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2008-10-26Better solution to the IN-list issue: instead of having an arbitrary cutoff,Tom Lane
treat Var and non-Var IN-list items differently. Only non-Var items are candidates to go into an ANY(ARRAY) construct --- we put all Vars as separate OR conditions on the grounds that that leaves more scope for optimization. Per suggestion from Robert Haas.
2008-10-25Be a little smarter about qual handling for semi-joins: a qual that mentionsTom Lane
only the outer side can be pushed down rather than having to be evaluated at the join.
2008-10-25Add a heuristic to transformAExprIn() to make it prefer expanding "x IN (list)"Tom Lane
into an OR of equality comparisons, rather than x = ANY(ARRAY[...]), when there are Vars in the right-hand side. This avoids a performance regression compared to pre-8.2 releases, in cases where the OR form can be optimized into scans of multiple indexes. Limit the possible downside by preferring this form only when the list isn't very long (I set the cutoff at 32 elements, which is a bit arbitrary but in the right ballpark). Per discussion with Jim Nasby. In passing, also make it try the OR form if it cannot select a common type for the array elements; we've seen a complaint or two about how the OR form worked for such cases and ARRAY doesn't.
2008-10-24Reduce the memory footprint of large pending-trigger-event lists, as per myTom Lane
recent proposal. In typical cases, we now need 12 bytes per insert or delete event and 16 bytes per update event; previously we needed 40 bytes per event on 32-bit hardware and 80 bytes per event on 64-bit hardware. Even in the worst case usage pattern with a large number of distinct triggers being fired in one query, usage is at most 32 bytes per event. It seems to be a bit faster than the old code as well, due to reduction of palloc overhead. This commit doesn't address the TODO item of allowing the event list to spill to disk; rather it's trying to stave off the need for that. However, it probably makes that task a bit easier by reducing the data structure's dependency on pointers. It would now be practical to dump an event list to disk by "chunks" instead of individual events.
2008-10-24Replace now unnecessary goto statements by using return directly.Magnus Hagander
2008-10-24Remove notes from the frontend SSL source that are incorrect orMagnus Hagander
end-user documentation that lives in the actual documentation.
2008-10-24Remove a "TODO-list" structure at the top of the file, referring backMagnus Hagander
to the old set of SSL patches. Hasn't been updated since, and we keep the TODOs in the "real" TODO list, really...
2008-10-24Remove large parts of the old SSL readme, that consisted of a coupleMagnus Hagander
of copy/paste:d emails. Much of the contents had already been migrated into the main documentation, some was out of date and some just plain wrong. Keep the "protocol-flowchart" which can still be useful.
2008-10-23Fix memory leak when using gsslib parameter in libpq connectionsMagnus Hagander
2008-10-23Fix an oversight in two different recent patches: nodes that support SRFsTom Lane
in their targetlists had better reset ps_TupFromTlist during ReScan calls. There's no need to back-patch here since nodeAgg and nodeGroup didn't even pretend to support SRFs in prior releases.
2008-10-23Remove useless ps_OuterTupleSlot field from PlanState. I suppose this wasTom Lane
used long ago, but in the current code the ecxt_outertuple field of ExprContext is doing all the work. Spotted by Ran Tang.
2008-10-23* make pg_hba authoption be a set of 0 or more name=value pairsMagnus Hagander
* make LDAP use this instead of the hacky previous method to specify the DN to bind as * make all auth options behave the same when they are not compiled into the server * rename "ident maps" to "user name maps", and support them for all auth methods that provide an external username This makes a backwards incompatible change in the format of pg_hba.conf for the ident, PAM and LDAP authentication methods.
2008-10-23Feature T173 "Extended LIKE clause in table definition" is supportedPeter Eisentraut
(INCLUDING/EXCLUDING DEFAULTS)
2008-10-23Feature T401 is not listed in the SQL standard. Must have been a mistake.Peter Eisentraut
2008-10-23When estimating without benefit of MCV lists (suggesting that one or bothTom Lane
inputs is unique or nearly so), make eqjoinsel() clamp the ndistinct estimates to be not more than the estimated number of rows coming from the input relations. This allows the estimate to change in response to the selectivity of restriction conditions on the inputs. This is a pretty narrow patch and maybe we should be more aggressive about similarly clamping ndistinct in other cases; but I'm worried about double-counting the effects of the restriction conditions. However, it seems to help for the case exhibited by Grzegorz Jaskiewicz (antijoin against a small subset of a relation), so let's try this for awhile.
