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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.
2004-07-31Be more consistent about reporting SPI errors in the various PLs.Tom Lane
Create a shared function to convert a SPI error code into a string (replacing near-duplicate code in several PLs), and use it anywhere that a SPI function call error is reported.
2004-07-27Replace nested-BEGIN syntax for subtransactions with spec-compliantTom Lane
SAVEPOINT/RELEASE/ROLLBACK-TO syntax. (Alvaro) Cause COMMIT of a failed transaction to report ROLLBACK instead of COMMIT in its command tag. (Tom) Fix a few loose ends in the nested-transactions stuff.
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.
2004-07-10Test HAVING condition before computing targetlist of an Aggregate node.Tom Lane
This is required by SQL spec to avoid failures in cases like SELECT sum(win)/sum(lose) FROM ... GROUP BY ... HAVING sum(lose) > 0; AFAICT we have gotten this wrong since day one. Kudos to Holger Jakobs for being the first to notice.
2004-07-01More paranoia in AtEOSubXact_SPI: don't assume we can safely use SPI_finishTom Lane
for cleaning up. It seems possible that the memory contexts SPI_finish would try to touch are already gone; and there's no need for SPI itself to delete them, since the containing contexts will surely be going away anyway at transaction end.
2004-07-01Nested transactions. There is still much left to do, especially on theTom Lane
performance front, but with feature freeze upon us I think it's time to drive a stake in the ground and say that this will be in 7.5. Alvaro Herrera, with some help from Tom Lane.
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.
2004-06-11When 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.
2004-06-09Support assignment to subfields of composite columns in UPDATE and INSERT.Tom Lane
As a side effect, cause subscripts in INSERT targetlists to do something more or less sensible; previously we evaluated such subscripts and then effectively ignored them. Another side effect is that UPDATE-ing an element or slice of an array value that is NULL now produces a non-null result, namely an array containing just the assigned-to positions.
2004-06-06Infrastructure for I/O of composite types: arrange for the I/O routinesTom Lane
of a composite type to get that type's OID as their second parameter, in place of typelem which is useless. The actual changes are mostly centralized in getTypeInputInfo and siblings, but I had to fix a few places that were fetching pg_type.typelem for themselves instead of using the lsyscache.c routines. Also, I renamed all the related variables from 'typelem' to 'typioparam' to discourage people from assuming that they necessarily contain array element types.
2004-06-05Tweak palloc/repalloc to allow zero bytes to be requested, as per recentTom Lane
proposal. Eliminate several dozen now-unnecessary hacks to avoid palloc(0). (It's likely there are more that I didn't find.)
2004-06-04Resurrect heap_deformtuple(), this time implemented as a singly nestedTom Lane
loop over the fields instead of a loop around heap_getattr. This is considerably faster (O(N) instead of O(N^2)) when there are nulls or varlena fields, since those prevent use of attcacheoff. Replace loops over heap_getattr with heap_deformtuple in situations where all or most of the fields have to be fetched, such as printtup and tuptoaster. Profiling done more than a year ago shows that this should be a nice win for situations involving many-column tables.
2004-06-01Some more de-FastList-ification.Tom Lane
2004-05-30Use the new List API function names throughout the backend, and disable theNeil Conway
list compatibility API by default. While doing this, I decided to keep the llast() macro around and introduce llast_int() and llast_oid() variants.
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.
2004-05-11Refactor low-level aclcheck code to provide useful interfaces for multi-bitTom Lane
permissions tests in about the same amount of code as before. Exactly what the GRANT/REVOKE code ought to be doing is still up for debate, but this should be helpful in any case, and it already solves an efficiency problem in executor startup.
2004-05-10Promote row expressions to full-fledged citizens of the expression syntax,Tom Lane
rather than allowing them only in a few special cases as before. In particular you can now pass a ROW() construct to a function that accepts a rowtype parameter. Internal generation of RowExprs fixes a number of corner cases that used to not work very well, such as referencing the whole-row result of a JOIN or subquery. This represents a further step in the work I started a month or so back to make rowtype values into first-class citizens.
2004-04-21Tweak indexscan and seqscan code to arrange that steps from one page toTom Lane
the next are handled by ReleaseAndReadBuffer rather than separate ReleaseBuffer and ReadBuffer calls. This cuts the number of acquisitions of the BufMgrLock by a factor of 2 (possibly more, if an indexscan happens to pull successive rows from the same heap page). Unfortunately this doesn't seem enough to get us out of the recently discussed context-switch storm problem, but it's surely worth doing anyway.
2004-04-07Still another place to make the world safe for zero-column tables.Tom Lane
Per example from Jiang Wei.
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.
2004-03-24Replace max_expr_depth parameter with a max_stack_depth parameter thatTom Lane
is measured in kilobytes and checked against actual physical execution stack depth, as per my proposal of 30-Dec. This gives us a fairly bulletproof defense against crashing due to runaway recursive functions.
2004-03-23Upgrade ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN so that it can drop an OID column, andTom Lane
remove separate implementation of ALTER TABLE SET WITHOUT OIDS in favor of doing a regular DROP. Also, cause CREATE TABLE to account completely correctly for the inheritance status of the OID column. This fixes problems with dropping OID columns that have dependencies, as noted by Christopher Kings-Lynne, as well as making sure that you can't drop an OID column that was inherited from a parent.
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.
