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* Clean up temporary-memory management during ispell dictionary loading.Tom Lane2010-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | Add explicit initialization and cleanup functions to spell.c, and keep all working state in the already-existing ISpellDict struct. This lets us get rid of a static variable along with some extremely shaky assumptions about usage of child memory contexts. This commit is just code beautification and has no impact on functionality or performance, but it opens the way to a less-grotty implementation of Pavel's memory-saving hack, which will follow shortly.
* Behave correctly if INSERT ... VALUES is decorated with additional clauses.Tom Lane2010-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | In versions 8.2 and up, the grammar allows attaching ORDER BY, LIMIT, FOR UPDATE, or WITH to VALUES, and hence to INSERT ... VALUES. But the special-case code for VALUES in transformInsertStmt() wasn't expecting any of those, and just ignored them, leading to unexpected results. Rather than complicate the special-case path, just ensure that the presence of any of those clauses makes us treat the query as if it had a general SELECT. Per report from Hitoshi Harada.
* Throw an appropriate error if ALTER COLUMN TYPE finds a dependent trigger.Tom Lane2010-10-02
| | | | | | | | | Actually making this case work, if the column is used in the trigger's WHEN condition, will take some new code that probably isn't appropriate to back-patch. For now, just throw a FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error rather than allowing control to reach the "unexpected object" case. Per bug #5688 from Daniel Grace. Back-patch to 9.0 where the possibility of such a dependency was introduced.
* Improve messages for too many private files/dirs. Per Alexey Parshin.Tom Lane2010-09-28
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* Fix PlaceHolderVar mechanism's interaction with outer joins.Tom Lane2010-09-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The point of a PlaceHolderVar is to allow a non-strict expression to be evaluated below an outer join, after which its value bubbles up like a Var and can be forced to NULL when the outer join's semantics require that. However, there was a serious design oversight in that, namely that we didn't ensure that there was actually a correct place in the plan tree to evaluate the placeholder :-(. It may be necessary to delay evaluation of an outer join to ensure that a placeholder that should be evaluated below the join can be evaluated there. Per recent bug report from Kirill Simonov. Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
* Add a SECURITY LABEL command.Robert Haas2010-09-27
| | | | | | | | This is intended as infrastructure to support integration with label-based mandatory access control systems such as SE-Linux. Further changes (mostly hooks) will be needed, but this is a big chunk of it. KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas
* Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf parameters.Robert Haas2010-09-27
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* Add ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/RENAME ATTRIBUTEPeter Eisentraut2010-09-26
| | | | | | | Like with tables, this also requires allowing the existence of composite types with zero attributes. reviewed by KaiGai Kohei
* Fix another join removal bug: the check on PlaceHolderVars was wrong.Tom Lane2010-09-25
| | | | | | | | The previous coding would decide that join removal was unsafe upon finding a PlaceHolderVar that needed to be evaluated at the inner rel and then used above the join. However, this fails to cover the case of PlaceHolderVars that refer to both the inner rel and some other rels. Per bug report from Andrus.
* ProcessIncomingNotify *must* reset notifyInterruptOccurred when called.Tom Lane2010-09-23
| | | | | This was broken in 9.0 by careless addition of an early-exit path. Bug report and diagnosis by Jeff Davis.
* Prevent show_session_authorization from crashing when session_authorizationTom Lane2010-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hasn't been set. The only known case where this can happen is when show_session_authorization is invoked in an autovacuum process, which is possible if an index function calls it, as for example in bug #5669 from Andrew Geery. We could perhaps try to return a sensible value, such as the name of the cluster-owning superuser; but that seems like much more trouble than the case is worth, and in any case it could create new possible failure modes. Simply returning an empty string seems like the most appropriate fix. Back-patch to all supported versions, even those before autovacuum, just in case there's another way to provoke this crash.
* Avoid sharing subpath list structure when flattening nested AppendRels.Tom Lane2010-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In some situations the original coding led to corrupting the child AppendRel's subpaths list, effectively adding other members of the parent's list to it. This was usually masked because we never made any further use of the child's list, but given the right combination of circumstances, we could do so. The visible symptom would be a relation getting scanned twice, as in bug #5673 from David Schmitt. Backpatch to 8.2, which is as far back as the risky coding appears. The example submitted by David only fails in 8.4 and later, but I'm not convinced that there aren't any even-more-obscure cases where 8.2 and 8.3 would fail.
* Make _outPathInfo print the relid set of the path's parent rel.Tom Lane2010-09-23
| | | | | | | We can't actually print the parent RelOptInfo in toto, because that would lead to infinite recursion. But it's safe enough to reach into the parent and print its identifying relids, and that makes it a whole lot easier to figure out what a Path represents. Should have done this years ago.
