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* Move pg_upgrade doc mention of the port numbers to the same place.Bruce Momjian2011-10-06
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* Ensure walsenders can be SIGTERMed while in non-walsender codeMagnus Hagander2011-10-06
| | | | | | | In oder to exit on SIGTERM when in non-walsender code, such as do_pg_stop_backup(), we need to set the interrupt variables that are used there, and not just the walsender local ones.
* Make pgstatindex respond to cancel interrupts.Robert Haas2011-10-06
| | | | | | | | | A similar problem for pgstattuple() was fixed in April of 2010 by commit 33065ef8bc52253ae855bc959576e52d8a28ba06, but pgstatindex() seems to have been overlooked. Back-patch all the way, as with that commit, though not to 7.4 through 8.1, since those are now EOL.
* Simplify new pg_ctl newline termination code.Bruce Momjian2011-10-06
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* Add postmaster -C option to query configuration parameters, and haveBruce Momjian2011-10-06
| | | | | | pg_ctl use that to query the data directory for config-only installs. This fixes awkward or impossible pg_ctl operation for config-only installs.
* Replace the "New Linear" GiST split algorithm for boxes and points with aHeikki Linnakangas2011-10-06
| | | | | | | new double-sorting algorithm. The new algorithm produces better quality trees, making searches faster. Alexander Korotkov
* Improve and simplify CREATE EXTENSION's management of GUC variables.Tom Lane2011-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CREATE EXTENSION needs to transiently set search_path, as well as client_min_messages and log_min_messages. We were doing this by the expedient of saving the current string value of each variable, doing a SET LOCAL, and then doing another SET LOCAL with the previous value at the end of the command. This is a bit expensive though, and it also fails badly if there is anything funny about the existing search_path value, as seen in a recent report from Roger Niederland. Fortunately, there's a much better way, which is to piggyback on the GUC infrastructure previously developed for functions with SET options. We just open a new GUC nesting level, do our assignments with GUC_ACTION_SAVE, and then close the nesting level when done. This automatically restores the prior settings without a re-parsing pass, so (in principle anyway) there can't be an error. And guc.c still takes care of cleanup in event of an error abort. The CREATE EXTENSION code for this was modeled on some much older code in ri_triggers.c, which I also changed to use the better method, even though there wasn't really much risk of failure there. Also improve the comments in guc.c to reflect this additional usage.
* Change wording for COALESCE docs to use "otherwise".Bruce Momjian2011-10-04
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* Explain COALESCE example in the docs.Bruce Momjian2011-10-04
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* Improve define_custom_variable's handling of pre-existing settings.Tom Lane2011-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Arrange for any problems with pre-existing settings to be reported as WARNING not ERROR, so that we don't undesirably abort the loading of the incoming add-on module. The bad setting is just discarded, as though it had never been applied at all. (This requires a change in the API of set_config_option. After some thought I decided the most potentially useful addition was to allow callers to just pass in a desired elevel.) Arrange to restore the complete stacked state of the variable, rather than cheesily reinstalling only the active value. This ensures that custom GUCs will behave unsurprisingly even when the module loading operation occurs within nested subtransactions that have changed the active value. Since a module load could occur as a result of, eg, a PL function call, this is not an unlikely scenario.
* Fix uninitialized-variable bug.Tom Lane2011-10-04
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* Add sourcefile/sourceline data to EXEC_BACKEND GUC transmission files.Tom Lane2011-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | This oversight meant that on Windows, the pg_settings view would not display source file or line number information for values coming from postgresql.conf, unless the backend had received a SIGHUP since starting. In passing, also make the error detection in read_nondefault_variables a tad more thorough, and fix it to not lose precision on float GUCs (these changes are already in HEAD as of my previous commit).
