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* Additional functions and operators for jsonbAndrew Dunstan2015-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | jsonb_pretty(jsonb) produces nicely indented json output. jsonb || jsonb concatenates two jsonb values. jsonb - text removes a key and its associated value from the json jsonb - int removes the designated array element jsonb - text[] removes a key and associated value or array element at the designated path jsonb_replace(jsonb,text[],jsonb) replaces the array element designated by the path or the value associated with the key designated by the path with the given value. Original work by Dmitry Dolgov, adapted and reworked for PostgreSQL core by Andrew Dunstan, reviewed and tidied up by Petr Jelinek.
* Replace some appendStringInfo* calls with more appropriate variantsPeter Eisentraut2015-05-11
| | | | Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@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
* Code review for foreign/custom join pushdown patch.Tom Lane2015-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit e7cb7ee14555cc9c5773e2c102efd6371f6f2005 included some design decisions that seem pretty questionable to me, and there was quite a lot of stuff not to like about the documentation and comments. Clean up as follows: * Consider foreign joins only between foreign tables on the same server, rather than between any two foreign tables with the same underlying FDW handler function. In most if not all cases, the FDW would simply have had to apply the same-server restriction itself (far more expensively, both for lack of caching and because it would be repeated for each combination of input sub-joins), or else risk nasty bugs. Anyone who's really intent on doing something outside this restriction can always use the set_join_pathlist_hook. * Rename fdw_ps_tlist/custom_ps_tlist to fdw_scan_tlist/custom_scan_tlist to better reflect what they're for, and allow these custom scan tlists to be used even for base relations. * Change make_foreignscan() API to include passing the fdw_scan_tlist value, since the FDW is required to set that. Backwards compatibility doesn't seem like an adequate reason to expect FDWs to set it in some ad-hoc extra step, and anyway existing FDWs can just pass NIL. * Change the API of path-generating subroutines of add_paths_to_joinrel, and in particular that of GetForeignJoinPaths and set_join_pathlist_hook, so that various less-used parameters are passed in a struct rather than as separate parameter-list entries. The objective here is to reduce the probability that future additions to those parameter lists will result in source-level API breaks for users of these hooks. It's possible that this is even a small win for the core code, since most CPU architectures can't pass more than half a dozen parameters efficiently anyway. I kept root, joinrel, outerrel, innerrel, and jointype as separate parameters to reduce code churn in joinpath.c --- in particular, putting jointype into the struct would have been problematic because of the subroutines' habit of changing their local copies of that variable. * Avoid ad-hocery in ExecAssignScanProjectionInfo. It was probably all right for it to know about IndexOnlyScan, but if the list is to grow we should refactor the knowledge out to the callers. * Restore nodeForeignscan.c's previous use of the relcache to avoid extra GetFdwRoutine lookups for base-relation scans. * Lots of cleanup of documentation and missed comments. Re-order some code additions into more logical places.
* Add new OID alias type regnamespaceAndrew Dunstan2015-05-09
| | | | | | Catalog version bumped Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
* Add new OID alias type regroleAndrew Dunstan2015-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new type has the scope of whole the database cluster so it doesn't behave the same as the existing OID alias types which have database scope, concerning object dependency. To avoid confusion constants of the new type are prohibited from appearing where dependencies are made involving it. Also, add a note to the docs about possible MVCC violation and optimization issues, which are general over the all reg* types. Kyotaro Horiguchi
* Modify pg_stat_get_activity to build a tuplestoreStephen Frost2015-05-08
| | | | | | | | This updates pg_stat_get_activity() to build a tuplestore for its results instead of using the old-style multiple-call method. This simplifies the function, though that wasn't the primary motivation for the change, which is that we may turn it into a helper function which can filter the results (or not) much more easily.
* 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.
