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Andrew Dunstan af25bc03e1 Provide an extra-float-digits setting for pg_dump / pg_dumpall
Changes made by commit 02ddd49 mean that dumps made against pre version
12 instances are no longer comparable with those made against version 12
or later instances. This makes cross-version upgrade testing fail in the
buildfarm. Experimentation has shown that the error is cured if the
dumps are made when extra_float_digits is set to 0. Hence this patch
allows for it to be explicitly set rather than relying on pg_dump's
builtin default (3 in almost all cases). This feature might have other
uses, but should not normally be used.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c76f7051-8fd3-ec10-7579-1f8842305b85@2ndQuadrant.com
2019-02-18 07:37:07 -05:00
Michael Meskes 8e6ab9f801 Properly end string to make sure ecpglib does not read beyond its boundaries. 2019-02-18 12:52:53 +01:00
Michael Meskes e81f0e3113 Sync ECPG's CREATE TABLE AS statement with backend's.
Author: Higuchi-san ("Higuchi, Daisuke" <higuchi.daisuke@jp.fujitsu.com>)
2019-02-18 11:57:34 +01:00
Michael Meskes 050710b369 Add bytea datatype to ECPG.
So far ECPG programs had to treat binary data for bytea column as 'char' type.
But this meant converting from/to escaped format with PQunescapeBytea/
PQescapeBytea() and therefore forcing users to add unnecessary code and cost
for the conversion in runtime. By adding a dedicated datatype for bytea most of
this special handling is no longer needed.

Author: Matsumura-san ("Matsumura, Ryo" <matsumura.ryo@jp.fujitsu.com>)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/03040DFF97E6E54E88D3BFEE5F5480F737A141F9@G01JPEXMBYT04
2019-02-18 10:20:31 +01:00
Etsuro Fujita 3fdc374b5d Save PathTargets for distinct/ordered relations in root->upper_targets[].
For the convenience of extensions, we previously only saved PathTargets
for grouped, window, and final relations in root->upper_targets[] in
grouping_planner().  To improve the convenience, save PathTargets for
distinct and ordered relations as well.

Author: Antonin Houska, with an additional change by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10994.1549559088@localhost
2019-02-18 16:13:46 +09:00
Michael Paquier a916bdc496 Fix some issues with TAP tests of pg_basebackup and pg_verify_checksums
ee9e145 has fixed the tests of pg_basebackup for checksums a first time,
still one seek() call missed the shot.  Also, the data written in files
to emulate corruptions was not actually writing zeros as the quoting
style was incorrect.

Backpatch the portion for pg_basebackup to v11 where these tests have
been introduced.  The tests of pg_verify_checksums are new as of v12.

Author: Michael Banck
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1550153276.796.35.camel@credativ.de
Backpatch-through: 11
2019-02-18 14:23:30 +09:00
Michael Paquier f0cce9fcb5 Fix typo in transam.h for OIDs assigned by genbki.pl
The actual range of reserved OIDs in this case is [11000,11999] and not
[11000,12000].

Author: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGV5StmK-inxbmrf0nLbBGeaAKnjnqxXmk+4ufeav8JMSA@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-18 12:44:25 +09:00
Michael Paquier 0dd6ff0ac8 Avoid some unnecessary block reads in WAL reader
When reading a new page internally and depending on the way the WAL
reader facility gets used by plugins, the current implementation of the
WAL reader may finish by reading a block multiple times while it is not
actually necessary as the requested data length may be equal to what has
been already read.  This can happen for any size, but is more likely to
happen at the end of a page.  This can cause performance penalties in
plugins which rely on the block reads to be purely sequential, zlib not
liking backward reads for example.  The new behavior also shaves some
cycles when doing recovery.

Author: Arthur Zakirov
Reviewed-by: Andrey Lepikhov, Michael Paquier, Grigory Smolkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddf4a32-517e-d6f4-d992-4a63b6035bfd@postgrespro.ru
2019-02-18 09:52:02 +09:00
Thomas Munro 0b55aaacec Fix race in dsm_unpin_segment() when handles are reused.
Teach dsm_unpin_segment() to skip segments that are in the process
of being destroyed by another backend, when searching for a handle.
Such a segment cannot possibly be the one we are looking for, even
if its handle matches.  Another slot might hold a recently created
segment that has the same handle value by coincidence, and we need
to keep searching for that one.

