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* Fix for rules system from Jan.Bruce Momjian1998-10-20
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* Please apply the patch at the end. Disables use of systemBruce Momjian1998-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | columns of views at all (not only oid, cmin etc. too). pgsql=> select cmin from pg_rules; ERROR: system column cmin not available - pg_rules is a view pgsql=> select * from pg_rules where pg_rules.oid = pg_class.oid; ERROR: system column oid not available - pg_rules is a view pgsql=> Jan
* Here's a combination of all the patches I'm currently waitingBruce Momjian1998-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for against a just updated CVS tree. It contains Partial new rewrite system that handles subselects, view aggregate columns, insert into select from view, updates with set col = view-value and select rules restriction to view definition. Updates for rule/view backparsing utility functions to handle subselects correct. New system views pg_tables and pg_indexes (where you can see the complete index definition in the latter one). Enabling array references on query parameters. Bugfix for functional index. Little changes to system views pg_rules and pg_views. The rule system isn't a release-stopper any longer. But another stopper is that I don't know if the latest changes to PL/pgSQL (not already in CVS) made it compile on AIX. Still wait for some response from Dave. Jan
* OK, folks, here is the pgindent output.Bruce Momjian1998-09-01
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* This is the final state of the rule system for 6.4 after theBruce Momjian1998-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | patch is applied: Rewrite rules on relation level work fine now. Event qualifications on insert/update/delete rules work fine now. I added the new keyword OLD to reference the CURRENT tuple. CURRENT will be removed in 6.5. Update rules can reference NEW and OLD in the rule qualification and the actions. Insert/update/delete rules on views can be established to let them behave like real tables. For insert/update/delete rules multiple actions are supported now. The actions can also be surrounded by parantheses to make psql happy. Multiple actions are required if update to a view requires updates to multiple tables. Regular users are permitted to create/drop rules on tables they have RULE permissions for (DefineQueryRewrite() is now able to get around the access restrictions on pg_rewrite). This enables view creation for regular users too. This required an extra boolean parameter to pg_parse_and_plan() that tells to set skipAcl on all rangetable entries of the resulting queries. There is a new function pg_exec_query_acl_override() that could be used by backend utilities to use this facility. All rule actions (not only views) inherit the permissions of the event relations owner. Sample: User A creates tables T1 and T2, creates rules that log INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE on T1 in T2 (like in the regression tests for rules I created) and grants ALL but RULE on T1 to user B. User B can now fully access T1 and the logging happens in T2. But user B cannot access T2 at all, only the rule actions can. And due to missing RULE permissions on T1, user B cannot disable logging. Rules on the attribute level are disabled (they don't work properly and since regular users are now permitted to create rules I decided to disable them). Rules on select must have exactly one action that is a select (so select rules must be a view definition). UPDATE NEW/OLD rules are disabled (still broken, but triggers can do it). There are two new system views (pg_rule and pg_view) that show the definition of the rules or views so the db admin can see what the users do. They use two new functions pg_get_ruledef() and pg_get_viewdef() that are builtins. The functions pg_get_ruledef() and pg_get_viewdef() could be used to implement rule and view support in pg_dump. PostgreSQL is now the only database system I know, that has rewrite rules on the query level. All others (where I found a rule statement at all) use stored database procedures or the like (triggers as we call them) for active rules (as some call them). Future of the rule system: The now disabled parts of the rule system (attribute level, multiple actions on select and update new stuff) require a complete new rewrite handler from scratch. The old one is too badly wired up. After 6.4 I'll start to work on a new rewrite handler, that fully supports the attribute level rules, multiple actions on select and update new. This will be available for 6.5 so we get full rewrite rule capabilities. Jan
