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2004-08-02Allow DECLARE CURSOR to take parameters from the portal in which it isTom Lane
executed. Previously, the DECLARE would succeed but subsequent FETCHes would fail since the parameter values supplied to DECLARE were not propagated to the portal created for the cursor. In support of this, add type Oids to ParamListInfo entries, which seems like a good idea anyway since code that extracts a value can double-check that it got the type of value it was expecting. Oliver Jowett, with minor editorialization by Tom Lane.
2004-07-15For a SQL function declared to return a named composite type, makeTom Lane
sure the tuple datums it returns actually show that type and not RECORD.
2004-06-11When using extended-query protocol, postpone planning of unnamed statementsTom Lane
until Bind is received, so that actual parameter values are visible to the planner. Make use of the parameter values for estimation purposes (but don't fold them into the actual plan). This buys back most of the potential loss of plan quality that ensues from using out-of-line parameters instead of putting literal values right into the query text. This patch creates a notion of constant-folding expressions 'for estimation purposes only', in which case we can be more aggressive than the normal eval_const_expressions() logic can be. Right now the only difference in behavior is inserting bound values for Params, but it will be interesting to look at other possibilities. One that we've seen come up repeatedly is reducing now() and related functions to current values, so that queries like ... WHERE timestampcol > now() - '1 day' have some chance of being planned effectively. Oliver Jowett, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
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.
2004-04-02check_sql_fn_retval has always thought that we supported doingTom Lane
'SELECT foo()' in a SQL function returning a rowtype, to simply pass back the results of another function returning the same rowtype. However, that hasn't actually worked in many years. Now it works again.
2004-04-01Replace TupleTableSlot convention for whole-row variables and functionTom Lane
results with tuples as ordinary varlena Datums. This commit does not in itself do much for us, except eliminate the horrid memory leak associated with evaluation of whole-row variables. However, it lays the groundwork for allowing composite types as table columns, and perhaps some other useful features as well. Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2004-03-21Revise syntax-error reporting behavior to give pleasant results forTom Lane
errors in internally-generated queries, such as those submitted by plpgsql functions. Per recent discussions with Fabien Coelho.
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.
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-09-25Get rid of ReferentialIntegritySnapshotOverride by extending Executor APITom Lane
to allow es_snapshot to be set to SnapshotNow rather than a query snapshot. This solves a bug reported by Wade Klaver, wherein triggers fired as a result of RI cascade updates could misbehave.
2003-09-25Message editing: remove gratuitous variations in message wording, standardizePeter Eisentraut
terms, add some clarifications, fix some untranslatable attempts at dynamic message building.
2003-09-15OK, some of these syntax errors should be given other codes.Peter Eisentraut
2003-09-09Some "feature not supported" errors are better syntax errors, because thePeter Eisentraut
feature they complain about isn't a feature or cannot be implemented without definitional changes.
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-28Add error stack traceback support for SQL-language functions.Tom Lane
2003-07-21Error message editing in backend/executor.Tom Lane
2003-07-01SQL functions can have arguments and results declared ANYARRAY orTom Lane
ANYELEMENT. The effect is to postpone typechecking of the function body until runtime. Documentation is still lacking. Original patch by Joe Conway, modified to postpone type checking by Tom Lane.
2003-06-12Fix SQL function executor for case where last command of a function isTom Lane
not a SELECT. We didn't use to allow that, but we do now.
2003-05-08Update 3.0 protocol support to match recent agreements about how toTom Lane
handle multiple 'formats' for data I/O. Restructure CommandDest and DestReceiver stuff one more time (it's finally starting to look a bit clean though). Code now matches latest 3.0 protocol document as far as message formats go --- but there is no support for binary I/O yet.
2003-05-06Restructure command destination handling so that we pass aroundTom Lane
DestReceiver pointers instead of just CommandDest values. The DestReceiver is made at the point where the destination is selected, rather than deep inside the executor. This cleans up the original kluge implementation of tstoreReceiver.c, and makes it easy to support retrieving results from utility statements inside portals. Thus, you can now do fun things like Bind and Execute a FETCH or EXPLAIN command, and it'll all work as expected (e.g., you can Describe the portal, or use Execute's count parameter to suspend the output partway through). Implementation involves stuffing the utility command's output into a Tuplestore, which would be kind of annoying for huge output sets, but should be quite acceptable for typical uses of utility commands.
