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* Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjustTom Lane2009-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects. Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects created in particular schemas too. A notable benefit is that users can override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE privilege traditionally granted by default for functions. Petr Jelinek
* Ensure that a cursor has an immutable snapshot throughout its lifespan.Alvaro Herrera2009-10-02
| | | | | | | | | The old coding was using a regular snapshot, referenced elsewhere, that was subject to having its command counter updated. Fix by creating a private copy of the snapshot exclusively for the cursor. Backpatch to 8.4, which is when the bug was introduced during the snapshot management rewrite.
* Remove no-longer-needed ExecCountSlots infrastructure.Tom Lane2009-09-27
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* Replace the array-style TupleTable data structure with a simple List ofTom Lane2009-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | TupleTableSlot nodes. This eliminates the need to count in advance how many Slots will be needed, which seems more than worth the small increase in the amount of palloc traffic during executor startup. The ExecCountSlots infrastructure is now all dead code, but I'll remove it in a separate commit for clarity. Per a comment from Robert Haas.
* Extend the BKI infrastructure to allow system catalogs to be givenTom Lane2009-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | hand-assigned rowtype OIDs, even when they are not "bootstrapped" catalogs that have handmade type rows in pg_type.h. Give pg_database such an OID. Restore the availability of C macros for the rowtype OIDs of the bootstrapped catalogs. (These macros are now in the individual catalogs' .h files, though, not in pg_type.h.) This commit doesn't do anything especially useful by itself, but it's necessary infrastructure for reverting some ill-considered changes in relcache.c.
* Rewrite the planner's handling of materialized plan types so that there isTom Lane2009-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | an explicit model of rescan costs being different from first-time costs. The costing of Material nodes in particular now has some visible relationship to the actual runtime behavior, where before it was essentially fantasy. This also fixes up a couple of places where different materialized plan types were treated differently for no very good reason (probably just oversights). A couple of the regression tests are affected, because the planner now chooses to put the other relation on the inside of a nestloop-with-materialize. So far as I can see both changes are sane, and the planner is now more consistently following the expectation that it should prefer to materialize the smaller of two relations. Per a recent discussion with Robert Haas.
* Tweak ExecIndexEvalRuntimeKeys to forcibly detoast any toasted comparisonTom Lane2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | values before they get passed to the index access method. This avoids repeated detoastings that will otherwise ensue as the comparison value is examined by various index support functions. We have seen a couple of reports of cases where repeated detoastings result in an order-of-magnitude slowdown, so it seems worth adding a bit of extra logic to prevent this. I had previously proposed trying to avoid duplicate detoastings in general, but this fix takes care of what seems the most important case in practice with very little effort or risk. Back-patch to 8.4 so that the PostGIS folk won't have to wait a year to have this fix in a production release. (The issue exists further back, of course, but the code's diverged enough to make backpatching further a higher-risk action. Also it appears that the possible gains may be limited in prior releases because of different handling of lossy operators.)
* Improve plpgsql's ability to cope with rowtypes containing dropped columns,Tom Lane2009-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | by supporting conversions in places that used to demand exact rowtype match. Since this issue is certain to come up elsewhere (in fact, already has, in ExecEvalConvertRowtype), factor out the support code into new core functions for tuple conversion. I chose to put these in a new source file since heaptuple.c is already overly long. Heavily revised version of a patch by Pavel Stehule.
* Support deferrable uniqueness constraints.Tom Lane2009-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | The current implementation fires an AFTER ROW trigger for each tuple that looks like it might be non-unique according to the index contents at the time of insertion. This works well as long as there aren't many conflicts, but won't scale to massive unique-key reassignments. Improving that case is a TODO item. Dean Rasheed
* Save a few cycles in EXPLAIN and related commands by not bothering to formTom Lane2009-07-23
| | | | | | a physical tuple in do_tup_output(). A virtual tuple is easier to set up and also easier for most tuple receivers to process. Per my comment on Robert Haas' recent patch in this code.
* In a non-hashed Agg node, reset the "aggcontext" at group boundaries, insteadTom Lane2009-07-23
| | | | | | | | | | | of individually pfree'ing pass-by-reference transition values. This should be at least as fast as the prior coding, and it has the major advantage of clearing out any working data an aggregate function may have stored in or underneath the aggcontext. This avoids memory leakage when an aggregate such as array_agg() is used in GROUP BY mode. Per report from Chris Spotts. Back-patch to 8.4. In principle the problem could arise in prior versions, but since they didn't have array_agg the issue seems not critical.
