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* Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.Tom Lane2018-04-26
| | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Reindent Perl files with perltidy version 20170521.Tom Lane2018-04-25
| | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEzK3cNiHZQ18f5tK0guoT+cN_jWeVzhYYxY=r+1Q3SmoA@mail.gmail.com
* Add GUC enable_partition_pruningAlvaro Herrera2018-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This controls both plan-time and execution-time new-style partition pruning. While finer-grain control is possible (maybe using an enum GUC instead of boolean), there doesn't seem to be much need for that. This new parameter controls partition pruning for all queries: trivially, SELECT queries that affect partitioned tables are naturally under its control since they are using the new technology. However, while UPDATE/DELETE queries do not use the new code, we make the new GUC control their behavior also (stealing control from constraint_exclusion), because it is more natural, and it leads to a more natural transition to the future in which those queries will also use the new pruning code. Constraint exclusion still controls pruning for regular inheritance situations (those not involving partitioned tables). Author: David Rowley Review: Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat, Justin Pryzby, David G. Johnston Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_0HwsxJG9m+nzU+CizxSdGtfe6iF_ykPYBiYft302DCw@mail.gmail.com
* Plural of modulus is moduliAlvaro Herrera2018-04-19
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* Clean up callers of JsonbIteratorNext().Tom Lane2018-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Coverity complained about the lack of a check on the return value in parse_jsonb_index_flags' last call of JsonbIteratorNext. Seems like a reasonable gripe to me, especially since the code is depending on that being WJB_DONE to not leak memory, so add a check. In passing, improve a couple other places where the result was being ignored, either by adding an assert or at least a cast to void. Also, don't spell "WJB_DONE" as "0". That's horrid coding style, and it wasn't consistent either.
* Reorganize partitioning codeAlvaro Herrera2018-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's been a massive addition of partitioning code in PostgreSQL 11, with little oversight on its placement, resulting in a catalog/partition.c with poorly defined boundaries and responsibilities. This commit tries to set a couple of distinct modules to separate things a little bit. There are no code changes here, only code movement. There are three new files: src/backend/utils/cache/partcache.c src/include/partitioning/partdefs.h src/include/utils/partcache.h The previous arrangement of #including catalog/partition.h almost everywhere is no more. Authors: Amit Langote and Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/98e8d509-790a-128c-be7f-e48a5b2d8d97@lab.ntt.co.jp https://postgr.es/m/11aa0c50-316b-18bb-722d-c23814f39059@lab.ntt.co.jp https://postgr.es/m/143ed9a4-6038-76d4-9a55-502035815e68@lab.ntt.co.jp https://postgr.es/m/20180413193503.nynq7bnmgh6vs5vm@alvherre.pgsql
* Use the right memory context for partkey's FmgrInfoAlvaro Herrera2018-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were using CurrentMemoryContext to put the partsupfunc fmgr_info into, which isn't right, because we want the PartitionKey as a whole to be in the isolated Relation->rd_partkeycxt context. This can cause a crash with user-defined support functions in the operator classes used by partitioning keys. (Maybe this can cause problems with core-supplied opclasses too, not sure.) This is demonstrably broken in Postgres 10, too, but the initial proposed fix runs afoul of a problem discussed back when 8a0596cb656e ("Get rid of copy_partition_key") reorganized that code: namely that it is possible to jump out of RelationBuildPartitionKey because of some error and leave a dangling memory context child of CacheMemoryContext. Also, while reviewing this I noticed that the removed-in-pg11 copy_partition_key was doing something wrong, unfixed in pg10, namely doing memcpy() on the FmgrInfo, which is bogus (should be doing fmgr_info_copy). Therefore, in branch pg10, the sane fix seems to be to backpatch both the aforementioned 8a0596cb656e and its followup be2343221fb7 ("Protect against hypothetical memory leaks in RelationGetPartitionKey"), so do that, then apply the fmgr_info memcxt bugfix on top. Add a test case exercising btree-based custom operator classes, which causes a crash prior to this fix. This is not a security problem, because in order to create an operator class you need superuser privileges anyway. Authors: Álvaro Herrera and Amit Langote Reported and diagnosed by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3041e853-b1dd-a0c6-ff21-7cc5633bffd0@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Cleanup covering infrastructureTeodor Sigaev2018-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | - Explicitly forbids opclass, collation and indoptions (like DESC/ASC etc) for including columns. Throw an error if user points that. - Truncated storage arrays for such attributes to store only key atrributes, added assertion checks. - Do not check opfamily and collation for including columns in CompareIndexInfo() Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5ee72852-3c4e-ee35-e2ed-c1d053d45c08@sigaev.ru
