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2002-11-13Add new palloc0 call as merge of palloc and MemSet(0).Bruce Momjian
2002-11-11Back out use of palloc0 in place if palloc/MemSet. Seems constant lenBruce Momjian
to MemSet is a performance boost.
2002-11-10Merge palloc()/MemSet(0) calls into a single palloc0() call.Bruce Momjian
2002-09-28Make the world at least somewhat safe for zero-column tables, andTom Lane
remove the special case in ALTER DROP COLUMN to prohibit dropping a table's last column.
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().
2002-09-22Replace pg_attribute.attisinherited with attislocal and attinhcountTom Lane
columns, to allow more correct behavior in multiple-inheritance cases. Patch by Alvaro Herrera, review by Tom Lane.
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.
2002-08-30Add attisinherited column to pg_attribute; use it to guard againstTom Lane
column additions, deletions, and renames that would let a child table get out of sync with its parent. Patch by Alvaro Herrera, with some kibitzing by Tom Lane.
2002-08-29Code review for standalone composite types, query-specified compositeTom Lane
types, SRFs. Not happy with memory management yet, but I'll commit these other changes.
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.
2002-08-22Add a bunch of pseudo-types to replace the behavior formerly associatedTom Lane
with OPAQUE, as per recent pghackers discussion. I still want to do some more work on the 'cstring' pseudo-type, but I'm going to commit the bulk of the changes now before the tree starts shifting under me ...
2002-08-05Preliminary code review for anonymous-composite-types patch: fix breakageTom Lane
of functions returning domain types, update documentation for typtype, move get_typtype to lsyscache.c (actually, resurrect the old version), add defense against creating pseudo-typed table columns, fix some bogus list-parsing in grammar. Issues remain with respect to alias handling and type checking; Joe is on those.
2002-08-04Attached are two patches to implement and document anonymous compositeBruce Momjian
types for Table Functions, as previously proposed on HACKERS. Here is a brief explanation: 1. Creates a new pg_type typtype: 'p' for pseudo type (currently either 'b' for base or 'c' for catalog, i.e. a class). 2. Creates new builtin type of typtype='p' named RECORD. This is the first of potentially several pseudo types. 3. Modify FROM clause grammer to accept: SELECT * FROM my_func() AS m(colname1 type1, colname2 type1, ...) where m is the table alias, colname1, etc are the column names, and type1, etc are the column types. 4. When typtype == 'p' and the function return type is RECORD, a list of column defs is required, and when typtype != 'p', it is disallowed. 5. A check was added to ensure that the tupdesc provide via the parser and the actual return tupdesc match in number and type of attributes. When creating a function you can do: CREATE FUNCTION foo(text) RETURNS setof RECORD ... When using it you can do: SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) AS (f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp) or SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) AS f(f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp) or SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) f(f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp) Included in the patches are adjustments to the regression test sql and expected files, and documentation. p.s. This potentially solves (or at least improves) the issue of builtin Table Functions. They can be bootstrapped as returning RECORD, and we can wrap system views around them with properly specified column defs. For example: CREATE VIEW pg_settings AS SELECT s.name, s.setting FROM show_all_settings()AS s(name text, setting text); Then we can also add the UPDATE RULE that I previously posted to pg_settings, and have pg_settings act like a virtual table, allowing settings to be queried and set. Joe Conway
2002-08-02ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN works. Patch by Christopher Kings-Lynne,Tom Lane
code review by Tom Lane. Remaining issues: functions that take or return tuple types are likely to break if one drops (or adds!) a column in the table defining the type. Need to think about what to do here. Along the way: some code review for recent COPY changes; mark system columns attnotnull = true where appropriate, per discussion a month ago.
2002-07-31Instead of having a configure-time DEFAULT_ATTSTATTARGET, store -1 inTom Lane
attstattarget to indicate 'use the default'. The default is now a GUC variable default_statistics_target, and so may be changed on the fly. Along the way we gain the ability to have pg_dump dump the per-column statistics target when it's not the default. Patch by Neil Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
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
2002-06-20Here is a patch for Composite and Set returning function support. I madeBruce Momjian
two small changes to the API since last patch, which hopefully completes the decoupling of composite function support from SRF specific support. Joe Conway
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.
2002-05-20Restructure indexscan API (index_beginscan, index_getnext) perTom Lane
yesterday's proposal to pghackers. Also remove unnecessary parameters to heap_beginscan, heap_rescan. I modified pg_proc.h to reflect the new numbers of parameters for the AM interface routines, but did not force an initdb because nothing actually looks at those fields.
2002-03-29pg_type has a typnamespace column; system now supports creating typesTom Lane
in different namespaces. Also, cleanup work on relation namespace support: drop, alter, rename commands work for tables in non-default namespaces.
2002-02-27Clean up BeginCommand and related routines. BeginCommand and EndCommandTom Lane
are now both invoked once per received SQL command (raw parsetree) from pg_exec_query_string. BeginCommand is actually just an empty routine at the moment --- all its former operations have been pushed into tuple receiver setup routines in printtup.c. This makes for a clean distinction between BeginCommand/EndCommand (once per command) and the tuple receiver setup/teardown routines (once per ExecutorRun call), whereas the old code was quite ad hoc. Along the way, clean up the calling conventions for ExecutorRun a little bit.
2001-10-25pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian
tests pass.
2001-10-06Rearrange fmgr.c and relcache so that it's possible to keep FmgrInfoTom Lane
lookup info in the relcache for index access method support functions. This makes a huge difference for dynamically loaded support functions, and should save a few cycles even for built-in ones. Also tweak dfmgr.c so that load_external_function is called only once, not twice, when doing fmgr_info for a dynamically loaded function. All per performance gripe from Teodor Sigaev, 5-Oct-01.
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 ...
2001-07-15Restructure index AM interface for index building and index tuple deletion,Tom Lane
per previous discussion on pghackers. Most of the duplicate code in different AMs' ambuild routines has been moved out to a common routine in index.c; this means that all index types now do the right things about inserting recently-dead tuples, etc. (I also removed support for EXTEND INDEX in the ambuild routines, since that's about to go away anyway, and it cluttered the code a lot.) The retail indextuple deletion routines have been replaced by a "bulk delete" routine in which the indexscan is inside the access method. I haven't pushed this change as far as it should go yet, but it should allow considerable simplification of the internal bookkeeping for deletions. Also, add flag columns to pg_am to eliminate various hardcoded tests on AM OIDs, and remove unused pg_am columns. Fix rtree and gist index types to not attempt to store NULLs; before this, gist usually crashed, while rtree managed not to crash but computed wacko bounding boxes for NULL entries (which might have had something to do with the performance problems we've heard about occasionally). Add AtEOXact routines to hash, rtree, and gist, all of which have static state that needs to be reset after an error. We discovered this need long ago for btree, but missed the other guys. Oh, one more thing: concurrent VACUUM is now the default.
2001-06-25Optimizer can now estimate selectivity of IS NULL, IS NOT NULL,Tom Lane
IS TRUE, etc, with some degree of verisimilitude. Split out selectivity support functions from builtins.h into a new header file selfuncs.h, so as to reduce the number of header files builtins.h must depend on. Fix a few missing inclusions exposed thereby. From Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
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.
2001-06-01Clean up some minor problems exposed by further thought about Panon's bugTom Lane
report on old-style functions invoked by RI triggers. We had a number of other places that were being sloppy about which memory context FmgrInfo subsidiary data will be allocated in. Turns out none of them actually cause a problem in 7.1, but this is for arcane reasons such as the fact that old-style triggers aren't supported anyway. To avoid getting burnt later, I've restructured the trigger support so that we don't keep trigger FmgrInfo structs in relcache memory. Some other related cleanups too: it's not really necessary to call fmgr_info at all while setting up the index support info in relcache entries, because those ScanKeyEntry structs are never used to invoke the functions. This should speed up relcache initialization a tiny bit.
2001-05-07Rewrite of planner statistics-gathering code. ANALYZE is now available asTom Lane
a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too). pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are stored. ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values, not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values). Random sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large tables. The number of values and histogram bins collected is now user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command. There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere they could be in the planner. But the remaining changes for this project should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before. A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.
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
2001-02-22Clean up index/btree comments/macros, as approved.Bruce Momjian
2001-02-15Although we can't support out-of-line TOAST storage in indexes (yet),Tom Lane
compressed storage works perfectly well. Might as well have a coherent strategy for applying it, rather than the haphazard store-what-you-get approach that was in the code before. The strategy I've set up here is to attempt compression of any compressible index value exceeding BLCKSZ/16, or about 500 bytes by default.
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.
2000-12-07Silence compiler warning.Tom Lane
2000-12-01Make tuple receive/print routines TOAST-aware. Formerly, printtup wouldTom Lane
leak memory when printing a toasted attribute, and printtup_internal didn't work at all...
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.
2000-11-16Change SearchSysCache coding conventions so that a reference count isTom Lane
maintained for each cache entry. A cache entry will not be freed until the matching ReleaseSysCache call has been executed. This eliminates worries about cache entries getting dropped while still in use. See my posting to pg-hackers of even date for more info.
2000-11-16Make pgsql compile on FreeBSD-alpha.Bruce Momjian
Context diff this time. Remove -m486 compile args for FreeBSD-i386, compile -O2 on i386. Compile with only -O on alpha for codegen safety. Make the port use the TEST_AND_SET for alpha and i386 on FreeBSD. Fix a lot of bogus string formats for outputting pointers (cast to int and %u/%x replaced with no cast and %p), and 'Size'(size_t) are now cast to 'unsigned long' and output with %lu/ Remove an unused variable. Alfred Perlstein
2000-11-14Minor cleanup of tableOid-related coding.Tom Lane
2000-11-08Make DROP TABLE rollback-able: postpone physical file delete until commit.Tom Lane
(WAL logging for this is not done yet, however.) Clean up a number of really crufty things that are no longer needed now that DROP behaves nicely. Make temp table mapper do the right things when drop or rename affecting a temp table is rolled back. Also, remove "relation modified while in use" error check, in favor of locking tables at first reference and holding that lock throughout the statement.
2000-10-05Add proofreader's changes to docs.Bruce Momjian
Fix misspelling of disbursion to dispersion.
2000-09-23Clean up some ugly coding (hardwired constants) in index_formtuple.Tom Lane
2000-08-31Fix relative path references so that make knowns which dependencies referPeter Eisentraut
to one another. Sort out builddir vs srcdir variable namings. Remove some now obsoleted make variables.
2000-07-222nd try for the index tuple toast hack. This time as suggestedJan Wieck
by Tom. Jan