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* Avoid transaction-commit race condition while receiving a NOTIFY message.Tom Lane2014-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use TransactionIdIsInProgress, then TransactionIdDidCommit, to distinguish whether a NOTIFY message's originating transaction is in progress, committed, or aborted. The previous coding could accept a message from a transaction that was still in-progress according to the PGPROC array; if the client were fast enough at starting a new transaction, it might fail to see table rows added/updated by the message-sending transaction. Which of course would usually be the point of receiving the message. We noted this type of race condition long ago in tqual.c, but async.c overlooked it. The race condition probably cannot occur unless there are multiple NOTIFY senders in action, since an individual backend doesn't send NOTIFY signals until well after it's done committing. But if two senders commit in close succession, it's certainly possible that we could see the second sender's message within the race condition window while responding to the signal from the first one. Per bug #9557 from Marko Tiikkaja. This patch is slightly more invasive than what he proposed, since it removes the now-redundant TransactionIdDidAbort call. Back-patch to 9.0, where the current NOTIFY implementation was introduced.
* Avoid getting more than AccessShareLock when deparsing a query.Tom Lane2014-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In make_ruledef and get_query_def, we have long used AcquireRewriteLocks to ensure that the querytree we are about to deparse is up-to-date and the schemas of the underlying relations aren't changing. Howwever, that function thinks the query is about to be executed, so it acquires locks that are stronger than necessary for the purpose of deparsing. Thus for example, if pg_dump asks to deparse a rule that includes "INSERT INTO t", we'd acquire RowExclusiveLock on t. That results in interference with concurrent transactions that might for example ask for ShareLock on t. Since pg_dump is documented as being purely read-only, this is unexpected. (Worse, it used to actually be read-only; this behavior dates back only to 8.1, cf commit ba4200246.) Fix this by adding a parameter to AcquireRewriteLocks to tell it whether we want the "real" execution locks or only AccessShareLock. Report, diagnosis, and patch by Dean Rasheed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.Robert Haas2014-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table than other parts. At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege escalation attack. This changes the calling convention for DefineIndex, CreateTrigger, transformIndexStmt, transformAlterTableStmt, CheckIndexCompatible (in 9.2 and newer), and AlterTable (in 9.1 and older). In addition, CheckRelationOwnership is removed in 9.2 and newer and the calling convention is changed in older branches. A field has also been added to the Constraint node (FkConstraint in 8.4). Third-party code calling these functions or using the Constraint node will require updating. Report by Andres Freund. Patch by Robert Haas and Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2014-0062
* Prevent privilege escalation in explicit calls to PL validators.Noah Misch2014-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The primary role of PL validators is to be called implicitly during CREATE FUNCTION, but they are also normal functions that a user can call explicitly. Add a permissions check to each validator to ensure that a user cannot use explicit validator calls to achieve things he could not otherwise achieve. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). Non-core procedural language extensions ought to make the same two-line change to their own validators. Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane and Noah Misch. Security: CVE-2014-0061
* Shore up ADMIN OPTION restrictions.Noah Misch2014-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Granting a role without ADMIN OPTION is supposed to prevent the grantee from adding or removing members from the granted role. Issuing SET ROLE before the GRANT bypassed that, because the role itself had an implicit right to add or remove members. Plug that hole by recognizing that implicit right only when the session user matches the current role. Additionally, do not recognize it during a security-restricted operation or during execution of a SECURITY DEFINER function. The restriction on SECURITY DEFINER is not security-critical. However, it seems best for a user testing his own SECURITY DEFINER function to see the same behavior others will see. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). The SQL standards do not conflate roles and users as PostgreSQL does; only SQL roles have members, and only SQL users initiate sessions. An application using PostgreSQL users and roles as SQL users and roles will never attempt to grant membership in the role that is the session user, so the implicit right to add or remove members will never arise. The security impact was mostly that a role member could revoke access from others, contrary to the wishes of his own grantor. Unapproved role member additions are less notable, because the member can still largely achieve that by creating a view or a SECURITY DEFINER function. Reviewed by Andres Freund and Tom Lane. Reported, independently, by Jonas Sundman and Noah Misch. Security: CVE-2014-0060
