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Robert Haas d7a541a9a7 Elaborate on what gets stored in pg_authid.rolpasswd.
Also, add cross-reference from pg_shadow.passwd to pg_authid.rolpasswd and
fix a bit of markup I muffed in my previous commit.

Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
2010-09-13 17:02:34 +00:00
Robert Haas 1400b738a0 Link from pg_shadow docs to pg_authid docs.
Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
2010-09-13 01:23:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 303696c3b4 Install a data-type-based solution for protecting pg_get_expr().
Since the code underlying pg_get_expr() is not secure against malformed
input, and can't practically be made so, we need to prevent miscreants
from feeding arbitrary data to it.  We can do this securely by declaring
pg_get_expr() to take a new datatype "pg_node_tree" and declaring the
system catalog columns that hold nodeToString output to be of that type.
There is no way at SQL level to create a non-null value of type pg_node_tree.
Since the backend-internal operations that fill those catalog columns
operate below the SQL level, they are oblivious to the datatype relabeling
and don't need any changes.
2010-09-03 01:34:55 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 52ba9a537b Add missing description of reloftype field 2010-08-25 18:18:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5194b9d049 Spell and markup checking 2010-08-17 04:37:21 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6dcce3985b Remove unnecessary xref endterm attributes and title ids
The endterm attribute is mainly useful when the toolchain does not support
automatic link target text generation for a particular situation.  In  the
past, this was required by the man page tools for all reference page links,
but that is no longer the case, and it now actually gets in the way of
proper automatic link text generation.  The only remaining use cases are
currently xrefs to refsects.
2010-04-03 07:23:02 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera be8cebc717 Prevent ALTER USER f RESET ALL from removing the settings that were put there
by a superuser -- "ALTER USER f RESET setting" already disallows removing such a
setting.

Apply the same treatment to ALTER DATABASE d RESET ALL when run by a database
owner that's not superuser.
2010-03-25 14:44:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 50a90fac40 Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5
(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
2010-02-17 04:19:41 +00:00
Tom Lane d1e027221d Replace the pg_listener-based LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism with an in-memory queue.
In addition, add support for a "payload" string to be passed along with
each notify event.

This implementation should be significantly more efficient than the old one,
and is also more compatible with Hot Standby usage.  There is not yet any
facility for HS slaves to receive notifications generated on the master,
although such a thing is possible in future.

Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Jeff Davis; also hacked on by me.
2010-02-16 22:34:57 +00:00
Tom Lane b9b8831ad6 Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodes
of shared or nailed system catalogs.  This has two key benefits:

* The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs.

* We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing
  shared catalogs.

CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on
shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would
only be visible in one database.

Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and
crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed;
shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared.

This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of
deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other
concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch.  As a stopgap,
parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid
such failures during the regression tests.
2010-02-07 20:48:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian bf62b1a078 Proofreading improvements for the Administration documentation book. 2010-02-03 17:25:06 +00:00
Robert Haas 76a47c0e74 Replace ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT with a more general mechanism.
Attributes can now have options, just as relations and tablespaces do, and
the reloptions code is used to parse, validate, and store them.  For
simplicity and because these options are not performance critical, we store
them in a separate cache rather than the main relcache.

Thanks to Alex Hunsaker for the review.
2010-01-22 16:40:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 9a915e596f Improve the handling of SET CONSTRAINTS commands by having them search
pg_constraint before searching pg_trigger.  This allows saner handling of
corner cases; in particular we now say "constraint is not deferrable"
rather than "constraint does not exist" when the command is applied to
a constraint that's inherently non-deferrable.  Per a gripe several months
ago from hubert depesz lubaczewski.

To make this work without breaking user-defined constraint triggers,
we have to add entries for them to pg_constraint.  However, in return
we can remove the pgconstrname column from pg_constraint, which represents
a fairly sizable space savings.  I also replaced the tgisconstraint column
with tgisinternal; the old meaning of tgisconstraint can now be had by
testing for nonzero tgconstraint, while there is no other way to get
the old meaning of nonzero tgconstraint, namely that the trigger was
internally generated rather than being user-created.

