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Peter Eisentraut
3f11971916 Remove extra newlines at end and beginning of files, add missing newlines
at end of files.
2010-08-19 05:57:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
2d8314bd43 Rename utf2ucs() to utf8_to_unicode(), and export it so it can be used
elsewhere.

Similarly rename the version in mbprint.c, not because this affects anything
but just to keep the two copies in exact sync.  There was some discussion of
having only one copy in src/port/ instead, but this function is so small
and unlikely to change that that seems like overkill.

Slightly editorialized version of a patch by Joseph Adams.  (The bug-fix
aspect of his patch was applied separately, and back-patched.)
2010-08-18 19:54:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
ee0e525bfc Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and the
socket lockfile) when writing them.  The lack of an fsync here may well
explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents,
which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a
new server from starting if the old one crashes.  Per suggestion from
Alvaro.

Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-08-16 17:32:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
41b810fe32 Fix \ef and \sf to not fail on functions with nonnull probin.
Update comment about them in pg_get_functiondef.
2010-08-14 14:20:35 +00:00
Robert Haas
27f145a40e Further dtrace adjustments for the backend-IDs-in-relpath patch.
Update the documentation, and back out a few ill-considered changes
whose folly I failed to realize for failure to read the documentation.
2010-08-14 02:22:10 +00:00
Robert Haas
105d4c5ffe Fix assorted dtrace breakage caused by patch to include backend IDs
in temp relpaths.

Per buildfarm.
2010-08-13 22:54:17 +00:00
Robert Haas
debcec7dc3 Include the backend ID in the relpath of temporary relations.
This allows us to reliably remove all leftover temporary relation
files on cluster startup without reference to system catalogs or WAL;
therefore, we no longer include temporary relations in XLOG_XACT_COMMIT
and XLOG_XACT_ABORT WAL records.

Since these changes require including a backend ID in each
SharedInvalSmgrMsg, the size of the SharedInvalidationMessage.id
field has been reduced from two bytes to one, and the maximum number
of connections has been reduced from INT_MAX / 4 to 2^23-1.  It would
be possible to remove these restrictions by increasing the size of
SharedInvalidationMessage by 4 bytes, but right now that doesn't seem
like a good trade-off.

Review by Jaime Casanova and Tom Lane.
2010-08-13 20:10:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
a0b7b717a4 Add xml_is_well_formed, xml_is_well_formed_document, xml_is_well_formed_content
functions to the core XML code.  Per discussion, the former depends on
XMLOPTION while the others do not.  These supersede a version previously
offered by contrib/xml2.

Mike Fowler, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2010-08-13 18:36:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
2a7349f030 Fix Assert failure in PushOverrideSearchPath when trying to restore a search
path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the
current session.  (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction
that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.)  For existing callers
it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might
later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema.  So far as I can
tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would
push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful.
Per bug report from Heikki.

Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.
2010-08-13 16:27:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
568e709372 Extend psql's \e and \ef commands so that a line number can be specified,
and the editor's cursor will be initially placed on that line.  In \e the
lines are counted with respect to the query buffer, while in \ef they are
counted with line 1 = first line of function body.  These choices are useful
for positioning the cursor on the line of a previously-reported error.

To avoid assumptions about what switch the user's editor takes for this
purpose, invent a new psql variable EDITOR_LINENUMBER_SWITCH with (at
present) no default value.

One incompatibility from previous behavior is that "\e 1234" will now
take "1234" as a line number not a file name.  There are at least two
ways to select a numerically-named file if you really want to.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jan Urbanski, with further editing by Robert Haas
and Tom Lane
2010-08-12 00:40:59 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
c9ae257e23 The sanity check added to array_recv() wa a bit too tight; we must
continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send()
can output such arrays.

Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.
2010-08-11 19:12:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
33f43725fb Add three-parameter forms of array_to_string and string_to_array, to allow
better handling of NULL elements within the arrays.  The third parameter
is a string that should be used to represent a NULL element, or should
be translated into a NULL element, respectively.  If the third parameter
is NULL it behaves the same as the two-parameter form.

There are two incompatible changes in the behavior of the two-parameter form
of string_to_array.  First, it will return an empty (zero-element) array
rather than NULL when the input string is of zero length.  Second, if the
field separator is NULL, the function splits the string into individual
characters, rather than returning NULL as before.  These two changes make
this form fully compatible with the behavior of the new three-parameter form.

Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Brendan Jurd
2010-08-10 21:51:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
4dfc457854 Add an xpath_exists() function. This is equivalent to XMLEXISTS except that
it offers support for namespace mapping.

Mike Fowler, reviewed by David Fetter
2010-08-08 19:15:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
46aa77c7bd Add stats functions and views to provide access to a transaction's own
statistics counts.  These numbers are being accumulated but haven't yet been
transmitted to the collector (and won't be, until the transaction ends).
For some purposes, though, it's handy to be able to look at them.

Joel Jacobson, reviewed by Itagaki Takahiro
2010-08-08 16:27:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
f73b765182 Add a comment about the initial default value of max_stack_depth. 2010-08-06 14:51:33 +00:00
Robert Haas
901c0ea2f1 Fix incorrect pathname in comment. 2010-08-06 03:46:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
b0c451e145 Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much in
functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at
least two people have already gotten seriously confused by.  Also, add an
opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted
policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different
numbers of parameters.  Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown.
2010-08-05 18:21:19 +00:00
Robert Haas
fd1843ff89 Standardize get_whatever_oid functions for other object types.
- Rename TSParserGetPrsid to get_ts_parser_oid.
- Rename TSDictionaryGetDictid to get_ts_dict_oid.
- Rename TSTemplateGetTmplid to get_ts_template_oid.
- Rename TSConfigGetCfgid to get_ts_config_oid.
- Rename FindConversionByName to get_conversion_oid.
- Rename GetConstraintName to get_constraint_oid.
- Add new functions get_opclass_oid, get_opfamily_oid, get_rewrite_oid,
  get_rewrite_oid_without_relid, get_trigger_oid, and get_cast_oid.

The name of each function matches the corresponding catalog.

Thanks to KaiGai Kohei for the review.
2010-08-05 15:25:36 +00:00
Robert Haas
2a6ef3445c Standardize get_whatever_oid functions for object types with
unqualified names.

- Add a missing_ok parameter to get_tablespace_oid.
- Avoid duplicating get_tablespace_od guts in objectNamesToOids.
- Add a missing_ok parameter to get_database_oid.
- Replace get_roleid and get_role_checked with get_role_oid.
- Add get_namespace_oid, get_language_oid, get_am_oid.
- Refactor existing code to use new interfaces.

Thanks to KaiGai Kohei for the review.
2010-08-05 14:45:09 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
641459f269 Add xmlexists function
by Mike Fowler, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut
2010-08-05 04:21:54 +00:00
Robert Haas
97f38001ac Fix numeric_maximum_size() calculation.
The old computation can sometimes underestimate the necessary space
by 2 bytes; however we're not back-patching this, because this result
isn't used for anything critical.  Per discussion with Tom Lane,
make the typmod test in this function match the ones in numeric()
and apply_typmod() exactly.
2010-08-04 17:33:09 +00:00
Robert Haas
145343534c Allow numeric to use a more compact, 2-byte header in many cases.
Review by Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane.
2010-08-03 23:09:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
db04f2b322 Replace the naive HYPOT() macro with a standards-conformant hypotenuse
function.  This avoids unnecessary overflows and probably gives a more
accurate result as well.

Paul Matthews, reviewed by Andrew Geery
2010-08-03 21:21:03 +00:00
Tom Lane
3491520986 Code review for --quote-all-identifiers patch: add missing --help documentation
for new pg_dump/pg_dumpall parameters, make a couple of trivial stylistic
adjustments to make the code follow usual project style.
2010-08-03 19:24:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
72405b066b Add some comments to tinterval_cmp_internal pointing out its severe
implementation deficiencies.  Per discussion of bug #5592, we're not
going to change it, but these things should be documented so that if
anyone ever reimplements type tinterval, they will be more careful.
2010-08-03 16:31:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
532a4c3531 Be a little more careful with the shift computations in QT2QTN and
makeTSQuerySign.  The first of these is a live bug, on some platforms,
as per bug #5590 from John Regehr.  However the consequences seem limited
because of the relatively narrow scope of use of QTNode.sign.  The shift in
makeTSQuerySign is actually safe because TSQS_SIGLEN is unsigned, but it
seems like a good idea to insert an explicit cast rather than depend on that.
2010-08-03 01:50:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
57641a165f Fix core dump in QTNodeCompare when tsquery_cmp() is applied to two empty
tsqueries.  CompareTSQ has to have a guard for the case rather than blindly
applying QTNodeCompare to random data past the end of the datums.  Also,
change QTNodeCompare to be a little less trusting: use an actual test rather
than just Assert'ing that the input is sane.  Problem encountered while
investigating another issue (I saw a core dump in autoanalyze on a table
containing multiple empty tsquery values).

Back-patch to all branches with tsquery support.

