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Heikki Linnakangas
608195a3a3 Introduce visibility map. The visibility map is a bitmap with one bit per
heap page, where a set bit indicates that all tuples on the page are
visible to all transactions, and the page therefore doesn't need
vacuuming. It is stored in a new relation fork.

Lazy vacuum uses the visibility map to skip pages that don't need
vacuuming. Vacuum is also responsible for setting the bits in the map.
In the future, this can hopefully be used to implement index-only-scans,
but we can't currently guarantee that the visibility map is always 100%
up-to-date.

In addition to the visibility map, there's a new PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag on
each heap page, also indicating that all tuples on the page are visible to
all transactions. It's important that this flag is kept up-to-date. It
is also used to skip visibility tests in sequential scans, which gives a
small performance gain on seqscans.
2008-12-03 13:05:22 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
9858a8c81c Rely on relcache invalidation to update the cached size of the FSM. 2008-11-26 17:08:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
c5451c22e3 Make relhasrules and relhastriggers work like relhasindex, namely we let
VACUUM reset them to false rather than trying to clean 'em up during DROP.
2008-11-10 00:49:37 +00:00
Tom Lane
e4718f2c9e Replace pg_class.reltriggers with relhastriggers, which is just a boolean hint
("there might be triggers") rather than an exact count.  This is necessary
catalog infrastructure for the upcoming patch to reduce the strength of
locking needed for trigger addition/removal.  Split out and committed
separately for ease of reviewing/testing.

In passing, also get rid of the unused pg_class columns relukeys, relfkeys,
and relrefs, which haven't been maintained in many years and now have no
chance of ever being maintained (because of wishing to avoid locking).

Simon Riggs
2008-11-09 21:24:33 +00:00
Heikki Linnakangas
15c121b3ed Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, the
free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each
relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM).

This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any
trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation.

Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also
introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in
contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and
a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
2008-09-30 10:52:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
eca1388629 Fix corner-case bug introduced with HOT: if REINDEX TABLE pg_class (or a
REINDEX DATABASE including same) is done before a session has done any other
update on pg_class, the pg_class relcache entry was left with an incorrect
setting of rd_indexattr, because the indexed-attributes set would be first
demanded at a time when we'd forced a partial list of indexes into the
pg_class entry, and it would remain cached after that.  This could result
in incorrect decisions about HOT-update safety later in the same session.
In practice, since only pg_class_relname_nsp_index would be missed out,
only ALTER TABLE RENAME and ALTER TABLE SET SCHEMA could trigger a problem.
Per report and test case from Ondrej Jirman.
2008-08-10 19:02:33 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
f8c4d7db60 Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing some
unnecessary #include lines in it.  Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and
macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c
files.

For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created,
initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage.

While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more
consistent with our header style.
2008-05-12 00:00:54 +00:00
Tom Lane
0f45d1eb08 Fix LOAD_CRIT_INDEX() macro to take out AccessShareLock on the system index
it is trying to build a relcache entry for.  This is an oversight in my 8.2
patch that tried to ensure we always took a lock on a relation before trying
to build its relcache entry.  The implication is that if someone committed a
reindex of a critical system index at about the same time that some other
backend were starting up without a valid pg_internal.init file, the second one
might PANIC due to not seeing any valid version of the index's pg_class row.
Improbable case, but definitely not impossible.
2008-04-16 18:23:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
6b73d7e567 Fix an oversight I made in a cleanup patch over a year ago:
eval_const_expressions needs to be passed the PlannerInfo ("root") structure,
because in some cases we want it to substitute values for Param nodes.
(So "constant" is not so constant as all that ...)  This mistake partially
disabled optimization of unnamed extended-Query statements in 8.3: in
particular the LIKE-to-indexscan optimization would never be applied if the
LIKE pattern was passed as a parameter, and constraint exclusion depending
on a parameter value didn't work either.
2008-04-01 00:48:33 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera
73b0300b2a Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid including
tqual.h into heapam.h.  This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit.

I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
2008-03-26 21:10:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
220db7ccd8 Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary C
strings.  This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text,
cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and
two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString.  A number of
existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed.

Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one
function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used
to be needed.  There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin,
and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via
memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though).

This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory
leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach
text_to_cstring.  We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few
places where it was easy, but much more could be done.

Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
2008-03-25 22:42:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
1743778d04 If RelationBuildDesc() fails to open a critical system index, PANIC with
a relevant error message instead of just dumping core.  Odd that nobody
reported this before Darren Reed.
2008-02-27 17:44:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9098ab9e32 Update copyrights in source tree to 2008. 2008-01-01 19:46:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
03ffc4d6d5 Improve test coverage of CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS by having it also force
reloading of operator class information on each use of LookupOpclassInfo.
Had this been in place a year ago, it would have helped me find a bug
in the then-new 'operator family' code.  Now that we have a build farm
member testing CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS on a regular basis, it seems worth
expending a little bit of effort here.
2007-11-28 20:44:26 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
fdf5a5efb7 pgindent run for 8.3. 2007-11-15 21:14:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
282d2a03dd HOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexed
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.
2007-09-20 17:56:33 +00:00
Tom Lane
82eed4dba2 Arrange to put TOAST tables belonging to temporary tables into special schemas
named pg_toast_temp_nnn, alongside the pg_temp_nnn schemas used for the temp
tables themselves.  This allows low-level code such as the relcache to
recognize that these tables are indeed temporary, which enables various
optimizations such as not WAL-logging changes and using local rather than
shared buffers for access.  Aside from obvious performance benefits, this
provides a solution to bug #3483, in which other backends unexpectedly held
open file references to temporary tables.  The scheme preserves the property
that TOAST tables are not in any schema that's normally in the search path,
so they don't conflict with user table names.

initdb forced because of changes in system view definitions.
2007-07-25 22:16:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
77947c51c0 Fix up pgstats counting of live and dead tuples to recognize that committed
and aborted transactions have different effects; also teach it not to assume
that prepared transactions are always committed.

Along the way, simplify the pgstats API by tying counting directly to
Relations; I cannot detect any redeeming social value in having stats
pointers in HeapScanDesc and IndexScanDesc structures.  And fix a few
corner cases in which counts might be missed because the relation's
pgstat_info pointer hadn't been set.
2007-05-27 03:50:39 +00:00
Tom Lane
8ec943856a Fix things so that when CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY sets pg_index.indisvalid
true at the very end of its processing, the update is broadcast via a
shared-cache-inval message for the index; without this, existing backends that
already have relcache entries for the index might never see it become valid.
Also, force a relcache inval on the index's parent table at the same time,
so that any cached plans for that table are re-planned; this ensures that
the newly valid index will be used if appropriate.  Aside from making
C.I.C. behave more reasonably, this is necessary infrastructure for some
aspects of the HOT patch.  Pavan Deolasee, with a little further stuff from
me.
2007-05-02 21:08:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
fba8113c1b Teach CLUSTER to skip writing WAL if not needed (ie, not using archiving)
--- Simon.
Also, code review and cleanup for the previous COPY-no-WAL patches --- Tom.
2007-03-29 00:15:39 +00:00
Jan Wieck
0fe16500d3 Changes pg_trigger and extend pg_rewrite in order to allow triggers and
rules to be defined with different, per session controllable, behaviors
for replication purposes.

This will allow replication systems like Slony-I and, as has been stated
on pgsql-hackers, other products to control the firing mechanism of
triggers and rewrite rules without modifying the system catalog directly.

The firing mechanisms are controlled by a new superuser-only GUC
variable, session_replication_role, together with a change to
pg_trigger.tgenabled and a new column pg_rewrite.ev_enabled. Both
columns are a single char data type now (tgenabled was a bool before).
The possible values in these attributes are:

     'O' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "origin"
           (default) or "local". This is the default behavior.

     'D' - Trigger/Rule is disabled and fires never

     'A' - Trigger/Rule fires always regardless of the setting of
           session_replication_role

     'R' - Trigger/Rule fires when session_replication_role is "replica"

The GUC variable can only be changed as long as the system does not have
any cached query plans. This will prevent changing the session role and
accidentally executing stored procedures or functions that have plans
cached that expand to the wrong query set due to differences in the rule
firing semantics.

The SQL syntax for changing a triggers/rules firing semantics is

     ALTER TABLE <tabname> <when> TRIGGER|RULE <name>;

     <when> ::= ENABLE | ENABLE ALWAYS | ENABLE REPLICA | DISABLE

psql's \d command as well as pg_dump are extended in a backward
compatible fashion.

