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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
Simon Riggs 7a7d36ec33 Continue long tradition of bumping the catalog version a little late. 2011-02-08 19:44:50 +00:00
Simon Riggs c016ce7281 Named restore points in recovery. Users can record named points, then
new recovery.conf parameter recovery_target_name allows PITR to
specify named points as recovery targets.

Jaime Casanova, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira, plus minor edits
2011-02-08 19:39:08 +00:00
Simon Riggs 8c6e3adbf7 Basic Recovery Control functions for use in Hot Standby. Pause, Resume,
Status check functions only. Also, new recovery.conf parameter to
pause_at_recovery_target, default on.

Simon Riggs, reviewed by Fujii Masao
2011-02-08 18:30:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas f9f9d696a9 UINT64_MAX isn't defined on MSVC. 2011-02-08 18:15:53 +02:00
Simon Riggs 722bf7017b Extend ALTER TABLE to allow Foreign Keys to be added without initial validation.
FK constraints that are marked NOT VALID may later be VALIDATED, which uses an
ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on constraint table and RowShareLock on referenced
table. Significantly reduces lock strength and duration when adding FKs.
New state visible from psql.

Simon Riggs, with reviews from Marko Tiikkaja and Robert Haas
2011-02-08 12:23:20 +00:00
Robert Haas 32896c40ca Avoid having autovacuum workers wait for relation locks.
Waiting for relation locks can lead to starvation - it pins down an
autovacuum worker for as long as the lock is held.  But if we're doing
an anti-wraparound vacuum, then we still wait; maintenance can no longer
be put off.

To assist with troubleshooting, if log_autovacuum_min_duration >= 0,
we log whenever an autovacuum or autoanalyze is skipped for this reason.

Per a gripe by Josh Berkus, and ensuing discussion.
2011-02-07 22:04:29 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 47082fa875 Oops, forgot to bump catversion in the Serializable Snapshot Isolation patch.
I thought we didn't need that, but then I remembered that it added a new
SLRU subdirectory, pg_serial. While we're at it, document what pg_serial is.
2011-02-08 00:24:23 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas dafaa3efb7 Implement genuine serializable isolation level.
Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot
Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any
serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a
method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by
Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable
Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation,
but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and
aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method
produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even
though there is no anomaly.

To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c.
Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared
memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a
page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a
single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching
tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index
scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not
there are any matching keys at the moment.

A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another
predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock
manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions
participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for
for other transactions.

Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until
all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that
we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a
lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions.
If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU
pool.

We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode.
That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies
that wouldn't otherwise occur.

Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level.
Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have
always had.

Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and
Anssi Kääriäinen
2011-02-08 00:09:08 +02:00
Robert Haas 65377e0b9c Tighten ALTER FOREIGN TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE checks.
If the foreign table's rowtype is being used as the type of a column in
another table, we can't just up and change its data type.  This was
already checked for composite types and ordinary tables, but we
previously failed to enforce it for foreign tables.
2011-02-06 00:26:27 -05:00
Robert Haas 356f2cbbb4 Make handling of errcodes.h more consistent with other generated headers.
This fixes make distprep, and seems more robust in other ways as well.
Some special handling is required because errcodes.txt is needed by
some stuff in src/port, but just by src/backend as is the case for the
other generated headers.

While I'm at it, fix a few other things that were overlooked in the
original patch.
2011-02-04 09:29:10 -05:00
Robert Haas ddfe26f644 Avoid maintaining three separate copies of the error codes list.
src/pl/plpgsql/src/plerrcodes.h, src/include/utils/errcodes.h, and a
big chunk of errcodes.sgml are now automatically generated from a single
file, src/backend/utils/errcodes.txt.

Jan Urbański, reviewed by Tom Lane.
2011-02-03 22:32:49 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 35b0a6b205 Simplify code used in is_absolute_path() macro; also add comment about
'E:abc' Win32 path handling.
2011-02-03 10:47:06 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 426227850b Rename function to first_path_var_separator() to clarify it works with
path variables, not directory paths.
2011-02-02 22:49:54 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 15f55cc38a Add validator to PL/Python
Jan Urbański, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada
2011-02-01 22:55:04 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 5273f21434 Undefine setlocale() macro on Win32
New versions of libintl redefine setlocale() to a macro
which causes problems when the backend and libintl are
linked against different versions of the runtime, which
is often the case in msvc builds.

Hiroshi Inoue, slightly updated comment by me
2011-02-01 13:19:18 +01:00
Simon Riggs 56b21b7ae3 Re-classify ERRCODE_DATABASE_DROPPED to 57P04 2011-02-01 08:44:01 +00:00
Simon Riggs 9e95c9ad55 Create new errcode for recovery conflict caused by db drop on master.
Previously reported as ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN, this case is now
reported as ERRCODE_T_R_DATABASE_DROPPED. No message text change.
Unlikely to happen on most servers, so low impact change to allow
session poolers to correctly handle this situation.

