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* Add support for an application_name parameter, which is displayed inTom Lane2009-11-28
| | | | | | pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries. Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund
* Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to beTom Lane2009-11-20
| | | | | | | | | | | checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired. For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired. Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
* The recent patch to log changes in postgresql.conf settings dumped coreTom Lane2009-11-12
| | | | | if the initial value of a string variable was NULL, which is entirely possible. Noted while experimenting with custom_variable_classes.
* Make initdb behave sanely when the selected locale has codeset "US-ASCII".Tom Lane2009-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding. The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding. Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases, and fix callers appropriately. Only initdb actually changes behavior, since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases equivalent. Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap. Not going to bother back-patching, since no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely, specify the encoding you want).
* interval_abs():Bruce Momjian2009-11-10
| | | | | | | | Add C comment about why there is no interval_abs(): it is unclear what value to return: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-10/msg01031.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-11/msg00041.php
* Don't treat NEW and OLD as reserved words anymore. For the purposes of rulesTom Lane2009-11-05
| | | | | | | | it works just as well to have them be ordinary identifiers, and this gets rid of a number of ugly special cases. Plus we aren't interfering with non-rule usage of these names. catversion bump because the names change internally in stored rules.
* Allow binary-coercible cases in ri_HashCompareOp; there are some such casesTom Lane2009-11-05
| | | | | | that are not handled by find_coercion_pathway, notably composite->RECORD. Now that 8.4 supports composites as primary keys, it's worth dealing with this case.
* Rename some encoding conversion modules to keep pathnames in our sourceTom Lane2009-11-04
| | | | | | | tarballs under 100 characters. This should avoid failures with certain untarring tools (WinZip and Midnight Commander have been mentioned as likely suspects). Per my proposal of yesterday. catversion bumped since the initial contents of pg_proc change.
* Add support for invoking parser callback hooks via SPI and in cached plans.Tom Lane2009-11-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | As proof of concept, modify plpgsql to use the hooks. plpgsql is still inserting $n symbols textually, but the "back end" of the parsing process now goes through the ParamRef hook instead of using a fixed parameter-type array, and then execution only fetches actually-referenced parameters, using a hook added to ParamListInfo. Although there's a lot left to be done in plpgsql, this already cures the "if (TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.foo ...)" problem, as illustrated by the changed regression test.
* Un-break EXPLAIN for Append plans. I messed this up a few days ago whileTom Lane2009-10-28
| | | | | | adding the ModifyTable node type --- I had been thinking ModifyTable should replace Append as a special case in push_plan(), but actually both of them have to be special-cased.
* Fix AcquireRewriteLocks to be sure that it acquires the right lock strengthTom Lane2009-10-28
| | | | | | when FOR UPDATE is propagated down into a sub-select expanded from a view. Similar bug to parser's isLockedRel issue that I fixed yesterday; likewise seems not quite worth the effort to back-patch.
* When FOR UPDATE/SHARE is used with LIMIT, put the LockRows plan nodeTom Lane2009-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | underneath the Limit node, not atop it. This fixes the old problem that such a query might unexpectedly return fewer rows than the LIMIT says, due to LockRows discarding updated rows. There is a related problem that LockRows might destroy the sort ordering produced by earlier steps; but fixing that by pushing LockRows below Sort would create serious performance problems that are unjustified in many real-world applications, as well as potential deadlock problems from locking many more rows than expected. Instead, keep the present semantics of applying FOR UPDATE after ORDER BY within a single query level; but allow the user to specify the other way by writing FOR UPDATE in a sub-select. To make that work, track whether FOR UPDATE appeared explicitly in sub-selects or got pushed down from the parent, and don't flatten a sub-select that contained an explicit FOR UPDATE.
* Fix range check in date_recv that tried to limit accepted values to onlyHeikki Linnakangas2009-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | those accepted by date_in(). I confused julian day numbers and number of days since the postgres epoch 2000-01-01 in the original patch. I just noticed that it's still easy to get such out-of-range values into the database using to_date or +- operators, but this patch doesn't do anything about those functions. Per report from James Pye.
