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Tom Lane f7816aec23 Extract column statistics from CTE references, if possible.
examine_simple_variable() left this as an unimplemented case years
ago, with the result that plans for queries involving un-flattened
CTEs might be much stupider than necessary.  It's not hard to extend
the existing logic for RTE_SUBQUERY cases to also be able to drill
down into CTEs, so let's do that.

There was some discussion of whether this patch breaks the idea
of a MATERIALIZED CTE being an optimization fence.  We concluded
it's okay, because we already allow the outer planner level to
see the estimated width and rowcount of the CTE result, and
letting it see column statistics too seems fairly equivalent.
Basically, what we expect of the optimization fence is that the
outer query should not affect the plan chosen for the CTE query.
Once that plan is chosen, it's okay for the outer planner level
to make use of whatever information we have about it.

Jian Guo and Tom Lane, per complaint from Hans Buschmann

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4504e67078d648cdac3651b2960da6e7@nidsa.net
2023-11-17 14:36:23 -05:00
Dean Rasheed 1d5caec221 Fix EvalPlanQual rechecking during MERGE.
Under some circumstances, concurrent MERGE operations could lead to
inconsistent results, that varied according the plan chosen. This was
caused by a lack of rowmarks on the source relation, which meant that
EvalPlanQual rechecking was not guaranteed to return the same source
tuples when re-running the join query.

Fix by ensuring that preprocess_rowmarks() sets up PlanRowMarks for
all non-target relations used in MERGE, in the same way that it does
for UPDATE and DELETE.

Per bug #18103. Back-patch to v15, where MERGE was introduced.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Richard Guo.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18103-c4386baab8e355e3%40postgresql.org
2023-09-30 10:52:21 +01:00
David Rowley 5352ca22e0 Rename force_parallel_mode to debug_parallel_query
force_parallel_mode is meant to be used to allow us to exercise the
parallel query infrastructure to ensure that it's working as we expect.
It seems some users think this GUC is for forcing the query planner into
picking a parallel plan regardless of the costs.  A quick look at the
documentation would have made them realize that they were wrong, but the
GUC is likely too conveniently named which, evidently, seems to often
result in users expecting that it forces the planner into usefully
parallelizing queries.

Here we rename the GUC to something which casual users are less likely to
mistakenly think is what they need to make their query run more quickly.

For now, the old name can still be used.  We'll revisit if the old name
mapping can be removed once the buildfarm configs are all updated.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrsOi92_uA7PEaHZMH-S4Xv+MGhQWA+GrP8b1kjpS1HjQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-15 21:21:59 +13:00
Tom Lane 47bb9db759 Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions
that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.  Historically it's put such entries
into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite
vestigial.  The only thing we've used them for is to carry the
view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can
re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan)
and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time
permissions checks.  What we can do instead of that is to retain
these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we
convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE.  This requires a tiny amount of
extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on
the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from
one place to another.

The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small
saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs
no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable
names when the rangetable's length is more than 1.  That results
in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs,
which are all to the good IMO.

Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of
RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs.  While those will always be zeroes anyway in
stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite)
they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make
sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel
workers.  I don't think the executor actually examines these fields
after startup, but someday it might.

This is a second attempt at committing 1b4d280ea.  The difference
from the first time is that now we can add some filtering rules to
AdjustUpgrade.pm to allow cross-version upgrade testing to pass
despite all the cosmetic changes in CREATE VIEW outputs.

Amit Langote (filtering rules by me)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-18 13:23:57 -05:00
Tom Lane f0e6d6d3c9 Revert "Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable."
This reverts commit 1b4d280ea1.
It's broken the buildfarm members that run cross-version-upgrade tests,
because they're not prepared to deal with cosmetic differences between
CREATE VIEW commands emitted by older servers and HEAD.  Even if we had
a solution to that, which we don't, it'd take some time to roll it out
to the affected animals.  This improvement isn't valuable enough to
justify addressing that problem on an emergency basis, so revert it
for now.
2023-01-11 23:01:22 -05:00
Tom Lane 1b4d280ea1 Get rid of the "new" and "old" entries in a view's rangetable.
The rule system needs "old" and/or "new" pseudo-RTEs in rule actions
that are ON INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE.  Historically it's put such entries
into the ON SELECT rules of views as well, but those are really quite
vestigial.  The only thing we've used them for is to carry the
view's relid forward to AcquireExecutorLocks (so that we can
re-lock the view to verify it hasn't changed before re-using a plan)
and to carry its relid and permissions data forward to execution-time
permissions checks.  What we can do instead of that is to retain
these fields of the RTE_RELATION RTE for the view even after we
convert it to an RTE_SUBQUERY RTE.  This requires a tiny amount of
extra complication in the planner and AcquireExecutorLocks, but on
the other hand we can get rid of the logic that moves that data from
one place to another.

The principal immediate benefit of doing this, aside from a small
saving in the pg_rewrite data for views, is that these pseudo-RTEs
no longer trigger ruleutils.c's heuristic about qualifying variable
names when the rangetable's length is more than 1.  That results
in quite a number of small simplifications in regression test outputs,
which are all to the good IMO.