Tatsuo Ishii, edits by me, review by Robert Haas
2011-02-01 00:20:53 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 997b48ed96 Support multiple concurrent pg_basebackup backups.
With this patch, pg_basebackup doesn't write a backup_label file in the
data directory, so it doesn't interfere with a pg_start/stop_backup() based
backup anymore. backup_label is still included in the backup, but it is
injected directly into the tar stream.

Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Magnus Hagander.
2011-01-31 18:25:39 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 48c9de8028 Fix typo 2011-01-30 20:34:05 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 91812df4ed Enable building with the Mingw64 compiler.
This can be used to build 64 bit Windows binaries, not only on 64 bit
Windows but on supported cross-compiling hosts including 32 bit Windows,
Cygwin, Darwin and Linux.
2011-01-30 19:56:46 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 507069de6d Add option to include WAL in base backup
When included, this makes the base backup a complete working
"clone" of the initial database, ready to have a postmaster
started against it without the need to set up any log archiving
or similar.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-01-30 21:30:09 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 6fe5e4e63e autoreconf
Synchronize pg_config.h.in with configure.in (someone must have
forgotten to run autoheader or autoreconf), and clean up some spurious
change in configure introduced by the last commit there.
2011-01-27 01:19:45 +02:00
Tom Lane bd1ad1b019 Replace pg_class.relhasexclusion with pg_index.indisexclusion.
There isn't any need to track this state on a table-wide basis, and trying
to do so introduces undesirable semantic fuzziness.  Move the flag to
pg_index, where it clearly describes just a single index and can be
immutable after index creation.
2011-01-25 17:51:59 -05:00
Tom Lane 88452d5ba6 Implement ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY USING INDEX.
This feature allows a unique or pkey constraint to be created using an
already-existing unique index.  While the constraint isn't very
functionally different from the bare index, it's nice to be able to do that
for documentation purposes.  The main advantage over just issuing a plain
ALTER TABLE ADD UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY is that the index can be created with
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, so that there is not a long interval where the
table is locked against updates.

On the way, refactor some of the code in DefineIndex() and index_create()
so that we don't have to pass through those functions in order to create
the index constraint's catalog entries.  Also, in parse_utilcmd.c, pass
around the ParseState pointer in struct CreateStmtContext to save on
notation, and add error location pointers to some error reports that didn't
have one before.

Gurjeet Singh, reviewed by Steve Singer and Tom Lane
2011-01-25 15:43:05 -05:00
Magnus Hagander e5487f65fd Make walsender options order-independent
While doing this, also move base backup options into
a struct instead of increasing the number of parameters
to multiple functions for each new option.
2011-01-23 23:39:18 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 048d148fe6 Add pg_basebackup tool for streaming base backups
This tool makes it possible to do the pg_start_backup/
copy files/pg_stop_backup step in a single command.

There are still some steps to be done before this is a
complete backup solution, such as the ability to stream
the required WAL logs, but it's still usable, and
could do with some buildfarm coverage.

In passing, make the checkpoint request optionally
fast instead of hardcoding it.

Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Dimitri Fontaine
2011-01-23 12:21:23 +01:00
Robert Haas 6f59777c65 Code cleanup for assign_transaction_read_only.
As in commit fb4c5d2798 on 2011-01-21,
this avoids spurious debug messages and allows idempotent changes at
any time.  Along the way, make assign_XactIsoLevel allow idempotent
changes even when not within a subtransaction, to be consistent with
the new coding of assign_transaction_read_only and because there's
no compelling reason to do otherwise.

Kevin Grittner, with some adjustments.
2011-01-22 20:55:50 -05:00
Robert Haas fb4c5d2798 Code cleanup for assign_XactIsoLevel.
The new coding avoids a spurious debug message when a transaction
that has changed the isolation level has been rolled back.  It also
allows the property to be freely changed to the current value within
a subtransaction.

Kevin Grittner, with one small change by me.
2011-01-21 21:49:19 -05:00
Robert Haas 8ceb245680 Make ALTER TABLE revalidate uniqueness and exclusion constraints.
Failure to do so can lead to constraint violations.  This was broken by
commit 1ddc2703a9 on 2010-02-07, so
back-patch to 9.0.

Noah Misch.  Regression test by me.
2011-01-20 22:44:10 -05:00
Tom Lane 6ca452ba7f Move a couple of declarations to reflect where the routines really are. 2011-01-15 16:09:05 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8f5d65e916 Treat a WAL sender process that hasn't started streaming yet as a regular
backend, as far as the postmaster shutdown logic is concerned. That means,
fast shutdown will wait for WAL sender processes to exit before signaling
bgwriter to finish. This avoids race conditions between a base backup stopping
or starting, and bgwriter writing the shutdown checkpoint WAL record. We don't
want e.g the end-of-backup WAL record to be written after the shutdown
checkpoint.
2011-01-15 16:38:21 +02:00
Magnus Hagander fcd810c69a Use a lexer and grammar for parsing walsender commands
Makes it easier to parse mainly the BASE_BACKUP command
with it's options, and avoids having to manually deal
with quoted identifiers in the label (previously broken),
and makes it easier to add new commands and options in
the future.

