BY expressions, and use a queue to
reorder the results on the fly.

This makes it possible to do kNN-searches on polygons and circles, which
don't store the exact value in the index, but just a bounding box.

Alexander Korotkov and me
2015-05-15 14:26:51 +03:00
Fujii Masao ecd222e770 Support VERBOSE option in REINDEX command.
When this option is specified, a progress report is printed as each index
is reindexed.

Per discussion, we agreed on the following syntax for the extensibility of
the options.

    REINDEX (flexible options) { INDEX | ... } name

Sawada Masahiko.
Reviewed by Robert Haas, Fabrízio Mello, Alvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi,
Jim Nasby and me.

Discussion: CAD21AoA0pK3YcOZAFzMae+2fcc3oGp5zoRggDyMNg5zoaWDhdQ@mail.gmail.com
2015-05-15 20:09:57 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut a486e35706 Add pg_settings.pending_restart column
with input from David G. Johnston, Robert Haas, Michael Paquier
2015-05-14 20:08:51 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 5c7df74204 Fix some errors from jsonb functions patch.
The catalog version should have been bumped, and the alternative
regression result file was not up to date with the name of jsonb_pretty.
2015-05-12 16:54:38 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan c6947010ce Additional functions and operators for jsonb
jsonb_pretty(jsonb) produces nicely indented json output.
jsonb || jsonb concatenates two jsonb values.
jsonb - text removes a key and its associated value from the json
jsonb - int removes the designated array element
jsonb - text[] removes a key and associated value or array element at
the designated path
jsonb_replace(jsonb,text[],jsonb) replaces the array element designated
by the path or the value associated with the key designated by the path
with the given value.

Original work by Dmitry Dolgov, adapted and reworked for PostgreSQL core
by Andrew Dunstan, reviewed and tidied up by Petr Jelinek.
2015-05-12 15:52:45 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera b488c580ae Allow on-the-fly capture of DDL event details
This feature lets user code inspect and take action on DDL events.
Whenever a ddl_command_end event trigger is installed, DDL actions
executed are saved to a list which can be inspected during execution of
a function attached to ddl_command_end.

The set-returning function pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands can be used to
list actions so captured; it returns data about the type of command
executed, as well as the affected object.  This is sufficient for many
uses of this feature.  For the cases where it is not, we also provide a
"command" column of a new pseudo-type pg_ddl_command, which is a
pointer to a C structure that can be accessed by C code.  The struct
contains all the info necessary to completely inspect and even
reconstruct the executed command.

There is no actual deparse code here; that's expected to come later.
What we have is enough infrastructure that the deparsing can be done in
an external extension.  The intention is that we will add some deparsing
code in a later release, as an in-core extension.

A new test module is included.  It's probably insufficient as is, but it
should be sufficient as a starting point for a more complete and
future-proof approach.

Authors: Álvaro Herrera, with some help from Andres Freund, Ian Barwick,
Abhijit Menon-Sen.

Reviews by Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier,
Craig Ringer, David Steele.
Additional input from Chris Browne, Dimitri Fontaine, Stephen Frost,
Petr Jelínek, Tom Lane, Jim Nasby, Steven Singer, Pavel Stěhule.

Based on original work by Dimitri Fontaine, though I didn't use his
code.

Discussion:
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/m2txrsdzxa.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20131108153322.GU5809@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
  https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150215044814.GL3391@alvh.no-ip.org
2015-05-11 19:14:31 -03:00
Andrew Dunstan cb9fa802b3 Add new OID alias type regnamespace
Catalog version bumped

Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
2015-05-09 13:36:52 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 0c90f6769d Add new OID alias type regrole
The new type has the scope of whole the database cluster so it doesn't
behave the same as the existing OID alias types which have database
scope,
concerning object dependency. To avoid confusion constants of the new
type are prohibited from appearing where dependencies are made involving
it.

Also, add a note to the docs about possible MVCC violation and
optimization issues, which are general over the all reg* types.

Kyotaro Horiguchi
2015-05-09 13:06:49 -04:00
Stephen Frost 4b342fb591 Bump catversion for pg_file_settings
Pointed out by Andres (thanks!)

Apologies for not including it in the initial patch.
2015-05-08 19:14:32 -04:00
Stephen Frost a97e0c3354 Add pg_file_settings view and function
The function and view added here provide a way to look at all settings
in postgresql.conf, any #include'd files, and postgresql.auto.conf
(which is what backs the ALTER SYSTEM command).

The information returned includes the configuration file name, line
number in that file, sequence number indicating when the parameter is
loaded (useful to see if it is later masked by another definition of the
same parameter), parameter name, and what it is set to at that point.
This information is updated on reload of the server.

This is unfiltered, privileged, information and therefore access is
restricted to superusers through the GRANT system.

Author: Sawada Masahiko, various improvements by me.
Reviewers: David Steele
2015-05-08 19:09:26 -04:00
Andres Freund 168d5805e4 Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE.
The newly added ON CONFLICT clause allows to specify an alternative to
raising a unique or exclusion constraint violation error when inserting.
ON CONFLICT refers to constraints that can either be specified using a
inference clause (by specifying the columns of a unique constraint) or
by naming a unique or exclusion constraint.  DO NOTHING avoids the
constraint violation, without touching the pre-existing row.  DO UPDATE
SET ... [WHERE ...] updates the pre-existing tuple, and has access to
both the tuple proposed for insertion and the existing tuple; the
optional WHERE clause can be used to prevent an update from being
executed.  The UPDATE SET and WHERE clauses have access to the tuple
proposed for insertion using the "magic" EXCLUDED alias, and to the
pre-existing tuple using the table name or its alias.

This feature is often referred to as upsert.

This is implemented using a new infrastructure called "speculative
insertion". It is an optimistic variant of regular insertion that first
does a pre-check for existing tuples and then attempts an insert.  If a
violating tuple was inserted concurrently, the speculatively inserted
tuple is deleted and a new attempt is made.  If the pre-check finds a
matching tuple the alternative DO NOTHING or DO UPDATE action is taken.
If the insertion succeeds without detecting a conflict, the tuple is
deemed inserted.

To handle the possible ambiguity between the excluded alias and a table
named excluded, and for convenience with long relation names, INSERT
INTO now can alias its target table.

Bumps catversion as stored rules change.

Author: Peter Geoghegan, with significant contributions from Heikki
    Linnakangas and Andres Freund. Testing infrastructure by Jeff Janes.
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs,
    Dean Rasheed, Stephen Frost and many others.
2015-05-08 05:43:10 +02:00
Andres Freund 2c8f4836db Represent columns requiring insert and update privileges indentently.
Previously, relation range table entries used a single Bitmapset field
representing which columns required either UPDATE or INSERT privileges,
despite the fact that INSERT and UPDATE privileges are separately
cataloged, and may be independently held.  As statements so far required
either insert or update privileges but never both, that was
sufficient. The required permission could be inferred from the top level
statement run.

The upcoming INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE feature needs to
independently check for both privileges in one statement though, so that
is not sufficient anymore.

Bumps catversion as stored rules change.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
2015-05-08 00:20:46 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera db5f98ab4f Improve BRIN infra, minmax opclass and regression test
The minmax opclass was using the wrong support functions when
cross-datatypes queries were run.  Instead of trying to fix the
pg_amproc definitions (which apparently is not possible), use the
already correct pg_amop entries instead.  This requires jumping through
more hoops (read: extra syscache lookups) to obtain the underlying
functions to execute, but it is necessary for correctness.

Author: Emre Hasegeli, tweaked by Álvaro
Review: Andreas Karlsson

Also change BrinOpcInfo to record each stored type's typecache entry
instead of just the OID.  Turns out that the full type cache is
necessary in brin_deform_tuple: the original code used the indexed
type's byval and typlen properties to extract the stored tuple, which is
correct in Minmax; but in other implementations that want to store
something different, that's wrong.  The realization that this is a bug
comes from Emre also, but I did not use his patch.

I also adopted Emre's regression test code (with smallish changes),
which is more complete.
2015-05-07 13:02:22 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 3b6db1f445 Add geometry/range functions to support BRIN inclusion
This commit adds the following functions:
    box(point) -> box
    bound_box(box, box) -> box
    inet_same_family(inet, inet) -> bool
    inet_merge(inet, inet) -> cidr
    range_merge(anyrange, anyrange) -> anyrange

The first of these is also used to implement a new assignment cast from
point to box.

These functions are the first part of a base to implement an "inclusion"
operator class for BRIN, for multidimensional data types.

Author: Emre Hasegeli
Reviewed by: Andreas Karlsson
2015-05-05 15:22:24 -03:00
Tom Lane 2503982be4 Improve procost estimates for some text search functions.
The text search functions that involve parsing raw text into lexemes are
remarkably CPU-intensive, so estimating them at the same cost as most other
built-in functions seems like a mistake; moreover, doing so turns out to
discourage the optimizer from using functional indexes on these functions.
After some debate, we've agreed to raise procost from 1 to 100 for
to_tsvector(), plainto_tsvector(), to_tsquery(), ts_headline(),
ts_match_tt(), and ts_match_tq(), which are all the text search functions
that parse raw text.

Also increase procost for the 2-argument form of ts_rewrite()
(tsquery_rewrite_query); while this function doesn't do text parsing,
it does execute a user-supplied SQL query, so its previous procost of 1 is
clearly a drastic underestimate.  It seems reasonable to assign it the same
cost we assign to PL functions by default, so 100 is the number here too.

I did not bother bumping catversion for this change, since it does not
break catalog compatibility with the server executable nor result in
any regression test changes.

Per complaint from Andrew Gierth and subsequent discussion.
2015-05-04 15:38:57 -04:00
Andres Freund 2b22795b32 Copy editing of the replication origins patch.
Michael Paquier and myself.
2015-05-01 12:22:13 +02:00
Robert Haas 924bcf4f16 Create an infrastructure for parallel computation in PostgreSQL.
This does four basic things.  First, it provides convenience routines
to coordinate the startup and shutdown of parallel workers.  Second,
it synchronizes various pieces of state (e.g. GUCs, combo CID
mappings, transaction snapshot) from the parallel group leader to the
worker processes.  Third, it prohibits various operations that would
result in unsafe changes to that state while parallelism is active.
Finally, it propagates events that would result in an ErrorResponse,
NoticeResponse, or NotifyResponse message being sent to the client
from the parallel workers back to the master, from which they can then
be sent on to the client.

Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Noah Misch, Rushabh Lathia, Jeevan Chalke.
Suggestions and review from Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Noah
Misch, Simon Riggs, Euler Taveira, and Jim Nasby.
2015-04-30 15:02:14 -04:00
Andres Freund 5aa2350426 Introduce replication progress tracking infrastructure.
When implementing a replication solution ontop of logical decoding, two
related problems exist:
* How to safely keep track of replication progress
* How to change replication behavior, based on the origin of a row;
  e.g. to avoid loops in bi-directional replication setups

The solution to these problems, as implemented here, consist out of
three parts:

1) 'replication origins', which identify nodes in a replication setup.
2) 'replication progress tracking', which remembers, for each
   replication origin, how far replay has progressed in a efficient and
   crash safe manner.
3) The ability to filter out changes performed on the behest of a
   replication origin during logical decoding; this allows complex
   replication topologies. E.g. by filtering all replayed changes out.

