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2012-01-16Prevent adding relations to a concurrently dropped schema.Robert Haas
In the previous coding, it was possible for a relation to be created via CREATE TABLE, CREATE VIEW, CREATE SEQUENCE, CREATE FOREIGN TABLE, etc. in a schema while that schema was meanwhile being concurrently dropped. This led to a pg_class entry with an invalid relnamespace value. The same problem could occur if a relation was moved using ALTER .. SET SCHEMA while the target schema was being concurrently dropped. This patch prevents both of those scenarios by locking the schema to which the relation is being added using AccessShareLock, which conflicts with the AccessExclusiveLock taken by DROP. As a desirable side effect, this also prevents the use of CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW to queue for an AccessExclusiveLock on a relation on which you have no rights: that will now fail immediately with a permissions error, before trying to obtain a lock. We need similar protection for all other object types, but as everything other than relations uses a slightly different set of code paths, I'm leaving that for a separate commit. Original complaint (as far as I could find) about CREATE by Nikhil Sontakke; risk for ALTER .. SET SCHEMA pointed out by Tom Lane; further details by Dan Farina; patch by me; review by Hitoshi Harada.
2012-01-12Fix CLUSTER/VACUUM FULL for toast values owned by recently-updated rows.Tom Lane
In commit 7b0d0e9356963d5c3e4d329a917f5fbb82a2ef05, I made CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL try to preserve toast value OIDs from the original toast table to the new one. However, if we have to copy both live and recently-dead versions of a row that has a toasted column, those versions may well reference the same toast value with the same OID. The patch then led to duplicate-key failures as we tried to insert the toast value twice with the same OID. (The previous behavior was not very desirable either, since it would have silently inserted the same value twice with different OIDs. That wastes space, but what's worse is that the toast values inserted for already-dead heap rows would not be reclaimed by subsequent ordinary VACUUMs, since they go into the new toast table marked live not deleted.) To fix, check if the copied OID already exists in the new toast table, and if so, assume that it stores the desired value. This is reasonably safe since the only case where we will copy an OID from a previous toast pointer is when toast_insert_or_update was given that toast pointer and so we just pulled the data from the old table; if we got two different values that way then we have big problems anyway. We do have to assume that no other backend is inserting items into the new toast table concurrently, but that's surely safe for CLUSTER and VACUUM FULL. Per bug #6393 from Maxim Boguk. Back-patch to 9.0, same as the previous patch.
2012-01-11Remove useless 'needlock' argument from GetXLogInsertRecPtr. It was alwaysHeikki Linnakangas
passed as 'true'.
2012-01-07Rename the internal structures of the CREATE TABLE (LIKE ...) facilityPeter Eisentraut
The original implementation of this interpreted it as a kind of "inheritance" facility and named all the internal structures accordingly. This turned out to be very confusing, because it has nothing to do with the INHERITS feature. So rename all the internal parser infrastructure, update the comments, adjust the error messages, and split up the regression tests.