In passing, refactor the case statement in the walsender
to put each command in it's own function.
2011-01-14 16:30:33 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 688423d004 Exit from base backups when shutdown is requested
When the exit waits until the whole backup completes, it may take
a very long time.

In passing, add back an error check in the main loop so we detect
clients that disconnect much earlier if the backup is large.
2011-01-14 12:36:45 +01:00
Tom Lane 52948169bc Code review for postmaster.pid contents changes.
Fix broken test for pre-existing postmaster, caused by wrong code for
appending lines to the lockfile; don't write a failed listen_address
setting into the lockfile; don't arbitrarily change the location of the
data directory in the lockfile compared to previous releases; provide more
consistent and useful definitions of the socket path and listen_address
entries; avoid assuming that pg_ctl has the same DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR as
the postmaster; assorted code style improvements.
2011-01-13 19:01:28 -05:00
Tom Lane d487afbb81 Fix PlanRowMark/ExecRowMark structures to handle inheritance correctly.
In an inherited UPDATE/DELETE, each target table has its own subplan,
because it might have a column set different from other targets.  This
means that the resjunk columns we add to support EvalPlanQual might be
at different physical column numbers in each subplan.  The EvalPlanQual
rewrite I did for 9.0 failed to account for this, resulting in possible
misbehavior or even crashes during concurrent updates to the same row,
as seen in a recent report from Gordon Shannon.  Revise the data structure
so that we track resjunk column numbers separately for each subplan.

I also chose to move responsibility for identifying the physical column
numbers back to executor startup, instead of assuming that numbers derived
during preprocess_targetlist would stay valid throughout subsequent
massaging of the plan.  That's a bit slower, so we might want to consider
undoing it someday; but it would complicate the patch considerably and
didn't seem justifiable in a bug fix that has to be back-patched to 9.0.
2011-01-12 20:47:02 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 4c8e20f815 Track walsender state in shared memory and expose in pg_stat_replication 2011-01-11 21:25:28 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 0eb59c4591 Backend support for streaming base backups
Add BASE_BACKUP command to walsender, allowing it to stream a
base backup to the client (in tar format). The syntax is still
far from ideal, that will be fixed in the switch to use a proper
grammar for walsender.

No client included yet, will come as a separate commit.

Magnus Hagander and Heikki Linnakangas
2011-01-10 14:04:19 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 4448917d51 Split pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() into two pieces
Move the actual functionality into a separate function that's
easier to call internally, and change the SQL-callable function
to be a wrapper calling this.

Also create a pg_abort_backup() function, only callable internally,
that does only the most vital parts of pg_stop_backup(), making it
safe(r) to call from error handlers.
2011-01-09 21:00:28 +01:00
Tom Lane 52fd2d65a3 Fix up core tsquery GIN support for new extractQuery API.
No need for the empty-prefix-match kluge to force a full scan anymore.
2011-01-09 14:34:50 -05:00
Magnus Hagander db4d22d0ef Add pgreadlink() on Windows to read junction points
Add support for reading back information about the symbolic
links we've created with pgsymlink(), which are actually
Junction Points. Just like pgsymlink() can only create directory
symlinks, pgreadlink() can only read directory symlinks.
2011-01-09 15:09:19 +01:00
Tom Lane adf328c0e1 Add array_contains_nulls() function in arrayfuncs.c.
This will support fixing contrib/intarray (and probably other places)
so that they don't have to fail on arrays that contain a null bitmap
but no live null entries.
2011-01-08 20:26:14 -05:00
Tom Lane 7e2f906201 Remove pg_am.amindexnulls.
The only use we have had for amindexnulls is in determining whether an
index is safe to cluster on; but since the addition of the amclusterable
flag, that usage is pretty redundant.

In passing, clean up assorted sloppiness from the last patch that touched
pg_am.h: Natts_pg_am was wrong, and ambuildempty was not documented.
2011-01-08 16:08:05 -05:00
Tom Lane 56a57473a9 Refactor GIN's handling of duplicate search entries.
The original coding could combine duplicate entries only when they
originated from the same qual condition.  In particular it could not
combine cases where multiple qual conditions all give rise to full-index
scan requests, which is an expensive case well worth optimizing.  Refactor
so that duplicates are recognized across all the quals.
2011-01-08 14:48:08 -05:00
Tom Lane a032d50128 Fix the built-in GIN support procedure declarations in pg_proc.h.
Add more "internal" arguments so that these pg_proc entries reflect the
current preferred API.  This is purely a cosmetic change, since GIN doesn't
actually consult the pg_proc entry when calling a support function.
Accordingly, no catversion bump.
2011-01-07 20:40:48 -05:00
Tom Lane 73912e7fbd Fix GIN to support null keys, empty and null items, and full index scans.
Per my recent proposal(s).  Null key datums can now be returned by
extractValue and extractQuery functions, and will be stored in the index.
Also, placeholder entries are made for indexable items that are NULL or
contain no keys according to extractValue.  This means that the index is
now always complete, having at least one entry for every indexed heap TID,
and so we can get rid of the prohibition on full-index scans.  A full-index
scan is implemented much the same way as partial-match scans were already:
we build a bitmap representing all the TIDs found in the index, and then
drive the results off that.

