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Heikki Linnakangas 5da417f7c4 Remove pointless const qualifiers from function arguments in the SSI code.
As Tom Lane pointed out, "const Relation foo" doesn't guarantee that you
can't modify the data the "foo" pointer points to. It just means that you
can't change the pointer to point to something else within the function,
which is not very useful.
2011-06-22 12:18:39 +03:00
Robert Haas 503c7305a1 Make the visibility map crash-safe.
This involves two main changes from the previous behavior.  First,
when we set a bit in the visibility map, emit a new WAL record of type
XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE.  Replay sets the page-level PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit and
the visibility map bit.  Second, when inserting, updating, or deleting
a tuple, we can no longer get away with clearing the visibility map
bit after releasing the lock on the corresponding heap page, because
an intervening crash might leave the visibility map bit set and the
page-level bit clear.  Making this work requires a bit of interface
refactoring.

In passing, a few minor but related cleanups: change the test in
visibilitymap_set and visibilitymap_clear to throw an error if the
wrong page (or no page) is pinned, rather than silently doing nothing;
this case should never occur.  Also, remove duplicate definitions of
InvalidXLogRecPtr.

Patch by me, review by Noah Misch.
2011-06-21 23:04:40 -04:00
Robert Haas 8f9fe6edce Add notion of a "transform function" that can simplify function calls.
Initially, we use this only to eliminate calls to the varchar()
function in cases where the length is not being reduced and, therefore,
the function call is equivalent to a RelabelType operation.  The most
significant effect of this is that we can avoid a table rewrite when
changing a varchar(X) column to a varchar(Y) column, where Y > X.

Noah Misch, reviewed by me and Alexey Klyukin
2011-06-21 22:21:24 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7cb2ff9621 Fix bug introduced by recent SSI patch to merge ROLLED_BACK and
MARKED_FOR_DEATH flags into one. We still need the ROLLED_BACK flag to
mark transactions that are in the process of being rolled back. To be
precise, ROLLED_BACK now means that a transaction has already been
discounted from the count of transactions with the oldest xmin, but not
yet removed from the list of active transactions.

Dan Ports
2011-06-21 14:49:50 +03:00
Andrew Dunstan ddef31c15c Set FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER to empty for MSVC.
Per gripe from Tom Lane. I have tested this with VC 2008, and assume
it will work with earlier versions.
2011-06-17 18:22:03 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 236a11dc65 Define FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER for MSVC. 2011-06-16 22:30:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut dbbba5279f Start using flexible array members
Flexible array members are a C99 feature that avoids "cheating" in the
declaration of variable-length arrays at the end of structs.  With
Autoconf support, this should be transparent for older compilers.

We start with one use in gist.h because gcc 4.6 started to raise a
warning there.  Over time, it can be expanded to other places in the
source, but they will likely need some review of sizeof and offsetof
usage.  The current change in gist.h appears to be safe in this
regard.
2011-06-16 22:45:38 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas cb94db91b2 pgindent run of recent SSI changes. Also, remove an unnecessary #include.
Kevin Grittner
2011-06-16 16:17:22 +03:00
Tom Lane e1ccaff6ee Rework parsing of ConstraintAttributeSpec to improve NOT VALID handling.
The initial commit of the ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY NOT VALID feature
failed to support labeling such constraints as deferrable.  The best fix
for this seems to be to fold NOT VALID into ConstraintAttributeSpec.
That's a bit more general than the documented syntax, but it allows
better-targeted syntax error messages.

In addition, do some mostly-but-not-entirely-cosmetic code review for
the whole NOT VALID patch.
2011-06-15 19:06:21 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 264a6b127a The rolled-back flag on serializable xacts was pointless and redundant with
the marked-for-death flag. It was only set for a fleeting moment while a
transaction was being cleaned up at rollback. All the places that checked
for the rolled-back flag should also check the marked-for-death flag, as
both flags mean that the transaction will roll back. I also renamed the
marked-for-death into "doomed", which is a lot shorter name.
2011-06-15 13:35:28 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 0a0e2b52a5 Make non-MVCC snapshots exempt from predicate locking. Scans with non-MVCC
snapshots, like in REINDEX, are basically non-transactional operations. The
DDL operation itself might participate in SSI, but there's separate
functions for that.

Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, with some changes by me.
2011-06-15 12:11:18 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas b81831acbc Renumber 2PC resource managers so that compared to 9.0, predicate lock rmgr
is added to the end, and existing resource managers keep their old ids.
We're not going to guarantee on-disk compatibility for 2PC state files over
major releases, but it seems better to avoid changing the ids them anyway.
It will help anyone who might want to write external tools to inspect the
state files to work with files from different versions, if nothing else.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
2011-06-14 12:36:31 +03:00
Tom Lane c962792211 Stamp HEAD as 9.2devel. 2011-06-11 17:46:49 -04:00
Tom Lane c2ba0121c7 Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay.
ReadRecord's habit of using both direct references to tmpRecPtr and
references to *RecPtr (which is pointing at tmpRecPtr) triggers an
optimization bug in gcc 4.6.0, which apparently has forgotten about
aliasing rules.  Avoid the compiler bug, and make the code more readable
to boot, by getting rid of the direct references.  Improve the comments
while at it.

Back-patch to all supported versions, in case they get built with 4.6.0.

Tom Lane, with some cosmetic suggestions from Alex Hunsaker
2011-06-10 17:04:29 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas cb2d158c58 Fix locking while setting flags in MySerializableXact.
Even if a flag is modified only by the backend owning the transaction, it's
not safe to modify it without a lock. Another backend might be setting or
clearing a different flag in the flags field concurrently, and that
operation might be lost because setting or clearing a bit in a word is not
atomic.

Make did-write flag a simple backend-private boolean variable, because it
was only set or tested in the owning backend (except when committing a
prepared transaction, but it's not worthwhile to optimize for the case of a
read-only prepared transaction). This also eliminates the need to add
locking where that flag is set.

Also, set the did-write flag when doing DDL operations like DROP TABLE or
TRUNCATE -- that was missed earlier.
2011-06-10 23:41:10 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera fba105b109 Use "transient" files for blind writes, take 2
"Blind writes" are a mechanism to push buffers down to disk when
evicting them; since they may belong to different databases than the one
a backend is connected to, the backend does not necessarily have a
relation to link them to, and thus no way to blow them away.  We were
keeping those files open indefinitely, which would cause a problem if
the underlying table was deleted, because the operating system would not
be able to reclaim the disk space used by those files.

To fix, have bufmgr mark such files as transient to smgr; the lower
layer is allowed to close the file descriptor when the current
transaction ends.  We must be careful to have any other access of the
file to remove the transient markings, to prevent unnecessary expensive
system calls when evicting buffers belonging to our own database (which
files we're likely to require again soon.)

This commit fixes a bug in the previous one, which neglected to cleanly
handle the LRU ring that fd.c uses to manage open files, and caused an
unacceptable failure just before beta2 and was thus reverted.
2011-06-10 13:43:02 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c79c570bd8 Small comment fixes and enhancements. 2011-06-10 17:22:46 +03:00
Tom Lane 829ae4bf83 Tag 9.1beta2. 2011-06-09 19:40:42 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 9261557eb1 Revert "Use "transient" files for blind writes"
This reverts commit 54d9e8c6c1, which
caused a failure on the buildfarm.  Not a good thing to have just before
a beta release.
2011-06-09 16:41:44 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 54d9e8c6c1 Use "transient" files for blind writes
"Blind writes" are a mechanism to push buffers down to disk when
evicting them; since they may belong to different databases than the one
a backend is connected to, the backend does not necessarily have a
relation to link them to, and thus no way to blow them away.  We were
keeping those files open indefinitely, which would cause a problem if
the underlying table was deleted, because the operating system would not
be able to reclaim the disk space used by those files.

