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* Make ExecInitExpr build the list of SubPlans found in a plan tree in orderTom Lane2009-04-05
| | | | | | | | of discovery, rather than reverse order. This doesn't matter functionally (I suppose the previous coding dates from the time when lcons was markedly cheaper than lappend). However now that EXPLAIN is labeling subplans with IDs that are based on order of creation, this may help produce a slightly less surprising printout.
* Change EXPLAIN output so that subplans and initplans (particularly CTEs)Tom Lane2009-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | are individually labeled, rather than just grouped under an "InitPlan" or "SubPlan" heading. This in turn makes it possible for decompilation of a subplan reference to usefully identify which subplan it's referencing. I also made InitPlans identify which parameter symbol(s) they compute, so that references to those parameters elsewhere in the plan tree can be connected to the initplan that will be executed. Per a gripe from Robert Haas about EXPLAIN output of a WITH query being inadequate, plus some longstanding pet peeves of my own.
* Fix infinite loop while checking of partial match in pending list.Teodor Sigaev2009-04-05
| | | | | Improve comments. Now GIN-indexable operators should be strict. Per Tom's questions/suggestions.
* Remove a boatload of useless definitions of 'int optreset'. If weTom Lane2009-04-05
| | | | | | are using our own ports of getopt or getopt_long, those will define the variable for themselves; and if not, we don't need these, because we never touch the variable anyway.
* Remove the recently added node types ReloptElem and OptionDefElem in favorTom Lane2009-04-04
| | | | | | of adding optional namespace and action fields to DefElem. Having three node types that do essentially the same thing bloats the code and leads to errors of confusion, such as in yesterday's bug report from Khee Chin.
* A session that does not have any live snapshots does not have to be waited forTom Lane2009-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | when we are waiting for old snapshots to go away during a concurrent index build. In particular, this rule lets us avoid waiting for idle-in-transaction sessions. This logic could be improved further if we had some way to wake up when the session we are currently waiting for goes idle-in-transaction. However that would be a significantly more complex/invasive patch, so it'll have to wait for some other day. Simon Riggs, with some improvements by Tom.
* Rewrite interval_hash() so that the hashcodes are equal for values thatTom Lane2009-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | interval_eq() considers equal. I'm not sure how that fundamental requirement escaped us through multiple revisions of this hash function, but there it is; it's been wrong since interval_hash was first written for PG 7.1. Per bug #4748 from Roman Kononov. Backpatch to all supported releases. This patch changes the contents of hash indexes for interval columns. That's no particular problem for PG 8.4, since we've broken on-disk compatibility of hash indexes already; but it will require a migration warning note in the next minor releases of all existing branches: "if you have any hash indexes on columns of type interval, REINDEX them after updating".
* Disallow setting fillfactor for TOAST tables.Alvaro Herrera2009-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | To implement this without almost duplicating the reloption table, treat relopt_kind as a bitmask instead of an integer value. This decreases the range of allowed values, but it's not clear that there's need for that much values anyway. This patch also makes heap_reloptions explicitly a no-op for relation kinds other than heap and TOAST tables. Patch by ITAGAKI Takahiro with minor edits from me. (In particular I removed the bit about adding relation kind to an error message, which I intend to commit separately.)
* Add a comment documenting the question of whether PrefetchBuffer shouldTom Lane2009-04-03
| | | | | | | try to protect an already-existing buffer from being evicted. This was left as an open issue when the posix_fadvise patch was committed. I'm not sure there's any evidence to justify more work in this area, but we should have some record about it in the source code.
* Refactor ExecProject and associated routines so that fast-path code is usedTom Lane2009-04-02
| | | | | | | | | for simple Var targetlist entries all the time, even when there are other entries that are not simple Vars. Also, ensure that we prefetch attributes (with slot_getsomeattrs) for all Vars in the targetlist, even those buried within expressions. In combination these changes seem to significantly reduce the runtime for cases where tlists are mostly but not exclusively Vars. Per my proposal of yesterday.
