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2007-02-11Add support for optionally escaping periods when converting SQL identifiersPeter Eisentraut
to XML names, which will be required for supporting XML export.
2007-02-03Implement XMLSERIALIZE for real. Analogously, make the xml to text castPeter Eisentraut
observe the xmloption. Reorganize the representation of the XML option in the parse tree and the API to make it easier to manage and understand. Add regression tests for parsing back XML expressions.
2007-02-01Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.Bruce Momjian
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-01-31Revert error message change for may/can/might --- needs discussion.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-31Update documentation on may/can/might:Bruce Momjian
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash". Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
2007-01-25Various fixes in the logic of XML functions:Peter Eisentraut
- Add new SQL command SET XML OPTION (also available via regular GUC) to control the DOCUMENT vs. CONTENT option in implicit parsing and serialization operations. - Subtle corrections in the handling of the standalone property in xmlroot(). - Allow xmlroot() to work on content fragments. - Subtle corrections in the handling of the version property in xmlconcat(). - Code refactoring for producing XML declarations.
2007-01-23Add CREATE/ALTER/DROP OPERATOR FAMILY commands, also COMMENT ON OPERATORTom Lane
FAMILY; and add FAMILY option to CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to allow adding a class to a pre-existing family. Per previous discussion. Man, what a tedious lot of cutting and pasting ...
2007-01-22Add COST and ROWS options to CREATE/ALTER FUNCTION, plus underlying pg_procTom Lane
columns procost and prorows, to allow simple user adjustment of the estimated cost of a function call, as well as control of the estimated number of rows returned by a set-returning function. We might eventually wish to extend this to allow function-specific estimation routines, but there seems to be consensus that we should try a simple constant estimate first. In particular this provides a relatively simple way to control the order in which different WHERE clauses are applied in a plan node, which is a Good Thing in view of the fact that the recent EquivalenceClass planner rewrite made that much less predictable than before.
2007-01-20Refactor planner's pathkeys data structure to create a separate, explicitTom Lane
representation of equivalence classes of variables. This is an extensive rewrite, but it brings a number of benefits: * planner no longer fails in the presence of "incomplete" operator families that don't offer operators for every possible combination of datatypes. * avoid generating and then discarding redundant equality clauses. * remove bogus assumption that derived equalities always use operators named "=". * mergejoins can work with a variety of sort orders (e.g., descending) now, instead of tying each mergejoinable operator to exactly one sort order. * better recognition of redundant sort columns. * can make use of equalities appearing underneath an outer join.
2007-01-14Add support for xmlval IS DOCUMENT expression.Peter Eisentraut
2007-01-12Fix compiler warningPeter Eisentraut
2007-01-12Update error messsage wording.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-12Update ORDER BY UNION function/exprssion wording (again).Bruce Momjian
2007-01-12Allow for arbitrary data types as content in XMLELEMENT. The originalPeter Eisentraut
coercion to type xml was a mistake. Escape values so they are valid XML character data.
2007-01-11Update UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT ORDER BY error wording forBruce Momjian
expressions/functions.
2007-01-11Improve error wording of ORDER BY in UNION that uses new expressions inBruce Momjian
ORDER BY.
2007-01-10Change the planner-to-executor API so that the planner tells the executorTom Lane
which comparison operators to use for plan nodes involving tuple comparison (Agg, Group, Unique, SetOp). Formerly the executor looked up the default equality operator for the datatype, which was really pretty shaky, since it's possible that the data being fed to the node is sorted according to some nondefault operator class that could have an incompatible idea of equality. The planner knows what it has sorted by and therefore can provide the right equality operator to use. Also, this change moves a couple of catalog lookups out of the executor and into the planner, which should help startup time for pre-planned queries by some small amount. Modify the planner to remove some other cavalier assumptions about always being able to use the default operators. Also add "nulls first/last" info to the Plan node for a mergejoin --- neither the executor nor the planner can cope yet, but at least the API is in place.
2007-01-09Support ORDER BY ... NULLS FIRST/LAST, and add ASC/DESC/NULLS FIRST/NULLS LASTTom Lane
per-column options for btree indexes. The planner's support for this is still pretty rudimentary; it does not yet know how to plan mergejoins with nondefault ordering options. The documentation is pretty rudimentary, too. I'll work on improving that stuff later. Note incompatible change from prior behavior: ORDER BY ... USING will now be rejected if the operator is not a less-than or greater-than member of some btree opclass. This prevents less-than-sane behavior if an operator that doesn't actually define a proper sort ordering is selected.
2007-01-08Prevent duplicate attribute names in XMLELEMENT.Peter Eisentraut
2007-01-06Fix filtered_base_yylex() to save and restore base_yylval and base_yyllocTom Lane
properly when doing a lookahead. The lack of this was causing various interesting misbehaviors when one tries to use "with" as a plain identifier.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-12-30Support type modifiers for user-defined types, and pull most knowledgeTom Lane
about typmod representation for standard types out into type-specific typmod I/O functions. Teodor Sigaev, with some editorialization by Tom Lane.
2006-12-24Code review for XML patch. Instill a bit of sanity in the location ofTom Lane
the XmlExpr code in various lists, use a representation that has some hope of reverse-listing correctly (though it's still a de-escaping function shy of correctness), generally try to make it look more like Postgres coding conventions.
2006-12-23Restructure operator classes to allow improved handling of cross-data-typeTom Lane
cases. Operator classes now exist within "operator families". While most families are equivalent to a single class, related classes can be grouped into one family to represent the fact that they are semantically compatible. Cross-type operators are now naturally adjunct parts of a family, without having to wedge them into a particular opclass as we had done originally. This commit restructures the catalogs and cleans up enough of the fallout so that everything still works at least as well as before, but most of the work needed to actually improve the planner's behavior will come later. Also, there are not yet CREATE/DROP/ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY commands; the only way to create a new family right now is to allow CREATE OPERATOR CLASS to make one by default. I owe some more documentation work, too. But that can all be done in smaller pieces once this infrastructure is in place.
2006-12-21Initial SQL/XML support: xml data type and initial set of functions.Peter Eisentraut
2006-12-10Add a paramtypmod field to Param nodes. This is dead weight for ParamsTom Lane
representing externally-supplied values, since the APIs that carry such values only specify type not typmod. However, for PARAM_SUBLINK Params it is handy to carry the typmod of the sublink's output column. This is a much cleaner solution for the recently reported 'could not find pathkey item to sort' and 'failed to find unique expression in subplan tlist' bugs than my original 8.2-compatible patch. Besides, someday we might want to support typmods for external parameters ...
2006-11-28Fix some translator comments so that xgettext finds them and pgindent doesPeter Eisentraut
not destroy them. Maybe we can adjust pgindent sometime.
2006-11-05Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularlyTom Lane
in PITR scenarios. We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to PITR slave databases. Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId. Add new GUC variables and pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work done. Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather than per-database. initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database, and pg_autovacuum catalogs. Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-10-13Code and docs review for ALTER TABLE INHERIT/NO INHERIT patch.Tom Lane
2006-10-11Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bugTom Lane
I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr. Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view, resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations won't start failing their regression tests.
2006-10-11Code review for LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS patch --- improve comments,Tom Lane
don't cheat on the raw-vs-cooked status of a constraint.
2006-10-07Added missing entry (CASCADED) in keywords table.Peter Eisentraut
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-09-28Fix IS NULL and IS NOT NULL tests on row-valued expressions to conform toTom Lane
the SQL spec, viz IS NULL is true if all the row's fields are null, IS NOT NULL is true if all the row's fields are not null. The former coding got this right for a limited number of cases with IS NULL (ie, those where it could disassemble a ROW constructor at parse time), but was entirely wrong for IS NOT NULL. Per report from Teodor. I desisted from changing the behavior for arrays, since on closer inspection it's not clear that there's any support for that in the SQL spec. This probably needs more consideration.
