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2006-12-26Repair bug #2839: the various ExecReScan functions need to resetTom Lane
ps_TupFromTlist in plan nodes that make use of it. This was being done correctly in join nodes and Result nodes but not in any relation-scan nodes. Bug would lead to bogus results if a set-returning function appeared in the targetlist of a subquery that could be rescanned after partial execution, for example a subquery within EXISTS(). Bug has been around forever :-( ... surprising it wasn't reported before.
2006-11-06Repair bug #2694 concerning an ARRAY[] construct whose inputs are emptyTom Lane
sub-arrays. Per discussion, if all inputs are empty arrays then result must be an empty array too, whereas a mix of empty and nonempty arrays should (and already did) draw an error. In the back branches, the construct was strict: any NULL input immediately yielded a NULL output; so I left that behavior alone. HEAD was simply ignoring NULL sub-arrays, which doesn't seem very sensible. For lack of a better idea it now treats NULL sub-arrays the same as empty ones.
2006-10-12Fix mishandling of after-trigger state when a SQL function returns multipleTom Lane
rows --- if the surrounding query queued any trigger events between the rows, the events would be fired at the wrong time, leading to bizarre behavior. Per report from Merlin Moncure. This is a simple patch that should solve the problem fully in the back branches, but in HEAD we also need to consider the possibility of queries with RETURNING clauses. Will look into a fix for that separately.
2006-05-19Fix nasty bug in nodeIndexscan.c's detection of duplicate tuples duringTom Lane
a multiple (OR'ed) indexscan. It was checking for duplicate tuple->t_data->t_ctid, when what it should be checking is tuple->t_self. The trouble situation occurs when a live tuple has t_ctid not pointing to itself, which can happen if an attempted UPDATE was rolled back. After a VACUUM, an unrelated tuple could be installed where the failed update tuple was, leading to one live tuple's t_ctid pointing to an unrelated tuple. If one of these tuples is fetched by an earlier OR'ed indexscan and the other by a later indexscan, nodeIndexscan.c would incorrectly ignore the second tuple. The bug exists in all 7.4.* and 8.0.* versions, but not in earlier or later branches because this code was only used in those releases. Per trouble report from Rafael Martinez Guerrero.
2006-04-26Fix SELECT INTO and CREATE TABLE AS to create tables in the defaultBruce Momjian
tablespace, not the base directory. Kris Jurka
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.
2005-10-19Back-patch fix for proper labeling of whole-row Datums generated fromTom Lane
subquery results.
2005-08-25Back-patch fixes for problems with VACUUM destroying t_ctid chains too soon,Tom Lane
and with insufficient paranoia in code that follows t_ctid links. This patch covers the 8.0 branch.
2005-04-10SQL functions returning pass-by-reference types were copying the resultsTom Lane
into the wrong memory context, resulting in a query-lifespan memory leak. Bug is new in 8.0, I believe. Per report from Rae Stiening.
2005-02-10Fix SPI cursor support to allow scanning the results of utility commandsTom Lane
that return tuples (such as EXPLAIN). Per gripe from Michael Fuhr. Side effect: fix an old bug that unintentionally disabled backward scans for all SPI-created cursors.
2005-01-28Improve planner's estimation of the space needed for HashAgg plans:Tom Lane
look at the actual aggregate transition datatypes and the actual overhead needed by nodeAgg.c, instead of using pessimistic round numbers. Per a discussion with Michael Tiemann.
2005-01-27Check that aggregate creator has the right to execute the transitionTom Lane
functions of the aggregate, at both aggregate creation and execution times.
2005-01-14Update obsolete comment, per Alvaro.Tom Lane
2005-01-01Update copyrights that were missed.Bruce Momjian
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 ...
2004-12-11Instead of supposing (wrongly, in the general case) that the rowtypeTom Lane
of an inheritance child table is binary-compatible with the rowtype of its parent, invent an expression node type that does the conversion correctly. Fixes the new bug exhibited by Kris Shannon as well as a lot of old bugs that would only show up when using multiple inheritance or after altering the parent table.
2004-11-16Rethink plpgsql's way of handling SPI execution during an exception block.Tom Lane
We don't really want to start a new SPI connection, just keep using the old one; otherwise we have memory management problems as illustrated by John Kennedy's bug report of today. This requires a bit of a hack to ensure the SPI stack state is properly restored, but then again what we were doing before was a hack too, strictly speaking. Add a regression test to cover this case.
2004-10-25Modify hash_create() to elog(ERROR) if an error occurs, rather thanNeil Conway
returning a NULL pointer (some callers remembered to check the return value, but some did not -- it is safer to just bail out). Also, cleanup pgstat.c to use elog(ERROR) rather than elog(LOG) followed by exit().
2004-10-20Allow functions returning void or cstring to appear in FROM clause,Tom Lane
to make life cushy for the JDBC driver. Centralize the decision-making that affects this by inventing a get_type_func_class() function, rather than adding special cases in half a dozen places.
2004-10-13More minor cosmetic improvements:Neil Conway
- remove another senseless "extern" keyword that was applied to a function definition - change a foo more function signatures from "some_type foo()" to "some_type foo(void)" - rewrite another K&R style function definition - make the type of the "action" function pointer in the KeyWord struct in src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c more precise
2004-10-12Message style revisionsPeter Eisentraut
2004-10-11Fix typo in comment.Neil Conway
2004-10-07Fix problems with SQL functions returning rowtypes that have droppedTom Lane
columns. The returned tuple needs to have appropriate NULL columns inserted so that it actually matches the declared rowtype. It seemed convenient to use a JunkFilter for this, so I made some cleanups and simplifications in the JunkFilter code to allow it to support this additional functionality. (That in turn exposed a latent bug in nodeAppend.c, which is that it was returning a tuple slot whose descriptor didn't match its data.) Also, move check_sql_fn_retval out of pg_proc.c and into functions.c, where it seems to more naturally belong.
2004-09-30Adjust index locking rules as per my proposal of earlier today. YouTom Lane
now are supposed to take some kind of lock on an index whenever you are going to access the index contents, rather than relying only on a lock on the parent table.
2004-09-24ExecProcAppend() wasn't called ExecAppend() because the latter name wasNeil Conway
formerly used in execMain. Since that is no longer the case, this patch renames ExecProcAppend() to ExecAppend() for the sake of consistency.
2004-09-22Arrange for hash join to skip scanning the outer relation if it detectsTom Lane
that the inner one is completely empty. Per recent discussion. Also some cosmetic cleanups in nearby code.
2004-09-22Adjust ExecMakeTableFunctionResult to produce a single all-nulls rowTom Lane
when a function that returns a single tuple (not a setof tuple) returns NULL. This seems to be the most consistent behavior. It would have taken a bit less code to make it return an empty table (zero rows) but ISTM a non-SETOF function ought always return exactly one row. Per bug report from Ivan-Sun1.
2004-09-17Hashed LEFT JOIN would miss outer tuples with no inner match if the joinTom Lane
was large enough to be batched and the tuples fell into a batch where there were no inner tuples at all. Thanks to Xiaoyu Wang for finding a test case that exposed this long-standing bug.
2004-09-16Add some marginal tweaks to eliminate memory leakages associated withTom Lane
subtransactions. Trivial subxacts (such as a plpgsql exception block containing no database access) now demonstrably leak zero bytes.
2004-09-16Restructure subtransaction handling to reduce resource consumption,Tom Lane
as per recent discussions. Invent SubTransactionIds that are managed like CommandIds (ie, counter is reset at start of each top transaction), and use these instead of TransactionIds to keep track of subtransaction status in those modules that need it. This means that a subtransaction does not need an XID unless it actually inserts/modifies rows in the database. Accordingly, don't assign it an XID nor take a lock on the XID until it tries to do that. This saves a lot of overhead for subtransactions that are only used for error recovery (eg plpgsql exceptions). Also, arrange to release a subtransaction's XID lock as soon as the subtransaction exits, in both the commit and abort cases. This avoids holding many unique locks after a long series of subtransactions. The price is some additional overhead in XactLockTableWait, but that seems acceptable. Finally, restructure the state machine in xact.c to have a more orthogonal set of states for subtransactions.
2004-09-13Redesign query-snapshot timing so that volatile functions in READ COMMITTEDTom Lane
mode see a fresh snapshot for each command in the function, rather than using the latest interactive command's snapshot. Also, suppress fresh snapshots as well as CommandCounterIncrement inside STABLE and IMMUTABLE functions, instead using the snapshot taken for the most closely nested regular query. (This behavior is only sane for read-only functions, so the patch also enforces that such functions contain only SELECT commands.) As per my proposal of 6-Sep-2004; I note that I floated essentially the same proposal on 19-Jun-2002, but that discussion tailed off without any action. Since 8.0 seems like the right place to be taking possibly nontrivial backwards compatibility hits, let's get it done now.
2004-09-11Renumber SnapshotNow and the other special snapshot codes so thatTom Lane
((Snapshot) NULL) can no longer be confused with a valid snapshot, as per my recent suggestion. Define a macro InvalidSnapshot for 0. Use InvalidSnapshot instead of SnapshotAny as the do-nothing special case for heap_update and heap_delete crosschecks; this seems a little cleaner even though the behavior is really the same.
2004-09-10Fire non-deferred AFTER triggers immediately upon query completion,Tom Lane
rather than when returning to the idle loop. This makes no particular difference for interactively-issued queries, but it makes a big difference for queries issued within functions: trigger execution now occurs before the calling function is allowed to proceed. This responds to numerous complaints about nonintuitive behavior of foreign key checking, such as http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-09/msg00020.php, and appears to be required by the SQL99 spec. Also take the opportunity to simplify the data structures used for the pending-trigger list, rename them for more clarity, and squeeze out a bit of space.
2004-09-06Guard against transaction control statements in SQL functions. ThisTom Lane
never worked, but it particularly doesn't work now.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-17Standardize on the assumption that the arguments of a RowExpr correspondTom Lane
to the physical layout of the rowtype, ie, there are dummy arguments corresponding to any dropped columns in the rowtype. We formerly had a couple of places that did it this way and several others that did not. Fixes Gaetano Mendola's "cache lookup failed for type 0" bug of 5-Aug.
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.