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2008-03-24When a relation has been proven empty by constraint exclusion, propagate thatTom Lane
knowledge up through any joins it participates in. We were doing that already in some special cases but not in the general case. Also, defend against zero row estimates for the input relations in cost_mergejoin --- this fix may have eliminated the only scenario in which that can happen, but be safe. Per report from Alex Solovey.
2008-03-24Use new errdetail_log() mechanism to provide a less klugy way of reportingTom Lane
large numbers of dependencies on a role that couldn't be dropped. Per a comment from Alvaro.
2008-03-24Adjust the recent patch for reporting of deadlocked queries so that we reportTom Lane
query texts only to the server log. This eliminates the issue of possible leaking of security-sensitive data in other sessions' queries. Since the log is presumed secure, we can now log the queries of all sessions involved in the deadlock, whether or not they belong to the same user as the one reporting the failure.
2008-03-24Add a new ereport auxiliary function errdetail_log(), which works the same asTom Lane
errdetail except the string goes only to the server log, replacing the normal errdetail there. This provides a reasonably clean way of dealing with error details that are too security-sensitive or too bulky to send to the client. This commit just adds the infrastructure --- actual uses to follow.
2008-03-23Create a function quote_nullable(), which works the same as quote_literal()Tom Lane
except that it returns the string 'NULL', rather than a SQL null, when called with a null argument. This is often a much more useful behavior for constructing dynamic queries. Add more discussion to the documentation about how to use these functions. Brendan Jurd
2008-03-22Add server side lo_import(filename, oid) function.Tatsuo Ishii
2008-03-21Remove TypeName struct's timezone flag, which has been write-only storageTom Lane
for a very long time --- in current usage it's entirely redundant with the name field.
2008-03-21Report the current queries of all backends involved in a deadlockTom Lane
(if they'd be visible to the current user in pg_stat_activity). This might look like it's subject to race conditions, but it's actually pretty safe because at the time DeadLockReport() is constructing the report, we haven't yet aborted our transaction and so we can expect that everyone else involved in the deadlock is still blocked on some lock. (There are corner cases where that might not be true, such as a statement timeout triggering in another backend before we finish reporting; but at worst we'd report a misleading activity string, so it seems acceptable considering the usefulness of reporting the queries.) Original patch by Itagaki Takahiro, heavily modified by me.
2008-03-21Get rid of a bunch of #ifdef HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP conditionals by inventingTom Lane
a new typedef TimeOffset to represent an intermediate time value. It's either int64 or double as appropriate, and in most usages will be measured in microseconds or seconds the same as Timestamp. We don't call it Timestamp, though, since the value doesn't necessarily represent an absolute time instant. Warren Turkal
2008-03-20Arrange for an explicit cast applied to an ARRAY[] constructor to be appliedTom Lane
directly to all the member expressions, instead of the previous implementation where the ARRAY[] constructor would infer a common element type and then we'd coerce the finished array after the fact. This has a number of benefits, one being that we can allow an empty ARRAY[] construct so long as its element type is specified by such a cast. Brendan Jurd, minor fixes by me.
2008-03-19Support ALTER TYPE RENAME. Petr JelinekTom Lane
2008-03-18Arrange to "inline" SQL functions that appear in a query's FROM clause,Tom Lane
are declared to return set, and consist of just a single SELECT. We can replace the FROM-item with a sub-SELECT and then optimize much as if we were dealing with a view. Patch from Richard Rowell, cleaned up by me.
2008-03-17Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that willPeter Eisentraut
support DTrace in the future. Switch from using DTRACE_PROBEn macros to the dynamically generated macros. Use "dtrace -h" to create a header file that contains the dynamically generated macros to be used in the source code instead of the DTRACE_PROBEn macros. A dummy header file is generated for builds without DTrace support. Author: Robert Lor <Robert.Lor@sun.com>
2008-03-17Fix postgres --describe-config for guc enums, breakage noted by Alvaro.Magnus Hagander
While at it, rename option lookup functions to make names clearer, per discussion with Tom.
2008-03-17Move ProcState definition into sinvaladt.c from sinvaladt.h, since it's notAlvaro Herrera
needed anywhere after my previous patch. Noticed by Tom Lane. Also, remove #include <signal.h> from sinval.c.
