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2016-05-06Limit maximum parallel degree to 1024.Robert Haas
This new limit affects both the max_parallel_degree GUC and the parallel_degree reloption. There may some day be a use case for using more than 1024 CPUs for a single query, but that's surely not the case right now. Not only do not very many people have that many CPUs, but the code hasn't been tested at that kind of scale and is very unlikely to perform well, or even work at all, without a lot more work. The issue addressed by commit 06bd458cb812623c3f1fdd55216c4c08b06a8447 is probably just one problem of many. The idea of a more reasonable limit here was suggested by Tom Lane; the value of 1024 was suggested by Amit Kapila.
2016-04-08Add a 'parallel_degree' reloption.Robert Haas
The code that estimates what parallel degree should be uesd for the scan of a relation is currently rather stupid, so add a parallel_degree reloption that can be used to override the planner's rather limited judgement. Julien Rouhaud, reviewed by David Rowley, James Sewell, Amit Kapila, and me. Some further hacking by me.
2016-03-10Reduce lock level for altering fillfactorSimon Riggs
Fabrízio de Royes Mello and Simon Riggs
2016-01-17Restructure index access method API to hide most of it at the C level.Tom Lane
This patch reduces pg_am to just two columns, a name and a handler function. All the data formerly obtained from pg_am is now provided in a C struct returned by the handler function. This is similar to the designs we've adopted for FDWs and tablesample methods. There are multiple advantages. For one, the index AM's support functions are now simple C functions, making them faster to call and much less error-prone, since the C compiler can now check function signatures. For another, this will make it far more practical to define index access methods in installable extensions. A disadvantage is that SQL-level code can no longer see attributes of index AMs; in particular, some of the crosschecks in the opr_sanity regression test are no longer possible from SQL. We've addressed that by adding a facility for the index AM to perform such checks instead. (Much more could be done in that line, but for now we're content if the amvalidate functions more or less replace what opr_sanity used to do.) We might also want to expose some sort of reporting functionality, but this patch doesn't do that. Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Petr Jelínek, and rather heavily editorialized on by me.
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-10-05Re-Align *_freeze_max_age reloption limits with corresponding GUC limits.Andres Freund
In 020235a5754 I lowered the autovacuum_*freeze_max_age minimums to allow for easier testing of wraparounds. I did not touch the corresponding per-table limits. While those don't matter for the purpose of wraparound, it seems more consistent to lower them as well. It's noteworthy that the previous reloption lower limit for autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age was too high by one magnitude, even before 020235a5754. Discussion: 26377.1443105453@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch: back to 9.0 (in parts), like the prior patch
2015-09-08Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrencyAlvaro Herrera
Per discussion, nowadays it is possible to have tablespaces that have wildly different I/O characteristics from others. Setting different effective_io_concurrency parameters for those has been measured to improve performance. Author: Julien Rouhaud Reviewed by: Andres Freund
2015-08-14Reduce lock levels for ALTER TABLE SET autovacuum storage optionsSimon Riggs
Reduce lock levels down to ShareUpdateExclusiveLock for all autovacuum-related relation options when setting them using ALTER TABLE. Add infrastructure to allow varying lock levels for relation options in later patches. Setting multiple options together uses the highest lock level required for any option. Works for both main and toast tables. Fabrízio Mello, reviewed by Michael Paquier, mild edit and additional regression tests from myself
2015-08-02Fix a number of places that produced XX000 errors in the regression tests.Tom Lane
It's against project policy to use elog() for user-facing errors, or to omit an errcode() selection for errors that aren't supposed to be "can't happen" cases. Fix all the violations of this policy that result in ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR log entries during the standard regression tests, as errors that can reliably be triggered from SQL surely should be considered user-facing. I also looked through all the files touched by this commit and fixed other nearby problems of the same ilk. I do not claim to have fixed all violations of the policy, just the ones in these files. In a few places I also changed existing ERRCODE choices that didn't seem particularly appropriate; mainly replacing ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR by something more specific. Back-patch to 9.5, but no further; changing ERRCODE assignments in stable branches doesn't seem like a good idea.
