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Alvaro Herrera ac41769fd9 Oops, forgot to "git add" one last change 2014-08-25 15:32:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 7636c0c821 Editorial review of SET UNLOGGED
Add a succint comment explaining why it's correct to change the
persistence in this way.  Also s/loggedness/persistence/ because native
speakers didn't like the latter term.

Fabrízio and Álvaro
2014-08-25 13:50:19 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f41872d0c1 Implement ALTER TABLE .. SET LOGGED / UNLOGGED
This enables changing permanent (logged) tables to unlogged and
vice-versa.

(Docs for ALTER TABLE / SET TABLESPACE got shuffled in an order that
hopefully makes more sense than the original.)

Author: Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Reviewed by: Christoph Berg, Andres Freund, Thom Brown
Some tweaking by Álvaro Herrera
2014-08-22 14:27:00 -04:00
Stephen Frost 3c4cf08087 Rework 'MOVE ALL' to 'ALTER .. ALL IN TABLESPACE'
As 'ALTER TABLESPACE .. MOVE ALL' really didn't change the tablespace
but instead changed objects inside tablespaces, it made sense to
rework the syntax and supporting functions to operate under the
'ALTER (TABLE|INDEX|MATERIALIZED VIEW)' syntax and to be in
tablecmds.c.

Pointed out by Alvaro, who also suggested the new syntax.

Back-patch to 9.4.
2014-08-21 19:06:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 9da8675373 Reject duplicate column names in foreign key referenced-columns lists.
Such cases are disallowed by the SQL spec, and even if we wanted to allow
them, the semantics seem ambiguous: how should the FK columns be matched up
with the columns of a unique index?  (The matching could be significant in
the presence of opclasses with different notions of equality, so this issue
isn't just academic.)  However, our code did not previously reject such
cases, but instead would either fail to match to any unique index, or
generate a bizarre opclass-lookup error because of sloppy thinking in the
index-matching code.

David Rowley
2014-08-09 13:46:34 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 54685338e3 Move log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to xlog.c.
log_newpage is used by many indexams, in addition to heap, but for
historical reasons it's always been part of the heapam rmgr. Starting with
9.3, we have another WAL record type for logging an image of a page,
XLOG_FPI. Simplify things by moving log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to
xlog.c, and switch to using the XLOG_FPI record type.

Bump the WAL version number because the code to replay the old HEAP_NEWPAGE
records is removed.
2014-07-31 16:48:55 +03:00
Alvaro Herrera 346d7be184 Move view reloptions into their own varlena struct
Per discussion after a gripe from me in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140611194633.GH18688@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org

Jaime Casanova
2014-07-14 17:24:40 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas a87a7dc8b6 Don't allow foreign tables with OIDs.
The syntax doesn't let you specify "WITH OIDS" for foreign tables, but it
was still possible with default_with_oids=true. But the rest of the system,
including pg_dump, isn't prepared to handle foreign tables with OIDs
properly.

Backpatch down to 9.1, where foreign tables were introduced. It's possible
that there are databases out there that already have foreign tables with
OIDs. There isn't much we can do about that, but at least we can prevent
them from being created in the future.

Patch by Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Hadi Moshayedi.
2014-06-24 13:27:18 +03:00
Bruce Momjian 0a78320057 pgindent run for 9.4
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was
applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d00190495 Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].
Commit a730183926 created rather a mess by
putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common.
We really shouldn't do that.  To clean it up:

* Move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY back to its longtime home in
catalog/catalog.h.  We won't consider this symbol part of the FE/BE API.

* Push enum ForkNumber from relfilenode.h into relpath.h.  We'll consider
relpath.h as the source of truth for fork numbers, since relpath.c was
already partially serving that function, and anyway relfilenode.h was
kind of a random place for that enum.

* So, relfilenode.h now includes relpath.h rather than vice-versa.  This
direction of dependency is fine.  (That allows most, but not quite all,
of the existing explicit #includes of relpath.h to go away again.)

* Push forkname_to_number from catalog.c to relpath.c, just to centralize
fork number stuff a bit better.

* Push GetDatabasePath from catalog.c to relpath.c; it was rather odd
that the previous commit didn't keep this together with relpath().

* To avoid needing relfilenode.h in common/, redefine the underlying
function (now called GetRelationPath) as taking separate OID arguments,
and make the APIs using RelFileNode or RelFileNodeBackend into macro
wrappers.  (The macros have a potential multiple-eval risk, but none of
the existing call sites have an issue with that; one of them had such a
risk already anyway.)

