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2018-04-17Fix a few typos in comments and variable names.Heikki Linnakangas
Author: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180411075223.GB19732%40paquier.xyz
2018-04-07Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-treeTeodor Sigaev
This patch introduces INCLUDE clause to index definition. This clause specifies a list of columns which will be included as a non-key part in the index. The INCLUDE columns exist solely to allow more queries to benefit from index-only scans. Also, such columns don't need to have appropriate operator classes. Expressions are not supported as INCLUDE columns since they cannot be used in index-only scans. Index access methods supporting INCLUDE are indicated by amcaninclude flag in IndexAmRoutine. For now, only B-tree indexes support INCLUDE clause. In B-tree indexes INCLUDE columns are truncated from pivot index tuples (tuples located in non-leaf pages and high keys). Therefore, B-tree indexes now might have variable number of attributes. This patch also provides generic facility to support that: pivot tuples contain number of their attributes in t_tid.ip_posid. Free 13th bit of t_info is used for indicating that. This facility will simplify further support of index suffix truncation. The changes of above are backward-compatible, pg_upgrade doesn't need special handling of B-tree indexes for that. Bump catalog version Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with contribition by Alexander Korotkov and me Reviewed by: Peter Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra, Antonin Houska, Jeff Janes, David Rowley, Alexander Korotkov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56168952.4010101@postgrespro.ru
2018-01-09Change some bogus PageGetLSN calls to BufferGetLSNAtomicAlvaro Herrera
As src/backend/access/transam/README says, PageGetLSN may only be called by processes holding either exclusive lock on buffer, or a shared lock on buffer plus buffer header lock. Therefore any place that only holds a shared buffer lock must use BufferGetLSNAtomic instead of PageGetLSN, which internally obtains buffer header lock prior to reading the LSN. A few callsites failed to comply with this rule. This was detected by running all tests under a new (not committed) assertion that verifies PageGetLSN locking contract. All but one of the callsites that failed the assertion are fixed by this patch. Remaining callsites were inspected manually and determined not to need any change. The exception (unfixed callsite) is in TestForOldSnapshot, which only has a Page argument, making it impossible to access the corresponding Buffer from it. Fixing that seems a much larger patch that will have to be done separately; and that's just as well, since it was only introduced in 9.6 and other bugs are much older. Some of these bugs are ancient; backpatch all the way back to 9.3. Authors: Jacob Champion, Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal Reviewed-by: Michaël Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABAq_6GXgQDVu3u12mK9O5Xt5abBZWQ0V40LZCE+oUf95XyNFg@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-02Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-11-08Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-06-21Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-02-15btree: Support parallel index scans.Robert Haas
This isn't exposed to the optimizer or the executor yet; we'll add support for those things in a separate patch. But this puts the basic mechanism in place: several processes can attach to a parallel btree index scan, and each one will get a subset of the tuples that would have been produced by a non-parallel scan. Each index page becomes the responsibility of a single worker, which then returns all of the TIDs on that page. Rahila Syed, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, reviewed and tested by Anastasia Lubennikova, Tushar Ahuja, and Haribabu Kommi.
