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2020-08-21Fix handling of CREATE TABLE LIKE with inheritance.Tom Lane
If a CREATE TABLE command uses both LIKE and traditional inheritance, Vars in CHECK constraints and expression indexes that are absorbed from a LIKE parent table tended to get mis-numbered, resulting in wrong answers and/or bizarre error messages (though probably not any actual crashes, thanks to validation occurring in the executor). In v12 and up, the same could happen to Vars in GENERATED expressions, even in cases with no LIKE clause but multiple traditional-inheritance parents. The cause of the problem for LIKE is that parse_utilcmd.c supposed it could renumber such Vars correctly during transformCreateStmt(), which it cannot since we have not yet accounted for columns added via inheritance. Fix that by postponing processing of LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS, DEFAULTS, GENERATED, INDEXES till after we've performed DefineRelation(). The error with GENERATED and multiple inheritance is a simple oversight in MergeAttributes(); it knows it has to renumber Vars in inherited CHECK constraints, but forgot to apply the same processing to inherited GENERATED expressions (a/k/a defaults). Per bug #16272 from Tom Gottfried. The non-GENERATED variants of the issue are ancient, presumably dating right back to the addition of CREATE TABLE LIKE; hence back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16272-6e32da020e9a9381@postgresql.org
2020-04-09Fix CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING GENERATED column order issuePeter Eisentraut
CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING GENERATED would fail if a generated column referred to a column with a higher attribute number. This is because the column mapping mechanism created the mapping incrementally as columns are added. This was sufficient for previous uses of that mechanism (omitting dropped columns), and it also happened to work if generated columns only referred to columns with lower attribute numbers, but here it failed. This fix is to build the attribute mapping in a separate loop before processing the columns in detail. Bug: #16342 Reported-by: Ethan Waldo <ewaldo@healthetechs.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2020-04-08Fix crash when using COLLATE in partition bound expressionsMichael Paquier
Attempting to use a COLLATE clause with a type that it not collatable in a partition bound expression could crash the server. This commit fixes the code by adding more checks similar to what is done when computing index or partition attributes by making sure that there is a collation iff the type is collatable. Backpatch down to 12, as 7c079d7 introduced this problem. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Author: Dmitry Dolgov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16325-809194cf742313ab@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 12
2020-03-22Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."Noah Misch
This reverts commit cb2fd7eac285b1b0a24eeb2b8ed4456b66c5a09f. Per numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and a test case assumed LP64. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-21Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.Noah Misch
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access methods should examine that section. To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC, wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY. Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain dropped relations until end of transaction. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to affect the same class of extensions was 089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.) Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-03Fix assertion failure with ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION and indexesMichael Paquier
Using ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION causes an assertion failure when attempting to work on a partitioned index, because partitioned indexes cannot have partition bounds. The grammar of ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION requires partition bounds, but not ALTER INDEX, so mixing ALTER TABLE with partitioned indexes is confusing. Hence, on HEAD, prevent ALTER TABLE to attach a partition if the relation involved is a partitioned index. On back-branches, as applications may rely on the existing behavior, just remove the culprit assertion. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16276-5cd1dcc8fb8be7b5@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 11
2020-02-17Fill in extraUpdatedCols in logical replicationPeter Eisentraut
The extraUpdatedCols field of the target RTE records which generated columns are affected by an update. This is used in a variety of places, including per-column triggers and foreign data wrappers. When an update was initiated by a logical replication subscription, this field was not filled in, so such an update would not affect generated columns in a way that is consistent with normal updates. To fix, factor out some code from analyze.c to fill in extraUpdatedCols in the logical replication worker as well. Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b05e781a-fa16-6b52-6738-761181204567@2ndquadrant.com
2019-09-25Fix handling of GENERATED columns in CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING DEFAULTS.Tom Lane
LIKE INCLUDING DEFAULTS tried to copy the attrdef expression without copying the state of the attgenerated column. This is in fact wrong, because GENERATED and DEFAULT expressions are not the same kind of animal; one can contain Vars and the other not. We *must* copy attgenerated when we're copying the attrdef expression. Rearrange the if-tests so that the expression is copied only when the correct one of INCLUDING DEFAULTS and INCLUDING GENERATED has been specified. Per private report from Manuel Rigger. Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut
2019-08-05Require the schema qualification in pg_temp.type_name(arg).Noah Misch
Commit aa27977fe21a7dfa4da4376ad66ae37cb8f0d0b5 introduced this restriction for pg_temp.function_name(arg); do likewise for types created in temporary schemas. Programs that this breaks should add "pg_temp." schema qualification or switch to arg::type_name syntax. Back-patch to 9.4 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Tom Lane. Reported by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2019-10208
2019-07-01Fix many typos and inconsistenciesMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/af27d1b3-a128-9d62-46e0-88f424397f44@gmail.com
2019-06-14Fix typos and inconsistencies in code commentsMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dec6aae8-2d63-639f-4d50-20e229fb83e3@gmail.com
2019-06-09Reconcile nodes/*funcs.c with PostgreSQL 12 work.Noah Misch
One would have needed out-of-tree code to observe the defects. Remove unreferenced fields instead of completing their support functions. Since in-tree code can't reach _readIntoClause(), no catversion bump.
