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2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-03-04Prevent lazy_space_alloc from making requests that exceed MaxAllocSize,Tom Lane
per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.
2006-03-03Make the COPY command return a command tag that includes the number ofTom Lane
rows copied. Backend side of Volkan Yazici's recent patch, with corrections and documentation.
2006-03-03Dept. of second thoughts: rejigger the TRUNCATE ... CASCADE patch so thatTom Lane
relations are still checked for permissions etc as soon as they are opened. The original form of the patch could hold exclusive lock for a long time on relations that the user doesn't even have permissions to access, let alone truncate.
2006-03-03Add CASCADE option to TRUNCATE. Joachim WielandTom Lane
2006-03-01Attached is a patch that replaces a bunch of places where StringInfosNeil Conway
are unnecessarily allocated on the heap rather than the stack. If the StringInfo doesn't outlive the stack frame in which it is created, there is no need to allocate it on the heap via makeStringInfo() -- stack allocation is faster. While it's not a big deal unless the code is in a critical path, I don't see a reason not to save a few cycles -- using stack allocation is not less readable. I also cleaned up a bit of code along the way: moved variable declarations into a more tightly-enclosing scope where possible, fixed some pointless copying of strings in dblink, etc.
2006-02-28Allow the syntax CREATE TYPE foo, with no parameters, to permit explicitTom Lane
creation of a shell type. This allows a less hacky way of dealing with the mutual dependency between a datatype and its I/O functions: make a shell type, then make the functions, then define the datatype fully. We should fix pg_dump to handle things this way, but this commit just deals with the backend. Martijn van Oosterhout, with some corrections by Tom Lane.
2006-02-28Extend the ExecInitNode API so that plan nodes receive a set of flagTom Lane
bits indicating which optional capabilities can actually be exercised at runtime. This will allow Sort and Material nodes, and perhaps later other nodes, to avoid unnecessary overhead in common cases. This commit just adds the infrastructure and arranges to pass the correct flag values down to plan nodes; none of the actual optimizations are here yet. I'm committing this separately in case anyone wants to measure the added overhead. (It should be negligible.) Simon Riggs and Tom Lane
2006-02-27Clean up CREATE FUNCTION syntax usage in contrib and elsewhere, inPeter Eisentraut
particular get rid of single quotes around language names and old WITH () construct.
2006-02-19Add TABLESPACE and ON COMMIT clauses to CREATE TABLE AS. ON COMMIT isNeil Conway
required by the SQL standard, and TABLESPACE is useful functionality. Patch from Kris Jurka, minor editorialization by Neil Conway.
2006-02-12Fix bug that allowed any logged-in user to SET ROLE to any other database userTom Lane
id (CVE-2006-0553). Also fix related bug in SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION that allows unprivileged users to crash the server, if it has been compiled with Asserts enabled. The escalation-of-privilege risk exists only in 8.1.0-8.1.2. However, the Assert-crash risk exists in all releases back to 7.3. Thanks to Akio Ishida for reporting this problem.
2006-02-12Revert patch becaues of locking concerns:Bruce Momjian
Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAME Joachim Wieland
2006-02-12I've created a new shared catalog table pg_shdescription to storeBruce Momjian
comments on cluster global objects like databases, tablespaces, and roles. It touches a lot of places, but not much in the way of big changes. The only design decision I made was to duplicate the query and manipulation functions rather than to try and have them handle both shared and local comments. I believe this is simpler for the code and not an issue for callers because they know what type of object they are dealing with. This has resulted in a shobj_description function analagous to obj_description and backend functions [Create/Delete]SharedComments mirroring the existing [Create/Delete]Comments functions. pg_shdescription.h goes into src/include/catalog/ Kris Jurka
2006-02-11Skip ambulkdelete scan if there's nothing to delete and the index is notTom Lane
partial. None of the existing AMs do anything useful except counting tuples when there's nothing to delete, and we can get a tuple count from the heap as long as it's not a partial index. (hash actually can skip anyway because it maintains a tuple count in the index metapage.) GIST is not currently able to exploit this optimization because, due to failure to index NULLs, GIST is always effectively partial. Possibly we should fix that sometime. Simon Riggs w/ some review by Tom Lane.
2006-02-11Allow ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT ... RENAMEBruce Momjian
Joachim Wieland
2006-02-11Revert based on Tom's recommendation:Bruce Momjian
> Allow VACUUM to complete faster by avoiding scanning the indexes when no > rows were removed from the heap by the VACUUM.
2006-02-11Allow VACUUM to complete faster by avoiding scanning the indexes when noBruce Momjian
rows were removed from the heap by the VACUUM. Simon Riggs
2006-02-10Change search for default operator classes so that it examines all opclassesTom Lane
regardless of the current schema search path. Since CREATE OPERATOR CLASS only allows one default opclass per datatype regardless of schemas, this should have minimal impact, and it fixes problems with failure to find a desired opclass while restoring dump files. Per discussion at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00284.php. Remove now-redundant-or-unused code in typcache.c and namespace.c, and backpatch as far as 8.0.
