- May 02, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
At the time we check whether the tuple is dead to all running transactions, we've already verified that it isn't visible to our scan, setting hint bits if appropriate. So there's no need to recheck CLOG for the all-dead test we do just a moment later. So, add HeapTupleIsSurelyDead() to test the appropriate condition under the assumption that all relevant hit bits are already set. Review by Tom Lane.
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- Apr 30, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
All related functions were already so marked.
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- Apr 14, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
The output of the new pg_xlog_location_diff function is of type numeric, since it could theoretically overflow an int8 due to signedness; this provides a convenient way to format such values. Fujii Masao, with some beautification by me.
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- Apr 13, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Per mailing list discussion, we would like to keep the bytea functions parallel to the text functions, so rename bytea_agg to string_agg, which already exists for text. Also, to satisfy the rule that we don't want aggregate functions of the same name with a different number of arguments, add a delimiter argument, just like string_agg for text already has.
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- Mar 26, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
setlocale() accepts locale name "" as meaning "the locale specified by the process's environment variables". Historically we've accepted that for Postgres' locale settings, too. However, it's fairly unsafe to store an empty string in a new database's pg_database.datcollate or datctype fields, because then the interpretation could vary across postmaster restarts, possibly resulting in index corruption and other unpleasantness. Instead, we should expand "" to whatever it means at the moment of calling CREATE DATABASE, which we can do by saving the value returned by setlocale(). For consistency, make initdb set up the initial lc_xxx parameter values the same way. initdb was already doing the right thing for empty locale names, but it did not replace non-empty names with setlocale results. On a platform where setlocale chooses to canonicalize the spellings of locale names, this would result in annoying inconsistency. (It seems that popular implementations of setlocale don't do such canonicalization, which is a pity, but the POSIX spec certainly allows it to be done.) The same risk of inconsistency leads me to not venture back-patching this, although it could certainly be seen as a longstanding bug. Per report from Jeff Davis, though this is not his proposed patch.
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- Mar 15, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
The tzn value might come from tm->tm_zone, which libc declares as const, so it's prudent that the upper layers know about this as well.
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- Mar 14, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Use an explicit argument to tell whether to include the time zone in the output, rather than using some undocumented pointer magic.
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- Mar 07, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
Now that cache invalidation callbacks get only a hash value, and not a tuple TID (per commits 632ae682 and b5282aa8), the only way they can restrict what they invalidate is to know what the hash values mean. setrefs.c was doing this via a hard-wired assumption but that seems pretty grotty, and it'll only get worse as more cases come up. So let's expose a calculation function that takes the same parameters as SearchSysCache. Per complaint from Marko Kreen.
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- Mar 06, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
Use-cases for this include custom log filtering rules and custom log message transmission mechanisms (for instance, lossy log message collection, which has been discussed several times recently). As is our common practice for hooks, there's no regression test nor user-facing documentation for this, though the author did exhibit a sample module using the hook. Martin Pihlak, reviewed by Marti Raudsepp
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- Mar 04, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
This patch improves selectivity estimation for the array <@, &&, and @> (containment and overlaps) operators. It enables collection of statistics about individual array element values by ANALYZE, and introduces operator-specific estimators that use these stats. In addition, ScalarArrayOpExpr constructs of the forms "const = ANY/ALL (array_column)" and "const <> ANY/ALL (array_column)" are estimated by treating them as variants of the containment operators. Since we still collect scalar-style stats about the array values as a whole, the pg_stats view is expanded to show both these stats and the array-style stats in separate columns. This creates an incompatible change in how stats for tsvector columns are displayed in pg_stats: the stats about lexemes are now displayed in the array-related columns instead of the original scalar-related columns. There are a few loose ends here, notably that it'd be nice to be able to suppress either the scalar-style stats or the array-element stats for columns for which they're not useful. But the patch is in good enough shape to commit for wider testing. Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Noah Misch and Nathan Boley
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- Mar 02, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
reviewed by Jaime Casanova
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- Feb 29, 2012
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Alvaro Herrera authored
Haifeng Liu
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Tom Lane authored
This makes it much more convenient to build tools for Postgres that are separately compiled and require a matching CRC implementation. To prevent multiple copies of the CRC polynomial tables being introduced into the postgres binaries, they are now included in the static library libpgport that is mainly meant for replacement system functions. That seems like a bit of a kludge, but there's no better place. This cleans up building of the tools pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog, which previously had to build their own copies of pg_crc.o. In the future, external programs that need access to the CRC tables can include the tables directly from the new header file pg_crc_tables.h. Daniel Farina, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
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- Feb 28, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
This only produces warnings under -Wcast-qual, but it's more correct and consistent in any case.
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- Feb 19, 2012
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Andrew Dunstan authored
Some line feeds are added to target lists and from lists to make them more readable. By default they wrap at 80 columns if possible, but the wrap column is also selectable - if 0 it wraps after every item. Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada.
