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Peter Eisentraut d90ad5d8ab Small spelling fix 2014-07-15 08:45:27 -04:00
Tom Lane a749a23d7a Remove use_json_as_text options from json_to_record/json_populate_record.
The "false" case was really quite useless since all it did was to throw
an error; a definition not helped in the least by making it the default.
Instead let's just have the "true" case, which emits nested objects and
arrays in JSON syntax.  We might later want to provide the ability to
emit sub-objects in Postgres record or array syntax, but we'd be best off
to drive that off a check of the target field datatype, not a separate
argument.

For the functions newly added in 9.4, we can just remove the flag arguments
outright.  We can't do that for json_populate_record[set], which already
existed in 9.3, but we can ignore the argument and always behave as if it
were "true".  It helps that the flag arguments were optional and not
documented in any useful fashion anyway.
2014-06-29 13:50:58 -04:00
Noah Misch d098b236f3 Fix typos in comments. 2014-06-11 19:50:29 -04:00
Andres Freund f0c108560b Consistently spell a replication slot's name as slot_name.
Previously there's been a mix between 'slotname' and 'slot_name'. It's
not nice to be unneccessarily inconsistent in a new feature. As a post
beta1 initdb now is required in the wake of eeca4cd35e, fix the
inconsistencies.
Most the changes won't affect usage of replication slots because the
majority of changes is around function parameter names. The prominent
exception to that is that the recovery.conf parameter
'primary_slotname' is now named 'primary_slot_name'.
2014-06-05 16:29:20 +02:00
Andres Freund 621a99a666 Fix longstanding bug in HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() didn't properly discern between
DELETE_IN_PROGRESS and INSERT_IN_PROGRESS for rows that have been
inserted in the current transaction and deleted in a aborted
subtransaction of the current backend. At the very least that caused
problems for CLUSTER and CREATE INDEX in transactions that had
aborting subtransactions producing rows, leading to warnings like:
WARNING:  concurrent delete in progress within table "..."
possibly in an endless, uninterruptible, loop.

Instead of treating *InProgress xmins the same as *IsCurrent ones,
treat them as being distinct like the other visibility routines. As
implemented this separatation can cause a behaviour change for rows
that have been inserted and deleted in another, still running,
transaction. HTSV will now return INSERT_IN_PROGRESS instead of
DELETE_IN_PROGRESS for those. That's both, more in line with the other
visibility routines and arguably more correct. The latter because a
INSERT_IN_PROGRESS will make callers look at/wait for xmin, instead of
xmax.
The only current caller where that's possibly worse than the old
behaviour is heap_prune_chain() which now won't mark the page as
prunable if a row has concurrently been inserted and deleted. That's
harmless enough.

As a cautionary measure also insert a interrupt check before the gotos
in IndexBuildHeapScan() that lead to the uninterruptible loop. There
are other possible causes, like a row that several sessions try to
update and all fail, for repeated loops and the cost of doing so in
the retry case is low.

As this bug goes back all the way to the introduction of
subtransactions in 573a71a5da backpatch to all supported releases.

Reported-By: Sandro Santilli
2014-06-04 21:36:19 +02:00
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
Tom Lane 39b0c7681e Record the proper typmod for an index expression column.
We should use exprTypmod() to extract the typmod of the expression,
instead of just blindly storing -1.  This seems to have been an aboriginal
oversight in commit fc8d970cbc which
introduced general-expression indexes.  The consequences are only cosmetic
at present, since the index machinery doesn't really look at typmod for
index columns; but still it seems best to describe the column type as
precisely as we can.  Per off-list complaint from Thomas Fanghaenel.
2014-04-26 12:22:09 -04:00
Tom Lane f0fedfe82c Allow polymorphic aggregates to have non-polymorphic state data types.
Before 9.4, such an aggregate couldn't be declared, because its final
function would have to have polymorphic result type but no polymorphic
argument, which CREATE FUNCTION would quite properly reject.  The
ordered-set-aggregate patch found a workaround: allow the final function
to be declared as accepting additional dummy arguments that have types
matching the aggregate's regular input arguments.  However, we failed
to notice that this problem applies just as much to regular aggregates,
despite the fact that we had a built-in regular aggregate array_agg()
that was known to be undeclarable in SQL because its final function
had an illegal signature.  So what we should have done, and what this
patch does, is to decouple the extra-dummy-arguments behavior from
ordered-set aggregates and make it generally available for all aggregate
declarations.  We have to put this into 9.4 rather than waiting till
later because it slightly alters the rules for declaring ordered-set
aggregates.

