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2014-02-03Fix lexing of U& sequences just before EOF.Tom Lane
Commit a5ff502fceadc7c203b0d7a11b45c73f1b421f69 was a brick shy of a load in the backend lexer too, not just psql. Per further testing of bug #9068. In passing, improve related comments.
2014-01-23ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE ... OWNED BYStephen Frost
Add the ability to specify the objects to move by who those objects are owned by (as relowner) and change ALL to mean ALL objects. This makes the command always operate against a well-defined set of objects and not have the objects-to-be-moved based on the role of the user running the command. Per discussion with Simon and Tom.
2014-01-23Make DROP IF EXISTS more consistently not failAlvaro Herrera
Some cases were still reporting errors and aborting, instead of a NOTICE that the object was being skipped. This makes it more difficult to cleanly handle pg_dump --clean, so change that to instead skip missing objects properly. Per bug #7873 reported by Dave Rolsky; apparently this affects a large number of users. Authors: Pavel Stehule and Dean Rasheed. Some tweaks by Álvaro Herrera
2014-01-21Allow type_func_name_keywords in even more placesStephen Frost
A while back, 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d allowed type_func_name_keywords to be used in more places, including role identifiers. Unfortunately, that commit missed out on cases where name_list was used for lists-of-roles, eg: for DROP ROLE. This resulted in the unfortunate situation that you could CREATE a role with a type_func_name_keywords-allowed identifier, but not DROP it (directly- ALTER could be used to rename it to something which could be DROP'd). This extends allowing type_func_name_keywords to places where role lists can be used. Back-patch to 9.0, as 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d was.
2014-01-21Tweak parse location assignment for CURRENT_DATE and related constructs.Tom Lane
All these constructs generate parse trees consisting of a Const and a run-time type coercion (perhaps a FuncExpr or a CoerceViaIO). Modify the raw parse output so that we end up with the original token's location attached to the type coercion node while the Const has location -1; before, it was the other way around. This makes no difference in terms of what exprLocation() will say about the parse tree as a whole, so it should not have any user-visible impact. The point of changing it is that we do not want contrib/pg_stat_statements to treat these constructs as replaceable constants. It will do the right thing if the Const has location -1 rather than a valid location. This is a pretty ugly hack, but then this code is ugly already; we should someday replace this translation with special-purpose parse node(s) that would allow ruleutils.c to reconstruct the original query text. (See also commit 5d3fcc4c2e137417ef470d604fee5e452b22f6a7, which also hacked location assignment rules for the benefit of pg_stat_statements.) Back-patch to 9.2 where pg_stat_statements grew the ability to recognize replaceable constants. Kyotaro Horiguchi
2014-01-18Add CREATE TABLESPACE ... WITH ... OptionsStephen Frost
Tablespaces have a few options which can be set on them to give PG hints as to how the tablespace behaves (perhaps it's faster for sequential scans, or better able to handle random access, etc). These options were only available through the ALTER TABLESPACE command. This adds the ability to set these options at CREATE TABLESPACE time, removing the need to do both a CREATE TABLESPACE and ALTER TABLESPACE to get the correct options set on the tablespace. Vik Fearing, reviewed by Michael Paquier.
2014-01-18Add ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE commandStephen Frost
This adds a 'MOVE' sub-command to ALTER TABLESPACE which allows moving sets of objects from one tablespace to another. This can be extremely handy and avoids a lot of error-prone scripting. ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE will only move objects the user owns, will notify the user if no objects were found, and can be used to move ALL objects or specific types of objects (TABLES, INDEXES, or MATERIALIZED VIEWS).
2014-01-11Disallow LATERAL references to the target table of an UPDATE/DELETE.Tom Lane
On second thought, commit 0c051c90082da0b7e5bcaf9aabcbd4f361137cdc was over-hasty: rather than allowing this case, we ought to reject it for now. That leaves the field clear for a future feature that allows the target table to be re-specified in the FROM (or USING) clause, which will enable left-joining the target table to something else. We can then also allow LATERAL references to such an explicitly re-specified target table. But allowing them right now will create ambiguities or worse for such a feature, and it isn't something we documented 9.3 as supporting. While at it, add a convenience subroutine to avoid having several copies of the ereport for disalllowed-LATERAL-reference cases.
