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* Validate xlog record header before enlarging the work area to store it.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | If the record header is garbled, we're now quite likely to notice it before we try to make a bogus memory allocation and run out of memory. That can still happen, if the xlog record is split across pages (we cannot verify the record header until reading the next page in that scenario), but this reduces the chances. An out-of-memory is treated as a corrupt record anyway, so this isn't a correctness issue, just a case of giving a better error message. Per Amit Kapila's suggestion.
* Fix confusion between "size" and "AnonymousShmemSize".Tom Lane2012-06-29
| | | | Noted by Andres Freund. Also improve a couple of comments.
* 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.
* Provide MAP_FAILED if sys/mman.h doesn't.Tom Lane2012-06-28
| | | | | | On old HPUX this has to be #defined to -1. It might be that other values are required on other dinosaur systems, but we'll worry about that when and if we get reports.
* Update outdated commit; xlp_rem_len field is in page header now.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-28
| | | | Spotted by Amit Kapila
* Fix broken mmap failure-detection code, and improve error message.Robert Haas2012-06-28
| | | | | Per an observation by Thom Brown that my previous commit made an overly large shmem allocation crash the server, on Linux.
* Dramatically reduce System V shared memory consumption.Robert Haas2012-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Except when compiling with EXEC_BACKEND, we'll now allocate only a tiny amount of System V shared memory (as an interlock to protect the data directory) and allocate the rest as anonymous shared memory via mmap. This will hopefully spare most users the hassle of adjusting operating system parameters before being able to start PostgreSQL with a reasonable value for shared_buffers. There are a bunch of documentation updates needed here, and we might need to adjust some of the HINT messages related to shared memory as well. But it's not 100% clear how portable this is, so before we write the documentation, let's give it a spin on the buildfarm and see what turns red.
* Add missing space in event_source GUC description.Robert Haas2012-06-28
| | | | | | This has apparently been wrong since event_source was added. Alexander Lakhin
* 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.
* Fix two more neglected comments, still referring to log/seg.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-27
| | | | Fujii Masao
* I neglected many comments in the log+seg -> 64-bit segno patch. Fix.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-27
| | | | Reported by Amit Kapila.
* Allow pg_terminate_backend() to be used on backends with matching role.Robert Haas2012-06-26
| | | | | | | | 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.
* When LWLOCK_STATS is defined, count spindelays.Robert Haas2012-06-26
| | | | | | | When LWLOCK_STATS is *not* defined, the only change is that SpinLockAcquire now returns the number of delays. Patch by me, review by Jeff Janes.
* 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.
* Make DROP FUNCTION hint more informative.Robert Haas2012-06-26
| | | | | | | If you decide you want to take the hint, this gives you something you can paste right back to the server. Dean Rasheed
* Reduce use of heavyweight locking inside hash AM.Robert Haas2012-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid using LockPage(rel, 0, lockmode) to protect against changes to the bucket mapping. Instead, an exclusive buffer content lock is now viewed as sufficient permission to modify the metapage, and a shared buffer content lock is used when such modifications need to be prevented. This more relaxed locking regimen makes it possible that, when we're busy getting a heavyweight bucket on the bucket we intend to search or insert into, a bucket split might occur underneath us. To compenate for that possibility, we use a loop-and-retry system: release the metapage content lock, acquire the heavyweight lock on the target bucket, and then reacquire the metapage content lock and check that the bucket mapping has not changed. Normally it hasn't, and we're done. But if by chance it has, we simply unlock the metapage, release the heavyweight lock we acquired previously, lock the new bucket, and loop around again. Even in the worst case we cannot loop very many times here, since we don't split the same bucket again until we've split all the other buckets, and 2^N gets big pretty fast. This results in greatly improved concurrency, because we're effectively replacing two lwlock acquire-and-release cycles in exclusive mode (on one of the lock manager locks) with a single acquire-and-release cycle in shared mode (on the metapage buffer content lock). Testing shows that it's still not quite as good as btree; for that, we'd probably have to find some way of getting rid of the heavyweight bucket locks as well, which does not appear straightforward. Patch by me, review by Jeff Janes.