* Rename IndexInfo.ii_KeyAttrNumbers arrayTeodor Sigaev2018-04-12
| | | | | | | | Rename ii_KeyAttrNumbers to ii_IndexAttrNumbers to prevent confusion with ii_NumIndexAttrs/ii_NumIndexKeyAttrs. ii_IndexAttrNumbers contains all attributes including "including" columns, not only key attribute. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/13123421-1d52-d0e4-c95c-6d69011e0595%40sigaev.ru
* Reduce chattiness of genbki.pl and Gen_fmgrtab.pl.Tom Lane2018-04-09
| | | | | | | | | | | Make these scripts emit just one log message when they run, not one per output file. The latter is way too verbose in the wake of commit 372728b0d. The specific wording used is what already existed in the MSVC scripts. John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11103.1523208822@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"Magnus Hagander2018-04-09
| | | | | | | | This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa0c3e66c340efc7cc0dc272d6254bb0. I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well, and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down it should be a lot safer.
* Replace our traditional initial-catalog-data format with a better design.Tom Lane2018-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically, the initial catalog data to be installed during bootstrap has been written in DATA() lines in the catalog header files. This had lots of disadvantages: the format was badly underdocumented, it was very difficult to edit the data in any mechanized way, and due to the lack of any abstraction the data was verbose, hard to read/understand, and easy to get wrong. Hence, move this data into separate ".dat" files and represent it in a way that can easily be read and rewritten by Perl scripts. The new format is essentially "key => value" for each column; while it's a bit repetitive, explicit labeling of each value makes the data far more readable and less error-prone. Provide a way to abbreviate entries by omitting field values that match a specified default value for their column. This allows removal of a large amount of repetitive boilerplate and also lowers the barrier to adding new columns. Also teach genbki.pl how to translate symbolic OID references into numeric OIDs for more cases than just "regproc"-like pg_proc references. It can now do that for regprocedure-like references (thus solving the problem that regproc is ambiguous for overloaded functions), operators, types, opfamilies, opclasses, and access methods. Use this to turn nearly all OID cross-references in the initial data into symbolic form. This represents a very large step forward in readability and error resistance of the initial catalog data. It should also reduce the difficulty of renumbering OID assignments in uncommitted patches. Also, solve the longstanding problem that frontend code that would like to use OID macros and other information from the catalog headers often had difficulty with backend-only code in the headers. To do this, arrange for all generated macros, plus such other declarations as we deem fit, to be placed in "derived" header files that are safe for frontend inclusion. (Once clients migrate to using these pg_*_d.h headers, it will be possible to get rid of the pg_*_fn.h headers, which only exist to quarantine code away from clients. That is left for follow-on patches, however.) The now-automatically-generated macros include the Anum_xxx and Natts_xxx constants that we used to have to update by hand when adding or removing catalog columns. Replace the former manual method of generating OID macros for pg_type entries with an automatic method, ensuring that all built-in types have OID macros. (But note that this patch does not change the way that OID macros for pg_proc entries are built and used. It's not clear that making that match the other catalogs would be worth extra code churn.) Add SGML documentation explaining what the new data format is and how to work with it. Despite being a very large change in the catalog headers, there is no catversion bump here, because postgres.bki and related output files haven't changed at all. John Naylor, based on ideas from various people; review and minor additional coding by me; previous review by Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWO48JbbwXkJz_yBFyGYW-M9YWxnPdxJBUosDC9ou_F0Q@mail.gmail.com
* Support index INCLUDE in the AM properties interface.Andrew Gierth2018-04-08
| | | | | | | This rectifies an oversight in commit 8224de4f4, by adding a new property 'can_include' for pg_indexam_has_property, and adjusting the results of pg_index_column_has_property to give more appropriate results for INCLUDEd columns.
