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* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Fix LATERAL references to target table of UPDATE/DELETE.Tom Lane2014-01-07
| | | | | | | | | I failed to think much about UPDATE/DELETE when implementing LATERAL :-(. The implemented behavior ended up being that subqueries in the FROM or USING clause (respectively) could access the update/delete target table as though it were a lateral reference; which seems fine if they said LATERAL, but certainly ought to draw an error if they didn't. Fix it so you get a suitable error when you omit LATERAL. Per report from Emre Hasegeli.
* 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
* Allow empty target list in SELECT.Tom Lane2013-12-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a problem noted as a followup to bug #8648: if a query has a semantically-empty target list, e.g. SELECT * FROM zero_column_table, ruleutils.c will dump it as a syntactically-empty target list, which was not allowed. There doesn't seem to be any reliable way to fix this by hacking ruleutils (note in particular that the originally zero-column table might since have had columns added to it); and even if we had such a fix, it would do nothing for existing dump files that might contain bad syntax. The best bet seems to be to relax the syntactic restriction. Also, add parse-analysis errors for SELECT DISTINCT with no columns (after *-expansion) and RETURNING with no columns. These cases previously produced unexpected behavior because the parsed Query looked like it had no DISTINCT or RETURNING clause, respectively. If anyone ever offers a plausible use-case for this, we could work a bit harder on making the situation distinguishable. Arguably this is a bug fix that should be back-patched, but I'm worried that there may be client apps or PLs that expect "SELECT ;" to throw a syntax error. The issue doesn't seem important enough to risk changing behavior in minor releases.
* Rename TABLE() to ROWS FROM().Noah Misch2013-12-10
| | | | | | | SQL-standard TABLE() is a subset of UNNEST(); they deal with arrays and other collection types. This feature, however, deals with set-returning functions. Use a different syntax for this feature to keep open the possibility of implementing the standard TABLE().
* Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.Tom Lane2013-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...) as a single FROM-clause entry. The result is the concatenation of the first row from each function, followed by the second row from each function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than others. This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list. This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality column as well. Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)). The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is not what this patch does. There may be something wrong with that reading of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST(). After further review of that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does, but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile. Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and significantly revised by me
* Re-allow duplicate aliases within aliased JOINs.Tom Lane2013-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the SQL spec forbids duplicate table aliases, historically we've allowed queries like SELECT ... FROM tab1 x CROSS JOIN (tab2 x CROSS JOIN tab3 y) z on the grounds that the aliased join (z) hides the aliases within it, therefore there is no conflict between the two RTEs named "x". The LATERAL patch broke this, on the misguided basis that "x" could be ambiguous if tab3 were a LATERAL subquery. To avoid breaking existing queries, it's better to allow this situation and complain only if tab3 actually does contain an ambiguous reference. We need only remove the check that was throwing an error, because the column lookup code is already prepared to handle ambiguous references. Per bug #8444.
* Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause.Tom Lane2013-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a window definition that has any explicit framing clause. The error message we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not. Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that "OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does not. This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya Krapchatov. Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting that omitting the parentheses will fix it. Also improve the related documentation. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Move strip_implicit_coercions() from optimizer to nodeFuncs.c.Tom Lane2013-07-23
| | | | | | | | Use of this function has spread into the parser and rewriter, so it seems like time to pull it out of the optimizer and put it into the more central nodeFuncs module. This eliminates the need to #include optimizer/clauses.h in most of the calling files, demonstrating that this function was indeed a bit outside the normal code reference patterns.
* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
* 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.)
* Fix problems with incomplete attempt to prohibit OIDS with MVs.Kevin Grittner2013-03-22
| | | | | | | Problem with assertion failure in restoring from pg_dump output reported by Joachim Wieland. Review and suggestions by Tom Lane and Robert Haas.
