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* Remove the new UPSERT command tag and use INSERT instead.Andres Freund2015-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, INSERT with ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE specified used a new command tag -- UPSERT. It was introduced out of concern that INSERT as a command tag would be a misrepresentation for ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE, as some affected rows may actually have been updated. Alvaro Herrera noticed that the implementation of that new command tag was incomplete; in subsequent discussion we concluded that having it doesn't provide benefits that are in line with the compatibility breaks it requires. Catversion bump due to the removal of PlannedStmt->isUpsert. Author: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: 20150520215816.GI5885@postgresql.org
* Support VERBOSE option in REINDEX command.Fujii Masao2015-05-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When this option is specified, a progress report is printed as each index is reindexed. Per discussion, we agreed on the following syntax for the extensibility of the options. REINDEX (flexible options) { INDEX | ... } name Sawada Masahiko. Reviewed by Robert Haas, Fabrízio Mello, Alvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jim Nasby and me. Discussion: CAD21AoA0pK3YcOZAFzMae+2fcc3oGp5zoRggDyMNg5zoaWDhdQ@mail.gmail.com
* Allow on-the-fly capture of DDL event detailsAlvaro Herrera2015-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This feature lets user code inspect and take action on DDL events. Whenever a ddl_command_end event trigger is installed, DDL actions executed are saved to a list which can be inspected during execution of a function attached to ddl_command_end. The set-returning function pg_event_trigger_ddl_commands can be used to list actions so captured; it returns data about the type of command executed, as well as the affected object. This is sufficient for many uses of this feature. For the cases where it is not, we also provide a "command" column of a new pseudo-type pg_ddl_command, which is a pointer to a C structure that can be accessed by C code. The struct contains all the info necessary to completely inspect and even reconstruct the executed command. There is no actual deparse code here; that's expected to come later. What we have is enough infrastructure that the deparsing can be done in an external extension. The intention is that we will add some deparsing code in a later release, as an in-core extension. A new test module is included. It's probably insufficient as is, but it should be sufficient as a starting point for a more complete and future-proof approach. Authors: Álvaro Herrera, with some help from Andres Freund, Ian Barwick, Abhijit Menon-Sen. Reviews by Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Craig Ringer, David Steele. Additional input from Chris Browne, Dimitri Fontaine, Stephen Frost, Petr Jelínek, Tom Lane, Jim Nasby, Steven Singer, Pavel Stěhule. Based on original work by Dimitri Fontaine, though I didn't use his code. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/m2txrsdzxa.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20131108153322.GU5809@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150215044814.GL3391@alvh.no-ip.org
* Add support for INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE.Andres Freund2015-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The newly added ON CONFLICT clause allows to specify an alternative to raising a unique or exclusion constraint violation error when inserting. ON CONFLICT refers to constraints that can either be specified using a inference clause (by specifying the columns of a unique constraint) or by naming a unique or exclusion constraint. DO NOTHING avoids the constraint violation, without touching the pre-existing row. DO UPDATE SET ... [WHERE ...] updates the pre-existing tuple, and has access to both the tuple proposed for insertion and the existing tuple; the optional WHERE clause can be used to prevent an update from being executed. The UPDATE SET and WHERE clauses have access to the tuple proposed for insertion using the "magic" EXCLUDED alias, and to the pre-existing tuple using the table name or its alias. This feature is often referred to as upsert. This is implemented using a new infrastructure called "speculative insertion". It is an optimistic variant of regular insertion that first does a pre-check for existing tuples and then attempts an insert. If a violating tuple was inserted concurrently, the speculatively inserted tuple is deleted and a new attempt is made. If the pre-check finds a matching tuple the alternative DO NOTHING or DO UPDATE action is taken. If the insertion succeeds without detecting a conflict, the tuple is deemed inserted. To handle the possible ambiguity between the excluded alias and a table named excluded, and for convenience with long relation names, INSERT INTO now can alias its target table. Bumps catversion as stored rules change. Author: Peter Geoghegan, with significant contributions from Heikki Linnakangas and Andres Freund. Testing infrastructure by Jeff Janes. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs, Dean Rasheed, Stephen Frost and many others.