To fix, have bufmgr mark such files as transient to smgr; the lower
layer is allowed to close the file descriptor when the current
transaction ends.  We must be careful to have any other access of the
file to remove the transient markings, to prevent unnecessary expensive
system calls when evicting buffers belonging to our own database (which
files we're likely to require again soon.)
2011-06-09 16:25:49 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6560407c7d Pgindent run before 9.1 beta2. 2011-06-09 14:32:50 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8f9622bbb3 Make DDL operations play nicely with Serializable Snapshot Isolation.
Truncating or dropping a table is treated like deletion of all tuples, and
check for conflicts accordingly. If a table is clustered or rewritten by
ALTER TABLE, all predicate locks on the heap are promoted to relation-level
locks, because the tuple or page ids of any existing tuples will change and
won't be valid after rewriting the table. Arguably ALTER TABLE should be
treated like a mass-UPDATE of every row, but if you e.g change the datatype
of a column, you could also argue that it's just a change to the physical
layout, not a logical change. Reindexing promotes all locks on the index to
relation-level lock on the heap.

Kevin Grittner, with a lot of cosmetic changes by me.
2011-06-08 14:02:43 +03:00
Tom Lane ea8e42f3a0 Fix failure to check whether a rowtype's component types are sortable.
The existence of a btree opclass accepting composite types caused us to
assume that every composite type is sortable.  This isn't true of course;
we need to check if the column types are all sortable.  There was logic
for this for the case of array comparison (ie, check that the element
type is sortable), but we missed the point for rowtypes.  Per Teodor's
report of an ANALYZE failure for an unsortable composite type.

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

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

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

Note: most of the places touched in this patch will need further work
when we get around to supporting hashing of record types.
2011-06-03 15:39:17 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c8630919e0 SSI comment fixes and enhancements. Notably, document that the conflict-out
flag actually means that the transaction has a conflict out to a transaction
that committed before the flagged transaction.

Kevin Grittner
2011-06-03 12:45:42 +03:00
Tom Lane 680ea6a6df Looks like we can't declare getpeereid on Windows anyway.
... for lack of the uid_t and gid_t typedefs.  Per buildfarm.
2011-06-02 17:27:30 -04:00
Tom Lane 3980f7fc6e Implement getpeereid() as a src/port compatibility function.
This unifies a bunch of ugly #ifdef's in one place.  Per discussion,
we only need this where HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS, so no need to cover Windows.

Marko Kreen, some adjustment by Tom Lane
2011-06-02 13:05:01 -04:00
Tom Lane be4585b1c2 Replace use of credential control messages with getsockopt(LOCAL_PEERCRED).
It turns out the reason we hadn't found out about the portability issues
with our credential-control-message code is that almost no modern platforms
use that code at all; the ones that used to need it now offer getpeereid(),
which we choose first.  The last holdout was NetBSD, and they added
getpeereid() as of 5.0.  So far as I can tell, the only live platform on
which that code was being exercised was Debian/kFreeBSD, ie, FreeBSD kernel
with Linux userland --- since glibc doesn't provide getpeereid(), we fell
back to the control message code.  However, the FreeBSD kernel provides a
LOCAL_PEERCRED socket parameter that's functionally equivalent to Linux's
SO_PEERCRED.  That is both much simpler to use than control messages, and
superior because it doesn't require receiving a message from the other end
at just the right time.

Therefore, add code to use LOCAL_PEERCRED when necessary, and rip out all
the credential-control-message code in the backend.  (libpq still has such
code so that it can still talk to pre-9.1 servers ... but eventually we can
get rid of it there too.)  Clean up related autoconf probes, too.

This means that libpq's requirepeer parameter now works on exactly the same
platforms where the backend supports peer authentication, so adjust the
documentation accordingly.
2011-05-31 16:10:46 -04:00
Tom Lane b4b6923e03 Fix VACUUM so that it always updates pg_class.reltuples/relpages.
When we added the ability for vacuum to skip heap pages by consulting the
visibility map, we made it just not update the reltuples/relpages
statistics if it skipped any pages.  But this could leave us with extremely
out-of-date stats for a table that contains any unchanging areas,
especially for TOAST tables which never get processed by ANALYZE.  In
particular this could result in autovacuum making poor decisions about when
to process the table, as in recent report from Florian Helmberger.  And in
general it's a bad idea to not update the stats at all.  Instead, use the
previous values of reltuples/relpages as an estimate of the tuple density
in unvisited pages.  This approach results in a "moving average" estimate
of reltuples, which should converge to the correct value over multiple
VACUUM and ANALYZE cycles even when individual measurements aren't very
good.

This new method for updating reltuples is used by both VACUUM and ANALYZE,
with the result that we no longer need the grotty interconnections that
caused ANALYZE to not update the stats depending on what had happened
in the parent VACUUM command.

Also, fix the logic for skipping all-visible pages during VACUUM so that it
looks ahead rather than behind to decide what to do, as per a suggestion
from Greg Stark.  This eliminates useless scanning of all-visible pages at
the start of the relation or just after a not-all-visible page.  In
particular, the first few pages of the relation will not be invariably
included in the scanned pages, which seems to help in not overweighting
them in the reltuples estimate.

Back-patch to 8.4, where the visibility map was introduced.
2011-05-30 17:06:52 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3103f9a77d The row-version chaining in Serializable Snapshot Isolation was still wrong.
On further analysis, it turns out that it is not needed to duplicate predicate
locks to the new row version at update, the lock on the version that the
transaction saw as visible is enough. However, there was a different bug in
the code that checks for dangerous structures when a new rw-conflict happens.
Fix that bug, and remove all the row-version chaining related code.

Kevin Grittner & Dan Ports, with some comment editorialization by me.
2011-05-30 20:47:17 +03:00
Robert Haas 7149b128dc Improve hash_array() logic for combining hash values.
The new logic is less vulnerable to transpositions.

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

Dean Rasheed
2011-05-23 15:17:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 299d171652 Install defenses against overflow in BuildTupleHashTable().
The planner can sometimes compute very large values for numGroups, and in
cases where we have no alternative to building a hashtable, such a value
will get fed directly to BuildTupleHashTable as its nbuckets parameter.
There were two ways in which that could go bad.  First, BuildTupleHashTable
declared the parameter as "int" but most callers were passing "long"s,
so on 64-bit machines undetected overflow could occur leading to a bogus
negative value.  The obvious fix for that is to change the parameter to
"long", which is what I've done in HEAD.  In the back branches that seems a
bit risky, though, since third-party code might be calling this function.
So for them, just put in a kluge to treat negative inputs as INT_MAX.
Second, hash_create can go nuts with extremely large requested table sizes
(notably, my_log2 becomes an infinite loop for inputs larger than
LONG_MAX/2).  What seems most appropriate to avoid that is to bound the
initial table size request to work_mem.

This fixes bug #6035 reported by Daniel Schreiber.  Although the reported
case only occurs back to 8.4 since it involves WITH RECURSIVE, I think
it's a good idea to install the defenses in all supported branches.
2011-05-23 12:52:46 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 30e98a7e6e Pull up isReset flag from AllocSetContext to MemoryContext struct. This
avoids the overhead of one function call when calling MemoryContextReset(),
and it seems like the isReset optimization would be applicable to any new
memory context we might invent in the future anyway.

This buys back the overhead I just added in previous patch to always call
MemoryContextReset() in ExecScan, even when there's no quals or projections.
2011-05-21 14:47:19 -04:00
Robert Haas 9bb6d97952 More cleanup of FOREIGN TABLE permissions handling.
This commit fixes psql, pg_dump, and the information schema to be
consistent with the backend changes which I made as part of commit
be90032e0d, and also includes a
related documentation tweak.