* Make LATERAL implicit for functions in FROM.Tom Lane2013-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SQL standard does not have general functions-in-FROM, but it does allow UNNEST() there (see the <collection derived table> production), and the semantics of that are defined to include lateral references. So spec compliance requires allowing lateral references within UNNEST() even without an explicit LATERAL keyword. Rather than making UNNEST() a special case, it seems best to extend this flexibility to any function-in-FROM. We'll still allow LATERAL to be written explicitly for clarity's sake, but it's now a noise word in this context. In theory this change could result in a change in behavior of existing queries, by allowing what had been an outer reference in a function-in-FROM to be captured by an earlier FROM-item at the same level. However, all pre-9.3 PG releases have a bug that causes them to match variable references to earlier FROM-items in preference to outer references (and then throw an error). So no previously-working query could contain the type of ambiguity that would risk a change of behavior. Per a suggestion from Andrew Gierth, though I didn't use his patch.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Centralize the logic for detecting misplaced aggregates, window funcs, etc.Tom Lane2012-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly we relied on checking after-the-fact to see if an expression contained aggregates, window functions, or sub-selects when it shouldn't. This is grotty, easily forgotten (indeed, we had forgotten to teach DefineIndex about rejecting window functions), and none too efficient since it requires extra traversals of the parse tree. To improve matters, define an enum type that classifies all SQL sub-expressions, store it in ParseState to show what kind of expression we are currently parsing, and make transformAggregateCall, transformWindowFuncCall, and transformSubLink check the expression type and throw error if the type indicates the construct is disallowed. This allows removal of a large number of ad-hoc checks scattered around the code base. The enum type is sufficiently fine-grained that we can still produce error messages of at least the same specificity as before. Bringing these error checks together revealed that we'd been none too consistent about phrasing of the error messages, so standardize the wording a bit. Also, rewrite checking of aggregate arguments so that it requires only one traversal of the arguments, rather than up to three as before. In passing, clean up some more comments left over from add_missing_from support, and annotate some tests that I think are dead code now that that's gone. (I didn't risk actually removing said dead code, though.)
* Merge parser's p_relnamespace and p_varnamespace lists into a single list.Tom Lane2012-08-08
| | | | | | | | Now that we are storing structs in these lists, the distinction between the two lists can be represented with a couple of extra flags while using only a single list. This simplifies the code and should save a little bit of palloc traffic, since the majority of RTEs are represented in both lists anyway.
* Implement SQL-standard LATERAL subqueries.Tom Lane2012-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements the standard syntax of LATERAL attached to a sub-SELECT in FROM, and also allows LATERAL attached to a function in FROM, since set-returning function calls are expected to be one of the principal use-cases. The main change here is a rewrite of the mechanism for keeping track of which relations are visible for column references while the FROM clause is being scanned. The parser "namespace" lists are no longer lists of bare RTEs, but are lists of ParseNamespaceItem structs, which carry an RTE pointer as well as some visibility-controlling flags. Aside from supporting LATERAL correctly, this lets us get rid of the ancient hacks that required rechecking subqueries and JOIN/ON and function-in-FROM expressions for invalid references after they were initially parsed. Invalid column references are now always correctly detected on sight. In passing, remove assorted parser error checks that are now dead code by virtue of our having gotten rid of add_missing_from, as well as some comments that are obsolete for the same reason. (It was mainly add_missing_from that caused so much fudging here in the first place.) The planner support for this feature is very minimal, and will be improved in future patches. It works well enough for testing purposes, though. catversion bump forced due to new field in RangeTblEntry.
* Code review for protransform patches.Tom Lane2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix loss of previous expression-simplification work when a transform function fires: we must not simply revert to untransformed input tree. Instead build a dummy FuncExpr node to pass to the transform function. This has the additional advantage of providing a simpler, more uniform API for transform functions. Move documentation to a somewhat less buried spot, relocate some poorly-placed code, be more wary of null constants and invalid typmod values, add an opr_sanity check on protransform function signatures, and some other minor cosmetic adjustments. Note: although this patch touches pg_proc.h, no need for catversion bump, because the changes are cosmetic and don't actually change the intended catalog contents.
