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* Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassemblyTom Lane2005-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of tuples when passing data up through multiple plan nodes. A slot can now hold either a normal "physical" HeapTuple, or a "virtual" tuple consisting of Datum/isnull arrays. Upper plan levels can usually just copy the Datum arrays, avoiding heap_formtuple() and possible subsequent nocachegetattr() calls to extract the data again. This work extends Atsushi Ogawa's earlier patch, which provided the key idea of adding Datum arrays to TupleTableSlots. (I believe however that something like this was foreseen way back in Berkeley days --- see the old comment on ExecProject.) A test case involving many levels of join of fairly wide tables (about 80 columns altogether) showed about 3x overall speedup, though simple queries will probably not be helped very much. I have also duplicated some code in heaptuple.c in order to provide versions of heap_formtuple and friends that use "bool" arrays to indicate null attributes, instead of the old convention of "char" arrays containing either 'n' or ' '. This provides a better match to the convention used by ExecEvalExpr. While I have not made a concerted effort to get rid of uses of the old routines, I think they should be deprecated and eventually removed.
* Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon2004-12-31
| | | | | | | | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
* Adjust index locking rules as per my proposal of earlier today. YouTom Lane2004-09-30
| | | | | | now are supposed to take some kind of lock on an index whenever you are going to access the index contents, rather than relying only on a lock on the parent table.
* Renumber SnapshotNow and the other special snapshot codes so thatTom Lane2004-09-11
| | | | | | | | ((Snapshot) NULL) can no longer be confused with a valid snapshot, as per my recent suggestion. Define a macro InvalidSnapshot for 0. Use InvalidSnapshot instead of SnapshotAny as the do-nothing special case for heap_update and heap_delete crosschecks; this seems a little cleaner even though the behavior is really the same.
* Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway2004-05-30
| | | | | list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
* Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway2004-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
* Reimplement CASE val WHEN compval1 THEN ... WHEN compval2 THEN ... ENDTom Lane2004-03-17
| | | | | | | | so that the 'val' is computed only once, per recent discussion. The speedup is not much when 'val' is just a simple variable, but could be significant for larger expressions. More importantly this avoids issues with multiple evaluations of a volatile 'val', and it allows the CASE expression to be reverse-listed in its original form by ruleutils.c.
* Fix oversight in optimization that avoids an unnecessary projection stepTom Lane2004-01-22
| | | | | | when scanning a table that we need all the columns from. In case of SELECT INTO, we have to check that the hasoids flag matches the desired output type, too. Per report from Mike Mascari.
* Ensure set-returning functions in the targetlist of a plan node will beTom Lane2003-12-18
| | | | | | shut down cleanly if the plan node is ReScanned before the SRFs are run to completion. This fixes the problem for SQL-language functions, but still need work on functions using the SRF_XXX() macros.
* $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon2003-11-29
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* Repair RI trigger visibility problems (this time for sure ;-)) per recentTom Lane2003-10-01
| | | | | | | discussion on pgsql-hackers: in READ COMMITTED mode we just have to force a QuerySnapshot update in the trigger, but in SERIALIZABLE mode we have to run the scan under a current snapshot and then complain if any rows would be updated/deleted that are not visible in the transaction snapshot.
* Get rid of ReferentialIntegritySnapshotOverride by extending Executor APITom Lane2003-09-25
| | | | | | to allow es_snapshot to be set to SnapshotNow rather than a query snapshot. This solves a bug reported by Wade Klaver, wherein triggers fired as a result of RI cascade updates could misbehave.
* Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache isTom Lane2003-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method. This leaves only shared system indexes as special cases. Remove the 'index deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared- index case. Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX. -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes) now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates. It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS. Upshot: reindexing system catalogs can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except shared catalogs.
