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* Extend object-access hook machinery to support post-alter events.Robert Haas2013-03-17
| | | | | | | This also slightly widens the scope of what we support in terms of post-create events. KaiGai Kohei, with a few changes, mostly to the comments, by me
* Add a materialized view relations.Kevin Grittner2013-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and other physical properties like a table. The rule is only used to populate the table, references in queries refer to the materialized data. This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in many cases. Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining what is "fresh" data will be developed. At some point it may even be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of references to underlying tables, but that requires the other above-mentioned features to be working first. Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas. Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to implement sepgsql still pending.
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Fix more weird compiler messages causedSimon Riggs2012-12-24
| | | | | | by unmatched function prototypes. Andres Freund
* Adjust many backend functions to return OID rather than void.Robert Haas2012-12-23
| | | | | | | Extracted from a larger patch by Dimitri Fontaine. It is hoped that this will provide infrastructure for enriching the new event trigger functionality, but it seems possibly useful for other purposes as well.
* Fix ALTER EXTENSION / SET SCHEMAAlvaro Herrera2012-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In its original conception, it was leaving some objects into the old schema, but without their proper pg_depend entries; this meant that the old schema could be dropped, causing future pg_dump calls to fail on the affected database. This was originally reported by Jeff Frost as #6704; there have been other complaints elsewhere that can probably be traced to this bug. To fix, be more consistent about altering a table's subsidiary objects along the table itself; this requires some restructuring in how tables are relocated when altering an extension -- hence the new AlterTableNamespaceInternal routine which encapsulates it for both the ALTER TABLE and the ALTER EXTENSION cases. There was another bug lurking here, which was unmasked after fixing the previous one: certain objects would be reached twice via the dependency graph, and the second attempt to move them would cause the entire operation to fail. Per discussion, it seems the best fix for this is to do more careful tracking of objects already moved: we now maintain a list of moved objects, to avoid attempting to do it twice for the same object. Authors: Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Fontaine Reviewed by Tom Lane
* Prevent CREATE TABLE LIKE/INHERITS from (mis) copying whole-row Vars.Tom Lane2012-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a CHECK constraint or index definition contained a whole-row Var (that is, "table.*"), an attempt to copy that definition via CREATE TABLE LIKE or table inheritance produced incorrect results: the copied Var still claimed to have the rowtype of the source table, rather than the created table. For the LIKE case, it seems reasonable to just throw error for this situation, since the point of LIKE is that the new table is not permanently coupled to the old, so there's no reason to assume its rowtype will stay compatible. In the inheritance case, we should ideally allow such constraints, but doing so will require nontrivial refactoring of CREATE TABLE processing (because we'd need to know the OID of the new table's rowtype before we adjust inherited CHECK constraints). In view of the lack of previous complaints, that doesn't seem worth the risk in a back-patched bug fix, so just make it throw error for the inheritance case as well. Along the way, replace change_varattnos_of_a_node() with a more robust function map_variable_attnos(), which is capable of being extended to handle insertion of ConvertRowtypeExpr whenever we get around to fixing the inheritance case nicely, and in the meantime it returns a failure indication to the caller so that a helpful message with some context can be thrown. Also, this code will do the right thing with subselects (if we ever allow them in CHECK or indexes), and it range-checks varattnos before using them to index into the map array. Per report from Sergey Konoplev. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Add support for renaming constraintsPeter Eisentraut2012-03-10
| | | | reviewed by Josh Berkus and Dimitri Fontaine
* 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.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* 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.
* Improve behavior of concurrent rename statements.Robert Haas2011-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, renaming a table, sequence, view, index, foreign table, column, or trigger checked permissions before locking the object, which meant that if permissions were revoked during the lock wait, we would still allow the operation. Similarly, if the original object is dropped and a new one with the same name is created, the operation will be allowed if we had permissions on the old object; the permissions on the new object don't matter. All this is now fixed. Along the way, attempting to rename a trigger on a foreign table now gives the same error message as trying to create one there in the first place (i.e. that it's not a table or view) rather than simply stating that no trigger by that name exists. Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
* Teach ANALYZE to clear pg_class.relhassubclass when appropriate.Tom Lane2011-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In the past, relhassubclass always remained true if a relation had ever had child relations, even if the last subclass was long gone. While this had only marginal performance implications in most cases, it was annoying, and I'm now considering some planner changes that would raise the cost of a false positive. It was previously impractical to fix this because of race condition concerns. However, given the recent change that made tablecmds.c take ShareExclusiveLock on relations that are gaining a child (commit fbcf4b92aa64d4577bcf25925b055316b978744a), we can now allow ANALYZE to clear the flag when it's no longer relevant. There is no additional locking cost to do so, since ANALYZE takes ShareExclusiveLock anyway.