* Create an infrastructure for parallel computation in PostgreSQL.Robert Haas2015-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This does four basic things. First, it provides convenience routines to coordinate the startup and shutdown of parallel workers. Second, it synchronizes various pieces of state (e.g. GUCs, combo CID mappings, transaction snapshot) from the parallel group leader to the worker processes. Third, it prohibits various operations that would result in unsafe changes to that state while parallelism is active. Finally, it propagates events that would result in an ErrorResponse, NoticeResponse, or NotifyResponse message being sent to the client from the parallel workers back to the master, from which they can then be sent on to the client. Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Noah Misch, Rushabh Lathia, Jeevan Chalke. Suggestions and review from Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Noah Misch, Simon Riggs, Euler Taveira, and Jim Nasby.
* Add transforms featurePeter Eisentraut2015-04-26
| | | | | | | | This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python. reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
* Add OID output argument to DefineTSConfigurationAlvaro Herrera2015-03-25
| | | | | | | ... which is set to the OID of a copied text search config, whenever the COPY clause is used. This is in the spirit of commit a2e35b53c39.
* Rationalize vacuuming options and parametersAlvaro Herrera2015-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were involving the parser too much in setting up initial vacuuming parameters. This patch moves that responsibility elsewhere to simplify code, and also to make future additions easier. To do this, create a new struct VacuumParams which is filled just prior to vacuum execution, instead of at parse time; for user-invoked vacuuming this is set up in a new function ExecVacuum, while autovacuum sets it up by itself. While at it, add a new member VACOPT_SKIPTOAST to enum VacuumOption, only set by autovacuum, which is used to disable vacuuming of the toast table instead of the old do_toast parameter; this relieves the argument list of vacuum() and some callees a bit. This partially makes up for having added more arguments in an effort to avoid having autovacuum from constructing a VacuumStmt parse node. Author: Michael Paquier. Some tweaks by Álvaro Reviewed by: Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, Álvaro Herrera
* Improve representation of PlanRowMark.Tom Lane2015-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes two inadequacies of the PlanRowMark representation. First, that the original LockingClauseStrength isn't stored (and cannot be inferred for foreign tables, which always get ROW_MARK_COPY). Since some PlanRowMarks are created out of whole cloth and don't actually have an ancestral RowMarkClause, this requires adding a dummy LCS_NONE value to enum LockingClauseStrength, which is fairly annoying but the alternatives seem worse. This fix allows getting rid of the use of get_parse_rowmark() in FDWs (as per the discussion around commits 462bd95705a0c23b and 8ec8760fc87ecde0), and it simplifies some things elsewhere. Second, that the representation assumed that all child tables in an inheritance hierarchy would use the same RowMarkType. That's true today but will soon not be true. We add an "allMarkTypes" field that identifies the union of mark types used in all a parent table's children, and use that where appropriate (currently, only in preprocess_targetlist()). In passing fix a couple of minor infelicities left over from the SKIP LOCKED patch, notably that _outPlanRowMark still thought waitPolicy is a bool. Catversion bump is required because the numeric values of enum LockingClauseStrength can appear in on-disk rules. Extracted from a much larger patch to support foreign table inheritance; it seemed worth breaking this out, since it's a separable concern. Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, somewhat modified by me
* Code cleanup for REINDEX DATABASE/SCHEMA/SYSTEM.Tom Lane2015-03-08
| | | | | Fix some minor infelicities. Some of these things were introduced in commit fe263d115a7dd16095b8b8f1e943aff2bb4574d2, and some are older.
