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Robert Haas 63f9282f6e Tighten integrity checks on ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... RENAME.
When a column is renamed, we recursively rename the same column in
all descendent tables.  But if one of those tables also inherits that
column from a table outside the inheritance hierarchy rooted at the
named table, we must throw an error.  The previous coding correctly
prohibited the rename when the parent had inherited the column from
elsewhere, but overlooked the case where the parent was OK but a child
table also inherited the same column from a second, unrelated parent.

For now, not backpatched due to lack of complaints from the field.

KaiGai Kohei, with further changes by me.
Reviewed by Bernd Helme and Tom Lane.
2010-02-01 19:28:56 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut e7b3349a8a Type table feature
This adds the CREATE TABLE name OF type command, per SQL standard.
2010-01-28 23:21:13 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas e0e8b96345 Change a few remaining calls of XLogArchivingActive() to use
XLogIsNeeded() instead, to determine if an otherwise non-logged operation
needs to be logged in WAL for standby servers.

Fujii Masao
2010-01-28 07:31:42 +00:00
Robert Haas 76a47c0e74 Replace ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT with a more general mechanism.
Attributes can now have options, just as relations and tablespaces do, and
the reloptions code is used to parse, validate, and store them.  For
simplicity and because these options are not performance critical, we store
them in a separate cache rather than the main relcache.

Thanks to Alex Hunsaker for the review.
2010-01-22 16:40:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 09b115f706 Write a WAL record whenever we perform an operation without WAL-logging
that would've been WAL-logged if archiving was enabled. If we encounter
such records in archive recovery anyway, we know that some data is
missing from the log. A WARNING is emitted in that case.

Original patch by Fujii Masao, with changes by me.
2010-01-20 19:43:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 9a915e596f Improve the handling of SET CONSTRAINTS commands by having them search
pg_constraint before searching pg_trigger.  This allows saner handling of
corner cases; in particular we now say "constraint is not deferrable"
rather than "constraint does not exist" when the command is applied to
a constraint that's inherently non-deferrable.  Per a gripe several months
ago from hubert depesz lubaczewski.

To make this work without breaking user-defined constraint triggers,
we have to add entries for them to pg_constraint.  However, in return
we can remove the pgconstrname column from pg_constraint, which represents
a fairly sizable space savings.  I also replaced the tgisconstraint column
with tgisinternal; the old meaning of tgisconstraint can now be had by
testing for nonzero tgconstraint, while there is no other way to get
the old meaning of nonzero tgconstraint, namely that the trigger was
internally generated rather than being user-created.

In passing, fix an old misstatement in the docs and comments, namely that
pg_trigger.tgdeferrable is exactly redundant with pg_constraint.condeferrable.
Actually, we mark RI action triggers as nondeferrable even when they belong to
a nominally deferrable FK constraint.  The SET CONSTRAINTS code now relies on
that instead of hard-coding a list of exception OIDs.
2010-01-17 22:56:23 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 40f908bdcd Introduce Streaming Replication.
This includes two new kinds of postmaster processes, walsenders and
walreceiver. Walreceiver is responsible for connecting to the primary server
and streaming WAL to disk, while walsender runs in the primary server and
streams WAL from disk to the client.

Documentation still needs work, but the basics are there. We will probably
pull the replication section to a new chapter later on, as well as the
sections describing file-based replication. But let's do that as a separate
patch, so that it's easier to see what has been added/changed. This patch
also adds a new section to the chapter about FE/BE protocol, documenting the
protocol used by walsender/walreceivxer.