2019-05-22Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22Initial pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent. I thought it would be good to commit this separately, so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-21Make VACUUM accept 1 and 0 as a boolean value.Fujii Masao
Commit 41b54ba78e allowed existing VACUUM options to take a boolean argument. It's documented that valid boolean values that VACUUM can accept are true, false, on, off, 1, and 0. But previously the parser failed to accept 1 and 0 as a boolean value in VACUUM syntax because of a lack of NumericOnly clause for vac_analyze_option_arg in gram.y. This commit adds such NumericOnly clause so that VACUUM options can take also 1 and 0 as a boolean value. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwGYg82A8UCQxZe7Zn9MnyUBGdyB=1CNpKF3jBny+RbyfA@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-16More message style fixesAlvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190515183005.GA26486@alvherre.pgsql
2019-04-25Fix tablespace inheritance for partitioned relsAlvaro Herrera
Commit ca4103025dfe left a few loose ends. The most important one (broken pg_dump output) is already fixed by virtue of commit 3b23552ad8bb, but some things remained: * When ALTER TABLE rewrites tables, the indexes must remain in the tablespace they were originally in. This didn't work because index recreation during ALTER TABLE runs manufactured SQL (yuck), which runs afoul of default_tablespace in competition with the parent relation tablespace. To fix, reset default_tablespace to the empty string temporarily, and add the TABLESPACE clause as appropriate. * Setting a partitioned rel's tablespace to the database default is confusing; if it worked, it would direct the partitions to that tablespace regardless of default_tablespace. But in reality it does not work, and making it work is a larger project. Therefore, throw an error when this condition is detected, to alert the unwary. Add some docs and tests, too. Author: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_1c260nOt_vBJ067AZ3JXptXVRohDVMLEBmudX1YEx-A@mail.gmail.com
2019-04-23Avoid order-of-execution problems with ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY.Tom Lane
Up to now, DefineIndex() was responsible for adding attnotnull constraints to the columns of a primary key, in any case where it hadn't been convenient for transformIndexConstraint() to mark those columns as is_not_null. It (or rather its minion index_check_primary_key) did this by executing an ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL command for the target table. The trouble with this solution is that if we're creating the index due to ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY, and the outer ALTER TABLE has additional sub-commands, the inner ALTER TABLE's operations executed at the wrong time with respect to the outer ALTER TABLE's operations. In particular, the inner ALTER would perform a validation scan at a point where the table's storage might be inconsistent with its catalog entries. (This is on the hairy edge of being a security problem, but AFAICS it isn't one because the inner scan would only be interested in the tuples' null bitmaps.) This can result in unexpected failures, such as the one seen in bug #15580 from Allison Kaptur. To fix, let's remove the attempt to do SET NOT NULL from DefineIndex(), reducing index_check_primary_key's role to verifying that the columns are already not null. (It shouldn't ever see such a case, but it seems wise to keep the check for safety.) Instead, make transformIndexConstraint() generate ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL subcommands to be executed ahead of the ADD PRIMARY KEY operation in every case where it can't force the column to be created already-not-null. This requires only minor surgery in parse_utilcmd.c, and it makes for a much more satisfying spec for transformIndexConstraint(): it's no longer having to take it on faith that someone else will handle addition of NOT NULL constraints. To make that work, we have to move the execution of AT_SetNotNull into an ALTER pass that executes ahead of AT_PASS_ADD_INDEX. I moved it to AT_PASS_COL_ATTRS, and put that after AT_PASS_ADD_COL to avoid failure when the column is being added in the same command. This incidentally fixes a bug in the only previous usage of AT_PASS_COL_ATTRS, for AT_SetIdentity: it didn't work either for a newly-added column. Playing around with this exposed a separate bug in ALTER TABLE ONLY ... ADD PRIMARY KEY for partitioned tables. The intent of the ONLY modifier in that context is to prevent doing anything that would require holding lock for a long time --- but the implied SET NOT NULL would recurse to the child partitions, and do an expensive validation scan for any child where the column(s) were not already NOT NULL. To fix that, invent a new ALTER subcommand AT_CheckNotNull that just insists that a child column be already NOT NULL, and apply that, not AT_SetNotNull, when