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2010-02-26pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian
2010-02-01Tighten integrity checks on ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... RENAME.Robert Haas
When a column is renamed, we recursively rename the same column in all descendent tables. But if one of those tables also inherits that column from a table outside the inheritance hierarchy rooted at the named table, we must throw an error. The previous coding correctly prohibited the rename when the parent had inherited the column from elsewhere, but overlooked the case where the parent was OK but a child table also inherited the same column from a second, unrelated parent. For now, not backpatched due to lack of complaints from the field. KaiGai Kohei, with further changes by me. Reviewed by Bernd Helme and Tom Lane.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2009-10-28When FOR UPDATE/SHARE is used with LIMIT, put the LockRows plan nodeTom Lane
underneath the Limit node, not atop it. This fixes the old problem that such a query might unexpectedly return fewer rows than the LIMIT says, due to LockRows discarding updated rows. There is a related problem that LockRows might destroy the sort ordering produced by earlier steps; but fixing that by pushing LockRows below Sort would create serious performance problems that are unjustified in many real-world applications, as well as potential deadlock problems from locking many more rows than expected. Instead, keep the present semantics of applying FOR UPDATE after ORDER BY within a single query level; but allow the user to specify the other way by writing FOR UPDATE in a sub-select. To make that work, track whether FOR UPDATE appeared explicitly in sub-selects or got pushed down from the parent, and don't flatten a sub-select that contained an explicit FOR UPDATE.
2009-10-26Re-implement EvalPlanQual processing to improve its performance and eliminateTom Lane
a lot of strange behaviors that occurred in join cases. We now identify the "current" row for every joined relation in UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE queries. If an EvalPlanQual recheck is necessary, we jam the appropriate row into each scan node in the rechecking plan, forcing it to emit only that one row. The former behavior could rescan the whole of each joined relation for each recheck, which was terrible for performance, and what's much worse could result in duplicated output tuples. Also, the original implementation of EvalPlanQual could not re-use the recheck execution tree --- it had to go through a full executor init and shutdown for every row to be tested. To avoid this overhead, I've associated a special runtime Param with each LockRows or ModifyTable plan node, and arranged to make every scan node below such a node depend on that Param. Thus, by signaling a change in that Param, the EPQ machinery can just rescan the already-built test plan. This patch also adds a prohibition on set-returning functions in the targetlist of SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE. This is needed to avoid the duplicate-output-tuple problem. It seems fairly reasonable since the other restrictions on SELECT FOR UPDATE are meant to ensure that there is a unique correspondence between source tuples and result tuples, which an output SRF destroys as much as anything else does.
2009-10-23When querying a table with child tables, do not check permissions on thePeter Eisentraut
child tables. This was found to be useless and confusing in virtually all cases, and also contrary to the SQL standard.
2009-10-12Move the handling of SELECT FOR UPDATE locking and rechecking out ofTom Lane
execMain.c and into a new plan node type LockRows. Like the recent change to put table updating into a ModifyTable plan node, this increases planning flexibility by allowing the operations to occur below the top level of the plan tree. It's necessary in any case to restore the previous behavior of having FOR UPDATE locking occur before ModifyTable does. This partially refactors EvalPlanQual to allow multiple rows-under-test to be inserted into the EPQ machinery before starting an EPQ test query. That isn't sufficient to fix EPQ's general bogosity in the face of plans that return multiple rows per test row, though. Since this patch is mostly about getting some plan node infrastructure in place and not about fixing ten-year-old bugs, I will leave EPQ improvements for another day. Another behavioral change that we could now think about is doing FOR UPDATE before LIMIT, but that too seems like it should be treated as a followon patch.