2003-05-06Implement feature of new FE/BE protocol whereby RowDescription identifiesTom Lane
the column by table OID and column number, if it's a simple column reference. Along the way, get rid of reskey/reskeyop fields in Resdoms. Turns out that representation was not convenient for either the planner or the executor; we can make the planner deliver exactly what the executor wants with no more effort. initdb forced due to change in stored rule representation.
2002-12-15Revise executor APIs so that all per-query state structure is built inTom Lane
a per-query memory context created by CreateExecutorState --- and destroyed by FreeExecutorState. This provides a final solution to the longstanding problem of memory leaked by various ExecEndNode calls.
2002-12-05Phase 1 of read-only-plans project: cause executor state nodes to pointTom Lane
to plan nodes, not vice-versa. All executor state nodes now inherit from struct PlanState. Copying of plan trees has been simplified by not storing a list of SubPlans in Plan nodes (eliminating duplicate links). The executor still needs such a list, but it can build it during ExecutorStart since it has to scan the plan tree anyway. No initdb forced since no stored-on-disk structures changed, but you will need a full recompile because of node-numbering changes.
2002-11-13Add new palloc0 call as merge of palloc and MemSet(0).Bruce Momjian
2002-11-11Back out use of palloc0 in place if palloc/MemSet. Seems constant lenBruce Momjian
to MemSet is a performance boost.
2002-11-10Merge palloc()/MemSet(0) calls into a single palloc0() call.Bruce Momjian
2002-09-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2002-08-29Code review for standalone composite types, query-specified compositeTom Lane
types, SRFs. Not happy with memory management yet, but I'll commit these other changes.
2002-08-23Further cleanup around the edges of OPAQUE/pseudotype changes. CorrectTom Lane
the declarations of some index access method support functions. Support SQL functions returning VOID.
2002-08-05Preliminary code review for anonymous-composite-types patch: fix breakageTom Lane
of functions returning domain types, update documentation for typtype, move get_typtype to lsyscache.c (actually, resurrect the old version), add defense against creating pseudo-typed table columns, fix some bogus list-parsing in grammar. Issues remain with respect to alias handling and type checking; Joe is on those.
2002-08-04Attached are two patches to implement and document anonymous compositeBruce Momjian
types for Table Functions, as previously proposed on HACKERS. Here is a brief explanation: 1. Creates a new pg_type typtype: 'p' for pseudo type (currently either 'b' for base or 'c' for catalog, i.e. a class). 2. Creates new builtin type of typtype='p' named RECORD. This is the first of potentially several pseudo types. 3. Modify FROM clause grammer to accept: SELECT * FROM my_func() AS m(colname1 type1, colname2 type1, ...) where m is the table alias, colname1, etc are the column names, and type1, etc are the column types. 4. When typtype == 'p' and the function return type is RECORD, a list of column defs is required, and when typtype != 'p', it is disallowed. 5. A check was added to ensure that the tupdesc provide via the parser and the actual return tupdesc match in number and type of attributes. When creating a function you can do: CREATE FUNCTION foo(text) RETURNS setof RECORD ... When using it you can do: SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) AS (f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp) or SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) AS f(f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp) or SELECT * from foo(sqlstmt) f(f1 int, f2 text, f3 timestamp) Included in the patches are adjustments to the regression test sql and expected files, and documentation. p.s. This potentially solves (or at least improves) the issue of builtin Table Functions. They can be bootstrapped as returning RECORD, and we can wrap system views around them with properly specified column defs. For example: CREATE VIEW pg_settings AS SELECT s.name, s.setting FROM show_all_settings()AS s(name text, setting text); Then we can also add the UPDATE RULE that I previously posted to pg_settings, and have pg_settings act like a virtual table, allowing settings to be queried and set. Joe Conway
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2002-05-21Remove global variable scanCommandId in favor of storing a command IDTom Lane
in snapshots, per my proposal of a few days ago. Also, tweak heapam.c routines (heap_insert, heap_update, heap_delete, heap_mark4update) to be passed the command ID to use, instead of doing GetCurrentCommandID. For catalog updates they'll still get passed current command ID, but for updates generated from the main executor they'll get passed the command ID saved in the snapshot the query is using. This should fix some corner cases associated with functions and triggers that advance current command ID while an outer query is still in progress.
2002-05-12First pass at set-returning-functions in FROM, by Joe Conway withTom Lane
some kibitzing from Tom Lane. Not everything works yet, and there's no documentation or regression test, but let's commit this so Joe doesn't need to cope with tracking changes in so many files ...
