1. 24 Jul, 2009 1 commit
  2. 23 Jul, 2009 6 commits
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
      Force use of our erand48 on Cygwin · dc7aa365
      Andrew Dunstan authored
      dc7aa365
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Teach pg_dump to dump comments attached to the columns of a composite type. · 0d6909ea
      Tom Lane authored
      Taro Minowa (Higepon)
      0d6909ea
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Save a few cycles in EXPLAIN and related commands by not bothering to form · adfa0429
      Tom Lane authored
      a physical tuple in do_tup_output().  A virtual tuple is easier to set up
      and also easier for most tuple receivers to process.  Per my comment on
      Robert Haas' recent patch in this code.
      adfa0429
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      In a non-hashed Agg node, reset the "aggcontext" at group boundaries, instead · 6a0865e4
      Tom Lane authored
      of individually pfree'ing pass-by-reference transition values.  This should
      be at least as fast as the prior coding, and it has the major advantage of
      clearing out any working data an aggregate function may have stored in or
      underneath the aggcontext.  This avoids memory leakage when an aggregate
      such as array_agg() is used in GROUP BY mode.  Per report from Chris Spotts.
      
      Back-patch to 8.4.  In principle the problem could arise in prior versions,
      but since they didn't have array_agg the issue seems not critical.
      6a0865e4
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix another thinko in join_is_legal's handling of semijoins: we have to test · 1ca695db
      Tom Lane authored
      for the case that the semijoin was implemented within either input by
      unique-ifying its RHS before we test to see if it appears to match the current
      join situation.  The previous coding would select semijoin logic in situations
      where we'd already unique-ified the RHS and joined it to some unrelated
      relation(s), and then came to join it to the semijoin's LHS.  That still gave
      the right answer as far as the semijoin itself was concerned, but would lead
      to incorrectly examining only an arbitrary one of the matchable rows from the
      unrelated relation(s).  The cause of this thinko was incorrect unification of
      the pre-8.4 logic for IN joins and OUTER joins --- the comparable case for
      outer joins can be handled after making the match test, but that's because
      there is nothing like the unique-ification escape hatch for outer joins.
      Per bug #4934 from Benjamin Reed.
      1ca695db
    • Andrew Dunstan's avatar
  3. 22 Jul, 2009 5 commits
  4. 21 Jul, 2009 6 commits
  5. 20 Jul, 2009 7 commits
  6. 19 Jul, 2009 2 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Rewrite GEQO's gimme_tree function so that it always finds a legal join · 400e2c93
      Tom Lane authored
      sequence, even when the input "tour" doesn't lead directly to such a sequence.
      The stack logic that was added in 2004 only supported cases where relations
      that had to be joined to each other (due to join order restrictions) were
      adjacent in the tour.  However, relying on a random search to figure that out
      is tremendously inefficient in large join problems, and could even fail
      completely (leading to "failed to make a valid plan" errors) if
      random_init_pool ran out of patience.  It seems better to make the
      tour-to-plan transformation a little bit fuzzier so that every tour can form
      a legal plan, even though this means that apparently different tours will
      sometimes yield the same plan.
      
      In the same vein, get rid of the logic that knew that tours (a,b,c,d,...)
      are the same as tours (b,a,c,d,...), and therefore insisted the latter
      are invalid.  The chance of generating two tours that differ only in
      this way isn't that high, and throwing out 50% of possible tours to
      avoid such duplication seems more likely to waste valuable genetic-
      refinement generations than to do anything useful.
      
      This leaves us with no cases in which geqo_eval will deem a tour invalid,
      so get rid of assorted kluges that tried to deal with such cases, in
      particular the undocumented assumption that DBL_MAX is an impossible
      plan cost.
      
      This is all per testing of Robert Haas' lets-remove-the-collapse-limits
      patch.  That idea has crashed and burned, at least for now, but we still
      got something useful out of it.
      
      It's possible we should back-patch this change, since the "failed to make a
      valid plan" error can happen in existing releases; but I'd rather not until
      it has gotten more testing.
      400e2c93
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix a thinko in join_is_legal: when we decide we can implement a semijoin · a43b190e
      Tom Lane authored
      by unique-ifying the RHS and then inner-joining to some other relation,
      that is not grounds for violating the RHS of some other outer join.
      Noticed while regression-testing new GEQO code, which will blindly follow
      any path that join_is_legal says is legal, and then complain later if that
      leads to a dead end.
      
      I'm not certain that this can result in any visible failure in 8.4: the
      mistake may always be masked by the fact that subsequent attempts to join
      the rest of the RHS of the other join will fail.  But I'm not certain it
      can't, either, and it's definitely not operating as intended.  So back-patch.
      
      The added regression test depends on the new no-failures-allowed logic
      that I'm about to commit in GEQO, so no point back-patching that.
      a43b190e
  7. 18 Jul, 2009 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix error cleanup failure caused by 8.4 changes in plpgsql to try to avoid · 011eae60
      Tom Lane authored
      memory leakage in error recovery.  We were calling FreeExprContext, and
      therefore invoking ExprContextCallback callbacks, in both normal and error
      exits from subtransactions.  However this isn't very safe, as shown in
      recent trouble report from Frank van Vugt, in which releasing a tupledesc
      refcount failed.  It's also unnecessary, since the resources that callbacks
      might wish to release should be cleaned up by other error recovery mechanisms
      (ie the resource owners).  We only really want FreeExprContext to release
      memory attached to the exprcontext in the error-exit case.  So, add a bool
      parameter to FreeExprContext to tell it not to call the callbacks.
      
