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* Revise parameterized-path mechanism to fix assorted issues.Tom Lane2012-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adjusts the treatment of parameterized paths so that all paths with the same parameterization (same set of required outer rels) for the same relation will have the same rowcount estimate. We cache the rowcount estimates to ensure that property, and hopefully save a few cycles too. Doing this makes it practical for add_path_precheck to operate without a rowcount estimate: it need only assume that paths with different parameterizations never dominate each other, which is close enough to true anyway for coarse filtering, because normally a more-parameterized path should yield fewer rows thanks to having more join clauses to apply. In add_path, we do the full nine yards of comparing rowcount estimates along with everything else, so that we can discard parameterized paths that don't actually have an advantage. This fixes some issues I'd found with add_path rejecting parameterized paths on the grounds that they were more expensive than not-parameterized ones, even though they yielded many fewer rows and hence would be cheaper once subsequent joining was considered. To make the same-rowcounts assumption valid, we have to require that any parameterized path enforce *all* join clauses that could be obtained from the particular set of outer rels, even if not all of them are useful for indexing. This is required at both base scans and joins. It's a good thing anyway since the net impact is that join quals are checked at the lowest practical level in the join tree. Hence, discard the original rather ad-hoc mechanism for choosing parameterization joinquals, and build a better one that has a more principled rule for when clauses can be moved. The original rule was actually buggy anyway for lack of knowledge about which relations are part of an outer join's outer side; getting this right requires adding an outer_relids field to RestrictInfo.
* Untabify DSSSL and XSL files and add to check-tabs targetPeter Eisentraut2012-04-19
| | | | | Like with SGML files, using tabs in these files is confusing and unnecessary.
* Remove bogus comment from HeapTupleSatisfiesNow.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | This has been wrong for a really long time. We don't use two-phase locking to protect against serialization anomalies. Per discussion on pgsql-hackers about 2011-03-07; original report by Dan Ports.
* Finish rename of FastPathStrongLocks to FastPathStrongRelationLocks.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | Commit 8e5ac74c1249820ca55481223a95b9124b4a4f95 tried to do this renaming, but I relied on gcc to tell me where I needed to make changes, instead of grep. Noted by Jeff Davis.
* Tighten up error recovery for fast-path locking.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | | The previous code could cause a backend crash after BEGIN; SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo (interrupted by ^C or statement timeout); ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo, and might have leaked strong-lock counts in other situations. Report by Zoltán Böszörményi; patch review by Jeff Davis.
* Fix incorrect comment in SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave().Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | Noah Misch spotted the fact that the old comment is in fact incorrect, due to memory ordering hazards.
* After PageSetAllVisible, use MarkBufferDirty.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | | Previously, we used SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave, but that's really intended for dirty-marks we can theoretically afford to lose, such as hint bits. As for 9.2, the PD_ALL_VISIBLE mustn't be lost in this way, since we could then end up with a heap page that isn't all-visible and a visibility map page that is all visible, causing index-only scans to return wrong answers.
* Fix copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for ReassignOwnedStmt.Robert Haas2012-04-18
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* Fix various infelicities in node functions.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | Mostly, this consists of adding support for fields which exist in the structure but aren't handled by copy/equal/outfuncs; but the create foreign table case can actually produce garbage output. Noah Misch
* Doc clarification for synchronous_commit.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | Fujii Masao
* psql: Add tab completion for CREATE/ALTER ROLE name WITHPeter Eisentraut2012-04-18
| | | | | | Previously, the use of the optional key word WITH was not supported. Josh Kupershmidt
* Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.Andrew Dunstan2012-04-17
| | | | | | | | | A number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters that can be set via both an option argument and a positional argument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal Of Least Astonishment. These changes refuse to use positional arguments to override settings that have been made via positional arguments. The changes are backpatched to all live branches.
* Don't wait for the commit record to be replicated if we wrote no WAL.Heikki Linnakangas2012-04-17
| | | | | | | | When using synchronous replication, we waited for the commit record to be replicated, but if we our transaction didn't write any other WAL records, that's not required because we don't even flush the WAL locally to disk in that case. This lead to long waits when committing a transaction that only modified a temporary table. Bug spotted by Thom Brown.
* Add compatibility information for prepared transaction commandsPeter Eisentraut2012-04-16
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* Fix typoPeter Eisentraut2012-04-16
| | | | Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
* Install plpgsql.h to to include/server at "make install".Heikki Linnakangas2012-04-16
| | | | | | | The header file is needed by any module that wants to use the PL/pgSQL instrumentation plugin interface. Most notably, the pldebugger plugin needs this. With this patch, it can be built using pgxs, without having the full server source tree available.
* PL/Python: Improve documentation of nrows() methodPeter Eisentraut2012-04-16
| | | | | | Clarify that nrows() is the number of rows processed, versus the number of rows returned, which can be obtained using len. Also add tests about that.
