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2012-11-29Fix assorted bugs in CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.Tom Lane
This patch changes CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY so that the pg_index flag changes it makes without exclusive lock on the index are made via heap_inplace_update() rather than a normal transactional update. The latter is not very safe because moving the pg_index tuple could result in concurrent SnapshotNow scans finding it twice or not at all, thus possibly resulting in index corruption. In addition, fix various places in the code that ought to check to make sure that the indexes they are manipulating are valid and/or ready as appropriate. These represent bugs that have existed since 8.2, since a failed CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY could leave a corrupt or invalid index behind, and we ought not try to do anything that might fail with such an index. Also fix RelationReloadIndexInfo to ensure it copies all the pg_index columns that are allowed to change after initial creation. Previously we could have been left with stale values of some fields in an index relcache entry. It's not clear whether this actually had any user-visible consequences, but it's at least a bug waiting to happen. This is a subset of a patch already applied in 9.2 and HEAD. Back-patch into all earlier supported branches. Tom Lane and Andres Freund
2012-01-12Fix CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL for toast values owned by recently-updated rows.Tom Lane
In commit 7b0d0e9356963d5c3e4d329a917f5fbb82a2ef05, I made CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL try to preserve toast value OIDs from the original toast table to the new one. However, if we have to copy both live and recently-dead versions of a row that has a toasted column, those versions may well reference the same toast value with the same OID. The patch then led to duplicate-key failures as we tried to insert the toast value twice with the same OID. (The previous behavior was not very desirable either, since it would have silently inserted the same value twice with different OIDs. That wastes space, but what's worse is that the toast values inserted for already-dead heap rows would not be reclaimed by subsequent ordinary VACUUMs, since they go into the new toast table marked live not deleted.) To fix, check if the copied OID already exists in the new toast table, and if so, assume that it stores the desired value. This is reasonably safe since the only case where we will copy an OID from a previous toast pointer is when toast_insert_or_update was given that toast pointer and so we just pulled the data from the old table; if we got two different values that way then we have big problems anyway. We do have to assume that no other backend is inserting items into the new toast table concurrently, but that's surely safe for CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL. Per bug #6393 from Maxim Boguk. Back-patch to 9.0, same as the previous patch.
2011-08-16Preserve toast value OIDs in toast-swap-by-content for CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL.Tom Lane
This works around the problem that a catalog cache entry might contain a toast pointer that we try to dereference just as a VACUUM FULL completes on that catalog. We will see the sinval message on the cache entry when we acquire lock on the toast table, but by that point we've already told tuptoaster.c "here's the pointer to fetch", so it's difficult from a code structural standpoint to update the pointer before we use it. Much less painful to ensure that toast pointers are not invalidated in the first place. We have to add a bit of code to deal with the case that a value that previously wasn't toasted becomes so; but that should be a seldom-exercised corner case, so the inefficiency shouldn't be significant. Back-patch to 9.0. In prior versions, we didn't allow CLUSTER on system catalogs, and VACUUM FULL didn't result in reassignment of toast OIDs, so there was no problem.
2011-05-01Make CLUSTER lock the old table's toast table before copying data.Tom Lane
We must lock out autovacuuming of the old toast table before computing the OldestXmin horizon we will use. Otherwise, autovacuum could start on the toast table later, compute a later OldestXmin horizon, and remove as DEAD toast tuples that we still need (because we think their parent tuples are only RECENTLY_DEAD). Per further thought about bug #5998.
2011-04-19Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.Tom Lane
There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must pre-date its original creation. So we can just avoid changing pg_index altogether during a REINDEX operation. This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are reindexing it. System catalog indexes will always be created with indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should never try to change their pg_index entries. This avoids special-casing system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be considered unusable for a short time. Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT. Note that this patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that any add-on code is calling that directly.
2011-01-20Make ALTER TABLE revalidate uniqueness and exclusion constraints.Robert Haas
Failure to do so can lead to constraint violations. This was broken by commit 1ddc2703a936d03953657f43345460b9242bbed1 on 2010-02-07, so back-patch to 9.0. Noah Misch. Regression test by me.
2010-04-28Introduce wal_level GUC to explicitly control if information needed forHeikki Linnakangas
archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby to enable/disable hot standby. Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections, max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the standby until the first checkpoint after the change. Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches changed it to 0x9003.