* Fix erroneous error message for REINDEX SYSTEM.Tom Lane2015-03-08
| | | | | | Missed case in commit fe263d115a7dd16095b8b8f1e943aff2bb4574d2. Sawada Masahiko
* Change many routines to return ObjectAddress rather than OIDAlvaro Herrera2015-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The changed routines are mostly those that can be directly called by ProcessUtilitySlow; the intention is to make the affected object information more precise, in support for future event trigger changes. Originally it was envisioned that the OID of the affected object would be enough, and in most cases that is correct, but upon actually implementing the event trigger changes it turned out that ObjectAddress is more widely useful. Additionally, some command execution routines grew an output argument that's an object address which provides further info about the executed command. To wit: * for ALTER DOMAIN / ADD CONSTRAINT, it corresponds to the address of the new constraint * for ALTER OBJECT / SET SCHEMA, it corresponds to the address of the schema that originally contained the object. * for ALTER EXTENSION {ADD, DROP} OBJECT, it corresponds to the address of the object added to or dropped from the extension. There's no user-visible change in this commit, and no functional change either. Discussion: 20150218213255.GC6717@tamriel.snowman.net Reviewed-By: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund
* Fix stupid merge errors in previous commitAlvaro Herrera2015-02-23
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* Support more commands in event triggersAlvaro Herrera2015-02-23
| | | | | | | | COMMENT, SECURITY LABEL, and GRANT/REVOKE now also fire ddl_command_start and ddl_command_end event triggers, when they operate on database-local objects. Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Stephen Frost
* Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in a bunch more places.Tom Lane2015-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace some bogus "x[1]" declarations with "x[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]". Aside from being more self-documenting, this should help prevent bogus warnings from static code analyzers and perhaps compiler misoptimizations. This patch is just a down payment on eliminating the whole problem, but it gets rid of a lot of easy-to-fix cases. Note that the main problem with doing this is that one must no longer rely on computing sizeof(the containing struct), since the result would be compiler-dependent. Instead use offsetof(struct, lastfield). Autoconf also warns against spelling that offsetof(struct, lastfield[0]). Michael Paquier, review and additional fixes by me.
* Remove ill-conceived Assertion in ProcessClientWriteInterrupt().Andres Freund2015-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's perfectly fine to have blocked interrupts when ProcessClientWriteInterrupt() is called. In fact it's commonly the case when emitting error reports. And we deal with that correctly. Even if that'd not be the case, it'd be a bad location for such a assertion. Because ProcessClientWriteInterrupt() is only called when the socket is blocked it's hard to hit. Per Heikki and buildfarm animals nightjar and dunlin.
* Remove remnants of ImmediateInterruptOK handling.Andres Freund2015-02-03
| | | | | | | Now that nothing sets ImmediateInterruptOK to true anymore, we can remove all the supporting code. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
* Don't allow immediate interrupts during authentication anymore.Andres Freund2015-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We used to handle authentication_timeout by setting ImmediateInterruptOK to true during large parts of the authentication phase of a new connection. While that happens to work acceptably in practice, it's not particularly nice and has ugly corner cases. Previous commits converted the FE/BE communication to use latches and implemented support for interrupt handling during both send/recv. Building on top of that work we can get rid of ImmediateInterruptOK during authentication, by immediately treating timeouts during authentication as a reason to die. As die interrupts are handled immediately during client communication that provides a sensibly quick reaction time to authentication timeout. Additionally add a few CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to some more complex authentication methods. More could be added, but this already should provides a reasonable coverage. While it this overall increases the maximum time till a timeout is reacted to, it greatly reduces complexity and increases reliability. That seems like a overall win. If the increase proves to be noticeable we can deal with those cases by moving to nonblocking network code and add interrupt checking there. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
* Process 'die' interrupts while reading/writing from the client socket.Andres Freund2015-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now it was impossible to terminate a backend that was trying to send/recv data to/from the client when the socket's buffer was already full/empty. While the send/recv calls itself might have gotten interrupted by signals on some platforms, we just immediately retried. That could lead to situations where a backend couldn't be terminated , after a client died without the connection being closed, because it was blocked in send/recv. The problem was far more likely to be hit when sending data than when reading. That's because while reading a command from the client, and during authentication, we processed interrupts immediately . That primarily left COPY FROM STDIN as being problematic for recv. Change things so that that we process 'die' events immediately when the appropriate signal arrives. We can't sensibly react to query cancels at that point, because we might loose sync with the client as we could be in the middle of writing a message. We don't interrupt writes if the write buffer isn't full, as indicated by write() returning EWOULDBLOCK, as that would lead to fewer error messages reaching clients. Per discussion with Kyotaro HORIGUCHI and Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: 20140927191243.GD5423@alap3.anarazel.de
* Introduce and use infrastructure for interrupt processing during client reads.Andres Freund2015-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now large swathes of backend code ran inside signal handlers while reading commands from the client, to allow for speedy reaction to asynchronous events. Most prominently shared invalidation and NOTIFY handling. That means that complex code like the starting/stopping of transactions is run in signal handlers... The required code was fragile and verbose, and is likely to contain bugs. That approach also severely limited what could be done while communicating with the client. As the read might be from within openssl it wasn't safely possible to trigger an error, e.g. to cancel a backend in idle-in-transaction state. We did that in some cases, namely fatal errors, nonetheless. Now that FE/BE communication in the backend employs non-blocking sockets and latches to block, we can quite simply interrupt reads from signal handlers by setting the latch. That allows us to signal an interrupted read, which is supposed to be retried after returning from within the ssl library. As signal handlers now only need to set the latch to guarantee timely interrupt processing, remove a fair amount of complicated & fragile code from async.c and sinval.c. We could now actually start to process some kinds of interrupts, like sinval ones, more often that before, but that seems better done separately. This work will hopefully allow to handle cases like being blocked by sending data, interrupting idle transactions and similar to be implemented without too much effort. In addition to allowing getting rid of ImmediateInterruptOK, that is. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
* Add new function BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid.Robert Haas2015-02-02
| | | | | | Sometimes it's useful for a background worker to be able to initialize its database connection by OID rather than by name, so provide a way to do that.