* Separate multixact freezing parameters from xid'sAlvaro Herrera2014-02-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we were piggybacking on transaction ID parameters to freeze multixacts; but since there isn't necessarily any relationship between rates of Xid and multixact consumption, this turns out not to be a good idea. Therefore, we now have multixact-specific freezing parameters: vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age: when to remove multis as we come across them in vacuum (default to 5 million, i.e. early in comparison to Xid's default of 50 million) vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age: when to force whole-table scans instead of scanning only the pages marked as not all visible in visibility map (default to 150 million, same as for Xids). Whichever of both which reaches the 150 million mark earlier will cause a whole-table scan. autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age: when for cause emergency, uninterruptible whole-table scans (default to 400 million, double as that for Xids). This means there shouldn't be more frequent emergency vacuuming than previously, unless multixacts are being used very rapidly. Backpatch to 9.3 where multixacts were made to persist enough to require freezing. To avoid an ABI break in 9.3, VacuumStmt has a couple of fields in an unnatural place, and StdRdOptions is split in two so that the newly added fields can go at the end. Patch by me, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional input from Andres Freund and Tom Lane.
* Fix unsafe references to errno within error messaging logic.Tom Lane2014-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Various places were supposing that errno could be expected to hold still within an ereport() nest or similar contexts. This isn't true necessarily, though in some cases it accidentally failed to fail depending on how the compiler chanced to order the subexpressions. This class of thinko explains recent reports of odd failures on clang-built versions, typically missing or inappropriate HINT fields in messages. Problem identified by Christian Kruse, who also submitted the patch this commit is based on. (I fixed a few issues in his patch and found a couple of additional places with the same disease.) Back-patch as appropriate to all supported branches.
* Allow SET TABLESPACE to database defaultStephen Frost2014-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We've always allowed CREATE TABLE to create tables in the database's default tablespace without checking for CREATE permissions on that tablespace. Unfortunately, the original implementation of ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE didn't pick up on that exception. This changes ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE to allow the database's default tablespace without checking for CREATE rights on that tablespace, just as CREATE TABLE works today. Users could always do this through a series of commands (CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT * FROM ...; DROP TABLE ...; etc), so let's fix the oversight in SET TABLESPACE's original implementation.
* Fix compute_scalar_stats() for case that all values exceed WIDTH_THRESHOLD.Tom Lane2014-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The standard typanalyze functions skip over values whose detoasted size exceeds WIDTH_THRESHOLD (1024 bytes), so as to limit memory bloat during ANALYZE. However, we (I think I, actually :-() failed to consider the possibility that *every* non-null value in a column is too wide. While compute_minimal_stats() seems to behave reasonably anyway in such a case, compute_scalar_stats() just fell through and generated no pg_statistic entry at all. That's unnecessarily pessimistic: we can still produce valid stanullfrac and stawidth values in such cases, since we do include too-wide values in the average-width calculation. Furthermore, since the general assumption in this code is that too-wide values are probably all distinct from each other, it seems reasonable to set stadistinct to -1 ("all distinct"). Per complaint from Kadri Raudsepp. This has been like this since roughly neolithic times, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix broken support for event triggers as extension members.Tom Lane2013-12-30
| | | | | | | | | CREATE EVENT TRIGGER forgot to mark the event trigger as a member of its extension, and pg_dump didn't pay any attention anyway when deciding whether to dump the event trigger. Per report from Moshe Jacobson. Given the obvious lack of testing here, it's rather astonishing that ALTER EXTENSION ADD/DROP EVENT TRIGGER work, but they seem to.