In HEAD, also fix some bizarre (though not outright wrong) coding in
tsq_mcontains().
2010-08-03 00:10:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
fbcf2cfb53 Fix an ancient typo that prevented the detection of conflicting fields when
interval input "invalid" was specified together with other fields.  Spotted
by Neil Conway with the help of a clang warning.  Although this has been
wrong since the interval code was written more than 10 years ago, it doesn't
affect anything beyond which error message you get for a wrong input, so not
worth back-patching very far.
2010-08-02 01:24:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
0454f13161 Rewrite the rbtree routines so that an RBNode is the first field of the
struct representing a tree entry, rather than being a separately allocated
piece of storage.  This API is at least as clean as the old one (if not
more so --- there were some bizarre choices in there) and it permits a
very substantial memory savings, on the order of 2X in ginbulk.c's usage.

Also, fix minor memory leaks in code called by ginEntryInsert, in
particular in ginInsertValue and entryFillRoot, as well as ginEntryInsert
itself.  These leaks resulted in the GIN index build context continuing
to bloat even after we'd filled it to maintenance_work_mem and started
to dump data out to the index.

In combination these fixes restore the GIN index build code to honoring
the maintenance_work_mem limit about as well as it did in 8.4.  Speed
seems on par with 8.4 too, maybe even a bit faster, for a non-pathological
case in which HEAD was formerly slower.

Back-patch to 9.0 so we don't have a performance regression from 8.4.
2010-08-01 02:12:42 +00:00
Robert Haas
8a4dc94ca0 Make details of the Numeric representation private to numeric.c.
Review by Tom Lane.
2010-07-30 04:30:23 +00:00
Simon Riggs
2dbbda02e7 Reduce lock levels of CREATE TRIGGER and some ALTER TABLE, CREATE RULE actions.
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.
2010-07-28 05:22:24 +00:00
Robert Haas
e0226a9bf2 In postgresql.conf.sample, use on/off rather than true/false.
We used to be consistent about this, but my recent patch to add a
restart_after_crash GUC failed to follow the existing convention.

Report and patch from Fujii Masao.
2010-07-27 16:06:53 +00:00
Robert Haas
ce68df468a Add options to force quoting of all identifiers.
I've added a quote_all_identifiers GUC which affects the behavior
of the backend, and a --quote-all-identifiers argument to pg_dump
and pg_dumpall which sets the GUC and also affects the quoting done
internally by those applications.

Design by Tom Lane; review by Alex Hunsaker; in response to bug #5488
filed by Hartmut Goebel.
2010-07-22 01:22:35 +00:00
Robert Haas
b8c6c71d1c Centralize DML permissions-checking logic.
Remove bespoke code in DoCopy and RI_Initial_Check, which now instead
fabricate call ExecCheckRTPerms with a manufactured RangeTblEntry.
This is intended to make it feasible for an enhanced security provider
to actually make use of ExecutorCheckPerms_hook, but also has the
advantage that RI_Initial_Check can allow use of the fast-path when
column-level but not table-level permissions are present.

KaiGai Kohei.  Reviewed (in an earlier version) by Stephen Frost, and by me.
Some further changes to the comments by me.
2010-07-22 00:47:59 +00:00
Robert Haas
5ffaa9005c Add restart_after_crash GUC.
Normally, we automatically restart after a backend crash, but in some
cases when PostgreSQL is invoked by clusterware it may be desirable to
suppress this behavior, so we provide an option which does this.
Since no existing GUC group quite fits, create a new group called
"error handling options" for this and the previously undocumented GUC
exit_on_error, which is now documented.

Review by Fujii Masao.
2010-07-20 00:47:53 +00:00
Robert Haas
0839f312e9 Change the default value of standard_conforming_strings to on.
This change should be publicized to driver maintainers at once and
release-noted as an incompatibility with previous releases.
2010-07-20 00:34:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
cf5305f406 Remove unnecessary "Not safe to send CSV data" complaint from elog.c's fallback
path when CSV logging is configured but not yet operational.  It's sufficient
to send the message to stderr, as we were already doing, and the "Not safe"
gripe has already confused at least two core members ...

Backpatch to 9.0, but not further --- doesn't seem appropriate to change
this behavior in stable branches.
2010-07-18 23:43:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
3ec694e17b Add a log_file_mode GUC that allows control of the file permissions set on
log files created by the syslogger process.

In passing, make unix_file_permissions display its value in octal, same
as log_file_mode now does.

Martin Pihlak
2010-07-16 22:25:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
7590ddb3eb Add support for dividing money by money (yielding a float8 result) and for
casting between money and numeric.

Andy Balholm, reviewed by Kevin Grittner
2010-07-16 02:15:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
1cc29fe7c6 Teach EXPLAIN to print PARAM_EXEC Params as the referenced expressions,
rather than just $N.  This brings the display of nestloop-inner-indexscan
plans back to where it's been, and incidentally improves the display of
SubPlan parameters as well.  In passing, simplify the EXPLAIN code by
having it deal primarily in the PlanState tree rather than separately
searching Plan and PlanState trees.  This is noticeably cleaner for
subplans, and about a wash elsewhere.

One small difference from previous behavior is that EXPLAIN will no longer
qualify local variable references in inner-indexscan plan nodes, since it
no longer sees such nodes as possibly referencing multiple tables.  Vars
referenced through PARAM_EXEC Params are still forcibly qualified, though,
so I don't think the display is any more confusing than before.  Adjust a
couple of examples in the documentation to match this behavior.
2010-07-13 20:57:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
2751a249cb Oops, in the previous fix to prevent a cursor that's being used in a FOR
loop from being dropped, I missed subtransaction cleanup. Pinned portals
must be dropped at subtransaction cleanup just as they are at main
transaction cleanup.

Per bug #5556 by Robert Walker. Backpatch to 8.0, 7.4 didn't have
subtransactions.
2010-07-13 09:02:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
5ce63f480b Avoid an Assert failure in deconstruct_array() by making get_attstatsslot()
use the actual element type of the array it's disassembling, rather than
trusting the type OID passed in by its caller.  This is needed because
sometimes the planner passes in a type OID that's only binary-compatible
with the target column's type, rather than being an exact match.  Per an
example from Bernd Helmle.

Possibly we should refactor get_attstatsslot/free_attstatsslot to not expect
the caller to supply type ID data at all, but for now I'll just do the
minimum-change fix.

Back-patch to 7.4.  Bernd's test case only crashes back to 8.0, but since
these subroutines are the same in 7.4, I suspect there may be variant
cases that would crash 7.4 as well.
2010-07-09 22:57:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
2b8a624596 Fix ruleutils' get_variable() to print something useful for Vars referencing
resjunk outputs of subquery tlists, instead of throwing an error.  Per bug
#5548 from Daniel Grace.

We might at some point find we ought to back-patch this further than 9.0,
but I think that such Vars can only occur as resjunk members of upper-level
tlists, in which case the problem can't arise because prior versions didn't
print resjunk tlist items in EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
2010-07-09 21:11:47 +00:00
Tom Lane
5b1b3ef742 Adjust mbutils.c so it won't get broken by future pgindent runs.
To do that, replace L'\0' by (WCHAR) 0.  Perhaps someday we should teach
pgindent about wide-character literals, but so long as this is the only
use-case in the entire Postgres sources, a workaround seems easier.
2010-07-07 15:13:21 +00:00
Robert Haas
20be0d480a Make log_temp_files based on kB, and revert docs & comments to match.
Per extensive discussion on pgsql-hackers.  We are deliberately not
back-patching this even though the behavior of 8.3 and 8.4 is
unquestionably broken, for fear of breaking existing users of this
parameter.  This incompatibility should be release-noted.
2010-07-06 22:55:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
3f12653b73 Undo pgindent breakage (again). Per buildfarm. 2010-07-06 21:09:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
239d769e7e pgindent run for 9.0, second run 2010-07-06 19:19:02 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
eb81b6509f The previous fix in CVS HEAD and 8.4 for handling the case where a cursor
being used in a PL/pgSQL FOR loop is closed was inadequate, as Tom Lane
pointed out. The bug affects FOR statement variants too, because you can
close an implicitly created cursor too by guessing the "<unnamed portal X>"
name created for it.

To fix that, "pin" the portal to prevent it from being dropped while it's
being used in a PL/pgSQL FOR loop. Backpatch all the way to 7.4 which is
the oldest supported version.
2010-07-05 09:27:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
aceedd88f6 Make vacuum_defer_cleanup_age be PGC_SIGHUP level, since it's not sensible
to have different values in different processes of the primary server.
Also put it into the "Streaming Replication" GUC category; it doesn't belong
in "Standby Servers" because you use it on the master not the standby.
In passing also correct guc.c's idea of wal_keep_segments' category.
2010-07-03 21:23:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
e76c1a0f4d Replace max_standby_delay with two parameters, max_standby_archive_delay and
max_standby_streaming_delay, and revise the implementation to avoid assuming
that timestamps found in WAL records can meaningfully be compared to clock
time on the standby server.  Instead, the delay limits are compared to the
elapsed time since we last obtained a new WAL segment from archive or since
we were last "caught up" to WAL data arriving via streaming replication.
This avoids problems with clock skew between primary and standby, as well
as other corner cases that the original coding would misbehave in, such
as the primary server having significant idle time between transactions.
Per my complaint some time ago and considerable ensuing discussion.

