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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.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-09-20HOT updates. When we update a tuple without changing any of its indexedTom Lane
columns, and the new version can be stored on the same heap page, we no longer generate extra index entries for the new version. Instead, index searches follow the HOT-chain links to ensure they find the correct tuple version. In addition, this patch introduces the ability to "prune" dead tuples on a per-page basis, without having to do a complete VACUUM pass to recover space. VACUUM is still needed to clean up dead index entries, however. Pavan Deolasee, with help from a bunch of other people.
2007-03-29Teach CLUSTER to skip writing WAL if not needed (ie, not using archiving)Tom Lane
--- Simon. Also, code review and cleanup for the previous COPY-no-WAL patches --- Tom.
2007-03-03Fix for COPY-after-truncate feature.Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-11-05Fix recently-identified PITR recovery hazard: the base backup could containTom Lane
stale relcache init files (pg_internal.init), and there is no mechanism for updating them during WAL replay. Easiest solution is just to delete the init files at conclusion of startup, and let the first backend started in each database take care of rebuilding the init file. Simon Riggs and Tom Lane. Back-patched to 8.1. Arguably this should be fixed in 8.0 too, but it would require significantly more code since 8.0 has no handy startup-time scan of pg_database to piggyback on. Manual solution of the problem is possible in 8.0 (just delete the pg_internal.init files before starting WAL replay), so that may be a sufficient answer.
2006-07-31Change the relation_open protocol so that we obtain lock on a relationTom Lane
(table or index) before trying to open its relcache entry. This fixes race conditions in which someone else commits a change to the relation's catalog entries while we are in process of doing relcache load. Problems of that ilk have been reported sporadically for years, but it was not really practical to fix until recently --- for instance, the recent addition of WAL-log support for in-place updates helped. Along the way, remove pg_am.amconcurrent: all AMs are now expected to support concurrent update.
2006-05-04Simplify relcache startup sequence. With the new design of InitPostgresTom Lane
it's not necessary to have three separate calls anymore. This patch also fixes things so we don't try to read pg_internal.init until after we've obtained lock on the target database; which was fairly harmless, but it's certainly cleaner this way.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-08-12Solve the problem of OID collisions by probing for duplicate OIDsTom Lane
whenever we generate a new OID. This prevents occasional duplicate-OID errors that can otherwise occur once the OID counter has wrapped around. Duplicate relfilenode values are also checked for when creating new physical files. Per my recent proposal.
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 ...
2005-04-14First phase of project to use fixed OIDs for all system catalogs andTom Lane
indexes. Extend the macros in include/catalog/*.h to carry the info about hand-assigned OIDs, and adjust the genbki script and bootstrap code to make the relations actually get those OIDs. Remove the small number of RelOid_pg_foo macros that we had in favor of a complete set named like the catname.h and indexing.h macros. Next phase will get rid of internal use of names for looking up catalogs and indexes; but this completes the changes forcing an initdb, so it looks like a good place to commit. Along the way, I made the shared relations (pg_database etc) not be 'bootstrap' relations any more, so as to reduce the number of hardwired entries and simplify changing those relations in future. I'm not sure whether they ever really needed to be handled as bootstrap relations, but it seems to work fine to not do so now.
2005-01-10Phase 1 of fix for 'SMgrRelation hashtable corrupted' problem. ThisTom Lane
is the minimum required fix. I want to look next at taking advantage of it by simplifying the message semantics in the shared inval message queue, but that part can be held over for 8.1 if it turns out too ugly.
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 ...
2004-09-16Restructure subtransaction handling to reduce resource consumption,Tom Lane
as per recent discussions. Invent SubTransactionIds that are managed like CommandIds (ie, counter is reset at start of each top transaction), and use these instead of TransactionIds to keep track of subtransaction status in those modules that need it. This means that a subtransaction does not need an XID unless it actually inserts/modifies rows in the database. Accordingly, don't assign it an XID nor take a lock on the XID until it tries to do that. This saves a lot of overhead for subtransactions that are only used for error recovery (eg plpgsql exceptions). Also, arrange to release a subtransaction's XID lock as soon as the subtransaction exits, in both the commit and abort cases. This avoids holding many unique locks after a long series of subtransactions. The price is some additional overhead in XactLockTableWait, but that seems acceptable. Finally, restructure the state machine in xact.c to have a more orthogonal set of states for subtransactions.
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-28Fix relcache to account properly for subtransaction status of 'new'Tom Lane
relcache entries. Also, change TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() so that if consulted during transaction abort, it will not say that the aborted xact is still current. (It would be better to ensure that it's never called at all during abort, but I'm not sure we can easily guarantee that.) In combination, these fix a crash we have seen occasionally during parallel regression tests of 8.0.