* Revert DTrace patch from Robert LorBruce Momjian2009-04-02
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* Give a better error message when trying to changeBruce Momjian2009-04-02
| | | | "effective_io_concurrency" on systems without posix_fadvise().
* Add support for additional DTrace probes.Bruce Momjian2009-04-02
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* Fix SetClientEncoding() to maintain a cache of previously selected encodingTom Lane2009-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | conversion functions. This allows transaction rollback to revert to a previous client_encoding setting without doing fresh catalog lookups. I believe that this explains and fixes the recent report of "failed to commit client_encoding" failures. This bug is present in 8.3.x, but it doesn't seem prudent to back-patch the fix, at least not till it's had some time for field testing in HEAD. In passing, remove SetDefaultClientEncoding(), which was used nowhere.
* Fix GUC's reports of assign_hook failure to always include the parameter valueTom Lane2009-04-02
| | | | | | we failed to assign, even in "can't happen" cases. Motivated by wondering what's going on in a recent trouble report where "failed to commit" did happen.
* Update comment to reflect that LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE are nowHeikki Linnakangas2009-04-01
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* Remove last references to the crypt auth method, per Andreas Scherbaum.Tom Lane2009-04-01
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* Modify the relcache to record the temp status of both local and nonlocalTom Lane2009-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | temp relations; this is no more expensive than before, now that we have pg_class.relistemp. Insert tests into bufmgr.c to prevent attempting to fetch pages from nonlocal temp relations. This provides a low-level defense against bugs-of-omission allowing temp pages to be loaded into shared buffers, as in the contrib/pgstattuple problem reported by Stuart Bishop. While at it, tweak a bunch of places to use new relcache tests (instead of expensive probes into pg_namespace) to detect local or nonlocal temp tables.
* Add a "relistemp" boolean column to pg_class, which is true for temporaryTom Lane2009-03-31
| | | | | | | relations (including a temp table's indexes and toast table/index), and false for normal relations. For ease of checking, this commit just adds the column and fills it correctly --- revising the relation access machinery to use it will come separately.
* Fix a rare race condition when commit_siblings > 0 and a transaction commitsHeikki Linnakangas2009-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | at the same instant as a new backend is spawned. Since CountActiveBackends() doesn't hold ProcArrayLock, it needs to be prepared for the case that a pointer at the end of the proc array is still NULL even though numProcs says it should be valid, since it doesn't hold ProcArrayLock. Backpatch to 8.1. 8.0 and earlier had this right, but it was broken in the split of PGPROC and sinval shared memory arrays. Per report and proposal by Marko Kreen.
* Fix window function plan generation to cope with volatile sort expressions.Tom Lane2009-03-30
| | | | | (Not clear how useful these really are, but failing is no good...) Per report from David Fetter and Robert Treat.
* Fix an oversight in the support for storing/retrieving "minimal tuples" inTom Lane2009-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TupleTableSlots. We have functions for retrieving a minimal tuple from a slot after storing a regular tuple in it, or vice versa; but these were implemented by converting the internal storage from one format to the other. The problem with that is it invalidates any pass-by-reference Datums that were already fetched from the slot, since they'll be pointing into the just-freed version of the tuple. The known problem cases involve fetching both a whole-row variable and a pass-by-reference value from a slot that is fed from a tuplestore or tuplesort object. The added regression tests illustrate some simple cases, but there may be other failure scenarios traceable to the same bug. Note that the added tests probably only fail on unpatched code if it's built with --enable-cassert; otherwise the bug leads to fetching from freed memory, which will not have been overwritten without additional conditions. Fix by allowing a slot to contain both formats simultaneously; which turns out not to complicate the logic much at all, if anything it seems less contorted than before. Back-patch to 8.2, where minimal tuples were introduced.
* Add an errdetail explaining why we reject infinite dates and timestampsTom Lane2009-03-27
| | | | while converting to XML. Bernd Helmle
* Fix possible failures when a tuplestore switches from in-memory to on-diskTom Lane2009-03-27
| | | | | | | | | mode while callers hold pointers to in-memory tuples. I reported this for the case of nodeWindowAgg's primary scan tuple, but inspection of the code shows that all of the calls in nodeWindowAgg and nodeCtescan are at risk. For the moment, fix it with a rather brute-force approach of copying whenever one of the at-risk callers requests a tuple. Later we might think of some sort of reference-count approach to reduce tuple copying.
