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Tom Lane 7fc0f06221 Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to be
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.

For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER
triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of
a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can
be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired.

Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2009-11-20 20:38:12 +00:00
Tom Lane c742b795dd Add a hook to CREATE/ALTER ROLE to allow an external module to check the
strength of database passwords, and create a sample implementation of
such a hook as a new contrib module "passwordcheck".

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Takahiro Itagaki
2009-11-18 21:57:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 5e66a51c2e Provide a parenthesized-options syntax for VACUUM, analogous to that recently
adopted for EXPLAIN.  This will allow additional options to be implemented
in future without having to make them fully-reserved keywords.  The old syntax
remains available for existing options, however.

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-11-16 21:32:07 +00:00
Tom Lane 8f8a5df694 Make initdb behave sanely when the selected locale has codeset "US-ASCII".
Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding.
The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection
of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding.
Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases,
and fix callers appropriately.  Only initdb actually changes behavior,
since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases
equivalent.

Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap.  Not going to bother back-patching, since
no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely,
specify the encoding you want).
2009-11-12 02:46:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 21e3edd6ca Revert the temporary patch to work around Snow Leopard readdir() bug.
Apple has fixed that bug in 10.6.2, and we should encourage users to
update to that version rather than trusting this cosmetic patch.
As was recently noted by Stephen Tyler, this patch was only masking
the problem in the context of DROP TABLESPACE, but the failure could
occur in other places such as pg_xlog cleanup.
2009-11-10 18:53:38 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera e7ec022266 Fix longstanding problems in VACUUM caused by untimely interruptions
In VACUUM FULL, an interrupt after the initial transaction has been recorded
as committed can cause postmaster to restart with the following error message:
PANIC: cannot abort transaction NNNN, it was already committed
This problem has been reported many times.

In lazy VACUUM, an interrupt after the table has been truncated by
lazy_truncate_heap causes other backends' relcache to still point to the
removed pages; this can cause future INSERT and UPDATE queries to error out
with the following error message:
could not read block XX of relation 1663/NNN/MMMM: read only 0 of 8192 bytes
The window to this race condition is extremely narrow, but it has been seen in
the wild involving a cancelled autovacuum process.

The solution for both problems is to inhibit interrupts in both operations
until after the respective transactions have been committed.  It's not a
complete solution, because the transaction could theoretically be aborted by
some other error, but at least fixes the most common causes of both problems.
2009-11-10 18:00:06 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan b79f49c780 Keep track of language's trusted flag in InlineCodeBlock. Needed to support DO blocks for languages that have both trusted and untrusted variants. 2009-11-06 21:57:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 593f4b854a Don't treat NEW and OLD as reserved words anymore. For the purposes of rules
it works just as well to have them be ordinary identifiers, and this gets rid
of a number of ugly special cases.  Plus we aren't interfering with non-rule
usage of these names.

catversion bump because the names change internally in stored rules.
2009-11-05 23:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 9bedd128d6 Add support for invoking parser callback hooks via SPI and in cached plans.
As proof of concept, modify plpgsql to use the hooks.  plpgsql is still
inserting $n symbols textually, but the "back end" of the parsing process now
goes through the ParamRef hook instead of using a fixed parameter-type array,
and then execution only fetches actually-referenced parameters, using a hook
added to ParamListInfo.

Although there's a lot left to be done in plpgsql, this already cures the
"if (TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.foo ...)"  problem, as illustrated by the
changed regression test.
2009-11-04 22:26:08 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 91ce16a903 Allow rewriting ALTER TABLE to skip WAL logging.
Itagaki Takahiro, with small changes by me and Simon.
2009-11-04 12:24:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 44956c52c5 Fix AfterTriggerSaveEvent to use a test and elog, not just Assert, to check
that it's called within an AfterTriggerBeginQuery/AfterTriggerEndQuery pair.
The RI cascade triggers suppress that overhead on the assumption that they
are always run non-deferred, so it's possible to violate the condition if
someone mistakenly changes pg_trigger to mark such a trigger deferred.
We don't really care about supporting that, but throwing an error instead
of crashing seems desirable.  Per report from Marcelo Costa.
2009-10-27 20:14:27 +00:00
Tom Lane 9f2ee8f287 Re-implement EvalPlanQual processing to improve its performance and eliminate
a lot of strange behaviors that occurred in join cases.  We now identify the
"current" row for every joined relation in UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT FOR
UPDATE/SHARE queries.  If an EvalPlanQual recheck is necessary, we jam the
appropriate row into each scan node in the rechecking plan, forcing it to emit
only that one row.  The former behavior could rescan the whole of each joined
relation for each recheck, which was terrible for performance, and what's much
worse could result in duplicated output tuples.