Shigeru Hanada, with slight adjustment.
2011-05-13 15:51:03 -04:00
Tom Lane e05b866447 Split PGC_S_DEFAULT into two values, for true boot_val vs computed default.
Failure to distinguish these cases is the real cause behind the recent
reports of Windows builds crashing on 'infinity'::timestamp, which was
directly due to failure to establish a value of timezone_abbreviations
in postmaster child processes.  The postmaster had the desired value,
but write_one_nondefault_variable() didn't transmit it to backends.

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

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

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

Note that this patch creates an ABI break for extensions that use any of
the PGC_S_XXX constants; they'll need to be recompiled.
2011-05-11 19:57:38 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan c02d5b7c27 Use a macro variable PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for the style used for checking printf type functions.
The style is set to "printf" for backwards compatibility everywhere except
on Windows, where it is set to "gnu_printf", which eliminates hundreds of
false error messages from modern versions of gcc arising from  %m and %ll{d,u}
formats.
2011-04-28 10:56:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 993c5e5904 Tag 9.1beta1. 2011-04-27 17:17:22 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 6693fec0e8 Revert "Force use of "%I64d" format for 64 bit ints on MinGW."
This reverts commit 52d01c2f52.

the UINT64_FORMAT bit broke the b uildfarm, so I'm reverting the whole thing pending further investigation.
2011-04-27 14:55:18 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 52d01c2f52 Force use of "%I64d" format for 64 bit ints on MinGW.
Both this and "%lld" work, but the compiler's format checking doesn't
like "%lld", so we get all sorts of spurious warnings.
2011-04-27 10:09:23 -04:00
Robert Haas 68ef051f5c Refactor broken CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS support.
Per bug #5988, reported by Marko Tiikkaja, and further analyzed by Tom
Lane, the previous coding was broken in several respects: even if the
target table already existed, a subsequent CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS
might try to add additional constraints or sequences-for-serial
specified in the new CREATE TABLE statement.

In passing, this also fixes a minor information leak: it's no longer
possible to figure out whether a schema to which you don't have CREATE
access contains a sequence named like "x_y_seq" by attempting to create a
table in that schema called "x" with a serial column called "y".

Some more refactoring of this code in the future might be warranted,
but that will need to wait for a later major release.
2011-04-25 16:55:11 -04:00
Robert Haas be90032e0d Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.
Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can
be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role,
and revoked similarly.  GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer
supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW.  The set of
accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for
regular tables, and views.

Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
2011-04-25 16:39:18 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 860be17ec3 Assorted minor changes to silence Windows compiler warnings.
Mostly to do with macro redefinitions or object signedness.
2011-04-25 12:56:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 76dd09bbec Add postmaster/postgres undocumented -b option for binary upgrades.
This option turns off autovacuum, prevents non-super-user connections,
and enables oid setting hooks in the backend.  The code continues to use
the old autoavacuum disable settings for servers with earlier catalog
versions.

This includes a catalog version bump to identify servers that support
the -b option.
2011-04-25 12:00:21 -04:00
Tom Lane e6a30a8c3c Improve cost estimation for aggregates and window functions.
The previous coding failed to account properly for the costs of evaluating
the input expressions of aggregates and window functions, as seen in a
recent gripe from Claudio Freire.  (I said at the time that it wasn't
counting these costs at all; but on closer inspection, it was effectively
charging these costs once per output tuple.  That is completely wrong for
aggregates, and not exactly right for window functions either.)

There was also a hard-wired assumption that aggregates and window functions
had procost 1.0, which is now fixed to respect the actual cataloged costs.

The costing of WindowAgg is still pretty bogus, since it doesn't try to
estimate the effects of spilling data to disk, but that seems like a
separate issue.
2011-04-24 16:55:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 2ab0796d7a Fix char2wchar/wchar2char to support collations properly.
These functions should take a pg_locale_t, not a collation OID, and should
call mbstowcs_l/wcstombs_l where available.  Where those functions are not
available, temporarily select the correct locale with uselocale().

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

I decided to move the char2wchar/wchar2char functions out of mbutils.c and
into pg_locale.c, because they work on wchar_t not pg_wchar_t and thus
don't really belong with the mbutils.c functions.  Keeping them where they
were would have required importing pg_locale_t into pg_wchar.h somehow,
which did not seem like a good plan.
2011-04-23 12:35:41 -04:00
Tom Lane ae20bf1740 Make GIN and GIST pass the index collation to all their support functions.
Experimentation with contrib/btree_gist shows that the majority of the GIST
support functions potentially need collation information.  Safest policy
seems to be to pass it to all of them, instead of making assumptions about
which ones could possibly need it.
2011-04-22 20:13:12 -04:00
Robert Haas 68739ba856 Allow ALTER TABLE name {OF type | NOT OF}.
This syntax allows a standalone table to be made into a typed table,
or a typed table to be made standalone.  This is possibly a mildly
useful feature in its own right, but the real motivation for this
change is that we need it to make pg_upgrade work with typed tables.
This doesn't actually fix that problem, but it's necessary
infrastructure.

Noah Misch
2011-04-20 21:38:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 8c19977e9c Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.
There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since
any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must
pre-date its original creation.  So we can just avoid changing pg_index
altogether during a REINDEX operation.

This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem
found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are
reindexing it.  System catalog indexes will always be created with
indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should
never try to change their pg_index entries.  This avoids special-casing
system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance
benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be
considered unusable for a short time.

Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT.  Note that this
patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that
any add-on code is calling that directly.
2011-04-19 18:50:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 918854cc08 Fix handling of collations in multi-row VALUES constructs.
Per spec we ought to apply select_common_collation() across the expressions
in each column of the VALUES table.  The original coding was just taking
the first row and assuming it was representative.

This patch adds a field to struct RangeTblEntry to carry the resolved
collations, so initdb is forced for changes in stored rule representation.
2011-04-18 15:31:52 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d3320d3d2 Simplify reindex_relation's API.
For what seem entirely historical reasons, a bitmask "flags" argument was
recently added to reindex_relation without subsuming its existing boolean
argument into that bitmask.  This seems a bit bizarre, so fold them
together.
2011-04-16 17:26:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 121f49a00e Clean up collation processing in prepunion.c.
This area was a few bricks shy of a load, and badly under-commented too.
We have to ensure that the generated targetlist entries for a set-operation
node expose the correct collation for each entry, since higher-level
processing expects the tlist to reflect the true ordering of the plan's
output.

This hackery wouldn't be necessary if SortGroupClause carried collation
info ... but making it do so would inject more pain in the parser than
would be saved here.  Still, we might want to rethink that sometime.
2011-04-16 16:40:42 -04:00
Tom Lane d64713df7e Pass collations to functions in FunctionCallInfoData, not FmgrInfo.
Since collation is effectively an argument, not a property of the function,
FmgrInfo is really the wrong place for it; and this becomes critical in
cases where a cached FmgrInfo is used for varying purposes that might need
different collation settings.  Fix by passing it in FunctionCallInfoData
instead.  In particular this allows a clean fix for bug #5970 (record_cmp
not working).  This requires touching a bit more code than the original
method, but nobody ever thought that collations would not be an invasive
patch...
2011-04-12 19:19:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 921b993677 Fix RI_Initial_Check to use a COLLATE clause when needed in its query.
If the referencing and referenced columns have different collations,
the parser will be unable to resolve which collation to use unless it's
helped out in this way.  The effects are sometimes masked, if we end up
using a non-collation-sensitive plan; but if we do use a mergejoin
we'll see a failure, as recently noted by Robert Haas.