Do some desultory editing on the hot standby documentation, too.
2010-07-03 20:43:58 +00:00
Simon Riggs
3bdd23932b Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.
stat(2) field st_size returns bytes not kilobytes.
Bug found during recent performance tuning for PostgreSQL user.
2010-06-25 13:11:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
78e8f0025e Clean up some randomness associated with trace_recovery_messages: don't
put the variable declaration in the middle of a bunch of externs,
and do use extern where it should be used.
2010-06-17 17:44:40 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
41f302b52a Add new GUC categories corresponding to sections in docs, and move
description for vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to the correct category.
Sections in postgresql.conf are also sorted in the same order with docs.

Per gripe by Fujii Masao, suggestion by Heikki Linnakangas, and patch by me.
2010-06-15 07:52:11 +00:00
Robert Haas
26b7abfa32 Fix ALTER LARGE OBJECT and GRANT ... ON LARGE OBJECT for large OIDs.
The previous coding failed for OIDs too large to be represented by
a signed integer.
2010-06-13 17:43:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
b12b7a9038 Change the notation for calling functions with named parameters from
"val AS name" to "name := val", as per recent discussion.

This patch catches everything in the original named-parameters patch,
but I'm not certain that no other dependencies snuck in later (grepping
the source tree for all uses of AS soon proved unworkable).

In passing I note that we've dropped the ball at least once on keeping
ecpg's lexer (as opposed to parser) in sync with the backend.  It would
be a good idea to go through all of pgc.l and see if it's in sync now.
I didn't attempt that at the moment.
2010-05-30 18:10:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
ece869b11e Fix oversight in the previous patch that made LIKE throw error for \ at the
end of the pattern: the code path that handles \ just after % should throw
error too.  As in the previous patch, not back-patching for fear of breaking
apps that worked before.
2010-05-28 18:18:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
dbde97cdde Rewrite LIKE's %-followed-by-_ optimization so it really works (this time
for sure ;-)).  It now also optimizes more cases, such as %_%_.  Improve
comments too.  Per bug #5478.

In passing, also rename the TCHAR macro to GETCHAR, because pgindent is
messing with the formatting of the former (apparently it now thinks TCHAR
is a typedef name).

Back-patch to 8.3, where the bug was introduced.
2010-05-28 17:35:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
ede5072676 Change ps_status.c to explicitly track the current logical length of ps_buffer.
This saves cycles in get_ps_display() on many popular platforms, and more
importantly ensures that get_ps_display() will correctly return an empty
string if init_ps_display() hasn't been called yet.  Per trouble report
from Ray Stell, in which log_line_prefix %i produced junk early in backend
startup.

Back-patch to 8.0.  7.4 doesn't have %i and its version of get_ps_display()
makes no pretense of avoiding pad junk anyhow.
2010-05-27 19:19:38 +00:00
Tom Lane
ed437e2b27 Adjust comments about avoiding use of printf's %.*s.
My initial impression that glibc was measuring the precision in characters
(which is what the Linux man page says it does) was incorrect.  It does take
the precision to be in bytes, but it also tries to truncate the string at a
character boundary.  The bottom line remains the same: it will mess up
if the string is not in the encoding it expects, so we need to avoid %.*s
anytime there's a significant risk of that.  Previous code changes are still
good, but adjust the comments to reflect this knowledge.  Per research by
Hernan Gonzalez.
2010-05-09 02:16:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
54cd4f0457 Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format.
Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters.  Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do.  Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.

This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez.  In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
2010-05-08 16:39:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
f9ed327f76 Clean up some awkward, inaccurate, and inefficient processing around
MaxStandbyDelay.  Use the GUC units mechanism for the value, and choose more
appropriate timestamp functions for performing tests with it.  Make the
ps_activity manipulation in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs have
behavior similar to ps_activity code elsewhere, notably not updating the
display when update_process_title is off and not truncating the display
contents at an arbitrarily-chosen length.  Improve the docs to be explicit
about what MaxStandbyDelay actually measures, viz the difference between
primary and standby servers' clocks, and the possible hazards if their clocks
aren't in sync.
2010-05-02 02:10:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
f0488bd57c Rename the parameter recovery_connections to hot_standby, to reduce possible
confusion with streaming-replication settings.  Also, change its default
value to "off", because of concern about executing new and poorly-tested
code during ordinary non-replicating operation.  Per discussion.

In passing do some minor editing of related documentation.
2010-04-29 21:36:19 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
9b8a73326e Introduce wal_level GUC to explicitly control if information needed for
archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from
other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in
the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby
to enable/disable hot standby.

Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index
without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of
the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a
hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections,
max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings
change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and
update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in
the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint
records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the
standby until the first checkpoint after the change.

Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to
the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches
changed it to 0x9003.
2010-04-28 16:10:43 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7eb6e6b48a Add comments about why we set LC_CTYPE in WIN32 for time when we don't
actually access it, per information from Hiroshi.
2010-04-26 14:17:52 +00:00
Robert Haas
ab93cd9b05 When we're restricting who can connect, don't allow new walsenders.
Normal superuser processes are allowed to connect even when the database
system is shutting down, or when fewer than superuser_reserved_connection
slots remain.  This is intended to make sure an administrator can log in
and troubleshoot, so don't extend these same courtesies to users connecting
for replication.
2010-04-26 10:52:00 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
22da73198f Add C comments for recent to_char('L') fix for Win32. 2010-04-24 22:54:56 +00:00
Simon Riggs
90e04bab39 Patch revoked because of objections. 2010-04-24 16:20:32 +00:00
Simon Riggs
473af39737 Add missing optimizer hooks for function cost and number of rows.
Closely follow design of other optimizer hooks: if hook exists
retrieve value from plugin; if still not set then get from cache.
2010-04-23 22:23:39 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
89a9db2940 Fix message punctuation 2010-04-22 19:40:03 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
95a777c612 Fix encoding issue when lc_monetary or lc_numeric are different encoding
from lc_ctype, that could happen on Windows. We need to change lc_ctype
together with lc_monetary or lc_numeric, and convert strings in lconv
from lc_ctype encoding to the database encoding.

The bug reported by Mikko, original patch by Hiroshi Inoue,
with changes by Bruce and me.
2010-04-22 01:55:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
a6dcd19a2a Enforce superuser permissions checks during ALTER ROLE/DATABASE SET, rather
than during define_custom_variable().  This entails rejecting an ALTER
command if the target variable doesn't have a known (non-placeholder)
definition, unless the calling user is superuser.  When the variable *is*
known, we can correctly apply the rule that only superusers can issue ALTER
for SUSET parameters.  This allows define_custom_variable to apply ALTER's
values for SUSET parameters at module load time, secure in the knowledge
that only a superuser could have set the ALTER value.  This change fixes a
longstanding gotcha in the usage of SUSET-level custom parameters; which
is a good thing to fix now that plpgsql defines such a parameter.
2010-04-21 20:54:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
a3c6d10575 Move the check for whether walreceiver has authenticated as a superuser
from walsender.c, where it didn't really belong, to postinit.c where it does
belong (and is essentially free, too).
2010-04-21 00:51:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
ea46000a40 Arrange for client authentication to occur before we select a specific
database to connect to. This is necessary for the walsender code to work
properly (it was previously using an untenable assumption that template1 would
always be available to connect to).  This also gets rid of a small security
shortcoming that was introduced in the original patch to eliminate the flat
authentication files: before, you could find out whether or not the requested
database existed even if you couldn't pass the authentication checks.

The changes needed to support this are mainly just to treat pg_authid and
pg_auth_members as nailed relations, so that we can read them without having
to be able to locate real pg_class entries for them.  This mechanism was
already debugged for pg_database, but we hadn't recognized the value of
applying it to those catalogs too.

Since the current code doesn't have support for accessing toast tables before
we've brought up all of the relcache, remove pg_authid's toast table to ensure
that no one can store an out-of-line toasted value of rolpassword.  The case
seems quite unlikely to occur in practice, and was effectively unsupported
anyway in the old "flatfiles" implementation.

Update genbki.pl to actually implement the same rules as bootstrap.c does for
not-nullability of catalog columns.  The previous coding was a bit cheesy but
worked all right for the previous set of bootstrap catalogs.  It does not work
for pg_authid, where rolvaliduntil needs to be nullable.