2012-01-07Use __sync_lock_test_and_set() for spinlocks on ARM, if available.Tom Lane
Historically we've used the SWPB instruction for TAS() on ARM, but this is deprecated and not available on ARMv6 and later. Instead, make use of a GCC builtin if available. We'll still fall back to SWPB if not, so as not to break existing ports using older GCC versions. Eventually we might want to try using __sync_lock_test_and_set() on some other architectures too, but for now that seems to present only risk and not reward. Back-patch to all supported versions, since people might want to use any of them on more recent ARM chips. Martin Pitt
2012-01-06Slightly reorganize struct SnapshotData.Robert Haas
This squeezes out a bunch of alignment padding, reducing the size from 72 to 56 bytes on my machine. At least in my testing, this didn't produce any measurable performance improvement, but the space savings seem like enough justification. Andres Freund
2012-01-06Improve behavior of concurrent ALTER TABLE, and do some refactoring.Robert Haas
ALTER TABLE (and ALTER VIEW, ALTER SEQUENCE, etc.) now use a RangeVarGetRelid callback to check permissions before acquiring a table lock. We also now use the same callback for all forms of ALTER TABLE, rather than having separate, almost-identical callbacks for ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA and ALTER TABLE .. RENAME, and no callback at all for everything else. I went ahead and changed the code so that no form of ALTER TABLE works on foreign tables; you must use ALTER FOREIGN TABLE instead. In 9.1, it was possible to use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA or ALTER TABLE .. RENAME on a foreign table, but not any other form of ALTER TABLE, which did not seem terribly useful or consistent. Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
2012-01-06Make the number of CLOG buffers adaptive, based on shared_buffers.Robert Haas
Previously, this was hardcoded: we always had 8. Performance testing shows that isn't enough, especially on big SMP systems, so we allow it to scale up as high as 32 when there's adequate memory. On the flip side, when shared_buffers is very small, drop the number of CLOG buffers down to as little as 4, so that we can start the postmaster even when very little shared memory is available. Per extensive discussion with Simon Riggs, Tom Lane, and others on pgsql-hackers.
2012-01-05Improve ALTER DOMAIN / DROP CONSTRAINT with nonexistent constraintPeter Eisentraut
ALTER DOMAIN / DROP CONSTRAINT on a nonexistent constraint name did not report any error. Now it reports an error. The IF EXISTS option was added to get the usual behavior of ignoring nonexistent objects to drop.
2012-01-03Use a non-locking initial test in TAS_SPIN on PPC.Tom Lane
Further testing convinces me that this is helpful at sufficiently high contention levels, though it's still worrisome that it loses slightly at lower contention levels. Per Manabu Ori.
2012-01-03Support for building with MS Visual Studio 2010.Andrew Dunstan
Brar Piening, reviewed by Craig Ringer.
2012-01-02Use LWSYNC in place of SYNC/ISYNC in PPC spinlocks, where possible.Tom Lane
This is allegedly a win, at least on some PPC implementations, according to the PPC ISA documents. However, as with LWARX hints, some PPC platforms give an illegal-instruction failure. Use the same trick as before of assuming that PPC64 platforms will accept it; we might need to refine that based on experience, but there are other projects doing likewise according to google. I did not add an assembler compatibility test because LWSYNC has been around much longer than hint bits, and it seems unlikely that any toolchains currently in use don't recognize it.
2012-01-02Use 4-byte slock_t on both PPC and PPC64.Tom Lane
Previously we defined slock_t as 8 bytes on PPC64, but the TAS assembly code uses word-wide operations regardless, so that the second word was just wasted space. There doesn't appear to be any performance benefit in adding the second word, so get rid of it to simplify the code.
2012-01-02Use mutex hint bit in PPC LWARX instructions, where possible.Tom Lane
The hint bit makes for a small but measurable performance improvement in access to contended spinlocks. On the other hand, some PPC chips give an illegal-instruction failure. There doesn't seem to be a completely bulletproof way to tell whether the hint bit will cause an illegal-instruction failure other than by trying it; but most if not all 64-bit PPC machines should accept it, so follow the Linux kernel's lead and assume it's okay to use it in 64-bit builds. Of course we must also check whether the assembler accepts the command, since even with a recent CPU the toolchain could be old. Patch by Manabu Ori, significantly modified by me.
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-12-31Send new protocol keepalive messages to standby servers.Simon Riggs
Allows streaming replication users to calculate transfer latency and apply delay via internal functions. No external functions yet.
2011-12-27Remove support for on_exit()Peter Eisentraut
All supported platforms support the C89 standard function atexit() (SunOS 4 probably being the last one not to), and supporting both makes the code clumsy.