* Add missing include so include file compiles cleanly on its own.Bruce Momjian2011-08-22
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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
* Tweak find_composite_type_dependencies API a bit more.Robert Haas2011-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | Per discussion with Noah Misch, the previous coding, introduced by my commit 65377e0b9c0e0397b1598b38b6a7fb8b6f740d39 on 2011-02-06, was really an abuse of RELKIND_COMPOSITE_TYPE, since the caller in typecmds.c is actually passing the name of a domain. So go back having a type name argument, but make the first argument a Relation rather than just a string so we can tell whether it's a table or a foreign table and emit the proper error message.
* Tighten ALTER FOREIGN TABLE .. SET DATA TYPE checks.Robert Haas2011-02-06
| | | | | | | If the foreign table's rowtype is being used as the type of a column in another table, we can't just up and change its data type. This was already checked for composite types and ordinary tables, but we previously failed to enforce it for foreign tables.
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Propagate ALTER TYPE operations to typed tablesPeter Eisentraut2010-11-23
| | | | | This adds RESTRICT/CASCADE flags to ALTER TYPE ... ADD/DROP/ALTER/ RENAME ATTRIBUTE to control whether to alter typed tables as well.
* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Fix failure of "ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c serial" when done by non-owner.Tom Lane2010-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The implicitly created sequence was created as owned by the current user, who could be different from the table owner, eg if current user is a superuser or some member of the table's owning role. This caused sanity checks in the SEQUENCE OWNED BY code to spit up. Although possibly we don't need those sanity checks, the safest fix seems to be to make sure the implicit sequence is assigned the same owner role as the table has. (We still do all permissions checks as the current user, however.) Per report from Josh Berkus. Back-patch to 9.0. The bug goes back to the invention of SEQUENCE OWNED BY in 8.2, but the fix requires an API change for DefineRelation(), which seems to have potential for breaking third-party code if done in a minor release. Given the lack of prior complaints, it's probably not worth fixing in the stable branches.
* Reduce lock levels of CREATE TRIGGER and some ALTER TABLE, CREATE RULE actions.Simon Riggs2010-07-28
| | | | | | | | | Avoid hard-coding lockmode used for many altering DDL commands, allowing easier future changes of lock levels. Implementation of initial analysis on DDL sub-commands, so that many lock levels are now at ShareUpdateExclusiveLock or ShareRowExclusiveLock, allowing certain DDL not to block reads/writes. First of number of planned changes in this area; additional docs required when full project complete.
* Tighten integrity checks on ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... RENAME.Robert Haas2010-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a column is renamed, we recursively rename the same column in all descendent tables. But if one of those tables also inherits that column from a table outside the inheritance hierarchy rooted at the named table, we must throw an error. The previous coding correctly prohibited the rename when the parent had inherited the column from elsewhere, but overlooked the case where the parent was OK but a child table also inherited the same column from a second, unrelated parent. For now, not backpatched due to lack of complaints from the field. KaiGai Kohei, with further changes by me. Reviewed by Bernd Helme and Tom Lane.
* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Make backend header files C++ safePeter Eisentraut2009-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | | This alters various incidental uses of C++ key words to use other similar identifiers, so that a C++ compiler won't choke outright. You still (probably) need extern "C" { }; around the inclusion of backend headers. based on a patch by Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org> Also add a script cpluspluscheck to check for C++ compatibility in the future. As of right now, this passes without error for me.
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
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* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from theAlvaro Herrera2008-06-19
| | | | | | | corresponding struct definitions. This allows other headers to avoid including certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less unnecessary dependencies.
* Rearrange ALTER TABLE syntax processing as per my recent proposal: theTom Lane2008-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | grammar allows ALTER TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW interchangeably for all subforms of those commands, and then we sort out what's really legal at execution time. This allows the ALTER SEQUENCE/VIEW reference pages to fully document all the ALTER forms available for sequences and views respectively, and eliminates a longstanding cause of confusion for users. The net effect is that the following forms are allowed that weren't before: ALTER SEQUENCE OWNER TO ALTER VIEW ALTER COLUMN SET/DROP DEFAULT ALTER VIEW OWNER TO ALTER VIEW SET SCHEMA (There's no actual functionality gain here, but formerly you had to say ALTER TABLE instead.) Interestingly, the grammar tables actually get smaller, probably because there are fewer special cases to keep track of. I did not disallow using ALTER TABLE for these operations. Perhaps we should, but there's a backwards-compatibility issue if we do; in fact it would break existing pg_dump scripts. I did however tighten up ALTER SEQUENCE and ALTER VIEW to reject non-sequences and non-views in the new cases as well as a couple of cases where they didn't before. The patch doesn't change pg_dump to use the new syntaxes, either.