recursing to children in this scenario. This results in a slightly laxer definition of ALTER TABLE ONLY ... SET NOT NULL for partitioned tables, too: that command will now work as long as all children are already NOT NULL, whereas before it just threw up its hands if there were any partitions. In passing, clean up the API of generateClonedIndexStmt(): remove a useless argument, ensure that the output argument is not left undefined, update the header comment. A small side effect of this change is that no-such-column errors in ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY now produce a different message that includes the table name, because they are now detected by the SET NOT NULL step which has historically worded its error that way. That seems fine to me, so I didn't make any effort to avoid the wording change. The basic bug #15580 is of very long standing, and these other bugs aren't new in v12 either. However, this is a pretty significant change in the way ALTER TABLE ADD PRIMARY KEY works. On balance it seems best not to back-patch, at least not till we get some more confidence that this patch has no new bugs. Patch by me, but thanks to Jie Zhang for a preliminary version. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15580-d1a6de5a3d65da51@postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1396E95157071C4EBBA51892C5368521017F2E6E63@G08CNEXMBPEKD02.g08.fujitsu.local
2019-04-10Fix backwards test in operator_precedence_warning logic.Tom Lane
Warnings about unary minus might have been wrong. It's a bit surprising that nobody noticed yet ... probably the precedence-warning feature hasn't really been used much in the field. Rikard Falkeborn Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADRDgG6fzA8A2oeygUw4=o7ywo4kvz26NxCSgpq22nMD73Bx4Q@mail.gmail.com
2019-04-01Catch syntax error in generated column definitionPeter Eisentraut
The syntax GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS (expr) is not allowed but we have to accept it in the grammar to avoid shift/reduce conflicts because of the similar syntax for identity columns. The existing code just ignored this, incorrectly. Add an explicit error check and a bespoke error message. Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
2019-03-30Generated columnsPeter Eisentraut
This is an SQL-standard feature that allows creating columns that are computed from expressions rather than assigned, similar to a view or materialized view but on a column basis. This implements one kind of generated column: stored (computed on write). Another kind, virtual (computed on read), is planned for the future, and some room is left for it. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/b151f851-4019-bdb1-699e-ebab07d2f40a@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-29Allow existing VACUUM options to take a Boolean argument.Robert Haas
This makes VACUUM work more like EXPLAIN already does without changing the meaning of any commands that already work. It is intended to facilitate the addition of future VACUUM options that may take non-Boolean parameters or that default to false. Masahiko Sawada, reviewed by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobpYrXr5sUaEe_T0boabV0DSm=utSOZzwCUNqfLEEm8Mw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBaFcKBAeL5_++j+Vzir2vBBcF4juW7qH8b3HsQY=Q6+w@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-29REINDEX CONCURRENTLYPeter Eisentraut
This adds the CONCURRENTLY option to the REINDEX command. A REINDEX CONCURRENTLY on a specific index creates a new index (like CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY), then renames the old index away and the new index in place and adjusts the dependencies, and then drops the old index (like DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY). The REINDEX command also has the capability to run its other variants (TABLE, DATABASE) with the CONCURRENTLY option (but not SYSTEM). The reindexdb command gets the --concurrently option. Author: Michael Paquier, Andreas Karlsson, Peter Eisentraut Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Fujii Masao, Jim Nasby, Sergei Kornilov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/60052986-956b-4478-45ed-8bd119e9b9cf%402ndquadrant.com#74948a1044c56c5e817a5050f554ddee
2019-03-27Add support for multivariate MCV listsTomas Vondra
Introduce a third extended statistic type, supported by the CREATE STATISTICS command - MCV lists, a generalization of the statistic already built and used for individual columns. Compared to the already supported types (n-distinct coefficients and functional dependencies), MCV lists are more complex, include column values and allow estimation of much wider range of common clauses (equality and inequality conditions, IS NULL, IS NOT NULL etc.). Similarly to the other types, a new pseudo-type (pg_mcv_list) is used. Author: Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, David Rowley, Mark Dilger, Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dfdac334-9cf2-2597-fb27-f0fb3753f435@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-27Improve error handling of column references in expression transformationMichael Paquier