In passing, fix an old misstatement in the docs and comments, namely that
pg_trigger.tgdeferrable is exactly redundant with pg_constraint.condeferrable.
Actually, we mark RI action triggers as nondeferrable even when they belong to
a nominally deferrable FK constraint.  The SET CONSTRAINTS code now relies on
that instead of hard-coding a list of exception OIDs.
2010-01-17 22:56:23 +00:00
Robert Haas 8b9fa7a93a Document pg_tablespace.spcoptions.
This should have been part of the original tablespace-options patch, but I
overlooked the need to update this portion of the documentation.
2010-01-10 01:23:08 +00:00
Tom Lane 29c4ad9829 Support "x IS NOT NULL" clauses as indexscan conditions. This turns out
to be just a minor extension of the previous patch that made "x IS NULL"
indexable, because we can treat the IS NOT NULL condition as if it were
"x < NULL" or "x > NULL" (depending on the index's NULLS FIRST/LAST option),
just like IS NULL is treated like "x = NULL".  Aside from any possible
usefulness in its own right, this is an important improvement for
index-optimized MAX/MIN aggregates: it is now reliably possible to get
a column's min or max value cheaply, even when there are a lot of nulls
cluttering the interesting end of the index.
2010-01-01 21:53:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 649b5ec7c8 Add the ability to store inheritance-tree statistics in pg_statistic,
and teach ANALYZE to compute such stats for tables that have subclasses.
Per my proposal of yesterday.

autovacuum still needs to be taught about running ANALYZE on parent tables
when their subclasses change, but the feature is useful even without that.
2009-12-29 20:11:45 +00:00
Robert Haas f5fd651e1b Improve documentation for pg_largeobject changes.
Rewrite the documentation in more idiomatic English, and in the process make
it somewhat more succinct.  Move the discussion of specific large object
privileges out of the "server-side functions" section, where it certainly
doesn't belong, and into "implementation features".  That might not be
exactly right either, but it doesn't seem worth creating a new section for
this amount of information. Fix a few spelling and layout problems, too.
2009-12-17 14:36:16 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro f1325ce213 Add large object access control.
A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages
ownership and access privileges of large objects.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.
2009-12-11 03:34:57 +00:00
Tom Lane 0cb65564e5 Add exclusion constraints, which generalize the concept of uniqueness to
support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality.  Two rows
violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for
each of the columns in the constraint.

Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas
2009-12-07 05:22:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 7fc0f06221 Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to be
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.

For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER
triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of
a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can
be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired.

Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2009-11-20 20:38:12 +00:00
Tom Lane b2734a0d79 Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columns
are named in the UPDATE's SET list.

Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started
to use a column that was there all along.  catversion bumped anyway so that
this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes
to system catalog contents.

Itagaki Takahiro
2009-10-14 22:14:25 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 2eda8dfb52 Make it possibly to specify GUC params per user and per database.
Create a new catalog pg_db_role_setting where they are now stored, and better
encapsulate the code that deals with settings into its realm.  The old
datconfig and rolconfig columns are removed.

psql has gained a \drds command to display the settings.

Backwards compatibility warning: while the backwards-compatible system views
still have the config columns, they no longer completely represent the
configuration for a user or database.

Catalog version bumped.
2009-10-07 22:14:26 +00:00
Tom Lane 249724cb01 Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjust
the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects.

Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects
created in particular schemas too.  A notable benefit is that users can
override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE
privilege traditionally granted by default for functions.

Petr Jelinek
2009-10-05 19:24:49 +00:00
Tom Lane 9048b73184 Implement the DO statement to support execution of PL code without having
to create a function for it.

Procedural languages now have an additional entry point, namely a function
to execute an inline code block.  This seemed a better design than trying
to hide the transient-ness of the code from the PL.  As of this patch, only
plpgsql has an inline handler, but probably people will soon write handlers
for the other standard PLs.

In passing, remove the long-dead LANCOMPILER option of CREATE LANGUAGE.

Petr Jelinek
2009-09-22 23:43:43 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 59ab8c6c73 Fix number of columns declared for pg_user_mappings description table. 2009-08-10 22:13:50 +00:00
Tom Lane f192e4a5d0 Cause pg_proc.probin to be declared as text, not bytea. Everything was
already treating it as text anyway, to the point that I couldn't find anything
to change except the datatype markings in catalog/*.h.  The only effect that
the bytea declaration had was to cause byteaout() to be invoked when pg_dump
(or another client program) inspected the column value.  Since pg_dump wasn't
expecting that, but just treating what it got as text, the net result is that
dump and reload would mangle any backslashes or non-ASCII characters in the
filename string for a C-language function.  That is a very long-standing bug,
but given the lack of field complaints it doesn't seem worth trying to find
a back-patchable fix.  We'll just make this change to fix it going forward.

This change will also forestall problems after the planned change to let bytea
emit hex output instead of escaped characters.
2009-08-04 04:04:12 +00:00
Tom Lane 9072592946 Add ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT
Robert Haas
2009-08-02 22:14:53 +00:00
Tom Lane 25d9bf2e3e Support deferrable uniqueness constraints.
The current implementation fires an AFTER ROW trigger for each tuple that
looks like it might be non-unique according to the index contents at the
time of insertion.  This works well as long as there aren't many conflicts,
but won't scale to massive unique-key reassignments.  Improving that case
is a TODO item.