The bug caused rare "cannot unpin a segment that is not pinned"
errors on 10 and 11.  Similar to commit 6c0fb941 for dsm_attach().

Back-patch to 10, where dsm_unpin_segment() landed.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Tested-by: Justin Pryzby (along with other recent DSA/DSM fixes)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190216023854.GF30291@telsasoft.com
2019-02-18 09:58:29 +13:00
Joe Conway bc6d7eb689 Fix documentation for dblink_error_message() return value
The dblink documentation claims that an empty string is returned if there
has been no error, however OK is actually returned in that case. Also,
clarify that an async error may not be seen unless dblink_is_busy() or
dblink_get_result() have been called first.

Backpatch to all supported branches.

Reported-by: realyota
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153371978486.1298.2091761143788088262@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2019-02-17 13:17:34 -05:00
Tom Lane a32ca78836 Fix CREATE VIEW to allow zero-column views.
We should logically have allowed this case when we allowed zero-column
tables, but it was overlooked.

Although this might be thought a feature addition, it's really a bug
fix, because it was possible to create a zero-column view via
the convert-table-to-view code path, and then you'd have a situation
where dump/reload would fail.  Hence, back-patch to all supported
branches.

Arrange the added test cases to provide coverage of the related
pg_dump code paths (since these views will be dumped and reloaded
during the pg_upgrade regression test).  I also made them test
the case where pg_dump has to postpone the view rule into post-data,
which disturbingly had no regression coverage before.

Report and patch by Ashutosh Sharma (test case by me)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0PkmHdeSaeZt2ujnb_cKucmK3sDDceDzw7+d5UZoNJPYOg@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-17 12:37:31 -05:00
Joe Conway 290e3b77fd Mark pg_config() stable rather than immutable
pg_config() has been marked immutable since its inception. As part of a
larger discussion around the definition of immutable versus stable and
related implications for marking functions parallel safe raised by
Andres, the consensus was clearly that pg_config() is stable, since
it could possibly change output even for the same minor version with
a recompile or installation of a new binary. So mark it stable.

Theoretically this could/should be backpatched, but it was deemed to be not
worth the effort since in practice this is very unlikely to cause problems
in the real world.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181126234521.rh3grz7aavx2ubjv@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-02-17 09:21:13 -05:00
Tatsuo Ishii 69e5247879 Doc: remove ancient comment.
There's a very old comment in rules.sgml added back to 2003.  It
expected to a feature coming back but it never happened. So now we can
safely remove the comment. Back-patched to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190211.191004.219630835457494660.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp
2019-02-17 20:23:10 +09:00
Noah Misch 301de4f7d9 Fix CLogTruncationLock documentation.
Back-patch to v10, which introduced the lock.
2019-02-17 00:51:11 -08:00
Noah Misch faee6fae6d Suppress another case of MSVC warning 4146. 2019-02-16 15:28:27 -08:00
Noah Misch 04a87ae262 In imath.h, replace stdint.h usage with c.h equivalents.
As things stood, buildfarm member dory failed.  MSVC versions lacking
stdint.h are unusable for building PostgreSQL, but pg_config.h.win32
doesn't know that.  Even so, we support other systems lacking stdint.h,
including buildfarm member gaur.  Per a suggestion from Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9598.1550353336@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-16 15:28:27 -08:00
Andrew Gierth 6ee89952d4 Remove float8-small-is-zero regression test variant.
Since this was also the variant used as an example in the docs, update
the docs to use float4-misrounded-input as an example instead, since
that is now the only remaining variant file.
2019-02-16 22:11:04 +00:00
Noah Misch 48e24ba6b7 Import changes from IMath versions (1.3, 1.29].
Upstream fixed bugs over the years, but none are confirmed to have
affected pgcrypto.  We're better off naively tracking upstream than
reactively maintaining a twelve-year-old snapshot of upstream.  Add a
header comment describing the synchronization procedure.  Discard use of
INVERT_COMPARE_RESULT(); the domain of the comparisons in question is
{-1,0,1}, controlled entirely by code in imath.c.