The patch turned out a bit bigger than I'd hoped because it proved
necessary to record the extra-arguments option in a new pg_aggregate
column.  I'd thought we could just look at the final function's pronargs
at runtime, but that didn't work well for variadic final functions.
It's probably just as well though, because it simplifies life for pg_dump
to record the option explicitly.

While at it, fix array_agg() to have a valid final-function signature,
and add an opr_sanity test to notice future deviations from polymorphic
consistency.  I also marked the percentile_cont() aggregates as not
needing extra arguments, since they don't.
2014-04-23 19:17:41 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 83ab8e32f2 Fix object identities for text search objects
We were neglecting to schema-qualify them.

Backpatch to 9.3, where object identities were introduced as a concept
by commit f8348ea32e.
2014-04-16 18:25:44 -03:00
Tom Lane a9d9acbf21 Create infrastructure for moving-aggregate optimization.
Until now, when executing an aggregate function as a window function
within a window with moving frame start (that is, any frame start mode
except UNBOUNDED PRECEDING), we had to recalculate the aggregate from
scratch each time the frame head moved.  This patch allows an aggregate
definition to include an alternate "moving aggregate" implementation
that includes an inverse transition function for removing rows from
the aggregate's running state.  As long as this can be done successfully,
runtime is proportional to the total number of input rows, rather than
to the number of input rows times the average frame length.

This commit includes the core infrastructure, documentation, and regression
tests using user-defined aggregates.  Follow-on commits will update some
of the built-in aggregates to use this feature.

David Rowley and Florian Pflug, reviewed by Dean Rasheed; additional
hacking by me
2014-04-12 12:03:30 -04:00
Robert Haas 0886fc6a5c Add new to_reg* functions for error-free OID lookups.
These functions won't throw an error if the object doesn't exist,
or if (for functions and operators) there's more than one matching
object.

Yugo Nagata and Nozomi Anzai, reviewed by Amit Khandekar, Marti
Raudsepp, Amit Kapila, and me.
2014-04-08 10:27:56 -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
Andrew Dunstan f9c6d72cbf Cleanup around json_to_record/json_to_recordset
Set function parameter names and defaults. Add jsonb versions (which the
code already provided for so the actual new code is trivial). Add jsonb
regression tests and docs.

Bump catalog version (which I apparently forgot to do when jsonb was
committed).
2014-03-26 10:18:24 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan d9134d0a35 Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json.
The new format accepts exactly the same data as the json type. However, it is
stored in a format that does not require reparsing the orgiginal text in order
to process it, making it much more suitable for indexing and other operations.
Insignificant whitespace is discarded, and the order of object keys is not
preserved. Neither are duplicate object keys kept - the later value for a given
key is the only one stored.

The new type has all the functions and operators that the json type has,
with the exception of the json generation functions (to_json, json_agg etc.)
and with identical semantics. In addition, there are operator classes for
hash and btree indexing, and two classes for GIN indexing, that have no
equivalent in the json type.

This feature grew out of previous work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, which
was intended to provide similar facilities to a nested hstore type, but which
in the end proved to have some significant compatibility issues.

Authors: Oleg Bartunov,  Teodor Sigaev, Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan.
Review: Andres Freund
2014-03-23 16:40:19 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera f88d4cfc9d Setup error context callback for transaction lock waits
With this in place, a session blocking behind another one because of
tuple locks will get a context line mentioning the relation name, tuple
TID, and operation being done on tuple.  For example:

LOG:  process 11367 still waiting for ShareLock on transaction 717 after 1000.108 ms
DETAIL:  Process holding the lock: 11366. Wait queue: 11367.
CONTEXT:  while updating tuple (0,2) in relation "foo"
STATEMENT:  UPDATE foo SET value = 3;

Most usefully, the new line is displayed by log entries due to
log_lock_waits, although of course it will be printed by any other log
message as well.

Author: Christian Kruse, some tweaks by Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Robert Haas
2014-03-19 15:10:36 -03:00
Tom Lane d70cf811f7 During index build, check and elog (not just Assert) for broken HOT chain.
The recently-fixed bug in WAL replay could result in not finding a parent
tuple for a heap-only tuple.  The existing code would either Assert or
generate an invalid index entry, neither of which is desirable.  Throw a
regular error instead.
2014-03-17 12:36:11 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 5024044a20 C comments: improve description of relfilenode uniqueness
Report by Antonin Houska
2014-03-08 12:20:30 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 84df54b22e Constructors for interval, timestamp, timestamptz
Author: Pavel Stěhule, editorialized somewhat by Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Tomáš Vondra, Marko Tiikkaja
With input from Fabrízio de Royes Mello, Jim Nasby
2014-03-04 15:09:43 -03:00
Robert Haas b89e151054 Introduce logical decoding.
This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log
stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is,
inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them.
It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema
of the effected tables.  The output format is controlled by a
so-called "output plugin"; an example is included.  To make use of
this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be
modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system,
and to perform filtering.

Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding
system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream
changes via walsender.

Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other
people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan,
Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit
Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve
Singer.
2014-03-03 16:32:18 -05:00
Robert Haas dd1a3bccca Show xid and xmin in pg_stat_activity and pg_stat_replication.
Christian Kruse, reviewed by Andres Freund and myself, with further
minor adjustments by me.
2014-02-25 12:34:04 -05:00
Robert Haas 6f289c2b7d Switch various builtin functions to use pg_lsn instead of text.
The functions in slotfuncs.c don't exist in any released version,
but the changes to xlogfuncs.c represent backward-incompatibilities.
Per discussion, we're hoping that the queries using these functions
are few enough and simple enough that this won't cause too much
breakage for users.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by Andres Freund and further modified
by me.
2014-02-19 11:37:43 -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
Noah Misch 537cbd35c8 Prevent privilege escalation in explicit calls to PL validators.
The primary role of PL validators is to be called implicitly during
CREATE FUNCTION, but they are also normal functions that a user can call
explicitly.  Add a permissions check to each validator to ensure that a
user cannot use explicit validator calls to achieve things he could not
otherwise achieve.  Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions).
Non-core procedural language extensions ought to make the same two-line
change to their own validators.

Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane and Noah Misch.

Security: CVE-2014-0061
2014-02-17 09:33:31 -05:00
Robert Haas 858ec11858 Introduce replication slots.
Replication slots are a crash-safe data structure which can be created
on either a master or a standby to prevent premature removal of
write-ahead log segments needed by a standby, as well as (with
hot_standby_feedback=on) pruning of tuples whose removal would cause
replication conflicts.  Slots have some advantages over existing
techniques, as explained in the documentation.

In a few places, we refer to the type of replication slots introduced
by this patch as "physical" slots, because forthcoming patches for
logical decoding will also have slots, but with somewhat different
properties.

Andres Freund and Robert Haas
2014-01-31 22:45:36 -05:00
Fujii Masao 9132b189bf Add pg_stat_archiver statistics view.
This view shows the statistics about the WAL archiver process's activity.

Gabriele Bartolini, reviewed by Michael Paquier, refactored a bit by me.
2014-01-29 02:58:22 +09:00
Heikki Linnakangas f62eba204f Fix typo in README
Amit Langote
2014-01-27 09:33:18 +02:00
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
Robert Haas 5709b8acc6 Avoid a possible relcache leak in get_object_address_attribute.
There's no apparent way to trigger this, so I'm not going to worry
about back-patching it for now.  But it's still wrong.

