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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.
2006-10-04pgindent 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.
2006-08-15Add a hack so that get_type_io_data() can work from bootstrap.c'sTom Lane
internal TypInfo table in bootstrap mode. This allows array_in and array_out to be used during early bootstrap, which eliminates the former obstacle to giving OUT parameters to built-in functions.
2006-07-14Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian
2006-04-05Fix a bunch of problems with domains by making them use special input functionsTom Lane
that apply the necessary domain constraint checks immediately. This fixes cases where domain constraints went unchecked for statement parameters, PL function local variables and results, etc. We can also eliminate existing special cases for domains in places that had gotten it right, eg COPY. Also, allow domains over domains (base of a domain is another domain type). This almost worked before, but was disallowed because the original patch hadn't gotten it quite right.
2006-04-04Modify all callers of datatype input and receive functions so that if theseTom Lane
functions are not strict, they will be called (passing a NULL first parameter) during any attempt to input a NULL value of their datatype. Currently, all our input functions are strict and so this commit does not change any behavior. However, this will make it possible to build domain input functions that centralize checking of domain constraints, thereby closing numerous holes in our domain support, as per previous discussion. While at it, I took the opportunity to introduce convenience functions InputFunctionCall, OutputFunctionCall, etc to use in code that calls I/O functions. This eliminates a lot of grotty-looking casts, but the main motivation is to make it easier to grep for these places if we ever need to touch them again.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2005-12-28Implement SQL-compliant treatment of row comparisons for < <= > >= casesTom Lane
(previously we only did = and <> correctly). Also, allow row comparisons with any operators that are in btree opclasses, not only those with these specific names. This gets rid of a whole lot of indefensible assumptions about the behavior of particular operators based on their names ... though it's still true that IN and NOT IN expand to "= ANY". The patch adds a RowCompareExpr expression node type, and makes some changes in the representation of ANY/ALL/ROWCOMPARE SubLinks so that they can share code with RowCompareExpr. I have not yet done anything about making RowCompareExpr an indexable operator, but will look at that soon. initdb forced due to changes in stored rules.
2005-11-17Make SQL arrays support null elements. This commit fixes the core arrayTom Lane
functionality, but I still need to make another pass looking at places that incidentally use arrays (such as ACL manipulation) to make sure they are null-safe. Contrib needs work too. I have not changed the behaviors that are still under discussion about array comparison and what to do with lower bounds.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-10-11Document that get_attstatsslot/free_attstatsslot only need to be passedTom Lane
valid type information if they are asked to fetch the values part of a pg_statistic slot; these arguments are unneeded if fetching only the numbers part. Use this to save a catcache lookup in btcostestimate, which is looking like a bit of a hotspot in recent profiling. Not a big savings, but since it's essentially free, might as well do it.
2005-08-12Pass the type OID as the typioparam for all non-array types, rather thanTom Lane
only composite types as we did in 8.0. Per discussion with Martijn van Oosterhout.
2005-06-28Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authidTom Lane
and pg_auth_members. There are still many loose ends to finish in this patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for instance). But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can make some progress on shared dependencies. The catalog changes should be pretty much done.
2005-05-01Change CREATE TYPE to require datatype output and send functions to haveTom Lane
only one argument. (Per recent discussion, the option to accept multiple arguments is pretty useless for user-defined types, and would be a likely source of security holes if it was used.) Simplify call sites of output/send functions to not bother passing more than one argument.
2005-04-14Completion of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane
indexes. Replace all heap_openr and index_openr calls by heap_open and index_open. Remove runtime lookups of catalog OID numbers in various places. Remove relcache's support for looking up system catalogs by name. Bulky but mostly very boring patch ...
2005-04-11Create the planner mechanism for optimizing simple MIN and MAX queriesTom Lane
into indexscans on matching indexes. For the moment, it only handles int4 and text datatypes; next step is to add a column to pg_aggregate so that all MIN/MAX aggregates can be handled. Per my recent proposal.
2005-03-31First phase of OUT-parameters project. We can now define and use SQLTom Lane
functions with OUT parameters. The various PLs still need work, as does pg_dump. Rudimentary docs and regression tests included.