Most of this could also be implemented in "userspace", e.g. by inserting
additional rows contain origin information, but that ends up being much
less efficient and more complicated.  We don't want to require various
replication solutions to reimplement logic for this independently. The
infrastructure is intended to be generic enough to be reusable.

This infrastructure also replaces the 'nodeid' infrastructure of commit
timestamps. It is intended to provide all the former capabilities,
except that there's only 2^16 different origins; but now they integrate
with logical decoding. Additionally more functionality is accessible via
SQL.  Since the commit timestamp infrastructure has also been introduced
in 9.5 (commit 73c986add) changing the API is not a problem.

For now the number of origins for which the replication progress can be
tracked simultaneously is determined by the max_replication_slots
GUC. That GUC is not a perfect match to configure this, but there
doesn't seem to be sufficient reason to introduce a separate new one.

Bumps both catversion and wal page magic.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions from Petr Jelinek and Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Petr Jelinek, Robert Haas, Steve Singer
Discussion: 20150216002155.GI15326@awork2.anarazel.de,
    20140923182422.GA15776@alap3.anarazel.de,
    20131114172632.GE7522@alap2.anarazel.de
2015-04-29 19:30:53 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut cac7658205 Add transforms feature
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages.  As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.

reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
2015-04-26 10:33:14 -04:00
Andres Freund cef939c347 Rename pg_replication_slot's new active_in to active_pid.
In d811c037ce active_in was added but discussion since showed that
active_pid is preferred as a name.

Discussion: CAMsr+YFKgZca5_7_ouaMWxA5PneJC9LNViPzpDHusaPhU9pA7g@mail.gmail.com
2015-04-22 09:43:40 +02:00
Andres Freund d811c037ce Add 'active_in' column to pg_replication_slots.
Right now it is visible whether a replication slot is active in any
session, but not in which.  Adding the active_in column, containing the
pid of the backend having acquired the slot, makes it much easier to
associate pg_replication_slots entries with the corresponding
pg_stat_replication/pg_stat_activity row.

This should have been done from the start, but I (Andres) dropped the
ball there somehow.

Author: Craig Ringer, revised by me Discussion:
CAMsr+YFKgZca5_7_ouaMWxA5PneJC9LNViPzpDHusaPhU9pA7g@mail.gmail.com
2015-04-21 11:51:06 +02:00
Bruce Momjian f92fc4c95d pg_upgrade: binary_upgrade_create_empty_extension() is strict
Was broken by commit 30982be4e5.

Patch by Jeff Janes
2015-04-17 20:08:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 30982be4e5 Integrate pg_upgrade_support module into backend
Previously, these functions were created in a schema "binary_upgrade",
which was deleted after pg_upgrade was finished.  Because we don't want
to keep that schema around permanently, move them to pg_catalog but
rename them with a binary_upgrade_... prefix.

The provided functions are only small wrappers around global variables
that were added specifically for pg_upgrade use, so keeping the module
separate does not create any modularity.

The functions still check that they are only called in binary upgrade
mode, so it is not possible to call these during normal operation.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2015-04-14 19:26:37 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4f700bcd20 Reorganize our CRC source files again.
Now that we use CRC-32C in WAL and the control file, the "traditional" and
"legacy" CRC-32 variants are not used in any frontend programs anymore.
Move the code for those back from src/common to src/backend/utils/hash.

Also move the slicing-by-8 implementation (back) to src/port. This is in
preparation for next patch that will add another implementation that uses
Intel SSE 4.2 instructions to calculate CRC-32C, where available.
2015-04-14 17:03:42 +03:00
Magnus Hagander 9029f4b374 Add system view pg_stat_ssl
This view shows information about all connections, such as if the
connection is using SSL, which cipher is used, and which client
certificate (if any) is used.

Reviews by Alex Shulgin, Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund & Michael Paquier
2015-04-12 19:07:46 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera e9a077cad3 pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: add is_temp column
It now also reports temporary objects dropped that are local to the
backend.  Previously we weren't reporting any temp objects because it
was deemed unnecessary; but as it turns out, it is necessary if we want
to keep close track of DDL command execution inside one session.  Temp
objects are reported as living in schema pg_temp, which works because
such a schema-qualification always refers to the temp objects of the
current session.
2015-04-06 11:40:55 -03:00
Robert Haas abd94bcac4 Use abbreviated keys for faster sorting of numeric datums.
Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan, with further tweaks by me.
2015-04-02 14:04:26 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas f770870d9e Move inet/cidr GiST opclass functions to correct place in header file.
They were accidentally placed under the GIN heading.

Andreas Karlsson
2015-04-01 19:20:45 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 97690ea6e8 Change array_offset to return subscripts, not offsets
... and rename it and its sibling array_offsets to array_position and
array_positions, to account for the changed behavior.

Having the functions return subscripts better matches existing practice,
and is better suited to using the result value as a subscript into the
array directly.  For one-based arrays, the new definition is identical
to what was originally committed.

(We use the term "subscript" in the documentation, which is what we use
whenever we talk about arrays; but the functions themselves are named
using the word "position" to match the standard-defined POSITION()
functions.)

Author: Pavel Stěhule
Behavioral problem noted by Dean Rasheed.
2015-03-30 16:13:21 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0633a60f4d Add index-only scan support to range type GiST opclass.
Andreas Karlsson
2015-03-30 13:22:38 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3a20b0e7b6 Add index-only scan support to inet GiST opclass.
Andreas Karlsson
2015-03-28 15:11:53 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas d04c8ed904 Add support for index-only scans in GiST.
This adds a new GiST opclass method, 'fetch', which is used to reconstruct
the original Datum from the value stored in the index. Also, the 'canreturn'
index AM interface function gains a new 'attno' argument. That makes it
possible to use index-only scans on a multi-column index where some of the
opclasses support index-only scans but some do not.

This patch adds support in the box and point opclasses. Other opclasses
can added later as follow-on patches (btree_gist would be particularly
interesting).

Anastasia Lubennikova, with additional fixes and modifications by me.
2015-03-26 19:12:00 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera bdc3d7fa23 Return ObjectAddress in many ALTER TABLE sub-routines
Since commit a2e35b53c3, most CREATE and ALTER commands return the
ObjectAddress of the affected object.  This is useful for event triggers
to try to figure out exactly what happened.  This patch extends this
idea a bit further to cover ALTER TABLE as well: an auxiliary
ObjectAddress is returned for each of several subcommands of ALTER
TABLE.  This makes it possible to decode with precision what happened
during execution of any ALTER TABLE command; for instance, which
constraint was added by ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT, or which parent got
dropped from the parents list by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT.

As with the previous patch, there is no immediate user-visible change
here.

This is all really just continuing what c504513f83 started.

Reviewed by Stephen Frost.
2015-03-25 17:17:56 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 1c7087af42 Add TOAST table to pg_shseclabel for long label use
Report by Andres Freund
2015-03-21 22:14:49 -04:00
Andres Freund 959277a4f5 Use 128-bit math to accelerate some aggregation functions.
On platforms where we support 128bit integers, use them to implement
faster transition functions for sum(int8), avg(int8),
var_*(int2/int4),stdev_*(int2/int4). Where not supported continue to use
numeric as a transition type.

In some synthetic benchmarks this has been shown to provide significant
speedups.

Bumps catversion.

Discussion: 544BB5F1.50709@proxel.se
Author: Andreas Karlsson
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Petr Jelinek, Andres Freund,
    Oskari Saarenmaa, David Rowley
2015-03-20 10:29:32 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera 13dbc7a824 array_offset() and array_offsets()
These functions return the offset position or positions of a value in an
array.

Author: Pavel Stěhule
Reviewed by: Jim Nasby
2015-03-18 16:01:34 -03:00
Tom Lane 7b8b8a4331 Improve representation of PlanRowMark.
This patch fixes two inadequacies of the PlanRowMark representation.

First, that the original LockingClauseStrength isn't stored (and cannot be
inferred for foreign tables, which always get ROW_MARK_COPY).  Since some
PlanRowMarks are created out of whole cloth and don't actually have an
ancestral RowMarkClause, this requires adding a dummy LCS_NONE value to
enum LockingClauseStrength, which is fairly annoying but the alternatives
seem worse.  This fix allows getting rid of the use of get_parse_rowmark()
in FDWs (as per the discussion around commits 462bd95705 and
8ec8760fc8), and it simplifies some things elsewhere.

Second, that the representation assumed that all child tables in an
inheritance hierarchy would use the same RowMarkType.  That's true today
but will soon not be true.  We add an "allMarkTypes" field that identifies
the union of mark types used in all a parent table's children, and use
that where appropriate (currently, only in preprocess_targetlist()).

In passing fix a couple of minor infelicities left over from the SKIP
LOCKED patch, notably that _outPlanRowMark still thought waitPolicy
is a bool.

Catversion bump is required because the numeric values of enum
LockingClauseStrength can appear in on-disk rules.

Extracted from a much larger patch to support foreign table inheritance;
it seemed worth breaking this out, since it's a separable concern.

Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, somewhat modified by me
2015-03-15 18:41:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bb8582abf3 Remove rolcatupdate
This role attribute is an ancient PostgreSQL feature, but could only be
set by directly updating the system catalogs, and it doesn't have any
clearly defined use.

Author: Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydatasolutions.com>
2015-03-06 23:42:38 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera a2e35b53c3 Change many routines to return ObjectAddress rather than OID
The changed routines are mostly those that can be directly called by
ProcessUtilitySlow; the intention is to make the affected object
information more precise, in support for future event trigger changes.
Originally it was envisioned that the OID of the affected object would
be enough, and in most cases that is correct, but upon actually
implementing the event trigger changes it turned out that ObjectAddress
is more widely useful.

Additionally, some command execution routines grew an output argument
that's an object address which provides further info about the executed
command.  To wit:

* for ALTER DOMAIN / ADD CONSTRAINT, it corresponds to the address of
  the new constraint

* for ALTER OBJECT / SET SCHEMA, it corresponds to the address of the
  schema that originally contained the object.

* for ALTER EXTENSION {ADD, DROP} OBJECT, it corresponds to the address
  of the object added to or dropped from the extension.

There's no user-visible change in this commit, and no functional change
either.

Discussion: 20150218213255.GC6717@tamriel.snowman.net
Reviewed-By: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund
2015-03-03 14:10:50 -03:00
Tom Lane b67f1ce181 Reduce json <=> jsonb casts from explicit-only to assignment level.
There's no reason to make users write an explicit cast to store a
json value in a jsonb column or vice versa.

We could probably even make these implicit, but that might open us up
to problems with ambiguous function calls, so for now just do this.
2015-03-03 11:26:04 -05:00
Noah Misch b8a18ad485 Add transform functions for AT TIME ZONE.
This makes "ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER tscol TYPE ... USING tscol AT TIME
ZONE 'UTC'" skip rewriting the table when altering from "timestamp" to
"timestamptz" or vice versa.  While it would be nicer still to optimize
this in the absence of the USING clause given timezone==UTC, transform
functions must consult IMMUTABLE facts only.
2015-03-01 13:22:34 -05:00
Tom Lane c063da1769 Add parse location fields to NullTest and BooleanTest structs.
We did not need a location tag on NullTest or BooleanTest before, because
no error messages referred directly to their locations.  That's planned
to change though, so add these fields in a separate housekeeping commit.

Catversion bump because stored rules may change.
2015-02-22 14:40:27 -05:00
Andres Freund 82a532b34d Force some system catalog table columns to be marked NOT NULL.
In a manual pass over the catalog declaration I found a number of
columns which the boostrap automatism didn't mark NOT NULL even though
they actually were. Add BKI_FORCE_NOT_NULL markings to them.