Bump catversion because we need to dump a few more fields of
RTE_SUBQUERY RTEs.  While those will always be zeroes anyway in
stored rules (because we'd never populate them until query rewrite)
they are useful for debugging, and it seems like we'd better make
sure to transmit such RTEs accurately in plans sent to parallel
workers.  I don't think the executor actually examines these fields
after startup, but someday it might.

Amit Langote

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEf7gPN4Hn+LoZ4tP2q_Qt7n3vw7-6fJKOf92tSEnX6Gg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-11 19:41:09 -05:00
Tom Lane 935277b241 Fix inability to reference CYCLE column from inside its CTE.
Such references failed with "cache lookup failed for type 0"
because we didn't resolve the type of the CYCLE column until after
analyzing the CTE's query.  We can just move that processing
to before the recursive parse_sub_analyze call, though.

While here, invent a couple of local variables to make this
code less egregiously wider-than-80-columns.

Per bug #17723 from Vik Fearing.  Back-patch to v14 where
the CYCLE feature was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17723-2c4985ff111e7bba@postgresql.org
2022-12-16 13:07:42 -05:00
Tom Lane d57534740b Fix EXPLAIN of SEARCH BREADTH FIRST with a constant initial value.
If the non-recursive term of a SEARCH BREADTH FIRST recursive
query has only constants in its target list, the planner will
fold the starting RowExpr added by rewrite into a simple Const
of type RECORD.  The executor doesn't have any problem with
that --- but EXPLAIN VERBOSE will encounter the Const as the
ultimate source of truth about what the field names of the
SET column are, and it didn't know what to do with that.
Fortunately, we can pull the identifying typmod out of the
Const, in much the same way that record_out would.

For reasons that remain a bit obscure to me, this only fails
with SEARCH BREADTH FIRST, not SEARCH DEPTH FIRST or CYCLE.
But I added regression test cases for both of those options
too, just to make sure we don't break it in future.

Per bug #17644 from Matthijs van der Vleuten.  Back-patch
to v14 where these constructs were added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17644-3bd1f3036d6d7a16@postgresql.org
2022-10-16 19:18:08 -04:00
John Naylor 7beda87b6a Fix grammar in error message
While at it, make ellipses formatting consistent when describing SQL statements.

Ekaterina Kiryanova and Alexander Lakhin

Reviewed by myself and Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/eed5cec0-a542-53da-6a5e-7789c6ed9817%40postgrespro.ru
Backpatch only the grammar fix to v15
2022-09-15 11:40:17 +07:00
Alvaro Herrera 0fbf011200
Check column list length in XMLTABLE/JSON_TABLE alias
We weren't checking the length of the column list in the alias clause of
an XMLTABLE or JSON_TABLE function (a "tablefunc" RTE), and it was
possible to make the server crash by passing an overly long one.  Fix it
by throwing an error in that case, like the other places that deal with
alias lists.

In passing, modify the equivalent test used for join RTEs to look like
the other ones, which was different for no apparent reason.

This bug came in when XMLTABLE was born in version 10; backpatch to all
stable versions.

Reported-by: Wang Ke <krking@zju.edu.cn>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17480-1c9d73565bb28e90@postgresql.org
2022-05-18 20:28:31 +02:00
Tom Lane f819020d40 Fix incautious CTE matching in rewriteSearchAndCycle().
This function looks for a reference to the recursive WITH CTE,
but it checked only the CTE name not ctelevelsup, so that it could
seize on a lower CTE that happened to have the same name.  This
would result in planner failures later, either weird errors such as
"could not find attribute 2 in subquery targetlist", or crashes
or assertion failures.  The code also merely Assert'ed that it found
a matching entry, which is not guaranteed at all by the parser.

Per bugs #17320 and #17318 from Zhiyong Wu.
Thanks to Kyotaro Horiguchi for investigation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17320-70e37868182512ab@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17318-2eb65a3a611d2368@postgresql.org
2022-04-23 12:16:12 -04:00
Tom Lane 92e7a53752 Remove inadequate assertion check in CTE inlining.
inline_cte() expected to find exactly as many references to the
target CTE as its cterefcount indicates.  While that should be
accurate for the tree as emitted by the parser, there are some
optimizations that occur upstream of here that could falsify it,
notably removal of unused subquery output expressions.

Trying to make the accounting 100% accurate seems expensive and
doomed to future breakage.  It's not really worth it, because
all this code is protecting is downstream assumptions that every
referenced CTE has a plan.  Let's convert those assertions to
regular test-and-elog just in case there's some actual problem,
and then drop the failing assertion.

