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* Provide database object names as separate fields in error messages.Tom Lane2013-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses the problem that applications currently have to extract object names from possibly-localized textual error messages, if they want to know for example which index caused a UNIQUE_VIOLATION failure. It adds new error message fields to the wire protocol, which can carry the name of a table, table column, data type, or constraint associated with the error. (Since the protocol spec has always instructed clients to ignore unrecognized field types, this should not create any compatibility problem.) Support for providing these new fields has been added to just a limited set of error reports (mainly, those in the "integrity constraint violation" SQLSTATE class), but we will doubtless add them to more calls in future. Pavel Stehule, reviewed and extensively revised by Peter Geoghegan, with additional hacking by Tom Lane.
* Improve concurrency of foreign key lockingAlvaro Herrera2013-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces two additional lock modes for tuples: "SELECT FOR KEY SHARE" and "SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE". These don't block each other, in contrast with already existing "SELECT FOR SHARE" and "SELECT FOR UPDATE". UPDATE commands that do not modify the values stored in the columns that are part of the key of the tuple now grab a SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE lock on the tuple, allowing them to proceed concurrently with tuple locks of the FOR KEY SHARE variety. Foreign key triggers now use FOR KEY SHARE instead of FOR SHARE; this means the concurrency improvement applies to them, which is the whole point of this patch. The added tuple lock semantics require some rejiggering of the multixact module, so that the locking level that each transaction is holding can be stored alongside its Xid. Also, multixacts now need to persist across server restarts and crashes, because they can now represent not only tuple locks, but also tuple updates. This means we need more careful tracking of lifetime of pg_multixact SLRU files; since they now persist longer, we require more infrastructure to figure out when they can be removed. pg_upgrade also needs to be careful to copy pg_multixact files over from the old server to the new, or at least part of multixact.c state, depending on the versions of the old and new servers. Tuple time qualification rules (HeapTupleSatisfies routines) need to be careful not to consider tuples with the "is multi" infomask bit set as being only locked; they might need to look up MultiXact values (i.e. possibly do pg_multixact I/O) to find out the Xid that updated a tuple, whereas they previously were assured to only use information readily available from the tuple header. This is considered acceptable, because the extra I/O would involve cases that would previously cause some commands to block waiting for concurrent transactions to finish. Another important change is the fact that locking tuples that have previously been updated causes the future versions to be marked as locked, too; this is essential for correctness of foreign key checks. This causes additional WAL-logging, also (there was previously a single WAL record for a locked tuple; now there are as many as updated copies of the tuple there exist.) With all this in place, contention related to tuples being checked by foreign key rules should be much reduced. As a bonus, the old behavior that a subtransaction grabbing a stronger tuple lock than the parent (sub)transaction held on a given tuple and later aborting caused the weaker lock to be lost, has been fixed. Many new spec files were added for isolation tester framework, to ensure overall behavior is sane. There's probably room for several more tests. There were several reviewers of this patch; in particular, Noah Misch and Andres Freund spent considerable time in it. Original idea for the patch came from Simon Riggs, after a problem report by Joel Jacobson. Most code is from me, with contributions from Marti Raudsepp, Alexander Shulgin, Noah Misch and Andres Freund. This patch was discussed in several pgsql-hackers threads; the most important start at the following message-ids: AANLkTimo9XVcEzfiBR-ut3KVNDkjm2Vxh+t8kAmWjPuv@mail.gmail.com 1290721684-sup-3951@alvh.no-ip.org 1294953201-sup-2099@alvh.no-ip.org 1320343602-sup-2290@alvh.no-ip.org 1339690386-sup-8927@alvh.no-ip.org 4FE5FF020200002500048A3D@gw.wicourts.gov 4FEAB90A0200002500048B7D@gw.wicourts.gov
* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Remove RELKIND_UNCATALOGED.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | This may have been important at some point in the past, but it no longer does anything useful. Review by Tom Lane.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Remove unnecessary #include references, per pgrminclude script.Bruce Momjian2011-09-01
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* Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.Tom Lane2011-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice, but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would tell it the data is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during startup. Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of the SI messages. This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit faster since only one unlink call is needed. This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all supported releases.
* Avoid index rebuild for no-rewrite ALTER TABLE .. ALTER TYPE.Robert Haas2011-07-18
| | | | Noah Misch. Review and minor cosmetic changes by me.
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Generalize concept of temporary relations to "relation persistence".Robert Haas2010-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit replaces pg_class.relistemp with pg_class.relpersistence; and also modifies the RangeVar node type to carry relpersistence rather than istemp. It also removes removes rd_istemp from RelationData and instead performs the correct computation based on relpersistence. For clarity, we add three new macros: RelationNeedsWAL(), RelationUsesLocalBuffers(), and RelationUsesTempNamespace(), so that we can clarify the purpose of each check that previous depended on rd_istemp. This is intended as infrastructure for the upcoming unlogged tables patch, as well as for future possible work on global temporary tables.
* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian2010-02-26
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* Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodesTom Lane2010-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of shared or nailed system catalogs. This has two key benefits: * The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs. * We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing shared catalogs. CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would only be visible in one database. Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed; shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared. This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch. As a stopgap, parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid such failures during the regression tests.
* Assorted cleanups in preparation for using a map file to support alteringTom Lane2010-02-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the relfilenode of currently-not-relocatable system catalogs. 1. Get rid of inval.c's dependency on relfilenode, by not having it emit smgr invalidations as a result of relcache flushes. Instead, smgr sinval messages are sent directly from smgr.c when an actual relation delete or truncate is done. This makes considerably more structural sense and allows elimination of a large number of useless smgr inval messages that were formerly sent even in cases where nothing was changing at the physical-relation level. Note that this reintroduces the concept of nontransactional inval messages, but that's okay --- because the messages are sent by smgr.c, they will be sent in Hot Standby slaves, just from a lower logical level than before. 2. Move setNewRelfilenode out of catalog/index.c, where it never logically belonged, into relcache.c; which is a somewhat debatable choice as well but better than before. (I considered catalog/storage.c, but that seemed too low level.) Rename to RelationSetNewRelfilenode. 3. Cosmetic cleanups of some other relfilenode manipulations.
* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Add exclusion constraints, which generalize the concept of uniqueness toTom Lane2009-12-07
| | | | | | | | support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality. Two rows violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for each of the columns in the constraint. Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas
* Allow backends to start up without use of the flat-file copy of pg_database.Tom Lane2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work in the base case, pg_database now has a nailed-in-cache relation descriptor that is initialized using hardwired knowledge in relcache.c. This means pg_database is added to the set of relations that need to have a Schema_pg_xxx macro maintained in pg_attribute.h. When this path is taken, we'll have to do a seqscan of pg_database to find the row we need. In the normal case, we are able to do an indexscan to find the database's row by name. This is made possible by storing a global relcache init file that describes only the shared catalogs and their indexes (and therefore is usable by all backends in any database). A new backend loads this cache file, finds its database OID after an indexscan on pg_database, and then loads the local relcache init file for that database. This change should effectively eliminate number of databases as a factor in backend startup time, even with large numbers of databases. However, the real reason for doing it is as a first step towards getting rid of the flat files altogether. There are still several other sub-projects to be tackled before that can happen.
* 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.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* HOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexedTom Lane2007-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer generate extra index entries for the new version. Instead, index searches follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version. In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space. VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however. Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.
* Teach CLUSTER to skip writing WAL if not needed (ie, not using archiving)Tom Lane2007-03-29
| | | | | --- Simon. Also, code review and cleanup for the previous COPY-no-WAL patches --- Tom.
* Fix for COPY-after-truncate feature.Bruce Momjian2007-03-03
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* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* Fix recently-identified PITR recovery hazard: the base backup could containTom Lane2006-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | stale relcache init files (pg_internal.init), and there is no mechanism for updating them during WAL replay. Easiest solution is just to delete the init files at conclusion of startup, and let the first backend started in each database take care of rebuilding the init file. Simon Riggs and Tom Lane. Back-patched to 8.1. Arguably this should be fixed in 8.0 too, but it would require significantly more code since 8.0 has no handy startup-time scan of pg_database to piggyback on. Manual solution of the problem is possible in 8.0 (just delete the pg_internal.init files before starting WAL replay), so that may be a sufficient answer.
* 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.
* Simplify relcache startup sequence. With the new design of InitPostgresTom Lane2006-05-04
| | | | | | | it's not necessary to have three separate calls anymore. This patch also fixes things so we don't try to read pg_internal.init until after we've obtained lock on the target database; which was fairly harmless, but it's certainly cleaner this way.
* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Solve the problem of OID collisions by probing for duplicate OIDsTom Lane2005-08-12
| | | | | | | whenever we generate a new OID. This prevents occasional duplicate-OID errors that can otherwise occur once the OID counter has wrapped around. Duplicate relfilenode values are also checked for when creating new physical files. Per my recent proposal.
* Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane2005-04-14
| | | | | | | indexes. Replace all heap_openr and index_openr calls by heap_open and index_open. Remove runtime lookups of catalog OID numbers in various places. Remove relcache's support for looking up system catalogs by name. Bulky but mostly very boring patch ...