* Another pgindent run with updated typedefs.Bruce Momjian2003-08-08
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* Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian2003-08-04
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* pgindent run.Bruce Momjian2003-08-04
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* Replace functional-index facility with expressional indexes. Any columnTom Lane2003-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | of an index can now be a computed expression instead of a simple variable. Restrictions on expressions are the same as for predicates (only immutable functions, no sub-selects). This fixes problems recently introduced with inlining SQL functions, because the inlining transformation is applied to both expression trees so the planner can still match them up. Along the way, improve efficiency of handling index predicates (both predicates and index expressions are now cached by the relcache) and fix 7.3 oversight that didn't record dependencies of predicate expressions.
* Ditch ExecGetTupType() in favor of the much simpler ExecGetResultType(),Tom Lane2003-05-05
| | | | | | which does the same thing. Perhaps at one time there was a reason to allow plan nodes to store their result types in different places, but AFAICT that's been unnecessary for a good while.
* Create a distinction between Lists of integers and Lists of OIDs, to getTom Lane2003-02-09
| | | | | | rid of the assumption that sizeof(Oid)==sizeof(int). This is one small step towards someday supporting 8-byte OIDs. For the moment, it doesn't do much except get rid of a lot of unsightly casts.
* Make further use of new bitmapset code: executor's chgParam, extParam,Tom Lane2003-02-09
| | | | | | | | locParam lists can be converted to bitmapsets to speed updating. Also, replace 'locParam' with 'allParam', which contains all the paramIDs relevant to the node (i.e., the union of extParam and locParam); this saves a step during SetChangedParamList() without costing anything elsewhere.
* Change CREATE TABLE AS / SELECT INTO to create the new table with OIDs,Tom Lane2003-01-23
| | | | | for backwards compatibility with pre-7.3 behavior. Per discussion on pgsql-general and pgsql-hackers.
* First cut at implementing IN (and NOT IN) via hashtables. There isTom Lane2003-01-12
| | | | more to be done yet, but this is a good start.
* Update EvalPlanQual() to work with new executor memory management method.Tom Lane2002-12-18
| | | | It doesn't leak memory anymore ...
* Revise executor APIs so that all per-query state structure is built inTom Lane2002-12-15
| | | | | | a per-query memory context created by CreateExecutorState --- and destroyed by FreeExecutorState. This provides a final solution to the longstanding problem of memory leaked by various ExecEndNode calls.
* Phase 3 of read-only-plans project: ExecInitExpr now builds expressionTom Lane2002-12-13
| | | | | | | execution state trees, and ExecEvalExpr takes an expression state tree not an expression plan tree. The plan tree is now read-only as far as the executor is concerned. Next step is to begin actually exploiting this property.
* Phase 1 of read-only-plans project: cause executor state nodes to pointTom Lane2002-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | to plan nodes, not vice-versa. All executor state nodes now inherit from struct PlanState. Copying of plan trees has been simplified by not storing a list of SubPlans in Plan nodes (eliminating duplicate links). The executor still needs such a list, but it can build it during ExecutorStart since it has to scan the plan tree anyway. No initdb forced since no stored-on-disk structures changed, but you will need a full recompile because of node-numbering changes.
* pgindent run.Bruce Momjian2002-09-04
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* Code review for HeapTupleHeader changes. Add version number to page headersTom Lane2002-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | (overlaying low byte of page size) and add HEAP_HASOID bit to t_infomask, per earlier discussion. Simplify scheme for overlaying fields in tuple header (no need for cmax to live in more than one place). Don't try to clear infomask status bits in tqual.c --- not safe to do it there. Don't try to force output table of a SELECT INTO to have OIDs, either. Get rid of unnecessarily complex three-state scheme for TupleDesc.tdhasoids, which has already caused one recent failure. Improve documentation.