* Re-implement EvalPlanQual processing to improve its performance and eliminateTom Lane2009-10-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a lot of strange behaviors that occurred in join cases. We now identify the "current" row for every joined relation in UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE queries. If an EvalPlanQual recheck is necessary, we jam the appropriate row into each scan node in the rechecking plan, forcing it to emit only that one row. The former behavior could rescan the whole of each joined relation for each recheck, which was terrible for performance, and what's much worse could result in duplicated output tuples. Also, the original implementation of EvalPlanQual could not re-use the recheck execution tree --- it had to go through a full executor init and shutdown for every row to be tested. To avoid this overhead, I've associated a special runtime Param with each LockRows or ModifyTable plan node, and arranged to make every scan node below such a node depend on that Param. Thus, by signaling a change in that Param, the EPQ machinery can just rescan the already-built test plan. This patch also adds a prohibition on set-returning functions in the targetlist of SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE. This is needed to avoid the duplicate-output-tuple problem. It seems fairly reasonable since the other restrictions on SELECT FOR UPDATE are meant to ensure that there is a unique correspondence between source tuples and result tuples, which an output SRF destroys as much as anything else does.
* Remove regex_flavor GUC, so that regular expressions are always "advanced"Tom Lane2009-10-21
| | | | | | | | | style by default. Per discussion, there seems to be hardly anything that really relies on being able to change the regex flavor, so the ability to select it via embedded options ought to be enough for any stragglers. Also, if we didn't remove the GUC, we'd really be morally obligated to mark the regex functions non-immutable, which'd possibly create performance issues.
* Remove add_missing_from GUC and associated parser support for "implicit RTEs".Tom Lane2009-10-21
| | | | | | Per recent discussion, add_missing_from has been deprecated for long enough to consider removing, and it's getting in the way of planned parser refactoring. The system now always behaves as though add_missing_from were OFF.
* Fix typo in previous release as reported by Itagaki Takahiro, but missedMagnus Hagander2009-10-17
| | | | by me.
* Write to the Windows eventlog in UTF16, converting the message encodingMagnus Hagander2009-10-17
| | | | | | as necessary. Itagaki Takahiro with some changes from me
* Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columnsTom Lane2009-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | are named in the UPDATE's SET list. Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started to use a column that was there all along. catversion bumped anyway so that this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes to system catalog contents. Itagaki Takahiro
* Fix ts_stat's failure on empty tsvector.Tom Lane2009-10-13
| | | | | | Also insert a couple of Asserts that check for stack overflow. Bogus coding appears to be new in 8.4 --- older releases had a much simpler algorithm here. Per bug #5111.
* Add new PGC_S_DATABASE_USER enum value to several places missed by my patchAlvaro Herrera2009-10-13
| | | | | | last week. Per note and patch from Jeff Davis.
* Improve similar_escape() in two different ways:Tom Lane2009-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Stop escaping ? and {. As of SQL:2008, SIMILAR TO is defined to have POSIX-compatible interpretation of ? as well as {m,n} and related constructs, so we should allow these things through to our regex engine. * Escape ^ and $. It appears that our regex engine will treat ^^ at the beginning of the string the same as ^, and similarly for $$ at the end of the string, which meant that SIMILAR TO was effectively ignoring ^ at the start of the pattern and $ at the end. Since these are not supposed to be metacharacters, this is a bug. The second part of this is arguably a back-patchable bug fix, but I'm hesitant to do that because it might break applications that are expecting something like "col SIMILAR TO '^foo$'" to work like a POSIX pattern. Seems safer to only change it at a major version boundary. Per discussion of an example from Doug Gorley.
