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* Fix two errors with nested CASE/WHEN constructs.Tom Lane2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecEvalCase() tried to save a cycle or two by passing &econtext->caseValue_isNull as the isNull argument to its sub-evaluation of the CASE value expression. If that subexpression itself contained a CASE, then *isNull was an alias for econtext->caseValue_isNull within the recursive call of ExecEvalCase(), leading to confusion about whether the inner call's caseValue was null or not. In the worst case this could lead to a core dump due to dereferencing a null pointer. Fix by not assigning to the global variable until control comes back from the subexpression. Also, avoid using the passed-in isNull pointer transiently for evaluation of WHEN expressions. (Either one of these changes would have been sufficient to fix the known misbehavior, but it's clear now that each of these choices was in itself dangerous coding practice and best avoided. There do not seem to be any similar hazards elsewhere in execQual.c.) Also, it was possible for inlining of a SQL function that implements the equality operator used for a CASE comparison to result in one CASE expression's CaseTestExpr node being inserted inside another CASE expression. This would certainly result in wrong answers since the improperly nested CaseTestExpr would be caused to return the inner CASE's comparison value not the outer's. If the CASE values were of different data types, a crash might result; moreover such situations could be abused to allow disclosure of portions of server memory. To fix, teach inline_function to check for "bare" CaseTestExpr nodes in the arguments of a function to be inlined, and avoid inlining if there are any. Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Report: https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/pull/327 Report: <4DDCEEB8.50602@enterprisedb.com> Security: CVE-2016-5423
* Allow functions that return sets of tuples to return simple NULLs.Tom Lane2016-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecMakeTableFunctionResult(), which is used in SELECT FROM function(...) cases, formerly treated a simple NULL output from a function that both returnsSet and returnsTuple as a violation of the SRF protocol. What seems better is to treat a NULL output as equivalent to ROW(NULL,NULL,...). Without this, cases such as SELECT FROM unnest(...) on an array of composite are vulnerable to unexpected and not-very-helpful failures. Old code comments here suggested an alternative of just ignoring simple-NULL outputs, but that doesn't seem very principled. This change had been hung up for a long time due to uncertainty about how much we wanted to buy into the equivalence of simple NULL and ROW(NULL,NULL,...). I think that's been mostly resolved by the discussion around bug #14235, so let's go ahead and do it. Per bug #7808 from Joe Van Dyk. Although this is a pretty old report, fixing it smells a bit more like a new feature than a bug fix, and the lack of other similar complaints suggests that we shouldn't take much risk of destabilization by back-patching. (Maybe that could be revisited once this patch has withstood some field usage.) Andrew Gierth and Tom Lane Report: <E1TurJE-0006Es-TK@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* Fix constant-folding of ROW(...) IS [NOT] NULL with composite fields.Tom Lane2016-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose. ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not, leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression was such that the planner could apply constant folding. Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype argument. That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM is described before IS [NOT] NULL. In HEAD, I went a bit further and added a table showing all the comparison-related predicates. Per bug #14235. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics. Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised regression test cases by me. Report: <20160708024746.1410.57282@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* Rethink node-level representation of partial-aggregation modes.Tom Lane2016-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding had three separate booleans representing partial aggregation behavior, which was confusing, unreadable, and error-prone, not least because the booleans weren't always listed in the same order. It was also inadequate for the allegedly-desirable future extension to support intermediate partial aggregation, because we'd need separate markers for serialization and deserialization in such a case. Merge these bools into an enum "AggSplit" to provide symbolic names for the supported operating modes (and document what those are). By assigning the values of the enum constants carefully, we can treat AggSplit values as options bitmasks so that tests of what to do aren't noticeably more expensive than before. While at it, get rid of Aggref.aggoutputtype. That's not