Also, the original implementation of EvalPlanQual could not re-use the recheck
execution tree --- it had to go through a full executor init and shutdown for
every row to be tested.  To avoid this overhead, I've associated a special
runtime Param with each LockRows or ModifyTable plan node, and arranged to
make every scan node below such a node depend on that Param.  Thus, by
signaling a change in that Param, the EPQ machinery can just rescan the
already-built test plan.

This patch also adds a prohibition on set-returning functions in the
targetlist of SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE.  This is needed to avoid the
duplicate-output-tuple problem.  It seems fairly reasonable since the
other restrictions on SELECT FOR UPDATE are meant to ensure that there
is a unique correspondence between source tuples and result tuples,
which an output SRF destroys as much as anything else does.
2009-10-26 02:26:45 +00:00
Tom Lane b2734a0d79 Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columns
are named in the UPDATE's SET list.

Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started
to use a column that was there all along.  catversion bumped anyway so that
this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes
to system catalog contents.

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-10-14 22:14:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 8d54c2482b Code review for LIKE INCLUDING patch --- clean up some cosmetic and not
so cosmetic stuff.
2009-10-13 00:53:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan faa1afc6c1 CREATE LIKE INCLUDING COMMENTS and STORAGE, and INCLUDING ALL shortcut. Itagaki Takahiro. 2009-10-12 19:49:24 +00:00
Tom Lane 0adaf4cb31 Move the handling of SELECT FOR UPDATE locking and rechecking out of
execMain.c and into a new plan node type LockRows.  Like the recent change
to put table updating into a ModifyTable plan node, this increases planning
flexibility by allowing the operations to occur below the top level of the
plan tree.  It's necessary in any case to restore the previous behavior of
having FOR UPDATE locking occur before ModifyTable does.

This partially refactors EvalPlanQual to allow multiple rows-under-test
to be inserted into the EPQ machinery before starting an EPQ test query.
That isn't sufficient to fix EPQ's general bogosity in the face of plans
that return multiple rows per test row, though.  Since this patch is
mostly about getting some plan node infrastructure in place and not about
fixing ten-year-old bugs, I will leave EPQ improvements for another day.

Another behavioral change that we could now think about is doing FOR UPDATE
before LIMIT, but that too seems like it should be treated as a followon
patch.
2009-10-12 18:10:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 8a5849b7ff Split the processing of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations out of execMain.c.
They are now handled by a new plan node type called ModifyTable, which is
placed at the top of the plan tree.  In itself this change doesn't do much,
except perhaps make the handling of RETURNING lists and inherited UPDATEs a
tad less klugy.  But it is necessary preparation for the intended extension of
allowing RETURNING queries inside WITH.

Marko Tiikkaja
2009-10-10 01:43:50 +00:00
Tom Lane 717fa274d1 Support use of function argument names to identify which actual arguments
match which function parameters.  The syntax uses AS, for example
	funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS arg2)

Pavel Stehule
2009-10-08 02:39:25 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 2eda8dfb52 Make it possibly to specify GUC params per user and per database.
Create a new catalog pg_db_role_setting where they are now stored, and better
encapsulate the code that deals with settings into its realm.  The old
datconfig and rolconfig columns are removed.

psql has gained a \drds command to display the settings.

Backwards compatibility warning: while the backwards-compatible system views
still have the config columns, they no longer completely represent the
configuration for a user or database.

Catalog version bumped.
2009-10-07 22:14:26 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 07cefdfb7a Fix snapshot management, take two.
Partially revert the previous patch I installed and replace it with a more
general fix: any time a snapshot is pushed as Active, we need to ensure that it
will not be modified in the future.  This means that if the same snapshot is
used as CurrentSnapshot, it needs to be copied separately.  This affects
serializable transactions only, because CurrentSnapshot has already been copied
by RegisterSnapshot and so PushActiveSnapshot does not think it needs another
copy.  However, CommandCounterIncrement would modify CurrentSnapshot, whereas
ActiveSnapshots must not have their command counters incremented.

