Commit bda76c1c8c caused both plus and
minus infinity to be rendered as "infinity", which is not only wrong
but inconsistent with the pre-9.4 behavior of to_json(). Fix that by
duplicating the coding in date_out/timestamp_out/timestamptz_out more
closely. Per bug #13687 from Stepan Perlov. Back-patch to 9.4, like
the previous commit.
In passing, also re-pgindent json.c, since it had gotten a bit messed up by
recent patches (and I was already annoyed by indentation-related problems
in back-patching this fix ...)
RESERV. RESERV is meant for tokens like "now" and having them in that
category throws errors like these when used as an input date:
stark=# SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz;
ERROR: unexpected dtype 33 while parsing timestamptz "doy"
LINE 1: SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz;
^
stark=# SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz;
ERROR: unexpected dtype 32 while parsing timestamptz "dow"
LINE 1: SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz;
^
Found by LLVM's Libfuzzer
Use "a" and "an" correctly, mostly in comments. Two error messages were
also fixed (they were just elogs, so no translation work required). Two
function comments in pg_proc.h were also fixed. Etsuro Fujita reported one
of these, but I found a lot more with grep.
Also fix a few other typos spotted while grepping for the a/an typos.
For example, "consists out of ..." -> "consists of ...". Plus a "though"/
"through" mixup reported by Euler Taveira.
Many of these typos were in old code, which would be nice to backpatch to
make future backpatching easier. But much of the code was new, and I didn't
feel like crafting separate patches for each branch. So no backpatching.
In 83ff1618 we defined integer limits iff they're not provided by the
system. That turns out not to be the greatest idea because there's
different ways some datatypes can be represented. E.g. on OSX PG's 64bit
datatype will be a 'long int', but OSX unconditionally uses 'long
long'. That disparity then can lead to warnings, e.g. around printf
formats.
One way to fix that would be to back int64 using stdint.h's
int64_t. While a good idea it's not that easy to implement. We would
e.g. need to include stdint.h in our external headers, which we don't
today. Also computing the correct int64 printf formats in that case is
nontrivial.
Instead simply prefix the integer limits with PG_ and define them
unconditionally. I've adjusted all the references to them in code, but
not the ones in comments; the latter seems unnecessary to me.
Discussion: 20150331141423.GK4878@alap3.anarazel.de
Several submitted and even committed patches have run into the problem
that C89, our baseline, does not provide minimum/maximum values for
various integer datatypes. C99's stdint.h does, but we can't rely on
it.
Several parts of the code defined limits locally, so instead centralize
the definitions to c.h.
This patch also changes the more obvious usages of literal limit values;
there's more places that could be changed, but it's less clear whether
it's beneficial to change those.
Author: Andrew Gierth
Discussion: 87619tc5wc.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
This makes "ALTER TABLE tabname ALTER tscol TYPE ... USING tscol AT TIME
ZONE 'UTC'" skip rewriting the table when altering from "timestamp" to
"timestamptz" or vice versa. While it would be nicer still to optimize
this in the absence of the USING clause given timezone==UTC, transform
functions must consult IMMUTABLE facts only.
Up to now, PG has assumed that any given timezone abbreviation (such as
"EDT") represents a constant GMT offset in the usage of any particular
region; we had a way to configure what that offset was, but not for it
to be changeable over time. But, as with most things horological, this
view of the world is too simplistic: there are numerous regions that have
at one time or another switched to a different GMT offset but kept using
the same timezone abbreviation. Almost the entire Russian Federation did
that a few years ago, and later this month they're going to do it again.
And there are similar examples all over the world.
To cope with this, invent the notion of a "dynamic timezone abbreviation",
which is one that is referenced to a particular underlying timezone
(as defined in the IANA timezone database) and means whatever it currently
means in that zone. For zones that use or have used daylight-savings time,
the standard and DST abbreviations continue to have the property that you
can specify standard or DST time and get that time offset whether or not
DST was theoretically in effect at the time. However, the abbreviations
mean what they meant at the time in question (or most recently before that
time) rather than being absolutely fixed.
The standard abbreviation-list files have been changed to use this behavior
for abbreviations that have actually varied in meaning since 1970. The
old simple-numeric definitions are kept for abbreviations that have not
changed, since they are a bit faster to resolve.