Initdb forced due to minor catalog changes (mainly the toast table removal).
2010-04-20 23:48:47 +00:00
Robert Haas
481cb5d9b5 Rename standby_keep_segments to wal_keep_segments.
Also, make the name of the GUC and the name of the backing variable match.
Alnong the way, clean up a couple of slight typographical errors in the
related docs.
2010-04-20 11:15:06 +00:00
Tom Lane
c670410e7f Move the responsibility for calling StartupXLOG into InitPostgres, for
those process types that go through InitPostgres; in particular, bootstrap
and standalone-backend cases.  This ensures that we have set up a PGPROC
and done some other basic initialization steps (corresponding to the
if (IsUnderPostmaster) block in AuxiliaryProcessMain) before we attempt to
run WAL recovery in a standalone backend.  As was discovered last September,
this is necessary for some corner-case code paths during WAL recovery,
particularly end-of-WAL cleanup.

Moving the bootstrap case here too is not necessary for correctness, but it
seems like a good idea since it reduces the number of distinct code paths.
2010-04-20 01:38:52 +00:00
Robert Haas
5b89ef384c Add an 'enable_material' GUC.
The logic for determining whether to materialize has been significantly
overhauled for 9.0.  In case there should be any doubt about whether
materialization is a win in any particular case, this should provide a
convenient way of seeing what happens without it; but even with enable_material
turned off, we still materialize in cases where it is required for
correctness.

Thanks to Tom Lane for the review.
2010-04-19 00:55:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
73981cb451 Fix a problem introduced by my patch of 2010-01-12 that revised the way
relcache reload works.  In the patched code, a relcache entry in process of
being rebuilt doesn't get unhooked from the relcache hash table; which means
that if a cache flush occurs due to sinval queue overrun while we're
rebuilding it, the entry could get blown away by RelationCacheInvalidate,
resulting in crash or misbehavior.  Fix by ensuring that an entry being
rebuilt has positive refcount, so it won't be seen as a target for removal
if a cache flush occurs.  (This will mean that the entry gets rebuilt twice
in such a scenario, but that's okay.)  It appears that the problem can only
arise within a transaction that has previously reassigned the relfilenode of
a pre-existing table, via TRUNCATE or a similar operation.  Per bug #5412
from Rusty Conover.

Back-patch to 8.2, same as the patch that introduced the problem.
I think that the failure can't actually occur in 8.2, since it lacks the
rd_newRelfilenodeSubid optimization, but let's make it work like the later
branches anyway.

Patch by Heikki, slightly editorialized on by me.
2010-04-14 21:31:11 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
e57cd7f0a1 Change the logic to decide when to delete old WAL segments, so that it
doesn't take into account how far the WAL senders are. This way a hung
WAL sender doesn't prevent old WAL segments from being recycled/removed
in the primary, ultimately causing the disk to fill up. Instead add
standby_keep_segments setting to control how many old WAL segments are
kept in the primary. This also makes it more reliable to use streaming
replication without WAL archiving, assuming that you set
standby_keep_segments high enough.
2010-04-12 09:52:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
2c0870ff7a Fix to_char YYY, YY, Y format codes so that FM zero-suppression really works,
rather than only sort-of working as the previous attempt had left it.
Clean up some unnecessary differences between the way these were coded and
the way the YYYY case was coded.  Update the regression test cases that
proved that it wasn't working.
2010-04-07 21:41:53 +00:00
Robert Haas
54943734f8 Refer to max_wal_senders in a more consistent fashion.
The error message now makes explicit reference to the GUC that must be changed
to fix the problem, using wording suggested by Tom Lane.  Along the way,
rename the GUC from MaxWalSenders to max_wal_senders for consistency and
grep-ability.
2010-04-01 00:43:29 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a358423d8f Add comma missing from postgresql.conf comment. 2010-03-30 00:11:45 +00:00
Simon Riggs
65cd829232 Modify some new and pre-existing messages for translatability. 2010-03-25 20:40:17 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
be8cebc717 Prevent ALTER USER f RESET ALL from removing the settings that were put there
by a superuser -- "ALTER USER f RESET setting" already disallows removing such a
setting.

Apply the same treatment to ALTER DATABASE d RESET ALL when run by a database
owner that's not superuser.
2010-03-25 14:44:34 +00:00
Simon Riggs
e6867eebd4 Change replication connection log format to allow for a database
called replication. Add host and port details, following format
of messages in BackendInitialize().
2010-03-24 21:25:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
96189dbe66 Document in postgresql.conf that the max_standby_delay default is 30
'seconds'.
2010-03-24 03:13:45 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
c248d17120 Message tuning 2010-03-21 00:17:59 +00:00
Simon Riggs
6a771d1d36 Add connection messages for streaming replication. log_connections
was broken for a replication connection and no messages were
displayed on either standby or primary, at any debug level.
Connection messages needed to diagnose session drop/reconnect
events. Use LOG mode for now, discuss lowering in later releases.
2010-03-19 19:19:38 +00:00
Simon Riggs
6407fa996a Add vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to postgresql.conf.sample. 2010-03-18 07:01:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ea066f87c3 Document that "Q" is ignored by to_date and to_timestamp. Add C comment
about the behavior.

Document that quotes in to_date, to_timestamp, to_number skip input
characters.
2010-03-03 22:28:42 +00:00
Tom Lane
8bf14182cf Export xml.c's libxml-error-handling support so that contrib/xml2 can use it
too, instead of duplicating the functionality (badly).

I renamed xml_init to pg_xml_init, because the former seemed just a bit too
generic to be safe as a global symbol.  I considered likewise renaming
xml_ereport to pg_xml_ereport, but felt that the reference to ereport probably
made it sufficiently PG-centric already.
2010-03-03 17:29:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
4d17a2146c Insert a hack into get_float8_nan (both core and ecpg copies) to deal with
the fact that NetBSD/mips is currently broken, as per buildfarm member pika.

Also add regression tests to ensure that get_float8_nan and get_float4_nan
are exercised even on platforms where they are not needed by
float8in/float4in.

Zoltán Böszörményi and Tom Lane
2010-02-27 21:53:21 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
bf379837dc Back out unintended change to pg_locale.c. 2010-02-27 20:20:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9295eea839 Document ATAPI FLUSH CACHE EXT. 2010-02-27 20:16:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
5667a53b78 Undo some more pgindent breakage. Per buildfarm. 2010-02-27 03:55:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
65e806cba1 pgindent run for 9.0 2010-02-26 02:01:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
89ce2bfc13 Add C comment that do_to_timestamp() lacks error checking. 2010-02-25 18:36:14 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
413d34be4e Add configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to control
how often we do SSL session key renegotiation. Can be set to
0 to disable renegotiation completely, which is required if
a broken SSL library is used (broken patches to CVE-2009-3555
a known cause) or when using a client library that can't do
renegotiation.
2010-02-25 13:26:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a54803149a Revert recent change of to_char('HH12') handling for intervals; instead
improve documentation, and add C comment.
2010-02-23 16:14:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
4f56dc3fb4 Secondary patch to fix interval to_char() for "HH" where hours >= 12. 2010-02-23 06:29:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
7cdadc62ea Supress convertion of zero hours to '12' for intervals when using
to_char with HH, e.g.

	to_char(interval '0d 0h 12m 44s', 'DD HH24 MI SS');

now returns:

	 00 00 12 44

not:

	 00 12 12 44
2010-02-23 01:42:19 +00:00
Tom Lane
05d8a561ff Clean up handling of XactReadOnly and RecoveryInProgress checks.
Add some checks that seem logically necessary, in particular let's make
real sure that HS slave sessions cannot create temp tables.  (If they did
they would think that temp tables belonging to the master's session with
the same BackendId were theirs.  We *must* not allow myTempNamespace to
become set in a slave session.)

Change setval() and nextval() so that they are only allowed on temp sequences
in a read-only transaction.  This seems consistent with what we allow for
table modifications in read-only transactions.  Since an HS slave can't have a
temp sequence, this also provides a nicer cure for the setval PANIC reported
by Erik Rijkers.

Make the error messages more uniform, and have them mention the specific
command being complained of.  This seems worth the trifling amount of extra
code, since people are likely to see such messages a lot more than before.
2010-02-20 21:24:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
858d1699f2 Provide some rather hokey ways for EXPLAIN to print FieldStore and assignment
ArrayRef expressions that are not in the immediate context of an INSERT or
UPDATE targetlist.  Such cases never arise in stored rules, so ruleutils.c
hadn't tried to handle them.  However, they do occur in the targetlists of
plans derived from such statements, and now that EXPLAIN VERBOSE tries to
print targetlists, we need some way to deal with the case.

I chose to represent an assignment ArrayRef as "array[subscripts] := source",
which is fairly reasonable and doesn't omit any information.  However,
FieldStore is problematic because the planner will fold multiple assignments
to fields of the same composite column into one FieldStore, resulting in a
structure that is hard to understand at all, let alone display comprehensibly.
So in that case I punted and just made it print the source expression(s).

