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2007-11-15Re-run pgindent with updated list of typedefs. (Updated README shouldBruce Momjian
avoid this problem in the future.)
2007-11-15pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian
2007-08-15Arrange to cache a ResultRelInfo in the executor's EState for relations thatTom Lane
are not one of the query's defined result relations, but nonetheless have triggers fired against them while the query is active. This was formerly impossible but can now occur because of my recent patch to fix the firing order for RI triggers. Caching a ResultRelInfo avoids duplicating work by repeatedly opening and closing the same relation, and also allows EXPLAIN ANALYZE to "see" and report on these extra triggers. Use the same mechanism to cache open relations when firing deferred triggers at transaction shutdown; this replaces the former one-element-cache strategy used in that case, and should improve performance a bit when there are deferred triggers on a number of relations.
2007-08-15Repair problems occurring when multiple RI updates have to be done to the sameTom Lane
row within one query: we were firing check triggers before all the updates were done, leading to bogus failures. Fix by making the triggers queued by an RI update go at the end of the outer query's trigger event list, thereby effectively making the processing "breadth-first". This was indeed how it worked pre-8.0, so the bug does not occur in the 7.x branches. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
2007-07-25Rename DLLIMPORT macro to PGDLLIMPORT to avoid conflict withMagnus Hagander
third party includes (like tcl) that define DLLIMPORT.
2007-06-11Improve UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF so that they can be used from plpgsqlTom Lane
with a plpgsql-defined cursor. The underlying mechanism for this is that the main SQL engine will now take "WHERE CURRENT OF $n" where $n is a refcursor parameter. Not sure if we should document that fact or consider it an implementation detail. Per discussion with Pavel Stehule.
2007-06-11Support UPDATE/DELETE WHERE CURRENT OF cursor_name, per SQL standard.Tom Lane
Along the way, allow FOR UPDATE in non-WITH-HOLD cursors; there may once have been a reason to disallow that, but it seems to work now, and it's really rather necessary if you want to select a row via a cursor and then update it in a concurrent-safe fashion. Original patch by Arul Shaji, rather heavily editorialized by Tom Lane.
2007-06-07Rework temp_tablespaces patch so that temp tablespaces are assigned separatelyTom Lane
for each temp file, rather than once per sort or hashjoin; this allows spreading the data of a large sort or join across multiple tablespaces. (I remain dubious that this will make any difference in practice, but certain people insisted.) Arrange to cache the results of parsing the GUC variable instead of recomputing from scratch on every demand, and push usage of the cache down to the bottommost fd.c level.
2007-06-03Create a GUC parameter temp_tablespaces that allows selection of theTom Lane
tablespace(s) in which to store temp tables and temporary files. This is a list to allow spreading the load across multiple tablespaces (a random list element is chosen each time a temp object is to be created). Temp files are not stored in per-database pgsql_tmp/ directories anymore, but per-tablespace directories. Jaime Casanova and Albert Cervera, with review by Bernd Helmle and Tom Lane.
2007-06-01Buy back some of the cycles spent in more-expensive hash functions byTom Lane
selecting power-of-2, rather than prime, numbers of buckets in hash joins. If the hash functions are doing their jobs properly by making all hash bits equally random, this is good enough, and it saves expensive integer division and modulus operations.
2007-04-16Support scrollable cursors (ie, 'direction' clause in FETCH) in plpgsql.Tom Lane
Pavel Stehule, reworked a bit by Tom.
2007-04-16Expose more cursor-related functionality in SPI: specifically, allowTom Lane
access to the planner's cursor-related planning options, and provide new FETCH/MOVE routines that allow access to the full power of those commands. Small refactoring of planner(), pg_plan_query(), and pg_plan_queries() APIs to make it convenient to pass the planning options down from SPI. This is the core-code portion of Pavel Stehule's patch for scrollable cursor support in plpgsql; I'll review and apply the plpgsql changes separately.
2007-03-25Remove the prohibition on executing cursor commands through SPI_execute.Tom Lane
Vadim had included this restriction in the original design of the SPI code, but I'm darned if I can see a reason for it. I left the macro definition of SPI_ERROR_CURSOR in place, so as not to needlessly break any SPI callers that are checking for it, but that code will never actually be returned anymore.
2007-03-15Make use of plancache module for SPI plans. In particular, since plpgsqlTom Lane
uses SPI plans, this finally fixes the ancient gotcha that you can't drop and recreate a temp table used by a plpgsql function. Along the way, clean up SPI's API a little bit by declaring SPI plan pointers as "SPIPlanPtr" instead of "void *". This is cosmetic but helps to forestall simple programming mistakes. (I have changed some but not all of the callers to match; there are still some "void *"'s in contrib and the PL's. This is intentional so that we can see if anyone's compiler complains about it.)
2007-02-27Get rid of the separate EState for subplans, and just let them share theTom Lane
parent query's EState. Now that there's a single flat rangetable for both the main plan and subplans, there's no need anymore for a separate EState, and removing it allows cleaning up some crufty code in nodeSubplan.c and nodeSubqueryscan.c. Should be a tad faster too, although any difference will probably be hard to measure. This is the last bit of subsidiary mop-up work from changing to a flat rangetable.
