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2008-04-06Make plpgsql support FOR over a query specified by a cursor declaration,Tom Lane
for improved compatibility with Oracle. Pavel Stehule, with some fixes by me.
2008-04-06Improve hash_any() to use word-wide fetches when hashing suitably alignedTom Lane
data. This makes for a significant speedup at the cost that the results now vary between little-endian and big-endian machines; which forces us to add explicit ORDER BYs in a couple of regression tests to preserve machine-independent comparison results. Also, force initdb by bumping catversion, since the contents of hash indexes will change (at least on big-endian machines). Kenneth Marshall and Tom Lane, based on work from Bob Jenkins. This commit does not adopt Bob's new faster mix() algorithm, however, since we still need to convince ourselves that that doesn't degrade the quality of the hashing.
2008-04-05A small visit from the portability and localization police.Tom Lane
2008-04-05Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannotTom Lane
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide. Perhaps this should be improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not sure the problem is worth much effort. Per bug #4070 from Marcello Ceschia. The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have (different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but back-patch all the way anyway.
2008-04-05Have pg_stop_backup() wait for all archive files to be sent, rather thanBruce Momjian
returing right away. This guarantees that when pg_stop_backup() returns, you have a valid backup. Simon Riggs
2008-04-04Re-implement division for numeric values using the traditional "schoolbook"Tom Lane
algorithm. This is a good deal slower than our old roundoff-error-prone code for long inputs, so we keep the old code for use in the transcendental functions, where everything is approximate anyway. Also create a user-accessible function div(numeric, numeric) to provide access to the exact result of trunc(x/y) --- since the regular numeric / operator will round off its result, simply computing that expression in SQL doesn't reliably give the desired answer. This fixes bug #3387 and various related corner cases, and improves the usefulness of PG for high-precision integer arithmetic.
2008-04-04Have psql command 'help' suggest the use of \?, updated version.Bruce Momjian
Greg Sabino Mullane
2008-04-04Allow 'help' in psql to show \? help, for novice assistance.Bruce Momjian
Greg Sabino Mullane
2008-04-04Remove no-longer-used function assign_backslash_quote()Tom Lane
2008-04-04Implement current_query(), that shows the currently executing query.Bruce Momjian
At the same time remove dblink/dblink_current_query() as it is no longer necessary *BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY ISSUE* for dblink Tomas Doran
2008-04-04Oops, change should go in scan.l to survive a clean checkout and not justMagnus Hagander
a make clean...
2008-04-04Convert backslash_quote guc to use enum.Magnus Hagander
2008-04-04Turn xmlbinary and xmloption GUC variables into enumsTurn xmlbinary andMagnus Hagander
xmloption GUC variables into enums..
2008-04-03Remove heap_release_fetch, which is no longer used anywhere; this simplifiesTom Lane
heap_fetch a little.
2008-04-03Teach ANALYZE to distinguish dead and in-doubt tuples, which it formerlyTom Lane
classed all as "dead"; also get it to count DEAD item pointers as dead rows, instead of ignoring them as before. Also improve matters so that tuples previously inserted or deleted by our own transaction are handled nicely: the stats collector's live-tuple and dead-tuple counts will end up correct after our transaction ends, regardless of whether we end in commit or abort. While there's more work that could be done to improve the counting of in-doubt tuples in both VACUUM and ANALYZE, this commit is enough to alleviate some known bad behaviors in 8.3; and the other stuff that's been discussed seems like research projects anyway. Pavan Deolasee and Tom Lane
2008-04-03Oops, add proper #ifdef for systems without support for syslog.Magnus Hagander
Per buildfarm member mastodon.
2008-04-03Convert syslog_facility guc to enum type.Magnus Hagander
2008-04-02Revert my bad decision of about a year ago to make PortalDefineQueryTom Lane
responsible for copying the query string into the new Portal. Such copying is unnecessary in the common code path through exec_simple_query, and in this case it can be enormously expensive because the string might contain a large number of individual commands; we were copying the entire, long string for each command, resulting in O(N^2) behavior for N commands. (This is the cause of bug #4079.) A second problem with it is that PortalDefineQuery really can't risk error, because if it elog's before having set up the Portal, we will leak the plancache refcount that the caller is trying to hand off to the portal. So go back to the design in which the caller is responsible for making sure everything is copied into the portal if necessary.