* Be more careful to not lose sync in the FE/BE protocol.Heikki Linnakangas2015-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If any error occurred while we were in the middle of reading a protocol message from the client, we could lose sync, and incorrectly try to interpret a part of another message as a new protocol message. That will usually lead to an "invalid frontend message" error that terminates the connection. However, this is a security issue because an attacker might be able to deliberately cause an error, inject a Query message in what's supposed to be just user data, and have the server execute it. We were quite careful to not have CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls or other operations that could ereport(ERROR) in the middle of processing a message, but a query cancel interrupt or statement timeout could nevertheless cause it to happen. Also, the V2 fastpath and COPY handling were not so careful. It's very difficult to recover in the V2 COPY protocol, so we will just terminate the connection on error. In practice, that's what happened previously anyway, as we lost protocol sync. To fix, add a new variable in pqcomm.c, PqCommReadingMsg, that is set whenever we're in the middle of reading a message. When it's set, we cannot safely ERROR out and continue running, because we might've read only part of a message. PqCommReadingMsg acts somewhat similarly to critical sections in that if an error occurs while it's set, the error handler will force the connection to be terminated, as if the error was FATAL. It's not implemented by promoting ERROR to FATAL in elog.c, like ERROR is promoted to PANIC in critical sections, because we want to be able to use PG_TRY/CATCH to recover and regain protocol sync. pq_getmessage() takes advantage of that to prevent an OOM error from terminating the connection. To prevent unnecessary connection terminations, add a holdoff mechanism similar to HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS() that can be used hold off query cancel interrupts, but still allow die interrupts. The rules on which interrupts are processed when are now a bit more complicated, so refactor ProcessInterrupts() and the calls to it in signal handlers so that the signal handlers always call it if ImmediateInterruptOK is set, and ProcessInterrupts() can decide to not do anything if the other conditions are not met. Reported by Emil Lenngren. Patch reviewed by Noah Misch and Andres Freund. Backpatch to all supported versions. Security: CVE-2015-0244
* Add a default local latch for use in signal handlers.Andres Freund2015-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To do so, move InitializeLatchSupport() into the new common process initialization functions, and add a new global variable MyLatch. MyLatch is usable as soon InitPostmasterChild() has been called (i.e. very early during startup). Initially it points to a process local latch that exists in all processes. InitProcess/InitAuxiliaryProcess then replaces that local latch with PGPROC->procLatch. During shutdown the reverse happens. This is primarily advantageous for two reasons: For one it simplifies dealing with the shared process latch, especially in signal handlers, because instead of having to check for MyProc, MyLatch can be used unconditionally. For another, a later patch that makes FEs/BE communication use latches, now can rely on the existence of a latch, even before having gone through InitProcess. Discussion: 20140927191243.GD5423@alap3.anarazel.de
* Commonalize process startup code.Andres Freund2015-01-14
| | | | | | | | | Move common code, that was duplicated in every postmaster child/every standalone process, into two functions in miscinit.c. Not only does that already result in a fair amount of net code reduction but it also makes it much easier to remove more duplication in the future. The prime motivation wasn't code deduplication though, but easier addition of new common code.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* get_object_address: separate domain constraints from table constraintsAlvaro Herrera2014-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | Apart from enabling comments on domain constraints, this enables a future project to replicate object dropping to remote servers: with the current mechanism there's no way to distinguish between the two types of constraints, so there's no way to know what to drop. Also added support for the domain constraint comments in psql's \dd and pg_dump. Catalog version bumped due to the change in ObjectType enum.