Also, introduce a concept of a "search mode" that can be requested by
extractQuery when the operator requires matching to empty items (this is
just as cheap as matching to a single key) or requires a full index scan
(which is not so cheap, but it sure beats failing or giving wrong answers).
The behavior remains backward compatible for opclasses that don't return
any null keys or request a non-default search mode.

Using these features, we can now make the GIN index opclass for anyarray
behave in a way that matches the actual anyarray operators for &&, <@, @>,
and = ... which it failed to do before in assorted corner cases.

This commit fixes the core GIN code and ginarrayprocs.c, updates the
documentation, and adds some simple regression test cases for the new
behaviors using the array operators.  The tsearch and contrib GIN opclass
support functions still need to be looked over and probably fixed.

Another thing I intend to fix separately is that this is pretty inefficient
for cases where more than one scan condition needs a full-index search:
we'll run duplicate GinScanEntrys, each one of which builds a large bitmap.
There is some existing logic to merge duplicate GinScanEntrys but it needs
refactoring to make it work for entries belonging to different scan keys.

Note that most of gin.h has been split out into a new file gin_private.h,
so that gin.h doesn't export anything that's not supposed to be used by GIN
opclasses or the rest of the backend.  I did quite a bit of other code
beautification work as well, mostly fixing comments and choosing more
appropriate names for things.
2011-01-07 19:16:24 -05:00
Robert Haas 9b4271deb9 Document pg_stat_replication, bump catversion since that was overlooked.
Itagaki Takahiro, edited by me.
2011-01-07 11:06:55 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro a755ea33ae New system view pg_stat_replication displays activity of wal sender processes.
Itagaki Takahiro and Simon Riggs.
2011-01-07 20:35:38 +09:00
Magnus Hagander 66a8a0428d Give superusers REPLIACTION permission by default
This can be overriden by using NOREPLICATION on the CREATE ROLE
statement, but by default they will have it, making it backwards
compatible and "less surprising" (given that superusers normally
override all checks).
2011-01-05 14:24:17 +01:00
Robert Haas 7f60be72b0 Fix crash in ALTER OPERATOR CLASS/FAMILY .. SET SCHEMA.
In the previous coding, the parser emitted a List containing a C string,
which is no good, because copyObject() can't handle it.

Dimitri Fontaine
2011-01-03 22:08:55 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 77745cc7f1 Bump catversion, forgot in previous commit. 2011-01-03 12:50:30 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 40d9e94bd7 Add views and functions to monitor hot standby query conflicts
Add the view pg_stat_database_conflicts and a column to pg_stat_database,
and the underlying functions to provide the information.
2011-01-03 12:46:03 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 39b8843296 Implement remaining fields of information_schema.sequences view
Add new function pg_sequence_parameters that returns a sequence's start,
minimum, maximum, increment, and cycle values, and use that in the view.
(bug #5662; design suggestion by Tom Lane)

Also slightly adjust the view's column order and permissions after review of
SQL standard.
2011-01-02 15:15:21 +02:00
Robert Haas 0d692a0dc9 Basic foreign table support.
Foreign tables are a core component of SQL/MED.  This commit does
not provide a working SQL/MED infrastructure, because foreign tables
cannot yet be queried.  Support for foreign table scans will need to
be added in a future patch.  However, this patch creates the necessary
system catalog structure, syntax support, and support for ancillary
operations such as COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL.

Shigeru Hanada, heavily revised by Robert Haas
2011-01-01 23:48:11 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 5d950e3b0c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 30aeda4394 Include the first valid listen address in pg_ctl to improve server start
"wait" detection and add postmaster start time to help determine if the
postmaster is actually using the specified data directory.
2010-12-31 17:25:02 -05:00
Tom Lane 7b46401557 Move symbols for ExecMergeJoin's state machine into nodeMergejoin.c.
There's no reason for these values to be known anywhere else.  After
doing this, executor/execdefs.h is vestigial and can be removed.
2010-12-30 22:12:40 -05:00
Tom Lane f4e4b32743 Support RIGHT and FULL OUTER JOIN in hash joins.
This is advantageous first because it allows us to hash the smaller table
regardless of the outer-join type, and second because hash join can be more
flexible than merge join in dealing with arbitrary join quals in a FULL
join.  For merge join all the join quals have to be mergejoinable, but hash
join will work so long as there's at least one hashjoinable qual --- the
others can be any condition.  (This is true essentially because we don't
keep per-inner-tuple match flags in merge join, while hash join can do so.)

