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Tom Lane 0339047bc9 Code review for protransform patches.
Fix loss of previous expression-simplification work when a transform
function fires: we must not simply revert to untransformed input tree.
Instead build a dummy FuncExpr node to pass to the transform function.
This has the additional advantage of providing a simpler, more uniform
API for transform functions.

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

Note: although this patch touches pg_proc.h, no need for catversion
bump, because the changes are cosmetic and don't actually change the
intended catalog contents.
2012-03-23 17:29:57 -04:00
Robert Haas e08b4101e1 Clarify that PQconninfoParse returns an array with all legal options.
Per discussion with Dmitriy Igrishin and Tom Lane.
2012-03-22 22:09:20 -04:00
Robert Haas fdf719cd28 Doc clarifications regarding use of varlena.
Jay Levitt, reviewed by Tom Lane.
2012-03-22 15:45:42 -04:00
Robert Haas e83f827f5a Update docs on numeric storage requirements.
Since 9.1, the minimum overhead is three bytes, not five.

Fujii Masao
2012-03-22 15:40:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 04dfc87749 If a role has a password expiration date, show that in psql's \du output.
Per a suggestion from Euler Taveira, it seems like a good idea to include
this information in \du (and \dg) output.  This costs nothing for people
who are not using the VALID UNTIL feature, while for those who are, it's
rather critical information.

Fabrízio de Royes Mello
2012-03-22 02:08:25 -04:00
Tom Lane f2386d7136 Fix configure's search for collateindex.pl.
PGAC_PATH_COLLATEINDEX supposed that it could use AC_PATH_PROGS to search
for collateindex.pl, but that macro will only accept files that are marked
executable, and at least some DocBook installations don't mark the script
executable (a case the docs Makefile was already prepared for).  Accept the
script if it's present and readable in $DOCBOOKSTYLE/bin, and otherwise
search the PATH as before.

Having fixed that up, we don't need the fallback case that was in the docs
Makefile, and instead can throw an understandable error if configure didn't
find the script.  Per recent trouble report from John Lumby.
2012-03-22 00:46:03 -04:00
Robert Haas 5b9c1e6d52 Doc updates for index-only scans.
Document that routine vacuuming is now also important for the purpose
of index-only scans; and mention in the section that describes the
visibility map that it is used to implement index-only scans.

Marti Raudsepp, with some changes by me.
2012-03-21 14:52:44 -04:00
Tom Lane 64c604898e Improve the -l (limit) option recently added to contrib/vacuumlo.
Instead of just stopping after removing an arbitrary subset of orphaned
large objects, commit and start a new transaction after each -l objects.
This is just as effective as the original patch at limiting the number of
locks used, and it doesn't require doing the OID collection process
repeatedly to get everything.  Since the option no longer changes the
fundamental behavior of vacuumlo, and it avoids a known server-side
limitation, enable it by default (with a default limit of 1000 LOs per
transaction).

In passing, be more careful about properly quoting the names of tables
and fields, and do some other cosmetic cleanup.
2012-03-20 19:05:44 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera b251cf3193 Fix trigger example code to match header changes
I should have done this in b93f5a5673 but
didn't notice the problem at the time.

Per report from Marco Nenciarini
2012-03-20 16:50:18 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 438269eb10 Update struct Trigger in docs 2012-03-20 16:18:59 -03:00
Robert Haas 0b43edbca7 Remove stray word from sepgsql documentation. 2012-03-20 15:10:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 313d29f740 Add note about column privilege behavior to REVOKE reference page
suggested by Josh Berkus
2012-03-17 10:34:00 +02:00
Robert Haas 4012810a68 A couple more fixes for the sepgsql documentation. 2012-03-15 16:49:44 -04:00
Robert Haas d0ed9efdf7 Copy editing of sepgsql documentation. 2012-03-15 16:37:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 523176cbf1 sepgsql_setcon().
This is intended as infrastructure to allow sepgsql to cooperate with
connection pooling software, by allowing the effective security label
to be set for each new connection.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Yeb Havinga.
2012-03-15 16:08:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 717f6d6085 In pg_upgrade, add various logging improvements:
add ability to control permissions of created files
	have psql echo its queries for easier debugging
	output four separate log files, and delete them on success
	add -r/--retain option to keep log files after success
	make logs file append-only
	remove -g/-G/-l logging options
	sugggest tailing appropriate log file on failure
	enhance -v/--verbose behavior
2012-03-12 19:48:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9a39583264 Remove tabs in SGML files 2012-03-12 10:13:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 8142166162 Make parameter name consistent with syntax summary.
Thomas Hunger
2012-03-11 16:56:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 1e4964478a Fix documented type of t_infomask2.
Per Koizumi Satoru
2012-03-11 16:53:04 -04:00
Tom Lane c6a11b89e4 Teach SPGiST to store nulls and do whole-index scans.
This patch fixes the other major compatibility-breaking limitation of
SPGiST, that it didn't store anything for null values of the indexed
column, and so could not support whole-index scans or "x IS NULL"
tests.  The approach is to create a wholly separate search tree for
the null entries, and use fixed "allTheSame" insertion and search
rules when processing this tree, instead of calling the index opclass
methods.  This way the opclass methods do not need to worry about
dealing with nulls.

