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* Fix logic in lazy vacuum to decide if it's worth trying to truncate the heap.Heikki Linnakangas2009-01-06
| | | | | | | | If the table was smaller than REL_TRUNCATE_FRACTION (= 16) pages, we always tried to acquire AccessExclusiveLock on it even if there was no empty pages at the end. Report by Simon Riggs. Back-patch all the way to 7.4.
* Fix an oversight in my patch of a couple weeks ago that ensured a snapshotTom Lane2009-01-01
| | | | | | | | | | is available during datatype input in Bind message processing. I put the PopActiveSnapshot() or equivalent just before PortalDefineQuery, which is an unsafe spot for it (in 8.3 and later) because we are carrying a plancache refcount that hasn't yet been assigned to the portal. Any error thrown there would result in leaking the refcount. It's not exactly likely that PopActiveSnapshot would throw an elog, perhaps, but it could happen. Reorder the code and add another comment warning not to do that.
* Fix oversight in ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE RULE patch: the new enabledTom Lane2008-12-30
| | | | | | | field needs to be included in equalRuleLocks() comparisons, else updates will fail to propagate into relcache entries when they have positive reference count (ie someone is using the relcache entry). Per report from Alex Hunsaker.
* Make heap_update() set newtup->t_tableOid correctly, for consistency withTom Lane2008-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | the other major heapam.c functions. The only known consequence of this omission is that UPDATE RETURNING failed to return the correct value for "tableoid", as per report from KaiGai Kohei. Back-patch to 8.2. Arguably it's wrong all the way back; but without evidence of visible breakage before RETURNING was added, I'll desist from patching the older branches.
* Restore enforce_generic_type_consistency's pre-8.3 behavior of allowing anTom Lane2008-12-14
| | | | | | | actual argument type of ANYARRAY to match an argument declared ANYARRAY, so long as ANYELEMENT etc aren't used. I had overlooked the fact that this is a possible case while fixing bug #3852; but it is possible because pg_statistic contains columns declared ANYARRAY. Per gripe from Corey Horton.
* Fix failure to ensure that a snapshot is available to datatype input functionsTom Lane2008-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | when they are invoked by the parser. We had been setting up a snapshot at plan time but really it needs to be done earlier, before parse analysis. Per report from Dmitry Koterov. Also fix two related problems discovered while poking at this one: exec_bind_message called datatype input functions without establishing a snapshot, and SET CONSTRAINTS IMMEDIATE could call trigger functions without establishing a snapshot. Backpatch to 8.2. The underlying problem goes much further back, but it is masked in 8.1 and before because we didn't attempt to invoke domain check constraints within datatype input. It would only be exposed if a C-language datatype input function used the snapshot; which evidently none do, or we'd have heard complaints sooner. Since this code has changed a lot over time, a back-patch is hardly risk-free, and so I'm disinclined to patch further than absolutely necessary.
* Initialize GISTScanOpaque->qual_ok even if there is no conditions.Teodor Sigaev2008-12-04
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* Fix an oversight in the code that makes transitive-equality deductions fromTom Lane2008-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | outer join clauses. Given, say, ... from a left join b on a.a1 = b.b1 where a.a1 = 42; we'll deduce a clause b.b1 = 42 and then mark the original join clause redundant (we can't remove it completely for reasons I don't feel like squeezing into this log entry). However the original implementation of that wasn't bulletproof, because clause_selectivity() wouldn't honor this_selec if given nonzero varRelid --- which in practice meant that it worked as desired *except* when considering index scan quals. Which resulted in bogus underestimation of the size of the indexscan result for an inner indexscan in an outer join, and consequently a possibly bad choice of indexscan vs. bitmap scan. Fix by introducing an explicit test into clause_selectivity(). Also, to make sure we don't trigger that test in corner cases, change the convention to be that this_selec > 1, not this_selec = 1, means it's been marked redundant. Per trouble report from Scara Maccai. Back-patch to 8.2, where the problem was introduced.