2004-07-17Invent ResourceOwner mechanism as per my recent proposal, and use it toTom Lane
keep track of portal-related resources separately from transaction-related resources. This allows cursors to work in a somewhat sane fashion with nested transactions. For now, cursor behavior is non-subtransactional, that is a cursor's state does not roll back if you abort a subtransaction that fetched from the cursor. We might want to change that later.
2004-07-01Nested transactions. There is still much left to do, especially on theTom Lane
performance front, but with feature freeze upon us I think it's time to drive a stake in the ground and say that this will be in 7.5. Alvaro Herrera, with some help from Tom Lane.
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.
2004-02-10Restructure smgr API as per recent proposal. smgr no longer depends onTom Lane
the relcache, and so the notion of 'blind write' is gone. This should improve efficiency in bgwriter and background checkpoint processes. Internal restructuring in md.c to remove the not-very-useful array of MdfdVec objects --- might as well just use pointers. Also remove the long-dead 'persistent main memory' storage manager (mm.c), since it seems quite unlikely to ever get resurrected.
2003-11-29make sure the $Id tags are converted to $PostgreSQL as well ...PostgreSQL Daemon
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
2003-05-28Replace functional-index facility with expressional indexes. Any columnTom Lane
of an index can now be a computed expression instead of a simple variable. Restrictions on expressions are the same as for predicates (only immutable functions, no sub-selects). This fixes problems recently introduced with inlining SQL functions, because the inlining transformation is applied to both expression trees so the planner can still match them up. Along the way, improve efficiency of handling index predicates (both predicates and index expressions are now cached by the relcache) and fix 7.3 oversight that didn't record dependencies of predicate expressions.
2002-08-06Restructure local-buffer handling per recent pghackers discussion.Tom Lane
The local buffer manager is no longer used for newly-created relations (unless they are TEMP); a new non-TEMP relation goes through the shared bufmgr and thus will participate normally in checkpoints. But TEMP relations use the local buffer manager throughout their lifespan. Also, operations in TEMP relations are not logged in WAL, thus improving performance. Since it's no longer necessary to fsync relations as they move out of the local buffers into shared buffers, quite a lot of smgr.c/md.c/fd.c code is no longer needed and has been removed: there's no concept of a dirty relation anymore in md.c/fd.c, and we never fsync anything but WAL. Still TODO: improve local buffer management algorithms so that it would be reasonable to increase NLocBuffer.
2002-08-02When compiling with --enable-cassert, check for reference count leaksTom Lane
in the relcache. It's rather silly that we have reference count leak checks in bufmgr and in catcache, but not in relcache which will normally have many fewer entries. Chris K-L would have caught at least one bug in his recent DROP patch if he'd had this.
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
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.
2002-02-19A bunch of changes aimed at reducing backend startup time...Tom Lane
Improve 'pg_internal.init' relcache entry preload mechanism so that it is safe to use for all system catalogs, and arrange to preload a realistic set of system-catalog entries instead of only the three nailed-in-cache indexes that were formerly loaded this way. Fix mechanism for deleting out-of-date pg_internal.init files: this must be synchronized with transaction commit, not just done at random times within transactions. Drive it off relcache invalidation mechanism so that no special-case tests are needed. Cache additional information in relcache entries for indexes (their pg_index tuples and index-operator OIDs) to eliminate repeated lookups. Also cache index opclass info at the per-opclass level to avoid repeated lookups during relcache load. Generalize 'systable scan' utilities originally developed by Hiroshi, move them into genam.c, use in a number of places where there was formerly ugly code for choosing either heap or index scan. In particular this allows simplification of the logic that prevents infinite recursion between syscache and relcache during startup: we can easily switch to heapscans in relcache.c when and where needed to avoid recursion, so IndexScanOK becomes simpler and does not need any expensive initialization. Eliminate useless opening of a heapscan data structure while doing an indexscan (this saves an mdnblocks call and thus at least one kernel call).
2001-11-05New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed,Bruce Momjian
initdb/regression tests pass.
2001-10-28Another pgindent run. Fixes enum indenting, and improves #endifBruce Momjian
spacing. Also adds space for one-line comments.
2001-10-25pgindent run on all C files. Java run to follow. initdb/regressionBruce Momjian
tests pass.
2001-10-06Rearrange fmgr.c and relcache so that it's possible to keep FmgrInfoTom Lane
lookup info in the relcache for index access method support functions. This makes a huge difference for dynamically loaded support functions, and should save a few cycles even for built-in ones. Also tweak dfmgr.c so that load_external_function is called only once, not twice, when doing fmgr_info for a dynamically loaded function. All per performance gripe from Teodor Sigaev, 5-Oct-01.
2001-06-29Further work on connecting the free space map (which is still just aTom Lane
stub) into the rest of the system. Adopt a cleaner approach to preventing deadlock in concurrent heap_updates: allow RelationGetBufferForTuple to select any page of the rel, and put the onus on it to lock both buffers in a consistent order. Remove no-longer-needed isExtend hack from API of ReleaseAndReadBuffer.