Bump catalog version because of two new functions,
pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and pg_last_xlog_replay_location(), for
monitoring the progress of replication.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me
2010-01-15 09:19:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f98fbc78c3 Preserve relfilenodes:
Add support to pg_dump --binary-upgrade to preserve all relfilenodes,
for use by pg_migrator.
2010-01-06 03:04:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0239800893 Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
Tom Lane 540e69a061 Add an index on pg_inherits.inhparent, and use it to avoid seqscans in
find_inheritance_children().  This is a complete no-op in databases without
any inheritance.  In databases where there are just a few entries in
pg_inherits, it could conceivably be a small loss.  However, in databases with
many inheritance parents, it can be a big win.
2009-12-29 22:00:14 +00:00
Tom Lane c176e12222 Remove code that attempted to rename index columns to keep them in sync with
their underlying table columns.  That code was not bright enough to cope with
collision situations (ie, new name conflicts with some other column of the
index).  Since there is no functional reason to do this at all, trying to
upgrade the logic to be bulletproof doesn't seem worth the trouble.

This change means that both the index name and the column names of an index
are set when it's created, and won't be automatically changed when the
underlying table columns are renamed.  Neatnik DBAs are still free to rename
them manually, of course.
2009-12-23 16:43:43 +00:00
Robert Haas cddca5ec13 Add an EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) option to show buffer-usage statistics.
This patch also removes buffer-usage statistics from the track_counts
output, since this (or the global server statistics) is deemed to be a better
interface to this information.

Itagaki Takahiro, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2009-12-15 04:57:48 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro f1325ce213 Add large object access control.
A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages
ownership and access privileges of large objects.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.
2009-12-11 03:34:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 62aba76568 Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state within
an allegedly immutable index function.  It was previously recognized that
we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION
AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session
user.  However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes
of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change
settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session.
Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to
be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one
that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing.

The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against
these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection
against the SET ROLE issue.  GUC changes are still allowed, since there are
many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a
rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation.  Other cases are
handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp
table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared
statement.  (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't
exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.)

Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by
Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2009-4136
2009-12-09 21:57:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 0cb65564e5 Add exclusion constraints, which generalize the concept of uniqueness to
support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality.  Two rows
violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for
each of the columns in the constraint.

Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas
2009-12-07 05:22:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 7fc0f06221 Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to be
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.

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

Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2009-11-20 20:38:12 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 91ce16a903 Allow rewriting ALTER TABLE to skip WAL logging.
Itagaki Takahiro, with small changes by me and Simon.
2009-11-04 12:24:23 +00:00
Tom Lane b2734a0d79 Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columns
are named in the UPDATE's SET list.

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

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-10-14 22:14:25 +00:00
Tom Lane 8d54c2482b Code review for LIKE INCLUDING patch --- clean up some cosmetic and not
so cosmetic stuff.
2009-10-13 00:53:08 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan faa1afc6c1 CREATE LIKE INCLUDING COMMENTS and STORAGE, and INCLUDING ALL shortcut. Itagaki Takahiro. 2009-10-12 19:49:24 +00:00
Tom Lane e0c433c4a3 Change CREATE TABLE so that column default expressions coming from different
inheritance parent tables are compared using equal(), instead of doing
strcmp() on the nodeToString representation.  The old implementation was
always a tad cheesy, and it finally fails completely as of 8.4, now that the
node tree might contain syntax location information.  equal() knows it's
supposed to ignore those fields, but strcmp() hardly can.  Per recent
report from Scott Ribe.
2009-10-06 00:55:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 249724cb01 Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjust
the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects.

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

Petr Jelinek
2009-10-05 19:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 4985635230 Extend the BKI infrastructure to allow system catalogs to be given
hand-assigned rowtype OIDs, even when they are not "bootstrapped" catalogs
that have handmade type rows in pg_type.h.  Give pg_database such an OID.
Restore the availability of C macros for the rowtype OIDs of the bootstrapped
catalogs.  (These macros are now in the individual catalogs' .h files,
though, not in pg_type.h.)

This commit doesn't do anything especially useful by itself, but it's
necessary infrastructure for reverting some ill-considered changes in
relcache.c.
2009-09-26 22:42:03 +00:00
Tom Lane cab9a0656c Make TRUNCATE do truncate-in-place when processing a relation that was created
or previously truncated in the current (sub)transaction.  This is safe since
if the (sub)transaction later rolls back, we'd just discard the rel's current
physical file anyway.  This avoids unreasonable growth in the number of
transient files when a relation is repeatedly truncated.  Per a performance
gripe a couple weeks ago from Todd Cook.
2009-08-23 19:23:41 +00:00
Tom Lane b6bde524af Improve error message for the case where a requested foreign key constraint
does match some unique index on the referenced table, but that index is
only deferrably unique.  We were doing this nicely for the
default-to-primary-key case, but were being lazy for the other case.

