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* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2012-08-02
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* Fix race conditions associated with SPGiST redirection tuples.Tom Lane2012-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The correct test for whether a redirection tuple is removable is whether tuple's xid < RecentGlobalXmin, not OldestXmin; the previous coding failed to protect index searches being done in concurrent transactions that have no XID. This mirrors the recent fix in btree's page recycling logic made in commit d3abbbebe52eb1e59e621c880ad57df9d40d13f2. Also, WAL-log the newest XID of any removed redirection tuple on an index page, and apply ResolveRecoveryConflictWithSnapshot during InHotStandby WAL replay. This protects against concurrent Hot Standby transactions possibly needing to see the redirection tuple(s). Per my query of 2012-03-12 and subsequent discussion.
* Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT).Tom Lane2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Parse analysis neglected to cover the case of a WITH clause attached to an intermediate-level set operation; it only handled WITH at the top level or WITH attached to a leaf-level SELECT. Per report from Adam Mackler. In HEAD, I rearranged the order of SelectStmt's fields to put withClause with the other fields that can appear on non-leaf SelectStmts. In back branches, leave it alone to avoid a possible ABI break for third-party code. Back-patch to 8.4 where WITH support was added.
* Fix syslogger so that log_truncate_on_rotation works in the first rotation.Tom Lane2012-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the original coding of the log rotation stuff, we did not bother to make the truncation logic work for the very first rotation after postmaster start (or after a syslogger crash and restart). It just always appended in that case. It did not seem terribly important at the time, but we've recently had two separate complaints from people who expected it to work unsurprisingly. (Both users tend to restart the postmaster about as often as a log rotation is configured to happen, which is maybe not typical use, but still...) Since the initial log file is opened in the postmaster, fixing this requires passing down some more state to the syslogger child process. It's always been like this, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Only allow autovacuum to be auto-canceled by a directly blocked process.Tom Lane2012-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the original coding of the autovacuum cancel feature, commit acac68b2bcae818bc8803b8cb8cbb17eee8d5e2b, an autovacuum process was considered a target for cancellation if it was found to hard-block any process examined in the deadlock search. This patch tightens the test so that the autovacuum must directly hard-block the current process. This should make the behavior more predictable in general, and in particular it ensures that an autovacuum will not be canceled with less than deadlock_timeout grace period. In the old coding, it was possible for an autovacuum to be canceled almost instantly, given unfortunate timing of two or more other processes' lock attempts. This also justifies the logging methodology in the recent commit d7318d43d891bd63e82dcfc27948113ed7b1db80; without this restriction, that patch isn't providing enough information to see the connection of the canceling process to the autovacuum. Like that one, patch all the way back.
* Log a better message when canceling autovacuum.Robert Haas2012-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | The old message was at DEBUG2, so typically it didn't show up in the log at all. As a result, in most cases where autovacuum was canceled, the only information that was logged was the table being vacuumed, with no indication as to what problem caused the cancel. Crank up the level to LOG and add some more details to assist with debugging. Back-patch all the way, per discussion on pgsql-hackers.
