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* Allow TRUNCATE foo, foo to succeed, per report from Nikhils.Bruce Momjian2008-07-16
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* Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from theAlvaro Herrera2008-06-19
| | | | | | | corresponding struct definitions. This allows other headers to avoid including certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less unnecessary dependencies.
* Make DROP INDEX lock the parent table before locking the index. This behaviorTom Lane2008-06-15
| | | | | | is necessary to avoid deadlock against ordinary queries, but we'd broken it with recent changes that made the DROP machinery lock the index before arriving at index_drop. Per intermittent buildfarm failures.
* Rearrange ALTER TABLE syntax processing as per my recent proposal: theTom Lane2008-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | grammar allows ALTER TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW interchangeably for all subforms of those commands, and then we sort out what's really legal at execution time. This allows the ALTER SEQUENCE/VIEW reference pages to fully document all the ALTER forms available for sequences and views respectively, and eliminates a longstanding cause of confusion for users. The net effect is that the following forms are allowed that weren't before: ALTER SEQUENCE OWNER TO ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT ALTER VIEW OWNER TO ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA (There's no actual functionality gain here, but formerly you had to say ALTER TABLE instead.) Interestingly, the grammar tables actually get smaller, probably because there are fewer special cases to keep track of. I did not disallow using ALTER TABLE for these operations. Perhaps we should, but there's a backwards-compatibility issue if we do; in fact it would break existing pg_dump scripts. I did however tighten up ALTER SEQUENCE and ALTER VIEW to reject non-sequences and non-views in the new cases as well as a couple of cases where they didn't before. The patch doesn't change pg_dump to use the new syntaxes, either.
* Refactor the handling of the various DropStmt variants so that when multipleTom Lane2008-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | objects are specified, we drop them all in a single performMultipleDeletions call. This makes the RESTRICT/CASCADE checks more relaxed: it's not counted as a cascade if one of the later objects has a dependency on an earlier one. NOTICE messages about such cases go away, too. In passing, fix the permissions check for DROP CONVERSION, which for some reason was never made role-aware, and omitted the namespace-owner exemption too. Alex Hunsaker, with further fiddling by me.
* Coercion sanity check in ri_HashCompareOp failed to allow for enums, as perTom Lane2008-05-19
| | | | | example from Rod Taylor. On reflection the correct test here is for any polymorphic type, not specifically ANYARRAY as in the original coding.
* Add a RESTART (without parameter) option to ALTER SEQUENCE, allowing aTom Lane2008-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | sequence to be reset to its original starting value. This requires adding the original start value to the set of parameters (columns) of a sequence object, which is a user-visible change with potential compatibility implications; it also forces initdb. Also add hopefully-SQL-compatible RESTART/CONTINUE IDENTITY options to TRUNCATE TABLE. RESTART IDENTITY executes ALTER SEQUENCE RESTART for all sequences "owned by" any of the truncated relations. CONTINUE IDENTITY is a no-op option. Zoltan Boszormenyi
* Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing someAlvaro Herrera2008-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c files. For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created, initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage. While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more consistent with our header style.
* Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the sameTom Lane2008-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent. This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether check constraints were really inherited or not. The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute) and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for columns. Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom Lane
* Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ... PRIMARY KEY so that the new column is correctlyTom Lane2008-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | checked to see if it's been initialized to all non-nulls. The implicit NOT NULL constraint was not being checked during the ALTER (in fact, not even if there was an explicit NOT NULL too), because ATExecAddColumn neglected to set the flag needed to make the test happen. This has been broken since the capability was first added, in 8.0. Brendan Jurd, per a report from Kaloyan Iliev.
* Fix my brain fade in TRUNCATE triggers patch: can't release relcache refcountsTom Lane2008-03-31
| | | | | | while EState still contains pointers to those relations. Exposed by the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS tests that buildfarm member jaguar is running (I knew those cycles would pay off...)
* Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon RiggsTom Lane2008-03-28
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* Reduce the need for frontend programs to include "postgres.h" by refactoringTom Lane2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | inclusions in src/include/catalog/*.h files. The main idea here is to push function declarations for src/backend/catalog/*.c files into separate headers, rather than sticking them into the corresponding catalog definition file as has been done in the past. This commit only carries out that idea fully for pg_proc, pg_type and pg_conversion, but that's enough for the moment --- if pg_list.h ever becomes unsafe for frontend code to include, we'll need to work a bit more. Zdenek Kotala
* Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid includingAlvaro Herrera2008-03-26
| | | | | | tqual.h into heapam.h. This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit. I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
* Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.Alvaro Herrera2008-03-26
| | | | Per complaint from Tom Lane.
* Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create aAlvaro Herrera2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | snapmgmt.c file for the former. The header files have also been reorganized in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c. tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum. This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a transaction; there is no functionality change. Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and subsequent discussion.
* Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary CTom Lane2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | strings. This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text, cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString. A number of existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed. Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used to be needed. There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin, and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though). This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach text_to_cstring. We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few places where it was easy, but much more could be done. Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
* Support ALTER TYPE RENAME. Petr JelinekTom Lane2008-03-19
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* Fix CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES to not cause unwantedTom Lane2008-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | tablespace permissions failures when copying an index that is in the database's default tablespace. A side-effect of the change is that explicitly specifying the default tablespace no longer triggers a permissions check; this is not how it was done in pre-8.3 releases but is argued to be more consistent. Per bug #3921 from Andrew Gilligan. (Note: I argued in the subsequent discussion that maybe LIKE shouldn't copy index tablespaces at all, but since no one indicated agreement with that idea, I've refrained from doing it.)
* Add checks to TRUNCATE, CLUSTER, and REINDEX to prevent performing theseTom Lane2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | operations when the current transaction has any open references to the target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation). The need for this was previously recognized in connection with ALTER TABLE, but anything that summarily eliminates tuples or moves them around would confuse an active scan. While this patch does not in itself fix bug #3883 (the deadlock would happen before the new check fires), it will discourage people from attempting the sequence of operations that creates a deadlock risk, so it's at least a partial response to that problem. In passing, add a previously-missing check to REINDEX to prevent trying to reindex another backend's temp table. This isn't a security problem since only a superuser would get past the schema permission checks, but if we are testing for this in other utility commands then surely REINDEX should too.
* Fix ALTER INDEX RENAME so that if the index belongs to a unique or primary keyTom Lane2008-01-17
| | | | | | | | constraint, the constraint is renamed as well. This avoids inconsistent situations that could confuse pg_dump (not to mention humans). We might at some point provide ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT as a more general solution, but there seems no reason not to allow doing it this way too. Per bug #3854 and related discussions.
* Forbid ALTER TABLE and CLUSTER when there are pending AFTER-trigger eventsTom Lane2008-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | in the current backend for the target table. These operations move tuples around and would thus invalidate the TIDs stored in the trigger event records. (We need not worry about events in other backends, since acquiring exclusive lock should be enough to ensure there aren't any.) It might be sufficient to forbid only the table-rewriting variants of ALTER TABLE, but in the absence of any compelling use-case, let's just be safe and simple. Per follow-on investigation of bug #3847, though this is not actually the same problem reported therein. Possibly this should be back-patched, but since the case has never been reported from the field, I didn't bother.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* Code review for LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES patch. Fix failure to propagateTom Lane2007-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | constraint status of copied indexes (bug #3774), as well as various other small bugs such as failure to pstrdup when needed. Allow INCLUDING INDEXES indexes to be merged with identical declared indexes (perhaps not real useful, but the code is there and having it not apply to LIKE indexes seems pretty unorthogonal). Avoid useless work in generateClonedIndexStmt(). Undo some poorly chosen API changes, and put a couple of routines in modules that seem to be better places for them.
* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Ensure that typmod decoration on a datatype name is validated in all cases,Tom Lane2007-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | even in code paths where we don't pay any subsequent attention to the typmod value. This seems needed in view of the fact that 8.3's generalized typmod support will accept a lot of bogus syntax, such as "timestamp(foo)" or "record(int, 42)" --- if we allow such things to pass without comment, users will get confused. Per a recent example from Greg Stark. To implement this in a way that's not very vulnerable to future bugs-of-omission, refactor the API of parse_type.c's TypeName lookup routines so that typmod validation is folded into the base lookup operation. Callers can still choose not to receive the encoded typmod, but we'll check the decoration anyway if it's present.
* Remove hack in pg_tablespace_aclmask() that disallowed permissionsTom Lane2007-10-12
| | | | | | | | on pg_global even to superusers, and replace it with checks in various other places to complain about invalid uses of pg_global. This ends up being a bit more code but it allows a more specific error message to be given, and it un-breaks pg_tablespace_size() on pg_global. Per discussion.
* Improve consistency of the error messages generated when you try to useTom Lane2007-09-29
| | | | | | ALTER TABLE on a composite type or ALTER TYPE on a table's rowtype. We already rejected these cases, but the error messages were a bit random and didn't always provide a HINT to use the other command type.