2005-03-29Convert oidvector and int2vector into variable-length arrays. ThisTom Lane
change saves a great deal of space in pg_proc and its primary index, and it eliminates the former requirement that INDEX_MAX_KEYS and FUNC_MAX_ARGS have the same value. INDEX_MAX_KEYS is still embedded in the on-disk representation (because it affects index tuple header size), but FUNC_MAX_ARGS is not. I believe it would now be possible to increase FUNC_MAX_ARGS at little cost, but haven't experimented yet. There are still a lot of vestigial references to FUNC_MAX_ARGS, which I will clean up in a separate pass. However, getting rid of it altogether would require changing the FunctionCallInfoData struct, and I'm not sure I want to buy into that.
2005-01-27Small patch to move get_grosysid() from catalog/aclchk.c toNeil Conway
utils/cache/lsyscache.c where it can be used by other things. Also cleans up both get_usesysid() and get_grosysid() a bit. From Stephen Frost.
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-11-05Create 'default_tablespace' GUC variable that supplies a TABLESPACETom Lane
clause implicitly whenever one is not given explicitly. Remove concept of a schema having an associated tablespace, and simplify the rules for selecting a default tablespace for a table or index. It's now just (a) explicit TABLESPACE clause; (b) default_tablespace if that's not an empty string; (c) database's default. This will allow pg_dump to use SET commands instead of tablespace clauses to determine object locations (but I didn't actually make it do so). All per recent discussions.
2004-10-20Allow functions returning void or cstring to appear in FROM clause,Tom Lane
to make life cushy for the JDBC driver. Centralize the decision-making that affects this by inventing a get_type_func_class() function, rather than adding special cases in half a dozen places.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-06-18Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.Tom Lane
There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules need work, and so does the documentation. Also someone should think about COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE. Also initlocation is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
2004-06-06Infrastructure for I/O of composite types: arrange for the I/O routinesTom Lane
of a composite type to get that type's OID as their second parameter, in place of typelem which is useless. The actual changes are mostly centralized in getTypeInputInfo and siblings, but I had to fix a few places that were fetching pg_type.typelem for themselves instead of using the lsyscache.c routines. Also, I renamed all the related variables from 'typelem' to 'typioparam' to discourage people from assuming that they necessarily contain array element types.
2003-12-03Planner failed to be smart about binary-compatible expressions in pathkeysTom Lane
and hash bucket-size estimation. Issue has been there awhile but is more critical in 7.4 because it affects varchar columns. Per report from Greg Stark.
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-11-12Cross-data-type comparisons are now indexable by btrees, pursuant to myTom Lane
pghackers proposal of 8-Nov. All the existing cross-type comparison operators (int2/int4/int8 and float4/float8) have appropriate support. The original proposal of storing the right-hand-side datatype as part of the primary key for pg_amop and pg_amproc got modified a bit in the event; it is easier to store zero as the 'default' case and only store a nonzero when the operator is actually cross-type. Along the way, remove the long-since-defunct bigbox_ops operator class.
2003-11-09Add operator strategy and comparison-value datatype fields to ScanKey.Tom Lane
Remove the 'strategy map' code, which was a large amount of mechanism that no longer had any use except reverse-mapping from procedure OID to strategy number. Passing the strategy number to the index AM in the first place is simpler and faster. This is a preliminary step in planned support for cross-datatype index operations. I'm committing it now since the ScanKeyEntryInitialize() API change touches quite a lot of files, and I want to commit those changes before the tree drifts under me.
2003-10-04Fix pg_get_constraintdef() to ensure CHECK constraints are always shownTom Lane
with required outer parentheses. Breakage seems to be leftover from domain-constraint patches. This could be smarter about suppressing extra parens, but at this stage of the release cycle I want certainty not cuteness.
2003-08-17Create a 'type cache' that keeps track of the data needed for any particularTom Lane
datatype by array_eq and array_cmp; use this to solve problems with memory leaks in array indexing support. The parser's equality_oper and ordering_oper routines also use the cache. Change the operator search algorithms to look for appropriate btree or hash index opclasses, instead of assuming operators named '<' or '=' have the right semantics. (ORDER BY ASC/DESC now also look at opclasses, instead of assuming '<' and '>' are the right things.) Add several more index opclasses so that there is no regression in functionality for base datatypes. initdb forced due to catalog additions.