Dean Rasheed
2009-08-12 23:00:12 +00:00
Tom Lane b1114f5576 Fix some omissions in the dependency-object-class support for SQL/MED objects.
Main problem found by Muhammad Aqeel, some cosmetic additions by me.
2009-08-07 15:27:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 9072592946 Add ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT
Robert Haas
2009-08-02 22:14:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 060baf2784 Merge the Constraint and FkConstraint node types into a single type.
This was foreseen to be a good idea long ago, but nobody had got round
to doing it.  The recent patch for deferred unique constraints made
transformConstraintAttrs() ugly enough that I decided it was time.
This change will also greatly simplify parsing of deferred CHECK constraints,
if anyone ever gets around to implementing that.

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

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

This is mainly intended as infrastructure for upcoming patches, but it has
some virtue in itself, since it exposes a relationship that you formerly
had to grovel in pg_depend to determine.  I simplified one information_schema
view accordingly.  (There is a pg_dump query that could also use conindid,
but I left it alone because it wasn't clear it'd get any faster.)
2009-07-28 02:56:31 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan e73131a16a DROP IF EXISTS for columns and constraints. Andres Freund. 2009-07-20 02:42:28 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut de160e2c00 Make backend header files C++ safe
This alters various incidental uses of C++ key words to use other similar
identifiers, so that a C++ compiler won't choke outright.  You still
(probably) need extern "C" { }; around the inclusion of backend headers.

based on a patch by Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org>

Also add a script cpluspluscheck to check for C++ compatibility in the
future.  As of right now, this passes without error for me.
2009-07-16 06:33:46 +00:00
Tom Lane 6566e37e02 Move some declarations in the raw-parser header files to create a clearer
distinction between the external API (parser.h) and declarations that only
need to be visible within the raw parser code (gramparse.h, which now is only
included by parser.c, gram.y, scan.l, and keywords.c).  This is in preparation
for the upcoming change to a reentrant lexer, which will require referencing
YYSTYPE in the declarations of base_yylex and filtered_base_yylex, hence
gram.h will have to be included by gramparse.h.  We don't want any more files
than absolutely necessary to depend on gram.h, so some cleanup is called for.
2009-07-12 17:12:34 +00:00
Tom Lane f08e5e92e8 Fix the just-reported problem that you can't specify all four trigger event
types in CREATE TRIGGER.  While at it, clean up the amazingly tedious and
inextensible way that the trigger event type list was handled.  Per report
from Greg Sabino Mullane.
2009-06-18 01:27:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 44aa60fa7c Revisit AlterTableCreateToastTable's API once again, hoping to make it what
pg_migrator actually needs and not just a partial solution.  We have to be
able to specify the OID that the new toast table should be created with.
2009-06-11 20:46:11 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d747140279 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list
provided by Andrew.
2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7340793f31 Silence a gcc compiler warning about non-literal format string with no args
when compiling with -Wformat-security. Fujii Masao.
2009-05-20 08:48:10 +00:00
Tom Lane d4a363cdf2 Modify find_inheritance_children() and find_all_inheritors() to add the
ability to lock relations as they scan pg_inherits, and to ignore any
relations that have disappeared by the time we get lock on them.  This
makes uses of these functions safe against concurrent DROP operations
on child tables: we will effectively ignore any just-dropped child,
rather than possibly throwing an error as in recent bug report from
Thomas Johansson (and similar past complaints).  The behavior should
not change otherwise, since the code was acquiring those same locks
anyway, just a little bit later.