* PL/Python: Fix crash when colnames() etc. called without result setPeter Eisentraut2012-04-15
| | | | | | | | The result object methods colnames() etc. would crash when called after a command that did not produce a result set. Now they throw an exception. discovery and initial patch by Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Add missing descriptions about '--timeout' and '--mode' to helpTatsuo Ishii2012-04-15
| | | | | message. They are already implemented in the source code. Suggestions about the message formatting from Tom Lane.
* Rename synchronous_commit='write' to 'remote_write'.Robert Haas2012-04-14
| | | | Fujii Masao, per discussion on pgsql-hackers
* pg_size_pretty(numeric)Robert Haas2012-04-14
| | | | | | | | The output of the new pg_xlog_location_diff function is of type numeric, since it could theoretically overflow an int8 due to signedness; this provides a convenient way to format such values. Fujii Masao, with some beautification by me.
* Add description of long options for '-c', '-D', '-l' and '-s'. PerTatsuo Ishii2012-04-14
| | | | | discussion of hackers list on 2012/3/10 "missing description initdb manual".
* Update contrib/READMEPeter Eisentraut2012-04-14
| | | | | | | | Remove lots of outdated information that is duplicated by the better-maintained SGML documentation. In particular, remove the outdated listing of contrib modules. Update the installation instructions to mention CREATE EXTENSION, but don't go into too much detail.
* Document that VALUES can be used in WITHPeter Eisentraut2012-04-14
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* Fix typoPeter Eisentraut2012-04-14
| | | | Etsuro Fujita
* Add Peter Geoghegan as additional author of pg_stat_statements.Robert Haas2012-04-13
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* Remove the "last ditch" code path in join_search_one_level().Tom Lane2012-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So far as I can tell, it is no longer possible for this heuristic to do anything useful, because the new weaker definition of have_relevant_joinclause means that any relation with a joinclause must be considered joinable to at least one other relation. It would still be possible for the code block to be entered, for example if there are join order restrictions that prevent any join of the current level from being formed; but in that case it's just a waste of cycles to attempt to form cartesian joins, since the restrictions will still apply. Furthermore, IMO the existence of this code path can mask bugs elsewhere; we would have noticed the problem with cartesian joins a lot sooner if this code hadn't compensated for it in the simplest case. Accordingly, let's remove it and see what happens. I'm committing this separately from the prerequisite changes in have_relevant_joinclause, just to make the question easier to revisit if there is some fault in my logic.
* Weaken the planner's tests for relevant joinclauses.Tom Lane2012-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should be willing to cross-join two small relations if that allows us to use an inner indexscan on a large relation (that is, the potential indexqual for the large table requires both smaller relations). This worked in simple cases but fell apart as soon as there was a join clause to a fourth relation, because the existence of any two-relation join clause caused the planner to not consider clauseless joins between other base relations. The added regression test shows an example case adapted from a recent complaint from Benoit Delbosc. Adjust have_relevant_joinclause, have_relevant_eclass_joinclause, and has_relevant_eclass_joinclause to consider that a join clause mentioning three or more relations is sufficient grounds for joining any subset of those relations, even if we have to do so via a cartesian join. Since such clauses are relatively uncommon, this shouldn't affect planning speed on typical queries; in fact it should help a bit, because the latter two functions in particular get significantly simpler. Although this is arguably a bug fix, I'm not going to risk back-patching it, since it might have currently-unforeseen consequences.
* Rename bytea_agg to string_agg and add delimiter argumentPeter Eisentraut2012-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | Per mailing list discussion, we would like to keep the bytea functions parallel to the text functions, so rename bytea_agg to string_agg, which already exists for text. Also, to satisfy the rule that we don't want aggregate functions of the same name with a different number of arguments, add a delimiter argument, just like string_agg for text already has.
* Consistently quote encoding and locale names in messagesPeter Eisentraut2012-04-13
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* Grammar corrections.Robert Haas2012-04-13
| | | | Christoph Berg
* Fix typo in comment.Robert Haas2012-04-13
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* Update lazy_scan_heap header comment.Robert Haas2012-04-13
| | | | | The previous comment described how things worked in PostgreSQL 8.2 and prior.
* Assorted spelling corrections.Tom Lane2012-04-12
| | | | Thom Brown
* Fix cost estimation for indexscan filter conditions.Tom Lane2012-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cost_index's method for estimating per-tuple costs of evaluating filter conditions (a/k/a qpquals) was completely wrong in the presence of derived indexable conditions, such as range conditions derived from a LIKE clause. This was largely masked in common cases as a result of all simple operator clauses having about the same costs, but it could show up in a big way when dealing with functional indexes containing expensive functions, as seen for example in bug #6579 from Istvan Endredy. Rejigger the calculation to give sane answers when the indexquals aren't a subset of the baserestrictinfo list. As a side benefit, we now do the calculation properly for cases involving join clauses (ie, parameterized indexscans), which we always overestimated before. There are still cases where this is an oversimplification, such as clauses that can be dropped because they are implied by a partial index's predicate. But we've never accounted for that in cost estimates before, and I'm not convinced it's worth the cycles to try to do so.