While this is clearly a new feature, it seems necessary to back-patch it
into all active branches, because otherwise use of Russian zone
abbreviations is going to become even more problematic than it already was.
This change supersedes the changes in commit 513d06ded et al to modify the
fixed meanings of the Russian abbreviations; since we've not shipped that
yet, this will avoid an undesirably incompatible (not to mention incorrect)
change in behavior for timestamps between 2011 and 2014.
This patch makes some cosmetic changes in ecpglib to keep its usage of
datetime lookup tables as similar as possible to the backend code, but
doesn't do anything about the increasingly obsolete set of timezone
abbreviation definitions that are hard-wired into ecpglib. Whatever we
do about that will likely not be appropriate material for back-patching.
Also, a potential free() of a garbage pointer after an out-of-memory
failure in ecpglib has been fixed.
This patch also fixes pre-existing bugs in DetermineTimeZoneOffset() that
caused it to produce unexpected results near a timezone transition, if
both the "before" and "after" states are marked as standard time. We'd
only ever thought about or tested transitions between standard and DST
time, but that's not what's happening when a zone simply redefines their
base GMT offset.
In passing, update the SGML documentation to refer to the Olson/zoneinfo/
zic timezone database as the "IANA" database, since it's now being
maintained under the auspices of IANA.
First installment of the promised moving-aggregate support in built-in
aggregates: count(), sum(), avg(), stddev() and variance() for
assorted datatypes, though not for float4/float8.
In passing, remove a 2001-vintage kluge in interval_accum(): interval
array elements have been properly aligned since around 2003, but
nobody remembered to take out this workaround. Also, fix a thinko
in the opr_sanity tests for moving-aggregate catalog entries.
David Rowley and Florian Pflug, reviewed by Dean Rasheed
Per the C standard, the routine should be passed an int, with a value that's
representable as an unsigned char or EOF. Passing a signed char is wrong,
because a negative value is not representable as an unsigned char.
Unfortunately no compiler warns about that.
Explicitly reject infinity/NaN inputs, rather than just assuming that
something else will do it for us. Per buildfarm.
While at it, make some over-parenthesized and under-legible code
more readable.
Author: Pavel Stěhule, editorialized somewhat by Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Tomáš Vondra, Marko Tiikkaja
With input from Fabrízio de Royes Mello, Jim Nasby
New checks include input, month/day/time internal adjustments, addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and negation. Also adjust docs to
correctly specify interval size in bytes.
Report from Rok Kralj
The only remaining places where we actually look at CTimeZone/HasCTZSet
are abstime2tm() and timestamp2tm(). Now that session_timezone is always
valid, we can remove these special cases. The caller-visible impact of
this is that these functions now always return a valid zone abbreviation
if requested, whereas before they'd return a NULL pointer if a brute-force
timezone was in use. In the existing code, the only place I can find that
changes behavior is to_char(), whose TZ format code will now print
something useful rather than nothing for such zones. (In the places where
the returned zone abbreviation is passed to EncodeDateTime, the lack of
visible change is because we've chosen the abbreviation used for these
zones to match what EncodeTimezone would have printed.)
It's likely that there is now a fair amount of removable dead code around
the call sites, namely anything that's meant to cope with getting a NULL
timezone abbreviation, but I've not made an effort to root that out.
This could be back-patched if we decide we'd like to fix to_char()'s
behavior in the back branches, but there doesn't seem to be much
enthusiasm for that at present.
In most cases, these were just references to the SQL standard in
general. In a few cases, a contrast was made between SQL92 and later
standards -- those have been kept unchanged.
I fixed this code back in commit 841b4a2d5, but didn't think carefully
enough about the behavior near zero, which meant it improperly rejected
1999-12-31 24:00:00. Per report from Magnus Hagander.
It's not sensible for an interval that's used as a time zone value to be
larger than a day. When we changed the interval type to contain a separate
day field, check_timezone() was adjusted to reject nonzero day values, but
timetz_izone(), timestamp_izone(), and timestamptz_izone() evidently were
overlooked.
While at it, make the error messages for these three cases consistent.
We used to send structs wrapped in CopyData messages, which works as long as
the client and server agree on things like endianess, timestamp format and
alignment. That's good enough for running a standby server, which has to run
on the same platform anyway, but it's useful for tools like pg_receivexlog
to work across platforms.