I say "partially" because the regression test I added for the previous bug
has been kept.

(This restores 8.3 behavior, because before snapmgr.c existed, any snapshot set
as Active was copied.)

Per bug report from Stuart Bishop in
6bc73d4c0910042358k3d1adff3qa36f8df75198ecea@mail.gmail.com
2009-10-07 16:27:18 +00:00
Tom Lane e0c433c4a3 Change CREATE TABLE so that column default expressions coming from different
inheritance parent tables are compared using equal(), instead of doing
strcmp() on the nodeToString representation.  The old implementation was
always a tad cheesy, and it finally fails completely as of 8.4, now that the
node tree might contain syntax location information.  equal() knows it's
supposed to ignore those fields, but strcmp() hardly can.  Per recent
report from Scott Ribe.
2009-10-06 00:55:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 249724cb01 Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjust
the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects.

Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects
created in particular schemas too.  A notable benefit is that users can
override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE
privilege traditionally granted by default for functions.

Petr Jelinek
2009-10-05 19:24:49 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera caa4cfa369 Ensure that a cursor has an immutable snapshot throughout its lifespan.
The old coding was using a regular snapshot, referenced elsewhere, that was
subject to having its command counter updated.  Fix by creating a private copy
of the snapshot exclusively for the cursor.

Backpatch to 8.4, which is when the bug was introduced during the snapshot
management rewrite.
2009-10-02 17:57:30 +00:00
Tom Lane 4985635230 Extend the BKI infrastructure to allow system catalogs to be given
hand-assigned rowtype OIDs, even when they are not "bootstrapped" catalogs
that have handmade type rows in pg_type.h.  Give pg_database such an OID.
Restore the availability of C macros for the rowtype OIDs of the bootstrapped
catalogs.  (These macros are now in the individual catalogs' .h files,
though, not in pg_type.h.)

This commit doesn't do anything especially useful by itself, but it's
necessary infrastructure for reverting some ill-considered changes in
relcache.c.
2009-09-26 22:42:03 +00:00
Tom Lane 9048b73184 Implement the DO statement to support execution of PL code without having
to create a function for it.

Procedural languages now have an additional entry point, namely a function
to execute an inline code block.  This seemed a better design than trying
to hide the transient-ness of the code from the PL.  As of this patch, only
plpgsql has an inline handler, but probably people will soon write handlers
for the other standard PLs.

In passing, remove the long-dead LANCOMPILER option of CREATE LANGUAGE.

Petr Jelinek
2009-09-22 23:43:43 +00:00
Tom Lane 923413ac6d Define a new, more extensible syntax for COPY options.
This is intentionally similar to the recently revised syntax for EXPLAIN
options, ie, (name value, ...).  The old syntax is still supported for
backwards compatibility, but we intend that any options added in future
will be provided only in the new syntax.

Robert Haas, Emmanuel Cecchet
2009-09-21 20:10:21 +00:00
Tom Lane 325aeb4a65 Install a hopefully-temporary workaround for Snow Leopard readdir() bug.
If Apple doesn't fix that reasonably soon, we'll have to consider
back-patching a workaround; but for now, just hack it in HEAD so that
we can get buildfarm reports on HEAD from OS X machines.
Per Jan Otto.
2009-09-12 15:51:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 187e5d8981 Disallow RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION inside security-definer
functions.

This extends the previous patch that forbade SETting these variables inside
security-definer functions.  RESET is equally a security hole, since it
would allow regaining privileges of the caller; furthermore it can trigger
Assert failures and perhaps other internal errors, since the code is not
expecting these variables to change in such contexts.  The previous patch
did not cover this case because assign hooks don't really have enough
information, so move the responsibility for preventing this into guc.c.

Problem discovered by Heikki Linnakangas.