needed since commit 59a3795c2 got rid of setrefs.c's special-purpose Aggref comparison code, and it likewise seemed more confusing than helpful. Assorted comment cleanup as well (there's still more that I want to do in that line). catversion bump for change in Aggref node contents. Should be the last one for partial-aggregation changes. Discussion: <29309.1466699160@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Mark read/write expanded values as read-only in ExecProject().Tom Lane2016-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a plan node output expression returns an "expanded" datum, and that output column is referenced in more than one place in upper-level plan nodes, we need to ensure that what is returned is a read-only reference not a read/write reference. Otherwise one of the referencing sites could scribble on or even delete the expanded datum before we have evaluated the others. Commit 1dc5ebc9077ab742, which introduced this feature, supposed that it'd be sufficient to make SubqueryScan nodes force their output columns to read-only state. The folly of that was revealed by bug #14174 from Andrew Gierth, and really should have been immediately obvious considering that the planner will happily optimize SubqueryScan nodes out of the plan without any regard for this issue. The safest fix seems to be to make ExecProject() force its results into read-only state; that will cover every case where a plan node returns expression results. Actually we can delegate this to ExecTargetList() since we can recursively assume that plain Vars will not reference read-write datums. That should keep the extra overhead down to something minimal. We no longer need ExecMakeSlotContentsReadOnly(), which was introduced only in support of the idea that just a few plan node types would need to do this. In the future it would be nice to have the planner account for this problem and inject force-to-read-only expression evaluation nodes into only the places where there's a risk of multiple evaluation. That's not a suitable solution for 9.5 or even 9.6 at this point, though. Report: <20160603124628.9932.41279@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* Tighten up sanity checks for parallel aggregate in execQual.c.Robert Haas2016-04-27
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* Support parallel aggregation.Robert Haas2016-03-21
| | | | | | | | | Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial results to produce the final answer. David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi. Reviewed by Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Allow omitting one or both boundaries in an array slice specifier.Tom Lane2015-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | Omitted boundaries represent the upper or lower limit of the corresponding array subscript. This allows simpler specification of many common use-cases. (Revised version of commit 9246af6799819847faa33baf441251003acbb8fe) YUriy Zhuravlev
* Revert 9246af6799819847faa33baf441251003acbb8fe becauseTeodor Sigaev2015-12-18
| | | | I miss too much. Patch is returned to commitfest process.
* Allow to omit boundaries in array subscriptTeodor Sigaev2015-12-18
| | | | | | | Allow to omiy lower or upper or both boundaries in array subscript for selecting slice of array. Author: YUriy Zhuravlev
* Share transition state between different aggregates when possible.Heikki Linnakangas2015-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | If there are two different aggregates in the query with same inputs, and the aggregates have the same initial condition and transition function, only calculate the state value once, and only call the final functions separately. For example, AVG(x) and SUM(x) aggregates have the same transition function, which accumulates the sum and number of input tuples. For a query like "SELECT AVG(x), SUM(x) FROM x", we can therefore accumulate the state function only once, which gives a nice speedup. David Rowley, reviewed and edited by me.
* Fix a number of places that produced XX000 errors in the regression tests.Tom Lane2015-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's against project policy to use elog() for user-facing errors, or to omit an errcode() selection for errors that aren't supposed to be "can't happen" cases. Fix all the violations of this policy that result in ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR log entries during the standard regression tests, as errors that can reliably be triggered from SQL surely should be considered user-facing. I also looked through all the files touched by this commit and fixed other nearby problems of the same ilk. I do not claim to have fixed all violations of the policy, just the ones in these files. In a few places I also changed existing ERRCODE choices that didn't seem particularly appropriate; mainly replacing ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR by something more specific. Back-patch to 9.5, but no further; changing ERRCODE assignments in stable branches doesn't seem like a good idea.
* pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian2015-05-23
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* Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP.Andres Freund2015-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This SQL standard functionality allows to aggregate data by different GROUP BY clauses at once. Each grouping set returns rows with columns grouped by in other sets set to NULL. This could previously be achieved by doing each grouping as a separate query, conjoined by UNION ALLs. Besides being considerably more concise, grouping sets will in many cases be faster, requiring only one scan over the underlying data. The current implementation of grouping sets only supports using sorting for input. Individual sets that share a sort order are computed in one pass. If there are sets that don't share a sort order, additional sort & aggregation steps are performed. These additional passes are sourced by the previous sort step; thus avoiding repeated scans of the source data. The code is structured in a way that adding support for purely using hash aggregation or a mix of hashing and sorting is possible. Sorting was chosen to be supported first, as it is the most generic method of implementation. Instead of, as in an earlier versions of the patch, representing the chain of sort and aggregation steps as full blown planner and executor nodes, all but the first sort are performed inside the aggregation node itself. This avoids the need to do some unusual gymnastics to handle having to return aggregated and non-aggregated tuples from underlying nodes, as well as having to shut down underlying nodes early to limit memory usage. The optimizer still builds Sort/Agg node to describe each phase, but they're not part of the plan tree, but instead additional data for the aggregation node. They're a convenient and preexisting way to describe aggregation and sorting. The first (and possibly only) sort step is still performed as a separate execution step. That retains similarity with existing group by plans, makes rescans fairly simple, avoids very deep plans (leading to slow explains) and easily allows to avoid the sorting step if the underlying data is sorted by other means. A somewhat ugly side of this patch is having to deal with a grammar ambiguity between the new CUBE keyword and the cube extension/functions named cube (and rollup). To avoid breaking existing deployments of the cube extension it has not been renamed, neither has cube been made a reserved keyword. Instead precedence hacking is used to make GROUP BY cube(..) refer to the CUBE grouping sets feature, and not the function cube(). To actually group by a function cube(), unlikely as that might be, the function name has to be quoted. Needs a catversion bump because stored rules may change. Author: Andrew Gierth and Atri Sharma, with contributions from Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Tom Lane, Svenne Krap, Tomas Vondra, Erik Rijkers, Marti Raudsepp, Pavel Stehule Discussion: CAOeZVidmVRe2jU6aMk_5qkxnB7dfmPROzM7Ur8JPW5j8Y5X-Lw@mail.gmail.com
* Support "expanded" objects, particularly arrays, for better performance.Tom Lane2015-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces the ability for complex datatypes to have an in-memory representation that is different from their on-disk format. On-disk formats are typically optimized for minimal size, and in any case they can't contain pointers, so they are often not well-suited for computation. Now a datatype can invent an "expanded" in-memory format that is better suited for its operations, and then pass that around among the C functions that operate on the datatype. There are also provisions (rudimentary as yet) to allow an expanded object to be modified in-place under suitable conditions, so that operations like assignment to an element of an array need not involve copying the entire array. The initial application for this feature is arrays, but it is not hard to foresee using it for other container types like JSON, XML and hstore. I have hopes that it will be useful to PostGIS as well. In this initial implementation, a few heuristics have been hard-wired into plpgsql to improve performance for arrays that are stored in plpgsql variables. We would like to generalize those hacks so that other datatypes can obtain similar improvements, but figuring out some appropriate APIs is left as a task for future work. (The heuristics themselves are probably not optimal yet, either, as they sometimes force expansion of arrays that would be better left alone.) Preliminary performance testing shows impressive speed gains for plpgsql functions that do element-by-element access or update of large arrays. There are other cases that get a little slower, as a result of added array format conversions; but we can hope to improve anything that's annoyingly bad. In any case most applications should see a net win. Tom Lane, reviewed by Andres Freund
* Use the typcache to cache constraints for domain types.Tom Lane2015-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, we cached domain constraints for the life of a query, or really for the life of the FmgrInfo struct that was used to invoke domain_in() or domain_check(). But plpgsql (and probably other places) are set up to cache such FmgrInfos for the whole lifespan of a session, which meant they could be enforcing really stale sets of constraints. On the other hand, searching pg_constraint once per query gets kind of expensive too: testing says that as much as half the runtime of a trivial query such as "SELECT 0::domaintype" went into that. To fix this, delegate the responsibility for tracking a domain's constraints to the typcache, which has the infrastructure needed to detect syscache invalidation events that signal possible changes. This not only removes unnecessary repeat reads of pg_constraint, but ensures that we never apply stale constraint data: whatever we use is the current data according to syscache rules. Unfortunately, the current configuration of the system catalogs means we have to flush cached domain-constraint data whenever either pg_type or pg_constraint changes, which happens rather a lot (eg, creation or deletion of a temp table will do it). It might be worth rearranging things to split pg_constraint into two catalogs, of which the domain constraint one would probably be very low-traffic. That's a job for another patch though, and in any case this patch should improve matters materially even with that handicap. This patch makes use of the recently-added memory context reset callback feature to manage the lifespan of domain constraint caches, so that we don't risk deleting a cache that might be in the midst of evaluation. Although this is a bug fix as well as a performance improvement, no back-patch. There haven't been many if any field complaints about stale domain constraint checks, so it doesn't seem worth taking the risk of modifying data structures as basic as MemoryContexts in back branches.