2009-10-10Split the processing of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operations out of execMain.c.Tom Lane
They are now handled by a new plan node type called ModifyTable, which is placed at the top of the plan tree. In itself this change doesn't do much, except perhaps make the handling of RETURNING lists and inherited UPDATEs a tad less klugy. But it is necessary preparation for the intended extension of allowing RETURNING queries inside WITH. Marko Tiikkaja
2009-09-02Fix subquery pullup to wrap a PlaceHolderVar around the entire RowExprTom Lane
that's generated for a whole-row Var referencing the subquery, when the subquery is in the nullable side of an outer join. The previous coding instead put PlaceHolderVars around the elements of the RowExpr. The effect was that when the outer join made the subquery outputs go to null, the whole-row Var produced ROW(NULL,NULL,...) rather than just NULL. There are arguments afoot about whether those things ought to be semantically indistinguishable, but for the moment they are not entirely so, and the planner needs to take care that its machinations preserve the difference. Per bug #5025. Making this feasible required refactoring ResolveNew() to allow more caller control over what is substituted for a Var. I chose to make ResolveNew() a wrapper around a new general-purpose function replace_rte_variables(). I also fixed the ancient bogosity that ResolveNew might fail to set a query's hasSubLinks field after inserting a SubLink in it. Although all current callers make sure that happens anyway, we've had bugs of that sort before, and it seemed like a good time to install a proper solution. Back-patch to 8.4. The problem can be demonstrated clear back to 8.0, but the fix would be too invasive in earlier branches; not to mention that people may be depending on the subtly-incorrect behavior. The 8.4 series is new enough that fixing this probably won't cause complaints, but it might in older branches. Also, 8.4 shows the incorrect behavior in more cases than older branches do, because it is able to flatten subqueries in more cases.
2009-08-13Put back adjust_appendrel_attrs()'s code for dealing with RestrictInfo.Tom Lane
I mistakenly removed it last month, thinking it was no longer needed --- but it is still needed for dealing with joininfo lists. Fortunately this bit of brain fade hadn't made it into any released versions yet.
2009-07-06Fix set_append_rel_pathlist() to deal intelligently with cases whereTom Lane
substituting a child rel's output expressions into the appendrel's restriction clauses yields a pseudoconstant restriction. We might be able to skip scanning that child rel entirely (if we get constant FALSE), or generate a one-time filter. 8.3 more or less accidentally generated plans that weren't completely stupid in these cases, but that was only because an extra recursive level of subquery_planner() always occurred and allowed const-simplification to happen. 8.4's ability to pull up appendrel members with non-Var outputs exposes the fact that we need to work harder here. Per gripe from Sergey Burladyan.
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-05-12Modify find_inheritance_children() and find_all_inheritors() to add theTom Lane
ability to lock relations as they scan pg_inherits, and to ignore any relations that have disappeared by the time we get lock on them. This makes uses of these functions safe against concurrent DROP operations on child tables: we will effectively ignore any just-dropped child, rather than possibly throwing an error as in recent bug report from Thomas Johansson (and similar past complaints). The behavior should not change otherwise, since the code was acquiring those same locks anyway, just a little bit later. An exception is LockTableCommand(), which is still behaving unsafely; but that seems to require some more discussion before we change it.
2009-05-12Do some minor code refactoring in preparation for changing the APIs ofTom Lane
find_inheritance_children() and find_all_inheritors(). I got annoyed that these are buried inside the planner but mostly used elsewhere. So, create a new file catalog/pg_inherits.c and put them there, along with a couple of other functions that search pg_inherits. The code that modifies pg_inherits is (still) in tablecmds.c --- it's kind of entangled with unrelated code that modifies pg_depend and other stuff, so pulling it out seemed like a bigger change than I wanted to make right now. But this file provides a natural home for it if anyone ever gets around to that. This commit just moves code around; it doesn't change anything, except I succumbed to the temptation to make a couple of trivial optimizations in typeInheritsFrom().
2009-04-28Improve pull_up_subqueries logic so that it doesn't insert unnecessaryTom Lane
PlaceHolderVar nodes in join quals appearing in or below the lowest outer join that could null the subquery being pulled up. This improves the planner's ability to recognize constant join quals, and probably helps with detection of common sort keys (equivalence classes) as well.
2009-04-19Fix estimate_num_groups() to not fail on PlaceHolderVars, per report fromTom Lane
Stefan Kaltenbrunner. The most reasonable behavior (at least for the near term) seems to be to ignore the PlaceHolderVar and examine its argument instead. In support of this, change the API of pull_var_clause() to allow callers to request recursion into PlaceHolderVars. Currently estimate_num_groups() is the only customer for that behavior, but where there's one there may be others.
2009-03-31Modify the relcache to record the temp status of both local and nonlocalTom Lane
temp relations; this is no more expensive than before, now that we have pg_class.relistemp. Insert tests into bufmgr.c to prevent attempting to fetch pages from nonlocal temp relations. This provides a low-level defense against bugs-of-omission allowing temp pages to be loaded into shared buffers, as in the contrib/pgstattuple problem reported by Stuart Bishop. While at it, tweak a bunch of places to use new relcache tests (instead of expensive probes into pg_namespace) to detect local or nonlocal temp tables.
2009-03-05Fix column privilege checking for cases where parent and child have differentTom Lane
attribute numbering. Also, a parent whole-row reference should not require select privilege on child columns that aren't inherited from the parent. Problem diagnosed by KaiGai Kohei, though this isn't exactly his patch.
2009-02-27Temporarily (I hope) disable flattening of IN/EXISTS sublinks that are withinTom Lane
the ON clause of an outer join. Doing so is semantically correct but results in de-optimizing queries that were structured to take advantage of the sublink style of execution, as seen in recent complaint from Kevin Grittner. Since the user can get the other behavior by reorganizing his query, having the flattening happen automatically is just a convenience, and that doesn't justify breaking existing applications. Eventually it would be nice to re-enable this, but that seems to require a significantly different approach to outer joins in the executor.
2009-02-25Get rid of the rather fuzzily defined FlattenedSubLink node type in favor ofTom Lane
making pull_up_sublinks() construct a full-blown JoinExpr tree representation of IN/EXISTS SubLinks that it is able to convert to semi or anti joins. This makes pull_up_sublinks() a shade more complex, but the gain in semantic clarity is worth it. I still have more to do in this area to address the previously-discussed problems, but this commit in itself fixes at least one bug in HEAD, as shown by added regression test case.
2009-02-06Fix cost_mergejoin's failure to adjust for rescanning of non-unique merge joinTom Lane
keys when considering a semi or anti join. This requires estimating the selectivity of the merge qual as though it were a regular inner join condition. To allow caching both that and the real outer-join-aware selectivity, split RestrictInfo.this_selec into two fields. This fixes one of the problems reported by Kevin Grittner.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-12-28Support window functions a la SQL:2008.Tom Lane
Hitoshi Harada, with some kibitzing from Heikki and Tom.
2008-11-15Make SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE work on inheritance trees, by having the planTom Lane
return the tableoid as well as the ctid for any FOR UPDATE targets that have child tables. All child tables are listed in the ExecRowMark list, but the executor just skips the ones that didn't produce the current row. Curiously, this longstanding restriction doesn't seem to have been documented anywhere; so no doc changes.
2008-11-11Ensure that the phrels sets of PlaceHolderVars appearing in an AppendRelInfo'sTom Lane
translated_vars list get updated when pulling up an appendrel member. It's not clear that this really matters at present, since relatively little gets done with the outputs of an appendrel child relation; but it probably will come back to bite us sometime if we leave them with the wrong values.
2008-11-11Get rid of adjust_appendrel_attr_needed(), which has been broken ever sinceTom Lane
we extended the appendrel mechanism to support UNION ALL optimization. The reason nobody noticed was that we are not actually using attr_needed data for appendrel children; hence it seems more reasonable to rip it out than fix it. Back-patch to 8.2 because an Assert failure is possible in corner cases. Per examination of an example from Jim Nasby. In HEAD, also get rid of AppendRelInfo.col_mappings, which is quite inadequate to represent UNION ALL situations; depend entirely on translated_vars instead.
2008-11-02Remove all uses of the deprecated functions heap_formtuple, heap_modifytuple,Tom Lane
and heap_deformtuple in favor of the newer functions heap_form_tuple et al (which do the same things but use bool control flags instead of arbitrary char values). Eliminate the former duplicate coding of these functions, reducing the deprecated functions to mere wrappers around the newer ones. We can't get rid of them entirely because add-on modules probably still contain many instances of the old coding style. Kris Jurka
2008-10-22Dept of better ideas: refrain from creating the planner's placeholder_listTom Lane
until vars are distributed to rels during query_planner() startup. We don't really need it before that, and not building it early has some advantages. First, we don't need to put it through the various preprocessing steps, which saves some cycles and eliminates the need for a number of routines to support PlaceHolderInfo nodes at all. Second, this means one less unused plan for any sub-SELECT appearing in a placeholder's expression, since we don't build placeholder_list until after sublink expansion is complete.
2008-10-21Add a concept of "placeholder" variables to the planner. These are variablesTom Lane
that represent some expression that we desire to compute below the top level of the plan, and then let that value "bubble up" as though it were a plain Var (ie, a column value). The immediate application is to allow sub-selects to be flattened even when they are below an outer join and have non-nullable output expressions. Formerly we couldn't flatten because such an expression wouldn't properly go to NULL when evaluated above the outer join. Now, we wrap it in a PlaceHolderVar and arrange for the actual evaluation to occur below the outer join. When the resulting Var bubbles up through the join, it will be set to NULL if necessary, yielding the correct results. This fixes a planner limitation that's existed since 7.1. In future we might want to use this mechanism to re-introduce some form of Hellerstein's "expensive functions" optimization, ie place the evaluation of an expensive function at the most suitable point in the plan tree.
2008-10-09Improve the recently-added code for inlining set-returning functions so thatTom Lane
it can handle functions returning setof record. The case was left undone originally, but it turns out to be simple to fix.
2008-10-07Extend CTE patch to support recursive UNION (ie, without ALL). TheTom Lane
implementation uses an in-memory hash table, so it will poop out for very large recursive results ... but the performance characteristics of a sort-based implementation would be pretty unpleasant too.
2008-10-06When expanding a whole-row Var into a RowExpr during ResolveNew(), attachTom Lane
the column alias names of the RTE referenced by the Var to the RowExpr. This is needed to allow ruleutils.c to correctly deparse FieldSelect nodes referencing such a construct. Per my recent bug report. Adding a field to RowExpr forces initdb (because of stored rules changes) so this solution is not back-patchable; which is unfortunate because 8.2 and 8.3 have this issue. But it only affects EXPLAIN for some pretty odd corner cases, so we can probably live without a solution for the back branches.
2008-10-04Implement SQL-standard WITH clauses, including WITH RECURSIVE.Tom Lane
There are some unimplemented aspects: recursive queries must use UNION ALL (should allow UNION too), and we don't have SEARCH or CYCLE clauses. These might or might not get done for 8.4, but even without them it's a pretty useful feature. There are also a couple of small loose ends and definitional quibbles, which I'll send a memo about to pgsql-hackers shortly. But let's land the patch now so we can get on with other development. Yoshiyuki Asaba, with lots of help from Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane
2008-08-28Extend the parser location infrastructure to include a location field inTom Lane
most node types used in expression trees (both before and after parse analysis). This allows us to place an error cursor in many situations where we formerly could not, because the information wasn't available beyond the very first level of parse analysis. There's a fair amount of work still to be done to persuade individual ereport() calls to actually include an error location, but this gets the initdb-forcing part of the work out of the way; and the situation is already markedly better than before for complaints about unimplementable implicit casts, such as CASE and UNION constructs with incompatible alternative data types. Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2008-08-25Move exprType(), exprTypmod(), expression_tree_walker(), and related routinesTom Lane
into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside the backend. There's probably more that should be done along this line, but this is a start anyway.
2008-08-17Improve sublink pullup code to handle ANY/EXISTS sublinks that are at topTom Lane
level of a JOIN/ON clause, not only at top level of WHERE. (However, we can't do this in an outer join's ON clause, unless the ANY/EXISTS refers only to the nullable side of the outer join, so that it can effectively be pushed down into the nullable side.) Per request from Kevin Grittner. In passing, fix a bug in the initial implementation of EXISTS pullup: it would Assert if the EXIST's WHERE clause used a join alias variable. Since we haven't yet flattened join aliases when this transformation happens, it's necessary to include join relids in the computed set of RHS relids.
2008-08-14Fix pull_up_simple_union_all to copy all rtable entries from child subquery toHeikki Linnakangas
parent, not only those with RangeTblRefs. We need them in ExecCheckRTPerms. Report by Brendan O'Shea. Back-patch to 8.2, where pull_up_simple_union_all was introduced.
2008-08-14Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
2008-08-07Improve INTERSECT/EXCEPT hashing by realizing that we don't need to make anyTom Lane
hashtable entries for tuples that are found only in the second input: they can never contribute to the output. Furthermore, this implies that the planner should endeavor to put first the smaller (in number of groups) input relation for an INTERSECT. Implement that, and upgrade prepunion's estimation of the number of rows returned by setops so that there's some amount of sanity in the estimate of which one is smaller.
2008-08-07Support hashing for duplicate-elimination in INTERSECT and EXCEPT queries.Tom Lane
This completes my project of improving usage of hashing for duplicate elimination (aggregate functions with DISTINCT remain undone, but that's for some other day). As with the previous patches, this means we can INTERSECT/EXCEPT on datatypes that can hash but not sort, and it means that INTERSECT/EXCEPT without ORDER BY are no longer certain to produce sorted output.
2008-08-07Teach the system how to use hashing for UNION. (INTERSECT/EXCEPT will follow,Tom Lane
but seem like a separate patch since most of the remaining work is on the executor side.) I took the opportunity to push selection of the grouping operators for set operations into the parser where it belongs. Otherwise this is just a small exercise in making prepunion.c consider both alternatives. As with the recent DISTINCT patch, this means we can UNION on datatypes that can hash but not sort, and it means that UNION without ORDER BY is no longer certain to produce sorted output.
2008-08-02Rearrange the querytree representation of ORDER BY/GROUP BY/DISTINCT itemsTom Lane
as per my recent proposal: 1. Fold SortClause and GroupClause into a single node type SortGroupClause. We were already relying on them to be struct-equivalent, so using two node tags wasn't accomplishing much except to get in the way of comparing items with equal(). 2. Add an "eqop" field to SortGroupClause to carry the associated equality operator. This is cheap for the parser to get at the same time it's looking up the sort operator, and storing it eliminates the need for repeated not-so-cheap lookups during planning. In future this will also let us represent GROUP/DISTINCT operations on datatypes that have hash opclasses but no btree opclasses (ie, they have equality but no natural sort order). The previous representation simply didn't work for that, since its only indicator of comparison semantics was a sort operator. 3. Add a hasDistinctOn boolean to struct Query to explicitly record whether the distinctClause came from DISTINCT or DISTINCT ON. This allows removing some complicated and not 100% bulletproof code that attempted to figure that out from the distinctClause alone. This patch doesn't in itself create any new capability, but it's necessary infrastructure for future attempts to use hash-based grouping for DISTINCT and UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
2008-07-31Fix parser so that we don't modify the user-written ORDER BY list in orderTom Lane
to represent DISTINCT or DISTINCT ON. This gets rid of a longstanding annoyance that a view or rule using SELECT DISTINCT will be dumped out with an overspecified ORDER BY list, and is one small step along the way to decoupling DISTINCT and ORDER BY enough so that hash-based implementation of DISTINCT will be possible. In passing, improve transformDistinctClause so that it doesn't reject duplicate DISTINCT ON items, as was reported by Steve Midgley a couple weeks ago.
2008-06-19Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from theAlvaro Herrera
corresponding struct definitions. This allows other headers to avoid including certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less unnecessary dependencies.
2008-05-12Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing someAlvaro Herrera
unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c files. For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created, initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage. While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more consistent with our header style.
2008-03-18Arrange to "inline" SQL functions that appear in a query's FROM clause,Tom Lane
are declared to return set, and consist of just a single SELECT. We can replace the FROM-item with a sub-SELECT and then optimize much as if we were dealing with a view. Patch from Richard Rowell, cleaned up by me.
2008-02-19Refactor backend makefiles to remove lots of duplicate codePeter Eisentraut
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-10-22Remove an Assert that's been obsoleted by recent changes in the parsetreeTom Lane
representation of DECLARE CURSOR. Report and fix by Heikki.