The SQL spec states that the referenced column's collation should be used
to resolve RI checks, so that's what we do.  Note however that we currently
don't append a COLLATE clause when writing a query that examines only the
referencing column.  If we ever support collations that have varying
notions of equality, that will have to be changed.  For the moment, though,
it's preferable to leave it off so that we can use a normal index on the
referencing column.
2011-04-11 21:32:53 -04:00
Tom Lane 3c381a55b0 Teach pattern_fixed_prefix() about collations.
This is necessary, not optional, now that ILIKE and regexes are collation
aware --- else we might derive a wrong comparison constant for index
optimized pattern matches.
2011-04-11 12:28:28 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7c797e7194 Fix the size of predicate lock manager's shared memory hash tables at creation.
This way they don't compete with the regular lock manager for the slack shared
memory, making the behavior more predictable.
2011-04-11 13:43:31 +03:00
Tom Lane f510fc1d90 Add some more mapping macros for Microsoft wide-character API.
Per buildfarm.
2011-04-10 19:37:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 1e16a8107d Teach regular expression operators to honor collations.
This involves getting the character classification and case-folding
functions in the regex library to use the collations infrastructure.
Most of this work had been done already in connection with the upper/lower
and LIKE logic, so it was a simple matter of transposition.

While at it, split out these functions into a separate source file
regc_pg_locale.c, so that they can be correctly labeled with the Postgres
project's license rather than the Scriptics license.  These functions are
100% Postgres-written code whereas what remains in regc_locale.c is still
mostly not ours, so lumping them both under the same copyright notice was
getting more and more misleading.
2011-04-10 18:03:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian bf50caf105 pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1. 2011-04-10 11:42:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 11745364d0 Add collation support on Windows (MSVC build)
There is not yet support in initdb to populate the pg_collation
catalog, but if that is done manually, the rest should work.
2011-04-10 00:15:41 +03:00
Tom Lane c5ff3ff492 Avoid an unnecessary syscache lookup in parse_coerce.c.
All the other fields of the constant are being extracted from the syscache
entry we already have, so handle collation similarly.  (There don't seem
to be any other uses for the new function at the moment.)
2011-04-08 16:11:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 2594cf0e8c Revise the API for GUC variable assign hooks.
The previous functions of assign hooks are now split between check hooks
and assign hooks, where the former can fail but the latter shouldn't.
Aside from being conceptually clearer, this approach exposes the
"canonicalized" form of the variable value to guc.c without having to do
an actual assignment.  And that lets us fix the problem recently noted by
Bernd Helmle that the auto-tune patch for wal_buffers resulted in bogus
log messages about "parameter "wal_buffers" cannot be changed without
restarting the server".  There may be some speed advantage too, because
this design lets hook functions avoid re-parsing variable values when
restoring a previous state after a rollback (they can store a pre-parsed
representation of the value instead).  This patch also resolves a
longstanding annoyance about custom error messages from variable assign
hooks: they should modify, not appear separately from, guc.c's own message
about "invalid parameter value".
2011-04-07 00:12:02 -04:00
Robert Haas f5e524d92b Add casts from int4 and int8 to numeric.
Joey Adams, per gripe from Ramanujam.  Review by myself and Tom Lane.
2011-04-05 09:35:43 -04:00
Simon Riggs 88f32b7ca2 Avoid assuming there will be only 3 states for synchronous_commit.
Also avoid hardcoding the current default state by giving it the name
"on" and replace with a meaningful name that reflects its behaviour.
Coding only, no change in behaviour.
2011-04-04 23:23:13 +01:00
Robert Haas 240067b3b0 Merge synchronous_replication setting into synchronous_commit.
This means one less thing to configure when setting up synchronous
replication, and also avoids some ambiguity around what the behavior
should be when the settings of these variables conflict.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me.
2011-04-04 16:25:52 -04:00
Robert Haas 6c57239985 Rearrange "add column" logic to merge columns at exec time.
The previous coding set attinhcount too high in some cases, resulting in
an undumpable, undroppable column.  Per bug #5856, reported by Naoya
Anzai.  See also commit 31b6fc06d8, which
fixes a similar bug in ALTER TABLE .. ADD CONSTRAINT.

Patch by Noah Misch.
2011-04-03 21:53:32 -04:00
Robert Haas 38b27792ea Avoid possible hang during smart shutdown.
If a smart shutdown occurs just as a child is starting up, and the
child subsequently becomes a walsender, there is a race condition:
the postmaster might count the exstant backends, determine that there
is one normal backend, and wait for it to die off.  Had the walsender
transition already occurred before the postmaster counted, it would
have proceeded with the shutdown.

To fix this, have each child that transforms into a walsender kick
the postmaster just after doing so, so that the state machine is
certain to advance.

Fujii Masao
2011-04-03 19:42:00 -04:00
Robert Haas 50533a6dc5 Support comments on FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and SERVER objects.
This mostly involves making it work with the objectaddress.c framework,
which does most of the heavy lifting.  In that vein, change
GetForeignDataWrapperOidByName to get_foreign_data_wrapper_oid and
GetForeignServerOidByName to get_foreign_server_oid, to match the
pattern we use for other object types.

Robert Haas and Shigeru Hanada
2011-04-01 11:28:28 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas c8ae318cbe Increase SHMEM_INDEX_SIZE from 32 to 64. We're currently at 40 entries in
ShmemIndex, so 64 leaves some headroom.

Kevin Grittner
2011-03-31 13:37:01 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 754baa21f7 Automatically terminate replication connections that are idle for more
than replication_timeout (a new GUC) milliseconds. The TCP timeout is often
too long, you want the master to notice a dead connection much sooner.
People complained about that in 9.0 too, but with synchronous replication
it's even more important to notice dead connections promptly.

Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-03-30 10:20:37 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6c0dfc0356 Add maintainer-check target
This can do various source code checks that are not appropriate for
either the build or the regression tests.  Currently: duplicate_oids,
SGML syntax and tabs check, NLS syntax check.
2011-03-28 22:56:52 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut aa6fdd186c Make duplicate_oids return nonzero exit status if duplicates were found
Automatic detection of errors is easier that way.
2011-03-28 22:56:52 +03:00
Tom Lane eb51af71f2 Prevent a rowtype from being included in itself.
Eventually we might be able to allow that, but it's not clear how many
places need to be fixed to prevent infinite recursion when there's a direct
or indirect inclusion of a rowtype in itself.  One such place is
CheckAttributeType(), which will recurse to stack overflow in cases such as
those exhibited in bug #5950 from Alex Perepelica.  If we were sure it was
the only such place, we could easily modify the code added by this patch to
stop the recursion without a complaint ... but it probably isn't the only
such place.  Hence, throw error until such time as someone is excited
enough about this type of usage to put work into making it safe.

Back-patch as far as 8.3.  8.2 doesn't have the recursive call in
CheckAttributeType in the first place, so I see no need to add code there
in the absence of clear evidence of a problem elsewhere.
2011-03-28 15:46:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 7208fae18f Clean up cruft around collation initialization for tupdescs and scankeys.
I found actual bugs in GiST and plpgsql; the rest of this is cosmetic
but meant to decrease the odds of future bugs of omission.
2011-03-26 18:28:40 -04:00
Tom Lane 0c9d9e8dd6 More collations cleanup, from trawling for missed collation assignments.
Mostly cosmetic, though I did find that generateClonedIndexStmt failed
to clone the index's collations.
2011-03-26 16:35:25 -04:00
Tom Lane b23c9fa929 Clean up a few failures to set collation fields in expression nodes.
I'm not sure these have any non-cosmetic implications, but I'm not sure
they don't, either.  In particular, ensure the CaseTestExpr generated
by transformAssignmentIndirection to represent the base target column
carries the correct collation, because parse_collate.c won't fix that.
Tweak lsyscache.c API so that we can get the appropriate collation
without an extra syscache lookup.
2011-03-26 14:25:48 -04:00
Tom Lane bfa4440ca5 Pass collation to makeConst() instead of looking it up internally.
In nearly all cases, the caller already knows the correct collation, and
in a number of places, the value the caller has handy is more correct than
the default for the type would be.  (In particular, this patch makes it
significantly less likely that eval_const_expressions will result in
changing the exposed collation of an expression.)  So an internal lookup
is both expensive and wrong.
2011-03-25 20:10:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 27dc7e240b Fix handling of collation in SQL-language functions.
Ensure that parameter symbols receive collation from the function's
resolved input collation, and fix inlining to behave properly.