* Change do_tup_output() to take Datum/isnull arrays instead of a char * array,Tom Lane2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | so it doesn't go through BuildTupleFromCStrings. This is more or less a wash for current uses, but will avoid inefficiency for planned changes to EXPLAIN. Robert Haas
* Fix error cleanup failure caused by 8.4 changes in plpgsql to try to avoidTom Lane2009-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | memory leakage in error recovery. We were calling FreeExprContext, and therefore invoking ExprContextCallback callbacks, in both normal and error exits from subtransactions. However this isn't very safe, as shown in recent trouble report from Frank van Vugt, in which releasing a tupledesc refcount failed. It's also unnecessary, since the resources that callbacks might wish to release should be cleaned up by other error recovery mechanisms (ie the resource owners). We only really want FreeExprContext to release memory attached to the exprcontext in the error-exit case. So, add a bool parameter to FreeExprContext to tell it not to call the callbacks. A more general solution would be to pass the isCommit bool parameter on to the callbacks, so they could do only safe things during error exit. But that would make the patch significantly more invasive and possibly break third-party code that registers ExprContextCallback callbacks. We might want to do that later in HEAD, but for now I'll just do what seems reasonable to back-patch.
* Fix things so that array_agg_finalfn does not modify or free its inputTom Lane2009-06-20
| | | | | | | ArrayBuildState, per trouble report from Merlin Moncure. By adopting this fix, we are essentially deciding that aggregate final-functions should not modify their inputs ever. Adjust documentation and comments to match that conclusion.
* ExecAgg() failed to finish running out set-returning functions in the lastTom Lane2009-06-17
| | | | | | aggregated tuple of a run. Per report from Laurenz Albe. This is a new bug in 8.4, but only because prior versions rejected SRFs in an Agg plan node altogether.
* Revisit AlterTableCreateToastTable's API once again, hoping to make it whatTom Lane2009-06-11
| | | | | pg_migrator actually needs and not just a partial solution. We have to be able to specify the OID that the new toast table should be created with.
* Fix things so that you can still do "select foo()" where foo is a SQLTom Lane2009-06-11
| | | | | | | function returning setof record. This used to work, more or less accidentally, but I had broken it while extending the code to allow materialize-mode functions to be called in select lists. Add a regression test case so it doesn't get broken again. Per gripe from Greg Davidson.
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
| | | | provided by Andrew.
* Fix xmlattribute escaping XML special characters twice (bug #4822).Peter Eisentraut2009-06-09
| | | | Author: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
* Improve the recently-added support for properly pluralized error messagesTom Lane2009-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | by extending the ereport() API to cater for pluralization directly. This is better than the original method of calling ngettext outside the elog.c code because (1) it avoids double translation, which wastes cycles and in the worst case could give a wrong result; and (2) it avoids having to use a different coding method in PL code than in the core backend. The client-side uses of ngettext are not touched since neither of these concerns is very pressing in the client environment. Per my proposal of yesterday.
* Add an option to AlterTableCreateToastTable() to allow its caller to forceTom Lane2009-05-07
| | | | | | | | a toast table to be built, even if the sum-of-column-widths calculation indicates one isn't needed. This is needed by pg_migrator because if the old table has a toast table, we have to migrate over the toast table since it might contain some live data, even though subsequent column drops could mean that no recently-added rows could require toasting.
* XMLATTRIBUTES() should send the attribute values throughPeter Eisentraut2009-04-08
| | | | | map_sql_value_to_xml_value() instead of directly through the data type output function. This is per SQL standard, and consistent with XMLELEMENT().
* Make ExecInitExpr build the list of SubPlans found in a plan tree in orderTom Lane2009-04-05
| | | | | | | | of discovery, rather than reverse order. This doesn't matter functionally (I suppose the previous coding dates from the time when lcons was markedly cheaper than lappend). However now that EXPLAIN is labeling subplans with IDs that are based on order of creation, this may help produce a slightly less surprising printout.
* Refactor ExecProject and associated routines so that fast-path code is usedTom Lane2009-04-02
| | | | | | | | | for simple Var targetlist entries all the time, even when there are other entries that are not simple Vars. Also, ensure that we prefetch attributes (with slot_getsomeattrs) for all Vars in the targetlist, even those buried within expressions. In combination these changes seem to significantly reduce the runtime for cases where tlists are mostly but not exclusively Vars. Per my proposal of yesterday.