2015-04-03Add log_min_autovacuum_duration per-table optionAlvaro Herrera
This is useful to control autovacuum log volume, for situations where monitoring only a set of tables is necessary. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed by: A team led by Naoya Anzai (also including Akira Kurosawa, Taiki Kondo, Huong Dangminh), Fujii Masao.
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-11-13Rename pending_list_cleanup_size to gin_pending_list_limit.Fujii Masao
Since this parameter is only for GIN index, it's better to add "gin" to the parameter name for easier understanding.
2014-11-11Add GUC and storage parameter to set the maximum size of GIN pending list.Fujii Masao
Previously the maximum size of GIN pending list was controlled only by work_mem. But the reasonable value of work_mem and the reasonable size of the list are basically not the same, so it was not appropriate to control both of them by only one GUC, i.e., work_mem. This commit separates new GUC, pending_list_cleanup_size, from work_mem to allow users to control only the size of the list. Also this commit adds pending_list_cleanup_size as new storage parameter to allow users to specify the size of the list per index. This is useful, for example, when users want to increase the size of the list only for the GIN index which can be updated heavily, and decrease it otherwise. Reviewed by Etsuro Fujita.
2014-11-07BRIN: Block Range IndexesAlvaro Herrera
BRIN is a new index access method intended to accelerate scans of very large tables, without the maintenance overhead of btrees or other traditional indexes. They work by maintaining "summary" data about block ranges. Bitmap index scans work by reading each summary tuple and comparing them with the query quals; all pages in the range are returned in a lossy TID bitmap if the quals are consistent with the values in the summary tuple, otherwise not. Normal index scans are not supported because these indexes do not store TIDs. As new tuples are added into the index, the summary information is updated (if the block range in which the tuple is added is already summarized) or not; in the latter case, a subsequent pass of VACUUM or the brin_summarize_new_values() function will create the summary information. For data types with natural 1-D sort orders, the summary info consists of the maximum and the minimum values of each indexed column within each page range. This type of operator class we call "Minmax", and we supply a bunch of them for most data types with B-tree opclasses. Since the BRIN code is generalized, other approaches are possible for things such as arrays, geometric types, ranges, etc; even for things such as enum types we could do something different than minmax with better results. In this commit I only include minmax. Catalog version bumped due to new builtin catalog entries. There's more that could be done here, but this is a good step forwards. Loosely based on ideas from Simon Riggs; code mostly by Álvaro Herrera, with contribution by Heikki Linnakangas. Patch reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas. Testing help from Jeff Janes, Erik Rijkers, Emanuel Calvo. PS: The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 318633.
2014-08-29Revert "Allow units to be specified in relation option setting value."Fujii Masao
This reverts commit e23014f3d40f7d2c23bc97207fd28efbe5ba102b. As the side effect of the reverted commit, when the unit is specified, the reloption was stored in the catalog with the unit. This broke pg_dump (specifically, it prevented pg_dump from outputting restorable backup regarding the reloption) and turned the buildfarm red. Revert the commit until the fixed version is ready.
2014-08-28Allow units to be specified in relation option setting value.Fujii Masao
This introduces an infrastructure which allows us to specify the units like ms (milliseconds) in integer relation option, like GUC parameter. Currently only autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay reloption can accept the units. Reviewed by Michael Paquier
2014-08-25revert "Throw error for ALTER TABLE RESET of an invalid option"Bruce Momjian
Reverts commits 73d78e11a0f7183c80b93eefbbb6026fe9664015 and b0488e5c4fbfdce8acc989bdc17d9f0ec09ac281. Also reverts pg_upgrade changes.
2014-08-25Throw error for ALTER TABLE RESET of an invalid optionBruce Momjian
Also adjust pg_upgrade to not use this method for optional TOAST table creation. Patch by Fabrízio de Royes Mello
2014-08-13Prevent memory leaks in parseRelOptions().Tom Lane
parseRelOptions() tended to leak memory in the caller's context. Most of the time this doesn't really matter since the caller's context is at most query-lifespan, and the function won't be invoked very many times. However, when testing with CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY, the same relcache entry can get rebuilt a *lot* of times in one query, leading to significant intraquery memory bloat if it has any reloptions. Noted while investigating a related report from Tomas Vondra. In passing, get rid of some Asserts that are redundant with the one done by deconstruct_array(). As with other patches to avoid leaks in CLOBBER_CACHE testing, it doesn't really seem worth back-patching this.
2014-07-14Move view reloptions into their own varlena structAlvaro Herrera
Per discussion after a gripe from me in http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140611194633.GH18688@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org Jaime Casanova
2014-05-06pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-02-13Separate multixact freezing parameters from xid'sAlvaro Herrera
Previously we were piggybacking on transaction ID parameters to freeze multixacts; but since there isn't necessarily any relationship between rates of Xid and multixact consumption, this turns out not to be a good idea. Therefore, we now have multixact-specific freezing parameters: vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age: when to remove multis as we come across them in vacuum (default to 5 million, i.e. early in comparison to Xid's default of 50 million) vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age: when to force whole-table scans instead of scanning only the pages marked as not all visible in visibility map (default to 150 million, same as for Xids). Whichever of both which reaches the 150 million mark earlier will cause a whole-table scan. autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age: when for cause emergency, uninterruptible whole-table scans (default to 400 million, double as that for Xids). This means there shouldn't be more frequent emergency vacuuming than previously, unless multixacts are being used very rapidly. Backpatch to 9.3 where multixacts were made to persist enough to require freezing. To avoid an ABI break in 9.3, VacuumStmt has a couple of fields in an unnatural place, and StdRdOptions is split in two so that the newly added fields can go at the end. Patch by me, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional input from Andres Freund and Tom Lane.
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-12-23Revise documentation for new freezing method.Robert Haas
Commit 37484ad2aacef5ec794f4dd3d5cf814475180a78 invalidated a good chunk of documentation, so patch it up to reflect the new state of play. Along the way, patch remaining documentation references to FrozenXID to say instead FrozenTransactionId, so that they match the way we actually spell it in the code.
2013-12-10Add a new reloption, user_catalog_table.Robert Haas
When this reloption is set and wal_level=logical is configured, we'll record the CIDs stamped by inserts, updates, and deletes to the table just as we would for an actual catalog table. This will allow logical decoding to use historical MVCC snapshots to access such tables just as they access ordinary catalog tables. Replication solutions built around the logical decoding machinery will likely need to set this operation for their configuration tables; it might also be needed by extensions which perform table access in their output functions. Andres Freund, reviewed by myself and others.
2013-07-18WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWsStephen Frost
For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows the user to specify what level of checking should be done on records being inserted or updated. For 'LOCAL CHECK', new tuples are validated against the conditionals of the view they are being inserted into, while for 'CASCADED CHECK' the new tuples are validated against the conditionals for all views involved (from the top down). This option is part of the SQL specification. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-03-03Add a materialized view relations.Kevin Grittner
A materialized view has a rule just like a view and a heap and other physical properties like a table. The rule is only used to populate the table, references in queries refer to the materialized data. This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in many cases. Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements. It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining what is "fresh" data will be developed. At some point it may even be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of references to underlying tables, but that requires the other above-mentioned features to be working first. Much of the documentation work by Robert Haas. Review by Noah Misch, Thom Brown, Robert Haas, Marko Tiikkaja Security review by KaiGai Kohei, with a decision on how best to implement sepgsql still pending.
2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
2012-08-30Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.hAlvaro Herrera
This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which is very widely included by many files. I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well, because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h. In itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h change now while I'm busy with it.
2012-06-14Remove RELKIND_UNCATALOGED.Robert Haas
This may have been important at some point in the past, but it no longer does anything useful. Review by Tom Lane.
2012-04-25Another trivial comment-typo fix.Tom Lane
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-12-22Add a security_barrier option for views.Robert Haas
When a view is marked as a security barrier, it will not be pulled up into the containing query, and no quals will be pushed down into it, so that no function or operator chosen by the user can be applied to rows not exposed by the view. Views not configured with this option cannot provide robust row-level security, but will perform far better. Patch by KaiGai Kohei; original problem report by Heikki Linnakangas (in October 2009!). Review (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch and others. Design advice by Tom Lane and myself. Further review and cleanup by me.
2011-12-17Add SP-GiST (space-partitioned GiST) index access method.Tom Lane
SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports non-balanced partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees. As described at PGCon 2011, this new indexing structure can beat GiST in both index build time and query speed for search problems that it is well matched to. There are a number of areas that could still use improvement, but at this point the code seems committable. Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, with considerable revisions by Tom Lane
2011-09-08Buffering GiST index build algorithm.Heikki Linnakangas
When building a GiST index that doesn't fit in cache, buffers are attached to some internal nodes in the index. This speeds up the build by avoiding random I/O that would otherwise be needed to traverse all the way down the tree to the find right leaf page for tuple. Alexander Korotkov
2011-09-04Clean up the #include mess a little.Tom Lane
walsender.h should depend on xlog.h, not vice versa. (Actually, the inclusion was circular until a couple hours ago, which was even sillier; but Bruce broke it in the expedient rather than logically correct direction.) Because of that poor decision, plus blind application of pgrminclude, we had a situation where half the system was depending on xlog.h to include such unrelated stuff as array.h and guc.h. Clean up the header inclusion, and manually revert a lot of what pgrminclude had done so things build again. This episode reinforces my feeling that pgrminclude should not be run without adult supervision. Inclusion changes in header files in particular need to be reviewed with great care. More generally, it'd be good if we had a clearer notion of module layering to dictate which headers can sanely include which others ... but that's a big task for another day.
2011-09-01Remove unnecessary #include references, per pgrminclude script.Bruce Momjian
2011-08-09Change the way string relopts are allocated.Heikki Linnakangas
Don't try to allocate the default value for a string relopt in the same palloc chunk as the relopt_string struct. That didn't work too well if you added a built-in string relopt in the stringRelOpts array, as it's not possible to have an initializer for a variable length struct in C. This makes the code slightly simpler too. While we're at it, move the call to validator function in add_string_reloption to before the allocation, so that if someone does pass a bogus default value, we don't leak memory.
2011-04-12Pass collations to functions in FunctionCallInfoData, not FmgrInfo.Tom Lane
Since collation is effectively an argument, not a property of the function, FmgrInfo is really the wrong place for it; and this becomes critical in cases where a cached FmgrInfo is used for varying purposes that might need different collation settings. Fix by passing it in FunctionCallInfoData instead. In particular this allows a clean fix for bug #5970 (record_cmp not working). This requires touching a bit more code than the original method, but nobody ever thought that collations would not be an invasive patch...
2011-01-01Basic foreign table support.Robert Haas
Foreign tables are a core component of SQL/MED. This commit does not provide a working SQL/MED infrastructure, because foreign tables cannot yet be queried. Support for foreign table scans will need to be added in a future patch. However, this patch creates the necessary system catalog structure, syntax support, and support for ancillary operations such as COMMENT and SECURITY LABEL. Shigeru Hanada, heavily revised by Robert Haas
2011-01-01Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian
2010-09-20Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander
2010-06-07Ensure default-only storage parameters for TOAST relationsItagaki Takahiro
to be initialized with proper values. Affected parameters are fillfactor, analyze_threshold, and analyze_scale_factor. Especially uninitialized fillfactor caused inefficient page usage because we built a StdRdOptions struct in which fillfactor is zero if any reloption is set for the toast table. In addition, we disallow toast.autovacuum_analyze_threshold and toast.autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor because we didn't actually support them; they are always ignored. Report by Rumko on pgsql-bugs on 12 May 2010. Analysis by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera. Patch by me. Backpatch to 8.4.
2010-03-11Add missing reset of need_initialization in reloptions code.Tom Lane
This resulted in useless extra work during every call of parseRelOptions, but no bad effects other than that. Noted by Alvaro.
2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-01-22Replace ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DISTINCT with a more general mechanism.Robert Haas
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.
2010-01-05Support ALTER TABLESPACE name SET/RESET ( tablespace_options ).Robert Haas
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.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2009-08-27Fix handling of autovacuum reloptions.Alvaro Herrera
In the original coding, setting a single reloption would cause default values to be used for all the other reloptions. This is a problem particularly for autovacuum reloptions. Itagaki Takahiro
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.