2006-09-25Fix notice message from DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS, and improve messageTom Lane
for DROP AGGREGATE IF EXISTS. Per report from Teodor.
2006-09-22Fix bugs in plpgsql and ecpg caused by assuming that isspace() would onlyTom Lane
return true for exactly the characters treated as whitespace by their flex scanners. Per report from Victor Snezhko and subsequent investigation. Also fix a passel of unsafe usages of <ctype.h> functions, that is, ye olde char-vs-unsigned-char issue. I won't miss <ctype.h> when we are finally able to stop using it.
2006-09-18Fix problems with column name list of CREATE TABLE AS being applied toTom Lane
the input query's target list too soon, causing it to affect processing of ORDER BY in the input query.
2006-09-18Fix CREATE TABLE ... AS VALUES ... to work rather than Assert'ing;Tom Lane
oversight in original implementation of VALUES. Also fix an oversight in recent addition of options to CREATE TABLE AS: they weren't getting propagated if the query was a set-operation such as UNION.
2006-09-03Code review for UPDATE SET (columnlist) patch. Make it handle as muchTom Lane
of the syntax as this fundamentally dead-end approach can, in particular combinations of single and multi column assignments. Improve rather inadequate documentation and provide some regression tests.
2006-09-03Revert FETCH/MOVE int64 patch. Was using incorrect checks forBruce Momjian
fetch/move in scan.l.
2006-09-03Remove unnecessary copyObject() call in update (values) code.Bruce Momjian
2006-09-02Small code cleanup for recent UPDATE SET (values) patch.Bruce Momjian
2006-09-02Add UPDATE tab SET ROW (col, ...) = (val, ...) for updatingBruce Momjian
multiple columns Susanne Ebrecht
2006-09-02Change FETCH/MOVE to use int8.Bruce Momjian
Dhanaraj M
2006-08-30Extend COPY to support COPY (SELECT ...) TO ...Tom Lane
Bernd Helmle
2006-08-25Add the ability to create indexes 'concurrently', that is, withoutTom Lane
blocking concurrent writes to the table. Greg Stark, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2006-08-21Fix all known problems with pg_dump's handling of serial sequencesTom Lane
by abandoning the idea that it should say SERIAL in the dump. Instead, dump serial sequences and column defaults just like regular ones. Add a new backend command ALTER SEQUENCE OWNED BY to let pg_dump recreate the sequence-to-column dependency that was formerly created "behind the scenes" by SERIAL. This restores SERIAL to being truly "just a macro" consisting of component operations that can be stated explicitly in SQL. Furthermore, the new command allows sequence ownership to be reassigned, so that old mistakes can be cleaned up. Also, downgrade the OWNED-BY dependency from INTERNAL to AUTO, since there is no longer any very compelling argument why the sequence couldn't be dropped while keeping the column. (This forces initdb, to be sure the right kinds of dependencies are in there.) Along the way, add checks to prevent ALTER OWNER or SET SCHEMA on an owned sequence; you can now only do this indirectly by changing the owning table's owner or schema. This is an oversight in previous releases, but probably not worth back-patching.
2006-08-14Cause '*' and 'foo.*' notations to mark the referenced RTE(s) asTom Lane
requiring read permissions. Up till now there was no possible case in which the RTEs wouldn't already have ACL_SELECT set ... but now that you can say something like 'INSERT INTO foo ... RETURNING *' this is an essential step. With this commit, a RETURNING clause adds the requirement for SELECT permissions on the target table if and only if the clause actually reads the value of at least one target-table column.
2006-08-12Tweak SPI_cursor_open to allow INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING; this wasTom Lane
merely a matter of fixing the error check, since the underlying Portal infrastructure already handles it. This in turn allows these statements to be used in some existing plpgsql and plperl contexts, such as a plpgsql FOR loop. Also, do some marginal code cleanup in places that were being sloppy about distinguishing SELECT from SELECT INTO.
2006-08-12Remove ancient, obsolete comment.Tom Lane