2006-02-05Improve my initial, rather hacky implementation of joins to appendTom Lane
relations: fix the executor so that we can have an Append plan on the inside of a nestloop and still pass down outer index keys to index scans within the Append, then generate such plans as if they were regular inner indexscans. This avoids the need to evaluate the outer relation multiple times.
2006-02-04DROP IF EXISTS for ROLE/USER/GROUPAndrew Dunstan
2006-02-03Update random() usage so ranges are inclusive/exclusive as required.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-03Prevent COPY from using newline or carriage return as delimiter or null.Bruce Momjian
Disallow backslash as the delimiter in non-CVS mode. David Fetter
2006-01-30Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE bug: it sometimes tried to drop UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEYTom Lane
constraints before FOREIGN KEY constraints that depended on them. Originally reported by Neil Conway on 29-Jun-2005. Patch by Nakano Yoshihisa.
2006-01-21Add GRANT ON SEQUENCE syntax to support sequence-only permissions.Bruce Momjian
Continue to support GRANT ON [TABLE] for sequences for backward compatibility; issue warning for invalid sequence permissions. [Backward compatibility warning message.] Add USAGE permission for sequences that allows only currval() and nextval(), not setval(). Mention object name in grant/revoke warnings because of possible multi-object operations.
2006-01-19It turns out that TablespaceCreateDbspace fails badly if a relcache flushTom Lane
occurs when it tries to heap_open pg_tablespace. When control returns to smgrcreate, that routine will be holding a dangling pointer to a closed SMgrRelation, resulting in mayhem. This is of course a consequence of the violation of proper module layering inherent in having smgr.c call a tablespace command routine, but the simplest fix seems to be to change the locking mechanism. There's no real need for TablespaceCreateDbspace to touch pg_tablespace at all --- it's only opening it as a way of locking against a parallel DROP TABLESPACE command. A much better answer is to create a special-purpose LWLock to interlock these two operations. This drops TablespaceCreateDbspace quite a few layers down the food chain and makes it something reasonably safe for smgr to call.
2006-01-18Modify pgstats code to reduce performance penalties from oversized stats dataTom Lane
files: avoid creating stats hashtable entries for tables that aren't being touched except by vacuum/analyze, ensure that entries for dropped tables are removed promptly, and tweak the data layout to avoid storing useless struct padding. Also improve the performance of pgstat_vacuum_tabstat(), and make sure that autovacuum invokes it exactly once per autovac cycle rather than multiple times or not at all. This should cure recent complaints about 8.1 showing much higher stats I/O volume than was seen in 8.0. It'd still be a good idea to revisit the design with an eye to not re-writing the entire stats dataset every half second ... but that would be too much to backpatch, I fear.
2006-01-18Add a new system view, pg_cursors, that displays the currently availableNeil Conway
cursors. Patch from Joachim Wieland, review and ediorialization by Neil Conway. The view lists cursors defined by DECLARE CURSOR, using SPI, or via the Bind message of the frontend/backend protocol. This means the view does not list the unnamed portal or the portal created to implement EXECUTE. Because we do list SPI portals, there might be more rows in this view than you might expect if you are using SPI implicitly (e.g. via a procedural language). Per recent discussion on -hackers, the query string included in the view for cursors defined by DECLARE CURSOR is based on debug_query_string. That means it is not accurate if multiple queries separated by semicolons are submitted as one query string. However, there doesn't seem a trivial fix for that: debug_query_string is better than nothing. I also changed SPI_cursor_open() to include the source text for the portal it creates: AFAICS there is no reason not to do this. Update the documentation and regression tests, bump the catversion.
2006-01-16Change the parameter_types column of the pg_prepared_statements to beNeil Conway
an array of regtype, rather than an array of OIDs. This is likely to be more useful to user, and the type OID can easily be obtained by casting a regtype value to OID. Per suggestion from Tom. Update the documentation and regression tests, and bump the catversion.
2006-01-13Document that CREATE OPERATOR CLASS amounts to granting public executeTom Lane
permissions on the functions and operators contained in the opclass. Since we already require superuser privilege to create an operator class, there's no expansion-of-privilege hazard here, but if someone were to get the idea of building an opclass containing functions that need security restrictions, we'd better warn them off. Also, change the permission checks from have-execute-privilege to have-ownership, and then comment them all out since they're dead code anyway under the superuser restriction.
2006-01-13Require the issuer of CREATE TYPE to own the functions mentioned in theTom Lane
type definition. Because use of a type's I/O conversion functions isn't access-checked, CREATE TYPE amounts to granting public execute permissions on the functions, and so allowing it to anybody means that someone could theoretically gain access to a function he's not supposed to be able to execute. The parameter-type restrictions already enforced by CREATE TYPE make it fairly unlikely that this oversight is meaningful in practice, but still it seems like a good idea to plug the hole going forward. Also, document the implicit grant just in case anybody gets the idea of building I/O functions that might need security restrictions.