* heap_fetch requires buffer pointer, must be released; heap_getnextBruce Momjian1998-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | no longer returns buffer pointer, can be gotten from scan; descriptor; bootstrap can create multi-key indexes; pg_procname index now is multi-key index; oidint2, oidint4, oidname are gone (must be removed from regression tests); use System Cache rather than sequential scan in many places; heap_modifytuple no longer takes buffer parameter; remove unused buffer parameter in a few other functions; oid8 is not index-able; remove some use of single-character variable names; cleanup Buffer variables usage and scan descriptor looping; cleaned up allocation and freeing of tuples; 18k lines of diff;
* From: Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>Marc G. Fournier1998-08-18
| | | | | | | | | Hi, as proposed here comes the first patch for the query rewrite system. <for details, see archive dated Mon, 17 Aug 1998>
* 1) Queries using the having clause on base tables should work wellBruce Momjian1998-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | now. Here some tested features, (examples included in the patch): 1.1) Subselects in the having clause 1.2) Double nested subselects 1.3) Subselects used in the where clause and in the having clause simultaneously 1.4) Union Selects using having 1.5) Indexes on the base relations are used correctly 1.6) Unallowed Queries are prevented (e.g. qualifications in the having clause that belong to the where clause) 1.7) Insert into as select 2) Queries using the having clause on view relations also work but there are some restrictions: 2.1) Create View as Select ... Having ...; using base tables in the select 2.1.1) The Query rewrite system: 2.1.2) Why are only simple queries allowed against a view from 2.1) ? 2.2) Select ... from testview1, testview2, ... having...; 3) Bug in ExecMergeJoin ?? Regards Stefan
* Remove un-needed braces around single statements.Bruce Momjian1998-06-15
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* I started adding the Having Clause and it works quite fine forBruce Momjian1998-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sequential scans! (I think it will also work with hash, index, etc but I did not check it out! I made some High level changes which should work for all access methods, but maybe I'm wrong. Please let me know.) Now it is possible to make queries like: select s.sname, max(p.pid), min(p.pid) from part p, supplier s where s.sid=p.sid group by s.sname having max(pid)=6 and min(pid)=1 or avg(pid)=4; Having does not work yet for queries that contain a subselect statement in the Having clause, I'll try to fix this in the next days. If there are some bugs, please let me know, I'll start to read the mailinglists now! Now here is the patch against the original 6.3 version (no snapshot!!): Stefan
* pgindent run before 6.3 release, with Thomas' requested changes.Bruce Momjian1998-02-26
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* From: Jan Wieck <jwieck@debis.com>Marc G. Fournier1998-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | seems that my last post didn't make it through. That's good since the diff itself didn't covered the renaming of pg_user.h to pg_shadow.h and it's new content. Here it's again. The complete regression test passwd with only some float diffs. createuser and destroyuser work. pg_shadow cannot be read by ordinary user.
* First step done,Marc G. Fournier1998-02-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | below is the patch to have views to override the permission checks for the accessed tables. Now we can do the following: CREATE VIEW db_user AS SELECT usename, usesysid, usecreatedb, usetrace, usecatupd, '**********'::text as passwd, valuntil FROM pg_user; REVOKE ALL ON pg_user FROM public; REVOKE ALL ON db_user FROM public; GRANT SELECT ON db_user TO public;
* Make subqueries rewrite properly.Bruce Momjian1998-01-21
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* Yohoo UNIONS of VIEWS.Bruce Momjian1998-01-09
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* Goodbye ABORT. Hello ERROR for all errors.Bruce Momjian1998-01-07
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* Change elog(WARN) to elog(ERROR) and elog(ABORT).Bruce Momjian1998-01-05
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* Fix for count(*), aggs with views and multiple tables and sum(3).Bruce Momjian1998-01-04
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* Used modified version of indent that understands over 100 typedefs.Bruce Momjian1997-09-08
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* Another PGINDENT run that changes variable indenting and case label ↵Bruce Momjian1997-09-08
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* Massive commit to run PGINDENT on all *.c and *.h files.Bruce Momjian1997-09-07
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* Remove more (void) and fix -Wall warnings.Bruce Momjian1997-08-12
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* Fix access through null pointer info->rule_action. Thanks Darren King.Bryan Henderson1996-11-24
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* Postgres95 1.01 Distribution - Virgin SourcesPG95-1_01Marc G. Fournier1996-07-09