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* fastgetattr is in access/htup.h, not access/heapam.hRobert Haas2012-01-16
| | | | Noted by Peter Geoghegan
* Disallow merging ONLY constraints in children tablesAlvaro Herrera2012-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | When creating a child table, or when attaching an existing table as child of another, we must not allow inheritable constraints to be merged with non-inheritable ones, because then grandchildren would not properly get the constraint. This would violate the grandparent's expectations. Bugs noted by Robert Haas. Author: Nikhil Sontakke
* Prevent adding relations to a concurrently dropped schema.Robert Haas2012-01-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the previous coding, it was possible for a relation to be created via CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW, CREATE SEQUENCE, CREATE FOREIGN TABLE, etc. in a schema while that schema was meanwhile being concurrently dropped. This led to a pg_class entry with an invalid relnamespace value. The same problem could occur if a relation was moved using ALTER .. SET SCHEMA while the target schema was being concurrently dropped. This patch prevents both of those scenarios by locking the schema to which the relation is being added using AccessShareLock, which conflicts with the AccessExclusiveLock taken by DROP. As a desirable side effect, this also prevents the use of CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to queue for an AccessExclusiveLock on a relation on which you have no rights: that will now fail immediately with a permissions error, before trying to obtain a lock. We need similar protection for all other object types, but as everything other than relations uses a slightly different set of code paths, I'm leaving that for a separate commit. Original complaint (as far as I could find) about CREATE by Nikhil Sontakke; risk for ALTER .. SET SCHEMA pointed out by Tom Lane; further details by Dan Farina; patch by me; review by Hitoshi Harada.
* Fix poll() implementation of WaitLatchOrSocket to notice postmaster death.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-15
| | | | | | | When the remote end of the pipe is closed, select() reports the fd as readable, but poll() has a separate POLLHUP return code for that. Spotted by Peter Geoghegan.
* Allow a user to kill his own queries using pg_cancel_backend()Magnus Hagander2012-01-15
| | | | | | | | | Allows a user to use pg_cancel_queries() to cancel queries in other backends if they are running under the same role. pg_terminate_backend() still requires superuser permissoins. Short patch, many authors working on the bikeshed: Magnus Hagander, Josh Kupershmidt, Edward Muller, Greg Smith.
* Make superuser imply replication privilege. The idea of a privilege thatHeikki Linnakangas2012-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | superuser doesn't have doesn't make much sense, as a superuser can do whatever he wants through other means, anyway. So instead of granting replication privilege to superusers in CREATE USER time by default, allow replication connection from superusers whether or not they have the replication privilege. Patch by Noah Misch, per discussion on bug report #6264
* Fix broken logic in lazy_vacuum_heap.Robert Haas2012-01-13
| | | | | | | | As noted by Tom Lane, the previous coding in this area, which I introduced in commit bbb6e559c4ea0fb4c346beda76736451dc24eb4e, was poorly tested and caused the vacuum's second heap to go into what would have been an infinite loop but for the fact that it eventually caused a memory allocation failure. This version seems to work better.
* Typo fix.Robert Haas2012-01-13
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* Correctly initialise shared recoveryLastRecPtr in recovery.Simon Riggs2012-01-13
| | | | | | | | Previously we used ReadRecPtr rather than EndRecPtr, which was not a serious error but caused pg_stat_replication to report incorrect replay_location until at least one WAL record is replayed. Fujii Masao
* Minor but necessary improvements to WAL keepalivesSimon Riggs2012-01-13
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Fix CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL for toast values owned by recently-updated rows.Tom Lane2012-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 7b0d0e9356963d5c3e4d329a917f5fbb82a2ef05, I made CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL try to preserve toast value OIDs from the original toast table to the new one. However, if we have to copy both live and recently-dead versions of a row that has a toasted column, those versions may well reference the same toast value with the same OID. The patch then led to duplicate-key failures as we tried to insert the toast value twice with the same OID. (The previous behavior was not very desirable either, since it would have silently inserted the same value twice with different OIDs. That wastes space, but what's worse is that the toast values inserted for already-dead heap rows would not be reclaimed by subsequent ordinary VACUUMs, since they go into the new toast table marked live not deleted.) To fix, check if the copied OID already exists in the new toast table, and if so, assume that it stores the desired value. This is reasonably safe since the only case where we will copy an OID from a previous toast pointer is when toast_insert_or_update was given that toast pointer and so we just pulled the data from the old table; if we got two different values that way then we have big problems anyway. We do have to assume that no other backend is inserting items into the new toast table concurrently, but that's surely safe for CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL. Per bug #6393 from Maxim Boguk. Back-patch to 9.0, same as the previous patch.