* Refactor the handling of the various DropStmt variants so that when multipleTom Lane2008-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | objects are specified, we drop them all in a single performMultipleDeletions call. This makes the RESTRICT/CASCADE checks more relaxed: it's not counted as a cascade if one of the later objects has a dependency on an earlier one. NOTICE messages about such cases go away, too. In passing, fix the permissions check for DROP CONVERSION, which for some reason was never made role-aware, and omitted the namespace-owner exemption too. Alex Hunsaker, with further fiddling by me.
* Support ALTER TYPE RENAME. Petr JelinekTom Lane2008-03-19
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* Add checks to TRUNCATE, CLUSTER, and REINDEX to prevent performing theseTom Lane2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | operations when the current transaction has any open references to the target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation). The need for this was previously recognized in connection with ALTER TABLE, but anything that summarily eliminates tuples or moves them around would confuse an active scan. While this patch does not in itself fix bug #3883 (the deadlock would happen before the new check fires), it will discourage people from attempting the sequence of operations that creates a deadlock risk, so it's at least a partial response to that problem. In passing, add a previously-missing check to REINDEX to prevent trying to reindex another backend's temp table. This isn't a security problem since only a superuser would get past the schema permission checks, but if we are testing for this in other utility commands then surely REINDEX should too.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Add ALTER VIEW ... RENAME TO, and a RENAME TO clause to ALTER SEQUENCE.Neil Conway2007-07-03
| | | | | | | Sequences and views could previously be renamed using ALTER TABLE, but this was a repeated source of confusion for users. Update the docs, and psql tab completion. Patch from David Fetter; various minor fixes by myself.
* Fix my oversight in enabling domains-of-domains: ALTER DOMAIN ADD CONSTRAINTTom Lane2007-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | needs to check the new constraint against columns of derived domains too. Also, make it error out if the domain to be modified is used within any composite-type columns. Eventually we should support that case, but it seems a bit painful, and not suitable for a back-patch. For the moment just let the user know we can't do it. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the only released version that allows nested domains. Possibly the other part should be back-patched further.
* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian2006-10-04
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* Change the bootstrap sequence so that toast tables for system catalogs areTom Lane2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | created in the bootstrap phase proper, rather than added after-the-fact by initdb. This is cleaner than before because it allows us to retire the undocumented ALTER TABLE ... CREATE TOAST TABLE command, but the real reason I'm doing it is so that toast tables of shared catalogs will now have predetermined OIDs. This will allow a reasonably clean solution to the problem of locking tables before we load their relcache entries, to appear in a forthcoming patch.
* 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.
* Add INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS to CREATE TABLE LIKE.Bruce Momjian2006-06-27
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* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Add CASCADE option to TRUNCATE. Joachim WielandTom Lane2006-03-03
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* Implement DROP OWNED and REASSIGN OWNED. These new commands facilitate theAlvaro Herrera2005-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | process of dropping roles by dropping objects owned by them and privileges granted to them, or giving the owned objects to someone else, through the use of the data stored in the new pg_shdepend catalog. Some refactoring of the GRANT/REVOKE code was needed, as well as ALTER OWNER code. Further cleanup of code duplication in the GRANT code seems necessary. Implemented by me after an idea from Tom Lane, who also provided various kind of implementation advice. Regression tests pass. Some tests for the new functionality are also added, as well as rudimentary documentation.
* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Add ALTER object SET SCHEMA capability for a limited but useful set ofTom Lane2005-08-01
| | | | | | object kinds (tables, functions, types). Documentation is not here yet. Original code by Bernd Helmle, extensive rework by Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.
* Generalize TRUNCATE to support truncating multiple tables in oneTom Lane2005-01-27
| | | | | | | | command. This is useful because we can allow truncation of tables referenced by foreign keys, so long as the referencing table is truncated in the same command. Alvaro Herrera
* Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon2004-12-31
| | | | | | | | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
* Restructure subtransaction handling to reduce resource consumption,Tom Lane2004-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | as per recent discussions. Invent SubTransactionIds that are managed like CommandIds (ie, counter is reset at start of each top transaction), and use these instead of TransactionIds to keep track of subtransaction status in those modules that need it. This means that a subtransaction does not need an XID unless it actually inserts/modifies rows in the database. Accordingly, don't assign it an XID nor take a lock on the XID until it tries to do that. This saves a lot of overhead for subtransactions that are only used for error recovery (eg plpgsql exceptions). Also, arrange to release a subtransaction's XID lock as soon as the subtransaction exits, in both the commit and abort cases. This avoids holding many unique locks after a long series of subtransactions. The price is some additional overhead in XactLockTableWait, but that seems acceptable. Finally, restructure the state machine in xact.c to have a more orthogonal set of states for subtransactions.