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2010-08-18Fix failure of "ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c serial" when done by non-owner.Tom Lane
The implicitly created sequence was created as owned by the current user, who could be different from the table owner, eg if current user is a superuser or some member of the table's owning role. This caused sanity checks in the SEQUENCE OWNED BY code to spit up. Although possibly we don't need those sanity checks, the safest fix seems to be to make sure the implicit sequence is assigned the same owner role as the table has. (We still do all permissions checks as the current user, however.) Per report from Josh Berkus. Back-patch to 9.0. The bug goes back to the invention of SEQUENCE OWNED BY in 8.2, but the fix requires an API change for DefineRelation(), which seems to have potential for breaking third-party code if done in a minor release. Given the lack of prior complaints, it's probably not worth fixing in the stable branches.
2010-08-18Add missing handling of PlannedStmt.transientPlan in copyfuncs/outfuncs.Tom Lane
_outPlannedStmt is only debug support, so the omission there was not very serious, but the omission in _copyPlannedStmt is a real bug. The consequence would be that a copied plan tree would never be marked as a transient plan, so that we would forget we ought to replan it after some not-yet-ready index becomes ready for use. This might explain some past complaints about indexes created with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY not being used right away. Problem spotted by Yeb Havinga. Back-patch to 8.3, where the field was added.
2010-08-18Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the fixed-paramsHeikki Linnakangas
parse_analyze() function. That case occurs e.g with PL/pgSQL EXECUTE ... USING 'stringconstant'. The coercion with a CoerceViaIO node. The result is similar to the coercion via input function performed for unknown constants in coerce_type(), except that this happens at runtime. Backpatch to 9.0. The issue is present in 8.4 as well, but the coerce param hook infrastructure this patch relies on was introduced in 9.0. Given the lack of user reports and harmlessness of the bug, it's not worth attempting a different fix just for 8.4.
2010-08-17Applied Zoltan's patch to fix a few memleaks in ecpg's pgtypeslib.Michael Meskes
2010-08-17Revert: looks like Binary Large OBject[sic] wasn't a misspellingPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-17Spell and markup checkingPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-16Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and theTom Lane
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.
2010-08-16Fix psql's copy of utf2ucs() to match the backend's copy exactly;Tom Lane
in particular, propagate a fix in the test to see whether a UTF8 character has length 4 bytes. This is likely of little real-world consequence because 5-or-more-byte UTF8 sequences are not supported by Postgres nor seen anywhere in the wild, but still we may as well get it right. Problem found by Joseph Adams. Bug is aboriginal, so back-patch all the way.
2010-08-15Assorted improvements to backup/restore documentation, per Thom Brown.Tom Lane
2010-08-15Clarify bit numbering in get_bit/set_bit etc. Per gripe fromTom Lane
Boszormenyi Zoltan.
2010-08-15Improve pgarchivecleanup documentation, per comments from Satoshi Nagayasu.Tom Lane
2010-08-15Add link and additional index reference to pgcrypto.Robert Haas
Kevin Grittner, with markup adjustments.
2010-08-14Fix planner to make a reasonable assumption about the amount of memory spaceTom Lane
used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use "internal" as their transition datatype. The previous coding thought this took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these aggregates typically consume a great deal of space. Per bug #5608 from Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada. Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.
2010-08-13Fix Assert failure in PushOverrideSearchPath when trying to restore a searchTom Lane
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.
2010-08-13Make RecordTransactionCommit() respect wal_level.Robert Haas
Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby. Back-patch to 9.0. Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.
2010-08-13Fix pg_restore to complain if any arguments remain after parsing the switchesTom Lane
and input file name, per bug #5617 from Leo Shklovskii. Rearrange the corresponding code in pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that all three programs handle this in a consistent, straightforward fashion. Back-patch to 9.0, but no further. Although this is certainly a bug, it's possible that people have scripts that will be broken by the added error check, so it seems better not to change the behavior in stable branches.
