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* Add transaction-level advisory locks.Itagaki Takahiro2011-02-18
| | | | | | | | | They share the same locking namespace with the existing session-level advisory locks, but they are automatically released at the end of the current transaction and cannot be released explicitly via unlock functions. Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by me.
* Implement genuine serializable isolation level.Heikki Linnakangas2011-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now, our Serializable mode has in fact been what's called Snapshot Isolation, which allows some anomalies that could not occur in any serialized ordering of the transactions. This patch fixes that using a method called Serializable Snapshot Isolation, based on research papers by Michael J. Cahill (see README-SSI for full references). In Serializable Snapshot Isolation, transactions run like they do in Snapshot Isolation, but a predicate lock manager observes the reads and writes performed and aborts transactions if it detects that an anomaly might occur. This method produces some false positives, ie. it sometimes aborts transactions even though there is no anomaly. To track reads we implement predicate locking, see storage/lmgr/predicate.c. Whenever a tuple is read, a predicate lock is acquired on the tuple. Shared memory is finite, so when a transaction takes many tuple-level locks on a page, the locks are promoted to a single page-level lock, and further to a single relation level lock if necessary. To lock key values with no matching tuple, a sequential scan always takes a relation-level lock, and an index scan acquires a page-level lock that covers the search key, whether or not there are any matching keys at the moment. A predicate lock doesn't conflict with any regular locks or with another predicate locks in the normal sense. They're only used by the predicate lock manager to detect the danger of anomalies. Only serializable transactions participate in predicate locking, so there should be no extra overhead for for other transactions. Predicate locks can't be released at commit, but must be remembered until all the transactions that overlapped with it have completed. That means that we need to remember an unbounded amount of predicate locks, so we apply a lossy but conservative method of tracking locks for committed transactions. If we run short of shared memory, we overflow to a new "pg_serial" SLRU pool. We don't currently allow Serializable transactions in Hot Standby mode. That would be hard, because even read-only transactions can cause anomalies that wouldn't otherwise occur. Serializable isolation mode now means the new fully serializable level. Repeatable Read gives you the old Snapshot Isolation level that we have always had. Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports, reviewed by Jeff Davis, Heikki Linnakangas and Anssi Kääriäinen
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Remove all uses of the deprecated functions heap_formtuple, heap_modifytuple,Tom Lane2008-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | and heap_deformtuple in favor of the newer functions heap_form_tuple et al (which do the same things but use bool control flags instead of arbitrary char values). Eliminate the former duplicate coding of these functions, reducing the deprecated functions to mere wrappers around the newer ones. We can't get rid of them entirely because add-on modules probably still contain many instances of the old coding style. Kris Jurka
* Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing someAlvaro Herrera2008-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c files. For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created, initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage. While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more consistent with our header style.
* Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary CTom Lane2008-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | strings. This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text, cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString. A number of existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed. Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used to be needed. There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin, and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though). This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach text_to_cstring. We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few places where it was easy, but much more could be done. Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
* lmgr.c:DescribeLockTag was never taught about virtual xids, per Greg Stark.Tom Lane2008-01-08
| | | | | Also a couple of minor tweaks to try to future-proof the code a bit better against future locktag additions.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Implement lazy XID allocation: transactions that do not modify any databaseTom Lane2007-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rows will normally never obtain an XID at all. We already did things this way for subtransactions, but this patch extends the concept to top-level transactions. In applications where there are lots of short read-only transactions, this should improve performance noticeably; not so much from removal of the actual XID-assignments, as from reduction of overhead that's driven by the rate of XID consumption. We add a concept of a "virtual transaction ID" so that active transactions can be uniquely identified even if they don't have a regular XID. This is a much lighter-weight concept: uniqueness of VXIDs is only guaranteed over the short term, and no on-disk record is made about them. Florian Pflug, with some editorialization by Tom.
* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* Fix pg_locks view to call advisory locks advisory locks, while preservingTom Lane2006-09-22
| | | | | backward compatibility for anyone using the old userlock code that's now on pgfoundry --- locks from that code still show as 'userlock'.
* Add built-in userlock manipulation functions to replace the formerTom Lane2006-09-18
| | | | | | | contrib functionality. Along the way, remove the USER_LOCKS configuration symbol, since it no longer makes any sense to try to compile that out. No user documentation yet ... mmoncure has promised to write some. Thanks to Abhijit Menon-Sen for creating a first draft to work from.
* Convert the lock manager to use the new dynahash.c support for partitionedTom Lane2006-07-23
| | | | | hash tables, instead of the previous kluge involving multiple hash tables. This partially undoes my patch of last December.
* Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian2006-07-14
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* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Simplify lock manager data structures by making a clear separation betweenTom Lane2005-12-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | the data defining the semantics of a lock method (ie, conflict resolution table and ancillary data, which is all constant) and the hash tables storing the current state. The only thing we give up by this is the ability to use separate hashtables for different lock methods, but there is no need for that anyway. Put some extra fields into the LockMethod definition structs to clean up some other uglinesses, like hard-wired tests for DEFAULT_LOCKMETHOD and USER_LOCKMETHOD. This commit doesn't do anything about the performance issues we were discussing, but it clears away some of the underbrush that's in the way of fixing that.
* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Add a time-of-preparation column to the pg_prepared_xacts view, per anTom Lane2005-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | old suggestion by Oliver Jowett. Also, add a transaction column to the pg_locks view to show the xid of each transaction holding or awaiting locks; this allows prepared transactions to be properly associated with the locks they own. There was already a column named 'transaction', and I chose to rename it to 'transactionid' --- since this column is new in the current devel cycle there should be no backwards compatibility issue to worry about.
* Extend the pg_locks system view so that it can fully display all lockTom Lane2005-05-17
| | | | types, as per recent discussion.
* Restructure LOCKTAG as per discussions of a couple months ago.Tom Lane2005-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Essentially, we shoehorn in a lockable-object-type field by taking a byte away from the lockmethodid, which can surely fit in one byte instead of two. This allows less artificial definitions of all the other fields of LOCKTAG; we can get rid of the special pg_xactlock pseudo-relation, and also support locks on individual tuples and general database objects (including shared objects). None of those possibilities are actually exploited just yet, however. I removed pg_xactlock from pg_class, but did not force initdb for that change. At this point, relkind 's' (SPECIAL) is unused and could be removed entirely.
* Update copyrights that were missed.Bruce Momjian2005-01-01
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Introduce local hash table for lock state, as per recent proposal.Tom Lane2004-08-27
| | | | | | | | | PROCLOCK structs in shared memory now have only a bitmask for held locks, rather than counts (making them 40 bytes smaller, which is a good thing). Multiple locks within a transaction are counted in the local hash table instead, and we have provision for tracking which ResourceOwner each count belongs to. Solves recently reported problem with memory leakage within long transactions.
* Replace TupleTableSlot convention for whole-row variables and functionTom Lane2004-04-01
| | | | | | | | results with tuples as ordinary varlena Datums. This commit does not in itself do much for us, except eliminate the horrid memory leak associated with evaluation of whole-row variables. However, it lays the groundwork for allowing composite types as table columns, and perhaps some other useful features as well. Per my proposal of a few days ago.
* $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon2003-11-29
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* Fix some copyright notices that weren't updated. Improve copyright toolTom Lane2003-08-04
| | | | so it won't miss 'em again.
* Back out LOCKTAG changes by Rod Taylor, pending code review. Sorry.Bruce Momjian2003-02-19
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* - Modifies LOCKTAG to include a 'classId'. Relation receive a classId ofBruce Momjian2003-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RelOid_pg_class, and transaction locks XactLockTableId. RelId is renamed to objId. - LockObject() and UnlockObject() functions created, and their use sprinkled throughout the code to do descent locking for domains and types. They accept lock modes AccessShare and AccessExclusive, as we only really need a 'read' and 'write' lock at the moment. Most locking cases are held until the end of the transaction. This fixes the cases Tom mentioned earlier in regards to locking with Domains. If the patch is good, I'll work on cleaning up issues with other database objects that have this problem (most of them). Rod Taylor
* Rename 'holder' references to 'proclock' for PROCLOCK references, forBruce Momjian2003-02-18
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* pgindent run.Bruce Momjian2002-09-04
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* Code review for HeapTupleHeader changes. Add version number to page headersTom Lane2002-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | (overlaying low byte of page size) and add HEAP_HASOID bit to t_infomask, per earlier discussion. Simplify scheme for overlaying fields in tuple header (no need for cmax to live in more than one place). Don't try to clear infomask status bits in tqual.c --- not safe to do it there. Don't try to force output table of a SELECT INTO to have OIDs, either. Get rid of unnecessarily complex three-state scheme for TupleDesc.tdhasoids, which has already caused one recent failure. Improve documentation.
* Code review for pg_locks feature. Make shmemoffset of PROCLOCK structsTom Lane2002-08-31
| | | | | | | | available (else there's no way to interpret the list links). Change pg_locks view to show transaction ID locks separately from ordinary relation locks. Avoid showing N duplicate rows when the same lock is held multiple times (seems unlikely that users care about exact hold count). Improve documentation.
* Adjust nodeFunctionscan.c to reset transient memory context between callsTom Lane2002-08-29
| | | | | | | to the table function, thus preventing memory leakage accumulation across calls. This means that SRFs need to be careful to distinguish permanent and local storage; adjust code and documentation accordingly. Patch by Joe Conway, very minor tweaks by Tom Lane.
* Code review for standalone composite types, query-specified compositeTom Lane2002-08-29
| | | | | types, SRFs. Not happy with memory management yet, but I'll commit these other changes.
* This patch updates the lock listing code to use Joe Conway's newBruce Momjian2002-08-27
| | | | | | | | anonymous return type SRF code. It gets rid of the superflous 'pg_locks_result' that Bruce/Tom had commented on. Otherwise, no changes in functionality. Neil Conway
* Add lock file.Bruce Momjian2002-08-17