2011-12-24Rethink representation of index clauses' mapping to index columns.Tom Lane
In commit e2c2c2e8b1df7dfdb01e7e6f6191a569ce3c3195 I made use of nested list structures to show which clauses went with which index columns, but on reflection that's a data structure that only an old-line Lisp hacker could love. Worse, it adds unnecessary complication to the many places that don't much care which clauses go with which index columns. Revert to the previous arrangement of flat lists of clauses, and instead add a parallel integer list of column numbers. The places that care about the pairing can chase both lists with forboth(), while the places that don't care just examine one list the same as before. The only real downside to this is that there are now two more lists that need to be passed to amcostestimate functions in case they care about column matching (which btcostestimate does, so not passing the info is not an option). Rather than deal with 11-argument amcostestimate functions, pass just the IndexPath and expect the functions to extract fields from it. That gets us down to 7 arguments which is better than 11, and it seems more future-proof against likely additions to the information we keep about an index path.
2011-12-23Improve planner's handling of duplicated index column expressions.Tom Lane
It's potentially useful for an index to repeat the same indexable column or expression in multiple index columns, if the columns have different opclasses. (If they share opclasses too, the duplicate column is pretty useless, but nonetheless we've allowed such cases since 9.0.) However, the planner failed to cope with this, because createplan.c was relying on simple equal() matching to figure out which index column each index qual is intended for. We do have that information available upstream in indxpath.c, though, so the fix is to not flatten the multi-level indexquals list when putting it into an IndexPath. Then we can rely on the sublist structure to identify target index columns in createplan.c. There's a similar issue for index ORDER BYs (the KNNGIST feature), so introduce a multi-level-list representation for that too. This adds a bit more representational overhead, but we might more or less buy that back by not having to search for matching index columns anymore in createplan.c; likewise btcostestimate saves some cycles. Per bug #6351 from Christian Rudolph. Likely symptoms include the "btree index keys must be ordered by attribute" failure shown there, as well as "operator MMMM is not a member of opfamily NNNN". Although this is a pre-existing problem that can be demonstrated in 9.0 and 9.1, I'm not going to back-patch it, because the API changes in the planner seem likely to break things such as index plugins. The corner cases where this matters seem too narrow to justify possibly breaking things in a minor release.
2011-12-23Add bytea_agg, parallel to string_agg.Robert Haas
Pavel Stehule
2011-12-22Catversion bump for commit 0e4611c0234d89e288a53351f775c59522baed7c.Robert Haas
It changed the format of stored rules.
2011-12-22Add a security_barrier option for views.Robert Haas
When a view is marked as a security barrier, it will not be pulled up into the containing query, and no quals will be pushed down into it, so that no function or operator chosen by the user can be applied to rows not exposed by the view. Views not configured with this option cannot provide robust row-level security, but will perform far better. Patch by KaiGai Kohei; original problem report by Heikki Linnakangas (in October 2009!). Review (in earlier versions) by Noah Misch and others. Design advice by Tom Lane and myself. Further review and cleanup by me.
2011-12-22Add ALTER DOMAIN ... RENAMEPeter Eisentraut
You could already rename domains using ALTER TYPE, but with this new command it is more consistent with how other commands treat domains as a subcategory of types.
2011-12-21Improve behavior of concurrent CLUSTER.Robert Haas
In the previous coding, a user could queue up for an AccessExclusiveLock on a table they did not have permission to cluster, thus potentially interfering with access by authorized users who got stuck waiting behind the AccessExclusiveLock. This approach avoids that. cluster() has the same permissions-checking requirements as REINDEX TABLE, so this commit moves the now-shared callback to tablecmds.c and renames it, per discussion with Noah Misch.
2011-12-21Take fewer snapshots.Robert Haas
When a PORTAL_ONE_SELECT query is executed, we can opportunistically reuse the parse/plan shot for the execution phase. This cuts down the number of snapshots per simple query from 2 to 1 for the simple protocol, and 3 to 2 for the extended protocol. Since we are only reusing a snapshot taken early in the processing of the same protocol message, the change shouldn't be user-visible, except that the remote possibility of the planning and execution snapshots being different is eliminated. Note that this change does not make it safe to assume that the parse/plan snapshot will certainly be reused; that will currently only happen if PortalStart() decides to use the PORTAL_ONE_SELECT strategy. It might be worth trying to provide some stronger guarantees here in the future, but for now we don't. Patch by me; review by Dimitri Fontaine.
2011-12-20Add support for privileges on typesPeter Eisentraut
This adds support for the more or less SQL-conforming USAGE privilege on types and domains. The intent is to be able restrict which users can create dependencies on types, which restricts the way in which owners can alter types. reviewed by Yeb Havinga
2011-12-19Forgot catversion bump on previous patchAlvaro Herrera
Per Tom
2011-12-19Rename updateNodeLink to spgUpdateNodeLink.Tom Lane
On reflection, the original name seems way too generic for a global symbol. A quick check shows this is the only exported function name in SP-GiST that doesn't begin with "spg" or contain "SpGist", so the rest of them seem all right.
2011-12-19Allow CHECK constraints to be declared ONLYAlvaro Herrera
This makes them enforceable only on the parent table, not on children tables. This is useful in various situations, per discussion involving people bitten by the restrictive behavior introduced in 8.4. Message-Id: 8762mp93iw.fsf@comcast.net CAFaPBrSMMpubkGf4zcRL_YL-AERUbYF_-ZNNYfb3CVwwEqc9TQ@mail.gmail.com Authors: Nikhil Sontakke, Alex Hunsaker Reviewed by Robert Haas and myself
2011-12-19Teach SP-GiST to do index-only scans.Tom Lane
Operator classes can specify whether or not they support this; this preserves the flexibility to use lossy representations within an index. In passing, move constant data about a given index into the rd_amcache cache area, instead of doing fresh lookups each time we start an index operation. This is mainly to try to make sure that spgcanreturn() has insignificant cost; I still don't have any proof that it matters for actual index accesses. Also, get rid of useless copying of FmgrInfo pointers; we can perfectly well use the relcache's versions in-place.
2011-12-18Replace simple constant pg_am.amcanreturn with an AM support function.Tom Lane
The need for this was debated when we put in the index-only-scan feature, but at the time we had no near-term expectation of having AMs that could support such scans for only some indexes; so we kept it simple. However, the SP-GiST AM forces the issue, so let's fix it. This patch only installs the new API; no behavior actually changes.
2011-12-17Remove bogus entries in gist point_ops operator class.Tom Lane
These entries could never be matched to an index clause because they don't have the index datatype on the left-hand side of the operator. (Their commutators are in the opclass, which is sensible, but that doesn't mean these operators should be.) Spotted by a test that I recently added to opr_sanity to catch exactly this type of thinko. AFAICT there is no code in gistproc.c that is specifically meant to cover these cases, so nothing to remove at that level.
2011-12-17Add SP-GiST (space-partitioned GiST) index access method.Tom Lane
SP-GiST is comparable to GiST in flexibility, but supports non-balanced partitioned search structures rather than balanced trees. As described at PGCon 2011, this new indexing structure can beat GiST in both index build time and query speed for search problems that it is well matched to. There are a number of areas that could still use improvement, but at this point the code seems committable. Teodor Sigaev and Oleg Bartunov, with considerable revisions by Tom Lane
2011-12-16Various micro-optimizations for GetSnapshopData().Robert Haas
Heikki Linnakangas had the idea of rearranging GetSnapshotData to avoid checking for sub-XIDs when no top-level XID is present. This patch does that plus further a bit of further, related rearrangement. Benchmarking show a significant improvement on unlogged tables at higher concurrency levels, and mostly indifferent result on permanent tables (which are presumably bottlenecked elsewhere). Most of the benefit seems to come from using the new NormalTransactionIdPrecedes() macro rather than the function call TransactionIdPrecedes().
2011-12-15include_if_exists facility for config file.Andrew Dunstan
This works the same as include, except that an error is not thrown if the file is missing. Instead the fact that it's missing is logged. Greg Smith, reviewed by Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2011-12-15Improve behavior of concurrent rename statements.Robert Haas
Previously, renaming a table, sequence, view, index, foreign table, column, or trigger checked permissions before locking the object, which meant that if permissions were revoked during the lock wait, we would still allow the operation. Similarly, if the original object is dropped and a new one with the same name is created, the operation will be allowed if we had permissions on the old object; the permissions on the new object don't matter. All this is now fixed. Along the way, attempting to rename a trigger on a foreign table now gives the same error message as trying to create one there in the first place (i.e. that it's not a table or view) rather than simply stating that no trigger by that name exists. Patch by me; review by Noah Misch.
2011-12-15Fix typo.Robert Haas
2011-12-12Move BKP_REMOVABLE bit from individual WAL records to WAL page headers.Tom Lane
Removing this bit from xl_info allows us to restore the old limit of four (not three) separate pages touched by a WAL record, which is needed for the upcoming SP-GiST feature, and will likely be useful elsewhere in future. When we implemented XLR_BKP_REMOVABLE in 2007, we had to do it like that because no special WAL-visible action was taken when starting a backup. However, now we force a segment switch when starting a backup, so a compressing WAL archiver (such as pglesslog) that uses the state shown in the current page header will not be fooled as to removability of backup blocks. The only downside is that the archiver will not return to compressing mode for up to one WAL page after the backup is over, which is a small price to pay for getting back the extra xl_info bit. In any case the archiver could look for XLOG_BACKUP_END records if it thought it was worth the trouble to do so. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC since this is effectively a change in WAL format.
2011-12-12Revert the behavior of inet/cidr functions to not unpack the arguments.Heikki Linnakangas
I forgot to change the functions to use the PG_GETARG_INET_PP() macro, when I changed DatumGetInetP() to unpack the datum, like Datum*P macros usually do. Also, I screwed up the definition of the PG_GETARG_INET_PP() macro, and didn't notice because it wasn't used. This fixes the memory leak when sorting inet values, as reported by Jochen Erwied and debugged by Andres Freund. Backpatch to 8.3, like the previous patch that broke it.
2011-12-10Remove define inadvertantly left over from testing.Andrew Dunstan
2011-12-10Enable compiling with the mingw-w64 32 bit compiler.Andrew Dunstan
Original patch by Lars Kanis, reviewed by Nishiyama Tomoaki and tweaked some by me. This compiler, or at least the latest version of it, is currently broken, and only passes the regression tests if built with -O0.
2011-12-09Add ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER / RENAME and ALTER SERVER / RENAMEPeter Eisentraut
2011-12-09Don't set reachedMinRecoveryPoint during crash recovery. In crash recovery,Heikki Linnakangas
we don't reach consistency before replaying all of the WAL. Rename the variable to reachedConsistency, to make its intention clearer. In master, that was an active bug because of the recent patch to immediately PANIC if a reference to a missing page is found in WAL after reaching consistency, as Tom Lane's test case demonstrated. In 9.1 and 9.0, the only consequence was a misleading "consistent recovery state reached at %X/%X" message in the log at the beginning of crash recovery (the database is not consistent at that point yet). In 8.4, the log message was not printed in crash recovery, even though there was a similar reachedMinRecoveryPoint local variable that was also set early. So, backpatch to 9.1 and 9.0.
2011-12-09Cancel running query if it is detected that the connection to the client isHeikki Linnakangas
lost. The only way we detect that at the moment is when write() fails when we try to write to the socket. Florian Pflug with small changes by me, reviewed by Greg Jaskiewicz.
2011-12-07Add const qualifiers to node inspection functionsPeter Eisentraut
Thomas Munro
2011-12-07Remove spclocation field from pg_tablespaceMagnus Hagander
Instead, add a function pg_tablespace_location(oid) used to return the same information, and do this by reading the symbolic link. Doing it this way makes it possible to relocate a tablespace when the database is down by simply changing the symbolic link.
2011-12-07Create a "sort support" interface API for faster sorting.Tom Lane
This patch creates an API whereby a btree index opclass can optionally provide non-SQL-callable support functions for sorting. In the initial patch, we only use this to provide a directly-callable comparator function, which can be invoked with a bit less overhead than the traditional SQL-callable comparator. While that should be of value in itself, the real reason for doing this is to provide a datatype-extensible framework for more aggressive optimizations, as in Peter Geoghegan's recent work. Robert Haas and Tom Lane
2011-12-02During recovery, if we reach consistent state and still have entries in theHeikki Linnakangas
invalid-page hash table, PANIC immediately. Immediate PANIC is much better than waiting for end-of-recovery, which is what we did before, because the end-of-recovery might not come until months later if this is a standby server. Also refrain from creating a restartpoint if there are invalid-page entries in the hash table. Restarting recovery from such a restartpoint would not see the invalid references, and wouldn't be able to cross-check them when consistency is reached. That wouldn't matter when things are going smoothly, but the more sanity checks you have the better. Fujii Masao
2011-11-30Improve table locking behavior in the face of current DDL.Robert Haas
In the previous coding, callers were faced with an awkward choice: look up the name, do permissions checks, and then lock the table; or look up the name, lock the table, and then do permissions checks. The first choice was wrong because the results of the name lookup and permissions checks might be out-of-date by the time the table lock was acquired, while the second allowed a user with no privileges to interfere with access to a table by users who do have privileges (e.g. if a malicious backend queues up for an AccessExclusiveLock on a table on which AccessShareLock is already held, further attempts to access the table will be blocked until the AccessExclusiveLock is obtained and the malicious backend's transaction rolls back). To fix, allow callers of RangeVarGetRelid() to pass a callback which gets executed after performing the name lookup but before acquiring the relation lock. If the name lookup is retried (because invalidation messages are received), the callback will be re-executed as well, so we get the best of both worlds. RangeVarGetRelid() is renamed to RangeVarGetRelidExtended(); callers not wishing to supply a callback can continue to invoke it as RangeVarGetRelid(), which is now a macro. Since the only one caller that uses nowait = true now passes a callback anyway, the RangeVarGetRelid() macro defaults nowait as well. The callback can also be used for supplemental locking - for example, REINDEX INDEX needs to acquire the table lock before the index lock to reduce deadlock possibilities. There's a lot more work to be done here to fix all the cases where this can be a problem, but this commit provides the general infrastructure and fixes the following specific cases: REINDEX INDEX, REINDEX TABLE, LOCK TABLE, and and DROP TABLE/INDEX/SEQUENCE/VIEW/FOREIGN TABLE. Per discussion with Noah Misch and Alvaro Herrera.
2011-11-27Ensure that whole-row junk Vars are always of composite type.Tom Lane
The EvalPlanQual machinery assumes that whole-row Vars generated for the outputs of non-table RTEs will be of composite types. However, for the case where the RTE is a function call returning a scalar type, we were doing the wrong thing, as a result of sharing code with a parser case where the function's scalar output is wanted. (Or at least, that's what that case has done historically; it does seem a bit inconsistent.) To fix, extend makeWholeRowVar's API so that it can support both use-cases. This fixes Belinda Cussen's report of crashes during concurrent execution of UPDATEs involving joins to the result of UNNEST() --- in READ COMMITTED mode, we'd run the EvalPlanQual machinery after a conflicting row update commits, and it was expecting to get a HeapTuple not a scalar datum from the "wholerowN" variable referencing the function RTE. Back-patch to 9.0 where the current EvalPlanQual implementation appeared. In 9.1 and up, this patch also fixes failure to attach the correct collation to the Var generated for a scalar-result case. An example: regression=# select upper(x.*) from textcat('ab', 'cd') x; ERROR: could not determine which collation to use for upper() function