Security: no CVE assigned yet, extends CVE-2007-6600
2009-09-03 22:08:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 794e3e81a0 Force VACUUM to recalculate oldestXmin even when we haven't changed our
own database's datfrozenxid, if the current value is old enough to be
forcing autovacuums or warning messages.  This ensures that a bogus
value is replaced as soon as possible.  Per a comment from Heikki.
2009-09-01 04:46:49 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera a8bb8eb583 Remove flatfiles.c, which is now obsolete.
Recent commits have removed the various uses it was supporting.  It was a
performance bottleneck, according to bug report #4919 by Lauris Ulmanis; seems
it slowed down user creation after a billion users.
2009-09-01 02:54:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 25ec228ef7 Track the current XID wrap limit (or more accurately, the oldest unfrozen
XID) in checkpoint records.  This eliminates the need to recompute the value
from scratch during database startup, which is one of the two remaining
reasons for the flatfile code to exist.  It should also simplify life for
hot-standby operation.

To avoid bloating the checkpoint records unreasonably, I switched from
tracking the oldest database by name to tracking it by OID.  This turns
out to save cycles in general (everywhere but the warning-generating
paths, which we hardly care about) and also helps us deal with the case
that the oldest database got dropped instead of being vacuumed.  The prior
coding might go for a long time without updating the wrap limit in that case,
which is bad because it might result in a lot of useless autovacuum activity.
2009-08-31 02:23:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 7fc7a7c4d0 Fix a violation of WAL coding rules in the recent patch to include an
"all tuples visible" flag in heap page headers.  The flag update *must*
be applied before calling XLogInsert, but heap_update and the tuple
moving routines in VACUUM FULL were ignoring this rule.  A crash and
replay could therefore leave the flag incorrectly set, causing rows
to appear visible in seqscans when they should not be.  This might explain
recent reports of data corruption from Jeff Ross and others.

In passing, do a bit of editorialization on comments in visibilitymap.c.
2009-08-24 02:18:32 +00:00
Tom Lane cab9a0656c Make TRUNCATE do truncate-in-place when processing a relation that was created
or previously truncated in the current (sub)transaction.  This is safe since
if the (sub)transaction later rolls back, we'd just discard the rel's current
physical file anyway.  This avoids unreasonable growth in the number of
transient files when a relation is repeatedly truncated.  Per a performance
gripe a couple weeks ago from Todd Cook.
2009-08-23 19:23:41 +00:00
Tom Lane 56e985d02e Include resjunk columns in EXPLAIN VERBOSE output lists. Per discussion. 2009-08-22 02:06:32 +00:00
Tom Lane b6bde524af Improve error message for the case where a requested foreign key constraint
does match some unique index on the referenced table, but that index is
only deferrably unique.  We were doing this nicely for the
default-to-primary-key case, but were being lazy for the other case.

Dean Rasheed
2009-08-12 23:00:12 +00:00
Tom Lane a1f0c9bab9 Fix old bug in log_autovacuum_min_duration code: it was relying on being able
to access a Relation entry it had just closed.  I happened to be testing with
CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, which made this a guaranteed core dump (at least on
machines where sprintf %s isn't forgiving of a NULL pointer).  It's probably
quite unlikely that it would fail in the field, but a bug is a bug.  Fix by
moving the relation_close call down past the logging action.
2009-08-12 18:23:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 9bd27b7c9e Extend EXPLAIN to support output in XML or JSON format.
There are probably still some adjustments to be made in the details
of the output, but this gets the basic structure in place.

Robert Haas
2009-08-10 05:46:50 +00:00
Tom Lane b1114f5576 Fix some omissions in the dependency-object-class support for SQL/MED objects.
Main problem found by Muhammad Aqeel, some cosmetic additions by me.
2009-08-07 15:27:56 +00:00
Tom Lane a2a8c7a662 Support hex-string input and output for type BYTEA.
Both hex format and the traditional "escape" format are automatically
handled on input.  The output format is selected by the new GUC variable
bytea_output.

As committed, bytea_output defaults to HEX, which is an *incompatible
change*.  We will keep it this way for awhile for testing purposes, but
should consider whether to switch to the more backwards-compatible
default of ESCAPE before 8.5 is released.