* Fix indentation that could mask a future bugMagnus Hagander2015-05-07
| | | | Michael Paquier, spotted using Coverity
* Add geometry/range functions to support BRIN inclusionAlvaro Herrera2015-05-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds the following functions: box(point) -> box bound_box(box, box) -> box inet_same_family(inet, inet) -> bool inet_merge(inet, inet) -> cidr range_merge(anyrange, anyrange) -> anyrange The first of these is also used to implement a new assignment cast from point to box. These functions are the first part of a base to implement an "inclusion" operator class for BRIN, for multidimensional data types. Author: Emre Hasegeli Reviewed by: Andreas Karlsson
* Fix two small bugs in json's populate_record_workerAndrew Dunstan2015-05-04
| | | | | | | | | | The first bug is not releasing a tupdesc when doing an early return out of the function. The second bug is a logic error in choosing when to do an early return if given an empty jsonb object. Bug reports from Pavel Stehule and Tom Lane respectively. Backpatch to 9.4 where these were introduced.
* Second try at fixing warnings caused by commit 9b43d73b3f9bef27.Tom Lane2015-05-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit ef3f9e642d2b2bba suppressed one cause of warnings here, but recent clang on OS X is still unhappy because we're passing a "long" to abs(). The fact that tm_gmtoff is declared as long is no doubt a hangover from days when int might be only 16 bits; but Postgres has never been able to run on such machines, so we can just cast it to int with no worries. For consistency, also cast to int in the other uses of tm_gmtoff in this stanza. Note: this code is still broken on machines that don't follow C99 integer-division-truncates-towards-zero rules. Given the lack of complaints about it, I don't feel a large desire to complicate things enough to cope with the pre-C99 rules.
* Deparse named arguments to use the new => operator instead of :=Robert Haas2015-05-01
| | | | | | Tom Lane pointed out that this wasn't done, and asked whether that was intentional. Subsequent discussion was in favor of making the change, so here we go.
* Allow FDWs and custom scan providers to replace joins with scans.Robert Haas2015-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Foreign data wrappers can use this capability for so-called "join pushdown"; that is, instead of executing two separate foreign scans and then joining the results locally, they can generate a path which performs the join on the remote server and then is scanned locally. This commit does not extend postgres_fdw to take advantage of this capability; it just provides the infrastructure. Custom scan providers can use this in a similar way. Previously, it was only possible for a custom scan provider to scan a single relation. Now, it can scan an entire join tree, provided of course that it knows how to produce the same results that the join would have produced if executed normally. KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Shigeru Hanada, Ashutosh Bapat, and me.
* 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.
* Remove enum-related special cases for catalog scans.Robert Haas2015-04-29
| | | | | | | | | When this code was written, catalog scans were normally performed using SnapshotNow, making special handling necessary here. Now, however, all catalog scans use MVCC snapshots, so we can change these cases to look more like what we do for catalog scans elsewhere in the code. Per discussion with Tom Lane and a reminder from Bruce Momjian.
* Attempt to fix some compiler warnings.Robert Haas2015-04-29
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* to_char(): have format 'OF' only show the leading negative signBruce Momjian2015-04-28
| | | | | | Previously both hours and minutes displayed as negative. Report by David Pozsar
* 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
* Integrate pg_upgrade_support module into backendPeter Eisentraut2015-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, these functions were created in a schema "binary_upgrade", which was deleted after pg_upgrade was finished. Because we don't want to keep that schema around permanently, move them to pg_catalog but rename them with a binary_upgrade_... prefix. The provided functions are only small wrappers around global variables that were added specifically for pg_upgrade use, so keeping the module separate does not create any modularity. The functions still check that they are only called in binary upgrade mode, so it is not possible to call these during normal operation. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Reorganize our CRC source files again.Heikki Linnakangas2015-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | Now that we use CRC-32C in WAL and the control file, the "traditional" and "legacy" CRC-32 variants are not used in any frontend programs anymore. Move the code for those back from src/common to src/backend/utils/hash. Also move the slicing-by-8 implementation (back) to src/port. This is in preparation for next patch that will add another implementation that uses Intel SSE 4.2 instructions to calculate CRC-32C, where available.