* First phase of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane2005-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | indexes. Extend the macros in include/catalog/*.h to carry the info about hand-assigned OIDs, and adjust the genbki script and bootstrap code to make the relations actually get those OIDs. Remove the small number of RelOid_pg_foo macros that we had in favor of a complete set named like the catname.h and indexing.h macros. Next phase will get rid of internal use of names for looking up catalogs and indexes; but this completes the changes forcing an initdb, so it looks like a good place to commit. Along the way, I made the shared relations (pg_database etc) not be 'bootstrap' relations any more, so as to reduce the number of hardwired entries and simplify changing those relations in future. I'm not sure whether they ever really needed to be handled as bootstrap relations, but it seems to work fine to not do so now.
* Phase 1 of fix for 'SMgrRelation hashtable corrupted' problem. ThisTom Lane2005-01-10
| | | | | | is the minimum required fix. I want to look next at taking advantage of it by simplifying the message semantics in the shared inval message queue, but that part can be held over for 8.1 if it turns out too ugly.
* 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.
* Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Fix relcache to account properly for subtransaction status of 'new'Tom Lane2004-08-28
| | | | | | | | | relcache entries. Also, change TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() so that if consulted during transaction abort, it will not say that the aborted xact is still current. (It would be better to ensure that it's never called at all during abort, but I'm not sure we can easily guarantee that.) In combination, these fix a crash we have seen occasionally during parallel regression tests of 8.0.
* Invent ResourceOwner mechanism as per my recent proposal, and use it toTom Lane2004-07-17
| | | | | | | | keep track of portal-related resources separately from transaction-related resources. This allows cursors to work in a somewhat sane fashion with nested transactions. For now, cursor behavior is non-subtransactional, that is a cursor's state does not roll back if you abort a subtransaction that fetched from the cursor. We might want to change that later.
* Nested transactions. There is still much left to do, especially on theTom Lane2004-07-01
| | | | | | | performance front, but with feature freeze upon us I think it's time to drive a stake in the ground and say that this will be in 7.5. Alvaro Herrera, with some help from Tom Lane.
* Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.Tom Lane2004-06-18
| | | | | | | | | There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules need work, and so does the documentation. Also someone should think about COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE. Also initlocation is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
* Restructure smgr API as per recent proposal. smgr no longer depends onTom Lane2004-02-10
| | | | | | | | | the relcache, and so the notion of 'blind write' is gone. This should improve efficiency in bgwriter and background checkpoint processes. Internal restructuring in md.c to remove the not-very-useful array of MdfdVec objects --- might as well just use pointers. Also remove the long-dead 'persistent main memory' storage manager (mm.c), since it seems quite unlikely to ever get resurrected.
* make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ...PostgreSQL Daemon2003-11-29
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* Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache isTom Lane2003-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method. This leaves only shared system indexes as special cases. Remove the 'index deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared- index case. Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX. -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes) now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates. It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS. Upshot: reindexing system catalogs can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except shared catalogs.
* Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian2003-08-04
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* Replace functional-index facility with expressional indexes. Any columnTom Lane2003-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | of an index can now be a computed expression instead of a simple variable. Restrictions on expressions are the same as for predicates (only immutable functions, no sub-selects). This fixes problems recently introduced with inlining SQL functions, because the inlining transformation is applied to both expression trees so the planner can still match them up. Along the way, improve efficiency of handling index predicates (both predicates and index expressions are now cached by the relcache) and fix 7.3 oversight that didn't record dependencies of predicate expressions.
* Restructure local-buffer handling per recent pghackers discussion.Tom Lane2002-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The local buffer manager is no longer used for newly-created relations (unless they are TEMP); a new non-TEMP relation goes through the shared bufmgr and thus will participate normally in checkpoints. But TEMP relations use the local buffer manager throughout their lifespan. Also, operations in TEMP relations are not logged in WAL, thus improving performance. Since it's no longer necessary to fsync relations as they move out of the local buffers into shared buffers, quite a lot of smgr.c/md.c/fd.c code is no longer needed and has been removed: there's no concept of a dirty relation anymore in md.c/fd.c, and we never fsync anything but WAL. Still TODO: improve local buffer management algorithms so that it would be reasonable to increase NLocBuffer.
* When compiling with --enable-cassert, check for reference count leaksTom Lane2002-08-02
| | | | | | | in the relcache. It's rather silly that we have reference count leak checks in bufmgr and in catcache, but not in relcache which will normally have many fewer entries. Chris K-L would have caught at least one bug in his recent DROP patch if he'd had this.
* Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian2002-06-20
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* pg_class has a relnamespace column. You can create and access tablesTom Lane2002-03-26
| | | | | | in schemas other than the system namespace; however, there's no search path yet, and not all operations work yet on tables outside the system namespace.