It's usually not critical if a system table column is falsely determined
to be nullable as the code should always catch relevant cases. But it's
good to have a extra layer in place.

Discussion: 20150215170014.GE15326@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-02-21 22:37:05 +01:00
Andres Freund eb68379c38 Allow forcing nullness of columns during bootstrap.
Bootstrap determines whether a column is null based on simple builtin
rules. Those work surprisingly well, but nonetheless a few existing
columns aren't set correctly. Additionally there is at least one patch
sent to hackers where forcing the nullness of a column would be helpful.

The boostrap format has gained FORCE [NOT] NULL for this, which will be
emitted by genbki.pl when BKI_FORCE_(NOT_)?NULL is specified for a
column in a catalog header.

This patch doesn't change the marking of any existing columns.

Discussion: 20150215170014.GE15326@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-02-21 22:31:54 +01:00
Tom Lane 692bd09ad1 Use "#ifdef CATALOG_VARLEN" to protect nullable fields of pg_authid.
This gives a stronger guarantee than a mere comment against accessing these
fields as simple struct members.  Since rolpassword is in fact varlena,
it's not clear why these didn't get marked from the beginning, but let's
do it now.

Michael Paquier
2015-02-20 00:23:48 -05:00
Tom Lane 09d8d110a6 Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in a bunch more places.
Replace some bogus "x[1]" declarations with "x[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]".
Aside from being more self-documenting, this should help prevent bogus
warnings from static code analyzers and perhaps compiler misoptimizations.

This patch is just a down payment on eliminating the whole problem, but
it gets rid of a lot of easy-to-fix cases.

Note that the main problem with doing this is that one must no longer rely
on computing sizeof(the containing struct), since the result would be
compiler-dependent.  Instead use offsetof(struct, lastfield).  Autoconf
also warns against spelling that offsetof(struct, lastfield[0]).

Michael Paquier, review and additional fixes by me.
2015-02-20 00:11:42 -05:00
Tom Lane 2fb7a75f37 Add pg_stat_get_snapshot_timestamp() to show statistics snapshot timestamp.
Per discussion, this could be useful for purposes such as programmatically
detecting a nonresponding stats collector.  We already have the timestamp
anyway, it's just a matter of providing a SQL-accessible function to fetch
it.

Matt Kelly, reviewed by Jim Nasby
2015-02-19 21:36:50 -05:00
Tom Lane 56a79a869b Split array_push into separate array_append and array_prepend functions.
There wasn't any good reason for a single C function to implement both
these SQL functions: it saved very little code overall, and it required
significant pushups to re-determine at runtime which case applied.  Redoing
it as two functions ends up with just slightly more lines of code, but it's
simpler to understand, and faster too because we need not repeat syscache
lookups on every call.

An important side benefit is that this eliminates the only case in which
different aliases of the same C function had both anyarray and anyelement
arguments at the same position, which would almost always be a mistake.
The opr_sanity regression test will now notice such mistakes since there's
no longer a valid case where it happens.
2015-02-18 20:53:33 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas c619c2351f Move pg_crc.c to src/common, and remove pg_crc_tables.h
To get CRC functionality in a client program, you now need to link with
libpgcommon instead of libpgport. The CRC code has nothing to do with
portability, so libpgcommon is a better home. (libpgcommon didn't exist
when pg_crc.c was originally moved to src/port.)

Remove the possibility to get CRC functionality by just #including
pg_crc_tables.h. I'm not aware of any extensions that actually did that and
couldn't simply link with libpgcommon.

This also moves the pg_crc.h header file from src/include/utils to
src/include/common, which will require changes to any external programs
that currently does #include "utils/pg_crc.h". That seems acceptable, as
include/common is clearly the right home for it now, and the change needed
to any such programs is trivial.
2015-02-09 11:17:56 +02:00
Tom Lane 3d660d33aa Fix assorted oversights in range selectivity estimation.
calc_rangesel() failed outright when comparing range variables to empty
constant ranges with < or >=, as a result of missing cases in a switch.
It also produced a bogus estimate for > comparison to an empty range.

On top of that, the >= and > cases were mislabeled throughout.  For
nonempty constant ranges, they managed to produce the right answers
anyway as a result of counterbalancing typos.

Also, default_range_selectivity() omitted cases for elem <@ range,
range &< range, and range &> range, so that rather dubious defaults
were applied for these operators.

In passing, rearrange the code in rangesel() so that the elem <@ range
case is handled in a less opaque fashion.

Report and patch by Emre Hasegeli, some additional work by me
2015-01-30 12:30:59 -05:00
Stephen Frost c7cf9a2433 Add usebypassrls to pg_user and pg_shadow
The row level security patches didn't add the 'usebypassrls' columns to
the pg_user and pg_shadow views on the belief that they were deprecated,
but we havn't actually said they are and therefore we should include it.

This patch corrects that, adds missing documentation for rolbypassrls
into the system catalog page for pg_authid, along with the entries for
pg_user and pg_shadow, and cleans up a few other uses of 'row-level'
cases to be 'row level' in the docs.

Pointed out by Amit Kapila.

Catalog version bump due to system view changes.
2015-01-28 21:47:15 -05:00
Tom Lane fd496129d1 Clean up some mess in row-security patches.
Fix unsafe coding around PG_TRY in RelationBuildRowSecurity: can't change
a variable inside PG_TRY and then use it in PG_CATCH without marking it
"volatile".  In this case though it seems saner to avoid that by doing
a single assignment before entering the TRY block.

I started out just intending to fix that, but the more I looked at the
row-security code the more distressed I got.  This patch also fixes
incorrect construction of the RowSecurityPolicy cache entries (there was
not sufficient care taken to copy pass-by-ref data into the cache memory
context) and a whole bunch of sloppiness around the definition and use of
pg_policy.polcmd.  You can't use nulls in that column because initdb will
mark it NOT NULL --- and I see no particular reason why a null entry would
be a good idea anyway, so changing initdb's behavior is not the right
answer.  The internal value of '\0' wouldn't be suitable in a "char" column
either, so after a bit of thought I settled on using '*' to represent ALL.
Chasing those changes down also revealed that somebody wasn't paying
attention to what the underlying values of ACL_UPDATE_CHR etc really were,
and there was a great deal of lackadaiscalness in the catalogs.sgml
documentation for pg_policy and pg_policies too.

This doesn't pretend to be a complete code review for the row-security
stuff, it just fixes the things that were in my face while dealing with
the bugs in RelationBuildRowSecurity.
2015-01-24 16:16:22 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 972bf7d6f1 Tweak BRIN minmax operator class
In the union support proc, we were not checking the hasnulls flag of
value A early enough, so it could be skipped if the "allnulls" flag in
value B is set.  Also, a check on the allnulls flag of value "B" was
redundant, so remove it.

Also change inet_minmax_ops to not be the default opclass for type inet,
as a future inclusion operator class would be more useful and it's
pretty difficult to change default opclass for a datatype later on.
(There is no catversion bump for this catalog change; this shouldn't be
a problem.)

Extracted from a larger patch to add an "inclusion" operator class.

Author: Emre Hasegeli
2015-01-22 17:01:09 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 4baaf863ec Update copyright for 2015
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 72dd233d3e pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: Add name/args output columns
These columns can be passed to pg_get_object_address() and used to
reconstruct the dropped objects identities in a remote server containing
similar objects, so that the drop can be replicated.

Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Heikki Linnakangas, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Andres
Freund.
2014-12-30 17:41:46 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera a676201490 Add pg_identify_object_as_address
This function returns object type and objname/objargs arrays, which can
be passed to pg_get_object_address.  This is especially useful because
the textual representation can be copied to a remote server in order to
obtain the corresponding OID-based address.  In essence, this function
is the inverse of recently added pg_get_object_address().

Catalog version bumped due to the addition of the new function.

Also add docs to pg_get_object_address.
2014-12-30 15:41:50 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera a609d96778 Revert "Use a bitmask to represent role attributes"
This reverts commit 1826987a46.

The overall design was deemed unacceptable, in discussion following the
previous commit message; we might find some parts of it still
salvageable, but I don't want to be on the hook for fixing it, so let's
wait until we have a new patch.
2014-12-23 15:35:49 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera d7ee82e50f Add SQL-callable pg_get_object_address
This allows access to get_object_address from SQL, which is useful to
obtain OID addressing information from data equivalent to that emitted
by the parser.  This is necessary infrastructure of a project to let
replication systems propagate object dropping events to remote servers,
where the schema might be different than the server originating the
DROP.

This patch also adds support for OBJECT_DEFAULT to get_object_address;
that is, it is now possible to refer to a column's default value.

Catalog version bumped due to the new function.

Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas, Andres
Freund, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Adam Brightwell.
2014-12-23 15:31:29 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 1826987a46 Use a bitmask to represent role attributes
The previous representation using a boolean column for each attribute
would not scale as well as we want to add further attributes.

Extra auxilliary functions are added to go along with this change, to
make up for the lost convenience of access of the old representation.

Catalog version bumped due to change in catalogs and the new functions.

Author: Adam Brightwell, minor tweaks by Álvaro
Reviewed by: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera
2014-12-23 10:22:09 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 0ee98d1cbf pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: add behavior flags
Add "normal" and "original" flags as output columns to the
pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects() function.  With this it's possible to
distinguish which objects, among those listed, need to be explicitely
referenced when trying to replicate a deletion.

This is necessary so that the list of objects can be pruned to the
minimum necessary to replicate the DROP command in a remote server that
might have slightly different schema (for instance, TOAST tables and
constraints with different names and such.)

Catalog version bumped due to change of function definition.

Reviewed by: Abhijit Menon-Sen, Stephen Frost, Heikki Linnakangas,
Robert Haas.
2014-12-19 15:00:45 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4520ba6769 Add point <-> polygon distance operator.
Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Emre Hasegeli.
2014-12-15 17:06:21 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 7e354ab9fe Add several generator functions for jsonb that exist for json.
The functions are:
    to_jsonb()
    jsonb_object()
    jsonb_build_object()
    jsonb_build_array()
    jsonb_agg()
    jsonb_object_agg()

Also along the way some better logic is implemented in
json_categorize_type() to match that in the newly implemented
jsonb_categorize_type().

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Alvaro Herrera.
2014-12-12 15:31:14 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 237a882443 Add json_strip_nulls and jsonb_strip_nulls functions.
The functions remove object fields, including in nested objects, that
have null as a value. In certain cases this can lead to considerably
smaller datums, with no loss of semantic information.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Pavel Stehule.
2014-12-12 09:00:43 -05:00
Simon Riggs 618c9430a8 Event Trigger for table_rewrite
Generate a table_rewrite event when ALTER TABLE
attempts to rewrite a table. Provide helper
functions to identify table and reason.

Intended use case is to help assess or to react
to schema changes that might hold exclusive locks
for long periods.

Dimitri Fontaine, triggering an edit by Simon Riggs

Reviewed in detail by Michael Paquier
2014-12-08 00:55:28 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 73c986adde Keep track of transaction commit timestamps
Transactions can now set their commit timestamp directly as they commit,
or an external transaction commit timestamp can be fed from an outside
system using the new function TransactionTreeSetCommitTsData().  This
data is crash-safe, and truncated at Xid freeze point, same as pg_clog.

