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* Repair PANIC condition in hash indexes when a previous index extension attemptTom Lane2007-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | failed (due to lock conflicts or out-of-space). We might have already extended the index's filesystem EOF before failing, causing the EOF to be beyond what the metapage says is the last used page. Hence the invariant maintained by the code needs to be "EOF is at or beyond last used page", not "EOF is exactly the last used page". Problem was created by my patch of 2006-11-19 that attempted to repair bug #2737. Since that was back-patched to 7.4, this needs to be as well. Per report and test case from Vlastimil Krejcir.
* Don't MAXALIGN in the checks to decide whether a tuple is over TOAST'sTom Lane2007-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | threshold for tuple length. On 4-byte-MAXALIGN machines, the toast code creates tuples that have t_len exactly TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD ... but this number is not itself maxaligned, so if heap_insert maxaligns t_len before comparing to TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD, it'll uselessly recurse back to tuptoaster.c, wasting cycles. (It turns out that this does not happen on 8-byte-MAXALIGN machines, because for them the outer MAXALIGN in the TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE macro reduces TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE so that toast tuples will be less than TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD in size. That MAXALIGN is really incorrect, but we can't remove it now, see below.) There isn't any particular value in maxaligning before comparing to the thresholds, so just don't do that, which saves a small number of cycles in itself. These numbers should be rejiggered to minimize wasted space on toast-relation pages, but we can't do that in the back branches because changing TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE would force an initdb (by changing the contents of toast tables). We can move the toast decision thresholds a bit, though, which is what this patch effectively does. Thanks to Pavan Deolasee for discovering the unintended recursion. Back-patch into 8.2, but not further, pending more testing. (HEAD is about to get a further patch modifying the thresholds, so it won't help much for testing this form of the patch.)
* Repair two related errors in heap_lock_tuple: it was failing to recognizeTom Lane2006-11-17
| | | | | | | | | cases where we already hold the desired lock "indirectly", either via membership in a MultiXact or because the lock was originally taken by a different subtransaction of the current transaction. These cases must be accounted for to avoid needless deadlocks and/or inappropriate replacement of an exclusive lock with a shared lock. Per report from Clarence Gardner and subsequent investigation.
* Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularlyTom Lane2006-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | in PITR scenarios. We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to PITR slave databases. Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId. Add new GUC variables and pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work done. Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather than per-database. initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database, and pg_autovacuum catalogs. Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
* Fix "failed to re-find parent key" btree VACUUM failure by revising pageTom Lane2006-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | deletion code to avoid the case where an upper-level btree page remains "half dead" for a significant period of time, and to block insertions into a key range that is in process of being re-assigned to the right sibling of the deleted page's parent. This prevents the scenario reported by Ed L. wherein index keys could become out-of-order in the grandparent index level. Since this is a moderately invasive fix, I'm applying it only to HEAD. The bug exists back to 7.4, but the back branches will get a different patch.
* Make use of qsort_arg in several places that were formerly using klugyTom Lane2006-10-05
| | | | | | static variables. This avoids any risk of potential non-reentrancy, and in particular offers a much cleaner workaround for the Intel compiler bug that was affecting ginutil.c.
* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* If we're going to advertise the array overlap/containment operators,Tom Lane2006-09-10
| | | | | | we probably should make them work reliably for all arrays. Fix code to handle NULLs and multidimensional arrays, move it into arrayfuncs.c. GIN is still restricted to indexing arrays with no null elements, however.
* Rename contains/contained-by operators to @> and <@, per discussion thatTom Lane2006-09-10
| | | | | | | | agreed these symbols are less easily confused. I made new pg_operator entries (with new OIDs) for the old names, so as to provide backward compatibility while making it pretty easy to remove the old names in some future release cycle. This commit only touches the core datatypes, contrib will be fixed separately.
* Optimize the case where a btree indexscan has current and mark positionsTom Lane2006-08-24
| | | | | | | | on the same index page; we can avoid data copying as well as buffer refcount manipulations in this common case. Makes for a small but noticeable improvement in mergejoin speed. Heikki Linnakangas
* Make the server track an 'XID epoch', that is, maintain higher-order bitsTom Lane2006-08-21
| | | | | | | | | of the transaction ID counter. Nothing is done with the epoch except to store it in checkpoint records, but this provides a foundation with which add-on code can pretend that XIDs never wrap around. This is a severely trimmed and rewritten version of the xxid patch submitted by Marko Kreen. Per discussion, the epoch counter seems the only part of xxid that really needs to be in the core server.