2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-02-14Wrap calls to SearchSysCache and related functions using macros.Robert Haas
The purpose of this change is to eliminate the need for every caller of SearchSysCache, SearchSysCacheCopy, SearchSysCacheExists, GetSysCacheOid, and SearchSysCacheList to know the maximum number of allowable keys for a syscache entry (currently 4). This will make it far easier to increase the maximum number of keys in a future release should we choose to do so, and it makes the code shorter, too. Design and review by Tom Lane.
2010-02-09Fix up rickety handling of relation-truncation interlocks.Tom Lane
Move rd_targblock, rd_fsm_nblocks, and rd_vm_nblocks from relcache to the smgr relation entries, so that they will get reset to InvalidBlockNumber whenever an smgr-level flush happens. Because we now send smgr invalidation messages immediately (not at end of transaction) when a relation truncation occurs, this ensures that other backends will reset their values before they next access the relation. We no longer need the unreliable assumption that a VACUUM that's doing a truncation will hold its AccessExclusive lock until commit --- in fact, we can intentionally release that lock as soon as we've completed the truncation. This patch therefore reverts (most of) Alvaro's patch of 2009-11-10, as well as my marginal hacking on it yesterday. We can also get rid of assorted no-longer-needed relcache flushes, which are far more expensive than an smgr flush because they kill a lot more state. In passing this patch fixes smgr_redo's failure to perform visibility-map truncation, and cleans up some rather dubious assumptions in freespace.c and visibilitymap.c about when rd_fsm_nblocks and rd_vm_nblocks can be out of date.
2010-02-07Work around deadlock problems with VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on system catalogs,Tom Lane
as per my recent proposal. First, teach IndexBuildHeapScan to not wait for INSERT_IN_PROGRESS or DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuples to commit unless the index build is checking uniqueness/exclusion constraints. If it isn't, there's no harm in just indexing the in-doubt tuple. Second, modify VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER to suppress reverifying uniqueness/exclusion constraint properties while rebuilding indexes of the target relation. This is reasonable because these commands aren't meant to deal with corrupted-data situations. Constraint properties will still be rechecked when an index is rebuilt by a REINDEX command. This gets us out of the problem that new-style VACUUM FULL would often wait for other transactions while holding exclusive lock on a system catalog, leading to probable deadlock because those other transactions need to look at the catalogs too. Although the real ultimate cause of the problem is a debatable choice to release locks early after modifying system catalogs, changing that choice would require pretty serious analysis and is not something to be undertaken lightly or on a tight schedule. The present patch fixes the problem in a fairly reasonable way and should also improve the speed of VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER a little bit.
2010-02-07Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodesTom Lane
of shared or nailed system catalogs. This has two key benefits: * The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs. * We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing shared catalogs. CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would only be visible in one database. Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed; shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared. This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch. As a stopgap, parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid such failures during the regression tests.
2010-02-04Restructure CLUSTER/newstyle VACUUM FULL/ALTER TABLE support so that swappingTom Lane
of old and new toast tables can be done either at the logical level (by swapping the heaps' reltoastrelid links) or at the physical level (by swapping the relfilenodes of the toast tables and their indexes). This is necessary infrastructure for upcoming changes to support CLUSTER/VAC FULL on shared system catalogs, where we cannot change reltoastrelid. The physical swap saves a few catalog updates too. We unfortunately have to keep the logical-level swap logic because in some cases we will be adding or deleting a toast table, so there's no possibility of a physical swap. However, that only happens as a consequence of schema changes in the table, which we do not need to support for system catalogs, so such cases aren't an obstacle for that. In passing, refactor the cluster support functions a little bit to eliminate unnecessarily-duplicated code; and fix the problem that while CLUSTER had been taught to rename the final toast table at need, ALTER TABLE had not.
2010-02-02CLUSTER specified the wrong namespace when renaming toast tables of temporaryTom Lane
relations (they don't live in pg_toast). This caused an Assert failure in assert-enabled builds. So far as I can see, in a non-assert build it would only have messed up the checks for conflicting names, so a failure would be quite improbable but perhaps not impossible.
2010-01-28Type table featurePeter Eisentraut
This adds the CREATE TABLE name OF type command, per SQL standard.
2010-01-20Write a WAL record whenever we perform an operation without WAL-loggingHeikki Linnakangas
that would've been WAL-logged if archiving was enabled. If we encounter such records in archive recovery anyway, we know that some data is missing from the log. A WARNING is emitted in that case. Original patch by Fujii Masao, with changes by me.
