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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.
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
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.
2009-10-05Create 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
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-12-19SQL/MED catalog manipulation facilitiesPeter Eisentraut
This doesn't do any remote or external things yet, but it gives modules like plproxy and dblink a standardized and future-proof system for managing their connection information. Martin Pihlak and Peter Eisentraut
2008-06-19Improve our #include situation by moving pointer types away from theAlvaro Herrera
corresponding struct definitions. This allows other headers to avoid including certain highly-loaded headers such as rel.h and relscan.h, instead using just relcache.h, heapam.h or genam.h, which are more lightweight and thus cause less unnecessary dependencies.
2008-05-12Restructure some header files a bit, in particular heapam.h, by removing someAlvaro Herrera
unnecessary #include lines in it. Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c files. For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created, initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage. While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more consistent with our header style.
2008-05-07The CONSTROID syscache should show conrelid as a relation OID column.Tom Lane
Not clear that there's any observable bug at present from this omission, but it seems like something to fix going forward.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-08-21Tsearch2 functionality migrates to core. The bulk of this work is byTom Lane
Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev, but I did a lot of editorializing, so anything that's broken is probably my fault. Documentation is nonexistent as yet, but let's land the patch so we can get some portability testing done.
2007-04-02Support enum data types. Along the way, use macros for the values ofTom Lane
pg_type.typtype whereever practical. Tom Dunstan, with some kibitzing from Tom Lane.
2007-02-14Fix up foreign-key mechanism so that there is a sound semantic basis for theTom Lane
equality checks it applies, instead of a random dependence on whatever operators might be named "=". The equality operators will now be selected from the opfamily of the unique index that the FK constraint depends on to enforce uniqueness of the referenced columns; therefore they are certain to be consistent with that index's notion of equality. Among other things this should fix the problem noted awhile back that pg_dump may fail for foreign-key constraints on user-defined types when the required operators aren't in the search path. This also means that the former warning condition about "foreign key constraint will require costly sequential scans" is gone: if the comparison condition isn't indexable then we'll reject the constraint entirely. All per past discussions. Along the way, make the RI triggers look into pg_constraint for their information, instead of using pg_trigger.tgargs; and get rid of the always error-prone fixed-size string buffers in ri_triggers.c in favor of building up the RI queries in StringInfo buffers. initdb forced due to columns added to pg_constraint and pg_trigger.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
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.
2006-10-06Fix SysCacheGetAttr() to handle the case where the specified syscache has notTom Lane
been initialized yet. This can happen because there are code paths that call SysCacheGetAttr() on a tuple originally fetched from a different syscache (hopefully on the same catalog) than the one specified in the call. It doesn't seem useful or robust to try to prevent that from happening, so just improve the function to cope instead. Per bug#2678 from Jeff Trout. The specific example shown by Jeff is new in 8.1, but to be on the safe side I'm backpatching 8.0 as well. We could patch 7.x similarly but I think that's probably overkill, given the lack of evidence of old bugs of this ilk.
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-14Remove 576 references of include files that were not needed.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-11Alphabetically order reference to include files, "S"-"Z".Bruce Momjian
2006-06-15Remove the limit on the number of entries allowed in catcaches, andTom Lane
remove the infrastructure needed to enforce the limit, ie, the global LRU list of cache entries. On small-to-middling databases this wins because maintaining the LRU list is a waste of time. On large databases this wins because it's better to keep more cache entries (we assume such users can afford to use some more per-backend memory than was contemplated in the Berkeley-era catcache design). This provides a noticeable improvement in the speed of psql \d on a 10000-table database, though it doesn't make it instantaneous. While at it, use per-catcache settings for the number of hash buckets per catcache, rather than the former one-size-fits-all value. It's a bit silly to be using the same number of hash buckets for, eg, pg_am and pg_attribute. The specific values I used might need some tuning, but they seem to be in the right ballpark based on CATCACHE_STATS results from the standard regression tests.
2006-05-03Create a syscache for pg_database-indexed-by-oid, and make use of itTom Lane
in various places that were previously doing ad hoc pg_database searches. This may speed up database-related privilege checks a little bit, but the main motivation is to eliminate the performance reason for having ReverifyMyDatabase do such a lot of stuff (viz, avoiding repeat scans of pg_database during backend startup). The locking reason for having that routine is about to go away, and it'd be good to have the option to break it up.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
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.
2005-05-11Code cleanup: in C89, there is no point casting the first argument toNeil Conway
memset() or MemSet() to a char *. For one, memset()'s first argument is a void *, and further void * can be implicitly coerced to/from any other pointer type.