* Silently ignore any nonexistent schemas that are listed in search_path.Tom Lane2012-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we attempted to throw an error or at least warning for missing schemas, but this was done inconsistently because of implementation restrictions (in many cases, GUC settings are applied outside transactions so that we can't do system catalog lookups). Furthermore, there were exceptions to the rule even in the beginning, and we'd been poking more and more holes in it as time went on, because it turns out that there are lots of use-cases for having some irrelevant items in a common search_path value. It seems better to just adopt a philosophy similar to what's always been done with Unix PATH settings, wherein nonexistent or unreadable directories are silently ignored. This commit also fixes the documentation to point out that schemas for which the user lacks USAGE privilege are silently ignored. That's always been true but was previously not documented. This is mostly in response to Robert Haas' complaint that 9.1 started to throw errors or warnings for missing schemas in cases where prior releases had not. We won't adopt such a significant behavioral change in a back branch, so something different will be needed in 9.1.
* Accept postgres:// URIs in libpq connection functionsAlvaro Herrera2012-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | postgres:// URIs are an attempt to "stop the bleeding" in this general area that has been said to occur due to external projects adopting their own syntaxes. The syntaxes supported by this patch: postgres://[user[:pwd]@][unix-socket][:port[/dbname]][?param1=value1&...] postgres://[user[:pwd]@][net-location][:port][/dbname][?param1=value1&...] should be enough to cover most interesting cases without having to resort to "param=value" pairs, but those are provided for the cases that need them regardless. libpq documentation has been shuffled around a bit, to avoid stuffing all the format details into the PQconnectdbParams description, which was already a bit overwhelming. The list of keywords has moved to its own subsection, and the details on the URI format live in another subsection. This includes a simple test program, as requested in discussion, to ensure that interesting corner cases continue to work appropriately in the future. Author: Alexander Shulgin Some tweaking by Álvaro Herrera, Greg Smith, Daniel Farina, Peter Eisentraut Reviewed by Robert Haas, Alexey Klyukin (offlist), Heikki Linnakangas, Marko Kreen, and others Oh, it also supports postgresql:// but that's probably just an accident.
* Make pg_tablespace_location(0) return the database's default tablespace.Tom Lane2012-04-10
| | | | | | | This definition is convenient when applying the function to the reltablespace column of pg_class, since that's what zero means there; and it doesn't interfere with any other plausible use of the function. Per gripe from Bruce Momjian.
* Fix pg_upgrade to properly upgrade a table that is stored in the clusterBruce Momjian2012-04-10
| | | | | | | | | default tablespace, but part of a database that is in a user-defined tablespace. Caused "file not found" error during upgrade. Per bug report from Ants Aasma. Backpatch to 9.1 and 9.0.
* NLS: Initialize Project-Id-Version field by xgettextPeter Eisentraut2012-04-10
| | | | | Since xgettext provides options to do this now, we might as well use them.
* psql: Improve tab completion of WITHPeter Eisentraut2012-04-10
| | | | | | | Only match when WITH is the first word, as WITH may appear in many other contexts. Josh Kupershmidt
* Measure epoch of timestamp-without-time-zone from local not UTC midnight.Tom Lane2012-04-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reverts commit 191ef2b407f065544ceed5700e42400857d9270f 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.
* Point the URL to PL/py directly to the page about the procedural language.Heikki Linnakangas2012-04-10
| | | | | It used to point to a top-level page that contains client-side tools as well. It was hard to find the procedural language there.
* Fix typos in docs, some words were doubled.Heikki Linnakangas2012-04-10
| | | | Thom Brown
* Adjust various references to GEQO being non-deterministic.Tom Lane2012-04-09
| | | | | | | It's still non-deterministic in some sense ... but given fixed settings and identical planning problems, it will now always choose the same plan, so we probably shouldn't tar it with that brush. Per bug #6565 from Guillaume Cottenceau. Back-patch to 9.0 where the behavior was fixed.
* Re-add documentation recommendation to use gzip/gunzip for archive fileBruce Momjian2012-04-09
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* Update documentation to more clearly label the streaming replication option.Bruce Momjian2012-04-09
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* Remove documentation mention of pglesslog, which was added in 2009Bruce Momjian2012-04-09
| | | | because there was only a beta for 9.0 and it does not compile on 9.1.
* Fix an Assert that turns out to be reachable after all.Tom Lane2012-04-09
| | | | | | | | | estimate_num_groups() gets unhappy with create table empty(); select * from empty except select * from empty e2; I can't see any actual use-case for such a query (and the table is illegal per SQL spec), but it seems like a good idea that it not cause an assert failure.
* Don't bother copying empty support arrays in a zero-column MergeJoin.Tom Lane2012-04-09
| | | | | | | | The case could not arise when this code was originally written, but it can now (since we made zero-column MergeJoins work for the benefit of FULL JOIN ON TRUE). I don't think there is any actual bug here, but we might as well treat it consistently with other uses of COPY_POINTER_FIELD(). Per comment from Ashutosh Bapat.