Column references are not allowed in default expressions and partition bound expressions, and are restricted as such once the transformation of their expressions is done. However, trying to use more complex column references can lead to confusing error messages. For example, trying to use a two-field column reference name for default expressions and partition bounds leads to "missing FROM-clause entry for table", which makes no sense in their respective context. In order to make the errors generated more useful, this commit adds more verbose messages when transforming column references depending on the context. This has a little consequence though: for example an expression using an aggregate with a column reference as argument would cause an error to be generated for the column reference, while the aggregate was the problem reported before this commit because column references get transformed first. The confusion exists for default expressions for a long time, and the problem is new as of v12 for partition bounds. Still per the lack of complaints on the matter no backpatch is done. The patch has been written by Amit Langote and me, and Tom Lane has provided the improvement of the documentation for default expressions on the CREATE TABLE page. Author: Amit Langote, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190326020853.GM2558@paquier.xyz
2019-03-26Fix crash when using partition bound expressionsMichael Paquier
Since 7c079d7, partition bounds are able to use generalized expression syntax when processed, treating "minvalue" and "maxvalue" as specific cases as they get passed down for transformation as a column references. The checks for infinite bounds in range expressions have been lax though, causing crashes when trying to use column reference names with more than one field. Here is an example causing a crash: CREATE TABLE list_parted (a int) PARTITION BY LIST (a); CREATE TABLE part_list_crash PARTITION OF list_parted FOR VALUES IN (somename.somename); Note that the creation of the second relation should fail as partition bounds cannot have column references in their expressions, so when finding an expression which does not match the expected infinite bounds, then this commit lets the generic transformation machinery check after it. The error message generated in this case references as well a missing RTE, which is confusing. This problem will be treated separately as it impacts as well default expressions for some time, and for now only the cases where a crash can happen are fixed. While on it, extend the set of regression tests in place for list partition bounds and add an extra set for range partition bounds. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15668-0377b1981aa1a393@postgresql.org
2019-03-24Transaction chainingPeter Eisentraut
Add command variants COMMIT AND CHAIN and ROLLBACK AND CHAIN, which start new transactions with the same transaction characteristics as the just finished one, per SQL standard. Support for transaction chaining in PL/pgSQL is also added. This functionality is especially useful when running COMMIT in a loop in PL/pgSQL. Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/28536681-324b-10dc-ade8-ab46f7645a5a@2ndquadrant.com
2019-03-23Add unreachable "break" to satisfy -Wimplicit-fallthrough.Tom Lane
gcc is a bit pickier about this than perhaps it should be. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1h6zzT-0003ft-DD@gemulon.postgresql.org
2019-03-21Improve error reporting for DROP FUNCTION/PROCEDURE/AGGREGATE/ROUTINE.Tom Lane
These commands allow the argument type list to be omitted if there is just one object that matches by name. However, if that syntax was used with DROP IF EXISTS and there was more than one match, you got a "function ... does not exist, skipping" notice message rather than a truthful complaint about the ambiguity. This was basically due to poor factorization and a rats-nest of logic, so refactor the relevant lookup code to make it cleaner. Note that this amounts to narrowing the scope of which sorts of error conditions IF EXISTS will bypass. Per discussion, we only intend it to skip no-such-object cases, not multiple-possible-matches cases. Per bug #15572 from Ash Marath. Although this definitely seems like a bug, it's not clear that people would thank us for changing the behavior in minor releases, so no back-patch. David Rowley, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud and Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15572-ed1b9ed09503de8a@postgresql.org
2019-03-19Implement OR REPLACE option for CREATE AGGREGATE.Andrew Gierth
Aggregates have acquired a dozen or so optional attributes in recent years for things like parallel query and moving-aggregate mode; the lack of an OR REPLACE option to add or change these for an existing agg makes extension upgrades gratuitously hard. Rectify.
2019-03-18Revise parse tree representation for VACUUM and ANALYZE.Robert Haas
Like commit f41551f61f9cf4eedd5b7173f985a3bdb4d9858c, this aims to make it easier to add non-Boolean options to VACUUM (or, in this case, to ANALYZE). Instead of building up a bitmap of options directly in the parser, build up a list of DefElem objects and let ExecVacuum() sort it out; right now, we make no use of the fact that a DefElem can carry an associated value, but it will be easy to make that change in the future. Masahiko Sawada Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoATE4sn0jFFH3NcfUZXkU2BMbjBWB_kDj-XWYA-LXDcQA@mail.gmail.com
2019-03-07Fix the BY {REF,VALUE} clause of XMLEXISTS/XMLTABLEAlvaro Herrera
This clause is used to indicate the passing mode of a XML document, but we were doing it wrong: we accepted BY REF and ignored it, and rejected BY VALUE as a syntax error. The reality, however, is that documents are always passed BY VALUE, so rejecting that clause was silly. Change things so that we accept BY VALUE. BY REF continues to be accepted, and continues to be ignored. Author: Chapman Flack Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5C297BB7.9070509@anastigmatix.net
2019-03-06tableam: introduce table AM infrastructure.Andres Freund
This introduces the concept of table access methods, i.e. CREATE ACCESS METHOD ... TYPE TABLE and CREATE TABLE ... USING (storage-engine). No table access functionality is delegated to table AMs as of this commit, that'll be done in following commits. Subsequent commits will incrementally abstract table access functionality to be routed through table access methods. That change is too large to be reviewed & committed at once, so it'll be done incrementally. Docs will be updated at the end, as adding them incrementally would likely make them less coherent, and definitely is a lot more work, without a lot of benefit. Table access methods are specified similar to index access methods, i.e. pg_am.amhandler returns, as INTERNAL, a pointer to a struct with callbacks. In contrast to index AMs that struct needs to live as long as a backend, typically that's achieved by just returning a pointer to a constant struct. Psql's \d+ now displays a table's access method. That can be disabled with HIDE_TABLEAM=true, which is mainly useful so regression tests can be run against different AMs. It's quite possible that this behaviour still needs to be fine tuned. For now it's not allowed to set a table AM for a partitioned table, as we've not resolved how partitions would inherit that. Disallowing allows us to introduce, if we decide that's the way forward, such a behaviour without a compatibility break. Catversion bumped, to add the heap table AM and references to it. Author: Haribabu Kommi, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Golgov and others Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20160812231527.GA690404@alvherre.pgsql https://postgr.es/m/20190107235616.6lur25ph22u5u5av@alap3.anarazel.de https://postgr.es/m/20190304234700.w5tmhducs5wxgzls@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-02-28Standardize some more loops that chase down parallel lists.Tom Lane
We have forboth() and forthree() macros that simplify iterating through several parallel lists, but not everyplace that could reasonably use those was doing so. Also invent forfour() and forfive() macros to do the same for four or five parallel lists, and use those where applicable. The immediate motivation for doing this is to reduce the number of ad-hoc lnext() calls, to reduce the footprint of a WIP patch. However, it seems like good cleanup and error-proofing anyway; the places that were combining forthree() with a manually iterated loop seem particularly illegible and bug-prone. There was some speculation about restructuring related parsetree representations to reduce the need for parallel list chasing of this sort. Perhaps that's a win, or perhaps not, but in any case it would be considerably more invasive than this patch; and it's not particularly related to my immediate goal of improving the List infrastructure. So I'll leave that question for another day. Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-24Fix ecpg bugs caused by missing semicolons in the backend grammar.Tom Lane
The Bison documentation clearly states that a semicolon is required after every grammar rule, and our scripts that generate ecpg's grammar from the backend's implicitly assumed this is true. But it turns out that only ancient versions of Bison actually enforce that. There have been a couple of rules without trailing semicolons in gram.y for some time, and as a consequence, ecpg's grammar was faulty and produced wrong output for the affected statements. To fix, add the missing semis, and add some cross-checks to ecpg's scripts so that they'll bleat if we mess this up again. The cases that were broken were: * "SET variable = DEFAULT" (but not "SET variable TO DEFAULT"), as well as allied syntaxes such as ALTER SYSTEM SET ... DEFAULT. These produced syntactically invalid output that the server would reject. * Multiple type names in DROP TYPE/DOMAIN commands. Only the first type name would be listed in the emitted command. Per report from Daisuke Higuchi. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1803D792815FC24D871C00D17AE95905DB51CE@g01jpexmbkw24
2019-02-16Allow user control of CTE materialization, and change the default behavior.Tom Lane
Historically we've always materialized the full output of a CTE query, treating WITH as an optimization fence (so that, for example, restrictions from the outer query cannot be pushed into it). This is appropriate when the CTE query is INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, or is recursive; but when the CTE query is non-recursive and side-effect-free, there's no hazard of changing the query results by pushing restrictions down. Another argument for materialization is that it can avoid duplicate computation of an expensive WITH query --- but that only applies if the WITH query is called more than once in the outer query. Even then it could still be a net loss, if each call has restrictions that would allow just a small part of the WITH query to be computed. Hence, let's change the behavior for WITH queries that are non-recursive and side-effect-free. By default, we will inline them into the outer query (removing the optimization fence) if they are called just once. If they are called more than once, we will keep the old behavior by default, but the user can override this and force inlining by specifying NOT MATERIALIZED. Lastly, the user can force the old behavior by specifying MATERIALIZED; this would mainly be useful when the query had deliberately been employing WITH as an optimization fence to prevent a poor choice of plan. Andreas Karlsson, Andrew Gierth, David Fetter Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sh48ffhb.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2019-02-15Fix support for CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS AS EXECUTEMichael Paquier
The grammar IF NOT EXISTS for CTAS is supported since 9.5 and documented as such, however the case of using EXECUTE as query has never been covered as EXECUTE CTAS statements and normal CTAS statements are parsed separately. Author: Andreas Karlsson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ddcc188-e37c-a0be-32bf-a56b07c3559e@proxel.se Backpatch-through: 9.5
2019-02-13More unconstify usePeter Eisentraut
Replace casts whose only purpose is to cast away const with the unconstify() macro. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/53a28052-f9f3-1808-fed9-460fd43035ab%402ndquadrant.com
2019-02-09Create the infrastructure for planner support functions.Tom Lane
Rename/repurpose pg_proc.protransform as "prosupport". The idea is still that it names an internal function that provides knowledge to the planner about the behavior of the function it's attached to; but redesign the API specification so that it's not limited to doing just one thing, but can support an extensible set of requests. The original purpose of simplifying a function call is handled by the first request type to be invented, SupportRequestSimplify. Adjust all the existing transform functions to handle this API, and rename them fron "xxx_transform" to "xxx_support" to reflect the potential generalization of what they do. (Since we never previously provided any way for extensions to add transform functions, this change doesn't create an API break for them.) Also add DDL and pg_dump support for attaching a support function to a user-defined function. Unfortunately, DDL access has to be restricted to superusers, at least for now; but seeing that support functions will pretty much have to be written in C, that limitation is just theoretical. (This support is untested in this patch, but a follow-on patch will add cases that exercise it.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15193.1548028093@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-02-07Add collation assignment to CALL statementPeter Eisentraut
Otherwise functions that require collation information will not have it if they are called in arguments to a CALL statement. Reported-by: Jean-Marc Voillequin <Jean-Marc.Voillequin@moodys.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1EC8157EB499BF459A516ADCF135ADCE39FFAC54%40LON-WGMSX712.ad.moodys.net
2019-02-01Renaming for new subscripting mechanismAlvaro Herrera
Over at patch https://commitfest.postgresql.org/21/1062/ Dmitry wants to introduce a more generic subscription mechanism, which allows subscripting not only arrays but also other object types such as JSONB. That functionality is introduced in a largish invasive patch, out of which this internal renaming patch was extracted. Author: Dmitry Dolgov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Arthur Zakirov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcUK4EqPAu7XRRO5CCjMwhz5zvg+rfWuLzVoxp_5sKS6=w@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-30Allow RECORD and RECORD[] to be specified in function coldeflists.Tom Lane
We can't allow these pseudo-types to be used as table column types, because storing an anonymous record value in a table would result in data that couldn't be understood by other sessions. However, it seems like there's no harm in allowing the case in a column definition list that's specifying what a function-returning-record returns. The data involved is all local to the current session, so we should be just as able to resolve its actual tuple type as we are for the function-returning-record's top-level tuple output. Elvis Pranskevichus, with cosmetic changes by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11038447.kQ5A9Uj5xi@hammer.magicstack.net
2019-01-29Refactor planner's header files.Tom Lane