* Re-allow input of Julian dates prior to 0001-01-01 AD.Tom Lane2010-09-22
| | | | | | This was unintentionally broken in 8.4 while tightening up checking of ordinary non-Julian date inputs to forbid references to "year zero". Per bug #5672 from Benjamin Gigot.
* Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets.Magnus Hagander2010-09-22
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* Typo fix. "CVS" is not the same thing as "CSV".Robert Haas2010-09-22
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* Some more cleanup of CVS keyword noise.Tom Lane2010-09-21
| | | | | | | | Poking around for remaining occurrences of CVS keyword strings, I came across one that apparently reflects the use of a $Revision: ...$ string in the original input data. Dunno why anybody would be using that in an MTA's Received: lines, but there it is. Put it back to the way that it was originally, according to inspection of the CVS repo.
* The port/pg_latch.c symlink ought to be removed by make distclean.Tom Lane2010-09-21
| | | | | Not sure why these symlinks are removed here and not in the port/ Makefile, but I won't second-guess that choice right now.
* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Update HOT README about when single-page vacuums happen.Bruce Momjian2010-09-19
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* Replace last remaining $Id$ with $PostgreSQL$.Tom Lane2010-09-19
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* Make sure we wait for protocol-level EOF when ending binary COPY IN.Tom Lane2010-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding just terminated the COPY immediately after seeing the EOF marker (-1 where a row field count is expected). The expected CopyDone or CopyFail message just got thrown away later, since we weren't in COPY mode anymore. This behavior complicated matters for the JDBC driver, and arguably was the wrong thing in any case since a CopyFail message after the marker wouldn't be honored. Note that there is a behavioral change here: extra data after the EOF marker was silently ignored before, but now it will cause an error. Hence not back-patching, although this is arguably a bug. Per report and patch by Kris Jurka.
* Give a suitable HINT when an INSERT's data source is a RowExpr containingTom Lane2010-09-18
| | | | | | | | the same number of columns expected by the insert. This suggests that there were extra parentheses that converted the intended column list into a row expression. Original patch by Marko Tiikkaja, rather heavily editorialized by me.
* Remove duplicated code left behind by my recent refactoring of comment.cRobert Haas2010-09-17
| | | | | These checks are also present in objectaddress.c, so there's no need to recheck here.
* Add some documentation about how we WAL-log filesystem actions.Tom Lane2010-09-17
| | | | Per a question from Robert Haas.
* Treat exit code 128 (ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN) as non-fatal on Win32,Magnus Hagander2010-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | since it can happen when a process fails to start when the system is under high load. Per several bug reports and many peoples investigation. Back-patch to 8.4, which is as far back as the "deadman-switch" for shared memory access exists.
* Fix two typos in comments, spotted by Fujii Masao and Thom BrownHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
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* Use a latch to make startup process wake up and replay immediately whenHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | new WAL arrives via streaming replication. This reduces the latency, and also allows us to use a longer polling interval, which is good for energy efficiency. We still need to poll to check for the appearance of a trigger file, but the interval is now 5 seconds (instead of 100ms), like when waiting for a new WAL segment to appear in WAL archive.
* Simplify Windows implementation of latches. There's no need to keep aHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
| | | | | | | | dynamic pool of event handles, we can permanently assign one for each shared latch. Thanks to that, we no longer need a separate shared memory block for latches, and we don't need to know in advance how many shared latches there is, so you no longer need to remember to update NumSharedLatches when you introduce a new latch to the system.
* Don't call OwnLatch while holding a spinlock. OwnLatch can elog() underHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-15
| | | | | some "can't happen" scenarios, and spinlocks should only be held for a few instructions anyway. As pointed out by Fujii Masao.
* Fix join-removal logic for pseudoconstant and outerjoin-delayed quals.Tom Lane2010-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In these cases a qual can get marked with the removable rel in its required_relids, but this is just to schedule its evaluation correctly, not because it really depends on the rel. We were assuming that, in effect, we could throw away *all* quals so marked, which is nonsense. Tighten up the logic to be a little more paranoid about which quals belong to the outer join being considered for removal, and arrange for all quals that don't belong to be updated so they will still get evaluated correctly. Also fix another problem that happened to be exposed by this test case, which was that make_join_rel() was failing to notice some cases where a constant-false qual could be used to prove a join relation empty. If it's a pushed-down constant false, then the relation is empty even if it's an outer join, because the qual applies after the outer join expansion. Per report from Nathan Grange. Back-patch into 9.0.
* Oops, the timeout argument to WaitLatchOrSocket is in microseconds, notHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-14
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* Add a comment noting that the owner_pid test in OwnLatch is just a sanityHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-13
| | | | check, per request by Jeff Davis.
* Process options from the startup packed in walsender. Only few optionsHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-13
| | | | | | | | make sense for walsender, but for example application_name and client_encoding do. We still don't apply per-role settings from pg_db_role_setting, because that would require connecting to a database to read the table. Fujii Masao
* SERIALIZABLE transactions are actually implemented beneath the covers withJoe Conway2010-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | transaction snapshots, i.e. a snapshot registered at the beginning of a transaction. Change variable naming and comments to reflect this reality in preparation for a future, truly serializable mode, e.g. Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). For the moment transaction snapshots are still used to implement SERIALIZABLE, but hopefully not for too much longer. Patch by Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports with review and some minor wording changes by me.
* Add missing #includes, needed on some platforms. This should makeHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-11
| | | | the unixware buildfarm animals happy again.
* Introduce latches. A latch is a boolean variable, with the capability toHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | wait until it is set. Latches can be used to reliably wait until a signal arrives, which is hard otherwise because signals don't interrupt select() on some platforms, and even when they do, there's race conditions. On Unix, latches use the so called self-pipe trick under the covers to implement the sleep until the latch is set, without race conditions. On Windows, Windows events are used. Use the new latch abstraction to sleep in walsender, so that as soon as a transaction finishes, walsender is woken up to immediately send the WAL to the standby. This reduces the latency between master and standby, which is good. Preliminary work by Fujii Masao. The latch implementation is by me, with helpful comments from many people.
* GROUP BY can only infer functional dependency from non-deferrable primary keys.Tom Lane2010-09-05
| | | | | Peter's original patch had this right, but I dropped the check while revising the code to search pg_constraint instead of pg_index. Spotted by Dean Rasheed.
* Pad the ps_status display with nulls, not blanks, on Darwin.Tom Lane2010-09-04
| | | | | | A long time ago, this didn't work nicely, but it seems to work on all recent versions of OS X. The blank-pad method is less desirable since it results in lots of extra space in ps' output. Per Alexey Klyukin.
* Install a data-type-based solution for protecting pg_get_expr().REL9_1_ALPHA1Tom Lane2010-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | Since the code underlying pg_get_expr() is not secure against malformed input, and can't practically be made so, we need to prevent miscreants from feeding arbitrary data to it. We can do this securely by declaring pg_get_expr() to take a new datatype "pg_node_tree" and declaring the system catalog columns that hold nodeToString output to be of that type. There is no way at SQL level to create a non-null value of type pg_node_tree. Since the backend-internal operations that fill those catalog columns operate below the SQL level, they are oblivious to the datatype relabeling and don't need any changes.
* In HEAD only, revert kluge solution for preventing misuse of pg_get_expr().Tom Lane2010-09-03
| | | | | A data-type-based solution, which is much cleaner and more bulletproof, will follow shortly. It seemed best to make this a separate commit though.
* Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly byTom Lane2010-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache. In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry. This caused problems at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model. The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good thing anyway from a structural perspective. The cost is that we have to search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed. There are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries in typical operation. Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area. The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
* Fix typo. Pointed out by Kevin Grittner.Robert Haas2010-09-02
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* Cosmetic fixes for KnownAssignedXidsGetOldestXmin, per Fujii Masao.Tom Lane2010-08-30
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* Fix oversight in RelFileNodeBackend patch: CreateFakeRelcacheEntry needs toTom Lane2010-08-30
| | | | | | initialize the rd_backend field of a fake Relation entry correctly. Fortunately, that is easy, since only non-temp relations should ever be mentioned in the WAL stream.
* Fix misleading DEBUG2 issued during RemoveOldXlogFiles()Simon Riggs2010-08-30
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* Truncate subtrans after each restartpoint.Simon Riggs2010-08-30
| | | | Issue reported by Harald Kolb, patch by Fujii Masao, review by me.
* Teach GetOldestXmin() about KnownAssignedXids during recovery.Simon Riggs2010-08-30
| | | | | Very minor issue, though this is required for a later patch. Reported by Heikki Linnakangas.
* Fix typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas2010-08-30
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* Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.Tom Lane2010-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR, rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field from time to time: * right sibling's left-link doesn't match; * PageAddItem failure during _bt_split(); * parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel(). In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit more verbose, with additional values included. The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for subsequent analysis. But with so many users whose platforms don't capture core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be necessary. It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found. Backpatch to 8.2. The code before that is sufficiently different that it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.