summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/src/include
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2008-10-03Add relation fork support to pg_relation_size() function. You can now passHeikki Linnakangas
name of a fork ('main' or 'fsm', at the moment) to pg_relation_size() to get the size of a specific fork. Defaults to 'main', if none given. While we're at it, modify pg_relation_size to take a regclass as argument, instead of separate variants taking oid and name. This change is transparent to typical use where the table name is passed as a string literal, like pg_relation_size('table'), but will break queries like pg_relation_size(namecol), where namecol is of type name. text-type input still works, and using a non-schema-qualified table name is not very reliable anyway, so this is unlikely to break anyone's queries in practice.
2008-10-01Improve tuplestore.c to support multiple concurrent read positions.Tom Lane
This facility replaces the former mark/restore support but is otherwise upward-compatible with previous uses. It's expected to be needed for single evaluation of CTEs and also for window functions, so I'm committing it separately instead of waiting for either one of those patches to be finished. Per discussion with Greg Stark and Hitoshi Harada. Note: I removed nodeFunctionscan's mark/restore support, instead of bothering to update it for this change, because it was dead code anyway.
2008-09-30Forgot to bump catalog version in the commit of FSM rewrite.Heikki Linnakangas
2008-09-30Rewrite the FSM. Instead of relying on a fixed-size shared memory segment, theHeikki Linnakangas
free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM). This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation. Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
2008-09-28Add hooks to let plugins override the planner's lookups in pg_statistic.Tom Lane
Simon Riggs, with some editorialization by me.
2008-09-25Establish the rule that array types should have the same typdelim as theirTom Lane
element types. Since the backend doesn't actually pay attention to the array type's delimiter, this has no functional effect, but it seems better for the catalog entries to be consistent. Per gripe from Greg Mullane and subsequent discussion.
2008-09-23Make LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE database-level settings. Collation andHeikki Linnakangas
ctype are now more like encoding, stored in new datcollate and datctype columns in pg_database. This is a stripped-down version of Radek Strnad's patch, with further changes by me.
2008-09-19Create a selectivity estimation function for the text search @@ operator.Tom Lane
Jan Urbanski
2008-09-19Mark SessionReplicationRole as PGDLLIMPORT so itMagnus Hagander
can be used from Slony functions. Per report from Hiroshi Saito.
2008-09-17Allow ShowBufferUsage() to report the number of reads/writes that haveTom Lane
occurred to temporary files. This replaces the unused NDirectFileRead/NDirectFileWrite counters. Itagaki Takahiro
2008-09-16Widen the nLocks counts in local lock tables from int to int64. ThisTom Lane
forestalls potential overflow when the same table (or other object, but usually tables) is accessed by very many successive queries within a single transaction. Per report from Michael Milligan. Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as the patch conveniently applies. There have been no reports of overflow in pre-8.3 releases, but clearly the risk existed all along. (Michael's report suggests that 8.3 may consume lock counts faster than prior releases, but with no test case to look at it's hard to be sure about that. Widening the counts seems a good future-proofing measure in any event.)
2008-09-15Fix caching of foreign-key-checking queries so that when a replan is needed,Tom Lane
we regenerate the SQL query text not merely the plan derived from it. This is needed to handle contingencies such as renaming of a table or column used in an FK. Pre-8.3, such cases worked despite the lack of replanning (because the cached plan needn't actually change), so this is a regression. Per bug #4417 from Benjamin Bihler.
2008-09-15Change hash indexes to store only the hash code rather than the whole indexedTom Lane
value. This means that hash index lookups are always lossy and have to be rechecked when the heap is visited; however, the gain in index compactness outweighs this when the indexed values are wide. Also, we only need to perform datatype comparisons when the hash codes match exactly, rather than for every entry in the hash bucket; so it could also win for datatypes that have expensive comparison functions. A small additional win is gained by keeping hash index pages sorted by hash code and using binary search to reduce the number of index tuples we have to look at. Xiao Meng This commit also incorporates Zdenek Kotala's patch to isolate hash metapages and hash bitmaps a bit better from the page header datastructures.