To do this, we need a has-it-been-matched flag for each tuple in the
hashtable, not just one for the current outer tuple.  The key idea that
makes this practical is that we can store the match flag in the tuple's
infomask, since there are lots of bits there that are of no interest for a
MinimalTuple.  So we aren't increasing the size of the hashtable at all for
the feature.

To write this without turning the hash code into even more of a pile of
spaghetti than it already was, I rewrote ExecHashJoin in a state-machine
style, similar to ExecMergeJoin.  Other than that decision, it was pretty
straightforward.
2010-12-30 20:26:08 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 55573990ca Avoid unnecessary public struct declaration in slru.h
Instead, declare a public wrapper of the sole function using it for
external callers, so that they don't have to always pass a NULL
argument.

Author: Kevin Grittner
2010-12-30 12:09:17 -03:00
Robert Haas d2bc1c9907 Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.
The unlogged tables patch (commit 53dbc27c62,
2010-12-29) should have done this, since it changes the format of an
XLOG_SMGR_CREATE record.
2010-12-29 07:19:21 -05:00
Robert Haas 53dbc27c62 Support unlogged tables.
The contents of an unlogged table are WAL-logged; thus, they are not
available on standby servers and are truncated whenever the database
system enters recovery.  Indexes on unlogged tables are also unlogged.
Unlogged GiST indexes are not currently supported.
2010-12-29 06:48:53 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 9b8aff8c19 Add REPLICATION privilege for ROLEs
This privilege is required to do Streaming Replication, instead of
superuser, making it possible to set up a SR slave that doesn't
have write permissions on the master.

Superuser privileges do NOT override this check, so in order to
use the default superuser account for replication it must be
explicitly granted the REPLICATION permissions. This is backwards
incompatible change, in the interest of higher default security.
2010-12-29 11:05:03 +01:00
Tom Lane f2ba1e994c Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.
The "date" type supports a wider range of dates than int64 timestamps do.
However, there is pre-int64-timestamp code in the planner that assumes that
all date values can be converted to timestamp with impunity.  Fortunately,
what we really need out of the conversion is always a double (float8)
value; so even when the date is out of timestamp's range it's possible to
produce a sane answer.  All we need is a code path that doesn't try to
force the result into int64.  Per trouble report from David Rericha.

Back-patch to all supported versions.  Although this is surely a corner
case, there's not much point in advertising a date range wider than
timestamp's if we will choke on such values in unexpected places.
2010-12-28 22:49:57 -05:00
Tom Lane 84fc571395 Rename the C functions bitand(), bitor() to bit_and(), bit_or().
This is to avoid use of the C++ keywords "bitand" and "bitor" in
the header file utils/varbit.h.  Note the functions' SQL-level
names are not changed, only their C-level names.

In passing, make some comments in varbit.c conform to project-standard
layout.
2010-12-27 14:57:41 -05:00
Tom Lane 37b61a69f3 Fix failure of executor/hashjoin.h to compile standalone.
Noted while experimenting with cpluspluscheck.
2010-12-27 12:20:09 -05:00
Tom Lane 275411912d Fix ill-chosen use of "private" as an argument and struct field name.
"private" is a keyword in C++, so this breaks the poorly-enforced policy
that header files should be include-able in C++ code.  Per report from
Craig Ringer and some investigation with cpluspluscheck.
2010-12-27 11:26:19 -05:00
Robert Haas 63676ebff4 Corrections to patch adding SQL/MED error codes.
My previous commit, 85cff3ce7f on
2010-12-25, failed to update errcodes.sgml or plerrcodes.h.  This patch
corrects that oversight, per a gripe from Tom Lane, and also corrects
a typographical error.
2010-12-26 21:35:25 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan a534728afb Only build in crashdump support on Windows if there's a working dbghelp.h. 2010-12-26 10:34:47 -05:00
Robert Haas 85cff3ce7f Add foreign data wrapper error code values for SQL/MED.
Extracted from a much larger patch by Shigeru Hanada.
2010-12-25 13:57:39 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9de3aa65f0 Rewrite the GiST insertion logic so that we don't need the post-recovery
cleanup stage to finish incomplete inserts or splits anymore. There was two
reasons for the cleanup step:

1. When a new tuple was inserted to a leaf page, the downlink in the parent
needed to be updated to contain (ie. to be consistent with) the new key.
Updating the parent in turn might require recursively updating the parent of
the parent. We now handle that by updating the parent while traversing down
the tree, so that when we insert the leaf tuple, all the parents are already
consistent with the new key, and the tree is consistent at every step.