* Remember the source GucContext for each GUC parameter.Tom Lane2011-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | We used to just remember the GucSource, but saving GucContext too provides a little more information --- notably, whether a SET was done by a superuser or regular user. This allows us to rip out the fairly dodgy code that define_custom_variable used to use to try to infer the context to re-install a pre-existing setting with. In particular, it now works for a superuser to SET a extension's SUSET custom variable before loading the associated extension, because GUC can remember whether the SET was done as a superuser or not. The plperl regression tests contain an example where this is useful.
* Use callbacks in SlruScanDirectory for the actual actionAlvaro Herrera2011-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, the code assumed that the only possible action to take was to delete files behind a certain cutoff point. The async notify code was already a crock: it used a different "pagePrecedes" function for truncation than for regular operation. By allowing it to pass a callback to SlruScanDirectory it can do cleanly exactly what it needs to do. The clog.c code also had its own use for SlruScanDirectory, which is made a bit simpler with this.
* Remove the custom_variable_classes parameter.Tom Lane2011-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This variable provides only marginal error-prevention capability (since it can only check the prefix of a qualified GUC name), and the consensus is that that isn't worth the amount of hassle that maintaining the setting creates for DBAs. So, let's just remove it. With this commit, the system will silently accept a value for any qualified GUC name at all, whether it has anything to do with any known extension or not. (Unqualified names still have to match known built-in settings, though; and you will get a WARNING at extension load time if there's an unrecognized setting with that extension's prefix.) There's still some discussion ongoing about whether to tighten that up and if so how; but if we do come up with a solution, it's not likely to look anything like custom_variable_classes.
* ProcedureCreate neglected to record dependencies on default expressions.Tom Lane2011-10-03
| | | | | | | Thus, an object referenced in a default expression could be dropped while the function remained present. This was unaccountably missed in the original patch to add default parameters for functions. Reported by Pavel Stehule.
* Restructure error handling in reading of postgresql.conf.Tom Lane2011-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch has two distinct purposes: to report multiple problems in postgresql.conf rather than always bailing out after the first one, and to change the policy for whether changes are applied when there are unrelated errors in postgresql.conf. Formerly the policy was to apply no changes if any errors could be detected, but that had a significant consistency problem, because in some cases specific values might be seen as valid by some processes but invalid by others. This meant that the latter processes would fail to adopt changes in other parameters even though the former processes had done so. The new policy is that during SIGHUP, the file is rejected as a whole if there are any errors in the "name = value" syntax, or if any lines attempt to set nonexistent built-in parameters, or if any lines attempt to set custom parameters whose prefix is not listed in (the new value of) custom_variable_classes. These tests should always give the same results in all processes, and provide what seems a reasonably robust defense against loading values from badly corrupted config files. If these tests pass, all processes will apply all settings that they individually see as good, ignoring (but logging) any they don't. In addition, the postmaster does not abandon reading a configuration file after the first syntax error, but continues to read the file and report syntax errors (up to a maximum of 100 syntax errors per file). The postmaster will still refuse to start up if the configuration file contains any errors at startup time, but these changes allow multiple errors to be detected and reported before quitting. Alexey Klyukin, reviewed by Andy Colson and av (Alexander ?) with some additional hacking by Tom Lane
* Improve generated column names for cases involving sub-SELECTs.Tom Lane2011-10-01
| | | | | | | | We'll now use "exists" for EXISTS(SELECT ...), "array" for ARRAY(SELECT ...), or the sub-select's own result column name for a simple expression sub-select. Previously, you usually got "?column?" in such cases. Marti Raudsepp, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiugchi
* In pg_upgrade, remove unnecessary local variable.Bruce Momjian2011-10-01
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* Cache the result of makesign() across calls of gtrgm_penalty().Tom Lane2011-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Since gtrgm_penalty() is usually called many times in a row with the same "newval" (to determine which item on an index page newval fits into best), the makesign() calculation is repetitious. It's expensive enough to make it worth caching the result, so do so. On my machine this is good for more than a 40% savings in the time needed to build a trigram index on /usr/share/dict/words. This is all per a suggestion of Heikki's. In passing, make some mostly-cosmetic improvements in the caching logic in the other functions in this file that rely on caching info in fn_extra.