* Ensure that the contents of a holdable cursor don't depend on out-of-lineTom Lane2008-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | toasted values, since those could get dropped once the cursor's transaction is over. Per bug #4553 from Andrew Gierth. Back-patch as far as 8.1. The bug actually exists back to 7.4 when holdable cursors were introduced, but this patch won't work before 8.1 without significant adjustments. Given the lack of field complaints, it doesn't seem worth the work (and risk of introducing new bugs) to try to make a patch for the older branches.
* Remove inappropriate memory context switch in shutdown_MultiFuncCall().Tom Lane2008-11-30
| | | | | | | This was a thinko introduced in a patch from last February; it results in memory leakage if an SRF is shut down before the actual end of query, because subsequent code will be running in a longer-lived context than it's expecting to be.
* Back-patch change to make DISCARD ALL release advisory locks.Tom Lane2008-11-27
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* Fix crash of xmlconcat(NULL)Peter Eisentraut2008-11-15
| | | | backpatch from 8.4devel
* Prevent synchronous scan during GIN index build, because GIN is optimizedTom Lane2008-11-13
| | | | | | | | | for inserting tuples in increasing TID order. It's not clear whether this fully explains Ivan Sergio Borgonovo's complaint, but simple testing confirms that a scan that doesn't start at block 0 can slow GIN build by a factor of three or four. Backpatch to 8.3. Sync scan didn't exist before that.
* In predtest.c, install a limit on the number of branches we will process inTom Lane2008-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AND, OR, or equivalent clauses: if there are too many (more than 100) just exit without proving anything. This ensures that we don't spend O(N^2) time trying (and most likely failing) to prove anything about very long IN lists and similar cases. Also, install a couple of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls to ensure that a long proof attempt can be interrupted. Per gripe from Sergey Konoplev. Back-patch the whole patch to 8.2 and just the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS addition to 8.1. (The rest of the patch doesn't apply cleanly, and since 8.1 doesn't show the complained-of behavior anyway, it doesn't seem necessary to work hard on it.)
* Fix off-by-one error in autovacuum shmem struct sizing. This could lead toHeikki Linnakangas2008-11-12
| | | | | | | autovacuum worker sending SIGUSR1 signal to wrong process, per Zou Yong's report. Backpatch to 8.3.
* Get rid of adjust_appendrel_attr_needed(), which has been broken ever sinceTom Lane2008-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | we extended the appendrel mechanism to support UNION ALL optimization. The reason nobody noticed was that we are not actually using attr_needed data for appendrel children; hence it seems more reasonable to rip it out than fix it. Back-patch to 8.2 because an Assert failure is possible in corner cases. Per examination of an example from Jim Nasby. In HEAD, also get rid of AppendRelInfo.col_mappings, which is quite inadequate to represent UNION ALL situations; depend entirely on translated_vars instead.
* Fix bugs in sqlchar_to_unicode and unicode_to_sqlchar: both were measuringTom Lane2008-11-10
| | | | | | the length of a UTF8 character with pg_mblen (wrong if DB encoding isn't UTF8), and the latter was blithely assuming that a static buffer would somehow revert to all zeroes for each use.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2008-10-30
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* Revert previous patch to put the shared memory segment on win32Magnus Hagander2008-10-30
| | | | | | | | in the Global\ namespace, because it caused permission errors on a lot of platforms. We need to come up with something better for 8.4, but for now revert to the pre-8.3.4 behaviour.
* Fix recoveryLastXTime logic so that it actually does what one would expect.Tom Lane2008-10-30
| | | | Per gripe from Kevin Grittner. Backpatch to 8.3, where the bug was introduced.
* Install a more robust solution for the problem of infinite error-processingTom Lane2008-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the client's encoding. We've been over this ground before, but as reported by Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for the conversion-failure message itself :-(. Fix by installing a "circuit breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into recursion trouble. Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them; though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.