* Make eval_const_expressions() preserve typmod when simplifying something likeTom Lane2007-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | null::char(3) to a simple Const node. (It already worked for non-null values, but not when we skipped evaluation of a strict coercion function.) This prevents loss of typmod knowledge in situations such as exhibited in bug #3598. Unfortunately there seems no good way to fix that bug in 8.1 and 8.2, because they simply don't carry a typmod for a plain Const node. In passing I made all the other callers of makeNullConst supply "real" typmod values too, though I think it probably doesn't matter anywhere else.
* Tsearch2 functionality migrates to core. The bulk of this work is byTom Lane2007-08-21
| | | | | | | | Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, but I did a lot of editorializing, so anything that's broken is probably my fault. Documentation is nonexistent as yet, but let's land the patch so we can get some portability testing done.
* Implement CREATE TABLE LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES. Patch from NikhilS,Neil Conway2007-07-17
| | | | | based in part on an earlier patch from Trevor Hardcastle, and reviewed by myself.
* Add ALTER VIEW ... RENAME TO, and a RENAME TO clause to ALTER SEQUENCE.Neil Conway2007-07-03
| | | | | | | Sequences and views could previously be renamed using ALTER TABLE, but this was a repeated source of confusion for users. Update the docs, and psql tab completion. Patch from David Fetter; various minor fixes by myself.
* Separate parse-analysis for utility commands out of parser/analyze.cTom Lane2007-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (which now deals only in optimizable statements), and put that code into a new file parser/parse_utilcmd.c. This helps clarify and enforce the design rule that utility statements shouldn't be processed during the regular parse analysis phase; all interpretation of their meaning should happen after they are given to ProcessUtility to execute. (We need this because we don't retain any locks for a utility statement that's in a plan cache, nor have any way to detect that it's stale.) We are also able to simplify the API for parse_analyze() and related routines, because they will now always return exactly one Query structure. In passing, fix bug #3403 concerning trying to add a serial column to an existing temp table (this is largely Heikki's work, but we needed all that restructuring to make it safe).
* Clarify some error messages about duplicate things.Peter Eisentraut2007-06-03
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* Create a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of theTom Lane2007-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | tablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files. This is a list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created). Temp files are not stored in per-database pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace directories. Jaime Casanova and Albert Cervera, with review by Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane.
* Have CLUSTER advance the table's relfrozenxid. The new frozen point is theAlvaro Herrera2007-05-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FreezeXid introduced in a recent commit, so there isn't any data loss in this approach. Doing it causes ALTER TABLE (or rather, the forms of it that cause a full table rewrite) to be affected as well. In this case, the frozen point is RecentXmin, because after the rewrite all the tuples are relabeled with the rewriting transaction's Xid. TOAST tables are fixed automatically as well, as fallout of the way they were already being handled in the respective code paths. With this patch, there is no longer need to VACUUM tables for Xid wraparound purposes that have been cleaned up via TRUNCATE or CLUSTER.
* Have TRUNCATE advance the affected table's relfrozenxid to RecentXmin, toAlvaro Herrera2007-05-16
| | | | | | | avoid a later needless VACUUM for Xid-wraparound purposes. We can do this since the table is known to be left empty, so no Xid remains on it. Per discussion.
* Get rid of the pg_shdepend entry for a TOAST table; it's unnecessary sinceTom Lane2007-05-14
| | | | | | | there's an indirect dependency on the owner via the parent table. We were already handling indexes that way, but not toast tables for some reason. Saves a little catalog space and cuts down the verbosity of checkSharedDependencies reports.
* Fix the problem that creating a user-defined type named _foo, followed by oneTom Lane2007-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | named foo, would work but the other ordering would not. If a user-specified type or table name collides with an existing auto-generated array name, just rename the array type out of the way by prepending more underscores. This should not create any backward-compatibility issues, since the cases in which this will happen would have failed outright in prior releases. Also fix an oversight in the arrays-of-composites patch: ALTER TABLE RENAME renamed the table's rowtype but not its array type.
* Fix my oversight in enabling domains-of-domains: ALTER DOMAIN ADD CONSTRAINTTom Lane2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | needs to check the new constraint against columns of derived domains too. Also, make it error out if the domain to be modified is used within any composite-type columns. Eventually we should support that case, but it seems a bit painful, and not suitable for a back-patch. For the moment just let the user know we can't do it. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the only released version that allows nested domains. Possibly the other part should be back-patched further.