Per report from Tomas Vondra (thanks also to Richard Guo for
analysis).  Back-patch to v12 where the faulty code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29196a1e-ed47-c7ca-9be2-b1c636816183@enterprisedb.com
2022-04-21 17:58:52 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ce4f46fdc8
Change mechanism to set up source targetlist in MERGE
We were setting MERGE source subplan's targetlist by expanding the
individual attributes of the source relation completely, early in the
parse analysis phase.  This failed to work when the condition of an
action included a whole-row reference, causing setrefs.c to error out
with
  ERROR:  variable not found in subplan target lists
because at that point there is nothing to resolve the whole-row
reference with.  We can fix this by having preprocess_targetlist expand
the source targetlist for Vars required from the source rel by all
actions.  Moreover, by using this expansion mechanism we can do away
with the targetlist expansion in transformMergeStmt, which is good
because then we no longer pull in columns that aren't needed for
anything.

Add a test case for the problem.

While at it, remove some redundant code in preprocess_targetlist():
MERGE was doing separately what is already being done for UPDATE/DELETE,
so we can just rely on the latter and remove the former.  (The handling
of inherited rels was different for MERGE, but that was a no-longer-
necessary hack.)

Fix outdated, related comments for fix_join_expr also.

Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Joe Wildish <joe@lateraljoin.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fab3b90a-914d-46a9-beb0-df011ee39ee5@www.fastmail.com
2022-04-12 09:29:39 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 7103ebb7aa
Add support for MERGE SQL command
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table using a
source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL statement that can
conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows -- a task that would otherwise
require multiple PL statements.  For example,

MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
  UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
  DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
  INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
  DO NOTHING;

MERGE works with regular tables, partitioned tables and inheritance
hierarchies, including column and row security enforcement, as well as
support for row and statement triggers and transition tables therein.

MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though also useful
for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended to be used in preference
to existing single SQL commands for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there
is some overhead.  MERGE can be used from PL/pgSQL.

MERGE does not support targetting updatable views or foreign tables, and
RETURNING clauses are not allowed either.  These limitations are likely
fixable with sufficient effort.  Rewrite rules are also not supported,
but it's not clear that we'd want to support them.

Author: Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon.riggs@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier versions)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231134736.GA25392@alvherre.pgsql
2022-03-28 16:47:48 +02:00
Tom Lane cc50080a82 Rearrange core regression tests to reduce cross-script dependencies.
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
2022-02-08 15:30:38 -05:00
Thomas Munro 8112bcf0cc Fix overly generic name in with.sql test.
Avoid the name "test".  In the 10 branch, this could clash with
alter_table.sql, as seen in the build farm.  That other instance was
already renamed in later branches by commit 2cf8c7aa, but it's good to
future-proof the name here too.

Back-patch to 10.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJf4RAXUyAYVUcQawcptX%3DnhEco3SYpuPK5cCbA-F1eLA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-12-30 17:16:31 +13:00
Tom Lane 83884682f4 psql: include intra-query "--" comments in what's sent to the server.
psql's lexer has historically deleted dash-dash (single-line) comments
from what's collected and sent to the server.  This is inconsistent
with what it does for slash-star comments, and people have complained
before that they wish such comments would be captured in the server log.
Undoing the decision completely seems like too big a behavioral change,
however.  In particular, comments on lines preceding the start of a
query are generally not thought of as being part of that query.

What we can do to improve the situation is to capture comments that
are clearly *within* a query, that is after the first non-whitespace,
non-comment token but before the query's ending semicolon or backslash
command.  This is a nearly trivial code change, and it affects only a
few regression test results.

(It is tempting to try to apply the same rule to slash-star comments.
But it's hard to see how to do that without getting strange history
behavior for comments that cross lines, especially if the user then
starts a new query on the same line as the star-slash.  In view of
the lack of complaints, let's leave that case alone.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cAdMVr7azeYR7nWKsNp7qhORzc84rV6d7m7knG5Hrtsw@mail.gmail.com
2021-12-01 12:06:31 -05:00
Tom Lane 3f50b82639 Fix EXPLAIN to handle SEARCH BREADTH FIRST queries.
The rewriter transformation for SEARCH BREADTH FIRST produces a
FieldSelect on a Var of type RECORD, where the Var references the
recursive union's worktable output.  EXPLAIN VERBOSE failed to handle
this case, because it only expected such Vars to appear in CteScans
not WorkTableScans.  Fix that, and add some test cases exercising
EXPLAIN on SEARCH and CYCLE queries.

In principle this oversight is an old bug, but it seems that the
case is unreachable without SEARCH BREADTH FIRST, because the
parser fails when attempting to create such a reference manually.
So for today I'll just patch HEAD/v14.  Someday we might find that
the code portion of this patch needs to be back-patched further.

Per report from Atsushi Torikoshi.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5bafa66ad529e11860339565c9e7c166@oss.nttdata.com
2021-09-16 10:45:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 362e2dcc46 Fix rewriter to set hasModifyingCTE correctly on rewritten queries.
If we copy data-modifying CTEs from the original query to a replacement
query (from a DO INSTEAD rule), we must set hasModifyingCTE properly
in the replacement query.  Failure to do this can cause various
unpleasantness, such as unsafe usage of parallel plans.  The code also
neglected to propagate hasRecursive, though that's only cosmetic at
the moment.