* Allow group access on PGDATAStephen Frost2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the cluster to be optionally init'd with read access for the group. This means a relatively non-privileged user can perform a backup of the cluster without requiring write privileges, which enhances security. The mode of PGDATA is used to determine whether group permissions are enabled for directory and file creates. This method was chosen as it's simple and works well for the various utilities that write into PGDATA. Changing the mode of PGDATA manually will not automatically change the mode of all the files contained therein. If the user would like to enable group access on an existing cluster then changing the mode of all the existing files will be required. Note that pg_upgrade will automatically change the mode of all migrated files if the new cluster is init'd with the -g option. Tests are included for the backend and all the utilities which operate on the PG data directory to ensure that the correct mode is set based on the data directory permissions. Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
* Refactor dir/file permissionsStephen Frost2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Consolidate directory and file create permissions for tools which work with the PG data directory by adding a new module (common/file_perm.c) that contains variables (pg_file_create_mode, pg_dir_create_mode) and constants to initialize them (0600 for files and 0700 for directories). Convert mkdir() calls in the backend to MakePGDirectory() if the original call used default permissions (always the case for regular PG directories). Add tests to make sure permissions in PGDATA are set correctly by the tools which modify the PG data directory. Authors: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydata.com> Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
* Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-treeTeodor Sigaev2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition. This clause specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in the index. The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to benefit from index-only scans. Also, such columns don't need to have appropriate operator classes. Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans. Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag in IndexAmRoutine. For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause. In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples (tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys). Therefore, B-tree indexes now might have variable number of attributes. This patch also provides generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their attributes in t_tid.ip_posid. Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating that. This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation. The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special handling of B-tree indexes for that. Bump catalog version Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes, David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
* Add json(b)_to_tsvector functionTeodor Sigaev2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jsonb has a complex nature so there isn't best-for-everything way to convert it to tsvector for full text search. Current to_tsvector(json(b)) suggests to convert only string values, but it's possible to index keys, numerics and even booleans value. To solve that json(b)_to_tsvector has a second required argument contained a list of desired types of json fields. Second argument is a jsonb scalar or array right now with possibility to add new options in a future. Bump catalog version Author: Dmitry Dolgov with some editorization by me Reviewed by: Teodor Sigaev Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+q6zcXJQbS1b4kJ_HeAOoOc=unfnOrUEL=KGgE32QKDww7d8g@mail.gmail.com
* Logical replication support for TRUNCATEPeter Eisentraut2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the built-in logical replication system to make use of the previously added logical decoding for TRUNCATE support. Add the required truncate callback to pgoutput and a new logical replication protocol message. Publications get a new attribute to determine whether to replicate truncate actions. When updating a publication via pg_dump from an older version, this is not set, thus preserving the previous behavior. Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
* Support new default roles with adminpackStephen Frost2018-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This provides a newer version of adminpack which works with the newly added default roles to support GRANT'ing to non-superusers access to read and write files, along with related functions (unlinking files, getting file length, renaming/removing files, scanning the log file directory) which are supported through adminpack. Note that new versions of the functions are required because an environment might have an updated version of the library but still have the old adminpack 1.0 catalog definitions (where EXECUTE is GRANT'd to PUBLIC for the functions). This patch also removes the long-deprecated alternative names for functions that adminpack used to include and which are now included in the backend, in adminpack v1.1. Applications using the deprecated names should be updated to use the backend functions instead. Existing installations which continue to use adminpack v1.0 should continue to function until/unless adminpack is upgraded. Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231191939.GR2416%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Add default roles for file/program accessStephen Frost2018-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds new default roles named 'pg_read_server_files', 'pg_write_server_files', 'pg_execute_server_program' which allow an administrator to GRANT to a non-superuser role the ability to access server-side files or run programs through PostgreSQL (as the user the database is running as). Having one of these roles allows a non-superuser to use server-side COPY to read, write, or with a program, and to use file_fdw (if installed by a superuser and GRANT'd USAGE on it) to read from files or run a program. The existing misc file functions are also changed to allow a user with the 'pg_read_server_files' default role to read any files on the filesystem, matching the privileges given to that role through COPY and file_fdw from above. Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231191939.GR2416%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Remove explicit superuser checks in favor of ACLsStephen Frost2018-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | This removes the explicit superuser checks in the various file-access functions in the backend, specifically pg_ls_dir(), pg_read_file(), pg_read_binary_file(), and pg_stat_file(). Instead, EXECUTE is REVOKE'd from public for these, meaning that only a superuser is able to run them by default, but access to them can be GRANT'd to other roles. Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231191939.GR2416%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Add memory context identifier to portal contextPeter Eisentraut2018-04-06
| | | | Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6421.1522194949@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Rename MemoryContextCopySetIdentifier() for clarityPeter Eisentraut2018-04-06
| | | | | | MemoryContextCopySetIdentifier -> MemoryContextCopyAndSetIdentifier Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6421.1522194949@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksumsMagnus Hagander2018-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes it possible to turn checksums on in a live cluster, without the previous need for dump/reload or logical replication (and to turn it off). Enabling checkusm starts a background process in the form of a launcher/worker combination that goes through the entire database and recalculates checksums on each and every page. Only when all pages have been checksummed are they fully enabled in the cluster. Any failure of the process will revert to checksums off and the process has to be started. This adds a new WAL record that indicates the state of checksums, so the process works across replicated clusters. Authors: Magnus Hagander and Daniel Gustafsson Review: Tomas Vondra, Michael Banck, Heikki Linnakangas, Andrey Borodin
* Allow background workers to bypass datallowconnMagnus Hagander2018-04-05
| | | | | | | THis adds a "flags" field to the BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection() and BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid(). For now only one flag, BGWORKER_BYPASS_ALLOWCONN, is defined, which allows the worker to ignore datallowconn.
* Add websearch_to_tsqueryTeodor Sigaev2018-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | Error-tolerant conversion function with web-like syntax for search query, it simplifies constraining search engine with close to habitual interface for users. Bump catalog version Authors: Victor Drobny, Dmitry Ivanov with editorization by me Reviewed by: Aleksander Alekseev, Tomas Vondra, Thomas Munro, Aleksandr Parfenov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fe931111ff7e9ad79196486ada79e268@postgrespro.ru
* Install errcodes.txt for use by extensions.Andrew Gierth2018-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | Maintainers of out-of-tree PLs typically need access to the set of error codes. To avoid the need to duplicate that information in some form in PL source trees, provide errcodes.txt as part of a server installation. Thomas Munro, based on a suggestion from Andrew Gierth Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87woykk7mu.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
* Restore erroneously removed ONLY from PK checkAlvaro Herrera2018-04-04
| | | | | | | | | This is a blind fix, since I don't have SE-Linux to verify it. Per unwanted change in rhinoceros, running sepgsql tests. Noted by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32347.1522865050@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Foreign keys on partitioned tablesAlvaro Herrera2018-04-04
| | | | | | Author: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231194359.cvojcour423ulha4@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
* Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possibleTeodor Sigaev2018-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vacuum of index consists from two stages: multiple (zero of more) ambulkdelete calls and one amvacuumcleanup call. When workload on particular table is append-only, then autovacuum isn't intended to touch this table. However, user may run vacuum manually in order to fill visibility map and get benefits of index-only scans. Then ambulkdelete wouldn't be called for indexes of such table (because no heap tuples were deleted), only amvacuumcleanup would be called In this case, amvacuumcleanup would perform full index scan for two objectives: put recyclable pages into free space map and update index statistics. This patch allows btvacuumclanup to skip full index scan when two conditions are satisfied: no pages are going to be put into free space map and index statistics isn't stalled. In order to check first condition, we store oldest btpo_xact in the meta-page. When it's precedes RecentGlobalXmin, then there are some recyclable pages. In order to check second condition we store number of heap tuples observed during previous full index scan by cleanup. If fraction of newly inserted tuples is less than vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor, then statistics isn't considered to be stalled. vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor can be defined as both reloption and GUC (default). This patch bumps B-tree meta-page version. Upgrade of meta-page is performed "on the fly": during VACUUM meta-page is rewritten with new version. No special handling in pg_upgrade is required. Author: Masahiko Sawada, Alexander Korotkov Review by: Peter Geoghegan, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Korotkov, Yura Sokolov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAD21AoAX+d2oD_nrd9O2YkpzHaFr=uQeGr9s1rKC3O4ENc568g@mail.gmail.com
* Pass correct TupDesc to ri_NullCheck() in AssertAlvaro Herrera2018-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Previous coding was passing the wrong table's tuple descriptor, which accidentally fails to fail because no existing test case exercises a foreign key in which the referenced attributes are further to the right of the referencing attributes. Add a test so that further breakage is visible. This got broken in 16828d5c0273. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180403204723.fqte755nukgm42uf@alvherre.pgsql
* Add prefix operator for TEXT type.Teodor Sigaev2018-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | The prefix operator along with SP-GiST indexes can be used as an alternative for LIKE 'word%' commands and it doesn't have a limitation of string/prefix length as B-Tree has. Bump catalog version Author: Ildus Kurbangaliev with some editorization by me Review by: Arthur Zakirov, Alexander Korotkov, and me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180202180327.222b04b3@wp.localdomain
* Fix a boatload of typos in C comments.Tom Lane2018-04-01
| | | | | | Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180331105640.GK28454@telsasoft.com
* Improve out-of-memory error reports by including memory context name.Tom Lane2018-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the target context's name to the errdetail field of "out of memory" errors in mcxt.c. Per discussion, this seems likely to be useful to help narrow down the cause of a reported failure, and it costs little. Also, now that context names are required to be compile-time constants in all cases, there's little reason to be concerned about security issues from exposing these names to users. (Because of such concerns, we are *not* including the context "ident" field.) In passing, add unlikely() markers to the allocation-failed tests, just to be sure the compiler is on the right page about that. Also, in palloc and friends, copy CurrentMemoryContext into a local variable, as that's almost surely cheaper to reference than a global. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1099.1522285628@sss.pgh.pa.us
* C comments: "a" <--> "an" correctionsBruce Momjian2018-03-29
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Michael Paquier, Abhijit Menon-Sen Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180305045854.GB2266@paquier.xyz Author: Michael Paquier, Abhijit Menon-Sen, me
* Add casts from jsonbTeodor Sigaev2018-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add explicit cast from scalar jsonb to all numeric and bool types. It would be better to have cast from scalar jsonb to text too but there is already a cast from jsonb to text as just text representation of json. There is no way to have two different casts for the same type's pair. Bump catalog version Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with editorization by Nikita Glukhov and me Review by: Aleksander Alekseev, Nikita Glukhov, Darafei Praliaskouski Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0154d35a-24ae-f063-5273-9ffcdf1c7f2e@postgrespro.ru
* Fix typo in commentMagnus Hagander2018-03-29
| | | | Arthur Zakirov, confirmed by Thomas Munro
* Allow committing inside cursor loopPeter Eisentraut2018-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, committing or aborting inside a cursor loop was prohibited because that would close and remove the cursor. To allow that, automatically convert such cursors to holdable cursors so they survive commits or rollbacks. Portals now have a new state "auto-held", which means they have been converted automatically from pinned. An auto-held portal is kept on transaction commit or rollback, but is still removed when returning to the main loop on error. This supports all languages that have cursor loop constructs: PL/pgSQL, PL/Python, PL/Perl. Reviewed-by: Ildus Kurbangaliev <i.kurbangaliev@postgrespro.ru>
* Add inlining support to LLVM JIT provider.Andres Freund2018-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This provides infrastructure to allow JITed code to inline code implemented in C. This e.g. can be postgres internal functions or extension code. This already speeds up long running queries, by allowing the LLVM optimizer to optimize across function boundaries. The optimization potential currently doesn't reach its full potential because LLVM cannot optimize the FunctionCallInfoData argument fully away, because it's allocated on the heap rather than the stack. Fixing that is beyond what's realistic for v11. To be able to do that, use CLANG to convert C code to LLVM bitcode, and have LLVM build a summary for it. That bitcode can then be used to to inline functions at runtime. For that the bitcode needs to be installed. Postgres bitcode goes into $pkglibdir/bitcode/postgres, extensions go into equivalent directories. PGXS has been modified so that happens automatically if postgres has been compiled with LLVM support. Currently this isn't the fastest inline implementation, modules are reloaded from disk during inlining. That's to work around an apparent LLVM bug, triggering an apparently spurious error in LLVM assertion enabled builds. Once that is resolved we can remove the superfluous read from disk. Docs will follow in a later commit containing docs for the whole JIT feature. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix actual and potential double-frees around tuplesort usage.Tom Lane2018-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tuplesort_gettupleslot() passed back tuples allocated in the tuplesort's own memory context, even when the caller was responsible to free them. This created a double-free hazard, because some callers might destroy the tuplesort object (via tuplesort_end) before trying to clean up the last returned tuple. To avoid this, change the API to specify that the tuple is allocated in the caller's memory context. v10 and HEAD already did things that way, but in 9.5 and 9.6 this is a live bug that can demonstrably cause crashes with some grouping-set usages. In 9.5 and 9.6, this requires doing an extra tuple copy in some cases, which is unfortunate. But the amount of refactoring needed to avoid it seems excessive for a back-patched change, especially since the cases where an extra copy happens are less performance-critical. Likewise change tuplesort_getdatum() to return pass-by-reference Datums in the caller's context not the tuplesort's context. There seem to be no live bugs among its callers, but clearly the same sort of situation could happen in future. For other tuplesort fetch routines, continue to allocate the memory in the tuplesort's context. This is a little inconsistent with what we now do for tuplesort_gettupleslot() and tuplesort_getdatum(), but that's preferable to adding new copy overhead in the back branches where it's clearly unnecessary. These other fetch routines provide the weakest possible guarantees about tuple memory lifespan from v10 on, anyway, so this actually seems more consistent overall. Adjust relevant comments to reflect these API redefinitions. Arguably, we should change the pre-9.5 branches as well, but since there are no known failure cases there, it seems not worth the risk. Peter Geoghegan, per report from Bernd Helmle. Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi; thanks also to Andreas Seltenreich for extracting a self-contained test case. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1512661638.9720.34.camel@oopsware.de
* Fast ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a non-NULL defaultAndrew Dunstan2018-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently adding a column to a table with a non-NULL default results in a rewrite of the table. For large tables this can be both expensive and disruptive. This patch removes the need for the rewrite as long as the default value is not volatile. The default expression is evaluated at the time of the ALTER TABLE and the result stored in a new column (attmissingval) in pg_attribute, and a new column (atthasmissing) is set to true. Any existing row when fetched will be supplied with the attmissingval. New rows will have the supplied value or the default and so will never need the attmissingval. Any time the table is rewritten all the atthasmissing and attmissingval settings for the attributes are cleared, as they are no longer needed. The most visible code change from this is in heap_attisnull, which acquires a third TupleDesc argument, allowing it to detect a missing value if there is one. In many cases where it is known that there will not be any (e.g. catalog relations) NULL can be passed for this argument. Andrew Dunstan, heavily modified from an original patch from Serge Rielau. Reviewed by Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra and David Rowley. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31e2e921-7002-4c27-59f5-51f08404c858@2ndQuadrant.com
* Allow memory contexts to have both fixed and variable ident strings.Tom Lane2018-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, we treated memory context names as potentially variable in all cases, and therefore always copied them into the context header. Commit 9fa6f00b1 rethought this a little bit and invented a distinction between fixed and variable names, skipping the copy step for the former. But we can make things both simpler and more useful by instead allowing there to be two parts to a context's identification, a fixed "name" and an optional, variable "ident". The name supplied in the context create call is now required to be a compile-time-constant string in all cases, as it is never copied but just pointed to. The "ident" string, if wanted, is supplied later. This is needed because typically we want the ident to be stored inside the context so that it's cleaned up automatically on context deletion; that means it has to be copied into the context before we can set the pointer. The cost of this approach is basically just an additional pointer field in struct MemoryContextData, which isn't much overhead, and is bought back entirely in the AllocSet case by not needing a headerSize field anymore, since we no longer have to cope with variable header length. In addition, we can simplify the internal interfaces for memory context creation still further, saving a few cycles there. And it's no longer true that a custom identifier disqualifies a context from participating in aset.c's freelist scheme, so possibly there's some win on that end. All the places that were using non-compile-time-constant context names are adjusted to put the variable info into the "ident" instead. This allows more effective identification of those contexts in many cases; for example, subsidary contexts of relcache entries are now identified by both type (e.g. "index info") and relname, where before you got only one or the other. Contexts associated with PL function cache entries are now identified more fully and uniformly, too. I also arranged for plancache contexts to use the query source string as their identifier. This is basically free for CachedPlanSources, as they contained a copy of that string already. We pay an extra pstrdup to do it for CachedPlans. That could perhaps be avoided, but it would make things more fragile (since the CachedPlanSource is sometimes destroyed first). I suspect future improvements in error reporting will require CachedPlans to have a copy of that string anyway, so it's not clear that it's worth moving mountains to avoid it now. This also changes the APIs for context statistics routines so that the context-specific routines no longer assume that output goes straight to stderr, nor do they know all details of the output format. This is useful immediately to reduce code duplication, and it also allows for external code to do something with stats output that's different from printing to stderr. The reason for pushing this now rather than waiting for v12 is that it rethinks some of the API changes made by commit 9fa6f00b1. Seems better for extension authors to endure just one round of API changes not two. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-FdtmFZ9y9REHD7VsSrnCkiBhsA4mdsLKSPauwXtQBeNA@mail.gmail.com
* Allow HOT updates for some expression indexesSimon Riggs2018-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the value of an index expression is unchanged after UPDATE, allow HOT updates where previously we disallowed them, giving a significant performance boost in those cases. Particularly useful for indexes such as JSON->>field where the JSON value changes but the indexed value does not. Submitted as "surjective indexes" patch, now enabled by use of new "recheck_on_update" parameter. Author: Konstantin Knizhnik Reviewer: Simon Riggs, with much wordsmithing and some cleanup
* JIT tuple deforming in LLVM JIT provider.Andres Freund2018-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Performing JIT compilation for deforming gains performance benefits over unJITed deforming from compile-time knowledge of the tuple descriptor. Fixed column widths, NOT NULLness, etc can be taken advantage of. Right now the JITed deforming is only used when deforming tuples as part of expression evaluation (and obviously only if the descriptor is known). It's likely to be beneficial in other cases, too. By default tuple deforming is JITed whenever an expression is JIT compiled. There's a separate boolean GUC controlling it, but that's expected to be primarily useful for development and benchmarking. Docs will follow in a later commit containing docs for the whole JIT feature. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix make rules that generate multiple output files.Tom Lane2018-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For years, our makefiles have correctly observed that "there is no correct way to write a rule that generates two files". However, what we did is to provide empty rules that "generate" the secondary output files from the primary one, and that's not right either. Depending on the details of the creating process, the primary file might end up timestamped later than one or more secondary files, causing subsequent make runs to consider the secondary file(s) out of date. That's harmless in a plain build, since make will just re-execute the empty rule and nothing happens. But it's fatal in a VPATH build, since make will expect the secondary file to be rebuilt in the build directory. This would manifest as "file not found" failures during VPATH builds from tarballs, if we were ever unlucky enough to ship a tarball with apparently out-of-date secondary files. (It's not clear whether that has ever actually happened, but it definitely could.) To ensure that secondary output files have timestamps >= their primary's, change our makefile convention to be that we provide a "touch $@" action not an empty rule. Also, make sure that this rule actually gets invoked during a distprep run, else the hazard remains. It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. In HEAD, I skipped the changes in src/backend/catalog/Makefile, because those rules are due to get replaced soon in the bootstrap data format patch, and there seems no need to create a merge issue for that patch. If for some reason we fail to land that patch in v11, we'll need to back-fill the changes in that one makefile from v10. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18556.1521668179@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Use stdbool.h if suitablePeter Eisentraut2018-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the standard bool type provided by C allows some recent compilers and debuggers to give better diagnostics. Also, some extension code and third-party headers are increasingly pulling in stdbool.h, so it's probably saner if everyone uses the same definition. But PostgreSQL code is not prepared to handle bool of a size other than 1, so we keep our own old definition if we encounter a stdbool.h with a bool of a different size. (Among current build farm members, this only applies to old macOS versions on PowerPC.) To check that the used bool is of the right size, add a static assertions about size of GinTernaryValue vs bool. This is currently the only place that assumes that bool and char are of the same size. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3a0fe7e1-5ed1-414b-9230-53bbc0ed1f49@2ndquadrant.com
* Add expression compilation support to LLVM JIT provider.Andres Freund2018-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In addition to the interpretation of expressions (which back evaluation of WHERE clauses, target list projection, aggregates transition values etc) support compiling expressions to native code, using the infrastructure added in earlier commits. To avoid duplicating a lot of code, only support emitting code for cases that are likely to be performance critical. For expression steps that aren't deemed that, use the existing interpreter. The generated code isn't great - some architectural changes are required to address that. But this already yields a significant speedup for some analytics queries, particularly with WHERE clauses filtering a lot, or computing multiple aggregates. Author: Andres Freund Tested-By: Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de Disable JITing for VALUES() nodes. VALUES() nodes are only ever executed once. This is primarily helpful for debugging, when forcing JITing even for cheap queries. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
* Basic planner and executor integration for JIT.Andres Freund2018-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds simple cost based plan time decision about whether JIT should be performed. jit_above_cost, jit_optimize_above_cost are compared with the total cost of a plan, and if the cost is above them JIT is performed / optimization is performed respectively. For that PlannedStmt and EState have a jitFlags (es_jit_flags) field that stores information about what JIT operations should be performed. EState now also has a new es_jit field, which can store a JitContext. When there are no errors the context is released in standard_ExecutorEnd(). It is likely that the default values for jit_[optimize_]above_cost will need to be adapted further, but in my test these values seem to work reasonably. Author: Andres Freund, with feedback by Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
* Debugging and profiling support for LLVM JIT provider.Andres Freund2018-03-22
| | | | | | | | | This currently requires patches to the LLVM codebase to be effective (submitted upstream), the GUCs are available without those patches however. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
* Support for optimizing and emitting code in LLVM JIT provider.Andres Freund2018-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit introduces the ability to actually generate code using LLVM. In particular, this adds: - Ability to emit code both in heavily optimized and largely unoptimized fashion - Batching facility to allow functions to be defined in small increments, but optimized and emitted in executable form in larger batches (for performance and memory efficiency) - Type and function declaration synchronization between runtime generated code and normal postgres code. This is critical to be able to access struct fields etc. - Developer oriented jit_dump_bitcode GUC, for inspecting / debugging the generated code. - per JitContext statistics of number of functions, time spent generating code, optimizing, and emitting it. This will later be employed for EXPLAIN support. This commit doesn't yet contain any code actually generating functions. That'll follow in later commits. Documentation for GUCs added, and for JIT in general, will be added in later commits. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by Pierre Ducroquet Testing-By: Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de