2004-03-17Reimplement CASE val WHEN compval1 THEN ... WHEN compval2 THEN ... ENDTom Lane
so that the 'val' is computed only once, per recent discussion. The speedup is not much when 'val' is just a simple variable, but could be significant for larger expressions. More importantly this avoids issues with multiple evaluations of a volatile 'val', and it allows the CASE expression to be reverse-listed in its original form by ruleutils.c.
2004-03-17Document SPI_push() and SPI_pop().Bruce Momjian
2004-03-17Replace the switching function ExecEvalExpr() with a macro that jumpsTom Lane
directly to the appropriate per-node execution function, using a function pointer stored by ExecInitExpr. This speeds things up by eliminating one level of function call. The function-pointer technique also enables further small improvements such as only making one-time tests once (and then changing the function pointer). Overall this seems to gain about 10% on evaluation of simple expressions, which isn't earthshaking but seems a worthwhile gain for a relatively small hack. Per recent discussion on pghackers.
2004-03-13Repair memory leakage introduced into the non-hashed aggregate case byTom Lane
7.4 rewrite for hashed aggregate support. If the transition data type is pass-by-reference, the transValue must be pfreed when starting a new group boundary, else we have a one-value-per-group leakage. Thanks to Rae Steining for providing a reproducible test case.
2004-03-05Add new SPI functions for use by PL/Java:Bruce Momjian
+extern Oid SPI_getargtypeid(void *plan, int argIndex); +extern int SPI_getargcount(void *plan); +extern bool SPI_is_cursor_plan(void *plan); Thomas Hallgren
2004-03-02Remove useless rebuilding of subPlan list during ExecInitNode. Wouldn'tTom Lane
have been there to start with, except for overly enthusiastic copy-and- paste ...
2004-03-02Update obsolete comment.Tom Lane
2004-03-02Junkfilter logic to force a projection step during SELECT INTO was tooTom Lane
simplistic; it recognized SELECT * FROM but not SELECT * FROM LIMIT. Per bug report from Jeff Bohmer.
2004-02-28Remove unneeded indxqual field in IndexScanState, and the useless workTom Lane
spent initializing it during indexscan startup.
2004-02-03Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.Tom Lane
Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit. Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
2004-01-30Fix debug elog message to agree with name of its routine.Tom Lane
2004-01-22Fix oversight in optimization that avoids an unnecessary projection stepTom Lane
when scanning a table that we need all the columns from. In case of SELECT INTO, we have to check that the hasoids flag matches the desired output type, too. Per report from Mike Mascari.
2004-01-14Fix permission-checking bug reported by Tim Burgess 10-Feb-03 (this timeTom Lane
for sure...). Rather than relying on the query context of a rangetable entry to identify what permissions it wants checked, store a full AclMode mask in each RTE, and check exactly those bits. This allows an RTE specifying, say, INSERT privilege on a view to be copied into a derived UPDATE query without changing meaning. Per recent discussion thread. initdb forced due to change of stored rule representation.
2004-01-10Implement "WITH / WITHOID OIDS" clause for CREATE TABLE AS. This isNeil Conway
intended to allow application authors to insulate themselves from changes to the default value of 'default_with_oids' in future releases of PostgreSQL. This patch also fixes a bug in the earlier implementation of the 'default_with_oids' GUC variable: code in gram.y should not examine the value of GUC variables directly due to synchronization issues.
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.
2004-01-06Instead of rechecking lossy index operators by putting them into theTom Lane
regular qpqual ('filter condition'), add special-purpose code to nodeIndexscan.c to recheck them. This ends being almost no net addition of code, because the removal of planner code balances out the extra executor code, but it is significantly more efficient when a lossy operator is involved in an OR indexscan. The old implementation had to recheck the entire indexqual in such cases.
2003-12-30Avoid running out of memory during hash_create, by not passing aTom Lane
number-of-buckets that exceeds the size we actually plan to allow the hash table to grow to. Per trouble report from Sean Shanny.
2003-12-28Clean up the usage of canonicalize_qual(): in particular, be consistentTom Lane
about whether it is applied before or after eval_const_expressions(). I believe there were some corner cases where the system would fail to recognize that a partial index is applicable because of the previous inconsistency. Store normal rather than 'implicit AND' representations of constraints and index predicates in the catalogs. initdb forced due to representation change of constraints/predicates.
2003-12-18Use a shutdown callback to clear setArgsValid in a FuncExprState that isTom Lane
evaluating a set-valued function. This fixes some additional problems with rescanning partially-evaluated SRFs.
2003-12-18Ensure set-returning functions in the targetlist of a plan node will beTom Lane
shut down cleanly if the plan node is ReScanned before the SRFs are run to completion. This fixes the problem for SQL-language functions, but still need work on functions using the SRF_XXX() macros.
2003-12-02Add a warning to AtEOXact_SPI() to catch cases where the currentJoe Conway
transaction has been committed without SPI_finish() being called first. Per recent discussion here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2003-11/msg00286.php
2003-12-01This patch refactors execTuples.c in two ways.Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway
2003-12-01This patch adds a new GUC var, "default_with_oids", which follows theBruce Momjian
proposal for eventually deprecating OIDs on user tables that I posted earlier to pgsql-hackers. pg_dump now always specifies WITH OIDS or WITHOUT OIDS when dumping a table. The documentation has been updated. Neil Conway
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-11-25Get rid of hashkeys field of Hash plan node, since it's redundant withTom Lane
the hashclauses field of the parent HashJoin. This avoids problems with duplicated links to SubPlans in hash clauses, as per report from Andrew Holm-Hansen.