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* Put back adjust_appendrel_attrs()'s code for dealing with RestrictInfo.Tom Lane2009-08-13
| | | | | | I mistakenly removed it last month, thinking it was no longer needed --- but it is still needed for dealing with joininfo lists. Fortunately this bit of brain fade hadn't made it into any released versions yet.
* Improve error message for the case where a requested foreign key constraintTom Lane2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | does match some unique index on the referenced table, but that index is only deferrably unique. We were doing this nicely for the default-to-primary-key case, but were being lazy for the other case. Dean Rasheed
* Allow backends to start up without use of the flat-file copy of pg_database.Tom Lane2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work in the base case, pg_database now has a nailed-in-cache relation descriptor that is initialized using hardwired knowledge in relcache.c. This means pg_database is added to the set of relations that need to have a Schema_pg_xxx macro maintained in pg_attribute.h. When this path is taken, we'll have to do a seqscan of pg_database to find the row we need. In the normal case, we are able to do an indexscan to find the database's row by name. This is made possible by storing a global relcache init file that describes only the shared catalogs and their indexes (and therefore is usable by all backends in any database). A new backend loads this cache file, finds its database OID after an indexscan on pg_database, and then loads the local relcache init file for that database. This change should effectively eliminate number of databases as a factor in backend startup time, even with large numbers of databases. However, the real reason for doing it is as a first step towards getting rid of the flat files altogether. There are still several other sub-projects to be tackled before that can happen.
* Fix old bug in log_autovacuum_min_duration code: it was relying on being ableTom Lane2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | to access a Relation entry it had just closed. I happened to be testing with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, which made this a guaranteed core dump (at least on machines where sprintf %s isn't forgiving of a NULL pointer). It's probably quite unlikely that it would fail in the field, but a bug is a bug. Fix by moving the relation_close call down past the logging action.
* Refactor NUM_cache_remove calls in error report path to a PG_TRY block.Alvaro Herrera2009-08-10
| | | | | The code in the new block was not reindented; it will be fixed by pgindent eventually.
* Support EEEE (scientific notation) in to_char().Tom Lane2009-08-10
| | | | Pavel Stehule, Brendan Jurd
* Extend EXPLAIN to support output in XML or JSON format.Tom Lane2009-08-10
| | | | | | | There are probably still some adjustments to be made in the details of the output, but this gets the basic structure in place. Robert Haas
* Document that LocalSetXLogInsertAllowed can be re-executed.Tom Lane2009-08-08
| | | | Per comment from Simon.
* Expand test coverage support to entire treePeter Eisentraut2009-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Test coverage support now covers the entire source tree, including contrib, instead of just src/backend. In a related but independent development, the commands make coverage and make coverage-html can be run in any directory. This turned out to be much easier than feared. Besides a few ad hoc fixes to pass the make target down the tree, change all affected makefiles to list their directories in the SUBDIRS variable, changed from variants like DIRS and WANTED_DIRS. MSVC build fix was attempted as well.
* rm_cleanup functions need to be allowed to write WAL entries. This oversightTom Lane2009-08-07
| | | | | appears to explain the recent reports of "PANIC: cannot make new WAL entries during recovery".
* Fix some omissions in the dependency-object-class support for SQL/MED objects.Tom Lane2009-08-07
| | | | Main problem found by Muhammad Aqeel, some cosmetic additions by me.
* Fast shutdown stop should forcibly disconnect any active backends, evenHeikki Linnakangas2009-08-07
| | | | | | | if a smart shutdown is already in progress. Backpatch to 8.3, this was broken in the patch that introduced "dead-end backends". Per report by Itagaki Takahiro, patch by Fujii Masao.
* Improve plpgsql's ability to cope with rowtypes containing dropped columns,Tom Lane2009-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | by supporting conversions in places that used to demand exact rowtype match. Since this issue is certain to come up elsewhere (in fact, already has, in ExecEvalConvertRowtype), factor out the support code into new core functions for tuple conversion. I chose to put these in a new source file since heaptuple.c is already overly long. Heavily revised version of a patch by Pavel Stehule.
