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2010-01-17Improve the handling of SET CONSTRAINTS commands by having them searchTom Lane
pg_constraint before searching pg_trigger. This allows saner handling of corner cases; in particular we now say "constraint is not deferrable" rather than "constraint does not exist" when the command is applied to a constraint that's inherently non-deferrable. Per a gripe several months ago from hubert depesz lubaczewski. To make this work without breaking user-defined constraint triggers, we have to add entries for them to pg_constraint. However, in return we can remove the pgconstrname column from pg_constraint, which represents a fairly sizable space savings. I also replaced the tgisconstraint column with tgisinternal; the old meaning of tgisconstraint can now be had by testing for nonzero tgconstraint, while there is no other way to get the old meaning of nonzero tgconstraint, namely that the trigger was internally generated rather than being user-created. In passing, fix an old misstatement in the docs and comments, namely that pg_trigger.tgdeferrable is exactly redundant with pg_constraint.condeferrable. Actually, we mark RI action triggers as nondeferrable even when they belong to a nominally deferrable FK constraint. The SET CONSTRAINTS code now relies on that instead of hard-coding a list of exception OIDs.
2010-01-14Add point_ops opclass for GiST.Teodor Sigaev
2010-01-12Please tablespace directories in their own subdirectory so pg_migratorBruce Momjian
can upgrade clusters without renaming the tablespace directories. New directory structure format is, e.g.: $PGDATA/pg_tblspc/20981/PG_8.5_201001061/719849/83292814
2010-01-12Fix aclexplode to not explode on a zero-entry ACL array.Tom Lane
(An Assert is no substitute for thinking clearly :-() Minor style kibitzing too. Per report from Robert Treat.
2010-01-07Fix 3-parameter form of bit substring() to throw error for negative length,Tom Lane
as required by SQL standard.
2010-01-07Make bit/varbit substring() treat any negative length as meaning "all the restTom Lane
of the string". The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would produce an invalid result value for other negative values. We ought to fix it so that 2-parameter bit substring() is a different C function and the 3-parameter form throws error for negative length, but that takes a pg_proc change which is impractical in the back branches; and in any case somebody might be relying on -1 working this way. So just do this as a back-patchable fix.
2010-01-07Remove all the special-case code for INT64_IS_BUSTED, per decision thatTom Lane
we're not going to support that anymore. I did keep the 64-bit-CRC-with-32-bit-arithmetic code, since it has a performance excuse to live. It's a bit moot since that's all ifdef'd out, of course.
2010-01-05Support ALTER TABLESPACE name SET/RESET ( tablespace_options ).Robert Haas
This patch only supports seq_page_cost and random_page_cost as parameters, but it provides the infrastructure to scalably support many more. In particular, we may want to add support for effective_io_concurrency, but I'm leaving that as future work for now. Thanks to Tom Lane for design help and Alvaro Herrera for the review.
2010-01-05Verify input in pg_read_file().Itagaki Takahiro
2010-01-04When estimating the selectivity of an inequality "column > constant" orTom Lane
"column < constant", and the comparison value is in the first or last histogram bin or outside the histogram entirely, try to fetch the actual column min or max value using an index scan (if there is an index on the column). If successful, replace the lower or upper histogram bound with that value before carrying on with the estimate. This limits the estimation error caused by moving min/max values when the comparison value is close to the min or max. Per a complaint from Josh Berkus. It is tempting to consider using this mechanism for mergejoinscansel as well, but that would inject index fetches into main-line join estimation not just endpoint cases. I'm refraining from that until we can get a better handle on the costs of doing this type of lookup.