* Support GiST index support functions that want to cache data across calls.Tom Lane2011-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | pg_trgm was already doing this unofficially, but the implementation hadn't been thought through very well and leaked memory. Restructure the core GiST code so that it actually works, and document it. Ordinarily this would have required an extra memory context creation/destruction for each GiST index search, but I was able to avoid that in the normal case of a non-rescanned search by finessing the handling of the RBTree. It used to have its own context always, but now shares a context with the scan-lifespan data structures, unless there is more than one rescan call. This should make the added overhead unnoticeable in typical cases.
* Fix recursion into previously planned sub-query in examine_simple_variable.Tom Lane2011-09-29
| | | | | | | | This code was looking at the sub-Query tree as seen in the parent query's RangeTblEntry; but that's the pristine parser output, and what we need to look at is the tree as it stands at the completion of planning. Otherwise we might pick up a Var that references a subquery that got flattened and hence has no RelOptInfo in the subroot. Per report from Peter Geoghegan.
* Fix pg_upgrade for EXEC_BACKEND builds (e.g. Windows) by properlyBruce Momjian2011-09-29
| | | | | | passing the -b/binary-upgrade flag. Backpatch to 9.1.X.
* Fix index matching for operators with mixed collatable/noncollatable inputs.Tom Lane2011-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an indexable operator for a non-collatable indexed datatype has a collatable right-hand input type, any OpExpr for it will be marked with a nonzero inputcollid (since having one collatable input is sufficient to make that happen). However, an index on a non-collatable column certainly doesn't have any collation. This caused us to fail to match such operators to their indexes, because indxpath.c required an exact match of index collation and clause collation. It seems correct to allow a match when the index is collation-less regardless of the clause's inputcollid: an operator with both noncollatable and collatable inputs could perhaps depend on the collation of the collatable input, but it could hardly expect the index for the noncollatable input to have that same collation. Per bug #6232 from Pierre Ducroquet. His example is specifically about "hstore ? text" but the problem seems quite generic.
* In pg_upgrade, because toast table names can be mismatched with the heapBruce Momjian2011-09-28
| | | | | | | oid on 8.4, modify the toast name comparison test to only apply to old 9.0+ servers. (The test was previously 8.4+.) Backpatch to 9.1.X.
* Update and extend the EXPLAIN-related documentation.Tom Lane2011-09-28
| | | | | | | | | | I've made a significant effort at filling in the "Using EXPLAIN" section to be reasonably complete about mentioning everything that EXPLAIN can output, including the "Rows Removed" outputs that were added by Marko Tiikkaja's recent documentation-free patch. I also updated the examples to be consistent with current behavior; several of them were not close to what the current code will do. No doubt there's more that can be done here, but I'm out of patience for today.
* Take sepgsql regression tests out of the regular regression test mechanism.Tom Lane2011-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Because these tests require root privileges, not to mention invasive changes to the security configuration of the host system, it's not reasonable for them to be invoked by a regular "make check" or "make installcheck". Instead, dike out the Makefile's knowledge of the tests, and change chkselinuxenv (now renamed "test_sepgsql") into a script that verifies the environment is workable and then runs the tests. It's expected that test_sepgsql will only be run manually. While at it, do some cleanup in the error checking in the script, and do some wordsmithing in the documentation.
* Remove dependency on error ordering in isolation testsAlvaro Herrera2011-09-27
| | | | | | We now report errors reported by the just-unblocked and unblocking transactions identically; this should fix relatively common buildfarm failures reported by animals that are failing the "wrong" session.
* Fix typoAlvaro Herrera2011-09-27
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* Update comments related to the crash-safety of the visibility map.Robert Haas2011-09-27
| | | | | | | | In hio.c, document how we avoid deadlock with respect to visibility map buffer locks. In visibilitymap.c, update the LOCKING section of the file header comment. Both oversights noted by Heikki Linnakangas.