BTW, this commit lays about 90% of the infrastructure needed to support
use of argument names in SQL functions.  Parsing of parameters is now
done via the parser-hook infrastructure ... we'd just need to supply
a column-ref hook ...
2011-03-24 20:30:23 -04:00
Simon Riggs ec497a5ad6 Make FKs valid at creation when added as column constraints.
Bug report from Alvaro Herrera
2011-03-22 23:10:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 8df08c8489 Reimplement planner's handling of MIN/MAX aggregate optimization (again).
Instead of playing cute games with pathkeys, just build a direct
representation of the intended sub-select, and feed it through
query_planner to get a Path for the index access.  This is a bit slower
than 9.1's previous method, since we'll duplicate most of the overhead of
query_planner; but since the whole optimization only applies to rather
simple single-table queries, that probably won't be much of a problem in
practice.  The advantage is that we get to do the right thing when there's
a partial index that needs the implicit IS NOT NULL clause to be usable.
Also, although this makes planagg.c be a bit more closely tied to the
ordering of operations in grouping_planner, we can get rid of some coupling
to lower-level parts of the planner.  Per complaint from Marti Raudsepp.
2011-03-22 00:34:31 -04:00
Tom Lane 176d5bae1d Fix up handling of C/POSIX collations.
Install just one instance of the "C" and "POSIX" collations into
pg_collation, rather than one per encoding.  Make these instances exist
and do something useful even in machines without locale_t support: to wit,
it's now possible to force comparisons and case-folding functions to use C
locale in an otherwise non-C database, whether or not the platform has
support for using any additional collations.

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

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

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

Fix assorted bugs in the planner's handling of collations by making
collation one of the defining properties of an EquivalenceClass and
by converting CollateExprs into discardable RelabelType nodes during
expression preprocessing.
2011-03-19 20:30:08 -04:00
Magnus Hagander 6f9192df61 Rename ident authentication over local connections to peer
This removes an overloading of two authentication options where
one is very secure (peer) and one is often insecure (ident). Peer
is also the name used in libpq from 9.1 to specify the same type
of authentication.

Also make initdb select peer for local connections when ident is
chosen, and ident for TCP connections when peer is chosen.

ident keyword in pg_hba.conf is still accepted and maps to peer
authentication.
2011-03-19 18:44:35 +01:00
Robert Haas 9a56dc3389 Fix various possible problems with synchronous replication.
1. Don't ignore query cancel interrupts.  Instead, if the user asks to
cancel the query after we've already committed it, but before it's on
the standby, just emit a warning and let the COMMIT finish.

2. Don't ignore die interrupts (pg_terminate_backend or fast shutdown).
Instead, emit a warning message and close the connection without
acknowledging the commit.  Other backends will still see the effect of
the commit, but there's no getting around that; it's too late to abort
at this point, and ignoring die interrupts altogether doesn't seem like
a good idea.

3. If synchronous_standby_names becomes empty, wake up all backends
waiting for synchronous replication to complete.  Without this, someone
attempting to shut synchronous replication off could easily wedge the
entire system instead.

4. Avoid depending on the assumption that if a walsender updates
MyProc->syncRepState, we'll see the change even if we read it without
holding the lock.  The window for this appears to be quite narrow (and
probably doesn't exist at all on machines with strong memory ordering)
but protecting against it is practically free, so do that.

5. Remove useless state SYNC_REP_MUST_DISCONNECT, which isn't needed and
doesn't actually do anything.

There's still some further work needed here to make the behavior of fast
shutdown plausible, but that looks complex, so I'm leaving it for a
separate commit.  Review by Fujii Masao.
2011-03-17 13:12:21 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ddd6ff289f Add database comments to template0 and postgres databases, and improve
the comments on the template1 database.  No catalog version bump because
they are just comments.
2011-03-15 11:26:57 -04:00
Robert Haas 5ca4dfc79f Remove 13 keywords that are used only for ROLE options.
Review by Tom Lane.
2011-03-15 10:22:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian b051a34fd8 Remove duplicate time-based macros recently added. 2011-03-14 10:40:14 -04:00
Tom Lane 696d1f7f06 Make all comparisons done for/with statistics use the default collation.
While this will give wrong answers when estimating selectivity for a
comparison operator that's using a non-default collation, the estimation
error probably won't be large; and anyway the former approach created
estimation errors of its own by trying to use a histogram that might have
been computed with some other collation.  So we'll adopt this simplified
approach for now and perhaps improve it sometime in the future.

This patch incorporates changes from Andres Freund to make sure that
selfuncs.c passes a valid collation OID to any datatype-specific function
it calls, in case that function wants collation information.  Said OID will
now always be DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID, but at least we won't get errors.
2011-03-12 16:30:36 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3a3f39fdc0 Use macros for time-based constants, rather than constants. 2011-03-12 09:35:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 8acdb8bf9c Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types.
CollateClause is now used only in raw grammar output, and CollateExpr after
parse analysis.  This is for clarity and to avoid carrying collation names
in post-analysis parse trees: that's both wasteful and possibly misleading,
since the collation's name could be changed while the parsetree still
exists.

Also, clean up assorted infelicities and omissions in processing of the
node type.
2011-03-11 16:28:18 -05:00
Tom Lane e3c732a85c Create an explicit concept of collations that work for any encoding.
Use collencoding = -1 to represent such a collation in pg_collation.
We need this to make the "default" entry work sanely, and a later
patch will fix the C/POSIX entries to be represented this way instead
of duplicating them across all encodings.  All lookup operations now
search first for an entry that's database-encoding-specific, and then
for the same name with collencoding = -1.

Also some incidental code cleanup in collationcmds.c and pg_collation.c.
2011-03-11 13:20:11 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7d23e0f803 Update C comment about O_DIRECT and fsync(). 2011-03-11 06:46:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 7564654adf Revert addition of third argument to format_type().
Including collation in the behavior of that function promotes a world view
we do not want.  Moreover, it was producing the wrong behavior for pg_dump
anyway: what we want is to dump a COLLATE clause on attributes whose
attcollation is different from the underlying type, and likewise for
domains, and the function cannot do that for us.  Doing it the hard way
in pg_dump is a bit more tedious but produces more correct output.

In passing, fix initdb so that the initial entry in pg_collation is
properly pinned.  It was droppable before :-(
2011-03-10 17:30:46 -05:00
Robert Haas 2e019c8611 More synchronous replication typo fixes.
Fujii Masao
2011-03-10 15:56:18 -05:00
Robert Haas b8bb8dbf20 More synchronous replication tweaks.
SyncRepRequested() must check not only the value of the
synchronous_replication GUC but also whether max_wal_senders > 0.
Otherwise, we might end up waiting for sync rep even when there's no
possibility of a standby ever managing to connect.  There are some
existing cross-checks to prevent this, but they're not quite sufficient:
the user can start the server with max_wal_senders=0,
synchronous_standby_names='', and synchronous_replication=off and then
subsequent make synchronous_standby_names not empty using pg_ctl reload,
and then SET synchronous_standby=on, leading to an indefinite hang.