An exception is LockTableCommand(), which is still behaving unsafely;
but that seems to require some more discussion before we change it.
2009-05-12 03:11:02 +00:00
Tom Lane 0ada559187 Do some minor code refactoring in preparation for changing the APIs of
find_inheritance_children() and find_all_inheritors().  I got annoyed that
these are buried inside the planner but mostly used elsewhere.  So, create
a new file catalog/pg_inherits.c and put them there, along with a couple
of other functions that search pg_inherits.

The code that modifies pg_inherits is (still) in tablecmds.c --- it's
kind of entangled with unrelated code that modifies pg_depend and other
stuff, so pulling it out seemed like a bigger change than I wanted to make
right now.  But this file provides a natural home for it if anyone ever
gets around to that.

This commit just moves code around; it doesn't change anything, except
I succumbed to the temptation to make a couple of trivial optimizations
in typeInheritsFrom().
2009-05-12 00:56:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 1e06ed1abe Add an option to AlterTableCreateToastTable() to allow its caller to force
a toast table to be built, even if the sum-of-column-widths calculation
indicates one isn't needed.  This is needed by pg_migrator because if the
old table has a toast table, we have to migrate over the toast table since
it might contain some live data, even though subsequent column drops could
mean that no recently-added rows could require toasting.
2009-05-07 22:58:28 +00:00
Tom Lane 948d6ec90f Modify the relcache to record the temp status of both local and nonlocal
temp relations; this is no more expensive than before, now that we have
pg_class.relistemp.  Insert tests into bufmgr.c to prevent attempting
to fetch pages from nonlocal temp relations.  This provides a low-level
defense against bugs-of-omission allowing temp pages to be loaded into shared
buffers, as in the contrib/pgstattuple problem reported by Stuart Bishop.
While at it, tweak a bunch of places to use new relcache tests (instead of
expensive probes into pg_namespace) to detect local or nonlocal temp tables.
2009-03-31 22:12:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 6d1e361852 Change ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS to rewrite the whole table to physically
get rid of the OID column.  This eliminates the problem discovered by Heikki
back in November that 8.4's suppression of "unnecessary" junk filtering in
INSERT/SELECT could lead to an Assert failure, or storing of oids into a table
that shouldn't have them if Asserts are off.  While that particular problem
could have been solved in other ways, it seems likely to be just a forerunner
of things to come if we continue to allow tables to contain rows that disagree
with the pg_class.relhasoids setting.  It's better to make this operation slow
than to sacrifice performance or risk bugs in more common code paths.

Also, add ALTER TABLE SET WITH OIDS to rewrite the table to add oids.
This was a bit more controversial, but in view of the very small amount of
extra code needed given the current ALTER TABLE infrastructure, it seems best
to eliminate the asymmetry in features.
2009-02-11 21:11:16 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 3a5b773715 Allow reloption names to have qualifiers, initially supporting a TOAST
qualifier, and add support for this in pg_dump.

This allows TOAST tables to have user-defined fillfactor, and will also
enable us to move the autovacuum parameters to reloptions without taking
away the possibility of setting values for TOAST tables.
2009-02-02 19:31:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 3cb5d6580a Support column-level privileges, as required by SQL standard.
Stephen Frost, with help from KaiGai Kohei and others
2009-01-22 20:16:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut ca8100f9eb Add ONLY support to LOCK and TRUNCATE. By default, these commands are now
recursive.

=> Note this incompatibility in the release notes.
2009-01-12 08:54:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 511db38ace Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
Tom Lane 95b07bc7f5 Support window functions a la SQL:2008.
Hitoshi Harada, with some kibitzing from Heikki and Tom.
2008-12-28 18:54:01 +00:00
Tom Lane 4da65a23e7 Code review for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW patch. Do things in a saner order to
result in hopefully-less-confusing error messages when the new definition
isn't compatible with the old; minor other cleanup.
2008-12-15 21:35:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 65e3ea7641 Increase the default value of default_statistics_target from 10 to 100,
and its maximum value from 1000 to 10000.  ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS
similarly now allows a value up to 10000.  Per discussion.
2008-12-13 19:13:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ff1ea2173a Allow CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to add columns to the _end_ of the view.
Robert Haas
2008-12-06 23:22:46 +00:00