* Revert DTrace patch from Robert LorBruce Momjian2009-04-02
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* Add support for additional DTrace probes.Bruce Momjian2009-04-02
| | | | Robert Lor
* Fix an oversight in the support for storing/retrieving "minimal tuples" inTom Lane2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TupleTableSlots. We have functions for retrieving a minimal tuple from a slot after storing a regular tuple in it, or vice versa; but these were implemented by converting the internal storage from one format to the other. The problem with that is it invalidates any pass-by-reference Datums that were already fetched from the slot, since they'll be pointing into the just-freed version of the tuple. The known problem cases involve fetching both a whole-row variable and a pass-by-reference value from a slot that is fed from a tuplestore or tuplesort object. The added regression tests illustrate some simple cases, but there may be other failure scenarios traceable to the same bug. Note that the added tests probably only fail on unpatched code if it's built with --enable-cassert; otherwise the bug leads to fetching from freed memory, which will not have been overwritten without additional conditions. Fix by allowing a slot to contain both formats simultaneously; which turns out not to complicate the logic much at all, if anything it seems less contorted than before. Back-patch to 8.2, where minimal tuples were introduced.
* Fix possible failures when a tuplestore switches from in-memory to on-diskTom Lane2009-03-27
| | | | | | | | | mode while callers hold pointers to in-memory tuples. I reported this for the case of nodeWindowAgg's primary scan tuple, but inspection of the code shows that all of the calls in nodeWindowAgg and nodeCtescan are at risk. For the moment, fix it with a rather brute-force approach of copying whenever one of the at-risk callers requests a tuple. Later we might think of some sort of reference-count approach to reduce tuple copying.
* Gettext plural supportPeter Eisentraut2009-03-26
| | | | | | In the backend, I changed only a handful of exemplary or important-looking instances to make use of the plural support; there is probably more work there. For the rest of the source, this should cover all relevant cases.
* Optimize multi-batch hash joins when the outer relation has a nonuniformTom Lane2009-03-21
| | | | | | | | | distribution, by creating a special fast path for the (first few) most common values of the outer relation. Tuples having hashvalues matching the MCVs are effectively forced to be in the first batch, so that we never write them out to the batch temp files. Bryce Cutt and Ramon Lawrence, with some editorialization by me.
* Add new SQL:2008 error codes for invalid LIMIT and OFFSET values. RemovePeter Eisentraut2009-03-04
| | | | | unused nonstandard error code that was perhaps intended for this but never used.
* Ensure that INSERT ... SELECT into a table with OIDs never copies row OIDsTom Lane2009-02-08
| | | | | | | | from the source table. This could never happen anyway before 8.4 because the executor invariably applied a "junk filter" to rows due to be inserted; but now that we skip doing that when it's not necessary, the case can occur. Problem noted 2008-11-27 by KaiGai Kohei, though I misunderstood what he was on about at the time (the opacity of the patch he proposed didn't help).
* Allow reloption names to have qualifiers, initially supporting a TOASTAlvaro Herrera2009-02-02
| | | | | | | | qualifier, and add support for this in pg_dump. This allows TOAST tables to have user-defined fillfactor, and will also enable us to move the autovacuum parameters to reloptions without taking away the possibility of setting values for TOAST tables.
* Support column-level privileges, as required by SQL standard.Tom Lane2009-01-22
| | | | Stephen Frost, with help from KaiGai Kohei and others
* Add new SPI_OK_REWRITTEN return code to SPI_execute and friends, for theHeikki Linnakangas2009-01-21
| | | | | | | case that the command is rewritten into another type of command. The old behavior to return the command tag of the last executed command was pretty surprising. In PL/pgSQL, for example, it meant that if a command was rewritten to a utility statement, FOUND wasn't set at all.
* Tweak order of operations in BitmapHeapNext() to avoid the case of prefetchingTom Lane2009-01-12
| | | | | the same page we are nanoseconds away from reading for real. There should be something left to do on the current page before we consider issuing a prefetch.
* Implement prefetching via posix_fadvise() for bitmap index scans. A newTom Lane2009-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | GUC variable effective_io_concurrency controls how many concurrent block prefetch requests will be issued. (The best way to handle this for plain index scans is still under debate, so that part is not applied yet --- tgl) Greg Stark
* Revise the TIDBitmap API to support multiple concurrent iterations over aTom Lane2009-01-10
| | | | | | bitmap. This is extracted from Greg Stark's posix_fadvise patch; it seems worth committing separately, since it's potentially useful independently of posix_fadvise.