* Rework tuple freezing protocolAlvaro Herrera2013-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tuple freezing was broken in connection to MultiXactIds; commit 8e53ae025de9 tried to fix it, but didn't go far enough. As noted by Noah Misch, freezing a tuple whose Xmax is a multi containing an aborted update might cause locks in the multi to go ignored by later transactions. This is because the code depended on a multixact above their cutoff point not having any lock-only member older than the cutoff point for Xids, which is easily defeated in READ COMMITTED transactions. The fix for this involves creating a new MultiXactId when necessary. But this cannot be done during WAL replay, and moreover multixact examination requires using CLOG access routines which are not supposed to be used during WAL replay either; so tuple freezing cannot be done with the old freeze WAL record. Therefore, separate the freezing computation from its execution, and change the WAL record to carry all necessary information. At WAL replay time, it's easy to re-execute freezing because we don't need to re-compute the new infomask/Xmax values but just take them from the WAL record. While at it, restructure the coding to ensure all page changes occur in a single critical section without much room for failures. The previous coding wasn't using a critical section, without any explanation as to why this was acceptable. In replication scenarios using the 9.3 branch, standby servers must be upgraded before their master, so that they are prepared to deal with the new WAL record once the master is upgraded; failure to do so will cause WAL replay to die with a PANIC message. Later upgrade of the standby will allow the process to continue where it left off, so there's no disruption of the data in the standby in any case. Standbys know how to deal with the old WAL record, so it's okay to keep the master running the old code for a while. In master, the old freeze WAL record is gone, for cleanliness' sake; there's no compatibility concern there. Backpatch to 9.3, where the original bug was introduced and where the previous fix was backpatched. Álvaro Herrera and Andres Freund
* Add HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS in HandleCatchupInterrupt/HandleNotifyInterrupt.Tom Lane2013-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This prevents a possible longjmp out of the signal handler if a timeout or SIGINT occurs while something within the handler has transiently set ImmediateInterruptOK. For safety we must hold off the timeout or cancel error until we're back in mainline, or at least till we reach the end of the signal handler when ImmediateInterruptOK was true at entry. This syncs these functions with the logic now present in handle_sig_alarm. AFAICT there is no live bug here in 9.0 and up, because I don't think we currently can wait for any heavyweight lock inside these functions, and there is no other code (except read-from-client) that will turn on ImmediateInterruptOK. However, that was not true pre-9.0: in older branches ProcessIncomingNotify might block trying to lock pg_listener, and then a SIGINT could lead to undesirable control flow. It might be all right anyway given the relatively narrow code ranges in which NOTIFY interrupts are enabled, but for safety's sake I'm back-patching this.
* Fix WAL-logging of setting the visibility map bit.Heikki Linnakangas2013-12-13
| | | | | | | | | The operation that removes the remaining dead tuples from the page must be WAL-logged before the setting of the VM bit. Otherwise, if you replay the WAL to between those two records, you end up with the VM bit set, but the dead tuples are still there. Backpatch to 9.3, where this bug was introduced.
* Fix full-table-vacuum request mechanism for MultiXactIdsAlvaro Herrera2013-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While autovacuum dutifully launched anti-multixact-wraparound vacuums when the multixact "age" was reached, the vacuum code was not aware that it needed to make them be full table vacuums. As the resulting partial-table vacuums aren't capable of actually increasing relminmxid, autovacuum continued to launch anti-wraparound vacuums that didn't have the intended effect, until age of relfrozenxid caused the vacuum to finally be a full table one via vacuum_freeze_table_age. To fix, introduce logic for multixacts similar to that for plain TransactionIds, using the same GUCs. Backpatch to 9.3, where permanent MultiXactIds were introduced. Andres Freund, some cleanup by Álvaro
* Don't update relfrozenxid if any pages were skipped.Heikki Linnakangas2013-11-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vacuum recognizes that it can update relfrozenxid by checking whether it has processed all pages of a relation. Unfortunately it performed that check after truncating the dead pages at the end of the relation, and used the new number of pages to decide whether all pages have been scanned. If the new number of pages happened to be smaller or equal to the number of pages scanned, it incorrectly decided that all pages were scanned. This can lead to relfrozenxid being updated, even though some pages were skipped that still contain old XIDs. That can lead to data loss due to xid wraparounds with some rows suddenly missing. This likely has escaped notice so far because it takes a large number (~2^31) of xids being used to see the effect, while a full-table vacuum before that would fix the issue. The incorrect logic was introduced by commit b4b6923e03f4d29636a94f6f4cc2f5cf6298b8c8. Backpatch this fix down to 8.4, like that commit. Andres Freund, with some modifications by me.