This breaks protocol compatibility of streaming replication, but we never
promised that to be compatible across versions, anyway.
This patch reverts commit 191ef2b407
and thereby restores the pre-7.3 behavior of EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM
timestamp-without-tz). Per discussion, the more recent behavior was
misguided on a couple of grounds: it makes it hard to get a
non-timezone-aware epoch value for a timestamp, and it makes this one
case dependent on the value of the timezone GUC, which is incompatible
with having timestamp_part() labeled as immutable.
The other behavior is still available (in all releases) by explicitly
casting the timestamp to timestamp with time zone before applying EXTRACT.
This will need to be called out as an incompatible change in the 9.2
release notes. Although having mutable behavior in a function marked
immutable is clearly a bug, we're not going to back-patch such a change.
Fix loss of previous expression-simplification work when a transform
function fires: we must not simply revert to untransformed input tree.
Instead build a dummy FuncExpr node to pass to the transform function.
This has the additional advantage of providing a simpler, more uniform
API for transform functions.
Move documentation to a somewhat less buried spot, relocate some
poorly-placed code, be more wary of null constants and invalid typmod
values, add an opr_sanity check on protransform function signatures,
and some other minor cosmetic adjustments.
Note: although this patch touches pg_proc.h, no need for catversion
bump, because the changes are cosmetic and don't actually change the
intended catalog contents.
It's not entirely evident how the logic here relates to the
interval_transform function, so let's clue people in that they need to
check that if the rules change.
This patch creates an API whereby a btree index opclass can optionally
provide non-SQL-callable support functions for sorting. In the initial
patch, we only use this to provide a directly-callable comparator function,
which can be invoked with a bit less overhead than the traditional
SQL-callable comparator. While that should be of value in itself, the real
reason for doing this is to provide a datatype-extensible framework for
more aggressive optimizations, as in Peter Geoghegan's recent work.
Robert Haas and Tom Lane
input functions don't accept either. While the backend can handle such
values fine, they can cause trouble in clients and in pg_dump/restore.
This is followup to the original issue on time datatype reported by Andrew
McNamara a while ago. Like that one, none of these seem worth
back-patching.
timestamp_trunc, timestamptz_trunc, and interval_trunc(). This change
only affects the float-datetime case; the integer-datetime case already
behaved like truncation instead of rounding. Per gripe from Mario Splivalo.
This is a pre-existing issue but I'm choosing not to backpatch, because
it's such a corner case and there have not been prior complaints. The
issue is largely moot anyway given the trend towards integer datetimes.
grounds that they don't fit into the specified interval qualifier (typmod).
This behavior, while of long standing, is clearly wrong per spec --- for
example the value INTERVAL '999' SECOND means 999 seconds and should not be
reduced to less than 60 seconds.
In some cases there could be grounds to raise an error if higher-order field
values are not given as zero; for example '1 year 1 month'::INTERVAL MONTH
should arguably be taken as an error rather than equivalent to 13 months.
However our internal representation doesn't allow us to do that in a fashion
that would consistently reject all and only the cases that a strict reading
of the spec would suggest. Also, seeing that for example INTERVAL '13' MONTH
will print out as '1 year 1 mon', we have to be careful not to create a
situation where valid data will fail to dump and reload. The present patch
therefore takes the attitude of not throwing an error in any such case.
We might want to revisit that in future but it would take more redesign
than seems prudent in late beta.
Per a complaint from Sebastien Flaesch and subsequent discussion. While
at other times we might have just postponed such an issue to the next
development cycle, 8.4 already has changed the parsing of interval literals
quite a bit in an effort to accept all spec-compliant cases correctly.
This seems like a change that should be part of that rather than coming
along later.
interval_eq() considers equal. I'm not sure how that fundamental requirement
escaped us through multiple revisions of this hash function, but there it is;
it's been wrong since interval_hash was first written for PG 7.1.
Per bug #4748 from Roman Kononov.
Backpatch to all supported releases.
This patch changes the contents of hash indexes for interval columns. That's
no particular problem for PG 8.4, since we've broken on-disk compatibility
of hash indexes already; but it will require a migration warning note in
the next minor releases of all existing branches: "if you have any hash
indexes on columns of type interval, REINDEX them after updating".
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Greg Stark
Kevin Grittner
Heikki Linnakangas
Andres Freund
Noah Misch
Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas
Magnus Hagander