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Tom Lane fd0398fcb0 Improve EXPLAIN's display of SubPlan nodes and output parameters.
Historically we've printed SubPlan expression nodes as "(SubPlan N)",
which is pretty uninformative.  Trying to reproduce the original SQL
for the subquery is still as impractical as before, and would be
mighty verbose as well.  However, we can still do better than that.
Displaying the "testexpr" when present, and adding a keyword to
indicate the SubLinkType, goes a long way toward showing what's
really going on.

In addition, this patch gets rid of EXPLAIN's use of "$n" to represent
subplan and initplan output Params.  Instead we now print "(SubPlan
N).colX" or "(InitPlan N).colX" to represent the X'th output column
of that subplan.  This eliminates confusion with the use of "$n" to
represent PARAM_EXTERN Params, and it's useful for the first part of
this change because it eliminates needing some other indication of
which subplan is referenced by a SubPlan that has a testexpr.

In passing, this adds simple regression test coverage of the
ROWCOMPARE_SUBLINK code paths, which were entirely unburdened
by testing before.

Tom Lane and Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev.
Thanks to Chantal Keller for raising the question of whether
this area couldn't be improved.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2838538.1705692747@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-03-19 18:19:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 58447e3189 Add hint about not qualifying UPDATE...SET target with relation name.
Target columns in UPDATE ... SET must not be qualified with the target
table; we disallow this because it'd create ambiguity about which name
is the column name in case of field-qualified names.  However, newbies
have been seen to expect that they could qualify a target name just
like other names.  The error message when they do is confusing:
"column "foo" of relation "foo" does not exist".  To improve matters,
issue a HINT if the invalid name is qualified and matches the
relation's alias.

James Coleman (editorialized a bit by me)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8S2Qa060UV-YF5GoSd5PkEhLV94x-fEi3=TOtpaXCV+w@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-20 17:54:14 -05:00
Tom Lane 56d0ed3b75 Give better hints for ambiguous or unreferenceable columns.
Examine ParseNamespaceItem flags to detect whether a column name
is unreferenceable for lack of LATERAL, or could be referenced if
a qualified name were used, and give better hints for such cases.
Also, don't phrase the message to imply that there's only one
matching column when there is really more than one.

Many of the regression test output changes are not very interesting,
but just reflect reclassifying the "There is a column ... but it
cannot be referenced from this part of the query" messages as DETAIL
rather than HINT.  They are details per our style guide, in the sense
of being factual rather than offering advice; and this change provides
room to offer actual HINTs about what to do.

While here, adjust the fuzzy-name-matching code to be a shade less
impenetrable.  It was overloading the meanings of FuzzyAttrMatchState
fields way too much IMO, so splitting them into multiple fields seems
to make it clearer.  It's not like we need to shave bytes in that
struct.

Per discussion of bug #17233 from Alexander Korolev.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17233-afb9d806aaa64b17@postgresql.org
2022-11-22 18:46:31 -05:00
Tom Lane 6c0373ab77 Allow table-qualified variable names in ON CONFLICT ... WHERE.
Previously you could only use unqualified variable names here.
While that's not a functional deficiency, since only the target
table can be referenced, it's a surprising inconsistency with the
rules for partial-index predicates, on which this syntax is
supposedly modeled.

The fix for that is no harder than passing addToRelNameSpace = true
to addNSItemToQuery.  However, it's really pretty bogus for
transformOnConflictArbiter and transformOnConflictClause to be
messing with the namespace item for the target table at all.
It's not theirs to manage, it results in duplicative creations of
namespace items, and transformOnConflictClause wasn't even doing
it quite correctly (that coding resulted in two nsitems for the
target table, since it hadn't cleaned out the existing one).
Hence, make transformInsertStmt responsible for setting up the
target nsitem once for both these clauses and RETURNING.

Also, arrange for ON CONFLICT ... UPDATE's "excluded" pseudo-relation
to be added to the rangetable before we run transformOnConflictArbiter.
This produces a more helpful HINT if someone writes "excluded.col"
in the arbiter expression.

