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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.
2003-01-15Allow merge and hash joins to occur on arbitrary expressions (anything notTom Lane
containing a volatile function), rather than only on 'Var = Var' clauses as before. This makes it practical to do flatten_join_alias_vars at the start of planning, which in turn eliminates a bunch of klugery inside the planner to deal with alias vars. As a free side effect, we now detect implied equality of non-Var expressions; for example in SELECT ... WHERE a.x = b.y and b.y = 42 we will deduce a.x = 42 and use that as a restriction qual on a. Also, we can remove the restriction introduced 12/5/02 to prevent pullup of subqueries whose targetlists contain sublinks. Still TODO: make statistical estimation routines in selfuncs.c and costsize.c smarter about expressions that are more complex than plain Vars. The need for this is considerably greater now that we have to be able to estimate the suitability of merge and hash join techniques on such expressions.
2002-12-05More cleanup of userid to be AclId rather than Oid.Bruce Momjian
2002-12-01Teach planner to expand sufficiently simple SQL-language functionsTom Lane
('SELECT expression') inline, like macros, during the constant-folding phase of planning. The actual expansion is not difficult, but checking that we're not changing the semantics of the call turns out to be more subtle than one might think; in particular must pay attention to permissions issues, strictness, and volatility.
2002-11-25Remove unused constisset and constiscast fields of Const nodes. CleanTom Lane
up code and documentation associated with Param nodes.
2002-09-19Tweak heap.c to refuse attempts to create table columns of standaloneTom Lane
composite types. Add a couple more lsyscache.c routines to support this, and make use of them in some other places that were doing lookups the hard way.
2002-09-18Extend pg_cast castimplicit column to a three-way value; this allows usTom Lane
to be flexible about assignment casts without introducing ambiguity in operator/function resolution. Introduce a well-defined promotion hierarchy for numeric datatypes (int2->int4->int8->numeric->float4->float8). Change make_const to initially label numeric literals as int4, int8, or numeric (never float8 anymore). Explicitly mark Func and RelabelType nodes to indicate whether they came from a function call, explicit cast, or implicit cast; use this to do reverse-listing more accurately and without so many heuristics. Explicit casts to char, varchar, bit, varbit will truncate or pad without raising an error (the pre-7.2 behavior), while assigning to a column without any explicit cast will still raise an error for wrong-length data like 7.3. This more nearly follows the SQL spec than 7.2 behavior (we should be reporting a 'completion condition' in the explicit-cast cases, but we have no mechanism for that, so just do silent truncation). Fix some problems with enforcement of typmod for array elements; it didn't work at all in 'UPDATE ... SET array[n] = foo', for example. Provide a generalized array_length_coerce() function to replace the specialized per-array-type functions that used to be needed (and were missing for NUMERIC as well as all the datetime types). Add missing conversions int8<->float4, text<->numeric, oid<->int8. initdb forced.
2002-09-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2002-08-31Code review for domain-constraints patch. Use a new ConstraintTest nodeTom Lane
type for runtime constraint checks, instead of misusing the parse-time Constraint node for the purpose. Fix some damage introduced into type coercion logic; in particular ensure that a coerced expression tree will read out the correct result type when inspected (patch had broken some RelabelType cases). Enforce domain NOT NULL constraints against columns that are omitted from an INSERT.
2002-08-29Code review for standalone composite types, query-specified compositeTom Lane
types, SRFs. Not happy with memory management yet, but I'll commit these other changes.
2002-08-26Modify array operations to include array's element type OID in theTom Lane
array header, and to compute sizing and alignment of array elements the same way normal tuple access operations do --- viz, using the tupmacs.h macros att_addlength and att_align. This makes the world safe for arrays of cstrings or intervals, and should make it much easier to write array-type-polymorphic functions; as examples see the cleanups of array_out and contrib/array_iterator. By Joe Conway and Tom Lane.
2002-08-22Add a bunch of pseudo-types to replace the behavior formerly associatedTom Lane
with OPAQUE, as per recent pghackers discussion. I still want to do some more work on the 'cstring' pseudo-type, but I'm going to commit the bulk of the changes now before the tree starts shifting under me ...
2002-08-05Preliminary code review for anonymous-composite-types patch: fix breakageTom Lane
of functions returning domain types, update documentation for typtype, move get_typtype to lsyscache.c (actually, resurrect the old version), add defense against creating pseudo-typed table columns, fix some bogus list-parsing in grammar. Issues remain with respect to alias handling and type checking; Joe is on those.
2002-08-02ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN works. Patch by Christopher Kings-Lynne,Tom Lane
code review by Tom Lane. Remaining issues: functions that take or return tuple types are likely to break if one drops (or adds!) a column in the table defining the type. Need to think about what to do here. Along the way: some code review for recent COPY changes; mark system columns attnotnull = true where appropriate, per discussion a month ago.