* Tighten up includes in sinvaladt.h, twophase.h, proc.hAlvaro Herrera2012-06-25
| | | | | Remove proc.h from sinvaladt.h and twophase.h; also replace xlog.h in proc.h with xlogdefs.h.
* Unify calling conventions for postgres/postmaster sub-main functionsPeter Eisentraut2012-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | There was a wild mix of calling conventions: Some were declared to return void and didn't return, some returned an int exit code, some claimed to return an exit code, which the callers checked, but actually never returned, and so on. Now all of these functions are declared to return void and decorated with attribute noreturn and don't return. That's easiest, and most code already worked that way.
* Fix typo in DEBUG message, introduced by recent WAL refactoring.Robert Haas2012-06-25
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Replace int2/int4 in C code with int16/int32Peter Eisentraut2012-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | The latter was already the dominant use, and it's preferable because in C the convention is that intXX means XX bits. Therefore, allowing mixed use of int2, int4, int8, int16, int32 is obviously confusing. Remove the typedefs for int2 and int4 for now. They don't seem to be widely used outside of the PostgreSQL source tree, and the few uses can probably be cleaned up by the time this ships.
* Oops. Remove stray paren.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | I didn't notice this on my laptop as I don't HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH.
* Replace XLogRecPtr struct with a 64-bit integer.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies code that needs to do arithmetic on XLogRecPtrs. To avoid changing on-disk format of data pages, the LSN on data pages is still stored in the old format. That should keep pg_upgrade happy. However, we have XLogRecPtrs embedded in the control file, and in the structs that are sent over the replication protocol, so this changes breaks compatibility of pg_basebackup and server. I didn't do anything about this in this patch, per discussion on -hackers, the right thing to do would to be to change the replication protocol to be architecture-independent, so that you could use a newer version of pg_receivexlog, for example, against an older server version.
* Allow WAL record header to be split across pages.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This saves a few bytes of WAL space, but the real motivation is to make it predictable how much WAL space a record requires, as it no longer depends on whether we need to waste the last few bytes at end of WAL page because the header doesn't fit. The total length field of WAL record, xl_tot_len, is moved to the beginning of the WAL record header, so that it is still always found on the first page where a WAL record begins. Bump WAL version number again as this is an incompatible change.
* Move WAL continuation record information to WAL page header.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The continuation record only contained one field, xl_rem_len, so it makes things simpler to just include it in the WAL page header. This wastes four bytes on pages that don't begin with a continuation from previos page, plus four bytes on every page, because of padding. The motivation of this is to make it easier to calculate how much space a WAL record needs. Before this patch, it depended on how many page boundaries the record crosses. The motivation of that, in turn, is to separate the allocation of space in the WAL from the copying of the record data to the allocated space. Keeping the calculation of space required simple helps to keep the critical section of allocating the space from WAL short. But that's not included in this patch yet. Bump WAL version number again, as this is an incompatible change.
* Don't waste the last segment of each 4GB logical log file.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The comments claimed that wasting the last segment made it easier to do calculations with XLogRecPtrs, because you don't have problems representing last-byte-position-plus-1 that way. In my experience, however, it only made things more complicated, because the there was two ways to represent the boundary at the beginning of a logical log file: logid = n+1 and xrecoff = 0, or as xlogid = n and xrecoff = 4GB - XLOG_SEG_SIZE. Some functions were picky about which representation was used. Also, use a 64-bit segment number instead of the log/seg combination, to point to a certain WAL segment. We assume that all platforms have a working 64-bit integer type nowadays. This is an incompatible change in WAL format, so bumping WAL version number.
* 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.
* Repair comment mangled by a pgindent run long agoAlvaro Herrera2012-06-21
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* Add a small cache of locks owned by a resource owner in ResourceOwner.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This speeds up reassigning locks to the parent owner, when the transaction holds a lot of locks, but only a few of them belong to the current resource owner. This is particularly helps pg_dump when dumping a large number of objects. The cache can hold up to 15 locks in each resource owner. After that, the cache is marked as overflowed, and we fall back to the old method of scanning the whole local lock table. The tradeoff here is that the cache has to be scanned whenever a lock is released, so if the cache is too large, lock release becomes more expensive. 15 seems enough to cover pg_dump, and doesn't have much impact on lock release. Jeff Janes, reviewed by Amit Kapila and Heikki Linnakangas.