2008-09-15Parse pg_hba.conf in postmaster, instead of once in each backend forMagnus Hagander
each connection. This makes it possible to catch errors in the pg_hba file when it's being reloaded, instead of silently reloading a broken file and failing only when a user tries to connect. This patch also makes the "sameuser" argument to ident authentication optional.
2008-09-10Make our parsing of INTERVAL literals spec-compliant (or at least a heck ofTom Lane
a lot closer than it was before). To do this, tweak coerce_type() to pass through the typmod information when invoking interval_in() on an UNKNOWN constant; then fix DecodeInterval to pay attention to the typmod when deciding how to interpret a units-less integer value. I changed one or two other details as well. I believe the code now reacts as expected by spec for all the literal syntaxes that are specifically enumerated in the spec. There are corner cases involving strings that don't exactly match the set of fields called out by the typmod, for which we might want to tweak the behavior some more; but I think this is an area of user friendliness rather than spec compliance. There remain some non-compliant details about the SQL syntax (as opposed to what's inside the literal string); but at least we'll throw error rather than silently doing the wrong thing in those cases.
2008-09-10Add "source file" and "source line" information to each GUC variable.Alvaro Herrera
initdb forced due to changes in the pg_settings view. Magnus Hagander and Alvaro Herrera.
2008-09-09Improve the plan cache invalidation mechanism to make it invalidate plansTom Lane
when user-defined functions used in a plan are modified. Also invalidate plans when schemas, operators, or operator classes are modified; but for these cases we just invalidate everything rather than tracking exact dependencies, since these types of objects seldom change in a production database. Tom Lane; loosely based on a patch by Martin Pihlak.
2008-09-08Create a separate grantable privilege for TRUNCATE, rather than having it beTom Lane
always owner-only. The TRUNCATE privilege works identically to the DELETE privilege so far as interactions with the rest of the system go. Robert Haas
2008-09-06Implement a psql command "\ef" to edit the definition of a function.Tom Lane
In support of that, create a backend function pg_get_functiondef(). The psql command is functional but maybe a bit rough around the edges... Abhijit Menon-Sen
2008-09-03If a loadable module has wrong values in its magic block, spell outTom Lane
exactly what they are in the complaint message. Marko Kreen, some editorialization by me.
2008-09-01Add a bunch of new error location reports to parse-analysis error messages.Tom Lane
There are still some weak spots around JOIN USING and relation alias lists, but most errors reported within backend/parser/ now have locations.
2008-08-30Fix the raw-parsetree representation of star (as in SELECT * FROM orTom Lane
SELECT foo.*) so that it cannot be confused with a quoted identifier "*". Instead create a separate node type A_Star to represent this notation. Per pgsql-hackers discussion of 2007-Sep-27.
2008-08-29In GCC-based builds, use a better newNode() macro that relies on GCC-specificTom Lane
syntax to avoid a useless store into a global variable. Per experimentation, this works better than my original thought of trying to push the code into an out-of-line subroutine.
2008-08-29Remove all traces that suggest that a non-Bison yacc might be supported, andPeter Eisentraut
change build system to use only Bison. Simplify build rules, make file names uniform. Don't build the token table header file where it is not needed.
2008-08-28Extend the parser location infrastructure to include a location field inTom Lane
most node types used in expression trees (both before and after parse analysis). This allows us to place an error cursor in many situations where we formerly could not, because the information wasn't available beyond the very first level of parse analysis. There's a fair amount of work still to be done to persuade individual ereport() calls to actually include an error location, but this gets the initdb-forcing part of the work out of the way; and the situation is already markedly better than before for complaints about unimplementable implicit casts, such as CASE and UNION constructs with incompatible alternative data types. Per my proposal of a few days ago.
2008-08-25Move exprType(), exprTypmod(), expression_tree_walker(), and related routinesTom Lane
into nodes/nodeFuncs, so as to reduce wanton cross-subsystem #includes inside the backend. There's probably more that should be done along this line, but this is a start anyway.
