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2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-03-04Remove unused #include's from backend .c filesPeter Eisentraut
as determined by include-what-you-use (IWYU) While IWYU also suggests to *add* a bunch of #include's (which is its main purpose), this patch does not do that. In some cases, a more specific #include replaces another less specific one. Some manual adjustments of the automatic result: - IWYU currently doesn't know about includes that provide global variable declarations (like -Wmissing-variable-declarations), so those includes are being kept manually. - All includes for port(ability) headers are being kept for now, to play it safe. - No changes of catalog/pg_foo.h to catalog/pg_foo_d.h, to keep the patch from exploding in size. Note that this patch touches just *.c files, so nothing declared in header files changes in hidden ways. As a small example, in src/backend/access/transam/rmgr.c, some IWYU pragma annotations are added to handle a special case there. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/af837490-6b2f-46df-ba05-37ea6a6653fc%40eisentraut.org
2024-01-03Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
2023-01-02Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 11
2022-11-13Refactor ownercheck functionsPeter Eisentraut
Instead of dozens of mostly-duplicate pg_foo_ownercheck() functions, write one common function object_ownercheck() that can handle almost all of them. We already have all the information we need, such as which system catalog corresponds to which catalog table and which column is the owner column. Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/95c30f96-4060-2f48-98b5-a4392d3b6066@enterprisedb.com
2022-01-07Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-09-05Switch to multi-inserts when registering dependencies for many code pathsMichael Paquier
This commit improves the dependency registrations by taking advantage of the preliminary work done in 63110c62, to group together the insertion of dependencies of the same type to pg_depend. With the current layer of routines available, and as only dependencies of the same type can be grouped, there are code paths still doing more than one multi-insert when it is necessary to register dependencies of multiple types (constraint and index creation are two cases doing that). While on it, this refactors some of the code to use ObjectAddressSet() when manipulating object addresses. Author: Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200807061619.GA23955@paquier.xyz
2020-06-09Unify drop-by-OID functionsPeter Eisentraut
There are a number of Remove${Something}ById() functions that are essentially identical in structure and only different in which catalog they are working on. Refactor this to be one generic function. The information about which oid column, index, etc. to use was already available in ObjectProperty for most catalogs, in a few cases it was easily added. Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/331d9661-1743-857f-1cbb-d5728bcd62cb%402ndquadrant.com
2020-03-05Remove the "opaque" pseudo-type and associated compatibility hacks.Tom Lane
A long time ago, it was necessary to declare datatype I/O functions, triggers, and language handler support functions in a very type-unsafe way involving a single pseudo-type "opaque". We got rid of those conventions in 7.3, but there was still support in various places to automatically convert such functions to the modern declaration style, to be able to transparently re-load dumps from pre-7.3 servers. It seems unnecessary to continue to support that anymore, so take out the hacks; whereupon the "opaque" pseudo-type itself is no longer needed and can be dropped. This is part of a group of patches removing various server-side kluges for transparently upgrading pre-8.0 dump files. Since we've had few complaints about dropping pg_dump's support for dumping from pre-8.0 servers (commit 64f3524e2), it seems okay to now remove these kluges. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4110.1583255415@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-29Invent "trusted" extensions, and remove the pg_pltemplate catalog.Tom Lane
This patch creates a new extension property, "trusted". An extension that's marked that way in its control file can be installed by a non-superuser who has the CREATE privilege on the current database, even if the extension contains objects that normally would have to be created by a superuser. The objects within the extension will (by default) be owned by the bootstrap superuser, but the extension itself will be owned by the calling user. This allows replicating the old behavior around trusted procedural languages, without all the special-case logic in CREATE LANGUAGE. We have, however, chosen to loosen the rules slightly: formerly, only a database owner could take advantage of the special case that allowed installation of a trusted language, but now anyone who has CREATE privilege can do so. Having done that, we can delete the pg_pltemplate catalog, moving the knowledge it contained into the extension script files for the various PLs. This ends up being no change at all for the in-core PLs, but it is a large step forward for external PLs: they can now have the same ease of installation as core PLs do. The old "trusted PL" behavior was only available to PLs that had entries in pg_pltemplate, but now any extension can be marked trusted if appropriate. This also removes one of the stumbling blocks for our Python 2 -> 3 migration, since the association of "plpythonu" with Python 2 is no longer hard-wired into pg_pltemplate's initial contents. Exactly where we go from here on that front remains to be settled, but one problem is fixed. Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut, Stephen Frost, and others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5889.1566415762@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-12-27Revert "Rename files and headers related to index AM"Michael Paquier