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2014-01-07Fix LATERAL references to target table of UPDATE/DELETE.Tom Lane
I failed to think much about UPDATE/DELETE when implementing LATERAL :-(. The implemented behavior ended up being that subqueries in the FROM or USING clause (respectively) could access the update/delete target table as though it were a lateral reference; which seems fine if they said LATERAL, but certainly ought to draw an error if they didn't. Fix it so you get a suitable error when you omit LATERAL. Per report from Emre Hasegeli.
2014-01-06Add more use of psprintf()Peter Eisentraut
2013-12-23Fix portability issue in ordered-set patch.Tom Lane
Overly compact coding in makeOrderedSetArgs() led to a platform dependency: if the compiler chose to execute the subexpressions in the wrong order, list_length() might get applied to an already-modified List, giving a value we didn't want. Per buildfarm.
2013-12-23Support ordered-set (WITHIN GROUP) aggregates.Tom Lane
This patch introduces generic support for ordered-set and hypothetical-set aggregate functions, as well as implementations of the instances defined in SQL:2008 (percentile_cont(), percentile_disc(), rank(), dense_rank(), percent_rank(), cume_dist()). We also added mode() though it is not in the spec, as well as versions of percentile_cont() and percentile_disc() that can compute multiple percentile values in one pass over the data. Unlike the original submission, this patch puts full control of the sorting process in the hands of the aggregate's support functions. To allow the support functions to find out how they're supposed to sort, a new API function AggGetAggref() is added to nodeAgg.c. This allows retrieval of the aggregate call's Aggref node, which may have other uses beyond the immediate need. There is also support for ordered-set aggregates to install cleanup callback functions, so that they can be sure that infrastructure such as tuplesort objects gets cleaned up. In passing, make some fixes in the recently-added support for variadic aggregates, and make some editorial adjustments in the recent FILTER additions for aggregates. Also, simplify use of IsBinaryCoercible() by allowing it to succeed whenever the target type is ANY or ANYELEMENT. It was inconsistent that it dealt with other polymorphic target types but not these. Atri Sharma and Andrew Gierth; reviewed by Pavel Stehule and Vik Fearing, and rather heavily editorialized upon by Tom Lane
2013-12-18Add ALTER SYSTEM command to edit the server configuration file.Tatsuo Ishii
Patch contributed by Amit Kapila. Reviewed by Hari Babu, Masao Fujii, Boszormenyi Zoltan, Andres Freund, Greg Smith and others.
2013-12-14Allow empty target list in SELECT.Tom Lane
This fixes a problem noted as a followup to bug #8648: if a query has a semantically-empty target list, e.g. SELECT * FROM zero_column_table, ruleutils.c will dump it as a syntactically-empty target list, which was not allowed. There doesn't seem to be any reliable way to fix this by hacking ruleutils (note in particular that the originally zero-column table might since have had columns added to it); and even if we had such a fix, it would do nothing for existing dump files that might contain bad syntax. The best bet seems to be to relax the syntactic restriction. Also, add parse-analysis errors for SELECT DISTINCT with no columns (after *-expansion) and RETURNING with no columns. These cases previously produced unexpected behavior because the parsed Query looked like it had no DISTINCT or RETURNING clause, respectively. If anyone ever offers a plausible use-case for this, we could work a bit harder on making the situation distinguishable. Arguably this is a bug fix that should be back-patched, but I'm worried that there may be client apps or PLs that expect "SELECT ;" to throw a syntax error. The issue doesn't seem important enough to risk changing behavior in minor releases.
2013-12-10Rename TABLE() to ROWS FROM().Noah Misch
SQL-standard TABLE() is a subset of UNNEST(); they deal with arrays and other collection types. This feature, however, deals with set-returning functions. Use a different syntax for this feature to keep open the possibility of implementing the standard TABLE().
2013-12-02Fix crash in assign_collations_walker for EXISTS with empty SELECT list.Tom Lane
We (I think I, actually) forgot about this corner case while coding collation resolution. Per bug #8648 from Arjen Nienhuis.
2013-11-23Fix array slicing of int2vector and oidvector values.Tom Lane
The previous coding labeled expressions such as pg_index.indkey[1:3] as being of int2vector type; which is not right because the subscript bounds of such a result don't, in general, satisfy the restrictions of int2vector. To fix, implicitly promote the result of slicing int2vector to int2[], or oidvector to oid[]. This is similar to what we've done with domains over arrays, which is a good analogy because these types are very much like restricted domains of the corresponding regular-array types. A side-effect is that we now also forbid array-element updates on such columns, eg while "update pg_index set indkey[4] = 42" would have worked before if you were superuser (and corrupted your catalogs irretrievably, no doubt) it's now disallowed. This seems like a good thing since, again, some choices of subscripting would've led to results not satisfying the restrictions of int2vector. The case of an array-slice update was rejected before, though with a different error message than you get now. We could make these cases work in future if we added a cast from int2[] to int2vector (with a cast function checking the subscript restrictions) but it seems unlikely that there's any value in that. Per report from Ronan Dunklau. Back-patch to all supported branches because of the crash risks involved.
2013-11-21Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.Tom Lane
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...) as a single FROM-clause entry. The result is the concatenation of the first row from each function, followed by the second row from each function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than others. This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list. This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality column as well. Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)). The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is not what this patch does. There may be something wrong with that reading of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST(). After further review of that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does, but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile. Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and significantly revised by me
2013-11-11Re-allow duplicate aliases within aliased JOINs.Tom Lane
Although the SQL spec forbids duplicate table aliases, historically we've allowed queries like SELECT ... FROM tab1 x CROSS JOIN (tab2 x CROSS JOIN tab3 y) z on the grounds that the aliased join (z) hides the aliases within it, therefore there is no conflict between the two RTEs named "x". The LATERAL patch broke this, on the misguided basis that "x" could be ambiguous if tab3 were a LATERAL subquery. To avoid breaking existing queries, it's better to allow this situation and complain only if tab3 actually does contain an ambiguous reference. We need only remove the check that was throwing an error, because the column lookup code is already prepared to handle ambiguous references. Per bug #8444.
2013-11-10Fix whitespace issues found by git diff --check, add gitattributesPeter Eisentraut
Set per file type attributes in .gitattributes to fine-tune whitespace checks. With the associated cleanups, the tree is now clean for git
2013-11-08Add the notion of REPLICA IDENTITY for a table.Robert Haas
Pending patches for logical replication will use this to determine which columns of a tuple ought to be considered as its candidate key. Andres Freund, with minor, mostly cosmetic adjustments by me
2013-11-06Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions.Tom Lane
These things didn't work because the planner omitted to do the necessary preprocessing of a WindowFunc's argument list. Add the few dozen lines of code needed to handle that. Although this sounds like a feature addition, it's really a bug fix because the default-argument case was likely to crash previously, due to lack of checking of the number of supplied arguments in the built-in window functions. It's not a security issue because there's no way for a non-superuser to create a window function definition with defaults that refers to a built-in C function, but nonetheless people might be annoyed that it crashes rather than producing a useful error message. So back-patch as far as the patch applies easily, which turns out to be 9.2. I'll put a band-aid in earlier versions as a separate patch. (Note that these features still don't work for aggregates, and fixing that case will be harder since we represent aggregate arg lists as target lists not bare expression lists. There's no crash risk though because CREATE AGGREGATE doesn't accept defaults, and we reject named-argument notation when parsing an aggregate call.)
2013-11-05Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause.Tom Lane
For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a window definition that has any explicit framing clause. The error message we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not. Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that "OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does not. This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya Krapchatov. Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting that omitting the parentheses will fix it. Also improve the related documentation. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-10-13Add use of asprintf()Peter Eisentraut
Add asprintf(), pg_asprintf(), and psprintf() to simplify string allocation and composition. Replacement implementations taken from NetBSD. Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Asif Naeem <anaeem.it@gmail.com>
2013-10-03Add DISCARD SEQUENCES command.Robert Haas
DISCARD ALL will now discard cached sequence information, as well. Fabrízio de Royes Mello, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi, with some further tweaks by me.
2013-09-23Don't allow system columns in CHECK constraints, except tableoid.Robert Haas
Previously, arbitray system columns could be mentioned in table constraints, but they were not correctly checked at runtime, because the values weren't actually set correctly in the tuple. Since it seems easy enough to initialize the table OID properly, do that, and continue allowing that column, but disallow the rest unless and until someone figures out a way to make them work properly. No back-patch, because this doesn't seem important enough to take the risk of destabilizing the back branches. In fact, this will pose a dump-and-reload hazard for those upgrading from previous versions: constraints that were accepted before but were not correctly enforced will now either be enforced correctly or not accepted at all. Either could result in restore failures, but in practice I think very few users will notice the difference, since the use case is pretty marginal anyway and few users will be relying on features that have not historically worked. Amit Kapila, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, with doc changes by me.
2013-09-03Allow aggregate functions to be VARIADIC.Tom Lane
There's no inherent reason why an aggregate function can't be variadic (even VARIADIC ANY) if its transition function can handle the case. Indeed, this patch to add the feature touches none of the planner or executor, and little of the parser; the main missing stuff was DDL and pg_dump support. It is true that variadic aggregates can create the same sort of ambiguity about parameters versus ORDER BY keys that was complained of when we (briefly) had both one- and two-argument forms of string_agg(). However, the policy formed in response to that discussion only said that we'd not create any built-in aggregates with varying numbers of arguments, not that we shouldn't allow users to do it. So the logical extension of that is we can allow users to make variadic aggregates as long as we're wary about shipping any such in core. In passing, this patch allows aggregate function arguments to be named, to the extent of remembering the names in pg_proc and dumping them in pg_dump. You can't yet call an aggregate using named-parameter notation. That seems like a likely future extension, but it'll take some work, and it's not what this patch is really about. Likewise, there's still some work needed to make window functions handle VARIADIC fully, but I left that for another day. initdb forced because of new aggvariadic field in Aggref parse nodes.
2013-08-07Message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut
2013-08-02Fix crash in error report of invalid tuple lockAlvaro Herrera
My tweak of these error messages in commit c359a1b082 contained the thinko that a query would always have rowMarks set for a query containing a locking clause. Not so: when declaring a cursor, for instance, rowMarks isn't set at the point we're checking, so we'd be dereferencing a NULL pointer. The fix is to pass the lock strength to the function raising the error, instead of trying to reverse-engineer it. The result not only is more robust, but it also seems cleaner overall. Per report from Robert Haas.
2013-07-29Add SQL Standard WITH ORDINALITY support for UNNEST (and any other SRF)Greg Stark
Author: Andrew Gierth, David Fetter Reviewers: Dean Rasheed, Jeevan Chalke, Stephen Frost
2013-07-23Move strip_implicit_coercions() from optimizer to nodeFuncs.c.Tom Lane
Use of this function has spread into the parser and rewriter, so it seems like time to pull it out of the optimizer and put it into the more central nodeFuncs module. This eliminates the need to #include optimizer/clauses.h in most of the calling files, demonstrating that this function was indeed a bit outside the normal code reference patterns.
2013-07-23Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.Tom Lane
It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view. But it will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list. We used to replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view. The trouble with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN. Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions. expandRTE() still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code. In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen. That oversight was because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h, which I've now corrected. There were some pre-existing oversights of the same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.
2013-07-23Tweak FOR UPDATE/SHARE error message wording (again)Alvaro Herrera
In commit 0ac5ad5134 I changed some error messages from "FOR UPDATE/SHARE" to a rather long gobbledygook which nobody liked. Then, in commit cb9b66d31 I changed them again, but the alternative chosen there was deemed suboptimal by Peter Eisentraut, who in message 1373937980.20441.8.camel@vanquo.pezone.net proposed an alternative involving a dynamically-constructed string based on the actual locking strength specified in the SQL command. This patch implements that suggestion.
2013-07-18WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWsStephen Frost
For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows the user to specify what level of checking should be done on records being inserted or updated. For 'LOCAL CHECK', new tuples are validated against the conditionals of the view they are being inserted into, while for 'CASCADED CHECK' the new tuples are validated against the conditionals for all views involved (from the top down). This option is part of the SQL specification. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
2013-07-18Move checking an explicit VARIADIC "any" argument into the parser.Andrew Dunstan
This is more efficient and simpler . It does mean that an untyped NULL can no longer be used in such cases, which should be mentioned in Release Notes, but doesn't seem a terrible loss. The workaround is to cast the NULL to some array type. Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke.
2013-07-16Implement the FILTER clause for aggregate function calls.Noah Misch
This is SQL-standard with a few extensions, namely support for subqueries and outer references in clause expressions. catversion bump due to change in Aggref and WindowFunc. David Fetter, reviewed by Dean Rasheed.
2013-07-16Add support for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.Kevin Grittner
This allows reads to continue without any blocking while a REFRESH runs. The new data appears atomically as part of transaction commit. Review questioned the Assert that a matview was not a system relation. This will be addressed separately. Reviewed by Hitoshi Harada, Robert Haas, Andres Freund. Merged after review with security patch f3ab5d4.
2013-07-05Update messages, comments and documentation for materialized views.Noah Misch
All instances of the verbiage lagging the code. Back-patch to 9.3, where materialized views were introduced.
2013-07-01Add a convenience routine makeFuncCall to reduce duplication.Robert Haas
David Fetter and Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Jeevan Chalke
2013-06-29ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKsSimon Riggs
Allow constraint attributes to be altered, so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back. Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-28Make the OVER keyword unreserved.Robert Haas
This results in a slightly less specific error message when OVER is used in a context where we don't accept window functions, but per discussion, it's worth it to get the benefit of not needing to reserve this keyword any more. This same refactoring will also let us avoid reserving some other keywords that we expect to add in upcoming patches (specifically, IGNORE, RESPECT, and FILTER). Troels Nielsen, with minor changes by me
2013-06-24Reverting previous commit, pending investigationSimon Riggs
of sporadic seg faults from various build farm members.
2013-06-24ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKsSimon Riggs
Allow constraint attributes to be altered, so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back. Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-09Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn().Tom Lane
When the existing code here was written, it made sense to special-case RowExprs because that was the only way that we could handle row comparisons at all. Now that we have record_eq() and arrays of composites, the generic logic for "scalar" types will in fact work on RowExprs too, so there's no reason to throw error for combinations of RowExprs and other ways of forming composite values, nor to ignore the possibility of using a ScalarArrayOpExpr. But keep using the old logic when comparing two RowExprs, for consistency with the main transformAExprOp() logic. (This allows some cases with not-quite-identical rowtypes to succeed, so we might get push-back if we removed it.) Per bug #8198 from Rafal Rzepecki. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this works fine as far back as 8.4. Rafal Rzepecki and Tom Lane
2013-06-08Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings.Andrew Dunstan
Long-standing code has called tolower() on identifier character bytes with the high bit set. This is clearly an error and produces junk output when the encoding is multi-byte. This patch therefore restricts this activity to cases where there is a character with the high bit set AND the encoding is single-byte. There have been numerous gripes about this, most recently from Martin Schäfer. Backpatch to all live releases.
2013-06-05Put analyze_keyword back in explain_option_name production.Tom Lane
In commit 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d, I broke "EXPLAIN (ANALYZE)" syntax, because I mistakenly thought that ANALYZE/ANALYSE were only partially reserved and thus would be included in NonReservedWord; but actually they're fully reserved so they still need to be called out here. A nicer solution would be to demote these words to type_func_name_keyword status (they can't be less than that because of "VACUUM [ANALYZE] ColId"). While that works fine so far as the core grammar is concerned, it breaks ECPG's grammar for reasons I don't have time to isolate at the moment. So do this for the time being. Per report from Kevin Grittner. Back-patch to 9.0, like the previous commit.
2013-06-02Allow type_func_name_keywords in some places where they weren't before.Tom Lane
This change makes type_func_name_keywords less reserved than they were before, by allowing them for role names, language names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and SET values for GUCs; which are all places where few if any actual keywords could appear instead, so no new ambiguities are introduced. The main driver for this change is to allow "COPY ... (FORMAT BINARY)" to work without quoting the word "binary". That is an inconsistency that has been complained of repeatedly over the years (at least by Pavel Golub, Kurt Lidl, and Simon Riggs); but we hadn't thought of any non-ugly solution until now. Back-patch to 9.0 where the COPY (FORMAT BINARY) syntax was introduced.
2013-05-29pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
2013-05-06Disallow unlogged materialized views.Tom Lane
The initial implementation of this feature was really unsupportable, because it's relying on the physical size of an on-disk file to carry the relation's populated/unpopulated state, which is at least a modularity violation and could have serious long-term consequences. We could say that an unlogged matview goes to empty on crash, but not everybody likes that definition, so let's just remove the feature for 9.3. We can add it back when we have a less klugy implementation. I left the grammar and tab-completion support for CREATE UNLOGGED MATERIALIZED VIEW in place, since it's harmless and allows delivering a more specific error message about the unsupported feature. I'm committing this separately to ease identification of what should be reverted when/if we are able to re-enable the feature.