2. When a page is split, we need to insert the downlink for the new right
page(s), and update the downlink for the original page to not include keys
that moved to the right page(s). We now handle that by setting a new flag,
F_FOLLOW_RIGHT, on the non-rightmost pages in the split. When that flag is
set, scans always follow the rightlink, regardless of the NSN mechanism used
to detect concurrent page splits. That way the tree is consistent right after
split, even though the downlink is still missing. This is very similar to the
way B-tree splits are handled. When the downlink is inserted in the parent,
the flag is cleared. To keep the insertion algorithm simple, when an
insertion sees an incomplete split, indicated by the F_FOLLOW_RIGHT flag, it
finishes the split before doing anything else.

These changes allow removing the whole "invalid tuple" mechanism, but I
retained the scan code to still follow invalid tuples correctly. While we
don't create any such tuples anymore, we want to handle them gracefully in
case you pg_upgrade a GiST index that has them. If we encounter any on an
insert, though, we just throw an error saying that you need to REINDEX.

The issue that got me into doing this is that if you did a checkpoint while
an insert or split was in progress, and the checkpoint finishes quickly so
that there is no WAL record related to the insert between RedoRecPtr and the
checkpoint record, recovery from that checkpoint would not know to finish
the incomplete insert. IOW, we have the same issue we solved with the
rm_safe_restartpoint mechanism during normal operation too. It's highly
unlikely to happen in practice, and this fix is far too large to backpatch,
so we're just going to live with in previous versions, but this refactoring
fixes it going forward.

With this patch, you don't get the annoying
'index "FOO" needs VACUUM or REINDEX to finish crash recovery' notices
anymore if you crash at an unfortunate moment.
2010-12-23 16:21:47 +02:00
Magnus Hagander dcb09b595f Support for collecting crash dumps on Windows
Add support for collecting "minidump" style crash dumps on
Windows, by setting up an exception handling filter. Crash
dumps will be generated in PGDATA/crashdumps if the directory
is created (the existance of the directory is used as on/off
switch for the generation of the dumps).

Craig Ringer and Magnus Hagander
2010-12-19 16:45:28 +01:00
Tom Lane 61b53695fb Remove optreset from src/port/ implementations of getopt and getopt_long.
We don't actually need optreset, because we can easily fix the code to
ensure that it's cleanly restartable after having completed a scan over the
argv array; which is the only case we need to restart in.  Getting rid of
it avoids a class of interactions with the system libraries and allows
reversion of my change of yesterday in postmaster.c and postgres.c.

Back-patch to 8.4.  Before that the getopt code was a bit different anyway.
2010-12-16 16:23:05 -05:00
Itagaki Takahiro 03db44eae3 Add pg_read_binary_file() and whole-file-at-once versions of pg_read_file().
One of the usages of the binary version is to read files in a different
encoding from the server encoding.

Dimitri Fontaine and Itagaki Takahiro.
2010-12-16 06:56:28 +09:00
Robert Haas 34c70c7ac4 Instrument checkpoint sync calls.
Greg Smith, reviewed by Jeff Janes
2010-12-14 09:26:19 -05:00
Robert Haas d368e1a2a7 Allow plugins to suppress inlining and hook function entry/exit/abort.
This is intended as infrastructure to allow an eventual SE-Linux plugin to
support trusted procedures.

KaiGai Kohei
2010-12-13 19:15:53 -05:00
Robert Haas 5f7b58fad8 Generalize concept of temporary relations to "relation persistence".
This commit replaces pg_class.relistemp with pg_class.relpersistence;
and also modifies the RangeVar node type to carry relpersistence rather
than istemp.  It also removes removes rd_istemp from RelationData and
instead performs the correct computation based on relpersistence.

For clarity, we add three new macros: RelationNeedsWAL(),
RelationUsesLocalBuffers(), and RelationUsesTempNamespace(), so that we
can clarify the purpose of each check that previous depended on
rd_istemp.

This is intended as infrastructure for the upcoming unlogged tables
patch, as well as for future possible work on global temporary tables.
2010-12-13 12:34:26 -05:00
Tom Lane 5132ad8bdf Make S_IRGRP etc available in mingw builds as well as MSVC.
(Hm, I wonder whether BCC defines them either...)

Also label dangling endifs a bit better in this area.
2010-12-12 13:43:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 1319002e2e Provide a complete set of file-permission-bit macros in win32.h.
My previous patch exposed the fact that we didn't have these.  Those
hard-wired octal constants were actually wrong on Windows, not just
inconsistent.
2010-12-11 13:11:18 -05:00
Robert Haas d3d414696f Allow bidirectional copy messages in streaming replication mode.
Fujii Masao.  Review by Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, and myself.
2010-12-11 09:27:37 -05:00
Tom Lane 671199929d Move a couple of initdb's subroutines into src/port/.
mkdir_p and check_data_dir will be useful in CREATE TABLESPACE, since we
have agreed that that command should handle subdirectory creation just like
initdb creates the PGDATA directory.  Push them into src/port/ so that they
are available to both initdb and the backend.  Rename to pg_mkdir_p and
pg_check_dir, just to be on the safe side.  Add FreeBSD's copyright notice
to pgmkdirp.c, since that's where the code came from originally (this
really should have been in initdb.c).  Very marginal code/comment cleanup.
2010-12-10 19:42:44 -05:00
Tom Lane 576477e73c Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to
believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas
formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux.  open_datasync is a bad
choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact
the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing
failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option).
This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp.
More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much
change as we want to back-patch.

Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the
fsync_writethrough option.  Those changes shouldn't result in any actual
behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the
branches looking similar in this area.

In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability
documentation section.

Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used
on modern Linux versions.
2010-12-08 20:01:09 -05:00
Simon Riggs e620ee35b2 Optimize commit_siblings in two ways to improve group commit.
First, avoid scanning the whole ProcArray once we know there
are at least commit_siblings active; second, skip the check
altogether if commit_siblings = 0.

Greg Smith
2010-12-08 18:48:03 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5a031a5556 Fix bugs in the hot standby known-assigned-xids tracking logic. If there's
an old transaction running in the master, and a lot of transactions have
started and finished since, and a WAL-record is written in the gap between
the creating the running-xacts snapshot and WAL-logging it, recovery will fail
with "too many KnownAssignedXids" error. This bug was reported by
Joachim Wieland on Nov 19th.

In the same scenario, when fewer transactions have started so that all the
xids fit in KnownAssignedXids despite the first bug, a more serious bug
arises. We incorrectly initialize the clog code with the oldest still running
transaction, and when we see the WAL record belonging to a transaction with
an XID larger than one that committed already before the checkpoint we're
recovering from, we zero the clog page containing the already committed
transaction, leading to data loss.

In hindsight, trying to track xids in the known-assigned-xids array before
seeing the running-xacts record was too complicated. To fix that, hold
XidGenLock while the running-xacts snapshot is taken and WAL-logged. That
ensures that no transaction can begin or end in that gap, so that in recvoery
we know that the snapshot contains all transactions running at that point in
WAL.
2010-12-07 09:23:30 +01:00
Tom Lane e194a942f9 Update comment to match later code changes. 2010-12-04 03:21:49 -05:00
Tom Lane 554506871b KNNGIST, otherwise known as order-by-operator support for GIST.
This commit represents a rather heavily editorialized version of
Teodor's builtin_knngist_itself-0.8.2 and builtin_knngist_proc-0.8.1
patches.  I redid the opclass API to add a separate Distance method
instead of turning the Consistent method into an illogical mess,
fixed some bit-rot in the rbtree interfaces, and generally worked over
the code style and comments.

There's still no non-code documentation to speak of, but I'll work on
that separately.  Some contrib-module changes are also yet to come
(right now, point <-> point is the only KNN-ified operator).

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2010-12-03 20:53:29 -05:00
Robert Haas 970a18687f Use GUC lexer for recovery.conf parsing.
This eliminates some crufty, special-purpose code and, as a non-trivial
side benefit, allows recovery.conf parameters to be unquoted.

Dimitri Fontaine, with review and cleanup by Alvaro Herrera, Itagaki
Takahiro, and me.
2010-12-03 08:56:44 -05:00
Tom Lane d583f10b7e Create core infrastructure for KNNGIST.
This is a heavily revised version of builtin_knngist_core-0.9.  The
ordering operators are no longer mixed in with actual quals, which would
have confused not only humans but significant parts of the planner.
Instead, ordering operators are carried separately throughout planning and
execution.

Since the API for ambeginscan and amrescan functions had to be changed
anyway, this commit takes the opportunity to rationalize that a bit.
RelationGetIndexScan no longer forces a premature index_rescan call;
instead, callers of index_beginscan must call index_rescan too.  Aside from
making the AM-side initialization logic a bit less peculiar, this has the
advantage that we do not make a useless extra am_rescan call when there are
runtime key values.  AMs formerly could not assume that the key values
passed to amrescan were actually valid; now they can.

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2010-12-02 20:51:37 -05:00
Tom Lane c0b5fac701 Simplify and speed up mapping of index opfamilies to pathkeys.
Formerly we looked up the operators associated with each index (caching
them in relcache) and then the planner looked up the btree opfamily
containing such operators in order to build the btree-centric pathkey
representation that describes the index's sort order.  This is quite
pointless for btree indexes: we might as well just use the index's opfamily
information directly.  That saves syscache lookup cycles during planning,
and furthermore allows us to eliminate the relcache's caching of operators
altogether, which may help in reducing backend startup time.

I added code to plancat.c to perform the same type of double lookup
on-the-fly if it's ever faced with a non-btree amcanorder index AM.
If such a thing actually becomes interesting for production, we should
replace that logic with some more-direct method for identifying the
corresponding btree opfamily; but it's not worth spending effort on now.