* REINDEX SCHEMASimon Riggs2014-12-09
| | | | | | | | Add new SCHEMA option to REINDEX and reindexdb. Sawada Masahiko Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Fabrízio de Royes Mello
* Explicitly support the case that a plancache's raw_parse_tree is NULL.Tom Lane2014-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This only happens if a client issues a Parse message with an empty query string, which is a bit odd; but since it is explicitly called out as legal by our FE/BE protocol spec, we'd probably better continue to allow it. Fix by adding tests everywhere that the raw_parse_tree field is passed to functions that don't or shouldn't accept NULL. Also make it clear in the relevant comments that NULL is an expected case. This reverts commits a73c9dbab0165b3395dfe8a44a7dfd16166963c4 and 2e9650cbcff8c8fb0d9ef807c73a44f241822eee, which fixed specific crash symptoms by hacking things at what now seems to be the wrong end, ie the callee functions. Making the callees allow NULL is superficially more robust, but it's not always true that there is a defensible thing for the callee to do in such cases. The caller has more context and is better able to decide what the empty-query case ought to do. Per followup discussion of bug #11335. Back-patch to 9.2. The code before that is sufficiently different that it would require development of a separate patch, which doesn't seem worthwhile for what is believed to be an essentially cosmetic change.
* Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.Heikki Linnakangas2014-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c. Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places. Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
* Log ALTER SYSTEM statements as DDLStephen Frost2014-09-22
| | | | | | | | | Per discussion in bug #11350, log ALTER SYSTEM commands at the log_statement=ddl level, rather than at the log_statement=all level. Pointed out by Tomonari Katsumata. Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
* Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)Stephen Frost2014-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added to a table. Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions defined to check records being added to a table are added to the with-check options of the query. New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are controlled by the table owner. Row Security is able to be enabled and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY. Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and must be enabled for policies on the table to be used. If no policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny policy is used and no records will be visible. By default, row security is applied at all times except for the table owner and the superuser. A new GUC, row_security, is added which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE. When set to FORCE, row security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers. When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row security. Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security. A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled. A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row security using row_security = OFF. Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback. Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me. Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith, Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
* Invent PGC_SU_BACKEND and mark log_connections/log_disconnections that way.Tom Lane2014-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This new GUC context option allows GUC parameters to have the combined properties of PGC_BACKEND and PGC_SUSET, ie, they don't change after session start and non-superusers can't change them. This is a more appropriate choice for log_connections and log_disconnections than their previous context of PGC_BACKEND, because we don't want non-superusers to be able to affect whether their sessions get logged. Note: the behavior for log_connections is still a bit odd, in that when a superuser attempts to set it from PGOPTIONS, the setting takes effect but it's too late to enable or suppress connection startup logging. It's debatable whether that's worth fixing, and in any case there is a reasonable argument for PGC_SU_BACKEND to exist. In passing, re-pgindent the files touched by this commit. Fujii Masao, reviewed by Joe Conway and Amit Kapila
* Move ALTER ... ALL IN to ProcessUtilitySlowStephen Frost2014-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that ALTER TABLE .. ALL IN TABLESPACE has replaced the previous ALTER TABLESPACE approach, it makes sense to move the calls down in to ProcessUtilitySlow where the rest of ALTER TABLE is handled. This also means that event triggers will support ALTER TABLE .. ALL (which was the impetus for the original change, though it has other good qualities also). Álvaro Herrera Back-patch to 9.4 as the original rework was.
* Fix segmentation fault that an empty prepared statement could cause.Fujii Masao2014-09-05
| | | | | | Back-patch to all supported branches. Per bug #11335 from Haruka Takatsuka
* Rework 'MOVE ALL' to 'ALTER .. ALL IN TABLESPACE'Stephen Frost2014-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | As 'ALTER TABLESPACE .. MOVE ALL' really didn't change the tablespace but instead changed objects inside tablespaces, it made sense to rework the syntax and supporting functions to operate under the 'ALTER (TABLE|INDEX|MATERIALIZED VIEW)' syntax and to be in tablecmds.c. Pointed out by Alvaro, who also suggested the new syntax. Back-patch to 9.4.