* Fix longstanding crash-safety bug with newly-created-or-reset sequences.Tom Lane2012-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a crash occurred immediately after the first nextval() call for a serial column, WAL replay would restore the sequence to a state in which it appeared that no nextval() had been done, thus allowing the first sequence value to be returned again by the next nextval() call; as reported in bug #6748 from Xiangming Mei. More generally, the problem would occur if an ALTER SEQUENCE was executed on a freshly created or reset sequence. (The manifestation with serial columns was introduced in 8.2 when we added an ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY step to serial column creation.) The cause is that sequence creation attempted to save one WAL entry by writing out a WAL record that made it appear that the first nextval() had already happened (viz, with is_called = true), while marking the sequence's in-database state with log_cnt = 1 to show that the first nextval() need not emit a WAL record. However, ALTER SEQUENCE would emit a new WAL entry reflecting the actual in-database state (with is_called = false). Then, nextval would allocate the first sequence value and set is_called = true, but it would trust the log_cnt value and not emit any WAL record. A crash at this point would thus restore the sequence to its post-ALTER state, causing the next nextval() call to return the first sequence value again. To fix, get rid of the idea of logging an is_called status different from reality. This means that the first nextval-driven WAL record will happen at the first nextval call not the second, but the marginal cost of that is pretty negligible. In addition, make sure that ALTER SEQUENCE resets log_cnt to zero in any case where it touches sequence parameters that affect future nextval results. This will result in some user-visible changes in the contents of a sequence's log_cnt column, as reflected in the patch's regression test changes; but no application should be depending on that anyway, since it was already true that log_cnt changes rather unpredictably depending on checkpoint timing. In addition, make some basically-cosmetic improvements to get rid of sequence.c's undesirable intimacy with page layout details. It was always really trying to WAL-log the contents of the sequence tuple, so we should have it do that directly using a HeapTuple's t_data and t_len, rather than backing into it with some magic assumptions about where the tuple would be on the sequence's page. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Change syntax of new CHECK NO INHERIT constraintsAlvaro Herrera2012-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | The initially implemented syntax, "CHECK NO INHERIT (expr)" was not deemed very good, so switch to "CHECK (expr) NO INHERIT" instead. This way it looks similar to SQL-standards compliant constraint attribute. Backport to 9.2 where the new syntax and feature was introduced. Per discussion.
* Account for SRFs in targetlists in planner rowcount estimates.Tom Lane2012-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We made use of the ROWS estimate for set-returning functions used in FROM, but not for those used in SELECT targetlists; which is a bit of an oversight considering there are common usages that require the latter approach. Improve that. (I had initially thought it might be worth folding this into cost_qual_eval, but after investigation concluded that that wouldn't be very helpful, so just do it separately.) Per complaint from David Johnston. Back-patch to 9.2, but not further, for fear of destabilizing plan choices in existing releases.
* connoinherit may be true only for CHECK constraintsAlvaro Herrera2012-07-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code was setting it true for other constraints, which is bogus. Doing so caused bogus catalog entries for such constraints, and in particular caused an error to be raised when trying to drop a constraint of types other than CHECK from a table that has children, such as reported in bug #6712. In 9.2, additionally ignore connoinherit=true for other constraint types, to avoid having to force initdb; existing databases might already contain bogus catalog entries. Includes a catversion bump (in HEAD only). Bug report from Miroslav Ć ulc Analysis from Amit Kapila and Noah Misch; Amit also contributed the patch.
* Fix whole-row Var evaluation to cope with resjunk columns (again).Tom Lane2012-07-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a whole-row Var is reading the result of a subquery, we need it to ignore any "resjunk" columns that the subquery might have evaluated for GROUP BY or ORDER BY purposes. We've hacked this area before, in commit 68e40998d058c1f6662800a648ff1e1ce5d99cba, but that fix only covered whole-row Vars of named composite types, not those of RECORD type; and it was mighty klugy anyway, since it just assumed without checking that any extra columns in the result must be resjunk. A proper fix requires getting hold of the subquery's targetlist so we can actually see which columns are resjunk (whereupon we can use a JunkFilter to get rid of them). So bite the bullet and add some infrastructure to make that possible. Per report from Andrew Dunstan and additional testing by Merlin Moncure. Back-patch to all supported branches. In 8.3, also back-patch commit 292176a118da6979e5d368a4baf27f26896c99a5, which for some reason I had not done at the time, but it's a prerequisite for this change.
* Rethink checkpointer's fsync-request table representation.Tom Lane2012-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of having one hash table entry per relation/fork/segment, just have one per relation, and use bitmapsets to represent which specific segments need to be fsync'd. This eliminates the need to scan the whole hash table to implement FORGET_RELATION_FSYNC, which fixes the O(N^2) behavior recently demonstrated by Jeff Janes for cases involving lots of TRUNCATE or DROP TABLE operations during a single checkpoint cycle. Per an idea from Robert Haas. (FORGET_DATABASE_FSYNC still sucks, but since dropping a database is a pretty expensive operation anyway, we'll live with that.) In passing, improve the delayed-unlink code: remove the pass over the list in mdpreckpt, since it wasn't doing anything for us except supporting a useless Assert in mdpostckpt, and fix mdpostckpt so that it will absorb fsync requests every so often when clearing a large backlog of deletion requests.