* Avoid terminating the postmaster on a number of "can't happen" cases duringMagnus Hagander2009-08-06
| | | | | backend startup on Win32. Instead, log the error and just forget about the potentially dangling process, since we can't do anything about it anyway.
* Improve error messages in md.c. When a filesystem operation like open() orHeikki Linnakangas2009-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | fsync() fails, say "file" rather than "relation" when printing the filename. This makes messages that display block numbers a bit confusing. For example, in message 'could not read block 150000 of file "base/1234/5678.1"', 150000 is the block number from the beginning of the relation, ie. segment 0, not 150000th block within that segment. Per discussion, users aren't usually interested in the exact location within the file, so we can live with that. To ease constructing error messages, add FilePathName(File) function to return the pathname of a virtual fd.
* Support hex-string input and output for type BYTEA.Tom Lane2009-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Both hex format and the traditional "escape" format are automatically handled on input. The output format is selected by the new GUC variable bytea_output. As committed, bytea_output defaults to HEX, which is an *incompatible change*. We will keep it this way for awhile for testing purposes, but should consider whether to switch to the more backwards-compatible default of ESCAPE before 8.5 is released. Peter Eisentraut
* Implement has_sequence_privilege()Joe Conway2009-08-03
| | | | | | | Add family of functions that did not exist earlier, mainly due to historical omission. Original patch by Abhijit Menon-Sen, with review and modifications by Joe Conway. catversion.h bumped.
* Add ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCTTom Lane2009-08-02
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* Department of second thoughts: let's show the exact key during unique indexTom Lane2009-08-01
| | | | | build failures, too. Refactor a bit more since that error message isn't spelled the same.
* Improve unique-constraint-violation error messages to include the exactTom Lane2009-08-01
| | | | | | | | | values being complained of. In passing, also remove the arbitrary length limitation in the similar error detail message for foreign key violations. Itagaki Takahiro
* Create a multiplexing structure for signals to Postgres child processes.Tom Lane2009-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch gets us out from under the Unix limitation of two user-defined signal types. We already had done something similar for signals directed to the postmaster process; this adds multiplexing for signals directed to backends and auxiliary processes (so long as they're connected to shared memory). As proof of concept, replace the former usage of SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for backends with use of the multiplexing mechanism. There are still some hard-wired definitions of SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for other process types, but getting rid of those doesn't seem interesting at the moment. Fujii Masao
* Merge the Constraint and FkConstraint node types into a single type.Tom Lane2009-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | | This was foreseen to be a good idea long ago, but nobody had got round to doing it. The recent patch for deferred unique constraints made transformConstraintAttrs() ugly enough that I decided it was time. This change will also greatly simplify parsing of deferred CHECK constraints, if anyone ever gets around to implementing that. While at it, add a location field to Constraint, and use that to provide an error cursor for some of the constraint-related error messages.
* Fix time_part and timetz_part (ie, EXTRACT() for those datatypes) toTom Lane2009-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | include a fractional part in the output for MILLISECOND and SECOND cases, rather than truncating the source value. This is what the float-timestamp code has always done, and it was clearly the code author's intent to do the same for integer timestamps, but he forgot about integer division in C. The other datatypes supported by EXTRACT() already do this correctly. Backpatch to 8.4, so that the default (integer) behavior of that branch will match the default (float) behavior of older branches. Arguably we should patch further back, but it's possible that applications are expecting the broken behavior in older branches. 8.4 is new enough that expectations shouldn't be too settled. Per report from Greg Stark.