2010-08-13Reorder docs on lexical structure slightly for clarity.Robert Haas
Thom Brown
2010-08-12Correct sundry errors in Hot Standby-related comments.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao
2010-08-12Back out syntax case changes --- seems they were intentional.Bruce Momjian
2010-08-11Properly lowercase identifiers, uppercase keywords, in doc examplesBruce Momjian
2010-08-11The sanity check added to array_recv() wa a bit too tight; we mustHeikki Linnakangas
continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send() can output such arrays. Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.
2010-08-11Fix one more incorrect errno definition in the ECPG manual.Robert Haas
Again, back-patch all the way to 7.4.
2010-08-11Fix incorrect errno definitions in ECPG manual.Robert Haas
ecpgerrno.h hasn't materially changed since PostgreSQL 7.4, so this has been wrong for a very long time. Back-patch all the way. Satoshi Nagayasu
2010-08-10Add some links to tablesPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-10<example> is a floating element, so it's use is inappropriate when thePeter Eisentraut
surrounding text refers to the example inline.
2010-08-10Use double quotes rather than double quotes for libpq target anchors.Robert Haas
Per observation from Tom Lane that the previous patch to these files was not consistent with what is done elsewhere in the docs.
2010-08-09Add EXPLAIN documentation example.Bruce Momjian
gabrielle <gorthx@gmail.com> Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-08-09Fix incorrect logic in plpgsql for cleanup after evaluation of non-simpleTom Lane
expressions. We need to deal with this when handling subscripts in an array assignment, and also when catching an exception. In an Assert-enabled build these omissions led to Assert failures, but I think in a normal build the only consequence would be short-term memory leakage; which may explain why this wasn't reported from the field long ago. Back-patch to all supported versions. 7.4 doesn't have exceptions, but otherwise these bugs go all the way back. Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
2010-08-09Provide stable target anchors for libpq functions.Robert Haas
Daniele Varrazzo
2010-08-06Fix indexterm spellingPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-06Let's put that </link> in a sane place ...Tom Lane
2010-08-06Fix inaccurate description of deferrable unique constraints, per Dean Rasheed.Tom Lane
2010-08-06Rearrange "big features" section of the release notes.Robert Haas
Josh Berkus
2010-08-05Add a very specific hint for the case that we're unable to locate a functionTom Lane
matching a call like f(x, ORDER BY y,z). It could be that what the user really wants is f(x,z ORDER BY y). We now have pretty conclusive evidence that many people won't understand this problem without concrete guidance, so give it to them. Per further discussion of the string_agg() problem.
2010-08-05Document which Python environment variables affect PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut
2010-08-05Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much inTom Lane
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.
2010-08-04Forgot to back-patch earlier change to documentation for aggregateTom Lane
ORDER BY clauses.
2010-08-04Fix sloppy mistakes in documentation of PQescapeLiteral and PQescapeIdentifier.Tom Lane
Noted by Dmitriy Igrishin.
2010-08-03Fix inheritance count tracking in ALTER TABLE .. ADD CONSTRAINT.Robert Haas
Without this patch, constraints inherited by children of a parent table which itself has multiple inheritance parents can end up with the wrong coninhcount. After dropping the constraint, the children end up with a leftover copy of the constraint that is not dumped and cannot be dropped. There is a similar problem with ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN, but that looks significantly more difficult to resolve, so I'm committing this fix separately. Back-patch to 8.4, which is the first release that has coninhcount. Report by Hank Enting.
2010-08-03Fix core dump in QTNodeCompare when tsquery_cmp() is applied to two emptyTom Lane
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().
2010-08-02Don't try to force use of -no-cpp-precomp on OS X. It's been five yearsTom Lane
since Apple shipped a compiler that needed this switch, and there's increasing interest in using other compilers that won't accept the switch at all. Better to let anybody who still needs the switch inject it via CPPFLAGS. Per gripe from Neil Conway.
2010-08-02Fix an ancient typo that prevented the detection of conflicting fields whenTom Lane
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.
2010-08-01Back-patch fix for renaming asyncCommitLSN to asyncXactLSN.Tom Lane
AIUI this was supposed to go into 9.0 as well as HEAD.
2010-08-01Fix ANALYZE's ancient deficiency of not trying to collect stats for expressionTom Lane
indexes when the index column type (the opclass opckeytype) is different from the expression's datatype. When coded, this limitation wasn't worth worrying about because we had no intelligence to speak of in stats collection for the datatypes used by such opclasses. However, now that there's non-toy estimation capability for tsvector queries, it amounts to a bug that ANALYZE fails to do this. The fix changes struct VacAttrStats, and therefore constitutes an API break for custom typanalyze functions. Therefore we can't back-patch it into released branches, but it was agreed that 9.0 isn't yet frozen hard enough to make such a change unacceptable. Ergo, back-patch to 9.0 but no further. The API break had better be mentioned in 9.0 release notes.
2010-08-01Fix an additional set of problems in GIN's handling of lossy page pointers.Tom Lane
Although the key-combining code claimed to work correctly if its input contained both lossy and exact pointers for a single page in a single TID stream, in fact this did not work, and could not work without pretty fundamental redesign. Modify keyGetItem so that it will not return such a stream, by handling lossy-pointer cases a bit more explicitly than we did before. Per followup investigation of a gripe from Artur Dabrowski. An example of a query that failed given his data set is select count(*) from search_tab where (to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'ee:* | dd:*')) and (to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'aa:*')); Back-patch to 8.4 where the lossy pointer code was introduced.
2010-08-01Rewrite the rbtree routines so that an RBNode is the first field of theTom Lane
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.
2010-07-31Tweak tsmatchsel() so that it examines the structure of the tsquery wheneverTom Lane
possible (ie, whenever the tsquery is a constant), even when no statistics are available for the tsvector. For example, foo @@ 'a & b'::tsquery can be expected to be more selective than foo @@ 'a'::tsquery, whether or not we know anything about foo. We use DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL as the assumed selectivity of individual query terms when no stats are available, then combine the terms according to the query's AND/OR structure as usual. Per experimentation with Artur Dabrowski's example. (The fact that there are no stats available in that example is a problem in itself, but nonetheless tsmatchsel should be smarter about the case.) Back-patch to 8.4 to keep all versions of tsmatchsel() in sync.
2010-07-31Rewrite the key-combination logic in GIN's keyGetItem() and scanGetItem()Tom Lane
routines to make them behave better in the presence of "lossy" index pointers. The previous coding was outright incorrect for some cases, as recently reported by Artur Dabrowski: scanGetItem would fail to return index entries in cases where one index key had multiple exact pointers on the same page as another key had a lossy pointer. Also, keyGetItem was extremely inefficient for cases where a single index key generates multiple "entry" streams, such as an @@ operator with a multiple-clause tsquery. The presence of a lossy page pointer in any one stream defeated its ability to use the opclass consistentFn, resulting in probing many heap pages that didn't really need to be visited. In Artur's example case, a query like WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a & b') was about 50X slower than the theoretically equivalent WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a') AND tsvector @@ to_tsquery('b') The way that I chose to fix this was to have GIN call the consistentFn twice with both TRUE and FALSE values for the in-doubt entry stream, returning a hit if either call produces TRUE, but not if they both return FALSE. The code handles this for the case of a single in-doubt entry stream, but punts (falling back to the stupid behavior) if there's more than one lossy reference to the same page. The idea could be scaled up to deal with multiple lossy references, but I think that would probably be wasted complexity. At least to judge by Artur's example, such cases don't occur often enough to be worth trying to optimize. Back-patch to 8.4. 8.3 did not have lossy GIN index pointers, so not subject to these problems.
2010-07-30tag for beta4REL9_0_BETA4Marc G. Fournier
2010-07-29Improved version of patch to protect pg_get_expr() against misuse:Tom Lane
look through join alias Vars to avoid breaking join queries, and move the test to someplace where it will catch more possible ways of calling a function. We still ought to throw away the whole thing in favor of a data-type-based solution, but that's not feasible in the back branches. This needs to be back-patched further than 9.0, but I don't have time to do so today. Committing now so that the fix gets into 9.0beta4.