* Restructure local-buffer handling per recent pghackers discussion.Tom Lane2002-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The local buffer manager is no longer used for newly-created relations (unless they are TEMP); a new non-TEMP relation goes through the shared bufmgr and thus will participate normally in checkpoints. But TEMP relations use the local buffer manager throughout their lifespan. Also, operations in TEMP relations are not logged in WAL, thus improving performance. Since it's no longer necessary to fsync relations as they move out of the local buffers into shared buffers, quite a lot of smgr.c/md.c/fd.c code is no longer needed and has been removed: there's no concept of a dirty relation anymore in md.c/fd.c, and we never fsync anything but WAL. Still TODO: improve local buffer management algorithms so that it would be reasonable to increase NLocBuffer.
* oid is needed, it is added at the end of the struct (after the nullBruce Momjian2002-07-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | bitmap, if present). Per Tom Lane's suggestion the information whether a tuple has an oid or not is carried in the tuple descriptor. For debugging reasons tdhasoid is of type char, not bool. There are predefined values for WITHOID, WITHOUTOID and UNDEFOID. This patch has been generated against a cvs snapshot from last week and I don't expect it to apply cleanly to current sources. While I post it here for public review, I'm working on a new version against a current snapshot. (There's been heavy activity recently; hope to catch up some day ...) This is a long patch; if it is too hard to swallow, I can provide it in smaller pieces: Part 1: Accessor macros Part 2: tdhasoid in TupDesc Part 3: Regression test Part 4: Parameter withoid to heap_addheader Part 5: Eliminate t_oid from HeapTupleHeader Part 2 is the most hairy part because of changes in the executor and even in the parser; the other parts are straightforward. Up to part 4 the patched postmaster stays binary compatible to databases created with an unpatched version. Part 5 is small (100 lines) and finally breaks compatibility. Manfred Koizar
* The attached patch fixes some spelling mistakes, makes theBruce Momjian2002-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | comments on one of the optimizer functions a lot more clear, adds a summary of the recent KSQO discussion to the comments in the code, adds regression tests for the bug with sequence state Tom fixed recently and another reg. test, and removes some PostQuel legacy stuff: ExecAppend -> ExecInsert, ExecRetrieve -> ExecSelect, etc. Error messages remain unchanged until a vote. Neil Conway
* Back out cleanup patch. Got old version and needs work.Bruce Momjian2002-06-25
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* The attached patch fixes some spelling mistakes, makes theBruce Momjian2002-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | comments on one of the optimizer functions a lot more clear, adds a summary of the recent KSQO discussion to the comments in the code, adds regression tests for the bug with sequence state Tom fixed recently and another reg. test, and removes some PostQuel legacy stuff: ExecAppend -> ExecInsert, ExecRetrieve -> ExecSelect, etc. This was changed because the elog() messages from this routine are user-visible, so we should be using the SQL terms. Neil Conway
* Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian2002-06-20
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* Mark index entries "killed" when they are no longer visible to anyTom Lane2002-05-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | transaction, so as to avoid returning them out of the index AM. Saves repeated heap_fetch operations on frequently-updated rows. Also detect queries on unique keys (equality to all columns of a unique index), and don't bother continuing scan once we have found first match. Killing is implemented in the btree and hash AMs, but not yet in rtree or gist, because there isn't an equally convenient place to do it in those AMs (the outer amgetnext routine can't do it without re-pinning the index page). Did some small cleanup on APIs of HeapTupleSatisfies, heap_fetch, and index_insert to make this a little easier.
* First pass at set-returning-functions in FROM, by Joe Conway withTom Lane2002-05-12
| | | | | | some kibitzing from Tom Lane. Not everything works yet, and there's no documentation or regression test, but let's commit this so Joe doesn't need to cope with tracking changes in so many files ...
* Checking to decide whether relations are system relations now dependsTom Lane2002-04-12
| | | | | on the namespace not the name; pg_ is not a reserved prefix for table names anymore. From Fernando Nasser.
* A bunch of changes aimed at reducing backend startup time...Tom Lane2002-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Improve 'pg_internal.init' relcache entry preload mechanism so that it is safe to use for all system catalogs, and arrange to preload a realistic set of system-catalog entries instead of only the three nailed-in-cache indexes that were formerly loaded this way. Fix mechanism for deleting out-of-date pg_internal.init files: this must be synchronized with transaction commit, not just done at random times within transactions. Drive it off relcache invalidation mechanism so that no special-case tests are needed. Cache additional information in relcache entries for indexes (their pg_index tuples and index-operator OIDs) to eliminate repeated lookups. Also cache index opclass info at the per-opclass level to avoid repeated lookups during relcache load. Generalize 'systable scan' utilities originally developed by Hiroshi, move them into genam.c, use in a number of places where there was formerly ugly code for choosing either heap or index scan. In particular this allows simplification of the logic that prevents infinite recursion between syscache and relcache during startup: we can easily switch to heapscans in relcache.c when and where needed to avoid recursion, so IndexScanOK becomes simpler and does not need any expensive initialization. Eliminate useless opening of a heapscan data structure while doing an indexscan (this saves an mdnblocks call and thus at least one kernel call).
* pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian2001-10-25
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* Partial indexes work again, courtesy of Martijn van Oosterhout.Tom Lane2001-07-16
| | | | | | Note: I didn't force an initdb, figuring that one today was enough. However, there is a new function in pg_proc.h, and pg_dump won't be able to dump partial indexes until you add that function.
* Restructure index AM interface for index building and index tuple deletion,Tom Lane2001-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | per previous discussion on pghackers. Most of the duplicate code in different AMs' ambuild routines has been moved out to a common routine in index.c; this means that all index types now do the right things about inserting recently-dead tuples, etc. (I also removed support for EXTEND INDEX in the ambuild routines, since that's about to go away anyway, and it cluttered the code a lot.) The retail indextuple deletion routines have been replaced by a "bulk delete" routine in which the indexscan is inside the access method. I haven't pushed this change as far as it should go yet, but it should allow considerable simplification of the internal bookkeeping for deletions. Also, add flag columns to pg_am to eliminate various hardcoded tests on AM OIDs, and remove unused pg_am columns. Fix rtree and gist index types to not attempt to store NULLs; before this, gist usually crashed, while rtree managed not to crash but computed wacko bounding boxes for NULL entries (which might have had something to do with the performance problems we've heard about occasionally). Add AtEOXact routines to hash, rtree, and gist, all of which have static state that needs to be reset after an error. We discovered this need long ago for btree, but missed the other guys. Oh, one more thing: concurrent VACUUM is now the default.
* Remove dashes in comments that don't need them, rewrap with pgindent.Bruce Momjian2001-03-22
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* pgindent run. Make it all clean.Bruce Momjian2001-03-22
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* Clean up handling of tuple descriptors so that result-tuple descriptorsTom Lane2001-01-29
| | | | | | | | allocated by plan nodes are not leaked at end of query. This doesn't really matter for normal queries, but it sure does for queries invoked repetitively inside SQL functions. Clean up some other grotty code associated with tupdescs, and fix a few other memory leaks exposed by tests with simple SQL functions.
* Change Copyright from PostgreSQL, Inc to PostgreSQL Global Development Group.Bruce Momjian2001-01-24
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* Clean up per-tuple memory leaks in trigger firing and plpgsqlTom Lane2001-01-22
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* Fix portability problems recently exposed by regression tests on Alphas.Tom Lane2000-12-27
| | | | | | | | | | 1. Distinguish cases where a Datum representing a tuple datatype is an OID from cases where it is a pointer to TupleTableSlot, and make sure we use the right typlen in each case. 2. Make fetchatt() and related code support 8-byte by-value datatypes on machines where Datum is 8 bytes. Centralize knowledge of the available by-value datatype sizes in two macros in tupmacs.h, so that this will be easier if we ever have to do it again.
* Change SearchSysCache coding conventions so that a reference count isTom Lane2000-11-16
| | | | | | | maintained for each cache entry. A cache entry will not be freed until the matching ReleaseSysCache call has been executed. This eliminates worries about cache entries getting dropped while still in use. See my posting to pg-hackers of even date for more info.