* Support deferrable uniqueness constraints.Tom Lane2009-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | The current implementation fires an AFTER ROW trigger for each tuple that looks like it might be non-unique according to the index contents at the time of insertion. This works well as long as there aren't many conflicts, but won't scale to massive unique-key reassignments. Improving that case is a TODO item. Dean Rasheed
* Fix a thinko introduced into CountActiveBackends by a recent patch:Tom Lane2009-07-29
| | | | | | | | we should ignore NULL array entries, not non-NULL ones. This had the effect of disabling commit_delay, and could have caused a crash in the rare race condition the patch was intended to fix. Bug report and diagnosis by Jeff Janes, in bug #4952.
* Correct calculations of overlap and contains operations over polygons.Teodor Sigaev2009-07-28
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* Fix incorrect cleanup of tsquery in ts_rewrite(). Per bug #4933 byTeodor Sigaev2009-07-28
| | | | Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza <aaronmk@blackducksoftware.com>
* Add system catalog columns pg_constraint.conindid and pg_trigger.tgconstrindid.Tom Lane2009-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | conindid is the index supporting a constraint. We can use this not only for unique/primary-key constraints, but also foreign-key constraints, which depend on the unique index that constrains the referenced columns. tgconstrindid is just copied from the constraint's conindid field, or is zero for triggers not associated with constraints. This is mainly intended as infrastructure for upcoming patches, but it has some virtue in itself, since it exposes a relationship that you formerly had to grovel in pg_depend to determine. I simplified one information_schema view accordingly. (There is a pg_dump query that could also use conindid, but I left it alone because it wasn't clear it'd get any faster.)
* Extend EXPLAIN to allow generic options to be specified.Tom Lane2009-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original syntax made it difficult to add options without making them into reserved words. This change parenthesizes the options to avoid that problem, and makes provision for an explicit (and perhaps non-Boolean) value for each option. The original syntax is still supported, but only for the two original options ANALYZE and VERBOSE. As a test case, add a COSTS option that can suppress the planner cost estimates. This may be useful for including EXPLAIN output in the regression tests, which are otherwise unable to cope with cross-platform variations in cost estimates. Robert Haas
* Code review for FORCE QUOTE * patch: fix error checking to consider FORCETom Lane2009-07-25
| | | | | QUOTE * as a variety of FORCE QUOTE, and update psql documentation to include the option. (The actual psql code doesn't seem to need any changes.)
* Small stylistic improvement in recent FORCE QUOTE * code - use a bool ↵Andrew Dunstan2009-07-25
| | | | instead of a magic value.
* Allow * as parameter for FORCE QUOTE for COPY CSV. Itagaki Takahiro.Andrew Dunstan2009-07-25
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* Assorted minor refactoring in EXPLAIN.Tom Lane2009-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | This is believed to not change the output at all, with one known exception: "Subquery Scan foo" becomes "Subquery Scan on foo". (We can fix that if anyone complains, but it would be a wart, because the old code was clearly inconsistent.) The main intention is to remove duplicate coding and provide a cleaner base for subsequent EXPLAIN patching. Robert Haas
* Reserve the shared memory region during backend startup on Windows, soMagnus Hagander2009-07-24
| | | | | | | | | | that memory allocated by starting third party DLLs doesn't end up conflicting with it. Hopefully this solves the long-time issue with "could not reattach to shared memory" errors on Win32. Patch from Tsutomu Yamada and me, based on idea from Trevor Talbot.
* Add commentary about Cygwin's broken erand48, per report from Andrew Dunstan.Tom Lane2009-07-24
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* Save a few cycles in EXPLAIN and related commands by not bothering to formTom Lane2009-07-23
| | | | | | a physical tuple in do_tup_output(). A virtual tuple is easier to set up and also easier for most tuple receivers to process. Per my comment on Robert Haas' recent patch in this code.
* In a non-hashed Agg node, reset the "aggcontext" at group boundaries, insteadTom Lane2009-07-23
| | | | | | | | | | | of individually pfree'ing pass-by-reference transition values. This should be at least as fast as the prior coding, and it has the major advantage of clearing out any working data an aggregate function may have stored in or underneath the aggcontext. This avoids memory leakage when an aggregate such as array_agg() is used in GROUP BY mode. Per report from Chris Spotts. Back-patch to 8.4. In principle the problem could arise in prior versions, but since they didn't have array_agg the issue seems not critical.