This module is disabled by default because it causes a performance hit,
but can be enabled in postgresql.conf requiring only a server restart.

A new test in src/test/modules is included.

Catalog version bumped due to the new subdirectory within PGDATA and a
couple of new SQL functions.

Authors: Álvaro Herrera and Petr Jelínek

Reviewed to varying degrees by Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Robert
Haas, Amit Kapila, Fujii Masao, Jaime Casanova, Simon Riggs, Steven
Singer, Peter Eisentraut
2014-12-03 11:53:02 -03:00
Tom Lane 1511521a36 Minor cleanup of function declarations for BRIN.
Get rid of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1() macros, which are quite inappropriate
for built-in functions (possibly leftovers from testing as a loadable
module?).  Also, fix gratuitous inconsistency between SQL-level and
C-level names of the minmax support functions.
2014-12-02 14:07:54 -05:00
Tom Lane 866737c923 Add a #define for the inet overlaps operator.
Extracted from pending inet selectivity patch.  The rest of it isn't
quite ready to commit, but we might as well push this part so the patch
doesn't have to track the moving target of pg_operator.h.
2014-11-30 19:43:43 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 816e10d800 Fix BRIN operator family definitions
The original definitions were leaving no room for cross-type operators,
so queries that compared a column of one type against something of a
different type were not taking advantage of the index.  Fix by making
the opfamilies more like the ones for Btree, and include a few
cross-type operator classes.

Catalog version bumped.

Per complaints from Hubert Lubaczewski, Mark Wong, Heikki Linnakangas.
2014-11-28 18:09:19 -03:00
Stephen Frost 143b39c185 Rename pg_rowsecurity -> pg_policy and other fixes
As pointed out by Robert, we should really have named pg_rowsecurity
pg_policy, as the objects stored in that catalog are policies.  This
patch fixes that and updates the column names to start with 'pol' to
match the new catalog name.

The security consideration for COPY with row level security, also
pointed out by Robert, has also been addressed by remembering and
re-checking the OID of the relation initially referenced during COPY
processing, to make sure it hasn't changed under us by the time we
finish planning out the query which has been built.

Robert and Alvaro also commented on missing OCLASS and OBJECT entries
for POLICY (formerly ROWSECURITY or POLICY, depending) in various
places.  This patch fixes that too, which also happens to add the
ability to COMMENT on policies.

In passing, attempt to improve the consistency of messages, comments,
and documentation as well.  This removes various incarnations of
'row-security', 'row-level security', 'Row-security', etc, in favor
of 'policy', 'row level security' or 'row_security' as appropriate.

Happy Thanksgiving!
2014-11-27 01:15:57 -05:00
Tom Lane bac27394a1 Support arrays as input to array_agg() and ARRAY(SELECT ...).
These cases formerly failed with errors about "could not find array type
for data type".  Now they yield arrays of the same element type and one
higher dimension.

The implementation involves creating functions with API similar to the
existing accumArrayResult() family.  I (tgl) also extended the base family
by adding an initArrayResult() function, which allows callers to avoid
special-casing the zero-inputs case if they just want an empty array as
result.  (Not all do, so the previous calling convention remains valid.)
This allowed simplifying some existing code in xml.c and plperl.c.

Ali Akbar, reviewed by Pavel Stehule, significantly modified by me
2014-11-25 12:21:28 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0bd624d63b Distinguish XLOG_FPI records generated for hint-bit updates.
Add a new XLOG_FPI_FOR_HINT record type, and use that for full-page images
generated for hint bit updates, when checksums are enabled. The new record
type is replayed exactly the same as XLOG_FPI, but allows them to be tallied
separately e.g. in pg_xlogdump.
2014-11-24 11:09:08 +02:00
Tom Lane c5111ea9ca Remove no-longer-needed phony typedefs in genbki.h.
Now that we have a policy of hiding varlena catalog fields behind
"#ifdef CATALOG_VARLEN", there is no need for their type names to be
acceptable to the C compiler.  And experimentation shows that it does
not matter to pgindent either.  (If it did, we'd have problems anyway,
since these typedefs are unreferenced so far as the C compiler is
concerned, and find_typedef fails to identify such typedefs.)

Hence, remove the phony typedefs that genbki.h provided to make
some varlena field definitions compilable.

In passing, rearrange #define's into what seemed a more logical order.
2014-11-20 13:16:14 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2c03216d83 Revamp the WAL record format.
Each WAL record now carries information about the modified relation and
block(s) in a standardized format. That makes it easier to write tools that
need that information, like pg_rewind, prefetching the blocks to speed up
recovery, etc.

There's a whole new API for building WAL records, replacing the XLogRecData
chains used previously. The new API consists of XLogRegister* functions,
which are called for each buffer and chunk of data that is added to the
record. The new API also gives more control over when a full-page image is
written, by passing flags to the XLogRegisterBuffer function.

This also simplifies the XLogReadBufferForRedo() calls. The function can dig
the relation and block number from the WAL record, so they no longer need to
be passed as arguments.

For the convenience of redo routines, XLogReader now disects each WAL record
after reading it, copying the main data part and the per-block data into
MAXALIGNed buffers. The data chunks are not aligned within the WAL record,
but the redo routines can assume that the pointers returned by XLogRecGet*
functions are. Redo routines are now passed the XLogReaderState, which
contains the record in the already-disected format, instead of the plain
XLogRecord.

The new record format also makes the fixed size XLogRecord header smaller,
by removing the xl_len field. The length of the "main data" portion is now
stored at the end of the WAL record, and there's a separate header after
XLogRecord for it. The alignment padding at the end of XLogRecord is also
removed. This compansates for the fact that the new format would otherwise
be more bulky than the old format.

Reviewed by Andres Freund, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera,
Fujii Masao.
2014-11-20 18:46:41 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 85b506bbfc Get rid of SET LOGGED indexes persistence kludge
This removes ATChangeIndexesPersistence() introduced by f41872d0c1
which was too ugly to live for long.  Instead, the correct persistence
marking is passed all the way down to reindex_index, so that the
transient relation built to contain the index relfilenode can
get marked correctly right from the start.

Author: Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Review and editorialization by Michael Paquier
                                     and Álvaro Herrera
2014-11-15 01:19:49 -03:00
Fujii Masao 1871c89202 Add generate_series(numeric, numeric).
Платон Малюгин
Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Ali Akbar and Marti Raudsepp
2014-11-11 21:44:46 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 7516f52594 BRIN: Block Range Indexes
BRIN is a new index access method intended to accelerate scans of very
large tables, without the maintenance overhead of btrees or other
traditional indexes.  They work by maintaining "summary" data about
block ranges.  Bitmap index scans work by reading each summary tuple and
comparing them with the query quals; all pages in the range are returned
in a lossy TID bitmap if the quals are consistent with the values in the
summary tuple, otherwise not.  Normal index scans are not supported
because these indexes do not store TIDs.

As new tuples are added into the index, the summary information is
updated (if the block range in which the tuple is added is already
summarized) or not; in the latter case, a subsequent pass of VACUUM or
the brin_summarize_new_values() function will create the summary
information.

For data types with natural 1-D sort orders, the summary info consists
of the maximum and the minimum values of each indexed column within each
page range.  This type of operator class we call "Minmax", and we
supply a bunch of them for most data types with B-tree opclasses.
Since the BRIN code is generalized, other approaches are possible for
things such as arrays, geometric types, ranges, etc; even for things
such as enum types we could do something different than minmax with
better results.  In this commit I only include minmax.

Catalog version bumped due to new builtin catalog entries.

There's more that could be done here, but this is a good step forwards.

Loosely based on ideas from Simon Riggs; code mostly by Álvaro Herrera,
with contribution by Heikki Linnakangas.

Patch reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas.
Testing help from Jeff Janes, Erik Rijkers, Emanuel Calvo.

PS:
  The research leading to these results has received funding from the
  European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
  grant agreement n° 318633.
2014-11-07 16:38:14 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2076db2aea Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.
xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions
related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the
lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c.

Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This
causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and
redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
2014-11-06 13:55:36 +02:00
Fujii Masao 08309aaf74 Implement IF NOT EXIST for CREATE INDEX.
Fabrízio de Royes Mello, reviewed by Marti Raudsepp, Adam Brightwell and me.
2014-11-06 18:48:33 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5028f22f6e Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.
The old algorithm was found to not be the usual CRC-32 algorithm, used by
Ethernet et al. We were using a non-reflected lookup table with code meant
for a reflected lookup table. That's a strange combination that AFAICS does
not correspond to any bit-wise CRC calculation, which makes it difficult to
reason about its properties. Although it has worked well in practice, seems
safer to use a well-known algorithm.

Since we're changing the algorithm anyway, we might as well choose a
different polynomial. The Castagnoli polynomial has better error-correcting
properties than the traditional CRC-32 polynomial, even if we had
implemented it correctly. Another reason for picking that is that some new
CPUs have hardware support for calculating CRC-32C, but not CRC-32, let
alone our strange variant of it. This patch doesn't add any support for such
hardware, but a future patch could now do that.

The old algorithm is kept around for tsquery and pg_trgm, which use the
values in indexes that need to remain compatible so that pg_upgrade works.
While we're at it, share the old lookup table for CRC-32 calculation
between hstore, ltree and core. They all use the same table, so might as
well.
2014-11-04 11:39:48 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan af2b8fd057 Correct volatility markings of a few json functions.
json_agg and json_object_agg and their associated transition functions
should have been marked as stable rather than immutable, as they call IO
functions indirectly. Changing this probably isn't going to make much
difference, as you can't use an aggregate function in an index
expression, but we should be correct nevertheless.

json_object, on the other hand, should be marked immutable rather than
stable, as it does not call IO functions.

As discussed on -hackers, this change is being made without bumping the
catalog version, as we don't want to do that at this stage of the  cycle,
and  the changes are very unlikely to affect anyone.
2014-10-20 15:31:05 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera df630b0dd5 Implement SKIP LOCKED for row-level locks
This clause changes the behavior of SELECT locking clauses in the
presence of locked rows: instead of causing a process to block waiting
for the locks held by other processes (or raise an error, with NOWAIT),
SKIP LOCKED makes the new reader skip over such rows.  While this is not
appropriate behavior for general purposes, there are some cases in which
it is useful, such as queue-like tables.

Catalog version bumped because this patch changes the representation of
stored rules.

Reviewed by Craig Ringer (based on a previous attempt at an
implementation by Simon Riggs, who also provided input on the syntax
used in the current patch), David Rowley, and Álvaro Herrera.

Author: Thomas Munro
2014-10-07 17:23:34 -03:00
Stephen Frost c8a026e4f1 Revert 95d737ff to add 'ignore_nulls'
Per discussion, revert the commit which added 'ignore_nulls' to
row_to_json.  This capability would be better added as an independent
function rather than being bolted on to row_to_json.  Additionally,
the implementation didn't address complex JSON objects, and so was
incomplete anyway.

Pointed out by Tom and discussed with Andrew and Robert.
2014-09-29 13:32:22 -04:00
Tom Lane def4c28cf9 Change JSONB's on-disk format for improved performance.
The original design used an array of offsets into the variable-length
portion of a JSONB container.  However, such an array is basically
uncompressible by simple compression techniques such as TOAST's LZ
compressor.  That's bad enough, but because the offset array is at the
front, it tended to trigger the give-up-after-1KB heuristic in the TOAST
code, so that the entire JSONB object was stored uncompressed; which was
the root cause of bug #11109 from Larry White.

