- Jan 01, 2013
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Bruce Momjian authored
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
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- Dec 28, 2012
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Alvaro Herrera authored
This gets rid of XLByteLT, XLByteLE, XLByteEQ and XLByteAdvance. These were useful for brevity when XLogRecPtrs were split in xlogid/xrecoff; but now that they are simple uint64's, they are just clutter. The only downside to making this change would be ease of backporting patches, but that has been negated by other substantive changes to the involved code anyway. The clarity of simpler expressions makes the change worthwhile. Most of the changes are mechanical, but in a couple of places, the patch author chose to invert the operator sense, making the code flow more logical (and more in line with preceding comments). Author: Andres Freund Eyeballed by Dimitri Fontaine and Alvaro Herrera
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- Nov 28, 2012
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Alvaro Herrera authored
This is necessary (but not sufficient) to have them compilable outside of a backend environment.
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- Nov 13, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
Most of the replay functions for WAL record types that modify more than one page failed to ensure that those pages were locked correctly to ensure that concurrent queries could not see inconsistent page states. This is a hangover from coding decisions made long before Hot Standby was added, when it was hardly necessary to acquire buffer locks during WAL replay at all, let alone hold them for carefully-chosen periods. The key problem was that RestoreBkpBlocks was written to hold lock on each page restored from a full-page image for only as long as it took to update that page. This was guaranteed to break any WAL replay function in which there was any update-ordering constraint between pages, because even if the nominal order of the pages is the right one, any mixture of full-page and non-full-page updates in the same record would result in out-of-order updates. Moreover, it wouldn't work for situations where there's a requirement to maintain lock on one page while updating another. Failure to honor an update ordering constraint in this way is thought to be the cause of bug #7648 from Daniel Farina: what seems to have happened there is that a btree page being split was rewritten from a full-page image before the new right sibling page was written, and because lock on the original page was not maintained it was possible for hot standby queries to try to traverse the page's right-link to the not-yet-existing sibling page. To fix, get rid of RestoreBkpBlocks as such, and instead create a new function RestoreBackupBlock that restores just one full-page image at a time. This function can be invoked by WAL replay functions at the points where they would otherwise perform non-full-page updates; in this way, the physical order of page updates remains the same no matter which pages are replaced by full-page images. We can then further adjust the logic in individual replay functions if it is necessary to hold buffer locks for overlapping periods. A side benefit is that we can simplify the handling of concurrency conflict resolution by moving that code into the record-type-specfic functions; there's no more need to contort the code layout to keep conflict resolution in front of the RestoreBkpBlocks call. In connection with that, standardize on zero-based numbering rather than one-based numbering for referencing the full-page images. In HEAD, I removed the macros XLR_BKP_BLOCK_1 through XLR_BKP_BLOCK_4. They are still there in the header files in previous branches, but are no longer used by the code. In addition, fix some other bugs identified in the course of making these changes: spgRedoAddNode could fail to update the parent downlink at all, if the parent tuple is in the same page as either the old or new split tuple and we're not doing a full-page image: it would get fooled by the LSN having been advanced already. This would result in permanent index corruption, not just transient failure of concurrent queries. Also, ginHeapTupleFastInsert's "merge lists" case failed to mark the old tail page as a candidate for a full-page image; in the worst case this could result in torn-page corruption. heap_xlog_freeze() was inconsistent about using a cleanup lock or plain exclusive lock: it did the former in the normal path but the latter for a full-page image. A plain exclusive lock seems sufficient, so change to that. Also, remove gistRedoPageDeleteRecord(), which has been dead code since VACUUM FULL was rewritten. Back-patch to 9.0, where hot standby was introduced. Note however that 9.0 had a significantly different WAL-logging scheme for GIST index updates, and it doesn't appear possible to make that scheme safe for concurrent hot standby queries, because it can leave inconsistent states in the index even between WAL records. Given the lack of complaints from the field, we won't work too hard on fixing that branch.
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- Aug 31, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
This is mostly cosmetic, but it does eliminate a speculative portability issue. The previous coding ignored the fact that sum_grow could easily overflow (in fact, it could be summing multiple IEEE float infinities). On a platform where that didn't guarantee to produce a positive result, the code would misbehave. In any case, it was less than readable.
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- Aug 30, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
Every time the best-tuple-found-so-far changes, we need to reset all the penalty values in which_grow[] to the penalties for the new best tuple. The old code failed to do this, resulting in inferior index quality. The original patch from Alexander Korotkov was just two lines; I took the liberty of fleshing that out by adding a bunch of comments that I hope will make this logic easier for others to understand than it was for me.
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- Aug 16, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
We use a hash table to track the parents of inner pages, but when inserting to a leaf page, the caller of gistbufferinginserttuples() must pass a correct block number of the leaf's parent page. Before gistProcessItup() descends to a child page, it checks if the downlink needs to be adjusted to accommodate the new tuple, and updates the downlink if necessary. However, updating the downlink might require splitting the page, which might move the downlink to a page to the right. gistProcessItup() doesn't realize that, so when it descends to the leaf page, it might pass an out-of-date parent block number as a result. Fix that by returning the block a tuple was inserted to from gistbufferinginserttuples(). This fixes the bug reported by Zdeněk Jílovec.
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- Jul 16, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
The Solaris Studio compiler warns about these instances, unlike more mainstream compilers such as gcc. But manual inspection showed that the code is clearly not reachable, and we hope no worthy compiler will complain about removing this code.
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- Jun 24, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
This simplifies code that needs to do arithmetic on XLogRecPtrs. To avoid changing on-disk format of data pages, the LSN on data pages is still stored in the old format. That should keep pg_upgrade happy. However, we have XLogRecPtrs embedded in the control file, and in the structs that are sent over the replication protocol, so this changes breaks compatibility of pg_basebackup and server. I didn't do anything about this in this patch, per discussion on -hackers, the right thing to do would to be to change the replication protocol to be architecture-independent, so that you could use a newer version of pg_receivexlog, for example, against an older server version.
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- Jun 10, 2012
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Bruce Momjian authored
commit-fest.
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- May 30, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
We used to mimic the way a stack is constructed when descending the tree during normal GiST inserts, but that was quite complicated during a buffered build. It was also wrong: in GiST, the left-to-right relationships on different levels might not match each other, so that when you know the parent of a child page, you won't necessarily find the parent of the page to the right of the child page by following the rightlinks at the parent level. This sometimes led to "could not re-find parent" errors while building a GiST index. We now use a simple hash table to track the parent of every internal page. Whenever a page is split, and downlinks are moved from one page to another, we update the hash table accordingly. This is also better for performance than the old method, as we never need to move right to re-find the parent page, which could take a significant amount of time for buffers that were created much earlier in the index build.
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
There were two bugs here: We forgot to call gistFreeBuildBuffers() function at the end of build, and we passed interXact == true to BufFileCreateTemp, so the file wasn't automatically cleaned up at end-of-transaction either.
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- May 29, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
The result of (maintenance_work_mem * 1024) / BLCKSZ doesn't fit in a signed 32-bit integer, if maintenance_work_mem >= 2GB. Use double instead. And while we're at it, write the calculations in an easier to understand form, with the intermediary steps written out and commented.
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- May 18, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
When we create a temporary copy of the old node buffer, in stack, we mustn't leak that into any of the long-lived data structures. Before this patch, when we called gistPopItupFromNodeBuffer(), it got added to the array of "loaded buffers". After gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit() exits, the pointer added to the loaded buffers array points to garbage. Often that goes unnotied, because when we go through the array of loaded buffers to unload them, buffers with a NULL pageBuffer are ignored, which can often happen by accident even if the pointer points to garbage. This patch fixes that by marking the temporary copy in stack explicitly as temporary, and refrain from adding buffers marked as temporary to the array of loaded buffers. While we're at it, initialize nodeBuffer->pageBlocknum to InvalidBlockNumber and improve comments a bit. This isn't strictly necessary, but makes debugging easier.
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- May 12, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
gcc -Wextra/-Wold-style-declaration thinks that "inline" should go before the function return type.
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- May 11, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
When inserting the downlinks for a split gist page, we used hold the locks on the child pages until the insertion into the parent - and recursively its parent if it had to be split too - were all completed. Change that so that the locks on child pages are released after the insertion in the immediate parent is done, before recursing further up the tree. This reduces the number of lwlocks that are held simultaneously. Holding many locks is bad for concurrency, and in extreme cases you can even hit the limit of 100 simultaneously held lwlocks in a backend. If you're really unlucky, you can hit the limit while in a critical section, which brings down the whole system. This fixes bug #6629 reported by Tom Forbes. Backpatch to 9.1. The page splitting code was rewritten in 9.1, and the old code did not have this problem.
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- May 02, 2012
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Robert Haas authored
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- Mar 02, 2012
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
Previously it was thought that it's impossible as the code stands, because insertions create buffers as tuples are cascaded downwards, and index split also creaters buffers eagerly for all halves. But the example from Jay Levitt demonstrates that it can happen, when the root page is split. It's in fact OK if the buffer doesn't exist, so we just need to remove the sanity check. In fact, we've been discussing the possibility of destroying empty buffers to conserve memory, which would render the sanity check completely useless anyway. Fix by Alexander Korotkov
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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 24, 2012
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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- Feb 08, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
Throwing an error only after we've built the main index fork is pretty unfriendly when the table already contains data. Per gripe from Jay Levitt.
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- Jan 30, 2012
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Tom Lane authored
YAMAMOTO Takashi
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- Jan 02, 2012
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Bruce Momjian authored
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- Nov 27, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
Use of a randomly chosen large value was never exactly graceful, and now that there are penalty functions that are intentionally using infinity, it doesn't seem like a good idea for null-vs-not-null to be using something less.
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- Oct 09, 2011
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
The original idea of this patch was to make box picksplit run faster, by eliminating unnecessary palloc() overhead, but that was obsoleted by the new double-sorting split algorithm that doesn't call these functions so heavily anymore. Nevertheless, the code looks better this way. Original patch by me, reviewed and tidied up after the double-sorting patch by Kevin Grittner.
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- Oct 06, 2011
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
new double-sorting algorithm. The new algorithm produces better quality trees, making searches faster. Alexander Korotkov
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- Oct 01, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
pg_trgm was already doing this unofficially, but the implementation hadn't been thought through very well and leaked memory. Restructure the core GiST code so that it actually works, and document it. Ordinarily this would have required an extra memory context creation/destruction for each GiST index search, but I was able to avoid that in the normal case of a non-rescanned search by finessing the handling of the RBTree. It used to have its own context always, but now shares a context with the scan-lifespan data structures, unless there is more than one rescan call. This should make the added overhead unnoticeable in typical cases.
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- Sep 16, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
This oversight led to a massive memory leak --- upwards of 10KB per tuple --- during creation-time verification of an exclusion constraint based on a GIST index. In most other scenarios it'd just be a leak of 10KB that would be recovered at end of query, so not too significant; though perhaps the leak would be noticeable in a situation where a GIST index was being used in a nestloop inner indexscan. In any case, it's a real leak of long standing, so patch all supported branches. Per report from Harald Fuchs.
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- Sep 12, 2011
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
queuedForEmptying flag correctly on buffer when adding it to the queue. Also, don't add buffer to the queue if it's there already. These were harmless oversights; failing to set the flag just means that a buffer might get added to the queue twice if more tuples are added to it (although that can't actually happen at this point because all the upper buffers have already been emptied), and having the same buffer twice in the emptying queue is harmless. But better be tidy.
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- Sep 08, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
When building a GiST index that doesn't fit in cache, buffers are attached to some internal nodes in the index. This speeds up the build by avoiding random I/O that would otherwise be needed to traverse all the way down the tree to the find right leaf page for tuple. Alexander Korotkov
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- Sep 01, 2011
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Bruce Momjian authored
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- Jul 15, 2011
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
GISTInsertStack.childoffnum used to mean "offset of the downlink in this node, pointing to the child node in the stack". It's now replaced with downlinkoffnum, which means "offset of the downlink in the parent of this node". gistFindPath() already used childoffnum with this new meaning, and had an extra step at the end to pull all the childoffnum values down one node in the stack, to adjust the stack for the meaning that childoffnum had elsewhere. That's no longer required. The reason to do this now is this new representation is more convenient for the GiST fast build patch that Alexander Korotkov is working on. While we're at it, replace the linked list used in gistFindPath with a standard List, and make gistFindPath() static. Alexander Korotkov, with some changes by me.
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
First, when following a right-link, we incorrectly marked the current page as the parent of the right sibling. In reality, the parent of the right page is the same as the parent of the current page (or some page to the right of it, gistFindCorrectParent() will sort that out). Secondly, when we follow a right-link, we must prepend, not append, the right page to our list of pages to visit. That's because we assume that once we hit a leaf page in the list, all the rest are leaf pages too, and give up. To hit these bugs, you need concurrent actions and several unlucky accidents. Another backend must split the root page, while you're in process of splitting a lower-level page. Furthermore, while you scan the internal nodes to re-find the parent, another backend needs to again split some more internal pages. Even then, the bugs don't necessarily manifest as user-visible errors or index corruption. While we're at it, make the error reporting a bit better if gistFindPath() fails to re-find the parent. It used to be an assertion, but an elog() seems more appropriate. Backpatch to all supported branches.
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- Jul 04, 2011
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Alvaro Herrera authored
This lets us stop including rel.h into execnodes.h, which is a widely used header.
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- Jun 21, 2011
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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- Jun 09, 2011
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Bruce Momjian authored
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- May 31, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
Apparently sane-looking penalty code might return small negative values, for example because of roundoff error. This will confuse places like gistchoose(). Prevent problems by clamping negative penalty values to zero. (Just to be really sure, I also made it force NaNs to zero.) Back-patch to all supported branches. Alexander Korotkov
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- May 19, 2011
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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- Apr 23, 2011
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Tom Lane authored
Experimentation with contrib/btree_gist shows that the majority of the GIST support functions potentially need collation information. Safest policy seems to be to pass it to all of them, instead of making assumptions about which ones could possibly need it.
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