* Implement IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA.Tom Lane2014-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | This command provides an automated way to create foreign table definitions that match remote tables, thereby reducing tedium and chances for error. In this patch, we provide the necessary core-server infrastructure and implement the feature fully in the postgres_fdw foreign-data wrapper. Other wrappers will throw a "feature not supported" error until/unless they are updated. Ronan Dunklau and Michael Paquier, additional work by me
* Fix typos in comments.Fujii Masao2014-07-07
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* Don't allow to disable backend assertions via the debug_assertions GUC.Andres Freund2014-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existance of the assert_enabled variable (backing the debug_assertions GUC) reduced the amount of knowledge some static code checkers (like coverity and various compilers) could infer from the existance of the assertion. That could have been solved by optionally removing the assertion_enabled variable from the Assert() et al macros at compile time when some special macro is defined, but the resulting complication doesn't seem to be worth the gain from having debug_assertions. Recompiling is fast enough. The debug_assertions GUC is still available, but readonly, as it's useful when diagnosing problems. The commandline/client startup option -A, which previously also allowed to enable/disable assertions, has been removed as it doesn't serve a purpose anymore. While at it, reduce code duplication in bufmgr.c and localbuf.c assertions checking for spurious buffer pins. That code had to be reindented anyway to cope with the assert_enabled removal.
* Set the process latch when processing recovery conflict interrupts.Andres Freund2014-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because RecoveryConflictInterrupt() didn't set the process latch anything using the latter to wait for events didn't get notified about recovery conflicts. Most latch users are never the target of recovery conflicts, which explains the lack of reports about this until now. Since 9.3 two possible affected users exist though: The sql callable pg_sleep() now uses latches to wait and background workers are expected to use latches in their main loop. Both would currently wait until the end of WaitLatch's timeout. Fix by adding a SetLatch() to RecoveryConflictInterrupt(). It'd also be possible to fix the issue by having each latch user set set_latch_on_sigusr1. That seems failure prone and though, as most of these callsites won't often receive recovery conflicts and thus will likely only be tested against normal query cancels et al. It'd also be unnecessarily verbose. Backpatch to 9.1 where latches were introduced. Arguably 9.3 would be sufficient, because that's where pg_sleep() was converted to waiting on the latch and background workers got introduced; but there could be user level code making use of the latch pre 9.3.
* Fix failure to set ActiveSnapshot while rewinding a cursor.Tom Lane2014-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ActiveSnapshot needs to be set when we call ExecutorRewind because some plan node types may execute user-defined functions during their ReScan calls (nodeLimit.c does so, at least). The wisdom of that is somewhat debatable, perhaps, but for now the simplest fix is to make sure the required context is valid. Failure to do this typically led to a null-pointer-dereference core dump, though it's possible that in more complex cases a function could be executed with the wrong snapshot leading to very subtle misbehavior. Per report from Leif Jensen. It's been broken for a long time, so 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.
* Reduce lock levels of some ALTER TABLE cmdsSimon Riggs2014-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VALIDATE CONSTRAINT CLUSTER ON SET WITHOUT CLUSTER ALTER COLUMN SET STATISTICS ALTER COLUMN SET () ALTER COLUMN RESET () All other sub-commands use AccessExclusiveLock Simon Riggs and Noah Misch Reviews by Robert Haas and Andres Freund
* Introduce logical decoding.Robert Haas2014-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This feature, building on previous commits, allows the write-ahead log stream to be decoded into a series of logical changes; that is, inserts, updates, and deletes and the transactions which contain them. It is capable of handling decoding even across changes to the schema of the effected tables. The output format is controlled by a so-called "output plugin"; an example is included. To make use of this in a real replication system, the output plugin will need to be modified to produce output in the format appropriate to that system, and to perform filtering. Currently, information can be extracted from the logical decoding system only via SQL; future commits will add the ability to stream changes via walsender. Andres Freund, with review and other contributions from many other people, including Álvaro Herrera, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Peter Gheogegan, Kevin Grittner, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas, Fujii Masao, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Michael Paquier, Simon Riggs, Craig Ringer, and Steve Singer.
* Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.Robert Haas2014-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table than other parts. At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege escalation attack. This changes the calling convention for DefineIndex, CreateTrigger, transformIndexStmt, transformAlterTableStmt, CheckIndexCompatible (in 9.2 and newer), and AlterTable (in 9.1 and older). In addition, CheckRelationOwnership is removed in 9.2 and newer and the calling convention is changed in older branches. A field has also been added to the Constraint node (FkConstraint in 8.4). Third-party code calling these functions or using the Constraint node will require updating. Report by Andres Freund. Patch by Robert Haas and Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2014-0062
* Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h.Tom Lane2014-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | We used to have externs for getopt() and its API variables scattered all over the place. Now that we find we're going to need to tweak the variable declarations for Cygwin, it seems like a good idea to have just one place to tweak. In this commit, the variables are declared "#ifndef HAVE_GETOPT_H". That may or may not work everywhere, but we'll soon find out. Andres Freund
* Add ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE commandStephen Frost2014-01-18
| | | | | | | | | This adds a 'MOVE' sub-command to ALTER TABLESPACE which allows moving sets of objects from one tablespace to another. This can be extremely handy and avoids a lot of error-prone scripting. ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE will only move objects the user owns, will notify the user if no objects were found, and can be used to move ALL objects or specific types of objects (TABLES, INDEXES, or MATERIALIZED VIEWS).
* Fix possible crashes due to using elog/ereport too early in startup.Tom Lane2014-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per reports from Andres Freund and Luke Campbell, a server failure during set_pglocale_pgservice results in a segfault rather than a useful error message, because the infrastructure needed to use ereport hasn't been initialized; specifically, MemoryContextInit hasn't been called. One known cause of this is starting the server in a directory it doesn't have permission to read. We could try to prevent set_pglocale_pgservice from using anything that depends on palloc or elog, but that would be messy, and the odds of future breakage seem high. Moreover there are other things being called in main.c that look likely to use palloc or elog too --- perhaps those things shouldn't be there, but they are there today. The best solution seems to be to move the call of MemoryContextInit to very early in the backend's real main() function. I've verified that an elog or ereport occurring immediately after that is now capable of sending something useful to stderr. I also added code to elog.c to print something intelligible rather than just crashing if MemoryContextInit hasn't created the ErrorContext. This could happen if MemoryContextInit itself fails (due to malloc failure), and provides some future-proofing against someone trying to sneak in new code even earlier in server startup. Back-patch to all supported branches. Since we've only heard reports of this type of failure recently, it may be that some recent change has made it more likely to see a crash of this kind; but it sure looks like it's broken all the way back.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Add ALTER SYSTEM command to edit the server configuration file.Tatsuo Ishii2013-12-18
| | | | | Patch contributed by Amit Kapila. Reviewed by Hari Babu, Masao Fujii, Boszormenyi Zoltan, Andres Freund, Greg Smith and others.
* Fix assorted race conditions in the new timeout infrastructure.Tom Lane2013-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prevent handle_sig_alarm from losing control partway through due to a query cancel (either an asynchronous SIGINT, or a cancel triggered by one of the timeout handler functions). That would at least result in failure to schedule any required future interrupt, and might result in actual corruption of timeout.c's data structures, if the interrupt happened while we were updating those. We could still lose control if an asynchronous SIGINT arrives just as the function is entered. This wouldn't break any data structures, but it would have the same effect as if the SIGALRM interrupt had been silently lost: we'd not fire any currently-due handlers, nor schedule any new interrupt. To forestall that scenario, forcibly reschedule any pending timer interrupt during AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction. We can avoid any extra kernel call in most cases by not doing that until we've allowed LockErrorCleanup to kill the DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT and LOCK_TIMEOUT events. Another hazard is that some platforms (at least Linux and *BSD) block a signal before calling its handler and then unblock it on return. When we longjmp out of the handler, the unblock doesn't happen, and the signal is left blocked indefinitely. Again, we can fix that by forcibly unblocking signals during AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction. These latter two problems do not manifest when the longjmp reaches postgres.c, because the error recovery code there kills all pending timeout events anyway, and it uses sigsetjmp(..., 1) so that the appropriate signal mask is restored. So errors thrown outside any transaction should be OK already, and cleaning up in AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction should be enough to fix these issues. (We're assuming that any code that catches a query cancel error and doesn't re-throw it will do at least a subtransaction abort to clean up; but that was pretty much required already by other subsystems.) Lastly, ProcSleep should not clear the LOCK_TIMEOUT indicator flag when disabling that event: if a lock timeout interrupt happened after the lock was granted, the ensuing query cancel is still going to happen at the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, and we want to report it as a lock timeout not a user cancel. Per reports from Dan Wood. Back-patch to 9.3 where the new timeout handling infrastructure was introduced. We may at some point decide to back-patch the signal unblocking changes further, but I'll desist from that until we hear actual field complaints about it.