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2005-08-22Fix unwanted denial of ALTER OWNER rights to superusers. There was someTom Lane
discussion of getting around this by relaxing the checks made for regular users, but I'm disinclined to toy with the security model right now, so just special-case it for superusers where needed.
2005-08-12Solve the problem of OID collisions by probing for duplicate OIDsTom Lane
whenever we generate a new OID. This prevents occasional duplicate-OID errors that can otherwise occur once the OID counter has wrapped around. Duplicate relfilenode values are also checked for when creating new physical files. Per my recent proposal.
2005-08-02Clean up CREATE DATABASE processing to make it more robust and get ridTom Lane
of special case for Windows port. Put a PG_TRY around most of createdb() to ensure that we remove copied subdirectories on failure, even if the failure happens while creating the pg_database row. (I think this explains Oliver Siegmar's recent report.) Having done that, there's no need for the fragile assumption that copydir() mustn't ereport(ERROR), so simplify its API. Eliminate the old code that used system("cp ...") to copy subdirectories, in favor of using copydir() on all platforms. This not only should allow much better error reporting, but allows us to fsync the created files before trusting that the copy has succeeded.
2005-07-31Add per-user and per-database connection limit options.Tom Lane
This patch also includes preliminary update of pg_dumpall for roles. Petr Jelinek, with review by Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.
2005-07-14Adjust permissions checking for ALTER OWNER commands: instead ofTom Lane
requiring superuserness always, allow an owner to reassign ownership to any role he is a member of, if that role would have the right to create a similar object. These three requirements essentially state that the would-be alterer has enough privilege to DROP the existing object and then re-CREATE it as the new role; so we might as well let him do it in one step. The ALTER TABLESPACE case is a bit squirrely, but the whole concept of non-superuser tablespace owners is pretty dubious anyway. Stephen Frost, code review by Tom Lane.
2005-07-08Remove some dead code for handling XLOG_DBASE_CREATE_OLD andNeil Conway
XLOG_DBASE_DROP_OLD WAL records -- these records are no longer created in current sources. Adjust numbering of XLOG_DBASE_CREATE and XLOG_DBASE_DROP and bump the catversion. Patch from Gavin Sherry, adjusted by Neil Conway.
2005-07-07Track dependencies on shared objects (which is to say, roles; we alreadyTom Lane
have adequate mechanisms for tracking the contents of databases and tablespaces). This solves the longstanding problem that you can drop a user who still owns objects and/or has access permissions. Alvaro Herrera, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2005-06-30Improve the checkpoint signaling mechanism so that the bgwriter can tellTom Lane
the difference between checkpoints forced due to WAL segment consumption and checkpoints forced for other reasons (such as CREATE DATABASE). Avoid generating 'checkpoints are occurring too frequently' messages when the checkpoint wasn't caused by WAL segment consumption. Per gripe from Chris K-L.
2005-06-29More cleanup on roles patch. Allow admin option to be inherited throughTom Lane
role memberships; make superuser/createrole distinction do something useful; fix some locking and CommandCounterIncrement issues; prevent creation of loops in the membership graph.
2005-06-28Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authidTom Lane
and pg_auth_members. There are still many loose ends to finish in this patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for instance). But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can make some progress on shared dependencies. The catalog changes should be pretty much done.
2005-06-25Force a checkpoint before committing a CREATE DATABASE command. ThisTom Lane
should fix the recent reports of "index is not a btree" failures, as well as preventing a more obscure race condition involving changes to a template database just after copying it with CREATE DATABASE.
2005-06-21Cause initdb to create a third standard database "postgres", whichTom Lane
unlike template0 and template1 does not have any special status in terms of backend functionality. However, all external utilities such as createuser and createdb now connect to "postgres" instead of template1, and the documentation is changed to encourage people to use "postgres" instead of template1 as a play area. This should fix some longstanding gotchas involving unexpected propagation of database objects by createdb (when you used template1 without understanding the implications), as well as ameliorating the problem that CREATE DATABASE is unhappy if anyone else is connected to template1. Patch by Dave Page, minor editing by Tom Lane. All per recent pghackers discussions.
2005-06-06Modify XLogInsert API to make callers specify whether pages to be backedTom Lane
up have the standard layout with unused space between pd_lower and pd_upper. When this is set, XLogInsert will omit the unused space without bothering to scan it to see if it's zero. That saves time in XLogInsert, and also allows reversion of my earlier patch to make PageRepairFragmentation et al explicitly re-zero freed space. Per suggestion by Heikki Linnakangas.
2005-06-06Remove the mostly-stubbed-out-anyway support routines for WAL UNDO.Tom Lane
That code is never going to be used in the foreseeable future, and where it's more than a stub it's making the redo routines harder to read.
2005-05-19Split the shared-memory array of PGPROC pointers out of the sinvalTom Lane
communication structure, and make it its own module with its own lock. This should reduce contention at least a little, and it definitely makes the code seem cleaner. Per my recent proposal.