This follows multiple complains from Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund and Alvaro Herrera that this issue ought to be dug more before actually happening, if it happens. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226144606.GA5659@alvherre.pgsql
2019-12-25Rename files and headers related to index AMMichael Paquier
The following renaming is done so as source files related to index access methods are more consistent with table access methods (the original names used for index AMs ware too generic, and could be confused as including features related to table AMs): - amapi.h -> indexam.h. - amapi.c -> indexamapi.c. Here we have an equivalent with backend/access/table/tableamapi.c. - amvalidate.c -> indexamvalidate.c. - amvalidate.h -> indexamvalidate.h. - genam.c -> indexgenam.c. - genam.h -> indexgenam.h. This has been discussed during the development of v12 when table AM was worked on, but the renaming never happened. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223053434.GF34339@paquier.xyz
2019-11-12Have LookupFuncName accept NULL argtypes for 0 argsAlvaro Herrera
Prior to this change, it requires to be passed a valid pointer just to be able to pass it to a zero-byte memcmp, per 0a52d378b03b. Given the strange resulting code in callsites, it seems better to test for the case specifically and remove the requirement. Reported-by: Ranier Vilela Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MN2PR18MB2927F24692485D754794F01BE3740@MN2PR18MB2927.namprd18.prod.outlook.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MN2PR18MB2927F6873DF2774A505AC298E3740@MN2PR18MB2927.namprd18.prod.outlook.com
2019-05-22Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-25Remove unnecessary use of PROCEDURALPeter Eisentraut
Remove some unnecessary, legacy-looking use of the PROCEDURAL keyword before LANGUAGE. We mostly don't use this anymore, so some of these look a bit old. There is still some use in pg_dump, which is harder to remove because it's baked into the archive format, so I'm not touching that. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2330919b-62d9-29ac-8de3-58c024fdcb96@2ndquadrant.com
2019-02-09Create the infrastructure for planner support functions.Tom Lane
Rename/repurpose pg_proc.protransform as "prosupport". The idea is still that it names an internal function that provides knowledge to the planner about the behavior of the function it's attached to; but redesign the API specification so that it's not limited to doing just one thing, but can support an extensible set of requests. The original purpose of simplifying a function call is handled by the first request type to be invented, SupportRequestSimplify. Adjust all the existing transform functions to handle this API, and rename them fron "xxx_transform" to "xxx_support" to reflect the potential generalization of what they do. (Since we never previously provided any way for extensions to add transform functions, this change doesn't create an API break for them.) Also add DDL and pg_dump support for attaching a support function to a user-defined function. Unfortunately, DDL access has to be restricted to superusers, at least for now; but seeing that support functions will pretty much have to be written in C, that limitation is just theoretical. (This support is untested in this patch, but a follow-on patch will add cases that exercise it.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-21Remove superfluous tqual.h includes.Andres Freund
Most of these had been obsoleted by 568d4138c / the SnapshotNow removal. This is is preparation for moving most of tqual.[ch] into either snapmgr.h or heapam.h, which in turn is in preparation for pluggable table AMs. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21Replace uses of heap_open et al with the corresponding table_* function.Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable.Andres Freund
A lot of files only included heapam.h for relation_open, heap_open etc - replace the heapam.h include in those files with the narrower header. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-11-20Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column, but as part of the tuple header. This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd, as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the oid column by default. The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating that "specialness" significantly. WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0). Remove it. Removing includes: - CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out) - pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column). - restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column) - COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids. - pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first. - Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed. The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false) for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them. The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column. The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed. Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog tables). The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid, previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the line. While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other patches. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-04-08Merge catalog/pg_foo_fn.h headers back into pg_foo.h headers.Tom Lane