* Teach reindex_index() to clear pg_index.indcheckxmin when possible.Tom Lane2009-03-27
| | | | Greg Stark, slightly modified by me.
* Gettext plural supportPeter Eisentraut2009-03-26
| | | | | | In the backend, I changed only a handful of exemplary or important-looking instances to make use of the plural support; there is probably more work there. For the rest of the source, this should cover all relevant cases.
* Adjust phrasing of complaints about multi-byte COPY delimiter strings.Tom Lane2009-03-26
| | | | Per pgsql-hackers discussion of 2009-02-17.
* If we expect a hash join to be performed in multiple batches, suppressTom Lane2009-03-26
| | | | | | | | "physical tlist" optimization on the outer relation (ie, force a projection step to occur in its scan). This avoids storing useless column values when the outer relation's tuples are written to temporary batch files. Modified version of a patch by Michael Henderson and Ramon Lawrence.
* Adjust the APIs for GIN opclass support functions to allow the extractQuery()Tom Lane2009-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | method to pass extra data to the consistent() and comparePartial() methods. This is the core infrastructure needed to support the soon-to-appear contrib/btree_gin module. The APIs are still upward compatible with the definitions used in 8.3 and before, although *not* with the previous 8.4devel function definitions. catversion bump for changes in pg_proc entries (although these are just cosmetic, since GIN doesn't actually look at the function signature before calling it...) Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov
* Use double quotes instead of single quotes.Peter Eisentraut2009-03-25
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* Complete list of valid fork names, and use double quotes.Peter Eisentraut2009-03-25
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* Install a search tree depth limit in GIN bulk-insert operations, to preventTom Lane2009-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | them from degrading badly when the input is sorted or nearly so. In this scenario the tree is unbalanced to the point of becoming a mere linked list, so insertions become O(N^2). The easiest and most safely back-patchable solution is to stop growing the tree sooner, ie limit the growth of N. We might later consider a rebalancing tree algorithm, but it's not clear that the benefit would be worth the cost and complexity. Per report from Sergey Burladyan and an earlier complaint from Heikki. Back-patch to 8.2; older versions didn't have GIN indexes.
* Fix stupid parenthesization mistake. Per bug #4728 from Bruce Toll.Tom Lane2009-03-24
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* Implement "fastupdate" support for GIN indexes, in which we try to accumulateTom Lane2009-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | multiple index entries in a holding area before adding them to the main index structure. This helps because bulk insert is (usually) significantly faster than retail insert for GIN. This patch also removes GIN support for amgettuple-style index scans. The API defined for amgettuple is difficult to support with fastupdate, and the previously committed partial-match feature didn't really work with it either. We might eventually figure a way to put back amgettuple support, but it won't happen for 8.4. catversion bumped because of change in GIN's pg_am entry, and because the format of GIN indexes changed on-disk (there's a metapage now, and possibly a pending list). Teodor Sigaev
* Remove munging of xml and xpath params to xpath(). The XML must now be a ↵Andrew Dunstan2009-03-23
| | | | well formed XML document.
* Const-ify the parse table passed to fillRelOptions. The previous codingTom Lane2009-03-23
| | | | meant it had to be built on-the-fly at each entry to default_reloptions.
* More fixes for 8.4 DTrace probes. Remove useless BUFFER_HIT/BUFFER_MISSTom Lane2009-03-23
| | | | | | | probes --- the BUFFER_READ_DONE probe provides the same information and more besides. Expand the LOCK_WAIT_START/DONE probe arguments so that there's actually some chance of telling what is being waited for. Update and clean up the documentation.
* Add isExtend to the parameters of the buffer_read_start and buffer_read_doneTom Lane2009-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DTrace probes, so that ordinary reads can be distinguished from relation extension operations. Move buffer_read_start probe to before the smgrnblocks() call that's needed in the isExtend case, since really that step should be charged as part of the time needed for the extension operation. (This makes it slightly harder to match the read_start with the associated read_done, since now you can't match them on blockNumber, but it should still be possible since isExtend operations on the same relation can never be interleaved.) Per recent discussion. In passing, add the page identity (forkNum/blockNum) to the parameters of the buffer_flush_start/buffer_flush_done probes, which were unaccountably lacking the info.
* Clean up pg_SSPI_error() coding a little bit: make the messages moreTom Lane2009-03-22
| | | | | consistent, translate where intended, const-ify declarations. Resolves a gripe from Alvaro as well as some stuff I didn't like.
* Remove the datetime keywords ABSTIME and RELTIME, which we'd been treating asTom Lane2009-03-22
| | | | | | | | noise words for the last twelve years, for compatibility with Berkeley-era output formatting of the special INVALID values for those datatypes. Considering that the datatypes themselves have been deprecated for awhile, this is taking backwards compatibility a little far. Per gripe from Josh Berkus.
* Optimize multi-batch hash joins when the outer relation has a nonuniformTom Lane2009-03-21
| | | | | | | | | distribution, by creating a special fast path for the (first few) most common values of the outer relation. Tuples having hashvalues matching the MCVs are effectively forced to be in the first batch, so that we never write them out to the batch temp files. Bryce Cutt and Ramon Lawrence, with some editorialization by me.
* Fix case of the just resurrected UCS_to_BIG5.pl script, and updateHeikki Linnakangas2009-03-18
| | | | Makefile to use it.
* Add seven kanji characters defined in the Windows 950 codepage to ourHeikki Linnakangas2009-03-18
| | | | | | big5/win950 <-> UTF8 conversion tables. Per report by Roger Chang.
* Fix Windows-specific race condition in syslogger. This could've beenHeikki Linnakangas2009-03-18
| | | | | | | | | | | the cause of the "could not write to log file: Bad file descriptor" errors reported at http://archives.postgresql.org//pgsql-general/2008-06/msg00193.php Backpatch to 8.3, the race condition was introduced by the CSV logging patch. Analysis and patch by Gurjeet Singh.
* Improve zero-year comments.Bruce Momjian2009-03-17
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* Document that datetime year '0' is considered in a recent century, notBruce Momjian2009-03-17
| | | | just '00'.
* Clean up the code for to_timestamp's conversion of year plus ISO day numberTom Lane2009-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | to date, as per bug #4702 and subsequent discussion. In particular, make it work for years specified using AD/BC or CC fields, and fix the test for "no year specified" so that it doesn't trigger inappropriately for 1 BC (which it was doing even in code paths that had nothing to do with to_timestamp). I also did some minor code beautification in the non-ISO-day-number code path. This area has been busted all along, but because the code has been rewritten repeatedly, it would be considerable trouble to back-patch. It's such a corner case that it doesn't seem worth the effort.
* Restore previous ordering of BUFFER_FLUSH_START probe. I had wanted toTom Lane2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | make it include the time for the possible smgropen() call, but that results in a null pointer dereference :-(. An alternative solution would be to fetch the buffer tag instead of looking at *reln, but I'll just put it back as it was for the moment. BTW, this indicates that DTrace probes evaluate their arguments even when nominally inactive. What was that about "zero cost", again?
* Fix core dump due to null-pointer dereference in to_char() when datetimeTom Lane2009-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | format codes are misapplied to a numeric argument. (The code still produces a pretty bogus error message in such cases, but I'll settle for stopping the crash for now.) Per bug #4700 from Sergey Burladyan. Problem exists in all supported branches, so patch all the way back. In HEAD, also clean up some ugly coding in the nearby cache management code.
* Code review for dtrace probes added (so far) to 8.4. Adjust placement ofTom Lane2009-03-11
| | | | | | | some bufmgr probes, take out redundant and memory-leak-inducing path arguments to smgr__md__read__done and smgr__md__write__done, fix bogus attempt to recalculate space used in sort__done, clean up formatting in places where I'm not sure pgindent will do a nice job by itself.