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* Built-in JSON data type.Robert Haas2012-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | Like the XML data type, we simply store JSON data as text, after checking that it is valid. More complex operations such as canonicalization and comparison may come later, but this is enough for not. There are a few open issues here, such as whether we should attempt to detect UTF-8 surrogate pairs represented as \uXXXX\uYYYY, but this gets the basic framework in place.
* Fix bug in the new wait-until-lwlock-is-free mechanism.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-31
| | | | | | If there was a wait-until-free process in the head of the wait queue, followed by an exclusive locker, the exclusive locker was not be woken up as it should.
* Add sequence USAGE privileges to information schemaPeter Eisentraut2012-01-30
| | | | | | | The sequence USAGE privilege is sufficiently similar to the SQL standard that it seems reasonable to show in the information schema. Also add some compatibility notes about it on the GRANT reference page.
* Make group commit more effective.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a backend needs to flush the WAL, and someone else is already flushing the WAL, wait until it releases the WALInsertLock and check if we still need to do the flush or if the other backend already did the work for us, before acquiring WALInsertLock. This helps group commit, because when the WAL flush finishes, all the backends that were waiting for it can be woken up in one go, and the can all concurrently observe that they're done, rather than waking them up one by one in a cascading fashion. This is based on a new LWLock function, LWLockWaitUntilFree(), which has peculiar semantics. If the lock is immediately free, it grabs the lock and returns true. If it's not free, it waits until it is released, but then returns false without grabbing the lock. This is used in XLogFlush(), so that when the lock is acquired, the backend flushes the WAL, but if it's not, the backend first checks the current flush location before retrying. Original patch and benchmarking by Peter Geoghegan and Simon Riggs, although this patch as committed ended up being very different from that.
* Minor bug fix and cleanup from self-review of sync rep queues patch.Simon Riggs2012-01-30
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* Various minor comments changes from bgwriter to checkpointer.Simon Riggs2012-01-30
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* Accept a non-existent value in "ALTER USER/DATABASE SET ..." command.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When default_text_search_config, default_tablespace, or temp_tablespaces setting is set per-user or per-database, with an "ALTER USER/DATABASE SET ..." statement, don't throw an error if the text search configuration or tablespace does not exist. In case of text search configuration, even if it doesn't exist in the current database, it might exist in another database, where the setting is intended to have its effect. This behavior is now the same as search_path's. Tablespaces are cluster-wide, so the same argument doesn't hold for tablespaces, but there's a problem with pg_dumpall: it dumps "ALTER USER SET ..." statements before the "CREATE TABLESPACE" statements. Arguably that's pg_dumpall's fault - it should dump the statements in such an order that the tablespace is created first and then the "ALTER USER SET default_tablespace ..." statements after that - but it seems better to be consistent with search_path and default_text_search_config anyway. Besides, you could still create a dump that throws an error, by creating the tablespace, running "ALTER USER SET default_tablespace", then dropping the tablespace and running pg_dumpall on that. Backpatch to all supported versions.
* Assorted comment fixes, mostly just typos, but some obsolete statements.Tom Lane2012-01-29
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* Tweak index costing for problems with partial indexes.Tom Lane2012-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | btcostestimate() makes an estimate of the number of index tuples that will be visited based on knowledge of which index clauses can actually bound the scan within nbtree. However, it forgot to account for partial indexes in this calculation, with the result that the cost of the index scan could be significantly overestimated for a partial index. Fix that by merging the predicate with the abbreviated indexclause list, in the same way as we do with the full list to estimate how many heap tuples will be visited. Also, slightly increase the "fudge factor" that's meant to give preference to smaller indexes over larger ones. While this is applied to all indexes, it's most important for partial indexes since it can be the only factor that makes a partial index look cheaper than a similar full index. Experimentation shows that the existing value is so small as to easily get swamped by noise such as page-boundary-roundoff behavior. I'm tempted to kick it up more than this, but will refrain for now. Per report from Ruben Blanco. These are long-standing issues, but given the lack of prior complaints I'm not going to risk changing planner behavior in back branches by back-patching.