* Add system view pg_stat_sslMagnus Hagander2015-04-12
| | | | | | | | This view shows information about all connections, such as if the connection is using SSL, which cipher is used, and which client certificate (if any) is used. Reviews by Alex Shulgin, Heikki Linnakangas, Andres Freund & Michael Paquier
* Remove duplicated words in comments.Heikki Linnakangas2015-04-12
| | | | David Rowley
* Make trace_sort control abbreviation debug output for the text opclass.Robert Haas2015-04-07
| | | | | | | | This is consistent with what the new numeric suppor for abbreviated keys now does, and seems much more convenient than having a separate compiler define to control this debug output. Peter Geoghegan
* pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: add is_temp columnAlvaro Herrera2015-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | It now also reports temporary objects dropped that are local to the backend. Previously we weren't reporting any temp objects because it was deemed unnecessary; but as it turns out, it is necessary if we want to keep close track of DDL command execution inside one session. Temp objects are reported as living in schema pg_temp, which works because such a schema-qualification always refers to the temp objects of the current session.
* Fix numeric abbreviation for --disable-float8-byval.Robert Haas2015-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | When committing abd94bcac4582903765be7be959d1dbc121df0d0, I tried to make it decide what kind of abbreviation to use based only on SIZEOF_DATUM, without regard to USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL. That attempt was a few bricks short of a load, so try to fix it, and add a comment explaining what we're about. Patch by me; review (but not a full endorsement) by Andrew Gierth.
* Change the way we decide whether to give up on abbreviated text keys.Robert Haas2015-04-03
| | | | | | | | | Be more aggressive about aborting early on if it looks like it's not helping, but be less aggressive about aborting later on, since it's more expensive at that point, and also since we're currently aborting in some cases where abbreviation can still deliver a substantial win. Peter Geoghegan. Extensive testing by Tomas Vondra.
* Repair stupid mistake in preprocessor directive.Robert Haas2015-04-02
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* Use abbreviated keys for faster sorting of numeric datums.Robert Haas2015-04-02
| | | | Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan, with further tweaks by me.
* Add missing calls to DatumGetUInt32.Robert Haas2015-04-02
| | | | | | | These were inadvertently ommitted from the commit that introduced abbreviated keys, commit 4ea51cdfe85ceef8afabceb03c446574daa0ac23. Peter Geoghegan
* Define integer limits independently from the system definitions.Andres Freund2015-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In 83ff1618 we defined integer limits iff they're not provided by the system. That turns out not to be the greatest idea because there's different ways some datatypes can be represented. E.g. on OSX PG's 64bit datatype will be a 'long int', but OSX unconditionally uses 'long long'. That disparity then can lead to warnings, e.g. around printf formats. One way to fix that would be to back int64 using stdint.h's int64_t. While a good idea it's not that easy to implement. We would e.g. need to include stdint.h in our external headers, which we don't today. Also computing the correct int64 printf formats in that case is nontrivial. Instead simply prefix the integer limits with PG_ and define them unconditionally. I've adjusted all the references to them in code, but not the ones in comments; the latter seems unnecessary to me. Discussion: 20150331141423.GK4878@alap3.anarazel.de
* Provide real selectivity estimators for inet/cidr operators.Tom Lane2015-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fills in the formerly-stub networksel() and networkjoinsel() estimation functions. Those are used for << <<= >> >>= and && operators on inet/cidr types. The estimation is not perfect, certainly, because we rely on the existing statistics collected for the inet btree operators. But it's a long way better than nothing, and it's not clear that asking ANALYZE to collect separate stats for these operators would be a win. Emre Hasegeli, with reviews from Dilip Kumar and Heikki Linnakangas, and some further hacking by me
* Remove spurious semicolons.Heikki Linnakangas2015-03-31
| | | | Petr Jelinek
* Change array_offset to return subscripts, not offsetsAlvaro Herrera2015-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... and rename it and its sibling array_offsets to array_position and array_positions, to account for the changed behavior. Having the functions return subscripts better matches existing practice, and is better suited to using the result value as a subscript into the array directly. For one-based arrays, the new definition is identical to what was originally committed. (We use the term "subscript" in the documentation, which is what we use whenever we talk about arrays; but the functions themselves are named using the word "position" to match the standard-defined POSITION() functions.) Author: Pavel Stěhule Behavioral problem noted by Dean Rasheed.