2010-01-02Fix similar_escape() to convert parentheses to non-capturing style.Tom Lane
This is needed to avoid unwanted interference with SUBSTRING behavior, as per bug #5257 from Roman Kononov. Also, add some basic intelligence about character classes (bracket expressions) since we now have several behaviors that aren't appropriate inside a character class. As with the previous patch in this area, I'm reluctant to back-patch since it might affect applications that are relying on the prior behavior.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2010-01-01Support "x IS NOT NULL" clauses as indexscan conditions. This turns outTom Lane
to be just a minor extension of the previous patch that made "x IS NULL" indexable, because we can treat the IS NOT NULL condition as if it were "x < NULL" or "x > NULL" (depending on the index's NULLS FIRST/LAST option), just like IS NULL is treated like "x = NULL". Aside from any possible usefulness in its own right, this is an important improvement for index-optimized MAX/MIN aggregates: it is now reliably possible to get a column's min or max value cheaply, even when there are a lot of nulls cluttering the interesting end of the index.
2009-12-30Reject invalid input in int2vectorin.Robert Haas
Since the int2vector type is intended only for internal use, this patch doesn't worry about prettifying the error messages, which has the fringe benefit of avoiding creating additional translatable strings. For a type intended to be used by end-users, we would want to do better, but the approach taken here seems like the correct trade-off for this case. Caleb Welton
2009-12-29Add the ability to store inheritance-tree statistics in pg_statistic,Tom Lane
and teach ANALYZE to compute such stats for tables that have subclasses. Per my proposal of yesterday. autovacuum still needs to be taught about running ANALYZE on parent tables when their subclasses change, but the feature is useful even without that.
2009-12-21More cleanups for the recent large object permissions patch.Robert Haas
Rewrite or adjust various comments for clarity. Remove one bogus comment that doesn't reflect what the code actually does. Improve the description of the lo_compat_privileges option.
2009-12-19Allow read only connections during recovery, known as Hot Standby.Simon Riggs
Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record. New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far. This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required. Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit. Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
2009-12-19binary migration: pg_migratorBruce Momjian
Add comments about places where system oids have to be preserved for binary migration.
2009-12-15Support ORDER BY within aggregate function calls, at long last providing aTom Lane
non-kluge method for controlling the order in which values are fed to an aggregate function. At the same time eliminate the old implementation restriction that DISTINCT was only supported for single-argument aggregates. Possibly release-notable behavioral change: formerly, agg(DISTINCT x) dropped null values of x unconditionally. Now, it does so only if the agg transition function is strict; otherwise nulls are treated as DISTINCT normally would, ie, you get one copy. Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada
2009-12-12Fix integer-to-bit-string conversions to handle the first fractional byteTom Lane
correctly when the output bit width is wider than the given integer by something other than a multiple of 8 bits. This has been wrong since I first wrote that code for 8.0 :-(. Kudos to Roman Kononov for being the first to notice, though I didn't use his patch. Per bug #5237.
2009-12-11Add large object access control.Itagaki Takahiro
A new system catalog pg_largeobject_metadata manages ownership and access privileges of large objects. KaiGai Kohei, reviewed by Jaime Casanova.
2009-12-09Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state withinTom Lane
an allegedly immutable index function. It was previously recognized that we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session user. However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session. Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing. The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection against the SET ROLE issue. GUC changes are still allowed, since there are many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation. Other cases are handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared statement. (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.) Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2009-4136
2009-12-07Add exclusion constraints, which generalize the concept of uniqueness toTom Lane
support any indexable commutative operator, not just equality. Two rows violate the exclusion constraint if "row1.col OP row2.col" is TRUE for each of the columns in the constraint. Jeff Davis, reviewed by Robert Haas
2009-12-05Speed up information schema privilege viewsPeter Eisentraut
Instead of expensive cross joins to resolve the ACL, add table-returning function aclexplode() that expands the ACL into a useful form, and join against that. Also, implement the role_*_grants views as a thin layer over the respective *_privileges views instead of essentially repeating the same code twice. fixes bug #4596 by Joachim Wieland, with cleanup by me
2009-11-29Make pg_stat_activity.application_name visible to all users, rather thanTom Lane
being hidden when current_query is. Relocate it to a column position more consistent with that behavior. Per discussion.