Andrew Gierth reviewed the Makefile change.  Tom Lane reviewed the
synchronization procedure description.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190203035704.GA6226@rfd.leadboat.com
2019-02-16 13:12:28 -08:00
Noah Misch d1299aabbd Fix PERMIT_DECLARATION_AFTER_STATEMENT initialization.
The defect caused a mere warning and only for gcc versions before 3.4.0.
2019-02-16 13:12:28 -08:00
Tom Lane 608b167f9f Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.
Historically we've always materialized the full output of a CTE query,
treating WITH as an optimization fence (so that, for example, restrictions
from the outer query cannot be pushed into it).  This is appropriate when
the CTE query is INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, or is recursive; but when the CTE
query is non-recursive and side-effect-free, there's no hazard of changing
the query results by pushing restrictions down.

Another argument for materialization is that it can avoid duplicate
computation of an expensive WITH query --- but that only applies if
the WITH query is called more than once in the outer query.  Even then
it could still be a net loss, if each call has restrictions that
would allow just a small part of the WITH query to be computed.

Hence, let's change the behavior for WITH queries that are non-recursive
and side-effect-free.  By default, we will inline them into the outer
query (removing the optimization fence) if they are called just once.
If they are called more than once, we will keep the old behavior by
default, but the user can override this and force inlining by specifying
NOT MATERIALIZED.  Lastly, the user can force the old behavior by
specifying MATERIALIZED; this would mainly be useful when the query had
deliberately been employing WITH as an optimization fence to prevent a
poor choice of plan.

Andreas Karlsson, Andrew Gierth, David Fetter

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sh48ffhb.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2019-02-16 16:11:12 -05:00
Andrew Gierth 79730e2a9b Fix previous MinGW fix.
Definitions required for MinGW need to be outside #if _MSC_VER. Oops.
2019-02-16 15:23:02 +00:00
Michael Meskes bd7c95f0c1 Add DECLARE STATEMENT support to ECPG.
DECLARE STATEMENT is a statement that lets users declare an identifier
pointing at a connection.  This identifier will be used in other embedded
dynamic SQL statement such as PREPARE, EXECUTE, DECLARE CURSOR and so on.
When connecting to a non-default connection, the AT clause can be used in
a DECLARE STATEMENT once and is no longer needed in every dynamic SQL
statement.  This makes ECPG applications easier and more efficient.  Moreover,
writing code without designating connection explicitly improves portability.

Authors: Ideriha-san ("Ideriha, Takeshi" <ideriha.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com>)
         Kuroda-san ("Kuroda, Hayato" <kuroda.hayato@jp.fujitsu.com>)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m4E72940DA2BF16479384A86D54D0988A565669DF@G01JPEXMBKW04
2019-02-16 11:05:54 +01:00
Tom Lane 02a6a54ecd Make use of compiler builtins and/or assembly for CLZ, CTZ, POPCNT.
Test for the compiler builtins __builtin_clz, __builtin_ctz, and
__builtin_popcount, and make use of these in preference to
handwritten C code if they're available.  Create src/port
infrastructure for "leftmost one", "rightmost one", and "popcount"
so as to centralize these decisions.

On x86_64, __builtin_popcount generally won't make use of the POPCNT
opcode because that's not universally supported yet.  Provide code
that checks CPUID and then calls POPCNT via asm() if available.
This requires indirecting through a function pointer, which is
an annoying amount of overhead for a one-instruction operation,
but it's probably not worth working harder than this for our
current use-cases.

I'm not sure we've found all the existing places that could profit
from this new infrastructure; but we at least touched all the
ones that used copied-and-pasted versions of the bitmapset.c code,
and got rid of multiple copies of the associated constant arrays.

While at it, replace c-compiler.m4's one-per-builtin-function
macros with a single one that can handle all the cases we need
to worry about so far.  Also, because I'm paranoid, make those
checks into AC_LINK checks rather than just AC_COMPILE; the
former coding failed to verify that libgcc has support for the
builtin, in cases where it's not inline code.

David Rowley, Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9WTAGG1tPeJnD18hiQW5gAk59fQ6WK-vfdAKEHyRg2RA@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-15 23:22:33 -05:00
Andrew Gierth 72880ac182 Cygwin and Mingw floating-point fixes.
Deal with silent-underflow errors in float4 for cygwin and mingw by
using our strtof() wrapper; deal with misrounding errors by adding
them to the resultmap. Some slight reorganization of declarations was
done to avoid duplicating material between cygwin.h and win32_port.h.