2002-02-27Clean up BeginCommand and related routines. BeginCommand and EndCommandTom Lane
are now both invoked once per received SQL command (raw parsetree) from pg_exec_query_string. BeginCommand is actually just an empty routine at the moment --- all its former operations have been pushed into tuple receiver setup routines in printtup.c. This makes for a clean distinction between BeginCommand/EndCommand (once per command) and the tuple receiver setup/teardown routines (once per ExecutorRun call), whereas the old code was quite ad hoc. Along the way, clean up the calling conventions for ExecutorRun a little bit.
2002-02-26Restructure command-completion-report code so that there is just oneTom Lane
report for each received SQL command, regardless of rewriting activity. Also ensure that this report comes from the 'original' command, not the last command generated by rewrite; this fixes 7.2 breakage for INSERT commands that have actions added by rules. Fernando Nasser and Tom Lane.
2001-10-28Another pgindent run. Fixes enum indenting, and improves #endifBruce Momjian
spacing. Also adds space for one-line comments.
2001-10-25pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian
tests pass.
2001-03-22Remove dashes in comments that don't need them, rewrap with pgindent.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-22pgindent run. Make it all clean.Bruce Momjian
2001-01-29Clean up handling of tuple descriptors so that result-tuple descriptorsTom Lane
allocated by plan nodes are not leaked at end of query. This doesn't really matter for normal queries, but it sure does for queries invoked repetitively inside SQL functions. Clean up some other grotty code associated with tupdescs, and fix a few other memory leaks exposed by tests with simple SQL functions.
2001-01-24Change Copyright from PostgreSQL, Inc to PostgreSQL Global Development Group.Bruce Momjian
2000-11-16Change SearchSysCache coding conventions so that a reference count isTom Lane
maintained for each cache entry. A cache entry will not be freed until the matching ReleaseSysCache call has been executed. This eliminates worries about cache entries getting dropped while still in use. See my posting to pg-hackers of even date for more info.
2000-11-12Restructure handling of inheritance queries so that they work with outerTom Lane
joins, and clean things up a good deal at the same time. Append plan node no longer hacks on rangetable at runtime --- instead, all child tables are given their own RT entries during planning. Concept of multiple target tables pushed up into execMain, replacing bug-prone implementation within nodeAppend. Planner now supports generating Append plans for inheritance sets either at the top of the plan (the old way) or at the bottom. Expanding at the bottom is appropriate for tables used as sources, since they may appear inside an outer join; but we must still expand at the top when the target of an UPDATE or DELETE is an inheritance set, because we actually need a different targetlist and junkfilter for each target table in that case. Fortunately a target table can't be inside an outer join... Bizarre mutual recursion between union_planner and prepunion.c is gone --- in fact, union_planner doesn't really have much to do with union queries anymore, so I renamed it grouping_planner.
2000-10-26Re-implement LIMIT/OFFSET as a plan node type, instead of a hack inTom Lane
ExecutorRun. This allows LIMIT to work in a view. Also, LIMIT in a cursor declaration will behave in a reasonable fashion, whereas before it was overridden by the FETCH count.
2000-08-24SQL-language functions are now callable in ordinary fmgr contexts ...Tom Lane
for example, an SQL function can be used in a functional index. (I make no promises about speed, but it'll work ;-).) Clean up and simplify handling of functions returning sets.
2000-08-08Remove 'func_tlist' from Func expression nodes, likewise 'param_tlist'Tom Lane
from Param nodes, per discussion a few days ago on pghackers. Add new expression node type FieldSelect that implements the functionality where it's actually needed. Clean up some other unused fields in Func nodes as well. NOTE: initdb forced due to change in stored expression trees for rules.
2000-07-12First stage of reclaiming memory in executor by resetting short-termTom Lane
memory contexts. Currently, only leaks in expressions executed as quals or projections are handled. Clean up some old dead cruft in executor while at it --- unused fields in state nodes, that sort of thing.
2000-06-28First phase of memory management rewrite (see backend/utils/mmgr/READMETom Lane
for details). It doesn't really do that much yet, since there are no short-term memory contexts in the executor, but the infrastructure is in place and long-term contexts are handled reasonably. A few long- standing bugs have been fixed, such as 'VACUUM; anything' in a single query string crashing. Also, out-of-memory is now considered a recoverable ERROR, not FATAL. Eliminate a large amount of crufty, now-dead code in and around memory management. Fix problem with holding off SIGTRAP, SIGSEGV, etc in postmaster and backend startup.