Jan
2007-03-19 23:38:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
63c678d17b Fix for COPY-after-truncate feature.
Simon Riggs
2007-03-03 20:08:41 +00:00
Tom Lane
234a02b2a8 Replace direct assignments to VARATT_SIZEP(x) with SET_VARSIZE(x, len).
Get rid of VARATT_SIZE and VARATT_DATA, which were simply redundant with
VARSIZE and VARDATA, and as a consequence almost no code was using the
longer names.  Rename the length fields of struct varlena and various
derived structures to catch anyplace that was accessing them directly;
and clean up various places so caught.  In itself this patch doesn't
change any behavior at all, but it is necessary infrastructure if we hope
to play any games with the representation of varlena headers.
Greg Stark and Tom Lane
2007-02-27 23:48:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
ef65f6f7a4 Prevent WAL logging when COPY is done in the same transation that
created it.

Simon Riggs
2007-01-25 02:17:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
4431758229 Support ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST/LAST, and add ASC/DESC/NULLS FIRST/NULLS LAST
per-column options for btree indexes.  The planner's support for this is still
pretty rudimentary; it does not yet know how to plan mergejoins with
nondefault ordering options.  The documentation is pretty rudimentary, too.
I'll work on improving that stuff later.

Note incompatible change from prior behavior: ORDER BY ... USING will now be
rejected if the operator is not a less-than or greater-than member of some
btree opclass.  This prevents less-than-sane behavior if an operator that
doesn't actually define a proper sort ordering is selected.
2007-01-09 02:14:16 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
29dccf5fe0 Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically not
back-stamped for this.
2007-01-05 22:20:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
0b56be8344 Found the problem with my operator-family changes: by fetching from
pg_opclass during LookupOpclassInfo(), I'd turned pg_opclass_oid_index
into a critical system index.  However the problem could only manifest
during a backend's first attempt to load opclass data, and then only
if it had successfully loaded pg_internal.init and subsequently received
a relcache flush; which made it impossible to reproduce in sequential
tests and darn hard even in parallel tests.  Memo to self: when
exercising cache flush scenarios, must disable LookupOpclassInfo's
internal cache too.
2006-12-31 20:32:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
a78fcfb512 Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-type
cases.  Operator classes now exist within "operator families".  While most
families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped
into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible.
Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without
having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally.

This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so
that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work
needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later.  Also,
there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way
to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make
one by default.  I owe some more documentation work, too.  But that can all
be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
2006-12-23 00:43:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
76d5667ba8 Fix recently-identified PITR recovery hazard: the base backup could contain
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.
2006-11-05 23:40:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f99a569a2e pgindent run for 8.2. 2006-10-04 00:30:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
7bae5a289c Get rid of the separate RULE privilege for tables: now only a table's owner
can create or modify rules for the table.  Do setRuleCheckAsUser() while
loading rules into the relcache, rather than when defining a rule.  This
ensures that permission checks for tables referenced in a rule are done with
respect to the current owner of the rule's table, whereas formerly ALTER TABLE
OWNER would fail to update the permission checking for associated rules.
Removal of separate RULE privilege is needed to prevent various scenarios
in which a grantee of RULE privilege could effectively have any privilege
of the table owner.  For backwards compatibility, GRANT/REVOKE RULE is still
accepted, but it doesn't do anything.  Per discussion here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg01138.php
2006-09-05 21:08:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
09d3670df3 Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relation
(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.
2006-07-31 20:09:10 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
e0522505bd Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed. 2006-07-14 14:52:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
a22d76d96a Allow include files to compile own their own.
Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed
includes to C files.

The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
2006-07-13 16:49:20 +00:00
Tom Lane
b7b78d24f7 Code review for FILLFACTOR patch. Change WITH grammar as per earlier
discussion (including making def_arg allow reserved words), add missed
opt_definition for UNIQUE case.  Put the reloptions support code in a less
random place (I chose to make a new file access/common/reloptions.c).
Eliminate header inclusion creep.  Make the index options functions safely
user-callable (seems like client apps might like to be able to test validity
of options before trying to make an index).  Reduce overhead for normal case
with no options by allowing rd_options to be NULL.  Fix some unmaintainably
klugy code, including getting rid of Natts_pg_class_fixed at long last.
Some stylistic cleanup too, and pay attention to keeping comments in sync
with code.