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

Report by Fujii Masao, though I didn't use his patch.
2011-03-10 15:43:37 -05:00
Robert Haas e397d2ee64 Remove obsolete comment.
In earlier versions of the sync rep patch, waiters removed themselves from
the queue, but now walsender removes them before doing the wakeup.

Report by Fujii Masao.
2011-03-10 15:00:20 -05:00
Robert Haas 6436098795 Minor sync rep corrections.
Fujii Masao, with a bit of additional wordsmithing by me.
2011-03-10 14:57:02 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 2d8de0a50b Cleanup copyright years and file names in the header comments of some files. 2011-03-10 15:05:33 +09:00
Tom Lane a051ef699c Remove collation information from TypeName, where it does not belong.
The initial collations patch treated a COLLATE spec as part of a TypeName,
following what can only be described as brain fade on the part of the SQL
committee.  It's a lot more reasonable to treat COLLATE as a syntactically
separate object, so that it can be added in only the productions where it
actually belongs, rather than needing to reject it in a boatload of places
where it doesn't belong (something the original patch mostly failed to do).
In addition this change lets us meet the spec's requirement to allow
COLLATE anywhere in the clauses of a ColumnDef, and it avoids unfriendly
behavior for constructs such as "foo::type COLLATE collation".

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

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

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

BTW, the three-parameter form of format_type() should go away too,
since it just contributes to the confusion in this area; but I'll do
that in a separate patch.
2011-03-09 22:39:20 -05:00
Tom Lane 49a08ca1e9 Adjust the permissions required for COMMENT ON ROLE.
Formerly, any member of a role could change the role's comment, as of
course could superusers; but holders of CREATEROLE privilege could not,
unless they were also members.  This led to the odd situation that a
CREATEROLE holder could create a role but then could not comment on it.
It also seems a bit dubious to let an unprivileged user change his own
comment, let alone those of group roles he belongs to.  So, change the
rule to be "you must be superuser to comment on a superuser role, or
hold CREATEROLE to comment on non-superuser roles".  This is the same
as the privilege check for creating/dropping roles, and thus fits much
better with the rule for other object types, namely that only the owner
of an object can comment on it.

In passing, clean up the documentation for COMMENT a little bit.

Per complaint from Owen Jacobson and subsequent discussion.
2011-03-09 11:28:34 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4cd3fb6e12 Truncate predicate lock manager's SLRU lazily at checkpoint. That's safer
than doing it aggressively whenever the tail-XID pointer is advanced, because
this way we don't need to do it while holding SerializableXactHashLock.

This also fixes bug #5915 spotted by YAMAMOTO Takashi, and removes an
obsolete comment spotted by Kevin Grittner.
2011-03-08 12:12:54 +02:00
Simon Riggs dcfe3f60c1 Catversion increment for pg_stat_replication changes for syncrep 2011-03-06 23:44:44 +00:00
Simon Riggs 966fb05b58 Add new files for syncrep missed in previous commit 2011-03-06 23:39:14 +00:00
Simon Riggs a8a8a3e096 Efficient transaction-controlled synchronous replication.
If a standby is broadcasting reply messages and we have named
one or more standbys in synchronous_standby_names then allow
users who set synchronous_replication to wait for commit, which
then provides strict data integrity guarantees. Design avoids
sending and receiving transaction state information so minimises
bookkeeping overheads. We synchronize with the highest priority
standby that is connected and ready to synchronize. Other standbys
can be defined to takeover in case of standby failure.

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

Simon Riggs and Fujii Masao, with reviews by Yeb Havinga, Jaime
Casanova, Heikki Linnakangas and Robert Haas, plus the assistance
of many other design reviewers.
2011-03-06 22:49:16 +00:00
Tom Lane bfd7f8cbb2 Make plpythonu language use plpython2 shared library directly.
The original scheme for this was to symlink plpython.$DLSUFFIX to
plpython2.$DLSUFFIX, but that doesn't work on Windows, and only
accidentally failed to fail because of the way that CREATE LANGUAGE created
or didn't create new C functions.  My changes of yesterday exposed the
weakness of that approach.  To fix, get rid of the symlink and make
pg_pltemplate show what's really going on.
2011-03-05 15:13:15 -05:00
Tom Lane 63b656b7bf Create extension infrastructure for the core procedural languages.
This mostly just involves creating control, install, and
update-from-unpackaged scripts for them.  However, I had to adjust plperl
and plpython to not share the same support functions between variants,
because we can't put the same function into multiple extensions.

catversion bump forced due to new contents of pg_pltemplate, and because
initdb now installs plpgsql as an extension not a bare language.

Add support for regression testing these as extensions not bare
languages.

Fix a couple of other issues that popped up while testing this: my initial
hack at pg_dump binary-upgrade support didn't work right, and we don't want
an extra schema permissions test after all.

Documentation changes still to come, but I'm committing now to see
whether the MSVC build scripts need work (likely they do).
2011-03-04 21:51:14 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut b9cff97fdf Don't allow CREATE TABLE AS to create a column with invalid collation
It is possible that an expression ends up with a collatable type but
without a collation.  CREATE TABLE AS could then create a table based
on that.  But such a column cannot be dumped with valid SQL syntax, so
we disallow creating such a column.

per test report from Noah Misch
2011-03-04 23:42:07 +02:00
Tom Lane 8d3b421f5f Allow non-superusers to create (some) extensions.
Remove the unconditional superuser permissions check in CREATE EXTENSION,
and instead define a "superuser" extension property, which when false
(not the default) skips the superuser permissions check.  In this case
the calling user only needs enough permissions to execute the commands
in the extension's installation script.  The superuser property is also
enforced in the same way for ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE cases.

In other ALTER EXTENSION cases and DROP EXTENSION, test ownership of
the extension rather than superuserness.  ALTER EXTENSION ADD/DROP needs
to insist on ownership of the target object as well; to do that without
duplicating code, refactor comment.c's big switch for permissions checks
into a separate function in objectaddress.c.

I also removed the superuserness checks in pg_available_extensions and
related functions; there's no strong reason why everybody shouldn't
be able to see that info.

Also invent an IF NOT EXISTS variant of CREATE EXTENSION, and use that
in pg_dump, so that dumps won't fail for installed-by-default extensions.
We don't have any of those yet, but we will soon.

This is all per discussion of wrapping the standard procedural languages
into extensions.  I'll make those changes in a separate commit; this is
just putting the core infrastructure in place.
2011-03-04 16:08:53 -05:00
Tom Lane 908ab80286 Further refine patch for commenting operator implementation functions.
Instead of manually maintaining the "implementation of XXX operator"
comments in pg_proc.h, delete all those entries and let initdb create
them via a join.  To let initdb figure out which name to use when there
is a conflict, change the comments for deprecated operators to say they
are deprecated --- which seems like a good thing to do anyway.
2011-03-03 15:55:47 -05:00
Tom Lane 6252c4f9e2 Run a portal's cleanup hook immediately when pushing it to DONE state.
This works around the problem noted by Yamamoto Takashi in bug #5906,
that there were code paths whereby we could reach AtCleanup_Portals
with a portal's cleanup hook still unexecuted.  The changes I made
a few days ago were intended to prevent that from happening, and
I think that on balance it's still a good thing to avoid, so I don't
want to remove the Assert in AtCleanup_Portals.  Hence do this instead.
2011-03-03 13:04:06 -05:00
Tom Lane 94133a9354 Mark operator implementation functions as such in their comments.
Historically, we've not had separate comments for built-in pg_operator
entries, but relied on the comments for the underlying functions.  The
trouble with this approach is that there isn't much of anything to suggest
to users that they'd be better off using the operators instead.  So, move
all the relevant comments into pg_operator, and give each underlying
function a comment that just says "implementation of XXX operator".
There are only about half a dozen cases where it seems reasonable to use
the underlying function interchangeably with the operator; in these cases
I left the same comment in place on the function as on the operator.