* Remove useless 'needlock' argument from GetXLogInsertRecPtr. It was alwaysHeikki Linnakangas2012-01-11
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* Refactor XLogInsert a bit. The rdata entries for backup blocks are nowHeikki Linnakangas2012-01-11
| | | | | | constructed before acquiring WALInsertLock, which slightly reduces the time the lock is held. Although I could not measure any benefit in benchmarks, the code is more readable this way.
* Support CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) with foreign tables and viewsPeter Eisentraut2012-01-10
| | | | | Composite types are not yet supported, because parserOpenTable() rejects them.
* Rename the internal structures of the CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) facilityPeter Eisentraut2012-01-07
| | | | | | | | | The original implementation of this interpreted it as a kind of "inheritance" facility and named all the internal structures accordingly. This turned out to be very confusing, because it has nothing to do with the INHERITS feature. So rename all the internal parser infrastructure, update the comments, adjust the error messages, and split up the regression tests.
* Fix backwards logic in previous commit.Robert Haas2012-01-06
| | | | | I wrote this code before committing it, but managed not to include it in the actual commit.
* Improve behavior of concurrent ALTER TABLE, and do some refactoring.Robert Haas2012-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ALTER TABLE (and ALTER VIEW, ALTER SEQUENCE, etc.) now use a RangeVarGetRelid callback to check permissions before acquiring a table lock. We also now use the same callback for all forms of ALTER TABLE, rather than having separate, almost-identical callbacks for ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA and ALTER TABLE .. RENAME, and no callback at all for everything else. I went ahead and changed the code so that no form of ALTER TABLE works on foreign tables; you must use ALTER FOREIGN TABLE instead. In 9.1, it was possible to use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA or ALTER TABLE .. RENAME on a foreign table, but not any other form of ALTER TABLE, which did not seem terribly useful or consistent. Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
* Make the number of CLOG buffers adaptive, based on shared_buffers.Robert Haas2012-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, this was hardcoded: we always had 8. Performance testing shows that isn't enough, especially on big SMP systems, so we allow it to scale up as high as 32 when there's adequate memory. On the flip side, when shared_buffers is very small, drop the number of CLOG buffers down to as little as 4, so that we can start the postmaster even when very little shared memory is available. Per extensive discussion with Simon Riggs, Tom Lane, and others on pgsql-hackers.
* Fix variable confusion in BufferSync().Robert Haas2012-01-06
| | | | | | | | | As noted by Heikki Linnakangas, the previous coding confused the "flags" variable with the "mask" variable. The affect of this appears to be that unlogged buffers would get written out at every checkpoint rather than only at shutdown time. Although that's arguably an acceptable failure mode, I'm back-patching this change, since it seems like a poor idea to rely on this happening to work.
* Improve ALTER DOMAIN / DROP CONSTRAINT with nonexistent constraintPeter Eisentraut2012-01-05
| | | | | | | ALTER DOMAIN / DROP CONSTRAINT on a nonexistent constraint name did not report any error. Now it reports an error. The IF EXISTS option was added to get the usual behavior of ignoring nonexistent objects to drop.