      A more general solution would be to pass the isCommit bool parameter on to
      the callbacks, so they could do only safe things during error exit.  But
      that would make the patch significantly more invasive and possibly break
      third-party code that registers ExprContextCallback callbacks.  We might want
      to do that later in HEAD, but for now I'll just do what seems reasonable to
      back-patch.
      011eae60
  8. 17 Jul, 2009 1 commit
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Repair bug #4926 "too few pathkeys for mergeclauses". This example shows · fb180559
      Tom Lane authored
      that the sanity checking I added to create_mergejoin_plan() in 8.3 was a
      few bricks shy of a load: the mergeclauses could reference pathkeys in a
      noncanonical order such as x,y,x, not only cases like x,x,y which is all
      that the code had allowed for.  The odd cases only turn up when using
      redundant clauses in an outer join condition, which is why no one had
      noticed before.
      fb180559
  9. 16 Jul, 2009 4 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Make GEQO's planning deterministic by having it start from a predictable · f5bc7419
      Tom Lane authored
      random number seed each time.  This is how it used to work years ago, but
      we got rid of the seed reset because it was resetting the main random()
      sequence and thus having undesirable effects on the rest of the system.
      To fix, establish a private random number state for each execution of
      geqo(), and initialize the state using the new GUC variable geqo_seed.
      People who want to experiment with different random searches can do so
      by changing geqo_seed, but you'll always get the same plan for the same
      value of geqo_seed (if holding all other planner inputs constant, of course).
      
      The new state is kept in PlannerInfo by adding a "void *" field reserved
      for use by join_search hooks.  Most of the rather bulky code changes in
      this commit are just arranging to pass PlannerInfo around to all the GEQO
      functions (many of which formerly didn't receive it).
      
      Andres Freund, with some editorialization by Tom
      f5bc7419
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add erand48() to the set of functions supported by our src/port/ library, · c43feefa
      Tom Lane authored
      and extend configure to test for it properly instead of hard-wiring
      an assumption that everybody but Windows has the rand48 functions.
      (We do cheat to the extent of assuming that probing for erand48 will do
      for the entire rand48 family.)
      
      erand48() is unused as of this commit, but a followon patch will cause
      GEQO to depend on it.
      
      Andres Freund, additional hacking by Tom
      c43feefa
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Make backend header files C++ safe · de160e2c
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      This alters various incidental uses of C++ key words to use other similar
      identifiers, so that a C++ compiler won't choke outright.  You still
      (probably) need extern "C" { }; around the inclusion of backend headers.
      
      based on a patch by Kurt Harriman <harriman@acm.org>
      
      Also add a script cpluspluscheck to check for C++ compatibility in the
      future.  As of right now, this passes without error for me.
      de160e2c
  10. 14 Jul, 2009 4 commits
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Rearrangement of the HTML docs build rules · 4ef8dc7a
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      Set up proper makefile dependencies in the documentation build rules,
      especially around the HTML/index build.  The problem we've had with all
      previous solutions is that we have used the same file name, such as HTML.index
      or bookindex.sgml, to mean different things at different stages of the build,
      and make can't distinguish that.  The solution here is that the first jade run
      produces HTML.index, but does not require bookindex.sgml at all, and produces
      no other html output (the latter an idea from Alvaro).  The second jade run
      includes bookindex.sgml, but does not recreate HTML.index.  That way, when you
      change an sgml file, jade is run twice and at the end all dependencies are
      satisfied.  Omitting the html output in the first stage also makes the full
      build a lot faster.
      
      When you run one of the print format targets, only the first jade run is run,
      then the print target-specific commands.  If an HTML build has completed
      previously, the first jade run is skipped because the dependencies have
      already been satisfied.
      
      The draft and check targets for quick builds and syntax verification are still
      there.
      4ef8dc7a
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Remove duplicate definition of TYPECAST token. · 4baaaf7a
      Tom Lane authored
      (Apparently, some but not all versions of Bison will warn about this.)
      4baaaf7a
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Tweak the core scanner so that it can be used by plpgsql too. · 1aa58d3a
      Tom Lane authored
      Changes:
      
      Pass in the keyword lookup array instead of having it be hardwired.
      (This incidentally allows elimination of some duplicate coding in ecpg.)
      
      Re-order the token declarations in gram.y so that non-keyword tokens have
      numbers that won't change when keywords are added or removed.
      
      Add ".." and ":=" to the set of tokens recognized by scan.l.  (Since these
      combinations are nowhere legal in core SQL, this does not change anything
      except the precise wording of the error you get when you write this.)
      1aa58d3a
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Do a conditional SPI_push/SPI_pop when replanning a query in · 0d4899e4
      Tom Lane authored
      RevalidateCachedPlan.  This is to avoid a "SPI_ERROR_CONNECT" failure when
      the planner calls a SPI-using function and we are already inside one.
      The alternative fix is to expect callers of RevalidateCachedPlan to do this,
      which seems likely to result in additional hard-to-detect bugs of omission.
      Per reports from Frank van Vugt and Marek Lewczuk.
      
      Back-patch to 8.3. It's much harder to trigger the bug in 8.3, due to a
      smaller set of cases in which plans can be invalidated, but it could happen.
      (I think perhaps only a SI reset event could make 8.3 fail here, but that's
      certainly within the realm of possibility.)
      0d4899e4
  11. 13 Jul, 2009 3 commits