* Now that we've rearranged relation open to get a lock before touchingTom Lane2006-08-18
| | | | | | the rel, it's easy to get rid of the narrow race-condition window that used to exist in VACUUM and CLUSTER. Did some minor code-beautification work in the same area, too.
* Implement archive_timeout feature to force xlog file switches to occur no moreTom Lane2006-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | than N seconds apart. This allows a simple, if not very high performance, means of guaranteeing that a PITR archive is no more than N seconds behind real time. Also make pg_current_xlog_location return the WAL Write pointer, add pg_current_xlog_insert_location to return the Insert pointer, and fix pg_xlogfile_name_offset to return its results as a two-element record instead of a smashed-together string, as per recent discussion. Simon Riggs
* Make recovery from WAL be restartable, by executing a checkpoint-likeTom Lane2006-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | operation every so often. This improves the usefulness of PITR log shipping for hot standby: formerly, if the standby server crashed, it was necessary to restart it from the last base backup and replay all the WAL since then. Now it will only need to reread about the same amount of WAL as the master server would. The behavior might also come in handy during a long PITR replay sequence. Simon Riggs, with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
* Add support for forcing a switch to a new xlog file; cause such a switchTom Lane2006-08-06
| | | | | | | to happen automatically during pg_stop_backup(). Add some functions for interrogating the current xlog insertion point and for easily extracting WAL filenames from the hex WAL locations displayed by pg_stop_backup and friends. Simon Riggs with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
* Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relationTom Lane2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | (table or index) before trying to open its relcache entry. This fixes race conditions in which someone else commits a change to the relation's catalog entries while we are in process of doing relcache load. Problems of that ilk have been reported sporadically for years, but it was not really practical to fix until recently --- for instance, the recent addition of WAL-log support for in-place updates helped. Along the way, remove pg_am.amconcurrent: all AMs are now expected to support concurrent update.
* Modify btree to delete known-dead index entries without an actual VACUUM.Tom Lane2006-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | When we are about to split an index page to do an insertion, first look to see if any entries marked LP_DELETE exist on the page, and if so remove them to try to make enough space for the desired insert. This should reduce index bloat in heavily-updated tables, although of course you still need VACUUM eventually to clean up the heap. Junji Teramoto
* More include file adjustments.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
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* More include file adjustments.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
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* Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian2006-07-13
| | | | | | | Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
* Tweak fillfactor code as per my recent proposal. Fix nbtsort.c so thatTom Lane2006-07-11
| | | | | | it can handle small fillfactors for ordinary-sized index entries without failing on large ones; fix nbtinsert.c to distinguish leaf and nonleaf pages; change the minimum fillfactor to 10% for all index types.
* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "S"-"Z".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Alphabetically order reference to include files, "G" - "M".Bruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* GIN improvementsTeodor Sigaev2006-07-11
| | | | | | | | - Replace sorted array of entries in maintenance_work_mem to binary tree, this should improve create performance. - More precisely calculate allocated memory, eliminate leaks with user-defined extractValue() - Improve wordings in tsearch2
* Allow each C include file to compile on its own by including any neededBruce Momjian2006-07-11
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* Improve vacuum code to track minimum Xids per table instead of per database.Alvaro Herrera2006-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To this end, add a couple of columns to pg_class, relminxid and relvacuumxid, based on which we calculate the pg_database columns after each vacuum. We now force all databases to be vacuumed, even template ones. A backend noticing too old a database (meaning pg_database.datminxid is in danger of falling behind Xid wraparound) will signal the postmaster, which in turn will start an autovacuum iteration to process the offending database. In principle this is only there to cope with frozen (non-connectable) databases without forcing users to set them to connectable, but it could force regular user database to go through a database-wide vacuum at any time. Maybe we should warn users about this somehow. Of course the real solution will be to use autovacuum all the time ;-) There are some additional improvements we could have in this area: for example the vacuum code could be smarter about not updating pg_database for each table when called by autovacuum, and do it only once the whole autovacuum iteration is done. I updated the system catalogs documentation, but I didn't modify the maintenance section. Also having some regression tests for this would be nice but it's not really a very straightforward thing to do. Catalog version bumped due to system catalog changes.
* Code review for FILLFACTOR patch. Change WITH grammar as per earlierTom Lane2006-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | discussion (including making def_arg allow reserved words), add missed opt_definition for UNIQUE case. Put the reloptions support code in a less random place (I chose to make a new file access/common/reloptions.c). Eliminate header inclusion creep. Make the index options functions safely user-callable (seems like client apps might like to be able to test validity of options before trying to make an index). Reduce overhead for normal case with no options by allowing rd_options to be NULL. Fix some unmaintainably klugy code, including getting rid of Natts_pg_class_fixed at long last. Some stylistic cleanup too, and pay attention to keeping comments in sync with code. Documentation still needs work, though I did fix the omissions in catalogs.sgml and indexam.sgml.
* Add FILLFACTOR to CREATE INDEX.Bruce Momjian2006-07-02
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* ChangesTeodor Sigaev2006-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * new split algorithm (as proposed in http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg00254.php) * possible call pickSplit() for second and below columns * add spl_(l|r)datum_exists to GIST_SPLITVEC - pickSplit should check its values to use already defined spl_(l|r)datum for splitting. pickSplit should set spl_(l|r)datum_exists to 'false' (if they was 'true') to signal to caller about using spl_(l|r)datum. * support for old pickSplit(): not very optimal but correct split * remove 'bytes' field from GISTENTRY: in any case size of value is defined by it's type. * split GIST_SPLITVEC to two structures: one for using in picksplit and second - for internal use. * some code refactoring * support of subsplit to rtree opclasses TODO: add support of subsplit to contrib modules
* Create infrastructure for 'MinimalTuple' representation of in-memoryTom Lane2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | tuples with less header overhead than a regular HeapTuple, per my recent proposal. Teach TupleTableSlot code how to deal with these. As proof of concept, change tuplestore.c to store MinimalTuples instead of HeapTuples. Future patches will expand the concept to other places where it is useful.
* Fix GEVHDRSZ for Win32.Bruce Momjian2006-06-25
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* Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane2006-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
* Som improve page split in multicolumn GiST index.Teodor Sigaev2006-05-29
| | | | | | If user picksplit on n-th column generate equals left and right unions then it calls picksplit on n+1-th column.
* * Add support NULL to GiST.Teodor Sigaev2006-05-24
| | | | | | | | * some refactoring and simplify code int gistutil.c and gist.c * now in some cases it can be called used-defined picksplit method for non-first column in index, but here is a place to do more. * small fix of docs related to support NULL.
* Simplify gistSplit() and some refactoring related code.Teodor Sigaev2006-05-19
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* Reduce size of critial section during vacuum full, criticalTeodor Sigaev2006-05-17
| | | | | | | | sections now isn't nested. All user-defined functions now is called outside critsections. Small improvements in WAL protocol. TODO: improve XLOG replay
* Clean up code associated with updating pg_class statistics columnsTom Lane2006-05-10
| | | | | | | | | | | (relpages/reltuples). To do this, create formal support in heapam.c for "overwrite" tuple updates (including xlog replay capability) and use that instead of the ad-hoc overwrites we'd been using in VACUUM and CREATE INDEX. Take the responsibility for updating stats during CREATE INDEX out of the individual index AMs, and do it where it belongs, in catalog/index.c. Aside from being more modular, this avoids having to update the same tuple twice in some paths through CREATE INDEX. It's probably not measurably faster, but for sure it's a lot cleaner than before.
* Reduce size of critical section and remove call of user-defined functions inTeodor Sigaev2006-05-10
| | | | | | insertion and deletion, modify gistSplit() to do not use buffers. TODO: gistvacuumcleanup and XLOG
* Rewrite btree vacuuming to fold the former bulkdelete and cleanup operationsTom Lane2006-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | into a single mostly-physical-order scan of the index. This requires some ticklish interlocking considerations, but should create no material performance impact on normal index operations (at least given the already-committed changes to make scans work a page at a time). VACUUM itself should get significantly faster in any index that's degenerated to a very nonlinear page order. Also, we save one pass over the index entirely, except in the case where there were no deletions to do and so only one pass happened anyway. Original patch by Heikki Linnakangas, rework by Tom Lane.
* Rewrite btree index scans to work a page at a time in all cases (bothTom Lane2006-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | btgettuple and btgetmulti). This eliminates the problem of "re-finding" the exact stopping point, since the stopping point is effectively always a page boundary, and index items are never moved across pre-existing page boundaries. A small penalty is that the keys_are_unique optimization is effectively disabled (and, therefore, is removed in this patch), causing us to apply _bt_checkkeys() to at least one more tuple than necessary when looking up a unique key. However, the advantages for non-unique cases seem great enough to accept this tradeoff. Aside from simplifying and (sometimes) speeding up the indexscan code, this will allow us to reimplement btbulkdelete as a largely sequential scan instead of index-order traversal, thereby significantly reducing the cost of VACUUM. Those changes will come in a separate patch. Original patch by Heikki Linnakangas, rework by Tom Lane.
* Clean up API for ambulkdelete/amvacuumcleanup as per today's discussion.Tom Lane2006-05-02
| | | | | | This formulation requires every AM to provide amvacuumcleanup, unlike before, but it's surely a whole lot cleaner. Also, add an 'amstorage' column to pg_am so that we can get rid of hardwired knowledge in DefineOpClass().
* GIN: Generalized Inverted iNdex.Teodor Sigaev2006-05-02
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* Add statement_timestamp(), clock_timestamp(), andBruce Momjian2006-04-25
| | | | | | | | | transaction_timestamp() (just like now()). Also update statement_timeout() to mention it is statement arrival time that is measured. Catalog version updated.
* Suppress more compiler warnings caused by macro tests.Bruce Momjian2006-04-24
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* Add one more paren to macro.Bruce Momjian2006-04-24
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* Suprress compiler warning in gcc 4.2.Bruce Momjian2006-04-24
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* Make the world safe for full_page_writes. Allow XLOG records that try toTom Lane2006-04-14
| | | | | | | | | update no-longer-existing pages to fall through as no-ops, but make a note of each page number referenced by such records. If we don't see a later XLOG entry dropping the table or truncating away the page, complain at the end of XLOG replay. Since this fixes the known failure mode for full_page_writes = off, revert my previous band-aid patch that disabled that GUC variable.
* Fix an ancient oversight in btree xlog replay. When trying to determine if anTom Lane2006-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | upper-level insertion completes a previously-seen split, we cannot simply grab the downlink block number out of the buffer, because the buffer could contain a later state of the page --- or perhaps the page doesn't even exist at all any more, due to relation truncation. These possibilities have been masked up to now because the use of full_page_writes effectively ensured that no xlog replay routine ever actually saw a page state newer than its own change. Since we're deprecating full_page_writes in 8.1.*, there's no need to fix this in existing release branches, but we need a fix in HEAD if we want to have any hope of re-allowing full_page_writes. Accordingly, adjust the contents of btree WAL records so that we can always get the downlink block number from the WAL record rather than having to depend on buffer contents. Per report from Kevin Grittner and Peter Brant. Improve a few comments in related code while at it.
* Add a field to the first page of each WAL file to indicate theTom Lane2006-04-05
| | | | | | XLOG_BLCKSZ. This ought to help in preventing configuration mismatch problems if anyone tries to ship PITR files between servers compiled with different XLOG_BLCKSZ settings. Simon Riggs
* Define a separately configurable XLOG_BLCKSZ symbol for the page sizeTom Lane2006-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | used within WAL files. Historically this was the same as the data file BLCKSZ, but there's no necessary connection, and it's possible that performance gains might ensue from reducing XLOG_BLCKSZ. In any case distinguishing two symbols should improve code clarity. This commit does not actually change the page size, only provide the infrastructure to make it possible to do so. initdb forced because of addition of a field to pg_control. Mark Wong, with some help from Simon Riggs and Tom Lane.