Per bug #16958 from Lukas Eder.  Although I agree this is a bug,
the consequences are hardly severe, so no back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16958-963f638020de271c@postgresql.org
2021-04-13 15:39:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 86dc90056d Rework planning and execution of UPDATE and DELETE.
This patch makes two closely related sets of changes:

1. For UPDATE, the subplan of the ModifyTable node now only delivers
the new values of the changed columns (i.e., the expressions computed
in the query's SET clause) plus row identity information such as CTID.
ModifyTable must re-fetch the original tuple to merge in the old
values of any unchanged columns.  The core advantage of this is that
the changed columns are uniform across all tables of an inherited or
partitioned target relation, whereas the other columns might not be.
A secondary advantage, when the UPDATE involves joins, is that less
data needs to pass through the plan tree.  The disadvantage of course
is an extra fetch of each tuple to be updated.  However, that seems to
be very nearly free in context; even worst-case tests don't show it to
add more than a couple percent to the total query cost.  At some point
it might be interesting to combine the re-fetch with the tuple access
that ModifyTable must do anyway to mark the old tuple dead; but that
would require a good deal of refactoring and it seems it wouldn't buy
all that much, so this patch doesn't attempt it.

2. For inherited UPDATE/DELETE, instead of generating a separate
subplan for each target relation, we now generate a single subplan
that is just exactly like a SELECT's plan, then stick ModifyTable
on top of that.  To let ModifyTable know which target relation a
given incoming row refers to, a tableoid junk column is added to
the row identity information.  This gets rid of the horrid hack
that was inheritance_planner(), eliminating O(N^2) planning cost
and memory consumption in cases where there were many unprunable
target relations.

Point 2 of course requires point 1, so that there is a uniform
definition of the non-junk columns to be returned by the subplan.
We can't insist on uniform definition of the row identity junk
columns however, if we want to keep the ability to have both
plain and foreign tables in a partitioning hierarchy.  Since
it wouldn't scale very far to have every child table have its
own row identity column, this patch includes provisions to merge
similar row identity columns into one column of the subplan result.
In particular, we can merge the whole-row Vars typically used as
row identity by FDWs into one column by pretending they are type
RECORD.  (It's still okay for the actual composite Datums to be
labeled with the table's rowtype OID, though.)

There is more that can be done to file down residual inefficiencies
in this patch, but it seems to be committable now.

FDW authors should note several API changes:

* The argument list for AddForeignUpdateTargets() has changed, and so
has the method it must use for adding junk columns to the query.  Call
add_row_identity_var() instead of manipulating the parse tree directly.
You might want to reconsider exactly what you're adding, too.

* PlanDirectModify() must now work a little harder to find the
ForeignScan plan node; if the foreign table is part of a partitioning
hierarchy then the ForeignScan might not be the direct child of
ModifyTable.  See postgres_fdw for sample code.

* To check whether a relation is a target relation, it's no
longer sufficient to compare its relid to root->parse->resultRelation.
Instead, check it against all_result_relids or leaf_result_relids,
as appropriate.

Amit Langote and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHpHdqdDn48yCEhynnniahH78rwcrv1rEX65-fsZGBOLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-03-31 11:52:37 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 27e1f14563 Add support for asynchronous execution.
This implements asynchronous execution, which runs multiple parts of a
non-parallel-aware Append concurrently rather than serially to improve
performance when possible.  Currently, the only node type that can be
run concurrently is a ForeignScan that is an immediate child of such an
Append.  In the case where such ForeignScans access data on different
remote servers, this would run those ForeignScans concurrently, and
overlap the remote operations to be performed simultaneously, so it'll
improve the performance especially when the operations involve
time-consuming ones such as remote join and remote aggregation.

We may extend this to other node types such as joins or aggregates over
ForeignScans in the future.

This also adds the support for postgres_fdw, which is enabled by the
table-level/server-level option "async_capable".  The default is false.

Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, and myself.  This commit
is mostly based on the patch proposed by Robert Haas, but also uses
stuff from the patch proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and from the patch
proposed by Thomas Munro.  Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Andrey Lepikhov, Movead Li, Thomas Munro, Justin Pryzby, and
others.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaXQEt4tZ03FtQhnzeDEMzBck%2BLrni0UWHVVgOTnA6C1w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLBRyu0rHrDCMC4%3DRn3252gogyp1SjOgG8SEKKZv%3DFwfQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228.170650.667613673625155850.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com
2021-03-31 18:45:00 +09:00
Tom Lane 41efb83408 Move resolution of AlternativeSubPlan choices to the planner.
When commit bd3daddaf introduced AlternativeSubPlans, I had some
ambitions towards allowing the choice of subplan to change during
execution.  That has not happened, or even been thought about, in the
ensuing twelve years; so it seems like a failed experiment.  So let's
rip that out and resolve the choice of subplan at the end of planning
(in setrefs.c) rather than during executor startup.  This has a number
of positive benefits:

* Removal of a few hundred lines of executor code, since
AlternativeSubPlans need no longer be supported there.