* Fix failure to follow the directions when "init" fork type was added;
specifically, the errhint in forkname_to_number wasn't updated, and neither
was the SGML documentation for pg_relation_size().

* Fix tablespace-path-too-long check in CreateTableSpace() to account for
fork-name component of maximum-length pathnames.  This requires putting
FORKNAMECHARS into a header file, but it was rather useless (and
actually unreferenced) where it was.

The last couple of items are potentially back-patchable bug fixes,
if anyone is sufficiently excited about them; but personally I'm not.

Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't
self-contained.
2014-04-30 17:30:50 -04:00
Stephen Frost 842faa714c Make security barrier views automatically updatable
Views which are marked as security_barrier must have their quals
applied before any user-defined quals are called, to prevent
user-defined functions from being able to see rows which the
security barrier view is intended to prevent them from seeing.

Remove the restriction on security barrier views being automatically
updatable by adding a new securityQuals list to the RTE structure
which keeps track of the quals from security barrier views at each
level, independently of the user-supplied quals.  When RTEs are
later discovered which have securityQuals populated, they are turned
into subquery RTEs which are marked as security_barrier to prevent
any user-supplied quals being pushed down (modulo LEAKPROOF quals).

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Craig Ringer, Simon Riggs, KaiGai Kohei
2014-04-12 21:04:58 -04:00
Simon Riggs e5550d5fec Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmds
VALIDATE CONSTRAINT

CLUSTER ON
SET WITHOUT CLUSTER

ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS
ALTER COLUMN SET ()
ALTER COLUMN RESET ()

All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock

Simon Riggs and Noah Misch

Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
2014-04-06 11:13:43 -04:00
Noah Misch 7cbe57c34d Offer triggers on foreign tables.
This covers all the SQL-standard trigger types supported for regular
tables; it does not cover constraint triggers.  The approach for
acquiring the old row mirrors that for view INSTEAD OF triggers.  For
AFTER ROW triggers, we spool the foreign tuples to a tuplestore.

This changes the FDW API contract; when deciding which columns to
populate in the slot returned from data modification callbacks, writable
FDWs will need to check for AFTER ROW triggers in addition to checking
for a RETURNING clause.

In support of the feature addition, refactor the TriggerFlags bits and
the assembly of old tuples in ModifyTable.

Ronan Dunklau, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei; some additional hacking by me.
2014-03-23 02:16:34 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5024044a20 C comments: improve description of relfilenode uniqueness
Report by Antonin Houska
2014-03-08 12:20:30 -05:00
Robert Haas cf6aa68bbd Update a few comments to mention materialized views.
Etsuro Fujita
2014-02-25 13:40:12 -05:00
Robert Haas 5f173040e3 Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.
If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent
activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table
than other parts.  At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be
used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a
different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege
escalation attack.

This changes the calling convention for DefineIndex, CreateTrigger,
transformIndexStmt, transformAlterTableStmt, CheckIndexCompatible
(in 9.2 and newer), and AlterTable (in 9.1 and older).  In addition,
CheckRelationOwnership is removed in 9.2 and newer and the calling
convention is changed in older branches.  A field has also been added
to the Constraint node (FkConstraint in 8.4).  Third-party code calling
these functions or using the Constraint node will require updating.

Report by Andres Freund.  Patch by Robert Haas and Andres Freund,
reviewed by Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2014-0062
2014-02-17 09:33:31 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera b152c6cd0d Make DROP IF EXISTS more consistently not fail
Some cases were still reporting errors and aborting, instead of a NOTICE
that the object was being skipped.  This makes it more difficult to
cleanly handle pg_dump --clean, so change that to instead skip missing
objects properly.

Per bug #7873 reported by Dave Rolsky; apparently this affects a large
number of users.

Authors: Pavel Stehule and Dean Rasheed.  Some tweaks by Álvaro Herrera
2014-01-23 14:40:29 -03:00
Stephen Frost 6f25c62d78 Allow SET TABLESPACE to database default
We've always allowed CREATE TABLE to create tables in the database's default
tablespace without checking for CREATE permissions on that tablespace.
Unfortunately, the original implementation of ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE
didn't pick up on that exception.

This changes ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE to allow the database's default
tablespace without checking for CREATE rights on that tablespace, just as
CREATE TABLE works today.  Users could always do this through a series of
commands (CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT * FROM ...; DROP TABLE ...; etc), so
let's fix the oversight in SET TABLESPACE's original implementation.
2014-01-18 18:41:52 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7e04792a1c Update copyright for 2014
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back
branches.
2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
Robert Haas 66abc2608c Add a new reloption, user_catalog_table.
When this reloption is set and wal_level=logical is configured,
we'll record the CIDs stamped by inserts, updates, and deletes to
the table just as we would for an actual catalog table.  This will
allow logical decoding to use historical MVCC snapshots to access
such tables just as they access ordinary catalog tables.