* Make executor's SELECT INTO code save and restore original tuple receiver.Tom Lane2012-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | As previously coded, the QueryDesc's dest pointer was left dangling (pointing at an already-freed receiver object) after ExecutorEnd. It's a bit astonishing that it took us this long to notice, and I'm not sure that the known problem case with SQL functions is the only one. Fix it by saving and restoring the original receiver pointer, which seems the most bulletproof way of ensuring any related bugs are also covered. Per bug #6379 from Paul Ramsey. Back-patch to 8.4 where the current handling of SELECT INTO was introduced.
* Fix coerce_to_target_type for coerce_type's klugy handling of COLLATE.Tom Lane2012-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because coerce_type recurses into the argument of a CollateExpr, coerce_to_target_type's longstanding code for detecting whether coerce_type had actually done anything (to wit, returned a different node than it passed in) was broken in 9.1. This resulted in unexpected failures in hide_coercion_node; which was not the latter's fault, since it's critical that we never call it on anything that wasn't inserted by coerce_type. (Else we might decide to "hide" a user-written function call.) Fix by removing and replacing the CollateExpr in coerce_to_target_type itself. This is all pretty ugly but I don't immediately see a way to make it nicer. Per report from Jean-Yves F. Barbier.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Send new protocol keepalive messages to standby servers.Simon Riggs2011-12-31
| | | | | Allows streaming replication users to calculate transfer latency and apply delay via internal functions. No external functions yet.
* Revert "Remove troublesome Asserts in cost_mergejoin()."Tom Lane2011-12-30
| | | | | | | | This reverts commit ff68b256a533b398e3420750f34d161aeee4e099. The recent change to use -fexcess-precision=standard should make those Asserts safe, and does fix a test case that formerly crashed for me, so I think there's no need to have a cross-version difference in the code here.
* Standardize treatment of strcmp() return valuePeter Eisentraut2011-12-27
| | | | | Always compare the return value to 0, don't use cute tricks like if (!strcmp(...)).
* Remove support for on_exit()Peter Eisentraut2011-12-27
| | | | | | All supported platforms support the C89 standard function atexit() (SunOS 4 probably being the last one not to), and supporting both makes the code clumsy.
* Sort file list when creating gettext-filesPeter Eisentraut2011-12-27
| | | | | That way, the created .pot file is more deterministic and not dependent on the order in which the files are found.
* Rethink representation of index clauses' mapping to index columns.Tom Lane2011-12-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit e2c2c2e8b1df7dfdb01e7e6f6191a569ce3c3195 I made use of nested list structures to show which clauses went with which index columns, but on reflection that's a data structure that only an old-line Lisp hacker could love. Worse, it adds unnecessary complication to the many places that don't much care which clauses go with which index columns. Revert to the previous arrangement of flat lists of clauses, and instead add a parallel integer list of column numbers. The places that care about the pairing can chase both lists with forboth(), while the places that don't care just examine one list the same as before. The only real downside to this is that there are now two more lists that need to be passed to amcostestimate functions in case they care about column matching (which btcostestimate does, so not passing the info is not an option). Rather than deal with 11-argument amcostestimate functions, pass just the IndexPath and expect the functions to extract fields from it. That gets us down to 7 arguments which is better than 11, and it seems more future-proof against likely additions to the information we keep about an index path.
* Improve planner's handling of duplicated index column expressions.Tom Lane2011-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's potentially useful for an index to repeat the same indexable column or expression in multiple index columns, if the columns have different opclasses. (If they share opclasses too, the duplicate column is pretty useless, but nonetheless we've allowed such cases since 9.0.) However, the planner failed to cope with this, because createplan.c was relying on simple equal() matching to figure out which index column each index qual is intended for. We do have that information available upstream in indxpath.c, though, so the fix is to not flatten the multi-level indexquals list when putting it into an IndexPath. Then we can rely on the sublist structure to identify target index columns in createplan.c. There's a similar issue for index ORDER BYs (the KNNGIST feature), so introduce a multi-level-list representation for that too. This adds a bit more representational overhead, but we might more or less buy that back by not having to search for matching index columns anymore in createplan.c; likewise btcostestimate saves some cycles. Per bug #6351 from Christian Rudolph. Likely symptoms include the "btree index keys must be ordered by attribute" failure shown there, as well as "operator MMMM is not a member of opfamily NNNN". Although this is a pre-existing problem that can be demonstrated in 9.0 and 9.1, I'm not going to back-patch it, because the API changes in the planner seem likely to break things such as index plugins. The corner cases where this matters seem too narrow to justify possibly breaking things in a minor release.