Dean Rasheed
2009-07-29 20:56:21 +00:00
Tom Lane c1b9ec24ef Add system catalog columns pg_constraint.conindid and pg_trigger.tgconstrindid.
conindid is the index supporting a constraint.  We can use this not only for
unique/primary-key constraints, but also foreign-key constraints, which
depend on the unique index that constrains the referenced columns.
tgconstrindid is just copied from the constraint's conindid field, or is
zero for triggers not associated with constraints.

This is mainly intended as infrastructure for upcoming patches, but it has
some virtue in itself, since it exposes a relationship that you formerly
had to grovel in pg_depend to determine.  I simplified one information_schema
view accordingly.  (There is a pg_dump query that could also use conindid,
but I left it alone because it wasn't clear it'd get any faster.)
2009-07-28 02:56:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 47f6699d00 Remove useless References column for pg_listener catalog description. Per Shigehiro Honda. 2009-07-01 23:57:33 +00:00
Tom Lane df13324f08 Add a "relistemp" boolean column to pg_class, which is true for temporary
relations (including a temp table's indexes and toast table/index), and
false for normal relations.  For ease of checking, this commit just adds
the column and fills it correctly --- revising the relation access machinery
to use it will come separately.
2009-03-31 17:59:56 +00:00
Tom Lane 00ce73778b Teach the planner to support index access methods that only implement
amgettuple or only implement amgetbitmap, instead of the former assumption
that every AM supports both APIs.  Extracted with minor editorialization
from Teodor's fast-GIN-insert patch; whatever becomes of that, this seems
like a simple and reasonable generalization of the index AM interface spec.
2009-03-05 23:06:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7babccb915 Add the possibility to specify an explicit validator function for foreign-data
wrappers (similar to procedural languages).  This way we don't need to retain
the nearly empty libraries, and we are more free in how to implement the
wrapper API in the future.
2009-02-24 10:06:36 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 834a6da4f7 Update autovacuum to use reloptions instead of a system catalog, for
per-table overrides of parameters.

This removes a whole class of problems related to misusing the catalog,
and perhaps more importantly, gives us pg_dump support for the parameters.

Based on a patch by Euler Taveira de Oliveira, heavily reworked by me.
2009-02-09 20:57:59 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0c0d652031 Uppercase CHECK mention in relchecks documentation mention. 2009-02-07 19:27:25 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ec48770e0c Update pg_constraint.conkey documentation description. 2009-02-07 15:00:27 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera d1cf27a8ee Fix some SGML-compiler warnings on -wxml mode. 2009-02-04 21:30:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5e21197c7b Put pg_user_mapping section into the right (alphabetical) order. 2009-02-02 09:49:29 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 5fe3da927b Revert updatable views 2009-01-27 12:40:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 3cb5d6580a Support column-level privileges, as required by SQL standard.
Stephen Frost, with help from KaiGai Kohei and others
2009-01-22 20:16:10 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut dd7e54a17f Automatic view update rules
Bernd Helmle
2009-01-22 17:27:55 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6587818542 Add vacuum_freeze_table_age GUC option, to control when VACUUM should
ignore the visibility map and scan the whole table, to advance
relfrozenxid.
2009-01-16 13:27:24 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d3706cb6d2 Remove tabs from SGML docs. 2009-01-09 15:02:22 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 32e1265dd9 Document values for pg_constraint confupdtype, confdeltype and confmatchtype columns. 2009-01-09 01:53:10 +00:00
Tom Lane ea7d5199e5 Add a new column proiswindow to pg_proc. It doesn't actually do anything
useful yet, but I'm tired of re-merging this aspect of the window functions
patch.
2008-12-19 18:25:20 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut cae565e503 SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilities
This doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules
like plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for
managing their connection information.

Martin Pihlak and Peter Eisentraut
2008-12-19 16:25:19 +00:00
Tom Lane 517ae4039e Code review for function default parameters patch. Fix numerous problems as
per recent discussions.  In passing this also fixes a couple of bugs in
the previous variadic-parameters patch.
2008-12-18 18:20:35 +00:00
Magnus Hagander e5c032d898 Docs update for enumvals patch. 2008-11-21 19:31:58 +00:00
Tom Lane c5451c22e3 Make relhasrules and relhastriggers work like relhasindex, namely we let
VACUUM reset them to false rather than trying to clean 'em up during DROP.
2008-11-10 00:49:37 +00:00
Tom Lane e4718f2c9e Replace pg_class.reltriggers with relhastriggers, which is just a boolean hint
("there might be triggers") rather than an exact count.  This is necessary
catalog infrastructure for the upcoming patch to reduce the strength of
locking needed for trigger addition/removal.  Split out and committed
separately for ease of reviewing/testing.

In passing, also get rid of the unused pg_class columns relukeys, relfkeys,
and relrefs, which haven't been maintained in many years and now have no
chance of ever being maintained (because of wishing to avoid locking).

Simon Riggs
2008-11-09 21:24:33 +00:00