While at it, establish a policy that every built-in function and operator
entry should have a comment: there are now queries in the opr_sanity
regression test that will complain if one doesn't.  This only required
adding a dozen or two more entries than would have been there anyway.

I also spent some time trying to eliminate gratuitous inconsistencies in
the style of the comments, though it's hopeless to suppose that more won't
creep in soon enough.

Per my proposal of 2010-10-15.
2011-03-03 01:34:17 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6eba5a7c57 Change pg_last_xlog_receive_location() not to move backwards. That makes
it a lot more useful for determining which standby is most up-to-date,
for example. There was long discussions on whether overwriting existing
existing WAL makes sense to begin with, and whether we should do some more
extensive variable renaming, but this change nevertheless seems quite
uncontroversial.

Fujii Masao, reviewed by Jeff Janes, Robert Haas, Stephen Frost.
2011-03-01 20:54:35 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 47ad79122b Fix bugs in Serializable Snapshot Isolation.
Change the way UPDATEs are handled. Instead of maintaining a chain of
tuple-level locks in shared memory, copy any existing locks on the old
tuple to the new tuple at UPDATE. Any existing page-level lock needs to
be duplicated too, as a lock on the new tuple. That was neglected
previously.

Store xmin on tuple-level predicate locks, to distinguish a lock on an old
already-recycled tuple from a new tuple at the same physical location.
Failure to distinguish them caused loops in the tuple-lock chains, as
reported by YAMAMOTO Takashi. Although we don't use the chain representation
of UPDATEs anymore, it seems like a good idea to store the xmin to avoid
some false positives if no other reason.

CheckSingleTargetForConflictsIn now correctly handles the case where a lock
that's being held is not reflected in the local lock table. That happens
if another backend acquires a lock on our behalf due to an UPDATE or a page
split.

PredicateLockPageCombine now retains locks for the page that is being
removed, rather than removing them. This prevents a potentially dangerous
false-positive inconsistency where the local lock table believes that a lock
is held, but it is actually not.

Dan Ports and Kevin Grittner
2011-03-01 19:05:16 +02:00
Tom Lane c0b0076036 Rearrange snapshot handling to make rule expansion more consistent.
With this patch, portals, SQL functions, and SPI all agree that there
should be only a CommandCounterIncrement between the queries that are
generated from a single SQL command by rule expansion.  Fetching a whole
new snapshot now happens only between original queries.  This is equivalent
to the existing behavior of EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and it was judged to be the
best choice since it eliminates one source of concurrency hazards for
rules.  The patch should also make things marginally faster by reducing the
number of snapshot push/pop operations.

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

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

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Steve Singer and Tom Lane
2011-02-28 23:28:06 -05:00
Robert Haas 92c30fd2ed Rename pg_stat_replication.apply_location to replay_location.
For consistency with pg_last_xlog_replay_location.  Per discussion.
2011-02-28 12:49:57 -05:00
Tom Lane a874fe7b4c Refactor the executor's API to support data-modifying CTEs better.
The originally committed patch for modifying CTEs didn't interact well
with EXPLAIN, as noted by myself, and also had corner-case problems with
triggers, as noted by Dean Rasheed.  Those problems show it is really not
practical for ExecutorEnd to call any user-defined code; so split the
cleanup duties out into a new function ExecutorFinish, which must be called
between the last ExecutorRun call and ExecutorEnd.  Some Asserts have been
added to these functions to help verify correct usage.

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

Also, refactor portal commit processing to allow for the possibility that
PortalDrop will invoke user-defined code.  I think this is not actually
necessary just yet, since the portal-execution-strategy logic forces any
non-pure-SELECT query to be run to completion before we will consider
committing.  But it seems like good future-proofing.
2011-02-27 13:44:12 -05:00
Tom Lane 389af95155 Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH.
This patch implements data-modifying WITH queries according to the
semantics that the updates all happen with the same command counter value,
and in an unspecified order.  Therefore one WITH clause can't see the
effects of another, nor can the outer query see the effects other than
through the RETURNING values.  And attempts to do conflicting updates will
have unpredictable results.  We'll need to document all that.

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

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

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

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

Radosław Smogura
2011-02-22 13:08:22 -05:00
Tom Lane 2e852e541c Remove ExecRemoveJunk(), which is no longer used anywhere.
This was a leftover from the pre-8.1 design of junkfilters.  It doesn't
seem to have any reason to live, since it's merely a combination of two
easy function calls, and not a well-designed combination at that (it
encourages callers to leak the result tuple).
2011-02-21 21:41:08 -05:00
Tom Lane a210be7720 Fix dangling-pointer problem in before-row update trigger processing.
ExecUpdate checked for whether ExecBRUpdateTriggers had returned a new
tuple value by seeing if the returned tuple was pointer-equal to the old
one.  But the "old one" was in estate->es_junkFilter's result slot, which
would be scribbled on if we had done an EvalPlanQual update in response to
a concurrent update of the target tuple; therefore we were comparing a
dangling pointer to a live one.  Given the right set of circumstances we
could get a false match, resulting in not forcing the tuple to be stored in
the slot we thought it was stored in.  In the case reported by Maxim Boguk
in bug #5798, this led to "cannot extract system attribute from virtual
tuple" failures when trying to do "RETURNING ctid".  I believe there is a
very-low-probability chance of more serious errors, such as generating
incorrect index entries based on the original rather than the
trigger-modified version of the row.

In HEAD, change all of ExecBRInsertTriggers, ExecIRInsertTriggers,
ExecBRUpdateTriggers, and ExecIRUpdateTriggers so that they continue to
have similar APIs.  In the back branches I just changed
ExecBRUpdateTriggers, since there is no bug in the ExecBRInsertTriggers
case.
2011-02-21 21:19:50 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 3cba8240a1 Add ENCODING option to COPY TO/FROM and file_fdw.
File encodings can be specified separately from client encoding.
If not specified, client encoding is used for backward compatibility.

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

Original patch by Hitoshi Harada, and modified by me.
2011-02-21 14:32:40 +09:00
Tom Lane 7c5d0ae707 Add contrib/file_fdw foreign-data wrapper for reading files via COPY.
This is both very useful in its own right, and an important test case
for the core FDW support.

This commit includes a small refactoring of copy.c to expose its option
checking code as a separately callable function.  The original patch
submission duplicated hundreds of lines of that code, which seemed pretty
unmaintainable.

Shigeru Hanada, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane
2011-02-20 14:06:59 -05:00
Tom Lane bb74240794 Implement an API to let foreign-data wrappers actually be functional.
This commit provides the core code and documentation needed.  A contrib
module test case will follow shortly.

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

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

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

Shigeru Hanada, Jan Urbanski, Heikki Linnakangas
2011-02-19 00:07:15 -05:00
Simon Riggs 06828c5feb Separate messages for standby replies and hot standby feedback.
Allow messages to be sent at different times, and greatly reduce
the frequency of hot standby feedback. Refactor to allow additional
message types.
2011-02-18 11:31:49 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro 62c7bd31c8 Add transaction-level advisory locks.
They share the same locking namespace with the existing session-level
advisory locks, but they are automatically released at the end of the
current transaction and cannot be released explicitly via unlock
functions.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by me.
2011-02-18 14:05:12 +09:00
Tom Lane 52b60530f2 Fix tsmatchsel() to account properly for null rows.
ts_typanalyze.c computes MCE statistics as fractions of the non-null rows,
which seems fairly reasonable, and anyway changing it in released versions
wouldn't be a good idea.  But then ts_selfuncs.c has to account for that.
Failure to do so results in overestimates in columns with a significant
fraction of null documents.  Back-patch to 8.4 where this stuff was
introduced.