* Fix pushing of index-expression qualifications through UNION ALL.Tom Lane2012-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 57664ed25e5dea117158a2e663c29e60b3546e1c, I made the planner wrap non-simple-variable outputs of appendrel children (IOW, child SELECTs of UNION ALL subqueries) inside PlaceHolderVars, in order to solve some issues with EquivalenceClass processing. However, this means that any upper-level WHERE clauses mentioning such outputs will now contain PlaceHolderVars after they're pushed down into the appendrel child, and that prevents indxpath.c from recognizing that they could be matched to index expressions. To fix, add explicit stripping of PlaceHolderVars from index operands, same as we have long done for RelabelType nodes. Add a regression test covering both this and the plain-UNION case (which is a totally different code path, but should also be able to do it). Per bug #6416 from Matteo Beccati. Back-patch to 9.1, same as the previous change.
* Fix handling of init_plans list in inheritance_planner().Tom Lane2012-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly we passed an empty list to each per-child-table invocation of grouping_planner, and then merged the results into the global list. However, that fails if there's a CTE attached to the statement, because create_ctescan_plan uses the list to find the plan referenced by a CTE reference; so it was unable to find any CTEs attached to the outer UPDATE or DELETE. But there's no real reason not to use the same list throughout the process, and doing so is simpler and faster anyway. Per report from Josh Berkus of "could not find plan for CTE" failures. Back-patch to 9.1 where we added support for WITH attached to UPDATE or DELETE. Add some regression test cases, too.
* Fix handling of data-modifying CTE subplans in EvalPlanQual.Tom Lane2012-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We can't just skip initializing such subplans, because the referencing CTE node will expect to find the subplan available when it initializes. That in turn means that ExecInitModifyTable must allow the case (which actually it needed to do anyway, since there's no guarantee that ModifyTable is exactly at the top of the CTE plan tree). So move the complaint about not being allowed in EvalPlanQual mode to execution instead of initialization. Testing turned up yet another problem, which is that we'd try to re-initialize the result relation's index list, leading to leaks and dangling pointers. Per report from Phil Sorber. Back-patch to 9.1 where data-modifying CTEs were introduced.
* Prevent logging "failed to stat file: success" for temp filesMagnus Hagander2012-01-28
| | | | | | | This was broken in commit bc3347484a7bf9eddb98e4352d84599cae9a31c6, the addition of statistics counters for temp files. Reported by Thom Brown
* Undo 8.4-era lobotomization of subquery pullup rules.Tom Lane2012-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After the planner was fixed to convert some IN/EXISTS subqueries into semijoins or antijoins, we had to prevent it from doing that in some cases where the plans risked getting much worse. The reason the plans got worse was that in the unoptimized implementation, subqueries could reference parameters from the outer query at any join level, and so full table scans could be avoided even if they were one or more levels of join below where the semi/anti join would be. Now that we have sufficient mechanism in the planner to handle such cases properly, it should no longer be necessary to play dumb here. This reverts commits 07b9936a0f10d746e5076239813a5e938f2f16be and cd1f0d04bf06938c0ee5728fc8424d62bcf2eef3. The latter was a stopgap fix that wasn't really sufficiently analyzed at the time. Rather than just restricting ourselves to cases where the new join can be stacked on the right-hand input, we should also consider whether it can be stacked on the left-hand input.
* Use parameterized paths to generate inner indexscans more flexibly.Tom Lane2012-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the planner so that it can generate nestloop-with- inner-indexscan plans even with one or more levels of joining between the indexscan and the nestloop join that is supplying the parameter. The executor was fixed to handle such cases some time ago, but the planner was not ready. This should improve our plans in many situations where join ordering restrictions formerly forced complete table scans. There is probably a fair amount of tuning work yet to be done, because of various heuristics that have been added to limit the number of parameterized paths considered. However, we are not going to find out what needs to be adjusted until the code gets some real-world use, so it's time to get it in there where it can be tested easily. Note API change for index AM amcostestimate functions. I'm not aware of any non-core index AMs, but if there are any, they will need minor adjustments.
* Show default privileges in information schemaPeter Eisentraut2012-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Hitherto, the information schema only showed explicitly granted privileges that were visible in the *acl catalog columns. If no privileges had been granted, the implicit privileges were not shown. To fix that, add an SQL-accessible version of the acldefault() function, and use that inside the aclexplode() calls to substitute the catalog-specific default privilege set for null values. reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
* Revert unfortunate whitespace changePeter Eisentraut2012-01-27
| | | | | | | In e5e2fc842c418432756d8b5825ff107c6c5fc4c3, blank lines were removed after a comment block, which now looks as though the comment refers to the immediately following code, but it actually refers to the preceding code. So put the blank lines back.
* Disallow ALTER DOMAIN on non-domain type everywherePeter Eisentraut2012-01-27
| | | | | | This has been the behavior already in most cases, but through omission, ALTER DOMAIN / OWNER TO and ALTER DOMAIN / SET SCHEMA would silently work on non-domain types as well.
* Hide most variable-length fields from Form_pg_* structsPeter Eisentraut2012-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Those fields only appear in the structs so that genbki.pl can create the BKI bootstrap files for the catalogs. But they are not actually usable from C. So hiding them can prevent coding mistakes, saves stack space, and can help the compiler. In certain catalogs, the first variable-length field has been kept visible after manual inspection. These exceptions are noted in C comments. reviewed by Tom Lane
* Do not access indclass through Form_pg_indexPeter Eisentraut2012-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Normally, accessing variable-length members of catalog structures past the first one doesn't work at all. Here, it happened to work because indnatts was checked to be 1, and so the defined FormData_pg_index layout, using int2vector[1] and oidvector[1] for variable-length arrays, happened to match the actual memory layout. But it's a very fragile assumption, and it's not in a performance-critical path, so code it properly using heap_getattr() instead. bug analysis by Tom Lane
* Initialize the new bgwriterLatch field properly.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-27
| | | | Peter Geoghegan
* Adjust tuplesort.c based on the fact that we never use the OS's qsort().Robert Haas2012-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | Our own qsort_arg() implementation doesn't have the defect previously observed to affect only QNX 4, so it seems sufficiently to assert that it isn't broken rather than retesting. Also, update a few comments to clarify why it's valuable to retain a tie-break rule based on CTID during index builds. Peter Geoghegan, with slight tweaks by me.
* Be more clear when a new column name collides with a system column name.Robert Haas2012-01-26
| | | | | | | | | We now use the same error message for ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN or ALTER TABLE .. RENAME COLUMN that we do for CREATE TABLE. The old message was accurate, but might be confusing to users not aware of our system columns. Vik Reykja, with some changes by me, and further proofreading by Tom Lane
* Make bgwriter sleep longer when it has no work to do, to save electricity.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-26
| | | | | | | | | To make it wake up promptly when activity starts again, backends nudge it by setting a latch in MarkBufferDirty(). The latch is kept set while bgwriter is active, so there is very little overhead from that when the system is busy. It is only armed before going into longer sleep. Peter Geoghegan, with some changes by me.
* Add missing #include, to suppress compiler warning.Robert Haas2012-01-26
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* Fix a copy/pasted typo in several commentsMagnus Hagander2012-01-26
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* Add deadlock counter to pg_stat_databaseMagnus Hagander2012-01-26
| | | | | | | Adds a counter that tracks number of deadlocks that occurred in each database to pg_stat_database. Magnus Hagander, reviewed by Jaime Casanova
* Classify DROP operations by whether or not they are user-initiated.Robert Haas2012-01-26
| | | | | | | This doesn't do anything useful just yet, but is intended as supporting infrastructure for allowing sepgsql to sensibly check DROP permissions. KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas
* Track temporary file count and size in pg_stat_databaseMagnus Hagander2012-01-26
| | | | | | | | Add counters for number and size of temporary files used for spill-to-disk queries for each database to the pg_stat_database view. Tomas Vondra, review by Magnus Hagander
* Damage control for yesterday's CheckIndexCompatible changes.Robert Haas2012-01-26
| | | | | | Rip out a regression test that doesn't play well with settings put in place by the build farm, and rewrite the code in CheckIndexCompatible in a hopefully more transparent style.
* Instrument index-only scans to count heap fetches performed.Robert Haas2012-01-25
| | | | Patch by me; review by Tom Lane, Jeff Davis, and Peter Geoghegan.
* Make CheckIndexCompatible simpler and more bullet-proof.Robert Haas2012-01-25
| | | | | | | | | This gives up the "don't rewrite the index" behavior in a couple of relatively unimportant cases, such as changing between an array type and an unconstrained domain over that array type, in return for making this code more future-proof. Noah Misch
* Allow pg_basebackup from standby node with safety checking.Simon Riggs2012-01-25
| | | | | | | Base backup follows recommended procedure, plus goes to great lengths to ensure that partial page writes are avoided. Jun Ishizuka and Fujii Masao, with minor modifications
* Add pg_trigger_depth() functionAlvaro Herrera2012-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | This reports the depth level of triggers currently in execution, or zero if not called from inside a trigger. No catversion bump in this patch, but you have to initdb if you want access to the new function. Author: Kevin Grittner
* Add new replication mode synchronous_commit = 'write'.Simon Riggs2012-01-24
| | | | | | | | | Replication occurs only to memory on standby, not to disk, so provides additional performance if user wishes to reduce durability level slightly. Adds concept of multiple independent sync rep queues. Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
* Remove quotes around format_type_be() outputPeter Eisentraut2012-01-24
| | | | format_type_be() takes care of any needed quoting itself.
* Suppress variable-clobbered-by-longjmp warning seen with older gcc versions.Tom Lane2012-01-24
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* Suppress possibly-uninitialized-variable warning seen with older gcc versions.Tom Lane2012-01-24
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* Reduce tab outdent of "error handling" GUC comments in postgresql.conf,Bruce Momjian2012-01-24
| | | | to match surrounding outdenting.
* Resolve timing issue with logging locks for Hot Standby.Simon Riggs2012-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | We log AccessExclusiveLocks for replay onto standby nodes, but because of timing issues on ProcArray it is possible to log a lock that is still held by a just committed transaction that is very soon to be removed. To avoid any timing issue we avoid applying locks made by transactions with InvalidXid. Simon Riggs, bug report Tom Lane, diagnosis Pavan Deolasee
* ALTER <thing> [IF EXISTS] ... allows silent DDL if required,Simon Riggs2012-01-23
| | | | | | e.g. ALTER FOREIGN TABLE IF EXISTS foo RENAME TO bar Pavel Stehule
* Further doc cleanups from the pg_stat_activity changesMagnus Hagander2012-01-20
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Add bitwise AND, OR, and NOT operators for macaddr data type.Robert Haas2012-01-19
| | | | Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Fujii Masao
* Separate state from query string in pg_stat_activityMagnus Hagander2012-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This separates the state (running/idle/idleintransaction etc) into it's own field ("state"), and leaves the query field containing just query text. The query text will now mean "current query" when a query is running and "last query" in other states. Accordingly,the field has been renamed from current_query to query. Since backwards compatibility was broken anyway to make that, the procpid field has also been renamed to pid - along with the same field in pg_stat_replication for consistency. Scott Mead and Magnus Hagander, review work from Greg Smith
* Make pg_relation_size() and friends return NULL if the object doesn't exist.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-19
| | | | | | | That avoids errors when the functions are used in queries like "SELECT pg_relation_size(oid) FROM pg_class", and a table is dropped concurrently. Phil Sorber
* Fix corner case in cleanup of transactions using SSI.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the only remaining active transactions are READ ONLY, we do a "partial cleanup" of committed transactions because certain types of conflicts aren't possible anymore. For committed r/w transactions, we release the SIREAD locks but keep the SERIALIZABLEXACT. However, for committed r/o transactions, we can go further and release the SERIALIZABLEXACT too. The problem was with the latter case: we were returning the SERIALIZABLEXACT to the free list without removing it from the finished list. The only real change in the patch is the SHMQueueDelete line, but I also reworked some of the surrounding code to make it obvious that r/o and r/w transactions are handled differently -- the existing code felt a bit too clever. Dan Ports
* Fix warning about unused variableMagnus Hagander2012-01-18
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* Catch fatal flex errors in the GUC file lexer.Robert Haas2012-01-17
| | | | | | | | | This prevents the postmaster from unexpectedly croaking if postgresql.conf contains something like: include 'invalid_directory_name' Noah Misch. Reviewed by Tom Lane and myself.
* 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