While here, remove from the resultmap all references to
float8-small-is-zero; inspection of cygwin output suggests it's no
longer required there, and the freebsd/netbsd/openbsd entries should
no longer be necessary (these date back to c. 2000). This commit
doesn't remove the file itself nor the documentation references for
it; that will happen in a subsequent commit if all goes well.
2019-02-16 01:50:16 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 457aef0f1f Revert attempts to use POPCNT etc instructions
This reverts commits fc6c72747a, 109de05cbb, d0b4663c23 and
711bab1e4d.

Somebody will have to try harder before submitting this patch again.
I've spent entirely too much time on it already, and the #ifdef maze yet
to be written in order for it to build at all got on my nerves.  The
amount of work needed to get a platform-specific performance improvement
that's barely above the noise level is not worth it.
2019-02-15 16:32:30 -03:00
Tom Lane e89f14e2bb Refactor index cost estimation functions in view of IndexClause changes.
Get rid of deconstruct_indexquals() in favor of just iterating over the
IndexClause list directly.  The extra services that that function used to
provide, such as hiding clause commutation and associating the right index
column with each clause, are no longer useful given the new data structure.
I'd originally thought that it'd provide a useful amount of abstraction
by freeing callers from paying attention to the exact clause type of each
indexqual, but that hope proves to have been vain, because few callers can
ignore the semantic differences between different clause types.  Indeed,
removing it results in a net code savings, and probably some cycles shaved
by not having to build an extra list-of-structs data structure.

Also, export a few formerly-static support functions, with the goal
of allowing extension AMs to write functionality equivalent to
genericcostestimate() without pointless code duplication.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24586.1550106354@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-15 13:05:19 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera fc6c72747a Fix compiler builtin usage in new pg_bitutils.c
Split out these new functions in three parts: one in a new file that
uses the compiler builtin and gets compiled with the -mpopcnt compiler
option if it exists; another one that uses the compiler builtin but not
the compiler option; and finally the fallback with open-coded
algorithms.

Split out the configure logic: in the original commit, it was selecting
to use the -mpopcnt compiler switch together with deciding whether to
use the compiler builtin, but those two things are really separate.
Split them out.  Also, expose whether the builtin exists to
Makefile.global, so that src/port's Makefile can decide whether to
compile the hw-optimized file.

Remove CPUID test for CTZ/CLZ.  Make pg_{right,left}most_ones use either
the compiler intrinsic or open-coded algo; trying to use the
HW-optimized version is a waste of time.  Make them static inline
functions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190213221719.GA15976@alvherre.pgsql
2019-02-15 13:39:56 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut b060e6c1f5 doc: Update README.links
The guideline to "not use text with <ulink> so the URL appears in
printed output" is obsolete, since the URL appears as a footnote in
printed output in that case.

Reported-by: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5C4B1F2F.2000106@anastigmatix.net
2019-02-15 17:29:41 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 8f27a14b1b Use standard diff separator for regression.diffs
Instead of ======..., use the standard separator for a multi-file
diff, which is, per POSIX,

    "diff %s %s %s\n", <diff_options>, <filename1>, <filename2>

This makes regression.diffs behave more like a proper diff file, for
use with other tools.  And it shows the diff options used, for
clarity.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/70440c81-37bb-76dd-e48b-b5a9550d5613@2ndquadrant.com
2019-02-15 15:09:50 +01:00
Michael Paquier 331a613e9d Fix support for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS AS EXECUTE
The grammar IF NOT EXISTS for CTAS is supported since 9.5 and documented
as such, however the case of using EXECUTE as query has never been
covered as EXECUTE CTAS statements and normal CTAS statements are parsed
separately.

Author: Andreas Karlsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddcc188-e37c-a0be-32bf-a56b07c3559e@proxel.se
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2019-02-15 17:12:24 +09:00
Thomas Munro 6c0fb94189 Fix race in dsm_attach() when handles are reused.
DSM handle values can be reused as soon as the underlying shared memory
object has been destroyed.  That means that for a brief moment we
might have two DSM slots with the same handle.  While trying to attach,
if we encounter a slot with refcnt == 1, meaning that it is currently
being destroyed, we should continue our search in case the same handle
exists in another slot.