2002-07-12Second phase of committing Rod Taylor's pg_depend/pg_constraint patch.Tom Lane
pg_relcheck is gone; CHECK, UNIQUE, PRIMARY KEY, and FOREIGN KEY constraints all have real live entries in pg_constraint. pg_depend exists, and RESTRICT/CASCADE options work on most kinds of DROP; however, pg_depend is not yet very well populated with dependencies. (Most of the ones that are present at this point just replace formerly hardwired associations, such as the implicit drop of a relation's pg_type entry when the relation is dropped.) Need to add more logic to create dependency entries, improve pg_dump to dump constraints in place of indexes and triggers, and add some regression tests.
2002-07-06I've fixed up the way domain constraints (not null and type length)Bruce Momjian
are managed as per request. Moved from merging with table attributes to applying themselves during coerce_type() and coerce_type_typmod. Regression tests altered to test the cast() scenarios. Rod Taylor
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2002-05-12Get rid of long-since-vestigial Iter node type, in favor of adding aTom Lane
returns-set boolean field in Func and Oper nodes. This allows cleaner, more reliable tests for expressions returning sets in the planner and parser. For example, a WHERE clause returning a set is now detected and complained of in the parser, not only at runtime.
2002-04-30Clean up loose ends remaining from schema privileges discussion.Tom Lane
I concluded that RENAME should require CREATE privilege on the namespace as well as ownership of the table.
2002-04-27Restructure aclcheck error reporting to make permission-failureTom Lane
messages more uniform and internationalizable: the global array aclcheck_error_strings[] is gone in favor of a subroutine aclcheck_error(). Partial implementation of namespace-related permission checks --- not all done yet.
2002-04-16Operators live in namespaces. CREATE/DROP/COMMENT ON OPERATOR takeTom Lane
qualified operator names directly, for example CREATE OPERATOR myschema.+ ( ... ). To qualify an operator name in an expression you need to write OPERATOR(myschema.+) (thanks to Peter for suggesting an escape hatch). I also took advantage of having to reformat pg_operator to fix something that'd been bugging me for a while: mergejoinable operators should have explicit links to the associated cross-data-type comparison operators, rather than hardwiring an assumption that they are named < and >.
2002-04-05Divide functions into three volatility classes (immutable, stable, andTom Lane
volatile), rather than the old cachable/noncachable distinction. This allows indexscan optimizations in many places where we formerly didn't. Also, add a pronamespace column to pg_proc (it doesn't do anything yet, however).
2002-04-02Make VACUUM handle schema-qualified relation names properly.Tom Lane
2002-03-29pg_type has a typnamespace column; system now supports creating typesTom Lane
in different namespaces. Also, cleanup work on relation namespace support: drop, alter, rename commands work for tables in non-default namespaces.
2002-03-26pg_class has a relnamespace column. You can create and access tablesTom Lane
in schemas other than the system namespace; however, there's no search path yet, and not all operations work yet on tables outside the system namespace.
2002-03-22A little further progress on schemas: push down RangeVars intoTom Lane
addRangeTableEntry calls. Remove relname field from RTEs, since it will no longer be a useful unique identifier of relations; we want to encourage people to rely on the relation OID instead. Further work on dumping qual expressions in EXPLAIN, too.
2002-03-20Code review for DOMAIN patch.Tom Lane
2002-03-19Add DOMAIN support. Includes manual pages and regression tests, fromBruce Momjian
Rod Taylor.
2002-03-07Back out domain patch until it works properly.Bruce Momjian
2002-03-06Ok. Updated patch attached.Bruce Momjian
- domain.patch -> source patch against pgsql in cvs - drop_domain.sgml and create_domain.sgml -> New doc/src/sgml/ref docs - dominfo.txt -> basic domain related queries I used for testing [ ADDED TO /doc] Enables domains of array elements -> CREATE DOMAIN dom int4[3][2]; Uses a typbasetype column to describe the origin of the domain. Copies data to attnotnull rather than processing in execMain(). Some documentation differences from earlier. If this is approved, I'll start working on pg_dump, and a \dD <domain> option in psql, and regression tests. I don't really feel like doing those until the system table structure settles for pg_type. CHECKS when added, will also be copied to to the table attributes. FK Constraints (if I ever figure out how) will be done similarly. Both will lbe handled by MergeDomainAttributes() which is called shortly before MergeAttributes(). Rod Taylor
2002-03-01Teach planner about the idea that a mergejoin won't necessarily readTom Lane
both input streams to the end. If one variable's range is much less than the other, an indexscan-based merge can win by not scanning all of the other table. Per example from Reinhard Max.
2001-10-25pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian
tests pass.
2001-09-06Fix handling of pg_type.typdefault per bug report from Dave Blasby.Tom Lane
If there's anyone out there who's actually using datatype-defined default values, this will be an incompatible change in behavior ... but the old behavior was so broken that I doubt anyone was using it.