* sepgsql uavc comment improvements.Robert Haas2011-09-27
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* heap_update() must recheck tuple after unlocking and relocking buffer.Robert Haas2011-09-27
| | | | | Bug found by Alvaro Herrera, fix suggested by Heikki Linnakangas and reviewed by Tom Lane.
* Fix window functions that sort by expressions involving aggregates.Tom Lane2011-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit c1d9579dd8bf3c921ca6bc2b62c40da6d25372e5, I changed things so that the output of the Agg node that feeds the window functions would not list any ungrouped Vars directly. Formerly, for example, the Agg tlist might have included both "x" and "sum(x)", which is not really valid if "x" isn't a grouping column. If we then had a window function ordering on something like "sum(x) + 1", prepare_sort_from_pathkeys would find no exact match for this in the Agg tlist, and would conclude that it must recompute the expression. But it would break the expression down to just the Var "x", which it would find in the tlist, and then rebuild the ORDER BY expression using a reference to the subplan's "x" output. Now, after the above-referenced changes, "x" isn't in the Agg tlist if it's not a grouping column, so that prepare_sort_from_pathkeys fails with "could not find pathkey item to sort", as reported by Bricklen Anderson. The fix is to not break down Aggrefs into their component parts, but just treat them as irreducible expressions to be sought in the subplan tlist. This is definitely OK for the use with respect to window functions in grouping_planner, since it just built the tlist being used on the same basis. AFAICT it is safe for other uses too; most of the other call sites couldn't encounter Aggrefs anyway.
* Allow snapshot references to still work during transaction abort.Tom Lane2011-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In REPEATABLE READ (nee SERIALIZABLE) mode, an attempt to do GetTransactionSnapshot() between AbortTransaction and CleanupTransaction failed, because GetTransactionSnapshot would recompute the transaction snapshot (which is already wrong, given the isolation mode) and then re-register it in the TopTransactionResourceOwner, leading to an Assert because the TopTransactionResourceOwner should be empty of resources after AbortTransaction. This is the root cause of bug #6218 from Yamamoto Takashi. While changing plancache.c to avoid requesting a snapshot when handling a ROLLBACK masks the problem, I think this is really a snapmgr.c bug: it's lower-level than the resource manager mechanism and should not be shutting itself down before we unwind resource manager resources. However, just postponing the release of the transaction snapshot until cleanup time didn't work because of the circular dependency with TopTransactionResourceOwner. Fix by managing the internal reference to that snapshot manually instead of depending on TopTransactionResourceOwner. This saves a few cycles as well as making the module layering more straightforward. predicate.c's dependencies on TopTransactionResourceOwner go away too. I think this is a longstanding bug, but there's no evidence that it's more than a latent bug, so it doesn't seem worth any risk of back-patching.
* Speed up array element assignment in plpgsql by caching type information.Tom Lane2011-09-26
| | | | | | | Cache assorted data in the PLpgSQL_arrayelem struct to avoid repetitive catalog lookups over multiple executions of the same statement. Pavel Stehule
* Update obsolete comments.Robert Haas2011-09-26
| | | | | | | This was partially fixed by 57fdb2b0d835fe201434fc28bf5dabf83ada26d1, back in 2005, but it missed a couple of spots. YAMAMOTO Takashi
* Use a fresh copy of query_list when making a second plan in GetCachedPlan.Tom Lane2011-09-26
| | | | | | | | The code path that tried a generic plan, didn't like it, and then made a custom plan was mistakenly passing the same copy of the query_list to the planner both times. This doesn't work too well for nontrivial queries, since the planner tends to scribble on its input. Diagnosis and fix by Yamamoto Takashi.