2008-08-25Get rid of the last remaining uses of var_is_rel(), to wit some debuggingTom Lane
checks in ExecIndexBuildScanKeys() that were inadequate anyway: it's better to verify the correct varno on an expected index key, not just reject OUTER and INNER. This makes the entire current contents of nodeFuncs.c dead code. I'll be replacing it with some other stuff later, as per recent proposal.
2008-08-25Convert remaining builtin set-returning functions to use OUT parameters, makingMagnus Hagander
it possible to call them without specifying a column list. Jaime Casanova
2008-08-23Add missing descriptions for aggregates, functions and conversions.Bruce Momjian
Bernd Helmle
2008-08-23Fix possible duplicate tuples while GiST scan. Now page is processedTeodor Sigaev
at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory. Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another page - it could produce unaceptable overhead. Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.
2008-08-22Arrange to convert EXISTS subqueries that are equivalent to hashable INTom Lane
subqueries into the same thing you'd have gotten from IN (except always with unknownEqFalse = true, so as to get the proper semantics for an EXISTS). I believe this fixes the last case within CVS HEAD in which an EXISTS could give worse performance than an equivalent IN subquery. The tricky part of this is that if the upper query probes the EXISTS for only a few rows, the hashing implementation can actually be worse than the default, and therefore we need to make a cost-based decision about which way to use. But at the time when the planner generates plans for subqueries, it doesn't really know how many times the subquery will be executed. The least invasive solution seems to be to generate both plans and postpone the choice until execution. Therefore, in a query that has been optimized this way, EXPLAIN will show two subplans for the EXISTS, of which only one will actually get executed. There is a lot more that could be done based on this infrastructure: in particular it's interesting to consider switching to the hash plan if we start out using the non-hashed plan but find a lot more upper rows going by than we expected. I have therefore left some minor inefficiencies in place, such as initializing both subplans even though we will currently only use one.
2008-08-17Improve sublink pullup code to handle ANY/EXISTS sublinks that are at topTom Lane
level of a JOIN/ON clause, not only at top level of WHERE. (However, we can't do this in an outer join's ON clause, unless the ANY/EXISTS refers only to the nullable side of the outer join, so that it can effectively be pushed down into the nullable side.) Per request from Kevin Grittner. In passing, fix a bug in the initial implementation of EXISTS pullup: it would Assert if the EXIST's WHERE clause used a join alias variable. Since we haven't yet flattened join aliases when this transformation happens, it's necessary to include join relids in the computed set of RHS relids.
2008-08-16Clean up the loose ends in selectivity estimation left by my patch for semiTom Lane
and anti joins. To do this, pass the SpecialJoinInfo struct for the current join as an additional optional argument to operator join selectivity estimation functions. This allows the estimator to tell not only what kind of join is being formed, but which variable is on which side of the join; a requirement long recognized but not dealt with till now. This also leaves the door open for future improvements in the estimators, such as accounting for the null-insertion effects of lower outer joins. I didn't do anything about that in the current patch but the information is in principle deducible from what's passed. The patch also clarifies the definition of join selectivity for semi/anti joins: it's the fraction of the left input that has (at least one) match in the right input. This allows getting rid of some very fuzzy thinking that I had committed in the original 7.4-era IN-optimization patch. There's probably room to estimate this better than the present patch does, but at least we know what to estimate. Since I had to touch CREATE OPERATOR anyway to allow a variant signature for join estimator functions, I took the opportunity to add a couple of additional checks that were missing, per my recent message to -hackers: * Check that estimator functions return float8; * Require execute permission at the time of CREATE OPERATOR on the operator's function as well as the estimator functions; * Require ownership of any pre-existing operator that's modified by the command. I also moved the lookup of the functions out of OperatorCreate() and into operatorcmds.c, since that seemed more consistent with most of the other catalog object creation processes, eg CREATE TYPE.
2008-08-15Make the temporary directory for pgstat files configurable by the GUCMagnus Hagander
variable stats_temp_directory, instead of requiring the admin to mount/symlink the pg_stat_tmp directory manually. For now the config variable is PGC_POSTMASTER. Room for further improvment that would allow it to be changed on-the-fly.