2008-04-02Convert three more guc settings to enum type:Magnus Hagander
default_transaction_isolation, session_replication_role and regex_flavor.
2008-04-01Support EXECUTE USING in plpgsql.Tom Lane
Pavel Stehule, with some improvements by myself.
2008-04-01Add SPI-level support for executing SQL commands with one-time-use plans,Tom Lane
that is commands that have out-of-line parameters but the plan is prepared assuming that the parameter values are constants. This is needed for the plpgsql EXECUTE USING patch, but will probably have use elsewhere. This commit includes the SPI functions and documentation, but no callers nor regression tests. The upcoming EXECUTE USING patch will provide regression-test coverage. I thought committing this separately made sense since it's logically a distinct feature.
2008-04-01Fix an oversight I made in a cleanup patch over a year ago:Tom Lane
eval_const_expressions needs to be passed the PlannerInfo ("root") structure, because in some cases we want it to substitute values for Param nodes. (So "constant" is not so constant as all that ...) This mistake partially disabled optimization of unnamed extended-Query statements in 8.3: in particular the LIKE-to-indexscan optimization would never be applied if the LIKE pattern was passed as a parameter, and constraint exclusion depending on a parameter value didn't work either.
2008-03-31Apply my original fix for Taiki Yamaguchi's bug report about DISTINCT MAX().Tom Lane
Add some regression tests for plausible failures in this area.
2008-03-31Fix my brain fade in TRUNCATE triggers patch: can't release relcache refcountsTom Lane
while EState still contains pointers to those relations. Exposed by the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS tests that buildfarm member jaguar is running (I knew those cycles would pay off...)
2008-03-31Use error message wordings for permissions checks on .pgpass and SSL privateTom Lane
key files that are similar to the one for the postmaster's data directory permissions check. (I chose to standardize on that one since it's the most heavily used and presumably best-wordsmithed by now.) Also eliminate explicit tests on file ownership in these places, since the ensuing read attempt must fail anyway if it's wrong, and there seems no value in issuing the same error message for distinct problems. (But I left in the explicit ownership test in postmaster.c, since it had its own error message anyway.) Also be more specific in the documentation's descriptions of these checks. Per a gripe from Kevin Hunter.
2008-03-31Fix a number of places that were making file-type tests infelicitously.Tom Lane
The places that did, eg, (statbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR were correct, but there is no good reason not to use S_ISDIR() instead, especially when that's what the other 90% of our code does. The places that did, eg, (statbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR) were flat out *wrong* and would fail in various platform-specific ways, eg a symlink could be mistaken for a regular file on most Unixen. The actual impact of this is probably small, since the problem cases seem to always involve symlinks or sockets, which are unlikely to be found in the directories that PG code might be scanning. But it's clearly trouble waiting to happen, so patch all the way back anyway. (There seem to be no occurrences of the mistake in 7.4.)
2008-03-30Show database access privileges in psql's \l command. For \l+, also showTom Lane
database size, when available to the current user. Andrew Gilligan
2008-03-30Display incoming as well as outgoing foreign-key constraints in psql'sTom Lane
\d output for a table. Kenneth D'Souza, some changes by myself.
2008-03-29Improve description of \du and \dg, per suggestion fromTom Lane
Harald Armin Massa.
2008-03-29Improve psql's tab completion to handle completing attribute names in casesTom Lane
where the relation name was schema-qualified, for example UPDATE foo.bar SET <tab> Also support cases where the relation name was quoted unnecessarily, for example UPDATE "foo" SET <tab> Greg Sabino Mullane, slightly simplified by myself.
2008-03-29Revert my erroneous fix for Taiki Yamaguchi's DISTINCT MAX() bug.Tom Lane
Whatever we do about that, this isn't the path to the solution.