To fix without losing the ability to extract a random array element in O(1)
time, change this scheme so that most of the JEntry array elements hold
lengths rather than offsets.  With data that's compressible at all, there
tend to be fewer distinct element lengths, so that there is scope for
compression of the JEntry array.  Every N'th entry is still an offset.
To determine the length or offset of any specific element, we might have
to examine up to N preceding JEntrys, but that's still O(1) so far as the
total container size is concerned.  Testing shows that this cost is
negligible compared to other costs of accessing a JSONB field, and that
the method does largely fix the incompressible-data problem.

While at it, rearrange the order of elements in a JSONB object so that
it's "all the keys, then all the values" not alternating keys and values.
This doesn't really make much difference right at the moment, but it will
allow providing a fast path for extracting individual object fields from
large JSONB values stored EXTERNAL (ie, uncompressed), analogously to the
existing optimization for substring extraction from large EXTERNAL text
values.

Bump catversion to denote the incompatibility in on-disk format.
We will need to fix pg_upgrade to disallow upgrading jsonb data stored
with 9.4 betas 1 and 2.

Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
2014-09-29 12:29:21 -04:00
Stephen Frost 6550b901fe Code review for row security.
Buildfarm member tick identified an issue where the policies in the
relcache for a relation were were being replaced underneath a running
query, leading to segfaults while processing the policies to be added
to a query.  Similar to how TupleDesc RuleLocks are handled, add in a
equalRSDesc() function to check if the policies have actually changed
and, if not, swap back the rsdesc field (using the original instead of
the temporairly built one; the whole structure is swapped and then
specific fields swapped back).  This now passes a CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS
for me and should resolve the buildfarm error.

In addition to addressing this, add a new chapter in Data Definition
under Privileges which explains row security and provides examples of
its usage, change \d to always list policies (even if row security is
disabled- but note that it is disabled, or enabled with no policies),
rework check_role_for_policy (it really didn't need the entire policy,
but it did need to be using has_privs_of_role()), and change the field
in pg_class to relrowsecurity from relhasrowsecurity, based on
Heikki's suggestion.  Also from Heikki, only issue SET ROW_SECURITY in
pg_restore when talking to a 9.5+ server, list Bypass RLS in \du, and
document --enable-row-security options for pg_dump and pg_restore.

Lastly, fix a number of minor whitespace and typo issues from Heikki,
Dimitri, add a missing #include, per Peter E, fix a few minor
variable-assigned-but-not-used and resource leak issues from Coverity
and add tab completion for role attribute bypassrls as well.
2014-09-24 16:32:22 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan b1a52872ae Fix typos in descriptions of json_object functions. 2014-09-24 11:24:42 -04:00
Stephen Frost 491c029dbc Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)
Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the
ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows
which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added
to a table.  Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are
added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions
defined to check records being added to a table are added to the
with-check options of the query.

New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are
controlled by the table owner.  Row Security is able to be enabled
and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using
ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY.

Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and
must be enabled for policies on the table to be used.  If no
policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny
policy is used and no records will be visible.

By default, row security is applied at all times except for the
table owner and the superuser.  A new GUC, row_security, is added
which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE.  When set to FORCE, row
security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers.
When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an
error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row
security.

Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure
that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will
error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security.
A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to
ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled.

A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the
superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row
security using row_security = OFF.

Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the
design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback.

Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean
Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me.

Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith,
Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
2014-09-19 11:18:35 -04:00
Andres Freund 728f152e07 Add rmgr callback to name xlog record types for display purposes.
This is primarily useful for the upcoming pg_xlogdump --stats feature,
but also allows to remove some duplicated code in the rmgr_desc
routines.

Due to the separation and harmonization, the output of dipsplayed
records changes somewhat. But since this isn't enduser oriented
content that's ok.

It's potentially desirable to further change pg_xlogdump's display of
records. It previously wasn't possible to show the record type
separately from the description forcing it to be in the last
column. But that's better done in a separate commit.

Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen, slightly editorialized by me
Reviewed-By: Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, and Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: 20140604104716.GA3989@toroid.org
2014-09-19 16:20:29 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 77e65bf369 Fix the return type of GIN triConsistent support functions to "char".
They were marked to return a boolean, but they actually return a
GinTernaryValue, which is more like a "char". It makes no practical
difference, as the triConsistent functions cannot be called directly from
SQL because they have "internal" arguments, but this nevertheless seems
more correct.

Also fix the GinTernaryValue name in the documentation. I renamed the enum
earlier, but neglected the docs.

Alexander Korotkov. This is new in 9.4, so backpatch there.
2014-09-16 09:22:33 +03:00
Stephen Frost 95d737ff45 Add 'ignore_nulls' option to row_to_json
Provide an option to skip NULL values in a row when generating a JSON
object from that row with row_to_json.  This can reduce the size of the
JSON object in cases where columns are NULL without really reducing the
information in the JSON object.

This also makes row_to_json into a single function with default values,
rather than having multiple functions.  In passing, change array_to_json
to also be a single function with default values (we don't add an
'ignore_nulls' option yet- it's not clear that there is a sensible
use-case there, and it hasn't been asked for in any case).

Pavel Stehule
2014-09-11 21:23:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 36ad1a87a3 Implement mxid_age() to compute multi-xid age
Report by Josh Berkus
2014-09-10 17:13:04 -04:00
Tom Lane e80252d424 Add width_bucket(anyelement, anyarray).
This provides a convenient method of classifying input values into buckets
that are not necessarily equal-width.  It works on any sortable data type.

The choice of function name is a bit debatable, perhaps, but showing that
there's a relationship to the SQL standard's width_bucket() function seems
more attractive than the other proposals.

Petr Jelinek, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2014-09-09 15:34:14 -04:00
Andres Freund 5a64cb740d Fix s/pluggins/plugins/ typo in two comments.
Michael Paquier
2014-09-01 12:01:29 +02:00
Bruce Momjian d5d7d07765 Again update C comments for pg_attribute.attislocal 2014-08-30 10:25:11 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c6eaa880ee Update C comment for pg_attribute.attislocal
Indicates if column has ever been local/non-inherited
2014-08-29 19:01:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 6c40f8316e Add min and max aggregates for inet/cidr data types.
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Muhammad Asif Naeem
2014-08-28 22:37:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 73fe87503f rename macro isTempOrToastNamespace to isTempOrTempToastNamespace
Done for clarity
2014-08-25 21:28:19 -04:00
Tom Lane e3f9c16838 Fix bogus commutator/negator links for JSONB containment operators.
<@ and @> are each other's commutators, but they were incorrectly marked
as being each other's negators instead.  (This was actually questioned
in a comment in the original commit, but nobody followed through :-(.)
Per bug #11178 from Christian Pronovost.

In passing, fix some JSONB operator descriptions that were randomly
different from the phrasing of every other similar description.

catversion bump for pg_catalog contents change.
2014-08-16 12:53:54 -04:00
Robert Haas b34e37bfef Add sortsupport routines for text.
This provides a small but worthwhile speedup when sorting text, at least
in cases to which the sortsupport machinery applies.

Robert Haas and Peter Geoghegan
2014-08-14 12:09:52 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 4c6780fd17 pg_upgrade: prevent oid conflicts with new-cluster TOAST tables
Previously, TOAST tables only required in the new cluster could cause
oid conflicts if they were auto-numbered and a later conflicting oid had
to be assigned.

Backpatch through 9.3
2014-08-07 14:56:13 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 0f43a55331 json_build_object and json_build_array are stable, not immutable.
These functions indirectly invoke output functions, so they can't be
immutable.

Backpatch to 9.4 where they were introduced.

Catalog version bumped.
2014-07-15 14:24:47 -04:00
Andres Freund a36a8fa376 Rename logical decoding's pg_llog directory to pg_logical.
The old name wasn't very descriptive as of actual contents of the
directory, which are historical snapshots in the snapshots/
subdirectory and mappingdata for rewritten tuples in
mappings/. There's been a fair amount of discussion what would be a
good name. I'm settling for pg_logical because it's likely that
further data around logical decoding and replication will need saving
in the future.

Also add the missing entry for the directory into storage.sgml's list
of PGDATA contents.

Bumps catversion as the data directories won't be compatible.
2014-07-02 21:07:47 +02:00
Tom Lane a749a23d7a Remove use_json_as_text options from json_to_record/json_populate_record.
The "false" case was really quite useless since all it did was to throw
an error; a definition not helped in the least by making it the default.
Instead let's just have the "true" case, which emits nested objects and
arrays in JSON syntax.  We might later want to provide the ability to
emit sub-objects in Postgres record or array syntax, but we'd be best off
to drive that off a check of the target field datatype, not a separate
argument.

For the functions newly added in 9.4, we can just remove the flag arguments
outright.  We can't do that for json_populate_record[set], which already
existed in 9.3, but we can ignore the argument and always behave as if it
were "true".  It helps that the flag arguments were optional and not
documented in any useful fashion anyway.
2014-06-29 13:50:58 -04:00
Tom Lane f71136eeeb Get rid of bogus separate pg_proc entries for json_extract_path operators.
These should not have existed to begin with, but there was apparently some
misunderstanding of the purpose of the opr_sanity regression test item
that checks for operator implementation functions with their own comments.
The idea there is to check for unintentional violations of the rule that
operator implementation functions shouldn't be documented separately
.... but for these functions, that is in fact what we want, since the
variadic option is useful and not accessible via the operator syntax.
Get rid of the extra pg_proc entries and fix the regression test and
documentation to be explicit about what we're doing here.
2014-06-26 16:22:15 -07:00
Tom Lane 8b38a538c0 Add Asserts to verify that catalog cache keys are unique and not null.
The catcache code is effectively assuming this already, so let's insist
that the catalog and index are actually declared that way.

Having done that, the comments in indexing.h about non-unique indexes
not being used for catcaches are completely redundant not just mostly so;
and we didn't have such a comment for every such index anyway.  So let's
get rid of them.

Per discussion of whether we should identify primary keys for catalogs.
We might or might not take that further step, but this change in itself
will allow quicker detection of misdeclared catcaches, so it seems worth
doing in any case.
2014-06-20 18:21:05 -04:00
Tom Lane 8f889b1083 Implement UPDATE tab SET (col1,col2,...) = (SELECT ...), ...
This SQL-standard feature allows a sub-SELECT yielding multiple columns
(but only one row) to be used to compute the new values of several columns
to be updated.  While the same results can be had with an independent
sub-SELECT per column, such a workaround can require a great deal of
duplicated computation.

The standard actually says that the source for a multi-column assignment
could be any row-valued expression.  The implementation used here is
tightly tied to our existing sub-SELECT support and can't handle other
cases; the Bison grammar would have some issues with them too.  However,
I don't feel too bad about this since other cases can be converted into
sub-SELECTs.  For instance, "SET (a,b,c) = row_valued_function(x)" could
be written "SET (a,b,c) = (SELECT * FROM row_valued_function(x))".
2014-06-18 13:22:34 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0ef0b6784c Change the signature of rm_desc so that it's passed a XLogRecord.
Just feels more natural, and is more consistent with rm_redo.
2014-06-14 10:46:48 +03:00
Tom Lane 154146d208 Rename lo_create(oid, bytea) to lo_from_bytea().
The previous naming broke the query that libpq's lo_initialize() uses
to collect the OIDs of the server-side functions it requires, because
that query effectively assumes that there is only one function named
lo_create in the pg_catalog schema (and likewise only one lo_open, etc).