2008-08-14Fix pull_up_simple_union_all to copy all rtable entries from child subquery toHeikki Linnakangas
parent, not only those with RangeTblRefs. We need them in ExecCheckRTPerms. Report by Brendan O'Shea. Back-patch to 8.2, where pull_up_simple_union_all was introduced.
2008-08-14Implement SEMI and ANTI joins in the planner and executor. (Semijoins replaceTom Lane
the old JOIN_IN code, but antijoins are new functionality.) Teach the planner to convert appropriate EXISTS and NOT EXISTS subqueries into semi and anti joins respectively. Also, LEFT JOINs with suitable upper-level IS NULL filters are recognized as being anti joins. Unify the InClauseInfo and OuterJoinInfo infrastructure into "SpecialJoinInfo". With that change, it becomes possible to associate a SpecialJoinInfo with every join attempt, which permits some cleanup of join selectivity estimation. That needs to be taken much further than this patch does, but the next step is to change the API for oprjoin selectivity functions, which seems like material for a separate patch. So for the moment the output size estimates for semi and especially anti joins are quite bogus.
2008-08-13Have autovacuum consider processing TOAST tables separately from theirAlvaro Herrera
main tables. This requires vacuum() to accept processing a toast table standalone, so there's a user-visible change in that it's now possible (for a superuser) to execute "VACUUM pg_toast.pg_toast_XXX".
2008-08-11Relation forks patch requires a catversion bump due to changes in the formatHeikki Linnakangas
of some WAL records, and two-phase state files, which I forgot.
2008-08-11Introduce the concept of relation forks. An smgr relation can now consistHeikki Linnakangas
of multiple forks, and each fork can be created and grown separately. The bulk of this patch is about changing the smgr API to include an extra ForkNumber argument in every smgr function. Also, smgrscheduleunlink and smgrdounlink no longer implicitly call smgrclose, because other forks might still exist after unlinking one. The callers of those functions have been modified to call smgrclose instead. This patch in itself doesn't have any user-visible effect, but provides the infrastructure needed for upcoming patches. The additional forks envisioned are a rewritten FSM implementation that doesn't rely on a fixed-size shared memory block, and a visibility map to allow skipping portions of a table in VACUUM that have no dead tuples.
2008-08-07Improve INTERSECT/EXCEPT hashing by realizing that we don't need to make anyTom Lane
hashtable entries for tuples that are found only in the second input: they can never contribute to the output. Furthermore, this implies that the planner should endeavor to put first the smaller (in number of groups) input relation for an INTERSECT. Implement that, and upgrade prepunion's estimation of the number of rows returned by setops so that there's some amount of sanity in the estimate of which one is smaller.
2008-08-07Support hashing for duplicate-elimination in INTERSECT and EXCEPT queries.Tom Lane
This completes my project of improving usage of hashing for duplicate elimination (aggregate functions with DISTINCT remain undone, but that's for some other day). As with the previous patches, this means we can INTERSECT/EXCEPT on datatypes that can hash but not sort, and it means that INTERSECT/EXCEPT without ORDER BY are no longer certain to produce sorted output.
2008-08-07Teach the system how to use hashing for UNION. (INTERSECT/EXCEPT will follow,Tom Lane
but seem like a separate patch since most of the remaining work is on the executor side.) I took the opportunity to push selection of the grouping operators for set operations into the parser where it belongs. Otherwise this is just a small exercise in making prepunion.c consider both alternatives. As with the recent DISTINCT patch, this means we can UNION on datatypes that can hash but not sort, and it means that UNION without ORDER BY is no longer certain to produce sorted output.
2008-08-05Move pgstat.tmp into a temporary directory under $PGDATA named pg_stat_tmp.Magnus Hagander
This allows the use of a ramdrive (either through mount or symlink) for the temporary file that's written every half second, which should reduce I/O. On server shutdown/startup, the file is written to the old location in the global directory, to preserve data across restarts. Bump catversion since the $PGDATA directory layout changed.