There is considerably more to do pursuant to my recent proposal to get rid
of sort-operator-based representations of sort orderings, but this patch
grabs some of the low-hanging fruit.  I'll look at the remainder of that
work after the current commitfest.
2010-11-29 12:30:43 -05:00
Simon Riggs ed78384acd Move call to GetTopTransactionId() earlier in LockAcquire(),
removing an infrequently occurring race condition in Hot Standby.
An xid must be assigned before a lock appears in shared memory,
rather than immediately after, else GetRunningTransactionLocks()
may see InvalidTransactionId, causing assertion failures during
lock processing on standby.

Bug report and diagnosis by Fujii Masao, fix by me.
2010-11-29 01:08:02 +00:00
Robert Haas 55109313f9 Add more ALTER <object> .. SET SCHEMA commands.
This adds support for changing the schema of a conversion, operator,
operator class, operator family, text search configuration, text search
dictionary, text search parser, or text search template.

Dimitri Fontaine, with assorted corrections and other kibitzing.
2010-11-26 17:31:54 -05:00
Robert Haas cc1ed40d57 Object access hook framework, with post-creation hook.
After a SQL object is created, we provide an opportunity for security
or logging plugins to get control; for example, a security label provider
could use this to assign an initial security label to newly created
objects.  The basic infrastructure is (hopefully) reusable for other types
of events that might require similar treatment.

KaiGai Kohei, with minor adjustments.
2010-11-25 11:50:13 -05:00
Bruce Momjian ba11258ccb When reporting the server as not responding, if the hostname was
supplied, also print the IP address.  This allows IPv4 and IPv6 failures
to be distinguished.  Also useful when a hostname resolves to multiple
IP addresses.

Also, remove use of inet_ntoa() and use our own inet_net_ntop() in all
places, including in libpq, because it is thread-safe.
2010-11-24 17:04:19 -05:00
Tom Lane 725d52d0c2 Create the system catalog infrastructure needed for KNNGIST.
This commit adds columns amoppurpose and amopsortfamily to pg_amop, and
column amcanorderbyop to pg_am.  For the moment all the entries in
amcanorderbyop are "false", since the underlying support isn't there yet.

Also, extend the CREATE OPERATOR CLASS/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands with
[ FOR SEARCH | FOR ORDER BY sort_operator_family ] clauses to allow the new
columns of pg_amop to be populated, and create pg_dump support for dumping
that information.

I also added some documentation, although it's perhaps a bit premature
given that the feature doesn't do anything useful yet.

Teodor Sigaev, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
2010-11-24 14:22:17 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut f2a4278330 Propagate ALTER TYPE operations to typed tables
This adds RESTRICT/CASCADE flags to ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/
RENAME ATTRIBUTE to control whether to alter typed tables as well.
2010-11-23 22:50:17 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut fc946c39ae Remove useless whitespace at end of lines 2010-11-23 22:34:55 +02:00
Robert Haas 44475e782f Centralize some ALTER <whatever> .. SET SCHEMA checks.
Any flavor of ALTER <whatever> .. SET SCHEMA fails if (1) the object
is already in the new schema, (2) either the old or new schema is
a temp schema, or (3) either the old or new schema is the TOAST schema.

Extraced from a patch by Dimitri Fontaine, with additional hacking by me.
2010-11-22 19:53:34 -05:00
Robert Haas 506070be34 Bump catversion. Should have done this as part of format(text) patch. 2010-11-21 06:34:42 -05:00
Robert Haas 7504870778 Add new SQL function, format(text).
Currently, three conversion format specifiers are supported: %s for a
string, %L for an SQL literal, and %I for an SQL identifier.  The latter
two are deliberately designed not to overlap with what sprintf() already
supports, in case we want to add more of sprintf()'s functionality here
later.

Patch by Pavel Stehule, heavily revised by me.  Reviewed by Jeff Janes
and, in earlier versions, by Itagaki Takahiro and Tom Lane.
2010-11-20 22:33:27 -05:00
Tom Lane 89a368418c Further cleanup of indxpath logic related to IndexOptInfo.opfamily array.
We no longer need the terminating zero entry in opfamily[], so get rid of
it.  Also replace assorted ad-hoc looping logic with simple for and foreach
constructs.  This code is now noticeably more readable than it was an hour
ago; credit to Robert for seeing that it could be simplified.
2010-11-20 15:07:16 -05:00
Robert Haas 4343c0e546 Expose quote_literal_cstr() from core.
This eliminates the need for inefficient implementions of this
functionality in both contrib/dblink and contrib/tablefunc, so remove
them.  The upcoming patch implementing an in-core format() function
will also require this functionality.

In passing, add some regression tests.
2010-11-20 10:04:48 -05:00
Robert Haas 4fc115b2e9 Speed up conversion of signed integers to C strings.
A hand-coded implementation turns out to be much faster than calling
printf().  In passing, add a few more regresion tests.

Andres Freund, with assorted, mostly cosmetic changes.
2010-11-19 22:13:11 -05:00