* Fix another thinko in join_is_legal's handling of semijoins: we have to testTom Lane2009-07-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | for the case that the semijoin was implemented within either input by unique-ifying its RHS before we test to see if it appears to match the current join situation. The previous coding would select semijoin logic in situations where we'd already unique-ified the RHS and joined it to some unrelated relation(s), and then came to join it to the semijoin's LHS. That still gave the right answer as far as the semijoin itself was concerned, but would lead to incorrectly examining only an arbitrary one of the matchable rows from the unrelated relation(s). The cause of this thinko was incorrect unification of the pre-8.4 logic for IN joins and OUTER joins --- the comparable case for outer joins can be handled after making the match test, but that's because there is nothing like the unique-ification escape hatch for outer joins. Per bug #4934 from Benjamin Reed.
* Change do_tup_output() to take Datum/isnull arrays instead of a char * array,Tom Lane2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | so it doesn't go through BuildTupleFromCStrings. This is more or less a wash for current uses, but will avoid inefficiency for planned changes to EXPLAIN. Robert Haas
* Tweak TOAST code so that columns marked with MAIN storage strategy areTom Lane2009-07-22
| | | | | | | | not forced out-of-line unless that is necessary to make the row fit on a page. Previously, they were forced out-of-line if needed to get the row down to the default target size (1/4th page). Kevin Grittner
* Change pg_listener attribute number constants to match the usual patternPeter Eisentraut2009-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | It appears that, for no particularly good reason, pg_listener.h deviates from the usual convention for declaring attribute number constants. Normally, it's #define Anum_{catalog-name}_{column-name} {attribute-number} pg_listener.h, however substitutes a different string that is similar, but not the same as, the column name. This change fixes that. Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
* Speed up AllocSetFreeIndex, which is a significant cost in palloc and pfree,Tom Lane2009-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | by using a lookup table instead of a naive shift-and-count loop. Based on code originally posted by Sean Eron Anderson at http://graphics.stanford.edu/%7eseander/bithacks.html. Greg Stark did the research and benchmarking to show that this is what we should use. Jeremy Kerr first noticed that this is a hotspot that could be optimized, though we ended up not using his suggestion of platform-specific bit-searching code.
* Fix another semijoin-ordering bug. We already knew that we couldn'tTom Lane2009-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | reorder a semijoin into or out of the righthand side of another semijoin, but actually it doesn't work to reorder it into or out of the righthand side of a left or antijoin, either. Per bug #4906 from Mathieu Fenniak. This was sloppy thinking on my part. This identity does work: ( A left join B on (Pab) ) semijoin C on (Pac) == ( A semijoin C on (Pac) ) left join B on (Pab) but I failed to see that that doesn't mean this does: ( A left join B on (Pab) ) semijoin C on (Pbc) != A left join ( B semijoin C on (Pbc) ) on (Pab)
* DROP IF EXISTS for columns and constraints. Andres Freund.Andrew Dunstan2009-07-20
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* Teach simplify_boolean_equality to simplify the forms foo <> true andTom Lane2009-07-20
| | | | | | | | foo <> false, along with its previous duties of simplifying foo = true and foo = false. (All of these are equivalent to just foo or NOT foo as the case may be.) It's not clear how often this is really useful; but it costs almost nothing to do, and it seems some people think we should be smart about such cases. Per recent bug report.