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- Feb 16, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
Formerly, we just punted when trying to estimate stats for variables coming out of sub-queries using DISTINCT, on the grounds that whatever stats we might have for underlying table columns would be inapplicable. But if the sub-query has only one DISTINCT column, we can consider its output variable as being unique, which is useful information all by itself. The scope of this improvement is pretty narrow, but it costs nearly nothing, so we might as well do it. Per discussion with Andres Freund. This patch differs from the draft I submitted yesterday in updating various comments about vardata.isunique (to reflect its extended meaning) and in tweaking the interaction with security_barrier views. There does not seem to be a reason why we can't use this sort of knowledge even when the sub-query is such a view.
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- Feb 15, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
This extends the changes of commit 6252c4f9 so that we run the cleanup hook earlier for failure cases as well as success cases. As before, the point is to avoid an assertion failure from an Assert I added in commit a874fe7b, which was meant to check that no user-written code can be called during portal cleanup. This fixes a case reported by Pavan Deolasee in which the Assert could be triggered during backend exit (see the new regression test case), and also prevents the possibility that the cleanup hook is run after portions of the portal's state have already been recycled. That doesn't really matter in current usage, but it foreseeably could matter in the future. Back-patch to 9.1 where the Assert in question was added.
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- Feb 14, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
We don't normally allow quals to be pushed down into a view created with the security_barrier option, but functions without side effects are an exception: they're OK. This allows much better performance in common cases, such as when using an equality operator (that might even be indexable). There is an outstanding issue here with the CREATE FUNCTION / ALTER FUNCTION syntax: there's no way to use ALTER FUNCTION to unset the leakproof flag. But I'm committing this as-is so that it doesn't have to be rebased again; we can fix up the grammar in a future commit. KaiGai Kohei, with some wordsmithing by me.
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- Feb 08, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds in some cases. Noah Misch, with trivial changes by me.
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- Feb 07, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds when the new type is unconstraint varbit, or when the allowable number of bits is not decreasing. Noah Misch, with review and a fix for an OID collision by me.
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Robert Haas authored
This enables ALTER TABLE to skip table and index rebuilds when a column is changed to an unconstrained numeric, or when the scale is unchanged and the precision does not decrease. Noah Misch, with a few stylistic changes and a fix for an OID collision by me.
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- Feb 03, 2012
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Andrew Dunstan authored
Also move the escape_json function from explain.c to json.c where it seems to belong. Andrew Dunstan, Reviewd by Abhijit Menon-Sen.
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- Jan 31, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
Like the XML data type, we simply store JSON data as text, after checking that it is valid. More complex operations such as canonicalization and comparison may come later, but this is enough for not. There are a few open issues here, such as whether we should attempt to detect UTF-8 surrogate pairs represented as \uXXXX\uYYYY, but this gets the basic framework in place.
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- Jan 27, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Hitherto, the information schema only showed explicitly granted privileges that were visible in the *acl catalog columns. If no privileges had been granted, the implicit privileges were not shown. To fix that, add an SQL-accessible version of the acldefault() function, and use that inside the aclexplode() calls to substitute the catalog-specific default privilege set for null values. reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen
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- Jan 19, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
Brendan Jurd, reviewed by Fujii Masao
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- Jan 12, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
In commit 7b0d0e93, 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.
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- Jan 07, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
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
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- Jan 02, 2012
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Bruce Momjian authored
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- Dec 23, 2011
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Robert Haas authored
Pavel Stehule
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- Dec 22, 2011
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Robert Haas authored
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.
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- Dec 19, 2011
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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
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- Dec 18, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
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.
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- Dec 17, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
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
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- Dec 16, 2011
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Andrew Dunstan authored
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.
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- Dec 12, 2011
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
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.
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- Dec 07, 2011
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Magnus Hagander authored
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.
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Tom Lane authored
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
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- Nov 27, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
In the original implementation, a range-contained-by search had to scan the entire index because an empty range could be lurking anywhere. Improve that by adding a flag to upper GiST entries that says whether the represented subtree contains any empty ranges. Also, make a simple mod to the penalty function to discourage empty ranges from getting pushed into subtrees without any. This needs more work, and the picksplit function should be taught about it too, but that code can be improved without causing an on-disk compatibility break; so we'll leave it for another day. Since we're breaking on-disk compatibility of range values anyway, I took the opportunity to reorganize the range flags bits; the unused RANGE_xB_NULL bits are now adjacent, which might open the door for using them in some other way later. In passing, remove the GiST range opclass entry for <>, which doesn't seem like it can really be indexed usefully. Alexander Korotkov, with some editorializing by Tom
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- Nov 23, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
It's not clear that a per-datatype typanalyze function would be any more useful than a generic typanalyze for ranges. What *is* clear is that letting unprivileged users select typanalyze functions is a crash risk or worse. So remove the option from CREATE TYPE AS RANGE, and instead put in a generic typanalyze function for ranges. The generic function does nothing as yet, but hopefully we'll improve that before 9.2 release.
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Tom Lane authored
Per discussion, the zero-argument forms aren't really worth the catalog space (just write 'empty' instead). The one-argument forms have some use, but they also have a serious problem with looking too much like functional cast notation; to the point where in many real use-cases, the parser would misinterpret what was wanted. Committing this as a separate patch, with the thought that we might want to revert part or all of it if we can think of some way around the cast ambiguity.
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