Peter Eisentraut
2009-08-04 16:08:37 +00:00
Tom Lane 9072592946 Add ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT
Robert Haas
2009-08-02 22:14:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 2487d872e0 Create a multiplexing structure for signals to Postgres child processes.
This patch gets us out from under the Unix limitation of two user-defined
signal types.  We already had done something similar for signals directed to
the postmaster process; this adds multiplexing for signals directed to
backends and auxiliary processes (so long as they're connected to shared
memory).

As proof of concept, replace the former usage of SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2
for backends with use of the multiplexing mechanism.  There are still some
hard-wired definitions of SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for other process types,
but getting rid of those doesn't seem interesting at the moment.

Fujii Masao
2009-07-31 20:26:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 060baf2784 Merge the Constraint and FkConstraint node types into a single type.
This was foreseen to be a good idea long ago, but nobody had got round
to doing it.  The recent patch for deferred unique constraints made
transformConstraintAttrs() ugly enough that I decided it was time.
This change will also greatly simplify parsing of deferred CHECK constraints,
if anyone ever gets around to implementing that.

While at it, add a location field to Constraint, and use that to provide
an error cursor for some of the constraint-related error messages.
2009-07-30 02:45:38 +00:00
Tom Lane 25d9bf2e3e Support deferrable uniqueness constraints.
The current implementation fires an AFTER ROW trigger for each tuple that
looks like it might be non-unique according to the index contents at the
time of insertion.  This works well as long as there aren't many conflicts,
but won't scale to massive unique-key reassignments.  Improving that case
is a TODO item.

Dean Rasheed
2009-07-29 20:56:21 +00:00
Tom Lane c1b9ec24ef Add system catalog columns pg_constraint.conindid and pg_trigger.tgconstrindid.
conindid is the index supporting a constraint.  We can use this not only for
unique/primary-key constraints, but also foreign-key constraints, which
depend on the unique index that constrains the referenced columns.
tgconstrindid is just copied from the constraint's conindid field, or is
zero for triggers not associated with constraints.

This is mainly intended as infrastructure for upcoming patches, but it has
some virtue in itself, since it exposes a relationship that you formerly
had to grovel in pg_depend to determine.  I simplified one information_schema
view accordingly.  (There is a pg_dump query that could also use conindid,
but I left it alone because it wasn't clear it'd get any faster.)
2009-07-28 02:56:31 +00:00
Tom Lane d4382c4ae7 Extend EXPLAIN to allow generic options to be specified.
The original syntax made it difficult to add options without making them
into reserved words.  This change parenthesizes the options to avoid that
problem, and makes provision for an explicit (and perhaps non-Boolean)
value for each option.  The original syntax is still supported, but only
for the two original options ANALYZE and VERBOSE.

As a test case, add a COSTS option that can suppress the planner cost
estimates.  This may be useful for including EXPLAIN output in the regression
tests, which are otherwise unable to cope with cross-platform variations in
cost estimates.

Robert Haas
2009-07-26 23:34:18 +00:00
Tom Lane a07e5acebb Code review for FORCE QUOTE * patch: fix error checking to consider FORCE
QUOTE * as a variety of FORCE QUOTE, and update psql documentation to include
the option.  (The actual psql code doesn't seem to need any changes.)
2009-07-25 17:04:19 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan fd9df11f81 Small stylistic improvement in recent FORCE QUOTE * code - use a bool instead of a magic value. 2009-07-25 13:35:32 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan de7531a971 Allow * as parameter for FORCE QUOTE for COPY CSV. Itagaki Takahiro. 2009-07-25 00:07:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 8af12bca3b Assorted minor refactoring in EXPLAIN.
This is believed to not change the output at all, with one known exception:
"Subquery Scan foo" becomes "Subquery Scan on foo".  (We can fix that if
anyone complains, but it would be a wart, because the old code was clearly
inconsistent.)  The main intention is to remove duplicate coding and
provide a cleaner base for subsequent EXPLAIN patching.

Robert Haas
2009-07-24 21:08:42 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5dedce6770 Change pg_listener attribute number constants to match the usual pattern
It appears that, for no particularly good reason, pg_listener.h deviates from
the usual convention for declaring attribute number constants.  Normally, it's

#define Anum_{catalog-name}_{column-name}  {attribute-number}

pg_listener.h, however substitutes a different string that is similar, but not
the same as, the column name.  This change fixes that.

Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
2009-07-21 20:24:51 +00:00