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* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
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* Lower lock level for renaming indexesPeter Eisentraut2018-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change lock level for renaming index (either ALTER INDEX or implicitly via some other commands) from AccessExclusiveLock to ShareUpdateExclusiveLock. One reason we need a strong lock for relation renaming is that the name change causes a rebuild of the relcache entry. Concurrent sessions that have the relation open might not be able to handle the relcache entry changing underneath them. Therefore, we need to lock the relation in a way that no one can have the relation open concurrently. But for indexes, the relcache handles reloads specially in RelationReloadIndexInfo() in a way that keeps changes in the relcache entry to a minimum. As long as no one keeps pointers to rd_amcache and rd_options around across possible relcache flushes, which is the case, this ought to be safe. We also want to use a self-exclusive lock for correctness, so that concurrent DDL doesn't overwrite the rename if they start updating while still seeing the old version. Therefore, we use ShareUpdateExclusiveLock, which is already used by other DDL commands that want to operate in a concurrent manner. The reason this is interesting at all is that renaming an index is a typical part of a concurrent reindexing workflow (CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY new + DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY old + rename back). And indeed a future built-in REINDEX CONCURRENTLY might rely on the ability to do concurrent renames as well. Reviewed-by: Andrey Klychkov <aaklychkov@mail.ru> Reviewed-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1531767486.432607658@f357.i.mail.ru
* Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.Tom Lane2018-04-26
| | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Reorganize partitioning codeAlvaro Herrera2018-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's been a massive addition of partitioning code in PostgreSQL 11, with little oversight on its placement, resulting in a catalog/partition.c with poorly defined boundaries and responsibilities. This commit tries to set a couple of distinct modules to separate things a little bit. There are no code changes here, only code movement. There are three new files: src/backend/utils/cache/partcache.c src/include/partitioning/partdefs.h src/include/utils/partcache.h The previous arrangement of #including catalog/partition.h almost everywhere is no more. Authors: Amit Langote and Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/98e8d509-790a-128c-be7f-e48a5b2d8d97@lab.ntt.co.jp https://postgr.es/m/11aa0c50-316b-18bb-722d-c23814f39059@lab.ntt.co.jp https://postgr.es/m/143ed9a4-6038-76d4-9a55-502035815e68@lab.ntt.co.jp https://postgr.es/m/20180413193503.nynq7bnmgh6vs5vm@alvherre.pgsql
* Logical decoding of TRUNCATEPeter Eisentraut2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new WAL record type for TRUNCATE, which is only used when wal_level >= logical. (For physical replication, TRUNCATE is already replicated via SMGR records.) Add new callback for logical decoding output plugins to receive TRUNCATE actions. Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
* Foreign keys on partitioned tablesAlvaro Herrera2018-04-04
| | | | | | Author: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171231194359.cvojcour423ulha4@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
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* Allow a partitioned table to have a default partition.Robert Haas2017-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Any tuples that don't route to any other partition will route to the default partition. Jeevan Ladhe, Beena Emerson, Ashutosh Bapat, Rahila Syed, and Robert Haas, with review and testing at various stages by (at least) Rushabh Lathia, Keith Fiske, Amit Langote, Amul Sul, Rajkumar Raghuanshi, Sven Kunze, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thom Brown, Rafia Sabih, and Dilip Kumar. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28tbN4SYyhS7YV1YBWcitkqbhSWfQCy0G=apRcC_PEO-bg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEYj34fWMcvBMBQ-YtqR9fTdXhdN82QEKG0SVZ6zeL1xg@mail.gmail.com
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Implement table partitioning.Robert Haas2016-12-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Table partitioning is like table inheritance and reuses much of the existing infrastructure, but there are some important differences. The parent is called a partitioned table and is always empty; it may not have indexes or non-inherited constraints, since those make no sense for a relation with no data of its own. The children are called partitions and contain all of the actual data. Each partition has an implicit partitioning constraint. Multiple inheritance is not allowed, and partitioning and inheritance can't be mixed. Partitions can't have extra columns and may not allow nulls unless the parent does. Tuples inserted into the parent are automatically routed to the correct partition, so tuple-routing ON INSERT triggers are not needed. Tuple routing isn't yet supported for