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* Use a macro variable PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for the style used for checking ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-04-28
| | | | | | | | | printf type functions. The style is set to "printf" for backwards compatibility everywhere except on Windows, where it is set to "gnu_printf", which eliminates hundreds of false error messages from modern versions of gcc arising from %m and %ll{d,u} formats.
* Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes.Tom Lane2011-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per recent discussion, it's important for all computed datums (not only the results of input functions) to not contain any ill-defined (uninitialized) bits. Failing to ensure that can result in equal() reporting that semantically indistinguishable Consts are not equal, which in turn leads to bizarre and undesirable planner behavior, such as in a recent example from David Johnston. We might eventually try to fix this in a general manner by allowing datatypes to define identity-testing functions, but for now the path of least resistance is to expect datatypes to force all unused bits into consistent states. Per some testing by Noah Misch, array and path functions seem to be the only ones presenting risks at the moment, so I looked through all the functions in adt/array*.c and geo_ops.c and fixed them as necessary. In the array functions, the easiest/safest fix is to allocate result arrays with palloc0 instead of palloc. Possibly in future someone will want to look into whether we can just zero the padding bytes, but that looks too complex for a back-patchable fix. In the path functions, we already had a precedent in path_in for just zeroing the one known pad field, so duplicate that code as needed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Revert "Remove hard coded formats for INT64 and use configured settings ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
| | | | | | | | instead." This reverts commit 9b1508af8971c1627cda5bb65f5e9eddb9a1a55e. As requested by Tom.
* Remove hard coded formats for INT64 and use configured settings instead.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
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* Use an explicit format string to keep the compiler happy.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-27
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* Rephrase some not-supported error messages in pg_hba.conf processing.Tom Lane2011-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | In a couple of places we said "not supported on this platform" for cases that aren't really platform-specific, but could depend on configuration options such as --with-openssl. Use "not supported by this build" instead, as that doesn't convey the impression that you can't fix it without moving to another OS; that's also more consistent with the wording used for an identical error case in guc.c. No back-patch, as the clarity gain is small enough to not be worth burdening translators with back-branch changes.
* Complain if pg_hba.conf contains "hostssl" but SSL is disabled.Tom Lane2011-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most commenters agreed that this is more friendly than silently failing to match the line during actual connection attempts. Also, this will prevent corner cases that might arise when trying to handle such a line when the SSL code isn't turned on. An example is that specifying clientcert=1 in such a line would formerly result in a completely misleading complaint that root.crt wasn't present, as seen in a recent report from Marc-Andre Laverdiere. While we could have instead fixed that specific behavior, it seems likely that we'd have a continuing stream of such bizarre behaviors if we keep on allowing hostssl lines when SSL is disabled. Back-patch to 8.4, where clientcert was introduced. Earlier versions don't have this specific issue, and the code is enough different to make this patch not applicable without more work than it seems worth.
* Remove incorrect HINT for use of ALTER FOREIGN TABLE on the wrong relkind.Tom Lane2011-04-25
| | | | | | | | Per discussion, removing the hint seems better than correcting it because the adjacent analogous cases in RenameRelation don't have any hints, and nobody seems to have missed 'em. Shigeru Hanada
* Refactor broken CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS support.Robert Haas2011-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per bug #5988, reported by Marko Tiikkaja, and further analyzed by Tom Lane, the previous coding was broken in several respects: even if the target table already existed, a subsequent CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS might try to add additional constraints or sequences-for-serial specified in the new CREATE TABLE statement. In passing, this also fixes a minor information leak: it's no longer possible to figure out whether a schema to which you don't have CREATE access contains a sequence named like "x_y_seq" by attempting to create a table in that schema called "x" with a serial column called "y". Some more refactoring of this code in the future might be warranted, but that will need to wait for a later major release.
* Remove partial and undocumented GRANT .. FOREIGN TABLE support.Robert Haas2011-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | | Instead, foreign tables are treated just like views: permissions can be granted using GRANT privilege ON [TABLE] foreign_table_name TO role, and revoked similarly. GRANT/REVOKE .. FOREIGN TABLE is no longer supported, just as we don't support GRANT/REVOKE .. VIEW. The set of accepted permissions for foreign tables is now identical to the set for regular tables, and views. Per report from Thom Brown, and subsequent discussion.
* Fix pg_size_pretty() to avoid overflow for inputs close to INT64_MAX.Tom Lane2011-04-25
| | | | | | | | The expression that tried to round the value to the nearest TB could overflow, leading to bogus output as reported in bug #5993 from Nicola Cossu. This isn't likely to ever happen in the intended usage of the function (if it could, we'd be needing to use a wider datatype instead); but it's not hard to give the expected output, so let's do so.
* Assorted minor changes to silence Windows compiler warnings.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-25
| | | | Mostly to do with macro redefinitions or object signedness.
* Add postmaster/postgres undocumented -b option for binary upgrades.Bruce Momjian2011-04-25
| | | | | | | | | | This option turns off autovacuum, prevents non-super-user connections, and enables oid setting hooks in the backend. The code continues to use the old autoavacuum disable settings for servers with earlier catalog versions. This includes a catalog version bump to identify servers that support the -b option.
* Add fast paths for cases when no serializable transactions are running.Robert Haas2011-04-25
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* Fix SSI-related assertion failure.Robert Haas2011-04-25
| | | | | | Bug #5899, reported by Marko Tiikkaja. Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed by Kevin Grittner and Dan Ports.
* Improve cost estimation for aggregates and window functions.Tom Lane2011-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding failed to account properly for the costs of evaluating the input expressions of aggregates and window functions, as seen in a recent gripe from Claudio Freire. (I said at the time that it wasn't counting these costs at all; but on closer inspection, it was effectively charging these costs once per output tuple. That is completely wrong for aggregates, and not exactly right for window functions either.) There was also a hard-wired assumption that aggregates and window functions had procost 1.0, which is now fixed to respect the actual cataloged costs. The costing of WindowAgg is still pretty bogus, since it doesn't try to estimate the effects of spilling data to disk, but that seems like a separate issue.
* Silence a few compiler warnings from gcc on MinGW.Andrew Dunstan2011-04-23
| | | | | | | Most of these cast DWORD to int or unsigned int for printf type handling. This is safe even on 64 bit architectures because a DWORD is always 32 bits. In one case a variable is initialised to keep the compiler happy.
* Hash indexes had better pass the index collation to support functions, too.Tom Lane2011-04-23
| | | | | Per experimentation with contrib/citext, whose hash function assumes that it'll be passed a collation.
* Fix char2wchar/wchar2char to support collations properly.Tom Lane2011-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These functions should take a pg_locale_t, not a collation OID, and should call mbstowcs_l/wcstombs_l where available. Where those functions are not available, temporarily select the correct locale with uselocale(). This change removes the bogus assumption that all locales selectable in a given database have the same wide-character conversion method; in particular, the collate.linux.utf8 regression test now passes with LC_CTYPE=C, so long as the database encoding is UTF8. I decided to move the char2wchar/wchar2char functions out of mbutils.c and into pg_locale.c, because they work on wchar_t not pg_wchar_t and thus don't really belong with the mbutils.c functions. Keeping them where they were would have required importing pg_locale_t into pg_wchar.h somehow, which did not seem like a good plan.
* Make GIN and GIST pass the index collation to all their support functions.Tom Lane2011-04-22
| | | | | | | Experimentation with contrib/btree_gist shows that the majority of the GIST support functions potentially need collation information. Safest policy seems to be to pass it to all of them, instead of making assumptions about which ones could possibly need it.
* Make a code-cleanup pass over the collations patch.Tom Lane2011-04-22
| | | | | | | This patch is almost entirely cosmetic --- mostly cleaning up a lot of neglected comments, and fixing code layout problems in places where the patch made lines too long and then pgindent did weird things with that. I did find a bug-of-omission in equalTupleDescs().
* Avoid possible divide-by-zero in gincostestimate.Tom Lane2011-04-21
| | | | Per report from Jeff Janes.
* Allow ALTER TYPE .. ADD ATTRIBUTE .. CASCADE to recurse to descendants.Robert Haas2011-04-20
| | | | | | | Without this, adding an attribute to a typed table with an inheritance child fails, which is surprising. Noah Misch, with minor changes by me.
* Fix use of incorrect constant RemoveRoleFromObjectACL.Robert Haas2011-04-20
| | | | | | | This could cause failures when DROP OWNED BY attempt to remove default privileges on sequences. Back-patching to 9.0. Shigeru Hanada
* Typo fix.Robert Haas2011-04-20
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* Allow ALTER TABLE name {OF type | NOT OF}.Robert Haas2011-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | This syntax allows a standalone table to be made into a typed table, or a typed table to be made standalone. This is possibly a mildly useful feature in its own right, but the real motivation for this change is that we need it to make pg_upgrade work with typed tables. This doesn't actually fix that problem, but it's necessary infrastructure. Noah Misch
* Fix bugs in indexing of in-doubt HOT-updated tuples.Tom Lane2011-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we find a DELETE_IN_PROGRESS HOT-updated tuple, it is impossible to know whether to index it or not except by waiting to see if the deleting transaction commits. If it doesn't, the tuple might again be LIVE, meaning we have to index it. So wait and recheck in that case. Also, we must not rely on ii_BrokenHotChain to decide that it's possible to omit tuples from the index. That could result in omitting tuples that we need, particularly in view of yesterday's fixes to not necessarily set indcheckxmin (but it's broken even without that, as per my analysis today). Since this is just an extremely marginal performance optimization, dropping the test shouldn't hurt. These cases are only expected to happen in system catalogs (they're possible there due to early release of RowExclusiveLock in most catalog-update code paths). Since reindexing of a system catalog isn't a particularly performance-critical operation anyway, there's no real need to be concerned about possible performance degradation from these changes. The worst aspects of this bug were introduced in 9.0 --- 8.x will always wait out a DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuple. But I think dropping index entries on the strength of ii_BrokenHotChain is dangerous even without that, so back-patch removal of that optimization to 8.3 and 8.4.
* Set indcheckxmin true when REINDEX fixes an invalid or not-ready index.Tom Lane2011-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | Per comment from Greg Stark, it's less clear that HOT chains don't conflict with the index than it would be for a valid index. So, let's preserve the former behavior that indcheckxmin does get set when there are potentially-broken HOT chains in this case. This change does not cause any pg_index update that wouldn't have happened anyway, so we're not re-introducing the previous bug with pg_index updates, and surely the case is not significant from a performance standpoint; so let's be as conservative as possible.
* Make plan_cluster_use_sort cope with no IndexOptInfo for the target index.Tom Lane2011-04-20
| | | | | | | | | The original coding assumed that such a case represents caller error, but actually get_relation_info will omit generating an IndexOptInfo for any index it thinks is unsafe to use. Therefore, handle this case by returning "true" to indicate that a seqscan-and-sort is the preferred way to implement the CLUSTER operation. New bug in 9.1, no backpatch needed. Per bug #5985 from Daniel Grace.
* Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.Tom Lane2011-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must pre-date its original creation. So we can just avoid changing pg_index altogether during a REINDEX operation. This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are reindexing it. System catalog indexes will always be created with indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should never try to change their pg_index entries. This avoids special-casing system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be considered unusable for a short time. Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT. Note that this patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that any add-on code is calling that directly.
* Revert "Prevent incorrect updates of pg_index while reindexing pg_index itself."Tom Lane2011-04-19
| | | | | This reverts commit 4b6106ccfea21e86943f881edcf3cfc03661a415 of 2011-04-15. There's a better way to do it, which will follow shortly.
* Refrain from canonicalizing a client_encoding setting of "UNICODE".Tom Lane2011-04-19
| | | | | | | | | While "UTF8" is the correct name for this encoding, existing JDBC drivers expect that if they send "UNICODE" it will read back the same way; they fail with an opaque "Protocol error" complaint if not. This will be fixed in the 9.1 drivers, but until older drivers are no longer in use in the wild, we'd better leave "UNICODE" alone. Continue to canonicalize all other inputs. Per report from Steve Singer and subsequent discussion.
* Fix handling of collations in multi-row VALUES constructs.Tom Lane2011-04-18
| | | | | | | | | Per spec we ought to apply select_common_collation() across the expressions in each column of the VALUES table. The original coding was just taking the first row and assuming it was representative. This patch adds a field to struct RangeTblEntry to carry the resolved collations, so initdb is forced for changes in stored rule representation.
* Only allow typed tables to hang off composite types, not e.g. tables.Robert Haas2011-04-18
| | | | | | | | | This also ensures that we take a relation lock on the composite type when creating a typed table, which is necessary to prevent the composite type and the typed table from getting out of step in the face of concurrent DDL. Noah Misch, with some changes.
* recoveryStopsHere() must check the resource manager ID.Robert Haas2011-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | Before commit c016ce728139be95bb0dc7c4e5640507334c2339, this wasn't needed, but now that multiple resource manager IDs can percolate down through here, we have to make sure we know which one we've got. Otherwise, we can confuse (for example) an XLOG_XACT_COMMIT record with an XLOG_CHECKPOINT_SHUTDOWN record. Review by Jaime Casanova
* Add check for matching column collations in ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT.Tom Lane2011-04-17
| | | | | | | The other DDL operations that create an inheritance relationship were checking for collation match already, but this one got missed. Also fix comments that failed to mention collation checks.
* foreach() and list_delete() don't mix.Tom Lane2011-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix crash when releasing duplicate entries in the encoding conversion cache list, caused by releasing the current entry of the list being chased by foreach(). We have a standard idiom for handling such cases, but this loop wasn't using it. This got broken in my recent rewrite of GUC assign hooks. Not sure how I missed this when testing the modified code, but I did. Per report from Peter.
* Add an Assert that indexam.c isn't used on an index awaiting reindexing.Tom Lane2011-04-16
| | | | | | | This might have caught the recent embarrassment over trying to modify pg_index while its indexes were being rebuilt. Noah Misch
* Simplify reindex_relation's API.Tom Lane2011-04-16
| | | | | | | For what seem entirely historical reasons, a bitmask "flags" argument was recently added to reindex_relation without subsuming its existing boolean argument into that bitmask. This seems a bit bizarre, so fold them together.
* Clean up collation processing in prepunion.c.Tom Lane2011-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | This area was a few bricks shy of a load, and badly under-commented too. We have to ensure that the generated targetlist entries for a set-operation node expose the correct collation for each entry, since higher-level processing expects the tlist to reflect the true ordering of the plan's output. This hackery wouldn't be necessary if SortGroupClause carried collation info ... but making it do so would inject more pain in the parser than would be saved here. Still, we might want to rethink that sometime.
* Prevent incorrect updates of pg_index while reindexing pg_index itself.Tom Lane2011-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The places that attempt to change pg_index.indcheckxmin during a reindexing operation cannot be executed safely if pg_index itself is the subject of the operation. This is the explanation for a couple of recent reports of VACUUM FULL failing with ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_index_indexrelid_index" DETAIL: Key (indexrelid)=(2678) already exists. However, there isn't any real need to update indcheckxmin in such a situation, if we assume that pg_index can never contain a truly broken HOT chain. This assumption holds if new indexes are never created on it during concurrent operations, which is something we don't consider safe for any system catalog, not just pg_index. Accordingly, modify the code to not manipulate indcheckxmin when reindexing any system catalog. Back-patch to 8.3, where HOT was introduced. The known failure scenarios involve 9.0-style VACUUM FULL, so there might not be any real risk before 9.0, but let's not assume that.
* Guard against incoming rowcount estimate of NaN in cost_mergejoin().Tom Lane2011-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | Although rowcount estimates really ought not be NaN, a bug elsewhere could perhaps result in that, and that would cause Assert failure in cost_mergejoin, which I believe to be the explanation for bug #5977 from Anton Kuznetsov. Seems like a good idea to expend a couple more cycles to prevent that, even though the real bug is elsewhere. Not back-patching, though, because we don't encourage running production systems with Asserts on.
* Reduce the initial size of local lock hash to 16 entries.Heikki Linnakangas2011-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | The hash table is seq scanned at transaction end, to release all locks, and making the hash table larger than necessary makes that slower. With very simple queries, that overhead can amount to a few percent of the total CPU time used. At the moment, backend startup needs 6 locks, and a simple query with one table and index needs 3 locks. 16 is enough for even quite complicated transactions, and it will grow automatically if it fills up.
* Remove obsolete comment.Robert Haas2011-04-13
| | | | | | | The lock level for adding a parent table is now ShareUpdateExclusiveLock; see commit fbcf4b92aa64d4577bcf25925b055316b978744a. This comment didn't get updated to match, but it doesn't seem important to mention this detail here, so rather than updating it now, just take it out.
* Fix toast table creation.Robert Haas2011-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of using slightly-too-clever heuristics to decide when we must create a TOAST table, just check whether one is needed every time the table is altered. Checking whether a toast table is needed is cheap enough that we needn't worry about doing it on every ALTER TABLE command, and the previous coding is apparently prone to accidental breakage: commit 04e17bae50a73af524731fa11210d5c3f7d8e1f9 broken ALTER TABLE .. SET STORAGE, which moved some actions from AT_PASS_COL_ATTRS to AT_PASS_MISC, and commit 6c5723998594dffa5d47c3cf8c96ccf89c033aae broke ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN by changing the way that adding columns recurses into child tables. Noah Misch, with one comment change by me
* Ensure mark_dummy_rel doesn't create dangling pointers in RelOptInfos.Tom Lane2011-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we are doing GEQO join planning, the current memory context is a short-lived context that will be reset at the end of geqo_eval(). However, the RelOptInfos for base relations are set up before that and then re-used across many GEQO cycles. Hence, any code that modifies a baserel during join planning has to be careful not to put pointers to the short-lived context into the baserel struct. mark_dummy_rel got this wrong, leading to easy-to-reproduce-once-you-know-how crashes in 8.4, as reported off-list by Leo Carson of SDSC. Some improvements made in 9.0 make it difficult to demonstrate the crash in 9.0 or HEAD; but there's no doubt that there's still a risk factor here, so patch all branches that have the function. (Note: 8.3 has a similar function, but it's only applied to joinrels and thus is not a hazard.)
* Avoid incorrectly granting replication to roles created with NOSUPERUSER.Robert Haas2011-04-13
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* On HP/UX, the structs used by ioctl(SIOCGLIFCONF) are named differentlyHeikki Linnakangas2011-04-13
| | | | | | | | than on other platforms, and only IPv6 addresses are returned. Because of those two issues, fall back to ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) on HP/UX, so that it at least compiles and finds IPv4 addresses. This function is currently only used for interpreting samehost/samenet in pg_hba.conf, which isn't that critical.
* Revert the patch to check if we've reached end-of-backup also when doingHeikki Linnakangas2011-04-13
| | | | | | | | | crash recovery, and throw an error if not. hubert depesz lubaczewski pointed out that that situation also happens in the crash recovery following a system crash that happens during an online backup. We might want to do something smarter in 9.1, like put the check back for backups taken with pg_basebackup, but that's for another patch.
* On IA64 architecture, we check the depth of the register stack in additionHeikki Linnakangas2011-04-13
| | | | | to the regular stack. The code to do that is platform and compiler specific, add support for the HP-UX native compiler.