Marti Raudsepp
2014-01-21 10:02:37 -05:00
Tom Lane 0d79c0a8cc Make various variables const (read-only).
These changes should generally improve correctness/maintainability.
A nice side benefit is that several kilobytes move from initialized
data to text segment, allowing them to be shared across processes and
probably reducing copy-on-write overhead while forking a new backend.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to help libpq in the same way (at least
not when it's compiled with -fpic on x86_64), but we can hope the linker
at least collects all nominally-const data together even if it's not
actually part of the text segment.

Also, make pg_encname_tbl[] static in encnames.c, since there seems
no very good reason for any other code to use it; per a suggestion
from Wim Lewis, who independently submitted a patch that was mostly
a subset of this one.

Oskari Saarenmaa, with some editorialization by me
2014-01-18 16:04:32 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 423e1211a8 Accept pg_upgraded tuples during multixact freezing
The new MultiXact freezing routines introduced by commit 8e9a16ab8f
neglected to consider tuples that came from a pg_upgrade'd database; a
vacuum run that tried to freeze such tuples would die with an error such
as
ERROR: MultiXactId 11415437 does no longer exist -- apparent wraparound

To fix, ensure that GetMultiXactIdMembers is allowed to return empty
multis when the infomask bits are right, as is done in other callsites.

Per trouble report from F-Secure.

In passing, fix a copy&paste bug reported by Andrey Karpov from VIVA64
from their PVS-Studio static checked, that instead of setting relminmxid
to Invalid, we were setting relfrozenxid twice.  Not an important
mistake because that code branch is about relations for which we don't
use the frozenxid/minmxid values at all in the first place, but seems to
warrants a fix nonetheless.
2014-01-10 18:03:18 -03:00
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
Alvaro Herrera 1a3e82a7f9 Restore some comments lost during 15732b34e8
Michael Paquier
2014-01-03 13:22:03 -03:00
Tom Lane 8d65da1f01 Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates.
This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set
aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in
SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(),
percent_rank(), cume_dist()).  We also added mode() though it is not in the
spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that
can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data.

Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting
process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions.  To allow the
support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API
function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c.  This allows retrieval of
the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the
immediate need.  There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to
install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that
infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up.

In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic
aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER
additions for aggregates.  Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by
allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT.
It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types
but not these.

Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing,
and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
2013-12-23 16:11:35 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 6130208e75 Avoid useless palloc during transaction commit
We can allocate the initial relations-to-drop array when first needed,
instead of at function entry; this avoids allocating it when the
function is not going to do anything, which is most of the time.

Backpatch to 9.3, where this behavior was introduced by commit
279628a0a7.

There's more that could be done here, such as possible reworking of the
code to avoid having to palloc anything, but that doesn't sound as
backpatchable as this relatively minor change.

Per complaint from Noah Misch in
20131031145234.GA621493@tornado.leadboat.com
2013-12-20 12:37:30 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 527fdd9df1 Move pg_upgrade_support global variables to their own include file
Previously their declarations were spread around to avoid accidental
access.
2013-12-19 16:10:07 -05:00
Robert Haas 001a573a20 Allow on-detach callbacks for dynamic shared memory segments.
Just as backends must clean up their shared memory state (releasing
lwlocks, buffer pins, etc.) before exiting, they must also perform
any similar cleanups related to dynamic shared memory segments they
have mapped before unmapping those segments.  So add a mechanism to
ensure that.

Existing on_shmem_exit hooks include both "user level" cleanup such
as transaction abort and removal of leftover temporary relations and
also "low level" cleanup that forcibly released leftover shared
memory resources.  On-detach callbacks should run after the first
group but before the second group, so create a new before_shmem_exit
function for registering the early callbacks and keep on_shmem_exit
for the regular callbacks.  (An earlier draft of this patch added an
additional argument to on_shmem_exit, but that had a much larger
footprint and probably a substantially higher risk of breaking third
party code for no real gain.)