Traditionally, include/catalog/pg_foo.h contains extern declarations for functions in backend/catalog/pg_foo.c, in addition to its function as the authoritative definition of the pg_foo catalog's rowtype. In some cases, we'd been forced to split out those extern declarations into separate pg_foo_fn.h headers so that the catalog definitions could be #include'd by frontend code. That problem is gone as of commit 9c0a0de4c, so let's undo the splits to make things less confusing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23690.1523031777@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-02Add prokind column, replacing proisagg and proiswindowPeter Eisentraut
The new column distinguishes normal functions, procedures, aggregates, and window functions. This replaces the existing columns proisagg and proiswindow, and replaces the convention that procedures are indicated by prorettype == 0. Also change prorettype to be VOIDOID for procedures. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-01-19Replace AclObjectKind with ObjectTypePeter Eisentraut
AclObjectKind was basically just another enumeration for object types, and we already have a preferred one for that. It's only used in aclcheck_error. By using ObjectType instead, we can also give some more precise error messages, for example "index" instead of "relation". Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@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
2017-06-21Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. 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
2017-02-01Provide CatalogTupleDelete() as a wrapper around simple_heap_delete().Tom Lane
This extends the work done in commit 2f5c9d9c9 to provide a more nearly complete abstraction layer hiding the details of index updating for catalog changes. That commit only invented abstractions for catalog inserts and updates, leaving nearby code for catalog deletes still calling the heap-level routines directly. That seems rather ugly from here, and it does little to help if we ever want to shift to a storage system in which indexing work is needed at delete time. Hence, create a wrapper function CatalogTupleDelete(), and replace calls of simple_heap_delete() on catalog tuples with it. There are now very few direct calls of [simple_]heap_delete remaining in the tree. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/462.1485902736@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-01-31Tweak catalog indexing abstraction for upcoming WARMAlvaro Herrera
Split the existing CatalogUpdateIndexes into two different routines, CatalogTupleInsert and CatalogTupleUpdate, which do both the heap insert/update plus the index update. This removes over 300 lines of boilerplate code all over src/backend/catalog/ and src/backend/commands. The resulting code is much more pleasing to the eye. Also, by encapsulating what happens in detail during an UPDATE, this facilitates the upcoming WARM patch, which is going to add a few more lines to the update case making the boilerplate even more boring. The original CatalogUpdateIndexes is removed; there was only one use left, and since it's just three lines, we can as well expand it in place there. We could keep it, but WARM is going to break all the UPDATE out-of-core callsites anyway, so there seems to be no benefit in doing so. Author: Pavan Deolasee Discussion: https://www.postgr.es/m/CABOikdOcFYSZ4vA2gYfs=M2cdXzXX4qGHeEiW3fu9PCfkHLa2A@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-18Make messages mentioning type names more uniformAlvaro Herrera
This avoids additional translatable strings for each distinct type, as well as making our quoting style around type names more consistent (namely, that we don't quote type names). This continues what started as f402b9950120. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160401170642.GA57509@alvherre.pgsql
2017-01-03Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian
2016-09-13Be pickier about converting between Name and Datum.Tom Lane
We were misapplying NameGetDatum() to plain C strings in some places. This worked, because it was just a pointer cast anyway, but it's a type cheat in some sense. Use CStringGetDatum instead, and modify the NameGetDatum macro so it won't compile if applied to something that's not a pointer to NameData. This should result in no changes to generated code, but it is logically cleaner. Mark Dilger, tweaked a bit by me Discussion: <EFD8AC94-4C1F-40C1-A5EA-304080089C1B@gmail.com>
2016-06-09pgindent run for 9.6Robert Haas
2016-04-01Type names should not be quotedAlvaro Herrera
Our actual convention, contrary to what I said in 59a2111b23f, is not to quote type names, as evidenced by unquoted use of format_type_be() result value in error messages. Remove quotes from recently tweaked messages accordingly. Per note from Tom Lane
2016-03-28Improve internationalization of messages involving type namesAlvaro Herrera
Change the slightly different variations of the message function FOO must return type BAR to a single wording, removing the variability in type name so that they all create a single translation entry; since the type name is not to be translated, there's no point in it being part of the message anyway. Also, change them all to use the same quoting convention, namely that the function name is not to be quoted but the type name is. (I'm not quite sure why this is so, but it's the clear majority.) Some similar messages such as "encoding conversion function FOO must ..." are also changed.