Backpatch to 8.4 --- the lack of functionality exists in older releases,
but doesn't seem to be important for lack of anything that would call it.
2010-02-18 22:43:31 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
1a1ad6320c date_recv should accept infinities.
Reported by James William Pye.
2010-02-18 04:31:16 +00:00
Tom Lane
7981c34279 Force READY portals into FAILED state when a transaction or subtransaction
is aborted, if they were created within the failed xact.  This prevents
ExecutorEnd from being run on them, which is a good idea because they may
contain references to tables or other objects that no longer exist.
In particular this is hazardous when auto_explain is active, but it's
really rather surprising that nobody has seen an issue with this before.
I'm back-patching this to 8.4, since that's the first version that contains
auto_explain or an ExecutorEnd hook, but I wonder whether we shouldn't
back-patch further.
2010-02-18 03:06:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
50a90fac40 Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5
(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
2010-02-17 04:19:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
9cbcfca44a log_error_verbosity is now LOGGING_WHAT category. 2010-02-17 01:39:35 +00:00
Tom Lane
d1e027221d Replace the pg_listener-based LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism with an in-memory queue.
In addition, add support for a "payload" string to be passed along with
each notify event.

This implementation should be significantly more efficient than the old one,
and is also more compatible with Hot Standby usage.  There is not yet any
facility for HS slaves to receive notifications generated on the master,
although such a thing is possible in future.

Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Jeff Davis; also hacked on by me.
2010-02-16 22:34:57 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
813135d8c9 Move log_error_verbosity GUC setting to "What to log" section, and
document the behavior of terse and verbose output options.
2010-02-16 21:35:51 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
70d8a2c29e Honor to_char() "FM" specification in YYY, YY, and Y; it was already
honored by YYYY.  Also document Oracle "toggle" FM behavior.

Per report from Guy Rouillier
2010-02-16 21:18:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
346a721eed Remove personal copyright now that file has been rewritten using
existing *.pl conversion script.

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
2010-02-16 20:35:07 +00:00
Robert Haas
e26c539e9f Wrap calls to SearchSysCache and related functions using macros.
The purpose of this change is to eliminate the need for every caller
of SearchSysCache, SearchSysCacheCopy, SearchSysCacheExists,
GetSysCacheOid, and SearchSysCacheList to know the maximum number
of allowable keys for a syscache entry (currently 4).  This will
make it far easier to increase the maximum number of keys in a
future release should we choose to do so, and it makes the code
shorter, too.

Design and review by Tom Lane.
2010-02-14 18:42:19 +00:00
Simon Riggs
dd428c79a4 Fix relcache init file invalidation during Hot Standby for the case
where a database has a non-default tablespaceid. Pass thru MyDatabaseId
and MyDatabaseTableSpace to allow file path to be re-created in
standby and correct invalidation to take place in all cases.
Update and rework xact_commit_desc() debug messages.
Bug report from Tom by code inspection. Fix by me.
2010-02-13 16:15:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
e08ab7c312 Support inlining various small performance-critical functions on non-GCC
compilers, by applying a configure check to see if the compiler will accept
an unreferenced "static inline foo ..." function without warnings.  It is
believed that such warnings are the only reason not to declare inlined
functions in headers, if the compiler understands "inline" at all.

Kurt Harriman
2010-02-13 02:34:16 +00:00
Simon Riggs
b95a720a48 Re-enable max_standby_delay = -1 using deadlock detection on startup
process. If startup waits on a buffer pin we send a request to all
backends to cancel themselves if they are holding the buffer pin
required and they are also waiting on a lock. If not, startup waits
until max_standby_delay before cancelling any backend waiting for
the requested buffer pin.
2010-02-13 01:32:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
ec4be2ee68 Extend the set of frame options supported for window functions.
This patch allows the frame to start from CURRENT ROW (in either RANGE or
ROWS mode), and it also adds support for ROWS n PRECEDING and ROWS n FOLLOWING
start and end points.  (RANGE value PRECEDING/FOLLOWING isn't there yet ---
the grammar works, but that's all.)

Hitoshi Harada, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2010-02-12 17:33:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
14d5a478c4 Suppress uninitialized-variable warning. 2010-02-11 22:17:27 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
5209c084a6 Generic implementation of red-black binary tree. It's planned to use in
several places, but for now only GIN uses it during index creation.
Using self-balanced tree greatly speeds up index creation in corner cases
with preordered data.
2010-02-11 14:29:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
cbe9d6beb4 Fix up rickety handling of relation-truncation interlocks.
Move rd_targblock, rd_fsm_nblocks, and rd_vm_nblocks from relcache to the smgr
relation entries, so that they will get reset to InvalidBlockNumber whenever
an smgr-level flush happens.  Because we now send smgr invalidation messages
immediately (not at end of transaction) when a relation truncation occurs,
this ensures that other backends will reset their values before they next
access the relation.  We no longer need the unreliable assumption that a
VACUUM that's doing a truncation will hold its AccessExclusive lock until
commit --- in fact, we can intentionally release that lock as soon as we've
completed the truncation.  This patch therefore reverts (most of) Alvaro's
patch of 2009-11-10, as well as my marginal hacking on it yesterday.  We can
also get rid of assorted no-longer-needed relcache flushes, which are far more
expensive than an smgr flush because they kill a lot more state.

In passing this patch fixes smgr_redo's failure to perform visibility-map
truncation, and cleans up some rather dubious assumptions in freespace.c and
visibilitymap.c about when rd_fsm_nblocks and rd_vm_nblocks can be out of
date.
2010-02-09 21:43:30 +00:00
Tom Lane
d5768dce10 Create an official API function for C functions to use to check if they are
being called as aggregates, and to get the aggregate transition state memory
context if needed.  Use it instead of poking directly into AggState and
WindowAggState in places that shouldn't know so much.

We should have done this in 8.4, probably, but better late than never.

Revised version of a patch by Hitoshi Harada.
2010-02-08 20:39:52 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
dfc902854a Add C comments that HEAP_MOVED_* define usage is only for pre-9.0 binary
upgrades.
2010-02-08 14:10:21 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a75803b1a Remove CatalogCacheFlushRelation, and the reloidattr infrastructure that was
needed by nothing else.

The restructuring I just finished doing on cache management exposed to me how
silly this routine was.  Its function was to go into the catcache and blow
away all entries related to a given relation when there was a relcache flush
on that relation.  However, there is no point in removing a catcache entry
if the catalog row it represents is still valid --- and if it isn't valid,
there must have been a catcache entry flush on it, because that's triggered
directly by heap_update or heap_delete on the catalog row.  So this routine
accomplished nothing except to blow away valid cache entries that we'd very
likely be wanting in the near future to help reconstruct the relcache entry.
Dumb.

On top of which, it required a subtle and easy-to-get-wrong attribute in
syscache definitions, ie, the column containing the OID of the related
relation if any.  Removing that is a very useful maintenance simplification.
2010-02-08 05:53:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
0a469c8769 Remove old-style VACUUM FULL (which was known for a little while as
VACUUM FULL INPLACE), along with a boatload of subsidiary code and complexity.
Per discussion, the use case for this method of vacuuming is no longer large
enough to justify maintaining it; not to mention that we don't wish to invest
the work that would be needed to make it play nicely with Hot Standby.

Aside from the code directly related to old-style VACUUM FULL, this commit
removes support for certain WAL record types that could only be generated
within VACUUM FULL, redirect-pointer removal in heap_page_prune, and
nontransactional generation of cache invalidation sinval messages (the last
being the sticking point for Hot Standby).

We still have to retain all code that copes with finding HEAP_MOVED_OFF and
HEAP_MOVED_IN flag bits on existing tuples.  This can't be removed as long
as we want to support in-place update from pre-9.0 databases.
2010-02-08 04:33:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
1c05b0b4ea Looks like we need #include <sys/stat.h> here on some
platforms.  Per buildfarm.
2010-02-07 22:00:53 +00:00
Tom Lane
b9b8831ad6 Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodes
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.
2010-02-07 20:48:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ef51fa505c Add C comment about process_settings() setting order. 2010-02-05 20:26:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
9727c583fe Restructure CLUSTER/newstyle VACUUM FULL/ALTER TABLE support so that swapping
of old and new toast tables can be done either at the logical level (by
swapping the heaps' reltoastrelid links) or at the physical level (by swapping
the relfilenodes of the toast tables and their indexes).  This is necessary
infrastructure for upcoming changes to support CLUSTER/VAC FULL on shared
system catalogs, where we cannot change reltoastrelid.  The physical swap
saves a few catalog updates too.

We unfortunately have to keep the logical-level swap logic because in some
cases we will be adding or deleting a toast table, so there's no possibility
of a physical swap.  However, that only happens as a consequence of schema
changes in the table, which we do not need to support for system catalogs,
so such cases aren't an obstacle for that.

In passing, refactor the cluster support functions a little bit to eliminate
unnecessarily-duplicated code; and fix the problem that while CLUSTER had
been taught to rename the final toast table at need, ALTER TABLE had not.
2010-02-04 00:09:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
70a2b05a59 Assorted cleanups in preparation for using a map file to support altering
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.
2010-02-03 01:14:17 +00:00
Simon Riggs
296578feb4 Revoke augmentation of WAL records for btree delete, per discussion. 2010-02-01 13:40:28 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
9ea9918e37 Add string_agg aggregate functions. The one argument version concatenates
the input values into a string. The two argument version also does the same
thing, but inserts delimiters between elements.