* Be more careful about printing constants in ruleutils.c.Tom Lane2015-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding in get_const_expr() tried to avoid quoting integer, float, and numeric literals if at all possible. While that looks nice, it means that dumped expressions might re-parse to something that's semantically equivalent but not the exact same parsetree; for example a FLOAT8 constant would re-parse as a NUMERIC constant with a cast to FLOAT8. Though the result would be the same after constant-folding, this is problematic in certain contexts. In particular, Jeff Davis pointed out that this could cause unexpected failures in ALTER INHERIT operations because of child tables having not-exactly-equivalent CHECK expressions. Therefore, favor correctness over legibility and dump such constants in quotes except in the limited cases where they'll be interpreted as the same type even without any casting. This results in assorted small changes in the regression test outputs, and will affect display of user-defined views and rules similarly. The odds of that causing problems in the field seem non-negligible; given the lack of previous complaints, it seems best not to change this in the back branches.
* Add index-only scan support to range type GiST opclass.Heikki Linnakangas2015-03-30
| | | | Andreas Karlsson
* Add index-only scan support to inet GiST opclass.Heikki Linnakangas2015-03-28
| | | | Andreas Karlsson
* Centralize definition of integer limits.Andres Freund2015-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several submitted and even committed patches have run into the problem that C89, our baseline, does not provide minimum/maximum values for various integer datatypes. C99's stdint.h does, but we can't rely on it. Several parts of the code defined limits locally, so instead centralize the definitions to c.h. This patch also changes the more obvious usages of literal limit values; there's more places that could be changed, but it's less clear whether it's beneficial to change those. Author: Andrew Gierth Discussion: 87619tc5wc.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* to_char: revert cc0d90b73b2e6dd2f301d46818a7265742c41a14Bruce Momjian2015-03-22
| | | | | | Revert "to_char(float4/8): zero pad to specified length". There are too many platform-specific problems, and the proper rounding is missing. Also revert companion patch 9d61b9953c1489cbb458ca70013cf5fca1bb7710.
* Fix minor copy & pasto in the int128 accumulator patch.Andres Freund2015-03-22
| | | | | It's unlikely that using PG_GETARG_INT16 instead of PG_GETARG_INT32 in this pace can cause actual problems, but this still should be fixed.
* to_char(float4/8): zero pad to specified lengthBruce Momjian2015-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | Previously, zero padding was limited to the internal length, rather than the specified length. This allows it to match to_char(int/numeric), which always padded to the specified length. Regression tests added. BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY
* Use 128-bit math to accelerate some aggregation functions.Andres Freund2015-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On platforms where we support 128bit integers, use them to implement faster transition functions for sum(int8), avg(int8), var_*(int2/int4),stdev_*(int2/int4). Where not supported continue to use numeric as a transition type. In some synthetic benchmarks this has been shown to provide significant speedups. Bumps catversion. Discussion: 544BB5F1.50709@proxel.se Author: Andreas Karlsson Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Petr Jelinek, Andres Freund, Oskari Saarenmaa, David Rowley
* GetUserId() changes to has_privs_of_role()Stephen Frost2015-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pg_stat and pg_signal-related functions have been using GetUserId() instead of has_privs_of_role() for checking if the current user should be able to see details in pg_stat_activity or signal other processes, requiring a user to do 'SET ROLE' for inheirited roles for a permissions check, unlike other permissions checks. This patch changes that behavior to, instead, act like most other permission checks and use has_privs_of_role(), removing the 'SET ROLE' need. Documentation and error messages updated accordingly. Per discussion with Alvaro, Peter, Adam (though not using Adam's patch), and Robert. Reviewed by Jeevan Chalke.