2001-01-24Change Copyright from PostgreSQL, Inc to PostgreSQL Global Development Group.Bruce Momjian
2000-11-21Put external declarations into header files.Peter Eisentraut
2000-10-23New relcache hash table with RelFileNode as key to be usedVadim B. Mikheev
from bufmgr - it would be nice to have separate hash in smgr for node <--> fd mappings, but for the moment it's easy to add new hash to relcache. Fixed small bug in xlog.c:ReadRecord.
2000-08-06Toast all the system-table columns that seem to need it. It turns outTom Lane
that giving pg_proc a toast table required solving the same problems we'd have to solve for pg_class --- pg_proc is one of the relations that gets bootstrapped in relcache.c. Solution is to go back at the end of initialization and read in the *real* pg_class row to replace the phony entry created by formrdesc(). This should work as long as there's no need to touch any toasted values during initialization, which seems a reasonable assumption. Although I did not add a toast-table for every single system table with a varlena attribute, I believe that it would work to just do ALTER TABLE pg_class CREATE TOAST TABLE. So anyone who's really intent on having several thousand ACL entries for a rel could do it. NOTE: I didn't force initdb, but you must do one to see the effects of this patch.
2000-06-17Fix performance problems with pg_index lookups (see, for example,Tom Lane
discussion of 5/19/00). pg_index is now searched for indexes of a relation using an indexscan. Moreover, this is done once and cached in the relcache entry for the relation, in the form of a list of OIDs for the indexes. This list is used by the parser and executor to drive lookups in the pg_index syscache when they want to know the properties of the indexes. Net result: index information will be fully cached for repetitive operations such as inserts.
2000-01-31Fix problems seen in parallel regress tests when SI buffer overruns (causingTom Lane
syscache and relcache flushes). Relcache entry rebuild now preserves original tupledesc, rewrite rules, and triggers if possible, so that pointers to these things remain valid --- if these things change while relcache entry has positive refcount, we elog(ERROR) to avoid later crash. Arrange for xact-local rels to be rebuilt when an SI inval message is seen for them, so that they are updated by CommandCounterIncrement the same as regular rels. (This is useful because of Hiroshi's recent changes to process our own SI messages at CommandCounterIncrement time.) This allows simplification of some routines that previously hacked around the lack of an automatic update. catcache now keeps its own copy of tupledesc for its relation, rather than depending on the relcache's copy; this avoids needing to reinitialize catcache during a cache flush, which saves some cycles and eliminates nasty circularity problems that occur if a cache flush happens while trying to initialize a catcache. Eliminate a number of permanent memory leaks that used to happen during catcache or relcache flush; not least of which was that catcache never freed any cached tuples! (Rule parsetree storage is still leaked, however; will fix that separately.) Nothing done yet about code that uses tuples retrieved by SearchSysCache for longer than is safe.
2000-01-26Add:Bruce Momjian
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2000, PostgreSQL, Inc to all files copyright Regents of Berkeley. Man, that's a lot of files.
2000-01-22added ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN, early versionPeter Eisentraut
1999-11-21Repair problem exposed by Jan's new parallel-regression-test scaffold:Tom Lane
inval.c thought it could safely use the catcache to look up the OIDs of system relations. Not good, considering that inval.c could be called during catcache loading, if a shared-inval message arrives. Rip out the lookup logic and instead use the known OIDs from pg_class.h.
1999-10-03Reimplement parsing and storage of default expressions and constraintTom Lane
expressions in CREATE TABLE. There is no longer an emasculated expression syntax for these things; it's full a_expr for constraints, and b_expr for defaults (unfortunately the fact that NOT NULL is a part of the column constraint syntax causes a shift/reduce conflict if you try a_expr. Oh well --- at least parenthesized boolean expressions work now). Also, stored expression for a column default is not pre-coerced to the column type; we rely on transformInsertStatement to do that when the default is actually used. This means "f1 datetime default 'now'" behaves the way people usually expect it to. BTW, all the support code is now there to implement ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT and ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN with a default value. I didn't actually teach ALTER TABLE to call it, but it wouldn't be much work.
1999-09-04Modify RelationFlushRelation so that if the relcache entryTom Lane
has positive refcount, it is rebuilt from pg_class data. This ensures that relcache entries will track changes made by other backends. Formerly, a shared inval report would just be ignored if it happened to arrive while the relcache entry was in use. Also, fix relcache to reset ref counts to zero during transaction abort. Finally, change LockRelation() so that it checks for shared inval reports after obtaining the lock. In this way, once any kind of lock has been obtained on a rel, we can trust the relcache entry to be up-to-date.
1999-07-15Change #include's to use <> and "" as appropriate.Bruce Momjian