* Support arrays of composite types, including the rowtypes of regular tablesTom Lane2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and views (but not system catalogs, nor sequences or toast tables). Get rid of the hardwired convention that a type's array type is named exactly "_type", instead using a new column pg_type.typarray to provide the linkage. (It still will be named "_type", though, except in odd corner cases such as maximum-length type names.) Along the way, make tracking of owner and schema dependencies for types more uniform: a type directly created by the user has these dependencies, while a table rowtype or auto-generated array type does not have them, but depends on its parent object instead. David Fetter, Andrew Dunstan, Tom Lane
* Make CLUSTER MVCC-safe. Heikki LinnakangasTom Lane2007-04-08
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* Changes pg_trigger and extend pg_rewrite in order to allow triggers andJan Wieck2007-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rules to be defined with different, per session controllable, behaviors for replication purposes. This will allow replication systems like Slony-I and, as has been stated on pgsql-hackers, other products to control the firing mechanism of triggers and rewrite rules without modifying the system catalog directly. The firing mechanisms are controlled by a new superuser-only GUC variable, session_replication_role, together with a change to pg_trigger.tgenabled and a new column pg_rewrite.ev_enabled. Both columns are a single char data type now (tgenabled was a bool before). The possible values in these attributes are: 'O' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "origin" (default) or "local". This is the default behavior. 'D' - Trigger/Rule is disabled and fires never 'A' - Trigger/Rule fires always regardless of the setting of session_replication_role 'R' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "replica" The GUC variable can only be changed as long as the system does not have any cached query plans. This will prevent changing the session role and accidentally executing stored procedures or functions that have plans cached that expand to the wrong query set due to differences in the rule firing semantics. The SQL syntax for changing a triggers/rules firing semantics is ALTER TABLE <tabname> <when> TRIGGER|RULE <name>; <when> ::= ENABLE | ENABLE ALWAYS | ENABLE REPLICA | DISABLE psql's \d command as well as pg_dump are extended in a backward compatible fashion. Jan
* First phase of plan-invalidation project: create a plan cache managementTom Lane2007-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | module and teach PREPARE and protocol-level prepared statements to use it. In service of this, rearrange utility-statement processing so that parse analysis does not assume table schemas can't change before execution for utility statements (necessary because we don't attempt to re-acquire locks for utility statements when reusing a stored plan). This requires some refactoring of the ProcessUtility API, but it ends up cleaner anyway, for instance we can get rid of the QueryContext global. Still to do: fix up SPI and related code to use the plan cache; I'm tempted to try to make SQL functions use it too. Also, there are at least some aspects of system state that we want to ensure remain the same during a replan as in the original processing; search_path certainly ought to behave that way for instance, and perhaps there are others.
* Revert temp_tablespaces because of coding problems, per Tom.Bruce Momjian2007-03-06
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* Fix new RI operator selection code to do the right thing when working withTom Lane2007-02-16
| | | | | | | an opclass for a generic type such as ANYARRAY. The original coding failed to check that PK and FK columns were of the same array type. Per discussion with Tom Dunstan. Also, make the code a shade more readable by not trying to economize on variables.
* Fix up foreign-key mechanism so that there is a sound semantic basis for theTom Lane2007-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | equality checks it applies, instead of a random dependence on whatever operators might be named "=". The equality operators will now be selected from the opfamily of the unique index that the FK constraint depends on to enforce uniqueness of the referenced columns; therefore they are certain to be consistent with that index's notion of equality. Among other things this should fix the problem noted awhile back that pg_dump may fail for foreign-key constraints on user-defined types when the required operators aren't in the search path. This also means that the former warning condition about "foreign key constraint will require costly sequential scans" is gone: if the comparison condition isn't indexable then we'll reject the constraint entirely. All per past discussions. Along the way, make the RI triggers look into pg_constraint for their information, instead of using pg_trigger.tgargs; and get rid of the always error-prone fixed-size string buffers in ri_triggers.c in favor of building up the RI queries in StringInfo buffers. initdb forced due to columns added to pg_constraint and pg_trigger.
* Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previouslyTom Lane2007-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | made query plan. Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different type than it now has. Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor. Since at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the column type will not change underneath us later in the query. However, since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE while a query is in progress in the current backend. Seal that hole by rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in the current backend. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0556
* Add GUC temp_tablespaces to provide a default location for temporaryBruce Momjian2007-01-25
| | | | | | objects. Jaime Casanova
* Properly detoast access to bytea field pg_trigger.tgargs. Old codeBruce Momjian2007-01-25
| | | | | | might cause server crash. Backpatch to 8.2.X.