* Send only one FORGET_RELATION_FSYNC request when dropping a relation.Tom Lane2012-07-19
| | | | | | | We were sending one per fork, but a little bit of refactoring allows us to send just one request with forknum == InvalidForkNumber. This not only reduces pressure on the shared-memory request queue, but saves repeated traversals of the checkpointer's hash table.
* Refactor the way code is shared between some range type functions.Heikki Linnakangas2012-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Functions like range_eq, range_before etc. are exposed at the SQL-level, but they're also used internally by the GiST consistent support function. The code sharing was done by a hack, TrickFunctionCall2, which relied on the knowledge that all the functions used fn_extra the same way. This commit splits the functions into internal versions that take a TypeCacheEntry as argument, and thin wrappers to expose the functions at the SQL-level. The internal versions can then be called directly and in a less hacky way from the GiST consistent function. This is just cosmetic, but backpatch to 9.2 anyway, to avoid having a different version of this code in the 9.2 branch. That would make backpatching fixes in this area more difficult. Alexander Korotkov
* Fix statistics breakage from bgwriter/checkpointer process split.Tom Lane2012-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | ForwardFsyncRequest() supposed that it could only be called in regular backends, which used to be true; but since the splitup of bgwriter and checkpointer, it is also called in the bgwriter. We do not want to count such calls in pg_stat_bgwriter.buffers_backend statistics, so fix things so that they aren't. (It's worth noting here that this implies an alarmingly large increase in the expected amount of cross-process fsync request traffic, which may well mean that the process splitup was not such a hot idea.)
* Fix management of pendingOpsTable in auxiliary processes.Tom Lane2012-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mdinit() was misusing IsBootstrapProcessingMode() to decide whether to create an fsync pending-operations table in the current process. This led to creating a table not only in the startup and checkpointer processes as intended, but also in the bgwriter process, not to mention other auxiliary processes such as walwriter and walreceiver. Creation of the table in the bgwriter is fatal, because it absorbs fsync requests that should have gone to the checkpointer; instead they just sit in bgwriter local memory and are never acted on. So writes performed by the bgwriter were not being fsync'd which could result in data loss after an OS crash. I think there is no live bug with respect to walwriter and walreceiver because those never perform any writes of shared buffers; but the potential is there for future breakage in those processes too. To fix, make AuxiliaryProcessMain() export the current process's AuxProcType as a global variable, and then make mdinit() test directly for the types of aux process that should have a pendingOpsTable. Having done that, we might as well also get rid of the random bool flags such as am_walreceiver that some of the aux processes had grown. (Note that we could not have fixed the bug by examining those variables in mdinit(), because it's called from BaseInit() which is run by AuxiliaryProcessMain() before entering any of the process-type-specific code.) Back-patch to 9.2, where the problem was introduced by the split-up of bgwriter and checkpointer processes. The bogus pendingOpsTable exists in walwriter and walreceiver processes in earlier branches, but absent any evidence that it causes actual problems there, I'll leave the older branches alone.
* Improve coding around the fsync request queue.Tom Lane2012-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In all branches back to 8.3, this patch fixes a questionable assumption in CompactCheckpointerRequestQueue/CompactBgwriterRequestQueue that there are no uninitialized pad bytes in the request queue structs. This would only cause trouble if (a) there were such pad bytes, which could happen in 8.4 and up if the compiler makes enum ForkNumber narrower than 32 bits, but otherwise would require not-currently-planned changes in the widths of other typedefs; and (b) the kernel has not uniformly initialized the contents of shared memory to zeroes. Still, it seems a tad risky, and we can easily remove any risk by pre-zeroing the request array for ourselves. In addition to that, we need to establish a coding rule that struct RelFileNode can't contain any padding bytes, since such structs are copied into the request array verbatim. (There are other places that are assuming this anyway, it turns out.) In 9.1 and up, the risk was a bit larger because we were also effectively assuming that struct RelFileNodeBackend contained no pad bytes, and with fields of different types in there, that would be much easier to break. However, there is no good reason to ever transmit fsync or delete requests for temp files to the bgwriter/checkpointer, so we can revert the request structs to plain RelFileNode, getting rid of the padding risk and saving some marginal number of bytes and cycles in fsync queue manipulation while we are at it. The savings might be more than marginal during deletion of a temp relation, because the old code transmitted an entirely useless but nonetheless expensive-to-process ForgetRelationFsync request to the background process, and also had the background process perform the file deletion even though that can safely be done immediately. In addition, make some cleanup of nearby comments and small improvements to the code in CompactCheckpointerRequestQueue/CompactBgwriterRequestQueue.