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 ...
2005-03-29Convert 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.
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 ...
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
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.
2003-09-24Repair some REINDEX problems per recent discussions. The relcache isTom Lane
now able to cope with assigning new relfilenode values to nailed-in-cache indexes, so they can be reindexed using the fully crash-safe method. This leaves only shared system indexes as special cases. Remove the 'index deactivation' code, since it provides no useful protection in the shared- index case. Require reindexing of shared indexes to be done in standalone mode, but remove other restrictions on REINDEX. -P (IgnoreSystemIndexes) now prevents using indexes for lookups, but does not disable index updates. It is therefore safe to allow from PGOPTIONS. Upshot: reindexing system catalogs can be done without a standalone backend for all cases except shared catalogs.
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-25Error message editing in backend/utils (except /adt).Tom Lane
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.
2002-09-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2002-08-05Restructure system-catalog index updating logic. Instead of havingTom Lane
hardwired lists of index names for each catalog, use the relcache's mechanism for caching lists of OIDs of indexes of any table. This reduces the common case of updating system catalog indexes to a single line, makes it much easier to add a new system index (in fact, you can now do so on-the-fly if you want to), and as a nice side benefit improves performance a little. Per recent pghackers discussion.
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.
2002-07-25Implement DROP CONVERSIONTatsuo Ishii
Add regression test
2002-07-20oid is needed, it is added at the end of the struct (after the nullBruce Momjian
bitmap, if present). Per Tom Lane's suggestion the information whether a tuple has an oid or not is carried in the tuple descriptor. For debugging reasons tdhasoid is of type char, not bool. There are predefined values for WITHOID, WITHOUTOID and UNDEFOID. This patch has been generated against a cvs snapshot from last week and I don't expect it to apply cleanly to current sources. While I post it here for public review, I'm working on a new version against a current snapshot. (There's been heavy activity recently; hope to catch up some day ...) This is a long patch; if it is too hard to swallow, I can provide it in smaller pieces: Part 1: Accessor macros Part 2: tdhasoid in TupDesc Part 3: Regression test Part 4: Parameter withoid to heap_addheader Part 5: Eliminate t_oid from HeapTupleHeader Part 2 is the most hairy part because of changes in the executor and even in the parser; the other parts are straightforward. Up to part 4 the patched postmaster stays binary compatible to databases created with an unpatched version. Part 5 is small (100 lines) and finally breaks compatibility. Manfred Koizar
2002-07-18pg_cast table, and standards-compliant CREATE/DROP CAST commands, plusPeter Eisentraut
extension to create binary compatible casts. Includes dependency tracking as well. pg_proc.proimplicit is now defunct, but will be removed in a separate commit. pg_dump provides a migration path from the previous scheme to declare casts. Dumping binary compatible casts is currently impossible, though.
2002-07-11Add new CREATE CONVERSION/DROP CONVERSION command.Tatsuo Ishii
This is the first cut toward CREATE CONVERSION/DROP CONVERSION implementaion. The commands can now add/remove tuples to the new pg_conversion system catalog, but that's all. Still need work to make them actually working. Documentations, regression tests also need work.
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2002-04-18Rule names are now unique per-relation, rather than unique globally.Tom Lane
DROP RULE and COMMENT ON RULE syntax adds an 'ON tablename' clause, similar to TRIGGER syntaxes. To allow loading of existing pg_dump files containing COMMENT ON RULE, the COMMENT code will still accept the old syntax --- but only if the target rulename is unique across the whole database.
2002-04-17Opclasses live in namespaces. I also took the opportunity to createTom Lane
an 'opclass owner' column in pg_opclass. Nothing is done with it at present, but since there are plans to invent a CREATE OPERATOR CLASS command soon, we'll probably want DROP OPERATOR CLASS too, which suggests that a notion of ownership would be a good idea.
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 >.
2002-04-11Restructure representation of aggregate functions so that they have pg_procTom Lane
entries, per pghackers discussion. This fixes aggregates to live in namespaces, and also simplifies/speeds up lookup in parse_func.c. Also, add a 'proimplicit' flag to pg_proc that controls whether a type coercion function may be invoked implicitly, or only explicitly. The current settings of these flags are more permissive than I would like, but we will need to debate and refine the behavior; for now, I avoided breaking regression tests as much as I could.
2002-04-09Functions live in namespaces. Qualified function names work, egTom Lane
SELECT schema1.func2(...). Aggregate names can be qualified at the syntactic level, but the qualification is ignored for the moment.