partitions which are foreign tables, and it doesn't handle updates that cross partition boundaries. Currently, tables can be range-partitioned or list-partitioned. List partitioning is limited to a single column, but range partitioning can involve multiple columns. A partitioning "column" can be an expression. Because table partitioning is less general than table inheritance, it is hoped that it will be easier to reason about properties of partitions, and therefore that this will serve as a better foundation for a variety of possible optimizations, including query planner optimizations. The tuple routing based which this patch does based on the implicit partitioning constraints is an example of this, but it seems likely that many other useful optimizations are also possible. Amit Langote, reviewed and tested by Robert Haas, Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Kapila, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Corey Huinker, Jaime Casanova, Rushabh Lathia, Erik Rijkers, among others. Minor revisions by me.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
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* Change many routines to return ObjectAddress rather than OIDAlvaro Herrera2015-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The changed routines are mostly those that can be directly called by ProcessUtilitySlow; the intention is to make the affected object information more precise, in support for future event trigger changes. Originally it was envisioned that the OID of the affected object would be enough, and in most cases that is correct, but upon actually implementing the event trigger changes it turned out that ObjectAddress is more widely useful. Additionally, some command execution routines grew an output argument that's an object address which provides further info about the executed command. To wit: * for ALTER DOMAIN / ADD CONSTRAINT, it corresponds to the address of the new constraint * for ALTER OBJECT / SET SCHEMA, it corresponds to the address of the schema that originally contained the object. * for ALTER EXTENSION {ADD, DROP} OBJECT, it corresponds to the address of the object added to or dropped from the extension. There's no user-visible change in this commit, and no functional change either. Discussion: 20150218213255.GC6717@tamriel.snowman.net Reviewed-By: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* Rework 'MOVE ALL' to 'ALTER .. ALL IN TABLESPACE'Stephen Frost2014-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | As 'ALTER TABLESPACE .. MOVE ALL' really didn't change the tablespace but instead changed objects inside tablespaces, it made sense to rework the syntax and supporting functions to operate under the 'ALTER (TABLE|INDEX|MATERIALIZED VIEW)' syntax and to be in tablecmds.c. Pointed out by Alvaro, who also suggested the new syntax. Back-patch to 9.4.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.Robert Haas2014-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table than other parts. At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege escalation attack. This changes the calling convention for DefineIndex, CreateTrigger, transformIndexStmt, transformAlterTableStmt, CheckIndexCompatible (in 9.2 and newer), and AlterTable (in 9.1 and older). In addition, CheckRelationOwnership is removed in 9.2 and newer and the calling convention is changed in older branches. A field has also been added to the Constraint node (FkConstraint in 8.4). Third-party code calling these functions or using the Constraint node will require updating. Report by Andres Freund. Patch by Robert Haas and Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2014-0062
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
* Clean up the mess around EXPLAIN and materialized views.Tom Lane2013-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert the matview-related changes in explain.c's API, as per recent complaint from Robert Haas. The reason for these appears to have been principally some ill-considered choices around having intorel_startup do what ought to be parse-time checking, plus a poor arrangement for passing it the view parsetree it needs to store into pg_rewrite when creating a materialized view. Do the latter by having parse analysis stick a copy into the IntoClause, instead of doing it at runtime. (On the whole, I seriously question the choice to represent CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW as a variant of SELECT INTO/CREATE TABLE AS, because that means injecting even more complexity into what was already a horrid legacy kluge. However, I didn't go so far as to rethink that choice ... yet.) I also moved several error checks into matview parse analysis, and made the check for external Params in a matview more accurate. In passing, clean things up a bit more around interpretOidsOption(), and fix things so that we can use that to force no-oids for views, sequences, etc, thereby eliminating the need to cons up "oids = false" options when creating them. catversion bump due to change in IntoClause. (I wonder though if we really need readfuncs/outfuncs support for IntoClause anymore.)
* 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
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* 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.