Jesper Krogh
2011-02-17 19:00:49 -05:00
Robert Haas 4a25bc145a Add client_hostname field to pg_stat_activity.
Peter Eisentraut, reviewed by Steve Singer, Alvaro Herrera, and me.
2011-02-17 16:03:28 -05:00
Tom Lane a2095f7fb5 Fix bogus test for hypothetical indexes in get_actual_variable_range().
That function was supposing that indexoid == 0 for a hypothetical index,
but that is not likely to be true in any non-toy implementation of an index
adviser, since assigning a fake OID is the only way to know at EXPLAIN time
which hypothetical index got selected.  Fix by adding a flag to
IndexOptInfo to mark hypothetical indexes.  Back-patch to 9.0 where
get_actual_variable_range() was added.

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

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

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Stephen Frost and Tom Lane
2011-02-16 01:53:03 -05:00
Robert Haas 4695da5ae9 pg_ctl promote
Fujii Masao, reviewed by Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, and Magnus Hagander.
2011-02-15 21:30:23 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 8ddc05fb01 Export the external file reader used in COPY FROM as APIs.
They are expected to be used by extension modules like file_fdw.
There are no user-visible changes.

Itagaki Takahiro
Reviewed and tested by Kevin Grittner and Noah Misch.
2011-02-16 11:19:11 +09:00
Tom Lane 887dd041a6 Fix obsolete comment.
Comment about MaxAllocSize was not updated when the TOAST-header macros
were replaced in 8.3 "varvarlena" changes.  Per report from Frederik Ramm.
2011-02-15 13:27:54 -05:00
Tom Lane 555353c0c5 Rearrange extension-related views as per recent discussion.
The original design of pg_available_extensions did not consider the
possibility of version-specific control files.  Split it into two views:
pg_available_extensions shows information that is generic about an
extension, while pg_available_extension_versions shows all available
versions together with information that could be version-dependent.
Also, add an SRF pg_extension_update_paths() to assist in checking that
a collection of update scripts provide sane update path sequences.
2011-02-14 19:22:36 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 0de0cc150a Properly handle Win32 paths of 'E:abc', which can be either absolute or
relative, by creating a function path_is_relative_and_below_cwd() to
check for specific requirements.  It is unclear if this fixes a security
problem or not but the new code is more robust.
2011-02-12 09:47:51 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut b313bca0af DDL support for collations
- collowner field
- CREATE COLLATION
- ALTER COLLATION
- DROP COLLATION
- COMMENT ON COLLATION
- integration with extensions
- pg_dump support for the above
- dependency management
- psql tab completion
- psql \dO command
2011-02-12 15:55:18 +02:00
Tom Lane 1214749901 Add support for multiple versions of an extension and ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE.
This follows recent discussions, so it's quite a bit different from
Dimitri's original.  There will probably be more changes once we get a bit
of experience with it, but let's get it in and start playing with it.

This is still just core code.  I'll start converting contrib modules
shortly.

Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane
2011-02-11 21:25:57 -05:00
Robert Haas 2c20ba1fd2 Tweak find_composite_type_dependencies API a bit more.
Per discussion with Noah Misch, the previous coding, introduced by
my commit 65377e0b9c on 2011-02-06,
was really an abuse of RELKIND_COMPOSITE_TYPE, since the caller in
typecmds.c is actually passing the name of a domain.  So go back
having a type name argument, but make the first argument a Relation
rather than just a string so we can tell whether it's a table or
a foreign table and emit the proper error message.
2011-02-11 08:47:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 01467d3e4f Extend "ALTER EXTENSION ADD object" to permit "DROP object" as well.
Per discussion, this is something we should have sooner rather than later,
and it doesn't take much additional code to support it.
2011-02-10 17:37:22 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas b186523fd9 Send status updates back from standby server to master, indicating how far
the standby has written, flushed, and applied the WAL. At the moment, this
is for informational purposes only, the values are only shown in
pg_stat_replication system view, but in the future they will also be needed
for synchronous replication.

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

Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Greg Smith
2011-02-10 15:14:04 +01:00
Tom Lane e617f0d7e4 Fix improper matching of resjunk column names for FOR UPDATE in subselect.
Flattening of subquery range tables during setrefs.c could lead to the
rangetable indexes in PlanRowMark nodes not matching up with the column
names previously assigned to the corresponding resjunk ctid (resp. tableoid
or wholerow) columns.  Typical symptom would be either a "cannot extract
system attribute from virtual tuple" error or an Assert failure.  This
wasn't a problem before 9.0 because we didn't support FOR UPDATE below the
top query level, and so the final flattening could never renumber an RTE
that was relevant to FOR UPDATE.  Fix by using a plan-tree-wide unique
number for each PlanRowMark to label the associated resjunk columns, so
that the number need not change during flattening.

Per report from David Johnston (though I'm darned if I can see how this got
past initial testing of the relevant code).  Back-patch to 9.0.
2011-02-09 23:27:42 -05:00
Tom Lane caddcb8f4b Fix pg_upgrade to handle extensions.
This follows my proposal of yesterday, namely that we try to recreate the
previous state of the extension exactly, instead of allowing CREATE
EXTENSION to run a SQL script that might create some entirely-incompatible
on-disk state.  In --binary-upgrade mode, pg_dump won't issue CREATE
EXTENSION at all, but instead uses a kluge function provided by
pg_upgrade_support to recreate the pg_extension row (and extension-level
pg_depend entries) without creating any member objects.  The member objects
are then restored in the same way as if they weren't members, in particular
using pg_upgrade's normal hacks to preserve OIDs that need to be preserved.
Then, for each member object, ALTER EXTENSION ADD is issued to recreate the
pg_depend entry that marks it as an extension member.

In passing, fix breakage in pg_upgrade's enum-type support: somebody didn't
fix it when the noise word VALUE got added to ALTER TYPE ADD.  Also,
rationalize parsetree representation of COMMENT ON DOMAIN and fix
get_object_address() to allow OBJECT_DOMAIN.
2011-02-09 19:18:08 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 2e2d56fea9 Information schema views for collation support
Add the views character_sets, collations, and
collation_character_set_applicability.
2011-02-09 23:26:48 +02:00
Tom Lane 5bc178b89f Implement "ALTER EXTENSION ADD object".
This is an essential component of making the extension feature usable;
first because it's needed in the process of converting an existing
installation containing "loose" objects of an old contrib module into
the extension-based world, and second because we'll have to use it
in pg_dump --binary-upgrade, as per recent discussion.

Loosely based on part of Dimitri Fontaine's ALTER EXTENSION UPGRADE
patch.
2011-02-09 11:56:37 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 3144c33a2f Implement NOWAIT option for BASE_BACKUP command
Specifying this option makes the server not wait for the
xlog to be archived, or emit a warning that it can't,
instead leaving the responsibility with the client.

This is useful when the log is being streamed using
the streaming protocol in parallel with the backup,
without having log archiving enabled.
2011-02-09 10:59:53 +01:00
Tom Lane d9572c4e3b Core support for "extensions", which are packages of SQL objects.
This patch adds the server infrastructure to support extensions.
There is still one significant loose end, namely how to make it play nice
with pg_upgrade, so I am not yet committing the changes that would make
all the contrib modules depend on this feature.

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

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

Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
2011-02-08 23:04:18 +02:00