* Split the processing of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations out of execMain.c.Tom Lane2009-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | They are now handled by a new plan node type called ModifyTable, which is placed at the top of the plan tree. In itself this change doesn't do much, except perhaps make the handling of RETURNING lists and inherited UPDATEs a tad less klugy. But it is necessary preparation for the intended extension of allowing RETURNING queries inside WITH. Marko Tiikkaja
* Use pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dumpPeter Eisentraut2009-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | Add a variant of pg_get_triggerdef with a second argument "pretty" that causes the output to be formatted in the way pg_dump used to do. Use this variant in pg_dump with server versions >= 8.5. This insulates pg_dump from most future trigger feature additions, such as the upcoming column triggers patch. Author: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
* Fix off-by-one bug in bitncmp(): When comparing a number of bits divisible byHeikki Linnakangas2009-10-08
| | | | | | 8, bitncmp() may dereference a pointer one byte out of bounds. Chris Mikkelson (bug #5101)
* Support use of function argument names to identify which actual argumentsTom Lane2009-10-08
| | | | | | | match which function parameters. The syntax uses AS, for example funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS arg2) Pavel Stehule
* Make it possibly to specify GUC params per user and per database.Alvaro Herrera2009-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a new catalog pg_db_role_setting where they are now stored, and better encapsulate the code that deals with settings into its realm. The old datconfig and rolconfig columns are removed. psql has gained a \drds command to display the settings. Backwards compatibility warning: while the backwards-compatible system views still have the config columns, they no longer completely represent the configuration for a user or database. Catalog version bumped.
* Fix snapshot management, take two.Alvaro Herrera2009-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Partially revert the previous patch I installed and replace it with a more general fix: any time a snapshot is pushed as Active, we need to ensure that it will not be modified in the future. This means that if the same snapshot is used as CurrentSnapshot, it needs to be copied separately. This affects serializable transactions only, because CurrentSnapshot has already been copied by RegisterSnapshot and so PushActiveSnapshot does not think it needs another copy. However, CommandCounterIncrement would modify CurrentSnapshot, whereas ActiveSnapshots must not have their command counters incremented. I say "partially" because the regression test I added for the previous bug has been kept. (This restores 8.3 behavior, because before snapmgr.c existed, any snapshot set as Active was copied.) Per bug report from Stuart Bishop in 6bc73d4c0910042358k3d1adff3qa36f8df75198ecea@mail.gmail.com
* Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjustTom Lane2009-10-05
| | | | | | | | | | | the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects. Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects created in particular schemas too. A notable benefit is that users can override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE privilege traditionally granted by default for functions. Petr Jelinek
* Fix a couple of issues in recent patch to print updates to postgresql.confTom Lane2009-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | settings: avoid calling superuser() in contexts where it's not defined, don't leak the transient copies of GetConfigOption output, and avoid the whole exercise in postmaster child processes. I found that actually no current caller of GetConfigOption has any use for its internal check of GUC_SUPERUSER_ONLY. But rather than just remove that entirely, it seemed better to add a parameter indicating whether to enforce the check. Per report from Simon and subsequent testing.
* Ensure that a cursor has an immutable snapshot throughout its lifespan.Alvaro Herrera2009-10-02
| | | | | | | | | The old coding was using a regular snapshot, referenced elsewhere, that was subject to having its command counter updated. Fix by creating a private copy of the snapshot exclusively for the cursor. Backpatch to 8.4, which is when the bug was introduced during the snapshot management rewrite.
* Revert my ill-considered change that made formrdesc not insert the correctTom Lane2009-09-26
| | | | | | | | relation rowtype OID into the relcache entries it builds. This ensures that catcache copies of the relation tupdescs will be fully correct. While the deficiency doesn't seem to have any effect in the current sources, we have been bitten by not-quite-right catcache tupdescs before, so it seems like a good idea to maintain the rule that they should be right.