2007-02-22Turn the rangetable used by the executor into a flat list, and avoid storingTom Lane
useless substructure for its RangeTblEntry nodes. (I chose to keep using the same struct node type and just zero out the link fields for unneeded info, rather than making a separate ExecRangeTblEntry type --- it seemed too fragile to have two different rangetable representations.) Along the way, put subplans into a list in the toplevel PlannedStmt node, and have SubPlan nodes refer to them by list index instead of direct pointers. Vadim wanted to do that years ago, but I never understood what he was on about until now. It makes things a *whole* lot more robust, because we can stop worrying about duplicate processing of subplans during expression tree traversals. That's been a constant source of bugs, and it's finally gone. There are some consequent simplifications yet to be made, like not using a separate EState for subplans in the executor, but I'll tackle that later.
2007-02-20Remove the Query structure from the executor's API. This allows us to stopTom Lane
storing mostly-redundant Query trees in prepared statements, portals, etc. To replace Query, a new node type called PlannedStmt is inserted by the planner at the top of a completed plan tree; this carries just the fields of Query that are still needed at runtime. The statement lists kept in portals etc. now consist of intermixed PlannedStmt and bare utility-statement nodes --- no Query. This incidentally allows us to remove some fields from Query and Plan nodes that shouldn't have been there in the first place. Still to do: simplify the execution-time range table; at the moment the range table passed to the executor still contains Query trees for subqueries. initdb forced due to change of stored rules.
2007-02-15Repair oversight in 8.2 change that improved the handling of "pseudoconstant"Tom Lane
WHERE clauses. createplan.c is now willing to stick a gating Result node almost anywhere in the plan tree, and in particular one can wind up directly underneath a MergeJoin node. This means it had better be willing to handle Mark/Restore. Fortunately, that's trivial in such cases, since we can just pass off the call to the input node (which the planner has previously ensured can handle Mark/Restore). Per report from Phil Frost.
2007-02-06Add support for cross-type hashing in hashed subplans (hashed IN/NOT IN casesTom Lane
that aren't turned into true joins). Since this is the last missing bit of infrastructure, go ahead and fill out the hash integer_ops and float_ops opfamilies with cross-type operators. The operator family project is now DONE ... er, except for documentation ...
2007-02-02Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previouslyTom Lane
made query plan. Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different type than it now has. Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor. Since at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the column type will not change underneath us later in the query. However, since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE while a query is in progress in the current backend. Seal that hole by rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in the current backend. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0556
2007-01-30Add support for cross-type hashing in hash index searches and hash joins.Tom Lane
Hashing for aggregation purposes still needs work, so it's not time to mark any cross-type operators as hashable for general use, but these cases work if the operators are so marked by hand in the system catalogs.
2007-01-28Improve hash join to discard input tuples immediately if they can'tTom Lane
match because they contain a null join key (and the join operator is known strict). Improves performance significantly when the inner relation contains a lot of nulls, as per bug #2930.
2007-01-10Change the planner-to-executor API so that the planner tells the executorTom Lane
which comparison operators to use for plan nodes involving tuple comparison (Agg, Group, Unique, SetOp). Formerly the executor looked up the default equality operator for the datatype, which was really pretty shaky, since it's possible that the data being fed to the node is sorted according to some nondefault operator class that could have an incompatible idea of equality. The planner knows what it has sorted by and therefore can provide the right equality operator to use. Also, this change moves a couple of catalog lookups out of the executor and into the planner, which should help startup time for pre-planned queries by some small amount. Modify the planner to remove some other cavalier assumptions about always being able to use the default operators. Also add "nulls first/last" info to the Plan node for a mergejoin --- neither the executor nor the planner can cope yet, but at least the API is in place.
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-12-26Fix failure due to accessing an already-freed tuple descriptor in a planTom Lane
involving HashAggregate over SubqueryScan (this is the known case, there may well be more). The bug is only latent in releases before 8.2 since they didn't try to access tupletable slots' descriptors during ExecDropTupleTable. The least bogus fix seems to be to make subqueries share the parent query's memory context, so that tupdescs they create will have the same lifespan as those of the parent query. There are comments in the code envisioning going even further by not having a separate child EState at all, but that will require rethinking executor access to range tables, which I don't want to tackle right now. Per bug report from Jean-Pierre Pelletier.
2006-12-04Refactor ExecGetJunkAttribute to avoid searching for junk attributesTom Lane
by name on each and every row processed. Profiling suggests this may buy a percent or two for simple UPDATE scenarios, which isn't huge, but when it's so easy to get ...
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-09-03Revert FETCH/MOVE int64 patch. Was using incorrect checks forBruce Momjian
fetch/move in scan.l.
2006-09-02Change FETCH/MOVE to use int8.Bruce Momjian
Dhanaraj M
2006-08-27Add new return codes SPI_OK_INSERT_RETURNING etc to the SPI API.Tom Lane
Fix all the standard PLs to be able to return tuples from FOO_RETURNING statements as well as utility statements that return tuples. Also, fix oversight that SPI_processed wasn't set for a utility statement returning tuples. Per recent discussion.