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

Heavily rewritten version of a patch by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev.
(The original also stored nulls separately, but it reused GIN code to do
so; which required undesirable compromises in the on-disk format, and
would likely lead to bugs due to the GIN code being required to work in
two very different contexts.)
2012-03-11 16:29:59 -04:00
Michael Meskes fc227a4e3b Removed redundant "the" from ecpg's docs.
Typo spotted by Erik Rijkers.
2012-03-11 12:25:52 +01:00
Tatsuo Ishii da9e73a137 Add description for --no-locale and --text-search-config. 2012-03-11 19:16:15 +09:00
Tom Lane 03e56f798e Restructure SPGiST opclass interface API to support whole-index scans.
The original API definition was incapable of supporting whole-index scans
because there was no way to invoke leaf-value reconstruction without
checking any qual conditions.  Also, it was inefficient for
multiple-qual-condition scans because value reconstruction got done over
again for each qual condition, and because other internal work in the
consistent functions likewise had to be done for each qual.  To fix these
issues, pass the whole scankey array to the opclass consistent functions,
instead of only letting them see one item at a time.  (Essentially, the
loop over scankey entries is now inside the consistent functions not
outside them.  This makes the consistent functions a bit more complicated,
but not unreasonably so.)

In itself this commit does nothing except save a few cycles in
multiple-qual-condition index scans, since we can't support whole-index
scans on SPGiST indexes until nulls are included in the index.  However,
I consider this a must-fix for 9.2 because once we release it will get
very much harder to change the opclass API definition.
2012-03-10 18:36:49 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 39d74e346c Add support for renaming constraints
reviewed by Josh Berkus and Dimitri Fontaine
2012-03-10 20:19:13 +02:00
Robert Haas e914a144d3 sepgsql DROP support.
KaiGai Kohei
2012-03-09 15:18:45 -05:00
Tom Lane b14953932d Revise FDW planning API, again.
Further reflection shows that a single callback isn't very workable if we
desire to let FDWs generate multiple Paths, because that forces the FDW to
do all work necessary to generate a valid Plan node for each Path.  Instead
split the former PlanForeignScan API into three steps: GetForeignRelSize,
GetForeignPaths, GetForeignPlan.  We had already bit the bullet of breaking
the 9.1 FDW API for 9.2, so this shouldn't cause very much additional pain,
and it's substantially more flexible for complex FDWs.

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

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

Per review of Hanada Shigeru's pgsql_fdw patch.  We may need to tweak this
further as we continue to work on that patch, but to me it feels a lot
closer to being right now.
2012-03-09 12:49:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 9088d1b965 Add GetForeignColumnOptions() to foreign.c, and add some documentation.
GetForeignColumnOptions provides some abstraction for accessing
column-specific FDW options, on a par with the access functions that were
already provided here for other FDW-related information.

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

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

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

Hanada Shigeru, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
2012-03-07 18:20:58 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 2127aac6ef In pg_upgrade, only lock the old cluster if link mode is used, and do it
right after we restore the schema (a common failure point), and right
before we do the link operation.

Per suggesgtions from Robert and ^!C^!^@lvaro
2012-03-05 21:20:06 -05:00
Tom Lane 6b289942bf Redesign PlanForeignScan API to allow multiple paths for a foreign table.
The original API specification only allowed an FDW to create a single
access path, which doesn't seem like a terribly good idea in hindsight.
Instead, move the responsibility for building the Path node and calling
add_path() into the FDW's PlanForeignScan function.  Now, it can do that
more than once if appropriate.  There is no longer any need for the
transient FdwPlan struct, so get rid of that.

Etsuro Fujita, Shigeru Hanada, Tom Lane
2012-03-05 16:15:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 3f47e145f1 Improve documentation around logging_collector and use of stderr.
In backup.sgml, point out that you need to be using the logging collector
if you want to log messages from a failing archive_command script.  (This
is an oversimplification, in that it will work without the collector as
long as you're not sending postmaster stderr to /dev/null; but it seems
like a good idea to encourage use of the collector to avoid problems
with multiple processes concurrently scribbling on one file.)

In config.sgml, do some wordsmithing of logging_collector discussion.

Per bug #6518 from Janning Vygen
2012-03-05 14:09:33 -05:00
Magnus Hagander bc5ac36865 Add function pg_xlog_location_diff to help comparisons
Comparing two xlog locations are useful for example when calculating
replication lag.

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

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

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

Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Noah Misch and Nathan Boley
2012-03-03 20:20:57 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 34c978442c Provide environment overrides for psql file locations.
PSQL_HISTORY provides an alternative for the command history file,
and PSQLRC provides an alternative location for the .psqlrc file.
2012-03-03 16:39:26 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut b59ca98209 Allow CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) from composite type
The only reason this didn't work before was that parserOpenTable()
rejects composite types.  So use relation_openrv() directly and
manually do the errposition() setup that parserOpenTable() does.
2012-03-03 16:03:05 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6688d2878e Add COLLATION FOR expression
reviewed by Jaime Casanova
2012-03-02 21:12:16 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 8efb0bc57e Add a rule to optionally build docs with the stylesheet from the website
For those of us who prefer the formatting of the docs using the
website stylesheets. Use "make STYLE=website draft" (for example) to use.

The stylesheet itself is referenced directly to the website, so there
is currently no copy of it stored in the source repository. Thus, docs
built with it will only look correct if the browser can access the website
when viewing them.
2012-03-02 12:31:21 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut bc8765e91c Small possible clarification in pg_basebackup reference page
The <literal> markup is not visible as distinct on man pages, which
creates a bit of confusion when looking at the documentation of the
pg_basebackup -l option.  Rather than reinventing the entire font
system for man pages to remedy this, just put some quotes around this
particular case, which should also help in other output formats.
2012-03-01 21:16:24 +02:00
Tom Lane a5c1a1969d Simplify references to backslash-doubling in func.sgml.
Several places were still written as though standard_conforming_strings
didn't exist, much less be the default.  Now that it is on by default,
we can simplify the text and just insert occasional notes suggesting that
you might have to think harder if it's turned off.  Per discussion of a
suggestion from Hannes Frederic Sowa.

Back-patch to 9.1 where standard_conforming_strings was made the default.
2012-02-29 12:11:10 -05:00
Magnus Hagander ac086d466d Fix some typos and correct wording in the monitoring docs patch
Thom Brown
2012-02-25 16:33:57 +01:00
Magnus Hagander ddfc2d9a37 Merge the list of statistics functions into the view documentation
Most people won't read them individually anyway, it's an easy way to find
them, and it's a lot of duplicated information if they are kept in two
different places.
2012-02-25 15:29:11 +01:00
Magnus Hagander da9ed7dafd Make each pg_stat_ view into it's own table in the documentation
This makes it easier to match a column name with the description of it,
and makes it possible to add more detailed documentation in the future.

This patch does not add that extra documentation at this point, only
the structure required for it.

Modeled on the changes already done to pg_stat_activity.
2012-02-25 15:20:49 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 3aa42c25c3 Put Debian package list back in alphabetical order 2012-02-24 20:40:29 +02:00
Tom Lane b2ce60703a Last-minute release note updates.
Security: CVE-2012-0866, CVE-2012-0867, CVE-2012-0868
2012-02-23 17:47:52 -05:00
Tom Lane 891e6e7bfd Require execute permission on the trigger function for CREATE TRIGGER.
This check was overlooked when we added function execute permissions to the
system years ago.  For an ordinary trigger function it's not a big deal,
since trigger functions execute with the permissions of the table owner,
so they couldn't do anything the user issuing the CREATE TRIGGER couldn't
have done anyway.  However, if a trigger function is SECURITY DEFINER,
that is not the case.  The lack of checking would allow another user to
install it on his own table and then invoke it with, essentially, forged
input data; which the trigger function is unlikely to realize, so it might
do something undesirable, for instance insert false entries in an audit log
table.

Reported by Dinesh Kumar, patch by Robert Haas

Security: CVE-2012-0866
2012-02-23 15:38:56 -05:00
Robert Haas 2254367435 Make EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) track blocks dirtied, as well as those written.
Also expose the new counters through pg_stat_statements.

Patch by me.  Review by Fujii Masao and Greg Smith.
2012-02-22 20:33:05 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4e6092a227 Improve wording of pg_upgrade logfile option:
-l, --logfile=FILENAME        log internal activity to file\n\
2012-02-22 18:40:32 -05:00
Tom Lane dd2954963b Draft release notes for 9.1.3, 9.0.7, 8.4.11, 8.3.18. 2012-02-22 18:12:25 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a445cb92ef Add parameters for controlling locations of server-side SSL files
This allows changing the location of the files that were previously
hard-coded to server.crt, server.key, root.crt, root.crl.

server.crt and server.key continue to be the default settings and are
thus required to be present by default if SSL is enabled.  But the
settings for the server-side CA and CRL are now empty by default, and
if they are set, the files are required to be present.  This replaces
the previous behavior of ignoring the functionality if the files were
not found.
2012-02-22 23:40:46 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 2f582f76b1 Improve pretty printing of viewdefs.
Some line feeds are added to target lists and from lists to make
them more readable. By default they wrap at 80 columns if possible,
but the wrap column is also selectable - if 0 it wraps after every
item.

Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada.
2012-02-19 11:43:46 -05:00
Robert Haas 73a4b994a6 Make CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION support NOT LEAKPROOF.
Because it isn't good to be able to turn things on, and not off again.
2012-02-15 10:45:08 -05:00
Robert Haas d845fd684a sepgsql: Reword and fix typo in docs on DML permissions.
Per report from Christoph Berg.
2012-02-15 09:57:56 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 58d746213d Improve fsync documentation by stating that -W _0_ turns of write
caching.
2012-02-14 17:42:06 -05:00
Bruce Momjian c1d9df4fa2 Document random page cost is only 4x seqeuntial, and not 40x. 2012-02-14 16:54:54 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ef7a7c81d9 Document that the pg_test_fsync defaults allow the program to complete
in about 30 seconds.
2012-02-14 11:14:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 0a8396e35e Change contrib/pg_test_fsync to control tests in terms of seconds per
test, rather than a number of test cycles.  Changes -o/cycles option to
-s/seconds.
2012-02-14 11:10:03 -05:00
Robert Haas cd30728fb2 Allow LEAKPROOF functions for better performance of security views.
We don't normally allow quals to be pushed down into a view created
with the security_barrier option, but functions without side effects
are an exception: they're OK.  This allows much better performance in
common cases, such as when using an equality operator (that might
even be indexable).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Phil Sorber
2012-01-19 13:06:30 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 6f6b46c9c0 PL/Python: Update example
Change the usesavedplan() example to use a more modern Python style
using the .setdefault() function.
2012-01-18 21:02:09 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 3b11247aad Disallow merging ONLY constraints in children tables
When creating a child table, or when attaching an existing table as
child of another, we must not allow inheritable constraints to be
merged with non-inheritable ones, because then grandchildren would not
properly get the constraint.  This would violate the grandparent's
expectations.

Bugs noted by Robert Haas.

Author: Nikhil Sontakke
2012-01-16 19:27:05 -03:00
Magnus Hagander 0495aaad8b Allow a user to kill his own queries using pg_cancel_backend()
Allows a user to use pg_cancel_queries() to cancel queries in
other backends if they are running under the same role.
pg_terminate_backend() still requires superuser permissoins.

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

Patch by Noah Misch, per discussion on bug report #6264
2012-01-14 18:22:16 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut a9f2e31cf6 Support CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) with foreign tables and views
Composite types are not yet supported, because parserOpenTable()
rejects them.
2012-01-10 21:46:29 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 743ed082ac Add compatibility note about grant options on GRANT reference page
Point out in the compatibility section that granting grant options to
PUBLIC is not supported by PostgreSQL.  This is already mentioned
earlier, but since it concerns the information schema, it might be
worth pointing out explicitly as a compatibility issue.
2012-01-09 21:10:50 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut db49517c62 Rename the internal structures of the CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) facility
The original implementation of this interpreted it as a kind of
"inheritance" facility and named all the internal structures
accordingly.  This turned out to be very confusing, because it has
nothing to do with the INHERITS feature.  So rename all the internal
parser infrastructure, update the comments, adjust the error messages,
and split up the regression tests.
2012-01-07 23:02:33 +02:00
Tom Lane 7a72efda72 Fix typo, pg_types_date.h => pgtypes_date.h.
Spotted by Koizumi Satoru.
2012-01-06 13:31:37 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 104e7dac28 Improve ALTER DOMAIN / DROP CONSTRAINT with nonexistent constraint
ALTER DOMAIN / DROP CONSTRAINT on a nonexistent constraint name did
not report any error.  Now it reports an error.  The IF EXISTS option
was added to get the usual behavior of ignoring nonexistent objects to
drop.
2012-01-05 19:48:55 +02:00