Documentation still needs work, though I did fix the omissions in
catalogs.sgml and indexam.sgml.
2006-07-03 22:45:41 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
277807bd9e Add FILLFACTOR to CREATE INDEX.
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2006-07-02 02:23:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
06e10abc0b Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in use
by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time
ago for catcache entries.  The back branches have an ugly solution involving
lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient.  Reference counting is
only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need
to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go
away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context.
Neil Conway and Tom Lane
2006-06-16 18:42:24 +00:00
Tom Lane
cbc0539c2a Further minor simplification of relcache startup: don't need a static
needNewCacheFile flag anymore, it can just be local in RelationCacheInitializePhase2.
2006-05-06 15:51:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
46287bd660 Simplify relcache startup sequence. With the new design of InitPostgres
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.
2006-05-04 18:51:36 +00:00
Tom Lane
d2896a9ed1 Arrange to cache btree metapage data in the relcache entry for the index,
thereby saving a visit to the metapage in most index searches/updates.
This wouldn't actually save any I/O (since in the old regime the metapage
generally stayed in cache anyway), but it does provide a useful decrease
in bufmgr traffic in high-contention scenarios.  Per my recent proposal.
2006-04-25 22:46:05 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f2f5b05655 Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts. 2006-03-05 15:59:11 +00:00
Tom Lane
ed69cf5d23 Avoid crashing if relcache flush occurs while trying to load data into an
index's support-function cache (in index_getprocinfo).  Since none of that
data can change for an index that's in active use, it seems sufficient to
treat all open indexes the same way we were treating "nailed" system indexes
--- that is, just re-read the pg_class row and leave the rest of the relcache
entry strictly alone.  The pg_class re-read might not be strictly necessary
either, but since the reltablespace and relfilenode can change in normal
operation it seems safest to do it.  (We don't support changing any of the
other info about an index at all, at the moment.)

Back-patch as far as 8.0.  It might be possible to adapt the patch to 7.4,
but it would take more work than I care to expend for such a low-probability
problem.  7.3 is out of luck for sure.
2006-01-19 20:28:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
b0be247e38 Fix a tiny memory leak (one List header) in RelationCacheInvalidate().
This is utterly insignificant in normal operation, but it becomes a
problem during cache inval stress testing.  The original coding in fact
had no leak --- the 8.0 List rewrite created the issue.  I wonder whether
list_concat should pfree the discarded header?
2006-01-19 00:27:08 +00:00
Tom Lane
edfbd0744a Avoid leaking memory while reading toasted entries from pg_rewrite,
and nail a couple more system indexes into cache.  This doesn't make
any difference in normal system operation, but when forcing constant
cache resets it's difficult to get through the rules regression test
without these changes.
2006-01-08 20:04:41 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
86c23a6eb2 Make all command-line options of postmaster and postgres the same. See
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00151.php for the
complete plan.
2006-01-05 10:07:46 +00:00
Tom Lane
c599a247bb Simplify lock manager data structures by making a clear separation between
the data defining the semantics of a lock method (ie, conflict resolution
table and ancillary data, which is all constant) and the hash tables
storing the current state.  The only thing we give up by this is the
ability to use separate hashtables for different lock methods, but there
is no need for that anyway.  Put some extra fields into the LockMethod
definition structs to clean up some other uglinesses, like hard-wired
tests for DEFAULT_LOCKMETHOD and USER_LOCKMETHOD.  This commit doesn't
do anything about the performance issues we were discussing, but it clears
away some of the underbrush that's in the way of fixing that.
2005-12-09 01:22:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
436a2956d8 Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blank
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib
directory.  Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names
in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for
indenting).

Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-22 18:17:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
dd218ae7b0 Remove the t_datamcxt field of HeapTupleData. This was introduced for
the convenience of tuptoaster.c and is no longer needed, so may as well
get rid of some small amount of overhead.
2005-11-20 19:49:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
1dc3498251 Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
Neil Conway
148c00acbb Update two comments to refer to use the new list API names. 2005-09-16 04:13:18 +00:00
Tom Lane
f26b91761b Arrange for indexes and toast tables to inherit their ownership from
the parent table, even if the command that creates them is executed by
someone else (such as a superuser or a member of the owning role).
Per gripe from Michael Fuhr.
2005-08-26 03:08:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
721e53785d Solve the problem of OID collisions by probing for duplicate OIDs
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.
2005-08-12 01:36:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
4568e0f791 Modify AtEOXact_CatCache and AtEOXact_RelationCache to assume that the
ResourceOwner mechanism already released all reference counts for the
cache entries; therefore, we do not need to scan the catcache or relcache
at transaction end, unless we want to do it as a debugging crosscheck.
Do the crosscheck only in Assert mode.  This is the same logic we had
previously installed in AtEOXact_Buffers to avoid overhead with large
numbers of shared buffers.  I thought it'd be a good idea to do it here
too, in view of Kari Lavikka's recent report showing a real-world case
where AtEOXact_CatCache is taking a significant fraction of runtime.
2005-08-08 19:17:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
e92a88272e Modify hash_search() API to prevent future occurrences of the error
spotted by Qingqing Zhou.  The HASH_ENTER action now automatically
fails with elog(ERROR) on out-of-memory --- which incidentally lets
us eliminate duplicate error checks in quite a bunch of places.  If
you really need the old return-NULL-on-out-of-memory behavior, you
can ask for HASH_ENTER_NULL.  But there is now an Assert in that path
checking that you aren't hoping to get that behavior in a palloc-based
hash table.
Along the way, remove the old HASH_FIND_SAVE/HASH_REMOVE_SAVED actions,
which were not being used anywhere anymore, and were surely too ugly
and unsafe to want to see revived again.
2005-05-29 04:23:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
32e8fc4a28 Arrange to cache fmgr lookup information for an index's access method
routines in the index's relcache entry, instead of doing a fresh fmgr_info
on every index access.  We were already doing this for the index's opclass
support functions; not sure why we didn't think to do it for the AM
functions too.  This supersedes the former method of caching (only)
amgettuple in indexscan scan descriptors; it's an improvement because the
function lookup can be amortized across multiple statements instead of
being repeated for each statement.  Even though lookup for builtin
functions is pretty cheap, this seems to drop a percent or two off some
simple benchmarks.
2005-05-27 23:31:21 +00:00
Neil Conway
f38e413b20 Code cleanup: in C89, there is no point casting the first argument to
memset() or MemSet() to a char *. For one, memset()'s first argument is
a void *, and further void * can be implicitly coerced to/from any other
pointer type.
2005-05-11 01:26:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
278bd0cc22 For some reason access/tupmacs.h has been #including utils/memutils.h,
which is neither needed by nor related to that header.  Remove the bogus
inclusion and instead include the header in those C files that actually
need it.  Also fix unnecessary inclusions and bad inclusion order in
tsearch2 files.
2005-05-06 17:24:55 +00:00
Tom Lane
055467d504 Marginal hack to use a specialized hash function for dynahash hashtables
whose keys are OIDs.  The only one that looks particularly performance
critical is the relcache hashtable, but as long as we've got the function
we may as well use it wherever it's applicable.
2005-04-14 20:32:43 +00:00
Tom Lane
162bd08b3f Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs and
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 ...
2005-04-14 20:03:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
7c13781ee7 First phase of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs and
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.
2005-04-14 01:38:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
70c9763d48 Convert oidvector and int2vector into variable-length arrays. This
change saves a great deal of space in pg_proc and its primary index,
and it eliminates the former requirement that INDEX_MAX_KEYS and
FUNC_MAX_ARGS have the same value.  INDEX_MAX_KEYS is still embedded
in the on-disk representation (because it affects index tuple header
size), but FUNC_MAX_ARGS is not.  I believe it would now be possible
to increase FUNC_MAX_ARGS at little cost, but haven't experimented yet.
There are still a lot of vestigial references to FUNC_MAX_ARGS, which
I will clean up in a separate pass.  However, getting rid of it
altogether would require changing the FunctionCallInfoData struct,
and I'm not sure I want to buy into that.
2005-03-29 00:17:27 +00:00
Tom Lane
5db2e83852 Rethink the order of expression preprocessing: eval_const_expressions
really ought to run before canonicalize_qual, because it can now produce
forms that canonicalize_qual knows how to improve (eg, NOT clauses).
Also, because eval_const_expressions already knows about flattening
nested ANDs and ORs into N-argument form, the initial flatten_andors
pass in canonicalize_qual is now completely redundant and can be
removed.  This doesn't save a whole lot of code, but the time and
palloc traffic eliminated is a useful gain on large expression trees.
2005-03-28 00:58:26 +00:00
Tom Lane
a52b4fb131 Adjust creation/destruction of TupleDesc data structure to reduce the
number of palloc calls.  This has a salutory impact on plpgsql operations
with record variables (which create and destroy tupdescs constantly)
and probably helps a bit in some other cases too.
2005-03-07 04:42:17 +00:00
Tom Lane
0ce4d56924 Phase 1 of fix for 'SMgrRelation hashtable corrupted' problem. This
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.
2005-01-10 20:02:24 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
2ff501590b Tag appropriate files for rc3
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 ...
2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
984791e0e1 Upgrade formrdesc() so that it can correctly initialize the tupledesc
(rd_att) field of a nailed-in-cache relcache entry.  This fixes the bug
reported by Alvaro 8-Dec-2004; I believe it probably also explains
Grant Finnemore's report of 10-Sep-2004.