2001-08-21Restructure pg_opclass, pg_amop, and pg_amproc per previous discussions inTom Lane
pgsql-hackers. pg_opclass now has a row for each opclass supported by each index AM, not a row for each opclass name. This allows pg_opclass to show directly whether an AM supports an opclass, and furthermore makes it possible to store additional information about an opclass that might be AM-dependent. pg_opclass and pg_amop now store "lossy" and "haskeytype" information that we previously expected the user to remember to provide in CREATE INDEX commands. Lossiness is no longer an index-level property, but is associated with the use of a particular operator in a particular index opclass. Along the way, IndexSupportInitialize now uses the syscaches to retrieve pg_amop and pg_amproc entries. I find this reduces backend launch time by about ten percent, at the cost of a couple more special cases in catcache.c's IndexScanOK. Initial work by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, further hacking by Tom Lane. initdb forced.
2001-06-14has_table_privilege functions from Joe Conway (with some kibitzing fromTom Lane
Tom Lane). For the moment, only the OID/name variants are provided. I didn't force initdb, but the additions to the 'privileges' regress test won't pass until you do one.
2001-05-09First cut at making indexscan cost estimates depend on correlationTom Lane
between index order and table order.
2001-05-09Cause planner to make use of average-column-width statistic that is nowTom Lane
collected by ANALYZE. Also, add some modest amount of intelligence to guesses that are used for varlena columns in the absence of any ANALYZE statistics. The 'width' reported by EXPLAIN is finally something less than totally bogus for varlena columns ... and, in consequence, hashjoin estimating should be a little better ...
2001-05-07Rewrite of planner statistics-gathering code. ANALYZE is now available asTom Lane
a separate statement (though it can still be invoked as part of VACUUM, too). pg_statistic redesigned to be more flexible about what statistics are stored. ANALYZE now collects a list of several of the most common values, not just one, plus a histogram (not just the min and max values). Random sampling is used to make the process reasonably fast even on very large tables. The number of values and histogram bins collected is now user-settable via an ALTER TABLE command. There is more still to do; the new stats are not being used everywhere they could be in the planner. But the remaining changes for this project should be localized, and the behavior is already better than before. A not-very-related change is that sorting now makes use of btree comparison routines if it can find one, rather than invoking '<' twice.
2001-03-23Fix comments that were mis-wrapped, for Tom Lane.Bruce Momjian
2001-03-22pgindent run. Make it all clean.Bruce Momjian
2001-01-24Change Copyright from PostgreSQL, Inc to PostgreSQL Global Development Group.Bruce Momjian
2000-12-27Fix portability problems recently exposed by regression tests on Alphas.Tom Lane
1. Distinguish cases where a Datum representing a tuple datatype is an OID from cases where it is a pointer to TupleTableSlot, and make sure we use the right typlen in each case. 2. Make fetchatt() and related code support 8-byte by-value datatypes on machines where Datum is 8 bytes. Centralize knowledge of the available by-value datatype sizes in two macros in tupmacs.h, so that this will be easier if we ever have to do it again.
2000-11-20Revise handling of oldstyle/newstyle functions per recent discussionsTom Lane
in pghackers list. Support for oldstyle internal functions is gone (no longer needed, since conversion is complete) and pg_language entry 'internal' now implies newstyle call convention. pg_language entry 'newC' is gone; both old and newstyle dynamically loaded C functions are now called language 'C'. A newstyle function must be identified by an associated info routine. See src/backend/utils/fmgr/README.
2000-11-16Change SearchSysCache coding conventions so that a reference count isTom Lane
maintained for each cache entry. A cache entry will not be freed until the matching ReleaseSysCache call has been executed. This eliminates worries about cache entries getting dropped while still in use. See my posting to pg-hackers of even date for more info.
2000-10-05Add proofreader's changes to docs.Bruce Momjian
Fix misspelling of disbursion to dispersion.
2000-08-13Clean up handling of variable-free qual clauses. System now does theTom Lane
right thing with variable-free clauses that contain noncachable functions, such as 'WHERE random() < 0.5' --- these are evaluated once per potential output tuple. Expressions that contain only Params are now candidates to be indexscan quals --- for example, 'var = ($1 + 1)' can now be indexed. Cope with RelabelType nodes atop potential indexscan variables --- this oversight prevents 7.0.* from recognizing some potentially indexscanable situations.
2000-07-23Clean up some sloppy casts --- Oid vs. Datum, that sort of thing.Tom Lane
2000-07-02Attached is a new patch which addresses this problem. (oids inBruce Momjian
regression tests). Chris Bitmead
2000-06-08Mark functions as static and ifdef NOT_USED as appropriate.Bruce Momjian
2000-04-12Ye-old pgindent run. Same 4-space tabs.Bruce Momjian