* Add bytea_agg, parallel to string_agg.Robert Haas2011-12-23
| | | | Pavel Stehule
* Add a security_barrier option for views.Robert Haas2011-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a view is marked as a security barrier, it will not be pulled up into the containing query, and no quals will be pushed down into it, so that no function or operator chosen by the user can be applied to rows not exposed by the view. Views not configured with this option cannot provide robust row-level security, but will perform far better. Patch by KaiGai Kohei; original problem report by Heikki Linnakangas (in October 2009!). Review (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch and others. Design advice by Tom Lane and myself. Further review and cleanup by me.
* Add ALTER DOMAIN ... RENAMEPeter Eisentraut2011-12-22
| | | | | | You could already rename domains using ALTER TYPE, but with this new command it is more consistent with how other commands treat domains as a subcategory of types.
* Update per-column ACLs, not only per-table ACL, when changing table owner.Tom Lane2011-12-21
| | | | | | | | | We forgot to modify column ACLs, so privileges were still shown as having been granted by the old owner. This meant that neither the new owner nor a superuser could revoke the now-untraceable-to-table-owner permissions. Per bug #6350 from Marc Balmer. This has been wrong since column ACLs were added, so back-patch to 8.4.
* Improve behavior of concurrent CLUSTER.Robert Haas2011-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | In the previous coding, a user could queue up for an AccessExclusiveLock on a table they did not have permission to cluster, thus potentially interfering with access by authorized users who got stuck waiting behind the AccessExclusiveLock. This approach avoids that. cluster() has the same permissions-checking requirements as REINDEX TABLE, so this commit moves the now-shared callback to tablecmds.c and renames it, per discussion with Noah Misch.
* Take fewer snapshots.Robert Haas2011-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a PORTAL_ONE_SELECT query is executed, we can opportunistically reuse the parse/plan shot for the execution phase. This cuts down the number of snapshots per simple query from 2 to 1 for the simple protocol, and 3 to 2 for the extended protocol. Since we are only reusing a snapshot taken early in the processing of the same protocol message, the change shouldn't be user-visible, except that the remote possibility of the planning and execution snapshots being different is eliminated. Note that this change does not make it safe to assume that the parse/plan snapshot will certainly be reused; that will currently only happen if PortalStart() decides to use the PORTAL_ONE_SELECT strategy. It might be worth trying to provide some stronger guarantees here in the future, but for now we don't. Patch by me; review by Dimitri Fontaine.
* Shave a few cycles in string_agg().Robert Haas2011-12-21
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* Fix gincostestimate to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr reasonably.Tom Lane2011-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding of this function overlooked the possibility that it could be passed anything except simple OpExpr indexquals. But ScalarArrayOpExpr is possible too, and the code would probably crash (and surely give ridiculous answers) in such a case. Add logic to try to estimate sanely for such cases. In passing, fix the treatment of inner-indexscan cost estimation: it was failing to scale up properly for multiple iterations of a nestloop. (I think somebody might've thought that index_pages_fetched() is linear, but of course it's not.) Report, diagnosis, and preliminary patch by Marti Raudsepp; I refactored it a bit and fixed the cost estimation. Back-patch into 9.1 where the bogus code was introduced.