Original patch by Pavel Stehule, reviewed by David E. Wheeler and me.
2010-02-01 03:14:45 +00:00
Simon Riggs
6d2bc0a6cf Augment WAL records for btree delete with GetOldestXmin() to reduce
false positives during Hot Standby conflict processing. Simple
patch to enhance conflict processing, following previous discussions.
Controlled by parameter minimize_standby_conflicts = on | off, with
default off allows measurement of performance impact to see whether
it should be set on all the time.
2010-01-29 18:39:05 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
083e1b0f27 Add functions to reset the statistics counter for a single table/index or
a single function.
2010-01-28 14:25:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
d879697cd2 Remove the default_do_language parameter, instead making DO use a hardwired
default of "plpgsql".  This is more reasonable than it was when the DO patch
was written, because we have since decided that plpgsql should be installed
by default.  Per discussion, having a parameter for this doesn't seem useful
enough to justify the risk of application breakage if the value is changed
unexpectedly.
2010-01-26 16:33:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
9507c8a1db Add get_bit/set_bit functions for bit strings, paralleling those for bytea,
and implement OVERLAY() for bit strings and bytea.

In passing also convert text OVERLAY() to a true built-in, instead of
relying on a SQL function.

Leonardo F, reviewed by Kevin Grittner
2010-01-25 20:55:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
875353b99f Fix assorted core dumps and Assert failures that could occur during
AbortTransaction or AbortSubTransaction, when trying to clean up after an
error that prevented (sub)transaction start from completing:
* access to TopTransactionResourceOwner that might not exist
* assert failure in AtEOXact_GUC, if AtStart_GUC not called yet
* assert failure or core dump in AfterTriggerEndSubXact, if
  AfterTriggerBeginSubXact not called yet

Per testing by injecting elog(ERROR) at successive steps in StartTransaction
and StartSubTransaction.  It's not clear whether all of these cases could
really occur in the field, but at least one of them is easily exposed by
simple stress testing, as per my accidental discovery yesterday.
2010-01-24 21:49:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
841df96f83 Insert CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls into loops in dbsize.c, to ensure that
the various disk-size-reporting functions will respond to query cancel
reasonably promptly even in very large databases.  Per report from
Kevin Grittner.
2010-01-23 21:29:00 +00:00
Simon Riggs
959ac58c04 In HS, Startup process sets SIGALRM when waiting for buffer pin. If
woken by alarm we send SIGUSR1 to all backends requesting that they
check to see if they are blocking Startup process. If so, they throw
ERROR/FATAL as for other conflict resolutions. Deadlock stop gap
removed. max_standby_delay = -1 option removed to prevent deadlock.
2010-01-23 16:37:12 +00:00
Robert Haas
d779199175 Fix several oversights in previous commit - attribute options patch.
I failed to 'cvs add' the new files and also neglected to bump catversion.
2010-01-22 16:42:31 +00:00
Robert Haas
76a47c0e74 Replace ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT with a more general mechanism.
Attributes can now have options, just as relations and tablespaces do, and
the reloptions code is used to parse, validate, and store them.  For
simplicity and because these options are not performance critical, we store
them in a separate cache rather than the main relcache.

Thanks to Alex Hunsaker for the review.
2010-01-22 16:40:19 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
3b992cf590 Adjust psql to use pg_get_triggerdef(pretty=true) to remove extra ()'s
from description of triggers with WHEN clause.

Thanks to Brad T. Sliger for the review.
2010-01-21 06:11:46 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
7e40cdc075 Add pg_stat_reset_shared('bgwriter') to reset the cluster-wide shared
statistics of the bgwriter.

Greg Smith
2010-01-19 14:11:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
4f15699d70 Add pg_table_size() and pg_indexes_size() to provide more user-friendly
wrappers around the pg_relation_size() function.

Bernd Helmle, reviewed by Greg Smith
2010-01-19 05:50:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
376c6203cc Fix portalmem.c to avoid keeping a dangling pointer to a cached plan list
after it's released its reference count for the cached plan.  There are
code paths that might try to examine the plan list before noticing that
the portal is already in aborted state.  Report and diagnosis by Tatsuo
Ishii, though this isn't exactly his proposed patch.
2010-01-18 02:30:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
9a915e596f Improve the handling of SET CONSTRAINTS commands by having them search
pg_constraint before searching pg_trigger.  This allows saner handling of
corner cases; in particular we now say "constraint is not deferrable"
rather than "constraint does not exist" when the command is applied to
a constraint that's inherently non-deferrable.  Per a gripe several months
ago from hubert depesz lubaczewski.

To make this work without breaking user-defined constraint triggers,
we have to add entries for them to pg_constraint.  However, in return
we can remove the pgconstrname column from pg_constraint, which represents
a fairly sizable space savings.  I also replaced the tgisconstraint column
with tgisinternal; the old meaning of tgisconstraint can now be had by
testing for nonzero tgconstraint, while there is no other way to get
the old meaning of nonzero tgconstraint, namely that the trigger was
internally generated rather than being user-created.

In passing, fix an old misstatement in the docs and comments, namely that
pg_trigger.tgdeferrable is exactly redundant with pg_constraint.condeferrable.
Actually, we mark RI action triggers as nondeferrable even when they belong to
a nominally deferrable FK constraint.  The SET CONSTRAINTS code now relies on
that instead of hard-coding a list of exception OIDs.
2010-01-17 22:56:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
08f8d478eb Do parse analysis of an EXPLAIN's contained statement during the normal
parse analysis phase, rather than at execution time.  This makes parameter
handling work the same as it does in ordinary plannable queries, and in
particular fixes the incompatibility that Pavel pointed out with plpgsql's
new handling of variable references.  plancache.c gets a little bit
grottier, but the alternatives seem worse.
2010-01-15 22:36:35 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
40f908bdcd Introduce Streaming Replication.
This includes two new kinds of postmaster processes, walsenders and
walreceiver. Walreceiver is responsible for connecting to the primary server
and streaming WAL to disk, while walsender runs in the primary server and
streams WAL from disk to the client.

Documentation still needs work, but the basics are there. We will probably
pull the replication section to a new chapter later on, as well as the
sections describing file-based replication. But let's do that as a separate
patch, so that it's easier to see what has been added/changed. This patch
also adds a new section to the chapter about FE/BE protocol, documenting the
protocol used by walsender/walreceivxer.

Bump catalog version because of two new functions,
pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and pg_last_xlog_replay_location(), for
monitoring the progress of replication.

Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me
2010-01-15 09:19:10 +00:00
Teodor Sigaev
4cbe473938 Add point_ops opclass for GiST. 2010-01-14 16:31:09 +00:00
Tom Lane
715120e7ac When loading critical system indexes into the relcache, ensure we lock the
underlying catalog not only the index itself.  Otherwise, if the cache
load process touches the catalog (which will happen for many though not
all of these indexes), we are locking index before parent table, which can
result in a deadlock against processes that are trying to lock them in the
normal order.  Per today's failure on buildfarm member gothic_moth; it's
surprising the problem hadn't been identified before.

Back-patch to 8.2.  Earlier releases didn't have the issue because they
didn't try to lock these indexes during load (instead assuming that they
couldn't change schema at all during multiuser operation).
2010-01-13 23:07:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
dbba3a1465 Fix bug #5269: ResetPlanCache mustn't invalidate cached utility statements,
especially not ROLLBACK.  ROLLBACK might need to be executed in an already
aborted transaction, when there is no safe way to revalidate the plan.  But
in general there's no point in marking utility statements invalid, since
they have no plans in the normal sense of the word; so we might as well
work a bit harder here to avoid future revalidation cycles.

Back-patch to 8.4, where the bug was introduced.
2010-01-13 16:56:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
491dd4a97d Fix relcache reload mechanism to be more robust in the face of errors
occurring during a reload, such as query-cancel.  Instead of zeroing out
an existing relcache entry and rebuilding it in place, build a new relcache
entry, then swap its contents with the old one, then free the new entry.
This avoids problems with code believing that a previously obtained pointer
to a cache entry must still reference a valid entry, as seen in recent
failures on buildfarm member jaguar.  (jaguar is using CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS
which raises the probability of failure substantially, but the problem
could occur in the field without that.)  The previous design was okay
when it was made, but subtransactions and the ResourceOwner mechanism
make it unsafe now.

Also, make more use of the already existing rd_isvalid flag, so that we
remember that the entry requires rebuilding even if the first attempt fails.

Back-patch as far as 8.2.  Prior versions have enough issues around relcache
reload anyway (due to inadequate locking) that fixing this one doesn't seem
worthwhile.
2010-01-12 18:12:18 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
228170410d Please tablespace directories in their own subdirectory so pg_migrator
can upgrade clusters without renaming the tablespace directories.  New
directory structure format is, e.g.:

	$PGDATA/pg_tblspc/20981/PG_8.5_201001061/719849/83292814
2010-01-12 02:42:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
894fc6b763 Fix aclexplode to not explode on a zero-entry ACL array.
(An Assert is no substitute for thinking clearly :-()

Minor style kibitzing too.