* Avoid pre-determining index names during CREATE TABLE LIKE parsing.Tom Lane2012-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, when trying to copy both indexes and comments, CREATE TABLE LIKE had to pre-assign names to indexes that had comments, because it made up an explicit CommentStmt command to apply the comment and so it had to know the name for the index. This creates bad interactions with other indexes, as shown in bug #6734 from Daniele Varrazzo: the preassignment logic couldn't take any other indexes into account so it could choose a conflicting name. To fix, add a field to IndexStmt that allows it to carry a comment to be assigned to the new index. (This isn't a user-exposed feature of CREATE INDEX, only an internal option.) Now we don't need preassignment of index names in any situation. I also took the opportunity to refactor DefineIndex to accept the IndexStmt as such, rather than passing all its fields individually in a mile-long parameter list. Back-patch to 9.2, but no further, because it seems too dangerous to change IndexStmt or DefineIndex's API in released branches. The bug exists back to 9.0 where CREATE TABLE LIKE grew the ability to copy comments, but given the lack of prior complaints we'll just let it go unfixed before 9.2.
* Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree().Tom Lane2012-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | rfree() failed to cope with the case that pg_regcomp() had initialized the regex_t struct but then failed to allocate any memory for re->re_guts (ie, the first malloc call in pg_regcomp() failed). It would try to touch the guts struct anyway, and thus dump core. This is a sufficiently narrow corner case that it's not surprising it's never been seen in the field; but still a bug is a bug, so patch all active branches. Noted while investigating whether we need to call pg_regfree after a failure return from pg_regcomp. Other than this bug, it turns out we don't, so adjust comments appropriately.
* Fix walsender processes to establish a SIGALRM handler.Tom Lane2012-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Walsenders must have working SIGALRM handling during InitPostgres, but they set the handler to SIG_IGN so that nothing would happen if a timeout was reached. This could result in two failure modes: * If a walsender participated in a deadlock during its authentication transaction, and was the last to wait in the deadly embrace, the deadlock would not get cleared automatically. This would require somebody to be trying to take out AccessExclusiveLock on multiple system catalogs, so it's not very probable. * If a client failed to respond to a walsender's authentication challenge, the intended disconnect after AuthenticationTimeout wouldn't happen, and the walsender would wait indefinitely for the client. For the moment, fix in back branches only, since this is fixed in a different way in the timeout-infrastructure patch that's awaiting application to HEAD. If we choose not to apply that, then we'll need to do this in HEAD as well.
* Back-patch fix for extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions.Tom Lane2012-07-10
| | | | | | Back-patch of commits 628cbb50ba80c83917b07a7609ddec12cda172d0 and c6aae3042be5249e672b731ebeb21875b5343010. This has been broken since 7.3, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Back-patch addition of pg_wchar-to-multibyte conversion functionality.Tom Lane2012-07-10
| | | | | | | | | Back-patch of commits 72dd6291f216440f6bb61a8733729a37c7e3b2d2, f6a05fd973a102f7e66c491d3f854864b8d24844, and 60e9c224a197aa37abb1aa3aefa3aad42da61f7f. This is needed to support fixing the regex prefix extraction bug in back branches.