While we should certainly make libpq more robust about this, the naive
query will remain in use in the field for the foreseeable future, so it
seems the only workable choice is to use a different name for the new
function.  lo_from_bytea() won a small straw poll.

Back-patch into 9.4 where the new function was introduced.
2014-06-12 15:39:09 -04:00
Tom Lane 5f93c37805 Add defenses against running with a wrong selection of LOBLKSIZE.
It's critical that the backend's idea of LOBLKSIZE match the way data has
actually been divided up in pg_largeobject.  While we don't provide any
direct way to adjust that value, doing so is a one-line source code change
and various people have expressed interest recently in changing it.  So,
just as with TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE, it seems prudent to record the value in
pg_control and cross-check that the backend's compiled-in setting matches
the on-disk data.

Also tweak the code in inv_api.c so that fetches from pg_largeobject
explicitly verify that the length of the data field is not more than
LOBLKSIZE.  Formerly we just had Asserts() for that, which is no protection
at all in production builds.  In some of the call sites an overlength data
value would translate directly to a security-relevant stack clobber, so it
seems worth one extra runtime comparison to be sure.

In the back branches, we can't change the contents of pg_control; but we
can still make the extra checks in inv_api.c, which will offer some amount
of protection against running with the wrong value of LOBLKSIZE.
2014-06-05 11:31:06 -04:00
Andres Freund f0c108560b Consistently spell a replication slot's name as slot_name.
Previously there's been a mix between 'slotname' and 'slot_name'. It's
not nice to be unneccessarily inconsistent in a new feature. As a post
beta1 initdb now is required in the wake of eeca4cd35e, fix the
inconsistencies.
Most the changes won't affect usage of replication slots because the
majority of changes is around function parameter names. The prominent
exception to that is that the recovery.conf parameter
'primary_slotname' is now named 'primary_slot_name'.
2014-06-05 16:29:20 +02:00
Tom Lane 4c8ab1b91d Add btree and hash opclasses for pg_lsn.
This is needed to allow ORDER BY, DISTINCT, etc to work as expected for
pg_lsn values.

We had previously decided to put this off for 9.5, but in view of commit
eeca4cd35e there's no reason to avoid a
catversion bump for 9.4beta2, and this does make a pretty significant
usability difference for pg_lsn.

Michael Paquier, with fixes from Andres Freund and Tom Lane
2014-06-04 20:45:56 -04:00
Tom Lane eeca4cd35e Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION for previous 9.4 changes.
This should have been done in 6bc8ef0b7f
and/or 50e547096c, but better late than
never.  If we don't change this then we risk 9.3 pg_controldata or
pg_resetxlog being inappropriately used against a 9.4 pg_control file,
or vice versa.
2014-06-04 18:16:17 -04:00
Tom Lane ec3357a3bc pg_lsn should not be marked typispreferred.
In general it's not a good idea for built-in types in the 'U' category
to be marked preferred; they could draw behavior away from user-defined
types with similarly-named operators.  pg_lsn is probably at low risk
of that right now given the lack of casts between it and other types,
but that doesn't make this marking OK.

Ordinarily we'd bump catversion when changing any predefined catalog
contents like this, but since we're past beta1, the costs of a forced
initdb seem to outweigh the benefits of guaranteed behavioral consistency.
There's not any known behavioral impact today anyway --- this is more
in the nature of being sure there's not problems in future.

Per an off-list complaint from Thomas Fanghaenel.
2014-05-28 00:26:46 -04:00
Tom Lane 12e611d43e Rename jsonb_hash_ops to jsonb_path_ops.
There's no longer much pressure to switch the default GIN opclass for
jsonb, but there was still some unhappiness with the name "jsonb_hash_ops",
since hashing is no longer a distinguishing property of that opclass,
and anyway it seems like a relatively minor detail.  At the suggestion of
Heikki Linnakangas, we'll use "jsonb_path_ops" instead; that captures the
important characteristic that each index entry depends on the entire path
from the document root to the indexed value.

Also add a user-facing explanation of the implementation properties of
these two opclasses.
2014-05-11 12:06:04 -04:00
Tom Lane bdf9dd4db7 Fix typcategory labeling of jsonb.
Dunno who had the cute idea of labeling jsonb as typcategory 'C',
but it is not a composite type.  Label it 'U', since that's what
json is using.
2014-05-09 09:25:58 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas d9daff0e0c More jsonb cleanup.
Fix JSONB_MAX_ELEMS and JSONB_MAX_PAIRS macros to use CB_MASK in the
calculation. JENTRY_POSMASK happens to have the same value at the moment,
but that's just coincidental.

Refactor jsonb iterator functions, for readability.

Get rid of the JENTRY_ISFIRST flag. Whenever we handle JEntrys, we have
access to the whole array and have enough context information to know
which entry is the first. This frees up one bit in the JEntry header for
future use. While we're at it, shuffle the JEntry bits so that boolean
true and false go together, for aesthetic reasons.

Bump catalog version as this changes the on-disk format slightly.
2014-05-09 15:55:56 +03:00
Tom Lane 46dddf7673 Improve key representation for GIN jsonb_ops, and fix existence-search bug.
Change the key representation so that values that would exceed 127 bytes
are hashed into short strings, and so that the original JSON datatype of
each value is recorded in the index.  The hashing rule eliminates the major
objection to having this opclass be the default for jsonb, namely that it
could fail for plausible input data (due to GIN's restrictions on maximum
key length).  Preserving datatype information doesn't really buy us much
right now, but it requires no extra space compared to the previous way,
and it might be useful later.

Also, change the consistency-checking functions to request recheck for
exists (jsonb ? text) and related operators.  The original analysis that
this is an exactly checkable query was incorrect, since the index does
not preserve information about whether a key appears at top level in
the indexed JSON object.  Add a test case demonstrating the problem.

Make some other, mostly cosmetic improvements to the code in jsonb_gin.c
as well.

catversion bump due to on-disk data format change in jsonb_ops indexes.
2014-05-09 08:41:26 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0a78320057 pgindent run for 9.4
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was
applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 3727afafee Fix pg_type.typlen for newly-revived line type.
Commit 261c7d4b65 removed the "m" field
from struct LINE, but neglected to make pg_type.h's idea of the type's
size match.  This resulted in reading past the end of palloc'd LINE
values when inserting them into tuples etc.  In principle that could
cause a SIGSEGV, though the odds of detectable problems seem low.

Bump catversion since this makes an incompatible on-disk format change.
Note that if the line type had been in use in the field, this would
break pg_upgrade'ability of databases containing line values; but
it seems unlikely that there are any (they'd have had to be compiled
with -DENABLE_LINE_TYPE).

Spotted by Andres Freund.
2014-05-05 13:37:54 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d00190495 Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].
Commit a730183926 created rather a mess by
putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common.
We really shouldn't do that.  To clean it up:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't
self-contained.
2014-04-30 17:30:50 -04:00
Tom Lane a0f9358149 Fix incorrect pg_proc.proallargtypes entries for two built-in functions.
pg_sequence_parameters() and pg_identify_object() have had incorrect
proallargtypes entries since 9.1 and 9.3 respectively.  This was mostly
masked by the correct information in proargtypes, but a few operations
such as pg_get_function_arguments() (and thus psql's \df display) would
show the wrong data types for these functions' input parameters.

In HEAD, fix the wrong info, bump catversion, and add an opr_sanity
regression test to catch future mistakes of this sort.

In the back branches, just fix the wrong info so that installations
initdb'd with future minor releases will have the right data.  We
can't force an initdb, and it doesn't seem like a good idea to add
a regression test that will fail on existing installations.

Andres Freund
2014-04-23 21:21:05 -04:00
Tom Lane f0fedfe82c Allow polymorphic aggregates to have non-polymorphic state data types.
Before 9.4, such an aggregate couldn't be declared, because its final
function would have to have polymorphic result type but no polymorphic
argument, which CREATE FUNCTION would quite properly reject.  The
ordered-set-aggregate patch found a workaround: allow the final function
to be declared as accepting additional dummy arguments that have types
matching the aggregate's regular input arguments.  However, we failed
to notice that this problem applies just as much to regular aggregates,
despite the fact that we had a built-in regular aggregate array_agg()
that was known to be undeclarable in SQL because its final function
had an illegal signature.  So what we should have done, and what this
patch does, is to decouple the extra-dummy-arguments behavior from
ordered-set aggregates and make it generally available for all aggregate
declarations.  We have to put this into 9.4 rather than waiting till
later because it slightly alters the rules for declaring ordered-set
aggregates.

The patch turned out a bit bigger than I'd hoped because it proved
necessary to record the extra-arguments option in a new pg_aggregate
column.  I'd thought we could just look at the final function's pronargs
at runtime, but that didn't work well for variadic final functions.
It's probably just as well though, because it simplifies life for pg_dump
to record the option explicitly.

While at it, fix array_agg() to have a valid final-function signature,
and add an opr_sanity test to notice future deviations from polymorphic
consistency.  I also marked the percentile_cont() aggregates as not
needing extra arguments, since they don't.
2014-04-23 19:17:41 -04:00
Robert Haas dfc0219f64 Add to_regprocedure() and to_regoperator().
These are natural complements to the functions added by commit
0886fc6a5c, but they weren't included
in the original patch for some reason.  Add them.

Patch by me, per a complaint by Tom Lane.  Review by Tatsuo
Ishii.
2014-04-16 12:21:43 -04:00
Tom Lane d95425c8b9 Provide moving-aggregate support for boolean aggregates.
David Rowley and Florian Pflug, reviewed by Dean Rasheed
2014-04-13 00:01:46 -04:00
Tom Lane 9d229f399e Provide moving-aggregate support for a bunch of numerical aggregates.
First installment of the promised moving-aggregate support in built-in
aggregates: count(), sum(), avg(), stddev() and variance() for
assorted datatypes, though not for float4/float8.

In passing, remove a 2001-vintage kluge in interval_accum(): interval
array elements have been properly aligned since around 2003, but
nobody remembered to take out this workaround.  Also, fix a thinko
in the opr_sanity tests for moving-aggregate catalog entries.

David Rowley and Florian Pflug, reviewed by Dean Rasheed
2014-04-12 20:33:09 -04:00
Tom Lane a9d9acbf21 Create infrastructure for moving-aggregate optimization.
Until now, when executing an aggregate function as a window function
within a window with moving frame start (that is, any frame start mode
except UNBOUNDED PRECEDING), we had to recalculate the aggregate from
scratch each time the frame head moved.  This patch allows an aggregate
definition to include an alternate "moving aggregate" implementation
that includes an inverse transition function for removing rows from
the aggregate's running state.  As long as this can be done successfully,
runtime is proportional to the total number of input rows, rather than
to the number of input rows times the average frame length.

This commit includes the core infrastructure, documentation, and regression
tests using user-defined aggregates.  Follow-on commits will update some
of the built-in aggregates to use this feature.

David Rowley and Florian Pflug, reviewed by Dean Rasheed; additional
hacking by me
2014-04-12 12:03:30 -04:00
Tom Lane f23a5630eb Add an in-core GiST index opclass for inet/cidr types.
This operator class can accelerate subnet/supernet tests as well as
btree-equivalent ordered comparisons.  It also handles a new network
operator inet && inet (overlaps, a/k/a "is supernet or subnet of"),
which is expected to be useful in exclusion constraints.