* Remove incomplete/incorrect support for zero-column foreign keys.Tom Lane2012-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | The original coding in ri_triggers.c had partial support for the concept of zero-column foreign key constraints. But this is not defined in the SQL standard, nor was it ever allowed by any other part of Postgres, nor was it very fully implemented even here (eg there was no support for preventing PK-table deletions that would violate the constraint). Doesn't seem very useful to carry 100-plus lines of code for a corner case that no one is interested in making work. Instead, just add a check that the column list read from pg_constraint is non-empty.
* Increase MAX_SYSCACHE_CALLBACKS from 20 to 32.Tom Lane2012-06-20
| | | | | | | | By my count there are 18 callers of CacheRegisterSyscacheCallback in the core code in HEAD, so we are potentially leaving as few as 2 slots for any add-on code to use (though possibly not all these callers would actually activate in any particular session). That doesn't seem like a lot of headroom, so let's pump it up a little.
* Cache the results of ri_FetchConstraintInfo in a backend-local cache.Tom Lane2012-06-20
| | | | | | | | | Extracting data from pg_constraint turned out to take as much as 10% of the runtime in a bulk-update case where the foreign key column wasn't changing, because we did it over again for each tuple. Fix that by maintaining a backend-local cache of the results. This is really a pretty small patch, but converting the trigger functions to work with pointers rather than local struct variables requires a lot of mechanical changes.
* Improve tests for whether we can skip queueing RI enforcement triggers.Tom Lane2012-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | During an update of a PK row, we can skip firing the RI trigger if any old key value is NULL, because then the row could not have had any matching rows in the FK table. Conversely, during an update of an FK row, the outcome is determined if any new key value is NULL. In either case it becomes unnecessary to compare individual key values. This patch was inspired by discussion of Vik Reykja's patch to use IS NOT DISTINCT semantics for the key comparisons. In the event there is no need for that and so this patch looks nothing like his, but he should still get credit for having re-opened consideration of the trigger skip logic.
* Share RI trigger code between NO ACTION and RESTRICT cases.Tom Lane2012-06-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | These triggers are identical except for whether ri_Check_Pk_Match is to be called, so factor out the common code to save a couple hundred lines. Also, eliminate null-column checks in ri_Check_Pk_Match, since they're duplicate with the calling functions and require unnecessary complication in its API statement. Simplify the way code is shared between RI_FKey_check_ins and RI_FKey_check_upd, too.
* Improve comments about why SET DEFAULT triggers must recheck for matches.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | I was confused about this, so try to make it clearer for the next person. (This seems like a fairly inefficient way of dealing with a corner case, but I don't have a better idea offhand. Maybe if there were a way to turn off the RI_FKey_keyequal_upd_fk event filter temporarily?)
* Allow ON UPDATE/DELETE SET DEFAULT plans to be cached.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Once upon a time, somebody was worried that cached RI plans wouldn't get remade with new default values after ALTER TABLE ... SET DEFAULT, so they didn't allow caching of plans for ON UPDATE/DELETE SET DEFAULT actions. That time is long gone, though (and even at the time I doubt this was the greatest hazard posed by ALTER TABLE...). So allow these triggers to cache their plans just like the others. The cache_plan argument to ri_PlanCheck is now vestigial, since there are no callers that don't pass "true"; but I left it alone in case there is any future need for it.
* Remove derived fields from RI_QueryKey, and do a bit of other cleanup.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | We really only need the foreign key constraint's OID and the query type code to uniquely identify each plan we are caching for FK checks. The other stuff that was in the struct had no business being used as part of a hash key, and was all just being copied from struct RI_ConstraintInfo anyway. Get rid of the unnecessary fields, and readjust various function APIs to make them use RI_ConstraintInfo not RI_QueryKey as info source. I'd be surprised if this makes any measurable performance difference, but it certainly feels cleaner.
* Update SQL spec references in ri_triggers code to match SQL:2008.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | Now that what we're implementing isn't SQL92, we probably shouldn't cite chapter and verse in that spec anymore. Also fix some comments that talked about MATCH FULL but in fact were in code that's also used for MATCH SIMPLE. No code changes in this commit, just comments.