The race manifested as a rare "dsa_area could not attach to segment"
error, and was more likely in 10 and 11 due to the lack of distinct
seed for random() in parallel workers.  It was made very unlikely in
in master by commit 197e4af9, and older releases don't usually create
new DSM segments in background workers so it was also unlikely there.

This fixes the root cause of bug report #15585, in which the error
could also sometimes result in a self-deadlock in the error path.
It's not yet clear if further changes are needed to avoid that failure
mode.

Back-patch to 9.4, where dsm.c arrived.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190207014719.GJ29720@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15585-324ff6a93a18da46@postgresql.org
2019-02-15 14:05:09 +13:00
Tom Lane 8fd3fdd85a Simplify the planner's new representation of indexable clauses a little.
In commit 1a8d5afb0, I thought it'd be a good idea to define
IndexClause.indexquals as NIL in the most common case where the given
clause (IndexClause.rinfo) is usable exactly as-is.  It'd be more
consistent to define the indexquals in that case as being a one-element
list containing IndexClause.rinfo, but I thought saving the palloc
overhead for making such a list would be worthwhile.

In hindsight, that was a great example of "premature optimization is the
root of all evil": it's complicated everyplace that needs to deal with
the indexquals, requiring duplicative code to handle both the simple
case and the not-simple case.  I'd initially found that tolerable but
it's getting less so as I mop up some areas that I'd not touched in
1a8d5afb0.  In any case, two more pallocs during a planner run are
surely at the noise level (a conclusion confirmed by a bit of
microbenchmarking).  So let's change this decision before it becomes
set in stone, and insist that IndexClause.indexquals always be a valid
list of the actual index quals for the clause.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24586.1550106354@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-14 19:37:30 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 86eea78694 Get rid of another unconstify through API changes
This also makes the code in read_client_first_message() more similar
to read_client_final_message().

Reported-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/53a28052-f9f3-1808-fed9-460fd43035ab%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-14 20:44:47 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 4b3b07fd5d Resolve one unconstify use
A small API change makes it unnecessary.

Reported-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/53a28052-f9f3-1808-fed9-460fd43035ab%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-14 17:00:25 +01:00
Tom Lane 49fa99e54e Move pattern selectivity code from selfuncs.c to like_support.c.
While at it, refactor patternsel() a bit so that it can be used from
the LIKE/regex planner support functions as well.  This makes the
planner able to deal equally well with either operator or function
syntax for these operations.  I'm not excited about that as a feature
in itself, but it provides a nice model for extensions to follow if
they want such behavior for their operations.

This change localizes the use of pattern_fixed_prefix() and
make_greater_string() so that they no longer need be exported.
(We might get pushback from extensions about that, perhaps,
in which case I'd be inclined to re-export them in a new header
file like_support.h.)

This reduces the bulk of selfuncs.c a fair amount, removing ~1370
lines or about one-sixth of that file; it's still too big, but this
is progress.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24537.1550093915@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-14 10:51:59 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 109de05cbb Fix portability issues in pg_bitutils
We were using uint64 function arguments as "long int" arguments to
compiler builtins, which fails on machines where long ints are 32 bits:
the upper half of the uint64 was being ignored.  Fix by using the "ll"
builtin variants instead, which on those machines take 64 bit arguments.

Also, remove configure tests for __builtin_popcountl() (as well as
"long" variants for ctz and clz): the theory here is that any compiler
version will provide all widths or none, so one test suffices.  Were
this theory to be wrong, we'd have to add tests for
__builtin_popcountll() and friends, which would be tedious.

Per failures in buildfarm member lapwing and ensuing discussion.
2019-02-13 20:09:48 -03:00
Andrew Gierth 80c468b4a4 Remove a stray subnormal value from float tests.
We don't care to assume that input of subnormal float values works,
but a stray subnormal value from the upstream Ryu regression test had
been left in the test data by mistake. Remove it.