2005-04-14Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane
indexes. Replace all heap_openr and index_openr calls by heap_open and index_open. Remove runtime lookups of catalog OID numbers in various places. Remove relcache's support for looking up system catalogs by name. Bulky but mostly very boring patch ...
2005-03-23WAL must log CREATE and DROP DATABASE operations *without* using anyTom Lane
explicit paths, so that the log can be replayed in a data directory with a different absolute path than the original had. To avoid forcing initdb in the 8.0 branch, continue to accept the old WAL log record types; they will never again be generated however, and the code can be dropped after the next forced initdb. Per report from Oleg Bartunov. We still need to think about what it really means to WAL-log CREATE TABLESPACE commands: we more or less have to put the absolute path into those, but how to replay in a different context??
2005-03-12When cloning template0 (or other fully-frozen databases), set the newTom Lane
database's datallowconn and datfrozenxid to the current transaction ID instead of copying the source database's values. This is OK because we assume the source DB contains no normal transaction IDs whatsoever. This keeps VACUUM from immediately starting to complain about unvacuumed databases in the situation where we are more than 2 billion transactions out from the XID stamp of template0. Per discussion with Milen Radev (although his complaint turned out to be due to something else, but the problem is real anyway).
2005-03-12Fix ALTER DATABASE RENAME to allow the operation if user is a superuserTom Lane
who for some reason isn't marked usecreatedb. Per report from Alexander Pravking. Also fix sloppy coding in have_createdb_privilege().
2005-03-04Replace the BufMgrLock with separate locks on the lookup hashtable andTom Lane
the freelist, plus per-buffer spinlocks that protect access to individual shared buffer headers. This requires abandoning a global freelist (since the freelist is a global contention point), which shoots down ARC and 2Q as well as plain LRU management. Adopt a clock sweep algorithm instead. Preliminary results show substantial improvement in multi-backend situations.
2005-02-26Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hackTom Lane
in favor of looking at the flat file copy of pg_database during backend startup. This should finally eliminate the various corner cases in which backend startup fails unexpectedly because it isn't able to distinguish live and dead tuples in pg_database. Simplify locking on pg_database to be similar to the rules used with pg_shadow and pg_group, and eliminate FlushRelationBuffers operations that were used only to reduce the odds of failure of GetRawDatabaseInfo. initdb forced due to addition of a trigger to pg_database.
2005-02-20Add code to prevent transaction ID wraparound by enforcing a safe limitTom Lane
in GetNewTransactionId(). Since the limit value has to be computed before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid. This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are not properly updated during WAL recovery. The code I've added to startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing the XID wraparound limit value. This will eventually allow us to get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add a trigger to pg_database.
2005-01-27Change heap_modifytuple() to require a TupleDesc rather than aNeil Conway
Relation. Patch from Alvaro Herrera, minor editorializing by Neil Conway.
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-11-18Force pg_database updates out to disk immediately after ALTER DATABASE;Tom Lane
this is to avoid scenarios where incoming backends find no live copies of a database's row because the only live copy is in an as-yet-unwritten shared buffer, which they can't see. Also, use FlushRelationBuffers() for forcing out pg_database, instead of the much more expensive BufferSync(). There's no need to write out pages belonging to other relations.
2004-10-28On Windows, force a checkpoint just before dropping a database's physicalTom Lane
files and directories. This ensures that the bgwriter will close any open file references it is holding for files therein, which is needed for the rmdir() to succeed. Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane.
2004-10-17Give a more user-friendly error message in situation where CREATE DATABASETom Lane
specifies a new default tablespace and the template database already has some tables in that tablespace. There isn't any way to solve this fully without modifying the clone database's pg_class contents, so for now the best we can do is issue a better error message.
2004-08-30Dept. of second thoughts: it'd be a good idea to flush buffersTom Lane
during replay of CREATE DATABASE as well as the first time around. Else it's possible that the copy operation will copy obsolete blocks. We are still a long way from guaranteeing anything about using a recently-written database as a CREATE template, but this seems needed to ensure the existing behavior holds up during replay.
2004-08-30Another pgindent run with lib typedefs added.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Add WAL logging for CREATE/DROP DATABASE and CREATE/DROP TABLESPACE.Tom Lane
Fix TablespaceCreateDbspace() to be able to create a dummy directory in place of a dropped tablespace's symlink. This eliminates the open problem of a PANIC during WAL replay when a replayed action attempts to touch a file in a since-deleted tablespace. It also makes for a significant improvement in the usability of PITR replay.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-01Cause ALTER OWNER commands to update the object's ACL, replacing referencesTom Lane
to the old owner with the new owner. This is not necessarily right, but it's sure a lot more likely to be what the user wants than doing nothing. Christopher Kings-Lynne, some rework by Tom Lane.