* Better solution to the IN-list issue: instead of having an arbitrary cutoff,Tom Lane2008-10-26
| | | | | | | treat Var and non-Var IN-list items differently. Only non-Var items are candidates to go into an ANY(ARRAY) construct --- we put all Vars as separate OR conditions on the grounds that that leaves more scope for optimization. Per suggestion from Robert Haas.
* Add a heuristic to transformAExprIn() to make it prefer expanding "x IN (list)"Tom Lane2008-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | into an OR of equality comparisons, rather than x = ANY(ARRAY[...]), when there are Vars in the right-hand side. This avoids a performance regression compared to pre-8.2 releases, in cases where the OR form can be optimized into scans of multiple indexes. Limit the possible downside by preferring this form only when the list isn't very long (I set the cutoff at 32 elements, which is a bit arbitrary but in the right ballpark). Per discussion with Jim Nasby. In passing, also make it try the OR form if it cannot select a common type for the array elements; we've seen a complaint or two about how the OR form worked for such cases and ARRAY doesn't.
* Fix an old bug in after-trigger handling: AfterTriggerEndQuery took theTom Lane2008-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | address of afterTriggers->query_stack[afterTriggers->query_depth] and hung onto it through all its firings of triggers. However, if a trigger causes sufficiently many nested query executions, query_stack will get repalloc'd bigger, leaving AfterTriggerEndQuery --- and hence afterTriggerInvokeEvents --- using a stale pointer. So far as I can find, the only consequence of this error is to stomp on a couple of words of already-freed memory; which would lead to a failure only if that chunk had already gotten re-allocated for something else. So it's hard to exhibit a simple failure case, but this is surely a bug. I noticed this while working on my recent patch to reduce pending-trigger space usage. The present patch is mighty ugly, because it requires making afterTriggerInvokeEvents know about all the possible event lists it might get called on. Fortunately, this is only needed in back branches because CVS HEAD avoids the problem in a different way: afterTriggerInvokeEvents only touches the passed AfterTriggerEventList pointer once at startup. Back branches are stable enough that wiring in knowledge of all possible call usages doesn't seem like a killer problem. Back-patch to 8.0. 7.4's trigger code is completely different and doesn't seem to have the problem (it doesn't even use repalloc).
* On second thought, let's not get involved in correcting the feature listPeter Eisentraut2008-10-23
| | | | | in 8.3. The list is quite outdated, and fixing it up would require more effort. Plus, we don't want diverging information schema contents.
* Fix GiST's killing tuple: GISTScanOpaque->curpos wasn'tTeodor Sigaev2008-10-22
| | | | | | correctly set. As result, killtuple() marks as dead wrong tuple on page. Bug was introduced by me while fixing possible duplicates during GiST index scan.
* Small correction SQL feature tablePeter Eisentraut2008-10-17
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* Fix small bug in headline generation.Teodor Sigaev2008-10-17
| | | | | Patch from Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00785.php
* During repeated rescan of GiST index it's possible that scan keyTeodor Sigaev2008-10-17
| | | | | | | | | is NULL but SK_SEARCHNULL is not set. Add checking IS NULL of keys to set during key initialization. If key is NULL and SK_SEARCHNULL is not set then nothnig can be satisfied. With assert-enabled compilation that causes coredump. Bug was introduced in 8.3 by support of IS NULL index scan.
* Fix a small memory leak in ExecReScanAgg() in the hashed aggregation case.Neil Conway2008-10-16
| | | | | | | In the previous coding, the list of columns that needed to be hashed on was allocated in the per-query context, but we reallocated every time the Agg node was rescanned. Since this information doesn't change over a rescan, just construct the list of columns once during ExecInitAgg().
* Fix SPI_getvalue and SPI_getbinval to range-check the given attribute numberTom Lane2008-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | according to the TupleDesc's natts, not the number of physical columns in the tuple. The previous coding would do the wrong thing in cases where natts is different from the tuple's column count: either incorrectly report error when it should just treat the column as null, or actually crash due to indexing off the end of the TupleDesc's attribute array. (The second case is probably not possible in modern PG versions, due to more careful handling of inheritance cases than we once had. But it's still a clear lack of robustness here.) The incorrect error indication is ignored by all callers within the core PG distribution, so this bug has no symptoms visible within the core code, but it might well be an issue for add-on packages. So patch all the way back.
* Fix omission of DiscardStmt in GetCommandLogLevel, per report from HubertTom Lane2008-10-10
| | | | | Depesz Lubaczewski. In HEAD, also move a couple of other cases to make the code ordering match up with ProcessUtility.
* Fix crash in bytea-to-XML mapping when the source value is toasted.Tom Lane2008-10-09
| | | | | Report and fix by Michael McMaster. Some minor code beautification by me, also avoid memory leaks in the special-case paths.
* Force a checkpoint in CREATE DATABASE before starting to copy the files,Heikki Linnakangas2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | to process any pending unlinks for the source database. Before, if you dropped a relation in the template database just before CREATE DATABASE, and a checkpoint happened during copydir(), the checkpoint might delete a file that we're just about to copy, causing lstat() in copydir() to fail with ENOENT. Backpatch to 8.3, where the pending unlinks were introduced. Per report by Matthew Wakeling and analysis by Tom Lane.
* When a relation is moved to another tablespace, we can't assume that we canHeikki Linnakangas2008-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | use the old relfilenode in the new tablespace. There might be another relation in the new tablespace with the same relfilenode, so we must generate a fresh relfilenode in the new tablespace. The 8.3 patch to let deleted relation files linger as zero-length files until the next checkpoint made this more obvious: moving a relation from one table space another, and then back again, caused a collision with the lingering file. Back-patch to 8.1. The issue is present in 8.0 as well, but it doesn't seem worth fixing there, because we didn't have protection from OID collisions after OID wraparound before 8.1. Report by Guillaume Lelarge.
* Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval valuesTom Lane2008-10-02
| | | | | | when using --enable-integer-datetimes and a non-ISO datestyle. Ron Mayer
* Compare escaped chars case insensitively for ILIKE - per gripe from TGL.Andrew Dunstan2008-09-27
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* Fix more problems with rewriter failing to set Query.hasSubLinks when insertingTom Lane2008-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | a SubLink expression into a rule query. We missed cases where the original query contained a sub-SELECT in a function in FROM, a multi-row VALUES list, or a RETURNING list. Per bug #4434 from Dean Rasheed and subsequent investigation. Back-patch to 8.1; older releases don't have the issue because they didn't try to be smart about setting hasSubLinks only when needed.
* Fix multiple memory leaks in xml_out(). Per report from Matt Magoffin.Tom Lane2008-09-16
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* Fix caching of foreign-key-checking queries so that when a replan is needed,Tom Lane2008-09-15
| | | | | | | | we regenerate the SQL query text not merely the plan derived from it. This is needed to handle contingencies such as renaming of a table or column used in an FK. Pre-8.3, such cases worked despite the lack of replanning (because the cached plan needn't actually change), so this is a regression. Per bug #4417 from Benjamin Bihler.
* Skip opfamily check in eclass_matches_any_index() when the index isn't aTom Lane2008-09-12
| | | | | | | | | btree. We can't easily tell whether clauses generated from the equivalence class could be used with such an index, so just assume that they might be. This bit of over-optimization prevented use of non-btree indexes for nestloop inner indexscans, in any case where the join uses an equality operator that is also a btree operator --- which in particular is typically true for hash indexes. Noted while trying to test the current hash index patch.
* Initialize the minimum frozen Xid in vac_update_datfrozenxid usingAlvaro Herrera2008-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GetOldestXmin() instead of RecentGlobalXmin; this is safer because we do not depend on the latter being correctly set elsewhere, and while it is more expensive, this code path is not performance-critical. This is a real risk for autovacuum, because it can execute whole cycles without doing a single vacuum, which would mean that RecentGlobalXmin would stay at its initialization value, FirstNormalTransactionId, causing a bogus value to be inserted in pg_database. This bug could explain some recent reports of failure to truncate pg_clog. At the same time, change the initialization of RecentGlobalXmin to InvalidTransactionId, and ensure that it's set to something else whenever it's going to be used. Using it as FirstNormalTransactionId in HOT page pruning could incur in data loss. InitPostgres takes care of setting it to a valid value, but the extra checks are there to prevent "special" backends from behaving in unusual ways. Per Tom Lane's detailed problem dissection in 29544.1221061979@sss.pgh.pa.us
* HeapTupleHeaderAdjustCmax made the incorrect assumption that the rawHeikki Linnakangas2008-09-01
| | | | | | | | | command id is the cmin, when it can in fact be a combo cid. That made rows incorrectly invisible to a transaction where a tuple was deleted by multiple aborted subtransactions. Report and patch Karl Schnaitter. Back-patch to 8.3, where combo cids was introduced.
* Fix bug in original implementation of xmlserialize(): if user specifiesTom Lane2008-08-29
| | | | | | | | a target type that isn't acceptable, the code failed to raise the proper error. The result instead was to return a NULL expression tree, which in a quick test led to a 'cache lookup failed for type 0' error later. Patch 8.3 only --- I fixed this in HEAD as part of recent locations patch.
* Teach eval_const_expressions() to simplify an ArrayCoerceExpr to a constantTom Lane2008-08-26
| | | | | | | | when its input is constant and the element coercion function is immutable (or nonexistent, ie, binary-coercible case). This is an oversight in the 8.3 implementation of ArrayCoerceExpr, and its result is that certain cases involving IN or NOT IN with constants don't get optimized as they should be. Per experimentation with an example from Ow Mun Heng.
* Fix possible duplicate tuples while GiST scan. Now page is processedTeodor Sigaev2008-08-23
| | | | | | | | | at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory. Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another page - it could produce unaceptable overhead. Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.
* Fix pull_up_simple_union_all to copy all rtable entries from child subquery toHeikki Linnakangas2008-08-14
| | | | | | | parent, not only those with RangeTblRefs. We need them in ExecCheckRTPerms. Report by Brendan O'Shea. Back-patch to 8.2, where pull_up_simple_union_all was introduced.
* Fix corner-case bug introduced with HOT: if REINDEX TABLE pg_class (or aTom Lane2008-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | REINDEX DATABASE including same) is done before a session has done any other update on pg_class, the pg_class relcache entry was left with an incorrect setting of rd_indexattr, because the indexed-attributes set would be first demanded at a time when we'd forced a partial list of indexes into the pg_class entry, and it would remain cached after that. This could result in incorrect decisions about HOT-update safety later in the same session. In practice, since only pg_class_relname_nsp_index would be missed out, only ALTER TABLE RENAME and ALTER TABLE SET SCHEMA could trigger a problem. Per report and test case from Ondrej Jirman.
* Install checks in executor startup to ensure that the tuples produced by anTom Lane2008-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | INSERT or UPDATE will match the target table's current rowtype. In pre-8.3 releases inconsistency can arise with stale cached plans, as reported by Merlin Moncure. (We patched the equivalent hazard on the SELECT side in Feb 2007; I'm not sure why we thought there was no risk on the insertion side.) In 8.3 and HEAD this problem should be impossible due to plan cache invalidation management, but it seems prudent to make the check anyway. Back-patch as far as 8.0. 7.x versions lack ALTER COLUMN TYPE, so there seems no way to abuse a stale plan comparably.
* Do not allow Unique nodes to be scanned backwards. The code claimed that itTom Lane2008-08-05
| | | | | | | would work, but in fact it didn't return the same rows when moving backwards as when moving forwards. This would have no visible effect in a DISTINCT query (at least assuming the column datatypes use a strong definition of equality), but it gave entirely wrong answers for DISTINCT ON queries.