A difficulty arises if the rule action is an INSERT...SELECT.  We
attach the original query's RTEs and CTEs to the sub-SELECT Query, but
data-modifying CTEs are only allowed to appear in the topmost Query.
For the moment, throw an error in such cases.  It would probably be
possible to avoid this error by attaching the CTEs to the top INSERT
Query instead; but that would require a bunch of new code to adjust
ctelevelsup references.  Given the narrowness of the use-case, and
the need to back-patch this fix, it does not seem worth the trouble
for now.  We can revisit this if we get field complaints.

Per report from Greg Nancarrow.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
(The test case added here does not fail before v10, but there are
plenty of places checking top-level hasModifyingCTE in 9.6, so I have
no doubt that this code change is necessary there too.)

Greg Nancarrow and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-f68DT=26YAMz_i0+Au3TcLO5oiHY5=fL6Sfuits6r+_w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
2021-09-08 12:05:47 -04:00
Tom Lane a9da1934e9 Reject cases where a query in WITH rewrites to just NOTIFY.
Since the executor can't cope with a utility statement appearing
as a node of a plan tree, we can't support cases where a rewrite
rule inserts a NOTIFY into an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE command appearing
in a WITH clause of a larger query.  (One can imagine ways around
that, but it'd be a new feature not a bug fix, and so far there's
been no demand for it.)  RewriteQuery checked for this, but it
missed the case where the DML command rewrites to *only* a NOTIFY.
That'd lead to crashes later on in planning.  Add the missed check,
and improve the level of testing of this area.

Per bug #17094 from Yaoguang Chen.  It's been busted since WITH
was introduced, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17094-bf15dff55eaf2e28@postgresql.org
2021-07-09 11:02:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6d177e2813 Fix typo 2021-05-11 09:06:49 +02:00
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
Peter Eisentraut f4adc41c4f Enhanced cycle mark values
Per SQL:202x draft, in the CYCLE clause of a recursive query, the
cycle mark values can be of type boolean and can be omitted, in which
case they default to TRUE and FALSE.

Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/db80ceee-6f97-9b4a-8ee8-3ba0c58e5be2@2ndquadrant.com
2021-02-27 08:13:24 +01:00
Tom Lane 80ca8464fe Fix list-manipulation bug in WITH RECURSIVE processing.
makeDependencyGraphWalker and checkWellFormedRecursionWalker
thought they could hold onto a pointer to a list's first
cons cell while the list was modified by recursive calls.
That was okay when the cons cell was actually separately
palloc'd ... but since commit 1cff1b95a, it's quite unsafe,
leading to core dumps or incorrect complaints of faulty
WITH nesting.

In the field this'd require at least a seven-deep WITH nest
to cause an issue, but enabling DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE
allows the bug to be seen with lesser nesting depths.

Per bug #16801 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to v13.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16801-393c7922143eaa4d@postgresql.org
2021-02-25 20:47:32 -05:00
Tom Lane d1d2979852 Revert "Propagate CTE property flags when copying a CTE list into a rule."
This reverts commit ed29089633 and
equivalent back-branch commits.  The issue is subtler than I thought,
and it's far from new, so just before a release deadline is no time
to be fooling with it.  We'll consider what to do at a bit more
leisure.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-07 12:54:08 -05:00
Tom Lane ed29089633 Propagate CTE property flags when copying a CTE list into a rule.
rewriteRuleAction() neglected this step, although it was careful to
propagate other similar flags such as hasSubLinks or hasRowSecurity.
Omitting to transfer hasRecursive is just cosmetic at the moment,
but omitting hasModifyingCTE is a live bug, since the executor
certainly looks at that.

The proposed test case only fails back to v10, but since the executor
examines hasModifyingCTE in 9.x as well, I suspect that a test case
could be devised that fails in older branches.  Given the nearness
of the release deadline, though, I'm not going to spend time looking
for a better test.

Report and patch by Greg Nancarrow, cosmetic changes by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
2021-02-06 19:28:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 3696a600e2 SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
This adds the SQL standard feature that adds the SEARCH and CYCLE
clauses to recursive queries to be able to do produce breadth- or
depth-first search orders and detect cycles.  These clauses can be
rewritten into queries using existing syntax, and that is what this
patch does in the rewriter.

Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/db80ceee-6f97-9b4a-8ee8-3ba0c58e5be2@2ndquadrant.com
2021-02-01 14:32:51 +01:00
Tom Lane 926fa801ac Remove undocumented IS [NOT] OF syntax.
This feature was added a long time ago, in 7c1e67bd5 and eb121ba2c,
but never documented in any user-facing way.  (Documentation added
in 6126d3e70 was commented out almost immediately, in 8272fc3f7.)
That's because, while this syntax is defined by SQL:99, our
implementation is only vaguely related to the standard's semantics.
The standard appears to intend a run-time not parse-time test, and
it definitely intends that the test should understand subtype
relationships.

No one has stepped up to fix that in the intervening years, but
people keep coming across the code and asking why it's not documented.
Let's just get rid of it: if anyone ever wants to make it work per
spec, they can easily recover whatever parts of this code are still
of value from our git history.