2008-10-22Dept of better ideas: refrain from creating the planner's placeholder_listTom Lane
until vars are distributed to rels during query_planner() startup. We don't really need it before that, and not building it early has some advantages. First, we don't need to put it through the various preprocessing steps, which saves some cycles and eliminates the need for a number of routines to support PlaceHolderInfo nodes at all. Second, this means one less unused plan for any sub-SELECT appearing in a placeholder's expression, since we don't build placeholder_list until after sublink expansion is complete.
2008-10-22Fix GiST's killing tuple: GISTScanOpaque->curpos wasn'tTeodor Sigaev
correctly set. As result, killtuple() marks as dead wrong tuple on page. Bug was introduced by me while fixing possible duplicates during GiST index scan.
2008-10-22SQL:2008 alternative syntax for LIMIT/OFFSET:Peter Eisentraut
OFFSET num {ROW|ROWS} FETCH {FIRST|NEXT} [num] {ROW|ROWS} ONLY
2008-10-21Add a concept of "placeholder" variables to the planner. These are variablesTom Lane
that represent some expression that we desire to compute below the top level of the plan, and then let that value "bubble up" as though it were a plain Var (ie, a column value). The immediate application is to allow sub-selects to be flattened even when they are below an outer join and have non-nullable output expressions. Formerly we couldn't flatten because such an expression wouldn't properly go to NULL when evaluated above the outer join. Now, we wrap it in a PlaceHolderVar and arrange for the actual evaluation to occur below the outer join. When the resulting Var bubbles up through the join, it will be set to NULL if necessary, yielding the correct results. This fixes a planner limitation that's existed since 7.1. In future we might want to use this mechanism to re-introduce some form of Hellerstein's "expensive functions" optimization, ie place the evaluation of an expensive function at the most suitable point in the plan tree.
2008-10-21Clean regression.outPeter Eisentraut
2008-10-21Use format_type_be() instead of TypeNameToString() for some more user-facingPeter Eisentraut
error messages where the type existence is established.
2008-10-21Allow SQL:2008 syntax ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... SET DATA TYPEPeter Eisentraut
alongside our traditional syntax.
2008-10-20Properly access a buffer's LSN using existing access macros instead of abusingAlvaro Herrera
knowledge of page layout. Stolen from Jonah Harris' CRC patch
2008-10-20These functions no longer return a value, per complaint from gothic_moth viaAlvaro Herrera
Zdenek Kotala.
2008-10-20Rework subtransaction commit protocol for hot standby.Alvaro Herrera
This patch eliminates the marking of subtransactions as SUBCOMMITTED in pg_clog during their commit; instead they remain in-progress until main transaction commit. At main transaction commit, the commit protocol is atomic-by-page instead of one transaction at a time. To avoid a race condition with some subtransactions appearing committed before others in the case where they span more than one pg_clog page, we conserve the logic that marks them subcommitted before marking the parent committed. Simon Riggs with minor help from me
2008-10-20Remove support of backward scan in GiST. Per discussionTeodor Sigaev
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-10/msg00857.php
2008-10-20SQL 200N -> SQL:2003Peter Eisentraut
2008-10-20Feature T411 is not found in SQL:2003 or 2008 anymore, so it must have beenPeter Eisentraut
dropped or it was a mistake.
2008-10-20Feature T152 "DISTINCT predicate with negation" is supported.Peter Eisentraut
2008-10-20Remove mark/restore support in GIN and GiST indexes.Teodor Sigaev
Per Tom's comment. Also revome useless GISTScanOpaque->flags field.
2008-10-20Feature F402 "Named column joins for LOBs, arrays, and multisets" isPeter Eisentraut
supported, to the extent that LOBs, arrays, and multisets are supported.
2008-10-20AS is no longer required in SELECT listPeter Eisentraut
2008-10-18Fix broken SQL features data, per buildfarm results.Tom Lane
2008-10-18Update feature list for SQL:2008.Peter Eisentraut
2008-10-17Remove useless mark/restore support in hash index AM, per discussion.Tom Lane
(I'm leaving GiST/GIN cleanup to Teodor.)