* Restructure SELECT INTO's parsetree representation into CreateTableAsStmt.Tom Lane2012-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Making this operation look like a utility statement seems generally a good idea, and particularly so in light of the desire to provide command triggers for utility statements. The original choice of representing it as SELECT with an IntoClause appendage had metastasized into rather a lot of places, unfortunately, so that this patch is a great deal more complicated than one might at first expect. In particular, keeping EXPLAIN working for SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS subcommands required restructuring some EXPLAIN-related APIs. Add-on code that calls ExplainOnePlan or ExplainOneUtility, or uses ExplainOneQuery_hook, will need adjustment. Also, the cases PREPARE ... SELECT INTO and CREATE RULE ... SELECT INTO, which formerly were accepted though undocumented, are no longer accepted. The PREPARE case can be replaced with use of CREATE TABLE AS EXECUTE. The CREATE RULE case doesn't seem to have much real-world use (since the rule would work only once before failing with "table already exists"), so we'll not bother with that one. Both SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS still return a command tag of "SELECT nnnn". There was some discussion of returning "CREATE TABLE nnnn", but for the moment backwards compatibility wins the day. Andres Freund and Tom Lane
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Clean up the #include mess a little.Tom Lane2011-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | walsender.h should depend on xlog.h, not vice versa. (Actually, the inclusion was circular until a couple hours ago, which was even sillier; but Bruce broke it in the expedient rather than logically correct direction.) Because of that poor decision, plus blind application of pgrminclude, we had a situation where half the system was depending on xlog.h to include such unrelated stuff as array.h and guc.h. Clean up the header inclusion, and manually revert a lot of what pgrminclude had done so things build again. This episode reinforces my feeling that pgrminclude should not be run without adult supervision. Inclusion changes in header files in particular need to be reviewed with great care. More generally, it'd be good if we had a clearer notion of module layering to dictate which headers can sanely include which others ... but that's a big task for another day.
* Remove unnecessary #include references, per pgrminclude script.Bruce Momjian2011-09-01
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* Add notion of a "transform function" that can simplify function calls.Robert Haas2011-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | Initially, we use this only to eliminate calls to the varchar() function in cases where the length is not being reduced and, therefore, the function call is equivalent to a RelabelType operation. The most significant effect of this is that we can avoid a table rewrite when changing a varchar(X) column to a varchar(Y) column, where Y > X. Noah Misch, reviewed by me and Alexey Klyukin
* pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1.Bruce Momjian2011-04-10
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* 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.
* Support data-modifying commands (INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) in WITH.Tom Lane2011-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch implements data-modifying WITH queries according to the semantics that the updates all happen with the same command counter value, and in an unspecified order. Therefore one WITH clause can't see the effects of another, nor can the outer query see the effects other than through the RETURNING values. And attempts to do conflicting updates will have unpredictable results. We'll need to document all that. This commit just fixes the code; documentation updates are waiting on author. Marko Tiikkaja and Hitoshi Harada
* 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
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Provide hashing support for arrays.Tom Lane2010-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core of this patch is hash_array() and associated typcache infrastructure, which works just about exactly like the existing support for array comparison. In addition I did some work to ensure that the planner won't think that an array type is hashable unless its element type is hashable, and similarly for sorting. This includes adding a datatype parameter to op_hashjoinable and op_mergejoinable, and adding an explicit "hashable" flag to SortGroupClause. The lack of a cross-check on the element type was a pre-existing bug in mergejoin support --- but it didn't matter so much before, because if you couldn't sort the element type there wasn't any good alternative to failing anyhow. Now that we have the alternative of hashing the array type, there are cases where we can avoid a failure by being picky at the planner stage, so it's time to be picky. The issue of exactly how to combine the per-element hash values to produce an array hash is still open for discussion, but the rest of this is pretty solid, so I'll commit it as-is.
* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Allow ORDER BY/GROUP BY/etc items to match targetlist items regardless ofTom Lane2010-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | any implicit casting previously applied to the targetlist item. This is reasonable because the implicit cast, by definition, wasn't written by the user; so we are preserving the expected behavior that ORDER BY items match textually equivalent tlist items. The case never arose before because there couldn't be any implicit casting of a top-level SELECT item before we process ORDER BY etc. But now it can arise in the context of aggregates containing ORDER BY clauses, since the "targetlist" is the already-casted list of arguments for the aggregate. The net effect is that the datatype used for ORDER BY/DISTINCT purposes is the aggregate's declared input type, not that of the original input column; which is a bit debatable but not horrendous, and to do otherwise would require major rework that doesn't seem justified. Per bug #5564 from Daniel Grace. Back-patch to 9.0 where aggregate ORDER BY was implemented.
* pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian2010-02-26
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* Extend the set of frame options supported for window functions.Tom Lane2010-02-12
| | | | | | | | | This patch allows the frame to start from CURRENT ROW (in either RANGE or ROWS mode), and it also adds support for ROWS n PRECEDING and ROWS n FOLLOWING start and end points. (RANGE value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING isn't there yet --- the grammar works, but that's all.) Hitoshi Harada, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
* Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodesTom Lane2010-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of shared or nailed system catalogs. This has two key benefits: * The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs. * We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing shared catalogs. CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would only be visible in one database. Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed; shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared. This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch. As a stopgap, parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid such failures during the regression tests.
* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Support ORDER BY within aggregate function calls, at long last providing aTom Lane2009-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | non-kluge method for controlling the order in which values are fed to an aggregate function. At the same time eliminate the old implementation restriction that DISTINCT was only supported for single-argument aggregates. Possibly release-notable behavioral change: formerly, agg(DISTINCT x) dropped null values of x unconditionally. Now, it does so only if the agg transition function is strict; otherwise nulls are treated as DISTINCT normally would, ie, you get one copy. Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada
* Make FOR UPDATE/SHARE in the primary query not propagate into WITH queries;Tom Lane2009-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for example in WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE the FOR UPDATE will now affect bar but not foo. This is more useful and consistent than the original 8.4 behavior, which tried to propagate FOR UPDATE into the WITH query but always failed due to assorted implementation restrictions. Even though we are in process of removing those restrictions, it seems correct on philosophical grounds to not let the outer query's FOR UPDATE affect the WITH query. In passing, fix isLockedRel which frequently got things wrong in nested-subquery cases: "FOR UPDATE OF foo" applies to an alias foo in the current query level, not subqueries. This has been broken for a long time, but it doesn't seem worth back-patching further than 8.4 because the actual consequences are minimal. At worst the parser would sometimes get RowShareLock on a relation when it should be AccessShareLock or vice versa. That would only make a difference if someone were using ExclusiveLock concurrently, which no standard operation does, and anyway FOR UPDATE doesn't result in visible changes so it's not clear that the someone would notice any problem. Between that and the fact that FOR UPDATE barely works with subqueries at all in existing releases, I'm not excited about worrying about it.
* Fix bug with WITH RECURSIVE immediately inside WITH RECURSIVE. 99% of theTom Lane2009-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | code was already okay with this, but the hack that obtained the output column types of a recursive union in advance of doing real parse analysis of the recursive union forgot to handle the case where there was an inner WITH clause available to the non-recursive term. Best fix seems to be to refactor so that we don't need the "throwaway" parse analysis step at all. Instead, teach the transformSetOperationStmt code to set up the CTE's output column information after it's processed the non-recursive term normally. Per report from David Fetter.
* Modify the definition of window-function PARTITION BY and ORDER BY clausesTom Lane2009-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | so that their elements are always taken as simple expressions over the query's input columns. It originally seemed like a good idea to make them act exactly like GROUP BY and ORDER BY, right down to the SQL92-era behavior of accepting output column names or numbers. However, that was not such a great idea, for two reasons: 1. It permits circular references, as exhibited in bug #5018: the output column could be the one containing the window function itself. (We actually had a regression test case illustrating this, but nobody thought twice about how confusing that would be.) 2. It doesn't seem like a good idea for, eg, "lead(foo) OVER (ORDER BY foo)" to potentially use two completely different meanings for "foo". Accordingly, narrow down the behavior of window clauses to use only the SQL99-compliant interpretation that the expressions are simple expressions.
* Make backend header files C++ safePeter Eisentraut2009-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | This alters various incidental uses of C++ key words to use other similar identifiers, so that a C++ compiler won't choke outright. You still (probably) need extern "C" { }; around the inclusion of backend headers. based on a patch by Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org> Also add a script cpluspluscheck to check for C++ compatibility in the future. As of right now, this passes without error for me.
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
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* Remove the recently added node types ReloptElem and OptionDefElem in favorTom Lane2009-04-04
| | | | | | of adding optional namespace and action fields to DefElem. Having three node types that do essentially the same thing bloats the code and leads to errors of confusion, such as in yesterday's bug report from Khee Chin.
* 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
* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Throw error if a <window definition> references a window that already has aTom Lane2008-12-31
| | | | | frame clause, as appears to be required by the fine print in the SQL spec. Per discussion with Pavel, not doing so risks user confusion.
* 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.
* Fix the implicit-RTE code to be able to handle implicit RTEs for CTEs, asTom Lane2008-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | well as regular tables. Per discussion, this seems necessary to meet the principle of least astonishment. In passing, simplify the error messages in warnAutoRange(). Now that we have parser error position info for these errors, it doesn't seem very useful to word the error message differently depending on whether we are inside a sub-select or not.
* Implement SQL-standard WITH clauses, including WITH RECURSIVE.Tom Lane2008-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL (should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses. These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a pretty useful feature. There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles, which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly. But let's land the patch now so we can get on with other development. Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane