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* Update SQL spec references in ri_triggers code to match SQL:2008.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | Now that what we're implementing isn't SQL92, we probably shouldn't cite chapter and verse in that spec anymore. Also fix some comments that talked about MATCH FULL but in fact were in code that's also used for MATCH SIMPLE. No code changes in this commit, just comments.
* Change ON UPDATE SET NULL/SET DEFAULT referential actions to meet SQL spec.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, when executing an ON UPDATE SET NULL or SET DEFAULT action for a multicolumn MATCH SIMPLE foreign key constraint, we would set only those referencing columns corresponding to referenced columns that were changed. This is what the SQL92 standard said to do --- but more recent versions of the standard say that all referencing columns should be set to null or their default values, no matter exactly which referenced columns changed. At least for SET DEFAULT, that is clearly saner behavior. It's somewhat debatable whether it's an improvement for SET NULL, but it appears that other RDBMS systems read the spec this way. So let's do it like that. This is a release-notable behavioral change, although considering that our documentation already implied it was done this way, the lack of complaints suggests few people use such cases.
* Refer to the default foreign key match style as MATCH SIMPLE internally.Tom Lane2012-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we followed the SQL92 wording, "MATCH <unspecified>", but since SQL99 there's been a less awkward way to refer to the default style. In addition to the code changes, pg_constraint.confmatchtype now stores this match style as 's' (SIMPLE) rather than 'u' (UNSPECIFIED). This doesn't affect pg_dump or psql because they use pg_get_constraintdef() to reconstruct foreign key definitions. But other client-side code might examine that column directly, so this change will have to be marked as an incompatibility in the 9.3 release notes.
* Remove RELKIND_UNCATALOGED.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | This may have been important at some point in the past, but it no longer does anything useful. Review by Tom Lane.
* Revisit error message details for JSON input parsing.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | Instead of identifying error locations only by line number (which could be entirely unhelpful with long input lines), provide a fragment of the input text too, placing this info in a new CONTEXT entry. Make the error detail messages conform more closely to style guidelines, fix failure to expose some of them for translation, ensure compiler can check formats against supplied parameters.
* Minor code review for json.c.Tom Lane2012-06-12
| | | | | Improve commenting, conform to project style for use of ++ etc. No functional changes.
* Mark JSON error detail messages for translation.Robert Haas2012-06-12
| | | | Per gripe from Tom Lane.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
| | | | commit-fest.
* Fix bogus handling of control characters in json_lex_string().Tom Lane2012-06-04
| | | | | | | | | The original coding misbehaved if "char" is signed, and also made the extremely poor decision to print control characters literally when trying to complain about them. Report and patch by Shigeru Hanada. In passing, also fix core dump risk in report_parse_error() should the parse state be something other than what it expects.
* Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a PL's call handler.Tom Lane2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's not very sensible to set such attributes on a handler function; but if one were to do so, fmgr.c went into infinite recursion because it would call fmgr_security_definer instead of the handler function proper. There is no way for fmgr_security_definer to know that it ought to call the handler and not the original function referenced by the FmgrInfo's fn_oid, so it tries to do the latter, causing the whole process to start over again. Ordinarily such misconfiguration of a procedural language's handler could be written off as superuser error. However, because we allow non-superuser database owners to create procedural languages and the handler for such a language becomes owned by the database owner, it is possible for a database owner to crash the backend, which ideally shouldn't be possible without superuser privileges. In 9.2 and up we will adjust things so that the handler functions are always owned by superusers, but in existing branches this is a minor security fix. Problem noted by Noah Misch (after several of us had failed to detect it :-(). This is CVE-2012-2655.
* Expand the allowed range of timezone offsets to +/-15:59:59 from Greenwich.Tom Lane2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We used to only allow offsets less than +/-13 hours, then it was +/14, then it was +/-15. That's still not good enough though, as per today's bug report from Patric Bechtel. This time I actually looked through the Olson timezone database to find the largest offsets used anywhere. The winners are Asia/Manila, at -15:56:00 until 1844, and America/Metlakatla, at +15:13:42 until 1867. So we'd better allow offsets less than +/-16 hours. Given the history, we are way overdue to have some greppable #define symbols controlling this, so make some ... and also remove an obsolete comment that didn't get fixed the last time. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix string truncation to be multibyte-aware in text_name and bpchar_name.Tom Lane2012-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | Previously, casts to name could generate invalidly-encoded results. Also, make these functions match namein() more exactly, by consistently using palloc0() instead of ad-hoc zeroing code. Back-patch to all supported branches. Karl Schnaitter and Tom Lane
* Update woefully-obsolete comment.Tom Lane2012-05-21
| | | | | | The accurate info about what's in a lock file has been in miscadmin.h for some time, so let's just make this comment point there instead of maintaining a duplicative copy.
* Fix incorrect logic in JSON number lexerPeter Eisentraut2012-05-20
| | | | | | | Detectable by gcc -Wlogical-op. Add two regression test cases that would previously allow incorrect values to pass.
* Remove whitespace from end of linesPeter Eisentraut2012-05-15
| | | | pgindent and perltidy should clean up the rest.
* Remove unnecessary pg_verifymbstr() calls from tsvector/query in functions.Heikki Linnakangas2012-05-14
| | | | | The input should've been validated well before it hits the input function. Doing so again is a waste of cycles.
* Update comments that became out-of-date with the PGXACT struct.Heikki Linnakangas2012-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | When the "hot" members of PGPROC were split off to separate PGXACT structs, many PGPROC fields referred to in comments were moved to PGXACT, but the comments were neglected in the commit. Mostly this is just a search/replace of PGPROC with PGXACT, but the way the dummy PGPROC entries are created for prepared transactions changed more, making some of the comments totally bogus. Noah Misch
* Small punctuation editing of postgresql.conf.samplePeter Eisentraut2012-05-14
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* Remove extraneous #include "storage/proc.h"Simon Riggs2012-05-11
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* Ensure age() returns a stable value rather than the latest valueSimon Riggs2012-05-11
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* Avoid xid error from age() function when run on Hot StandbySimon Riggs2012-05-09
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* Remove BSD/OS (BSDi) port. There are no known users upgrading toBruce Momjian2012-05-03
| | | | Postgres 9.2, and perhaps no existing users either.
* Avoid repeated CLOG access from heap_hot_search_buffer.Robert Haas2012-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | At the time we check whether the tuple is dead to all running transactions, we've already verified that it isn't visible to our scan, setting hint bits if appropriate. So there's no need to recheck CLOG for the all-dead test we do just a moment later. So, add HeapTupleIsSurelyDead() to test the appropriate condition under the assumption that all relevant hit bits are already set. Review by Tom Lane.
* Remove duplicate words in comments.Heikki Linnakangas2012-05-02
| | | | Found these with grep -r "for for ".
* Kill some remaining references to SVR4 and univel.Tom Lane2012-05-02
| | | | | Both terms still appear in a few places, but I thought it best to leave those alone in context.
* Converge all SQL-level statistics timing values to float8 milliseconds.Tom Lane2012-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adjusts the core statistics views to match the decision already taken for pg_stat_statements, that values representing elapsed time should be represented as float8 and measured in milliseconds. By using float8, we are no longer tied to a specific maximum precision of timing data. (Internally, it's still microseconds, but we could now change that without needing changes at the SQL level.) The columns affected are pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_write_time pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_sync_time pg_stat_database.blk_read_time pg_stat_database.blk_write_time pg_stat_user_functions.total_time pg_stat_user_functions.self_time pg_stat_xact_user_functions.total_time pg_stat_xact_user_functions.self_time The first four of these are new in 9.2, so there is no compatibility issue from changing them. The others require a release note comment that they are now double precision (and can show a fractional part) rather than bigint as before; also their underlying statistics functions now match the column definitions, instead of returning bigint microseconds.
* Rename I/O timing statistics columns to blk_read_time and blk_write_time.Tom Lane2012-04-29
| | | | | This seems more consistent with the pre-existing choices for names of other statistics columns. Rename assorted internal identifiers to match.
* Rename track_iotiming GUC to track_io_timing.Tom Lane2012-04-29
| | | | This spelling seems significantly more readable to me.
* Change return type of ExceptionalCondition to void and mark it noreturnPeter Eisentraut2012-04-29
| | | | | | In ancient times, it was thought that this wouldn't work because of TrapMacro/AssertMacro, but changing those to use a comma operator appears to work without compiler warnings.
* Fix printing of whole-row Vars at top level of a SELECT targetlist.Tom Lane2012-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Normally whole-row Vars are printed as "tabname.*". However, that does not work at top level of a targetlist, because per SQL standard the parser will think that the "*" should result in column-by-column expansion; which is not at all what a whole-row Var implies. We used to just print the table name in such cases, which works most of the time; but it fails if the table name matches a column name available anywhere in the FROM clause. This could lead for instance to a view being interpreted differently after dump and reload. Adding parentheses doesn't fix it, but there is a reasonably simple kluge we can use instead: attach a no-op cast, so that the "*" isn't syntactically at top level anymore. This makes the printing of such whole-row Vars a lot more consistent with other Vars, and may indeed fix more cases than just the reported one; I'm suspicious that cases involving schema qualification probably didn't work properly before, either. Per bug report and fix proposal from Abbas Butt, though this patch is quite different in detail from his. Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Lots of doc corrections.Robert Haas2012-04-23
| | | | Josh Kupershmidt
* Reduce hash size for compute_array_stats, compute_tsvector_stats.Robert Haas2012-04-23
| | | | | | | The size is only a hint, but a big hint chews up a lot of memory without apparently improving performance much. Analysis and patch by Noah Misch.
* Recast "ONLY" column CHECK constraints as NO INHERITAlvaro Herrera2012-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original syntax wasn't universally loved, and it didn't allow its usage in CREATE TABLE, only ALTER TABLE. It now works everywhere, and it also allows using ALTER TABLE ONLY to add an uninherited CHECK constraint, per discussion. The pg_constraint column has accordingly been renamed connoinherit. This commit partly reverts some of the changes in 61d81bd28dbec65a6b144e0cd3d0bfe25913c3ac, particularly some pg_dump and psql bits, because now pg_get_constraintdef includes the necessary NO INHERIT within the constraint definition. Author: Nikhil Sontakke Some tweaks by me
* Remove bogus comment from HeapTupleSatisfiesNow.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | This has been wrong for a really long time. We don't use two-phase locking to protect against serialization anomalies. Per discussion on pgsql-hackers about 2011-03-07; original report by Dan Ports.
* Rename synchronous_commit='write' to 'remote_write'.Robert Haas2012-04-14
| | | | Fujii Masao, per discussion on pgsql-hackers
* pg_size_pretty(numeric)Robert Haas2012-04-14
| | | | | | | | The output of the new pg_xlog_location_diff function is of type numeric, since it could theoretically overflow an int8 due to signedness; this provides a convenient way to format such values. Fujii Masao, with some beautification by me.
* Rename bytea_agg to string_agg and add delimiter argumentPeter Eisentraut2012-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | Per mailing list discussion, we would like to keep the bytea functions parallel to the text functions, so rename bytea_agg to string_agg, which already exists for text. Also, to satisfy the rule that we don't want aggregate functions of the same name with a different number of arguments, add a delimiter argument, just like string_agg for text already has.
* Make pg_tablespace_location(0) return the database's default tablespace.Tom Lane2012-04-10
| | | | | | | This definition is convenient when applying the function to the reltablespace column of pg_class, since that's what zero means there; and it doesn't interfere with any other plausible use of the function. Per gripe from Bruce Momjian.
* Measure epoch of timestamp-without-time-zone from local not UTC midnight.Tom Lane2012-04-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch reverts commit 191ef2b407f065544ceed5700e42400857d9270f and thereby restores the pre-7.3 behavior of EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM timestamp-without-tz). Per discussion, the more recent behavior was misguided on a couple of grounds: it makes it hard to get a non-timezone-aware epoch value for a timestamp, and it makes this one case dependent on the value of the timezone GUC, which is incompatible with having timestamp_part() labeled as immutable. The other behavior is still available (in all releases) by explicitly casting the timestamp to timestamp with time zone before applying EXTRACT. This will need to be called out as an incompatible change in the 9.2 release notes. Although having mutable behavior in a function marked immutable is clearly a bug, we're not going to back-patch such a change.
* Fix an Assert that turns out to be reachable after all.Tom Lane2012-04-09
| | | | | | | | | estimate_num_groups() gets unhappy with create table empty(); select * from empty except select * from empty e2; I can't see any actual use-case for such a query (and the table is illegal per SQL spec), but it seems like a good idea that it not cause an assert failure.
* Further adjustment of comment about qsort_tuple.Tom Lane2012-04-07
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* Fix broken comparetup_datum code.Tom Lane2012-04-06
| | | | | | | | Commit 337b6f5ecf05b21b5e997986884d097d60e4e3d0 contained the entirely fanciful assumption that it had made comparetup_datum unreachable. Reported and patched by Takashi Yamamoto. Fix up some not terribly accurate/useful comments from that commit, too.
* Add DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY [IF EXISTS], uses ShareUpdateExclusiveLockSimon Riggs2012-04-06
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* Publish checkpoint timing information to pg_stat_bgwriter.Robert Haas2012-04-05
| | | | Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan, and Robert Haas
* Expose track_iotiming data via the statistics collector.Robert Haas2012-04-05
| | | | | | Ants Aasma's original patch to add timing information for buffer I/O requests exposed this data at the relation level, which was judged too costly. I've here exposed it at the database level instead.
* New GUC, track_iotiming, to track I/O timings.Robert Haas2012-03-27
| | | | | | | | Currently, the only way to see the numbers this gathers is via EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS), but the plan is to add visibility through the stats collector and pg_stat_statements in subsequent patches. Ants Aasma, reviewed by Greg Smith, with some further changes by me.
* Replace empty locale name with implied value in CREATE DATABASE and initdb.Tom Lane2012-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | setlocale() accepts locale name "" as meaning "the locale specified by the process's environment variables". Historically we've accepted that for Postgres' locale settings, too. However, it's fairly unsafe to store an empty string in a new database's pg_database.datcollate or datctype fields, because then the interpretation could vary across postmaster restarts, possibly resulting in index corruption and other unpleasantness. Instead, we should expand "" to whatever it means at the moment of calling CREATE DATABASE, which we can do by saving the value returned by setlocale(). For consistency, make initdb set up the initial lc_xxx parameter values the same way. initdb was already doing the right thing for empty locale names, but it did not replace non-empty names with setlocale results. On a platform where setlocale chooses to canonicalize the spellings of locale names, this would result in annoying inconsistency. (It seems that popular implementations of setlocale don't do such canonicalization, which is a pity, but the POSIX spec certainly allows it to be done.) The same risk of inconsistency leads me to not venture back-patching this, although it could certainly be seen as a longstanding bug. Per report from Jeff Davis, though this is not his proposed patch.
* Code review for protransform patches.Tom Lane2012-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix loss of previous expression-simplification work when a transform function fires: we must not simply revert to untransformed input tree. Instead build a dummy FuncExpr node to pass to the transform function. This has the additional advantage of providing a simpler, more uniform API for transform functions. Move documentation to a somewhat less buried spot, relocate some poorly-placed code, be more wary of null constants and invalid typmod values, add an opr_sanity check on protransform function signatures, and some other minor cosmetic adjustments. Note: although this patch touches pg_proc.h, no need for catversion bump, because the changes are cosmetic and don't actually change the intended catalog contents.
* Clean up compiler warnings from unused variables with asserts disabledPeter Eisentraut2012-03-21
| | | | | | For those variables only used when asserts are enabled, use a new macro PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY, which expands to __attribute__((unused)) when asserts are not enabled.
* Allow new relmapper entries when allow_system_table_mods is true.Tom Lane2012-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | This restores the pre-9.0 situation that it's possible to add new indexes on pg_class and other mapped-but-not-shared catalogs, so long as you broke the glass and flipped the big red Dont-Touch-Me switch. As before, there are a lot of gotchas, and you'd have to be pretty desperate to try this on a production database; but there doesn't seem to be a reason for relmapper.c to be preventing such things all by itself. Per experimentation with a case suggested by Cody Cutrer.