2003-08-11Rewriter and planner should use only resno, not resname, to identifyTom Lane
target columns in INSERT and UPDATE targetlists. Don't rely on resname to be accurate in ruleutils, either. This fixes bug reported by Donald Fraser, in which renaming a column referenced in a rule did not work very well.
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-28A visit from the message-style police ...Tom Lane
2003-07-25Error message editing in backend/utils (except /adt).Tom Lane
2003-07-01Aggregates can be polymorphic, using polymorphic implementation functions.Tom Lane
It also works to create a non-polymorphic aggregate from polymorphic functions, should you want to do that. Regression test added, docs still lacking. By Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2003-06-27Create real array comparison functions (that use the element datatype'sTom Lane
comparison functions), replacing the highly bogus bitwise array_eq. Create a btree index opclass for ANYARRAY --- it is now possible to create indexes on array columns. Arrange to cache the results of catalog lookups across multiple array operations, instead of repeating the lookups on every call. Add string_to_array and array_to_string functions. Remove singleton_array, array_accum, array_assign, and array_subscript functions, since these were for proof-of-concept and not intended to become supported functions. Minor adjustments to behavior in some corner cases with empty or zero-dimensional arrays. Joe Conway (with some editorializing by Tom Lane).
2003-06-25Back out array mega-patch.Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway
2003-06-25Updated the pg_get_constraintdef() to use conbin. Update pg_dump to useBruce Momjian
pg_get_constraintdef() for >= 70400. Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
2003-06-24Array mega-patch.Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway
2003-06-22Revise hash join and hash aggregation code to use the same datatype-Tom Lane
specific hash functions used by hash indexes, rather than the old not-datatype-aware ComputeHashFunc routine. This makes it safe to do hash joining on several datatypes that previously couldn't use hashing. The sets of datatypes that are hash indexable and hash joinable are now exactly the same, whereas before each had some that weren't in the other.
2003-05-26Cause CHAR(n) to TEXT or VARCHAR conversion to automatically strip trailingTom Lane
blanks, in hopes of reducing the surprise factor for newbies. Remove redundant operators for VARCHAR (it depends wholly on TEXT operations now). Clean up resolution of ambiguous operators/functions to avoid surprising choices for domains: domains are treated as equivalent to their base types and binary-coercibility is no longer considered a preference item when choosing among multiple operators/functions. IsBinaryCoercible now correctly reflects the notion that you need *only* relabel the type to get from type A to type B: that is, a domain is binary-coercible to its base type, but not vice versa. Various marginal cleanup, including merging the essentially duplicate resolution code in parse_func.c and parse_oper.c. Improve opr_sanity regression test to understand about binary compatibility (using pg_cast), and fix a couple of small errors in the catalogs revealed thereby. Restructure "special operator" handling to fetch operators via index opclasses rather than hardwiring assumptions about names (cleans up the pattern_ops stuff a little).
2003-05-13Change pg_amop's index on (amopclaid,amopopr) to index (amopopr,amopclaid).Tom Lane
This makes no difference for existing uses, but allows SelectSortFunction() and pred_test_simple_clause() to use indexscans instead of seqscans to locate entries for a particular operator in pg_amop. Better yet, they can use the SearchSysCacheList() API to cache the search results.
2003-05-09Implement new-protocol binary I/O support in DataRow, Bind, and FunctionCallTom Lane
messages. Binary I/O is now up and working, but only for a small set of datatypes (integers, text, bytea).
2003-04-08First phase of work on array improvements. ARRAY[x,y,z] constructorTom Lane
expressions, ARRAY(sub-SELECT) expressions, some array functions. Polymorphic functions using ANYARRAY/ANYELEMENT argument and return types. Some regression tests in place, documentation is lacking. Joe Conway, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2003-03-23Instead of storing pg_statistic stavalues entries as text strings, storeTom Lane
them as arrays of the internal datatype. This requires treating the stavalues columns as 'anyarray' rather than 'text[]', which is not 100% kosher but seems to work fine for the purposes we need for pg_statistic. Perhaps in the future 'anyarray' will be allowed more generally.
2003-02-03Determine the set of constraints applied to a domain at executorTom Lane
startup, not in the parser; this allows ALTER DOMAIN to work correctly with domain constraint operations stored in rules. Rod Taylor; code review by Tom Lane.