If there's anyone out there who's actually using this despite its
undocumented status, they can switch to using pg_typeof() instead,
eg. "pg_typeof(something) = 'mytype'::regtype".  That gives
essentially the same semantics as what our IS OF code did.
(We didn't have that function last time this was discussed, or
we would have ripped out IS OF then.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZ2pTc-DSkOiTfjauqLYkNREeNZvWmeg12Q-_69D+sYZA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BAY20-F23E9F2B4DAB3E4E88D3623F99B0@phx.gbl
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3E7CF81D.1000203@joeconway.com
2020-11-19 17:39:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 01e658fa74 Hash support for row types
Add hash functions for the record type as well as a hash operator
family and operator class for the record type.  This enables all the
hash functionality for the record type such as hash-based plans for
UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT DISTINCT, recursive queries using UNION
DISTINCT, hash joins, and hash partitioning.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/38eccd35-4e2d-6767-1b3c-dada1eac3124%402ndquadrant.com
2020-11-19 09:32:47 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 6dd8b00807 Add more tests for hashing and hash-based plans
- Test hashing of an array of a non-hashable element type.

- Test UNION [DISTINCT] with hash- and sort-based plans.  (Previously,
  only INTERSECT and EXCEPT where tested there.)

- Test UNION [DISTINCT] with a non-hashable column type.  This
  currently reverts to a sort-based plan even if enable_hashagg is on.

- Test UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT hash- and sort-based plans with arrays
  as column types.  Also test an array with a non-hashable element
  type.

- Test UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT similarly with row types as column
  types.  Currently, this uses only sort-based plans because there is
  no hashing support for row types.

- Add a test case that shows that recursive queries using UNION
  [DISTINCT] require hashable column types.

- Add a currently failing test that uses UNION DISTINCT in a
  cycle-detection use case using row types as column types.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/38eccd35-4e2d-6767-1b3c-dada1eac3124%402ndquadrant.com
2020-11-18 08:29:50 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 3fb676504d Adjust cycle detection examples and tests
Adjust the existing cycle detection example and test queries to put
the cycle column before the path column.  This is mainly because the
SQL-standard CYCLE clause puts them in that order, and so if we added
that feature that would make the sequence of examples more consistent
and easier to follow.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/c5603982-0088-7f14-0caa-fdcd0c837b57@2ndquadrant.com
2020-10-12 08:01:21 +02:00
Tom Lane 55a1954da1 Fix EXPLAIN's column alias output for mismatched child tables.
If an inheritance/partitioning parent table is assigned some column
alias names in the query, EXPLAIN mapped those aliases onto the
child tables' columns by physical position, resulting in bogus output
if a child table's columns aren't one-for-one with the parent's.

To fix, make expand_single_inheritance_child() generate a correctly
re-mapped column alias list, rather than just copying the parent
RTE's alias node.  (We have to fill the alias field, not just
adjust the eref field, because ruleutils.c will ignore eref in
favor of looking at the real column names.)

This means that child tables will now always have alias fields in
plan rtables, where before they might not have.  That results in
a rather substantial set of regression test output changes:
EXPLAIN will now always show child tables with aliases that match
the parent table (usually with "_N" appended for uniqueness).
But that seems like a net positive for understandability, since
the parent alias corresponds to something that actually appeared
in the original query, while the child table names didn't.
(Note that this does not change anything for cases where an explicit
table alias was written in the query for the parent table; it
just makes cases without such aliases behave similarly to that.)
Hence, while we could avoid these subsidiary changes if we made
inherit.c more complicated, we choose not to.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12424.1575168015@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-12-02 19:08:10 -05:00
Simon Riggs 08ea7a2291 Revert MERGE patch
This reverts commits d204ef6377,
83454e3c2b and a few more commits thereafter
(complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature.

While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and
necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and
parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in
the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry
again in the future.

Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters.

List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:

 f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE
 ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
 530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable
 01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata
 3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds
 a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
 4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review
 4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE
 aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
 83454e3c2b New files for MERGE
 d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016

Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2018-04-12 11:22:56 +01:00
Simon Riggs aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Recursive support removed, no tests
Docs added by me
2018-04-03 12:13:59 +01:00
Tom Lane 2cf8c7aa48 Clean up duplicate table and function names in regression tests.
Many of the objects we create during the regression tests are put in the
public schema, so that using the same names in different regression tests
creates a hazard of test failures if any two such scripts run concurrently.
This patch cleans up a bunch of latent hazards of that sort, as well as two
live hazards.

The current situation in this regard is far worse than it was a year or two
back, because practically all of the partitioning-related test cases have
reused table names with enthusiasm.  I despaired of cleaning up that mess
within the five most-affected tests (create_table, alter_table, insert,
update, inherit); fortunately those don't run concurrently.

Other than partitioning problems, most of the issues boil down to using
names like "foo", "bar", "tmp", etc, without thought for the fact that
other test scripts might use similar names concurrently.  I've made an
effort to make all such names more specific.