* Fix RelationCacheInitializePhase2 (Phase3, in HEAD) to cope with theTom Lane2009-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | possibility of shared-inval messages causing a relcache flush while it tries to fill in missing data in preloaded relcache entries. There are actually two distinct failure modes here: 1. The flush could delete the next-to-be-processed cache entry, causing the subsequent hash_seq_search calls to go off into the weeds. This is the problem reported by Michael Brown, and I believe it also accounts for bug #5074. The simplest fix is to restart the hashtable scan after we've read any new data from the catalogs. It appears that pre-8.4 branches have not suffered from this failure, because by chance there were no other catalogs sharing the same hash chains with the catalogs that RelationCacheInitializePhase2 had work to do for. However that's obviously pretty fragile, and it seems possible that derivative versions with additional system catalogs might be vulnerable, so I'm back-patching this part of the fix anyway. 2. The flush could delete the *current* cache entry, in which case the pointer to the newly-loaded data would end up being stored into an already-deleted Relation struct. As long as it was still deleted, the only consequence would be some leaked space in CacheMemoryContext. But it seems possible that the Relation struct could already have been recycled, in which case this represents a hard-to-reproduce clobber of cached data structures, with unforeseeable consequences. The fix here is to pin the entry while we work on it. In passing, also change RelationCacheInitializePhase2 to Assert that formrdesc() set up the relation's cached TupleDesc (rd_att) with the correct type OID and hasoids values. This is more appropriate than silently updating the values, because the original tupdesc might already have been copied into the catcache. However this part of the patch is not in HEAD because it fails due to some questionable recent changes in formrdesc :-(. That will be cleaned up in a subsequent patch.
* Implement the DO statement to support execution of PL code without havingTom Lane2009-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | to create a function for it. Procedural languages now have an additional entry point, namely a function to execute an inline code block. This seemed a better design than trying to hide the transient-ness of the code from the PL. As of this patch, only plpgsql has an inline handler, but probably people will soon write handlers for the other standard PLs. In passing, remove the long-dead LANCOMPILER option of CREATE LANGUAGE. Petr Jelinek
* Improve wording of error message when a postgresql.conf setting isPeter Eisentraut2009-09-17
| | | | | ignored because it can only be set at server start. In particular, hiding the main reason in the detail message was suboptimal.
* When reloading postgresql.conf, log what parameters actually changedPeter Eisentraut2009-09-17
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* Increase the maximum value of extra_float_digits to 3, and have pg_dumpTom Lane2009-09-11
| | | | | | | use that value when the backend is new enough to allow it. This responds to bug report from Keh-Cheng Chu pointing out that although 2 extra digits should be sufficient to dump and restore float8 exactly, it is possible to need 3 extra digits for float4 values.
* Fix/improve bytea and boolean support in PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut2009-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before, PL/Python converted data between SQL and Python by going through a C string representation. This broke for bytea in two ways: - On input (function parameters), you would get a Python string that contains bytea's particular external representation with backslashes etc., instead of a sequence of bytes, which is what you would expect in a Python environment. This problem is exacerbated by the new bytea output format. - On output (function return value), null bytes in the Python string would cause truncation before the data gets stored into a bytea datum. This is now fixed by converting directly between the PostgreSQL datum and the Python representation. The required generalized infrastructure also allows for other improvements in passing: - When returning a boolean value, the SQL datum is now true if and only if Python considers the value that was passed out of the PL/Python function to be true. Previously, this determination was left to the boolean data type input function. So, now returning 'foo' results in true, because Python considers it true, rather than false because PostgreSQL considers it false. - On input, we can convert the integer and float types directly to their Python equivalents without having to go through an intermediate string representation. original patch by Caleb Welton, with updates by myself
* Add a boolean GUC parameter "bonjour" to control whether a Bonjour-enabledTom Lane2009-09-08
| | | | | | | | build actually attempts to advertise itself via Bonjour. Formerly it always did so, which meant that packagers had to decide for their users whether this behavior was wanted or not. The default is "off" to be on the safe side, though this represents a change in the default behavior of a Bonjour-enabled build. Per discussion.
* Tigthen binary receive functions so that they reject values that the textHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-04
| | | | | | | | | input functions don't accept either. While the backend can handle such values fine, they can cause trouble in clients and in pg_dump/restore. This is followup to the original issue on time datatype reported by Andrew McNamara a while ago. Like that one, none of these seem worth back-patching.
* Fix encoding handling in xml binary input function. If the XML header didn'tHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-04
| | | | | | | specify an encoding explicitly, we used to treat it as being in database encoding when we parsed it, but then perform a UTF-8 -> database encoding conversion on it, which was completely bogus. It's now consistently treated as UTF-8.
