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2005-11-20Remove the t_datamcxt field of HeapTupleData. This was introduced forTom Lane
the convenience of tuptoaster.c and is no longer needed, so may as well get rid of some small amount of overhead.
2005-10-19Better solution to the problem of labeling whole-row Datums that areTom Lane
generated from subquery outputs: use the type info stored in the Var itself. To avoid making ExecEvalVar and slot_getattr more complex and slower, I split out the whole-row case into a separate ExecEval routine.
2005-10-19Ensure that the Datum generated from a whole-row Var contains validTom Lane
type ID information even when it's a record type. This is needed to handle whole-row Vars referencing subquery outputs. Per example from Richard Huxton.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-03-21Convert index-related tuple handling routines from char 'n'/' ' to boolTom Lane
convention for isnull flags. Also, remove the useless InsertIndexResult return struct from index AM aminsert calls --- there is no reason for the caller to know where in the index the tuple was inserted, and we were wasting a palloc cycle per insert to deliver this uninteresting value (plus nontrivial complexity in some AMs). I forced initdb because of the change in the signature of the aminsert routines, even though nothing really looks at those pg_proc entries...
2005-03-16Revise TupleTableSlot code to avoid unnecessary construction and disassemblyTom Lane
of tuples when passing data up through multiple plan nodes. A slot can now hold either a normal "physical" HeapTuple, or a "virtual" tuple consisting of Datum/isnull arrays. Upper plan levels can usually just copy the Datum arrays, avoiding heap_formtuple() and possible subsequent nocachegetattr() calls to extract the data again. This work extends Atsushi Ogawa's earlier patch, which provided the key idea of adding Datum arrays to TupleTableSlots. (I believe however that something like this was foreseen way back in Berkeley days --- see the old comment on ExecProject.) A test case involving many levels of join of fairly wide tables (about 80 columns altogether) showed about 3x overall speedup, though simple queries will probably not be helped very much. I have also duplicated some code in heaptuple.c in order to provide versions of heap_formtuple and friends that use "bool" arrays to indicate null attributes, instead of the old convention of "char" arrays containing either 'n' or ' '. This provides a better match to the convention used by ExecEvalExpr. While I have not made a concerted effort to get rid of uses of the old routines, I think they should be deprecated and eventually removed.
2005-03-14Avoid O(N^2) overhead in repeated nocachegetattr calls when columns ofTom Lane
a tuple are being accessed via ExecEvalVar and the attcacheoff shortcut isn't usable (due to nulls and/or varlena columns). To do this, cache Datums extracted from a tuple in the associated TupleTableSlot. Also some code cleanup in and around the TupleTable handling. Atsushi Ogawa with some kibitzing by Tom Lane.
2005-01-27Change heap_modifytuple() to require a TupleDesc rather than aNeil Conway
Relation. Patch from Alvaro Herrera, minor editorializing by Neil Conway.
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
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 ...
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-06-05Make the world very nearly safe for composite-type columns in tables.Tom Lane
1. Solve the problem of not having TOAST references hiding inside composite values by establishing the rule that toasting only goes one level deep: a tuple can contain toasted fields, but a composite-type datum that is to be inserted into a tuple cannot. Enforcing this in heap_formtuple is relatively cheap and it avoids a large increase in the cost of running the tuptoaster during final storage of a row. 2. Fix some interesting problems in expansion of inherited queries that reference whole-row variables. We never really did this correctly before, but it's now relatively painless to solve by expanding the parent's whole-row Var into a RowExpr() selecting the proper columns from the child. If you dike out the preventive check in CheckAttributeType(), composite-type columns now seem to actually work. However, we surely cannot ship them like this --- without I/O for composite types, you can't get pg_dump to dump tables containing them. So a little more work still to do.
2004-06-04Resurrect heap_deformtuple(), this time implemented as a singly nestedTom Lane
loop over the fields instead of a loop around heap_getattr. This is considerably faster (O(N) instead of O(N^2)) when there are nulls or varlena fields, since those prevent use of attcacheoff. Replace loops over heap_getattr with heap_deformtuple in situations where all or most of the fields have to be fetched, such as printtup and tuptoaster. Profiling done more than a year ago shows that this should be a nice win for situations involving many-column tables.
2004-04-01Replace TupleTableSlot convention for whole-row variables and functionTom Lane
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.
2004-01-16Tighten short-circuit tests for deciding whether we need to invokeTom Lane
tuptoaster.c --- fields that are compressed in-line are not a reason to invoke the toaster. Along the way, add a couple more htup.h macros to eliminate confusing negated tests, and get rid of the already vestigial TUPLE_TOASTER_ACTIVE symbol.
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-09-25Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardizePeter Eisentraut
terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic message building.
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-21Error message editing in backend/access.Tom Lane
2002-09-27Don't mess with HEAP_XMAX_INVALID in heaptuple.c routines; there isTom Lane
no reason to worry about the tuple commit status bits until the tuple is inserted in a relation by heapam.c. Also, improve comments for heap_addheader().
2002-09-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2002-09-02Code review for HeapTupleHeader changes. Add version number to page headersTom Lane
(overlaying low byte of page size) and add HEAP_HASOID bit to t_infomask, per earlier discussion. Simplify scheme for overlaying fields in tuple header (no need for cmax to live in more than one place). Don't try to clear infomask status bits in tqual.c --- not safe to do it there. Don't try to force output table of a SELECT INTO to have OIDs, either. Get rid of unnecessarily complex three-state scheme for TupleDesc.tdhasoids, which has already caused one recent failure. Improve documentation.
2002-08-25Clean up comments to be careful about the distinction between variable-Tom Lane
width types and varlena types, since with the introduction of CSTRING as a more-or-less-real type, these concepts aren't identical. I've tried to use varlena consistently to denote datatypes with typlen = -1, ie, they have a length word and are potentially TOASTable; while the term variable width covers both varlena and cstring (and, perhaps, someday other types with other rules for computing the actual width). No code changes in this commit except for renaming a couple macros.
2002-08-24The cstring datatype can now be copied, passed around, etc. The typlenTom Lane
value '-2' is used to indicate a variable-width type whose width is computed as strlen(datum)+1. Everything that looks at typlen is updated except for array support, which Joe Conway is working on; at the moment it wouldn't work to try to create an array of cstring.
2002-07-20oid is needed, it is added at the end of the struct (after the nullBruce Momjian
bitmap, if present). Per Tom Lane's suggestion the information whether a tuple has an oid or not is carried in the tuple descriptor. For debugging reasons tdhasoid is of type char, not bool. There are predefined values for WITHOID, WITHOUTOID and UNDEFOID. This patch has been generated against a cvs snapshot from last week and I don't expect it to apply cleanly to current sources. While I post it here for public review, I'm working on a new version against a current snapshot. (There's been heavy activity recently; hope to catch up some day ...) This is a long patch; if it is too hard to swallow, I can provide it in smaller pieces: Part 1: Accessor macros Part 2: tdhasoid in TupDesc Part 3: Regression test Part 4: Parameter withoid to heap_addheader Part 5: Eliminate t_oid from HeapTupleHeader Part 2 is the most hairy part because of changes in the executor and even in the parser; the other parts are straightforward. Up to part 4 the patched postmaster stays binary compatible to databases created with an unpatched version. Part 5 is small (100 lines) and finally breaks compatibility. Manfred Koizar
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2002-06-15This patch wraps all accesses to t_xmin, t_cmin, t_xmax, and t_cmax inBruce Momjian
HeapTupleHeaderData in setter and getter macros called HeapTupleHeaderGetXmin, HeapTupleHeaderSetXmin etc. It also introduces a "virtual" field xvac by defining HeapTupleHeaderGetXvac and HeapTupleHeaderSetXvac. Xvac is used by VACUUM, in fact it is stored in t_cmin. Manfred Koizar
2002-05-27Distinguish between MaxHeapAttributeNumber and MaxTupleAttributeNumber,Tom Lane
where the latter is made slightly larger to allow for in-memory tuples containing resjunk attributes. Responds to today's complaint that one cannot UPDATE a table containing the allegedly-legal maximum number of columns. Also, apply Manfred Koizar's recent patch to avoid extra alignment padding when there is a null bitmap. This saves bytes in some cases while not creating any backward-compatibility problem AFAICS.
2001-10-25pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian
tests pass.
2001-08-23Ensure that all TransactionId comparisons are encapsulated in macrosTom Lane
(TransactionIdPrecedes, TransactionIdFollows, etc). First step on the way to transaction ID wrap solution ...
2001-06-12Clean up various to-do items associated with system indexes:Tom Lane
pg_database now has unique indexes on oid and on datname. pg_shadow now has unique indexes on usename and on usesysid. pg_am now has unique index on oid. pg_opclass now has unique index on oid. pg_amproc now has unique index on amid+amopclaid+amprocnum. Remove pg_rewrite's unnecessary index on oid, delete unused RULEOID syscache. Remove index on pg_listener and associated syscache for performance reasons (caching rows that are certain to change before you need 'em again is rather pointless). Change pg_attrdef's nonunique index on adrelid into a unique index on adrelid+adnum. Fix various incorrect settings of pg_class.relisshared, make that the primary reference point for whether a relation is shared or not. IsSharedSystemRelationName() is now only consulted to initialize relisshared during initial creation of tables and indexes. In theory we might now support shared user relations, though it's not clear how one would get entries for them into pg_class &etc of multiple databases. Fix recently reported bug that pg_attribute rows created for an index all have the same OID. (Proof that non-unique OID doesn't matter unless it's actually used to do lookups ;-)) There's no need to treat pg_trigger, pg_attrdef, pg_relcheck as bootstrap relations. Convert them into plain system catalogs without hardwired entries in pg_class and friends. Unify global.bki and template1.bki into a single init script postgres.bki, since the alleged distinction between them was misleading and pointless. Not to mention that it didn't work for setting up indexes on shared system relations. Rationalize locking of pg_shadow, pg_group, pg_attrdef (no need to use AccessExclusiveLock where ExclusiveLock or even RowExclusiveLock will do). Also, hold locks until transaction commit where necessary.
2001-03-22Remove dashes in comments that don't need them, rewrap with pgindent.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-22pgindent run. Make it all clean.Bruce Momjian
2001-01-24Change Copyright from PostgreSQL, Inc to PostgreSQL Global Development Group.Bruce Momjian
2000-12-27Fix portability problems recently exposed by regression tests on Alphas.Tom Lane
1. Distinguish cases where a Datum representing a tuple datatype is an OID from cases where it is a pointer to TupleTableSlot, and make sure we use the right typlen in each case. 2. Make fetchatt() and related code support 8-byte by-value datatypes on machines where Datum is 8 bytes. Centralize knowledge of the available by-value datatype sizes in two macros in tupmacs.h, so that this will be easier if we ever have to do it again.
2000-11-30Remove VARLENA_FIXED_SIZE hack, which is irreversibly broken now thatTom Lane
both MULTIBYTE and TOAST prevent char(n) from being truly fixed-size. Simplify and speed up fastgetattr() and index_getattr() macros by eliminating special cases for attnum=1. It's just as fast to handle the first attribute by presetting its attcacheoff to zero; so do that instead when loading the tupledesc in relcache.c.
2000-11-14Minor cleanup of tableOid-related coding.Tom Lane
2000-07-04DataFill() has no business resetting xact status bitsTom Lane
in the infomask of the provided tuple.
2000-07-03TOASTJan Wieck
WARNING: This is actually broken - we have self-deadlocks due to concurrent changes in buffer management. Vadim and me are working on it. Jan
2000-07-02Attached is a new patch which addresses this problem. (oids inBruce Momjian
regression tests). Chris Bitmead
2000-04-12Ye-old pgindent run. Same 4-space tabs.Bruce Momjian
2000-01-26Add:Bruce Momjian
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc to all files copyright Regents of Berkeley. Man, that's a lot of files.
2000-01-15Fixed all elog related warnings, as well as a few others.Peter Eisentraut
1999-12-16Some changes to prepare for LONG attributes.Jan Wieck
Jan
1999-07-19Install new alignment code to use MAXALIGN rather than DOUBLEALIGN whereBruce Momjian
approproate.
1999-07-17 Move some system includes into c.h, and remove duplicates.Bruce Momjian
1999-07-16Final cleanup.Bruce Momjian
1999-07-15Change #include's to use <> and "" as appropriate.Bruce Momjian
1999-07-15Remove unused #includes in *.c files.Bruce Momjian