2008-03-28Department of second thoughts: the rule that ORDER BY and DISTINCT areTom Lane
useless for an ungrouped-aggregate query holds regardless of whether optimize_minmax_aggregates succeeds. So we might as well apply the optimization in any case. I'll leave 8.3 as it was, since this version is a tad more invasive than my earlier patch.
2008-03-28Support statement-level ON TRUNCATE triggers. Simon RiggsTom Lane
2008-03-27When we have successfully optimized a MIN or MAX aggregate into an indexscan,Tom Lane
the query result must be exactly one row (since we don't do this when there's any GROUP BY). Therefore any ORDER BY or DISTINCT attached to the query is useless and can be dropped. Aside from saving useless cycles, this protects us against problems with matching the hacked-up tlist entries to sort clauses, as seen in a bug report from Taiki Yamaguchi. We might need to work harder if we ever try to optimize grouped queries with this approach, but this solution will do for now.
2008-03-27Remove ipcclean utility command --- didn't work on all Unixes and onBruce Momjian
Windows. Users should use their operating system tools instead.
2008-03-27Sorry, copied wrong files.Michael Meskes
2008-03-27- Moved from PQsetdbLogin to PQconnectDB.Michael Meskes
- Correctly parse connect options. - Changed regression tests accordingly.
2008-03-27Reduce the need for frontend programs to include "postgres.h" by refactoringTom Lane
inclusions in src/include/catalog/*.h files. The main idea here is to push function declarations for src/backend/catalog/*.c files into separate headers, rather than sticking them into the corresponding catalog definition file as has been done in the past. This commit only carries out that idea fully for pg_proc, pg_type and pg_conversion, but that's enough for the moment --- if pg_list.h ever becomes unsafe for frontend code to include, we'll need to work a bit more. Zdenek Kotala
2008-03-26Move the HTSU_Result enum definition into snapshot.h, to avoid includingAlvaro Herrera
tqual.h into heapam.h. This makes all inclusion of tqual.h explicit. I also sorted alphabetically the includes on some source files.
2008-03-26Rename snapmgmt.c/h to snapmgr.c/h, for consistency with other files.Alvaro Herrera
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
2008-03-26Separate snapshot management code from tuple visibility code, create aAlvaro Herrera
snapmgmt.c file for the former. The header files have also been reorganized in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c. tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum. This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a transaction; there is no functionality change. Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and subsequent discussion.
2008-03-26Include \password in the psql help.Magnus Hagander
While at it, change the order of the documented options to be alphabetically again.
2008-03-26Strengthen warnings about using pg_dump's -i option.Bruce Momjian
2008-03-25Simplify and standardize conversions between TEXT datums and ordinary CTom Lane
strings. This patch introduces four support functions cstring_to_text, cstring_to_text_with_len, text_to_cstring, and text_to_cstring_buffer, and two macros CStringGetTextDatum and TextDatumGetCString. A number of existing macros that provided variants on these themes were removed. Most of the places that need to make such conversions now require just one function or macro call, in place of the multiple notational layers that used to be needed. There are no longer any direct calls of textout or textin, and we got most of the places that were using handmade conversions via memcpy (there may be a few still lurking, though). This commit doesn't make any serious effort to eliminate transient memory leaks caused by detoasting toasted text objects before they reach text_to_cstring. We changed PG_GETARG_TEXT_P to PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP in a few places where it was easy, but much more could be done. Brendan Jurd and Tom Lane
2008-03-25Add a new tuplestore API function, tuplestore_putvalues(). This isNeil Conway
identical to tuplestore_puttuple(), except it operates on arrays of Datums + nulls rather than a fully-formed HeapTuple. In several places that use the tuplestore API, this means we can avoid creating a HeapTuple altogether, saving a copy.
2008-03-25added ECPGget_PGconn to exports.txtMichael Meskes
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.
2008-03-24Fix various infelicities that have snuck into usage of errdetail() andTom Lane
friends. Avoid double translation of some messages, ensure other messages are exposed for translation (and make them follow the style guidelines), avoid unsafe passing of an unpredictable message text as a format string.
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.