In an unrelated change in the same file, put back 7.4's response to
failure to rename() the relcache init file, ie, unlink the useless
temp file.  I did not put back the warning message, since there might
actually be some reason not to have that.
2004-12-12 05:07:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
3e3f283e31 Avoid scanning the relcache during AtEOSubXact_RelationCache when there
is nothing to do, which is most of the time.  This is another simple
improvement to cut subtransaction entry/exit overhead.
2004-11-20 20:19:52 +00:00
Tom Lane
8f9f198603 Restructure subtransaction handling to reduce resource consumption,
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.
2004-09-16 16:58:44 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
b6b71b85bc Pgindent run for 8.0. 2004-08-29 05:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
da9a8649d8 Update copyright to 2004. 2004-08-29 04:13:13 +00:00
Tom Lane
1c72d0dec1 Fix relcache to account properly for subtransaction status of 'new'
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.
2004-08-28 20:31:44 +00:00
Tom Lane
fe548629c5 Invent ResourceOwner mechanism as per my recent proposal, and use it to
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.
2004-07-17 03:32:14 +00:00
Tom Lane
573a71a5da Nested transactions. There is still much left to do, especially on the
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.
2004-07-01 00:52:04 +00:00
Tom Lane
2467394ee1 Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.
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.
2004-06-18 06:14:31 +00:00
Neil Conway
72b6ad6313 Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable the
list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep
the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
2004-05-30 23:40:41 +00:00
Neil Conway
d0b4399d81 Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.
In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was
merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that
design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch
fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list
length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer.
A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data
about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer
to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes.

The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope,
be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are
still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of
the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
2004-05-26 04:41:50 +00:00
Tom Lane
4af3421161 Get rid of rd_nblocks field in relcache entries. Turns out this was
costing us lots more to maintain than it was worth.  On shared tables
it was of exactly zero benefit because we couldn't trust it to be
up to date.  On temp tables it sometimes saved an lseek, but not often
enough to be worth getting excited about.  And the real problem was that
we forced an lseek on every relcache flush in order to update the field.
So all in all it seems best to lose the complexity.
2004-05-08 19:09:25 +00:00
Tom Lane
375369acd1 Replace TupleTableSlot convention for whole-row variables and function
results with tuples as ordinary varlena Datums.  This commit does not
in itself do much for us, except eliminate the horrid memory leak
associated with evaluation of whole-row variables.  However, it lays the
groundwork for allowing composite types as table columns, and perhaps
some other useful features as well.  Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2004-04-01 21:28:47 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
40f456ce56 Remove double-rename used by Win32 on busy files. Not needed anymore. 2004-03-16 05:05:58 +00:00
Tom Lane
04226b6404 Tweak planner so that index expressions and predicates are matched to
queries without regard to whether coercions are stated explicitly or
implicitly.  Per suggestion from Stephan Szabo.
2004-03-14 23:41:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
c672aa823b For application to HEAD, following community review.
* Changes incorrect CYGWIN defines to __CYGWIN__

* Some localtime returns NULL checks (when unchecked cause SEGVs under
Win32
regression tests)

* Rationalized CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores and
AttachSharedMemoryAndSemaphores (Bruce, I finally remembered to do it);
requires attention.