* Rationalize the APIs of array element/slice access functions.Tom Lane2015-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The four functions array_ref, array_set, array_get_slice, array_set_slice have traditionally declared their array inputs and results as being of type "ArrayType *". This is a lie, and has been since Berkeley days, because they actually also support "fixed-length array" types such as "name" and "point"; not to mention that the inputs could be toasted. These values should be declared Datum instead to avoid confusion. The current coding already risks possible misoptimization by compilers, and it'll get worse when "expanded" array representations become a valid alternative. However, there's a fair amount of code using array_ref and array_set with arrays that *are* known to be ArrayType structures, and there might be more such places in third-party code. Rather than cluttering those call sites with PointerGetDatum/DatumGetArrayTypeP cruft, what I did was to rename the existing functions to array_get_element/array_set_element, fix their signatures, then reincarnate array_ref/array_set as backwards compatibility wrappers. array_get_slice/array_set_slice have no such constituency in the core code, and probably not in third-party code either, so I just changed their APIs.
* Fix null-pointer-deref crash while doing COPY IN with check constraints.Tom Lane2015-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit bf7ca15875988a88e97302e012d7c4808bef3ea9 I introduced an assumption that an RTE referenced by a whole-row Var must have a valid eref field. This is false for RTEs constructed by DoCopy, and there are other places taking similar shortcuts. Perhaps we should make all those places go through addRangeTableEntryForRelation or its siblings instead of having ad-hoc logic, but the most reliable fix seems to be to make the new code in ExecEvalWholeRowVar cope if there's no eref. We can reasonably assume that there's no need to insert column aliases if no aliases were provided. Add a regression test case covering this, and also verifying that a sane column name is in fact available in this situation. Although the known case only crashes in 9.4 and HEAD, it seems prudent to back-patch the code change to 9.2, since all the ingredients for a similar failure exist in the variant patch applied to 9.3 and 9.2. Per report from Jean-Pierre Pelletier.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* Ensure that RowExprs and whole-row Vars produce the expected column names.Tom Lane2014-11-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At one time it wasn't terribly important what column names were associated with the fields of a composite Datum, but since the introduction of operations like row_to_json(), it's important that looking up the rowtype ID embedded in the Datum returns the column names that users would expect. That did not work terribly well before this patch: you could get the column names of the underlying table, or column aliases from any level of the query, depending on minor details of the plan tree. You could even get totally empty field names, which is disastrous for cases like row_to_json(). To fix this for whole-row Vars, look to the RTE referenced by the Var, and make sure its column aliases are applied to the rowtype associated with the result Datums. This is a tad scary because we might have to return a transient RECORD type even though the Var is declared as having some named rowtype. In principle it should be all right because the record type will still be physically compatible with the named rowtype; but I had to weaken one Assert in ExecEvalConvertRowtype, and there might be third-party code containing similar assumptions. Similarly, RowExprs have to be willing to override the column names coming from a named composite result type and produce a RECORD when the column aliases visible at the site of the RowExpr differ from the underlying table's column names. In passing, revert the decision made in commit 398f70ec070fe601 to add an alias-list argument to ExecTypeFromExprList: better to provide that functionality in a separate function. This also reverts most of the code changes in d68581483564ec0f, which we don't need because we're no longer depending on the tupdesc found in the child plan node's result slot to be blessed. Back-patch to 9.4, but not earlier, since this solution changes the results in some cases that users might not have realized were buggy. We'll apply a more restricted form of this patch in older branches.