2008-03-17Fix TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() to use binary search instead ofTom Lane
linear search when checking child-transaction XIDs. This makes for an important speedup in transactions that have large numbers of children, as in a recent example from Craig Ringer. We can also get rid of an ugly kluge that represented lists of TransactionIds as lists of OIDs. Heikki Linnakangas
2008-03-16When creating a large hash index, pre-sort the index entries by estimatedTom Lane
bucket number, so as to ensure locality of access to the index during the insertion step. Without this, building an index significantly larger than available RAM takes a very long time because of thrashing. On the other hand, sorting is just useless overhead when the index does fit in RAM. We choose to sort when the initial index size exceeds effective_cache_size. This is a revised version of work by Tom Raney and Shreya Bhargava.
2008-03-16Modify interactions between sinval.c and sinvaladt.c. The code that actuallyAlvaro Herrera
deals with the queue, including locking etc, is all in sinvaladt.c. This means that the struct definition of the queue, and the queue pointer, are now internal "implementation details" inside sinvaladt.c. Per my proposal dated 25-Jun-2007 and followup discussion.
2008-03-16Some cleanups of enum-guc code, per comments from Tom.Magnus Hagander
2008-03-15Change hash index creation so that rather than always establishing exactlyTom Lane
two buckets at the start, we create a number of buckets appropriate for the estimated size of the table. This avoids a lot of expensive bucket-split actions during initial index build on an already-populated table. This is one of the two core ideas of Tom Raney and Shreya Bhargava's patch to reduce hash index build time. I'm committing it separately to make it easier for people to test the effects of this separately from the effects of their other core idea (pre-sorting the index entries by bucket number).
2008-03-14Fix vacuum so that autovacuum is really not cancelled when doing an emergencyAlvaro Herrera
job (i.e. to prevent Xid wraparound problems.) Bug reported by ITAGAKI Takahiro in 20080314103837.63D3.52131E4D@oss.ntt.co.jp, though I didn't use his patch.
2008-03-13Fix heap_page_prune's problem with failing to send cache invalidationTom Lane
messages if the calling transaction aborts later on. Collapsing out line pointer redirects is a done deal as soon as we complete the page update, so syscache *must* be notified even if the VACUUM FULL as a whole doesn't complete. To fix, add some functionality to inval.c to allow the pending inval messages to be sent immediately while heap_page_prune is still running. The implementation is a bit chintzy: it will only work in the context of VACUUM FULL. But that's all we need now, and it can always be extended later if needed. Per my trouble report of a week ago.
2008-03-11Make TransactionIdIsInProgress check transam.c's single-item XID status cacheTom Lane
before it goes groveling through the ProcArray. In situations where the same recently-committed transaction ID is checked repeatedly by tqual.c, this saves a lot of shared-memory searches. And it's cheap enough that it shouldn't hurt noticeably when it doesn't help. Concept and patch by Simon, some minor tweaking and comment-cleanup by Tom.
2008-03-10Provide a build-time option to store large relations as single files, ratherTom Lane
than dividing them into 1GB segments as has been our longtime practice. This requires working support for large files in the operating system; at least for the time being, it won't be the default. Zdenek Kotala
2008-03-10Bump catversion from guc enum patch, which I forgot. Sorry!Magnus Hagander
2008-03-10Implement enum type for guc parameters, and convert a couple of existingMagnus Hagander
variables to it. More need to be converted, but I wanted to get this in before it conflicts with too much... Other than just centralising the text-to-int conversion for parameters, this allows the pg_settings view to contain a list of available options and allows an error hint to show what values are allowed.
2008-03-10Reduce memory consumption during VACUUM of large relations, by usingTom Lane
FSMPageData (6 bytes) instead of PageFreeSpaceInfo (8 or 16 bytes) for the temporary array of page-free-space information. Itagaki Takahiro
2008-03-09Change patternsel() so that instead of switching from a pureTom Lane
pattern-examination heuristic method to purely histogram-driven selectivity at histogram size 100, we compute both estimates and use a weighted average. The weight put on the heuristic estimate decreases linearly with histogram size, dropping to zero for 100 or more histogram entries. Likewise in ltreeparentsel(). After a patch by Greg Stark, though I reorganized the logic a bit to give the caller of histogram_selectivity() more control.
2008-03-08Refactor heap_page_prune so that instead of changing item states on-the-fly,Tom Lane
it accumulates the set of changes to be made and then applies them. It had to accumulate the set of changes anyway to prepare a WAL record for the pruning action, so this isn't an enormous change; the only new complexity is to not doubly mark tuples that are visited twice in the scan. The main advantage is that we can substantially reduce the scope of the critical section in which the changes are applied, thus avoiding PANIC in foreseeable cases like running out of memory in inval.c. A nice secondary advantage is that it is now far clearer that WAL replay will actually do the same thing that the original pruning did. This commit doesn't do anything about the open problem that CacheInvalidateHeapTuple doesn't have the right semantics for a CTID change caused by collapsing out a redirect pointer. But whatever we do about that, it'll be a good idea to not do it inside a critical section.