* Rewrite GEQO's gimme_tree function so that it always finds a legal joinTom Lane2009-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sequence, even when the input "tour" doesn't lead directly to such a sequence. The stack logic that was added in 2004 only supported cases where relations that had to be joined to each other (due to join order restrictions) were adjacent in the tour. However, relying on a random search to figure that out is tremendously inefficient in large join problems, and could even fail completely (leading to "failed to make a valid plan" errors) if random_init_pool ran out of patience. It seems better to make the tour-to-plan transformation a little bit fuzzier so that every tour can form a legal plan, even though this means that apparently different tours will sometimes yield the same plan. In the same vein, get rid of the logic that knew that tours (a,b,c,d,...) are the same as tours (b,a,c,d,...), and therefore insisted the latter are invalid. The chance of generating two tours that differ only in this way isn't that high, and throwing out 50% of possible tours to avoid such duplication seems more likely to waste valuable genetic- refinement generations than to do anything useful. This leaves us with no cases in which geqo_eval will deem a tour invalid, so get rid of assorted kluges that tried to deal with such cases, in particular the undocumented assumption that DBL_MAX is an impossible plan cost. This is all per testing of Robert Haas' lets-remove-the-collapse-limits patch. That idea has crashed and burned, at least for now, but we still got something useful out of it. It's possible we should back-patch this change, since the "failed to make a valid plan" error can happen in existing releases; but I'd rather not until it has gotten more testing.
* Fix a thinko in join_is_legal: when we decide we can implement a semijoinTom Lane2009-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | by unique-ifying the RHS and then inner-joining to some other relation, that is not grounds for violating the RHS of some other outer join. Noticed while regression-testing new GEQO code, which will blindly follow any path that join_is_legal says is legal, and then complain later if that leads to a dead end. I'm not certain that this can result in any visible failure in 8.4: the mistake may always be masked by the fact that subsequent attempts to join the rest of the RHS of the other join will fail. But I'm not certain it can't, either, and it's definitely not operating as intended. So back-patch. The added regression test depends on the new no-failures-allowed logic that I'm about to commit in GEQO, so no point back-patching that.
* Fix error cleanup failure caused by 8.4 changes in plpgsql to try to avoidTom Lane2009-07-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | memory leakage in error recovery. We were calling FreeExprContext, and therefore invoking ExprContextCallback callbacks, in both normal and error exits from subtransactions. However this isn't very safe, as shown in recent trouble report from Frank van Vugt, in which releasing a tupledesc refcount failed. It's also unnecessary, since the resources that callbacks might wish to release should be cleaned up by other error recovery mechanisms (ie the resource owners). We only really want FreeExprContext to release memory attached to the exprcontext in the error-exit case. So, add a bool parameter to FreeExprContext to tell it not to call the callbacks. A more general solution would be to pass the isCommit bool parameter on to the callbacks, so they could do only safe things during error exit. But that would make the patch significantly more invasive and possibly break third-party code that registers ExprContextCallback callbacks. We might want to do that later in HEAD, but for now I'll just do what seems reasonable to back-patch.
* Repair bug #4926 "too few pathkeys for mergeclauses". This example showsTom Lane2009-07-17
| | | | | | | | | that the sanity checking I added to create_mergejoin_plan() in 8.3 was a few bricks shy of a load: the mergeclauses could reference pathkeys in a noncanonical order such as x,y,x, not only cases like x,x,y which is all that the code had allowed for. The odd cases only turn up when using redundant clauses in an outer join condition, which is why no one had noticed before.
* Make GEQO's planning deterministic by having it start from a predictableTom Lane2009-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | random number seed each time. This is how it used to work years ago, but we got rid of the seed reset because it was resetting the main random() sequence and thus having undesirable effects on the rest of the system. To fix, establish a private random number state for each execution of geqo(), and initialize the state using the new GUC variable geqo_seed. People who want to experiment with different random searches can do so by changing geqo_seed, but you'll always get the same plan for the same value of geqo_seed (if holding all other planner inputs constant, of course). The new state is kept in PlannerInfo by adding a "void *" field reserved for use by join_search hooks. Most of the rather bulky code changes in this commit are just arranging to pass PlannerInfo around to all the GEQO functions (many of which formerly didn't receive it). Andres Freund, with some editorialization by Tom