* Fix bug with whole-row references to append subplans.Tom Lane2014-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecEvalWholeRowVar incorrectly supposed that it could "bless" the source TupleTableSlot just once per query. But if the input is coming from an Append (or, perhaps, other cases?) more than one slot might be returned over the query run. This led to "record type has not been registered" errors when a composite datum was extracted from a non-blessed slot. This bug has been there a long time; I guess it escaped notice because when dealing with subqueries the planner tends to expand whole-row Vars into RowExprs, which don't have the same problem. It is possible to trigger the problem in all active branches, though, as illustrated by the added regression test.
* Avoid leaking memory while evaluating arguments for a table function.Tom Lane2014-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecMakeTableFunctionResult evaluated the arguments for a function-in-FROM in the query-lifespan memory context. This is insignificant in simple cases where the function relation is scanned only once; but if the function is in a sub-SELECT or is on the inside of a nested loop, any memory consumed during argument evaluation can add up quickly. (The potential for trouble here had been foreseen long ago, per existing comments; but we'd not previously seen a complaint from the field about it.) To fix, create an additional temporary context just for this purpose. Per an example from MauMau. Back-patch to all active branches.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Fix failure to detoast fields in composite elements of structured types.Tom Lane2014-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we have an array of records stored on disk, the individual record fields cannot contain out-of-line TOAST pointers: the tuptoaster.c mechanisms are only prepared to deal with TOAST pointers appearing in top-level fields of a stored row. The same applies for ranges over composite types, nested composites, etc. However, the existing code only took care of expanding sub-field TOAST pointers for the case of nested composites, not for other structured types containing composites. For example, given a command such as UPDATE tab SET arraycol = ARRAY[(ROW(x,42)::mycompositetype] ... where x is a direct reference to a field of an on-disk tuple, if that field is long enough to be toasted out-of-line then the TOAST pointer would be inserted as-is into the array column. If the source record for x is later deleted, the array field value would become a dangling pointer, leading to errors along the line of "missing chunk number 0 for toast value ..." when the value is referenced. A reproducible test case for this was provided by Jan Pecek, but it seems likely that some of the "missing chunk number" reports we've heard in the past were caused by similar issues. Code-wise, the problem is that PG_DETOAST_DATUM() is not adequate to produce a self-contained Datum value if the Datum is of composite type. Seen in this light, the problem is not just confined to arrays and ranges, but could also affect some other places where detoasting is done in that way, for example form_index_tuple(). I tried teaching the array code to apply toast_flatten_tuple_attribute() along with PG_DETOAST_DATUM() when the array element type is composite, but this was messy and imposed extra cache lookup costs whether or not any TOAST pointers were present, indeed sometimes when the array element type isn't even composite (since sometimes it takes a typcache lookup to find that out). The idea of extending that approach to all the places that currently use PG_DETOAST_DATUM() wasn't attractive at all. This patch instead solves the problem by decreeing that composite Datum values must not contain any out-of-line TOAST pointers in the first place; that is, we expand out-of-line fields at the point of constructing a composite Datum, not at the point where we're about to insert it into a larger tuple. This rule is applied only to true composite Datums, not to tuples that are being passed around the system as tuples, so it's not as invasive as it might sound at first. With this approach, the amount of code that has to be touched for a full solution is greatly reduced, and added cache lookup costs are avoided except when there actually is a TOAST pointer that needs to be inlined. The main drawback of this approach is that we might sometimes dereference a TOAST pointer that will never actually be used by the query, imposing a rather large cost that wasn't there before. On the other side of the coin, if the field value is used multiple times then we'll come out ahead by avoiding repeat detoastings. Experimentation suggests that common SQL coding patterns are unaffected either way, though. Applications that are very negatively affected could be advised to modify their code to not fetch columns they won't be using. In future, we might consider reverting this solution in favor of detoasting only at the point where data is about to be stored to disk, using some method that can drill down into multiple levels of nested structured types. That will require defining new APIs for structured types, though, so it doesn't seem feasible as a back-patchable fix. Note that this patch changes HeapTupleGetDatum() from a macro to a function call; this means that any third-party code using that macro will not get protection against creating TOAST-pointer-containing Datums until it's recompiled. The same applies to any uses of PG_RETURN_HEAPTUPLEHEADER(). It seems likely that this is not a big problem in practice: most of the tuple-returning functions in core and contrib produce outputs that could not possibly be toasted anyway, and the same probably holds for third-party extensions. This bug has existed since TOAST was invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix "cannot accept a set" error when only some arms of a CASE return a set.Tom Lane2014-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit c1352052ef1d4eeb2eb1d822a207ddc2d106cb13, I implemented an optimization that assumed that a function's argument expressions would either always return a set (ie multiple rows), or always not. This is wrong however: we allow CASE expressions in which some arms return a set of some type and others just return a scalar of that type. There may be other examples as well. To fix, replace the run-time test of whether an argument returned a set with a static precheck (expression_returns_set). This adds a little bit of query startup overhead, but it seems barely measurable. Per bug #8228 from David Johnston. This has been broken since 8.0, so patch all supported branches.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates.Tom Lane2013-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(), percent_rank(), cume_dist()). We also added mode() though it is not in the spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data. Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions. To allow the support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c. This allows retrieval of the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the immediate need. There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up. In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER additions for aggregates. Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT. It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types but not these. Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing, and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
