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* Add fsync capability to initdb, and use sync_file_range() if available.Tom Lane2012-07-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically we have not worried about fsync'ing anything during initdb (in fact, initdb intentionally passes -F to each backend launch to prevent it from fsync'ing). But with filesystems getting more aggressive about caching data, that's not such a good plan anymore. Make initdb do a pass over the finished data directory tree to fsync everything. For testing purposes, the -N/--nosync flag can be used to restore the old behavior. Also, testing shows that on Linux, sync_file_range() is much faster than posix_fadvise() for hinting to the kernel that an fsync is coming, apparently because the latter blocks on a rather small request queue while the former doesn't. So use this function if available in initdb, and also in the backend's pg_flush_data() (where it currently will affect only the speed of CREATE DATABASE's cloning step). We will later make pg_regress invoke initdb with the --nosync flag to avoid slowing down cases such as "make check" in contrib. But let's not do so until we've shaken out any portability issues in this patch. Jeff Davis, reviewed by Andres Freund
* Cosmetic cleanup of ginInsertValue().Tom Lane2012-07-13
| | | | | | | | Make it clearer that the passed stack mustn't be empty, and that we are not supposed to fall off the end of the stack in the main loop. Tighten the loop that extracts the root block number, too. Markus Wanner and Tom Lane
* Avoid extra newlines in XML mapping in table forest modePeter Eisentraut2012-07-12
| | | | found by P. Broennimann
* Skip text->binary conversion of unnecessary columns in contrib/file_fdw.Tom Lane2012-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | When reading from a text- or CSV-format file in file_fdw, the datatype input routines can consume a significant fraction of the runtime. Often, the query does not need all the columns, so we can get a useful speed boost by skipping I/O conversion for unnecessary columns. To support this, add a "convert_selectively" option to the core COPY code. This is undocumented and not accessible from SQL (for now, anyway). Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
* Add array_remove() and array_replace() functions.Tom Lane2012-07-11
| | | | | | | | These functions support removing or replacing array element value(s) matching a given search value. Although intended mainly to support a future array-foreign-key feature, they seem useful in their own right. Marco Nenciarini and Gabriele Bartolini, reviewed by Alex Hunsaker
* Fix ASCII case in pg_wchar2mule_with_len.Tom Lane2012-07-10
| | | | Also some cosmetic improvements for wchar-to-mblen patch.
* Re-implement extraction of fixed prefixes from regular expressions.Tom Lane2012-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To generate btree-indexable conditions from regex WHERE conditions (such as WHERE indexed_col ~ '^foo'), we need to be able to identify any fixed prefix that a regex might have; that is, find any string that must be a prefix of all strings satisfying the regex. We used to do that with entirely ad-hoc code that looked at the source text of the regex. It didn't know very much about regex syntax, which mostly meant that it would fail to identify some optimizable cases; but Viktor Rosenfeld reported that it would produce actively wrong answers for quantified parenthesized subexpressions, such as '^(foo)?bar'. Rather than trying to extend the ad-hoc code to cover this, let's get rid of it altogether in favor of identifying prefixes by examining the compiled form of a regex. To do this, I've added a new entry point "pg_regprefix" to the regex library; hopefully it is defined in a sufficiently general fashion that it can remain in the library when/if that code gets split out as a standalone project. Since this bug has been there for a very long time, this fix needs to get back-patched. However it depends on some other recent commits (particularly the addition of wchar-to-database-encoding conversion), so I'll commit this separately and then go to work on back-porting the necessary fixes.
* 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 ...
* Simplify and document regex library's compact-NFA representation.Tom Lane2012-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding abused the first element of a cNFA state's arcs list to hold a per-state flag bit, which was confusing, undocumented, and not even particularly efficient. Get rid of that in favor of a separate "stflags" vector. Since there's only one bit in use, I chose to allocate a char per state; we could possibly replace this with a bitmap at some point, but that would make accesses a little slower. It's already about 8X smaller than before, so let's not get overly tense. Also document the representation better than it was before, which is to say not at all. This patch is a byproduct of investigations towards extracting a "fixed prefix" string from the compact-NFA representation of regex patterns. Might need to back-patch it if we decide to back-patch that fix, but for now it's just code cleanup so I'll just put it in HEAD.
* Run updated copyright.pl on HEAD and 9.2 trees, updating the psqlBruce Momjian2012-07-06
| | | | | | \copyright output to 2012. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Fix failure of new wchar->mb functions to advance from pointer.Robert Haas2012-07-05
| | | | Bug spotted by Tom Lane.
