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* Skip ambulkdelete scan if there's nothing to delete and the index is notTom Lane2006-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | partial. None of the existing AMs do anything useful except counting tuples when there's nothing to delete, and we can get a tuple count from the heap as long as it's not a partial index. (hash actually can skip anyway because it maintains a tuple count in the index metapage.) GIST is not currently able to exploit this optimization because, due to failure to index NULLs, GIST is always effectively partial. Possibly we should fix that sometime. Simon Riggs w/ some review by Tom Lane.
* Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAMEBruce Momjian2006-02-11
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* Fix incorrect addition, subtraction, and overflow checking in newTom Lane2006-02-11
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* Revert based on Tom's recommendation:Bruce Momjian2006-02-11
| | | | | > Allow VACUUM to complete faster by avoiding scanning the indexes when no > rows were removed from the heap by the VACUUM.
* Allow VACUUM to complete faster by avoiding scanning the indexes when noBruce Momjian2006-02-11
| | | | | | rows were removed from the heap by the VACUUM. Simon Riggs
* Add INET/CIDR operators: and, or, not, plus int8, minus int8, and inetBruce Momjian2006-02-11
| | | | | | minus inet. Stephen R. van den Berg
* Check that SID is enabled while checking for Windows admin privileges.Tom Lane2006-02-10
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* Change search for default operator classes so that it examines all opclassesTom Lane2006-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | regardless of the current schema search path. Since CREATE OPERATOR CLASS only allows one default opclass per datatype regardless of schemas, this should have minimal impact, and it fixes problems with failure to find a desired opclass while restoring dump files. Per discussion at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00284.php. Remove now-redundant-or-unused code in typcache.c and namespace.c, and backpatch as far as 8.0.
* Allow psql multi-line column values to align in the proper columnsBruce Momjian2006-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the second output column value is 'a\nb', the 'b' should appear in the second display column, rather than the first column as it does now. Change libpq's PQdsplen() to return more useful values. > Note: this changes the PQdsplen function, it can now return zero or > minus one which was not possible before. It doesn't appear anyone is > actually using the functions other than psql but it is a change. The > functions are not actually documentated anywhere so it's not like we're > breaking a defined interface. The new semantics follow the Unicode > standard. BACKWARD COMPATIBLE CHANGE. The only user-visible change I saw in the regression tests is that a SELECT * on a table where all the columns have been dropped doesn't return a blank line like before. This seems like a step forward. Martijn van Oosterhout
* Reject out-of-range dates in date_in().Tom Lane2006-02-09
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* Source code cleanup.Bruce Momjian2006-02-07
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* I think that NUMERIC datatype has a problem in the performance thatBruce Momjian2006-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the format on Tuple(Numeric) and the format to calculate(NumericVar) are different. I understood that to reduce I/O. However, when many comparisons or calculations of NUMERIC are executed, the conversion of Numeric and NumericVar becomes a bottleneck. It is profile result when "create index on NUMERIC column" is executed: % cumulative self self total time seconds seconds calls s/call s/call name 17.61 10.27 10.27 34542006 0.00 0.00 cmp_numerics 11.90 17.21 6.94 34542006 0.00 0.00 comparetup_index 7.42 21.54 4.33 71102587 0.00 0.00 AllocSetAlloc 7.02 25.64 4.09 69084012 0.00 0.00 set_var_from_num 4.87 28.48 2.84 69084012 0.00 0.00 alloc_var 4.79 31.27 2.79 142205745 0.00 0.00 AllocSetFreeIndex 4.55 33.92 2.65 34542004 0.00 0.00 cmp_abs 4.07 36.30 2.38 71101189 0.00 0.00 AllocSetFree 3.83 38.53 2.23 69084012 0.00 0.00 free_var The create index command executes many comparisons of Numeric values. Functions other than comparetup_index spent a lot of cycles for conversion from Numeric to NumericVar. An attached patch enables the comparison of Numeric values without executing conversion to NumericVar. The execution time of that SQL becomes half. o Test SQL (index_test table has 1,000,000 tuples) create index index_test_idx on index_test(num_col); o Test results (executed the test five times) (1)PentiumIII original: 39.789s 36.823s 36.737s 37.752s 37.019s patched : 18.560s 19.103s 18.830s 18.408s 18.853s 4.07 36.30 2.38 71101189 0.00 0.00 AllocSetFree 3.83 38.53 2.23 69084012 0.00 0.00 free_var The create index command executes many comparisons of Numeric values. Functions other than comparetup_index spent a lot of cycles for conversion from Numeric to NumericVar. An attached patch enables the comparison of Numeric values without executing conversion to NumericVar. The execution time of that SQL becomes half. o Test SQL (index_test table has 1,000,000 tuples) create index index_test_idx on index_test(num_col); o Test results (executed the test five times) (1)PentiumIII original: 39.789s 36.823s 36.737s 37.752s 37.019s patched : 18.560s 19.103s 18.830s 18.408s 18.853s (2)Pentium4 original: 16.349s 14.997s 12.979s 13.169s 12.955s patched : 7.005s 6.594s 6.770s 6.740s 6.828s (3)Itanium2 original: 15.392s 15.447s 15.350s 15.370s 15.417s patched : 7.413s 7.330s 7.334s 7.339s 7.339s (4)Ultra Sparc original: 64.435s 59.336s 59.332s 58.455s 59.781s patched : 28.630s 28.666s 28.983s 28.744s 28.595s Atsushi Ogawa
* Improve the tests to see if ScalarArrayOpExpr is strict. Original codingTom Lane2006-02-06
| | | | | | would basically punt in all cases for 'foo <> ALL (array)', which resulted in a performance regression for NOT IN compared to what we were doing in 8.1 and before. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
* Improve my initial, rather hacky implementation of joins to appendTom Lane2006-02-05
| | | | | | | | relations: fix the executor so that we can have an Append plan on the inside of a nestloop and still pass down outer index keys to index scans within the Append, then generate such plans as if they were regular inner indexscans. This avoids the need to evaluate the outer relation multiple times.
* Fix constraint exclusion to work in inherited UPDATE/DELETE queriesTom Lane2006-02-04
| | | | | | | | | ... in fact, it will be applied now in any query whatsoever. I'm still a bit concerned about the cycles that might be expended in failed proof attempts, but given that CE is turned off by default, it's the user's choice whether to expend those cycles or not. (Possibly we should change the simple bool constraint_exclusion parameter to something more fine-grained?)
* DROP IF EXISTS for ROLE/USER/GROUPAndrew Dunstan2006-02-04
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* Issue a warning if a change-on-restart-only postgresql.conf value isPeter Eisentraut2006-02-04
| | | | modified and the server config files are reloaded
* Teach planner to convert simple UNION ALL subqueries into append relations,Tom Lane2006-02-03
| | | | | | | | | thereby sharing code with the inheritance case. This puts the UNION-ALL-view approach to partitioned tables on par with inheritance, so far as constraint exclusion is concerned: it works either way. (Still need to update the docs to say so.) The definition of "simple UNION ALL" is a little simpler than I would like --- basically the union arms can only be SELECT * FROM foo --- but it's good enough for partitioned-table cases.
* Update random() usage so ranges are inclusive/exclusive as required.Bruce Momjian2006-02-03
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* Prevent COPY from using newline or carriage return as delimiter or null.Bruce Momjian2006-02-03
| | | | | | Disallow backslash as the delimiter in non-CVS mode. David Fetter
* Add code comment about Linux stack randomization and shared memory.Bruce Momjian2006-02-01
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* Set progname early in the postmaster/postgres binary, rather than doingBruce Momjian2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | it later. This fixes a problem where EXEC_BACKEND didn't have progname set, causing a segfault if log_min_messages was set below debug2 and our own snprintf.c was being used. Also alway strdup() progname. Backpatch to 8.1.X and 8.0.X.
* Allow %TYPE to be used with SETOF, per gripe from Murat Tasan.Tom Lane2006-01-31
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* Restructure planner's handling of inheritance. Rather than processingTom Lane2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | inheritance trees on-the-fly, which pretty well constrained us to considering only one way of planning inheritance, expand inheritance sets during the planner prep phase, and build a side data structure that can be consulted later to find which RTEs are members of which inheritance sets. As proof of concept, use the data structure to plan joins against inheritance sets more efficiently: we can now use indexes on the set members in inner-indexscan joins. (The generated plans could be improved further, but it'll take some executor changes.) This data structure will also support handling UNION ALL subqueries in the same way as inheritance sets, but that aspect of it isn't finished yet.
* Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE bug: it sometimes tried to drop UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEYTom Lane2006-01-30
| | | | | constraints before FOREIGN KEY constraints that depended on them. Originally reported by Neil Conway on 29-Jun-2005. Patch by Nakano Yoshihisa.
* When building a bitmap scan, must copy the bitmapqualorig expression treeTom Lane2006-01-29
| | | | | | | | to avoid sharing substructure with the lower-level indexquals. This is currently only an issue if there are SubPlans in the indexquals, which is uncommon but not impossible --- see bug #2218 reported by Nicholas Vinen. We use the same kluge for indexqual vs indexqualorig in the index scans themselves ... would be nice to clean this up someday.
* Fix Assert that's no longer correct now that RowCompareExpr is indexable.Tom Lane2006-01-29
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* Fix code that checks to see if an index can be considered to match the query'sTom Lane2006-01-29
| | | | | | | | | requested sort order. It was assuming that build_index_pathkeys always generates a pathkey per index column, which was not true if implied equality deduction had determined that two index columns were effectively equated to each other. Simplest fix seems to be to install an option that causes build_index_pathkeys to support this behavior as well as the original one. Per report from Brian Hirt.
* Suppress signed-vs-unsigned-char warning.Tom Lane2006-01-26
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* Fix display of whole-row Var appearing at the top level of a SELECT list.Tom Lane2006-01-26
| | | | | | | | While we normally prefer the notation "foo.*" for a whole-row Var, that does not work at SELECT top level, because in that context the parser will assume that what is wanted is to expand the "*" into a list of separate target columns, yielding behavior different from a whole-row Var. We have to emit just "foo" instead in that context. Per report from Sokolov Yura.
* Clean up the INET-vs-CIDR situation. Get rid of the internal is_cidr flagTom Lane2006-01-26
| | | | | | | | and rely exclusively on the SQL type system to tell the difference between the types. Prevent creation of invalid CIDR values via casting from INET or set_masklen() --- both of these operations now silently zero any bits to the right of the netmask. Remove duplicate CIDR comparison operators, letting the type rely on the INET operators instead.
* Remove the no-longer-useful HashItem/HashItemData level of structure.Tom Lane2006-01-25
| | | | Same motivation as for BTItem.
* Remove the no-longer-useful BTItem/BTItemData level of structure, andTom Lane2006-01-25
| | | | | | | just refer to btree index entries as plain IndexTuples, which is what they have been for a very long time. This is mostly just an exercise in removing extraneous notation, but it does save a palloc/pfree cycle per index insertion.
* Allow row comparisons to be used as indexscan qualifications.Tom Lane2006-01-25
| | | | This completes the project to upgrade our handling of row comparisons.
* Update regression error message for NUMERIC range overflow. Display "1"Bruce Momjian2006-01-25
| | | | instead of 10^0.
* Improve error message when NUMERIC precision is exceeded.Bruce Momjian2006-01-25
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* Fix unportable usage of socklen_t: should use ACCEPT_TYPE_ARG3 macroTom Lane2006-01-24
| | | | provided by configure, instead. Per bug #2205.
* Instead of using a numberOfRequiredKeys count to distinguish requiredTom Lane2006-01-23
| | | | | | | | | and non-required keys in a btree index scan, mark the required scankeys with private flag bits SK_BT_REQFWD and/or SK_BT_REQBKWD. This seems at least marginally clearer to me, and it eliminates a wired-into-the- data-structure assumption that required keys are consecutive. Even though that assumption will remain true for the foreseeable future, having it in there makes the code seem more complex than necessary.
* Prototype fix for typo.Bruce Momjian2006-01-23
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* Use is_cidr in INET/CIDR structure, rather than the generic 'type'.Bruce Momjian2006-01-23
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* Fix alias-for-target-table-of-UPDATE-or-DELETE patch so that alias canTom Lane2006-01-22
| | | | | be any ColId other than 'SET', rather than only IDENT as originally. Per discussion.