Create a new header optimizer/optimizer.h, which exposes just the planner functions that can be used "at arm's length", without need to access Paths or the other planner-internal data structures defined in nodes/relation.h. This is intended to provide the whole planner API seen by most of the rest of the system; although FDWs still need to use additional stuff, and more thought is also needed about just what selfuncs.c should rely on. The main point of doing this now is to limit the amount of new #include baggage that will be needed by "planner support functions", which I expect to introduce later, and which will be in relevant datatype modules rather than anywhere near the planner. This commit just moves relevant declarations into optimizer.h from other header files (a couple of which go away because everything got moved), and adjusts #include lists to match. There's further cleanup that could be done if we want to decide that some stuff being exposed by optimizer.h doesn't belong in the planner at all, but I'll leave that for another day. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-29Make some small planner API cleanups.Tom Lane
Move a few very simple node-creation and node-type-testing functions from the planner's clauses.c to nodes/makefuncs and nodes/nodeFuncs. There's nothing planner-specific about them, as evidenced by the number of other places that were using them. While at it, rename and_clause() etc to is_andclause() etc, to clarify that they are node-type-testing functions not node-creation functions. And use "static inline" implementations for the shortest ones. Also, modify flatten_join_alias_vars() and some subsidiary functions to take a Query not a PlannerInfo to define the join structure that Vars should be translated according to. They were only using the "parse" field of the PlannerInfo anyway, so this just requires removing one level of indirection. The advantage is that now parse_agg.c can use flatten_join_alias_vars() without the horrid kluge of creating an incomplete PlannerInfo, which will allow that file to be decoupled from relation.h in a subsequent patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11460.1548706639@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-28In the planner, replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE.Tom Lane
The fact that "SELECT expression" has no base relations has long been a thorn in the side of the planner. It makes it hard to flatten a sub-query that looks like that, or is a trivial VALUES() item, because the planner generally uses relid sets to identify sub-relations, and such a sub-query would have an empty relid set if we flattened it. prepjointree.c contains some baroque logic that works around this in certain special cases --- but there is a much better answer. We can replace an empty FROM clause with a dummy RTE that acts like a table of one row and no columns, and then there are no such corner cases to worry about. Instead we need some logic to get rid of useless dummy RTEs, but that's simpler and covers more cases than what was there before. For really trivial cases, where the query is just "SELECT expression" and nothing else, there's a hazard that adding the extra RTE makes for a noticeable slowdown; even though it's not much processing, there's not that much for the planner to do overall. However testing says that the penalty is very small, close to the noise level. In more complex queries, this is able to find optimizations that we could not find before. The new RTE type is called RTE_RESULT, since the "scan" plan type it gives rise to is a Result node (the same plan we produced for a "SELECT expression" query before). To avoid confusion, rename the old ResultPath path type to GroupResultPath, reflecting that it's only used in degenerate grouping cases where we know the query produces just one grouped row. (It wouldn't work to unify the two cases, because there are different rules about where the associated quals live during query_planner.) Note: although this touches readfuncs.c, I don't think a catversion bump is required, because the added case can't occur in stored rules, only plans. Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley and Mark Dilger Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15944.1521127664@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-01-25Allow generalized expression syntax for partition boundsPeter Eisentraut
Previously, only literals were allowed. This change allows general expressions, including functions calls, which are evaluated at the time the DDL command is executed. Besides offering some more functionality, it simplifies the parser structures and removes some inconsistencies in how the literals were handled. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, Amit Langote Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9f88b5e0-6da2-5227-20d0-0d7012beaa1c@lab.ntt.co.jp/
2019-01-23Fix misc typos in comments.Heikki Linnakangas
Spotted mostly by Fabien Coelho. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/alpine.DEB.2.21.1901230947050.16643@lancre
2019-01-21Rename RelationData.rd_amroutine to rd_indam.Andres Freund
The upcoming table AM support makes rd_amroutine to generic, as its only about index AMs. The new name makes that clear, and is shorter to boot. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21Replace uses of heap_open et al with the corresponding table_* function.Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-01-21Replace heapam.h includes with {table, relation}.h where applicable.Andres Freund
A lot of files only included heapam.h for relation_open, heap_open etc - replace the heapam.h include in those files with the narrower header. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190111000539.xbv7s6w7ilcvm7dp@alap3.anarazel.de