Per report from Robert Treat.
2010-01-12 02:39:22 +00:00
Simon Riggs
42edbd16fb During Hot Standby, set DatabasePath correctly during relcache init file
deletion, so that we attempt to unlink the correct filepath. unlink()
errors are ignorable there, so lack of a DatabasePath initialization step
did not cause visible problems until a related bug showed up on Solaris.

Code refactored from xact_redo_commit() to
ProcessCommittedInvalidationMessages() in inval.c. Recovery may replay
shared invalidation messages for many databases, so we cannot
SetDatabasePath() once as we do in normal backends. Read the databaseid
from the shared invalidation messages, then set DatabasePath
temporarily before calling RelationCacheInitFileInvalidate().

Problem report by Robert Treat, analysis and fix by me.
2010-01-09 16:49:27 +00:00
Robert Haas
b1ee6daf2f Document why we copy reloptions into CacheMemoryContext after-the-fact. 2010-01-07 20:39:45 +00:00
Tom Lane
50626efe0a Fix 3-parameter form of bit substring() to throw error for negative length,
as required by SQL standard.
2010-01-07 20:17:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
e4a6ebf7de Make bit/varbit substring() treat any negative length as meaning "all the rest
of the string".  The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would
produce an invalid result value for other negative values.

We ought to fix it so that 2-parameter bit substring() is a different C
function and the 3-parameter form throws error for negative length, but
that takes a pg_proc change which is impractical in the back branches;
and in any case somebody might be relying on -1 working this way.
So just do this as a back-patchable fix.
2010-01-07 19:53:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
901be0fad4 Remove all the special-case code for INT64_IS_BUSTED, per decision that
we're not going to support that anymore.

I did keep the 64-bit-CRC-with-32-bit-arithmetic code, since it has a
performance excuse to live.  It's a bit moot since that's all ifdef'd
out, of course.
2010-01-07 04:53:35 +00:00
Robert Haas
814c8a03ba Further fixes for per-tablespace options patch.
Add missing varlena header to TableSpaceOpts structure.  And, per
Tom Lane, instead of calling tablespace_reloptions in CacheMemoryContext,
call it in the caller's memory context and copy the value over
afterwards, to reduce the chances of a session-lifetime memory leak.
2010-01-07 03:53:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
9261b19fb5 Fix spccache.c to not suppose that a cache entry will live across database
access, per testing with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.  Minor other editorialization.
2010-01-06 23:00:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
64b9c850e9 Access hash entry before freeing it, not after. 2010-01-06 22:27:09 +00:00
Robert Haas
d86d51a958 Support ALTER TABLESPACE name SET/RESET ( tablespace_options ).
This patch only supports seq_page_cost and random_page_cost as parameters,
but it provides the infrastructure to scalably support many more.
In particular, we may want to add support for effective_io_concurrency,
but I'm leaving that as future work for now.

Thanks to Tom Lane for design help and Alvaro Herrera for the review.
2010-01-05 21:54:00 +00:00
Tom Lane
72559b49c0 Fix genbki.pl and Gen_fmgrtab.pl to use PID-specific temp file names,
so that it's safe if a parallel make chooses to run two concurrent copies.
Also, work around a memory leak in some versions of Perl.
2010-01-05 20:23:32 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
c3a1eae252 Verify input in pg_read_file(). 2010-01-05 01:29:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
64737e9313 Get rid of the need for manual maintenance of the initial contents of
pg_attribute, by having genbki.pl derive the information from the various
catalog header files.  This greatly simplifies modification of the
"bootstrapped" catalogs.

This patch finally kills genbki.sh and Gen_fmgrtab.sh; we now rely entirely on
Perl scripts for those build steps.  To avoid creating a Perl build dependency
where there was not one before, the output files generated by these scripts
are now treated as distprep targets, ie, they will be built and shipped in
tarballs.  But you will need a reasonably modern Perl (probably at least
5.6) if you want to build from a CVS pull.

The changes to the MSVC build process are untested, and may well break ---
we'll soon find out from the buildfarm.

John Naylor, based on ideas from Robert Haas and others
2010-01-05 01:06:57 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan
fc09fb7bcf Remove sometimes inaccurate error hint about source of wrongly encoded data. 2010-01-04 20:38:31 +00:00
Tom Lane
40608e7f94 When estimating the selectivity of an inequality "column > constant" or
"column < constant", and the comparison value is in the first or last
histogram bin or outside the histogram entirely, try to fetch the actual
column min or max value using an index scan (if there is an index on the
column).  If successful, replace the lower or upper histogram bound with
that value before carrying on with the estimate.  This limits the
estimation error caused by moving min/max values when the comparison
value is close to the min or max.  Per a complaint from Josh Berkus.

It is tempting to consider using this mechanism for mergejoinscansel as well,
but that would inject index fetches into main-line join estimation not just
endpoint cases.  I'm refraining from that until we can get a better handle
on the costs of doing this type of lookup.
2010-01-04 02:44:40 +00:00
Tom Lane
e15d53e7a4 Fix similar_escape() to convert parentheses to non-capturing style.
This is needed to avoid unwanted interference with SUBSTRING behavior,
as per bug #5257 from Roman Kononov.  Also, add some basic intelligence
about character classes (bracket expressions) since we now have several
behaviors that aren't appropriate inside a character class.

As with the previous patch in this area, I'm reluctant to back-patch
since it might affect applications that are relying on the prior
behavior.
2010-01-02 20:59:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
0239800893 Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
29c4ad9829 Support "x IS NOT NULL" clauses as indexscan conditions. This turns out
to be just a minor extension of the previous patch that made "x IS NULL"
indexable, because we can treat the IS NOT NULL condition as if it were
"x < NULL" or "x > NULL" (depending on the index's NULLS FIRST/LAST option),
just like IS NULL is treated like "x = NULL".  Aside from any possible
usefulness in its own right, this is an important improvement for
index-optimized MAX/MIN aggregates: it is now reliably possible to get
a column's min or max value cheaply, even when there are a lot of nulls
cluttering the interesting end of the index.
2010-01-01 21:53:49 +00:00
Magnus Hagander
15faca2596 Silence compiler warning on 64-bit windows build 2010-01-01 19:57:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
85d02a6586 Redefine Datum as uintptr_t, instead of unsigned long.
This is more in keeping with modern practice, and is a first step towards
porting to Win64 (which has sizeof(pointer) > sizeof(long)).

Tsutomu Yamada, Magnus Hagander, Tom Lane
2009-12-31 19:41:37 +00:00
Robert Haas
3d4b0ab29c Reject invalid input in int2vectorin.
Since the int2vector type is intended only for internal use, this patch doesn't
worry about prettifying the error messages, which has the fringe benefit of
avoiding creating additional translatable strings.  For a type intended to be
used by end-users, we would want to do better, but the approach taken here
seems like the correct trade-off for this case.

Caleb Welton
2009-12-30 01:29:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
649b5ec7c8 Add the ability to store inheritance-tree statistics in pg_statistic,
and teach ANALYZE to compute such stats for tables that have subclasses.
Per my proposal of yesterday.

autovacuum still needs to be taught about running ANALYZE on parent tables
when their subclasses change, but the feature is useful even without that.
2009-12-29 20:11:45 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
84d723b6ce Previous fix for temporary file management broke returning a set from
PL/pgSQL function within an exception handler. Make sure we use the right
resource owner when we create the tuplestore to hold returned tuples.

Simplify tuplestore API so that the caller doesn't need to be in the right
memory context when calling tuplestore_put* functions. tuplestore.c
automatically switches to the memory context used when the tuplestore was
created. Tuplesort was already modified like this earlier. This patch also
removes the now useless MemoryContextSwitch calls from callers.

Report by Aleksei on pgsql-bugs on Dec 22 2009. Backpatch to 8.1, like
the previous patch that broke this.
2009-12-29 17:40:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
d4d1885e42 Remove a couple of unnecessary calls of CreateCacheMemoryContext. These
probably got there via blind copy-and-paste from one of the legitimate
callers, so rearrange and comment that code a bit to make it clearer that
this isn't a necessary prerequisite to hash_create.  Per observation
from Robert Haas.
2009-12-27 18:55:52 +00:00
Robert Haas
c7e4be59ae More cleanups for the recent large object permissions patch.
Rewrite or adjust various comments for clarity.  Remove one bogus comment that
doesn't reflect what the code actually does.  Improve the description of the
lo_compat_privileges option.
2009-12-21 01:34:11 +00:00
Simon Riggs
efc16ea520 Allow read only connections during recovery, known as Hot Standby.
Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record.

New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far.

This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required.

Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit.

Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
2009-12-19 01:32:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
78a09145e0 binary migration: pg_migrator
Add comments about places where system oids have to be preserved for
binary migration.
2009-12-19 00:47:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
34d26872ed Support ORDER BY within aggregate function calls, at long last providing a
non-kluge method for controlling the order in which values are fed to an
aggregate function.  At the same time eliminate the old implementation
restriction that DISTINCT was only supported for single-argument aggregates.