2009-11-28Add support for an application_name parameter, which is displayed inTom Lane
pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries. Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund
2009-11-20Add a WHEN clause to CREATE TRIGGER, allowing a boolean expression to beTom Lane
checked to determine whether the trigger should be fired. For BEFORE triggers this is mostly a matter of spec compliance; but for AFTER triggers it can provide a noticeable performance improvement, since queuing of a deferred trigger event and re-fetching of the row(s) at end of statement can be short-circuited if the trigger does not need to be fired. Takahiro Itagaki, reviewed by KaiGai Kohei.
2009-11-10interval_abs():Bruce Momjian
Add C comment about why there is no interval_abs(): it is unclear what value to return: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-10/msg01031.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-11/msg00041.php
2009-11-05Don't treat NEW and OLD as reserved words anymore. For the purposes of rulesTom Lane
it works just as well to have them be ordinary identifiers, and this gets rid of a number of ugly special cases. Plus we aren't interfering with non-rule usage of these names. catversion bump because the names change internally in stored rules.
2009-11-05Allow binary-coercible cases in ri_HashCompareOp; there are some such casesTom Lane
that are not handled by find_coercion_pathway, notably composite->RECORD. Now that 8.4 supports composites as primary keys, it's worth dealing with this case.
2009-10-28Un-break EXPLAIN for Append plans. I messed this up a few days ago whileTom Lane
adding the ModifyTable node type --- I had been thinking ModifyTable should replace Append as a special case in push_plan(), but actually both of them have to be special-cased.
2009-10-28Fix AcquireRewriteLocks to be sure that it acquires the right lock strengthTom Lane
when FOR UPDATE is propagated down into a sub-select expanded from a view. Similar bug to parser's isLockedRel issue that I fixed yesterday; likewise seems not quite worth the effort to back-patch.
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.
2009-10-26Fix range check in date_recv that tried to limit accepted values to onlyHeikki Linnakangas
those accepted by date_in(). I confused julian day numbers and number of days since the postgres epoch 2000-01-01 in the original patch. I just noticed that it's still easy to get such out-of-range values into the database using to_date or +- operators, but this patch doesn't do anything about those functions. Per report from James Pye.
2009-10-21Remove regex_flavor GUC, so that regular expressions are always "advanced"Tom Lane
style by default. Per discussion, there seems to be hardly anything that really relies on being able to change the regex flavor, so the ability to select it via embedded options ought to be enough for any stragglers. Also, if we didn't remove the GUC, we'd really be morally obligated to mark the regex functions non-immutable, which'd possibly create performance issues.
2009-10-14Support SQL-compliant triggers on columns, ie fire only if certain columnsTom Lane
are named in the UPDATE's SET list. Note: the schema of pg_trigger has not actually changed; we've just started to use a column that was there all along. catversion bumped anyway so that this commit is included in the history of potentially interesting changes to system catalog contents. Itagaki Takahiro
2009-10-13Fix ts_stat's failure on empty tsvector.Tom Lane
Also insert a couple of Asserts that check for stack overflow. Bogus coding appears to be new in 8.4 --- older releases had a much simpler algorithm here. Per bug #5111.
2009-10-10Improve similar_escape() in two different ways:Tom Lane
* Stop escaping ? and {. As of SQL:2008, SIMILAR TO is defined to have POSIX-compatible interpretation of ? as well as {m,n} and related constructs, so we should allow these things through to our regex engine. * Escape ^ and $. It appears that our regex engine will treat ^^ at the beginning of the string the same as ^, and similarly for $$ at the end of the string, which meant that SIMILAR TO was effectively ignoring ^ at the start of the pattern and $ at the end. Since these are not supposed to be metacharacters, this is a bug. The second part of this is arguably a back-patchable bug fix, but I'm hesitant to do that because it might break applications that are expecting something like "col SIMILAR TO '^foo$'" to work like a POSIX pattern. Seems safer to only change it at a major version boundary. Per discussion of an example from Doug Gorley.
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
2009-10-09Use pg_get_triggerdef in pg_dumpPeter Eisentraut
Add a variant of pg_get_triggerdef with a second argument "pretty" that causes the output to be formatted in the way pg_dump used to do. Use this variant in pg_dump with server versions >= 8.5. This insulates pg_dump from most future trigger feature additions, such as the upcoming column triggers patch. Author: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>
2009-10-08Fix off-by-one bug in bitncmp(): When comparing a number of bits divisible byHeikki Linnakangas
8, bitncmp() may dereference a pointer one byte out of bounds. Chris Mikkelson (bug #5101)
2009-10-08Support use of function argument names to identify which actual argumentsTom Lane
match which function parameters. The syntax uses AS, for example funcname(value AS arg1, anothervalue AS arg2) Pavel Stehule
2009-10-05Create an ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which allows users to adjustTom Lane
the privileges that will be applied to subsequently-created objects. Such adjustments are always per owning role, and can be restricted to objects created in particular schemas too. A notable benefit is that users can override the traditional default privilege settings, eg, the PUBLIC EXECUTE privilege traditionally granted by default for functions. Petr Jelinek
2009-09-11Increase the maximum value of extra_float_digits to 3, and have pg_dumpTom Lane
use that value when the backend is new enough to allow it. This responds to bug report from Keh-Cheng Chu pointing out that although 2 extra digits should be sufficient to dump and restore float8 exactly, it is possible to need 3 extra digits for float4 values.
2009-09-09Fix/improve bytea and boolean support in PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut
Before, PL/Python converted data between SQL and Python by going through a C string representation. This broke for bytea in two ways: - On input (function parameters), you would get a Python string that contains bytea's particular external representation with backslashes etc., instead of a sequence of bytes, which is what you would expect in a Python environment. This problem is exacerbated by the new bytea output format. - On output (function return value), null bytes in the Python string would cause truncation before the data gets stored into a bytea datum. This is now fixed by converting directly between the PostgreSQL datum and the Python representation. The required generalized infrastructure also allows for other improvements in passing: - When returning a boolean value, the SQL datum is now true if and only if Python considers the value that was passed out of the PL/Python function to be true. Previously, this determination was left to the boolean data type input function. So, now returning 'foo' results in true, because Python considers it true, rather than false because PostgreSQL considers it false. - On input, we can convert the integer and float types directly to their Python equivalents without having to go through an intermediate string representation. original patch by Caleb Welton, with updates by myself
2009-09-04Tigthen binary receive functions so that they reject values that the textHeikki Linnakangas
input functions don't accept either. While the backend can handle such values fine, they can cause trouble in clients and in pg_dump/restore. This is followup to the original issue on time datatype reported by Andrew McNamara a while ago. Like that one, none of these seem worth back-patching.
2009-09-04Fix encoding handling in xml binary input function. If the XML header didn'tHeikki Linnakangas
specify an encoding explicitly, we used to treat it as being in database encoding when we parsed it, but then perform a UTF-8 -> database encoding conversion on it, which was completely bogus. It's now consistently treated as UTF-8.
2009-09-03Install a workaround for a longstanding gcc bug that allows SIGFPE trapsTom Lane
to occur for division by zero, even though the code is carefully avoiding that. All available evidence is that the only functions affected are int24div, int48div, and int28div, so patch just those three functions to include a "return" after the ereport() call. Backpatch to 8.4 so that the fix can be tested in production builds. For older branches our recommendation will continue to be to use -O1 on affected platforms (which are mostly non-mainstream anyway).
2009-08-30Remove duplicate variable initializations identified by clang static checker.Tom Lane
One of these represents a nontrivial bug (a promptly-leaked palloc), so backpatch. Greg Stark
2009-08-27Remove some unnecessary variable assignments, per results of "clang"Tom Lane
static checker. Paul Matthews