Ideally this opclass would be the default for GiST with inet/cidr data,
but we can't mark it that way until we figure out how to do a more or
less graceful transition from the current situation, in which the
really-completely-bogus inet/cidr opclasses in contrib/btree_gist are
marked as default.  Having the opclass in core and not default is better
than not having it at all, though.

While at it, add new documentation sections to allow us to officially
document GiST/GIN/SP-GiST opclasses, something there was never a clear
place to do before.  I filled these in with some simple tables listing
the existing opclasses and the operators they support, but there's
certainly scope to put more information there.

Emre Hasegeli, reviewed by Andreas Karlsson, further hacking by me
2014-04-08 15:46:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 0886fc6a5c Add new to_reg* functions for error-free OID lookups.
These functions won't throw an error if the object doesn't exist,
or if (for functions and operators) there's more than one matching
object.

Yugo Nagata and Nozomi Anzai, reviewed by Amit Khandekar, Marti
Raudsepp, Amit Kapila, and me.
2014-04-08 10:27:56 -04:00
Simon Riggs e5550d5fec Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmds
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

CLUSTER ON
SET WITHOUT CLUSTER

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

All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock

Simon Riggs and Noah Misch

Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
2014-04-06 11:13:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 59202fae04 Fix some compiler warnings that clang emits with -pedantic.
Andres Freund
2014-04-04 11:29:50 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b3539599 Fix non-equivalence of VARIADIC and non-VARIADIC function call formats.
For variadic functions (other than VARIADIC ANY), the syntaxes foo(x,y,...)
and foo(VARIADIC ARRAY[x,y,...]) should be considered equivalent, since the
former is converted to the latter at parse time.  They have indeed been
equivalent, in all releases before 9.3.  However, commit 75b39e790 made an
ill-considered decision to record which syntax had been used in FuncExpr
nodes, and then to make equal() test that in checking node equality ---
which caused the syntaxes to not be seen as equivalent by the planner.
This is the underlying cause of bug #9817 from Dmitry Ryabov.

It might seem that a quick fix would be to make equal() disregard
FuncExpr.funcvariadic, but the same commit made that untenable, because
the field actually *is* semantically significant for some VARIADIC ANY
functions.  This patch instead adopts the approach of redefining
funcvariadic (and aggvariadic, in HEAD) as meaning that the last argument
is a variadic array, whether it got that way by parser intervention or was
supplied explicitly by the user.  Therefore the value will always be true
for non-ANY variadic functions, restoring the principle of equivalence.
(However, the planner will continue to consider use of VARIADIC as a
meaningful difference for VARIADIC ANY functions, even though some such
functions might disregard it.)

In HEAD, this change lets us simplify the decompilation logic in
ruleutils.c, since the funcvariadic/aggvariadic flag tells directly whether
to print VARIADIC.  However, in 9.3 we have to continue to cope with
existing stored rules/views that might contain the previous definition.
Fortunately, this just means no change in ruleutils.c, since its existing
behavior effectively ignores funcvariadic for all cases other than VARIADIC
ANY functions.

In HEAD, bump catversion to reflect the fact that FuncExpr.funcvariadic
changed meanings; this is sort of pro forma, since I don't believe any
built-in views are affected.

Unfortunately, this patch doesn't magically fix everything for affected
9.3 users.  After installing 9.3.5, they might need to recreate their
rules/views/indexes containing variadic function calls in order to get
everything consistent with the new definition.  As in the cited bug,
the symptom of a problem would be failure to use a nominally matching
index that has a variadic function call in its definition.  We'll need
to mention this in the 9.3.5 release notes.
2014-04-03 22:02:24 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan f9c6d72cbf Cleanup around json_to_record/json_to_recordset
Set function parameter names and defaults. Add jsonb versions (which the
code already provided for so the actual new code is trivial). Add jsonb
regression tests and docs.

Bump catalog version (which I apparently forgot to do when jsonb was
committed).
2014-03-26 10:18:24 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan d9134d0a35 Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json.
The new format accepts exactly the same data as the json type. However, it is
stored in a format that does not require reparsing the orgiginal text in order
to process it, making it much more suitable for indexing and other operations.
Insignificant whitespace is discarded, and the order of object keys is not
preserved. Neither are duplicate object keys kept - the later value for a given
key is the only one stored.

The new type has all the functions and operators that the json type has,
with the exception of the json generation functions (to_json, json_agg etc.)
and with identical semantics. In addition, there are operator classes for
hash and btree indexing, and two classes for GIN indexing, that have no
equivalent in the json type.

This feature grew out of previous work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, which
was intended to provide similar facilities to a nested hstore type, but which
in the end proved to have some significant compatibility issues.

Authors: Oleg Bartunov,  Teodor Sigaev, Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan.
Review: Andres Freund
2014-03-23 16:40:19 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c5608ea26a Allow opclasses to provide tri-valued GIN consistent functions.
With the GIN "fast scan" feature, GIN can skip items without fetching all
the keys for them, if it can prove that they don't match regardless of
those keys. So far, it has done the proving by calling the boolean
consistent function with all combinations of TRUE/FALSE for the unfetched
keys, but since that's O(n^2), it becomes unfeasible with more than a few
keys. We can avoid calling consistent with all the combinations, if we can
tell the operator class implementation directly which keys are unknown.

This commit includes a triConsistent function for the built-in array and
tsvector opclasses.

Alexander Korotkov, with some changes by me.
2014-03-12 17:51:30 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 84df54b22e Constructors for interval, timestamp, timestamptz
Author: Pavel Stěhule, editorialized somewhat by Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Tomáš Vondra, Marko Tiikkaja
With input from Fabrízio de Royes Mello, Jim Nasby
2014-03-04 15:09:43 -03:00
Robert Haas b89e151054 Introduce logical decoding.
This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log
stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is,
inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them.
It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema
of the effected tables.  The output format is controlled by a
so-called "output plugin"; an example is included.  To make use of
this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be
modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system,
and to perform filtering.

Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding
system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream
changes via walsender.

Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other
people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan,
Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit
Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve
Singer.
2014-03-03 16:32:18 -05:00
Robert Haas a8e9b86b5e Bump catversion.
The previous patch should have entailed a catversion bump, but I
forgot.
2014-03-03 07:22:20 -05:00
Robert Haas d83ee62231 Corrections to replication slots code and documentation.
Andres Freund, per a report from Vik Faering
2014-03-03 07:16:54 -05:00
Robert Haas ae95f5f74a Define LSNOID in pg_type.h.
Most other built-in types have a similarly-named constant, so this
type should probably have one, too.

Michael Paquier
2014-03-03 07:03:41 -05:00
Robert Haas dd1a3bccca Show xid and xmin in pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_replication.
Christian Kruse, reviewed by Andres Freund and myself, with further
minor adjustments by me.
2014-02-25 12:34:04 -05:00
Robert Haas 6615e77439 Use pg_lsn data type in pg_stat_replication, too.
Michael Paquier, per a suggestion from Andres Freund
2014-02-24 10:38:45 -05:00
Robert Haas 6f289c2b7d Switch various builtin functions to use pg_lsn instead of text.
The functions in slotfuncs.c don't exist in any released version,
but the changes to xlogfuncs.c represent backward-incompatibilities.
Per discussion, we're hoping that the queries using these functions
are few enough and simple enough that this won't cause too much
breakage for users.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by Andres Freund and further modified
by me.
2014-02-19 11:37:43 -05:00
Robert Haas 694e3d139a Further code review for pg_lsn data type.
Change input function error messages to be more consistent with what is
done elsewhere.  Remove a bunch of redundant type casts, so that the
compiler will warn us if we screw up.  Don't pass LSNs by value on
platforms where a Datum is only 32 bytes, per buildfarm.  Move macros
for packing and unpacking LSNs to pg_lsn.h so that we can include
access/xlogdefs.h, to avoid an unsatisfied dependency on XLogRecPtr.
2014-02-19 10:06:59 -05:00
Robert Haas 7d03a83f4d Add a pg_lsn data type, to represent an LSN.
Robert Haas and Michael Paquier
2014-02-19 08:35:23 -05:00
Robert Haas 5f173040e3 Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.
If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent
activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table
than other parts.  At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be
used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a
different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege
escalation attack.

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

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

Security: CVE-2014-0062
2014-02-17 09:33:31 -05:00
Robert Haas 80353f3528 Adjust pg_sleep_for/pg_sleep_until to use clock_timestamp.
Otherwise, pg_sleep_until does the wrong thing in a multi-statement
transaction.

Julien Rouhaud
2014-02-03 14:33:43 -05:00
Robert Haas 858ec11858 Introduce replication slots.
Replication slots are a crash-safe data structure which can be created
on either a master or a standby to prevent premature removal of
write-ahead log segments needed by a standby, as well as (with
hot_standby_feedback=on) pruning of tuples whose removal would cause
replication conflicts.  Slots have some advantages over existing
techniques, as explained in the documentation.

In a few places, we refer to the type of replication slots introduced
by this patch as "physical" slots, because forthcoming patches for
logical decoding will also have slots, but with somewhat different
properties.

Andres Freund and Robert Haas
2014-01-31 22:45:36 -05:00
Bruce Momjian fc4ffba968 system catalogs: reorder pg_amproc entries into proper sections
Report form Antonin Houska
2014-01-31 16:04:18 -05:00
Robert Haas 760c770ff6 Add convenience functions pg_sleep_for and pg_sleep_until.
Vik Fearing, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and myself
2014-01-30 15:47:56 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 5e52e9d6d4 Forgot to bump catalog version for json_array_elements_text. 2014-01-29 16:38:31 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 5264d91541 Add json_array_elements_text function.
This was a notable omission from the json functions added in 9.3 and
there have been numerous complaints about its absence.

Laurence Rowe.
2014-01-29 15:39:01 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 105639900b New json functions.
json_build_array() and json_build_object allow for the construction of
arbitrarily complex json trees. json_object() turns a one or two
dimensional array, or two separate arrays, into a json_object of
name/value pairs, similarly to the hstore() function.
json_object_agg() aggregates its two arguments into a single json object
as name value pairs.

Catalog version bumped.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Marko Tiikkaja.
2014-01-28 17:48:21 -05:00
Fujii Masao 9132b189bf Add pg_stat_archiver statistics view.
This view shows the statistics about the WAL archiver process's activity.

Gabriele Bartolini, reviewed by Michael Paquier, refactored a bit by me.
2014-01-29 02:58:22 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera b152c6cd0d Make DROP IF EXISTS more consistently not fail
Some cases were still reporting errors and aborting, instead of a NOTICE
that the object was being skipped.  This makes it more difficult to
cleanly handle pg_dump --clean, so change that to instead skip missing
objects properly.

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

Authors: Pavel Stehule and Dean Rasheed.  Some tweaks by Álvaro Herrera
2014-01-23 14:40:29 -03:00
Robert Haas 01f7808b3e Add a cardinality function for arrays.
Unlike our other array functions, this considers the total number of
elements across all dimensions, and returns 0 rather than NULL when the
array has no elements.  But it seems that both of those behaviors are
almost universally disliked, so hopefully that's OK.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Dean Rasheed and Pavel Stehule
2014-01-21 12:38:53 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 11829ff8b2 Remove DESCR entries for json operator functions.
Per -hackers discussion.
2014-01-10 22:25:04 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7e04792a1c Update copyright for 2014
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back
branches.
2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
Tom Lane 8b49a6044d Cache catalog lookup data across groups in ordered-set aggregates.
The initial commit of ordered-set aggregates just did all the setup work
afresh each time the aggregate function is started up.  But in a GROUP BY
query, the catalog lookups need not be repeated for each group, since the
column datatypes and sort information won't change.  When there are many
small groups, this makes for a useful, though not huge, performance
improvement.  Per suggestion from Andrew Gierth.