* Count locked pages that don't need vacuuming as scanned.Heikki Linnakangas2013-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | Previously, if VACUUM skipped vacuuming a page because it's pinned, it didn't count that page as scanned. However, that meant that relfrozenxid was not bumped up either, which prevented anti-wraparound vacuum from doing its job. Report by Миша Тюрин, analysis and patch by Sergey Burladyn and Jeff Janes. Backpatch to 9.2, where the skip-locked-pages behavior was introduced.
* Fix subtly-wrong volatility checking in BeginCopyFrom().Tom Lane2013-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | contain_volatile_functions() is best applied to the output of expression_planner(), not its input, so that insertion of function default arguments and constant-folding have been done. (See comments at CheckMutability, for instance.) It's perhaps unlikely that anyone will notice a difference in practice, but still we should do it properly. In passing, change variable type from Node* to Expr* to reduce the net number of casts needed. Noted while perusing uses of contain_volatile_functions().
* Keep heap open until new heap generated in RMV.Kevin Grittner2013-11-06
| | | | | | | | Early close became apparent when invalidation messages were processed in a new location under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS builds, due to additional locking. Back-patch to 9.3
* Acquire appropriate locks when rewriting during RMV.Kevin Grittner2013-11-02
| | | | | | | | | Since the query has not been freshly parsed when executing REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, locks must be explicitly taken before rewrite. Backpatch to 9.3. Andres Freund
* Fix some odd behaviors when using a SQL-style simple GMT offset timezone.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, when using a SQL-spec timezone setting with a fixed GMT offset (called a "brute force" timezone in the code), the session_timezone variable was not updated to match the nominal timezone; rather, all code was expected to ignore session_timezone if HasCTZSet was true. This is of course obviously fragile, though a search of the code finds only timeofday() failing to honor the rule. A bigger problem was that DetermineTimeZoneOffset() supposed that if its pg_tz parameter was pointer-equal to session_timezone, then HasCTZSet should override the parameter. This would cause datetime input containing an explicit zone name to be treated as referencing the brute-force zone instead, if the zone name happened to match the session timezone that had prevailed before installing the brute-force zone setting (as reported in bug #8572). The same malady could affect AT TIME ZONE operators. To fix, set up session_timezone so that it matches the brute-force zone specification, which we can do using the POSIX timezone definition syntax "<abbrev>offset", and get rid of the bogus lookaside check in DetermineTimeZoneOffset(). Aside from fixing the erroneous behavior in datetime parsing and AT TIME ZONE, this will cause the timeofday() function to print its result in the user-requested time zone rather than some previously-set zone. It might also affect results in third-party extensions, if there are any that make use of session_timezone without considering HasCTZSet, but in all cases the new behavior should be saner than before. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Improve documentation about usage of FDW validator functions.Tom Lane2013-10-28
| | | | | | | | SGML documentation, as well as code comments, failed to note that an FDW's validator will be applied to foreign-table options for foreign tables using the FDW. Etsuro Fujita
* Fix two bugs in setting the vm bit of empty pages.Heikki Linnakangas2013-10-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use a critical section when setting the all-visible flag on an empty page, and WAL-logging it. log_newpage_buffer() contains an assertion that it must be called inside a critical section, and it's the right thing to do when modifying a buffer anyway. Also, the page should be marked dirty before calling log_newpage_buffer(), per the comment in log_newpage_buffer() and src/backend/access/transam/README. Patch by Andres Freund, in response to my report. Backpatch to 9.2, like the patch that introduced these bugs (a6370fd9).