Replication solutions built around the logical decoding machinery
will likely need to set this operation for their configuration
tables; it might also be needed by extensions which perform table
access in their output functions.

Andres Freund, reviewed by myself and others.
2013-12-10 19:17:34 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9e857436ef Don't include unused space in LOG_NEWPAGE records.
This is the same trick we use when taking a full page image of a buffer
passed to XLogInsert.
2013-12-04 00:10:47 +02:00
Robert Haas 8e18d04d4d Refine our definition of what constitutes a system relation.
Although user-defined relations can't be directly created in
pg_catalog, it's possible for them to end up there, because you can
create them in some other schema and then use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA
to move them there.  Previously, such relations couldn't afterwards
be manipulated, because IsSystemRelation()/IsSystemClass() rejected
all attempts to modify objects in the pg_catalog schema, regardless
of their origin.  With this patch, they now reject only those
objects in pg_catalog which were created at initdb-time, allowing
most operations on user-created tables in pg_catalog to proceed
normally.

This patch also adds new functions IsCatalogRelation() and
IsCatalogClass(), which is similar to IsSystemRelation() and
IsSystemClass() but with a slightly narrower definition: only TOAST
tables of system catalogs are included, rather than *all* TOAST tables.
This is currently used only for making decisions about when
invalidation messages need to be sent, but upcoming logical decoding
patches will find other uses for this information.

Andres Freund, with some modifications by me.
2013-11-28 20:57:20 -05:00
Tom Lane 784e762e88 Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)
as a single FROM-clause entry.  The result is the concatenation of the
first row from each function, followed by the second row from each
function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than
others.  This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what
Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list.

This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column
definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list
inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality
column as well.

Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning
UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)).

The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not
multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is
not what this patch does.  There may be something wrong with that reading
of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just
a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST().  After further review of
that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does,
but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile.

Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and
significantly revised by me
2013-11-21 19:37:20 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 001e114b8d Fix whitespace issues found by git diff --check, add gitattributes
Set per file type attributes in .gitattributes to fine-tune whitespace
checks.  With the associated cleanups, the tree is now clean for git
2013-11-10 14:48:29 -05:00
Robert Haas 07cacba983 Add the notion of REPLICA IDENTITY for a table.
Pending patches for logical replication will use this to determine
which columns of a tuple ought to be considered as its candidate key.

Andres Freund, with minor, mostly cosmetic adjustments by me
2013-11-08 12:30:43 -05:00
Robert Haas cab5dc5daf Allow only some columns of a view to be auto-updateable.
Previously, unless all columns were auto-updateable, we wouldn't
inserts, updates, or deletes, or at least not without a rule or trigger;
now, we'll allow inserts and updates that target only the auto-updateable
columns, and deletes even if there are no auto-updateable columns at
all provided the view definition is otherwise suitable.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Marko Tiikkaja
2013-10-18 10:35:36 -04:00
Robert Haas ba3d39c969 Don't allow system columns in CHECK constraints, except tableoid.
Previously, arbitray system columns could be mentioned in table
constraints, but they were not correctly checked at runtime, because
the values weren't actually set correctly in the tuple.  Since it
seems easy enough to initialize the table OID properly, do that,
and continue allowing that column, but disallow the rest unless and
until someone figures out a way to make them work properly.

No back-patch, because this doesn't seem important enough to take the
risk of destabilizing the back branches.  In fact, this will pose a
dump-and-reload hazard for those upgrading from previous versions:
constraints that were accepted before but were not correctly enforced
will now either be enforced correctly or not accepted at all.  Either
could result in restore failures, but in practice I think very few
users will notice the difference, since the use case is pretty
marginal anyway and few users will be relying on features that have
not historically worked.

Amit Kapila, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, with doc changes by me.
2013-09-23 13:31:22 -04:00
Kevin Grittner 3f78b1715c Don't allow ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW ADD UNIQUE.
Was accidentally allowed, but not documented and lacked support
for rename or drop once created.

Per report from Noah Misch.
2013-08-15 13:14:48 -05:00
Stephen Frost 4cbe3ac3e8 WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWs
For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows
the user to specify what level of checking should be done on records
being inserted or updated.  For 'LOCAL CHECK', new tuples are validated
against the conditionals of the view they are being inserted into, while
for 'CASCADED CHECK' the new tuples are validated against the
conditionals for all views involved (from the top down).