* Implement the FILTER clause for aggregate function calls.Noah Misch2013-07-16
| | | | | | | | | This is SQL-standard with a few extensions, namely support for subqueries and outer references in clause expressions. catversion bump due to change in Aggref and WindowFunc. David Fetter, reviewed by Dean Rasheed.
* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
* Fix handling of strict non-set functions with NULLs in set-valued inputs.Tom Lane2013-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a construct like "select plain_function(set_returning_function(...))", the plain function is applied to each output row of the SRF successively. If some of the SRF outputs are NULL, and the plain function is strict, you'd expect to get NULL results for such rows ... but what actually happened was that such rows were omitted entirely from the result set. This was due to confusion of this case with what should happen for nested set-returning functions; a strict SRF is indeed supposed to yield an empty set for null input. Per bug #8150 from Erwin Brandstetter. Although this has been broken forever, we're not back-patching because of the possibility that some apps out there expect the incorrect behavior. This change should be listed as a possible incompatibility in the 9.3 release notes.
* Improve error message when an FDW doesn't support WHERE CURRENT OF.Tom Lane2013-04-19
| | | | | | | If an FDW fails to take special measures with a CurrentOfExpr, we will end up trying to execute it as an ordinary qual, which was being treated as a purely internal failure condition. Provide a more user-oriented error message for such cases.
* sepgsql: Enforce db_procedure:{execute} permission.Robert Haas2013-04-12
| | | | | | | To do this, we add an additional object access hook type, OAT_FUNCTION_EXECUTE. KaiGai Kohei
* Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.Tom Lane2013-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages, if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION failure. It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint associated with the error. (Since the protocol spec has always instructed clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any compatibility problem.) Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation" SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future. Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with additional hacking by Tom Lane.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
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* Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.hAlvaro Herrera2012-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which is very widely included by many files. I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well, because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h. In itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h change now while I'm busy with it.
* Fix whole-row Var evaluation to cope with resjunk columns (again).Tom Lane2012-07-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a whole-row Var is reading the result of a subquery, we need it to ignore any "resjunk" columns that the subquery might have evaluated for GROUP BY or ORDER BY purposes. We've hacked this area before, in commit 68e40998d058c1f6662800a648ff1e1ce5d99cba, but that fix only covered whole-row Vars of named composite types, not those of RECORD type; and it was mighty klugy anyway, since it just assumed without checking that any extra columns in the result must be resjunk. A proper fix requires getting hold of the subquery's targetlist so we can actually see which columns are resjunk (whereupon we can use a JunkFilter to get rid of them). So bite the bullet and add some infrastructure to make that possible. Per report from Andrew Dunstan and additional testing by Merlin Moncure. Back-patch to all supported branches. In 8.3, also back-patch commit 292176a118da6979e5d368a4baf27f26896c99a5, which for some reason I had not done at the time, but it's a prerequisite for this change.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Preserve column names in the execution-time tupledesc for a RowExpr.Tom Lane2012-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hstore and json datatypes both have record-conversion functions that pay attention to column names in the composite values they're handed. We used to not worry about inserting correct field names into tuple descriptors generated at runtime, but given these examples it seems useful to do so. Observe the nicer-looking results in the regression tests whose results changed. catversion bump because there is a subtle change in requirements for stored rule parsetrees: RowExprs from ROW() constructs now have to include field names. Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Rearrange the implementation of index-only scans.Tom Lane2011-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit changes index-only scans so that data is read directly from the index tuple without first generating a faux heap tuple. The only immediate benefit is that indexes on system columns (such as OID) can be used in index-only scans, but this is necessary infrastructure if we are ever to support index-only scans on expression indexes. The executor is now ready for that, though the planner still needs substantial work to recognize the possibility. To do this, Vars in index-only plan nodes have to refer to index columns not heap columns. I introduced a new special varno, INDEX_VAR, to mark such Vars to avoid confusion. (In passing, this commit renames the two existing special varnos to OUTER_VAR and INNER_VAR.) This allows ruleutils.c to handle them with logic similar to what we use for subplan reference Vars. Since index-only scans are now fundamentally different from regular indexscans so far as their expression subtrees are concerned, I also chose to change them to have their own plan node type (and hence, their own executor source file).