2008-10-17Refactor some duplicate code to set up formatted_log_time andAlvaro Herrera
formatted_start_time.
2008-10-17Add a new column to pg_am to specify whether an index AM supports backwardTom Lane
scanning; GiST and GIN do not, and it seems like too much trouble to make them do so. By teaching ExecSupportsBackwardScan() about this restriction, we ensure that the planner will protect a scroll cursor from the problem by adding a Materialize node. In passing, fix another longstanding bug in the same area: backwards scan of a plan with set-returning functions in the targetlist did not work either, since the TupFromTlist expansion code pays no attention to direction (and has no way to run a SRF backwards anyway). Again the fix is to make ExecSupportsBackwardScan check this restriction. Also adjust the index AM API specification to note that mark/restore support is unnecessary if the AM can't produce ordered output.
2008-10-17Salvage a little bit of work from a failed patch: simplify and speed upTom Lane
set_rel_width(). The code had been catering for the possibility of different varnos in the relation targetlist, but this is impossible for a base relation (and if it were possible, putting all the widths in the same RelOptInfo would be wrong anyway).
2008-10-17Improve comments about RelOptInfo.reltargetlist.Tom Lane
2008-10-17Improve headeline generation. Now headline can containTeodor Sigaev
several fragments a-la Google. Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com>
2008-10-17Fix small bug in headline generation.Teodor Sigaev
Patch from Sushant Sinha <sushant354@gmail.com> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-07/msg00785.php
2008-10-17During repeated rescan of GiST index it's possible that scan keyTeodor Sigaev
is NULL but SK_SEARCHNULL is not set. Add checking IS NULL of keys to set during key initialization. If key is NULL and SK_SEARCHNULL is not set then nothnig can be satisfied. With assert-enabled compilation that causes coredump. Bug was introduced in 8.3 by support of IS NULL index scan.
2008-10-16Fix a small memory leak in ExecReScanAgg() in the hashed aggregation case.Neil Conway
In the previous coding, the list of columns that needed to be hashed on was allocated in the per-query context, but we reallocated every time the Agg node was rescanned. Since this information doesn't change over a rescan, just construct the list of columns once during ExecInitAgg().
2008-10-16Reduce chatter from _dosmaperr() when used in FRONTEND code.Tom Lane
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2008-10-16Fix SPI_getvalue and SPI_getbinval to range-check the given attribute numberTom Lane
according to the TupleDesc's natts, not the number of physical columns in the tuple. The previous coding would do the wrong thing in cases where natts is different from the tuple's column count: either incorrectly report error when it should just treat the column as null, or actually crash due to indexing off the end of the TupleDesc's attribute array. (The second case is probably not possible in modern PG versions, due to more careful handling of inheritance cases than we once had. But it's still a clear lack of robustness here.) The incorrect error indication is ignored by all callers within the core PG distribution, so this bug has no symptoms visible within the core code, but it might well be an issue for add-on packages. So patch all the way back.
2008-10-14Make the system-attributes loop in AddNewAttributeTuples depend onTom Lane
lengthof(SysAtt) not FirstLowInvalidHeapAttributeNumber, for consistency with the other uses of the SysAtt array, and to make it clearer that it doesn't walk off the end of that array.
2008-10-14Add a defense to prevent storing pseudo-type data into index columns.Tom Lane
Formerly, the lack of any opclasses that could accept such data was enough of a defense, but now with a "record" opclass we need to check more carefully. (You can still use that opclass for an index, but you have to store a named composite type not an anonymous one.)
2008-10-14Ensure that CLUSTER leaves the toast table and index with consistent names,Alvaro Herrera
by renaming the new copies after the catalog games.
2008-10-14Extend the date type to support infinity and -infinity, analogously toTom Lane
the timestamp types. Turns out this doesn't even reduce the available range of dates, since the restriction to dates that work for Julian-date arithmetic is much tighter than the int32 range anyway. Per a longstanding TODO item.
2008-10-14Fix EncodeSpecialTimestamp to throw error on unrecognized input, rather thanTom Lane
returning a failure code that none of its callers bothered to check for.