* Refactor pattern_fixed_prefix() to avoid dealing in incomplete patterns.Tom Lane2012-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, pattern_fixed_prefix() was defined to return whatever fixed prefix it could extract from the pattern, plus the "rest" of the pattern. That definition was sensible for LIKE patterns, but not so much for regexes, where reconstituting a valid pattern minus the prefix could be quite tricky (certainly the existing code wasn't doing that correctly). Since the only thing that callers ever did with the "rest" of the pattern was to pass it to like_selectivity() or regex_selectivity(), let's cut out the middle-man and just have pattern_fixed_prefix's subroutines do this directly. Then pattern_fixed_prefix can return a simple selectivity number, and the question of how to cope with partial patterns is removed from its API specification. While at it, adjust the API spec so that callers who don't actually care about the pattern's selectivity (which is a lot of them) can pass NULL for the selectivity pointer to skip doing the work of computing a selectivity estimate. This patch is only an API refactoring that doesn't actually change any processing, other than allowing a little bit of useless work to be skipped. However, it's necessary infrastructure for my upcoming fix to regex prefix extraction, because after that change there won't be any simple way to identify the "rest" of the regex, not even to the low level of fidelity needed by regex_selectivity. We can cope with that if regex_fixed_prefix and regex_selectivity communicate directly, but not if we have to work within the old API. Hence, back-patch to all active branches.
* Fix planner to pass correct collation to operator selectivity estimators.Tom Lane2012-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can do this without creating an API break for estimation functions by passing the collation using the existing fmgr functionality for passing an input collation as a hidden parameter. The need for this was foreseen at the outset, but we didn't get around to making it happen in 9.1 because of the decision to sort all pg_statistic histograms according to the database's default collation. That meant that selectivity estimators generally need to use the default collation too, even if they're estimating for an operator that will do something different. The reason it's suddenly become more interesting is that regexp interpretation also uses a collation (for its LC_TYPE not LC_COLLATE property), and we no longer want to use the wrong collation when examining regexps during planning. It's not that the selectivity estimate is likely to change much from this; rather that we are thinking of caching compiled regexps during planner estimation, and we won't get the intended benefit if we cache them with a different collation than the executor will use. Back-patch to 9.1, both because the regexp change is likely to get back-patched and because we might as well get this right in all collation-supporting branches, in case any third-party code wants to rely on getting the collation. The patch turns out to be minuscule now that I've done it ...
* Run updated copyright.pl on HEAD and 9.2 trees, updating the psqlBruce Momjian2012-07-06
| | | | | | \copyright output to 2012. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Run newly-configured perltidy script on Perl files.Bruce Momjian2012-07-04
| | | | Run on HEAD and 9.2.
* Always treat a standby returning an an invalid flush location as asyncMagnus Hagander2012-07-04
| | | | | | | | This ensures that a standby such as pg_receivexlog will not be selected as sync standby - which would cause the master to block waiting for a location that could never happen. Fujii Masao
* Forgot an #include in the previous patch :-(Alvaro Herrera2012-07-03
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* Have REASSIGN OWNED work on extensions, tooAlvaro Herrera2012-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role has created an extension. Even though the user related to the extension is not nominally the owner, its OID appears on pg_shdepend and thus causes problems when the user is to be dropped. This commit adds code to change the "ownership" of the extension itself, not of the contained objects. This is fine because it's currently only called from REASSIGN OWNED, which would also modify the ownership of the contained objects. However, this is not sufficient for a working ALTER OWNER implementation extension. Back-patch to 9.1, where extensions were introduced. Bug #6593 reported by Emiliano Leporati.
* Assorted message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut2012-07-02
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* Add missing space in event_source GUC description.Peter Eisentraut2012-07-02
| | | | | | This has apparently been wrong since event_source was added. Alexander Lakhin
* Fix to_date's handling of year 519.Tom Lane2012-07-02
| | | | | | | | A thinko in commit 029dfdf1157b6d837a7b7211cd35b00c6bcd767c caused the year 519 to be handled differently from either adjacent year, which was not the intention AFAICS. Report and diagnosis by Marc Cousin. In passing, remove redundant re-tests of year value.