This option is part of the SQL specification.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-07-18 17:10:16 -04:00
Kevin Grittner cc1965a99b Add support for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.
This allows reads to continue without any blocking while a REFRESH
runs.  The new data appears atomically as part of transaction
commit.

Review questioned the Assert that a matview was not a system
relation.  This will be addressed separately.

Reviewed by Hitoshi Harada, Robert Haas, Andres Freund.
Merged after review with security patch f3ab5d4.
2013-07-16 12:55:44 -05:00
Noah Misch 02d2b694ee Update messages, comments and documentation for materialized views.
All instances of the verbiage lagging the code.  Back-patch to 9.3,
where materialized views were introduced.
2013-07-05 15:37:51 -04:00
Fujii Masao 2ef085d0e6 Get rid of pg_class.reltoastidxid.
Treat TOAST index just the same as normal one and get the OID
of TOAST index from pg_index but not pg_class.reltoastidxid.
This change allows us to handle multiple TOAST indexes, and
which is required infrastructure for upcoming
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY feature.

Patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by Andres Freund and me.
2013-07-04 03:24:09 +09:00
Robert Haas 568d4138c6 Use an MVCC snapshot, rather than SnapshotNow, for catalog scans.
SnapshotNow scans have the undesirable property that, in the face of
concurrent updates, the scan can fail to see either the old or the new
versions of the row.  In many cases, we work around this by requiring
DDL operations to hold AccessExclusiveLock on the object being
modified; in some cases, the existing locking is inadequate and random
failures occur as a result.  This commit doesn't change anything
related to locking, but will hopefully pave the way to allowing lock
strength reductions in the future.

The major issue has held us back from making this change in the past
is that taking an MVCC snapshot is significantly more expensive than
using a static special snapshot such as SnapshotNow.  However, testing
of various worst-case scenarios reveals that this problem is not
severe except under fairly extreme workloads.  To mitigate those
problems, we avoid retaking the MVCC snapshot for each new scan;
instead, we take a new snapshot only when invalidation messages have
been processed.  The catcache machinery already requires that
invalidation messages be sent before releasing the related heavyweight
lock; else other backends might rely on locally-cached data rather
than scanning the catalog at all.  Thus, making snapshot reuse
dependent on the same guarantees shouldn't break anything that wasn't
already subtly broken.

Patch by me.  Review by Michael Paquier and Andres Freund.
2013-07-02 09:47:01 -04:00
Simon Riggs f177cbfe67 ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKs
Allow constraint attributes to be altered,
so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE
can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back.

Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-29 00:27:30 +01:00
Simon Riggs 2f74e4ec50 Assert that ALTER TABLE subcommands have pass set 2013-06-29 00:26:46 +01:00
Simon Riggs 4f14c86d74 Reverting previous commit, pending investigation
of sporadic seg faults from various build farm members.
2013-06-24 21:21:18 +01:00
Simon Riggs b577a57d41 ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKs
Allow constraint attributes to be altered,
so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE
can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back.

Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-24 20:07:41 +01:00
Stephen Frost 551938ae22 Post-pgindent cleanup
Make slightly better decisions about indentation than what pgindent
is capable of.  Mostly breaking out long function calls into one
line per argument, with a few other minor adjustments.

No functional changes- all whitespace.
pgindent ran cleanly (didn't change anything) after.
Passes all regressions.
2013-06-01 09:38:15 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9af4159fce pgindent run for release 9.3
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script.  Also update
pgindent instructions.
2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
Tom Lane b142068622 Allow CREATE FOREIGN TABLE to include SERIAL columns.
The behavior is that the required sequence is created locally, which is
appropriate because the default expression will be evaluated locally.
Per gripe from Brad Nicholson that this case was refused with a confusing
error message.  We could have improved the error message but it seems
better to just allow the case.

Also, remove ALTER TABLE's arbitrary prohibition against being applied to
foreign tables, which was pretty inconsistent considering we allow it for
views, sequences, and other relation types that aren't even called tables.
This is needed to avoid breaking pg_dump, which sometimes emits column
defaults using separate ALTER TABLE commands.  (I think this can happen
even when the default is not associated with a sequence, so that was a
pre-existing bug once we allowed column defaults for foreign tables.)
2013-05-15 19:03:29 -04:00
Tom Lane 0b33790421 Clean up the mess around EXPLAIN and materialized views.
Revert the matview-related changes in explain.c's API, as per recent
complaint from Robert Haas.  The reason for these appears to have been
principally some ill-considered choices around having intorel_startup do
what ought to be parse-time checking, plus a poor arrangement for passing
it the view parsetree it needs to store into pg_rewrite when creating a
materialized view.  Do the latter by having parse analysis stick a copy
into the IntoClause, instead of doing it at runtime.  (On the whole,
I seriously question the choice to represent CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW as a
variant of SELECT INTO/CREATE TABLE AS, because that means injecting even
more complexity into what was already a horrid legacy kluge.  However,
I didn't go so far as to rethink that choice ... yet.)