* Removal of executor-startup overhead (particularly, initialization
of subplans that won't be used).

* Removal of incidental costs of having a larger plan tree, such as
tree-scanning and copying costs in the plancache; not to mention
setrefs.c's own costs of processing the discarded subplans.

* EXPLAIN no longer has to print a weird (and undocumented)
representation of an AlternativeSubPlan choice; it sees only the
subplan actually used.  This should mean less confusion for users.

* Since setrefs.c knows which subexpression of a plan node it's
working on at any instant, it's possible to adjust the estimated
number of executions of the subplan based on that.  For example,
we should usually estimate more executions of a qual expression
than a targetlist expression.  The implementation used here is
pretty simplistic, because we don't want to expend a lot of cycles
on the issue; but it's better than ignoring the point entirely,
as the executor had to.

That last point might possibly result in shifting the choice
between hashed and non-hashed EXISTS subplans in a few cases,
but in general this patch isn't meant to change planner choices.
Since we're doing the resolution so late, it's really impossible
to change any plan choices outside the AlternativeSubPlan itself.

Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1992952.1592785225@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-27 12:51:28 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 71a05b2232 Don't mark partitioned indexes invalid unnecessarily
When an indexes is created on a partitioned table using ONLY (don't
recurse to partitions), it gets marked invalid until index partitions
are attached for each table partition.  But there's no reason to do this
if there are no partitions ... and moreover, there's no way to get the
index to become valid afterwards, because all partitions that get
created/attached get their own index partition already attached to the
parent index, so there's no chance to do ALTER INDEX ... ATTACH PARTITION
that would make the parent index valid.

Fix by not marking the index as invalid to begin with.

This is very similar to 9139aa1942, but the pg_dump aspect does not
appear to be relevant until we add FKs that can point to PKs on
partitioned tables.  (I tried to cause the pg_upgrade test to break by
leaving some of these bogus tables around, but wasn't able to.)

Making this change means that an index that was supposed to be invalid
in the insert_conflict regression test is no longer invalid; reorder the
DDL so that the test continues to verify the behavior we want it to.

Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181203225019.2vvdef2ybnkxt364@alvherre.pgsql
2018-12-05 13:31:51 -03:00
Andres Freund 578b229718 Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction
of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column,
but as part of the tuple header.

This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd,
as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important
parts of a row.  Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the
oid column by default.

The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a
significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That
already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make
table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating
that "specialness" significantly.

WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0).
Remove it.

Removing includes:
- CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be
  WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out)
- pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will
  issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column).
- restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when
  restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column)
- COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids.
- pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH
  OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first.
- Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like
  plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed.

The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false)
for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of
support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that
do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them.

The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This
commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally
declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the
newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column
naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such.  This obviously
requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via
HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column.

The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in
genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest
oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above
FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the
special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed.

Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all
backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For
the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for
the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog
tables).

The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns
means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded
by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid,
previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid
column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either
have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the
line.

While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the
scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this
now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit
after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other
patches.

Catversion bump, for obvious reasons.

Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-20 16:00:17 -08:00
Alvaro Herrera 9079fe60b2 Add INSERT ON CONFLICT test on partitioned tables with transition table
This case was uncovered by existing tests, so breakage went undetected.
Make sure it remains stable.

Extracted from a larger patch by
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f-aGCJ5H7_hiSs5PhWs6Obmj+vGARjGymqH1=o5PcrNnQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-11-13 18:12:39 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 22ff2b8583 Update expected output of new test
Forgot to 'git add' the file after tweaking the test as submitted :-(

Per buildfarm
2018-04-16 16:39:32 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 158b7bc6d7 Ignore whole-rows in INSERT/CONFLICT with partitioned tables
We had an Assert() preventing whole-row expressions from being used in
the SET clause of INSERT ON CONFLICT, but it seems unnecessary, given
some tests, so remove it.  Add a new test to exercise the case.

Still at ExecInitPartitionInfo, we used map_partition_varattnos (which
constructs an attribute map, then calls map_variable_attnos) using
the same two relations many times in different expressions and with
different parameters.  Constructing the map over and over is a waste.
To avoid this repeated work, construct the map once, and use
map_variable_attnos() directly instead.