* Make LOAD of an already-loaded library into a no-op, instead of attemptingTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to unload and re-load the library. The difficulty with unloading a library is that we haven't defined safe protocols for doing so. In particular, there's no safe mechanism for getting out of a "hook" function pointer unless libraries are unloaded in reverse order of loading. And there's no mechanism at all for undefining a custom GUC variable, so GUC would be left with a pointer to an old value that might or might not still be valid, and very possibly wouldn't be in the same place anymore. While the unload and reload behavior had some usefulness in easing development of new loadable libraries, it's of no use whatever to normal users, so just disabling it isn't giving up that much. Someday we might care to expend the effort to develop safe unload protocols; but even if we did, there'd be little certainty that every third-party loadable module was following them, so some security restrictions would still be needed. Back-patch to 8.2; before that, LOAD was superuser-only anyway. Security: unprivileged users could crash backend. CVE not assigned yet
* Disallow RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION inside security-definerTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | functions. This extends the previous patch that forbade SETting these variables inside security-definer functions. RESET is equally a security hole, since it would allow regaining privileges of the caller; furthermore it can trigger Assert failures and perhaps other internal errors, since the code is not expecting these variables to change in such contexts. The previous patch did not cover this case because assign hooks don't really have enough information, so move the responsibility for preventing this into guc.c. Problem discovered by Heikki Linnakangas. Security: no CVE assigned yet, extends CVE-2007-6600
* Install a workaround for a longstanding gcc bug that allows SIGFPE trapsTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | to occur for division by zero, even though the code is carefully avoiding that. All available evidence is that the only functions affected are int24div, int48div, and int28div, so patch just those three functions to include a "return" after the ereport() call. Backpatch to 8.4 so that the fix can be tested in production builds. For older branches our recommendation will continue to be to use -O1 on affected platforms (which are mostly non-mainstream anyway).
* Remove flatfiles.c, which is now obsolete.Alvaro Herrera2009-09-01
| | | | | | Recent commits have removed the various uses it was supporting. It was a performance bottleneck, according to bug report #4919 by Lauris Ulmanis; seems it slowed down user creation after a billion users.
* Move processing of startup-packet switches and GUC settings into InitPostgres,Tom Lane2009-09-01
| | | | | | | to fix the problem that SetClientEncoding needs to be done before InitializeClientEncoding, as reported by Zdenek Kotala. We get at least the small consolation of being able to remove the bizarre API detail that had InitPostgres returning whether user is a superuser.
* Change the autovacuum launcher to read pg_database directly, rather thanTom Lane2009-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | via the "flat files" facility. This requires making it enough like a backend to be able to run transactions; it's no longer an "auxiliary process" but more like the autovacuum worker processes. Also, its signal handling has to be brought into line with backends/workers. In particular, since it now has to handle procsignal.c processing, the special autovac-launcher-only signal conditions are moved to SIGUSR2. Alvaro, with some cleanup from Tom
* Track the current XID wrap limit (or more accurately, the oldest unfrozenTom Lane2009-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | XID) in checkpoint records. This eliminates the need to recompute the value from scratch during database startup, which is one of the two remaining reasons for the flatfile code to exist. It should also simplify life for hot-standby operation. To avoid bloating the checkpoint records unreasonably, I switched from tracking the oldest database by name to tracking it by OID. This turns out to save cycles in general (everywhere but the warning-generating paths, which we hardly care about) and also helps us deal with the case that the oldest database got dropped instead of being vacuumed. The prior coding might go for a long time without updating the wrap limit in that case, which is bad because it might result in a lot of useless autovacuum activity.
* Remove some useless assignments of the result of fread(). Quiets warningsTom Lane2009-08-30
| | | | from clang static checker, and makes the code more readable anyway IMO.
* Remove duplicate variable initializations identified by clang static checker.Tom Lane2009-08-30
| | | | | | | One of these represents a nontrivial bug (a promptly-leaked palloc), so backpatch. Greg Stark