* Change ON UPDATE SET NULL/SET DEFAULT referential actions to meet SQL spec.Tom Lane2012-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, when executing an ON UPDATE SET NULL or SET DEFAULT action for a multicolumn MATCH SIMPLE foreign key constraint, we would set only those referencing columns corresponding to referenced columns that were changed. This is what the SQL92 standard said to do --- but more recent versions of the standard say that all referencing columns should be set to null or their default values, no matter exactly which referenced columns changed. At least for SET DEFAULT, that is clearly saner behavior. It's somewhat debatable whether it's an improvement for SET NULL, but it appears that other RDBMS systems read the spec this way. So let's do it like that. This is a release-notable behavioral change, although considering that our documentation already implied it was done this way, the lack of complaints suggests few people use such cases.
* Refer to the default foreign key match style as MATCH SIMPLE internally.Tom Lane2012-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we followed the SQL92 wording, "MATCH <unspecified>", but since SQL99 there's been a less awkward way to refer to the default style. In addition to the code changes, pg_constraint.confmatchtype now stores this match style as 's' (SIMPLE) rather than 'u' (UNSPECIFIED). This doesn't affect pg_dump or psql because they use pg_get_constraintdef() to reconstruct foreign key definitions. But other client-side code might examine that column directly, so this change will have to be marked as an incompatibility in the 9.3 release notes.
* 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.
* Fix stats collector to recover nicely when system clock goes backwards.Tom Lane2012-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, if the system clock went backwards, the stats collector would fail to update the stats file any more until the clock reading again exceeds whatever timestamp was last written into the stats file. Such glitches in the clock's behavior are not terribly unlikely on machines not using NTP. Such a scenario has been observed to cause regression test failures in the buildfarm, and it could have bad effects on the behavior of autovacuum, so it seems prudent to install some defenses. We could directly detect the clock going backwards by adding GetCurrentTimestamp calls in the stats collector's main loop, but that would hurt performance on platforms where GetCurrentTimestamp is expensive. To minimize the performance hit in normal cases, adopt a more complicated scheme wherein backends check for clock skew when reading the stats file, and if they see it, signal the stats collector by sending an extra stats inquiry message. The stats collector does an extra GetCurrentTimestamp only when it receives an inquiry with an apparently out-of-order timestamp. To avoid unnecessary GetCurrentTimestamp calls, expand the inquiry messages to carry the backend's current clock reading as well as its stats cutoff time. The latter, being intentionally slightly in-the-past, would trigger more clock rechecks than we need if it were used for this purpose. We might want to backpatch this change at some point, but let's let it shake out in the buildfarm for awhile first.
* 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.
* Improve readability and error messages in pg_backup_start_time.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | Gurjeet Singh, with corrections by me.
* New SQL functons pg_backup_in_progress() and pg_backup_start_time()Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | Darold Gilles, reviewed by Gabriele Bartolini and others, rebased by Marco Nenciarini. Stylistic cleanup and OID fixes by me.
* During transaction cleanup, release locks before deleting files.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | There's no need to hold onto the locks until the files are needed, and by doing it this way, we reduce the impact on other backends who may be awaiting locks we hold. Noah Misch
* Add new function log_newpage_buffer.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | When I implemented the ginbuildempty() function as part of implementing unlogged tables, I falsified the note in the header comment for log_newpage. Although we could fix that up by changing the comment, it seems cleaner to add a new function which is specifically intended to handle this case. So do that.
* Remove misplaced sanity check from heap_create().Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Even when allow_system_table_mods is not set, we allow creation of any type of SQL object in pg_catalog, except for relations. And you can get relations into pg_catalog, too, by initially creating them in some other schema and then moving them with ALTER .. SET SCHEMA. So this restriction, which prevents relations (only) from being created in pg_catalog directly, is fairly pointless. If we need a safety mechanism for this, it should be placed further upstream, so that it affects all SQL objects uniformly, and picks up both CREATE and SET SCHEMA. For now, just rip it out, per discussion with Tom Lane.
* Remove RELKIND_UNCATALOGED.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | This may have been important at some point in the past, but it no longer does anything useful. Review by Tom Lane.