Possibly release-notable behavioral change: formerly, agg(DISTINCT x)
dropped null values of x unconditionally.  Now, it does so only if the
agg transition function is strict; otherwise nulls are treated as DISTINCT
normally would, ie, you get one copy.

Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada
2009-12-15 17:57:48 +00:00
Tom Lane
a4e035b2f1 Fix integer-to-bit-string conversions to handle the first fractional byte
correctly when the output bit width is wider than the given integer by
something other than a multiple of 8 bits.

This has been wrong since I first wrote that code for 8.0 :-(.  Kudos to
Roman Kononov for being the first to notice, though I didn't use his
patch.  Per bug #5237.
2009-12-12 19:24:35 +00:00
Itagaki Takahiro
f1325ce213 Add large object access control.
A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages
ownership and access privileges of large objects.

KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.
2009-12-11 03:34:57 +00:00
Tom Lane
62aba76568 Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state within
an allegedly immutable index function.  It was previously recognized that
we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION
AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session
user.  However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes
of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change
settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session.
Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to
be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one
that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing.

The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against
these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection
against the SET ROLE issue.  GUC changes are still allowed, since there are
many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a
rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation.  Other cases are
handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp
table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared
statement.  (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't
exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.)

Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by
Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2009-4136
2009-12-09 21:57:51 +00:00
Tom Lane
0cb65564e5 Add exclusion constraints, which generalize the concept of uniqueness to
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
2009-12-07 05:22:23 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
36f887c41c Speed up information schema privilege views
Instead of expensive cross joins to resolve the ACL, add table-returning
function aclexplode() that expands the ACL into a useful form, and join
against that.

Also, implement the role_*_grants views as a thin layer over the respective
*_privileges views instead of essentially repeating the same code twice.

fixes bug #4596

by Joachim Wieland, with cleanup by me
2009-12-05 21:43:36 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
ab3148b712 Fix bug in temporary file management with subtransactions. A cursor opened
in a subtransaction stays open even if the subtransaction is aborted, so
any temporary files related to it must stay alive as well. With the patch,
we use ResourceOwners to track open temporary files and don't automatically
close them at subtransaction end (though in the normal case temporary files
are registered with the subtransaction resource owner and will therefore be
closed).

At end of top transaction, we still check that there's no temporary files
marked as close-at-end-of-transaction open, but that's now just a debugging
cross-check as the resource owner cleanup should've closed them already.
2009-12-03 11:03:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
59ed94ad0c Mark application_name as GUC_REPORT so that the value will be reported back
to the client by the server.  This might seem pretty pointless but apparently
it will help pgbouncer, and perhaps other connection poolers.  Anyway it's
practically free to do so for the normal use-case where appname is only set
in the startup packet --- we're just adding a few more bytes to the initial
ParameterStatus response packet.  Per comments from Marko Kreen.
2009-12-02 04:54:10 +00:00
Tom Lane
0c61cff57a Make pg_stat_activity.application_name visible to all users, rather than
being hidden when current_query is.  Relocate it to a column position
more consistent with that behavior.  Per discussion.
2009-11-29 18:14:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
8217cfbd99 Add support for an application_name parameter, which is displayed in
pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries.

Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund
2009-11-28 23:38:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
7fc0f06221 Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to be
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired.

For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER
triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of
a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can
be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired.

Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2009-11-20 20:38:12 +00:00
Tom Lane
0894c6b838 The recent patch to log changes in postgresql.conf settings dumped core
if the initial value of a string variable was NULL, which is entirely
possible.  Noted while experimenting with custom_variable_classes.
2009-11-12 18:20:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
8f8a5df694 Make initdb behave sanely when the selected locale has codeset "US-ASCII".
Per discussion, this should result in defaulting to SQL_ASCII encoding.
The original coding could not support that because it conflated selection
of SQL_ASCII encoding with not being able to determine the encoding.
Adjust pg_get_encoding_from_locale()'s API to distinguish these cases,
and fix callers appropriately.  Only initdb actually changes behavior,
since the other callers were perfectly content to consider these cases
equivalent.

Per bug #5178 from Boh Yap.  Not going to bother back-patching, since
no one has complained before and there's an easy workaround (namely,
specify the encoding you want).
2009-11-12 02:46:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
089f4b921c interval_abs():
Add C comment about why there is no interval_abs():  it is unclear what
value to return:

    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-10/msg01031.php
    http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-11/msg00041.php
2009-11-10 18:41:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
593f4b854a Don't treat NEW and OLD as reserved words anymore. For the purposes of rules
it works just as well to have them be ordinary identifiers, and this gets rid
of a number of ugly special cases.  Plus we aren't interfering with non-rule
usage of these names.

catversion bump because the names change internally in stored rules.
2009-11-05 23:24:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
8e79277699 Allow binary-coercible cases in ri_HashCompareOp; there are some such cases
that are not handled by find_coercion_pathway, notably composite->RECORD.
Now that 8.4 supports composites as primary keys, it's worth dealing with
this case.
2009-11-05 04:38:29 +00:00
Tom Lane
6bef82b38a Rename some encoding conversion modules to keep pathnames in our source
tarballs under 100 characters.  This should avoid failures with certain
untarring tools (WinZip and Midnight Commander have been mentioned as
likely suspects).  Per my proposal of yesterday.
catversion bumped since the initial contents of pg_proc change.
2009-11-04 23:47:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
9bedd128d6 Add support for invoking parser callback hooks via SPI and in cached plans.
As proof of concept, modify plpgsql to use the hooks.  plpgsql is still
inserting $n symbols textually, but the "back end" of the parsing process now
goes through the ParamRef hook instead of using a fixed parameter-type array,
and then execution only fetches actually-referenced parameters, using a hook
added to ParamListInfo.

Although there's a lot left to be done in plpgsql, this already cures the
"if (TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.foo ...)"  problem, as illustrated by the
changed regression test.
2009-11-04 22:26:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
77c666fe42 Un-break EXPLAIN for Append plans. I messed this up a few days ago while
adding the ModifyTable node type --- I had been thinking ModifyTable should
replace Append as a special case in push_plan(), but actually both of them
have to be special-cased.
2009-10-28 18:51:56 +00:00
Tom Lane
cbcd1701f1 Fix AcquireRewriteLocks to be sure that it acquires the right lock strength
when FOR UPDATE is propagated down into a sub-select expanded from a view.
Similar bug to parser's isLockedRel issue that I fixed yesterday; likewise
seems not quite worth the effort to back-patch.
2009-10-28 17:36:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
46e3a16b05 When FOR UPDATE/SHARE is used with LIMIT, put the LockRows plan node
underneath the Limit node, not atop it.  This fixes the old problem that such
a query might unexpectedly return fewer rows than the LIMIT says, due to
LockRows discarding updated rows.

There is a related problem that LockRows might destroy the sort ordering
produced by earlier steps; but fixing that by pushing LockRows below Sort
would create serious performance problems that are unjustified in many
real-world applications, as well as potential deadlock problems from locking
many more rows than expected.  Instead, keep the present semantics of applying
FOR UPDATE after ORDER BY within a single query level; but allow the user to
specify the other way by writing FOR UPDATE in a sub-select.  To make that
work, track whether FOR UPDATE appeared explicitly in sub-selects or got
pushed down from the parent, and don't flatten a sub-select that contained an
explicit FOR UPDATE.
2009-10-28 14:55:47 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
2078e384a3 Fix range check in date_recv that tried to limit accepted values to only
those accepted by date_in(). I confused julian day numbers and number of
days since the postgres epoch 2000-01-01 in the original patch.

I just noticed that it's still easy to get such out-of-range values into
the database using to_date or +- operators, but this patch doesn't do
anything about those functions.

Per report from James Pye.
2009-10-26 16:13:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
9f2ee8f287 Re-implement EvalPlanQual processing to improve its performance and eliminate
a lot of strange behaviors that occurred in join cases.  We now identify the
"current" row for every joined relation in UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT FOR
UPDATE/SHARE queries.  If an EvalPlanQual recheck is necessary, we jam the
appropriate row into each scan node in the rechecking plan, forcing it to emit
only that one row.  The former behavior could rescan the whole of each joined
relation for each recheck, which was terrible for performance, and what's much
worse could result in duplicated output tuples.

Also, the original implementation of EvalPlanQual could not re-use the recheck
execution tree --- it had to go through a full executor init and shutdown for
every row to be tested.  To avoid this overhead, I've associated a special
runtime Param with each LockRows or ModifyTable plan node, and arranged to
make every scan node below such a node depend on that Param.  Thus, by
signaling a change in that Param, the EPQ machinery can just rescan the
already-built test plan.

This patch also adds a prohibition on set-returning functions in the
targetlist of SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE.  This is needed to avoid the
duplicate-output-tuple problem.  It seems fairly reasonable since the
other restrictions on SELECT FOR UPDATE are meant to ensure that there
is a unique correspondence between source tuples and result tuples,
which an output SRF destroys as much as anything else does.
2009-10-26 02:26:45 +00:00