* Fix race condition in enum value comparisons.Tom Lane2012-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When (re) loading the typcache comparison cache for an enum type's values, use an up-to-date MVCC snapshot, not the transaction's existing snapshot. This avoids problems if we encounter an enum OID that was created since our transaction started. Per report from Andres Freund and diagnosis by Robert Haas. To ensure this is safe even if enum comparison manages to get invoked before we've set a transaction snapshot, tweak GetLatestSnapshot to redirect to GetTransactionSnapshot instead of throwing error when FirstSnapshotSet is false. The existing uses of GetLatestSnapshot (in ri_triggers.c) don't care since they couldn't be invoked except in a transaction that's already done some work --- but it seems just conceivable that this might not be true of enums, especially if we ever choose to use enums in system catalogs. Note that the comparable coding in enum_endpoint and enum_range_internal remains GetTransactionSnapshot; this is perhaps debatable, but if we changed it those functions would have to be marked volatile, which doesn't seem attractive. Back-patch to 9.1 where ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE was added.
* Remove inappropriate semicolons after function definitions.Tom Lane2012-06-30
| | | | | Solaris Studio warns about this, and some compilers might think it's an outright syntax error.
* Prevent CREATE TABLE LIKE/INHERITS from (mis) copying whole-row Vars.Tom Lane2012-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a CHECK constraint or index definition contained a whole-row Var (that is, "table.*"), an attempt to copy that definition via CREATE TABLE LIKE or table inheritance produced incorrect results: the copied Var still claimed to have the rowtype of the source table, rather than the created table. For the LIKE case, it seems reasonable to just throw error for this situation, since the point of LIKE is that the new table is not permanently coupled to the old, so there's no reason to assume its rowtype will stay compatible. In the inheritance case, we should ideally allow such constraints, but doing so will require nontrivial refactoring of CREATE TABLE processing (because we'd need to know the OID of the new table's rowtype before we adjust inherited CHECK constraints). In view of the lack of previous complaints, that doesn't seem worth the risk in a back-patched bug fix, so just make it throw error for the inheritance case as well. Along the way, replace change_varattnos_of_a_node() with a more robust function map_variable_attnos(), which is capable of being extended to handle insertion of ConvertRowtypeExpr whenever we get around to fixing the inheritance case nicely, and in the meantime it returns a failure indication to the caller so that a helpful message with some context can be thrown. Also, this code will do the right thing with subselects (if we ever allow them in CHECK or indexes), and it range-checks varattnos before using them to index into the map array. Per report from Sergey Konoplev. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Initialize shared memory copy of ckptXidEpoch correctly when not in recovery.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-29
| | | | | | | This bug was introduced by commit 20d98ab6e4110087d1816cd105a40fcc8ce0a307, so backpatch this to 9.0-9.2 like that one. This fixes bug #6710, reported by Tarvi Pillessaar
* Fix NOTIFY to cope with I/O problems, such as out-of-disk-space.Tom Lane2012-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The LISTEN/NOTIFY subsystem got confused if SimpleLruZeroPage failed, which would typically happen as a result of a write() failure while attempting to dump a dirty pg_notify page out of memory. Subsequently, all attempts to send more NOTIFY messages would fail with messages like "Could not read from file "pg_notify/nnnn" at offset nnnnn: Success". Only restarting the server would clear this condition. Per reports from Kevin Grittner and Christoph Berg. Back-patch to 9.0, where the problem was introduced during the LISTEN/NOTIFY rewrite.
* Make UtilityContainsQuery recurse until it finds a non-utility Query.Tom Lane2012-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The callers of UtilityContainsQuery want it to return a non-utility Query if it returns anything at all. However, since we made CREATE TABLE AS/SELECT INTO into a utility command instead of a variant of SELECT, a command like "EXPLAIN SELECT INTO" results in two nested utility statements. So what we need UtilityContainsQuery to do is drill down to the bottom non-utility Query. I had thought of this possibility in setrefs.c, and fixed it there by looping around the UtilityContainsQuery call; but overlooked that the call sites in plancache.c have a similar issue. In those cases it's notationally inconvenient to provide an external loop, so let's redefine UtilityContainsQuery as recursing down to a non-utility Query instead. Noted by Rushabh Lathia. This is a somewhat cleaned-up version of his proposed patch.