Author: Amit Langote, per comments by me (Álvaro)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180326142016.m4st5e34chrzrknk@alvherre.pgsql
2018-04-16 15:52:28 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 555ee77a96 Handle INSERT .. ON CONFLICT with partitioned tables
Commit eb7ed3f306 enabled unique constraints on partitioned tables,
but one thing that was not working properly is INSERT/ON CONFLICT.
This commit introduces a new node keeps state related to the ON CONFLICT
clause per partition, and fills it when that partition is about to be
used for tuple routing.

Author: Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita, Pavan Deolasee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180228004602.cwdyralmg5ejdqkq@alvherre.pgsql
2018-03-26 10:43:54 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera eb7ed3f306 Allow UNIQUE indexes on partitioned tables
If we restrict unique constraints on partitioned tables so that they
must always include the partition key, then our standard approach to
unique indexes already works --- each unique key is forced to exist
within a single partition, so enforcing the unique restriction in each
index individually is enough to have it enforced globally.  Therefore we
can implement unique indexes on partitions by simply removing a few
restrictions (and adding others.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171222212921.hi6hg6pem2w2t36z@alvherre.pgsql
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229230607.3iib6b62fn3uaf47@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs, Jesper Pedersen, Peter Eisentraut, Jaime
	Casanova, Amit Langote
2018-02-19 17:40:00 -03:00
Robert Haas 87c37e3291 Re-allow INSERT .. ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING on partitioned tables.
Commit 8355a011a0 was reverted in
f05230752d, but this attempt is
hopefully better-considered: we now pass the correct value to
ExecOpenIndices, which should avoid the crash that we hit before.

Amit Langote, reviewed by Simon Riggs and by me.  Some final
editing by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7ff1e8ec-dc39-96b1-7f47-ff5965dceeac@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-12-01 12:53:21 -05:00
Robert Haas f05230752d Revert "Allow ON CONFLICT .. DO NOTHING on a partitioned table."
This reverts commit 8355a011a0, which
turns out to have been a misguided effort.  We can't really support
this in a partitioning hierarchy after all for exactly the reasons
stated in the documentation removed by that commit.  It's still
possible to use ON CONFLICT .. DO NOTHING (or for that matter ON
CONFLICT .. DO UPDATE) on individual partitions if desired, but
but to allow this on a partitioned table implies that we have some
way of evaluating uniqueness across the whole partitioning
hierarchy, which is false.

Shinoda Noriyoshi noticed that the old code was crashing (which we
could fix, though not in a nice way) and Amit Langote realized
that this was indicative of a fundamental problem with the commit
being reverted here.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/ff3dc21d-7204-c09c-50ac-cf11a8c45c81@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-03-31 16:48:21 -04:00
Robert Haas 8355a011a0 Allow ON CONFLICT .. DO NOTHING on a partitioned table.
ON CONFLICT .. DO UPDATE still doesn't work, for lack of a way of
enforcing uniqueness across partitions, but we can still allow this
case.

Amit Langote, per discussion with Peter Geoghegan.  Additional
wordsmithing by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA-aLv7Z4uygtq-Q5CvDi9Y=VZxUyEnuWjL=EwCfOof=L04hgg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-27 10:37:41 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 181bdb90ba Fix typos in comments.
Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching
of future fixes go more smoothly.

Josh Soref

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-06 11:33:58 +02:00
Tom Lane e3e66d8a98 Band-aid fix for incorrect use of view options as StdRdOptions.
We really ought to make StdRdOptions and the other decoded forms of
reloptions self-identifying, but for the moment, assume that only plain
relations could possibly be user_catalog_tables.  Fixes problem with bogus
"ON CONFLICT is not supported on table ... used as a catalog table" error
when target is a view with cascade option.

Discussion: <26681.1477940227@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-07 12:08:18 -05:00
Tom Lane a6c0a5b6e8 Don't throw serialization errors for self-conflicts in INSERT ON CONFLICT.
A transaction that conflicts against itself, for example
	INSERT INTO t(pk) VALUES (1),(1) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
should behave the same regardless of isolation level.  It certainly
shouldn't throw a serialization error, as retrying will not help.
We got this wrong due to the ON CONFLICT logic not considering the case,
as reported by Jason Dusek.

Core of this patch is by Peter Geoghegan (based on an earlier patch by
Thomas Munro), though I didn't take his proposed code refactoring for fear
that it might have unexpected side-effects.  Test cases by Thomas Munro
and myself.