* Pass collations to functions in FunctionCallInfoData, not FmgrInfo.Tom Lane2011-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Since collation is effectively an argument, not a property of the function, FmgrInfo is really the wrong place for it; and this becomes critical in cases where a cached FmgrInfo is used for varying purposes that might need different collation settings. Fix by passing it in FunctionCallInfoData instead. In particular this allows a clean fix for bug #5970 (record_cmp not working). This requires touching a bit more code than the original method, but nobody ever thought that collations would not be an invasive patch...
* pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1.Bruce Momjian2011-04-10
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* Pass collation to makeConst() instead of looking it up internally.Tom Lane2011-03-25
| | | | | | | | | In nearly all cases, the caller already knows the correct collation, and in a number of places, the value the caller has handy is more correct than the default for the type would be. (In particular, this patch makes it significantly less likely that eval_const_expressions will result in changing the exposed collation of an expression.) So an internal lookup is both expensive and wrong.
* Revise collation derivation method and expression-tree representation.Tom Lane2011-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All expression nodes now have an explicit output-collation field, unless they are known to only return a noncollatable data type (such as boolean or record). Also, nodes that can invoke collation-aware functions store a separate field that is the collation value to pass to the function. This avoids confusion that arises when a function has collatable inputs and noncollatable output type, or vice versa. Also, replace the parser's on-the-fly collation assignment method with a post-pass over the completed expression tree. This allows us to use a more complex (and hopefully more nearly spec-compliant) assignment rule without paying for it in extra storage in every expression node. Fix assorted bugs in the planner's handling of collations by making collation one of the defining properties of an EquivalenceClass and by converting CollateExprs into discardable RelabelType nodes during expression preprocessing.
* Split CollateClause into separate raw and analyzed node types.Tom Lane2011-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | CollateClause is now used only in raw grammar output, and CollateExpr after parse analysis. This is for clarity and to avoid carrying collation names in post-analysis parse trees: that's both wasteful and possibly misleading, since the collation's name could be changed while the parsetree still exists. Also, clean up assorted infelicities and omissions in processing of the node type.
* Per-column collation supportPeter Eisentraut2011-02-08
| | | | | | | | This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause to override it per expression, and B-tree index support. Peter Eisentraut reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
* Fix wrong error reports in 'number of array dimensions exceeds theItagaki Takahiro2011-02-01
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* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Create core infrastructure for KNNGIST.Tom Lane2010-12-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a heavily revised version of builtin_knngist_core-0.9. The ordering operators are no longer mixed in with actual quals, which would have confused not only humans but significant parts of the planner. Instead, ordering operators are carried separately throughout planning and execution. Since the API for ambeginscan and amrescan functions had to be changed anyway, this commit takes the opportunity to rationalize that a bit. RelationGetIndexScan no longer forces a premature index_rescan call; instead, callers of index_beginscan must call index_rescan too. Aside from making the AM-side initialization logic a bit less peculiar, this has the advantage that we do not make a useless extra am_rescan call when there are runtime key values. AMs formerly could not assume that the key values passed to amrescan were actually valid; now they can. Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane