force_parallel_mode is meant to be used to allow us to exercise the
parallel query infrastructure to ensure that it's working as we expect.
It seems some users think this GUC is for forcing the query planner into
picking a parallel plan regardless of the costs. A quick look at the
documentation would have made them realize that they were wrong, but the
GUC is likely too conveniently named which, evidently, seems to often
result in users expecting that it forces the planner into usefully
parallelizing queries.
Here we rename the GUC to something which casual users are less likely to
mistakenly think is what they need to make their query run more quickly.
For now, the old name can still be used. We'll revisit if the old name
mapping can be removed once the buildfarm configs are all updated.
Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrsOi92_uA7PEaHZMH-S4Xv+MGhQWA+GrP8b1kjpS1HjQ@mail.gmail.com
Currently, information about the permissions to be checked on relations
mentioned in a query is stored in their range table entries. So the
executor must scan the entire range table looking for relations that
need to have permissions checked. This can make the permission checking
part of the executor initialization needlessly expensive when many
inheritance children are present in the range range. While the
permissions need not be checked on the individual child relations, the
executor still must visit every range table entry to filter them out.
This commit moves the permission checking information out of the range
table entries into a new plan node called RTEPermissionInfo. Every
top-level (inheritance "root") RTE_RELATION entry in the range table
gets one and a list of those is maintained alongside the range table.
This new list is initialized by the parser when initializing the range
table. The rewriter can add more entries to it as rules/views are
expanded. Finally, the planner combines the lists of the individual
subqueries into one flat list that is passed to the executor for
checking.
To make it quick to find the RTEPermissionInfo entry belonging to a
given relation, RangeTblEntry gets a new Index field 'perminfoindex'
that stores the corresponding RTEPermissionInfo's index in the query's
list of the latter.
ExecutorCheckPerms_hook has gained another List * argument; the
signature is now:
typedef bool (*ExecutorCheckPerms_hook_type) (List *rangeTable,
List *rtePermInfos,
bool ereport_on_violation);
The first argument is no longer used by any in-core uses of the hook,
but we leave it in place because there may be other implementations that
do. Implementations should likely scan the rtePermInfos list to
determine which operations to allow or deny.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGjJDmUhDSfv-U2qhKJjt9ST7Xh9JXC_irsAQ1TAUsJYg@mail.gmail.com
In the short time this function has existed, it's already proven to be
a nontrivial maintenance burden, since it has to be updated whenever a
node tag is added or removed. Although in principle we could now
automate that, I see little justification for having such functionality
here at all. The function is only being applied to utility statements,
for which we already have infrastructure for obtaining string names.
Moreover, that infrastructure produces already-familiar-to-users names,
unlike nodetag_to_string().
So, remove this function and use the existing infrastructure instead.
That saves over a thousand lines of largely-unreachable code.
Back-patch to v15 where this code came in. Although it seems unlikely
that v15's nodetag list will change anymore, we might as well keep the
two branches looking and acting alike; otherwise back-patching any
test-results changes in this area will be painful.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/843818.1659218928@sss.pgh.pa.us
In what must have been a copy'n paste mistake, all the flag tests use
the same flag rather than a different flag each. The bug is not
suprising, considering that it's dead code; add a minimal, testimonial
line to cover it.
This is all pretty inconsequential, because this is just example code,
but it had better be correct.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220712152059.fwli2majwgzdmh4r@alvherre.pgsql
Commit f10a025cfe added support for List to store Xids, but didn't
handle the new type in all cases. Add some obviously necessary pieces.
As far as I am aware, this is all dead code as far as core code is
concerned, but it seems unacceptable not to have it in case third-party
code wants to rely on this type of list. (Some parts of the List API
remain unimplemented, but that can be fixed as and when needed -- see
lack of list_intersection_oid, list_deduplicate_int as precedents.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220708164534.nbejhgt4ajz35p65@alvherre.pgsql
In the same vein as commit 251154beb, make it clear that we never
instantiate PlanState.
Also mark MemoryContextData as abstract. This has no effect right now,
since memnodes.h isn't one of the files fed to gen_node_support.pl.
But it seems like good documentation and future-proofing.
The code for unloading a library has been commented-out for over 12
years, ever since commit 602a9ef5a7, and we're
no closer to supporting it now than we were back then.
Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Michael Paquier and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/Ynsc9bRL1caUSBSE@paquier.xyz
This patch allows "PGC_SUSET" parameters to be set by non-superusers
if they have been explicitly granted the privilege to do so.
The privilege to perform ALTER SYSTEM SET/RESET on a specific parameter
can also be granted.
Such privileges are cluster-wide, not per database. They are tracked
in a new shared catalog, pg_parameter_acl.
Granting and revoking these new privileges works as one would expect.
One caveat is that PGC_USERSET GUCs are unaffected by the SET privilege
--- one could wish that those were handled by a revocable grant to
PUBLIC, but they are not, because we couldn't make it robust enough
for GUCs defined by extensions.
Mark Dilger, reviewed at various times by Andrew Dunstan, Robert Haas,
Joshua Brindle, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3D691E20-C1D5-4B80-8BA5-6BEB63AF3029@enterprisedb.com
Commit 90efa2f556 caused some issues with EXEC_BACKEND builds and with
force_parallel_mode = regress setups. For the first issue we no longer
test if the module has been preloaded, and in fact we don't preload it,
but simply LOAD it in the test script. For the second issue we suppress
error messages emanating from parallel workers.
Mark Dilger
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7f6d54a1-4024-3b6e-e3ec-26cd394aac9e@dunslane.net
This includes tests of both the newly added name type object access
hooks and the older Oid type hooks, and provides a useful example
of how to use the hooks.
Mark Dilger, based on some code from Joshua Brindle.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/47F87A0E-C0E5-43A6-89F6-D403F2B45175@enterprisedb.com