Profiling of these cases suggests that it might be profitable to avoid
duplicate lookups within tuplesort startup as well; but changing the
tuplesort APIs would have much broader impact, so I left that for
another day.
2014-01-05 12:28:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a09e3fd776 Fix whitespace 2013-12-26 23:51:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 8d65da1f01 Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates.
This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set
aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in
SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(),
percent_rank(), cume_dist()).  We also added mode() though it is not in the
spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that
can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data.

Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting
process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions.  To allow the
support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API
function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c.  This allows retrieval of
the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the
immediate need.  There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to
install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that
infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up.

In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic
aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER
additions for aggregates.  Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by
allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT.
It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types
but not these.

Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing,
and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
2013-12-23 16:11:35 -05:00
Fujii Masao 961bf59fb7 Rename wal_log_hintbits to wal_log_hints, per discussion on pgsql-hackers.
Sawada Masahiko
2013-12-21 03:33:16 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 527fdd9df1 Move pg_upgrade_support global variables to their own include file
Previously their declarations were spread around to avoid accidental
access.
2013-12-19 16:10:07 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 50e547096c Add GUC to enable WAL-logging of hint bits, even with checksums disabled.
WAL records of hint bit updates is useful to tools that want to examine
which pages have been modified. In particular, this is required to make
the pg_rewind tool safe (without checksums).

This can also be used to test how much extra WAL-logging would occur if
you enabled checksums, without actually enabling them (which you can't
currently do without re-initdb'ing).

Sawada Masahiko, docs by Samrat Revagade. Reviewed by Dilip Kumar, with
further changes by me.
2013-12-13 16:26:14 +02:00
Robert Haas 8e18d04d4d Refine our definition of what constitutes a system relation.
Although user-defined relations can't be directly created in
pg_catalog, it's possible for them to end up there, because you can
create them in some other schema and then use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA
to move them there.  Previously, such relations couldn't afterwards
be manipulated, because IsSystemRelation()/IsSystemClass() rejected
all attempts to modify objects in the pg_catalog schema, regardless
of their origin.  With this patch, they now reject only those
objects in pg_catalog which were created at initdb-time, allowing
most operations on user-created tables in pg_catalog to proceed
normally.

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

Andres Freund, with some modifications by me.
2013-11-28 20:57:20 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 85ed91ee7d Implement information_schema.parameters.parameter_default column
Reviewed-by: Ali Dar <ali.munir.dar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Rodolfo Campero <rodolfo.campero@anachronics.com>
2013-11-26 23:21:35 -05:00
Tom Lane 45e02e3232 Fix array slicing of int2vector and oidvector values.
The previous coding labeled expressions such as pg_index.indkey[1:3] as
being of int2vector type; which is not right because the subscript bounds
of such a result don't, in general, satisfy the restrictions of int2vector.
To fix, implicitly promote the result of slicing int2vector to int2[],
or oidvector to oid[].  This is similar to what we've done with domains
over arrays, which is a good analogy because these types are very much
like restricted domains of the corresponding regular-array types.

A side-effect is that we now also forbid array-element updates on such
columns, eg while "update pg_index set indkey[4] = 42" would have worked
before if you were superuser (and corrupted your catalogs irretrievably,
no doubt) it's now disallowed.  This seems like a good thing since, again,
some choices of subscripting would've led to results not satisfying the
restrictions of int2vector.  The case of an array-slice update was
rejected before, though with a different error message than you get now.
We could make these cases work in future if we added a cast from int2[]
to int2vector (with a cast function checking the subscript restrictions)
but it seems unlikely that there's any value in that.

Per report from Ronan Dunklau.  Back-patch to all supported branches
because of the crash risks involved.
2013-11-23 20:03:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 784e762e88 Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)
as a single FROM-clause entry.  The result is the concatenation of the
first row from each function, followed by the second row from each
function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than
others.  This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what
Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list.

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

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

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

Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and
significantly revised by me
2013-11-21 19:37:20 -05:00
Tom Lane f901bb50e3 Add make_date() and make_time() functions.
Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke and Atri Sharma
2013-11-17 15:06:50 -05:00
Tom Lane 69c8fbac20 Improve performance of numeric sum(), avg(), stddev(), variance(), etc.
This patch improves performance of most built-in aggregates that formerly
used a NUMERIC or NUMERIC array as their transition type; this includes
not only aggregates on numeric inputs, but some aggregates on integer
inputs where overflow of an int8 value is a possibility.  The code now
uses a special-purpose data structure to avoid array construction and
deconstruction overhead, as well as packing and unpacking overhead for
numeric values.

These aggregates' transition type is now declared as INTERNAL, since
it doesn't correspond to any SQL data type.  To keep the planner from
thinking that that means a lot of storage will be used, we make use
of the just-added pg_aggregate.aggtransspace feature.  The space estimate
is set to 128 bytes, which is at least in the right ballpark.

Hadi Moshayedi, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Tomas Vondra
2013-11-16 18:46:34 -05:00
Tom Lane 6cb86143e8 Allow aggregates to provide estimates of their transition state data size.
Formerly the planner had a hard-wired rule of thumb for guessing the amount
of space consumed by an aggregate function's transition state data.  This
estimate is critical to deciding whether it's OK to use hash aggregation,
and in many situations the built-in estimate isn't very good.  This patch
adds a column to pg_aggregate wherein a per-aggregate estimate can be
provided, overriding the planner's default, and infrastructure for setting
the column via CREATE AGGREGATE.

It may be that additional smarts will be required in future, perhaps even
a per-aggregate estimation function.  But this is already a step forward.

This is extracted from a larger patch to improve the performance of numeric
and int8 aggregates.  I (tgl) thought it was worth reviewing and committing
this infrastructure separately.  In this commit, all built-in aggregates
are given aggtransspace = 0, so no behavior should change.

Hadi Moshayedi, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Tomas Vondra
2013-11-16 16:03:40 -05:00
Robert Haas 07cacba983 Add the notion of REPLICA IDENTITY for a table.
Pending patches for logical replication will use this to determine
which columns of a tuple ought to be considered as its candidate key.

Andres Freund, with minor, mostly cosmetic adjustments by me
2013-11-08 12:30:43 -05:00
Noah Misch c50b7c09d8 Add large object functions catering to SQL callers.
With these, one need no longer manipulate large object descriptors and
extract numeric constants from header files in order to read and write
large object contents from SQL.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia.
2013-10-27 22:56:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 3dc543b3d8 Replace duplicate_oids with Perl implementation
It is more portable, more robust, and more readable.

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
2013-10-10 20:09:42 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 4d212bac17 json_typeof function.
Andrew Tipton.
2013-10-10 12:21:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 261c7d4b65 Revive line type
Change the input/output format to {A,B,C}, to match the internal
representation.

Complete the implementations of line_in, line_out, line_recv, line_send.
Remove comments and error messages about the line type not being
implemented.  Add regression tests for existing line operators and
functions.

Reviewed-by: rui hua <365507506hua@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>
2013-10-09 22:34:38 -04:00
Kevin Grittner f566515192 Add record_image_ops opclass for matview concurrent refresh.
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY was broken for any matview
containing a column of a type without a default btree operator
class.  It also did not produce results consistent with a non-
concurrent REFRESH or a normal view if any column was of a type
which allowed user-visible differences between values which
compared as equal according to the type's default btree opclass.
Concurrent matview refresh was modified to use the new operators
to solve these problems.

Documentation was added for record comparison, both for the
default btree operator class for record, and the newly added
operators.  Regression tests now check for proper behavior both
for a matview with a box column and a matview containing a citext
column.

Reviewed by Steve Singer, who suggested some of the doc language.
2013-10-09 14:26:09 -05:00
Kevin Grittner 277607d600 Eliminate pg_rewrite.ev_attr column and related dead code.
Commit 95ef6a3448 removed the
ability to create rules on an individual column as of 7.3, but
left some residual code which has since been useless.  This cleans
up that dead code without any change in behavior other than
dropping the useless column from the catalog.
2013-09-05 14:03:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 0d3f4406df Allow aggregate functions to be VARIADIC.
There's no inherent reason why an aggregate function can't be variadic
(even VARIADIC ANY) if its transition function can handle the case.
Indeed, this patch to add the feature touches none of the planner or
executor, and little of the parser; the main missing stuff was DDL and
pg_dump support.

It is true that variadic aggregates can create the same sort of ambiguity
about parameters versus ORDER BY keys that was complained of when we
(briefly) had both one- and two-argument forms of string_agg().  However,
the policy formed in response to that discussion only said that we'd not
create any built-in aggregates with varying numbers of arguments, not that
we shouldn't allow users to do it.  So the logical extension of that is
we can allow users to make variadic aggregates as long as we're wary about
shipping any such in core.

In passing, this patch allows aggregate function arguments to be named, to
the extent of remembering the names in pg_proc and dumping them in pg_dump.
You can't yet call an aggregate using named-parameter notation.  That seems
like a likely future extension, but it'll take some work, and it's not what
this patch is really about.  Likewise, there's still some work needed to
make window functions handle VARIADIC fully, but I left that for another
day.

initdb forced because of new aggvariadic field in Aggref parse nodes.
2013-09-03 17:08:46 -04:00
Robert Haas f01d1ae3a1 Add infrastructure for mapping relfilenodes to relation OIDs.
Future patches are expected to introduce logical replication that
works by decoding WAL.  WAL contains relfilenodes rather than relation
OIDs, so this infrastructure will be needed to find the relation OID
based on WAL contents.

If logical replication does not make it into this release, we probably
should consider reverting this, since it will add some overhead to DDL
operations that create new relations.  One additional index insert per
pg_class row is not a large overhead, but it's more than zero.
Another way of meeting the needs of logical replication would be to
the relation OID to WAL, but that would burden DML operations, not
only DDL.

Andres Freund, with some changes by me.  Design review, in earlier
versions, by Álvaro Herrera.
2013-07-22 11:09:10 -04:00
Stephen Frost 4cbe3ac3e8 WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWs
For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows
the user to specify what level of checking should be done on records
being inserted or updated.  For 'LOCAL CHECK', new tuples are validated
against the conditionals of the view they are being inserted into, while
for 'CASCADED CHECK' the new tuples are validated against the
conditionals for all views involved (from the top down).

This option is part of the SQL specification.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-07-18 17:10:16 -04:00
Noah Misch b560ec1b0d Implement the FILTER clause for aggregate function calls.
This is SQL-standard with a few extensions, namely support for
subqueries and outer references in clause expressions.

catversion bump due to change in Aggref and WindowFunc.

David Fetter, reviewed by Dean Rasheed.
2013-07-16 20:15:36 -04:00
Magnus Hagander c87ff71f37 Expose the estimation of number of changed tuples since last analyze
This value, now pg_stat_all_tables.n_mod_since_analyze, was already
tracked and used by autovacuum, but not exposed to the user.

Mark Kirkwood, review by Laurenz Albe
2013-07-05 15:10:15 +02:00