Report: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Related-Discussion: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
2016-10-23 18:36:13 -04:00
Tom Lane 9c810a2edc Fix failure to handle conflicts in non-arbiter exclusion constraints.
ExecInsertIndexTuples treated an exclusion constraint as subject to
noDupErr processing even when it was not listed in arbiterIndexes, and
would therefore not error out for a conflict in such a constraint, instead
returning it as an arbiter-index failure.  That led to an infinite loop in
ExecInsert, since ExecCheckIndexConstraints ignored the index as-intended
and therefore didn't throw the expected error.  To fix, make the exclusion
constraint code path use the same condition as the index_insert call does
to decide whether no-error-for-duplicates behavior is appropriate.  While
at it, refactor a little bit to avoid unnecessary list_member_oid calls.
(That surely wouldn't save anything worth noticing, but I find the code
a bit clearer this way.)

Per bug report from Heikki Rauhala.  Back-patch to 9.5 where ON CONFLICT
was introduced.

Report: <4C976D6B-76B4-434C-8052-D009F7B7AEDA@reaktor.fi>
2016-07-04 16:09:11 -04:00
Tom Lane 8ebb69f854 Fix some infelicities in EXPLAIN output for parallel query plans.
In non-text output formats, parallelized aggregates were reporting
"Partial" or "Finalize" as a field named "Operation", which might be all
right in the absence of any context --- but other plan node types use that
field to report SQL-visible semantics, such as Select/Insert/Update/Delete.
So that naming choice didn't seem good to me.  I changed it to "Partial
Mode".

Also, the field did not appear at all for a non-parallelized Agg plan node,
which is contrary to expectation in non-text formats.  We're notionally
producing objects that conform to a schema, so the set of fields for a
given node type and EXPLAIN mode should be well-defined.  I set it up to
fill in "Simple" in such cases.

Other fields that were added for parallel query, namely "Parallel Aware"
and Gather's "Single Copy", had not gotten the word on that point either.
Make them appear always in non-text output.

Also, the latter two fields were nominally producing boolean output, but
were getting it wrong, because bool values shouldn't be quoted in JSON or
YAML.  Somehow we'd not needed an ExplainPropertyBool formatting subroutine
before 9.6; but now we do, so invent it.

Discussion: <16002.1466972724@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-29 18:51:20 -04:00
Tom Lane 26e66184d6 Fix assorted missing infrastructure for ON CONFLICT.
subquery_planner() failed to apply expression preprocessing to the
arbiterElems and arbiterWhere fields of an OnConflictExpr.  No doubt the
theory was that this wasn't necessary because we don't actually try to
execute those expressions; but that's wrong, because it results in failure
to match to index expressions or index predicates that are changed at all
by preprocessing.  Per bug #14132 from Reynold Smith.

Also add pullup_replace_vars processing for onConflictWhere.  Perhaps
it's impossible to have a subquery reference there, but I'm not exactly
convinced; and even if true today it's a failure waiting to happen.

Also add some comments to other places where one or another field of
OnConflictExpr is intentionally ignored, with explanation as to why it's
okay to do so.

Also, catalog/dependency.c failed to record any dependency on the named
constraint in ON CONFLICT ON CONSTRAINT, allowing such a constraint to
be dropped while rules exist that depend on it, and allowing pg_dump to
dump such a rule before the constraint it refers to.  The normal execution
path managed to error out reasonably for a dangling constraint reference,
but ruleutils.c dumped core; so in addition to fixing the omission, add
a protective check in ruleutils.c, since we can't retroactively add a
dependency in existing databases.

Back-patch to 9.5 where this code was introduced.

Report: <20160510190350.2608.48667@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-05-11 16:20:23 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5db837d3f2 Message improvements 2015-11-16 21:39:23 -05:00
Andres Freund ad22783792 Fix several bugs related to ON CONFLICT's EXCLUDED pseudo relation.
Four related issues:

1) attnos/varnos/resnos for EXCLUDED were out of sync when a column
   after one dropped in the underlying relation was referenced.
2) References to whole-row variables (i.e. EXCLUDED.*) lead to errors.
3) It was possible to reference system columns in the EXCLUDED pseudo
   relations, even though they would not have valid contents.
4) References to EXCLUDED were rewritten by the RLS machinery, as
   EXCLUDED was treated as if it were the underlying relation.

To fix the first two issues, generate the excluded targetlist with
dropped columns in mind and add an entry for whole row
variables. Instead of unconditionally adding a wholerow entry we could
pull up the expression if needed, but doing it unconditionally seems
simpler. The wholerow entry is only really needed for ruleutils/EXPLAIN
support anyway.