Claudio Natoli
2004-02-25 19:41:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
87bd956385 Restructure smgr API as per recent proposal. smgr no longer depends on
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.
2004-02-10 01:55:27 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
d9d2ca8e8e Adjust rename on Win32 to only link to temp name while holding lock,
then release locks and loop over renaming to active file name.
2004-02-02 00:17:23 +00:00
Tom Lane
c77f363384 Ensure that close() and fclose() are checked for errors, at least in
cases involving writes.  Per recent discussion about the possibility
of close-time failures on some filesystems.  There is a TODO item for
this, too.
2004-01-26 22:35:32 +00:00
Tom Lane
c607bd693f Clean up the usage of canonicalize_qual(): in particular, be consistent
about whether it is applied before or after eval_const_expressions().
I believe there were some corner cases where the system would fail to
recognize that a partial index is applicable because of the previous
inconsistency.  Store normal rather than 'implicit AND' representations
of constraints and index predicates in the catalogs.
initdb forced due to representation change of constraints/predicates.
2003-12-28 21:57:37 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon
969685ad44 $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
Tom Lane
fa5c8a055a Cross-data-type comparisons are now indexable by btrees, pursuant to my
pghackers proposal of 8-Nov.  All the existing cross-type comparison
operators (int2/int4/int8 and float4/float8) have appropriate support.
The original proposal of storing the right-hand-side datatype as part of
the primary key for pg_amop and pg_amproc got modified a bit in the event;
it is easier to store zero as the 'default' case and only store a nonzero
when the operator is actually cross-type.  Along the way, remove the
long-since-defunct bigbox_ops operator class.
2003-11-12 21:15:59 +00:00
Tom Lane
c1d62bfd00 Add operator strategy and comparison-value datatype fields to ScanKey.
Remove the 'strategy map' code, which was a large amount of mechanism
that no longer had any use except reverse-mapping from procedure OID to
strategy number.  Passing the strategy number to the index AM in the
first place is simpler and faster.
This is a preliminary step in planned support for cross-datatype index
operations.  I'm committing it now since the ScanKeyEntryInitialize()
API change touches quite a lot of files, and I want to commit those
changes before the tree drifts under me.
2003-11-09 21:30:38 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
feb4f44d29 Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardize
terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic
message building.
2003-09-25 06:58:07 +00:00
Tom Lane
a56a016ceb Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache is
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.
2003-09-24 18:54:02 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
f3c3deb7d0 Update copyrights to 2003. 2003-08-04 02:40:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
089003fb46 pgindent run. 2003-08-04 00:43:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
689eb53e47 Error message editing in backend/utils (except /adt). 2003-07-25 20:18:01 +00:00
Tom Lane
fc8d970cbc Replace functional-index facility with expressional indexes. Any column
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.
2003-05-28 16:04:02 +00:00
Tom Lane
39b7ec3309 Create a distinction between Lists of integers and Lists of OIDs, to get
rid of the assumption that sizeof(Oid)==sizeof(int).  This is one small
step towards someday supporting 8-byte OIDs.  For the moment, it doesn't
do much except get rid of a lot of unsightly casts.
2003-02-09 06:56:28 +00:00
Tom Lane
260faf0b63 Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN to disallow the same column types that are
disallowed by CREATE TABLE (eg, pseudo-types); also disallow these types
from being introduced by the range-function syntax.  While at it, allow
CREATE TABLE to create zero-column tables, per recent pghackers discussion.
I am back-patching this into 7.3 since failure to disallow pseudo-types
is arguably a security hole.
2002-12-16 18:39:22 +00:00
Tom Lane
e64c7feb2f Tweak default memory context allocation policy so that a context is not
given any malloc block until something is first allocated in it; but
thereafter, MemoryContextReset won't release that first malloc block.
This preserves the quick-reset property of the original policy, without
forcing 8K to be allocated to every context whether any of it is ever
used or not.  Also, remove some more no-longer-needed explicit freeing
during ExecEndPlan.
2002-12-15 21:01:34 +00:00
Tom Lane
24b130cb89 Add relcache support for system catalogs with attnotnull columns.
The code was not making TupleConstr structs for such catalogs in
several places; with the consequence that the not-null constraint
wasn't actually enforced.  With this change,
INSERT INTO pg_proc VALUES('sdf');
generates a 'Fail to add null value' error instead of a core dump.
2002-11-15 17:18:49 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9b12ab6d5d Add new palloc0 call as merge of palloc and MemSet(0). 2002-11-13 00:39:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
75fee4535d Back out use of palloc0 in place if palloc/MemSet. Seems constant len
to MemSet is a performance boost.
2002-11-11 03:02:20 +00:00