* Avoid crashing when we have problems unlinking files post-commit.Tom Lane2011-12-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | smgrdounlink takes care to not throw an ERROR if it fails to unlink something, but that caution was rendered useless by commit 3396000684b41e7e9467d1abc67152b39e697035, which put an smgrexists call in front of it; smgrexists *does* throw error if anything looks funny, such as getting a permissions error from trying to open the file. If that happens post-commit, you get a PANIC, and what's worse the same logic appears in the WAL replay code, so the database even fails to restart. Restore the intended behavior by removing the smgrexists call --- it isn't accomplishing anything that we can't do better by adjusting mdunlink's ideas of whether it ought to warn about ENOENT or not. Per report from Joseph Shraibman of unrecoverable crash after trying to drop a table whose FSM fork had somehow gotten chmod'd to 000 permissions. Backpatch to 8.4, where the bogus coding was introduced.
* Add support for privileges on typesPeter Eisentraut2011-12-20
| | | | | | | | | This adds support for the more or less SQL-conforming USAGE privilege on types and domains. The intent is to be able restrict which users can create dependencies on types, which restricts the way in which owners can alter types. reviewed by Yeb Havinga
* Rename updateNodeLink to spgUpdateNodeLink.Tom Lane2011-12-19
| | | | | | | On reflection, the original name seems way too generic for a global symbol. A quick check shows this is the only exported function name in SP-GiST that doesn't begin with "spg" or contain "SpGist", so the rest of them seem all right.
* Allow CHECK constraints to be declared ONLYAlvaro Herrera2011-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes them enforceable only on the parent table, not on children tables. This is useful in various situations, per discussion involving people bitten by the restrictive behavior introduced in 8.4. Message-Id: 8762mp93iw.fsf@comcast.net CAFaPBrSMMpubkGf4zcRL_YL-AERUbYF_-ZNNYfb3CVwwEqc9TQ@mail.gmail.com Authors: Nikhil Sontakke, Alex Hunsaker Reviewed by Robert Haas and myself
* Teach SP-GiST to do index-only scans.Tom Lane2011-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Operator classes can specify whether or not they support this; this preserves the flexibility to use lossy representations within an index. In passing, move constant data about a given index into the rd_amcache cache area, instead of doing fresh lookups each time we start an index operation. This is mainly to try to make sure that spgcanreturn() has insignificant cost; I still don't have any proof that it matters for actual index accesses. Also, get rid of useless copying of FmgrInfo pointers; we can perfectly well use the relcache's versions in-place.
* Replace simple constant pg_am.amcanreturn with an AM support function.Tom Lane2011-12-18
| | | | | | | | | The need for this was debated when we put in the index-only-scan feature, but at the time we had no near-term expectation of having AMs that could support such scans for only some indexes; so we kept it simple. However, the SP-GiST AM forces the issue, so let's fix it. This patch only installs the new API; no behavior actually changes.
* Defend against null scankeys in spgist searches.Tom Lane2011-12-17
| | | | Should've thought of that one earlier.
* Fix some long-obsolete references to XLogOpenRelation.Tom Lane2011-12-17
| | | | | These were missed in commit a213f1ee6c5a1bbe1f074ca201975e76ad2ed50c, which removed that function.
* Fix compiler warning seen on 64-bit machine.Tom Lane2011-12-17
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* Add SP-GiST (space-partitioned GiST) index access method.Tom Lane2011-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports non-balanced partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees. As described at PGCon 2011, this new indexing structure can beat GiST in both index build time and query speed for search problems that it is well matched to. There are a number of areas that could still use improvement, but at this point the code seems committable. Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, with considerable revisions by Tom Lane
* Various micro-optimizations for GetSnapshopData().Robert Haas2011-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | | Heikki Linnakangas had the idea of rearranging GetSnapshotData to avoid checking for sub-XIDs when no top-level XID is present. This patch does that plus further a bit of further, related rearrangement. Benchmarking show a significant improvement on unlogged tables at higher concurrency levels, and mostly indifferent result on permanent tables (which are presumably bottlenecked elsewhere). Most of the benefit seems to come from using the new NormalTransactionIdPrecedes() macro rather than the function call TransactionIdPrecedes().
* include_if_exists facility for config file.Andrew Dunstan2011-12-15
| | | | | | | | This works the same as include, except that an error is not thrown if the file is missing. Instead the fact that it's missing is logged. Greg Smith, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.