The remaining two issues are addressed by changing the EXCLUDED RTE to
have relkind = composite. That fits with EXCLUDED not actually being a
real relation, and allows to treat it differently in the relevant
places. scanRTEForColumn now skips looking up system columns when the
RTE has a composite relkind; fireRIRrules() already had a corresponding
check, thereby preventing RLS expansion on EXCLUDED.

Also add tests for these issues, and improve a few comments around
excluded handling in setrefs.c.

Reported-By: Peter Geoghegan, Geoff Winkless
Author: Andres Freund, Amit Langote, Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: CAEzk6fdzJ3xYQZGbcuYM2rBd2BuDkUksmK=mY9UYYDugg_GgZg@mail.gmail.com,
   CAM3SWZS+CauzbiCEcg-GdE6K6ycHE_Bz6Ksszy8AoixcMHOmsA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2015-10-03 15:12:10 +02:00
Andres Freund 617db3a2d8 Fix ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE for tables with oids.
When taking the UPDATE path in an INSERT .. ON CONFLICT .. UPDATE tables
with oids were not supported. The tuple generated by the update target
list was projected without space for an oid - a simple oversight.

Reported-By: Peter Geoghegan
Author: Andres Freund
Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2015-09-28 19:29:44 +02:00
Andres Freund 159cff58cf Check the relevant index element in ON CONFLICT unique index inference.
ON CONFLICT unique index inference had a thinko that could affect cases
where the user-supplied inference clause required that an attribute
match a particular (user specified) collation and/or opclass.

infer_collation_opclass_match() has to check for opclass and/or
collation matches and that the attribute is in the list of attributes or
expressions known to be in the definition of the index under
consideration. The bug was that these two conditions weren't necessarily
evaluated for the same index attribute.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: CAM3SWZR4uug=WvmGk7UgsqHn2MkEzy9YU-+8jKGO4JPhesyeWg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2015-07-26 18:20:41 +02:00
Robert Haas aa6b2e629c Remove regression test added on auto-pilot.
Test does not match the comment which precedes it.

Peter Geoghegan
2015-07-14 16:21:51 -04:00
Andres Freund 9bc77c4519 Various fixes around ON CONFLICT for rule deparsing.
Neither the deparsing of the new alias for INSERT's target table, nor of
the inference clause was supported. Also fixup a typo in an error
message.

Add regression tests to test those code paths.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
2015-05-19 23:18:57 +02:00
Andres Freund e4942f7a56 Attach ON CONFLICT SET ... WHERE to the correct planstate.
The previous coding was a leftover from attempting to hang all the on
conflict logic onto modify table's child nodes. It appears to not have
actually caused problems except for explain.

Add test exercising the broken and some other code paths.

Author: Peter Geoghegan and Andres Freund
2015-05-19 01:55:10 +02:00
Andres Freund 168d5805e4 Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE.
The newly added ON CONFLICT clause allows to specify an alternative to
raising a unique or exclusion constraint violation error when inserting.
ON CONFLICT refers to constraints that can either be specified using a
inference clause (by specifying the columns of a unique constraint) or
by naming a unique or exclusion constraint.  DO NOTHING avoids the
constraint violation, without touching the pre-existing row.  DO UPDATE
SET ... [WHERE ...] updates the pre-existing tuple, and has access to
both the tuple proposed for insertion and the existing tuple; the
optional WHERE clause can be used to prevent an update from being
executed.  The UPDATE SET and WHERE clauses have access to the tuple
proposed for insertion using the "magic" EXCLUDED alias, and to the
pre-existing tuple using the table name or its alias.

This feature is often referred to as upsert.

This is implemented using a new infrastructure called "speculative
insertion". It is an optimistic variant of regular insertion that first
does a pre-check for existing tuples and then attempts an insert.  If a
violating tuple was inserted concurrently, the speculatively inserted
tuple is deleted and a new attempt is made.  If the pre-check finds a
matching tuple the alternative DO NOTHING or DO UPDATE action is taken.
If the insertion succeeds without detecting a conflict, the tuple is
deemed inserted.

To handle the possible ambiguity between the excluded alias and a table
named excluded, and for convenience with long relation names, INSERT
INTO now can alias its target table.

Bumps catversion as stored rules change.

Author: Peter Geoghegan, with significant contributions from Heikki
    Linnakangas and Andres Freund. Testing infrastructure by Jeff Janes.
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs,
    Dean Rasheed, Stephen Frost and many others.
2015-05-08 05:43:10 +02:00