* Allow an optional alias for the target table to be specified for UPDATENeil Conway2006-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | and DELETE. If specified, the alias must be used instead of the full table name. Also, the alias currently cannot be used in the SET clause of UPDATE. Patch from Atsushi Ogawa, various editorialization by Neil Conway. Along the way, make the rowtypes regression test pass if add_missing_from is enabled, and add a new (skeletal) regression test for DELETE.
* Repair longstanding bug in slru/clog logic: it is possible for two backendsTom Lane2006-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | to try to create a log segment file concurrently, but the code erroneously specified O_EXCL to open(), resulting in a needless failure. Before 7.4, it was even a PANIC condition :-(. Correct code is actually simpler than what we had, because we can just say O_CREAT to start with and not need a second open() call. I believe this accounts for several recent reports of hard-to-reproduce "could not create file ...: File exists" errors in both pg_clog and pg_subtrans.
* Add GRANT ON SEQUENCE syntax to support sequence-only permissions.Bruce Momjian2006-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Continue to support GRANT ON [TABLE] for sequences for backward compatibility; issue warning for invalid sequence permissions. [Backward compatibility warning message.] Add USAGE permission for sequences that allows only currval() and nextval(), not setval(). Mention object name in grant/revoke warnings because of possible multi-object operations.
* Fix thinko in autovacuum's test to skip temp tables: want to skip anyTom Lane2006-01-20
| | | | | | temp table not only our own process' tables. It's not real important since vacuum.c will skip temp tables anyway, but might as well make the code do what it claims to do.
* Add some test scaffolding to allow cache-flush stress testing (and I doTom Lane2006-01-19
| | | | mean stress ... system is orders of magnitude slower with this enabled).
* Avoid crashing if relcache flush occurs while trying to load data into anTom Lane2006-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | index's support-function cache (in index_getprocinfo). Since none of that data can change for an index that's in active use, it seems sufficient to treat all open indexes the same way we were treating "nailed" system indexes --- that is, just re-read the pg_class row and leave the rest of the relcache entry strictly alone. The pg_class re-read might not be strictly necessary either, but since the reltablespace and relfilenode can change in normal operation it seems safest to do it. (We don't support changing any of the other info about an index at all, at the moment.) Back-patch as far as 8.0. It might be possible to adapt the patch to 7.4, but it would take more work than I care to expend for such a low-probability problem. 7.3 is out of luck for sure.
* It turns out that TablespaceCreateDbspace fails badly if a relcache flushTom Lane2006-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | occurs when it tries to heap_open pg_tablespace. When control returns to smgrcreate, that routine will be holding a dangling pointer to a closed SMgrRelation, resulting in mayhem. This is of course a consequence of the violation of proper module layering inherent in having smgr.c call a tablespace command routine, but the simplest fix seems to be to change the locking mechanism. There's no real need for TablespaceCreateDbspace to touch pg_tablespace at all --- it's only opening it as a way of locking against a parallel DROP TABLESPACE command. A much better answer is to create a special-purpose LWLock to interlock these two operations. This drops TablespaceCreateDbspace quite a few layers down the food chain and makes it something reasonably safe for smgr to call.
* Fix a tiny memory leak (one List header) in RelationCacheInvalidate().Tom Lane2006-01-19
| | | | | | | This is utterly insignificant in normal operation, but it becomes a problem during cache inval stress testing. The original coding in fact had no leak --- the 8.0 List rewrite created the issue. I wonder whether list_concat should pfree the discarded header?
* Modify pgstats code to reduce performance penalties from oversized stats dataTom Lane2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | files: avoid creating stats hashtable entries for tables that aren't being touched except by vacuum/analyze, ensure that entries for dropped tables are removed promptly, and tweak the data layout to avoid storing useless struct padding. Also improve the performance of pgstat_vacuum_tabstat(), and make sure that autovacuum invokes it exactly once per autovac cycle rather than multiple times or not at all. This should cure recent complaints about 8.1 showing much higher stats I/O volume than was seen in 8.0. It'd still be a good idea to revisit the design with an eye to not re-writing the entire stats dataset every half second ... but that would be too much to backpatch, I fear.