* Allow pg_terminate_backend() to be used on backends with matching role.Robert Haas2012-06-27
| | | | | | | | A similar change was made previously for pg_cancel_backend, so now it all matches again. Dan Farina, reviewed by Fujii Masao, Noah Misch, and Jeff Davis, with slight kibitzing on the doc changes by me.
* Cope with smaller-than-normal BLCKSZ setting in SPGiST indexes on text.Tom Lane2012-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding failed miserably for BLCKSZ of 4K or less, as reported by Josh Kupershmidt. With the present design for text indexes, a given inner tuple could have up to 256 labels (requiring either 3K or 4K bytes depending on MAXALIGN), which means that we can't positively guarantee no failures for smaller blocksizes. But we can at least make it behave sanely so long as there are few enough labels to fit on a page. Considering that btree is also more prone to "index tuple too large" failures when BLCKSZ is small, it's not clear that we should expend more work than this on this case.
* Fix memory leak in ARRAY(SELECT ...) subqueries.Tom Lane2012-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | Repeated execution of an uncorrelated ARRAY_SUBLINK sub-select (which I think can only happen if the sub-select is embedded in a larger, correlated subquery) would leak memory for the duration of the query, due to not reclaiming the array generated in the previous execution. Per bug #6698 from Armando Miraglia. Diagnosis and fix idea by Heikki, patch itself by me. This has been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported versions.
* Make documentation of --help and --version options more consistentPeter Eisentraut2012-06-18
| | | | | | Before, some places didn't document the short options (-? and -V), some documented both, some documented nothing, and they were listed in various orders. Now this is hopefully more consistent and complete.
* Improve reporting of permission errors for array typesPeter Eisentraut2012-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Because permissions are assigned to element types, not array types, complaining about permission denied on an array type would be misleading to users. So adjust the reporting to refer to the element type instead. In order not to duplicate the required logic in two dozen places, refactor the permission denied reporting for types a bit. pointed out by Yeb Havinga during the review of the type privilege feature
* Add more message pluralizationPeter Eisentraut2012-06-15
| | | | | Even though we can't do much about the case with multiple plurals in one sentence, we can fix the other cases.
* 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.
* Revert "Reduce checkpoints and WAL traffic on low activity database server"Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 18fb9d8d21a28caddb72c7ffbdd7b96d52ff9724. Per discussion, it does not seem like a good idea to allow committed changes to go un-checkpointed indefinitely, as could happen in a low-traffic server; that makes us entirely reliant on the WAL stream with no redundancy that might aid data recovery in case of disk failure. This re-introduces the original problem of hot-standby setups generating a small continuing stream of WAL traffic even when idle, but there are other ways to address that without compromising crash recovery, so we'll revisit that issue in a future release cycle.
* Deprecate use of GLOBAL and LOCAL in temp table creation.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Aside from adjusting the documentation to say that these are deprecated, we now report a warning (not an error) for use of GLOBAL, since it seems fairly likely that we might change that to request SQL-spec-compliant temp table behavior in the foreseeable future. Although our handling of LOCAL is equally nonstandard, there is no evident interest in ever implementing SQL modules, and furthermore some other products interpret LOCAL as behaving the same way we do. So no expectation of change and no warning for LOCAL; but it still seems a good idea to deprecate writing it. Noah Misch
* Support Linux's oom_score_adj API as well as the older oom_adj API.Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | The simplest way to handle this is just to copy-and-paste the relevant code block in fork_process.c, so that's what I did. (It's possible that something more complicated would be useful to packagers who want to work with either the old or the new API; but at this point the number of such people is rapidly approaching zero, so let's just get the minimal thing done.) Update relevant documentation as well.
* Improve documentation of postgres -C optionPeter Eisentraut2012-06-13
| | | | | | Clarify help (s/return/print/), and explain that this option is for use by other programs, not for user-facing use (it does not print units).
* Minor code review for json.c.Tom Lane2012-06-12
| | | | | Improve commenting, conform to project style for use of ++ etc. No functional changes.