* Fix spurious warning after vacuuming a page on a table with no indexes.Heikki Linnakangas2013-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a rare race condition, when a transaction that inserted a tuple aborts while vacuum is processing the page containing the inserted tuple. Vacuum prunes the page first, which normally removes any dead tuples, but if the inserting transaction aborts right after that, the loop after pruning will see a dead tuple and remove it instead. That's OK, but if the page is on a table with no indexes, and the page becomes completely empty after removing the dead tuple (or tuples) on it, it will be immediately marked as all-visible. That's OK, but the sanity check in vacuum would throw a warning because it thinks that the page contains dead tuples and was nevertheless marked as all-visible, even though it just vacuumed away the dead tuples and so it doesn't actually contain any. Spotted this while reading the code. It's difficult to hit the race condition otherwise, but can be done by putting a breakpoint after the heap_page_prune() call. Backpatch all the way to 8.4, where this code first appeared.
* Rename various "freeze multixact" variablesAlvaro Herrera2013-09-16
| | | | | | | | | It seems to make more sense to use "cutoff multixact" terminology throughout the backend code; "freeze" is associated with replacing of an Xid with FrozenTransactionId, which is not what we do for MultiXactIds. Andres Freund Some adjustments by Álvaro Herrera
* Remove relcache entry invalidation in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW.Kevin Grittner2013-08-18
| | | | | | | | This was added as part of the attempt to support unlogged matviews along with a populated status. It got missed when unlogged support was removed pre-commit. Noticed by Noah Misch. Back-patched to 9.3 branch.
* Don't allow ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW ADD UNIQUE.Kevin Grittner2013-08-15
| | | | | | | Was accidentally allowed, but not documented and lacked support for rename or drop once created. Per report from Noah Misch.
* Remove Assert that matview is not in system schema from REFRESH.Kevin Grittner2013-08-14
| | | | | | | | We don't want to prevent an extension which creates a matview from being installed in pg_catalog. Issue was raised by Hitoshi Harada. Backpatched to 9.3.
* Restore REINDEX constraint validation.Noah Misch2013-07-30
| | | | | | | | | Refactoring as part of commit 8ceb24568054232696dddc1166a8563bc78c900a had the unintended effect of making REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX DATABASE no longer validate constraints enforced by the indexes in question; REINDEX INDEX still did so. Indexes marked invalid remained so, and constraint violations arising from data corruption went undetected. Back-patch to 9.0, like the causative commit.
* Switch user ID to the object owner when populating a materialized view.Noah Misch2013-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes superuser-issued REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW safe regardless of the object's provenance. REINDEX is an earlier example of this pattern. As a downside, functions called from materialized views must tolerate running in a security-restricted operation. CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW need not change user ID. Nonetheless, avoid creation of materialized views that will invariably fail REFRESH by making it, too, start a security-restricted operation. Back-patch to 9.3 so materialized views have this from the beginning. Reviewed by Kevin Grittner.
* Update messages, comments and documentation for materialized views.Noah Misch2013-07-05
| | | | | All instances of the verbiage lagging the code. Back-patch to 9.3, where materialized views were introduced.
* Add buffer_std flag to MarkBufferDirtyHint().Jeff Davis2013-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | MarkBufferDirtyHint() writes WAL, and should know if it's got a standard buffer or not. Currently, the only callers where buffer_std is false are related to the FSM. In passing, rename XLOG_HINT to XLOG_FPI, which is more descriptive. Back-patch to 9.3.
* Only install a portal's ResourceOwner if it actually has one.Tom Lane2013-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In most scenarios a portal without a ResourceOwner is dead and not subject to any further execution, but a portal for a cursor WITH HOLD remains in existence with no ResourceOwner after the creating transaction is over. In this situation, if we attempt to "execute" the portal directly to fetch data from it, we were setting CurrentResourceOwner to NULL, leading to a segfault if the datatype output code did anything that required a resource owner (such as trying to fetch system catalog entries that weren't already cached). The case appears to be impossible to provoke with stock libpq, but psqlODBC at least is able to cause it when working with held cursors. Simplest fix is to just skip the assignment to CurrentResourceOwner, so that any resources used by the data output operations will be managed by the transaction-level resource owner instead. For consistency I changed all the places that install a portal's resowner as current, even though some of them are probably not reachable with a held cursor's portal. Per report from Joshua Berry (with thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for developing a self-contained test case). Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Don't pass oidvector by value.Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | Since the structure ends with a flexible array, doing so truncates any vector having more than one element. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
* Don't use ordinary NULL-terminated strings as Name datums.Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | | | Consumers are entitled to read the full 64 bytes pertaining to a Name; using a shorter NULL-terminated string leads to reading beyond the end its allocation; a SIGSEGV is possible. Use the frequent idiom of copying to a NameData on the stack. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
* Ensure that XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE always targets an initialized page.Robert Haas2013-06-06
| | | | Andres Freund
* Provide better message when CREATE EXTENSION can't find a target schema.Tom Lane2013-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new message (and SQLSTATE) matches the corresponding error cases in namespace.c. This was thought to be a "can't happen" case when extension.c was written, so we didn't think hard about how to report it. But it definitely can happen in 9.2 and later, since we no longer require search_path to contain any valid schema names. It's probably also possible in 9.1 if search_path came from a noninteractive source. So, back-patch to all releases containing this code. Per report from Sean Chittenden, though this isn't exactly his patch.
* Post-pgindent cleanupStephen Frost2013-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | Make slightly better decisions about indentation than what pgindent is capable of. Mostly breaking out long function calls into one line per argument, with a few other minor adjustments. No functional changes- all whitespace. pgindent ran cleanly (didn't change anything) after. Passes all regressions.
* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
* Print line number correctly in COPY.Heikki Linnakangas2013-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | When COPY uses the multi-insert method to insert a batch of tuples into the heap at a time, incorrect line number was printed if something went wrong in inserting the index tuples (primary key failure, for exampl), or processing after row triggers. Fixes bug #8173 reported by Lloyd Albin. Backpatch to 9.2, where the multi- insert code was added.
* Clarify documentation of EXPLAIN (TIMING OFF) option.Tom Lane2013-05-19
| | | | | | | Clarify that this option doesn't suppress measurement of the statement's total runtime. Greg Smith
* Allow CREATE FOREIGN TABLE to include SERIAL columns.Tom Lane2013-05-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The behavior is that the required sequence is created locally, which is appropriate because the default expression will be evaluated locally. Per gripe from Brad Nicholson that this case was refused with a confusing error message. We could have improved the error message but it seems better to just allow the case. Also, remove ALTER TABLE's arbitrary prohibition against being applied to foreign tables, which was pretty inconsistent considering we allow it for views, sequences, and other relation types that aren't even called tables. This is needed to avoid breaking pg_dump, which sometimes emits column defaults using separate ALTER TABLE commands. (I think this can happen even when the default is not associated with a sequence, so that was a pre-existing bug once we allowed column defaults for foreign tables.)
* Move materialized views' is-populated status into their pg_class entries.Tom Lane2013-05-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously this state was represented by whether the view's disk file had zero or nonzero size, which is problematic for numerous reasons, since it's breaking a fundamental assumption about heap storage. This was done to allow unlogged matviews to revert to unpopulated status after a crash despite our lack of any ability to update catalog entries post-crash. However, this poses enough risk of future problems that it seems better to not support unlogged matviews until we can find another way. Accordingly, revert that choice as well as a number of existing kluges forced by it in favor of creating a pg_class.relispopulated flag column.
* Prevent (auto)vacuum from truncating first page of populated matview.Kevin Grittner2013-05-02
| | | | Per report from Fujii Masao, with regression test using his example.
* Ensure we MarkBufferDirty before visibilitymap_set()Simon Riggs2013-04-30
| | | | | | | | logs the heap page and sets the LSN. Otherwise a checkpoint could occur between those actions and leave us in an inconsistent state. Jeff Davis
* Ensure ANALYZE phase is not skipped because of canceled truncate.Kevin Grittner2013-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch b19e4250b45e91c9cbdd18d35ea6391ab5961c8d attempted to preserve existing behavior regarding statistics generation in the case that a truncation attempt was canceled due to lock conflicts. It failed to do this accurately in two regards: (1) autovacuum had previously generated statistics if the truncate attempt failed to initially get the lock rather than having started the attempt, and (2) the VACUUM ANALYZE command had always generated statistics. Both of these changes were unintended, and are reverted by this patch. On review, there seems to be consensus that the previous failure to generate statistics when the truncate was terminated was more an unfortunate consequence of how that effort was previously terminated than a feature we want to keep; so this patch generates statistics even when an autovacuum truncation attempt terminates early. Another unintended change which is kept on the basis that it is an improvement is that when a VACUUM command is truncating, it will the new heuristic for avoiding blocking other processes, rather than keeping an AccessExclusiveLock on the table for however long the truncation takes. Per multiple reports, with some renaming per patch by Jeff Janes. Backpatch to 9.0, where problem was created.
* Editorialize a bit on new ProcessUtility() API.Tom Lane2013-04-28
| | | | | | | | Choose a saner ordering of parameters (adding a new input param after the output params seemed a bit random), update the function's header comment to match reality (cmon folks, is this really that hard?), get rid of useless and sloppily-defined distinction between PROCESS_UTILITY_SUBCOMMAND and PROCESS_UTILITY_GENERATED.
* Incidental cleanup of matviews code.Tom Lane2013-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move checking for unscannable matviews into ExecOpenScanRelation, which is a better place for it first because the open relation is already available (saving a relcache lookup cycle), and second because this eliminates the problem of telling the difference between rangetable entries that will or will not be scanned by the query. In particular we can get rid of the not-terribly-well-thought-out-or-implemented isResultRel field that the initial matviews patch added to RangeTblEntry. Also get rid of entirely unnecessary scannability check in the rewriter, and a bogus decision about whether RefreshMatViewStmt requires a parse-time snapshot. catversion bump due to removal of a RangeTblEntry field, which changes stored rules.
* Avoid deadlock between concurrent CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY commands.Tom Lane2013-04-25
| | | | | | | | | There was a high probability of two or more concurrent C.I.C. commands deadlocking just before completion, because each would wait for the others to release their reference snapshots. Fix by releasing the snapshot before waiting for other snapshots to go away. Per report from Paul Hinze. Back-patch to all active branches.
* Clean up the mess around EXPLAIN and materialized views.Tom Lane2013-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert the matview-related changes in explain.c's API, as per recent complaint from Robert Haas. The reason for these appears to have been principally some ill-considered choices around having intorel_startup do what ought to be parse-time checking, plus a poor arrangement for passing it the view parsetree it needs to store into pg_rewrite when creating a materialized view. Do the latter by having parse analysis stick a copy into the IntoClause, instead of doing it at runtime. (On the whole, I seriously question the choice to represent CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW as a variant of SELECT INTO/CREATE TABLE AS, because that means injecting even more complexity into what was already a horrid legacy kluge. However, I didn't go so far as to rethink that choice ... yet.) I also moved several error checks into matview parse analysis, and made the check for external Params in a matview more accurate. In passing, clean things up a bit more around interpretOidsOption(), and fix things so that we can use that to force no-oids for views, sequences, etc, thereby eliminating the need to cons up "oids = false" options when creating them. catversion bump due to change in IntoClause. (I wonder though if we really need readfuncs/outfuncs support for IntoClause anymore.)
* Remove quotes around SQL statement in error messageAlvaro Herrera2013-04-11
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