* Remove support for using wait3() in place of waitpid().Tom Lane2012-07-05
| | | | | | | | All Unix-oid platforms that we currently support should have waitpid(), since it's in V2 of the Single Unix Spec. Our git history shows that the wait3 code was added to support NextStep, which we officially dropped support for as of 9.2. So get rid of the configure test, and simplify the macro spaghetti in reaper(). Per suggestion from Fujii Masao.
* Run newly-configured perltidy script on Perl files.Bruce Momjian2012-07-04
| | | | Run on HEAD and 9.2.
* Reduce messages about implicit indexes and sequences to DEBUG1.Robert Haas2012-07-04
| | | | | Per recent discussion on pgsql-hackers, these messages are too chatty for most users.
* Add wchar -> mb conversion routines.Robert Haas2012-07-04
| | | | | | | | This is infrastructure for Alexander Korotkov's work on indexing regular expression searches. Alexander Korotkov, with a bit of further hackery on the MULE conversion by me
* Remove duplicate, unnecessary, variable declarationMagnus Hagander2012-07-04
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* 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
* Improve documentation about MULE encoding.Tom Lane2012-07-04
| | | | | | | This commit improves the comments in pg_wchar.h and creates #define symbols for some formerly hard-coded values. No substantive code changes. Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
* 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.
* Remove misleading hints about reducing the System V request size.Robert Haas2012-07-03
| | | | | | Since the request size will now be ~48 bytes regardless of how shared_buffers et. al. are set, much of this advice is no longer relevant.
* Fix a stupid bug I introduced into XLogFlush().Robert Haas2012-07-02
| | | | | Commit f11e8be3e812cdbbc139c1b4e49141378b118dee broke this; it was right in Peter's original patch, but I messed it up before committing.
* Fix position of WalSndWakeupRequest call.Robert Haas2012-07-02
| | | | | | | This avoids discriminating against wal_sync_method = open_sync or open_datasync. Fujii Masao, reviewed by Andres Freund
* Assorted message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut2012-07-02
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* 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.
* Work a little harder on comments for walsender wakeup patch.Robert Haas2012-07-02
| | | | Per gripe from Tom Lane.
* Make commit_delay much smarter.Robert Haas2012-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of letting every backend participating in a group commit wait independently, have the first one that becomes ready to flush WAL wait for the configured delay, and let all the others wait just long enough for that first process to complete its flush. This greatly increases the chances of being able to configure a commit_delay setting that actually improves performance. As a side consequence of this change, commit_delay now affects all WAL flushes, rather than just commits. There was some discussion on pgsql-hackers about whether to rename the GUC to, say, wal_flush_delay, but in the absence of consensus I am leaving it alone for now. Peter Geoghegan, with some changes, mostly to the documentation, by me.
* Make walsender more responsive.Robert Haas2012-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | Per testing by Andres Freund, this improves replication performance and reduces replication latency and latency jitter. I was a bit concerned about moving more work into XLogInsert, but testing seems to show that it's not a problem in practice. Along the way, improve comments for WaitLatchOrSocket. Andres Freund. Review and stylistic cleanup by me.
* 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.
* Suppress compiler warnings in readfuncs.c.Tom Lane2012-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7357558fc8866e3a449aa9473c419b593d67b5b6 introduced "(void) token;" into the READ_TEMP_LOCALS() macro, to suppress complaints from gcc 4.6 when the value of token was not used anywhere in a particular node-read function. However, this just moved the warning around: inspection of buildfarm results shows that some compilers are now complaining that token is being read before it's set. Revert the READ_TEMP_LOCALS() macro change and instead put "(void) token;" into READ_NODE_FIELD(), which is the principal culprit for cases where the warning might occur. In principle we might need the same in READ_BITMAPSET_FIELD() and/or READ_LOCATION_FIELD(), but it seems unlikely that a node would consist only of such fields, so I'll leave them alone for now.
* 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.
* Declare AnonymousShmem pointer as "void *".Tom Lane2012-06-30
| | | | | | | | The original coding had it as "PGShmemHeader *", but that doesn't offer any notational benefit because we don't dereference it. And it was resulting in compiler warnings on some platforms, notably buildfarm member castoroides, where mmap() and munmap() are evidently declared to take and return "char *".
* 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.
* 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