2017-01-03Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian
2016-08-27Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer.Tom Lane
I found that half a dozen (nearly 5%) of our AllocSetContextCreate calls had typos in the context-sizing parameters. While none of these led to especially significant problems, they did create minor inefficiencies, and it's now clear that expecting people to copy-and-paste those calls accurately is not a great idea. Let's reduce the risk of future errors by introducing single macros that encapsulate the common use-cases. Three such macros are enough to cover all but two special-purpose contexts; those two calls can be left as-is, I think. While this patch doesn't in itself improve matters for third-party extensions, it doesn't break anything for them either, and they can gradually adopt the simplified notation over time. In passing, change TopMemoryContext to use the default allocation parameters. Formerly it could only be extended 8K at a time. That was probably reasonable when this code was written; but nowadays we create many more contexts than we did then, so that it's not unusual to have a couple hundred K in TopMemoryContext, even without considering various dubious code that sticks other things there. There seems no good reason not to let it use growing blocks like most other contexts. Back-patch to 9.6, mostly because that's still close enough to HEAD that it's easy to do so, and keeping the branches in sync can be expected to avoid some future back-patching pain. The bugs fixed by these changes don't seem to be significant enough to justify fixing them further back. Discussion: <21072.1472321324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-13Add SQL-accessible functions for inspecting index AM properties.Tom Lane
Per discussion, we should provide such functions to replace the lost ability to discover AM properties by inspecting pg_am (cf commit 65c5fcd35). The added functionality is also meant to displace any code that was looking directly at pg_index.indoption, since we'd rather not believe that the bit meanings in that field are part of any client API contract. As future-proofing, define the SQL API to not assume that properties that are currently AM-wide or index-wide will remain so unless they logically must be; instead, expose them only when inquiring about a specific index or even specific index column. Also provide the ability for an index AM to override the behavior. In passing, document pg_am.amtype, overlooked in commit 473b93287. Andrew Gierth, with kibitzing by me and others Discussion: <87mvl5on7n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
2016-04-20Revert no-op changes to BufferGetPage()Kevin Grittner
The reverted changes were intended to force a choice of whether any newly-added BufferGetPage() calls needed to be accompanied by a test of the snapshot age, to support the "snapshot too old" feature. Such an accompanying test is needed in about 7% of the cases, where the page is being used as part of a scan rather than positioning for other purposes (such as DML or vacuuming). The additional effort required for back-patching, and the doubt whether the intended benefit would really be there, have indicated it is best just to rely on developers to do the right thing based on comments and existing usage, as we do with many other conventions. This change should have little or no effect on generated executable code. Motivated by the back-patching pain of Tom Lane and Robert Haas
2016-04-08Modify BufferGetPage() to prepare for "snapshot too old" featureKevin Grittner
This patch is a no-op patch which is intended to reduce the chances of failures of omission once the functional part of the "snapshot too old" patch goes in. It adds parameters for snapshot, relation, and an enum to specify whether the snapshot age check needs to be done for the page at this point. This initial patch passes NULL for the first two new parameters and BGP_NO_SNAPSHOT_TEST for the third. The follow-on patch will change the places where the test needs to be made.
2016-04-08Revert CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING ...Teodor Sigaev
It's not ready yet, revert two commits 690c543550b0d2852060c18d270cdb534d339d9a - unstable test output 386e3d7609c49505e079c40c65919d99feb82505 - patch itself
2016-04-08CREATE INDEX ... INCLUDING (column[, ...])Teodor Sigaev
Now indexes (but only B-tree for now) can contain "extra" column(s) which doesn't participate in index structure, they are just stored in leaf tuples. It allows to use index only scan by using single index instead of two or more indexes. Author: Anastasia Lubennikova with minor editorializing by me Reviewers: David Rowley, Peter Geoghegan, Jeff Janes
2016-03-09Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in indexed ROW() comparisons.Tom Lane
An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > ROW('x', 'y') would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in the "b" column, ignoring the fact that there might be non-NULL "b" values associated with later values of "a". This happens because _bt_mark_scankey_required() marks the subsidiary scankey for "b" as required, which is just wrong: it's for a column after the one with the first inequality key (namely "a"), and thus can't be considered a required match. This bit of brain fade dates back to the very beginnings of our support for indexed ROW() comparisons, in 2006. Kind of astonishing that no one came across it before Glen Takahashi, in bug #14010. Back-patch to all supported versions. Note: the given test case doesn't actually fail in unpatched 9.1, evidently because the fix for bug #6278 (i.e., stopping at nulls in either scan direction) is required to make it fail. I'm sure I could devise a case that fails in 9.1 as well, perhaps with something involving making a cursor back up; but it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
2016-03-03Revert buggy optimization of index scansSimon Riggs
606c0123d627 attempted to reduce cost of index scans using > and < strategies, though got that completely wrong in a few complex cases. Revert whole patch until we find a safe optimization.
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
2015-05-23pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian
2015-03-25Reduce pinning and buffer content locking for btree scans.Kevin Grittner
Even though the main benefit of the Lehman and Yao algorithm for btrees is that no locks need be held between page reads in an index search, we were holding a buffer pin on each leaf page after it was read until we were ready to read the next one. The reason was so that we could treat this as a weak lock to create an "interlock" with vacuum's deletion of heap line pointers, even though our README file pointed out that this was not necessary for a scan using an MVCC snapshot. The main goal of this patch is to reduce the blocking of vacuum processes by in-progress btree index scans (including a cursor which is idle), but the code rearrangement also allows for one less buffer content lock to be taken when a forward scan steps from one page to the next, which results in a small but consistent performance improvement in many workloads. This patch leaves behavior unchanged for some cases, which can be addressed separately so that each case can be evaluated on its own merits. These unchanged cases are when a scan uses a non-MVCC snapshot, an index-only scan, and a scan of a btree index for which modifications are not WAL-logged. If later patches allow all of these cases to drop the buffer pin after reading a leaf page, then the btree vacuum process can be simplified; it will no longer need the "super-exclusive" lock to delete tuples from a page. Reviewed by Heikki Linnakangas and Kyotaro Horiguchi
2015-02-20Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in some more places.Tom Lane
Fix a batch of structs that are only visible within individual .c files. Michael Paquier
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-11-18Reduce btree scan overhead for < and > strategiesSimon Riggs
For <, <=, > and >= strategies, mark the first scan key as already matched if scanning in an appropriate direction. If index tuple contains no nulls we can skip the first re-check for each tuple. Author: Rajeev Rastogi Reviewer: Haribabu Kommi Rework of the code and comments by Simon Riggs
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.
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-06-17Add buffer_std flag to MarkBufferDirtyHint().Jeff Davis
MarkBufferDirtyHint() writes WAL, and should know if it's got a standard buffer or not. Currently, the only callers where buffer_std is false are related to the FSM. In passing, rename XLOG_HINT to XLOG_FPI, which is more descriptive. Back-patch to 9.3.
2013-03-22Allow I/O reliability checks using 16-bit checksumsSimon Riggs
Checksums are set immediately prior to flush out of shared buffers and checked when pages are read in again. Hint bit setting will require full page write when block is dirtied, which causes various infrastructure changes. Extensive comments, docs and README. WARNING message thrown if checksum fails on non-all zeroes page; ERROR thrown but can be disabled with ignore_checksum_failure = on. Feature enabled by an initdb option, since transition from option off to option on is long and complex and has not yet been implemented. Default is not to use checksums. Checksum used is WAL CRC-32 truncated to 16-bits. Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis, Greg Smith Wide input and assistance from many community members. Thank you.
2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
2012-09-27Fix btmarkpos/btrestrpos to handle array keys.Tom Lane
This fixes another error in commit 9e8da0f75731aaa7605cf4656c21ea09e84d2eb1. I neglected to make the mark/restore functionality save and restore the current set of array key values, which led to strange behavior if an IndexScan with ScalarArrayOpExpr quals was used as the inner side of a mergejoin. Per bug #7570 from Melese Tesfaye.
2012-06-10Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian
commit-fest.
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-12-24Rethink representation of index clauses' mapping to index columns.Tom Lane
In commit e2c2c2e8b1df7dfdb01e7e6f6191a569ce3c3195 I made use of nested list structures to show which clauses went with which index columns, but on reflection that's a data structure that only an old-line Lisp hacker could love. Worse, it adds unnecessary complication to the many places that don't much care which clauses go with which index columns. Revert to the previous arrangement of flat lists of clauses, and instead add a parallel integer list of column numbers. The places that care about the pairing can chase both lists with forboth(), while the places that don't care just examine one list the same as before. The only real downside to this is that there are now two more lists that need to be passed to amcostestimate functions in case they care about column matching (which btcostestimate does, so not passing the info is not an option). Rather than deal with 11-argument amcostestimate functions, pass just the IndexPath and expect the functions to extract fields from it. That gets us down to 7 arguments which is better than 11, and it seems more future-proof against likely additions to the information we keep about an index path.
2011-11-02Fix btree stop-at-nulls logic properly.Tom Lane
As pointed out by Naoya Anzai, my previous try at this was a few bricks shy of a load, because I had forgotten that the initial-positioning logic might not try to skip over nulls at the end of the index the scan will start from. We ought to fix that, because it represents an unnecessary inefficiency, but first let's get the scan-stop logic back to a safe state. With this patch, we preserve the performance benefit requested in bug #6278 for the case of scanning forward into NULLs (in a NULLS LAST index), but the reverse case of scanning backward across NULLs when there's no suitable initial-positioning qual is still inefficient.
2011-10-31Stop btree indexscans upon reaching nulls in either direction.Tom Lane
The existing scan-direction-sensitive tests were overly complex, and failed to stop the scan in cases where it's perfectly legitimate to do so. Per bug #6278 from Maksym Boguk. Back-patch to 8.3, which is as far back as the patch applies easily. Doesn't seem worth sweating over a relatively minor performance issue in 8.2 at this late date. (But note that this was a performance regression from 8.1 and before, so 8.2 is being left as an outlier.)
2011-10-16Teach btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively.Tom Lane
This allows "indexedcol op ANY(ARRAY[...])" conditions to be used in plain indexscans, and particularly in index-only scans.
2011-10-09Improve index-only scans to avoid repeated access to the index page.Tom Lane
We copy all the matched tuples off the page during _bt_readpage, instead of expensively re-locking the page during each subsequent tuple fetch. This costs a bit more local storage, but not more than 2*BLCKSZ worth, and the reduction in LWLock traffic is certainly worth that. What's more, this lets us get rid of the API wart in the original patch that said an index AM could randomly decline to supply an index tuple despite having asserted pg_am.amcanreturn. That will be important for future improvements in the index-only-scan feature, since the executor will now be able to rely on having the index data available.
2011-09-01Remove unnecessary #include references, per pgrminclude script.Bruce Momjian
2011-07-04Move Trigger and TriggerDesc structs out of rel.h into a new reltrigger.hAlvaro Herrera
This lets us stop including rel.h into execnodes.h, which is a widely used header.
2011-06-29Restore correct btree preprocessing of "indexedcol IS NULL" conditions.Tom Lane
Such a condition is unsatisfiable in combination with any other type of btree-indexable condition (since we assume btree operators are always strict). 8.3 and 8.4 had an explicit test for this, which I removed in commit 29c4ad98293e3c5cb3fcdd413a3f4904efff8762, mistakenly thinking that the case would be subsumed by the more general handling of IS (NOT) NULL added in that patch. Put it back, and improve the comments about it, and add a regression test case. Per bug #6079 from Renat Nasyrov, and analysis by Dean Rasheed.
2011-06-09Pgindent run before 9.1 beta2.Bruce Momjian
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...
2011-04-10pgindent run before PG 9.1 beta 1.Bruce Momjian
2011-03-26Clean up cruft around collation initialization for tupdescs and scankeys.Tom Lane
I found actual bugs in GiST and plpgsql; the rest of this is cosmetic but meant to decrease the odds of future bugs of omission.
2011-01-01Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian
2010-09-20Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander
2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-01-03Dept of second thoughts: my first cut at supporting "x IS NOT NULL" btreeTom Lane
indexscans would do the wrong thing if index_rescan() was called with a NULL instead of a new set of scankeys and the index was DESC order, because sk_strategy would not get flipped a second time. I think that those provisions for a NULL argument are dead code now as far as the core backend goes, but possibly somebody somewhere is still using it. In any case, this refactoring seems clearer, and it's definitely shorter.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2010-01-01Support "x IS NOT NULL" clauses as indexscan conditions. This turns outTom Lane
to be just a minor extension of the previous patch that made "x IS NULL" indexable, because we can treat the IS NOT NULL condition as if it were "x < NULL" or "x > NULL" (depending on the index's NULLS FIRST/LAST option), just like IS NULL is treated like "x = NULL". Aside from any possible usefulness in its own right, this is an important improvement for index-optimized MAX/MIN aggregates: it is now reliably possible to get a column's min or max value cheaply, even when there are a lot of nulls cluttering the interesting end of the index.
2009-10-08Remove very ancient tuple-counting infrastructure (IncrRetrieved() andTom Lane
friends). This code has all been ifdef'd out for many years, and doesn't seem to have any prospect of becoming any more useful in the future. EXPLAIN ANALYZE is what people use in practice, and I think if we did want process-wide counters we'd be more likely to put in dtrace events for that than try to resurrect this code. Get rid of it so as to have one less detail to worry about while refactoring execMain.c.