* Fully const-ify PQconnectdbParams, PQconnectStartParams, and PQpingParams.Tom Lane2011-09-25
| | | | | | | The keywords and values arguments of these functions are more properly declared "const char * const *" than just "const char **". Lionel Elie Mamane, reviewed by Craig Ringer
* Avoid unnecessary snapshot-acquisitions in BuildCachedPlan.Tom Lane2011-09-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | I had copied-and-pasted a claim that we couldn't reach this point when dealing with utility statements, but that was a leftover from when the caller was required to supply a plan to start with. We now will go through here at least once when handling a utility statement, so it seems worth a check to see whether a snapshot is actually needed. (Note that analyze_requires_snapshot is quite a cheap test.) Per suggestion from Yamamoto Takashi. I don't think I believe that this resolves his reported assertion failure; but it's worth changing anyway, just to save a cycle or two.
* In pgrminclude, document requirement to use pgcompinclude, and sortBruce Momjian2011-09-25
| | | | files so include removal is more predictable.
* Un-break compression of plain-text output format in pg_dump.Tom Lane2011-09-25
| | | | | | | | | pg_dump has historically understood -Z with no -F switch to mean that it should emit a gzip-compressed version of its plain text output. This got broken through a misunderstanding in the 9.1 patch that added directory output format. Restore the former behavior. Per complaint from Roger Niederland and diagnosis by Adrian Klaver.
* Document pgrminclude limitations.Bruce Momjian2011-09-24
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* Recognize self-contradictory restriction clauses for non-table relations.Tom Lane2011-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The constraint exclusion feature checks for contradictions among scan restriction clauses, as well as contradictions between those clauses and a table's CHECK constraints. The first aspect of this testing can be useful for non-table relations (such as subqueries or functions-in-FROM), but the feature was coded with only the CHECK case in mind so we were applying it only to plain-table RTEs. Move the relation_excluded_by_constraints call so that it is applied to all RTEs not just plain tables. With the default setting of constraint_exclusion this results in no extra work, but with constraint_exclusion = ON we will detect optimizations that we missed before (at the cost of more planner cycles than we expended before). Per a gripe from Gunnlaugur Þór Briem. Experimentation with his example also showed we were not being very bright about the case where constraint exclusion is proven within a subquery within UNION ALL, so tweak the code to allow set_append_rel_pathlist to recognize such cases.
* Expand pgrminclude to exclude use of macros CppAsString and CppConcat.Bruce Momjian2011-09-24
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* Fix typoMagnus Hagander2011-09-24
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* Note that sslmode=require verifies the CA if root cert is presentMagnus Hagander2011-09-24
| | | | | | | | This mode still exists for backwards compatibility, making sslmode=require the same as sslmode=verify-ca when the file is present, but not causing an error when it isn't. Per bug 6189, reported by Srinivas Aji
* Fix our mapping of Windows timezones for Central America.Tom Lane2011-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were mapping "Central America Standard Time" to "CST6CDT", which seems entirely wrong, because according to the Olson timezone database noplace in Central America observes daylight savings time on any regular basis --- and certainly not according to the USA DST rules that are implied by "CST6CDT". (Mexico is an exception, but they can be disregarded since they have a separate timezone name in Windows.) So, map this zone name to plain "CST6", which will provide a fixed UTC offset. As written, this patch will also result in mapping "Central America Daylight Time" to CST6. I considered hacking things so that would still map to CST6CDT, but it seems it would confuse win32tzlist.pl to put those two names in separate entries. Since there's little evidence that any such zone name is used in the wild, much less that CST6CDT would be a good match for it, I'm not too worried about what we do with it. Per complaint from Pratik Chirania.
* Update win32tzlist.pl for the new location of our Windows timezone map.Tom Lane2011-09-23
| | | | I wasn't aware of this script till Magnus mentioned it just now ...
* Memory barrier support for PostgreSQL.Robert Haas2011-09-23
| | | | | | | This is not actually used anywhere yet, but it gets the basic infrastructure in place. It is fairly likely that there are bugs, and support for some important platforms may be missing, so we'll need to refine this as we go along.
* Teach sepgsql about database labels.Robert Haas2011-09-23
| | | | | | This is still a bit of a hack, but it's better than the old way, for sure. KaiGai Kohei, with one change by me to make it compile