The idea behind this patch is to make it possible to run individual
test scripts without running the entire core test suite. Making all
the scripts completely independent would involve a massive rewrite,
and would probably be worse for coverage of things like concurrent DDL.
So this patch just does what seems practical with limited changes.
The net effect is that any test script can be run after running
limited earlier dependencies:
* all scripts depend on test_setup
* many scripts depend on create_index
* other dependencies are few in number, and are documented in
the parallel_schedule file.
To accomplish this, I chose a small number of commonly-used tables
and moved their creation and filling into test_setup. Later scripts
are expected not to modify these tables' data contents, for fear of
affecting other scripts' results. Also, our former habit of declaring
all C functions in one place is now gone in favor of declaring them
where they're used, if that's just one script, or in test_setup if
necessary.
There's more that could be done to remove some of the remaining
inter-script dependencies, but significantly more-invasive changes
would be needed, and at least for now it doesn't seem worth it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1114748.1640383217@sss.pgh.pa.us
CREATE TABLE AS has been preferred over SELECT INTO (outside of ecpg
and PL/pgSQL) for a long time. There were still a few uses of SELECT
INTO in tests and documentation, some old, some more recent. This
changes them to CREATE TABLE AS. Some occurrences in the tests remain
where they are specifically testing SELECT INTO parsing or similar.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/96dc0df3-e13a-a85d-d045-d6e2c85218da%40enterprisedb.com
We've noted certain EXPLAIN queries on these tables occasionally showing
unexpected plan choices. This seems to happen because VACUUM sometimes
fails to update relpages/reltuples for one of these single-page tables,
due to bgwriter or checkpointer holding a pin on the lone page at just
the wrong time. To ensure those values get set, insert explicit ANALYZE
operations on these tables after we finish populating them. This
doesn't seem to affect any other test cases, so it's a usable fix.
Back-patch to v12. In principle the issue exists further back, but
we have not seen it before v12, so I won't risk back-patching further.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24480.1569518042@sss.pgh.pa.us
It's a bit silly to have test functions that aren't tested, so test
them.
In passing, rename int44in/int44out to city_budget_in/_out so that they
match how the regression tests use them. Also, fix city_budget_out
so that it emits the format city_budget_in expects to read; otherwise
we'd have dump/reload failures when testing pg_dump against the
regression database. (We avoided that in the past only because no
data of type city_budget was actually stored anywhere.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29322.1519701006@sss.pgh.pa.us
in UPDATE. We also now issue a NOTICE if a query has _any_ implicit
range table entries -- in the past, we would only warn about implicit
RTEs in SELECTs with at least one explicit RTE.
As a result of the warning change, 25 of the regression tests had to
be updated. I also took the opportunity to remove some bogus whitespace
differences between some of the float4 and float8 variants. I believe
I have correctly updated all the platform-specific variants, but let
me know if that's not the case.
Original patch for DELETE ... USING from Euler Taveira de Oliveira,
reworked by Neil Conway.
Add ALTER SEQUENCE to modify min/max/increment/cache/cycle values
Also updated create sequence docs to mention NO MINVALUE, & NO MAXVALUE.
New Files:
doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_sequence.sgml
src/test/regress/expected/sequence.out
src/test/regress/sql/sequence.sql
ALTER SEQUENCE is NOT transactional. It behaves similarly to setval().
It matches the proposed SQL200N spec, as well as Oracle in most ways --
Oracle lacks RESTART WITH for some strange reason.
--
Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
comments on one of the optimizer functions a lot more
clear, adds a summary of the recent KSQO discussion to the
comments in the code, adds regression tests for the bug with
sequence state Tom fixed recently and another reg. test, and
removes some PostQuel legacy stuff: ExecAppend -> ExecInsert,
ExecRetrieve -> ExecSelect, etc.
Error messages remain unchanged until a vote.
Neil Conway
comments on one of the optimizer functions a lot more
clear, adds a summary of the recent KSQO discussion to the
comments in the code, adds regression tests for the bug with
sequence state Tom fixed recently and another reg. test, and
removes some PostQuel legacy stuff: ExecAppend -> ExecInsert,
ExecRetrieve -> ExecSelect, etc. This was changed because the
elog() messages from this routine are user-visible, so we
should be using the SQL terms.
Neil Conway
o Change all current CVS messages of NOTICE to WARNING. We were going
to do this just before 7.3 beta but it has to be done now, as you will
see below.
o Change current INFO messages that should be controlled by
client_min_messages to NOTICE.
o Force remaining INFO messages, like from EXPLAIN, VACUUM VERBOSE, etc.
to always go to the client.
o Remove INFO from the client_min_messages options and add NOTICE.
Seems we do need three non-ERROR elog levels to handle the various
behaviors we need for these messages.
Regression passed.
now just below FATAL in server_min_messages. Added more text to
highlight ordering difference between it and client_min_messages.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
REALLYFATAL => PANIC
STOP => PANIC
New INFO level the prints to client by default
New LOG level the prints to server log by default
Cause VACUUM information to print only to the client
NOTICE => INFO where purely information messages are sent
DEBUG => LOG for purely server status messages
DEBUG removed, kept as backward compatible
DEBUG5, DEBUG4, DEBUG3, DEBUG2, DEBUG1 added
DebugLvl removed in favor of new DEBUG[1-5] symbols
New server_min_messages GUC parameter with values:
DEBUG[5-1], INFO, NOTICE, ERROR, LOG, FATAL, PANIC
New client_min_messages GUC parameter with values:
DEBUG[5-1], LOG, INFO, NOTICE, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC
Server startup now logged with LOG instead of DEBUG
Remove debug_level GUC parameter
elog() numbers now start at 10
Add test to print error message if older elog() values are passed to elog()
Bootstrap mode now has a -d that requires an argument, like postmaster
arrayfuncs.patch fixes a small bug in my previous patches for
arrays
array-regress.patch adds _bpchar and _varchar to regression tests
--
Massimo Dal Zotto
1. Remove the char2, char4, char8 and char16 types from postgresql
2. Change references of char16 to name in the regression tests.
3. Rename the char16.sql regression test to name.sql. 4. Modify
the regression test scripts and outputs to match up.
Might require new regression.{SYSTEM} files...
Darren King
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Peter Eisentraut
Neil Conway
Bruce Momjian
Thomas G. Lockhart
Marc G. Fournier