* Arrange for function default arguments to be processed properly in expressionsTom Lane2009-01-09
| | | | | | | that are set up for execution with ExecPrepareExpr rather than going through the full planner process. By introducing an explicit notion of "expression planning", this patch also lays a bit of groundwork for maybe someday allowing sub-selects in standalone expressions.
* Insert conditional SPI_push/SPI_pop calls into InputFunctionCall,Tom Lane2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OutputFunctionCall, and friends. This allows SPI-using functions to invoke datatype I/O without concern for the possibility that a SPI-using function will be called (which could be either the I/O function itself, or a function used in a domain check constraint). It's a tad ugly, but not nearly as ugly as what'd be needed to make this work via retail insertion of push/pop operations in all the PLs. This reverts my patch of 2007-01-30 that inserted some retail SPI_push/pop calls into plpgsql; that approach only fixed plpgsql, and not any other PLs. But the other PLs have the issue too, as illustrated by a recent gripe from Christian Schröder. Back-patch to 8.2, which is as far back as this solution will work. It's also as far back as we need to worry about the domain-constraint case, since earlier versions did not attempt to check domain constraints within datatype input. I'm not aware of any old I/O functions that use SPI themselves, so this should be sufficient for a back-patch.
* Fix executor/spi.h to follow our usual conventions for include files, ie,Tom Lane2009-01-07
| | | | | | | | | not include postgres.h nor anything else it doesn't directly need. Add #includes to calling files as needed to compensate. Per my proposal of yesterday. This should be noted as a source code change in the 8.4 release notes, since it's likely to require changes in add-on modules.
* Include a pointer to the query's source text in QueryDesc structs. This isTom Lane2009-01-02
| | | | | | | practically free given prior 8.4 changes in plancache and portal management, and it makes it a lot easier for ExecutorStart/Run/End hooks to get at the query text. Extracted from Itagaki Takahiro's pg_stat_statements patch, with minor editorialization.
* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Add some basic support for window frame clauses to the window-functionsTom Lane2008-12-31
| | | | | | | | patch. This includes the ability to force the frame to cover the whole partition, and the ability to make the frame end exactly on the current row rather than its last ORDER BY peer. Supporting any more of the full SQL frame-clause syntax will require nontrivial hacking on the window aggregate code, so it'll have to wait for 8.5 or beyond.
* Support window functions a la SQL:2008.Tom Lane2008-12-28
| | | | Hitoshi Harada, with some kibitzing from Heikki and Tom.
* Make a couple of small changes to the tuplestore API, for the benefit of theTom Lane2008-12-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | upcoming window-functions patch. First, tuplestore_trim is now an exported function that must be explicitly invoked by callers at appropriate times, rather than something that tuplestore tries to do behind the scenes. Second, a read pointer that is marked as allowing backward scan no longer prevents truncation. This means that a read pointer marked as having BACKWARD but not REWIND capability can only safely read backwards as far as the oldest other read pointer. (The expected use pattern for this involves having another read pointer that serves as the truncation fencepost.)
* Fix oversight in my recent patch to allow ExecMakeFunctionResult to handleTom Lane2008-12-18
| | | | | | | materialize-mode set results. Since it now uses the ReturnSetInfo node to hold internal state, we need to be sure to set up the node even when the immediately called function doesn't return set (but does have a set-valued argument). Per report from Anupama Aherrao.
* Remove pg_plan_queries()'s now-useless needSnapshot parameter. It's uselessTom Lane2008-12-13
| | | | | in 8.3, too, but I'm not back-patching this change since it would break any extension modules that might be calling that function.
* Ensure that the contents of a holdable cursor don't depend on out-of-lineTom Lane2008-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | toasted values, since those could get dropped once the cursor's transaction is over. Per bug #4553 from Andrew Gierth. Back-patch as far as 8.1. The bug actually exists back to 7.4 when holdable cursors were introduced, but this patch won't work before 8.1 without significant adjustments. Given the lack of field complaints, it doesn't seem worth the work (and risk of introducing new bugs) to try to make a patch for the older branches.
* Clean up the API for DestReceiver objects by eliminating the assumptionTom Lane2008-11-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | that a Portal is a useful and sufficient additional argument for CreateDestReceiver --- it just isn't, in most cases. Instead formalize the approach of passing any needed parameters to the receiver separately. One unexpected benefit of this change is that we can declare typedef Portal in a less surprising location. This patch is just code rearrangement and doesn't change any functionality. I'll tackle the HOLD-cursor-vs-toast problem in a follow-on patch.