2008-03-07This patch addresses some issues in TOAST compression strategy thatTom Lane
were discussed last year, but we felt it was too late in the 8.3 cycle to change the code immediately. Specifically, the patch: * Reduces the minimum datum size to be considered for compression from 256 to 32 bytes, as suggested by Greg Stark. * Increases the required compression rate for compressed storage from 20% to 25%, again per Greg's suggestion. * Replaces force_input_size (size above which compression is forced) with a maximum size to be considered for compression. It was agreed that allowing large inputs to escape the minimum-compression-rate requirement was not bright, and that indeed we'd rather have a knob that acted in the other direction. I set this value to 1MB for the moment, but it could use some performance studies to tune it. * Adds an early-failure path to the compressor as suggested by Jan: if it's been unable to find even one compressible substring in the first 1KB (parameterizable), assume we're looking at incompressible input and give up. (Possibly this logic can be improved, but I'll commit it as-is for now.) * Improves the toasting heuristics so that when we have very large fields with attstorage 'x' or 'e', we will push those out to toast storage before considering inline compression of shorter fields. This also responds to a suggestion of Greg's, though my original proposal for a solution was a bit off base because it didn't fix the problem for large 'e' fields. There was some discussion in the earlier threads of exposing some of the compression knobs to users, perhaps even on a per-column basis. I have not done anything about that here. It seems to me that if we are changing around the parameters, we'd better get some experience and be sure we are happy with the design before we set things in stone by providing user-visible knobs.
2008-03-04Fix PREPARE TRANSACTION to reject the case where the transaction has dropped aTom Lane
temporary table; we can't support that because there's no way to clean up the source backend's internal state if the eventual COMMIT PREPARED is done by another backend. This was checked correctly in 8.1 but I broke it in 8.2 :-(. Patch by Heikki Linnakangas, original trouble report by John Smith.
2008-02-29Remove long-unused and broken TCL_ARRAYS.Alvaro Herrera
2008-02-29Fix handling of restricted processes for Windows Vista (mainly),Magnus Hagander
by explicitly adding back the user to the DACL of the new process. This fixes the failure case when executing as the Administrator user, which had no permissions left at all after we dropped the Administrators group. Dave Page with some modifications from me
2008-02-23Change the declaration of struct varlena so that the length word isTom Lane
represented as "char ...[4]" not "int32". Since the length word is never supposed to be accessed via this struct member anyway, this won't break any existing code that is following the rules. The advantage is that C compilers will no longer assume that a pointer to struct varlena is word-aligned, which prevents incorrect optimizations in TOAST-pointer access and perhaps other places. gcc doesn't seem to do this (at least not at -O2), but the problem is demonstrable on some other compilers. I changed struct inet as well, but didn't bother to touch a lot of other struct definitions in which it wouldn't make any difference because there were other fields forcing int alignment anyway. Hopefully none of those struct definitions are used for accessing unaligned Datums.
2008-02-20Rename miscadmin.h's PG_VERSIONSTR macro to PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR toTom Lane
make it a bit clearer what it is, and get rid of duplicate definitions in initdb and pg_ctl.
2008-02-18Added --htmldir option to pg_config, equivalent to the new configure option.Peter Eisentraut
2008-02-17Upgrade to Autoconf 2.61:Peter Eisentraut
- Change configure.in to use Autoconf 2.61 and update generated files. - Update build system and documentation to support now directory variables offered by Autoconf 2.61. - Replace usages of PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF by AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF, now available in Autoconf 2.61. - Drop our patched version of AC_C_INLINE, as Autoconf now has the change.
2008-02-17Replace time_t with pg_time_t (same values, but always int64) in on-diskTom Lane
data structures and backend internal APIs. This solves problems we've seen recently with inconsistent layout of pg_control between machines that have 32-bit time_t and those that have already migrated to 64-bit time_t. Also, we can get out from under the problem that Windows' Unix-API emulation is not consistent about the width of time_t. There are a few remaining places where local time_t variables are used to hold the current or recent result of time(NULL). I didn't bother changing these since they do not affect any cross-module APIs and surely all platforms will have 64-bit time_t before overflow becomes an actual risk. time_t should be avoided for anything visible to extension modules, however.