2006-01-12Repair "Halloween problem" in EvalPlanQual: a tuple that's been inserted byTom Lane
our own command (or more generally, xmin = our xact and cmin >= current command ID) should not be seen as good. Else we may try to update rows we already updated. This error was inserted last August while fixing the even bigger problem that the old coding wouldn't see *any* tuples inserted by our own transaction as good. Per report from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2006-01-08Add a new system view, pg_prepared_statements, that can be used toNeil Conway
access information about the prepared statements that are available in the current session. Original patch from Joachim Wieland, various improvements by Neil Conway. The "statement" column of the view contains the literal query string sent by the client, without any rewriting or pretty printing. This means that prepared statements created via SQL will be prefixed with "PREPARE ... AS ", whereas those prepared via the FE/BE protocol will not. That is unfortunate, but discussion on -patches did not yield an efficient way to improve this, and there is some merit in returning exactly what the client sent to the backend. Catalog version bumped, regression tests updated.
2006-01-05Make all command-line options of postmaster and postgres the same. SeePeter Eisentraut
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00151.php for the complete plan.
2006-01-04Fix another case in which autovacuum would fail while analyzingTom Lane
expressional indexes. Per report from Brian Hirt.
2005-12-28Add regression tests for CSV and \., and add automatic quoting of aBruce Momjian
single column dump that has a \. value, so the load works properly. I also added documentation describing this issue.
2005-12-27Our code had:Bruce Momjian
if (c == '\\' && cstate->line_buf.len == 0) The problem with that is the because of the input and _output_ buffering, cstate->line_buf.len could be zero even if we are not on the first character of a line. In fact, for a typical line, it is zero for all characters on the line. The proper solution is to introduce a boolean, first_char_in_line, that we set as we enter the loop and clear once we process a character. I have restructured the line-reading code in copy.c by: o merging the CSV/non-CSV functions into a single function o used macros to centralize and clarify the buffering code o updated comments o renamed client_encoding_only to encoding_embeds_ascii o added a high-bit test to the encoding_embeds_ascii test for performance o in CSV mode, allow a backslash followed by a non-period to continue being processed as a data value There should be no performance impact from this patch because it is functionally equivalent. If you apply the patch you will see copy.c is much clearer in this area now and might suggest additional optimizations. I have also attached a 8.1-only patch to fix the CSV \. handling bug with no code restructuring.
2005-12-23Allow CREATE/ALTER ROLE PASSWORD NULL to allow restoring the default statePeter Eisentraut
of having no password.
2005-12-14Defend against crash while processing Describe Statement or Describe PortalTom Lane
messages, when client attempts to execute these outside a transaction (start one) or in a failed transaction (reject message, except for COMMIT/ROLLBACK statements which we can handle). Per report from Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
2005-12-03Tweak indexscan machinery to avoid taking an AccessShareLock on an indexTom Lane
if we already have a stronger lock due to the index's table being the update target table of the query. Same optimization I applied earlier at the table level. There doesn't seem to be much interest in the more radical idea of not locking indexes at all, so do what we can ...
2005-11-29Fix EXPLAIN and EXECUTE commands to pass portal parameters through toTom Lane
the executor. This allows, for example, JDBC clients to use '?' bound parameters in these commands. Per gripe from Virag Saksena.
2005-11-26Teach tid-scan code to make use of "ctid = ANY (array)" clauses, so thatTom Lane
"ctid IN (list)" will still work after we convert IN to ScalarArrayOpExpr. Make some minor efficiency improvements while at it, such as ensuring that multiple TIDs are fetched in physical heap order. And fix EXPLAIN so that it shows what's really going on for a TID scan.
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-22 DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS variantAndrew Dunstan
2005-11-21Implement DROP OWNED and REASSIGN OWNED. These new commands facilitate theAlvaro Herrera
process of dropping roles by dropping objects owned by them and privileges granted to them, or giving the owned objects to someone else, through the use of the data stored in the new pg_shdepend catalog. Some refactoring of the GRANT/REVOKE code was needed, as well as ALTER OWNER code. Further cleanup of code duplication in the GRANT code seems necessary. Implemented by me after an idea from Tom Lane, who also provided various kind of implementation advice. Regression tests pass. Some tests for the new functionality are also added, as well as rudimentary documentation.
2005-11-20Remove the t_datamcxt field of HeapTupleData. This was introduced forTom Lane
the convenience of tuptoaster.c and is no longer needed, so may as well get rid of some small amount of overhead.
2005-11-19DROP objecttype IF EXISTS for the following objects:Andrew Dunstan
table view index sequence schema type domain conversion
2005-11-07R-tree is dead ... long live GiST.Tom Lane
2005-11-04Disregard superuserness when checking to see if a role GRANT wouldTom Lane
create circularity of role memberships. This is a minimum-impact fix for the problem reported by Florian Pflug. I thought about removing the superuser_arg test from is_member_of_role() altogether, as it seems redundant for many of the callers --- but not all, and it's way too late in the 8.1 cycle to be making large changes. Perhaps reconsider this later.
2005-11-03Rename the members of CommandDest enum so they don't collide with other uses ofAlvaro Herrera
those names. (Debug and None were pretty bad names anyway.) I hope I catched all uses of the names in comments too.
2005-10-29Message correctionsPeter Eisentraut