Per buildfarm member fulmar.
2019-02-13 20:42:57 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera d0b4663c23 Add -mpopcnt to all compiles of pg_bitutils.c
The way this makefile works, we need to specify it three times.
2019-02-13 17:39:05 -03:00
Andrew Gierth da6520be7f More float test and portability fixes.
Avoid assuming exact results in tstypes test; some platforms vary.
(per buildfarm members eulachon, danio, lapwing)

Avoid dubious usage (inherited from upstream) of bool parameters to
copy_special_str, to see if this fixes the mac/ppc failures (per
buildfarm members prariedog and locust). (Isolated test programs on a
ppc mac don't seem to show any other cause that would explain them.)
2019-02-13 19:35:50 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 711bab1e4d Add basic support for using the POPCNT and SSE4.2s LZCNT opcodes
These opcodes have been around in the AMD world since 2007, and 2008 in
the case of intel.  They're supported in GCC and Clang via some __builtin
macros.  The opcodes may be unavailable during runtime, in which case we
fall back on a C-based implementation of the code.  In order to get the
POPCNT instruction we must pass the -mpopcnt option to the compiler.  We
do this only for the pg_bitutils.c file.

David Rowley (with fragments taken from a patch by Thomas Munro)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9WTAGG1tPeJnD18hiQW5gAk59fQ6WK-vfdAKEHyRg2RA@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-13 16:10:06 -03:00
Andrew Gierth 754ca99314 Fix an overlooked UINT32_MAX.
Replace with PG_UINT32_MAX. Per buildfarm members dory and woodlouse.
2019-02-13 15:57:54 +00:00
Andrew Gierth 02ddd49932 Change floating-point output format for improved performance.
Previously, floating-point output was done by rounding to a specific
decimal precision; by default, to 6 or 15 decimal digits (losing
information) or as requested using extra_float_digits. Drivers that
wanted exact float values, and applications like pg_dump that must
preserve values exactly, set extra_float_digits=3 (or sometimes 2 for
historical reasons, though this isn't enough for float4).

Unfortunately, decimal rounded output is slow enough to become a
noticable bottleneck when dealing with large result sets or COPY of
large tables when many floating-point values are involved.

Floating-point output can be done much faster when the output is not
rounded to a specific decimal length, but rather is chosen as the
shortest decimal representation that is closer to the original float
value than to any other value representable in the same precision. The
recently published Ryu algorithm by Ulf Adams is both relatively
simple and remarkably fast.

Accordingly, change float4out/float8out to output shortest decimal
representations if extra_float_digits is greater than 0, and make that
the new default. Applications that need rounded output can set
extra_float_digits back to 0 or below, and take the resulting
performance hit.

We make one concession to portability for systems with buggy
floating-point input: we do not output decimal values that fall
exactly halfway between adjacent representable binary values (which
would rely on the reader doing round-to-nearest-even correctly). This
is known to be a problem at least for VS2013 on Windows.

Our version of the Ryu code originates from
https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/ at commit c9c3fb1979, but with the
following (significant) modifications:

 - Output format is changed to use fixed-point notation for small
   exponents, as printf would, and also to use lowercase 'e', a
   minimum of 2 exponent digits, and a mandatory sign on the exponent,
   to keep the formatting as close as possible to previous output.

 - The output of exact midpoint values is disabled as noted above.

 - The integer fast-path code is changed somewhat (since we have
   fixed-point output and the upstream did not).

 - Our project style has been largely applied to the code with the
   exception of C99 declaration-after-statement, which has been
   retained as an exception to our present policy.

 - Most of upstream's debugging and conditionals are removed, and we
   use our own configure tests to determine things like uint128
   availability.

Changing the float output format obviously affects a number of
regression tests. This patch uses an explicit setting of
extra_float_digits=0 for test output that is not expected to be
exactly reproducible (e.g. due to numerical instability or differing
algorithms for transcendental functions).

Conversions from floats to numeric are unchanged by this patch. These
may appear in index expressions and it is not yet clear whether any
change should be made, so that can be left for another day.

This patch assumes that the only supported floating point format is
now IEEE format, and the documentation is updated to reflect that.

Code by me, adapting the work of Ulf Adams and other contributors.

References:
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3192369

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Donald Dong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87r2el1bx6.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2019-02-13 15:20:33 +00:00
Andrew Gierth f397e08599 Use strtof() and not strtod() for float4 input.
Using strtod() creates a double-rounding problem; the input decimal
value is first rounded to the nearest double; rounding that to the
nearest float may then give an incorrect result.