I also moved several error checks into matview parse analysis, and
made the check for external Params in a matview more accurate.

In passing, clean things up a bit more around interpretOidsOption(),
and fix things so that we can use that to force no-oids for views,
sequences, etc, thereby eliminating the need to cons up "oids = false"
options when creating them.

catversion bump due to change in IntoClause.  (I wonder though if we
really need readfuncs/outfuncs support for IntoClause anymore.)
2013-04-12 19:25:31 -04:00
Simon Riggs cf8dc9e10c Fix checksums for CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL etc.
In CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL and ALTER TABLE SET TABLESPACE
I erroneously set checksum before log_newpage, which
sets the LSN and invalidates the checksum. So set
checksum immediately *after* log_newpage.

Bug report Fujii Masao, Fix and patch by Jeff Davis
2013-04-07 22:16:51 +01:00
Kevin Grittner 549dae0352 Fix problems with incomplete attempt to prohibit OIDS with MVs.
Problem with assertion failure in restoring from pg_dump output
reported by Joachim Wieland.

Review and suggestions by Tom Lane and Robert Haas.
2013-03-22 13:27:34 -05:00
Simon Riggs 96ef3b8ff1 Allow I/O reliability checks using 16-bit checksums
Checksums are set immediately prior to flush out of shared buffers
and checked when pages are read in again. Hint bit setting will
require full page write when block is dirtied, which causes various
infrastructure changes. Extensive comments, docs and README.

WARNING message thrown if checksum fails on non-all zeroes page;
ERROR thrown but can be disabled with ignore_checksum_failure = on.

Feature enabled by an initdb option, since transition from option off
to option on is long and complex and has not yet been implemented.
Default is not to use checksums.

Checksum used is WAL CRC-32 truncated to 16-bits.

Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis, Greg Smith
Wide input and assistance from many community members. Thank you.
2013-03-22 13:54:07 +00:00
Robert Haas 05f3f9c7b2 Extend object-access hook machinery to support post-alter events.
This also slightly widens the scope of what we support in terms of
post-create events.

KaiGai Kohei, with a few changes, mostly to the comments, by me
2013-03-17 22:57:26 -04:00
Tom Lane a0c6dfeecf Allow default expressions to be attached to columns of foreign tables.
There's still some discussion about exactly how postgres_fdw ought to
handle this case, but there seems no debate that we want to allow defaults
to be used for inserts into foreign tables.  So remove the core-code
restrictions that prevented it.

While at it, get rid of the special grammar productions for CREATE FOREIGN
TABLE, and instead add explicit FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error checks for the
disallowed cases.  This makes the grammar a shade smaller, and more
importantly results in much more intelligible error messages for
unsupported cases.  It's also one less thing to fix if we ever start
supporting constraints on foreign tables.
2013-03-12 17:37:07 -04:00
Robert Haas f90cc26982 Code beautification for object-access hook machinery.
KaiGai Kohei
2013-03-06 20:53:25 -05:00
Kevin Grittner 3bf3ab8c56 Add a materialized view relations.
A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and
other physical properties like a table.  The rule is only used to
populate the table, references in queries refer to the
materialized data.

This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in
many cases.  Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements.
It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates
with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining
what is "fresh" data will be developed.  At some point it may even
be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of
references to underlying tables, but that requires the other
above-mentioned features to be working first.

Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas.
Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja
Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to
implement sepgsql still pending.
2013-03-03 18:23:31 -06:00
Tom Lane 991f3e5ab3 Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.
This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to
extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages,
if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION
failure.  It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which
can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint
associated with the error.  (Since the protocol spec has always instructed
clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any
compatibility problem.)

Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set
of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation"
SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with
additional hacking by Tom Lane.
2013-01-29 17:08:26 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas c9d7dbacd3 Skip truncating ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS temp tables, if the transaction hasn't
touched any temporary tables.

We could try harder, and keep track of whether we've inserted to any temp
tables, rather than accessed them, and which temp tables have been inserted
to. But this is dead simple, and already covers many interesting scenarios.
2013-01-29 10:43:33 +02:00