One of the live hazards was that commit 7421f4b8 caused with.sql to
create a table named "test", conflicting with a similarly-named table
in alter_table.sql; this was exposed in the buildfarm recently.
The other one was that join.sql and transactions.sql both create tables
named "foo" and "bar"; but join.sql's uses of those names date back
only to December or so.

Since commit 7421f4b8 was back-patched to v10, back-patch a minimal
fix for that problem.  The rest of this is just future-proofing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4627.1521070268@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-15 17:09:02 -04:00
Tom Lane 7421f4b89a Fix incorrect handling of CTEs and ENRs as DML target relations.
setTargetTable threw an error if the proposed target RangeVar's relname
matched any visible CTE or ENR.  This breaks backwards compatibility in
the CTE case, since pre-v10 we never looked for a CTE here at all, so that
CTE names did not mask regular tables.  It does seem like a good idea to
throw an error for the ENR case, though, thus causing ENRs to mask tables
for this purpose; ENRs are new in v10 so we're not breaking existing code,
and we may someday want to allow them to be the targets of DML.

To fix that, replace use of getRTEForSpecialRelationTypes, which was
overkill anyway, with use of scanNameSpaceForENR.

A second problem was that the check neglected to verify null schemaname,
so that a CTE or ENR could incorrectly be thought to match a qualified
RangeVar.  That happened because getRTEForSpecialRelationTypes relied
on its caller to have checked for null schemaname.  Even though the one
remaining caller got it right, this is obviously bug-prone, so move
the check inside getRTEForSpecialRelationTypes.

Also, revert commit 18ce3a4ab's extremely poorly thought out decision to
add a NULL return case to parserOpenTable --- without either documenting
that or adjusting any of the callers to check for it.  The current bug
seems to have arisen in part due to working around that bad idea.

In passing, remove the one-line shim functions transformCTEReference and
transformENRReference --- they don't seem to be adding any clarity or
functionality.

Per report from Hugo Mercier (via Julien Rouhaud).  Back-patch to v10
where the bug was introduced.

Thomas Munro, with minor editing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_YdPVH+PTtiKSSLOiiW3mVDYsnNUekK+XPbHXiP=wrFLA@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-16 17:56:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 237a0b87b1 Improve plural handling in error message
This does not use the normal plural handling, because no numbers appear
in the actual message.
2017-08-23 13:56:59 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 18ce3a4ab2 Add infrastructure to support EphemeralNamedRelation references.
A QueryEnvironment concept is added, which allows new types of
objects to be passed into queries from parsing on through
execution.  At this point, the only thing implemented is a
collection of EphemeralNamedRelation objects -- relations which
can be referenced by name in queries, but do not exist in the
catalogs.  The only type of ENR implemented is NamedTuplestore, but
provision is made to add more types fairly easily.

An ENR can carry its own TupleDesc or reference a relation in the
catalogs by relid.

Although these features can be used without SPI, convenience
functions are added to SPI so that ENRs can easily be used by code
run through SPI.

The initial use of all this is going to be transition tables in
AFTER triggers, but that will be added to each PL as a separate
commit.

An incidental effect of this patch is to produce a more informative
error message if an attempt is made to modify the contents of a CTE
from a referencing DML statement.  No tests previously covered that
possibility, so one is added.

Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas, David Fetter, and Thomas Munro
with valuable comments and suggestions from many others
2017-03-31 23:17:18 -05:00
Tom Lane 1e7c4bb004 Change unknown-type literals to type text in SELECT and RETURNING lists.
Previously, we left such literals alone if the query or subquery had
no properties forcing a type decision to be made (such as an ORDER BY or
DISTINCT clause using that output column).  This meant that "unknown" could
be an exposed output column type, which has never been a great idea because
it could result in strange failures later on.  For example, an outer query
that tried to do any operations on an unknown-type subquery output would
generally fail with some weird error like "failed to find conversion
function from unknown to text" or "could not determine which collation to
use for string comparison".  Also, if the case occurred in a CREATE VIEW's
query then the view would have an unknown-type column, causing similar
failures in queries trying to use the view.

To fix, at the tail end of parse analysis of a query, forcibly convert any
remaining "unknown" literals in its SELECT or RETURNING list to type text.
However, provide a switch to suppress that, and use it in the cases of
SELECT inside a set operation or INSERT command.  In those cases we already
had type resolution rules that make use of context information from outside
the subquery proper, and we don't want to change that behavior.

Also, change creation of an unknown-type column in a relation from a
warning to a hard error.  The error should be unreachable now in CREATE
VIEW or CREATE MATVIEW, but it's still possible to explicitly say "unknown"
in CREATE TABLE or CREATE (composite) TYPE.  We want to forbid that because
it's nothing but a foot-gun.

This change creates a pg_upgrade failure case: a matview that contains an
unknown-type column can't be pg_upgraded, because reparsing the matview's
defining query will now decide that the column is of type text, which
doesn't match the cstring-like storage that the old materialized column
would actually have.  Add a checking pass to detect that.  While at it,
we can detect tables or composite types that would fail, essentially
for free.  Those would fail safely anyway later on, but we might as
well fail earlier.