2008-02-14Sync our regex code with upstream changes since last time we did this, whichTom Lane
was Tcl 8.4.8. The main changes are to remove the never-fully-implemented code for multi-character collating elements, and to const-ify some stuff a bit more fully. In combination with the recent security patch, this commit brings us into line with Tcl 8.5.0. Note that I didn't make any effort to duplicate a lot of cosmetic changes that they made to bring their copy into line with their own style guidelines, such as adding braces around single-line IF bodies. Most of those we either had done already (such as ANSI-fication of function headers) or there is no point because pgindent would undo the change anyway.
2008-02-13Stamp HEAD as 8.4devel.Tom Lane
2008-02-07Fix CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... INCLUDING INDEXES to not cause unwantedTom Lane
tablespace permissions failures when copying an index that is in the database's default tablespace. A side-effect of the change is that explicitly specifying the default tablespace no longer triggers a permissions check; this is not how it was done in pre-8.3 releases but is argued to be more consistent. Per bug #3921 from Andrew Gilligan. (Note: I argued in the subsequent discussion that maybe LIKE shouldn't copy index tablespaces at all, but since no one indicated agreement with that idea, I've refrained from doing it.)
2008-02-01Stamp 8.3 in CVS. _No_ update of configure/configure.in.Bruce Momjian
2008-01-30Add checks to TRUNCATE, CLUSTER, and REINDEX to prevent performing theseTom Lane
operations when the current transaction has any open references to the target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation). The need for this was previously recognized in connection with ALTER TABLE, but anything that summarily eliminates tuples or moves them around would confuse an active scan. While this patch does not in itself fix bug #3883 (the deadlock would happen before the new check fires), it will discourage people from attempting the sequence of operations that creates a deadlock risk, so it's at least a partial response to that problem. In passing, add a previously-missing check to REINDEX to prevent trying to reindex another backend's temp table. This isn't a security problem since only a superuser would get past the schema permission checks, but if we are testing for this in other utility commands then surely REINDEX should too.
2008-01-26Change StatementCancelHandler() to check the DoingCommandRead flag to decideTom Lane
whether to execute an immediate interrupt, rather than testing whether LockWaitCancel() cancelled a lock wait. The old way misclassified the case where we were blocked in ProcWaitForSignal(), and arguably would misclassify any other future additions of new ImmediateInterruptOK states too. This allows reverting the old kluge that gave LockWaitCancel() a return value, since no callers care anymore. Improve comments in the various implementations of PGSemaphoreLock() to explain that on some platforms, the assumption that semop() exits after a signal is wrong, and so we must ensure that the signal handler itself throws elog if we want cancel or die interrupts to be effective. Per testing related to bug #3883, though this patch doesn't solve those problems fully. Perhaps this change should be back-patched, but since pre-8.3 branches aren't really relying on autovacuum to respond to SIGINT, it doesn't seem critical for them.
2008-01-24Change /contrib to contrib for consistency.Peter Eisentraut
2008-01-23Prevent integer overflow within the integer-datetimes version ofTom Lane
TimestampTzPlusMilliseconds. An integer argument of more than INT_MAX/1000 milliseconds (ie, about 35 minutes) would provoke a wrong result, resulting in incorrect enforcement of statement_timestamp values larger than that. Bug was introduced in my rewrite of 2006-06-20, which fixed some other overflow risks, but missed this one :-( Per report from Elein.
2008-01-21Fix RS_isRegis() to agree exactly with RS_compile()'s idea of what's a validTom Lane
regis. Correct the latter's oversight that a bracket-expression needs to be terminated. Reduce the ereports to elogs, since they are now not expected to ever be hit (thus addressing Alvaro's original complaint). In passing, const-ify the string argument to RS_compile.
2008-01-18Stamp release for 8.3RC2; configure will be stamped by packager.Bruce Momjian
2008-01-17Fix ALTER INDEX RENAME so that if the index belongs to a unique or primary keyTom Lane
constraint, the constraint is renamed as well. This avoids inconsistent situations that could confuse pg_dump (not to mention humans). We might at some point provide ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT as a more general solution, but there seems no reason not to allow doing it this way too. Per bug #3854 and related discussions.
2008-01-15Revise memory management for libxml calls. Instead of keeping libxml's dataTom Lane
in whichever context happens to be current during a call of an xml.c function, use a dedicated context that will not go away until we explicitly delete it (which we do at transaction end or subtransaction abort). This makes recovery after an error much simpler --- we don't have to individually delete the data structures created by libxml. Also, we need to initialize and cleanup libxml only once per transaction (if there's no error) instead of once per function call, so it should be a bit faster. We'll need to keep an eye out for intra-transaction memory leaks, though. Alvaro and Tom.