2004-08-01Add docs for initdb --auth.Bruce Momjian
2004-06-25Support renaming of tablespaces, and changing the owners ofTom Lane
aggregates, conversions, functions, operators, operator classes, schemas, types, and tablespaces. Fold the existing implementations of alter domain owner and alter database owner in with these. Christopher Kings-Lynne
2004-06-18Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.Tom Lane
There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules need work, and so does the documentation. Also someone should think about COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE. Also initlocation is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
2004-06-10Attached is a patch that takes care of the PATHSEP issue. I made a moreBruce Momjian
extensive change then what was suggested. I found the file path.c that contained a lot of "Unix/Windows" agnostic functions so I added a function there instead and removed the PATHSEP declaration in exec.c altogether. All to keep things from scattering all over the code. I also took the liberty of changing the name of the functions "first_path_sep" and "last_path_sep". Where I come from (and I'm apparently not alone given the former macro name PATHSEP), they should be called "first_dir_sep" and "last_dir_sep". The new function I introduced, that actually finds path separators, is now the "first_path_sep". The patch contains changes on all affected places of course. I also changed the documentation on dynamic_library_path to reflect the chagnes. Thomas Hallgren
2004-05-26This patch implement the TODO [ALTER DATABASE foo OWNER TO bar].Bruce Momjian
It was necessary to touch in grammar and create a new node to make home to the new syntax. The command is also supported in E CPG. Doc updates are attached too. Only superusers can change the owner of the database. New owners don't need any aditional privileges. Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2004-05-26Reimplement the linked list data structure used throughout the backend.Neil Conway
In the past, we used a 'Lispy' linked list implementation: a "list" was merely a pointer to the head node of the list. The problem with that design is that it makes lappend() and length() linear time. This patch fixes that problem (and others) by maintaining a count of the list length and a pointer to the tail node along with each head node pointer. A "list" is now a pointer to a structure containing some meta-data about the list; the head and tail pointers in that structure refer to ListCell structures that maintain the actual linked list of nodes. The function names of the list API have also been changed to, I hope, be more logically consistent. By default, the old function names are still available; they will be disabled-by-default once the rest of the tree has been updated to use the new API names.
2004-04-19* Most changes are to fix warnings issued when compiling win32Bruce Momjian
* removed a few redundant defines * get_user_name safe under win32 * rationalized pipe read EOF for win32 (UPDATED PATCH USED) * changed all backend instances of sleep() to pg_usleep - except for the SLEEP_ON_ASSERT in assert.c, as it would exceed a 32-bit long [Note to patcher: If a SLEEP_ON_ASSERT of 2000 seconds is acceptable, please replace with pg_usleep(2000000000L)] I added a comment to that part of the code: /* * It would be nice to use pg_usleep() here, but only does 2000 sec * or 33 minutes, which seems too short. */ sleep(1000000); Claudio Natoli
2004-02-10Restructure smgr API as per recent proposal. smgr no longer depends onTom Lane
the relcache, and so the notion of 'blind write' is gone. This should improve efficiency in bgwriter and background checkpoint processes. Internal restructuring in md.c to remove the not-very-useful array of MdfdVec objects --- might as well just use pointers. Also remove the long-dead 'persistent main memory' storage manager (mm.c), since it seems quite unlikely to ever get resurrected.
2004-01-07More janitorial work: remove the explicit casting of NULL literals to aNeil Conway
pointer type when it is not necessary to do so. For future reference, casting NULL to a pointer type is only necessary when (a) invoking a function AND either (b) the function has no prototype OR (c) the function is a varargs function.
2003-12-15Add mention with might need to use cp -R someday for portability.Bruce Momjian
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-11-19Background writer processJan Wieck
This first part of the background writer does no syncing at all. It's only purpose is to keep the LRU heads clean so that regular backends seldom to never have to call write(). Jan
2003-11-12Cross-data-type comparisons are now indexable by btrees, pursuant to myTom Lane
pghackers proposal of 8-Nov. All the existing cross-type comparison operators (int2/int4/int8 and float4/float8) have appropriate support. The original proposal of storing the right-hand-side datatype as part of the primary key for pg_amop and pg_amproc got modified a bit in the event; it is easier to store zero as the 'default' case and only store a nonzero when the operator is actually cross-type. Along the way, remove the long-since-defunct bigbox_ops operator class.
2003-11-09Add operator strategy and comparison-value datatype fields to ScanKey.Tom Lane
Remove the 'strategy map' code, which was a large amount of mechanism that no longer had any use except reverse-mapping from procedure OID to strategy number. Passing the strategy number to the index AM in the first place is simpler and faster. This is a preliminary step in planned support for cross-datatype index operations. I'm committing it now since the ScanKeyEntryInitialize() API change touches quite a lot of files, and I want to commit those changes before the tree drifts under me.
2003-09-29More message editing, some suggested by Alvaro HerreraPeter Eisentraut
2003-09-25Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardizePeter Eisentraut
terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic message building.
2003-09-10Improve error message for cp or rm failur during create/drop database,Tom Lane
per recent discussions.