This patch is by me, but it owes something to previous investigations
by Rahila Syed.  Also thanks to Ashutosh Bapat and Michael Paquier for
review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28uwwbL9HUM-WR=hromW1Cvamkn7O-g8fPY2m=_7muJ0oA@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-25 09:17:24 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut a0f357e570 psql: Split up "Modifiers" column in \d and \dD
Make separate columns "Collation", "Nullable", "Default".

Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
2016-11-03 14:02:46 -04:00
Andres Freund 0137caf273 Make regression tests less dependent on hash table order.
Upcoming changes to the hash table code used, among others, for grouping
and set operations will change the output order for a few queries. To
make it less likely that actual bugs are hidden between regression test
ordering changes, and to make the tests robust against platform
dependant ordering, add ORDER BYs guaranteeing the output order.

As it's possible that some of the changes expose platform dependant
ordering, push this earlier, to let the buildfarm shake out potentially
unstable results.

Discussion: <20160727004333.r3e2k2y6fvk2ntup@alap3.anarazel.de>
2016-10-10 13:41:57 -07:00
Andres Freund 84ac126ee7 Fix ON CONFLICT UPDATE bug breaking AFTER UPDATE triggers.
ExecOnConflictUpdate() passed t_ctid of the to-be-updated tuple to
ExecUpdate(). That's problematic primarily because of two reason: First
and foremost t_ctid could point to a different tuple. Secondly, and
that's what triggered the complaint by Stanislav, t_ctid is changed by
heap_update() to point to the new tuple version.  The behavior of AFTER
UPDATE triggers was therefore broken, with NEW.* and OLD.* tuples
spuriously identical within AFTER UPDATE triggers.

To fix both issues, pass a pointer to t_self of a on-stack HeapTuple
instead.

Fixing this bug lead to one change in regression tests, which previously
failed due to the first issue mentioned above. There's a reasonable
expectation that test fails, as it updates one row repeatedly within one
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT statement. That is only possible if the second
update is triggered via ON CONFLICT ... SET, ON CONFLICT ... WHERE, or
by a WITH CHECK expression, as those are executed after
ExecOnConflictUpdate() does a visibility check. That could easily be
prohibited, but given it's allowed for plain UPDATEs and a rare corner
case, it doesn't seem worthwhile.

Reported-By: Stanislav Grozev
Author: Andres Freund and Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: CAA78GVqy1+LisN-8DygekD_Ldfy=BJLarSpjGhytOsgkpMavfQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2015-12-10 16:29:26 +01:00
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
Tom Lane 542320c2bd Be more careful about printing constants in ruleutils.c.
The previous coding in get_const_expr() tried to avoid quoting integer,
float, and numeric literals if at all possible.  While that looks nice,
it means that dumped expressions might re-parse to something that's
semantically equivalent but not the exact same parsetree; for example
a FLOAT8 constant would re-parse as a NUMERIC constant with a cast to
FLOAT8.  Though the result would be the same after constant-folding,
this is problematic in certain contexts.  In particular, Jeff Davis
pointed out that this could cause unexpected failures in ALTER INHERIT
operations because of child tables having not-exactly-equivalent CHECK
expressions.  Therefore, favor correctness over legibility and dump
such constants in quotes except in the limited cases where they'll
be interpreted as the same type even without any casting.

This results in assorted small changes in the regression test outputs,
and will affect display of user-defined views and rules similarly.
The odds of that causing problems in the field seem non-negligible;
given the lack of previous complaints, it seems best not to change
this in the back branches.
2015-03-30 14:59:49 -04:00
Tom Lane cb1ca4d800 Allow foreign tables to participate in inheritance.
Foreign tables can now be inheritance children, or parents.  Much of the
system was already ready for this, but we had to fix a few things of
course, mostly in the area of planner and executor handling of row locks.

As side effects of this, allow foreign tables to have NOT VALID CHECK
constraints (and hence to accept ALTER ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT), and to
accept ALTER SET STORAGE and ALTER SET WITH/WITHOUT OIDS.  Continuing to
disallow these things would've required bizarre and inconsistent special
cases in inheritance behavior.  Since foreign tables don't enforce CHECK
constraints anyway, a NOT VALID one is a complete no-op, but that doesn't
mean we shouldn't allow it.  And it's possible that some FDWs might have
use for SET STORAGE or SET WITH OIDS, though doubtless they will be no-ops
for most.

An additional change in support of this is that when a ModifyTable node
has multiple target tables, they will all now be explicitly identified
in EXPLAIN output, for example:

 Update on pt1  (cost=0.00..321.05 rows=3541 width=46)
   Update on pt1
   Foreign Update on ft1
   Foreign Update on ft2
   Update on child3
   ->  Seq Scan on pt1  (cost=0.00..0.00 rows=1 width=46)
   ->  Foreign Scan on ft1  (cost=100.00..148.03 rows=1170 width=46)
   ->  Foreign Scan on ft2  (cost=100.00..148.03 rows=1170 width=46)
   ->  Seq Scan on child3  (cost=0.00..25.00 rows=1200 width=46)

This was done mainly to provide an unambiguous place to attach "Remote SQL"
fields, but it is useful for inherited updates even when no foreign tables
are involved.

Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and Kyotaro
Horiguchi, some additional hacking by me
2015-03-22 13:53:21 -04:00
Tom Lane d809fd0008 Improve parser's one-extra-token lookahead mechanism.
There are a couple of places in our grammar that fail to be strict LALR(1),
by requiring more than a single token of lookahead to decide what to do.
Up to now we've dealt with that by using a filter between the lexer and
parser that merges adjacent tokens into one in the places where two tokens
of lookahead are necessary.  But that creates a number of user-visible
anomalies, for instance that you can't name a CTE "ordinality" because
"WITH ordinality AS ..." triggers folding of WITH and ORDINALITY into one
token.  I realized that there's a better way.

In this patch, we still do the lookahead basically as before, but we never
merge the second token into the first; we replace just the first token by
a special lookahead symbol when one of the lookahead pairs is seen.

This requires a couple extra productions in the grammar, but it involves
fewer special tokens, so that the grammar tables come out a bit smaller
than before.  The filter logic is no slower than before, perhaps a bit
faster.

I also fixed the filter logic so that when backing up after a lookahead,
the current token's terminator is correctly restored; this eliminates some
weird behavior in error message issuance, as is shown by the one change in
existing regression test outputs.

I believe that this patch entirely eliminates odd behaviors caused by
lookahead for WITH.  It doesn't really improve the situation for NULLS
followed by FIRST/LAST unfortunately: those sequences still act like a
reserved word, even though there are cases where they should be seen as two
ordinary identifiers, eg "SELECT nulls first FROM ...".  I experimented
with additional grammar hacks but couldn't find any simple solution for
that.  Still, this is better than before, and it seems much more likely
that we *could* somehow solve the NULLS case on the basis of this filter
behavior than the previous one.
2015-02-24 17:53:45 -05:00
Tom Lane 41de93c53a Reduce indentation/parenthesization of set operations in rule/view dumps.
A query such as "SELECT x UNION SELECT y UNION SELECT z UNION ..."
produces a left-deep nested parse tree, which we formerly showed in its
full nested glory and with all the possible parentheses.  This does little
for readability, though, and long UNION lists resulting in excessive
indentation are common.  Instead, let's omit parentheses and indent all
the subqueries at the same level in such cases.

This patch skips indentation/parenthesization whenever the lefthand input
of a SetOperationStmt is another SetOperationStmt of the same kind and
ALL/DISTINCT property.  We could teach the code the exact syntactic
precedence of set operations and thereby avoid parenthesization in some
more cases, but it's not clear that that'd be a readability win: it seems
better to parenthesize if the set operation changes.  (As an example,
if there's one UNION in a long list of UNION ALL, it now stands out like
a sore thumb, which seems like a good thing.)

Back-patch to 9.3.  This completes our response to a complaint from Greg
Stark that since commit 62e666400d there's a performance problem in pg_dump
for views containing long UNION sequences (or other types of deeply nested
constructs).  The previous commit 0601cb54da
handles the general problem, but this one makes the specific case of UNION
lists look a lot nicer.
2014-04-30 13:26:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b7e660d6c Fix ruleutils pretty-printing to not generate trailing whitespace.
The pretty-printing logic in ruleutils.c operates by inserting a newline
and some indentation whitespace into strings that are already valid SQL.
This naturally results in leaving some trailing whitespace before the
newline in many cases; which can be annoying when processing the output
with other tools, as complained of by Joe Abbate.  We can fix that in
a pretty localized fashion by deleting any trailing whitespace before
we append a pretty-printing newline.  In addition, we have to modify the
code inserted by commit 2f582f76b1 so that
we also delete trailing whitespace when transposing items from temporary
buffers into the main result string, when a temporary item starts with a
newline.

This results in rather voluminous changes to the regression test results,
but it's easily verified that they are only removal of trailing whitespace.

Back-patch to 9.3, because the aforementioned commit resulted in many
more cases of trailing whitespace than had occurred in earlier branches.
2013-11-11 13:36:38 -05:00
Tom Lane 62e666400d Perform line wrapping and indenting by default in ruleutils.c.
This patch changes pg_get_viewdef() and allied functions so that
PRETTY_INDENT processing is always enabled.  Per discussion, only the
PRETTY_PAREN processing (that is, stripping of "unnecessary" parentheses)
poses any real forward-compatibility risk, so we may as well make dump
output look as nice as we safely can.

Also, set the default wrap length to zero (i.e, wrap after each SELECT
or FROM list item), since there's no very principled argument for the
former default of 80-column wrapping, and most people seem to agree this
way looks better.

Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke, further hacking by Tom Lane
2013-02-03 15:56:45 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 5839052693 Add CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW syntax
This is specified in the SQL standard.  The CREATE RECURSIVE VIEW
specification is transformed into a normal CREATE VIEW statement with a
WITH RECURSIVE clause.

reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen and Stephen Frost
2013-01-31 22:31:58 -05:00