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-09-16Determine whether it's safe to attempt a parallel plan for a query.Robert Haas
Commit 924bcf4f16d54c55310b28f77686608684734f42 introduced a framework for parallel computation in PostgreSQL that makes most but not all built-in functions safe to execute in parallel mode. In order to have parallel query, we'll need to be able to determine whether that query contains functions (either built-in or user-defined) that cannot be safely executed in parallel mode. This requires those functions to be labeled, so this patch introduces an infrastructure for that. Some functions currently labeled as safe may need to be revised depending on how pending issues related to heavyweight locking under paralllelism are resolved. Parallel plans can't be used except for the case where the query will run to completion. If portal execution were suspended, the parallel mode restrictions would need to remain in effect during that time, but that might make other queries fail. Therefore, this patch introduces a framework that enables consideration of parallel plans only when it is known that the plan will be run to completion. This probably needs some refinement; for example, at bind time, we do not know whether a query run via the extended protocol will be execution to completion or run with a limited fetch count. Having the client indicate its intentions at bind time would constitute a wire protocol break. Some contexts in which parallel mode would be safe are not adjusted by this patch; the default is not to try parallel plans except from call sites that have been updated to say that such plans are OK. This commit doesn't introduce any parallel paths or plans; it just provides a way to determine whether they could potentially be used. I'm committing it on the theory that the remaining parallel sequential scan patches will also get committed to this release, hopefully in the not-too-distant future. Robert Haas and Amit Kapila. Reviewed (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch.
2015-04-26Add transforms featurePeter Eisentraut
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python. reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
2015-03-03Change many routines to return ObjectAddress rather than OIDAlvaro Herrera
The changed routines are mostly those that can be directly called by ProcessUtilitySlow; the intention is to make the affected object information more precise, in support for future event trigger changes. Originally it was envisioned that the OID of the affected object would be enough, and in most cases that is correct, but upon actually implementing the event trigger changes it turned out that ObjectAddress is more widely useful. Additionally, some command execution routines grew an output argument that's an object address which provides further info about the executed command. To wit: * for ALTER DOMAIN / ADD CONSTRAINT, it corresponds to the address of the new constraint * for ALTER OBJECT / SET SCHEMA, it corresponds to the address of the schema that originally contained the object. * for ALTER EXTENSION {ADD, DROP} OBJECT, it corresponds to the address of the object added to or dropped from the extension. There's no user-visible change in this commit, and no functional change either. Discussion: 20150218213255.GC6717@tamriel.snowman.net Reviewed-By: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
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.
2013-07-02Use an MVCC snapshot, rather than SnapshotNow, for catalog scans.Robert Haas
SnapshotNow scans have the undesirable property that, in the face of concurrent updates, the scan can fail to see either the old or the new versions of the row. In many cases, we work around this by requiring DDL operations to hold AccessExclusiveLock on the object being modified; in some cases, the existing locking is inadequate and random failures occur as a result. This commit doesn't change anything related to locking, but will hopefully pave the way to allowing lock strength reductions in the future. The major issue has held us back from making this change in the past is that taking an MVCC snapshot is significantly more expensive than using a static special snapshot such as SnapshotNow. However, testing of various worst-case scenarios reveals that this problem is not severe except under fairly extreme workloads. To mitigate those problems, we avoid retaking the MVCC snapshot for each new scan; instead, we take a new snapshot only when invalidation messages have been processed. The catcache machinery already requires that invalidation messages be sent before releasing the related heavyweight lock; else other backends might rely on locally-cached data rather than scanning the catalog at all. Thus, making snapshot reuse dependent on the same guarantees shouldn't break anything that wasn't already subtly broken. Patch by me. Review by Michael Paquier and Andres Freund.
2013-05-29pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
2013-03-06Code beautification for object-access hook machinery.Robert Haas
KaiGai Kohei
2013-01-21Refactor ALTER some-obj RENAME implementationAlvaro Herrera
Remove duplicate implementations of catalog munging and miscellaneous privilege checks. Instead rely on already existing data in objectaddress.c to do the work. Author: KaiGai Kohei, changes by me Reviewed by: Robert Haas, Álvaro Herrera, Dimitri Fontaine
2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.