An example is that 7.038531e-26 when input via strtod and then rounded
to float4 gives 0xAE43FEp-107 instead of the correct 0xAE43FDp-107.

Values output by earlier PG versions with extra_float_digits=3 should
all be read in with the same values as previously. However, values
supplied by other software using shortest representations could be
mis-read.

On platforms that lack a strtof() entirely, we fall back to the old
incorrect rounding behavior. (As strtof() is required by C99, such
platforms are considered of primarily historical interest.) On VS2013,
some workarounds are used to get correct error handling.

The regression tests now test for the correct input values, so
platforms that lack strtof() will need resultmap entries. An entry for
HP-UX 10 is included (more may be needed).

Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871s5emitx.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87d0owlqpv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2019-02-13 15:19:44 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 37d9916020 More unconstify use
Replace casts whose only purpose is to cast away const with the
unconstify() macro.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/53a28052-f9f3-1808-fed9-460fd43035ab%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-13 11:50:16 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut cf40dc65b6 Remove useless casts
Some of these were uselessly casting away "const", some were just
nearby, but they where all unnecessary anyway.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/53a28052-f9f3-1808-fed9-460fd43035ab%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-13 11:50:09 +01:00
Michael Paquier 6ea95166a0 Fix comment related to calculation location of total_table_pages
As of commit c6e4133, the calculation happens in make_one_rel() and not
query_planner().

Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c7a04a90-42e6-28a4-811a-a7e352831ba1@lab.ntt.co.jp
2019-02-13 16:31:20 +09:00
Thomas Munro 7215efdc00 Fix rare dsa_allocate() failures due to freepage.c corruption.
In a corner case, a btree page was allocated during a clean-up operation
that could cause the tracking of the largest contiguous span of free
space to get out of whack.  That was supposed to be prevented by the use
of the "soft" flag to avoid allocating internal pages during incidental
clean-up work, but the flag was ignored in the case where the FPM was
promoted from singleton format to btree format.  Repair.

Remove an obsolete comment in passing.

Back-patch to 10, where freepage.c arrived (as support for dsa.c).

Author: Robert Haas
Diagnosed-by: Thomas Munro and Robert Haas
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Rick Otten, Sand Stone, Arne Roland and others
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMAYy4%2Bw3NTBM5JLWFi8twhWK4%3Dk_5L4nV5%2BbYDSPu8r4b97Zg%40mail.gmail.com
2019-02-13 13:24:11 +13:00
Tom Lane 75c46149fc Clean up planner confusion between ncolumns and nkeycolumns.
We're only going to consider key columns when creating indexquals,
so there is no point in having the outer loops in indxpath.c iterate
further than nkeycolumns.

Doing so in match_pathkeys_to_index() is actually wrong, and would have
caused crashes by now, except that we have no index AMs supporting both
amcanorderbyop and amcaninclude.

It's also wrong in relation_has_unique_index_for().  The effect there is
to fail to prove uniqueness even when the index does prove it, if there
are extra columns.

Also future-proof examine_variable() for the day when extra columns can
be expressions, and fix what's either a thinko or just an oversight in
btcostestimate(): we should consider the number of key columns, not the
total, when deciding whether to derate correlation.

None of these things seemed important enough to risk changing in a
just-before-wrap patch, but since we're past the release wrap window,
time to fix 'em.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25526.1549847928@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-12 18:38:32 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 8c67d29fd5 Relax overly strict assertion
Ever since its birth, ReorderBufferBuildTupleCidHash() has contained an
assertion that a catalog tuple cannot change Cmax after acquiring one.  But
that's wrong: if a subtransaction executes DDL that affects that catalog
tuple, and later aborts and another DDL affects the same tuple, it will
change Cmax.  Relax the assertion to merely verify that the Cmax remains
valid and monotonically increasing, instead.

Add a test that tickles the relevant code.

Diagnosed by, and initial patch submitted by: Arseny Sher
Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/874l9p8hyw.fsf@ars-thinkpad
2019-02-12 18:42:37 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera d357a16997 Blind attempt at fixing Windows build
Broken since fe33a196de.
2019-02-12 18:29:26 -03:00