2006-08-12Add INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE RETURNING, with basic docs and regression tests.Tom Lane
plpgsql support to come later. Along the way, convert execMain's SELECT INTO support into a DestReceiver, in order to eliminate some ugly special cases. Jonah Harris and Tom Lane
2006-08-04Fix domain_in() bug exhibited by Darcy Buskermolen. The idea of an EStateTom Lane
that's shorter-lived than the expression state being evaluated in it really doesn't work :-( --- we end up with fn_extra caches getting deleted while still in use. Rather than abandon the notion of caching expression state across domain_in calls altogether, I chose to make domain_in a bit cozier with ExprContext. All we really need for evaluating variable-free expressions is an ExprContext, not an EState, so I invented the notion of a "standalone" ExprContext. domain_in can prevent resource leakages by doing a ReScanExprContext on this rather than having to free it entirely; so we can make the ExprContext have the same lifespan (and particularly the same per_query memory context) as the expression state structs.
2006-08-02Add support for multi-row VALUES clauses as part of INSERT statementsJoe Conway
(e.g. "INSERT ... VALUES (...), (...), ...") and elsewhere as allowed by the spec. (e.g. similar to a FROM clause subselect). initdb required. Joe Conway and Tom Lane.
2006-07-13More include file adjustments.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-13More include file adjustments.Bruce Momjian
2006-07-13Allow include files to compile own their own.Bruce Momjian
Strip unused include files out unused include files, and add needed includes to C files. The next step is to remove unused include files in C files.
2006-07-11Alphabetically order reference to include files, "S"-"Z".Bruce Momjian
2006-07-11Sort reference of include files, "A" - "F".Bruce Momjian
2006-06-27Convert hash join code to use MinimalTuple format in tuple hash tableTom Lane
and batch files. Should reduce memory and I/O demands for such joins.
2006-06-27Create infrastructure for 'MinimalTuple' representation of in-memoryTom Lane
tuples with less header overhead than a regular HeapTuple, per my recent proposal. Teach TupleTableSlot code how to deal with these. As proof of concept, change tuplestore.c to store MinimalTuples instead of HeapTuples. Future patches will expand the concept to other places where it is useful.
2006-06-16Fix problems with cached tuple descriptors disappearing while still in useTom Lane
by creating a reference-count mechanism, similar to what we did a long time ago for catcache entries. The back branches have an ugly solution involving lots of extra copies, but this way is more efficient. Reference counting is only applied to tupdescs that are actually in caches --- there seems no need to use it for tupdescs that are generated in the executor, since they'll go away during plan shutdown by virtue of being in the per-query memory context. Neil Conway and Tom Lane
2006-06-09Revert sampling patch for EXPLAIN ANALYZE; it turns out to be too unreliableTom Lane
because node timing is much less predictable than the patch expects. I kept the API change for InstrStopNode, however.
2006-05-30Code review for EXPLAIN patch. Fix some typos, make it behave sanelyTom Lane
across multiple loops, get rid of the shaky assumption that exactly one tuple is returned per node iteration.
2006-05-30Make EXPLAIN sampling smarter, to avoid excessive sampling delay.Bruce Momjian
Martijn van Oosterhout
2006-05-23Remove CXT_printf/CXT1_printf macros. If anyone had found them to be ofTom Lane
any use in the past many years, we'd have made some effort to include them in all executor node types; but in fact they were only in nodeAppend.c and nodeIndexscan.c, up until I copied nodeIndexscan.c's occurrence into the new bitmap node types. Remove some other unused macros in execdebug.h, too. Some day the whole header probably ought to go away in favor of better-designed facilities.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2006-02-28Extend the ExecInitNode API so that plan nodes receive a set of flagTom Lane
bits indicating which optional capabilities can actually be exercised at runtime. This will allow Sort and Material nodes, and perhaps later other nodes, to avoid unnecessary overhead in common cases. This commit just adds the infrastructure and arranges to pass the correct flag values down to plan nodes; none of the actual optimizations are here yet. I'm committing this separately in case anyone wants to measure the added overhead. (It should be negligible.) Simon Riggs and Tom Lane
2006-01-25Allow row comparisons to be used as indexscan qualifications.Tom Lane
This completes the project to upgrade our handling of row comparisons.
2006-01-12Repair "Halloween problem" in EvalPlanQual: a tuple that's been inserted byTom Lane
our own command (or more generally, xmin = our xact and cmin >= current command ID) should not be seen as good. Else we may try to update rows we already updated. This error was inserted last August while fixing the even bigger problem that the old coding wouldn't see *any* tuples inserted by our own transaction as good. Per report from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2005-12-03Tweak indexscan machinery to avoid taking an AccessShareLock on an indexTom Lane
if we already have a stronger lock due to the index's table being the update target table of the query. Same optimization I applied earlier at the table level. There doesn't seem to be much interest in the more radical idea of not locking indexes at all, so do what we can ...