Patch by me, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei and Andres Freund.
2013-12-18 13:09:09 -05:00
Robert Haas e55704d8b2 Add new wal_level, logical, sufficient for logical decoding.
When wal_level=logical, we'll log columns from the old tuple as
configured by the REPLICA IDENTITY facility added in commit
07cacba983.  This makes it possible
a properly-configured logical replication solution to correctly
follow table updates even if they change the chosen key columns,
or, with REPLICA IDENTITY FULL, even if the table has no key at
all.  Note that updates which do not modify the replica identity
column won't log anything extra, making the choice of a good key
(i.e. one that will rarely be changed) important to performance
when wal_level=logical is configured.

Each insert, update, or delete to a catalog table will also log
the CMIN and/or CMAX values of stamped by the current transaction.
This is necessary because logical decoding will require access to
historical snapshots of the catalog in order to decode some data
types, and the CMIN/CMAX values that we may need in order to judge
row visibility may have been overwritten by the time we need them.

Andres Freund, reviewed in various versions by myself, Heikki
Linnakangas, KONDO Mitsumasa, and many others.
2013-12-10 19:01:40 -05:00
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
Peter Eisentraut 85ed91ee7d Implement information_schema.parameters.parameter_default column
Reviewed-by: Ali Dar <ali.munir.dar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Rodolfo Campero <rodolfo.campero@anachronics.com>
2013-11-26 23:21:35 -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
Tom Lane 6cb86143e8 Allow aggregates to provide estimates of their transition state data size.
Formerly the planner had a hard-wired rule of thumb for guessing the amount
of space consumed by an aggregate function's transition state data.  This
estimate is critical to deciding whether it's OK to use hash aggregation,
and in many situations the built-in estimate isn't very good.  This patch
adds a column to pg_aggregate wherein a per-aggregate estimate can be
provided, overriding the planner's default, and infrastructure for setting
the column via CREATE AGGREGATE.

It may be that additional smarts will be required in future, perhaps even
a per-aggregate estimation function.  But this is already a step forward.

This is extracted from a larger patch to improve the performance of numeric
and int8 aggregates.  I (tgl) thought it was worth reviewing and committing
this infrastructure separately.  In this commit, all built-in aggregates
are given aggtransspace = 0, so no behavior should change.

Hadi Moshayedi, reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Tomas Vondra
2013-11-16 16:03:40 -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 cacbdd7810 Use appendStringInfoString instead of appendStringInfo where possible.
This shaves a few cycles, and generally seems like good programming
practice.

David Rowley
2013-10-31 10:55:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5b6d08cd29 Add use of asprintf()
Add asprintf(), pg_asprintf(), and psprintf() to simplify string
allocation and composition.  Replacement implementations taken from
NetBSD.

Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Asif Naeem <anaeem.it@gmail.com>
2013-10-13 00:09:18 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera ada01014d4 Use $(PERL) to invoke duplicate_oids
Per buildfarm failure reported by smilodon
2013-10-10 23:45:38 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 5dd41f3574 Remove maintainer-check target, fold into normal build
make maintainer-check was obscure and rarely called in practice, and
many breakages were missed.  Fold everything that make maintainer-check
used to do into the normal build.  Specifically:

- Call duplicate_oids when genbki.pl is called.

- Check for tabs in SGML files when the documentation is built.

- Run msgfmt with the -c option during the regular build.  Add an
  additional configure check to see whether we are using the GNU
  version.  (make maintainer-check probably used to fail with non-GNU
  msgfmt.)

Keep maintainer-check as around as phony target for the time being in
case anyone is calling it.  But it won't do anything anymore.
2013-10-10 20:11:56 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 15732b34e8 Add WaitForLockers in lmgr, refactoring index.c code
This is in support of a future REINDEX CONCURRENTLY feature.

Michael Paquier
2013-10-01 17:57:01 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut b34f8f409b Show schemas in information_schema.schemata that the current has access to
Before, it would only show schemas that the current user owns.  Per
discussion, the new behavior is more useful and consistent for PostgreSQL.
2013-09-09 22:25:37 -04:00