* array_offset() and array_offsets()Alvaro Herrera2015-03-18
| | | | | | | | These functions return the offset position or positions of a value in an array. Author: Pavel Stěhule Reviewed by: Jim Nasby
* 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
* Suggest to the user the column they may have meant to reference.Robert Haas2015-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Error messages informing the user that no such column exists can sometimes provoke a perplexed response. This often happens due to a subtle typo in the column name or, perhaps less likely, in the alias name. To speed discovery of what the real issue is in such cases, we'll now search the range table for approximate matches. If there are one or two such matches that are good enough to think that they might be what the user intended to type, and better than all other approximate matches, we'll issue a hint suggesting that the user might have intended to reference those columns. Peter Geoghegan and Robert Haas
* Allow CURRENT/SESSION_USER to be used in certain commandsAlvaro Herrera2015-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commands such as ALTER USER, ALTER GROUP, ALTER ROLE, GRANT, and the various ALTER OBJECT / OWNER TO, as well as ad-hoc clauses related to roles such as the AUTHORIZATION clause of CREATE SCHEMA, the FOR clause of CREATE USER MAPPING, and the FOR ROLE clause of ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES can now take the keywords CURRENT_USER and SESSION_USER as user specifiers in place of an explicit user name. This commit also fixes some quite ugly handling of special standards- mandated syntax in CREATE USER MAPPING, which in particular would fail to work in presence of a role named "current_user". The special role specifiers PUBLIC and NONE also have more consistent handling now. Also take the opportunity to add location tracking to user specifiers. Authors: Kyotaro Horiguchi. Heavily reworked by Álvaro Herrera. Reviewed by: Rushabh Lathia, Adam Brightwell, Marti Raudsepp.
* Avoid unused-variable warning in non-assert builds.Tom Lane2015-03-04
| | | | Oversight in my commit b9896198cfbc1b0cd0c631d2af72ffe34bd4c7e5.
* Fix cost estimation for indexscans on expensive indexed expressions.Tom Lane2015-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | genericcostestimate() and friends used the cost of the entire indexqual expressions as the charge for initial evaluation of indexscan arguments. But of course the index column is not evaluated, only the other side of the qual expression, so this was a bad overestimate if the index column was an expensive expression. To fix, refactor the logic in this area so that there's a single routine charged with deconstructing index quals and figuring out what is the index column and what is the comparison expression. This is more or less free in the case of btree indexes, since btcostestimate() was doing equivalent deconstruction already. It probably adds a bit of new overhead in the cases of other index types, but not a lot. (In the case of GIN I think I saved something by getting rid of code that wasn't aware that the index column associations were already available "for free".) Per recent gripe from Jeff Janes. Arguably this is a bug fix, but I'm hesitant to back-patch because of the possibility of destabilizing plan choices that people may be happy with.
* Use the typcache to cache constraints for domain types.Tom Lane2015-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, we cached domain constraints for the life of a query, or really for the life of the FmgrInfo struct that was used to invoke domain_in() or domain_check(). But plpgsql (and probably other places) are set up to cache such FmgrInfos for the whole lifespan of a session, which meant they could be enforcing really stale sets of constraints. On the other hand, searching pg_constraint once per query gets kind of expensive too: testing says that as much as half the runtime of a trivial query such as "SELECT 0::domaintype" went into that. To fix this, delegate the responsibility for tracking a domain's constraints to the typcache, which has the infrastructure needed to detect syscache invalidation events that signal possible changes. This not only removes unnecessary repeat reads of pg_constraint, but ensures that we never apply stale constraint data: whatever we use is the current data according to syscache rules. Unfortunately, the current configuration of the system catalogs means we have to flush cached domain-constraint data whenever either pg_type or pg_constraint changes, which happens rather a lot (eg, creation or deletion of a temp table will do it). It might be worth rearranging things to split pg_constraint into two catalogs, of which the domain constraint one would probably be very low-traffic. That's a job for another patch though, and in any case this patch should improve matters materially even with that handicap. This patch makes use of the recently-added memory context reset callback feature to manage the lifespan of domain constraint caches, so that we don't risk deleting a cache that might be in the midst of evaluation. Although this is a bug fix as well as a performance improvement, no back-patch. There haven't been many if any field complaints about stale domain constraint checks, so it doesn't seem worth taking the risk of modifying data structures as basic as MemoryContexts in back branches.