2008-08-05Improve SELECT DISTINCT to consider hash aggregation, as well as sort/uniq,Tom Lane
as methods for implementing the DISTINCT step. This eliminates the former performance gap between DISTINCT and GROUP BY, and also makes it possible to do SELECT DISTINCT on datatypes that only support hashing not sorting. SELECT DISTINCT ON is still always implemented by sorting; it would take executor changes to support hashing that, and it's not clear it's worth the trouble. This is a release-note-worthy incompatibility from previous PG versions, since SELECT DISTINCT can no longer be counted on to deliver sorted output without explicitly saying ORDER BY. (Anyone who can't cope with that can consider turning off enable_hashagg.) Several regression test queries needed to have ORDER BY added to preserve stable output order. I fixed the ones that manifested here, but there might be some other cases that show up on other platforms.
2008-08-04Improve CREATE/DROP/RENAME DATABASE so that when failing because the sourceTom Lane
or target database is being accessed by other users, it tells you whether the "other users" are live sessions or uncommitted prepared transactions. (Indeed, it tells you exactly how many of each, but that's mostly just because it was easy to do so.) This should help forestall the gotcha of not realizing that a prepared transaction is what's blocking the command. Per discussion.
2008-08-02Rearrange the querytree representation of ORDER BY/GROUP BY/DISTINCT itemsTom Lane
as per my recent proposal: 1. Fold SortClause and GroupClause into a single node type SortGroupClause. We were already relying on them to be struct-equivalent, so using two node tags wasn't accomplishing much except to get in the way of comparing items with equal(). 2. Add an "eqop" field to SortGroupClause to carry the associated equality operator. This is cheap for the parser to get at the same time it's looking up the sort operator, and storing it eliminates the need for repeated not-so-cheap lookups during planning. In future this will also let us represent GROUP/DISTINCT operations on datatypes that have hash opclasses but no btree opclasses (ie, they have equality but no natural sort order). The previous representation simply didn't work for that, since its only indicator of comparison semantics was a sort operator. 3. Add a hasDistinctOn boolean to struct Query to explicitly record whether the distinctClause came from DISTINCT or DISTINCT ON. This allows removing some complicated and not 100% bulletproof code that attempted to figure that out from the distinctClause alone. This patch doesn't in itself create any new capability, but it's necessary infrastructure for future attempts to use hash-based grouping for DISTINCT and UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT.
2008-08-01Move ident authentication code into auth.c along with the other authenciationMagnus Hagander
routines, leaving hba.c to deal only with processing the HBA specific files.
2008-07-31Fix parser so that we don't modify the user-written ORDER BY list in orderTom Lane
to represent DISTINCT or DISTINCT ON. This gets rid of a longstanding annoyance that a view or rule using SELECT DISTINCT will be dumped out with an overspecified ORDER BY list, and is one small step along the way to decoupling DISTINCT and ORDER BY enough so that hash-based implementation of DISTINCT will be possible. In passing, improve transformDistinctClause so that it doesn't reject duplicate DISTINCT ON items, as was reported by Steve Midgley a couple weeks ago.
2008-07-30Flip the default typispreferred setting from true to false. This affectsTom Lane
only type categories in which the previous coding made *every* type preferred; so there is no change in effective behavior, because the function resolution rules only do something different when faced with a choice between preferred and non-preferred types in the same category. It just seems safer and less surprising to have CREATE TYPE default to non-preferred status ...
2008-07-30Replace the hard-wired type knowledge in TypeCategory() and IsPreferredType()Tom Lane
with system catalog lookups, as was foreseen to be necessary almost since their creation. Instead put the information into two new pg_type columns, typcategory and typispreferred. Add support for setting these when creating a user-defined base type. The category column is just a "char" (i.e. a poor man's enum), allowing a crude form of user extensibility of the category list: just use an otherwise-unused character. This seems sufficient for foreseen uses, but we could upgrade to having an actual category catalog someday, if there proves to be a huge demand for custom type categories. In this patch I have attempted to hew exactly to the behavior of the previous hardwired logic, except for introducing new type categories for arrays, composites, and enums. In particular the default preferred state for user-defined types remains TRUE. That seems worth revisiting, but it should be done as a separate patch from introducing the infrastructure. Likewise, any adjustment of the standard set of categories should be done separately.