2010-01-15Introduce Streaming Replication.Heikki Linnakangas
This includes two new kinds of postmaster processes, walsenders and walreceiver. Walreceiver is responsible for connecting to the primary server and streaming WAL to disk, while walsender runs in the primary server and streams WAL from disk to the client. Documentation still needs work, but the basics are there. We will probably pull the replication section to a new chapter later on, as well as the sections describing file-based replication. But let's do that as a separate patch, so that it's easier to see what has been added/changed. This patch also adds a new section to the chapter about FE/BE protocol, documenting the protocol used by walsender/walreceivxer. Bump catalog version because of two new functions, pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and pg_last_xlog_replay_location(), for monitoring the progress of replication. Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me
2010-01-06Silence compiler warning about uninitialized variables. This initializationItagaki Takahiro
is not necessary needed, but some compilers complain about it.
2010-01-06Support rewritten-based full vacuum as VACUUM FULL. TraditionalItagaki Takahiro
VACUUM FULL was renamed to VACUUM FULL INPLACE. Also added a new option -i, --inplace for vacuumdb to perform FULL INPLACE vacuuming. Since the new VACUUM FULL uses CLUSTER infrastructure, we cannot use it for system tables. VACUUM FULL for system tables always fall back into VACUUM FULL INPLACE silently. Itagaki Takahiro, reviewed by Jeff Davis and Simon Riggs.
2010-01-06Preserve relfilenodes:Bruce Momjian
Add support to pg_dump --binary-upgrade to preserve all relfilenodes, for use by pg_migrator.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2009-10-05Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjustTom Lane
the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects. Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects created in particular schemas too. A notable benefit is that users can override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE privilege traditionally granted by default for functions. Petr Jelinek
2009-09-26Extend the BKI infrastructure to allow system catalogs to be givenTom Lane
hand-assigned rowtype OIDs, even when they are not "bootstrapped" catalogs that have handmade type rows in pg_type.h. Give pg_database such an OID. Restore the availability of C macros for the rowtype OIDs of the bootstrapped catalogs. (These macros are now in the individual catalogs' .h files, though, not in pg_type.h.) This commit doesn't do anything especially useful by itself, but it's necessary infrastructure for reverting some ill-considered changes in relcache.c.
2009-06-11Revisit AlterTableCreateToastTable's API once again, hoping to make it whatTom Lane
pg_migrator actually needs and not just a partial solution. We have to be able to specify the OID that the new toast table should be created with.
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-05-07Add an option to AlterTableCreateToastTable() to allow its caller to forceTom Lane
a toast table to be built, even if the sum-of-column-widths calculation indicates one isn't needed. This is needed by pg_migrator because if the old table has a toast table, we have to migrate over the toast table since it might contain some live data, even though subsequent column drops could mean that no recently-added rows could require toasting.
2009-03-31Modify the relcache to record the temp status of both local and nonlocalTom Lane
temp relations; this is no more expensive than before, now that we have pg_class.relistemp. Insert tests into bufmgr.c to prevent attempting to fetch pages from nonlocal temp relations. This provides a low-level defense against bugs-of-omission allowing temp pages to be loaded into shared buffers, as in the contrib/pgstattuple problem reported by Stuart Bishop. While at it, tweak a bunch of places to use new relcache tests (instead of expensive probes into pg_namespace) to detect local or nonlocal temp tables.
2009-02-02Allow reloption names to have qualifiers, initially supporting a TOASTAlvaro Herrera
qualifier, and add support for this in pg_dump. This allows TOAST tables to have user-defined fillfactor, and will also enable us to move the autovacuum parameters to reloptions without taking away the possibility of setting values for TOAST tables.
2009-01-16Add vacuum_freeze_table_age GUC option, to control when VACUUM shouldHeikki Linnakangas
ignore the visibility map and scan the whole table, to advance relfrozenxid.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-11-24CLUSTER VERBOSE and corresponding clusterdb --verbose optionPeter Eisentraut
Jim Cox and Peter Eisentraut
2008-10-14Ensure that CLUSTER leaves the toast table and index with consistent names,Alvaro Herrera
by renaming the new copies after the catalog games.
2008-06-19Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from theAlvaro Herrera
corresponding struct definitions. This allows other headers to avoid including certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less unnecessary dependencies.
2008-05-12Improve snapshot manager by keeping explicit track of snapshots.Alvaro Herrera
There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack", which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time. This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot assignment. This is all done automatically now. As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
2008-05-12Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing someAlvaro Herrera
unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c files. For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created, initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage. While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more consistent with our header style.
2008-05-09Change the rules for inherited CHECK constraints to be essentially the sameTom Lane
as those for inherited columns; that is, it's no longer allowed for a child table to not have a check constraint matching one that exists on a parent. This satisfies the principle of least surprise (rows selected from the parent will always appear to meet its check constraints) and eliminates some longstanding bogosity in pg_dump, which formerly had to guess about whether check constraints were really inherited or not. The implementation involves adding conislocal and coninhcount columns to pg_constraint (paralleling attislocal and attinhcount in pg_attribute) and refactoring various ALTER TABLE actions to be more like those for columns. Alex Hunsaker, Nikhil Sontakke, Tom Lane
2008-04-13Phase 2 of project to make index operator lossiness be determined at runtimeTom Lane
instead of plan time. Extend the amgettuple API so that the index AM returns a boolean indicating whether the indexquals need to be rechecked, and make that rechecking happen in nodeIndexscan.c (currently the only place where it's expected to be needed; other callers of index_getnext are just erroring out for now). For the moment, GIN and GIST have stub logic that just always sets the recheck flag to TRUE --- I'm hoping to get Teodor to handle pushing that control down to the opclass consistent() functions. The planner no longer pays any attention to amopreqcheck, and that catalog column will go away in due course.
2008-03-26Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid includingAlvaro Herrera
tqual.h into heapam.h. This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit. I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
2008-03-26Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.Alvaro Herrera
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
2008-03-26Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create aAlvaro Herrera
snapmgmt.c file for the former. The header files have also been reorganized in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c. tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum. This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a transaction; there is no functionality change. Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and subsequent discussion.
2008-01-30Add checks to TRUNCATE, CLUSTER, and REINDEX to prevent performing theseTom Lane
operations when the current transaction has any open references to the target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation). The need for this was previously recognized in connection with ALTER TABLE, but anything that summarily eliminates tuples or moves them around would confuse an active scan. While this patch does not in itself fix bug #3883 (the deadlock would happen before the new check fires), it will discourage people from attempting the sequence of operations that creates a deadlock risk, so it's at least a partial response to that problem. In passing, add a previously-missing check to REINDEX to prevent trying to reindex another backend's temp table. This isn't a security problem since only a superuser would get past the schema permission checks, but if we are testing for this in other utility commands then surely REINDEX should too.
2008-01-15Prevent CLUSTER from decreasing a relation's relfrozenxid. BugTom Lane
introduced in rewrite to make CLUSTER MVCC-safe.
2008-01-02Forbid ALTER TABLE and CLUSTER when there are pending AFTER-trigger eventsTom Lane
in the current backend for the target table. These operations move tuples around and would thus invalidate the TIDs stored in the trigger event records. (We need not worry about events in other backends, since acquiring exclusive lock should be enough to ensure there aren't any.) It might be sufficient to forbid only the table-rewriting variants of ALTER TABLE, but in the absence of any compelling use-case, let's just be safe and simple. Per follow-on investigation of bug #3847, though this is not actually the same problem reported therein. Possibly this should be back-patched, but since the case has never been reported from the field, I didn't bother.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-29Disallow CLUSTER using an invalid index (that is, one left over from a failedTom Lane
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY). Such an index might not have entries for every heap row and thus clustering with it would result in silent data loss. The scenario requires a pretty foolish DBA, but still ...
2007-09-10Make CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in theirAlvaro Herrera
database-wide editions. Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.
2007-05-19Fix dumb compile error in the last patch.Alvaro Herrera
2007-05-18Have CLUSTER advance the table's relfrozenxid. The new frozen point is theAlvaro Herrera
FreezeXid introduced in a recent commit, so there isn't any data loss in this approach. Doing it causes ALTER TABLE (or rather, the forms of it that cause a full table rewrite) to be affected as well. In this case, the frozen point is RecentXmin, because after the rewrite all the tuples are relabeled with the rewriting transaction's Xid. TOAST tables are fixed automatically as well, as fallout of the way they were already being handled in the respective code paths. With this patch, there is no longer need to VACUUM tables for Xid wraparound purposes that have been cleaned up via TRUNCATE or CLUSTER.
2007-05-17Move the tuple freezing point in CLUSTER to a point further back in the past,Alvaro Herrera
to avoid losing useful Xid information in not-so-old tuples. This makes CLUSTER behave the same as VACUUM as far a tuple-freezing behavior goes (though CLUSTER does not yet advance the table's relfrozenxid). While at it, move the actual freezing operation in rewriteheap.c to a more appropriate place, and document it thoroughly. This part of the patch from Tom Lane.